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Solar power is the generation of electricity from sunlight. This can be direct as with photovoltaics (PV), or indirect as with concentrating solar power (CSP), where the sun's energy is focused to boil water which is then used to provide power. Solar power has the potential to provide over 1,000 times total world energy consumption in 2008, though it provided only 0.02% of the total that year. If it continues to double in use every two to three years, or less, it would become the dominant energy source this century. The largest solar power plants, like the 354 MW SEGS, are concentrating solar thermal plants, but recently multi-megawatt photovoltaic plants have been built. Completed in 2008, the 46 MW Moura photovoltaic power station in Portugal and the 40 MW Waldpolenz Solar Park in Germany are characteristic of the trend toward larger photovoltaic power stations. Much larger ones are proposed, such as the 100 MW Fort Peck Solar Farm, the 550 MW Topaz Solar Farm, and the 600 MW Rancho Cielo Solar Farm.
Terrestrial solar power is a predictably intermittent energy source, meaning that whilst solar power is not available at all times, we can predict with a very good degree of accuracy when it will and will not be available. Some technologies, such as solar thermal concentrators have an element of thermal storage, such as molten salts. These store spare solar energy in the form of heat which can be made made available overnight or during periods that solar power is not available to produce electricity. Orbital solar power collection (as in solar power satellites) avoids this intermittent issue, but requires satellite launching and beaming of the collected power to receiving antennas on Earth. The increased intensity of sunlight above the atmosphere also increases generation efficiency.
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight to electricity. Sunlight can be converted directly into electricity using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly with concentrating solar power (CSP), which normally focuses the sun's energy to boil water which is then used to provide power, and technologies such as the Stirling engine dishes which use a Stirling cycle engine to power a generator. Photovoltaics were initially used to power small and medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to off-grid homes powered by a photovoltaic array.
Solar power plants can face high installation costs, although this has been decreasing due to the learning curve.[1][2] Developing countries have started to build solar power plants, replacing other sources of energy generation.[3][4][5]
Solar power has great potential, but in 2008 supplied only 0.02% of the world's total energy supply. However, use has been doubling every two, or less, years, and at that rate solar power, which has the potential to supply over 1,000 times the total consumption of energy, would become the dominant energy source within a few decades.[6]
Since solar radiation is intermittent, solar power generation is combined either with storage or other energy sources to provide continuous power, although for small distributed producer/consumers, net metering makes this transparent to the consumer. On a larger scale, in Germany, a combined power plant has been demonstrated, using a mix of wind, biomass, hydro-, and solar power generation, resulting in 100% renewable energy.[7]
A legend claims that Archimedes used polished shields to concentrate sunlight on the invading Roman fleet and repel them from Syracuse.[8] Auguste Mouchout used a parabolic trough to produce steam for the first solar steam engine in 1866.[9]
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. The concentrated heat is then used as a heat source for a conventional power plant. A wide range of concentrating technologies exists; the most developed are the parabolic trough, the concentrating linear fresnel reflector, the Stirling dish and the solar power tower. Various techniques are used to track the Sun and focus light. In all of these systems a working fluid is heated by the concentrated sunlight, and is then used for power generation or energy storage.[10]
A parabolic trough consists of a linear parabolic reflector that concentrates light onto a receiver positioned along the reflector's focal line. The receiver is a tube positioned right above the middle of the parabolic mirror and is filled with a working fluid. The reflector is made to follow the Sun during the daylight hours by tracking along a single axis. Parabolic trough systems provide the best land-use factor of any solar technology.[11] The SEGS plants in California and Acciona's Nevada Solar One near Boulder City, Nevada are representatives of this technology.[12][13] The Suntrof-Mulk parabolic trough, developed by Melvin Prueitt, uses a technique inspired by Archimedes' principle to rotate the mirrors.[14]
Concentrating Linear Fresnel Reflectors are CSP-plants which use many thin mirror strips instead of parabolic mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto two tubes with working fluid. This has the advantage that flat mirrors can be used which are much cheaper than parabolic mirrors, and that more reflectors can be placed in the same amount of space, allowing more of the available sunlight to be used. Concentrating linear fresnel reflectors can be used in either large or more compact plants.[15][16]
A Stirling solar dish, or dish engine system, consists of a stand-alone parabolic reflector that concentrates light onto a receiver positioned at the reflector's focal point. The reflector tracks the Sun along two axes. Parabolic dish systems give the highest efficiency among CSP technologies.[17] The 50 kW Big Dish in Canberra, Australia is an example of this technology.[12] The Stirling solar dish combines a parabolic concentrating dish with a Stirling heat engine which normally drives an electric generator. The advantages of Stirling solar over photovoltaic cells are higher efficiency of converting sunlight into electricity and longer lifetime. A solar power tower uses an array of tracking reflectors (heliostats) to concentrate light on a central receiver atop a tower. Power towers are more cost effective, offer higher efficiency and better energy storage capability among CSP technologies.[12] The Solar Two in Barstow, California and the Planta Solar 10 in Sanlucar la Mayor, Spain are representatives of this technology.[12][18]
A solar bowl is a spherical dish mirror that is fixed in place. The receiver follows the line focus created by the dish (as opposed to a point focus with tracking parabolic mirrors).
A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell (PV), is a device that converts light into electric current using the photoelectric effect.[19] This is based on the discovery by Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel who noticed that some materials release electrons when hit with rays of photons from light, which produces an electrical current.[20] The first solar cell was constructed by Charles Fritts in the 1880s.[21] Although the prototype selenium cells converted less than 1% of incident light into electricity, both Ernst Werner von Siemens and James Clerk Maxwell recognized the importance of this discovery.[22] Following the work of Russell Ohl in the 1940s, researchers Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin created the silicon solar cell in 1954.[23] These early solar cells cost 286 USD/watt and reached efficiencies of 4.5–6%.[24]As of late 2009, the highest efficieincy PV cells were produced commercially by Boeing/SpectroLab at about 41%. Other, similar, multi-layer cells are close. These are breathtakingly expensive however, and are used only for the most exacting applications. Thin film PV cells have been developed which are made in bulk and are far less expensive and much less fragile, but are at most around 20% efficient. The most recent development (from Caltech, March 2010) is the experimental demonstration of a new design which is 85% efficient in plain sunlight and 95% efficient at certain wavelengths. It has only been produced in experimental laboratory examples, but may have some possibility for low cost bulk production in future.
