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Marshalltown faced with a lifeguard shortage is taking steps to solve the problem.
City officials said they don't have enough lifeguards to cover all the hours they want to be open so they're forced to cut back and close early.
"The change in hours is due to the lack of certified lifeguards," reads a notice from the city's Parks and Recreation Department to the mayor and city council. "The Community Y, who manages the daily operation of the lifeguard staff, has been unable to find enough lifeguards to safely staff the aquatic center. This is not due to a lack of effort on their part. Other communities have also struggled with this issue."
A total of 14 hours per week has been trimmed from the pool schedule.
"They've had a very difficult time finding staff. They've explored many, many avenues," said Terry Gray, director of Marshalltown Parks and Recreation.
Slide time will start later and end sooner every single day. Daily hours have been shortened by two hours or more due to a shortage.
Some past lifeguards cited low wages are their reason for leaving so the Marshalltown City Council just approved a higher wage. Some have also pointed to the $100 charge to gain certification as a hurdle also keeping lifeguard numbers low.
"You have to pay money basically for a job so that can be hard to do," said Megan Murphy, the pool manager.
Gray said it costs anywhere from $165 to $250 to get certified.
"If they can perhaps go somewhere else and earn more money without having any training that's what they're choosing to do," said Gray.
Right now, the pool has 12 core guards and said it needs 28. Marshalltown isn't alone in having the problem. City of Ames Aquatics Coordinator Jill Burt said they somehow find enough lifeguards every summer.
"It is definitely a big sigh of relief when you see those numbers get to where we need to be to be open," said Burt.


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Samantha Lynne Snabes wants to be an astronaut. Whereas many of us said that at 7 and failed to do anything to make that happen. Samantha directed her entire life towards achieving that goal in practical, achievable steps. Following a career that includes a biology degree, a DARPA contract and time spent at NASA, she still wants to get to space, but is now also a second time entrepreneur making some of the biggest 3d printers in the world, and helping save it in the process.
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Okay, so I NEVER watch football but if you live in Louisiana right now, it is all you hear about and I have to admit that I broke down and watched the New Orleans Saints last Sunday night. It was an exciting game and the thick, humid air is filled with anticipation as we near the Super Bowl. I've even caught the Who Dat spirit! (If you know me well, that is really saying something) Of course, all this Who Dat talk is really weird and makes me feel like it confirms the horrible grammer of Louisianians, but whatever, I've begun to embrace that as well. Who Dat! Who Dat! Life for us is still all about soccer and that is all we've been doing since before Christmas. Hunter's team has made the playoffs and they will begin next week- we'll keep you posted- in case anyone cares :) Mardi Gras is coming up and I'm sure we'll have some fun pictures to post from the parades. The kids have the whole week off of school so that will be nice.
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Well, we have spent a lot of time outdoors over the holidays watching Hunter's soccer team play in two different tournaments one in Lake Charles and one in Covington (near New Orleans) and it's been kind of cold, but nothing even comes close to the game we went to tonight at his high school! We sat outside for two hours in 29 degree weather!! That might not seem cold to some of you, but this is Louisiana, y'all- we aren't used to this! I'm not sure how Hunter played in this, but they won their first district game 4-0. They ended up in the semi-finals in the other two tournaments only to lose, but they included the toughest teams in the state. Between the cold and and rain, this hasn't been a great season to watch or play in so far, but hopefully our weather will improve. We felt like we were packing to go on a camping trip when we were getting ready to go to the game. We had a thermos of hot chocolate, a portable outdoor heater, a sleeping bag, two blankets, stadium seats and layers and layers of clothes! It's all worth it :)
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A Maine hiker has been rescued after spending four days in the remote southern Utah high desert with a broken leg and no shelter.
Victoria Grover, 59, of Wade, Maine, was recovering at a Cedar City hospital after being located by searchers Saturday in a rugged section of Dixie National Forest, north of the town of Escalante, Garfield County sheriff's deputies said.
Grover set out on a short day hike Tuesday from Hell's Backbone Road to Sand Creek but ended up spending the night in the desert after it became too dark for her to reach her car. She broke her leg the next morning while jumping off a 4-foot ledge.
Grover, an outdoors enthusiast and physician's assistant, told rescuers that she survived by sleeping in shade during the day and staying awake at night. She relied on the creek for water, but had no food other than a few light snacks, deputies said.
Authorities were able to locate her through a rental car agreement found in her room at a guest ranch where she had stayed. The guest ranch notified the sheriff's office when she failed to check out Thursday as scheduled.
