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Have you ever thought about a beautiful old picture that you took a long time ago? And, have you ever thought that it would be more beautiful if it had a wonderful view on the back? Don't worry; you can change it because of a new technology today. You will have many backgrounds on your picture to make it look new and fancy. The instruction below provides you a guide to do step by step to change the background of an old picture. Thus, you will be happy with your old picture in a new version.
1Save the picture that you want to use as a background. You might want to save it in a folder for your current project.
2Get the picture that you want to replace the background of, in the same folder. If you have a scanner, scan it, or take it to a store that will scan your photos for you.
3Save it with your background photo.
4Save Old Picture into JPG format, then open your image using your chosen graphic program. Some are Photoshop, Gimp, Paint Shop Pro, etc. The following steps are specific to Photoshop, but the instructions can be adapted for your chosen program.
5Click on Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) on the left side of the Menu.
6See a plus sign (+) on the screen then click and drag the (+) around your picture.
7Click on Edit on the Toolbar > click on Cut.
8Close the Old Picture (click on the cross sign on the corner of the picture).
9Click on "No" in the message box if it asks you to save or change.
10Click on File in the Toolbar > Click on New > Click OK.
11Click on Edit > Click on Paste or Ctrl + V.
12Click on Image in the Toolbar > Click on Image Size and don't change the Pixel Dimension.
13Change the size of the width of this picture to 5 or 6 inches (12.7 or 15.2 cm), OR change the size of the height of this picture 3 or 4 inches (7.6 or 10.2 cm).
14Change the Resolution into 200pixels/280pixels and click OK.
15Use Lasso Tool (L) on the left side of the Menu to delete the background of your Old Picture.
16Click on (L) to circle on the area that you need to delete then hit delete on your keyboard.
17Use on Hand Tool (H) on the left side of the Menu to move the picture up and down or left and right.
18Use Zoom Tool (Z) on the left side of the Menu to zoom picture in or out.
19Use Eraser Tool (E) on the left side of the Menu to erase the small pieces of the background, or some spots that have not been deleted completely.
20Click on File > Open.
21Click on Background Work Folder > click on New Background > Open.
22Click on Image on the Toolbar > click on Image Size.
23Follow on the STEP 6 (3, 4, 5), but on (3) you have to change the height to 7.5 inches (19.1 cm) or the width to 10 inches (25.4 cm).
24Click on File > click on New.
- Name (named it Edit Background).
- Preset Size: Custom
- Width: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
- Height: 7.5 inches (19.1 cm)
- Resolution: 280 pixel/inches
- Mode: RGB Color
- Contents: White
25Click OK.
26Click on Move Tool (M) on the left side of your Menu.
27Use (M) to click and drag the New Background into Edit Background.
28Close your New Background.
29Use (M) to click and drag your picture (that you just finished deleting the background) into Edit Background.
30Click on Magic Wand Tool (W) to see the missing spots.
31Click anywhere in your picture, then press "delete" on the keyboard.
32Use (E) to erase the missing spots shown on the Edit Background.
33Use (W) to click around your picture.
34Click on Select on the Toolbar > Modify > Smooth > Smooth Selection. > Sample Radius: 12 pixels > OK.
35Go back to Select on the Toolbar > Modify > Expand > Expand Section. > Expand by: 5 pixels > OK.
36Click on File on the Toolbar > click on Save As….
37Click on Background Work Folder > give a name to your new picture. Save it into JPG format.
38Click OK, then the JPEG box comes up:
39JPEG Options:
- Image Options
- Quality: 12 Maximum or click and drag from small file to large file
- Format Option: Click on Baseline "Standard"
- Click: OK.
Community Q&A
- If you click on (Z), you will see (+) or (-) on the top Menu; the (+) uses for zoom out and (-) uses for zoom in.Thanks!
- On the right hand side, you can see Navigator (show all your works), History (tell you what tools that you used), and Layer (tell you what layer are you at, so the highlighted one is you are working on).Thanks!
- You can only change the width or the height. Make sure the size of it is INCHES. If it is not in inch, the Resolution cannot change. In addition, the Resolution can be 280pixel/inches if your old picture is clear.
- You can use (H) to move the picture if the picture is saved into PSD format.
- If you Right click on (L), you can see Polygonal Lasso Tool and Magnetic Lasso Tool. Both of them are used deleting the background, too. However, if you want to use those Tools, you have to be careful clicking on it.
- If you cannot use (E) to areas your picture, maybe your picture is still in the Select option. As a result, you can go to Select on the Toolbar > Deselect or Ctrl + D
- If you do not finish deleting your background, you must save your picture in the Background Work Folder, and save it into PSD format.
- You should create a New Folder for this project because you will need it to save other pictures and keep them organized in your whole project. For example, this Folder is named Background Work.
- If you click on (E), you will see the size of (E) on the top Menu; so you can change the size of (E).
- Make sure you put a plus (+) sign on the top of your picture where you want to cut, and drag it down to the right.
- The size of the picture is always 10 inches (25.4 cm)*7.5 inches (19.1 cm)*280pixels/inches
- Use the White in the Contents because it is easy for you to see all the tiny things on your picture.
- If you see your picture look bigger than the background, go to Edit > Undo the picture back. Then right click on the top of your picture to change the size of your picture.
- Smooth and Modify just make you picture stand out on your background. Now you are finished creating your new background, and you're ready to save it.
- If you want to edit or change your picture later, you should save it into PSD format.
- Use (Z) to zoom out your picture, and use (E) to erase the tiny spots in your background picture.
- After you're finished using with (L), you should double click on it.
- If your background do not fit into the Edit Background screen, you can go to Edit on the Toolbar > Free Transform. Put the pointer arrow on the square box and click on Shift on the keyboard to drag it.
- You can click on the (T) on the left side of the Menu for writing texts. In addition, when you want to change it, you have to highlight it on the Layers, then click on the text to change.
- If you save your picture in JPG format, you cannot continue your work when you open it again.Thanks!
- Your picture should not look bigger that your background, otherwise when people look at it they can know.
- When you use Eraser Tool (E) in many layers, you MUST make sure you click on the right layer. If you click on the wrong layer, it will be damage your picture.


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Photography is an ever-changing field with interesting new elements coming about each day. Current is a new series we are starting at FilterGrade to help you keep up.
Each month we'll focus on sharing the latest photography tools, websites, ebooks, apps and other resources. On top of that, we'll occasionally feature new tech and physical products.
Here is the first issue, featuring 10 amazing resources for photographers for April 2015. Leave a comment with your suggestion and we just might feature it next month.
Prynt is a smartphone case for iOS and Android smartphones (iPhone 5, 5S, 5C, 6 and Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5). With it, you can print your photos directly from your mobile phone, in less than a minute. How amazing is that?
Over is the ultimate app for adding text and artwork to your mobile photos.
Designed with mobile creatives in mind, Over features standard and custom-made fonts and well-crafted artwork. Combined with a sleek design, easy-to-use functionality, and immediate sharing ability, it is one of the better mobile apps available to photographers.
Podo is the first ever Bluetooth connected, stick and shoot camera. Completely controlled with your phone, just stick it to a wall or surface and go!
Free eBook on Landscape Photography
Landscape photography is one of the most difficult types of nature photography. Since there is so much going on in a landscape image, it's hard to always be aware of everything and this leads to a lot of common mistakes.
This free eBook features some amazing advice for beginners and pros alike.
Layout from Instagram
Instagram's newest app lets you create fun, one-of-a-kind layouts by remixing your own photos and sharing them with your friends.
The experience is phenomenal and it is a really well designed app, I highly recommend this one.
Defrozo is a free, all-in-one platform that helps photographers better display and market their work online.
With it you can showcase your photography, organize your workflow, manage your clients, sell prints, and discover growth hacks tailored specifically to photographers.
New on FilterGrade!
We recently launched ColorWash. A collection of faded Photoshop actions and filters.
Phonto is a simple app that allows you to add text to pictures. Much more basic than Over, this is a great free alternative.
A beautiful touch-screen, Wi-Fi connected digital frame that lets you email photos into your loved one's home in seconds.
Skylight is one of many new connected devices catered to photographers.
FlashQ Q20
FlashQ Q20 is a completely wireless flash unit, called FlashQ System.
Combined with a 90° adjustable tilting flash head and built in LED Holder, Q20 will give you the most convenient experience in a flash unit.
Portfoliobox is a web-based tool you can use to create your own online photography portfolio.
Build the perfect web portfolio for you directly in your browser.

