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At the start of 2018, five Amateurs met and discussed how to revitalise the hobby. The Radio Amateur Society of Australia was formed. A plan was crafted, a constitution prepared and funds expended. RASA became a functional, registered, not-for-profit national body.
So far, over 600 Australian Amateurs have joined us.
This article is an update on what we have achieved so far, what we are working on and what we hope to achieve in the future.
- aren't forcing anyone to do anything they do not wish to. Should those who join RASA also choose to be in any other group or organisation, it is their own choice. If you prefer not to be a member of any organisation, it is also fine. We will further the interests of all Amateurs through consultation and consensus.
- RASA is a model of the Internet era. All of its communications are via email, website posting and social media. Its Management Team, spread over four different states, meet each fortnight via teleconference. Time limits on tenure for its leaders are built into its constitution to ensure that the introduction of fresh people and ideas are an ongoing part of its culture.
- It keeps its costs low. There is no physical headquarters (It doesn't need one). RASA prepares its documents on commercial cloud sharing software. Any subscription received from members is intended to match the cost of administration, quality bookkeeping and fiscal responsibility. Accordingly, from 2019 the annual membership fee has been set to just $8 per member.
- RASA keeps its members informed. We produce a Bulletin every month and make frequent social media postings. We are particularly keen to hear from clubs. If you have an event you would like to promote, please drop us an email.
- RF spectrum space is set by the ITU and ACMA. What happens between the edges of the bands is a convention established by all Australian Amateurs. Technology is ever changing and there is competition between different modes in the same frequency space: the band plans need to be constantly revised to take this into account. We have conducted a wide consultative process to produce revised band plans for 160, 80 and 40m.
- One of the big issues for all operators is the process of dealing with interference. This may be equipment that interferes with us, or what we may potentially do to others when we transmit. It is a procedural minefield of knowing how to identify sources and navigate successful outcomes. We have launched an interference management Knowledge Base that all Amateurs may draw upon to help resolve their interference problems. A uniform approach to interference management is important, as the ACMA and power companies are reluctant to react to complaints unless critical details are provided in just the right way. This new initiative will benefit all Amateur Radio operators. Check out https://qrm.guru
- RASA regularly consults with the ACMA on a range of topics. When we do this, it is the result of surveys and recommendations from the widest possible audience and not just a best guess by a small number of individuals. Our regulatory body will react to the needs of Amateurs around the country, but they also want to see the evidence of fair consultation before submissions are given any weight. Part of the RASA charter is to provide that proof, but we need your help. When we do ask for feedback on a topic, your opinions matter and help set the agenda.
- In 2019 we visited 15 clubs across VK2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 including 4 hamfests and conferences
- In 2020 we released a free "Welcome to AR" guide https://vkradioamateurs.org/welcome-to-ar-guidebook-for-newcomers/
- In 2020 we provide free email support for QRM.
- QRM Guru has collaborative input from over 25 hams, 11 QRM Guru videos and over 60 pages of information
- In June 2020, we launched QTC, a new bi-monthly E-magazine.
RASA is working hard to represent the interests of all Amateurs, both members and non-members, but your membership is an important part of giving greater weight to our voice
If you have already joined RASA we thank you for your support. Membership is $8 per year. If you would like to make a donation at any time, this too would be appreciated.
As Amateur Radio Operators, being heard from a distance is what we do, so naturally we constantly strive to improve our antennas and equipment. Please remember that being heard by the regulatory authority which governs us is critical to the hobby.
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Everyone's ideal foreplay is a little different; sometimes a lot different. For 19th century Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, it involved whips and a pair of dirty, dirty boots, at least if his sole major work, the 1870 novella "Venus in Furs," is any indication.
Sacher-Masoch inadvertently gave the world the term masochism (thanks, Leo!), but there's apparently something the matter with male sexual surrender. The concept is hardly settled in playwright David Ives' new imagining of Sacher-Masoch's novella, and Roman Polanski contributes to his fun-for-a-while French-language adaptation a sense of romp and farce and unease to the procession of power exchanges that make up the film's plot.
Also read: Roman Polanski Book Tiptoes Around 'Chinatown' Director's Notorious Past
Much of that unsteadiness is by design. "Venus in Fur" challenges the simple fantasy of the female sexual tyrant by making the tussle for dominance much more fluid, and hence more exciting. Mathieu Amalric plays Thomas, the scornful writer-director of a new stage adaptation of Sacher-Masoch's "Venus." He's searching for a "real" woman, unlike the dozens of ingénues who sound like "ten-year-olds on helium." So when a rain-drenched, cheaply dressed, frazzled-looking mess arrives hours late for her audition and begs for a chance to prove herself, he's less than impressed, even if she shares a name with the character she hopes to play.
Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner, Polanski's wife) exudes sexual confidence, though, and as soon as she gets in costume, Thomas is trapped by his own wants. The two begin acting out the (fictional) adaptation of Sacher-Masoch's work, in which a Victorian nobleman becomes the sexual servant of a middle-class widow.