"It's truly a miraculous survival. If we hadn't been able to find her car rental agreement to locate her car, we'd still be looking for her, and I feel certain she wouldn't have survived much longer," sheriff's Deputy Ray Gardner said.
Grover suffered hypothermia after a cold front pushed overnight temperatures down to the low to mid-30s during her ordeal, said Mike Ahlstrom, a member of the sheriff's search and rescue team. Daytime highs were in the 50s and low 60s.
She carried only minimal clothing, including a couple of long-sleeve shirts, a rain poncho and light long pants, Ahlstrom said.
A backpacker died of hypothermia in the same area after becoming stranded two years ago, Ahlstrom said.
"What a relief and how excited we were to find her alive," Ahlstrom told The Associated Press. "She was in amazing condition for spending four days without food. She was in a tight little canyon and had shelter from the wind."
Ahlstrom said while Grover had intended to do only about a six-mile roundtrip hike, it was challenging because it was on an unmarked, unmaintained trail over rugged, scenic terrain featuring slot canyons and pine- and juniper-covered ridges.
Ironically, Grover was revisiting country she first saw while taking a Brigham Young University survival school class 40 years ago.
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A Maine hiker has been rescued after spending four days in the remote southern Utah high desert with a broken leg and no shelter.


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The Tashkent Files is a conspiracy thriller film about the death of former Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. Written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri, the movie stars Shweta Basu Prasad, Naseeruddin Shah and Mithun Chakraborty in lead roles. As India celebrates its 73rd Independence Day on 15th August, even The Tashkent Files premiers digitally on ZEE5 the same day! Let's celebrate our country and revel in the spirit of patriotism with songs from the movie. Although the flick doesn't have many songs, it does use rap and rock to put forth a message, very brilliantly so if we may add.
Saare Jahan Se Acchha is a rap version of the national song, crooned by Jayaraman Mohan, Arya Acharya, RJ Archana, RJ Anuraag Pandey, RJ Rohini, Ekdant Kalakshetra, Swara Sharma and Nyonishi Cousins. Vivek and music composer Rohit Sharma have penned the lyrics of the song which very well reflects on India's current political situation. You can watch the song here:
Another number from the film is Sach Chalta Hai, which has been made in Electronic and Rock versions respectively too. The lyrics of this song strike a chord, speaking directly to the listener about a web of lies. It is of prime importance since Shastri's death under mysterious circumstance gave birth to several conspiracy theories. He died hours after signing the 'Tashkent Declaration' ending the Indo-Pak 1965 war. Although the cause of his death was said to be a heart attack, many including his family believe otherwise.
Radha Tori Batiyaan is a Thumri sung by Ritesh Rajnish Mishra and written by Aazad who also co-wrote Sach Chalta Hai. In a rock version, the song has been presented as a jugalbandi between Ritesh Rajnish Mishra and Geet Sagar too. What is impressive about the music of The Tashkent Files is that despite a content-heavy film, it fits in perfectly.
The Tashkent Files also stars Pankaj Tripathi, Vinay Pathak, Mandira Bedi and Pallavi Joshi in the lead roles.
Rest assured, you will walk away learning more about Indian politics after watching The Tashkent Files, thus, the film is a must-watch for every Indian!
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Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay By: Laeta Kalogridis
Cinematography By: Robert Richardson
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo & Ben Kingsley
Runtime 138 minutes
I am so glad I have finally been able to rewatch this film. As I say a lot, the way we receive movies is largely due to our expectations. Sometimes this falls on marketing for a misleading advertising campaign and sometimes this falls on us for wanting a movie to be something it is not. When I first saw Shutter Island in theaters I could not appreciate this movie for what it was because I wanted it to be something it wasn't. I was looking for a detective ghost story and that is not what Shutter Island is. What Shutter Island is is a profoundly beautiful film about a shattered man who has a whole island of people trying to help him find himself.
The beautiful irony of Shutter Island, which was not lost on me this time around is that wonderful idea that Leo's character is looking for himself. This is and isn't a spoiler. The reason it is not is because the movie is undeniably more impactful when you know this going into it. Every gesture, every look, every comment that people make to or away from Teddy Daniels (Leo's character) has so much more meaning because you, along with everyone else on the island, knows what is going on. That was the tragic flaw of this movie for a modern audience. It seemed to them, us, me at the time that we were being dealt a shady hand. That the movie wasn't being honest or straight forward with us. That ultimately there had to be more because it couldn't have been as simple as the characters were telling us it was. But it is that simple and therefore utterly complex and compelling.
