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The federal Criminal Code imposes a variety of restrictions on people with felony convictions. The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) of 1984 prohibits convicted felons from owning or possessing firearms. 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). This statute also imposes sentencing enhancements on people with three or more "violent felony" convictions. 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). Since the precise definition of a "felony" varies from one jurisdiction to another, federal statutes attempt to provide general definitions. In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the ACCA's definition of "violent felony," finding it to be unconstitutionally vague. Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. ___ (2015). This year, the court held that the Johnson ruling applies retroactively to other individuals. Welch v. United States, 578 U.S. ___ (2016).
In Welch, the court was asked to decide whether its ruling in Johnson was "substantive" or "procedural." These two terms are not particularly well-defined, but a "substantive" ruling generally affects fundamental rights or obligations, and therefore it has an impact beyond the parties to a particular dispute. A "procedural" ruling, on the other hand, addresses the manner in which a court handled a particular case, and therefore it does not have such a far-reaching impact. This distinction appears in many important civil rights cases that invoke "substantive due process."
The ACCA, like many federal statutes, broadly defines a "felony" as a criminal offense that carries a potential punishment of more than one year's imprisonment. 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). This definition, it is important to note, does not require an actual sentence of more than one year. A person who is convicted of such an offense but who receives a lesser sentence is still a "convicted felon" for the purposes of the ACCA.
If a person convicted of an ACCA violation has three or more convictions for "violent felonies," they could face up to 15 years in prison instead of 10. 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). The ACCA defines "violent felony" in two ways. The "element clause," id. at § 924(e)(2)(B)(i), identifies any felony—as previously defined by the statute—that includes actual, attempted, or threatened "physical force" as an element of the offense. The "residual clause," id. at § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii), identifies several specific offenses along with felonies "involv[ing] conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another." The Supreme Court struck down the residual clause on vagueness grounds in Johnson.
The defendant in Welch denied that at least one of his prior convictions met the ACCA's definition of a "violent felony." This was very similar to the issue presented in Johnson. His habeas corpus challenge was pending when the Supreme Court issued the Johnson ruling, and he successfully petitioned to that court for certiorari. He argued that Johnson established a "new substantive rule" and therefore applied retroactively to his case. Schriro v. Summerlin, 542 U.S. 348, 351 (2004). The court agreed, vacated the defendant's sentence, and remanded the case.
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Thoughts on Teen Motherhood
Being a teen mom makes you realize that stays with you for life. There is not a single story that mentions Loretta Lynn without mentioning her having her children as a young teenager. The thing is…what if we become who we are not in spite of having children young, but because of it? She sang to her siblings, she sang to her children and that led to her becoming a star. If she had never married young and sang to her children, she might well have lived in KY her entire life, undiscovered.
My children made me who I am, not because I didn't make mistakes, do things young or act stupid, but because every time I did, I had to look at them and LEARN to be someone different. They are still working on me, I'm not a finished product.


