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ow much did the federal government shutdown cost? After 35 days of deadlock, $6,354,845,148 in wages had gone unpaid to 747,573 federal employees. Every second that ticked by added $2,118 to the figure. Some staffers were furloughed; many more worked without pay. At the Department of Homeland Security, for example, some 245,405 employees were unpaid and 32,706 furloughed. At Treasury, 36,309 workers were furloughed and 82,336 worked unpaid. At the Environmental Protection Agency, 52% of its staffers worked without compensation.
Getting a handle on the magnitude of this disruption—as well as its granular details—was no small feat. A little-known New York City fintech company named Enigma tabulated the rising costs in real time on a website it threw up called Government Shutdown 2018–2019.
In order to do so, Enigma searched the Office of Management & Budget's contingency plans for 109 federal departments. It also tapped FederalPay.org for average salaries and worker counts for 46 agencies. In all, it combed through 2,000 pages and 2 million spreadsheet rows of federal data to create the tracker. From idea to launch, the effort took three Enigma number crunchers a total of 36 hours.
The shutdown data is available free, but Enigma's ability to rapidly make sense of multiple disconnected data sources, public and private, and create a customizable view of the global economy has attracted some of the world's leading companies, from BlackRock to PayPal and Celgene, with many clients paying more than $1 million a year for fingertip access to its insights.
Enigma is the brainchild of Hicham Oudghiri and Marc DaCosta, best friends since they met 16 years ago as undergraduates at Columbia University, where they studied philosophy. Their startup organizes information from thousands of sources around the world into a single, fully linked interface.
"People know how the internet works and how to log users and serve them cookies to suggest products on Amazon. That problem is solved. What we're doing is building a model of the real world," says Oudghiri, 34, speaking from Enigma's Humboldt boardroom, named after the Enlightenment-era Prussian philosopher. His cofounder, DaCosta, 34, adds, "This isn't just about a faster microprocessor or better statistics. Enigma is a knowledge graph of what's going on in the economy."
Oudghiri and DaCosta's journey into the field of data mining began after the financial crisis of 2008. DaCosta was doing graduate work in the cultural anthropology of data at the University of California, Irvine, while Oudghiri was managing renewable-energy projects for BCME Bank in Casablanca, Morocco. Both were curious about explaining the world in light of the global disruptions going on. So they reunited and began to organize sets of publicly available data, starting with Federal Aviation Administration flight logs. They soon discovered a trove of valuable information hiding in plain sight—buried in government logs, university research publications, arcane business filings and shipping manifests. If they could collect, scrub, organize and analyze it, they thought, it might produce a near real-time rendering of the macro economy.
In 2011, Oudghiri and DaCosta formed Enigma and went to work amalgamating public data, mostly from government sources like the Census Bureau, the FCC, the Federal Election Commission and the IRS, as well as import records from the U.S. Customs & Border Protection agency and building permits, and putting it together as a single source. They also became experts in uncovering complex, hard-to-find information. For instance, using Freedom of Information Act requests, Enigma taps the CBP's Automated Manifest System to track every container ship that arrives in the U.S., including the importer and port of call. From the National Fire Incident Reporting System, Enigma retrieves the cause and location of every fire in the U.S. To cover energy, Enigma leans on oil-well data from the Railroad Commission of Texas, founded in 1891 to establish tariffs.
The firm's breakthrough year was 2014, when Enigma raised $4.5 million from Comcast, American Express and the New York Times Co. and entered the Fintech Innovation Lab, created by Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York City. There, embedded with banks and Wall Street giants, Oudghiri and DaCosta discovered that their data had immense utility in financial services. Its information could be connected with customer data in banks' systems, helping them more quickly recognize fraud or businesses and individuals to underwrite. "We walked out with a battle plan," DaCosta says of the accelerator. They quickly built a software package, complete with colorful knowledge graphs, and put specialized tools into a compliance interface they called Dossier.
To date, Enigma has synthesized 100,000 data sets in more than 100 countries, organized intelligence on 30 million small businesses and accumulated 140 billion points of data on the U.S. population. It has mapped every molecule used by the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, as well as all trials, patent filings and adverse events.
Braininess permeates Enigma's headquarters in New York's Flatiron District: Conference rooms are named after philosophers like Michel de Montaigne and Augustine. Bookshelves are filled with scholarly tomes, from coding manuals like Machine Learning for Hackers and Data Quality and Record Linkage Techniques to classics like the Dialogues of Plato, Ulysses and Rousseau's Confessions. Covering the walls are maps and experimental artwork exploring "the intersection of data and experience."
But Enigma's nerdy academic culture hasn't stopped it from attracting corporate clients and funding from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. BlackRock, PayPal, American Express, MetLife, BB&T, Celgene, Merck and EMD Millipore have signed up. Some $130 million in capital has flowed into the firm in the past seven years from venture investors like NEA, Crosslink Capital and Glynn Capital and hedge funds like Two Sigma Ventures and Third Point Ventures.
Forbes estimates Enigma's valuation is $750 million, with revenues pushing $30 million annually, the company having doubled its customer base in 2018.
If a hedge fund wants to know which restaurant chains are growing the fastest, Enigma can check FCC logs for radio licenses, which are required to open drive-through windows. Insurers use Enigma for risk assessment, and pharma companies query its data-crunching machines to improve drug safety.
Want to quickly and precisely identify the best candidates for small business loans? Instead of cold-calling storefronts or schmoozing local Chamber of Commerce officials, Enigma will synthesize property-tax filing information with state business filings and Uniform Commercial Code liens to come up with automated credit identities. Need to avoid underwriting in risky fire zones? Why not sew together data sets on emergency-call logs and building permits?
At MetLife, chief digital officer Greg Baxter is starting to use Enigma data pulled from public health systems and universities by connecting it to its own systems to detect pockets of illness or risk and to improve underwriting. And in MetLife's $588 billion investment management arm, Baxter is using Enigma data to quantify how the quality of restaurants, parks and community event spaces affects real estate prices. "They discover data sources, they organize the data and then they find ways through machine learning of connecting the data," Baxter says. "When you combine that external data with our internal domain data, then you start to get phenomenally predictive and insightful trends."
Investor John Fogelsong of Glynn Capital thinks the startup could present a threat to legacy closed-system "big box" technology vendors like Oracle, IBM, SAS and SAP: "Each new data set Enigma ingests compounds the company's ability to improve a customer's business processes."
BlackRock's recent experience is illustrative. When Frank Cooper, its newly minted chief marketing officer, was asked to shake up how the $6-trillion-in-assets firm prospects for clients, Enigma made a surprising discovery: Contrary to the traditional approach based on regional and demographic targeting, there was little correlation between a client's location and his or her preparedness for retirement, but political engagement ranked high. "If someone is politically active and even if they are a renter, they're much more likely to plan for retirement," Cooper says. "It was shocking for us."
Not all of Enigma's machine-learning algorithms are trained on the hot pursuit of profits. The firm has volunteered its data efforts toward studying the gender gap across 558 occupations and has already identified that some of the most egregious disparities occur in accounting, retail and sales.
After a November 2014 fire killed five people in a smoke-detector-less home in New Orleans, Enigma worked with the city's fire department and Office of Performance & Accountability to identify areas where fire safety is weakest.
On Enigma's public website, it offers national fire-incident data free for city planners to use, and 50 years of weather anomalies in the U.S., plus nationwide data sets on everything from cancer statistics to so-called adverse events, as defined by the FDA. In New York City, for example, an Enigma FOIA allowed it to synthesize years of rail incident and injury data reported to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The firm is also working with a nonprofit called Polaris to combat and prevent slavery and human trafficking. The idea is that data can not only lead to better underwriting but also improve government. Oudghiri and DaCosta call it "data for social good."
