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(Written as an Op-Ed for the Jerusalem Post)
This Jewish story begins almost 4000 years ago with our father Abraham, and then with his two sons. One son mocked the seeming insignificance of the other. Later Isaac's two sons strove, with the blessing given to our father Jacob/Israel. The other son never really got over his loss. Jacob's own twelve sons have been squabbling ever since over who should have the place of honor. When we do bad things to each other, we say it is just a family feud, but when others do bad things to us, we call it something else. We are a picture of humanity in microcosm. Although YHVH God has told His chosen people how to worship Him, we have disputed about even this. Some of us deny that there is even a God who has told us anything. Others will even use unlawful means to accomplish what to them is a just end.
Last Shabbat, the 24th of December, we were mobbed by a crowd of ultra-orthodox Jewish extremists. While extremists controlled the direction and tone of the demonstration, other participants seemed ashamed of the violent behavior. The "we" here are Messianic Jews and gentiles, including Arabs, who believe that Yeshua (Jesus) is the promised Messiah, and the one who saves us from our sins. We are called by many different names, some honorable and others not so; but by whatever name, it is with Jesus Christ that we are identified. Our faith in Him is based upon what we believe to be the truth of God's Word given to Moses and the prophets ofIsrael, written in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings. We also believe that history confirms the New Covenant (Testament) testimony of Yeshua being the Son of the living God.
This angry confrontation of up to 500 men, women, and children was organized by the chief rabbinate of Beer Sheva, calling them out from the synagogues around the city to come to the private property used by the local Messianic congregation for prayer and worship. Forcing their way into the walled grounds, these people overthrew chairs and tables and resisted the police who were called in to protect the innocent and to disperse the mob (which took a couple of hours). The mob broke and damaged property and equipment; physically assaulted and insulted men, women, and children, by hitting, spitting, pushing, punching. What was the "crime" the orthodox were attacking us for?. . .We believe that Yeshua/Jesus is Lord and Messiah. That day two women over the age of 18, one of whom was born into a Messianic Jewish family, were to be baptized by immersion. According to the basic law of freedom of religion inIsrael, no law was being violated. The religious authorities, however, decided that this law (which is for the benefit of all citizens) is too liberal for them. The chief Sephardic rabbi of the city was present at the illegal and violent demonstration, and was seen preaching to the crowd standing outside the property. While claiming that he does not advocate violence, he has never apologized or even expressed any regret for what his disciples do in apparent disobedience to his instructions. (This is not our first encounter with him and them.) "The end justifies the means." If these means were used against Muslims, there would be a lot of dead Israelis by now.
"Go to Gaza!" "You're worse than the Nazis"! "You're like the Muslims!" "Israelis the land of the Jews!" "Christian men don't get married!" "Go back to America, to Russia, to Argentina!" Doesn't this sound like what many of our parents and other relatives heard in Europe not so very long ago? In fact, in our congregation we have Holocaust survivors, as well as those whose families helped protect Jews from the Nazis. The God of Israel allows a place of honor for the "strangers" in His land, for those whose hearts are joined with His people and with Him. Worship includes how we treat our neighbor and the stranger, for we were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Despite the history of tribulation which we as a people have known, even at the hands of those called Christian, have not we ourselves – as Jews, Israelis – also committed atrocities to the reproach of the Name of YHVH God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob? Again, the Jewish people are a picture of humanity in microcosm.
I am a Jew who grew up in theU.S.; all my parents and grandparents are Jewish. My choices regarding faith and identity have always been made conscious of being Jewish. In the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War I came over as a volunteer on a kibbutz to identify with my people and our nation. The gentiles still wanted to kill us, and I could not understand why. I had earlier come to Israel as a tourist for a couple of weeks between university years. My prophetic portion at bar-mitzva was from Ezekiel 36, which is being personally fulfilled as God has brought me home to Israel from where He calls exile, and Yeshua has brought me back home to our Father in Heaven. Since the days of Samuel, prophet and judge, it was from Beer Sheva, the City of the Fathers, that Israel has asked for a king like the gentiles have. We eagerly wait for the day when the Kingdom of YHVH God is restored to Israel and to the nations, and the fruit of His righteousness will be true peace and security.


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In this workshop we are going to rediscover traditional diets - food made by hand, not machines, food, that kept our ancestors healthy for generations. From friday evening till sunday noon we will be cooking, soaking, sprouting, roasting, baking and tasting traditional and nourishing food.
You will learn how to:
-sprout, soak and ferment foods like grains, seeds and pulses
-culture milk to make cheese, kefir, joghurt, sourcream
-ferment vegetables
-make bone broth
-bake sourdough bread
You will hear about:
-traditional diets of different cultures vs. industrially processed food of today
-the basic biochemistry of fermentation, digestion and nourishment of the body's cells
-different alternative diets such as Veganism, Vegetarianism, Macrobiotics, Paleodiet, low-fat, Ayurveda, GAPS.
-meat eating and a holistic approach to animal husbandry
course language in English, help with translation when needed.
fee: 45€ includes all meals (friday dinner till sunday lunch) and sleeping in own sleeping bags on matraces indoors.