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By Greg Botelho and Vivian Kuo, CNN
Watch the school employee hailed as a hero in the Georgia school shooting reunite with the 911 operator on "AC360" at 8 ET tonight.
Atlanta (CNN) — A man slips behind someone else into a packed elementary school with an AK-47-type weapon. He goes into the office and shoots at the ground, then darts between there and outside to fire at approaching police.
So what do you do?
If you're Antoinette Tuff, who works in the front office at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy just outside Atlanta, you don't run. You talk. You divulge your personal struggles to the gunman, you tell him you love him, you even proactively offer to walk outside with him to surrender so police won't shoot.
And then the nightmare ends — with the suspect, later identified as Michael Brandon Hill, taken into custody and no one inside or outside the Decatur school even hurt, despite the gunfire.
"Let me tell you something, babe," Tuff tells the dispatcher at the end of the dramatic 911 call, obtained by CNN affiliate WXIA, that recounts her minutes of valor and terror. "I've never been so scared in all the days of my life. Oh, Jesus."
This brief outburst of emotion, moments after police entered the school Tuesday, was in stark contrast to her cool, calm demeanor as heard earlier on that 911 call.
As a go-between, she relayed his demands that police refrain from using their radios and "stop all movement," or else the suspect would shoot. By the end — with police themselves having never directly talked to him — Tuff and the gunman were talking about where he would put his weapon, how he'd empty his pockets and where he'd lie down before authorities could get him.
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SEYMOUR, Indiana, October 28, 2013 — Cereplast, Inc. (OTCQB: CERP) (the "Company"), a leading manufacturer of proprietary biobased, compostable and sustainable bioplastics, today is providing an update on the European Union (EU) Environmental Commission's (the Commission) legislation regarding the use of single-use disposable plastic bags on the continent. In a recent document, the EU Environmental Commission stated that they support an amendment to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 94/62/EC (PPWD) that would require all member states of the EU to ban or tax the use of conventional plastic carrier bags that are 50 microns or less. The law is scheduled to go into effect on November 15, 2013, and member states will have two years to comply. This legislation could create demand for 1 million tons per year of bioplastic alternatives to conventional plastic bags, or approximately $4 billion in potential revenue annually.
EU Member states will have the option of imposing outright bans or taxing the use of single-use plastic carrier bags. The Commission aims to reduce the consumption of conventional plastic bags to 20% of current levels. Many EU states already ban or tax the use of plastic bags including Italy, Denmark, Ireland and Bulgaria. Retailers in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal and Hungary have already begun voluntarily charging a fee for conventional plastic bags. This legislation will require all EU member states to take action to drastically reduce plastic bag consumption in their respective states.
The Company is expecting the Italian legislation to become effective following the confirmation of this Directive. The surge in demand, which the Company has anticipated, appears to be imminent. As the Company previously reported, it estimates the annual revenue potential from Italy could exceed $50 million, subject to sufficient access to raw materials and the necessary working capital to finance the growth. The Company currently has the necessary manufacturing capacity in its state-of-the-art facility located in Seymour, IN to serve up to 40,000 Tons or approximately $125 million in annual revenues running at full capacity.
Mr. Frederic Scheer, Chairman and CEO of Cereplast commented, "This legislation will create tremendous revenue opportunities for both the bioplastics industry as a whole, and for Cereplast specifically. The Company is poised to take advantage of the increased demand for bioplastic resins in the EU, and is already working with several customers in Italy, Germany, France and Spain in preparation for this EU-wide change. We anticipate a substantial revenue impact in 2014 as a result of this legislation."
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Dear readers,
After all the excitement last month, October has been almost peaceful – but don't think I've been enjoying my good fortune on a beach somewhere, sipping cocktails! I've been preparing for a big November, which should see the publication of four new titles from Valley Press. I'll just tell you about the first two today, though, as they have launch events imminent (and you can have too much of a good thing).
We'll start with Ex Libris, which has the honour of being the first Valley Press hardback, and the first time the poetry of David Hughes
has been collected in print. David taught English at St Peter's School
in York for almost thirty years, whilst quietly getting on with some
excellent writing – he had finished around two-hundred poems at the time
of his death, in 2011. This collection has been meticulously edited by
David's friend, fellow poet and former St Peter's student Antony Dunn, who should be a familiar name to many of you (from the Bridlington Poetry Festival, perhaps?)
It really is a fantastic book, but don't take my word for it – Brian Patten perfectly described Ex Libris as: 'A wonderful collection by a poet whose work has been saved from oblivion by an act of love'. Helen Mort has said: 'If you only discover one writer this year, make it David Hughes' ... so consider yourselves told!
You can read a sample of Ex Libris on the book's homepage, if the above has sufficiently piqued your interest. The launch event for this book will take place on Thursday November 5th, at St Peter's School, York; there'll be a fireworks display at 6pm, with drinks, food and Antony Dunn reading from the book at 6.30pm. This is a free event, but you are asked to RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com if you'd like to attend. Here's a map to the venue. Hope to see some of you there!
Cinema Stories, by long-time Valley Press poets James Nash and Matthew Hedley Stoppard (who I'm sure need no introductions). For this volume, James and Matthew toured and researched the cinemas of Leeds – some abandoned, some re-purposed (there were seventy at one point) and some still proudly operational. They then wrote a book of poetry on that subject, and about the mysterious shared (yet personal) experience that is cinema-going ... the results are fascinating. As ever, you can read a sample on the book's homepage.
Cinema Stories is to be launched at the Leeds International Film Festival (no less!) on Tuesday 10th November, in an event at Leeds Town Hall from 7pm. The two authors will be reading from the book, and there'll be a few other treats as well (think, multimedia extravaganza). This time you will have to buy a ticket to attend; you can do so through the festival's website here.
That's all for today, I'll be in touch in a couple of weeks with news of the other two November titles – there's one more poetry collection, and one big chunky historical fiction novel, both by established Valley Press authors. Watch this space!
All the best,
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So its time to pack. This is a list of my current state of packing.
EMS 5000 cu inch backpack. It has an add on day pack and a cover for the airport. Unfortunately (and i'm not really sure why) the airport cover is excellent for keeping all the straps in, including a handle to carry the back around- but it doesn't act as a rain cover. But I bought one, so no big deal. Overall its an excellent pack, I used it on the algonquin trip and had no complaints. I'm not a huge fan of its colors, but whatever.
I got a pair of reebok sandals. They were probably $10 new, and I had to cut away at part of it when i had a bad blister on my foot. So I won't be winning any fashion contests walking around with them, but they're comfortable and thats all that matters.
I bought a new pair of sneakers yesterday (guess what brand!) and yeah i put them on, walked 10 ft in them and bought them.
I have northface hiking boots that I've owned for a few years. Great shoes.
Okay so in total I'm bringing a laptop computer, 1 music player, 1 digital camera, a cell phone and a watch. Then along with those things, I have chargers and ear buds and cases.
For laptop I chose a Lenovo T61. Its 14.1" which should be a good compromise for portability and performance. I got 30% off cause its the 'older' model, but in general T61's are well known for being v. durable, as well as being ugly. But I kindof like the look.
Music player. Ipod shuffle. 1 gb. I found that I didn't mind my ipod randomly picking music when I drove home from Toronto and its so small.
Digital Camera. I went with the Canon SD870IS. Its pretty sweet, 8MP and more features then I know how to use, I ordered a 2 gig sd card on newegg today for like $10. I'm pretty happy with the purchase, and I'll be sure to take a lot of photos in Vancouver and give a full review later.
Cell phone. I'm gonna stick with my nokia 5300 for now. Its tri band and I think* I can get away with using it everywhere, but I'll keep you guys posted on that. If I had to buy a new phone I'd buy the cheapest quad band phone possible. I dont think I'll be using my phone that much.
Watch. I got a new band/ battery for my dad's old swiss army classic watch. Now that I'm wearing it again, I'm happy. Its simple, not very conspicuous and despite being 10+ years old, it looks great. I can't understate how good condition this watch looks, all things considered.
Flashlight. I ended up getting an Arclight AAA. Expensive, and I may also get a headlamp. The pros of this flashlight is that it uses an LED bulb and AAA batteries. Compare that to a maglite which uses bulbs that you cannot find replacements for and use small lithium- ion batteries. Cons is that i paid $30 for a flashlight smaller then my pinky.
Clothes (shirts)
T shirts. (2) Merino Wool t shirts. I've heard great things about these shirts, and so far they have not disapointed. I got one from MEC and another from icebreaker. They're expensive, but the mantra goes something like this- keeps you warm when its cold, cold when its warm, never smells bad. I'll let you guys know how it goes, but for now I'm keeping my eyes open to consider picking up a 3rd shirt. The ones I have now are black and grey, and I'd like to get one in a lighter color.
1 light summer long sleeve shirt. I ordered one from coolibar, recommended by the 4hour workweek guy, but its being shipped so no idea on how nice it is. Basically i want a shirt that looks normal, is light, but long sleeved to provide sun and insect protection. I'll say more when it arrives, but i'm really hoping that it looks nice enough that I can get away without packing a polo.
1 warm long sleeve shirt. I have an old one from EMS, its black, fits really well and I'm quite sure it'll make an excellent base layer.
1 warm fleece. At REI i found a long sleeve north face "flight series" fleece. I really like it- will take a picture of it later to add on. Its got those thumb things, it looks warm, nice zippers and it was on clearance. Makes a good outerlayer on chilly nights, and can make a good middle layer for when it gets really cold.
1 warm fleece outer layer. Again on clearance at REI i got a REI outerwear fleece. Basically it should provide about the same warmth alone as the above item, but it is an outer layer, so a bit more wind/rain protection and i can put them together when climbing mount fuji, or hanging out in patagonia.
Clothes (pants)
1 pair jeans. I might cut this out to save weight but jeans are warm, comfortable, durable and easy to clean. What seems quite likely is that I keep these and then ditch them some time into my trip as I'll bring a pair of worn out ones.
1 pair EMS pants. I picked up a new pair of jeans the other day. They look respectable, but I think they are made for hiking, so they dry quicker and whatnot.
1 pair long underwear. Also from EMS, and from a previous hiking trip, these will be layered with the above items to provide some extra warmth in patagonia/ mountainous regions.
1 pair khaki shorts. Probably my ll beans. I like them a lot, comfortable, nice pockets etc.
1 pair swim trunks. I can double these as shorts in beach areas (ie Australia)
1-2 pairs of running shorts. If space allows it, I'll probably bring 2. I might also consider bringing 1 nice pair and one not so nice one and ditching the not so nice one after I leave BsAs (I think i'll want more then 1 pair if i'm doing a lot of jujitsu)
Clothes (Raingear)
I got an EMS raincoat that I bought 2 years ago thats pretty good. And Northface rainpants I had to buy right before the algonquin trip (but they kept me completely dry one afternoon that made them oh- so- worth their ridiculous price). And I can wear my raincoat over my fleece outerlayer which is a pretty big plus.
Clothes (socks/undies)
Okay so I bought 3 pairs of smartwood sneaker socks. Wore them for the first time yesterday and they are unbelievably comfortable. It might be because i wear wool socks way less often then normal ones, but even after not wearing them for a few years they still retain that new sock comfort.
From previous trips and whatnot I have a bunch of full sized wool socks that I will use for when I wear my hiking boots.
For underwear, I got 3 pairs of exofficio briefs. I think I should've gone with the boxers, but they're very small, light and pretty comfortable.
Other stuff
Eh, this post is getting pretty long, and this stuff after this gets boring. But I also need normal glasses, sunglasses, toothbrushes, toothpastes etc. I'm gonna do a dry run in terms of packing 'everything' tonight and to see how it all fits in. And before departure I'll make another post listing everything with pictures etc.
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As of January 1, 2016, Gapers Block has ceased publication. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
✶ Thank you for your readership and contributions over the past 12-plus years. ✶
Friday, August 7
Chicago Magazine's February issue features "171 Best Chicago Websites," a nice round-up for your reading pleasure. It's
still not wasn't online, though, so Time Out took the initiative and created a linklist for you. Then Chicago Metroblogging created an OPML file of the list -- along with all the ones mentioned in Time Out's recent blog feature package -- that you can dump into your favorite feed reader. UPDATE: The Chicago Mag feature went online late today.
Yes, Gapers Block is mentioned in both the Chicago Mag and Time Out features. And, as Tankboy noted, we do get along with the folks at Chicagoist.
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Various outlets put the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for chatbots at between 24.3% (Business Insider) and 37% (Orbis) for the coming years in revenue terms. In between them, MarketsandMarkets predict growth from $703 million in 2016 to $3,172 million by 2021, for a 35.2% growth rate.
Analyst firm Forrester describes "…chatbot growth as crazy. Bots are easier to develop than apps, and they're a way to reach consumers where they spend the majority of their time." The other big IT analyst firm Gartner says that 55% of companies will have a chatbot in operation by the year 2020, with bots operating as a key part of a business and at home for families.
All of which points to a vibrant development and deployment market, with many players looking to help businesses roll out their bots.
While script-base bots will be more than satisfactory for many use cases, Business leaders are already looking at artificial intelligence and natural language processing to help drive the next generation of bots. Flexibility and context will be king as chatbots aim to fit alongside the likes of Alexa and Siri.
AI will help with issues like eliminating human bias from interactions, while natural language processing can widen the topic of conversation and the number of valid responses. Between them these can improve business performance for internal-facing bots, and improve the customer experience for clients or site visitors.
These features and growth drivers like multilingual interfaces, multi-channel capabilities will help chatbots become more capable and universal. That's the high-level view, but for any company developing a chatbot, they will want the bot, whatever its technical origins, to become more
useful, to be able to answer a wider range of specific questions and provide more information to users.