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Nancy Andrews- Ghosts- drawing, 2008
Here is an essay entitled Contemplating One's Own Skeleton, which I wrote for the DVD release of On a Phantom Limb, a 2009 film by Nancy Andrews; the film will have its New York City premiere on September 23 at Anthology Film Archives, along with her just-completed film, Behind the Eyes Are the Ears and Dave Fleischer's Snow White. This is a don't-miss program- I hope to see you all there.
There were things I could draw pictures of,
and there were things that couldn't be drawn;
more and more I was attracted to the second category.
There were things I wanted to describe, but I didn't know how.
There were things that I wanted to show, but there was no way to show them.
from The Haunted Camera by Nancy Andrews
Let's begin with these words, voiced by one Ima Plume, and zero in on a key tension at play within the films of Nancy Andrews. For now, we'll ignore the failure those words imply and turn instead to her pursuit of the unknown, the invisible, the what-lies-beyond, qualities that impel her larger creative project.
Her most recent film, On a Phantom Limb, looks far beyond the visible. But what might this mean, given the extensions available to our senses by way of technology? Viewing the contents of a sealed handbag at a security checkpoint, remote locales mapped by hi-res aerial photos, or an exploding star via radio telescope, we are shadowed by an omniscience once linked to God and the novel, blasé toward a shrinking frontier.
Long drawn to the unfathomable and the unaccounted-for, Andrews considers what our technological apparatus hasn't mastered and cannot access. In her film entitled The Dreamless Sleep, she paid tribute to Else Bostelmann, a forgotten illustrator who drew—sight unseen—the sea creatures described via telephone connection by the early underwater explorer William Beebe during his pioneering descents in a bathysphere. Surely her interest in Bostelmann stemmed as much from the excitement of Beebe's discoveries as from the fact that these images weren't photographed, but imaginatively interpreted by way of drawing, under circumstances much like a stenographer receiving dictation.
Late in 2005, illness brought Andrews face-to-face with the what-lies-beyond; On a Phantom Limb depicts that moment with the simple shock of black paper ripped away to reveal the words, I thought I'd died scrawled beneath, a gesture recalling a pain that signaled something was dreadfully wrong. Flown by helicopter for emergency surgery some 200 miles away, she was held while doctors waited for her condition to stabilize before operating; it never did. Her body temperature was then lowered precipitously, inducing temporary cessation of heartbeat, breathing, and brain function so the surgery on which her life depended could then be performed. Several days later, another operation was necessary to address complications that arose with the first; following that, her slow recovery began. Under heavy sedation, suffering intense hallucinations and delirious for weeks on end, the shock of such extensive bodily and emotional trauma left its lasting mark.
Nancy Andrews- Hospital Bed- drawing, 2008
Andre Bazin once asserted that, "If the plastic arts were put under psychoanalysis, the practice of embalming the dead might turn out to be a fundamental factor in their creation. ...[P]roviding a defense against the passage of time...satisfied a basic psychological need in man...to snatch it from the flow of time, to stow it away neatly, so to speak, in the hold of life." For Bazin, this impulse to preserve—traceable at least as far back as the mummies of ancient Egypt—reached its zenith with the development of photography (and by extension, cinema); further on, he likened the medium's indexical nature to that of a death mask. Andrews, having spent weeks perilously close to death, essentially assigned herself the task of evoking the fear and vivid sensations forever inscribed in both muscle and mind. To report one's subjective state by way of a medium whose objectivity is its strength: how might Bazin's formulation apply to a film that represents life prevailing—albeit temporarily—over death itself?
Midway into On a Phantom Limb, a series of closeups follow the trail left from the surgeon's scalpel across the filmmaker's body: a scar running from the shoulder blade, down and around the rib cage, and extending below the navel. In the words of her internist, "...this gets you about as deep into a human body as you can get", offering not just visceral evidence of trauma, but an affirmation too of the power of cinematic realism as claimed by Bazin.
The scar, though, has a dual nature: we follow its serpentine course, yet it indicates nothing of the drifting twilight of days in intensive care or the emotional suffering and paranoia that colored them, much less a framework to help make sense of all that happened; it is both explicit narrative and shut-up secret. To the extent that those secrets are revealed, it must occur by other means.
The sequence which follows inverts what precedes it: using WWII-era archival footage of a workshop for prosthetic limbs, the contours of new body parts are traced out on flat sheets of plastic, echoing the line of the scar traversing her trunk much in the way that a flat map projection relates to a globe. But there's something more here, beyond a simple rhyming of forms; we're asked too to consider the nature of prosthetic augmentation- of inert, foreign materials joined to the living continuum of one's body. Along with that, there is material that Andrews herself created: a woman plotting out the contours of a large head of a bird and beginning its construction, shot to match the archival scenes. The critic Gilberto Perez once described the crosscutting of D.W. Griffith as "a rupture looking forward to its mending"; these words recall both the bodily repair depicted within On a Phantom Limb and the grafting together of seemingly incongruous discourses, cinematic and cosmological.
On a Phantom Limb has little to do with the laws of narrative gravity as defined by Griffith and others. The film as a whole is (as with her previous work) a stylistic and discursive hybrid, a montage of attractions; live action, archival material, puppets, and various types of drawn animation are combined in sometimes tenuous ways, summoned by outright necessity. But what, for our purposes, lies beyond the visible, and how can it be accessed?
Nancy Andrews- Study for Future Film Birds and Hands- drawing
For Andrews, Mircea Eliade's Shamanism was crucial in the film's conception and in bringing us closer to a sense of emotional truth. Surveying shamanic initiation rituals the world over, Eliade identified several of its aspects common from one culture to the next: sickness and delirium; symbolic death of the neophyte; ritual dismemberment of the body; renewal of the organs; resurrection. Within these recurring threads, the filmmaker recognized uncanny parallels to her own encounter with death, as well as an imaginative framework for reconsidering that experience through the medium of film.
On a Phantom Limb hovers in an indeterminate zone, less a place than a state of consciousness. The avian imagery seen throughout is part of this- even more than in her previous films, where birds are quite prominent. In shamanic lore, birds often act as go-betweens moving from Earth to heavens to underworld; the film itself functions in much the same manner.
A biform creature—part bird, part woman—appears as both drawing and in live action - posing heroically, flying a kite (modeled after herself), and rocking out with guitar and drums in a giddy musical interlude. The costume from the workshop sequence—much like the shaman's costumes described by Eliade—is donned by the filmmaker herself, complete with a superhero's cape. Elsewhere, that body is reassembled limb by limb by a large raptor, itself augmented with mechanical parts- a tutelary spirit perhaps, and clearly an allusion to lived experience.
Reading Eliade and the varying accounts of shamanic practices, one can't help but wonder what to make of the dissonance in recall between initiate and profane witness. On a Phantom Limb recasts this dissonance, turning the mortal encounter of another inside out, and creating a means through which to imagine what we will inevitably face ourselves.


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Park board thanks all following event
To the Editor:
The Brazil City Parks and Recreation Board would like to thank the many individuals, businesses and organizations who helped with the Fourth Annual Fishing Fun Day at Craig Park on Sept. 20.
The weather was absolutely gorgeous. The water was clear and full of fish. A crowd of nearly 150 enjoyed time fishing with family and friends and everyone got to relish some of Clay County's natural beauty.
Seventy-two youngsters 12-year-olds and under received a special door prize. All who wanted enjoyed hot dogs, candy bars and soda as well as getting to take home a cane fishing pole and a grab bag full of fishing accessories. And it was all free due to the kindness and generosity of Clay County folks.
Thank you to Mayor Ann Bradshaw, State Rep. Amos Thomas (R-Brazil), State Rep. candidate Nancy Michael (D-Greencastle), Brazil Councilman Brad Deal, Wal-Mart, Mark Rogers and the Forest Park Golf Course, Heidi Mace and the Kroger Store, Bill Osborn and Pepsi Refreshment Services, The Brazil Times, Brazil City Police Dept., Clay County Sheriff's Dept., Clay County Sheriff's Reserve Dept., Brazil City Fire Dept., Bill Houck, and Joe Mullenix.
A special thanks to Ruby Kelly and Kelly's Bait Shop. Their participation was greatly appreciated.
And a very special thank you to Larry Clark, not only for his generous contributions, but for sharing his expertise and enthusiasm. Without Larry, it would be difficult for us to host this event.
The board would also like to thank all the citizens who donated money to the Park Non-Reverting Fund. This is how the Fishing Fun Day becomes a reality. Any donations are appreciated.
Thank you all.
Caroline McCullough,
President, Brazil City Parks and Recreation Board