I'm telling you, this movie is beautiful and heart-breaking and a tremendous testament to Martin Scorsese. Go rewatch this movie and be amazed.
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Zimbabwe's neighboring countries are South Africa, Botswana to the west, Mozambique to the East and Zambia to the North. Situated in the heart of Southern Africa, it is the ideal destination for those who love nature and animals. A large part of its territory is dedicated to wildlife reserves and pristine natural parks. Victoria Falls, a popular tourist site, can be found between Hwange and Matobo National Parks. You can also go back in time with The Great Zimbabwe National Monument, which is the largest medieval city in sub-Saharan Africa, built between the 13th and 14th century.
Currency: American Dollar and South African Rand. The Chinese Yuan is the national currency of Zimbabwe since 2016.
Official Languages:
- Official Language: English
- Principal Traditional Languages Spoken: Shona, Ndebele
- Vaccinations against Yellow Fever are required from travelers coming from an infected area.
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Closing your books: How to protect your Last Year's Audited Report or Prior Transaction Enteries in QuickBooks
It has really been a rainy day here in Lagos and my schedule is already interrupted as a client that I have already planned to set up their opening balances on QuickBooks Accounting Software felt disappointed following the unexpected change in weather. Well, I would have to re-schedule our appointment.
However, I still had a successful meeting with a prospect who is very much interested in learning how Quickbooks Accounting Software can accurately track his business finance.
During the course of our discussion, he asked a very important question, which is the thrust of this post:
How Do I Protect My last financial report or secure a prior transaction from being manipulated or altered?
For readers, who are thinking of how this can be integrated into their business, here is how I do it for my clients.
When you record all your financial transactions in QuickBooks, at the end of your accounting period, QuickBooks-based on the date you selected - will close your books and generate a complete final account for your business in respect of that accounting year.
In order to protect these account or ledger entries from alteration, Quickbooks can help you build a wall around it.
Here are the steps:
From the QuickBooks Menu, Click Edit and Select Preference:
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When you Click SetDate/Password, QuickBooks will prompt you to choose a closing date- this means that all the transactions recorded before the closing date cannot be changed without your consent.
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Between 4 and 11 February 2018, the Mémorial de la Shoah in France organizes a series of events (conference, movies, testimonies) on Switzerland and the Holocaust, with the support of the Swiss Chairmanship of the IHRA.
The conference is mainly dedicated to new research on Jewish refugees fleeing to the various Swiss borders (France, Italy and the Third Reich) during the war, as well as to Holocaust memorials (about 50) in Switzerland. Among other, during a conference Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann presented the results of her recent PhD on the French border crossings and claimed that the number of Jewish refugees that were turned back during the war is lower than estimated by the Bergier Commission and others. In addition, lectures on the Swiss Red Cross, Children's Relief in France, the silence of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the challenges of Holocaust education were given a broader audience. More than 100 people attended the conference.


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The was far from the optimal way for Year 2 of the James Franklin Era at Penn State to begin.
Temple had entered the mid-afternoon contest as a 10-point home underdog. A little over three hours later, the Owls had stunned the Nittany Lions 27-10. Penn State had actually jumped out to a 10-0 first-quarter lead before Temple ripped off 27 unanswered points, with the final touchdown in the fourth quarter essentially putting the game away with 12 minutes remaining as the Nittany Lions were pitifully and woefully inept offensively.
The Nittany Lions mustered just 191 yards of offense — 103 passing, 88 rushing. The first two drives of the game, which resulted in a field goal and a touchdown, netted Penn State 128 yards, which means its offense totaled just 63 more the last three-plus quarters.
Last season, the Nittany Lions' offensive line was brutal; this season is proving to be no different as beleaguered quarterback Christian Hackenberg was sacked a whopping total of 10 times. One of those sacks, embarrassingly enough, came when the Owls went with a two-man pass rush. While not every sack was on the line, enough were that Franklin and his staff must do something before a potential first-round pick is ruined.
As big as the loss was for Penn State, it might've been an even bigger win for Matt Rhule's Temple program.
After winning just two games his first season, Rhule saw that total jump to six in 2014. Historically, though, this was one of the record books as it served as the Owls' first win over the Nittany Lions since 1941, a winless streak of 39 consecutive games. After a tie in the 1950 game, Penn State had won 31 straight games against Temple.