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Saint Philip Evans
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- 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Educated at the college of Saint Omer. Could play the harp, and played tennis. Joined the Jesuits on 7 September 1665. Ordained at Liege, Belgium. Sent to southern Wales in 1675 to minister to covert Catholics. Arrested at Christopher Turberville's house, Sker, Glamorganshire on 4 December 1678 during the increased persecutions following the Titus Oates Plot. When he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy he was imprisoned in Cardiff Castle; he served time with Saint John Lloyd. Condemned on 5 May 1679 in Cardiff for the crime of being a priest. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
- hanged, drawn, and quartered 22 July 1679 on Gallows Field in Cardiff, Wales
- 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)
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Just in the last few days, a line of thunderstorms hit our area and brought with it some tornados. One of the homes hit was of our very own Kathryn Mullins. As we walked the property we came upon a very large and tall tree that was completely defoliated. More than that, the top half was stripped clean of bark and now appeared smoothly green. The twister had acted powerfully upon the tree. The Apostle Paul writes to the Ephesians about Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us. Paul has come to know that as we submit to the Lord, He is capable of granting us an amazing transformation through the Spirit of God. Ultimately, His power will bring us closer and closer to the likeness of Christ Himself. But He adds, above all we ask or think. It does not matter where we are on the Christian path, God wants to outdo our expectations! Lent is both an active and passive experience. It is a continuation of the everyday life of a Christian- prayer, reflection, repentance, reconciliation, joy. When the Psalmist says, Wait on the Lord, he encourages us to seek and expect the mighty wind of God to swirl around us and then leave us looking different!
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Dogs in a shelter are not always what they seem. The one cowering in a corner may be a sweet, loving lap pooch when you take her home. A hyper maniac jumping at you through the kennel's chain link may turn out to be a highly controlled agility champ. And the scary pit bull barking at his kenneled neighbor?
Dogs in a shelter are not always what they seem. The one cowering in a corner may be a sweet, loving lap pooch when you take her home. A hyper maniac jumping at you through the kennel's chain link may turn out to be a highly controlled agility champ. And the scary pit bull barking at his kenneled neighbor?
Meet Diamond, who came to the Humane Society of Port Jervis in January a calm and loving dog.
"I remember thinking, 'She's beautiful; she's going to get adopted right away,'" said shelter volunteer and board member Angelo Cervone of Layton, N.J.
Looks aren't everything, and after three months of being in a kennel at the shelter, Diamond's demeanor changed.
"Out of the kennel she was fine, but in the kennel she would jump and go at the dogs next to her," said Cervone. "She was not really presenting herself as a dog you'd want to adopt. She was getting overlooked a lot."
Cervone thought getting Diamond out of the shelter environment would increase her chances of getting adopted. He agreed to foster her but worried she wouldn't get along with his family's cats and dog, Slugger.
"I didn't take her on with the idea we were going to keep her," he said. "We have way too many animals already."
Famous last words. Diamond and Slugger play, jump and roughhouse together like lifelong friends.
"We quickly realized they more than liked one another, they loved each other!" said Cervone. "We thought maybe this would work well."
And the cats? Alpha-cat Momma Fluff was the one to worry about.
"We call her our third dog," Cervone said. "She's not going to take anything from anybody."
A few chases and corrective feline paw swipes quickly taught Diamond to keep her distance.
There is one problem, though — Diamond's severe separation anxiety. She destroys things when left alone, including the walls of the metal cage Cervone confines her in when not home.
In five months at the Cervone home, Diamond has destroyed two metal cages and made countless messes. She has broken through cage walls that are zip-tied and then U-clamped. Veterinarian-prescribed Prozac failed to make a dent in Diamond's anxiety level.
"Every time she has gotten out, she's gotten in the garbage," said Cervone, who will not give up on Diamond, a great dog when her family is around.
"We're not going to find anybody else who would take her. A million people would take Slugger, but not Diamond."
Even Diamond's separation anxiety won't cost her her adoption by the Cervone family.
"When she gets excited, she wiggles so hard," said Cervone. "We love her, and Slugger loves her."
It's clear that a dog's demeanor and personality change with its environment. "Any dog placed in a shelter situation will begin to suffer from the stress in a short time," said HSPJ Community Relations Director Lynne Tears, "so adoption to a good loving home is any shelter's priority one. People have to realize that dogs just need to be loved, even though they're not showing their best side in a kennel. We are grateful that good adoptive parents overlook what is and see what can be."


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Lately I've been getting bored of breakfast. Seriously, how many ways can I make eggs or oatmeal and expect it to taste differently than the eggs or oatmeal I had the day before? These protein pancakes are not only easy to make, but super tasty and nutritious as well. For a total of 280 calories you get SIX 4″ pancakes and a whopping 23 grams of protein and 15 grams of fiber. That's 60% of the recommended daily allowance for women, and 40% for men. Crazy!
Since a high protein and/or gluten-free diet can often suffer from lack of fiber, it's important that you make a point of incorporating as much fiber in your meals as possible. Unlike other food components (fat, carbs, etc.) fiber isn't digested by your body, but rather it passes through your system until it makes its way… out, which is why it's often praised for keeping you "regular." Besides that, fiber can also help lower cholesterol levels and control blood sugar levels, and it keeps you feeling fuller, longer. So after you eat these, you should be ready to take on the day without having to worry about any mid-morning hunger pangs.
This recipe can be made with your favorite protein powder. Mine is PlantFusion Vanilla Bean, which can be found here for super cheap! It's tasty and not too… planty, which is totally a real word (if you've ever had a lesser quality plant protein powder, you'll know what I'm talking about!) However, if you don't dig protein powder you can just use almond milk instead (see recipe for sub measurement). There are a couple other subs that can be made in the recipe to accommodate different dietary restrictions, like replacing the egg whites with a flax egg (1 tablespoon flax + 3 tablespoons water, stir, refrigerate for 15 minutes) instead of eggs to make this vegan, or using a "paleo-approved" protein powder to make this paleo. And if it's sugar you're concerned about, you can sub stevia extract for the maple syrup. Easy peasy!
This recipe is:
• Gluten-free
• Dairy-free
• Refined sugar-free
• Soy-free
• Nut-free
• And can be paleo/vegan/sugar-free (see above)
Gluten-Free Coconut Protein Pancakes
• 2 egg whites (or 1 flax egg)
• 1/4 cup coconut flour
• 1/2 cup water mixed with 1/4 scoop protein powder (or sub with 1/3 cup almond milk)
• 1 tablespoon flax meal
• 1 tablespoon unsweetened shredded coconut (optional)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon cinammon
• dash of sea salt
• coconut oil, for cooking
1. Mix all ingredients except coconut oil together in a medium bowl.
2. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add in a small bit of oil and swish it around the pan. Pour the batter in (I used about 2 tablespoons per pancake) and let cook until air bubbles appear. Carefully flip the pancake with a solid (not slotted) spatula. These things are fragile, so be careful! Cook for another minute or so and remove from heat. Repeat until all your pancakes are cooked.
3. Top with whatever you please! I topped mine with a small bit of almond butter, maple syrup, and unsweetened shredded coconut flakes. Nomz!
What's your favorite gluten-free breakfast?


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For a long time, it was believed that global warming will lead to colder winters, however, a recent study proves quite the opposite, According to a study, published earlier this year in Nature Climate Change, global warming may in fact lead to significantly warmer winters.
According to James Screen, the author of the study, the previous theory about Arctic amplification was wrong. This theory suggested that winters in the future will be colder, since ice caps are melting and therefore exposing warmer water to the Arctic air. Screen wrote that that there is a real reason to believe that the warm weather which people saw this winter will consistently happen again.
Screen said that previous theories were linking Arctic amplification to increased weather extremes, referring to dynamical changes in atmospheric circulation, which are hard to detect in present observations and highly uncertain in the future. According to Screen, there is even more historical evidence to support the prediction that winter days will be warmer in the future. In the contrary, decreases in sub seasonal cold-season temperature variability, in line with the mechanism suggested here, are perceptible in the observational record and are highly solid in twenty-first-century climate model simulations.
Screen explained in a press release that on the average, autumn and winter days are becoming warmer and less variable from day-to-day. And both of this factors reduce the chance of extremely cold days. Screen added that these days are becoming warmer because Arctic wind is also getting warmer. Cold days usually occur when the wind is blowing from the north, bringing Arctic air south into the mid-latitudes. Since the Arctic air is warming so quickly, these cold days are now becoming less cold than they were in the past.
In addition, Screen pointed out that warmer winters will not prevent extreme storms, which are still likely to occur more frequently in the coming years. So if this study proves to be true, it would be little more than a ray of sunshine. According to the fact that September 2014 was the hottest on the record, warmer winters may actually happen.
However, opinions are divided. While most of the scientist claim that winter 2014/2015 will be extremely cold, with below-normal temperatures for about three-quarters of the nation, handful of scientist claim that the world might witness a warm, relatively snow-free winter like the one in 2011.
Furthermore, first nine months of 2014 had a global average temperature of 14.7 degrees Celsius – the warmest first nine months on record since 1998. And according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it is quite likely that 2014 will break the record for hottest year. NOAA also said that the record-breaking heat even goes back to the end of last year, when November 2013 broke a record. Which means that the 12 months from October 2013 to September 2014 were the hottest 12-month period on record.
Because of all these conflicting information, people are quite confused, since they do not know what kind of winter to expect. It seems that the global warming is leading to the point, where the weather is not that easy to be predicted any more.
By: Janette Verdnik
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Suspected kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a. Evans, has sued the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, at the Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged violation of his fundamental rights.
He is praying the court to compel the police to charge him rather than detaining him indefinitely.
In a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed on his behalf by a Lagos-based lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, the suspected kidnapper said his continued detention without trial was illegal.
He is praying for order directing the respondents to immediately charge him to court if there is any case against him in accordance with Sections 35 (1) (c) (3) (4) (5) (a) (b) and 36 of the 1999 Constitution.
The Nigeria Police Force, Lagos Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, Special Anti-Robbery Squad and the Lagos State Police Command are the other respondents.
Alternatively, Evans is seeking an order compelling the respondents to immediately release him unconditionally.
Evans is contending that his continued detention since June 10 without charge amounts to an infringement on his fundamental human rights.
He argued that the respondents ought to have charged him to court in line with Sections 35 and 36 of the Constitution.
In a 27-paragraph affidavit in support of the motion deposed to by Evan's father, Stephen Onwuamadike, it was averred that the applicant has been subjected to media trial without any court's order.
The father said the media trial and news orchestrated by the respondents have continued to generate reactions in both print and electronic media without his son being afforded fair hearing and trial before a court of law.
The deponent also averred that since his son's arrest, all his family members have been denied access to him while media practitioners have been granted unfettered access to him.
The matter has not been assigned to any judge and no date has been fixed for the hearing.