Is Enigma vulnerable to the kind of data-usage scandals that have plagued Facebook?
"I think the behavior from the internet companies has been suspicious if not malicious, creating a picture of your behavior that is probably above and beyond what you would consent to," Oudghiri says, arguing that Enigma's work with financial services firms strikes a more mutually beneficial covenant.
"Your data is a means to understand if you are a legitimate person," he says. "From a privacy standpoint, you enter those relationships knowingly and explicitly. The need for sharing data arises from a pretty good place."
This story appears in the February 28, 2019 issue of Forbes. Subscribe
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The SLA hold a key position on the island of Rhamadi. The Special Forces are sent in to handle the situation.
Review by NightJay0044
It contains a lot of information upon friendly forces, enemy presence. The author does pay attention to detail here regarding the information needed to get you ready for the mission at hand. The image was nice, it captured even the moon.
There is a weapons selection which I thought was nice it even gives you an advantage of your choice of weapon from silent to non silent. All links work and objective ring tune. The notes section is a good touch. It had a link to another page inside the notes, so be careful and pay attention; I almost overlooked the notes section. The notes section contains a few good hints for you to get along nicely on your mission in case you get confused.
In this mission you are allowed night vision. It's a good thing the U.S. was not short on budget. I felt the positioning of the enemy defenses were a little thick. My ability to move about was not very difficult until I got to the airfield. Another thing to mention was the position of the communications tower. It seemed to be not well guarded. I basically could walk up to it and not be noticed.
But perhaps because of the alarm was the reason why it wasn't too well guarded. But still in this kind of mission to leave a communication tower that lightly guarded. Well the enemy is just asking for it then. The guards around the tower were in a decent spot but my ablility to move about was not too difficult either.
Once you approached the airfield your ability to move about was more difficult. You couldn't just hop right into the airfield. To position your troops is your advantage though, so use it. The airfield didn't contain any planes, but it didn't need it. It already had enough objects in there to keep your eyes appealed to it. The illumination was nice though by using the flares from the enemy to alert of enemy.
The author used scripting for you to be able to use your radio. He didn't use the basic trigger style. After the airfield your experience in the town changes. You go from this isn't bad, to I have to pay a lot more attention. The enemy rounds around like crazy to find you. The replablity would be the movement of the troops and the position of the 2nd objective of the town. It makes you want to go in there and see how good you are.
The way the author used the briefing was an intelligent way to conduct the player on their knowledge of the mission. The silenced weapons was good for this mission. Good thing the author was nice and let you have silenced weapons. As though not to give away your position easily. The town after the airfield got my attention. You actually had to look for the enemy they weren't just static in one spot.
Also the scripting is worth mentioning too. Scripting always buffs up your mission because it saves a lot of time and energy. Most of the time anyways.
The mission had a lot of really good points. The objectives all worked, and the ending ended. From start to finish it was good. This mission could have gotten a higher score if the author decided to make an intro. A little more camera scripting would have brought it up. There wasn't a lot of replay ablity in it except the last part of the mission, the town. Don't get me wrong, the mission was good, but more camera and sound editing could have gone into it.
Photos in the briefing would have made the score go up also. Although the very brief camera show at the beginning of the mission was nice. For the whole part this mission serves well as a fun special forces mission to play. It is not too boring for you. But the more you play it the more you may be able to easily beat it. All around well done.
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Ireland is particularly interesting to geneticists, because it seems like a place where many ancient peoples may have converged. For starters, the pre-historic residents there showed a smooth transition from hunting and gathering to farming, and then from stone to metal working. It's likely that changes like these were driven by newcomers with new ideas, but we can't assume that the original inhabitants of Ireland didn't just come up with these life changes on their own.
But even the genes of the modern Irish hint at a melting-pot past. They have some of the highest levels of certain genetic mutations, including the one that allows adult humans to tolerate dairy. Several mutations that promote dangerous illnesses, like haemochromatosis (excessive iron retention) and cystic fibrosis are also more prevalent than they are elsewhere in the global population.
Study author Dan Bradley, professor of population genetics at Trinity College Dublin, explained that recent technological and methodological advances in ancient DNA analysis allowed his team to produce full genomes for the four skeletons used in their research. They were surprised to see how different the Neolithic woman, who was found in Belfast in 1855 and lived over 5,000 years ago, was from the three male skeletons analyzed, who were found off of Rathlin Island in 2006. With just 1,000 years separating them, their genomes shouldn't have looked so strikingly different - which suggests that some major migration really must have occurred.
"It was a surprise to see several genetic elements typical of the modern Irish genome, both of interesting genes but also of more anonymous DNA fragments, appearing in the Bronze Age specimens," Bradley said of the more recent skeletons. "These genomes when taken as a whole are more like modern Irish, Scottish and Welsh - insular Celtic populations. This suggested some large degree of establishment of the genetics of these populations 4,000 years ago."
The Bronze Age men even had the genetic mutation for haemochromatosis, which is now so common in Irish populations that it's sometimes called a Celtic disease.
The differences between these men and the ancient farming woman speak of a "profound migratory episode" in the 1,000 years between their lifetimes, Bradley said. Based on the men's DNA, the researchers suspect that their ancestors may have come to Ireland from the Pontic Steppe - the area of Eastern Europe that sits over the Black Sea, including what's now the Ukraine.
For now, this probable migration is still quite mysterious. We know it must have occurred sometime between about 5,000 years ago and 4,000 years ago, but scientists will have to sequence the genomes of more skeletal remains from before, during and after that period to confirm just how and when the migration took place.
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NaNoWriMo: The Islands Beyond, Day 17… and my 100th post
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Day 17
NaNoWriMo will soon be at an end. But before discussing the day's writing, it's worth mentioning that this is my 100th post!
I will admit that I'm looking forward to NaNoWriMo being over, but not because I have disliked the process. Posting here (even if to a largely theoretical audience!) has kept me going. I'm happy to have had a reason to keep writing. It's also nice to look back at the stuff I've written so far and see some tangible ways it can be improved up.
I am currently at 28,550 words. Here's an excerpt. It makes a bit more sense if you know that in a previous chapter, Ethan fired a flare gun into one of the pirates' faces.
Mr. Falco guided Calypso past the seawall with the Dagger in tow, easing her to a stop in the middle of the harbour. A small launch from the harbourmaster's office, a dinghy with a tall triangular sail, had already set out to meet them. When it drew near, the boys recognized the harbourmaster with the long, droopy eyebrows. He called up to the Calypso.
"Who are you, and what is your business here?" he asked.
Jacques was on the lower deck with Mr. Falco. "I am Jacques Cousteau, explorer, oceanographer, and film maker. This is my captain, Mr. Albert Falco. We wish to deliver these boys safely to shore, along with their boat, which is in desperate need of repairs."
The harbourmaster looked the boys up and down for a few seconds. He also cast a long glance back at the Dagger before speaking again.
"I remember you two," he said. He frowned. "Looks like you banged up your boat pretty bad. What are you doing going out on the sea if you don't know how to keep your boat from running afoul of the rocks?"
Ethan felt mad at the old man's suggestion that it was their fault for crashing the boat. "Don't blame us! We were being chased by men who wanted to steal our boat and sell us to the mines at Karnet's Horn."
The harbourmaster looked at Ethan with surprise. "Is that a fact? Can you identify the men, boy? We don't abide pirates at Fikskoljan, and if you can remember the faces of the men what came after you, there's a chance we can bring them to justice."
Pete cleared his throat. "You might say that justice has already been served. The men who attacked us are all dead."
"Surely you jest," said the harbourmaster. "Why, you're just boys."