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Synopsis: Motley band of loveable crooks plan big casino heist. Gee, that's original. Yup...very original.
Blurb From the VHS Jacket: "Sexy, stylish, violent, The Good Thief tells of compulsive gambler Bob Montagnet (Nick Nolte: The Thin Red Line, The Hulk), as he plans the heist of his life – a priceless collection of art from the world-class Casino Riviera in Monte Carlo."
What Did I Learn?: Apparently, it's relatively easy to kick a heroin habit if you have to clear your mind for a big job.
You Might Like This Movie If: You're fascinated by the idea of becoming an art thief.
Really?: 1) See: "What Did I Learn?" Seriously, why make Bob (Nolte) a drug addict? It doesn't add anything to the plot, and it seems highly unlikely that such a master criminal would engage in such self-destructive behaviour. 2) So, wait – Bob sells a phony Picasso to a gangster to raise some working capital for the big job. Gee...what did he *think* would happen next? 3) Hmm...if Paolo is out of the picture, wouldn't Philippa make arrangements for one of her other colleagues to turn the spider-infested gas crank? 4) Apparently, French people are still embarrassed when Johnny Hallyday's name is mentioned.
Rating: The Good Thief is a slow-moving, but mostly enjoyable caper drama featuring Nolte on the exotic French Riviera. Still, I could have done without all of that damned techno music. 7/10 stars.


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The purpose of this Division is to provide for the contributions that a member is required to pay when occupying a house at an overseas posting.
A member must pay a rent and utilities contribution to the Commonwealth when the member is receiving these benefits.
See: Division 1, Housing
See: Division 2
The amount of contribution is worked out at the rate specified in Annex 15.4.B, as follows.
For an unaccompanied member, use column 4 of Part 1, opposite the member's rent group in column 1.
For an accompanied member, use column 4 of Part 2, opposite the member's rent group in column 1.
The contribution amount is deducted from a member's fortnightly salary.
See: Annex 15.4.B, Rent and utilities contribution
If the member's posting location has a hardship location grade, the member's contribution is reduced by AUD 10 a week.
Note: Hardship Location Grades are listed in Annexes 16A (member posted before 1 July 2017) and 16B (member posted on or after 1 July 2017).
Dual liability means both a member and their spouse or partner would be required to pay a rent and utilities contribution under this Part. The Commonwealth only requires the rent and utilities contribution from the member who receives the overseas living allowances.
See: Part 2 Division 2 section 15.2.13, Dual entitlement
These conditions apply to a member who lives in.
A member may be reimbursed any costs that the member incurs for living-in accommodation.
The member must pay a contribution to the Commonwealth for rent and utilities. The amount is the weekly rate in column 3 of this table for the member's rank in column 2.
|Description of member
|Contribution AUD
a week
|Corporal or lower
|Sergeant or higher non-commissioned rank
|Warrant Officer
The member is not required to pay a rent and utilities contribution if all these conditions are met.
The member's spouse or partner normally lives with the member.
The member is required to be unaccompanied at the post.
The requirement is due to hardship, safety or the length of the long-term posting.
Examples: The spouse or partner might not be allowed to accompany the member for any of these reasons.
The posting period is less than 12 months.
The posting location is deemed unsafe for dependants.
Sometimes, a member's spouse or partner may be absent from the member's posting location. When this happens, the CDF may waive the rent and utilities contribution for a period. Approval may only be given if the CDF is satisfied that the absence is for a maximum period of time and reason shown in this table.
|Period of absence
|Reason for absence
|13 weeks
|The member's spouse or partner has delayed their departure to allow the member's child to finish a school term or year at the school that the child attended immediately before the posting.
|9 weeks
|Any of these reasons.
A rent and utilities contribution is not payable following the death of a member.
See: Part 9, Death overseas of member or dependant
Persons who can make the decision under subsection 188.8.131.52 on behalf of the Secretary/CDF:
A person working in the Pay and Administration Centre – Victoria who is authorised to manage Defence pay and administration at overseas posts and is not below WO2(E)/APS 5.
Application to Reservists: Yes, on continuous full-time service.
Further info
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Through the Adopt-a-Greenway program, the City of College Station in partnership with Keep Brazos Beautiful, provides an opportunity for residents and businesses to play an active and ongoing role in cleaning and beautifying our open spaces, creeks and multi-use paths/trails.
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Who can participate?
Anyone who is interested in keeping our community clean and looking beautiful! This includes: individuals, families, student organizations, youth and church groups, scout groups, civic organizations, businesses, neighborhood associations or any combination of the above.
What are the benefits?
By participating, you not only gain the personal reward of knowing that you made a difference in how your community looks, but you also receive recognition through a sign(s) at your adopted area, on our website and a certificate thanking you for your service.
How can I get involved in the program?
Before your scheduled cleanup:
Upon completion of each cleanup:
To learn more about the Adopt-A-Greenway program, contact Venessa Garza at 979.764.3674 or email@example.com.