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Miami Heat forward Kelly Olynyk earned a $1 million bonus in the first two minutes of Wednesday night's game against the visiting Atlanta Hawks, but didn't rest on his laurels.
"Instead, I just made it rain," the big fella said after reaching the 1,700-minute mark for the season in a 115-86 victory.
Olynyk's hot shooting powers Heat past Hawks (from @AP) https://t.co/tYVZKVSWKt
— Charles Odum (@CharlesOdum) April 5, 2018
Olynyk finished with 19 points and made five 3-pointers.
Per the AP:
"Dinner, drinks, beers all that is on him," [coach Erik] Spoelstra said. "I'm going to see if I can get tickets to a play. All that is on him. I'm going to bill his account for everything."
Olynyk made five of six 3s in the second period. His career high for 3s in a game is six.
"I was kind of in the zone," he said. "I felt like whatever I threw up was going to go in."


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Thirty-seven states have laws regulating unsolicited electronic mail advertising. The majority of these state laws target commercial or fraudulent electronic mail; a smaller number of state laws apply to unsolicited "bulk" e-mail. Most state anti-spam laws prohibit misrepresenting or falsifying the origin of or the routing information on messages; using an Internet address of a third party without permission, or including misleading information in the subject line of a message. Some states also prohibit the sale or distribution of software that is designed solely to falsify or forge the point of origin of or the routing information on e-mail messages.
Most other aspects of state laws, such as labeling requirements for adult-oriented advertising, are preempted by the federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. The act preempts any state law that "expressly regulates the use of electronic mail to send commercial messages, except to the extent that any such statute, regulation, or rule prohibits falsity or deception in any portion of a commercial electronic mail message or information attached thereto." The act prohibits fraudulent and deceptive commercial e-mail messages and requires senders to include information allowing recipients to opt-out of receiving further messages. The Federal Trade Commission adopted a rule in 2004 requiring spam that contains sexually oriented material to include the warning "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" in the subject line.
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HMLTD cover feature – the committed, divisive, 24/7 art project is not about escapism
'Polarisation is a good indicator, if everybody likes what you're doing unanimously, then it's kind of a sign that what you're doing is most likely quite boring'
I think what I like most about HMLTD is their commitment. For all the hype that has built up around the band over the past year within indie music circles across the capital and beyond, we've all seen plenty of part-timers release a couple of singles and get a bit of buzz before fading away. With HMLTD though, you get a sense of something different. You get the sense that they're so committed to their art as to be indistinguishable from it. You get the sense that they're the real fucking deal.
It's easy to be cynical in the world of music journalism – you interview and see so many bands and shows that you can end up feeling somehow above or removed from it all. Turning up to interview a band and seeing them dressed up like some mutation of Adam and the Ants and Judas Priest, you could easily laugh to yourself. "Silly kids, eh?" Witnessing them live with their singer dressed up in a PVC body suit, you could maybe have another chuckle to yourself.
Only, the joke would be on you. All the best music that I know has come from a place of complete commitment to an artistic vision, with no room for self-preservation. The reason why David Bowie was so inspiring was that he effectively lived his art – his chameleon-like transformations borne out not only through his music but his image, his fashion and at times even his lifestyle.
To my mind, HMLTD subscribe to a similar artistic worldview, at a time when it's been done before – a whole new challenge in itself. Theirs isn't so much a band as it is a 24/7 art project. In front man Henry Spychalsk they have a living embodiment of their music. The rest of the band are equally committed. When I head along to watch a show of theirs after speaking to the group, I catch Henry and he proudly explains how the band spent the day painstakingly decorating the stage of the bar that we're in to make sure it properly complements their music. HMLTD are signed to Sony – they don't really have to give a shit – but they still care immensely about the presentation of their art, even in a small South London pub.
Whether you like their music or not, you'll have to decide for yourself, but you can't possibly doubt the dedication of HMLTD to what they're doing.


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The story is told through the eyes of a young South African, Phila, who suffers from what he calls triple 'N' condition – neurasthenia, narcolepsy and cultural ne plus ultra. This makes him feel far removed from events happening around him but gives him access to the analeptic memory of his people. After being under immense mental pressure, he crosses the mental divide between the living and the dead and is visited by Maqoma. They engage in different conversations about cultural history, literature, religion, the past and contemporary South African life.
About the Author:
Mphuthumi Ntabeni is a writer who resides in Cape Town. He contributes to different national and international publications, and maintains a column in the Southern Cross, South Africa's national weekly Catholic newspaper. He has worked with the Rhodes University drama department in staging two plays he wrote that were featured at the Grahamstown Arts Festival in 2006. Some of his short stories feature occasionally in magazines and historical journals and on radio. In 2008, he was one of six writers from the African continent whose collection of short stories were published in the United States in an anthology titled Africa Fresh! New Writings from the First Continent. He is also a founder of a Facebook book club called Qhamisa Book Club, which boasts more than 2 000 active members.
GENRE: Fiction
FORMAT: Trade paperback SIZE 216x116mm
EXTENT: 184pp
RIGHTS: World rights
RELEASE: June 2018