There are many competing technologies, including at least fourteen types of photovoltaic cells, such as thin film, monocrystalline silicon, polycrystalline silicon, and amorphous cells, as well as multiple types of concentrating solar power. It is too early to know which technology will become dominant.[25]
The earliest significant application of solar cells was as a back-up power source to the Vanguard I satellite in 1958, which allowed it to continue transmitting for over a year after its chemical battery was exhausted.[26] The successful operation of solar cells on this mission was duplicated in many other Soviet and American satellites, and by the late 1960s, PV had become the established source of power for them.[27] After the successful application of solar panels on the Vanguard satellite it still was not until the energy crisis, in the 1970s, that photovoltaic solar panels gained use outside of back up power suppliers on spacecraft.[28] Photovoltaics went on to play an essential part in the success of early commercial satellites such as Telstar, and they remain vital to the telecommunications infrastructure today.[29]
The high cost of solar cells limited terrestrial uses throughout the 1960s. This changed in the early 1970s when prices reached levels that made PV generation competitive in remote areas without grid access. Early terrestrial uses included powering telecommunication stations, offshore oil rigs, navigational buoys and railroad crossings.[30] These off-grid applications accounted for over half of worldwide installed capacity until 2004.[31]
The 1973 oil crisis stimulated a rapid rise in the production of PV during the 1970s and early 1980s.[32] Economies of scale which resulted from increasing production along with improvements in system performance brought the price of PV down from 100 USD/watt in 1971 to 7 USD/watt in 1985.[33] Steadily falling oil prices during the early 1980s led to a reduction in funding for photovoltaic R&D and a discontinuation of the tax credits associated with the Energy Tax Act of 1978. These factors moderated growth to approximately 15% per year from 1984 through 1996.[34]
Since the mid-1990s, leadership in the PV sector has shifted from the US to Japan and Europe. Between 1992 and 1994 Japan increased R&D funding, established net metering guidelines, and introduced a subsidy program to encourage the installation of residential PV systems.[35] As a result, PV installations in the country climbed from 31.2 MW in 1994 to 318 MW in 1999,[36] and worldwide production growth increased to 30% in the late 1990s.[37]
Germany became the leading PV market worldwide since revising its feed-in tariffs as part of the Renewable Energy Sources Act. Installed PV capacity in Germany has risen from 100 MW in 2000 to approximately 4,150 MW at the end of 2007.[38][39] After 2007, Spain became the largest PV market after adopting a similar feed-in tariff structure in 2004, installing almost half of the photovoltaics (45%) in the world, in 2008, while France, Italy, South Korea and the U.S. have seen rapid growth recently due to various incentive programs and local market conditions.[40] The power output of domestic photovoltaic devices is usually described in kilowatt-peak (kWp) units, as most are from 1 to 10 kW.[41]
Concentrating photovoltaics (CVP) are another new method of electricity generation from the sun. CPV systems employ sunlight concentrated onto photovoltaic surfaces for the purpose of electrical power production. Solar concentrators of all varieties may be used, which are often mounted on a solar tracker in order to keep the focal point upon the cell as the sun moves across the sky. Tracking can increase flat panel photovoltaic output by 20% in winter, and by 50% in summer.[42]
A solar updraft tower (also known as a solar chimney or solar tower) consists of a large greenhouse that funnels into a central tower. As sunlight shines on the greenhouse, the air inside is heated, and expands. The expanding air flows toward the central tower, where a turbine converts the air flow into electricity. A 50 kW prototype was constructed in Ciudad Real, Spain and operated for eight years before decommissioning in 1989.[43]
Thermoelectric, or "thermovoltaic" devices convert a temperature difference between dissimilar materials into an electric current. First proposed as a method to store solar energy by solar pioneer Mouchout in the 1800s,[44] thermoelectrics reemerged in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Under the direction of Soviet scientist Abram Ioffe a concentrating system was used to thermoelectrically generate power for a 1 hp engine.[45] Thermogenerators were later used in the US space program as an energy conversion technology for powering deep space missions such as Cassini, Galileo and Viking. Research in this area is focused on raising the efficiency of these devices from 7–8% to 15–20%.[46]
Beginning with the surge in coal use which accompanied the Industrial Revolution, energy consumption has steadily transitioned from wood and biomass to fossil fuels. The early development of solar technologies starting in the 1860s was driven by an expectation that coal would soon become scarce. However development of solar technologies stagnated in the early 20th century in the face of the increasing availability, economy, and utility of coal and petroleum.[47]
The 1973 oil embargo and 1979 energy crisis caused a reorganization of energy policies around the world and brought renewed attention to developing solar technologies.[48][49] Deployment strategies focused on incentive programs such as the Federal Photovoltaic Utilization Program in the US and the Sunshine Program in Japan. Other efforts included the formation of research facilities in the US (SERI, now NREL), Japan (NEDO), and Germany (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE).[50]
Between 1970 and 1983 photovoltaic installations grew rapidly, but falling oil prices in the early 1980s moderated the growth of PV from 1984 to 1996.[51] Photovoltaic production growth has averaged 40% per year since 2000 and installed capacity reached 10.6 GW at the end of 2007,[31] and 14.73 GW in 2008.[52] Since 2006 it has been economical for investors to install photovoltaics for free in return for a long term power purchase agreement. 50% of commercial systems were installed in this manner in 2007 and it is expected that 90% will by 2009.[53] Nellis Air Force Base is receiving photoelectric power for about 2.2 ¢/kWh and grid power for 9 ¢/kWh.[54][55]
Commercial concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) plants were first developed in the 1980s. CSP plants such as SEGS project in the United States have a levelized energy cost (LEC) of 12–14 ¢/kWh.[56] The 11 MW PS10 power tower in Spain, completed in late 2005, is Europe's first commercial CSP system, and a total capacity of 300 MW is expected to be installed in the same area by 2013.[57]
In August 2009, First Solar announced plans to build a 2 GW photovoltaic system in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China in four phases consisting of 30 MW in 2010, 970 MW in 2014, and another 1000 MW by 2019. As of June 9, 2009, there is a new solar thermal power station being built in the Banaskantha district in North Gujarat. Once completed, it will be the world's largest.[58]
|Technology type
|parabolic trough
|Solar Energy Generating Systems
|Mojave desert California
|Collection of 9 units
|parabolic trough[60]
|Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center [61]
|near Indiantown, Florida
Late 2010
|parabolic trough
|Nevada Solar One
|Las Vegas, Nevada
|parabolic trough
|Andasol 1
November 2008
|solar power tower
|PS20 solar power tower
|Completed April 2009
|solar power tower
|PS10 solar power tower
|Europe's first
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Solar installations in recent years have also begun to expand into residential areas, with governments offering incentive programs to make "green" energy a more economically viable option. In Canada the RESOP (Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program), introduced in 2006,[62] and updated in 2009 with the passage of the Green Energy Act, allows residential homeowners in Ontario with solar panel installations to sell the energy they produce back to the grid (i.e., the government) at 42¢/kWh, while drawing power from the grid at an average rate of 6¢/kWh (see feed-in tariff).[63] The program is designed to help promote the government's green agenda and lower the strain often placed on the energy grid at peak hours. In March, 2009 the proposed FIT was increased to 80¢/kWh for small, roof-top systems (≤10 kW).[64]
|Name of PV power plant
|Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park
|Completed September 2008
|Strasskirchen Solar Park
|Lieberose Photovoltaic Park[66]
|Puertollano Photovoltaic Park
|Moura photovoltaic power station [67]
|Completed December 2008
|Kothen Solar Park
|Finsterwalde Solar Park
|Waldpolenz Solar Park[68][69]
|550,000 First Solar thin-film CdTe modules. Completed December 2008
|Planta Solar La Magascona & La Magasquila
|Arnedo Solar Plant
|Completed October 2008
|Planta Solar Dulcinea
|Completed 2009
|Merida/Don Alvaro Solar Park
|Completed September 2008
|Planta Solar Ose de la Vega
|Planta Fotovoltaico Casas de Los Pinos
|Planta Solar Fuente Alamo
|DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center[70][71]
|SunPower. President Obama visited October 27, 2009. Completed October 2009
Financial incentives supporting installation of solar power generation are aimed at increasing demand for solar photovoltaics such that they can become competitive with conventional methods of energy production.[citation needed] Another innovative way to increase demand is to harness the green purchasing power of academic institutions (universities and colleges). This has been shown to be potentially influential in catalyzing a positive spiral-effect in renewables globally[72].