This game also marked the program's first home win over a Power Five conference school since beating Kansas in 1942.
The icing on the cake for Rhule? He was a linebacker for the Nittany Lions in the nineties.


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TV: The new season of Dexter starts in September, and a promo clip debuted this weekend at Comic-Con. Looks ill, to say the least. [Warming Glow]
Movies: '70s Babies crush Elisabeth Shue won't be done with horror flicks after Piranha 3D drops next month; she's signed on for The House at the End of the Street. Be afraid (and happy). Be very afraid (and happy). [Dread Central]
TV: New Jersey governor Chris Christie blames New Yorkers for the Garden State's bad Jersey Shore press. Riiiiiiiite, because New Jerseyians have never come to the Big Apple and acted the fool. [Huffington Post]
Crime: Yup, folks at the Pentagon look at child pornography on the company dime (too). [Sci Tech Bits]
Weird: Happy Monday! Nothing like the first images of a face transplant recipient to start the week off right. [WCBS]
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I'm Grace, a graphic designer and self-proclaimed fashion aficionado. In other words…I really like clothes (and shoes). I'm assuming that since you're on this site, you probably do too – so welcome! Let's bond over our mutual shopping addiction.
One of the things that's always fascinated me about fashion is the ability to make it so personal. You can give two different people the exact same outfit staples, but the way they style them will be totally different from one another's – each reflecting their own personality, cultural upbringing, fashion influences, etc. This is what makes style so unique! You are the key variable that will determine how all of those outside influences will manifest themselves aesthetically.
That being said, this blog not only serves as a way to share my passion for all things style with you, but also as a reminder to remain true to myself in my fashion choices – because that's the one thing that will never go out of style (unlike my gold lamé fanny pack). After all, Yves Saint Laurent said it best – "Fashion fades, style is eternal." Thanks for following along; I'm so glad you're here!


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A bill meant to keep the federal government from enforcing updated regulations on wood burning stoves and furnaces has been endorsed by the Missouri House of Representatives. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed standards for makers of wood stoves in its aim to reduce emissions by nearly 80 percent. Manufacturers testified before lawmakers telling them the new standards would make stoves too costly for most consumers and could put them out of business. The proposed legislation would also prohibit the State Department of Natural Resources from regulating the use or manufacture of wood stoves without approval of the General Assembly.
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Cheryl L. Westmoreland, John F. Hoke, Peter S. Sebel, Carl C. Hug, Keith T. Muir; Pharmacokinetics of Remifentanil (GI87084B) and Its Major Metabolite (GI90291) in Patients Undergoing Elective Inpatient Surgery. Anesthesiology 1993;79(5):893-903.
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So it's summer, sort of, but curling is always on my mind, specifically coaching in curling. So while I'm watching the Bruins take their best shot at winning another cup, I'm watching how the coaches go about their jobs. Hockey coaches have a much different set of conditions than curling coaches under which they ply their craft. The biggest difference is during actual game play. Curling is almost unique in that the coaches duties are extremely limited during a game and frankly I believe that's the way it should be. It's the nature of the game to have it directed by the players themselves rather than by the coaches. I believe as well that this model helps curlers mature faster with respect to their decision making because they simply get more competitive practice at an earlier age.
Watching the Stanley Cup playoffs is a fascinating study of coaching styles. This year we have two truly interesting styles at play in the finals. On Chicago we see the versatile and experimental Joel Quenville facing the Bruins Claude Julien with his faith in established systems. Which is better?
Well, those who know me know that my answer to that question is complicated. No two teams are the same even from one season to the next so the challenge for coaches regardless of what sport they are involved in is to develop a style that will allow you to motivate, educate and empower your athletes so that they can realize their full potential. A coach needs to understand their athletes as people before they can hope to accomplish this. Back to the NHL. Does Quenville's style of mixing and matching lines constantly really help his team? Absolutely. The Chicago Blackhawks are a creative, free wheeling group of offense first type of players. This group values creativity with the puck and thrive when they are allowed to use their talents in an open way. The Blackhawks succeed when they are given the freedom and trust from their coach. Would this style work for their opponents, the Boston Bruins? Possibly, but unlikely. The Bruins team is more of a grinding team, one that thrives on established systems. They are a team that is very dependant on each other and are content with established roles. Their coach trusts the in those roles and so empowers the whole team.
Interestingly, there is a common element to both styles and that is trust. Both coaches trust their players to fulfill the roles defined for them. More on this in a minute.