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GP surgery numbers to be cut as part of major plans around sustainability
Local areas are proposing to reduce GP surgery numbers as part of significant long-term plans to make savings, it has emerged.
A campaign group has uncovered a number of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) - the blueprints for how services are going to be provided in 44 areas across England - which detail plans for the future of general practice.
One area is proposing to reduce the numbers of GP practices, claiming that the current set-up will ''will over-stretch... workforce and finances', while another is planning to cut GP workload by a third and significantly reducing patients' face-to-face contact with primary care.
This month, Pulse reported that GPs were being 'excluded' from discussions over the plans, and in some instances have not even had sight of them before publication next month.
An investigation by campaign group 38 Degrees into the 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) uncovered plans across the country.
They reveal a number of proposals specifically targeting general practice, including:
- In Dorset, a plan for the sustainability of the local NHS suggests that a current 98 GP practices, operating at 135 sites, 'will over-stretch' local 'workforce and finances'. It suggests that a 'reduction in the number of sites' would lead to a better provision of services 'for more hours of the day and days of the week';
- In Hampshire and Isle of Wight, commissioners are planning to to make general practice more sustainable by cutting GP workload by almost a third, while also significantly reducing patients' face-to-face contact with primary care.
NHS England, which has asked all areas what is their 'plan for sustainable general practice and wider primary care', said plans were not going to be put into action without 'local engagement'.
It comes as Pulse revealed earlier this month that grassroots GPs have been left largely in the dark throughout the first six months of the planning process but NHS England said it would not approve any plan that does not support general practice. NHS England has said the plans will be finalised then published in full by October.
The STP for Dorset, seen by Pulse, said: 'Our analysis work to date suggests that the current 98 GP practices delivering care in 135 sites will over-stretch our workforce and finances, and that a reduction in the number of sites would allow more services to be consistently delivered across the county for more hours of the day and days of the week…
'Our planned expanded integrated teams could deliver more and better services from a fewer number of sites than the 13 community hospitals with beds and 135 primary care sites that currently operate across Dorset.'
It added that an 'integrated care hub' - which covers nine GP practices and 74,000 patients, and operates 8am to 6pm - has the 'potential to act as a blueprint for the rest of Dorset'.
Wessex LMC chief executive Dr Nigel Watson said: 'It is a natural evolution as practices are merging and working together. We would be opposed to it if it were a requirement but where it is supporting practices working at scale then it is fine, and that is what is happening.'
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight STP, also seen by Pulse, said: 'Collective primary care working will ensure that citizens will have access to on-the-day support and advice, and 40% of primary care issues will be resolved remotely.'
It also plans to 'reduce 30% of the activity that is currently done in general practice to free up GPs to focus on the highest impact interventions, such as upskilling GPs with new specialist skills to better manage care in the community'.
This will include 'learning from the commercial sector' to 'identify and stop processes and activities that do not add value to the citizen instead providing alternative digital solutions (largely self-service) to enable people to self-manage and self-care'.
NHS England said in a statement: 'No changes to the services people currently receive will be made without local engagement and, where required, consultation. There are longstanding assurance processes in place to make sure this happens.'
What are STPs?
At the end of last year, NHS England tasked regional teams, CCGs, trusts and local authorities with forming regional footprints, and then write plans for how the NHS Five Year Forward View would be delivered within them.
By January, 44 footprints were formed, and by 30 June each had submitted its first draft Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) to NHS England.
As previously reported by Pulse, each plan has to adress 'sustainability and quality' of general practice, including both 'workforce and workload issues'.
At the time, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said: 'This guidance sets out the next steps to make the vision set out in the Five Year Forward View a reality.
'A new approach to how local NHS leaders plan to meet health needs across whole areas will sit alongside the new Sustainability and Transformation Fund established as part of our £560bn funding plan for the NHS.'
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'40% of primary care issues will be resolved remotely.' 'learning from the commercial sector' to 'identify and stop processes and activities that do not add value to the citizen instead providing alternative digital solutions (largely self-service) to enable people to self-manage and self-care'.
Were these ideas put forward by a GP or by a no-win-no-fee lawyer?
NHS England said in a statement: 'No changes to the services people currently receive will be made without local engagement and, where required, consultation. There are longstanding assurance processes in place to make sure this happens.' We all know what engagement and consultation means don't we - basically they will meet stakeholders and tell they get what they are given - we need to all alert our patient groups to act on this if they are to keep their Practices running
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No secret there that the plan is privatization and total annihilation of small practices as a bigger chunk will attract big Corpos who wish capitalize on the demise of NHS.
It is flawed thinking that we should learn from the commercial sector as health services are always non-profit and require government subsidy. Corporations will tear the system apart to squeeze out any profits that can be made and that will spell doom and gloom for the ordinary sick populace.
No country runs a profit-making Healthcare system.
This talk of sustainability is a guise to sell out to the fat cats who would not venture into a doomed jungle if there was no lure of smoking venison.
DH are doing this to pharmacy as well. Plan is to close up to a quarter of English pharmacies as there are too many, too close together. Despite pharmacy being the only healthcare profession that contradicts the inverse care law - areas with lots of pharmacies are the most deprived ones.
I suspect this has nothing to do with DH but that they've been told by the Treasury that they must save 'x' amount and they've always seen pharmacy as an easy target.
What they didn't expect was over 2m people signing the PSNC/NPA petition backing the services their local pharmacies deliver. Usual short term (i.e. no longer than five years) thinking by government. Something like "Let's save money now and worry about any fallout later. When we're hopefully not in power..."
Right winged mentality to handle a public service. Except, the difference in a commercial sector , it is about sustaining profit . Here it is about sustaining 'survival' merely because the government would not invest new money into health and care because they do not generate incomes for the government in a system of social medicine accordingly .
Remember the original Robocop film( not the rubbblish remake two years ago) played by Peter Weller(1987) and its setting of the story:
''In the near future, Detroit, Michigan is a dystopia and on the verge of total collapse due to financial ruin and a high crime rate. The mayor signs a deal with the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP), giving it complete control of the underfunded Detroit Police Department. In exchange, OCP will be allowed to turn the run-down sections of Detroit into a high-end utopia called "Delta City", which will function as an independent city-state free of the United States.''
ALL THAT THESE SO CALLED HUBS DO IS CREATE ANOTHER ACCESS POINT ! IT WOULD BE FAR BETTER TO INVEST THE ENORMNOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY FOR THESE PROJECTS INTO EXISITING PRIMARY CARE AND LET THE SURGERIES AND DOCTORS MANAGE DEMAND THE BEST WAY FOR THERE OWN POPULATIONS. wE HAVE A SHORTAGE OF SKILLED MEDICS THAT IS NURSES AND DOCTORS ALREADY, WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO FIND TIME TO STAFF YET ANOTHER ACCESS POINT !
The sooner the small practices get closed the better. The small practices have become places where maximum abuse of General Practice takes place - most of which have become family run businesses where relatives of GP are Practice Managers and where most clinic just run by locums and thereby compromising care to patients.
Small practices ,offer far better continuity of care ,are better liked by patients and consistently score higher on any criteria you wish to measure.This i'm sure is not to do with better doctors ,just that patients know who their doctors are and visa versa.
In fact they rate so much higher than these large practices(supposedly the future)it is a compelling argument to suggest all general practice should be in partnerships of no bigger than 4 doctors!!
I visit Practices in a large part of the country, and the footprint of most is little changed from 1949.City centres often contain several small Practices in close proximity,indeed I saw one the other day that was separated from the next door Practice by a brick wall following a dispute between Partners years ago. I also see large modern purpose-built premises where several small Practices retain their identity but benefit from management costs at scale.If we can move on from the infantile drivel about privatisation(not least because most of us are private contractors to the NHS)we should have the humility to acknowledge that the clock has not stopped at 1949 and perhaps there may be alternative ways of working.
STP stands for Slash,( the budget),Trash, (the services) and Privatise.
Our only hope lies in the NHS Reinstatement Bill, due it's second reading in Parliament on 4th November. Please look up the details, online, and also join 'Keep our NHS Public' and 'Health Campaigns Together'. Health professionals, allied health workers and the public, MUST all join forces and stop this undemocratic and blatant dismantling of the NHS.
It's not too late but we have to do it together.
Conservatives love the American system because they are pushing for an insurance fed system. We do know however, that not everybody can afford insurance and Americans do have a problem with great numbers who can't access health services. This was the case prior to Obama care but I believe there are still some who cannot get the care they need. Do we need to emulate everything the Americans do?


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Two teens have been arrested in connection with the murder of Lawrence Corrêa Biancão, a 20 year-old student, in Campo Grande, in the south west of Brazil.
The two confessed to the crime and stated that their motivation was theft and homophobia.
'He wanted to kiss me and I wanted to kill him', declared the boy who killed Biancão to daily Campo Grande News.
According to Wellington Oliveira, the police detective in charge of the investigation, the teens, who were arrested on Tuesday (11 December), told in detail how they planned to kill Biancão, from making his acquaintance, arranging to meet him, to killing and leaving him dead at the scene.
According to the teens' statements, one of them met the communication and publicity student two weeks prior to the crime in Orla Morena, a promenade in the city of Campo Grande, capital of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
He said that while walking on the promenade he met Biancão who made a pass at him.
The two talked and exchanged phone numbers.
According to police, the teen then spoke with a friend and agreed they would meet and kill Biancão, steal his car and drive away to a nearby state.
The two arranged to meet on Sunday morning, at the same place where they had first seen each other.
The two teens entered Biancão's Ford Fiesta, drove off and masturbated and then returned in the car to the meeting place.
As they were saying their goodbyes, the teen seated behind the student grabbed his seat belt and strangled him. Biancão was left dead around 4am, Sunday (9 December).
According to the police detective, the two killers confessed to attempting to throw the student's corpse out of car but gave up after they found it too heavy and calculating that the spot would not be a good place get rid of it.
They left the crime scene with the victim's cell phone, documents, car keys and even the car stereo.
The objects were found at the home of one of the teens.
The police detective said the boy who killed Biancão stated 'for me, gays are vermin' – making clear this was a hate crime and robbery.
The detective remarked: 'the police work is done, now it is up to the judiciary'.
Police will now check if the vehicle had been commissioned by someone from the neighbouring state of Minas Gerais.
Biancão was found dead in the early afternoon of Sunday (9 December), inside his car with the seatbelt around his neck.
He had been out with friends on Saturday night, who told the police the full name of the teen Biancão arranged to meet.
Recently, Brazil's Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB) documented 266 murders of gays, lesbians and transvestites in Brazil last year, six times more than in 2010.
According to Professor Luiz Mott, an anthropologist at the Federal University of Bahia and founder of the GGB: 'The underreporting of these crimes is striking, indicating that the number represents just the tip of an iceberg of cruelty and blood.
'Since the federal government refuses to build a database on hate crimes against homosexuals, we based this report on newspaper and online news, which is certainly far from covering all of these claims'.
According to Mott, Brazil has the largest amount of anti-gay hate murders in the world.


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In late Roman times the 25th December was the festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti – the day of the symbolic rebirth of the Unconquerable Sun. He was worshipped in Roman times up to at least 387AD, and in parts up to at least the 5th century AD.
The day of his festival (25th December) is just after the winter solstice, the longest night of the year (which is the 22nd December). His rebirth meant winter would end and the warmth of the sun would bring back life in the world. If the sun never returned the world would die.
Such a rebirth can also be symbolic of the renewal of society and of the individual, who will resolve to live a better and more ethical life in the new year.
The emperor Constantine was a worshipper of Sol Invictus before he took up Christianity.
In Australia, of course, his day comes just after the Summer solstice – the longest day. It seems fitting that Sol Invictus could be recognised here, when he is at his height of power in mid-summer.
Sol Invictus is the true meaning for the season.
Sol Invictus, is the unconquerable son sun.
His symbolic rebirth, the– was celebrated on 25th December.