Solar energy is not available at night, making energy storage an important issue in order to provide the continuous availability of energy.[73] Both wind power and solar power are intermittent energy sources, meaning that all available output must be taken when it is available and either stored for when it can be used, or transported, over transmission lines, to where it can be used. Wind power and solar power can be complementary, in locations that experience more wind in the winter and more sun in the summer, but on days with no sun and no wind the difference needs to be made up in some manner.[74]
The Solar Two used this method of energy storage, allowing it to store enough heat in its 68 m³ storage tank to provide full output of 10 MWe for about 40 minutes, with an efficiency of about 99%.[75] Salts are an effective storage medium because they are low-cost, have a high specific heat capacity and can deliver heat at temperatures compatible with conventional power systems, have the potential to eliminate the intermittency of solar power, by storing spare solar power in the form of heat; and using this heat overnight or during periods that solar power is not available to produce electricity. This technology has the potential to make solar power dispatchable, as the heat source can be used to generate electricity at will. Solar power installations are normally supplemented by storage or another energy source, for example with wind power and hydropower.
Off-grid PV systems have traditionally used rechargeable batteries to store excess electricity. With grid-tied systems, excess electricity can be sent to the transmission grid. Net metering programs give these systems a credit for the electricity they deliver to the grid. This credit offsets electricity provided from the grid when the system cannot meet demand, effectively using the grid as a storage mechanism. Credits are normally rolled over month to month and any remaining surplus settled annually.[76]
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity stores energy in the form of water pumped when surplus electricity is available, from a lower elevation reservoir to a higher elevation one. The energy is recovered when demand is high by releasing the water: the pump becomes a turbine, and the motor a hydroelectric power generator.[77]
Combining power sources in a power plant may also address storage issues. The Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology of the University of Kassel pilot-tested a combined power plant linking solar, wind, biogas and hydrostorage to provide load-following power around the clock, entirely from renewable sources.[78]
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01-10-2007, 08:10 PM #1dublindevil Guest
UALadys.Com (Ex Confidential Connections)
This new Topic has been started, where UALadys leads on from CC, to show that UALadys is now the new topic. ? This would also show up on Google etc, and therefore be seen by others. ?
New visitors please go to the topic "Scam or not", then review "Confidential Connections" which is now closed, then select "UALadys.com (Ex.Confidential Connections)".
The truth is cheap, lies are expensive.
Power to the People is long Overdue
12-01-2007, 12:50 PM #781Senior Member
quote: You have not heard from her because she is engaged! She is happy with someone. Leave it alone.
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12-01-2007, 01:51 PM #782Senior Member
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Guys, I can't say enough about this header tool that jake posted! I just have to post the link on my site http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeycj7u/peoplesmokslives_. It's not in there yet, but my next update is coming soon. http://headertool.apelord.com/headers
The fact is, when you have several letters and all the headers come back to the same place, it's a good chance that's the place of origin. The fact that the place of origin is a guy named Sergey and not a company makes me think that Sergey is the guy behind the scam and doesn't realize the IP can be traced to him???
As for the girl being engaged??? She may even be happily married have three kids and have no clue that her old pics are being used, or she could be a model who gets paid by Sergey to pose for pics every so often?
Let's face it, if a scammer begins to realize they're not going to get any money from you, they stop writing and move on to the next potential victum!
Train returns
12-07-2007, 06:28 PM #783Junior Member
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Why are you so interested in 4252. She has a name and I have been writing to her since March. I have just returned from Ukraine. She is perfectly happy with me. We are engaged to be married. I have applied for the Visa to bring here back to the USA.
She is a wonderful person. I have met her Mother and All of the people associated with the Agency. What I saw in Ukraine was a lot of people just wanting to get out of the Country. They are just wanting to better themselves. I had a lot of questions before I went over to Ukraine. I did my investigations and I was prepared for the worst. I had a great experience and fell in love with a great girl. We have writen over 600 letters and we speak on the phone every day.
quote:Originally posted by Kevin
Prometheus I got the same exact letter from Bohdana Suprunyuk #6009 back on March 17 2006. I can see the agency sending a letter or 2 out to guys that they think are a good match for them, but it's almost been a year since I got the same letter from her.
I use a program called webcam recorder and record the agency webcams she write from for the day she writes to me, at least I know she writes them. She wrote to my today and looked at the webcam video I recorded and then looked at the time I recieved the email, it is in my inbox 30-60min after I don't see her on the webcam.
If anyone else is writing to 4252 please let me know, or if you have gotten any letter from her since you have been at the agency. you can find my email in an earlier post.
12-08-2007, 03:15 AM #784Senior Member
quote:Originally posted by swdawson
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We have writen over 600 letters and we speak on the phone every day.[/br]
12-08-2007, 10:20 AM #785Senior Member
quote:hen have the decency to tell your bride-to-be to insist that her profile be taken down, before the next idiot willing to pay for 600 letters gets sucked in.
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I read a few cases of (supposedly) "engaged MOBs" whose chivalrous suitor reiterates online how happy their are together and how she is his & his only.
True or false, we'll never know but two considerations apply:
1. if that is true, why is she still listed? Isn't it obvious that some unsuspecting men might fall for a trap & incur emotional or financial loss?
2. assuming that she insisted to be removed, but agencies wouldn't comply...
2-a. why would the pair bother with what goes on online, if she is "his only"?
2-b. why not uploading a free page & indexing it on google? She might upload a free page (you get free sites with automated scripts ), where the couple denounces the profiles and announces she no longer is "available".
12-08-2007, 10:35 AM #786Junior Member
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[quote]Originally posted by swdawson
We have writen over 600 letters and we speak on the phone every day.
I'm curious what you chat about every day considering she doesn't speak any foreign language. Do you use a translator?
12-08-2007, 10:55 AM #787Junior Member
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looks like the girls want to come out and play....
12-08-2007, 12:29 PM #788Senior Member
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Hey swdawson, is that a pic of your girl? Cute! Let's face it, the thread is about UA Ladys and not your girl in particular. If this is your girl, and other guys are receiving letters from her, that pretty much proves the problem with UA.