The aristocrat's true desires were revealed to him in a childhood episode in which his fur-clad aunt and her two friends flogged him for their own amusement. Vanda quickly figures out that Thomas has a much deeper affinity for his play than he'd like to let on, and she's quick with her own (not entirely wrong) interpretation of the source material: it's about child abuse.
Though the film never leaves the building, and we never encounter another character other than these two, the narrowing of the scope to just the relationship between actress and director doesn't feel claustrophobic, but instead deliciously tight. Vanda exploits her audience of one to seduce Thomas, both to make him feel smart and irresistible and to expose his inner self and to hector him about how misogynistic his play is.
Vanda towers over Thomas and boasts sharper, more perilous cheekbones than the cliffs of Dover, while his best asset is a frumpy version of the haircut that made Justin Bieber a YouTube sensation. While he admiringly stands in a puddle of his own drool, she assumes his responsibilities, directing the lights, the sound effects, the stage directions, even rewriting the script. Despite the fiancée who's waiting for him at home and the fact that he's such a control freak he uses Wagner as his ringtone, Thomas becomes hopelessly, brainlessly smitten.
Also read: Sundance Selects Picks Up Actor/Director Mathieu Amalric's 'The Blue Room'
Vanda is careful to let Thomas win a few rounds in their game of sexual tug-of-war, and so watching her toy with her sexual conquest offers a great deal of erotic thrill and sly exuberance. It's also fascinating to observe the constant swaps of power between them as man and woman, employer and potential employee, sexual objectifier and object, temptress and prey, manipulator and dupe, and, eventually, goddess and supplicant.
Were Ives' play simply a farce about the narcissism of men in charge, Polanski's film might be a light, sexy trifle. But "Venus in Fur" has grander ambitions than serving as extensive foreplay: something smarter, and yet less satisfying. The film ultimately lapses into some of the sexist dynamics it criticizes, and the disappointing denouement feels more like a literary exercise, a play of allusion and ambiguity, than an emotionally substantial resolution.
Also read: 'Jersey Boys' Reviews: Does the Musical Drama Fall Flat With Critics?
In too-obvious costuming, Vanda wears dominatrix-y lingerie and a dog collar. Even more obvious, though, is the divertingly cunning way she capriciously jerks Thomas around between his fantasies and reality. Each time he's convinced he'll worship Vanda now and forever, the actress deliberately says something gum-snappingly bimbo-ish to yank him out of his reveries and into irritation.
Polanski's guilty of leaning on this gag a few too many times, but Amalric's performance is understated enough that his increasingly frank displays of sexual frustration are a treat. And Seigner? She's the foul-mouthed, fair-minded goddess to whom we should all dedicate a long day of devotion.

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ResearchUnraveling the Mural's Mysteries
Through rock art documentation and research, Shumla is unraveling mysteries of the past and preserving irreplaceable legacies for future generations.
Shumla conducts research in one of the most archaeologically rich areas in the world — the Lower Pecos Canyonlands region of southwest Texas, west of Del Rio. One of the oldest, best-preserved records of human habitation on the North American continent can be found in this semi-arid environment. This record dates from the late Pleistocene (ca. 11,000 BP) through European contact.
The crown jewel of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands is the hundreds of complex multi-colored rock art murals dating as far back as 4,000 BP. The information held in these murals, in combination with the information gathered from the archaeological deposits, can give us an almost complete view of ancient hunter-gatherer lifeways and belief systems in the Archaic.
Shumla's team of archaeologists, interns, and volunteers conducts intensive documentation of the rock art murals of the Lower Pecos. Applying the internationally acclaimed Shumla Method of Rock Art Documentation, we are preserving the oldest "books" in North America.
Dr. David Whitley
Rock Art Researcher, Council of Directors of the ICOMOS International Rock Art Committee
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The Race to Preserve the Oldest "Books" in North America
The rock art of the Lower Pecos is one of the most incredible rock art traditions in the world. Like a book, each mural was authored and composed to communicate beliefs and ideas. The magnificent depictions of anthropomorphic (human-like) and zoomorphic (animal-like) figures still glow with the subtle ochre tints of the surrounding land, even after 4,000 years. No fewer than 320 rockshelters in the region are known to contain rock art and new sites are discovered yearly.
Unfortunately, the damming of the Rio Grande to create the Amistad Reservoir in 1969 flooded many mural sites and set the stage for widespread flooding and siltation that is threatening to destroy this ancient library of myths and beliefs that has existed for thousands of years.
We are in a race against time to preserve this library before it is gone. Though efforts have been made to preserve the art in place, nothing can reliably stop the destruction of the art by rushing water, animal activity, vandalism and environmental changes. We can, however, document these sites to such a degree that they can be studied forever and even recreated once lost.