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Ok, I get, you got shot! Now turn around while I pick this lock.
Ok people… This, this is insane; I'm serious, this one quote has been picked and ran with all over the internet. Why? I don't know. That's why the world is so wacky; one minute you're saying something or doing something, person records it, then the next moment you enjoy a mediocratic rise of web fame for a few a month then disappear back into the obscurity (ITJB). In this case, a quote from the latest console juggernaut: Skyrim. Basically whenever a player character enters any town or city with guards in it they will eventually say: 'I used to be an adventurer just like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee'. Some gamers theorized that all the guards say this because the naïve warriors of Skyrim don't use knee guards in their armors; so they in turn take lot punishment to the knee to the point where they are forced to retire to a guard position. Others think is sloppy programing. Well whatever the reason it's today's quote of the day, not because we think it's a really funny or profound, only because it's popular with the kids today. After all one of Armada's many mottos is 'Joining band wagon's since 2008'.
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In new version of New version of Proactive Windows Security Explorer were made the following changes:
! bug fixed
+ improvement/modification
+ preliminary attack:
+ passwords equal to user names
+ cached passwords (HelpAssistant, VUSR_*, IIS_* etc)
+ autologon password
+ password saved in WinLogon process memory
+ simple dictionary and bruteforce attacks
+ show disabled and locked accounts
+ attack by multiple dictionaries
+ show additional information about active attack
+ an ability to clear log window
+ an ability to remove users from list
+ faster and more reliable dump from local computer memory
+ an ability to select all users with recovered NTLM passwords
(Edit | Highlight accounts with recoverd passwords)
! checking for Administrator privileges
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I find it hard to answer when people ask: "Where did it all begin?"
Do I go back to my childhood and my love of reading and writing? What about when my best mate introduced me to fantasy reading, by giving me a copy of Legend, by David Gemmell, at age 15?
But one definite place where it all began was when I interviewed fantasy giant Raymond E Feist, in 2002, at Starbucks coffee shop in Hornsby.
Back then I was the editor of the Hornsby Advocate and, like so many other people, a frustrated writer.
My one attempt at a fantasy book had slightly interested one agent – and that was it. Convinced I couldn't write fantasy, I was trying – and failing – to get a contemporary Australian novel published. After getting to the final 10 of a pitching contest at the Sydney Writers' Festival, and having an agent want to read the whole manuscript, I had hit a brick wall.
But if I couldn't write, at least I could interview one of my favourite authors, who was out here on his Talon Of The Silver Hawk promotional tour.
I managed to arrange an interview with Feist through HarperCollins, as he was also going to have a book signing at Borders Hornsby.
Now, no author is going to be unpleasant to an interviewer, even one from a suburban newspaper, but I found Feist to be charming and an absolute delight to talk to.
We discussed his books, as well as fantasy in general and also his friend William R Forstchen (they co-authored Honoured Enemy). I have all eight of Forstchen's Lost Regiment series – coincidentally bought at Karen Miller's Phantasia bookshop in Penrith.
Then we began talking about writing, and he described how his characters sometimes take his story threads off in different directions to the one he planned. That they almost tell the story for him. The way he described it they begin at A and have to get to Z but they don't go there via B, C, D etc – they might jump to H, then back again and so on.
This was very similar to the way I like to write – that once I have my characters firmly in my mind, they almost take control of the story.
We spoke for so long, the HarperCollins PR lady had to come and get him, as the crowds in Borders were getting restless!
I walked away from that interview just buzzing, my mind afire. If Feist, the mind behind such classics as Magician, wrote like that, then why couldn't I?
It was hugely invigorating.
Now the story that became The Wounded Guardian did not begin to take shape until 2004, almost exactly two years later – my son was born one month after the Feist interview and helped occupy my time – but I decided in 2002 to leave my contemporary novel and go back to fantasy.
Now, seven years later, my dream is about to come true!
I emailed Raymond E Feist after I signed my contract with HarperCollins and he wrote back, a lovely email that included:
"Don't go blaming me, mate, if you got the storytelling bug. And if you somehow manage to get rich and famous doing this, it's not my fault!
Anyway, continued success to you and if I played even a small part in motivating you to live your dream, thanks for letting me know.''
He does not endorse books, and I would not expect him to ever read The Wounded Guardian. But he played more than a small part in motivating me to live my dream!
Find out more about The Wounded Guardian, which is officially published on 1 July (but will be hitting bookstores from next week onwards).
Duncan Lay is a layout designer and headline writer at the Sunday Telegraph. He lives on the Central Coast of NSW. Visit Duncan's blog.
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My arm is still sore from Thursday's vaccination marathon.
I went to see a medical advisor in tropical medicine. As you'd expect, it wasn't any vaccination I would need especially for the trip, but rather I had long run out of any protection that you'd normally have in Western Europe. Hell.


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We took E and Z out for Mexican food on Tuesday night (their actual birthday), where they got sombreros and a very gringo birthday song to go with their fried ice cream and sopapillas.
Wednesday and Thursday were just normal days (i.e. baseball games). And then Friday, M's birthday, we had grandparents over for pizza and ice cream (M requested Ben and Jerry's and no cake. Easy peasy). After the grands left and the brothers went to bed, M and I watched The Terminator, as a kind of rite of passage. I've been so excited to watch that movie with him. Now I can't wait to see #2 and 3.
Then Saturday more baseball and Sunday E and Z's party. I told them I would bake a cake and get ice cream, but that they were in charge of the activities. They had seven friends over and there was a lot of running around outside. They wanted to have a Nerf gun battle, which I tried to divert into a squirt gun battle (i.e., outside). The squirt guns didn't get much use, but the Nerf war started close enough to the end of the party that it was over before anything broke. E wanted to have blackberry vanilla cake, and I found a recipe online that uses blackberry jam (of course I can't find it now, but I see several dozen other blackberry jam bundt cakes, and now I want to try them all). The frosting is jam + powdered sugar...brilliant and easy and delicious and I'll never try to fold berries into buttercream again. There wasn't even an iota of objection to it being purple.
I found that I took Birthday Season much more in stride than I used to. In years past, it was cause of month's-long stress and anxiety. I guess I've calmed down over the years. Or lowered my expectations. Or maybe it comes of having kids old enough to write and distribute their own invitations and organize the party activities without me having to be cruise director. I think 11 is going to be a good year (and 15, too, of course).


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Jun 17, 2013 - 11:46 am
My surgeon says path report showed small % of my 4.5 tumor was sarcomitoid. He referred me to oncologist who says, like surgeon, that he thinks they "got it all" but has ordered Pet/CT scan for Wednesday 6/19.
Oncologist says the sarcomitoid aspemothered my tumor makes him "nervous" and that is why he ordered PET.
Anyone care to share regarding the sarcomitoid aspect of a tumor?
thanks guys, a lot!
Jun 17, 2013 - 12:04 pm
I'd be curious as to responses though!
I suspect replies won't be long coming!
Jun 17, 2013 - 12:35 pm
Gamecocks, I'm afraid that there's no hiding the fact that sarcomatoid is bad news - about as bad as you could get, considering your other details are all quite favourable. Have you been told whether it's entirely sarcomatoid or, maybe, mostly clear cell but part sarcomatoid?
There's no point in hiding from it so you may want to read more about it on threads dealing with it - we have several. Try, for example, the one simply entitled "Sarcomatoid" at
At the moment is has 102 messages on it.
However, if you're lucky and they managed to get rid of it entirely for you then you won't have anything to worry about, except for making sure you have routine scans to check that all continues OK.
Jun 17, 2013 - 1:02 pm
Doc says only a small percentage of my tumor was sarcomatoid. That, he says, makes his finding RCC with sarcomitoid aspect. The tumor was contained and had not spread. Caught it very early and he said had it not been discovered at his early, I would have been up the creek 12 months from now.
thanks for the cite, I will check it out...
Jun 17, 2013 - 1:10 pm
Only a small proportion is good to hear and the containment and lack of spread are also promising factors. Did he say that your underlying type was clear cell (the commonest and most researched)?
Jun 17, 2013 - 1:49 pm
...that even though the sarcomatoid feature is a heavily negative prognostic factor (Texas already provided the bleak details), its still only one of several factors. You have several prognostic factors being on the upside of things, stage and size being dominant ones. Im not saying to turn the blind eye to it (the sarcomatoid part) but for your mental wellbeing in the stressfull times to come, try to focus on the silver lining in the cloud, if you get my drift...
Jun 17, 2013 - 2:33 pm
Yes, it was clear cell and I know that is a good sign and Stage 1 is great, despite it being a 4 (which it was because of the sarcomatoid ).
Just so others know, I took a freak fall in the woods with my dogs, knocked the breath out of me, 2 days later I ended up in ER with most severe pain of my life. They thought I had kidney stones. CT showed no stones, but a mass on left kidney. Pain was from torqued nerve in my lower back. Had I not taken the fall, it would have been a much later diagnosis and perhaps too late then. Mere coincidence? Not in my book..:)
Jun 17, 2013 - 3:55 pm
The way it was explained to me by my Dr, who has written papers on Sarcomitoid diferentiation, Sarcomitoid features is the single biggest indication of bad outcomes. You need to be agressive about the follow up scans. The secret is to catch any and all metastises early. My understanding is, with sacomitoid RCC, treatment is like surgical whack-a-mole. If they can cut it out, you live untill at least the next one. There are other treatments, but they slow the prograssion, rather than stop.
I am with you with the sarcomitoid tumor. One thing to do is to try to stay on top of the medical advances, for possible clinical trials. Good luck. Good luck.