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Online Registration Success: 3 More Short Tips
My past articles have hopefully given you some ideas on how to make your online registration campaign a successful one. Here are 3 more 'quick tips' to help your event be a great success.
1. Recruit Testers to Break your Registration
Fully test your registration pages before going live with them. It is much easier to spend the time up front than to have the hassles and embarrassment of a misaligned registration form. Sometimes you can just be too close to it and need another set of eyes to do an adequate job of testing.
The more testing you do, the smoother everything will go. Rehearse the registration while it is still in testing mode with several people in your organization. Ask the tech support advisors of your online registration provider to test it for you. Their expertise in event setup will ensure you're getting the most out of the application.
2. Bring Back the People Who Abandon
Some systems are able to automatically email people who came to register and never finished. This email should ask if they had any questions or problems. This gives you an opportunity to be proactive in helping people complete their registrations, thereby increasing your registration numbers.
Some systems will give you the option of running a report on people who did not finish their registration. You can then use this list to send emails manually, and personally address every situation.
3. Talk to Attendees After the Event
Post-event follow up is so often overlooked. You can stand above the crowd by doing a post-event follow-up email and/or survey. Thank your attendees, ask them what they liked about the event, and what they thought could be done better.
Some online registration systems can automate that process too. For example, set the system to automatically send out personalized emails with a survey link one week after the event is over.
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Paul Newman Film Fest Movie #11
Synopsis: Flawed, salt-of-the-Earth day labourer re-connects with estranged son by... narcotizing a dog and stealing a snowblower?!?
Blurb From the VHS Jacket: "In his fortieth year of moviemaking, Paul Newman adds another milestone portrayal to his career in Nobody's Fool, a luminous slice-of-life story set in a blue-collar upstate New York town and laced throughout with humor and heart."
What Did I Learn?: Don't EVER ask a kid nicknamed "Whacker" how he acquired such a monicker.
You Might Like This Movie If: You know that Paul Newman is nobody's fool...but if he were, you would pity him.
Really?: 1) I had a bit of trouble believing the relationship between Sully (Newman) and Carl (Bruce Willis), the slimy local contractor... let's see: Sully sues Carl for injuries sustained during a job, yet agrees to work for him under the table? And then Sully steals Carl's snowblower not once, but twice, and Carl responds not by calling the cops, but stealing it back? 2) Hold on - Sully's son loses his job as an English professor in the city, and he decides to settle in town with one of his two sons in order to do handyman work? I realize his marriage is on the rocks, and he put himself through college by doing carpentry, but come on - wouldn't he at least go home and try to find a job there, instead? 3) Melanie Griffith offers to take Sully with her to Hawaii? Um...I'm not buying that one. And I certainly don't believe he would politely decline her offer.
Rating: Nobody's Fool is a warm-hearted, and often funny character-driven drama. Newman is gruff-but-kind-hearted ne'er-do-well (a marked contrast to his performance in Harry and Son, where he played a blue collar jerk), and he shares some great moments with Willis, the late Jessica Tandy as Sully's landlady, and a number of other characters in some wonderful scenes. The storyline is a bit contrived, so I can't give this movie a perfect score, but Nobody's Fool is still highly recommended. 9/10 stars.


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Resources: The Arts
"The arts are the key. They enable us to communicate effectively within and between generations, making sense of and reconciling life experiences, understanding and celebrating the present, and creating a legacy for the future. They also allow us to experiment without fear of failing - to be challenged - and to succeed in learning new skills and discovering latent ones. Strengthening connections among older adults, family, friends, residents, and caregivers, the arts create a sense of community in which each person's contribution is respected. In sum, the arts enhance quality of life".
- Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit
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Locus(redirected from Locus coeruleus)
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1. (in many legal phrases) a place or area, esp the place where something occurred
2. Maths a set of points whose location satisfies or is determined by one or more specified conditions
3. Genetics the position of a particular gene on a chromosome
a linear section of a chromosome occupied by a gene.
Using genetic and cytological methods, it is possible to determine the location of a gene, that is, to find which chromosome contains the given gene and its locus, or position in relation to other genes on the same chromosome. It has been demonstrated in some microorganisms that genes that control a particular sequence of biochemical reactions are found in neighboring loci, which are arranged in the same order as the order in which the reactions occur. This has not been established for higher organisms. The term "locus" is sometimes used in the literature as a synonym for the terms "gene" and "cistron."
The fixed position of a gene in a chromosome, occupied by allele.
A collection of points in a Euclidean space whose coordinates satisfy one or more algebraic conditions.
A distributed system project supporting transparent access to data through a network-wide file system.


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Futebol Clube do Porto kicked off their 2015/16 season in the best way possible on Saturday night, trouncing Minho giant Vitória de Guimarães 3-0 in front of a near-capacity crowd. A brace from Cameroonian young starlet Vincent Aboubakar would prove doubters wrong after a frustrating preseason in front of goal, as the name Jackson Martinez looks to become a distant memory.
FC Porto dominated most of the match against Armando Evangelista's largely inoffensive Vitória, with Maxi Pereira and Giannelli Imbula enjoying fine debuts, producing sumptuous assists for the 2nd and 3rd goals. Silvestre Varela also impressed on his return to the Dragão, netting a fine effort to complete the rout.
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text: From WantToKnow.info: "Physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality. Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second. But Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter. "It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium," Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday. The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They…teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further. "Teleportation between two singe atoms had been done two years ago by two teams, but this was done at a distance of a fraction of a millimeter," Polzik, of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, explained. "Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement." Quantum entanglement involves entwining two or more particles without physical contact." For the full article click here.


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This article is about the monster. For the NPC for the Karamja Diary, see TzHaar-Mej.
The TzHaar-Mej are both the leaders of the TzHaar people and powerful mages. They fight with both melee and magic using their staves. When attacked within 6 squares of other higher level TzHaar (Ket and Xil), the mage will cry out "Kot kl, zek e JalYt!" which roughly translates to "Save me, attack the human!" This will cause the nearby TzHaar to aid the TzHaar-Mej in combat.
Weapons & Armour
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Obsidian cape 1 Very rare (1/4,100) 686,112 Toktz-mej-tal 1 Very rare (1/4,100) 523,339
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Earth rune 25 Common 100 Fire rune 25 Common 125 Air rune 25 Uncommon 125 Water rune 25 Uncommon 100 Chaos rune 5 Uncommon 445 Nature rune 2 Uncommon 434 Law rune 2 Uncommon 332 Death rune 2 Rare 406 Blood rune 2 Rare 734
Item Quantity Rarity GE market price Tokkul 1–71 Common Not sold Pure essence 4–10 Rare 8–20
- Unlike other TzHaar monsters, the drop rate of TzHaar-Mej dropping obsidian equipment is significantly lower than the rate of other TzHaar weapons, being 1/4,100 whilst the other TzHaar drop weapons at a rate of 1/512.
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TzHaar-Hur • TzHaar-Mej • TzHaar-Ket • TzHaar-Xil • Haar-Tok
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CINCINNATI — A federal appeals court opened the way again Friday for the Justice Department to deport alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to Germany to face 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.
The three-judge ruling from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati denied a stay of deportation for the 89-year-old retired autoworker from his suburban Cleveland home. The decision could be appealed.
An arrest warrant in Munich alleges he was a guard in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943. Demjanjuk says he was a prisoner of war, not a camp guard.
His family says he's too old and sick to be sent to Germany, but the government says he gets around for his age and says surveillance video proves that.
The appeals court said it believed the government would provide appropriate care for Demjanjuk while deporting him.
"Based on the medical information before the court and the government's representations about the conditions under which it will transport the petitioner, which include an aircraft equipped as a medical air ambulance and attendance by medical personnel, the court cannot find that the petitioner's removal to Germany is likely to cause irreparable harm sufficient to warrant a stay of removal," the court said.
The family made it clear that it would fight the latest deportation threat.
Demjanjuk's son, John Demjanjuk Jr., said Friday that a lawsuit has been filed in Berlin "to stop the acceptance of my father as a deportee." The issue is whether Germany can accept him without having filed a formal request for extradition.
Demjanjuk's lawyer in Germany, Ulrich Busch, could not be reached at his office, and the administrative court in Berlin was closed Friday, a national holiday.
Case spans decades
The ruling was the latest in a series of developments in a case spanning decades. On April 14, immigration officers carried Demjanjuk in his wheelchair out of his home to deport him on a flight on an executive jet waiting on the tarmac. But within hours, the appeals court blocked the deportation while it reviewed his latest appeal.
As he was carried from his home, Demjanjuk had his head flung back, his mouth hung open and he moaned in apparent pain, infuriating relatives who said he had been promised a stretcher in consideration of his back pain.
The government responded by sending surveillance video to the court showing Demjanjuk walking unassisted to a doctor's office on April 6. The family said that Demjanjuk has good days and that the video didn't reflect his overall health situation.
Demjanjuk has said he suffers severe spinal, hip and leg pain and has a bone marrow disorder, kidney disease, anemia, kidney stones, arthritis, gout and spinal deterioration.
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The Girl's Still Got It
The Girl's Still Got It by Liz Curtis Higgs was a very good book. When I received the book I thought to myself that the title of the book described Liz Curtis Higgs as well as it did Ruth. I've read many of Liz's books and was glad to see with her newest book, she's still "got it". Liz has the uncanny ability to take stories from the Bible and transform them into vivid pictures that all women can relate to and enjoy. The main message of this book is that no matter where you're from, what you've done, or what you've been through, God can and will still use you. The book is encouraging, enjoyable, and at times, hilarious. The message touched my heart and I highly recommend this book to all women. It includes a study guide in the back as well to be used on your own or with a group. I received a copy of this book from Blogging For Books in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.