In the 600 or so letters you've exchanged, I would imagine she sent you more than just a few photos of herself, right? These letters and photos were sent through UA Ladys, right?
All this means is that UA now has a nice size database of photos of your girl to use(steal) when their scam writers try to con other guys.
It's quite probable that the photos she has sent you are already being "borrowed".[:0] It wouldn't surprise me to learn that somewhere in the contract the girls sign with UA that there is a claus that gives UA rights to the photos and letters they translate. An honest girl isn't thinking about what that may mean in the future.
How many pics did she send you? 20 or more of the same girl would be a gold mine![V] You never really know who you're writing to until you meet them. I've heard similar stories where the girl was engaged or even married and had no clue her old photos were being used this way or just didn't care.
Anyway, good luck! If you found a cute, real girl, you've also proven something I've said before... "With millions of girls in the FSU, there MUST be a few "real" ones somewhere!"
Oh, and GOOD LUCK!!!!
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12-10-2007, 04:34 PM #789Senior Member
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4252 is the famous Daria S. who has been mentioned in this forum several times before before...
quote:The girl I've been talking to for almost a year is Daria S. #4252. I have seen her in the top 100 twice but near the end like 98th place just yesterday. Any one else talk to her over the last year???? CC has mistaken once by sending me an email telling me I got an email from this girl and sent me her last name as well. I also have her rambler.ru email address and sent her an email (Jan 8 07) tranlated into Russian by a program called "@promt." Have not gotten a response yet.
Agree with all who posted. Either her finace is deluded, or UALadys is scamming folks with her profile. Most likely the second.
12-10-2007, 04:51 PM #790Senior Member
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Random observations...
I attended the annual "Russian girls with older American husbands and boyfriends" Christmas party over the weekend.
I wish all you guys who think a FSU girl will be the answer to your dreams could have been there.
Listened for two hours in the kitchen as these child brides bad-mouthed their husbands, their husbands' families, the United States, their home cities... the food, the weather... the list goes on. "Stupid Americans and what we make them do for us" seemed to be the theme. The best part was discussion about what they were expecting for Christmas. Rolex, BMW, Prada, and Louis Vuitton were among the label names dropped. One gal brought in her new $1,500 handbag, and it was passed around the room and caressed by each expatriate like the idol of Baal itself.
Most of the American guys were in the game room watching the HDTV, oblivious to what was being said about them in the other room. Just sad. Very sad.
Asked one guy how he met his bride, said it was in a nightclub in Moscow. She had him hooked and pulled him over the side before he knew what hit him. Now he's putting her through the university at his expense, out of state tuition. She is taking a course in "theater history," but he does all of her homework.
It's like one of those 50's horror flicks, where the alien takes up residence inside the host's body, draining all the vital juices but never quite enough to kill him off.
Consider yourself warned...
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I suddenly realized what a stressor Summer Vacation must be for Step-parents. Maybe even more than it is for step-children because step-children at least get to have Summer. Or, at least I think they still do. I know that Summers are different now than they were when I was a kid.
I know Summer is a stressor for normal parents who have to change their schedules, pay for extra child care if they work, etc. Stay at home parents have to give up their schedules even. I remember my Mother once mentioned how she had observed how happy the Mother's faces were as they were dropping their kids off for first day of school and of how grumpy the teachers looked.
For a non-custodial step-parent it would be total hell. That parent must face a whole month or whatever space of time, with a strange child or children in the house. That's annoying and would be a real compromise. I assume that non-custodial step-parents may have been the least aware of what they were walking in to when they married someone with a child. I mean, it really helps to love a kid in order to be involved in the parenting thing. Love is blind and you really have to point a blind eye towards the kinds of crap that kids will drag you in to.
The step-parent, especially if a step-mother, has all kinds of extra work and has to deal with a child who probably doesn't acknowledge her existence. The home is usually the woman's territory.
From what I read on this and on other blogs, I think that step-mothers don't really understand how frightening the visit to the strange home is for the child, because the child is either acting very happy to see the other parent or is acting out. But, that child has just been ripped from his other parent and is in a strange home. There are loyalty problems. The child has no one to confide in because he or she has witnessed the divorce and knows how fighting goes. Fighting for a child of divorce may end in another break-up. Either way, a Child of Divorce has very little to lose through fighting because he/she is used to loss.
The child has either left a parent who is very sad to let go of him or is relieved to have a month off. Or both. And then must face seeing the non-custodial parent who is basically more like an aunt or an uncle and the strange family who he must pretend to be on intimate family terms with. Plus, it probably is fun. He probably does get to spend the whole month doing lots of fun activities in order to make up for lost time.
I won't go into what it must be like to have to be in a different household because I don't know. Since my parents divorced when I was 14 I had real Summers for most of my childhood. And I spent them with friends. I didn't have to give a thought to this extra awkwardness and lack of stability. After my parents divorced my friends who I had grown up with pretty much ceased being my friends and I ended up with completely different friends. They stayed in the background in my life and continued on with other kids from intact families.
I probably wouldn't have minded traveling to another town to visit a parent for a while. It would have been more interesting to be in a new place and I wouldn't have had to give such a detailed report back to my Mother about places and people she already knew.
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The Veterans Affairs National CEnter has published a website on how to understand and treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. There is an app to download for a self treatment program which Children of Divorce can use since we are on our own in trying to deal with the extreme trauma of DIvorce and separate households and bullying step parents. There's an interesting article on PTSD in the June 2011 issue of More magazine.
you can find more information here: PTSD.va.gov. Sorry I'm still trying to learn how to use apple keyboard so can't link or italicise,etc.
Basically it sounds like researchers don't have a clue how to treat. They have found that the sooner a person gets support the better his chances of fighting long term problems. Children in divorce can't afford treatment and are also not free to speak out about the situation because the parents are already so screwed up. The kids just won't have exposure to supportive people until after the parents get their acts together which on average takes 2-5 years. Step families take about 7 years to settle down probably because that's how long it takes for the kids to grow up and move out.
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Here's a great article from Huffington Post:
"Do Siblings Help Each Other When Parents Divorce?" by Judith Wallerstein.
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New research out of Canada gives explanations for why childhood memories fade. They say that traumatic events are almost never remembered. Or, at least, not consciously.
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The younger generation in China is experiencing a rising divorce rate. I figure this is because of the increased financial prosperity but also wonder if this is related to the fact that most younger Chinese at this point are only children. Brings up a lot of interesting and unique concerns. What's it like trying to cooperate in a marriage if you are used to being the only one. The only way to have a sibling in China is through parents' remarriage. Is the "only child" law related to each parent or to each marriage?


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Starwood Wraps Up $1.6B Mall Portfolio Purchase
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Good relationships go a long way. Starwood Capital Group has just completed its second major portfolio purchase from Westfield Group, snapping up seven regional malls in the West and Midwest for just over $1.6 billion. The acquisition adds 7.9 million square feet of high-quality space to the mushrooming portfolio of Starwood Capital's retail real estate platform, Starwood Retail Partners.