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Today allow me a short but wonderful personal testimony of a reader who happens to be a businessman. WT is a businessman who has requested for the Vajrapani Ruel before. While he hasn't experienced any outrageous miracle he claims that he has definitely felt that it has helped him progress with his business.
However, he said he always has problem with their collectibles and he is unable to pinpoint the problem, because his clients seems for no reason at all simply are not inclined to pay thru their company collector, nevertheless, when he or his wife calls up their client they seem always ready to pay. This seems to be a minor problem but as owners they can't always seem to be calling up client to follow – up payment, and of course with the collector's salary and transportation costs combined, the loss to their company while not very significant is still quite noticeable.
WT clarified that their collector is hard working person but sometimes if you don't know him he might strike you as rude. He asked as to what he can do. I suggested that Surangama Mantra Amulet and let the collector wear it. After 2 weeks he called and said that for the first time in the history of their current collector's tenure he was able to collect 100% of the collectibles he was suppose to collect. While before he only has about 30% collectible rate!
You can read my other posts about the Surangama Mantra Amulet by clicking on the link below:
- Surangama Mantra: The Powerful and Effective Way of Gaining Access to Heaven's Power
- The Surangama Mantra Amulet: Beyond Being An Effective Protection Against the Hungry Ghost Month!
- Unexpected High Sales Attributed to the Surangama Mantra Amulet: A Personal Testimony of A Reader
- Issued A Working Visa for Canada: A Surangama Mantra Amulet Personal Testimony
- A Car Sales Agent's Higher Income Because of Higher Car Sales: A Surangama Mantra Amulet Personal Testimony of A Reader
- Wanting the Surangama Mantra Amulet to Get A Better Job But I Rekindled A Love Also: A Personal Testimony of A Reader
- Is It Right? : How A Surangama Mantra Amulet Personal Testimony of A Reader Got Me Thinking.
- Husband Who Left Family for Another Woman Came Back to Ask for Second Chance: A Personal Testimony of A Reader About the Surangama Mantra Amulet!
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
Writing Letters For The Papal Trash Can
With that in mind, I view with great alarm his Vortexes of the past few days. Blogs such as this exist to bring scandals to light so that they can be rectified. It matters not the source of these scandals; to cover up and ignore hindrances to the Faith because they emanate from the Vatican and even the unguarded words of the present Holy Father only allows the poison to spread. I've said before that I respect the decision that Voris has made for his apostolate. I regret that respect is not reciprocated, as Vortex continues to lump us together with sedevacantists. I not only regret such condescension; I must denounce it in the strongest terms, hoping for an apology or at least a clarification.
In the Vortex from Tuesday, Voris insists that we must keep our concerns and questions private and that we should write letters as opposed to voicing them electronically. As many others have said, we have learned at the local diocesan level that letters don't work. They get placed in that circular bin known as the waste basket. And no, it doesn't matter diddly-squat if you write "personal and confidential" on the envelope.
Well, there is ONE exception to that rule and I know relate to you THE MIRACLE OF THE MIRACULOUSLY FOUND LETTER! Here's what happened. About twenty years ago, I wrote to the DC chancery about a certain matter which I must keep private. I was rather new at this sort of activism, but perhaps the Holy Spirit was whispering to me. And what might He have been saying? "Send the letter via Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested!" And I obeyed. A month passed and I received no reply. So I called the chancery and reported that I had not received a reply. The woman very politely informed me that they had no record of receiving my letter. I replied how I sent it, and that I had received that little green card. I didn't have it with me at the time, so I told her I'd call her the next day and let her know who signed for it. I promptly forgot about it, but less than a week later - lo and behold (cue "angelic choir" miracle-music) - I received a reply to the letter that had one been lost! What a miracle! Now the reply did the most minimum lip service to the matters I broached, but that sure taught me a lesson about how little they really regard us and what we have to say.
In this Vortex, lapses in logic abound. At about 2:56, Voris remarks that St Thomas More would never have waged a Facebook war with the pope. Of course the internet didn't exist back then. Now Voris might have in mind some sedevantists and/or progressives taking to electronic media to vent their spleens. Others of us are using these electronic means to raise voices of reason and caution. And it must be said that the Vatican itself is utilizing the internet (whether successfully or clumsily) to promulgate its message. The internet is a medium to all; to suggest that faithful Catholics limit themselves to communication techniques that are antiquated is beyond ridiculous.
At 5:25 he remarks about the "amount of words spilled by Catholics..writing things for the whole world to read.." In saying this he ignores the obvious point that we "write these things" about papal gaffes precisely because they have already been promulgated through the internet - much of it with Vatican approval. Else, how would we have learned about them? To address "private" letters about globally known matters is an inadequate response to the problems raised by the papal gaffes. Of course these letters would never reach the intended party anyway. Many, when they suggest this course of action, have Matthew 18:15 in the back of their minds and they misinterpret it. A careful reading of this makes plain that Our Lord is talking of private quarrels, matters about which people other than the quarreling parties would have no knowledge. He was not talking of the exchange of ideas in a public square.
After giving to us the mailing address and other helpful hints, Voris says (of these hypothetical letters) "it will get to him" at 6:13. Who does he think he's kidding??? "Get to him"?? Anybody with two brain cells knows that any letter will get handled/mishandled by layers of Vatican bureaucracy. What??? Does the Pope have time to read thousands of "personal letters" that arrive from all over the world on a daily basis?
What is it that is driving Voris to insult our intelligence in this fashion? There's more to this than meets the eye. Unless Voris issues a clarification soon, acknowledging the differences between the writings of faithful Catholics (who will remain with Holy Mother Church) versus sedevacantists, I must assume that other forces and entities are at work here.
Let me link now to an article written by the late Dr. William Marra regarding papal critiques. Again, this blog has and won't challenge the internal policies of Church Militant TV. We object to, and denounce the de facto slander being leveled against us because we follow the advice of Dr. Marra, St Thomas Aquinas and others.
The "letter-writing" Vortex is below.
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Voris is being incredibly Unchristian to those of us who see the rot and dare complain the emperor has no clothes. His oh so pious "tell the Pope, and not the world" is nonsense on stilts. The Pope is causing public scandal by his statements and behavior, and he's "telling the world". Also, consider this: was the queer priest crisis dealt with by letter writing? No, the hierarchy stonewalled for years until good Catholics went public with it. I don't know why Voris is attacking those of us who criticize Papal Phoolish publically, but I'm cynical enough to think the dollar is the bottom line. He knows the Pope Francis is incredibly popular, and many Catholics who are spellbound by his charisma might not want to donate to CMTV if their rock star is given a Voris Vortex treatment. Well so much for "lies being trapped and exposed" eh?ReplyDelete
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There had been speculation first-term Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf was losing interest in re-election after his first two years of getting beaten up by the Republican General Assembly at every turn. He has now dispelled that suspicion. Apparently he is not yet ready to go back to making kitchen systems.
In an orderly, persistent campaign that began in January, Wolf tapped key players to mount a nonstop two-year operation staffed by his most-trusted operatives, some of whom he pulled out of his administration to tackle a task he deemed more important.
On his day job as governor, Wolf has been motoring around the Keystone State at least half the time, with special emphasis on the "Tee" – the bulk of counties between the increasingly liberal Southeast and Pittsburgh's Allegheny County, which have been shifting away from Democrats in recent years even as the commonwealth's two great cities have tilted toward them.In just his latest stop, Wolf last week pursued his "Jobs that Pay" tour at the Dura-Bond Industries steel-pipe plant in McKeesport, a mill town upriver from Pittsburgh that has not enjoyed a post-industrial resurgence. Times are tough there. Headquartered in Export in neighboring Westmoreland County, Dura-Bond announced in January its acquisition of the former US Steel Tubular Products pipe mill in Allegheny County, which it anticipates will create 100 new jobs.
"Dura-Bond tells an incredible story about bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States, thanks to the company's legacy of manufacturing in Pennsylvania, its proximity to our steel-making centers, and our state's abundant natural gas supply," said the governor.
Before it closed in 2014, the former US Steel Tubular Products operation in McKeesport had produced the pipe used in projects that included the Sunoco Logistics' Mariner East project.
In 2016, Dura-Bond acquired the plant, announcing its plans to reactivate the operation to manufacturer smaller, midstream pipe.
Wolf used this photo-op to promote not just Dura-Bond, a small Southwestern Pennsylvania manufacturer, but allies like McKeesport Mayor Mike Cherepko; State Sen. Jim Brewster (D-Allegheny), a former mayor of that city; and State Rep. Eric Nelson (R-Westmoreland). McKeesport was just the first stop of a three-day trip by Wolf to announce jobs, tour economic-development projects, and visit the Erie VA Medical Center. Expect more of the same over the next 16 months.
It's not just the visits. Grants are being gushed forth into Pennsylvania's Trumpland. In his latest announcement, Wolf announced seven new project approvals through the Commonwealth Financing Authority, totaling more than $20.7 million in funding, to support business growth in Pennsylvania that will lead to the creation and retention of more than 1,145 jobs, if all works out as planned."Projects like those approved today not only propel business-development efforts across the state, but they also enhance the quality of life of Pennsylvanians, all while creating and retaining jobs," said Wolf. "Specifically, through our new Pipeline Investment Program, we are finally able to provide access to low-cost, clean-burning natural gas to unserved areas in Susquehanna County, saving families and businesses thousands each year and giving the area an advantage when attracting new business. Today's approvals are a win for these regions – and a win for the commonwealth."
Susquehanna Co. got a $442,274 grant to Leatherstocking Gas Co. for the extension of a gas line to serve the Borough of Montrose and Township of Bridgewater. The project, with a total estimated cost of $884,548, is anticipated to create 100 jobs and retain 80 jobs. Blair County won close to $225,000 to fix an abandoned auto-sales lot in Martinsburg.
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Clarion Co. got a $1,033,214 grant and a $4,256,952 loan to assist in the redevelopment of the former Clarion Owens-Illinois glass plant. The project, at $39.7m, may yield more than 100 jobs. Lackawanna County's BlakelyRidge, LLC was awarded a $2,918,510 loan for the acquisition of land and the development of the NEPA Wellness Center in Blakely Borough, for $4m and 250 jobs.
Lancaster Co. won matching funds for a $4.5m development of Lime Spring Square, 210 jobs. In Northampton Co., the Green Knight Economic Development Corp. got one-third of its $5m startup need from commonwealth grants and loans to assist the development of an industrial park in Wind Gap offering 280 jobs. And so it must go. All Republican challengers against Gov. Wolf must follow him into these same counties. They must be prepared to offer better business deals to struggling upcountry constituents than the incumbent governor is offering. But that's not so easy, when you don't control the Harrisburg purse-strings your opponent does.
The latest entry to the Republican gubernatorial primary, Pittsburgh health-care magnate Paul Mango, can't help but campaign on his own expertise, for better or for worse.
Mango called on Gov. Wolf "to stop playing politics and stand up for quality, accessible health care for all Pennsylvanians." Mango, who bills himself as a "global expert in health care," urged the Governor to work to lower premiums and deductibles, and seek waivers out or Obamacare. Premiums in Pennsylvania increased by 33% and by over 50% in Philadelphia this year alone."
"The only feasible path out of the ObamaCare disaster is for states like Pennsylvania to step up and shape their own customized health care system providing greater access to quality, affordable health care; including affordable access for those afflicted with pre-existing conditions. We cannot assume that Washington is going to solve Pennsylvania's problem. This can be done through waivers available today permitting governors to exercise much more flexibility to innovate and customize to manage chronic diseases, improve prevention, and increase transparency. Yet Gov. Wolf has failed to seek these waivers and would rather have the federal government dictate the terms of health care for almost 13 million Pennsylvanians," continued Mango.