You might be tempted to say that this is a "chicken and "egg argument, that the Hawks for instance are freewheeling because the coach made them that way rather than saying the coach adapted his style to fit the team DNA. That might be partially true but if that we're completely the case then neither team would be as successful as they have been so far. Why? Because of a little something called values. People will only perform in a limited capacity in an environment that runs contrary to their value system. The old adage "a leopard can't change his spots" has some kernel of truth in it. You know personally that if you don't believe in a cause you aren't very likely to support it. This is what we're talking about in the coaching context. Your preferences for all things stems from your personal value system. For instance, you can teach an offensive minded player how to play defensive but they will only use that style when they cannot use their preferred style. Good coaches know this and empower their athletes by supporting the athletes preferences that are born from their value systems. Part of the difficulty is first understanding your players as human beings so that you gain some insight into their values. Too many coaches don't bother to get to know their players that well as people.
Now, you may be asking, how did we get on to players? Weren't we talking about coaching styles? Sure we were and that is the second major difficulty we face as coaches. We too have a set of values that drive our behaviour and that will influence how we perform and what decisions we make. In a perfect world, your values will align closely with your athletes and together you will have to make a minimal number of adjustments. Let me know when you find that perfect world… It is a coaching duty to figure out your players so that you can teach them effectively but in order to do this well you need to stay true to yourself and your needs. It's complicated business.
The best advice I can give you isn't my advice at all. In fact it comes from yet another hockey coach, Paul Maclean this years winner of the NHL's Jack Adams award for the coach of the year. When asked about what makes him such a good coach, he simply replied "you just have to be yourself". I couldn't agree more.


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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
May the FARCE BE With ME
I notice that I have only posted three times since June, and two of them are movie reviews. This one is prompted by Michael Hiltzik's review of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in the Times. His review is under the headline: Admit it: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' stinks -- and here's why.
Here's the irony. I was not a big fan of the original Star Wars, but at least I did go see the second film. I have not seen any of the other four sequel/prequels. Nevertheless, and knowing what I know of the original, unoriginal Star Wars, and despite Hiltzik's cogent attack, I will still probably go see this one in IMAX 3D because I like the format of the big screen, big sound, and these days I watch most of the "gotta' drive backwards at least once in the car chase" movies (in other words, nearly every movie that makes it to the IMAX action/adventure screen) if only for the nostalgic glimpse of Harrison Ford in the "Chewie, we're home," scene that has already played 20,000 times in the previews and ads over the last year.
In 2014, I saw 55 movies in the theater. This year, I saw only 40 although Star Wars will make it 41. I didn't venture out to any of the "art house" movies this year. We didn't even see the Woody Allen movie this year which we used to go to every time one opened, but it didn't play close enough to home, and we were busy enough that we didn't get out to see his latest.
I give ratings to all the movies that I see at AMC (where I see 99% of my movies), and these are the ones that got "5 stars" from me this year (in the order in which I saw them): "Selma," "Birdman," "Spy," "Love and Mercy," "Mr. Holmes," "The Intern," and "The Martian." I wanted to see "The Walk," but I was busy those couple of weeks.
The ones that I gave top marks to were simply because they were fully satisfying films within their genres. The docudramas on a period in the lives of Martin Luther King and Brian Wilson focused on interesting and well-told aspects of those lives, though quite different in presentation. Except for those two, I noticed that each of the movies is in a different genre. "Birdman" is a quirky flight of fantasy comedy and gritty realism intertwined. "Spy" is a funny spoof of the genre, far more satisfying than "The Kingsmen" or "The Man from Uncle" because of much greater wit and humor, while balanced with a star turn for Melissa McCarthy. This is the first time that I truly enjoyed her because they allowed her to be other characters than the brash, crude, slovenly, obnoxious character that has been her stock and trade.
"The Intern" was a modest "non-rom com" casting DeNiro against type, and exploring the vagaries of today's corporate world against the questions of life and home (something that we are exploring with a political vs. business twist as we are binge-watching the Danish series "Borgen" with which we were gifted as a Christmas present). Whereas "Borgen" is gritty and dark, but enjoyable, "The Intern" was very light, but very enjoyable. "The Martian" is the only big "blockbuster" on the list, and despite being somewhat predictable, it was carried off with the right amount of humor, drama, action, and "McGyveresque" ingenuity to offer a satisfying theater experience.