"Lucky boys," said Pete.
"Yeah. Boys who know how to fire a flare gun," said Ethan.


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…it's done.
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and I've been thinking….
that things are not gonna work…
Things started to change for me a few months ago. First, there was February, two days before Valentine's Day. My favorite Texas country band came to the area, we went to the concert. We were sitting up in the bleachers, and while we were waiting for it to start, there was a girl that saw him and stopped and smiled and motioned for him to come to her. He acted as if he didn't see her, but he was looking straight at her. She motioned him to come to her again. I started getting that old familiar feeling, the one I always got when I was married to him. When he was cheating. He tried to blow it off, but I asked who she was and he wouldn't give me a straight answer. He finally told me that she works at Wal-Mart and wanted to go out with him. Then he went in to this big speech that he screwed up before and knew that he hurt me but he would never cheat on me again. He'd been drinking and wasn't being quiet so I was a bit embarrassed. Right before his big speech, he'd told me he was going to change the ring on my left finger. Hmmz. Omen, perhaps?
Also in February, SO and I went to a concert where one of my favorite singers was performing, the one who sings our song. I'd always wanted to go see him and he was playing at this ATV park. I'd never been four-wheeling before so I agreed to give it a try. It was a place out in the woods about 40 miles from here sitting on 1000 acres. There was probably 75-100 people out there and it was butt cold. Plus we have that famous orange dirt around here, so the mud is orange as well. The only time I had fun was when I got to drive because SO's driving scares me to death. He kept telling me I have to get used to it when he was driving fast. It wasn't fun and it's not something I would like to do again. It didn't help that I had a horrible headache all day. The concert was amazing and I really enjoyed it, but that was about it. SO gets very selfish when we're doing something he wants to do. It's all about him, that hasn't changed since we were married.
Then March came along when MS (my son) started getting into trouble. First there was the dead guy they found in his loft when his deadbeat friends threw him a birthday party. They found the guy on his birthday. I'll never forget MS in tears calling me to tell me he was sorry and that he loves me. SO was there for me and would listen when I needed him to. But I don't think he liked that I had drama going on in my life, it took focus off of him. And when things continued to get worse for MS, he couldn't see that those kids were bad for him. None of his problems started until he got around them.
Nothing significant happened in April except for MS refusing to see that his 'friends' were bad news. Of course, since March I stayed upset. SO didn't like that.
And then there was May. First there was Tater's birthday. SO wasn't at ease at my parents house, of course he never has been at ease around them. MS brought his friends over there. MS acted fine, but his 'friends' were acting a little strange. SO said they were high as a kite, I don't know if they were or not. Then two nights later, MS got arrested. That was very emotional for me. And then there was my birthday, when SO got me NOTHING and I was made to feel bad, as if it was my fault. And then MS got me and Kiwi to go to a diner downtown where he was supposed to be singing that night. And then the thugs showed up and ruined it for me. Less than a week later, MS had the accident out at the lake. He tripped over something and hit his head on a coffee table and had to get stitches. The only one there that was sober made one of the thugs drive him 45 minutes to the hospital. When MS found out that I was in the room while he was getting stitched up, he said he didn't want me to be there. Once everyone cleared the room, he started crying and said he was sorry and started crying again. He was still very, very drunk. He told me he didn't want me seeing him like that. When the nurse came in he told me to leave, that broke my heart.
The next day, he went back to the loft with the thugs. I lived in constant fear that something worse was going to happen to him. I lived in constant fear. I got scared everytime there was a knock at my door. I was scared to death it was someone coming to tell me that my son had died. SO wasn't very helpful. When I was crying and jsut needed someone to listen, he wanted to have his say. He kept telling me (literally) over and over, "He is a twenty-one (and he enunciated every syllable) year old man. You cannot help him." He said some other things that I can't remember. All I do remember is him repeating himself over and over enunciating his words like I was stupid and didn't understand the first time. I was sad and worried every day. My son was on the verge of dying from being stupid and being around stupid people, but I wasn't supposed to be affected by it.
Luckily, after a little over a week, he met NGF or should I say fiance!!! 🙂 We met her when he brought her to Kiwi's graduation. And things really turned around. The nights leading up to his court appearance, NGF stayed with him. The night before his appearance, he stayed up all night, he couldn't sleep. She said when she'd open her eyes, he was laying there looking at her and he would start crying. Everything was finally clear to him, he needed to get away from the thugs. He finally had a chance of turning things around for himself and he faced losing it all. It all seems like a lifetime ago, everything that happened in the past months before he met her. We all feel very blessed.
And SO, I've been drifting away from him further and further since Feb. 12th. We don't like the same things. We get along ok, but he's still got that underlying negativity. And it's still about him. I was talking to Mom a few days ago. I told her how I was feeling. I'll always love SO, of course, but I can't see myself being married to him again. I jsut can't. I'm not happy.
We used to see each other at least once a week. It was that way because of our conflicting work schedules. Since school has been out, he's had his nephew staying with him. His brother and wife sent him to stay with SO for the summer to straighten him out. After 16 years of never disciplining their kids, the oldest is a heathen. Slang for him being an absolute terror. Since he's been staying with SO, we see each other once every couple of weeks. The lack of our seeing each other hasn't grown us apart, it's been happening since February.
So, here we are today.
20 Friday May 2011
Posted Love, me, Relationshipsin
It's amazing how completely botching my birthday can have such a profound effect on me. Please don't think me to be materialist, because I'm not. I never ask for anything from anyone and never expect the person I'm with to dote on me. But when there's a past history of belittlement, insensitivity, and selfishness (among other things), I tend to remember. I don't want to go through life with someone who's going to jsut put me on the back burner and then be made to feel (intended or not) like the bad guy. I know you all have high hopes for me and I don't expect you to completely understand. Mostly because when you all met me, I'd only been divorced a couple of years and had already managed to get myself over the hump. My family has seen me go through it all. The 5 short years of being made to feel inadequate and not so important and then all the meanness that followed.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do at this point, but I promise you I will be doing a lot of reflecting. Yes, the past 7 months might have been good up until now. And I have seen small similarities to the past. But if this is only a glimpse of what's to come, I don't want to travel that road anymore. My only regret is that my daughter will be extremely disappointed if I choose to walk away. We haven't been able to spend any time together in the past couple of weeks. And it's seemed here in the past couple of months that the longer we're together, the less we see of one another. And we live 20 miles apart. Same ole song and dance in my life, it's me going to see him. Lucky for me, he leaves tomorrow to get his nephew who is to spend the summer with him. It's his brother and sister-in-law's last stitch to save their first born, he's to go stay with SO and let him straighten the kid out. Another result of choosing not to discipline their child. I'm hoping during this time, I'll find some clarity.
Signing out for now…
18 Friday Mar 2011
Posted Life, Love, me, Relationships, Uncategorizedin
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05 Saturday Mar 2011
Posted Family, Love, Relationships, Ugh!in
Last night, we took a drive to Shreveport to go to the boats. I'd never been and SO wanted to take me. To get there, we went through the small town we used to live in when we were married. It's only a few miles away from where he lives now, but I hadn't been through there since I left him 13 years ago. He commented that we were going through our old stomping grounds, I got quiet. On the way to Shreveport, he began telling me about times in the past that he's been to the boats. Several years ago, he and a couple of friends (one former) had went to the boats. He told me that he lost around $400 that night and on the way there had gotten a $600 ticket. He stated that his former friend was married to his first wife. I then stated that he was married to me at the time, he got quiet. I was also pregnant with Tater. I'd told him that he had called me last that night crying because he went without letting me know. He also told me he skipped work that day.