Democrats retorted that McKinsey & Co., which is Mango's shop, produced an internal report forecasting President Donald Trump's latest proposed health-care reform would cause a "a 30% drop in health-insurance coverage." They have been badgering him at every campaign appearance to confirm or deny this finding. He is not commenting.
Early polls show abysmal support (17%) for the latest Republican resurrection of Trump's health-care proposal. It seems unlikely that even a Republican health-care pro can navigate this divide between conservative orthodoxy and popular fear of its everyday consequences.
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Nourishment for a mother's soul through 40 days of devotion and . . . doodling!
Wouldn't it be marvelous if mothering came with a concrete set of instructions—an easy recipe we could follow? Instead, motherhood challenges women to find their faith, their true selves, and their family through daily doses of trial and error. It is a brilliant and healing time of life that is full of joy, pain, and beauty with a small side of crisis (and humor). What mothers do not know, they learn. And through this lifelong process of learning, they nurture and care for the most precious gifts on earth: children. In a modern society where moms often have a full and busy plate, these 10 minute daily devotions focus on six key topics of motherhood:
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Often considered a dreamer and silly heart, Sarah Humphrey uses inspiration from her most beloved career, motherhood, to fuel her passion for writing, creative movement and teaching. She has and is authoring several books and children's books. Sarah currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and three beautiful, bouncy kids.
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Delightful. This lovely color book is filled with devotions that will make you smile.
Each day begins with a scripture and a brief devotion to ponder followed by a prayer.
The drawings are more like doodles to be colored. I felt the paper was a medium weight so I was a little worried about bleed through.
I used crayola colored pencils and markers. The markers did
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I felt that the devotions were worthy of a very high rating.
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I enjoyed the content.
I would have to think about purchasing a copy for a gift based on the paper quality.
I've seen a few other doodle coloring books that were spiral and I think I would have enjoyed the book better if it was spiral which would make coloring in the binding area easier.
Overall I think this was a good devotional and deserves 5 stars.
I don't think that the quality of the printing and the paper that was used deserve 5 stars.
It really didn't meet my expectations. I did compare to several other coloring books and the quality just isn't there. For this reason I have given this book 4 stars.
I received a complimentary copy from Litfuse.
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Soothe your senses with Sufi melodies, poems and the whirls as NCPA is set to treat its patrons to a three-day Sufi festival Sama'a � The Mystic Ecstasy beginning this week
Some spellbinding Sufi performances are in store for Sufi lovers as the National Centre of the Performing Arts (NCPA) plays host to the fifth edition of the Sufi festival Sama'a this week. A few glimpses of the event:
Whirl way on November 22: The festival begins with the screening of So Heddan, So Hoddan — a film by Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar, which explores the lives of three cousins who strive to keep the legacy of the medieval Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai alive. This screening is followed by a performance titled Tannoura by an Egyptian Mawlawiyah group.
Dr Suvarnalata Das, head — programming (Indian Music), NCPA, says, "Tannoura is a unique dance of Egyptian origin, performed by the dervishes dressed in colourful skirts, symbolising the existence of human soul on spiritual planes. We have always strived to bring Sufi artistes from different parts of the world together each year and this year, it's the Mewlawiyah group that will stage the rich Egyptian heritage through their performance."
Melody magic on November 23: Well-known theatre personalities Salim Arif and Lubna Salim will read Sufi poems. "We will read poems written by renowned Sufi poets such as Rumi, Amir Khusrau Dehlavi, Kabir and others," says Arif. Lubna adds, "We researched the Bhakti movement and the Sufi movement and came across beautiful works of various poetesses such as Bahinabai, Akamma and Lalded. We will try to explore their works through our programme." The mystic ecstasy will continue with Wajahat Jaffar Badayuni troupe's Qawwali performance. Jaffar has inherited classical music from the Rampur Sahaswan gharana and Sufi music from his grand uncle Jaffar Hussain Badayuni and has performed extensively in India and overseas. "We belong to the Khwaja Garib Nawaz Dargah.
We will present the dargahi qawwalis which imbibe the true meaning of Sufism. We will start the performance with Khoula, a song composed by Amir Khusrau," says Jaffar.
A contemporary touch on November 24: The festival will conclude with Parthiv Gohil's presentation on contemporary Sufi compositions based on the traditional Sufi poems and songs popularised by legends such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He will also sing some famous Sufi songs from
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The main UK mobile networks all seem rather confident they'll be able to handle demand for services in and around the Olympic sites, with numerous claims of increased capacity and a general aura of readiness for our Olympic-sized mobile data use.
Vodafone would appear to have set itself up for the biggest fall, should anything go wrong with its infrastructure during the games, saying: "Obviously, we are expecting a significant increase on that [usual] level of demand, but we are experts in forecasting demand and optimising our network -- in real time -- to cope with high usage."
Everything Everywhere, the terribly named conjoined combo of Orange and T-Mobile, is also confident. It says: "We've also increased measures in place to maintain service and operational stability during the Games. Additional field maintenance resource in the areas of the country most affected are in place, alongside dedicated incident managers to ensure a very rapid response time to any service-affecting incidents."
However, Ben Wood, from consultancy CCS Insight, told Bloomberg there will inevitably be issues, saying: "There is no doubt that carriers have put extensive planning into this, but there will be huge problems with cellular communications during the Olympics. Cellular technology is a finite resource and that is complicated by the fact that this is the most multimedia-interactive Olympics that we have ever seen."
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I saw Tony Kushner at Temple Emanuel in Kingston, New York, on November 18. He was interviewed by the playwright Rinne Groff.
Kushner worships Lincoln, almost literally. Nonetheless, he consistently refused to write the Lincoln screenplay for Steven Spielberg, for years. "There are two types of characters I can't write," he explained, "a psychotic and a genius. Because a psychotic has no center to his personality, and a genius has a center we can't imagine." He continued: "Someone like Michelangelo…", — then remembered he was in a synagogue. "It's a shonda to say, 'Michelangelo,' in a synagogue," he observed, half to himself. Then he started again: "Someone like Einstein…" [Note: Shonda means "shame" in Yiddish, but has the connotation of a public embarrassment.]
What made Tony change his mind about the screenplay? Spielberg gathered all the greatest experts on Lincoln in an auditorium on Central Park South, and invited Kushner. "I'd been to academic symposiums before, and usually the speaker cuts off the head of his opponent, then displays it so everyone else can see how hollow it is," Kushner recounted, "but these people were different. They spoke very respectfully to one another, even when they disagreed. Afterwards, I asked Doris Kearns Goodwin why that was, and she said: 'It's who we study.'"
Kushner began to read obsessively about Lincoln. "Almost everyone who knew him says the same thing," he reported, "that he was very warm and kind, but also cold and removed. Lincoln was a weird guy." Tony told the anecdote about Lincoln traveling to Richmond just a few days after the Confederate capital felt. "He rode in a boat past Confederate forts that may not have realized the war was over, then he transferred to a smaller boat to reach Richmond. He walked through the city, and anyone could've shot him. But the strangest thing was that he took Tad, his 12 year old son, with him. When he transferred to the smaller boat, the captain said: 'I can't take this child; it's dangerous,' and Lincoln replied, 'If I didn't take him, he would never forgive me.'"
Tony realized he could write the warmhearted side of Lincoln, but not the godlike side — that would require the perfect actor. Luckily, that actor arrived, after also turning down Spielberg several times (Daniel Day-Lewis). Kushner has spent the last six years of his life working on this film — which at times seemed like a no-go. Now he finds himself speaking incessantly about the 16th President. "I tell my friends I have 'Lincoln logorrhea,'" he admitted, to enormous laughter. (The next day I realized this was a clever pun on "Lincoln Logs," the toy which allows any child to build a miniature log cabin. Kushner, I forgot to say, is funny.)
Afterwards, I followed Tony into the reception room, to ask a question. I was the last person to speak to him, as he autographed children's books for his agent [Brundibar, illustrated by Maurice Sendak]. "What's your name?" Tony asked, looking into my eyes.
"Sparrow," I replied.
"Is that your whole name? Or is there more?" he asked.
"No, just Sparrow," I explained.
"He's like Cher," the agent explained.
"Except Cher has a last name," I pointed out.
"Yes, it's Sarkisian, isn't it?" Tony remarked.
Tony Kushner knows Cher's last name!
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When you're watching Despicable Me 2 on Netflix at 8 in the morning, you know it's a holiday! Anyway, I promised you some links to royalty free and copyright free (well, Creative Commons Licensed to be accurate) music for your forthcoming productions so read on…
It is really important that you observe all relevant regulations when you produce your film/trailer. One of the toughest will be ensuring your music/soundtrack is legal… and sad to say, this does mean you can't just drop any old track from your fruit-based music player into the mix. You must source (or create/compose/record/mix) your own music. To make life easier for you, there are a number of sites that offer free and legitimate music you can use and these are listed below. You will need to do some homework on these by searching and listening to an awful lot of music to find tracks that will enhance your film… because sadly, there is a fair degree of pretty dire music on these sites!
- Keep a note of everything! When you download any tracks, keep a note of where you got it (ie: copy and paste the URL);
- Keep a note of the date you downloaded it — this is really important in case anyone later queries the copyright… just ask the copyright holders of Happy Birthday To You;
- Make a careful note of the terms and conditions of use (ie: download/save a copy of them)— most of these simply require that you give an appropriate credit in your film, but read the small print carefully. Some of the sites need you to create a verified account, and at least one requires you to apply for a (free!) licence to download and use the music.
OK, enough blethers and background… get listening! In no particular order…
Incompetech is searchable according to Genre and/or Feel. This helps make it quite easy to hit the general ballpark. In addition, lots of the tracks come with the individual parts so you can remix it to suit your needs (ie: lose the vocals if you don't want them…). There are some really useful tracks here with more good than bad. #recommended
Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is a much more eclectic mix with many more non-western music tracks. These could be perfect for creating an eerie atmosphere, or for suggesting a different location. If you scroll down the page slightly, you will find Genre categories that can narrow down your search to a specific style of music… but I'd encourage you to think out of the box as some of the most effective uses of music in film happen when you are more creative in your choices.
Sound Bible
Sound Bible is great for one thing: Sound effects. Lots and lots of lovely sound effects which are free to use (and see my earlier post on the use of foley sound to appreciate how important these are).
PacDV produces free music, sounds, voices, and so on. Limited selection, and they will try to sell you stuff, but the free tracks are better quality than most.
And lastly… and perhaps the most exciting…
If you've heard of Moby, this one could be perfect. MobyGratis is his attempt to support upcoming film makers and students. He has made over 150 of his tracks available for you to use in your projects… but read the conditions carefully! You need to apply to use the track(s) so you need to have selected them in plenty of time to get clearance… and no, you can't just apply to use all of them! You need to apply for specific tracks. That said, he also encourages you to upload your finished product to share with the world… which is a pretty nifty means of gaining an audience. Go for it!
There are, of course others, and I'll maybe do a follow up post if needed, or you could ask me in class, or even better, leave a comment and share any you have found… Now get busy! 😉