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The House assembled at 10:00 a.m.
Deliberations were opened with prayer as follows:
We come to You, Father God, asking that You look with favor upon all who serve in places of leadership in government. Grant unto us wisdom of mind, strength of character and goodness of hearts. Cause us to know that the world's best tranquilizer is the knowledge of work well done. As You are merciful and forgiving, may we show these same attributes in our dealing with one another knowing always that "to err is human, to forgive divine." In gratitude for all that we daily receive from Your bountiful hand, may we unselfishly share our blessings and perform faithfully our duties. Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer. Amen.
After corrections to the Journal of the proceedings of yesterday, the SPEAKER ordered it confirmed.
At 10:05 a.m. the House in accordance with the ruling of the SPEAKER adjourned to meet at 12:00 noon, Tuesday, May 8.
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|Edison's new bulb.
Since the 1820s, scientists knew that electricity could replace kerosene and gas lamps, but inventors only knew that platinum worked as a filament. Edison discovered that carbonized cotton thread worked better (tungsten turned out later to be even better).
He created the Edison Electric Illuminating Company in 1880 to enable him to bring electricity into people's homes and businesses like gas and water, under the streets.
Once installation of cables was under way in Manhattan, he invented all the fixtures, sockets, fuses, and meters and then formed manufacturing companies to supply them. Edison's first commercial power plant was in lower Manhattan, at 257 Pearl Street. He needed a densely populated area full of both businesses and residential customers. The area's proximity to financial backers on Wall Street was also helpful. On the day, September 4, 1882, when the Pearl Street Station powered up for the first time, Edison was standing in the offices of investor J.P. Morgan. Edison gave the signal to his chief electrician, who closed the circuit and began the first commercial delivery of electric power. The New York Times, an early customer – reported the next day:
Edison's central station, at No. 257 Pearl street, was yesterday one of the busiest places down town, and Mr. Edison was by far the busiest man in the station. The giant dynamos were started up at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and, according to Mr. Edison, they will go on forever unless stopped by an earthquake. [...] The electric lamps in THE TIMES Building were as thoroughly tested last evening as any light could be tested in a single evening, and tested by men who have battered their eyes sufficiently by years of night work to know the good and bad points of a lamp, and the decision was unanimously in favor of the Edison electric lamp as against gas.The new light bulb played several parts in the life of Inez Milholland Boissevain:
- Her father and grandfather were involved in electric utilities in Essex County, NY, where she spent her summers at Meadowmount. The light bulb must have been helpful for growing that business.
- At Vassar, where Inez was in 1905-09, the campus was lit by Welsbach gaslights. These were changed over, slowly, to electric lights.
- Electric lighting came to be associated with enlightenment – a second Renaissance (or as Edna St Vincent Millay's poem spelled it, "Renascence").
- A theme song for the women's movement was "Forward into Light", which was set to music by Charles Ives.
- The banner that Inez Milholland Boissevain carries on horseback in her iconic post-mortem poster reads "Forward into Light".
- Inez must have either sung the Ives song, or her sister Vida (who sang professionally for a while) did, at Vassar, and she picked up the theme as a feminist anthem.
|The light bulb replaced this Welsbach-mantled gas light.
Electric light did have a negative impact. It meant that people began to sleep less.
Before 1910, people slept an average of nine hours a night.
By the end of the 20th century, average sleep time was reduced to more like seven and a half hours. Under laboratory conditions, people deprived of electric light revert to sleeping nine hours a night.


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Today in Film
Today in 1982 "Blade Runner", directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer, is released.
This stunning image of Harrison Ford was taken by Globe photographer Jay Thompson.
Jay Thompson specialized in publicity photos of stage plays in the Los Angeles area. He was also known for his portraits of celebrities such as Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, and Eleanor Roosevelt. A native of East Orange, N.J., Thompson served in the Army in the 1950s. Perhaps his most iconic photo shoot occurred at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles in 1969, where he captured incredible candid photos of the legendary rock group, Led Zeppelin.
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The guys catch up, plus it's Competition time!
The team discuss the competition: Here are the rules:
Competetion time: Win 1 of 5 Gates of Hell Trilogy Blu-Ray from Shock Entertainment.
To Enter:
1. Like 'The Director's Suite Cast' FB Page (this Page) and Cinema Cult.
2. Answer This Question Below on this Photo.
'Who would you meet at the Gates Of Hell?'
Further details will be announced in our upcoming podcast today. Good luck to all.
Winners Will Be Announced Friday!
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A Day At Cobourg Beach by Tracy Hanes
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This is a beautiful montage of Cobourg beach images that suggest the sublime. Tracy Hanes is a free lance videographer, well-travelled and a fan of equestrian events. She has done other videos of Cobourg.


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Taylor Eason
- Wine & food writer and educator since 1997
- Certified Specialist of Wine with the Society Of Wine Educators
- Proud member of the Wine Century Club, a geek org that celebrates people who've tried more than 100 different grape varietals. I'm at 186 and counting.
- Follow me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Taylor is originally from Atlanta and a self-proclaimed Southern foodie. She earned her undergraduate degree in English/French Literature from Colgate University, whose proximity to New York wineries lured her into a fascination with the grape. She was hooked. After graduating, she enrolled at Ecôle Hotelière de Genève in Switzerland, a culinary management program that encouraged European wine country exploration. The addiction grew to include Italian, German and California vino/wein/wine.
After completing her studies in Europe, Taylor moved to Tampa, Florida to manage at Bern's Steakhouse, famous for having the most extensive wine list in the world. After two years, she was lured away to the corporate world, designing and managing food and wine websites in 1997. Then, in August 2001, noticing a lack of spunky wine education for non wine snobs, she launched a weekly column in Creative Loafing Newspapers called Corkscrew, which was printed in six countries around the world and is syndicated. Those vinous musings are found throughout this website.
To support her wine habit, after completing her MBA in Marketing in 2001, she served as Director of Marketing and Product Development at Creative Loafing Newspapers.
Taylor still regularly treks the world stoking her love of wine, summing up her rather strong opinions virtually on her website. To pay the bills, she works as a digital marketing consultant for food and drink businesses and lives in Sonoma County, California with her husband, Scott, and their coveted wine collection. The opinions expressed on this blog in no way represent those of her clients.
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Interested in republishing an article on this website? Email taylor @ tayloreason dot com
Robb Larsen
Robb Larson loves beer, especially craft beer, and is always in search of the elusive perfect pint. Expanding and refining his palate for nearly two decades now, he has been a beer aficionado and "Beer Dude" since the days of flannel and Nirvana. He enjoys talking and writing about beer, and of course drinking it as well.
When he's not holding down a barstool at one of the Tampa Bay beer bars boring the locals, Robb likes to brew his own craft beer. Ironically, Robb also works hard as a personal trainer, helping and encouraging clients to reduce their beer belly. He lives in Clearwater, Florida with his sweetheart Lisa, their many cats, and his many homebrews.
Sean Ludford
Sean Ludford has been involved in the beverage industry for more than two decades (so it's far too late to pursue a respectable career path.) He has an eclectic resumé including stints at restaurants, some of America's top wine & spirit retailers, as a writer & reviewer, importer/distributor, and was once even lured to the South Pacific to help open a micro brewery.
Sean is a judge at some of the world's most prestigious competitions including the San Francisco International Wine Competition and the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Both are the largest and most prestigious of their kind in the USA. Ludford says, "Reviewing products is a tricky thing. It requires experience and an ability to put the beverages in context while always being fair."
Today, Sean focuses on writing and educating. In 2006 he created BevX.com (Beverage Experts) a lifestyle web publication with a weighty beverage focus. BevX is a unique and independent voice in the world of wine, beer, and spirits punditry. Sean is also a regular contributor/columnist for several print magazines including, The Tasting Panel Magazine, Nightclub & Bar Magazine, Restaurant Hospitality, and several others. He speaks regularly on topics as diverse as Single Malts, Belgian Ales, Italian wines, and the vineyards of Bali (don't get him going on that one). In his little spare time Sean enjoys cooking, hiking, reading, watching rugby, and seeking the perfect pint. If you see him out in his hometown of Chicago, buy him one.
Check out Sean's website, BevX.com
Mary Scourtes
My favorite food is anything with a vowel in it (unless you know of something spelled with all consonants.) During my formative years at University of Florida, I picked my major by opening its catalog, which fell to the Journalism section. Check: major is chosen. I took on cooking duties in exchange for having my roommates take on KP. I can tell you the number of chocolate chips in the perfect cookie.
Check: Suzette Soufflé, my alter ego, was established.
I became food writer for The Tampa Tribune because I could discuss the merits of battered-fried Twinkies, how much Gruyere to use in Swiss fondue, and why including Godiva every day has therapeutic benefits. Since leaving the newspaper, I've contributed to cookbooks, magazines and other periodicals.
Intrepid hubby, Chas, and I choose vacation spots by plotting Michelin-starred restaurants. We know food can be the best destination on any trip.
One favorite memory is sitting in the storied hills of San Francisco, as a Pillsbury Bake-Off judge, while choosing the next million-dollar recipient. No company takes integrity more seriously than this. Poppin' Fresh didn't want to wind up with egg on his face and the venue was crawling with men in suits with contracts. As one of a dozen judges committed to confidentiality, we had to sign a statement that no one had tried to coerce, bribe or influence us by any means beside the sheer good taste of her creation. I'll take that same seriousness, add humor at times, and keep you informed on my take on the local restaurant scene.
Jennifer Fields
Jennifer Fields has a thing for adventure, and for change. In 2007, she left high-tech corporate America and ventured into culinary school. Her thoughts weren't necessarily to become a chef, but to be professionally trained so she could go out and write intelligently about the fabulous things happening in the food world. She remains consumed in awe by the immense variety of mushrooms that bloom, all the variations of salt that are available and the increasingly interesting topic the entire world of food is. Jennifer spent time working in the test kitchen of the food section of The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon testing recipes and experimenting in the kitchen for the paper's weekly readership.
But in 2010 Jennifer decided more adventure and change was in the forecast. She headed east from Portland, Oregon to Tampa, Florida for a little excitement and a lot of sunshine. Today Jennifer is a sales and marketing professional by day and freelance food writer by night. In her past food writing experience, she's written for TastingTable.com, Culinate.com and Citysearch.com.
Check out Jennifer's blog, Savor it
Raymond Hook
2010 Cheeseworks –Sales Manager- East
- Handled premier and large accounts including Dean & Deluca, Murray's, Zingerman's and other high volume customers.
- Was on the 3 person committee that approved all new products
- Coordinated our marketing efforts and lead our Marketing Manager
2005 Cheeseworks- Sales- West
- In charge of the largest accounts on West Coast
- Supplier relations
- Source products
2002 Consultant – Worked with retailers, producers and distributors
1999 Star Provisions – GM for Specialty foods market in Atlanta, Georgia
Consultant for Premium Port Works – 2 ½ year marketing program than exceeded company goals for sales by 30%
Consultant for Sweet Grass Dairy- help develop products, market them and sales training
Marketing Committee for American Cheese Society- help develop marketing initiatives for the ACS
Wine Market Assistant- Partner- develop cheese pairing for a vast wine data base
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We need your help today!
Massachusetts is on the verge of adopting new regulations that will undermine all the progress we have made opposing biomass CO2, toxic emissions and PM 2.5 particulates.
The new regs would provide massive subsidies for biomass boilers and combined heat and power (CHP) facilities that burn biomass. They would use ratepayer funds intended for clean, renewable heating to pollute our air, harm our climate, and damage our forests.
But before the Department of Energy Resources (DOER) can finalize this rule, the Massachusetts Legislature has an opportunity to weigh in.
Please take a moment to call your state legislators and the Chairs of the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy TODAY and urge them to reject DOER's regulations and demand a rewrite. They only have until November 15 to act.
For more information, please visit PFPI's blog post: http://www.pfpi.net/
massachusetts-legislature- should-put-the-brakes-on-bad- biomass-regs.
Thank you!
Future generations of all beings will thank you!
Beth Adams – Mass. Forest Rescue Campaign
Michael Kellett – Exec. Dir. RESTORE: the North Woods
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Janet Sinclair, Concerned Citizens of Franklin County
My name is _____________ and I am a resident of _______________. I am calling to express my concerns about the proposed biomass regulations that are currently being reviewed by the TUE committee. These regulations would use ratepayer funds intended for clean, renewable heating to subsidize dirty energy technologies that will pollute our air, harm our climate, and damage our forests.
The Joint TUE Committee must demand that the Department of Energy Resources rewrite these terrible regulations! The deadline for action is November 15.
Sen. Michael J. Barrett, Chair, Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy
Rep. Thomas A. Golden, Jr., Chair, Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy
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Statehouse Switchboard (617) 722-2000
Western MA Legislators
Senator Adam Hinds (617) 722-1625
Senator Stanley Rosenberg (617) 722-1500
Rep. Stephen Kulik (617) 722-2380
Rep. Paul Mark (617) 722-2304
Rep. Smitty Pignatelli (617) 722-2210
"We can solve the climate crisis with a major scale-up in forest protection and restoration across the planet! (Prof. Bill Moomaw) "Everyone must do her/his part to store carbon in forests ASAP!" (Beth Adams-Mass. Forest Rescue Campaign)