I started thinking back to all the times we were struggling financially and could only imagine him hoarding money for himself. It made me sad. I didn't have a good time last night, not because of his admissions. But because I jsut can't see blowing money away mindlessly. I was also very tired last night. I was off from work yesterday, but ended up working 5 hours anyway. He knew I didn't have a good time last night and he felt bad about it. At first I thought that maybe that's what he liked about SHB. She liked gambling, 4-wheeling, flying by the seat of her pants. She had no responsibilities and liked to party and act stupid and do whatever she wanted. I'm the opposite. I'm responsible, have a good career and put my kids before everything else. I don't know what I'm feeling right now. I jsut know that the past has had a huge impact on me.
28 Monday Feb 2011
Posted Love, Relationships, Uncategorizedin
me, Relationships, SO, us
Last night, I spent some time with SO. He was on call with the wrecker all weekend, but luckily he didn't get a call while I was over there. One of the things we enjoy doing is jsut snuggling in each others arms, it's our quiet time. I cherish it because it's something we never did before. I also sometimes worry that he'll eventually grow tired of it like most men do. They become too comfortable with the person they're with and they jsut quit trying. It's happened to me before with others from the past and I hope that doesn't happen with us again. He quit trying after we got married and I'll be heartbroken if he gets that way again. He was especially quiet last night and I knew something was on his mind. I asked him a couple of times, but there was no getting anything out of him. Eventually he admitted there is something he's not telling me, but said he would tell me eventually. He also told me he's done nothing wrong, that he hasn't done anything he shouldn't. I told him I know he hasn't. I do, however, worry about what it could be. The first thing that came to mind is the possible skin cancer. I can't handle any bad news when it comes to him. During this time he continually caressed my ring finger and I could tell he was deep in thought. I jsut wish he'd tell me whatever it is. I hate not knowing and I hope I can handle whatever it is that he has to tell me.
16 Thursday Sep 2010
Chicken livers, yum! There's this fast chicken chain in town who make the best chicken livers in the friggin world! I love, love, LOVE chicken livers. I love beef livers too 🙂 This particular place is only down in the South, lucky for me. I also like their chicken strips, but I always walk away feeling like I have a 20lb brick in my tummy. But they're jsut so tasty! So, forgive me, but I'm gonna munch on me livers and fried okra while I blog to you fine folks.
My son missed his morning class because he overslept. Why? Maybe because he played X-box til the wee hours of the morning. I long for the day that he gets over all that.
The swelling in my nose has finally started to go down and it's now no longer bright red and shiny. I looked like Rudolph for a few days, literally! The constant throbbing is gone too, so I know the antibiotics are starting to work. The down side is that for BOTH meds, one of the side effects is that it gives you the shits, which set in this morning and in some cases, the severe shits. It also causes loss of appetite. I'm still waiting for that one to kick in. Maybe I can lose a few pounds through all of this.
Somebody wants to take me out this weekend. I'll consider it. I'm older now and a lot wiser, so we'll see. I think if anything, I'll go out of sheer curiosity.
Oh! I don't know if I mentioned it in an earlier post, but my son took the Boxer back after it chewed on my door. Turns out, he had left it at my parents old house and it ripped up the carpet in my parents room. Lucky for him, my mom was already planning to put tile down. So, doggy gone gone..on to, hopefully, a bigger yard and more tolerant people. I'm now looking for an American Eskimo for him. Those are hard to find!
So..that's it for now!
04 Wednesday Aug 2010
Posted Uncategorizedin
So, when I first created this blog I tried to use my Goody name. It was already taken. Tonight I decided to see what this person's blog looked like. I typed the blog address in my address bar and wordpress said it's been deleted. But I still can't use that account name even though someone closed it. Bastards!
13 Wednesday May 2009
Posted Life, me, Uncategorizedin
(i used this idea from my friend's blog…please forgive me!)
1) I turned 40 this year.
2) I am female.
3) I'm told I look younger than I really am.
4) I have 3 kids, 2 of which I had out of wedlock.
5) I detest anyone who bashes single mothers. I have been one most of my adult life. Don't pity me, it's by choice.
6) I have a career that I actually enjoy.
7) I bought my first house 10 months ago.
8 ) I hate roaches and spiders.
9) I wear a size 7 1/2 shoe.
10) I have been married and divorced.
11) Divorce was one of the best things I have ever done for myself.
12) I am stronger now than I have ever been.
13) My favorite genre of music is Country.
14) My favorite jazz singer is Michael Buble.
15) I have 2 dogs, a cat and very soon will have some fish.
16) I detest players. I also dislike liars.
17) I hate the N word.
18) I am a firm believer in the paranormal.
19) I've had my fair share of paranormal experiences which first started around the age of 13.
20) My sister had the same experiences before me.
21) When I was a teenager, I saw what was visiting me during the night. It scared the hell out of me and I still remember it just as clear today as the night it happened. I still fear it.
22) A year ago, the same thing started visiting my daughter in the night when she was at my parents house.
23) I am still the only one that has seen it.
24) I hate my parents house for the reasons I just listed.
25) I don't like strangers to flirt with me. I don't really enjoy non-strangers to do that as well.
26) It makes me uncomfortable when someone doats upon me. Perhaps I've just been doated upon by the wrong men.
27) I find intellectual men attractive.
28) I am told that I am intellectual as well, but that I try to just fit in with everyone else. I have been told this by many.
29) I love books.
30) Patricia Cornwell is my favorite author.
31) My lifelong dream is to someday write a book.
32) I rarely cry.
33) I'm very laid-back.
34) I hate drama and detest skanks. I like for my life to be simple and drama-free.
35) I rarely drink alcohol. But when I do, I like Shiner Bock.
36) I don't smoke.
37) I'm told more times than not that I am too nice.
38) I was in Hurricanes Rita and Ike. I live 2 hours from the Gulf, so it didn't take them long to make it through my town.
39) I have broken my little toe on each of my feet at least once (not at the same time).
40) I hate slapstick movies. I think they are stupid.
41) I desire to someday own a house in a foreign country.
42) I am a very reserved individual until someone gets to know me better. I don't let many in.
43) I am right-handed, but can use my left as well.
44) Goldenrod is one of my favorite colors.
45) My ears are pierced.
46) Daisies are my favorite flowers.
47) I am an expert on unrequited love.
48) I am too forgiving.
49) Green Tea Frappuccino is my favorite Starbucks drink. Chai Tea Frappuccino runs a close second.
50) I enjoy fly-fishing.
51) I tie my own flies.
52) Nascar is my favorite sport (and yes, it is a sport).
53) I plan on eventually taking a writing course.
54) When I was 25, I was in a tornado. That same year I was in a hail storm.
55) I love my Egyptian Cotton sheets and Down Comforter.
56) I'm not a big fan of ice cream.
57) Today was the last time I cried (Wed May 20, 2009).
58) I truly believe the government could do something about the gas prices if they really wanted to. When Hurricane Katrina hit, they blamed the increased prices on the rigs out in the Gulf being put out of commission by the storm. Later, they blamed it on supply and demand. Later, they blamed it on the Saudis. Frankly, I think 'they' are full of crap.
59) I do not like having my picture taken.
60) One of my dogs is a Keeshond.
61) Sons of Anarchy is my favorite show. I also love Ghost Hunters and CSI: Miami.
62) I think Kurt Cobain was a musical genius and I truly believe he was murdered.
63) I love Texas Country music.
64) I dislike moochers.
65) I am a do-it-yourselfer.
66) That includes working on my own car and my computer.
67) I have a tattoo.
68) I love the Sims.
69) I love music & lyrics.
70) I own an electric guitar. I can play it a little, too.
71) Chili is my favorite meal.