I have saved "Mr. Holmes" for last because, for me, it was the best. It was perhaps the gentlest of the seven films (and the other 40 films that I saw), but it had fine character development, it had marvelous performances from the three principal actors (the child actor was terrific), and it was intriguing, powerful, and touching in a very nice combination of those emotions. "Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation" got a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes; "Inside Out" got a 98%; whereas, "Mr. Holmes" only got an 87% and only 75% of the audience liked it. Nevertheless, I rank it as my most enjoyable movie of the year. By the way, I did see both of those, and I gave them each 4 stars.
The worst on my list from this year are the remarkably story-less, character-less, "The Fantastic Four"; the mindless regurgitation with an alarmingly uninteresting protagonist and plot of "The Transporter" (the TV series is actually much more amusing, compelling, and interesting than any of the franchise movies); and my surprising number one entry for over two hours of mindless tedium was "Mad Max" which I already panned in great detail in earlier blog.
And if you haven't seen it, I still recommend my last year's top disagreement with the critics and the fans, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," for it's marvelous blend of humor, character, story, fantasy, and marvelous cinematography. I blogged about it last year in my negative reviews of "American Hustle" and "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Now, I'm gearing up to go see "Star Wars 7: The Marketing," in a couple of hours. May the farce be with me.
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The Richard A. Horovitz Fund for Professional Development
The Horovitz Fund is dedicated to African artists and scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The winner(s) receive an award to defray educational costs for one academic year, renewable for a second year based on satisfactory academic performance and continued need. The award amount ranges anywhere from $10,000 to $17,000 depending on market performance. The funds may be used to cover thesis research, tuition, living costs, etc. The amount of the award depends on the funds available from the investment performance of the endowment.
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In today's world of continuous technological advancements, there are more doors opened than ever before. Industries, private individuals and all sectors are taking advantage of the many benefits provided by technological breakthroughs. Some of those opportunities are evident when it comes to meeting rooms and private venue situations. Businesses and companies all over the world are enjoying those technical progressions in that regard. Part of the advantages come in conferences and how they go about it. Thanks to technology, meetings between clients or individuals can be held not only physically, but also virtually.
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Because, SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS INBORN, and you just can't change something that's a part of nature, NOT even BY way of nurture here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The American President Obama called out, to NOT use psychotherapy to try to alter the sexual preferences of homosexuals or the transgendered youths.
Last year in December, the seventeen-year-old transgendered youth, left a suicide note, stated that her parents FORCED her into religious therapy, wanted to change her back into a boy. After she'd posted her final note on Tumblr, she'd ran into the freeways, and allowed an eighteen-wheeler to run her over. After Blake Brockington's death, someone posted a petition on the website of the White House, called out to President Obama to support the signing of the legislature to prevent gender transgression therapy.
So, someone finally had it, huh? It's not this teen's fault, that s/he is the way s/he is, it's probably due to the chemical imbalance of her/him as a fetus, and yet, because the world is still so god DAMN narrow minded and unaccepting of the transgendered individuals, that, is why this young persons committed suicide, and, the parents' attitudes surely still didn't help, and, apparently, they'd preferred to have a "normal child" who's DEAD, with the right kinds of sexual orientation, than to accept her as she is internally.


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By Travis Winfrey, Mobile Development Manager
- Do use /modified_since/timestamp. Every response from our server is timestamped, e.g., 1259029173. This opaque value can be resubmitted on your next request with /modified_since. You will only get objects related to your request when they have changed since that timestamp. This tiny modification speeds up the updates to your client by a fantastic degree, as it will not have to process unchanged information. If your client manages Trip data and Point Tracker (frequent flyer) data, then track those with separate timestamp values.
- Do use JSON instead of XML with TripIt. Many people turn to XML first, because there's native support in many client libraries, and it's the default format for the API. Just add /format/json to your queries, though, and you will reap an immediate benefit of 30% smaller data on average. There's no processing time difference, but your customers will pay a heavy price when that data comes to their phone over a slow network protocol like EDGE. Travelers in general are going to deal with sketchier networks than a non-traveler. There are dozens of public domain libraries for JSON. It is easy to write either recursive-descent parsers or sequential access parsers similar to SAX using these libraries.
- Do request compressed data. Our JSON-formatted data can compress down 80-90% with gzip. Simply add "gzip" into the "Accept-Encoding" header on your outgoing requests.
- Do avoid multiple roundtrips. When you have high ping times, which is frequently true for mobile users, you want to minimize the roundtrips made to our API servers, especially since your phone has to set up a full HTTPS session for each request. If your client needs all the TripIt objects, then you can use "/list/trip/include_objects/true" as the base request. This call returns all the trip, profile, and object level data in one go.