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BYS signs Heesen 37m yacht for sale
by Tom Isitt
Thom Conboy at BYS has been in touch to tell me that he has signed as Central Agent for a 36.88m Heesen superyacht for sale.
Built in 2005, this Heesen 37 is the sixth in the popular Heesen Yachts 3700 series. She has a semi-displacement aluminium hull with aluminium superstructure, and she accommodates up to 10 people in four staterooms, with crew accommodation for up to six in three cabins.
Thom Conboy emphasises how well-maintained this particular Heesen is. 'Often boats are well-kept, but it's not often that they are this well-maintained and taken care of,' he says.
The boat is built to ABS classification, and twin MTU 16V 4000 M90 diesels give her a top speed of 31 knots and a cruising speed of 26 knots.
Lying in Lyford Cay in The Bahamas, she is asking €10.9 million.


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A glittering jewel in the middle of a bone-dry desert, there really is nowhere else quite like Las Vegas. The home of neon, showgirls and drive-through weddings, this city's appeal can be summed up in just one word: gambling.
Las Vegas was created entirely to entertain and has been described as the world's largest theme park. This psychedelic city of sin is home to over a million people and welcomes 35 million more each year to its lavish hotels and casinos.
Visitors today are amazed that only 70 years ago this thriving metropolis was a backwater with less than a thousand inhabitants whose only guests were railway passengers stopping off to stretch their legs on the long journey between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City.
Walking down 'The Strip' visitors will see the skylines of New York and Paris, discover the canals of Venice and the Pyramids of Egypt and, at Treasure Island, see a full on-sea battle between a Pirate ship and a British Galleon. Despite these excesses, room rates and restaurant bills are the lowest in the western world – all subsidised by gamblers intent on a free holiday.
Without gambling – banned almost everywhere else in the US – Las Vegas (at least in its current form) simply wouldn't exist. All the razzle dazzle revues, magic shows, concerts, theme parks, water parks and museums are, at the end of the day, just so many window displays designed to keep you in town and spending your money.
Las Vegas's lenient marriage laws have long been a major attraction for couples looking to get hitched in a hurry, and the city now plays host to over 100,000 weddings a year.
Large hotels, gaming tables and big production shows (laid on by the casinos as a way of preventing punters from straying too far from the gaming tables) have been drawing large crowds since the Rat Pack heyday of the 1950s.
Outside of gambling and shows, Vegas does offer a mixture of other attractions. Some popular ones include:
The free Fountain Show in front of the Bellagio shoots off every 30 minutes from 3 pm to 7 pm and then every 15 minutes until midnight.
The free Volcano Fountain in front of the Mirage errupts every 15 minutes after dark until midnight.
The free Sirens of TI in front of Treasure Island at 7, 8:30, 10, and 11:30 pm is a rather stupid show that they came up with to replace the Pirate Battle.
Also at the Venetian are the gondola rides . There are actually two different rides, both featuring serenading gondoliers.
The Eiffel Tower observation deck at the Paris offers a great view of the Strip and a unique way to see the Bellagio fountain shows after dark.
Even if you're not an art lover you'll enjoy the painted ceilings in the Venetian. The painted ceilings are actually in three areas; the main casino entrance, the hotel lobby, and the Galleria hall that connects the two.