Starwood Capital's new holdings span four states, including California, where Parkway Plaza and Plaza West Covina swing open their doors to shoppers daily in El Cajon and West Covina, respectively. Capital Mall in Olympia, Wash., rounds out the West Coast portion of the portfolio. The group also features three Ohio malls: Belden Village Mall in Canton, Franklin Park Mall in Toledo and Great Northern Mall in North Olmstead. And Southlake Mall in Merrillville, Ind., completes the collection.
Starwood Retail will take on management and leasing responsibilities at the properties and, along with Starwood Capital, perform asset management functions as well. Under the new ownership, capital improvements are in store for all seven malls.
Westfield will have a role, too–that of partner. As part of the transaction, the Sydney, Australia-based shopping center giant, which maintains a strong interest in increasing its presence in the U.S. market, is holding onto a 10 percent stake in the portfolio. Westfield's decision to sell the majority interest in the malls dovetails with the company's current strategy of selling non-core assets and redeploying the capital into investments in properties in major cities. A company spokesperson told Commercial Property Executive that current U.S. market priorities and future opportunities include New York, New Jersey, suburban Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose, Calif.
As for Westfield's plans for additional dispositions in the U.S., the company had no comment on the matter, so it's unclear if there will be additional portfolio transactions between the friends anytime soon. It was in June 2012 when Westfield sold an eight-property, 6.6 million-square-foot shopping center portfolio to Starwood Capital for roughly $1 billion, a transaction that effectively served as the launching pad for Starwood Retail.
Whether Westfield and Starwood Capital complete another portfolio deal or no, Starwood Capital is still in buying mode.
"We believe that regional shopping malls offer an attractive value proposition for our partners," Scott Wolstein, CEO of Starwood Retail, said in a prepared statement. "We look forward to selectively pursuing new opportunities to expand our portfolio."
Starwood Capital isn't the only retail real estate player that's been buying big–big portfolios for big bucks. In early October, DDR Corp. announced that it had completed its $1.4 billion acquisition of the remaining 95 percent interest in a group of 30 power centers totaling 11.8 million square feet from its joint venture with Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII L.P.
Billion-dollar deals are rare, but plenty exceed the quarter-billion mark. Kite Realty Group Trust announced earlier this month that it had entered into an agreement to purchase a nine-property, 2 million-square-foot portfolio of predominantly grocery-anchored shopping centers for $307 million in an off-market transaction. In October, Kimco Realty Corp. inked a deal to acquire a 24-property, 1.4 million-square-foot retail portfolio in New England for $270 million.


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What was your thought again?- About Premium VIPs
I have a thought about. Do they get a penalty when you do what you want?
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(Indy Audio Labs, LLC)(February 7, 2018) Indy Audio Labs, LLC, is upping its game – literally – by announcing that its Acurus ACT 4 processor is set to receive a massive upgrade. As of Q2 2018, the ACT 4 will be endowed with support for 9.1.6 Atmos speaker arrays in addition to four other output channels. That means owners will possess the ability to natively run expansive 9.5.6 and 9.7.4 systems.
Current ACT 4 owners are due to have access to a hardware/firmware upgrade kit sometime during April 2018. And the company is outfitting all new ACT 4 processors with 20-channel capabilities at its Indiana-based factory.
"We were the first sub-$10k wholly-designed American immersive audio processor, first with both 7.3.6 Dolby Atmos and 7.1.4 DTS:X native decoding, first with full support of HDMI 2.0b with HDCP 2.2, and now first to expand into the 20-channel realm with 15.1 Dolby Atmos native decoding plus 4 extra configurable channels," explained Ted Moore, Indy Audio Labs Co-founder and CTO. "Couple this layout expansion with the ACT 4's superb implementation of the latest Dolby and DTS upmixers and you have a listening experience that's as phenomenal as it is flexible."
The ACT 4 carries onboard decoding for both Atmos and DTS:X, along with Dolby Surround and NeuralX upmixing. It also offers eight HDMI inputs with 4K pass-through, two HDMI outputs, and an impressive array of balanced and unbalanced multichannel outputs. User interaction is enhanced by a sharp-looking 7" LCD touch-panel.
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For the last couple of days, I've been thinking pretty hard on how to best capitalize the Harlequin book. If you guys read my last review, you'll know that I don't think the Harlequin book is good enough to be super competitive. Don't get me wrong when I say super competitive, I just don't think it can hang out on top with the rest of the crap we're seeing in the tournament scene right now. What lists are those specifically? Let's take a quick gander..
- Tyranid FMC - 5x Dakka Flyrants
- Chaos Flying Circus - Flying Demon Princes with Biomancy
- Mechdar - Wave Serpent spam with or without Wraithknights
- IG Leafblowers - Standard IG carpark with or without allies
- Tau Leafblowers - Riptides, Broadsides behind ADL
- Deathstars - Draigo with Centurians, WWP Fortune Wraithguard
- Tyranid Assassins - Built to overwhelm Serpent spam
- Eldar Lynx - Designed to destroy Invisibility Deathstars with Pulsars (ITC ruling)
- Necron Decurion - They don't die, you die instead
That pretty much sums up the super competitive meta right now, and let's just say that poor Dark Eldar and Harlequins will not be joining those ranks any time soon. Harlies might be able to add a few things to the Eldar Deathstar with their Shadowseer, but I don't think they have anything to make a big impact meta-wise in terms of raw combat effectiveness. The big daddy of the codex is definitely the Solatire, and he's just a T3 3W model that's completely dependent on CC to make his points back. While the Starweaver is a pretty solid buy at 70 points, the 24" Shuriken Cannon is just not reliable enough to keep a AV10 open-top vehicle safe throughout the course of a competitive game. I mean, if the Venom can't survive on the table for more than a couple of turns dodging through buildings and shooting from cover thanks to its 36" cannons, what makes you think a shorter-range clown mobile is going to fare better?
The only thing we can do right now is maximize on what the Harlequin codex does well, and that's spamming a ton of S6 shooting. When we look at the Starweaver, it's only 5 points more than the Venom but adds a ton more battlefield application despite its rather subpar range. Keep in mind what I said before about the competitiveness that is Dark Eldar and Harlequins in general. At best, I see these armies fighting in the competitive mid-tier because the army itself does not have the sustain needed to carry through a longer game. So what does that mean exactly? It means that if you're playing an optimized DE list and you're a seasoned general yourself, you will do well as long as you're not being matched up with top-tier tourney lists. Everything else should be fair game as long as you're facing powerful elements, but in moderation.
Looking at the Dark Eldar/Harlequin mix, you can clearly see one major flaw here: You're complementing your glass hammer tactics with even more glass hammer. So I guess in that sense, you've upgraded yourself from wine glasses to stained glass. The major shift in playstyle for the experienced Dark Eldar player will be this: S6 over Poison, 24" and not 36". You trade a much more powerful shooting solution for less range, which directly means that you're going to be more exposed when you shoot. This also means that battlefield terrain needs to be favorable, or else its going to be a bigger turkey shoot than what you're normally used to.