72) I am right at 5'2″, maybe a little shy of it.
73) I have two best friends. One is female, one is male.
74) I like to dress up.
75) My levis and boots are my favorite attire. Yes, I wear a shirt too.
76) Italian is my favority type of food. I am also venturing into learning the language, along with French.
77) I love the crunchy edges on homemade pound cake.
78) I have tons of DVDs.
79) As a teenager I studied Egyptology. I find their history fascinating.
80) Pimpwar is my favorite online game.
81) If I am wrong, I will be the first to admit it.
82) I am genuine.
83) I get frequent headaches. It's also genetic.
84) In '99 I let stress get to me so much that I got ulcers and almost had a nervous breakdown. (I was going through a divorce). My ulcers still occassionaly act up.
85) I have Acid Reflux Disease.
86) I'm allergic to a long list of foods.
87) I don't follow the diet I am supposed to.
88) I usually get a maximum of 6 hours sleep a night, if that.
89) Beautiful, Red, Red Door and Sensuous are my favorite perfumes. I also like Andron.
90) I only sing in the car.
91) I hate asparagus.
92) I enjoy eating green olives with my spaghetti.
93) I'm stubborn.
94) I'm anaemic.
95) I trust very few people.
96) Cary Grant is one of my favorite actors.
97) Holiday Inn is one of my favorite all-time movies.
98) I enjoy doing genealogy research. I have traced one of my lines all the way back to 1094.
99) I wear a Livestrong bracelet and never take it off.
100) I eat like a bird.


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Saturday, September 5, 2009
All about envelopes
Please provide envelopes for non-standard cards; our shippers may have envelopes to match what you're sending, but not always; square envelopes are especially a challenge for us. (And when you read on, you may decide on "going standard" anyway!)
A2 Envelopes (for 4.25" x 5.5" cards, the size we strongly prefer)
Donated envelopes are always our preference, of course! If you have a contact with a printer or manufacturer who would like to donate quantities of A2 envelopes, please email us!
We now have a source to purchase inexpensive A2s! One of our cardmakers pointed us to a source for a thin but nice envelope online, at Heinrich Envelopes. With shipping, they're only $114 per five thousand envelopes! If we continue to fundraise just a little for envelopes on top of the funds we need for shipping, we can order these from now on when we run out.
Note about Heinrich Envelopes: they require envelopes be purchased by the thousands, and assesses a $10 fee for orders under $75 - so if you only need a few hundred, it's possibly not worth your while!Important note: Some of you have been asking how to make life easier for our shippers. And obviously if your cards come with envelopes and properly stamped on the back and matched up with envelopes (see the video in the Mailroom), that clearly is easier on our shippers than them doing the envelope portion. But — the shippers are quite willing to match your cards with the A2 envelopes they have on-hand.
The bottom line: You may now ship your A2 cards without envelopes; that either means smaller packages for you to pay shipping on, or more cards fitting into a big box! If you'd like to put a little extra money in your package to go toward the purchase of envelopes, please don't hesitate to do that; we'll still recruit donated envelopes, but if we have some money to purchase with when donations aren't available that will really help!
Posted by Sandy at 9:43 PM
Labels: Cardmaker tips
1 comment:
ULINE is one of my favorite shipping supply companies.
Maybe they will donate?
All you can do is try, right!
- May 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM
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Here are some basic bathroom items that you may use for you or the kids.
Pantene Pro-V Classic All Hair Types Shampoo 25.4 Fl Oz (Pack of 2)
A 40 ounce bottle of this is $8.43 after tax at my Costco. On regular subscribe & save it is $8.86 for 50.8 ounces making amazon the winner.
Pantene Pro-V Classic All Hair Types Conditioner 25.4 Fl Oz (Pack of 2)
Lever 2000 Moisturizing Bar, Perfectly Fresh Original , 4Ounce Bars in 12Count Packages (Pack of 2) This says it is a pack of 2, which would make it a set of 24. I'm a little nervous because that seems a little too good to be true. At $11.50 for a 24 pack that's less than .50/bar.
Dove Bar Soap, White, 4 Oz, 8 Count (Pack of 2) Secret Flawless Clear
Regular Dove soap will also be a good price at $12.78 for 16 bars. At Costco if you ONLY purchase it on the coupon it is still $12.55. I'd rather have it delivered to my door whenever I wanted for the 23 cent difference.
Crystal Clear Gel Clean Powder Scent Antiperspirant & Deodorant 2.7 Oz (Pack of 4) makes it $2.85 at amazon vs $2.92 at Costco. Not a huge savings, but may as well deliver it to your door anyway!
Crest Complete Extra White Plus Scope Outlast Lasting Mint Toothpaste, 7.6-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 4) - this is a good deal as long as you can add the $2.00 off coupon to it to make it cheaper than Costco.Good news, I'm sure there will be another coupon that comes up beforeyou can use up 4 entire tubes of toothpaste! Makes it $9.10 for 4
Crest Pro-Health Stages Jake And The Neverland Pirates Kid's Toothpaste 4.2 Oz - these aren't sold at Costco but at $2.00 they're a great price instead of $3 at the local grocery store.
Degree Women, Invisible Solid Anti-perspirant and Deodorant, Motion Sense, Active Clean, 2.6-Ounce (Pack of 2) - Costco doesn't sell Degree at my local store anymore but these are better than regular price at Wal-Mart.
CeraVe Moisturizing Lotion, 12-Ounce Bottle
This lotion is $10 behind the pharmacy counter at Costco - which is annoying just by itself since I often have to wait! First world problems. Have it delivered instead for $8.79 with no tax.
Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser, For all skin types, 16-Ounce Bottles (Pack of 2)
These are actually just a little bit cheaper at Costco - by .03/oz. But, I thought for some people it might be valuable to know anyway. There are coupons on this all the time so any time there is, grab a set for your next delivery.


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By: soulpancake
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjKgV65fpo
Zach Sobiech is a 17 year old diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. With only months to live, Zach turned to music to say goodbye. Zach turned 18 years old today (May 3rd, 2013) and continues his fight against cancer with a smile that can change the world. Happy Birthday Zach! You are in all of our prayers!
Zach's song, 'Clouds' is available on iTunes and other online music stores and that proceeds benefit the Zach Sobiech Research Fund of Children's Cancer Research Fund http://www.childrenscancer.org/zach
Zach Sobiech passed away May 20, 2013. Our hearts and prayers are with his family and friends. We are forever touched by his story. Thank you for sharing your life and music with us, Zach. You are dearly missed and loved.
SoulPancake presents, in collaboration with AFG Productions:
Director/Producer: Justin Baldoni
Producer: Ahmed Kolacek
Producer: Sam Baldoni
Associate Producer: Fouad Elgohari
Editor: Olly Riley-Smith
Special Thanks to Dirty Robber
DP: Kieran Murphy
Cam Op: Sam Rosenthal
Grip/Gaffer: Erik Christensen
Sound Recordist: Jordon Justice
Composer: Jamey Heath
Colorist: Kurt Nishimura
Mixed by: Jamey Heath
VFX: Abdullah Nabil
Cam Op: Kraig Adams
Cam Op/DIT: Emerson Boergadine
Flowers in her hair – The Lumineers
Clouds – A Firm Handshake
For My Grace – Original song from Zach Sobiech
Sandcastles – A Firm Handshake
Special Thanks to:
Nissan North America, Inc.
Northcott Hospitality
Carlson Hotels/Country Inn & Suites
Minnesota Vikings
Daily Grind
Foundation Content
Ken Nutley
Kobalt Music
Hot Head Productions
Subscribe to our youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=SoulPancake
Buy our book! http://book.soulpancake.com
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Tweet us at: http://twitter.com/SoulPancake


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Wendy Lee, 60, has worked at Confucius Florist since it opened in 1977, and married its owner's son. The shop has remained a staple in the community with both regular customers and newcomers trusting its staff to create flower arrangements for all occasions.