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Niflheim (or Niflheimr) ("Mist Home", the "Abode of Mist" or "Mist World") is one of the Nine Worlds and is a location in Norse mythology which overlaps with the notions of Niflhel and Hel. The name Niflheimr only appears in two extant sources, Gylfaginning and the much debated Hrafnagaldr Óðins.
According to Gylfaginning, it was one of the two primordial realms, the other one being Muspelheim, the realm of fire. Between these two realms of cold and heat, creation began. Later, it became the location of Hel, the abode of those who did not die a heroic death.
Nif][1] is cognate with the Old English Nifol ("dark")[2] and German nebel, "fog").
In Gylfaginning by Snorri Sturluson, Gylfi, the king of ancient Scandinavia, receives an education in Norse mythology from Odin in the guise of three men. Gylfi learns from Odin (as Jafnhárr) that Niflheimr was the first world to be created after Muspelheim:
|It was many ages before the earth was shaped that the Mist-World [Niflheimr] was made; and midmost within it lies the well that is called Hvergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svöl, Gunnthrá, Fjörm, Fimbulthul, Slídr and Hríd, Sylgr and Ylgr, Víd, Leiptr; Gjöll is hard by Hel-gates."[3]
Odin (as Þriði) further tells Gylfi that it was when the ice from Niflheimr met the flames from Muspelheimr that creation began and Ymir was formed:
|Just as cold arose out of Nifiheim [Niflheim], and all terrible things, so also all that looked toward Múspellheim became hot and glowing; but Ginnungagap was as mild as windless air, and when the breath of heat met the rime, so that it melted and dripped, life was quickened from the yeast-drops, by the power of that which sent the heat, and became a man's form. And that man is named Ymir, but the Rime-Giants call him Aurgelmir; [...][4]
In relation to the world tree Yggdrasil, Jafnhárr (Odin) tells Gylfi that Niflheimr is located under the third root, where Ginnungagap (Yawning Void) once was:
|The Ash is greatest of all trees and best: its limbs spread out over all the world and stand above heaven. Three roots of the tree uphold it and stand exceeding broad: one is among the Æsir; another among the Rime-Giants, in that place where aforetime was the Yawning Void; the third stands over Niflheim, and under that root is Hvergelmir, and Nídhöggr gnaws the root from below.[5]
Gylfi is furthermore informed that when Loki had engendered Hel, she was cast into Niflheimr by Odin:
|Hel he cast into Niflheim, and gave to her power over nine worlds, to apportion all abodes among those that were sent to her: that is, men dead of sickness or of old age. She has great possessions there; her walls are exceeding high and her gates great.[6]
Hel thus became the mistress of the world of those dead in disease and old age. One last mention of Niflheimr appears where it is the last destination of the jotun who were killed by Thor after he had built Asgard:
|Now that the Æsir saw surely that the hill-giant was come thither, they did not regard their oaths reverently, but called on Thor, who came as quickly. And straightway the hammer Mjöllnir was raised aloft; he paid the wright's wage, and not with the sun and the moon. Nay, he even denied him dwelling in Jötunheim, and struck but the one first blow, so that his skull was burst into small crumbs, and sent him down below under Niflhel [Niflheim].[7]
Hrafnagaldr Óðins
In Hrafnagaldr Óðins, there is a brief mention of Niflheimr as a location in the North, towards which the sun (Alfr's illuminator) chased the night as it rose:
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Notes and references
- ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary
- ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary
- ↑ Section III of Gylfaginning, in translation by Arthur G. Brodeur (1916,1923), at Northvegr.
- ↑ Section VII of Gylfaginning, in translation by Arthur G. Brodeur (1916,1923), at Northvegr.
- ↑ Section XV of Gylfaginning, in translation by Arthur G. Brodeur (1916,1923), at Northvegr.
- ↑ Section XLII of Gylfaginning, in translation by Arthur G. Brodeur (1916,1923), at Northvegr.
- ↑ Section XXXIV of Gylfaginning, in translation by Arthur G. Brodeur (1916,1923), at Northvegr.
- ↑ Hrafnagaldr Óðins in Sophus Bugge's edition.
- ↑ Odin's Ravens' Song in translation by Benjamin Thorpe (1866), at Northvegr.
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Mickey Baker passed away earlier this week on November 27th at the age of 87. He was born on October 15, 1925 in Louisville, KY. He's best remembered for his duo with Sylvia Vanderpool and their big hit "Love Is Strange". He's also known for his incredible studio work as he can be heard on such songs as "Shake, Rattle & Roll"- Big Joe Turner, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On- "Big Maybelle", "Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean"- Ruth Brown, "It's Gonna Work Out Fine"- Ike & Tina Turner and others.
Mickey & Silvia- "Love Is Strange"
Big Joe Turner- "Shake, Rattle & Roll"
Big Maybelle- "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" (produced by Quincy Jones in 1955...
2 years before Jerry Lee Lewis)
Ruth Brown- "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean"
Mickey Baker- "Whistle Stop"


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Designing Change: Sappi's "Ideas That Matter"
Sappi's grants program helps realize print design projects that advance the social good
(3BL Media/Justmeans) -- Better design, better world. Itâs a simple concept, with infinite variety.Â
Consider "Citizen Forester," a workshop and collateral designed by Gwen OâBrien of design studio Plenty that supports the work of Friends of Grand Rapids Parks toward increasing community engagement around parks and public spaces in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Or "Draw It Out Classroom Kit & Grief Outreach," a therapeutic art lesson for young students to express their feelings after tragedy designed by Seattle-based designers Steffanie Lorig and Jana Nishi Yuen for Art with Heart.
Or Crowdfund Health, a crowdfunding platform designed by Tina Chang Walderman and Anne Jaconette for Nyaya Health that raises funds to improve health care in Nepal. Or "EducationSuperHighway," a white paper designed by Naomi Usher of Studio Usher advocating an upgrade to the Internet infrastructure in America's elementary and high schools to close the "K-12 digital divide."
These are just a few of the excellent proposals of the total eleven recently selected to receive grants from the 2013 Ideas That Matter program, a well-known and respected grant program meant to aid designers in creating and implementing print projects that advance a wide variety of charitable causes.
[To view all of this year's grant recipients, click here.]
The concept of "design for social good" seems to be having its day in the sun of late. In October 2011, AIGA launched their "Design for Good" pro bono initiative, meant to enable "designers, firms, chapters and groups to demonstrate the value of design to our local communities, elected officials and business leaders."
As AIGA executive director Richard Grefé said during the launch, "There is a promising future in solving our citizens' problems between the roles of capital markets and the public sector."
In the fall of 2012, the School of Visual Arts launched the Design for Social Innovation MFA program, which views social innovation as "the application of new strategies and models to solving the challenges the world faces and to strengthening society."
But while "design for social good" may seem to be a trending topic across the worlds of design, social innovation, sustainability and corporate social responsibility, Sappi Fine Paper North America has been helping designers realize concepts that advance the social good for over a decade. Since 1999, the company's Ideas that Matter program has supported the work that designers do for nonprofit organizations with over $12 million in grants given to designers around the world.
This year's winning proposals were selected by an independent judging panel of design professionals known for their advocacy of design for social good: Los Angeles-based design writer Alissa Walker; Bill Drenttel, president of the Hamden, Connecticut-based Winterhouse Institute, which focuses on non-profit, self-initiated projects that support sociopolitical initiatives and design education; Chicago-based Erin Huizenga, founder of EPIC, which joins top creative professionals with nonprofits; Jennifer Kinon, founding partner of the New York-based design and branding agency Original Champions of Design (OCD); and Michael Lejeune, creative director of Metro Design Studio in Los Angeles.
"The exciting thing about this year's Ideas That Matter grant proposals was their diversity," said Drenttel, "from community engagement programs to design education programs; as well as international health communication to diabetes health management for young women; or important projects focused on civic engagement to urban development."
While each project targets a specific social issue in a specific community, together they make one basic premise clear: Better design, better world. And with that possibility comes responsibility. As Nyaya Health, the beneficiary of the Sappi grant to Crowdfund Health, succinctly notes on their website, "Good design isnât a luxuryâit's a powerful and real priority."
"Designers are visionaries, idealists and purists; we tend to see a better world that most people don't," said Blake Howard of Matchstic, a branding agency based in Atlanta. "I think we have a responsibility to work on passion projects that move the needle toward that better world."
Huizenga noted that the most memorable work in the Ideas That Matter program has a "distinct approach that it was truly going to progress that nonprofitâs work. She added, "It wasn't storytelling around what isâit was telling of what could be."
"Each year, all of us at Sappi are inspired by the quality of the submissions, as well as the creative and compelling design solutions to a wide range of real social needs," said Patti Groh, head of marketing and communications for Sappi North America. She notes that the program "continues to be important platform for social change, giving designers the powerful opportunity to use their skills and expertise to support the greater good."
And while we can agree that there are some incredible ideas out there that matter when it comes to the social good, it's critical that those ideas become a reality.
"There is an element of design that doesn't get much attention, which is that in addition to seeing systems and developing new connections and ideas, designers know how to get stuff done," Cheryl Heller, the founding chair of SVA's Design for Social Innovation MFA program, told me in 2011.
"We know how to start a seemingly too-big-to-tackle project, how to manage it and protect an idea through it, get through the middle, and finish it," she said. "And then we know how to iterate and improve it once it's done. We aren't just about ideas. We are also about manifesting things."
Thanks to grant programs like Sappi's Ideas That Matter, designers are getting a chance to do just that.