So what does an optimized list look like? Well, I'm hoping it looks something like this:
Dark Harlequins
Llama = 10
5x Warriors, Blaster, Raider/AS, Lance = 120
5x Warriors, Blaster, Raider/AS, Lance = 120
5x Warriors, Blaster, Raider/AS, Lance = 120
5x Warriors, Blaster (in Starweaver) = 55
5x Warriors, Blaster (in Starweaver) = 55
Razorwing, Lances = 140
Razorwing, Lances = 140
Ravager, Lances = 125
Ravager, Lances = 125
Ravager, Lances = 125
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5x Troupe, Starweaver = 165
5x Troupe, Starweaver = 165
5x Troupe, Starweaver = 165
Starweaver = 70
Starweaver = 70
Voidreaver, Prismatic = 80
The idea behind this list is to shoot a lot of S6 while keeping as many lances in the army as possible. Just like the rest of my DE lists, I focus on shooting and rely heavily on range band and firepower analysis. Study the range of your weapons, look at the power that each of those weapons put out, and they lay it all on paper so you can see just how much firepower you truly have.
A typical analysis looks like this:
At full strength, the opening volley looks like 12 Dark Lances from 36" and 33 S6 Shuriken Cannon shots from 24". If you extend (move forward), the maximum threat range is 48" and 36" respectfully. Should the enemy not close, and you don't want to expose your Starweavers, you're basically playing with 12 lances. If you close with the enemy, you will add +5 Blasters at 18" from the Starweavers and Raiders, and if both of your Razorwings fly in, you will potentially have +4 more lances. Throughout all of this, the Voidreaver will be putting out 3 S6 shots and more likely a S7 AP2 lance as well, but once again, the range will be limited to 24". As your units die, so does the maximum firepower that your army can produce, so you'll see your max lance count drop from 21 to god knows how many depending on what is killed. It's important you make a mental note of exactly how many lances you lose and from what range so you can better prepare battlefield tactics and make changes on the fly. Each Starweaver killed for example, will cost you 6 S6 shots, so this is super important you know what kind of condition your army will be in as you move past the turns.
When you compare this to a similar DE list running Venoms, the biggest difference is obviously the the range and the Poison. Vs. T4 and greater, you're going to be forcing a consistent ~4 wounds from much greater range. This is one of the strongest attributes that Venoms have, especially when you consider the fact that they're dirt cheap, even with 5 guys inside totting a Blaster. Unfortunately, the Venom is also a very polarizing unit: It does absolutely nothing vs. vehicles so they're completely dead points if things are armored. This is where the Starweaver comes in, especially against the AV11 range. AV12 is still very much a stretch and AV13 is out of the question of course. When you look at the matchups from the top-tier competitive lists, you'll see that Starweavers over Venoms will do better vs. all mech-related matchups minus 3x Imperial Knights, but will be slightly weaker vs. FMC spam. The math here points in favor of the Venom for the raw amount of wounds it can inflict, but lucky 6s for AP2 can seriously hamper a Flyrant's plans in a hurry. After you study the matchups a little more closely, you'll see that you'll do better vs. some armies, but a lot worse vs. others (such as range problems vs. Tau, and T8 Wraithknights).
While I don't think the power will change too drastically for DE/Harlies, I know that it will change the playstyle and dynamic of the army. You will suddenly be able to threaten vehicles you normally wouldn't be able to hurt, and inflict AP2 wounds out of the blue, the latter being rare and thus, unpredictable. At least you can sleep at night knowing that the Solatire finally has a use, and that's to punch Deathleaper and his Lictors in the face.


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How ephemeral moments can drive engagement
There is a phrase we often use at Augeo to distinguish between the meaningful, engaging, impactful experiences we create on behalf of our clients and what could be characterized as frivolous, shiny objects that attract attention, but have no lasting effect. "Fluff and bubble" are the things on which we place lesser value or significance.
A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine and some of her friends, staged an outdoor event in a large public park not far from our headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. An outdoor event is nothing special, except it is the dead of winter in the Midwest and the temps hovered around 0 degrees. Who did they expect would bundle up and brave the cold to spend a "frivolous" afternoon at something called "Bubblefest"? The sole purpose of the event was to blow bubbles, or watch others blowing bubbles. Not exactly a substantive, compelling, value proposition. And yet, hundreds of people showed up.
They showed up with their families, friends, and co-workers. Most notably, they showed up with their kids. Tons of kids, in fact, from tots to teens to tweens. And why? To blow bubbles and watch other people blowing bubbles. I can't help but think there's more to this than meets the eye.
Why bubbles draw crowds and why we should care.
Why bubbles draw crowds and why we should care.
When you think about it, a bubble is truly a magical, time-sensitive, special event. You dip a circle-shaped wand into a liquid, hold it up to the wind or create your own by blowing on it, and amazingly, a paper thin, round object is born. The undulating object miraculously floats skyward for a few seconds and then it's gone. In the right light, it refracts every color of the rainbow. At the right temperature, around 16 degrees Fahrenheit, wondrous ice crystals form inside the bubble and it becomes an ephemeral work of art. With the right crowd (kids) it brings excitement, joy, laughter, participation and lasting memories - total engagement. Something we are quite passionate about at Augeo.
What we commonly use as a term for something unimportant and forgettable, in this case, is exactly the opposite. In fact, sometimes things that serve no intrinsic purpose or deliver no tangible value are important merely for the effect they produce. Something as basic as a bubble, an event that makes a child laugh, a parent smile, or forges a memory between friends, offers insights for marketers everywhere.
Lessons from the bubble:
1. Leverage the unexpected or fleeting moments to prompt interest and generate awareness. It's hard to be apathetic to a bubble. It's born miraculously. It has a limited, dramatic life. Observers cannot help but be intrigued by the impending demise of this fragile, delicate object. Use drama to create interest.
Lessons from the bubble:
2. Nothing draws a crowd better than a crowd. People gather simply because others have shown an interest. Don't underestimate the power of "the group effect". People do things simply because others are doing it. FOMO drives engagement!
3. Intrigue, mystery and a plot line filled with twists and turns (like a bubble) help create memorable stories and foster "share-worthy" moments.
4. If kids love it, parents will follow. Leverage the love of kids to garner interest, participation, and loyalty from parents.
5. Celebrate unexpected moments to create lasting impressions. Bubbles in the winter were a bigger hit for the Bubblefest crew than their summer event because it was an unexpected experience.
Next time someone tries to dismiss your idea as just a shiny object or merely "fluff and bubble", stop and point out the lessons to be learned. No one can burst your bubble when it bubbles from within.
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In order to understand better what problems will solve the features you needed, can you please explain why you would need them?
What action is needed on your side to monitor the features you would like to have in order to switch?
With ITbrain monitoring you can always see the Internal IP and External IP: https://community.teamviewer.com/t5/Latest-News/New-Features-in-ITbrain-Monitoring-amp-Asset-Managem...
Regarding Local administrator accounts, what exactly would you expect to monitor?