Why has this shop thrived here?
I have a lot of friends visiting me [laughs]. My mother-in-law opened this business and we still have the older clients from that generation and also some of the [community organizations] order from here. This store always has business. People know about this place.
What do you like about being in Chinatown?
I like that it has so many people pass by and it's convenient for everybody. For example, this is the center, because my friends and family are all over and it's easy for them to come out to Chinatown.
Have you had any notable customers?
Congressman David Wu [who represents Oregon and was the first Chinese American and Taiwanese American to serve in the House of Representatives].


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Paxman's Clinical Pioneer Programme
British scalp cooling pioneer, Paxman has announced the dates of its first ever 'Clinical Pioneer Programme (CPP)' with workshops taking place in 5 UK cities.
The certified initiative offers individuals within chemotherapy units to be certified as a scalp cooling expert and enables them to remain up-to-date with the latest information.
Locations include Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham, London and Reading and will take place during May and June. More dates will be announced later in the year.
The Paxman Cooling System (also known as the 'cold cap') alleviates the damage caused to the hair follicles by chemotherapy. It works by reducing the temperature of the scalp by a few degrees immediately before, during and after the administration of chemotherapy.
Through the accreditation, clinicians will be given the knowledge, confidence and authority to become a scalp cooling expert and offer advice to other clinicians if they are not using the system correctly.
In turn, this will enable the provision of additional support within the unit, and enhance best practice and use of all of scalp cooling systems. It will also provide achievable quality standards, supportive consultancy and benchmarking to help improve the quality of care that patients receive.
Paxman has over 1,000 cooling systems in 95% of hospitals in the UK providing scalp cooling treatment for cancer patients. Despite the large amount of scalp cooling machines available, the public's awareness is extremely low.
Claire Paxman, Director of Sales and Training, said "We are extremely excited to launch our accredited clinical programmes and to be able to announce our first five dates in the UK.
"It is believed that only 10% of the public know what scalp cooling is, while 8% of patients refuse chemotherapy because they do not want to lose their hair. There are also several misconceptions about what the treatment is, from both nurses and patients. We are desperate to change this and are working hard to ensure that our machines are being used effectively and that chemotherapy units understand exactly what scalp cooling is."
The Clinical Pioneer Programme is part of Paxman's 'Changing the Face of Cancer' campaign and will be rolled out in the UK first, with a view to expand in other markets in the future.
For more information visit www.paxmanscalpcooling.com


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If you haven't already done so, be sure to head over and print your GoodNite Disposable Bed Mats coupon for free trial size product plus overage at Walmart. Here's how:
GoodNites Disposable Bed Mats 1 ct Trial Pack – $1.47
Use $2.00 off Any ONE package of GOODNITES Bed Mats
FREE + $0.53 overage after coupon
You may find them hanging near the diaper section. Be sure to check out all the best Walmart deals here.
Note: If you don't have chidren that need these you may use them for a pet!
Thanks I heart the mart


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The picture on the back of the Greek coin is that of the Goddess Europa, who according to Greek mythology, rode on the back of a bull. As far as I understand, the bull was actually Zeus in disguise, and in the story he throws Europa off his back and rapes her.For more images of the Beast in official European literature and coinage, see here.But what has this got to do with Bible prophecy?Listen to how the Apostle John describes the identity of the beast, the last world empire…Revelation 17:3-6
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
On the back of the Greek Euro, we have exactly the same image as the Apostle John describes. A woman, arrayed in purple and scarlet, sitting on a beast, with a cup in her hand. This of course is a symbolic description, but I believe John's description is so vivid, and the characteristics of the woman are so peculiar, that they reveal beyond all doubt, the identity of the woman and the beast she rides.
Many of the descriptions of this beast are already explained for us in the passage…
Seven headed and ten horned beast
Revelation 17:12-3
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
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Revelation 17:9
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
The ten horns, as the book of Daniel also mentions, are ten kings that will give their power unto the Antichrist during the seven year tribulation period. The city of Rome is also known world wide as being the city that was built on seven hills, the "seat" of the Roman Catholic church.
Riding on a sea of peoples
Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
This last world empire will be a multi-lingual confederacy. No other regional bloc has more diverse languages and cultures than that of Europe. Even the European Parliament building was designed to look like a modern day tower of Babel, where God previously confounded the languages of all men back in Genesis 11:9. Here is the original painting of the tower of Babel, contrasted with an official European Union advertisement – the above painting subtitled with the blasphemous statement of "Many tongues, one voice", and a photograph of the actual design of the EU parliament building.
Europa is decked with purple and scarlet, and holds a golden cup
Revelation 17:4
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
The fact that a woman rides the beast, and not a man, is significant. In the Bible, spiritually adulterous nations seem to always be portrayed as harlots, e.g. Ezekiel 23. The Roman Catholic church's worship and prayers are also directed towards a woman, Mary Queen of Heaven. It was also said that Pope John Paul dedicated Europe, along with his own life, to Mary. And as we will see later, many Catholic depictions of Mary show her adorned with twelve stars, as does our picture of Europa. Both women, Mary and Europa, are also worshipped as Goddesses – perhaps in the case of Mary not in name, but she was recently given the status of co-Redemptrix making her effectively equal with God.
Purple and scarlet just happens to be the colours of the Vatican's priestly garb. And it is estimated that Vatican city contains more wealth and riches than many nations combined. The cup of blood reminds us of the Roman Catholic communion, in which only the priest is permitted to drink from in contradiction of Scripture. And the blood reminds us of transubstantiation, the false belief that the wine in the cup actually becomes the physical blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit adds further emphasis on the blood, revealing that it is also a picture of how the woman has martyred the true saints of God, so much so that she is now become drunk on their blood. One of the most bloodiest times in the Roman Empire was during the time the book of Revelation was written, when literally millions of Christians were killed for entertainment, and sent into the catacombs of Rome with conditions so dank, life expectancy was only around six months.
Fornication here is of course in the spiritual sense. The Roman Catholic church has committed spiritual adultery with the religions of the world. Pope John Paul II possibly did more for the ecumenical movement than any other Pope.
I was forwarded the following information by my friend, John Vermeer, about the cup. A woman, presumably Mary Queen of Heaven, is adorned on many Catholic images holding a cup.
Pope Leo XII had the above medal minted in commemoration of the second year of his reign, the jubilee year of 1825. The back side of the medal reveals a depiction of a woman, sitting on the globe, holding a communion cup, while sitting on the world. The inscription reads SEDET SUPER UNIVERSUM, declaring that her seat of authority is universal, i.e., over the entire globe.
The image is full of Babylonian symbolism. The woman is not Mary at all, but represents Semiramis, the ancient Babylonian Madonna. The rays emanating from her head represent Nimrod, whom the ancient Babylonians believed died, and was transformed into the Sun. Babylonians believed Semiramis was conceived by the Sun, and gave birth to Tamuz, who it was believed was really a reincarnation of Nimrod. The cross depicted on the coin is not a Christian cross, it is really the old Babylonian letter T, which pagans have used for centuries in idol worship of their god Tamuz.
Europa is a great city that rules over kings
Revelation 17:18
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
No other city in the world can make this claim apart from Rome. She has literally ruled over kings by threat and force for centuries (remember William the Conqueror, the Spanish inquisition, the Huguenots, etc), and still desires today to maintain her Holy Roman Empire.