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Connect to NMSU AggieAir-WPA2 Wireless on Windows Vista, 7, & 8
NMSU provides the NMSU community with AggieAir - WPA2 Encrypted wireless internet access, which can help protect sensitive personal information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers from snoopers on a network. The service is available to any student, faculty, or staff with valid myNMSU credentials.
Network Registration:
If you have not registered your device to the University network please choose the appropriate link below and complete to necessary steps before you continue.
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Users are expected to use wireless access in a legal and responsible manner. By using the AggieAir-WPA2 wireless network service, you are agreeing to abide by all applicable local, state, and federal rules and regulations. You are also agreeing to abide by the policies set forth in the NMSU Policy Manual (http://manual.nmsu.edu/files/2013/10/06.24.15-NMSU-Policy-Manualprov-modif-3.pdf) including but not limited to 18.104.22.168.1 (Acceptable Use) and 18.104.22.168.3 (NMSU Institutional Data Security). Misuse of the AggieAir-WPA2 wireless network will result in the loss of your Internet connection privileges. It may also result in your removal from university grounds and possible legal action.
AggieAir-WPA2 wireless network provides the user an encrypted network connection, which can help protect sensitive personal information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers from snoopers on a network. However, NMSU provides access to its AggieAir-WPA2 wireless network with no guarantees of speed, performance, security, malware, or privacy protection. Encrypted connections do not protect against viruses or malware. NMSU recommends that users of the AggieAir-WPA2 have up-to-date virus protection and security software running on their network-connected devices. NMSU is not responsible for any loss of any information, loss of data, hardware or software failures, or any damages resulting from the use of the AggieAir-WPA2 wireless service.
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By accessing and using AggieAir-WPA2 wireless Internet service, you agree that you 1) are a Student, Faculty, or Staff of the University with a legitimate university business and 2) have read, understand, and accept the Terms and Conditions of Use as outlined above.
- Windows Vista and 7: Right click on the wireless network icon in the taskbar. In the menu, click Open Network and Sharing Center.
Note: You can also access your network connections by clicking Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center or by opening your list of available wifi connections in Windows Vista & 7 or by clicking Open Network and Sharing Center.
Windows 8 users:
Option 1a - If you're using the default Windows 8 user interface (tiles), click on the down arrow to get to the app section. Then, click on Control Panel under Windows System. Next, select Small icons in the View by menu and click Network and Sharing Center. Continue to step 2.
Option 1b - Alternatively, click on the Desktop tile. This will switch you to the classic Windows interface. Right-click on the wireless network icon in the taskbar. In the menu, click Open Network and Sharing Center. Continue to step 2.
Option 1c - If you're already using the Windows 8 classic desktop interface, Right-click on the wireless network icon in the taskbar. In the menu, click Open Network and Sharing Center. Continue to step 2.
- In the "Network and Sharing Center" window, click on Setup a new connection or network. Select Manually connect to a wireless network.
- Next, input the settings for the network. For Network name type AggieAir-WPA2. For Security type, select WPA2-Enterprise. The Encryption type should be AES. When you are done inputting the settings, click Next.
- The following window will say that you have successfully added AggieAir-WPA2. Click change connection settings.
- In the next window, click on the Security tab. Make sure "Security type" is WPA2-Enterprise. The"Encryption type" should be AES. The "Network authentication method" should be Microsoft: Protection EAP (PEAP). Next, click the Settings button next to "Network authentication method".
- The next window will be the "Protected EAP Properties" window. Make sure the box labeled Validate server certificate is unchecked. Under "Authentication Method", select Secured Password (EAP-MSCHAP v2). Next, click the Configure button under Authentication Method.
Note: If you would like to, check the box for Enable Fast Reconnect. Doing this will not effect the stability of this process.
- In the next window, uncheck Automatically use my Windows logon name and password. Click OK in the "EAP MSCHAPv2 Properties" window and in the "Protected EAP Properties" window.
- Back in the "Network Properties" window, click Advanced Settings. Click on the 802.1X settings tab. Check the box labeled Specify Authentication Mode. Select User Authentication from the drop-down menu. Now click OK. In the "Network Properties" window, click OK. Click the Close button in the "Successfully Connected" window.
- You will now be able to connect to the secured AggieAir-WPA2 internet. To log in, click the wireless network icon in the taskbar. Select "AggieAir-WPA2" and click Connect. In the next box, enter your NMSU username and password and click OK.


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An article by Lowell Historical Society Curator Ryan W. Owen appears in the May/June 2016 issue of Merrimack Valley Magazine, which hits Greater Lowell newsstands soon. Lowell has lots to see, and do! Some of Lowell's best history-related points of attraction are featured in the article, A Peek into Lowell's Past. The list includes the downtown…Read more Merrimack Valley Magazine Feature! A Peek into Lowell's Past
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From the Curator's Desk: Old Timepieces – The Pocketwatch
At the Lowell Historical Society, we run across some interesting items in our collection of historical artifacts. Recently, we came across this pocketwatch, dated 1900, with its old-timey reference tag still attached.
Among the Artifacts: Merrimack Mills Employee Badges from Long Ago
At the Lowell Historical Society, we get to see and study some really interesting artifacts, like the wooden stake from the Central Bridge fire of 1882 or the Hi Hat Guy from Lowell's Hi-Hat Rollaway, or even the Box of Cinders from the Pollard's Department Store fire of 1926. A lot of these, we inherited from long…Read more Among the Artifacts: Merrimack Mills Employee Badges from Long Ago
From the Curator's Desk: The Wooden Stake in our Collection
During these last few weeks, we've been busy at the Lowell Historical Society. As we near the end of our 2013-2014 year, we had our annual meeting last weekend at Lowell's Pollard Memorial Library where our society's Vice President Kim Zunino spoke about some of the fascinating finds she's encountered in the attic of Lowell's City…Read more From the Curator's Desk: The Wooden Stake in our Collection
Forgotten Stories behind the Artifacts of the Lowell Historical Society
Check out this badge. I came across it in the Lowell Historical Society's vast archive, located in the city's Boott Mills complex. As the society's newly-appointed Curator of Art and Artifacts, I got to spend some time with the badge, recently, and other items that came with it. The badge, it turns out, comes from…Read more Forgotten Stories behind the Artifacts of the Lowell Historical Society


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China will establish a military training facility in Cambodia and provide other defense aid to its Southeast Asian ally in agreements struck during a visit this week by the Chinese defense minister Liang Guanglie to Phnom Penh, officials said.
Liang also met with his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to defuse tensions over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, they said.
Under an agreement signed on Monday by Liang and his Cambodian counterpart Tea Banh, Beijing will provide its southern neighbor with U.S. $17 million in military aid and construct a military training facility in the country.
Tea Banh called the bilateral agreement "extremely important" for Cambodia in a press briefing in Phnom Penh after the signing ceremony.
"The Chinese minister has agreed to accept Cambodian military officers for military training in China and also to train as instructors," Tea Banh added.
"China will also assist by providing medical supplies for the Cambodian military," he said.
Tea Banh said Liang's visit was beneficial to strengthening relations between the two countries across all sectors, but particularly in terms of military ties.
He called Chinese assistance a "great contribution to improving the Cambodian army's capacity in national defense."
During the signing ceremony, the two ministers pledged to support each other on the international stage.
Opposition Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann said the agreement will increase China's economic, political, and military influence in Cambodia.
But he said that while the agreement would likely improve development in Cambodia, "the government has failed to monitor the quality of the aid projects" and how they might effectively be implemented.
Liang arrived in Phnom Penh on Sunday for a four-day official visit, during which he was also expected to meet with Prime Minister Hun Sen and visit the Angkor Wat world heritage site in western Cambodia's Siem Reap province.
Sideline meetings
Liang held a consultative meeting with defense ministers from Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines—all ASEAN nations—on Tuesday evening to discuss China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of the Sixth ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting (ADMM) underway from May 28-30 in Phnom Penh. Cambodia is currently chair of the regional organization.
"We will have a short, unofficial meeting to discuss the issue," Tea Banh told reporters ahead of the sit-down.
Indonesia, Laos, Burma, Singapore, and Thailand—the other members of the 10-nation ASEAN body—were initially expected to join the meeting, but ultimately Beijing met with countries with competing stakes in the South China Sea.
China is not a member of the ASEAN grouping, but the nation is ASEAN's biggest trading partner and is implementing a free trade agreement.
Vietnam, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan have laid claim to all or part of the disputed territories in the South China Sea which include potentially resource-rich island chains and some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
China has underlined its "indisputable sovereignty" over the South China Sea, saying its claims stretch back at least to the 1930s, when official maps from Beijing contained the whole sea as Chinese territory.
Beijing's current claims are based on a 2009 map showing a U-shaped dotted line extending from China and enclosing virtually the entire South China Sea while hugging the coastline of Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines.
One-on-one meeting
Ahead of Tuesday night's meeting, Liang also held talks with Philippines' Defense Minister Voltaire Gazmin on the sidelines of the ADMM.
"I am hoping that this meeting will allow the Philippines and China to ease some tensions over the dispute," Gazmin told reporters as he prepared to talk with Liang on Tuesday.
The dispute between China and the Philippines centers around claims to sovereignty over the hotly contested Scarborough Shoal, a tiny island which lies about 230 kilometers (140 miles) off the coast of the Philippines. The island is surrounded by rich fishing waters and is believed to sit atop a large cache of oil and natural gas.
A standoff between the two nations over the Scarborough Shoal originated on April 8 when Chinese merchant ships prevented a Philippines naval vessel from arresting a group of Chinese fishing boats that said they were taking shelter from rough seas near the island.
Both sides have since sent ships to the area, ratcheting up tensions on the water and leading to a diplomatic row that has stoked nationalism on both sides. Earlier this month, hundreds in Manila protested Chinese claims and Chinese travel agencies responded by canceling tours to the country.
ASEAN agreement
Tea Banh also said Tuesday that the ten ASEAN ministers had agreed that their countries will comply with a code of conduct, which was drafted in a May 24 meeting, to resolve the South China Sea dispute in a peaceful manner.
That draft was based on a 2002 decision by ASEAN and China to devise a code of conduct to resolve sea disputes peacefully.
China has insisted that negotiations over disputed islands in the vast sea with its Southeast Asian neighbors be held on a bilateral basis in an apparent bid to avoid internationalizing the issue.
Tea Banh said that the final draft of the code of conduct will be adopted before the ASEAN Foreign Minister Meeting in July, also to be held in Phnom Penh.
Reported by Sok Serey for RFA's Khmer service. Translated by Samean Yun. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.