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This is a Sextant, an instrument that sailors used to calculate their latitude with, by measuring the angle between the Sun (or some other star) and the horizon.
The scale and upper mirror still need a little bit of tweaking so for now you can print one yourself using this guide here: http://www.tecepe.com.br/nav/XTantProject.htm
Use M3 and M2 screws and nuts to hold it all together (using glue is also possible but make sure the parts that need to move can move!)
Oh and you will need two 35 x 15 mm Mirrors, ideally without glass, just polished metal so there is no refraction.
The parts file needs support structures. Otherwise the model is ready to print.


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Be safe out there folks. Many of you will be out doing some last minute shopping – traffic will be heavy and patience difficult to find. Let's make it through to spend Christmas with our families tomorrow.
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End of the year coming up. This is a good time to plan for the next year Goals and objectives. Weight loss, finances – preparedness. What will 2015 hold for us? Will it be a year of continued economic improvement and decreasing racial tensions? or….Will it be a year with a crashing stock market, racial violence, and continued governmental overreaching? More threats and activity from North Korea? Ebola? Lets hope not.
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Just wanted to say THANK YOU to Shirley, T.S., and Matt who recently made some donations. Very generous and the funds will help support upcoming projects including equipment evals. I appreciate it when people want to help. I have but one rule: Make sure you can afford it. I would hate for anyone to put themselves out for me.
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Technology is incredible. Yeah – I know – we could be thrown back to the 1800's in the blink of an eye due to EMP. I see that for around $10 you can pick up 8gb and 16gb USB flash drives. Tons of information can be stored and these drives are extremely durable. One little device stores thousands of books, guides, articles, video's, movies, pictures. etc. With many tablets dropping in price a system can be put together for less than $100. With a tablet an SD-card would likely be needed rather than a USB drive. Regardless – they hold volumes and volumes of information.
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Dial back my clock some years; I was single and ready to meet someone. A local magazine had a big a party, and I decided to go, what better place to meet someone than at a cocktail party? I checked in. I got a nametag. I looked around. I panicked! What had I been thinking? I wasn't a cocktail party kind of girl. All I saw was a sea of people I didn't know, and it looked to me like every single one of them was having a blast and chatting away. I did what any brave, socially savvy person would do. I ran for the safety of the bathroom!
After hanging out for five minutes and giving myself a pep talk, I stood up straight, threw my shoulders back, and marched right down to the parking garage. When I got to the safety of my car I thought about what had just happened. I'm not a chicken, and I don't get intimidated easily.
But there was I was, hiding from a party in a parking garage.
I am happy to say that I went back to the party, searched around for someone who looked more out of place than me and struck up a conversation. Straightaway I admitted how uncomfortable I was, we had a good laugh because they were too. We're still acquaintances and the night ended up being just fine. I learned something important for me that evening, and from then forward I only tried to meet new people doing things that I enjoyed.
Plus, things happen in life. Sometimes it's a divorce, or the kids have gone off to school, you become the caretaker of aging parents, or you just get stuck in a rut. It's time to turn this around!
As the owner and manager of Bayou City Outdoors, I have introduced hundreds of people over the years. People who fall in love, people who are looking for travel buddies, people who now have a big circle of friends. I love helping people make connections more than anything else I do. Other than joining Houston's Bayou City Outdoors :) here are some of my favorite suggestions to get people out and meeting!
All of us fall into routines that hold us back. Work is the first place to check. Maybe you're the person who always seems to end up working late, sort of the office martyr? Do you find that no matter what you do, you can't seem to get away from the office in time to do the things you had planned? Stop that. If you had a meeting on your calendar, you would find a way to go. Schedule your time to fit your life. This is a conversation for another day, but just remember – where you put your focus is what is going to get done. Work projects and to-do lists never get finished.
How much time are you willingly to put towards making your social life rock? Maybe it's three events a week; maybe it's only one. Only you can decide how important this is for you and then schedule accordingly.
Just like me in my story, I'm not great at a cocktail party making small talk. Put me on a bike or a hiking trail or in a kayak, and I find it's easy for me to chat with anyone. Personally, I think that shared experiences make the conversation flow. What are your favorite things to do?
Is there something that you have always wanted to try? Something new you'd like to learn? Start here. Make a list. My list was learning to kayak, finding where to hike and how to meet the people who loved being active and outdoors!
Only do things that you want to do never do things that you think you "should" do. If "everyone" seems to meet biking or dancing but that not your gig, don't do it. One of the reasons doing things you enjoy works is because you are having fun, smiling, laughing, not uncomfortable or stifled.
Friends are the best. And, sometimes friends are our best enemies. They can help you make excuses as to why you shouldn't do something. Cut that out. You may just have to leave your friends at home and strike out on your own.
If you need a change of clothes, bring them. If your dog needs walking, hire a sitter. If you need to bring your bike, put it in the car and cover it up. Going home first is going to drop your chance of actually going out by about a million percent. You know, I know, we all know once you are at home it's hard to head back out.
Take life less seriously and learn to be flexible. When I meet someone who is so caught up in all the details they can't come up for a breath of air, I worry for them. Being flexible and not having to have everything exactly right or all answers answered helps you be a little easier to be around. People gravitate to those who are less stressed. Plus, worrying and stressing are just bad for your health
Make it easy for yourself. Of course, people do meet at the office or randomly in line for coffee. But not as often as when they put themselves in a situation that leads to conversation and fun. It's a whole lot easier to strike up a conversation when you're trying a standup paddleboard for the first time versus ordering lunch or a drink.
Get to know people in a group situation before you get to know them intimately. You can basically "skip the first date". You get the chance to see how they interact, who they are in different situations, how they treat others. Plus, in groups like BCO, there are always Event Leaders and a few "regulars" to introduce you around and help break the ice.
It helps remove the stress of what to talk about and may help you find activities you didn't even know you liked. Even if you don't meet someone special, you still are having fun and being active. Plus you're getting new ideas about where to go and what to do in this big city of ours.
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I am having an exhibit in Shanghai from now until September 2nd if anyone just happens to be in the area! It is an exhibit featuring work by myself (15 of my animals) and by Wolfram Kampffmeyer aka Paperwolf. It is being held in the atrium of the iapm Shopping Mall in Shanghai and it is a collaboration with Disney Nature to promote their upcoming film, "Born in China". The film is about 3 different endangered species native to China: the giant panda, the snow leopard and the golden snub-nosed monkey. I have completed a giant panda and a golden snub-nosed monkey and am currently finishing up a snow leopard, all specially for the exhibit. I am super excited to have this opportunity to promote awareness of environmental and wildlife conservation issues in China!
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Python jobs
Over the last few months I've seen a real up trend in Python jobs available. I follow Python jobs, because it's a good way to spot consulting opportunities. It's also good to be surprised when you find someone local using Python that you didn't know about.
For Python developers there's 3 companies that always seem to be sucking up all the Python programmers: Google, Canonical and Mozilla. Out of people I can think of off the top of my head, I think these 3 companies account for over 50% of the developers I know of. Perhaps it's because my circle of friends is small, but these you can pretty much guess when someone says that they've been hired - it's one of these three.
Canonical is probably a little more unusual than the other projects, in that they use quite a lot of the ZCA. So if you are looking for a job there, might be a good idea to research that a little bit first.
These aren't the only ones, I seem to know more people at Mochimedia every day.
Django is certainly providing a lift to Python:
Django powers over 80% of Python-coded web sites, according to some estimates
The recent TechCrunch 50 winner RedBeacon was running Django, and so do an awful lot of new startups.
I don't really have an stats to back all this up, I should probably write a Python script to do that. But I do think a few things:
- The days when Python is just an afterthought attached to a system administration job description are on the decline.
- It's a good time to learn Python.


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This novel opens with the buzzing activities of Election Day in Beulah, North Carolina. As Marilyn Denny Thomas describes that day in 1900 and the days following, she introduces the reader to a wide cast of characters. There are the members of the Gresham family (Jeb and Sarah Jane and their five daughters) who are well-established in Duplin County. They have formed strong bonds with their friends, such as the Thomases and the Williamses, and relatives (some of whom spell their last name Grisham or Grissom) in this tightly knit community. Residents of Beulah share their many joys, such as marriages, births, and successful tobacco crops as well as many disappointments, such as wayward family members, unfulfilled dreams, and deaths. Beulah is not unlike other small towns; it has its share of darkness, such as the murder of a former slave, and as well as shared curiosities, such as the total solar eclipse that townspeople witnessed as they collected tobacco from the fields. Thomas exposes the happenings of a small southern town at the turn of the century.
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If Mets manager Jerry Manuel had been the only surgeon on-call at the now defunct St. John's Hospital, he would have had his hands full attempting to explain why his team died on the operating table. Wednesday night's suffocating defeat at the hands of the Cardinals was yet another setback on the road to recovery. St. Louis starting pitcher Joel Pinero managed to pitch his way into the ninth inning as if he were administering Novocain to the Mets' bats in tiny little droplets and lulling them to sleep.
Aside from Mets centerfielder Carlos Beltran, you would have thought that SNY's broadcast last night was made to showcase Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa's latest reclamation project. By witnessing another DOA-performance by one of his starters, Mets Pitching Coach Dan Warthen looked a tad queasy and could be seen exhibiting acute erratic behavior on his way back to the dugout. Could you blame him? He now has to phone his beloved wife and tell her that he will most likely be working overtime this weekend.
With a day-game-after-a-night scheduled for today before the Mets fly back to Citi Field, the team has requested a second opinion on their recent diagnosis. Hoping to avoid a sweep, the Mets will call on Livan Hernandez to jumpstart their flagging confidence and revive any notion of a heartbeat before Mets fans decide to pull the plug prematurely.