- Do consider using /exclude_types/weather — weather objects are present for every day of a trip. As I write, we provide only historically oriented weather data, which is not helpful to a mobile user who is currently on a trip. If you're not using that data, don't request it. Weather data can take up 20-40% of the trip + profile + object data in the response from our servers.
- Do add a meaningful user-agent to your requests. We would prefer the format AppName/versionNumber.
How would this play out in practice? Well, cruise and rail confirmations are notorious for being skimpy, without addresses or phone numbers. If you assume that some data "must be there" when you display or combine them for display, then you risk crashes or displaying unfortunate values like "(null) 43" to your customers. Even if it's "logical" that one value should be present, we still might not have it available. Your clients must be robust in the face of all possible omissions in the fields.
Don't expect data in any particular format. Again, our servers extract information from confirmations, which contain an amazingly wide variety of formats.
- Phone numbers might have a generally usable international phone number, e.g., +1-212-555-1212 or they might be in any of a number of regional phone formats.
- Addresses might be in a geo-locatable format, or they might not.
- Any values with actual costs in them have values like "300" or "US$300" or "300 USD". It's best not to prefix or suffix any cost value.
It's conceivable that TripIt may standardize these lower-level details in the future, as each one represents a tiny roadblock for a user who might not know how to navigate around the local conventions.
- Items with no dates are shown last. People will sometimes put no-date notes on a trip, typically reviews.
- Items with dates but no times are shown first in that day.
- Hotel and car activities on the same day should be shown in the correct order when there is no time on the object. Cars must be picked up before they can be dropped off, and you cannot check out before you check in.
- Times are converted to one timezone before sorting. Times we send down in the API will almost always have timezones.
- Finally, trip objects are sorted with the time or start-time for each object as the primary key, and end-time as the secondary key.
"EndDateTime": "2011-03-30 11:00:00",
"last_modified": "1301508689",
"flight_status": "401",
"departure_terminal": "4",
"departure_gate": "B25",
"ScheduledDepartureDateTime": "2011-03-30 07:30:00",
"EstimatedDepartureDateTime": "2011-03-30 08:45:00",
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Try what I call the pad and pencil method. This method is very simple and consists of getting on your knees with your Bible, a pad of paper and a pencil. Read the Bible and then write down what is wrong with you. The only way to remain spiritual is to keep after yourself. The pad and pencil method is good. Read, for example, the Sermon on the Mount. When the Holy Spirit says, "You are that person," write it down. Read on. When the Holy Spirit says you are wrong here or there, write it down. Then set your Bible aside and go over your list before God in confession with the promise that you will never be caught doing those things again. Commune with your own heart, be still and question yourself like a doctor with your open Bible before you. You will find that this will bring sunshine to your life, and you will have springtime in your heart. When you get before God realizing that there has been a bit of snow on the ground and that the happy song of the birds is not heard in the land and that the sweet smell of the flowers is not within you, begin to question yourself before God with the open Bible. The symptoms you already know, but try to get at the causes. If you are evasive with God, then there will be no help. If you are evasive with yourself, if you rationalize your weaknesses, you will get no help.
Tozer Devotional
Fri, May 22, 2020
Getting Honest With God
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24
Being honest with God can lead to shocking revelations on His part. But it is the only way back to the springtime.
Search me, O God, and know my heart. Help me to forthrightly deal with what You reveal.
"What I believe about God is the most important thing about me."
A. W. Tozer, a modern day prophet, was a key figure in The Christian and Missionary Alliance. His legacy reaches through time and has impacted countless millions. A prolific author and pastor, Tozer was known for his emphasis on the deeper life movement. His message, informed as it was by A.B. Simpson the founder of The Alliance, brought the missionary call to a massive audience. A series of his sermons are available as audio files.