A woman crowned with twelve stars
Revelation 12:1-2
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Another woman is mentioned in Revelation. Some say that this other woman represents Israel, and I would be inclined to agree with that viewpoint. This woman is crowned with twelve stars. If you look closely at the Greek Euro, our Europa is also crowned with twelve stars. The European Union flag is also made up of twelve stars on a blue sea. The official EU line is that the twelve stars of the EU flag represents completeness. But in actual fact, you will see Mary Queen of Heaven (not the true Mary) crowned with twelve stars in many Roman Catholic pictures. The twelve star European Union flag shows us that the woman (Roman Catholic church) truly rides the beast of Europe.
The other woman in Revelation, Israel, is crowned with twelve stars with the moon is under her feet. The twelve stars could represent Israel being controlled by the European Union, or more likely representing the twelve tribes of Israel. And the moon is always symbolic of the Messiah in Jewish tradition.
Genesis 49:10
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Possibly the reason why the moon is under the woman's feet is because "between the feet" is the Scriptural description of where offspring find a place of protection from their parents. This is a picture of the promise of God, that the nation of Israel would give birth to the Messiah.
Revelation 12:5
And she brought forth a man child (Jesus Christ), who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Europa is raped by the beast
Revelation 17:16
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Just like the story of Europa, this modern day confederacy will throw the woman off its back and rape her. The modern day Roman Catholic church currently rides the beast of Europe, but when the Antichrist comes to power, this worldly religion will have served its purpose and will be destroyed by the ten kings through God's will.
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Below are the number of jobs needed to return employment to pre-recession levels given the economy's rate of growth and new workforce entrants:
* Tennessee: 196,000
* Georgia: 478,000
* Alabama: 233,000
Source: The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution
Hixson resident Dennis Howard says he lost his job last week after working for Bunge Oils for 20 years, but he's hoping to land work as an assembler for another company in the city.
"It's tough," Howard, 55, said at a jobs fair. "Especially at my age."
Howard has more than his age going against him.
Even though the recession officially ended three years ago, the slow recovery hasn't come close to catching up on the number of jobs shed then, even as new entrants come into the workforce.
In just Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, it will take more than 900,000 additional jobs to bring the states' employment-to-population ratio to its pre-recession level, according to The Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative housed at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Nationally, it will take 10.2 million more jobs, the group said.
When The Hamilton Project began its calculations in May 2010, the group assumed the country would need 125,000 jobs per month to account for the labor force entrants.
But because of the sluggish recovery, The Hamilton Project expects that at a job creation rate of 208,000 per month -- the average rate for the best year of job creation in the 2000s -- it will take until 2020 to close the gap for the United States.
Bill Fox, who directs the University of Tennessee's Center for Business and Economic Research, said the unemployment rate is coming down but "it's grudgingly slow."
In Tennessee, the February jobless rate was at historically high 8.2 percent. It was 8.6 percent in Georgia and 7.2 percent in Alabama.
From the peak employment level reached at the end of 2007, the Chattanooga area shed 25,000 jobs before employment bottomed out during the recession in late 2009, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Metropolitan Chattanooga since has recouped 15,500 jobs, but employment in January 2013 was still 9,500 jobs below the peak.
Tennessee is still 58,400 jobs below where it was at the end of 2007, while Georgia's total employment remains 133,700 below its 2007 peak, according to raw BLS figures.
At the five-year pace of job growth, it will take another two and a half years before metro Chattanooga has as many jobs as it did in December 2007, BLS numbers show.
These factors come amid current record highs in the stock markets as corporate profits generally are strong.
"What happened ... is that business got ahead of the recession and cut back employment so radically," Fox said. "Corporate profits didn't get hurt so much."
Over the last year or so, manufacturers have seen employment gains, and the growth rates in housing are strong, Fox said.
"Health care ... over last year or two has done very well," he said.
But, he added, finance has not done as well and government jobs are flat.
According to The Hamilton Project, in Tennessee before the recession, for every 100 adults there were 60.5 jobs. However, that ratio fell to 56.6 as of December 2012, the study showed.
In Georgia, the ratio was 64.6 in November 2007 compared to 58.2 last December. In Alabama, the ratio was 58.8 versus 52.6 last December, the study said.
The Hamilton Project said that if a more optimistic rate of 321,000 jobs per month is used, which was the average monthly rate of the best year of job creation in the 1990s, the economy will reach pre-recession employment levels by November 2016.
"Under even the most optimistic projections for employment growth, it will take many years to return to 'normal,'" the study found.
Jimmy Cosper, 40, of Chattanooga, said he, too, is counting on landing a job as an assembler in the city after not having a permanent job for about a year and working with temporary employment firms.
"I used to do that kind of work in New York," he said at MAU Workforce Solutions, where the jobs fair was taking place.
Thomas Springs, 32, said he's good with his hands and the assembler job is a fit for him.
But, unemployed since February, he termed the job market "cutthroat."
Contact staff writer Mike Pare at mpare@timesfree press.com or 423-757-6318.
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What a week! I don't feel as if we've stopped – and we still haven't. There's more yet to come.
On Wednesday I worked right up to teatime editing a book that had already been paid for (although I hadn't yet touched the money). Then it was a mad dash out to catch draw-time on a fishing match.
It wasn't such a successful evening as before, the poet is still familiarising himself with the fishery and I didn't start anything that can be completed other than 800-odd words of notes and writing exercises. There were also only about 5 anglers there.
On our way home we turned into our lane and were very privileged to see a roe deer and a fawn disappearing over the walls on either side (Mum went one way, offspring went the other). We walked back down after parking up to see if they were reunited, but there was no sign of them. It was lovely to see, though, and a total surprise.
Yesterday was a very busy day. The poet was in Tipton and I was in Birmingham and when we headed back together, it took us nearly 4 hours to get home. And then we had another mad dash to get the poet to band practice. Three of the 4 band members were late last night, and the drummer was on the phone when we got there making sure he had the right night.
I went off to do the shopping, then we got back and had hotdogs for supper.
Today I'm still very, very busy. I have 5 short stories to edit and a technical paper – all by the end of the day. And in the middle of it all I have a dentist appointment. (Boo!) Then it's going to be another rushed tea as we're off out to Sheffield to another music festival this evening, followed by 2 more days over the course of the weekend.
So, just a shorty today. Even though I keep getting distracted by a new (free) book cover creation package I've discovered.
The water lily was another of the pictures I "ordered" the other week. Isn't it pretty? 🙂
What're you up to this weekend?