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Drive encryption and elevated accounts are two items we monitor for device compliance. If, for example, a user is temporarily made administrator for some reason or a firmware update pauses and doesn't restart BitLocker, we want to know those things.
Without those items in ITBrain, we need another agent on the machine to report this information.
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This means you. Never do it.
Most important fact first: homemade broth is hands down the easiest thing you can do in the kitchen. I'm not asking you to engage in some wild Martha Stewart craziness like wallpaper your office with leftover magazine covers you first have to dye or, horrors, make a gingerbread house. Making broth at home is easy. Even easier than vinaigrette, subject of the previous guilt inducing post. As with vinaigrette, broth made at home is infinitely better, in every way, than even the best store bought broth. It saves you money and it's better for your body and it's better for the environment AND it tastes much better, both the broth and anything you make with it. That's a lot of 'ands', all worth making your own.
Did I mention how good it tastes? I doubt anyone would open a can of Swanson's and drink it. Yet that's what I do every time I make homemade broth. I drink some of it from a cup by itself, it's that good.
Even with my crappy iPhone camera you can see a big difference between the clear, pure homemade broth on the left and an expensive store bought, pasteurized version on the right:
Homemade broth vs. store bought
Did I mention it was easy? While I've included some longer instructions below, this is all you need to know:
Throw a bunch of stuff in a pot, bring it to a boil, turn it down, let it simmer, strain it… broth! That's it.
A pot of broth simmering on the stove
It's also, dare I say it? Fun. There are few things I have come to enjoy more in the kitchen than making broth. Chicken broth, beef broth, vegetable broth, mushroom broth… it's effortless yet very satisfying. I first discovered the brilliance of homemade broth when learning to make risotto. I love me some risotto, all kinds. People like to create a bunch of drama about risotto but it isn't that difficult. One evening I made risotto with my own broth rather than from the store. The difference was amazing. So I dove into making broth.


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Roessler, S and Harikrishnan, S and Kumar, CM Naveen and Bhat, HL and Elizabeth, Suja and Roessler, UK and Steglich, F and Wirth, S (2009) Phase Transition and Anomalous Low Temperature Ferromagnetic Phase in Pr0.6Sr0.4MnO3 Single Crystals. In: Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 22 (2). pp. 205-208.
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We report on the magnetic and electrical properties of Pr0.6Sr0.4MnO3 single crystals. This compound undergoes a continuous paramagnetic-ferromagnetic transition with a Curie temperature T C∼301 K and a first-order structural transition at T S∼64 K. At T S, the magnetic susceptibility exhibits an abrupt jump, and a corresponding small hump is seen in the resistivity. The critical behavior of the static magnetization and the temperature dependence of the resistivity are consistent with the behavior expected for a nearly isotropic ferromagnet with short-range exchange belonging to the Heisenberg universality class. The magnetization (M–H) curves below T S are anomalous in that the virgin curve lies outside the subsequent M–H loops. The hysteretic structural transition at T S as well as the irreversible magnetization processes below T S can be explained by phase separation between a high-temperature orthorhombic and a low-temperature monoclinic ferromagnetic phase.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Let's Get Real
Yesterday morning I was getting ready for church when I asked Stretch if I looked alright (with the increasing belly, outfit choices are becoming a bit limited). Like the good husband he is, he replied "It looks good. You just look pregnant." No arguments there! The way this belly is growing, you'd think I'd swallowed a watermelon. Then my sweet little Tucker pipes up and adds, "You're butt is fat!"
"Gasp" I hear coming from your lips. Stretch and I looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh. The truth always seems to come from the mouths of our little ones, doesn't it? We diligently pointed out to Tucker that it is not polite to tell others their back side is large and filed the conversation in the funny file to be told to others.
Yet later that night I was thinking about it and wondering how often we keep the truth from others out of politeness? Sure, I'm probably not going to point out that someone's rear end is getting a little big, but what about the important stuff like whether someone is trusting in Jesus, the only Way to heaven, as their Savior or talking to someone about a lifestyle choice that isn't according to God's purpose or a belief, while popular in society, is contrary to the Word of God? How many times have I kept my mouth shut or glossed over the Truth, just so I wouldn't hurt someone's feelings or make someone uncomfortable, including myself.
God has a very strong opinion of telling the truth. In Psalm 34:12-13 He tells us "Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies." In Colossians 3:9 He tells us "Do not lie to each other." But even more convicting is when we are told in Acts 5:4b that "you have not lied to men but to God." Now there's the kicker…when we sugar coat reality, when we keep the life-giving Truth of the Gospel from others, we aren't just lying to them or ourselves, we are lying to God. We are telling Him that our comfort and our desire to keep others comfortable is more important than His command in John 15 to bear fruit and love one another.
Now I'm not saying we should preach fire and brimstone to everyone we come into contact with. We should instead pray for God's guidance in the words that we speak. Speak the truth, but speak it in love to build each other up and make us stronger. (Ephesians 4:15) And if it's a matter of eternity, wouldn't a few moments of discomfort be worth it if someone hears about God's path to forgiveness and chooses to walk it?
Tucker made me giggle about my growing posterior, yet I'm even more thankful that God has used a child's truthfulness to make me realize the lack of my own. While I'll be showing Tucker the importance of politeness, I'll be looking to God for guidance in when I'm being polite and when I'm downright lying. Isn't God amazing and wonderful how He finds the most interesting ways to teach?
Has God showed you the importance of being truthful, despite how hard it is?
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Beginning with Palm Sunday, we spend Holy Week exploring the depth, meaning, and perspective of what God has done for the world through Jesus. The core of the week continues with the three-act unfolding of Easter. Act One is Maundy Thursday. Act Two is Good Friday. Act Three is the Easter morning.
This unfolding is Christ's journey, and our Christian journey is enhanced, if not transformed, by following his footsteps day by holy day. Experiencing the entire week puts us on a common path and gives us a shared experience. Woven together through worship, we bring ourselves to Sunday and throw open the doors of hospitality to all who come to sing in Easter joy. As a community of Christians, we are made ready for resurrection by taking the journey through the cross.
Palm Sunday Worship
Sunday, April 14
8:30, 9:30, 11:00AM in Sanctuary
11:00AM in Fellowship Hall
When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, a large crowd of people hailed him as a conquering king, waving palm branches and laying their cloaks on the ground before him. At each of our Palm Sunday services, worshipers will receive palm branches to wave as we ponder together how we follow King Jesus on the road to the cross. Childcare is always available for our Sunday morning worship services.
Children are invited to meet on the Front Lawn before each service to participate in the processional waving of palm branches during worship.
Holy Week Prayer Experience
Monday, April 15
Noon–3:00PM in Fellowship Hall
Tuesday, April 16
Wednesday, April 17
11:00AM–7:00PM in Fellowship Hall
Come and go as fits your schedule to walk the labyrinth in meditation and prayer. As you journey through this self-guided prayer experience, you are invited to focus on the last week of Jesus' life and his great sacrifice upon the cross for us.