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Best Adults Vacations
The best adults only vacations come in a variety of options, and once you have decided to leave the kids at home, you might be surprised at all the choices that are out there. Adult only travel has skyrocketed in recent years, and the travel industry has responded to this demand by creating a great variety of adults only cruises, resorts, tours, and more. While the best adult only travel is sure to be an individual choice, popular trips have emerged. Among the top 10 adults only destinations are islands in the Caribbean such as St Lucia, the romantic islands of Hawaii, and cruise tours of the Mediterranean. Pick your favorite, and get ready to sit back and relax in the soothing environment of a trip without kids.
Some travelers think the best adults vacations are cruises. These adults only cruise lines specialize in sophistication from the moment you board the ship. There won't be any cartoon characters or children's playgrounds in sight on these ocean liners. Instead, you can expect soothing spas, improved dining options, sleek bars, and quiet pools. This ranks in the list of best adult only travel because of the sheer range it covers. Whether you want to cruise the Caribbean, visit destinations along the coast of Mexico, gaze at the fjords of Norway, or tour the port cities of the Mediterranean, it is all possible on an adults only cruise.
Of all the destinations, a constant in the top 10 adults only destinations are the islands of Hawaii, particularly Maui, which is well known for its intimate atmosphere. One of the most popular romantic destinations, especially for honeymoons or anniversary celebrations, Hawaii delivers on secluded beaches and intimate atmosphere. Because Hawaii is so accustomed to providing for honeymooners, resorts have developed incredible packages that will bring great value and experience to your trip. Whether you're interested in surfing lessons, a history tour, or an invigorating hike, you will be pleased at everything Hawaii has to offer adults.
If you love getting a good bargain, then the best adults vacations will be the all inclusive adults only trips. Whether you choose a private ski cabin somewhere in the mountains of Colorado or a villa on the beach in the Caribbean, an all inclusive package can remove any hassle from your trip. Besides helping you to budget accordingly, all inclusive trips will add value to your trip. Keep your eye on upgrades as well – these options often allow visitors who are interested in activities, excursions, or specific hobbies to include even more in their package for a good price. Last minute all inclusive packages are another thing for the bargain hunter to look for.
The best adult only travel delivers on peace and quiet. The absence of kids will leave opportunities to enjoy the atmosphere, so be sure to pack along your favorite books or magazines and sit back and enjoy the sunshine. The top 10 adults only destinations will be largely influenced on your interests, so a little research is in order. For fishing, look into the quiet islands of the Bahamas. For scuba diving, the Cayman Islands can't be beat. To try your luck at the casino and gourmet cuisine, head to Aruba. There is one thing to beware of: Once you try an adults only environment, you may never go back to a hotel where families are welcome again!
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Ataturk Mausoleum and Museum Ankara – Chapter 2
lion Road marble steps leading up to the entrance of the Hall of Honour is a bas-relief depicting all the wars and victories from Vienna to Sakarya, and on the left a bas-relief depicting the Baskumandan Meydan War. On the marble platform in the center of the steps are an inscription recording the basic principle of Turkish democracy, "The nation is sovereign unconditionally and absolutely-. At the front of the Hall of Honour is a colonnaded and vaulted 'walk. The floor and the walls are made of colored marble, and the ceiling is decorated with mosaics. Torches line the walls on both sides. Exactly opposite is a large 'window illuminating the Hall, and in front of it, on a raised stone platform is Ataturk's Sarcophagus, made of a single piece of colored marble, in front of which is Ataturk's Independence Medallion. Ataturk is buried directly under this sarcophagus. On the right when leaving the Hall of Honour is colonnade between the Republic Tower and the Defense Law Tower, which is used as a Reception Hall. In the courtyard in front of the steps leading up to the Mausoleum are the graves of the Liberation Martyrs and President Cemal Gursel, and between the Tower of Victory and the Peace Tower is the grave of Ismet in one.
On the walls of the ten towers of the Mausoleum, and at the entrance to the Hall of Honour, are carved the momentous words of Ataturk and his speeches to youth, and the symbols of Turkish history and victories.
Ankara Ataturk's Mausoleum Museum
Ataturk Museum: The Mausoleum Ataturk Museum was established in the vaulted section between the Tower of the National Pact and Reform, in 1960, and is entered through the Tower of the National Pact. In the showcases of the museum are displayed Ataturk's official and civil possessions, the presents given to him by various organizations and individuals, souvenirs, documents, his medals, swords presented to him, plaques, albums, and photographs etc. These objects, which are of a great material and spiritual significance, are symbols of the love of the world and the Turkish nation for Ataturk.


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They are allergic to peanuts.
They work at a small peanut oil processing plant.
They touch, smell and taste peanuts all day.
Pick it.
Press it.
Bottle it.
And Big Man dey watching from his high office.
Most don`t speak Big Man`s language.
All don`t get paid enough.
All are forced to work. There are no other jobs.
They need the little bit of cash to pay for their anti-histamine.
They are allergic to peanuts.
They work for a small peanut oil processing plant.
The few who speak with Big Man plea.
They show their bleeding hives
They show their swollen eyes.
Those who can speak
Those who are not choking on the floor
we are allergic to peanuts.
we are allergic to peanuts.
Big Man says to be quiet.
Don`t blame peanut oil, after all its done for you.
Big Man wipes the white spittle from the corner of his pasty lips.
Are you sure it is peanut oil that is the problem?
What if it was grapeseed oil?
What if…canola
what if…olive
what if…sesame
Don`t blame the peanut. Peanut is good for us. Peanut is good for business.
He say:
If you have a problem, you should wear a mask.
If you
have a problem
But don't blame the peanut. Peanut is good for us. Peanut is good for business.
But we workers know that this here is a big fucking peanut oil processing machine.
Not next type of oil,
Not what-if oil
Ah Peanut Oil we ah talk bout.
We work here. We live here.
Mask on or Mask off
We can`t breathe.
Together, We spill the bottled oil on our bodies and ignite the fire.
Together, we barge the barricaded office of Big Man and forcefully bring his room-temperature body next to our burning flesh.
Together, We jump into the extraction machine.
Hear the bones crack.
Like the dry husk of the peanut.