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Topic "libel and defamation"
Website ordered to pay $7,500 in damages for slandering deputy's advisor in Brazil
The Brazilian media company UH News was sentenced to pay over $7,500 in moral damages, according to the court's website. Read more »
Haitian-American reporter defames Haitian prime minister, judge says
A federal judge in Miami, Fla. said that a Haitian-American journalist defamed Haiti's prime minister when he reported on the Caribbean country's purchase of a telecommunications company, reported the Associated Press on Tuesday, Feb. 19. Read more »
Brazilian prosecutor files criminal charges against journalist for writing fictional blog post
The Brazilian National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ in Portuguese) filed a complaint with the Public Ministry in Sergipe on Feb. 8, regarding its criminal proceedings against journalist José Cristian Góes, which began at the end of January because of a fictional post on his blog for the Infonet website. Read more »
Official interruptions by Ecuador's president add up to eight days worth of air time, NGO says
During the last five years, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has interrupted 1,365 broadcasts to give official announcements, adding up to 11,793 minutes, equivalent to eight days time, on the air, according to the organization Fundamedios in an interview with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Read more »
Costa Rican journalist avoids libel suit after retracting accusation against president's brother
A Costa Rican journalist avoided a libel lawsuit after retracting accusations she made against the brother of President Laura Chinchilla, Adrián Chinchilla, in an August 2012 article published in the newspaper La Nación. Read more »
Northern Peru, the most dangerous part of the country for journalists in 2012, report says
Press freedom group in Colombia releases guide for reporters facing libel, slander charges
Concerned about the growing threat of slander and libel lawsuits as tool to censor the press, the Free Press Foundation (FLIP in Spanish) released "Outside Justice: a manual for journalists facing slander and libel charges," the group published on its website. Read more »
Lawsuit against journalist dismissed in Argentina
A lawsuit filed by the head of the Argentine Federal Revenue Administration (AFIP in Spanish) against a journalist was denied for the second time, reported the newspaper La Nación. Read more »
Argentine official sues two journalists for over half a million dollars
A lawsuit brought against two journalists by a government official in Argentina sparked outcry from the media, according to the newspaper Clarín. The head of the Federal Revenue Administration (AFIP in Spanish), Ricardo Echegaray, sued journalists Matías Longoni and Luis Majul separately for "damages and harm," added the newspaper. The official asked for almost $275,000 in restitution from each. Read more »
Brazilian media company fined for accusing journalist of spying for the United States
The Brazilian media company Record, owner of the eponymous television broadcaster and the news website R7, was sentenced to pay almost $24,000 in moral damages to the Globo network host William Waack after republishing a blog post alleging Waack was an informant for the U.S. government, reported the magazine Veja. Read more »


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This past weekend we hosted the first Build Your Blog Conference here in Utah and it was a smashing success!!
We had 300 bloggers and businesses in attendance and the whole day focused on starting, growing, and monetizing a blog. We have felt so blessed since starting this blog because not only does it provide income for all the sisters, but also our parents (did you know that our parents work full time for US?! Ha ha! Awesome!) and about 21 other people.
The power and future of blogging is incredible!
Be sure to join us next year- sign-ups have already begun!
For now, my sisters and I will be taking a much-needed nap . . . and stuffing our faces with this AMAZING chocolate cake. It's out-of-this-world good!
Serves: 12
Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake
1 hr, 40 Prep Time
45 minCook Time
2 hr, 25 Total Time
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package Devil's Food chocolate cake mix
- 1 (3.9 ounce) box instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 eggs (beaten)
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup butter (softened)
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 Tablespoons cocoa
- 2-3 cups of powdered sugar
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F .
- In a large bowl, mix together the cake and pudding mixes, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs and water.
- Stir in the chocolate chips and pour batter into a Bundt pan sprayed with nonstick cooking spray (my favorite is Baker's Joy for this recipe- I wasn't paid to say that- it's my honest opinion).
- Bake for 45-50 minutes, or until top is springy to the touch and a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool cake thoroughly in pan for about 90 minutes before inverting onto a plate. If desired, dust the cake with powdered sugar or top with my favorite chocolate frosting.
- Mix all ingredients together and either spread or pipe on top of cooled cake.
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It's nearly Halloween……. time to celebrate all things spooky, scary and spine-shiveringly dark. All Hallows Eve or the Festival of the Dead apparently has its origins with Celtic tribes and the Druids who used this date to celebrate the transition from life to death.
I'm not sure the meaning is actually recognised at all these days……… but the kids (and plenty of adults) love to dress up as witches, ghouls and vampires and head for the streets…….. visiting houses lit with candled pumpkins, to scare as many neighbours as possible whilst scrounging for sweets and treats. My daughter would knock on doors all night long given the chance and is never happy until she has enough sweets to open a sweet shop.
Frankly, I feel really uncomfortable with the whole concept of trick or treating. We spend lots of energy and time trying to persuade our children that it is not safe to 'take sweets from strangers' in an effort to protect them and then on one night a year we encourage them to knock on as many doors as possible, freely asking for them! I supervise like a maternal hawk……..
Still, that aside……. I do enjoy the carving of pumpkins, the making of spooky treats and the opportunity to see my daughter dressed up in wonderful halloween colours, incredibly excited at the anticipation of partying with her friends and gathering her stash.
Being half term, it is definitely the time to make stuff together. And after our Easter foray into the world of cake pops, we figured it was time to try again with a Halloween version.
If there's one mutual fear we share, it's spiders. Big fat, black, furry house spiders in particular send us all into terrified shakes. Over the years, I have had to get braver in the art of spider disposal, if only because neither my husband or daughter have shown any signs of doing this for me and the thought of a house filled with spiders hiding in dark corners ready to leap out seems worse than the panic of grabbing a large glass and tentatively carrying it down the road as far as possible before emptying the spider hysterically into the road. I always hope that the further away and the more determinedly this is done, the less chance of them finding their way 'home' again.
So it seemed apt to make Spider cake pops for Halloween……….. Maybe we are entering a therapeutic desensitisation process, but give them cute little eyes and liquorice flavoured legs and they seem quite friendly!
Filled with chocolate cake, moistened and moulded with a splash of coconut cream and honey (which avoids them being over-sweet) and covered with candy melts, these are very tasty little spiders. Definitely to be recommended, even for arachnophobes……..
I am allowing a few of these furry friends to crawl off to some of the Halloween challenges this month :
Treat Petite with Kat over at The Baking Explorer and Stuart at Cakeyboi, who celebrate this month with the theme of Trick or Treat.
We Should Cocoa, being guest-hosted by Honey & Dough
Let's Cook for Halloween with Nayna at Simply Food.
Love Cake with Ness over at Jibber Jabber, who's Halloween theme is 'Dark'.
…….and lastly, a few are crawling over to Vanesther at Bangers & Mash for October's Family Foodies Challenge (joint hosted with Lou at Eat Your Veg), who are encouraging Cooking with Kids this month. Cake pops are always such fun to make with children. It's one of the things me and my daughter love to do together. Just accept the mess!
Halloween Cake Pop Spiders (makes 8 spiders)
- In a large bowl, mix the cake crumbs with the coconut cream and honey/syrup until sticky and well-blended.
- Using your hands, mould and roll the mixture into 8 equal-sized quite condense cake balls.
- Place in the fridge to chill for 2 to 3 hours.
- Use a skewer to poke 4 holes in each side of each cake-ball, where you want the legs to go.
- Carefully push a piece of liquorice into each hole about 1 cm deep.
- Melt a couple of handfuls of candy melts according to the manufacturer's instructions (if you need more later, you can add and re-melt).
- Use a small pastry brush to paint each cake spider with candy melt ensuring the sponge is covered completely. (I used a skewer poked into the bottom to hold, allowing for maximum coverage without having to touch the cake. I then removed the skewer when the candy melt had set and finally covered the hole with a blob of remaining melt).
- Whilst the candy melt is still sticky, dip the spider's head into sprinkles if using and then leave the melt to set.
- To stick the eyes, use a small spot of candy melt to stick each eye in place on the spider.
- Leave the spider to set completely (This process will be quickened by placing in the fridge for 10 minutes).


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Davies, Rachel [Artist] (2007) The assembly. (Film installation).
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|Moving Image/Broadcast
|Event Title:
|Manchester International Festival
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|The film focuses on re-working the memories of Davies' childhood and being in a choir, namely the Manchester Girls Choir. Based upon extensive research on female teenage identiy, fandom and the impact of pop music, supported by interviews with former members of the choir, this work examines the power of voices in a portrayal of collective memory. Funded by Manchester International Festival, Arts Council England, KU RDF, Manchester University and Sadler's Wells
|Research Area:
|Art and design
|Faculty, School or Research Centre:
|Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (until 2017) > School of Design (until 2008)
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|Linda Downes
|Date Deposited:
|02 Jul 2008
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