Maundy Thursday Services
Thursday, April 18
Noon in Chapel
6:30PM in Fellowship Hall
Remember the last meal that Jesus ate with his disciples at our Maundy Thursday Services. These services will take us to the Upper Room and the Garden of Gethsemane as we journey through the last night of Jesus' life. Childcare will be available at both services.
Good Friday Services
Friday, April 19
Noon, 7:00PM in Sanctuary
Reflect on the significance of the cross at our Good Friday Services. These experiential services will engage the whole family in an encounter with God's grace through story and song. Our evening service will be a service of the shadows, signifying the gathering darkness that entered into the world as Jesus drew his last breath. Childcare will be available for both services.
Easter Sunday Services
Sunday, April 21
7:00, 9:30, 11:00AM in Fellowship Hall
8:30, 9:30, 11:00AM in Sanctuary
Celebrate the new life offered to all of us through Christ's resurrection at one of our six Easter services. Begin the day with a sunrise service led by our youth, or come to our more traditional services in the Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall. Holy Communion will be offered in each of the Fellowship Hall services. Childcare is always available for our Sunday morning worship services.


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BBC soap EastEnders has received 145 complaints from viewers concerned about a gay kiss in Tuesday night's episode.
The scene which has been called into question saw Christian Clarke (John Partridge) and his new boyfriend Lee Thompson (Carl Ferguson) sharing a kiss on the bench in Albert Square's gardens. As Dot Cotton (June Brown) walked through the Square during their embrace, she reminded them that "the Lord's not the only one with eyes".
Writing on the Points Of View message board, one viewer said: "I am appalled by the display of homosexual kissing before the watershed shown on EastEnders. This is disgraceful whilst young children are watching and sets the wrong example."
Another viewer said of the scene: "I had to explain to my seven-year-old son what was happening. He now thinks he is gay because he kisses his dad."
One viewer, however, added: "I don't see what the fuss is about, given the context of their kissing and messing about and the way it was portrayed."
In a statement, the BBC defended its depiction of homosexual relationships, saying: "EastEnders aims to reflect real life, and this means including and telling stories about characters from many different backgrounds, faiths, religions and sexualities.
"We approach our portrayal of homosexual relationships in the same way as we do heterosexual relationships. In this instance, Christian is enjoying the first flush of romance and we've shown him being affectionate with his new boyfriend in the same way any couple would."
It continued: "We also aim to ensure that depictions of affection or sexuality between couples are suitable for pre-watershed viewing. We believe that the general tone and content of EastEnders is now widely recognised, meaning that parents can make an informed decision as to whether they want their children to watch."
At the beginning of the month, 110 people complained to the public broadcaster over its treatment of a recent Ramadan storyline, while the latest child abuse plot involving Tony King (Chris Coghill) and Whitney Dean (Shone McGarty) sparked over 200.


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I woke up to an amazing surprise. I'm up for book of the year in Evernight Publishing's Reader's Choice Awards! I can hardly breathe I'm so honored and excited. I'm also up in Best Naughty Fairytale for Bad Apple and Rose Red is up for Best Heroine.
Thank you for your nominations! Now it's time to vote for your favorites. Click here to cast your votes and enter to win a $50 Evernight GC! Final voting ends December 4th. Winners to be announced December 7th.
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Wilde Blue by Susan Hayes
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I am SO very excited to let you all know that The Coal Thief is out today!
This book was started a few years ago with author, Alane Adams, who based the book after stories her father would tell her about his boyhood living on a Pennsylvania farm in the 1920s. The book is the first in a series of historical picture books (and the next book is already finished!), and has won the 2015 IPPY Award for Children's Picture Books (All Ages), the 2015 Moonbeam Book Awards SILVER - Picture Book - All Ages (The Coal Thief), and is a Finalist in the 2015 USA Best Book Awards - Children's Picture Book - Hardcover Category. PHEW!!
To purchase a book, visit www.laurengallegos.com, and I will send you a signed copy! If you want to share on social media, be sure to #thecoalthief.
"The Coal Thief ... reminds readers of two of life's most important concerns: the love between a parent and child and the value of integrity. It is the story of a child's error in judgment, lessons learned, and the growth of character." – The Children's Writer's Guild
"Illustrator Lauren Gallegos captures the atmosphere of a small coal mining town of the twenties so well, that you will be checking your hands for coal dust as you turn the pages. Even Georgie's freckles suggest a powdering of coal, and her lovely artwork brings to life an era long gone." – The Children's Writer's Guild


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A NEW six-metre high wall separating Scotland from England will be built if Scots vote "Yes" in September's independence referendum.
The wall - complete with border controls and customs posts - will stretch from the Solway Firth to the Berwickshire coast.
Dubbed 'Salmond's Dyke' it will be 18,571 falls long or 58 Scots miles, which is the same as the nearby ancient Hadrian's Wall that stretches 65 miles and was designed to safeguard the Roman Empire from the barbarians in the north.
Scotland Now has learned that First Minister Alex Salmond wants to start work as soon as the votes are counted on 18th September and will bring a much-needed jobs boost to the Scottish economy.
A source close to Mr Salmond said: "The Romans took 14 years to complete Hadrian's Wall but the FM believes Scots dry-stane dykers can have it done and dusted by the end of 2014.
It is understood that Scots singing sensation Susan Boyle is in talks with David Hasselhoff to sing Looking for Freedom at the wall opening ceremony in a recreation of the Baywatch star's 1989 Berlin Wall performance. You can watch the video of his iconic performance from 25 years ago below.
Last night there was no-one available from either the YES or Better Together campaign HQ to comment.
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BTC- Part 3 in a ZDNet series by Zack Whittaker…. another great find c/o BORDC
There is no privacy in the European cloud, or any public cloud outside of the United States where a U.S.-based or wholly owned subsidiary company is involved.
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Pt 2- Case study: How the USA PATRIOT Act can be used to access EU data


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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Embarrassing Moment
I can still remember the moment which was the most embarrassing time of my life. On the morning, I went to school by bike as usual. When I arrived the crossroad beside the school, I stopped and took my helmet off my head. However, a teacher came and said, " Why do you wear no helmet? " As a result, I reached the helmet and tried to put it back. Suddenly, the traffic light turned green so I pushed my bike across the street. Meanwhile, the bike started to fall because one of my hand was holding the helmet. Then, the bike lead me to fell with it on the crossroad in everyone's sight. I quickly stood up, bowed to the crowd, and I rushed away. I'm sure that everyone will be amused at my funny action that day.
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In her book, The Executive Horse: 21st Century Leadership Lessons From Horses, Evelyn McKelvie tells the story of how horses act as powerful co-coaches and teachers, helping people in the workplace transform their relationships and their lives. "With their huge wordless presence they enable us to learn a great deal about our own true natures and help us to become present to reality in ways that are becoming increasingly rare and hard to achieve." says McKelvie. "Horses offer a powerful antidote and a practical way to get back into our bodies and in touch with the vast array of intelligence that is gathered by our other seven senses."
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