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May 31st, 1989
May 31st, 1989
At home
Tired tonight from last night's night flight!
I was home early this morning and thought about going to bed for a few hours but then the phone calls started and before I knew it, dad was home from work. The three of us had dinner, after which there was much chatting, followed by more phone calls.
First person to ring this morning was Nana.
"Hello hen, how are you getting on?"
"Fine thanks Nana, I just got back from Athens."
"Oh and how was that?" she asked.
"It was great. Two of my friends were on the trip so it was nice working with people I know."
"Aye of course, that always makes it easier. Was it warm?"
"It was scorching but we still managed to get out and about. My friend Annabel organized a private tour for us."
"That sounds smashing, I bet you enjoyed that."
"I really did, it was so interesting. The guys who put the tour on were great guides and showed us so much of the city. And they were very charming."
"Uff, don't be telling me you're interested in Greek boys now."
"Actually, they were English."
"Och, I don't know which is worse."
I laughed. "Nana!"
"Aye, well I'm only just getting used to you having an English boyfriend."
"Speaking of, I'm going to see Ben soon, I can't wait."
"Maybe you'll meet a nice Scottish boy in Spain."
"Actually, Ben is working in France now."
"Och, that's even worse, I cannae bear the thought of you with a Frenchman."
Oh Nana!
I was still sitting in the phone chair, smirking, when the phone rang again.
"McGarr. How the devil are you?"
"Really well, thanks Jon and to what do I owe this pleasure on a Wednesday afternoon?"
"I just heard The Proclaimers on the radio and, as you know, they always remind me of you."
"Ugh," I chuckled. "Will there ever be a time when you don't associate me with two gawky Scottish guys?"
"And I thought you were my friend."
"Always am, McGarr."
"Yeah right."
"So, this weekend? You coming down to see us play? Maybe we'll do a cover version of five hundred miles just to remind you of roaming through the heather again."
"The song is actually called I'm Gonna Be and for your information, I've never roamed through heather but I'm sure you have."
"Oh, touché McGarr, nice one. Listen, if it makes you feel better, we'll get some bagpipes and fry some haggis for you."
I tried to contain my laughter. "I am seriously going to slap you next time I see you."
"Promises, promises," he sighed.
"Stop it, I'm being serious."
He laughed. "So, this weekend?"
"Sorry, can't."
"That's too bad. Where you jetting off to?"
"Spain?" he asked. "Costa del where?"
"Costa del nowhere. I'm flying into Spain but staying in France."
"McGarr, you're making no sense but ring me when you get back."


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The Student Council is about to launch it's 'Community Projects Initiative' where youngsters will be venturing out of the classroom to spend time volunteering in and around the Truro area. The projects so far include:-
Tea Dance & Games Session with Senior Citizens - Afternoon social dance, gaming with tea and cake.
ARB Ability & Youngster Support - spend time with youngsters, some with specific physical or learning disabilities.
Beach Clean/Litter Pick – Local beaches litter picks.
Hospital Visits - Recognise patient groups who might appreciate visits/time/sentiments whilst they spend time in hospital. EG Young children.
Homeless/Refugee Support - Assist staff at local homeless & refugee support centres.
If any members of the local community could benefit from the support of our students please contact Jim Beech (Student Leadership), as we are always looking for further links and suitable activities that our youngsters can participate in.
Mr J Beech
DT Teacher, Student
Leadership and Student Council
01872 273 750
Richard Lander School, Higher Besore Road,
Truro TR3 6LT
Head Teacher: Mr Steve Mulcahy
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The Cooperative Economy Is Booming!
Six years ago, Food Co-op 500 started with a volunteer task force and no staff. NCB/NCB Capital Impact donated some staff time (Richard Dines) to coordinate a round of seed grants and to assemble teams of volunteer experts to monitor and advise the recipients.
Two years later, a contract position was created for a food co-op development specialist. With full-time involvement, the organization could expand its support to more organizing groups, start creating training materials, and really find out if their concept could make a difference. With more than a dozen new retail co-ops opening in each of the following three years and hundreds more continuing to organize, the answer was clear.
Starting early in 2011, Food Co-op Initiative (FCI) will have two employees instead of one. While one new hire may not end the unemployment crisis, it will double our capacity and make it possible for us to better serve the ever-increasing pool of start-up teams around the country. The new position will be a food co-op development specialist whose work will encompass rural co-ops and general resource creation, training, and advising.
More than half of the retail food co-ops now organizing are in rural areas (as defined by the USDA, communities with a population less than 50,000 and not contiguous to an urban area). When FCI incorporated as a nonprofit foundation in 2009, we became eligible to apply for USDA grant funding designated for the support of rural cooperative development centers. We were pleased to be awarded a $225,000 grant for 2011. Our grant proposal was unique in that we are one of the only cooperative development centers with a national scope and an emphasis on retail co-ops.
This grant will fund a variety of activities:
- Primary financial support for the new development specialist position;
- Approximately $100,000 in seed grants to qualifying rural startup groups;
- Funds to support the creation of new toolboxes for rural co-ops and buying clubs—including a comprehensive guide to starting and operating different types of buying clubs, how to capitalize and operate a viable co-op in low-population areas, and a toolbox addressing the unique needs of boards and steering committees of developing co-ops;
- Live regional training sessions held in conjunction with other cooperative development centers;
- A new webinar series;
- A pilot project and case study for conversion of privately owned grocery stores to co-ops; and
- New resources and resource updates on our website, including a new buying club page.
It is an ambitious agenda, but there are now 375 people on the FCI contact list representing at least 250 potential new food co-ops. Add to that our new mandate to support buying clubs, and the numbers will only grow.
FCI is committed to making new co-op organizing easier, more successful, and more rewarding by providing convenient access to information and training, learning from both our own experience and that of the greater co-op community, and encouraging existing co-ops to become more involved in supporting our new communities.


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One of the highlight's of last night's 2011 Soul Train Awards was Marsha Ambrosius. The British soul singer and songwriter won "The Ashford and Simpson Songwriter's Award"/Record of the Year for her hit "Far Away." The track created a huge buzz earlier this year due to its amazing music video.
"Far Away"—preview and download at iTunes—is the second single from her debut solo album Late Nights & Early Mornings. The video presents two Black gay men in love, and explores homophobia, gay bashing and LGBT youth suicide in the black community. The video has gone viral and after an appearance on BET's 106 & Park, it's created major awareness among Black youth.
"They're calling it controversial, can you believe that?" Marsha told Rod 2.0 in a January interview. "This is not controversial. It's just two Black men in love. To me and to my friends, it's completely normal."
And the background on the video: "One of my very good friends was going through something with his life and relationship. ... When they attempted suicide, it was one of the worst things possible."
Bravo and congratulations to Marsha, who also performed a great duet of "Blue Sky" with R20 fave Common. Watch that performance and the "Far Away" video WHEN YOU JUMP ...
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Ebook Usage Has Doubled Among Children, But Printed Books are Best For Bedtime
Posted on January 29, 2013
Scholastic has released the fourth edition of its biannual Kids & Family Reading Report. The national survey of children ages 6-17 and their parents looks at changing views of ebooks and general attitudes towards reading.
The findings were pretty interesting. Ebook usage among children has doubled since 2010, from 25% to 46%. Tweens and teens said they would read more if they had more access to ebook. Forty-nine percent of parents say their kids do not read enough for fun -- that's a big increase from 2010's 36%. Parents approve of ebooks: 72% want their kids to read ebooks. Boys were especially motivated to read more if they were given a book on an ereading device.
Ebooks were shown to increase the time children spent reading. Kids who had access to ebooks read more books for fun. But the survey also shows that printed books are still loved. Fifty-eight percent of 9-17 year olds say they will always want to read paper books, even when ebooks are around. As for bedtime, printed books are best. Ebooks just aren't as much fun to read with mom and dad.


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