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Jesse Marvin Unruh Assembly Fellowships
Program Information
Deadline Month: February
Application Deadline Dates: TBA
Award Amount: $2,627/month+benefits
The Assembly Fellowship Program selects 18 fellows to gain experience and knowledge of government processes while serving as full-time professional legislative staff in Sacramento. This 11-month fellowship includes a monthly stipend of $2,627 plus full medical benefits. Fellows also attend a seminar at CSU Sacramento to earn 12 graduate credits.
Type: Internship Program
Application Available: Organization Website
Eligibility Requirements
Class Level: Senior
Area of Study: Public Service
Application Form: Yes
Submission Requirements
Application Form: Yes
Transcripts: Yes
Transcript Description: All Colleges Attended
Letters of Rec: Yes
Letters of Rec Detail: 3
Letters of Rec Notes: Personal evaluation forms.
Resume: No
Personal Essay: Yes
Project Proposal: Yes
Project Proposal Notes: Policy statement
Financial Aid: No
Institutional Endorsement: No
Other Submission Requirements: No
Further Information
The Jesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellowship Program The Center for California Studies, CSU Sacramento
6000 J Street
Website: http://www.csus.edu/calst/assembly/


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An Iranian documentary 'Ali Aqa', directed by Kamran Heidari, is to compete with 14 other films in the feature-length documentary category at the 30th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Netherlands.
'Ali Aqa' (meaning Mr. Ali in Persian) is the story of a birdman named Ali in an old neighborhood in Shiraz, Fars Province. He has been keeping birds for almost 50 years.
An international jury will evaluate the films and select winners for the IDFA Award and the IDFA Special Jury Award.
Heidari's 81-minute documentary will be vying for the two awards in this category together with other films - all longer than 70 minutes - from Poland, China, Egypt, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Iceland and Germany at the festival slated for November 15-26, ISNA reported.
The acclaimed Iranian short documentary directed by the influential Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967) is another film from Iran to be screened at the Dutch event.
Titled 'The House is Black', the film navigates into the suffering of the inhabitants of a leper colony and focuses on human conditions and the beauty of creation.
It was the only film she directed before her death. During the shooting of the film she became attached to a child of a leper couple who she adopted before a tragic car accident cut short her life.


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August 11, 2020 - Latest: What has happened to markets this year? by Darius McDermott
13th November 2015
Britain's housing market is 'broken' and interest rates are not going to increase soon and robots will take 15 million jobs.
This is the grim assessment of the UK from the Bank of England's 'blue-sky thinker' and chief economist Andrew Haldane.
Addressing a Trade Union Congress last night, Haldane warned about the housing shortage and the fact it was driving prices higher.
'The housing market is broken. There is a chronic and accumulated imbalance between demand and supply, and it is that which is sending skywards – and has sent skyward – house prices,' he said.
Although an interest rate rise my help to stymie house price rises he said a hike is 'still some way from being made' as inflation was going to stay below the 2% target in the coming years, wage growth has subsided and global demand is uncertain.
He added that an interest rate rise would increase borrowing and would 'increase unnecessarily the chance of the economy falling below critical velocity'.
'For those reasons, I have continued to vote to leave rates unchanged, with a neutral stance on the future direction of monetary policy,' said Haldane. 'Now more than ever policy needs to be poised to move off either foot depending on which way the data break.'
Haldane had more bad news as he predicted 15 million jobs could become automated – particularly those in administrative and production sectors – as technology advances.
He said advancements in the 18th and 19th centuries had created a 'hollowing out' of jobs that widened the income gap between high and low-skilled workers. However, the process of hollowing out that would happen now is at a faster pace as machines replace humans for cognitive as well as manual tasks.
'In the words of Marc Andresen, in future there could be two types of worker –those who own the robots and those who work for them,' he said. 'If these visions were to be realised, however futuristic this sounds, the labour market patterns of the past three centuries would shift to warp speed.'
He said it could create 'large scale un- or underemployment' if people were not up-skilled.


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Hanover Christian Firewood Ministry : The HCFM participates with neighboring churches to provide firewood to over 30 families in need each winter throughout eastern Hanover County. We are a 501 c (3) charity. Our volunteers ranging from 3 to 93 collect, process, and deliver some 80 to 100 cords of firewood each year. Our ministry also assists with outreach efforts throughout the year as well as providing Christmas boxes to our families. We host a Fall Picnic and a St. Patrick's Day Dinner and would love for you to join us. If you are interested in joining this ministry, please contact Patti at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Chritmas Mother
Before the Christmas Season each year, St. Paul's receives a list of Christmas gifts for children and their families in Hanover County who may not get anything else for Christmas that year. The congregation buys the gifts along with some food for holiday dinners and distributes them to the families.
St. Paul's is a collection point for the Ashland Christian Emergency Services. We have two places at the Church to leave food, clothing or other requested items that are delivered to ACES once a week.
Partner Outreach Ministries
We have many ministries of mercy at St. Paul's, everyone is encouraged to join in love of neighbor.
Moments of Hope: St. Paul's hosts a hot breakfast provided by the "Moments of Hope Outreach" every Saturdays. Breakfast is served from 9-10 am. The "Moments of Hope" pantry is located just north of St. Paul's on Rte 301 (13400 Hanover Courthouse Rd).
For a weekend in October, St. Paul's partners with St. James the Less in Ashland to feed and house homeless men as part of the Caritas outreach ministry. Caritas partners with churches throughout the Richmond area to provide food and shelter to the homeless year round.
Back Pack Ministry
The Backpack Ministry is a joint ministry between St. Paul's and Hillcrest Baptist churches. It provides food during the school year to children in Hanover schools (in our immediate area) who need meals over the weekends. We service seven schools, from elementary through high, with numbers of students varying each year. The schools determine which students receive the food based on need. The entire ministry, from collection to distribution of the food, is done by volunteers from these two churches. Thanks to all the help, love and support of parishioners, we continue to grow yearly!
School Supply Drive
In late July and early August, the congregation collects school supplies to fill backpacks for kids in the YMCA "Back to School" program. In 2018, most everything on the list for three backpacks was gone in three days, Way to Go St. Paul's!
CROP Walk
On the first Saturday in October, members from St. Paul's walk around the town of Ashland to raise money for local and international outreach ministries.
Fish Feed All
Fish Feed All bags are brown paper bags with one to two days worth of non-perishable food that St. Paul's provides for people to take with them and pass out to people in need. Fish Feed All bags are on the Outreach Table near the doubles doors of the Parish Hall.
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Hanover | 8050 St. Paul's Church Rd., P O Box 441, Hanover, Va. 23069 | 804-537-5516


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We are in love with these beautiful and well presented Chakra Singing bowl sets.
This singing bowl set comes complete with a little cushion to sit your bowl on and wooden stick to make the bowls sing. They produce beautiful sounds which invite peace and calm and create an ideal atmosphere for meditation, relaxation, self discovery and harmony.
Each Chakra bowl is unique both in appearance and frequencies. The base tone is the same but the wave sound differs to help balance each individual Chakra. Singing bowls are really a type of bell, the sides and rim of the bowls vibrate to produce the beautiful sound. Like mediation and mindfulness there is a technique to these bowls which takes time to master, with a little bit of practice these bowls can produce incredibly powerful and moving sounds which will leave you enchanted.
For an indulgent and restorative sound bath collect each different chakra bowl and team up with other instruments to provide a powerful and moving experience.
Solar Plexus chakra located in the area above the naval area. Its function is willpower. Its inner state is laughter, joy, anger. Its colour is yellow and its planets are Mars and the Sun. Its stones are Amber, Topaz, Citrine. Its mediation 'I do'.
Balancing this chakra is associated with calming emotions and frustration, easing tension and helping to better utilize intuition
Energy, easing tension and helping to better utilize intuition.
Size - 8 X 8 X 5cm