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Dostal, Leo and Korner, Kevin and Kreuzer, Edwin et al. (2018) Pendulum energy converter excited by random loads. ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 98 (3). pp. 349-366. ISSN 0044-2267. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180404-110221662


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The book of the generations of the unfortunately named Baron Verulam von Hoopla the Fowler; Episkopos of the Kaufman Cabal; Grand Wazoo of the Esoteric Order Of Eris; Ruler of the Toads of the Short Forest; King of the Booze, and still cooler than a polar bear's toenails; the son of St.Ray, the son of Camel Toe.
Camel Toe begat Slappy; and Slappy begat Little Ron-Ron; and Little Ron-Ron begat Big Horse; Big Horse begat Ozias; Ozias begat One-Eye and his brethren;
And One-Eye begat Ostrich Boy; and Ostrich Boy begat Susan; and Susan begat Wiley Willie; and Wiley Willie begat the Hamhock; and the Hamhock begat Little Zeke of her that had been the wife of Uranass;
And Little Zeke begat Roboham; and Roboham begat Jo-Jo the Sinning Sinner; Jo-Jo the Sinning Sinner begat Jim-Jim the Singing Singer; and Jim-Jim the Singing Singer begat Captain Rubik; Captain Rubik begat Tic Toc and his brethren;
And Tic Toc begat Stubby; and Stubby begat Fucked Boy; and Fucked Boy begat Fudgee-O; and Fudgee-O begat St. Ray the husband of St.Babs of whom was born Von Hoopla, who is called Verluam.
So all generations from Camel Toe to One-Eye are five generations; and from One-Eye until Little Zeke are five generations; and from Little Zeke until Tic Toc are five generations; and from Tic Toc unto Von Hoopla are five generations.
Verily, I say this unto you, the bullshit doesn't fall very far from the horse's ass. Fnord.
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Meningitis is an infection of the meninges, the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It can be caused by a number of different viral and bacterial pathogens including Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) and Streptococcus pneumoniae. However, in the US, Neisseria meningitidis is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in infants and young children, as well as one of the most important causes in adults. There are 13 known serotypes of meningococcal disease, of which five (A, B, C, Y, and W-135) account for 90% of the global disease burden.
- Continued uptake of MenB vaccines and GlaxoSmithKline's pentavalent vaccine launch from 2021 will drive market growth.
- Cost-effectiveness concerns and scarcity of real-world effectiveness data are key resistors of uptake for MenB vaccines.
- Pipeline vaccines with broader serotype protection and novel approaches are positioned to replace marketed products.


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NEW YORK: The US Department of Energy and the US Treasury announced the availability of US$150 million tax credits for clean energy to further boost American jobs and clean energy production, as part of President Obama's 'all-of-the-above' American energy drive.
The Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits are designed for clean energy and energy efficiency manufacturing projects across America, of which will be individually assessed by the Department of Energy.
The Tax Credits were created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to drive investment in domestic, clean energy and energy efficiency, through a competitively-awarded 30% investment tax credit.
In the first round, $2.3 billion worth of credits was distributed to 183 projects across the US. The $150 million is the remainder of this initial amount.
The Government aims to bolster the nation's global competitiveness and generate new American jobs though the scheme.
Before stepping down from his post, Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary, said: "Since 2009, the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit program has supported innovative American manufacturers that boost our nation's competitiveness in the global race for clean energy. These new investments will continue that momentum, supporting the President's commitment to American-made energy, increasing energy security, and creating jobs."
Neal S. Wolin, Acting Secretary of the US Treasury, said: "As the economy continues to heal, the President has been clear that we have to do everything we can to boost growth and job creation today and build a more sustainable foundation for tomorrow. Manufacturing the clean energy products of the future in America will create good, middle-class jobs right now and help lay the groundwork for the long-term resilience of our economy."
Amy Davidsen, US Director, The Climate Group commented: "Advanced energy is the future, not only for the US, but for the world. Indeed, the global advanced energy market grew to US$1.1 trillion in 2011 - and US$132 billion in the US alone.
"Policies such as these help ensure that US manufacturers continue to play a central role in this future by encouraging American innovation and making sure we have the skills needed to compete in the emerging clean energy economy."
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Currently, DC Universe is only available for purchase and streaming in the domestic United States.
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- Why are my videos buffering? Why can't I watch in HD?
- How often are episodes of DC Universe original shows released?
- What resolution is DC Universe available in? Do you offer titles in 4K and UHD?
- What languages do you support?
- Will there be ads or commercials on DC Universe?
- Downloading videos to watch offline
- How many episodes can I have downloaded at once?
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It's A Drill!: The Sound That Has Music Labels Flocking To The Windy City
by Paul Meara (@PaulMearaDotCom) Features, MOBILE.
Introducing "drill" music, a revolutionary new way to get hype in an old familiar way. You may be thinking, "What's drill music?" And, while many are cognizant of the goings on with one of the biggest new music movements, major labels are not.
In a matter of months, numerous artists under the drill moniker have received major deals and many more are being targeted. Chief Keef recently signed a deal with Interscope, and his associates Lil Reece and Lil Durk have signed with Def Jam. King Louie, a more veteran driller, signed with Sony/Epic Records, and even those associated with associates have been receiving major attention.
But let's back up a minute. Again, what is drill music? The term "drill" first surfaced from late Chicago rapper, Pacman. He and his cousin Fatzmack were the first to associate the term with the music.
"The drill word started with Pacman, and basically it meant to retaliate on your enemy, so with the music, there were only a few people that rapped," says Fatzmack. "[Pacman] started the whole drill music because he was rapping about what was really going on in the 'hood, so everyone could vibe to what he was saying. We just took the drill term and put it with the music, and that's how we came up with drill music."
According to veteran Chicago Hip-Hop duo L.E.P. Bogus Boyz, the term "drill" is a slang term that can be used for anything from females getting dolled up to all out war in the streets.
"Instead of everyone saying they getting hype, they called it 'drill,'" Moonie explains.
After receiving over 12 million views on YouTube, Chief Keef's spring banger, "I Don't Like", is perhaps the most recognizable song that could be classified as "drill."https://www.google.com/sorry/index?continue=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcRXJ4piHg%26feature=youtu.be&q=EgQi3HnaGLSAg_kFIhkA8aeDS7euhwxSLWhgLNS02Pq_r4PPkk-AMgFy
Keef has helped Chicago's newest movement receive major web hype, and it doesn't stop there. Recently, Kanye West threw his support behind many young drillers, including Keef and Louie. His backing has only thrown gas on an already raging fire.
"I was kind of shocked. I had seen it coming but I was shocked that it happened so fast," says DJ Victoriouz, tour DJ for Chief Keef, King Louie, and others. "Everyone got they eyes on Chicago right now. Major artists, major labels; everybody is watching Chicago, and they want to be a part of it."
Unlike other Hip-Hop "movements" that start from the top-down, Chicago's drill scene began from streets and will always stay confined to the 'hood.
"It's a different beginning [but] it's not a difference though and how we grew up is going to be the same," says Lil Durk. "People change when they get a whole lot of fame but I ain't gonna change. I'm gonna stay connected with Chicago."https://www.google.com/sorry/index?continue=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MntLMkF1z2c%26feature=youtu.be&q=EgQi3HnaGLWAg_kFIhkA8aeDSwRktLyTzbQxk4lRX4RtLuAwfHggMgFy
Durk also says the Chi-Town's newest movement is not only a representation of the streets but also real life:
"I try to go for real music when making a record, stuff I've been through that other people can relate to, my day to day life, I've got a baby, it's stuff people can feel."
Males aren't the only ones taking advantage of the movement. Females like Sasha GoHard and Katie Got Bandz have also gotten into the action, and have received major hype for their part as well.
"Guys ain't the only ones that's doing it or could do it; we got it in us, too," says Sasha GoHard. "With us doing it like the guys doing it, it just shows other people that females got what it takes to be a rapper, too."https://www.google.com/sorry/index?continue=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKl1ueffYFw%26feature=youtu.be&q=EgQi3HnaGLSAg_kFIhkA8aeDS06kD0I-I_xcm1qmakH1F66PsbU9MgFy
Hip-Hop music in general has taken a shift away from anything containing a "gangsta" element. Drill music may at least provide those thirsting for a more hardcore bent some relief.
With Chicago's murder rate climbing to an all-time high, drillers are quick to say they are not a contributor to the violence but, instead, the reporters.
"We just took to the drill music just to really rap about it, not even to brag about the violence," says Fatzmack. "We just brought it up to open people's eyes to say this is what's really going on out here."
Regardless of how long drill music stays hot on the blogs or is felt by Hip-Hop fans across America, Windy City Hip-Hop has a new sound they can call their own.
"We've always said that Chicago has a lot of talent and it's not being showcased because we don't have the labels here," Count explains.
"Whatever happened to get the light shining on Chicago, to have Kanye reach back and put people on or whatever, I appreciate that, 'cause these guys are trying to feed they families like everyone else around the country. And it was sad that, for years, Chicago music fell on deaf ears."