His books have been published around the world and in many languages. This devotional was compiled from the Rut, Rot or Revival Chapter Six - Dealing with Spiritual Problems
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According to Sidney, one of the main justifications of fiction is that it can offer clearer examples of morality than history. Consider this proposition in the light of a text that uses history. Sidney's preoccupation with the need to 'correct'… Continue Reading →
Made the stupid mistake of referring to characters like real people again – need to stop doing that. I also need to remember to explain my interpretation of quotations from critical essays etc. I also never thought I'd actually write… Continue Reading →
Chinua Achebe is the man. In An Image of Africa, Chinua Achebe criticises the portrayal of Africa in the eyes of the West as one lacking in 'factual knowledge' and deliberately construed to help 'Europe's own state of spiritual grace'… Continue Reading →
The title wasn't meant to be anything to do with the Radio 4 programme (which was hilarious by the way – Anthony Head is my hero). Improved on my last grade though. I also read 'The Invention of Altruism' by… Continue Reading →
I didn't get a great grade for this, but I hope to improve. According to Carey, Dickens 'encouraged the belief that criminals constitute a separate species, fit only for extermination' (Carey 38); and yet when considering the motley crew… Continue Reading →
Anouilh's adaptation of Antigone pulls the Sophoclean tragedy into the twentieth century, especially with regards to the heroine who here is seen as human, and not merely as a symbol of resistance. Antigone undergoes a journey to self-realisation which releases… Continue Reading →
Lawrence Rainey asserts that Modernism seeks to find a 'shareable language within the family of twentieth century tongues' (34). In The Waste Land that 'shareable language' is absence, which conveys the trauma of losing an entire generation to the First… Continue Reading →
The impossibility of chivalry continuing when the fellowship has already been fragmented by the very men who led it is highlighted by Gawain's fruitless desperation to punish Lancelot for the betrayal of his chivalric duties towards Gareth. Gawain's previous association… Continue Reading →
So I wrote this for a uni application last year, still not sure what I think of it. Show how 'The Turn of the Screw' and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' explore writer's the attitudes, values and ideas and comment… Continue Reading →
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Hi. My name is Adolfo Garza Jr, and this is my blog. My writing blog. That's right, I'm an author. What subtle characteristic about someone makes them susceptible to the idea that they should become an author? I do not know, but I do know that I suffer from that somewhat masochistic attribute.
Why am I classifying that personality facet as masochistic? After several days and even months of nervous tics, bouts of self-doubt, and absolute fear that what I was creating was not even worthy of my old elementary school's "What happened to you this summer?" writing assignments, I came to the conclusion that, at least for me, this pursuit, this undertaking, this adventure (where have I seen that term recently…) is potentially harmful to my emotions, my psyche, and the continued well-being of the nails of my fingers and thumbs. But in accordance with my proposed classification, it is extremely gratifying at the same time. There is nothing more joyful (I said more joyful. I will admit the existence of a few other things that are just as fun) than when a scene or a conversation between characters is flowing along like a well-greased piston in a prose machine. A swelling heart, a goofy grin, and maybe even a bout or two of girlish giggling have all been known to occur. And so I continue with the art, the crafting of words into clauses, sentences, paragraphs and beyond.
I am thus an admitted prose masochist. However. If my words, slaved over so lovingly, do not convey my actual intent, online assassins will smother that glow, that silly grin of a boy who finally gets to hold the hand of the one he has pined for, like a swallowtail in a jar of ether. People will let you know. I've seen scathing reviews online and would prefer not to suffer through those myself. And so I have spent some time scouring the web for hints on grammar and mechanics in order to polish the words. Even so, I am not a perfect writer. I can only try my best. And searching online can only take you so far. One can readily find the rules of grammar on the web, but the art of writing, not so much. Which is why I have started participating in a writing group. I'll soon be joining a local writer's guild as well. Constructive criticism is worth its weight—ah, but that's a cliché.
Prior to joining the writing group but after months of attempting to obtain representation for my debut novel, Dragonlinked, I decided to publish it as an eBook for Kindle on Amazon.com. It went much smoother than I had anticipated. I had purchased Adobe's Creative Suite for other purposes a few years back, and Photoshop made designing the book cover a snap. Also, it turns out that OpenOffice is an excellent shaper of words. Merely set up and use some paragraph styles, then save as Microsoft Word format and upload directly to Amazon in the KDP section. Simple. For the most part.
One of the main reasons I started this blog was to talk about my experiences as I learn more about this writing craft and to provide additional information, little tidbits, about the world of Lethera, the setting for some of my short stories and the books that will be the Dragonlinked Chronicles. Things I'm thinking of including are the social and political structures of Lethera, information about its magic such as symbols and spell listings, the people of the stories and where they live, etc, etc. Maybe even a map of Lethera at some point. I have neither the time nor the inclination to go into excruciating detail on any of the extras, but I think it will be nice to provide some behind the scenes information.


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From the Inuktitut word Torngait, meaning "place of spirits," the Torngat Mountains...
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