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The Zonta Club of Warwick Inc was chartered as a Club of Zonta International in May 1997. This year we celebrate our 20th anniversary and have invited all present and past members to a dinner on 26 August at the Abbey of the Roses where our first meeting was held.
The club meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Club meetings are held at the Allman Room, Criterion Hotel, 95 Palmerin Street, Warwick at 6.15pm for a 6.30pm start with dinner during the meeting.
We currently have a membership of 23 which includes business and professional women from many backgrounds. We'd love to have more. For information contact our President Meryl Strand by email to be invited to our meeting.
You can also find us on facebook. Search for Zonta Club of Warwick Inc and read what we have been up to.
To find out more about the activities of Zonta Clubs throughout our District Click here
Club Activities
The Zonta Club of Warwick is involved in a number of activities which includes, but isn't limited to:
- Breast Care Cushions
The club has donated hundreds of breast care cushions in recent years to private and public hospitals in both Brisbane and Toowoomba. The cushions are donated to women who have had breast surgery with our best wishes. We continue to receive acknowledgements (and sometimes donations) which indicates the appreciation by these women at a time when they are having an intense health crisis.
The project is undertaken in conjunction with the Department of Corrective Services and the women from the Numinbah Correctional Centre who assemble these breast care cushions for us. We appreciate their support for this very worthwhile Zonta project.
- Birthing Kit Assembly
The Zonta Club of Warwick fundraises for and assembles Birthing Kits each year. The contents of each kit costs the club $3 and we aim to assemble at least 1000 at an assembly day in May each year with help from women and girls (and sometimes men and boys) from schools and community organizations in our area. The small cost of $3 may mean the difference between life and death for both mother and baby.
Our kits are sent to the Birthing Kit Foundation which distributes them to areas of need throughout the world each year. More information about the Birthing Kit Foundation can be found at https://www.bkfa.org.au/.
- Young Women's Scholarship
Each year the club invites applications for the Young Women's Scholarship from girls making the transition from Year 10 into Year 11 at a Warwick District School. The aim of the scholarship is to provide financial assistance to a girl who may be considering leaving school due to financial pressures. The scholarship is administered by the student's school and is currently valued at $750. It is presented to the selected student at her Speech Night/Day.
Applications for 2017 are now open. Please complete and email your application in accordance with instructions on the form. To receive a copy of the information sheet and application, just email us and one will be sent to you.
Applications close at 11.59pm on Friday 6 October.
- Additional Donations
The Zonta Club of Warwick fundraises for, and donates to, a number of other organizations including Warwick Safe Haven and Days for Girls Allora (https://www.daysforgirls.org/).
The Club also presents an annual Young Women in Public Affairs (YWPA) Award at the Club's International Women's Day breakfast on 8 March and also provides funds allowing girls to attend such educational courses as STEM (A curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and STEAM (Arts is added to the STEM mix of subjects).


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Camp 5th Ind Cav==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==+==
Louisville Ky Nov 26 /64
Dear Sisters
I Seat myself this eavning to write a few lines to you. I am well and hope these will find you the Same. we are in camp just out Side of the City of Lousville and we have the privalage of going to town every day and it is quite a pleasure to go for we can pass away the time to a good advantage for it is a large city and there is lots to See. there is any amount of Soldiers here and passing through going to the front. they are Sending the drafted men to the South very fast and all under guard. I was at the Theater night before last and heared a lady Sing a Song Called "how you Conscripts". I think it was the best Song I ever heard. if I can get the balled I will Send it to you.
now if it was not quite So cold we would have a nice time here but the boys have got their tents fixed up So it is quite comfortable but we expect About the time we get riged So we can live we will be ordered to leave if it is not more than to move Camp if we dont it wont be our luck. the weather has been very cold here for a few days but it is Some warmer now. we have all Sorts of Sport here. while I am writing this I can here Singing Swearing hollering and yeling and all Sorts of Music. I have been very busy Since I got back making Muster Rolls but I have got done now and expect to have a little rest.
Lovinia when I got back to camp I found your letter and it was a good one and I hope to get many more like it from you and Lizzie but I dont Suppose that I Shall ever get any more from Lydia. there is one thing Sure I Shall never write to her untill She writes to me. if we Should live to be a thousand years old for I believe She has as much time to write as I do. I dont think it is right in Lydia but if She thinks it is "All right" but if Kate and you girls will write often I can get along firstrate and I know you will.
well there is lots of war news and that that is good Old Billy Sherman is running loose in Ga and as he pleases. he has captured the Capital of Ga and the most of the Ga State and he will give them all the Southern rights they want. how are the Copperheads. what is Makerel worth up there. they must be cheep for we have them ishued to us most every day. how are you Little Mack!! well Old Abe is President and the war will go on untill the last armed traitor is killed if they dont lay down there arms. the word here is onward and forward.
well we had a Thanksgiving dinner and it was good. we had roast turkey and chickling cake an pig Sausage and ham and Apples and lots of other good things thanks to the good people of Lousville & Jeffersonville. girls tell Kate I have not had a letter from her since I have been back and I begin to want one and must have it or a must. well I begin to get Sleepy and will Bring this to a close now. be sure and write often give the Copperhead girls hell every chance you have and I will back you. My respets to all keeping a Share to your Selves.
Your Brother
to Liz & Lovina
and Kate all the rest
I send you two pictures they are of our Ordely Sargent as he appeared when he got to our lines after the Rebs captured him in Ga. keep them for I think lots of them.
address Co M 5th Ind. Cav Lousville Ky
if you get your Photographs taken Send me one
Fred Richmond and Katherine (Kate) Berlin were married about 1854 and three years later settled near Locke in Elkhart county, Indiana. Fred served as a blacksmith with the 5th Cavalry during the Civil War. Four of his brothers, as well as his father, also served during the war ...three of them returned, his father and two brothers did not.
There was obviously something amiss between Fred and Lydia!
See The Berlin Family :: List of The Letters for a complete listing of all of the family letters.


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I would now like to speak especially to the young people who are about to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. Today's Gospel has special meaning for you, for it says that "Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, "Peace be with you," and showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord, and he said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so I am sending you." After saying this he breathed on them and said: "Receive the Holy Spirit" (Jn. 20,20-22).
Christ's gift of the Holy Spirit is going to be poured out upon you in a particular way. You will hear the words of the Church spoken over you, calling upon the Holy Spirit to confirm your faith, to seal you in his love, to strengthen you for his service. You will then take your place among fellow-Christians throughout the world, full citizens now of the People of God. You will witness to the truth of the Gospel in the name of Jesus Christ. You will live your lives in such a way as to make holy all human life. Together with all the confirmed, you will become living stones in the cathedral of peace. Indeed you will be called by God to be instruments of his peace.
Today you must understand that you are not alone. We are one body, one people, one Church of Christ. The sponsor who stands at your side represents for you the whole community. Together, with a great crowd of witnesses drawn from all peoples and every age, you represent Christ. You are young people who have received a mission from Christ, for he says to you today: "As the Father sent me, so I am sending you."
"Jesus breathed on them and said:
'Receive the Holy Spirit.
For those whose sins you forgive,
they are forgiven;
for those whose sins you retain,
they are retained"
(Jn. 20,23).
On the first Pentecost our Savior gave the Apostles the power to forgive sins when he poured into their hearts the gift of the Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit comes to you today in the Sacrament of Confirmation, to involve you more completely in the Church's fight against sin and in her mission of fostering holiness. He comes to dwell more fully in your hearts and to strengthen you for the struggle with evil. My dear young people, the world of today needs you, for it needs men and women who are filled with the Holy Spirit. It needs your courage and hopefulness, your faith and your perseverance. The world of tomorrow will be built by you.
Today you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit so that you may work with deep faith and with abiding charity, so that you may help to bring to the world the fruits of reconciliation and peace. Strengthened by the Holy Spirit and his manifold gifts, commit yourselves wholeheartedly to the Church's struggle against sin. Strive to be unselfish; try not to be obsessed with material things. Be active members of the People of God; be reconciled with each other and devoted to the work of justice, which will bring peace on earth.
"How many are your works, O Lord!"
(Ps. 104,24).
These words of the responsorial psalm evoke gratitude from our hearts and a hymn of praise from our lips. Indeed how many are the works of the Lord, how great are the effects of the Holy Spirit's action in Confirmation! When this sacrament is conferred, the words of the psalm are fulfilled among us: "You send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the earth" (v. 30).
On the first day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles and upon Mary and filled them with his power. Today we remember that moment and we open ourselves again to the gift of that same Holy Spirit. In that Spirit we are baptized. In that Spirit we are confirmed. In that Spirit we are called to share in the mission of Christ. In that Spirit we shall indeed become the People of Pentecost, the apostles of our time. "Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love." Amen.
Confirmation (or Chrismation) is the sacrament of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit whom Christ Jesus sent (John 7:37-39, 16:7). Jesus instructed his Apostles that they "will receive the power of the Holy Spirit" and called upon the Apostles to be his "witnesses to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8). At the Pentecost, the Apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-4), and began to spread the Word of God. The Acts of the Apostles is often called the Gospel of the Holy Spirit. St. Cyril of Jerusalem wrote of the Mysteries of Baptism, Eucharist, and Chrism in the mid-fourth century AD.
The rite of Confirmation is anointing the forehead with chrism, together with the laying on of the hands and the words, "Be sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit." The recipient receives the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2-3). On occasion one may receive one or more of the charismatic gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:7-11).
The ecclesial effect and sacramental grace of the sacrament give the recipient the strength and character to witness for Jesus Christ. The East continues the tradition of the early Christian Church by administering the sacrament with Baptism. Confirmation in the West is administered by the Bishop to children from age 7 to 18, but generally to adolescents, for example, to a graduating class of grade school children. Key Scriptural sources for Confirmation are the following (See also Acts 1:4-5, 2:1-4, 2:38, 10:44-48):
"Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away,
for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you;
but if I go, I will send him to you.
Gospel of John 16:7
"Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God,
they sent to them Peter and John,
who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit;
for it had not yet fallen on any of them,
but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit."
Acts of the Apostles 8:14-17


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FPGAs have a number of applications in various industries, including medical imaging, high-performance computing, and more. There is a lot that you can do with FPGAs, but to make them work well you will need to make sure that they are getting enough power.
FPGAs- Highly Flexible and Very Affordable
There are, however, some challenges when it comes to power supplies. Usually, in the scenarios where FPGAs are needed, there will be issues of cost, efficiency, and size – and power supplies tend to either be expensive, bulky or to produce a lot of heat. Modern FPGAs have a lot of inputs and outputs, and the power demands can be quite erratic depending on what the device is doing.
High-power requiring FPGA applications are typically built using cards thar are powered by a 48V backplane. Thes cards need a power supply with a step-down converter that will change the 48V to 12V or 5V. The cards will usually be isolated from each other to protect them, so that there is no chance of them interfering with each other, or of current loops occurring. Oftn, there is a second stage that converts the intermediate voltage to lower DC voltage, by using some non-isolated, Point of Load regulators. When FPGAs are used in automotive, industrial or computing scenarios then they may get their power from a 12V or a 2$ supply that is non isolated.
POL – High Performance Devices
POL regulators are high-performance devices that will use V-out rails that are located close to their loads, solving the problem of high transient current demand and ensuring low noise. If you are considering POLs, then there are some application-level parameters to consider, including size, cost and efficiency.
The priority that should be assigned to each one of those parameters would depend on the end market. Are you considering industrial or medical markets, where you would prefer to have something smaller and aren't worried about the cost? Or, are you concerned about wireless applications, and want something affordable but where bulk doesn't matter? If you're making a consumer device, then you would want to have something quite balanced – because consumers don't want to spend a lot, but don't want something too bulky either, and will want the application to perform decently well.
In terms of pwoer supplies, LDOs (Low-Dropout Linear Regulators) are popular because they are easy to implement, but do not produce much noise. Switch-Mode Power Supplies are another popular option – being more than 90 percent efficient, but being a little bit harder to implement. SMPS devices tend to radiate a little more noise, but are good for applications where the power requirements are lower. It is important that you look at the voltage rails, and the current requirements of each of them. In many applications, you can get away with using a single power supply, and then using passive filters to supply the rails that are using the same voltage. Sometimes, a power supply may need to handle a load of over 20A. Get to know more at http://www.directics.com/xilinix-fpga/


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Teaching Digital Citizenship
Erin Dye
July 27, 2014
From a young age, students are taught what a good citizen looks like: obeying laws, helping others, staying informed. Unfortunately, many students (and adults!) think the Internet is a place to let that good citizenship fall apart. You only need to look at the rise of cyberbullying to see this phenomenon first-hand. It's important for teachers to teach students to be good citizens wherever they go, be it in the physical or digital world.
Consider sharing these guidelines and thoughts about good digital citizenship with your students this coming school year:
Staying Safe
Never use your full name or give away any personal details online.
Speak to an adult if any interaction online seems strange or makes you uncomfortable. Remember that it's easy for someone to use a fake name or pose as someone else online.
Interacting with Others
Be respectful in online discussions. Allow others the chance to speak and reply to your ideas. Respond thoughtfully to diverse opinions.
Practice the 5-minute rule. If anything online makes you upset or angry, wait 5 minutes after typing a response before hitting send. Take that time to really think if that response is respectful.
Before sending a message online or through a text message, ask yourself if you would say that message to a person's face. If not, think about why you wouldn't. Maybe the message shouldn't be sent.
Use Standard English and grammar in all interactions online.
Presenting Yourself
Credit the source of all information, photos, and videos you use if you did not create them yourself. Using someone else's work without giving credit is plagiarism and a form of stealing.
Understand that nothing on the Internet ever really disappears. Your digital footprint will follow you to college, the workplace, and beyond. Be aware of the image you create.
Would love to hear what other suggestions you have to promote digital citizenship — please share in the comments below!


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This new finding furthers ECMs new equation identifying a connection between our galaxy Milky Way, channeling charged particles in a narrow bands which would have a significant effect on our Sun, all planets in our solar system, and all that lives on them.
Increase Charged Particles -->Decreased Magnetic Field -->Increase Outer Core Convection -->Increase of Mantle Plumes -->Increase in Earthquake & Volcanoes -->Cools Mantle and Outer Core -->Return of Outer Core Convection (Mitch Battros - July 2012)
Once again, a feeling of accomplishment and free-floating-anxiety simultaneously engulf all my senses. Not necessarily a pleasant feeling - sometimes reflecting intense mood-swings. Why? Probably because of venturing into the unknown - or is it 'the known' - or maybe it's both at the same time.Personal note: Remember, prophecy or prediction does not produce a regimented fate. In fact, the purpose of prophecy is to alter the outcome by empowering us with knowledge. But there is a catch. We have to make will thought-out choices and changes using our gift of discernment and for some of us, our 'learned' skill of critical thinking.
Advancing black holes produce intense radiation and powerful relativistic jets, which are affected by the black-hole's spin magnitude and direction. While thin disks might align with the black-hole spin axis via the Bardeen-Petterson effect, this does not apply to jet systems with thick disks.
A newly published study describes how astrophysicists used simulations, which follow both the rules of general relativity and the laws of magnetism, to demonstrate that gravity isn't the sole arbiter of a spinning black hole's behavior.
Dr. Jonathan McKinney, professor of physics at the University of Maryland describes his team's findings: "We used fully three-dimensional general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to study accreting black-holes with various black-hole spin vectors and disk thicknesses with magnetic flux reaching saturation. Our simulations reveal a "magneto-spin alignment" mechanism that causes magnetized disks and jets to align with the black-hole spin near black-holes and further away to reorient with the outer disk."
This mechanism has implications for the evolving of black-holes such as the one in our galaxy Milky Way and our neighbors Andromeda, SgrA* and M87.
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HOMES on Tyneside have been searched by counter-terrorism police probing the attempted murder of an Indian general in London.
Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar was attacked as he walked with his wife on Old Quebec Street near Marble Arch on Sunday night.
Detectives say they are keeping an open mind about the motives behind the attack, during which his neck was slashed.
But in 1984 Mr Brar was involved in a military operation against Sikh militants in the Indian city of Armritsar, which left around 1,000 people dead. Links between this and the attempt on his life are now being probed.
Yesterday the Met Police confirmed that the probe had moved from the capital.
And in a dramatic twist it was confirmed homes in South Shields were among those being searched.
A spokesman said: "A number of search warrants have also been executed in connection with this investigation. The searches are being carried out at a residential address in South Shields, a residential address in Birmingham and two residential addresses in London."
So far 15 people have been arrested, for offences including conspiracy to murder, by police working on the investigation. They have been questioned in London.
But the Met would not confirm whether any of the suspects are from Tyneside or where exactly the South Shields searches were taking place.
At around 10:40pm on Sunday police received reports that a man had been assaulted in Old Quebec Street, near the junction with Oxford Street.
The victim, an Indian national who is visiting London, was with his wife when they were approached by four men.
He was assaulted with what is believed to be a knife or sharp implement and suffered a wound on his neck. His wife was not injured in the attack.
The four men are described as being of Asian appearance, and were wearing dark clothing and long black jackets.
They all had long beards. They all fled in the direction of Oxford Street.
Mr Brar, who is 78 years old was taken to hospital by ambulance but was discharged after treatment.