Lenville Stelle
Chair, Rock Art Interest Group of the Society for American Archaeology
Shumla has been actively documenting rock art sites since our founding in 1998. Over the years, we have continually enhanced our methods, applying technologies and processes that greatly increase our speed and efficiency, as well as the depth and quality of the data we collect. In 2012, Shumla launched our Border Canyonlands Archaeological Project (BCAP), our flagship preservation and research project. Through this five-year effort we fully recorded some of the most complex and most endangered mural sites in the region. It has also been in the last five years that we've made the most important technological advances in our documentation method, setting the stage for our next phase in the fight to preserve the oldest "books" in North America. In response to the worsening flooding and in recognition of the hundreds of sites yet to be documented, Shumla has launched a new initiative in 2017 – The Alexandria Project.
The Panther Cave Pictograph 3D Modeling Project is a great example of the collaborative work Shumla conducts as part of our ongoing conservation and education efforts in the Lower Pecos River basin. Panther Cave, named after the giant panther at the far end of the site, contains Pecos River and Red Linear style pictographic imagery dating back approximately 4,000 years. The site, situated in Seminole Canyon State Park, is endangered by periodic flooding and is accessible only by boat. The 3D model was part of a documentation project with our partners to digitally preserve the site for future generations.


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Show Notes on Episode 4
In this episode we discuss a recent UC Davis study on the impact of early spaying/neutering of dogs and their joint health. Kyla is also sharing some personal observations of her dog's behavior related to her pregnancy. We also learn a fun breed fact about the Standard Poodle.
Spaying and Neutering (Ralf)
- Early Neutering Poses Health Risks for German Shepherd Dogs, Study Finds (UC Davis)
- Golden retriever study suggests neutering affects dog health (UC Davis)
- Neutering health effects more severe for golden retrievers than Labradors (UC Davis)
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Dogs and Human Pregnancy (Kyla)
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Last Monday, as part of our regular Girl Scout meeting, my co-leaders and I took our Daisies and Brownies across the street to the local fire station. Imagine our surprise when we found a female firefighter waiting to give us a tour of the station!
First, Karen showed us the clothes and equipment fire fighters wear. Each girl had a chance to try on the heavy clothes and helmets. Then we checked out the different trucks and talked about how each one is used. After thanking the firefighters, we walked back across the street with our fire fighting bags and colored our hearts out. We also talked again about calling 911 and what to do if there's a fire in our home.
As a Girl Scout leader, I love showing the girls ways they can be part of the community and be leaders in the community. When I was in Girl Scouts, we never visited a fire station or saw a female fire fighter. Maybe they were there, maybe they weren't. Even though it was the late 70's and early 80's, I didn't have the same role models Girl Scouts encounter today. Hopefully, in their lifetime, and maybe even in mine, we'll have a female president. In my lifetime, I've already seen three female secretaries of state including an African American woman, a female Supreme Court judge, female astronauts, and the first African American female senator.
Though I initially hesitated about becoming a Girl Scout leader, I am happy I accepted the challenge as I see each girl grow. I'm looking forward to our second year as a troop, and many more years to come!
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Sarah Illenberger loves to combine handicraft with humourous contents. It was at her graphic design studies at St. Martin's College where this love was born and raised, as she was taught to realise projects visually and conceptionally using all kinds of different techniques. For her playful approach handicraft was the perfect match.
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In the last two years, Linux has become a much better gaming platform than it has ever been. But it's still not even close to Windows… or so you might think. While it's true that Windows still has a better selection of games, there are plenty of "AAA" titles (the really big hits) that are already available under Linux.
Don't believe us? Let's take a look at the top 5 "AAA" titles under Linux.
Sid Meyer's Civilization V
Sid Meyer's Civilization V is a strategy game where you have to start with a very small civilization and make it grow. The game is won whenever you defeat all the other civilizations in military battles, or by being the first civilization to reach space. During this journey, you'll have to protect yourself from other civilizations by conducting diplomacy or waging war, as well as discover new technologies on your way to space exploration or rather deadly war weapons.
Once you have the game, don't forget to check out six awesome mods for Civilization V 6 Game-Changing Mods to Reinvigorate Civilization V For Free! You need something fresh and exciting to breathe new life into the game? These mods have you covered. Read More !
The game costs $39.99 from Steam.
Wargame: Red Dragon
Wargame: Red Dragon is a real-time strategy game from the Wargame series. In it, you have to fight with Cold War-era Eastern and Western militaries using a large range of units, including command tanks, planes, helicopters, warships, and amphibious units.
The game costs $49.99 from Steam.
Garry's Mod
Garry's Mod is, in simple terms, just one big physics sandbox. You can load objects into the game and interact with them, but that's just the very basics. With enough effort you can build together all sorts of things and then interact with your creations however you want. You can even create your own game with it, essentially, like in the video above.
The game costs $14.99 from Steam.
Rust is a new game in which the only aim is to survive. To do so, you'll need to overcome hunger, thirst, and cold. You'll also need to protect yourself from others or try to make alliances with them. The game is currently in alpha, but it's already a pretty popular choice among Linux users, so it's worth mentioning in this list.
The game costs $24.99 from Steam.
Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-op action horror first-person shooter set in a zombie apocalypse. You'll also have access to all sorts of gruesome weapons, including chainsaws, axes, and frying pans. There's even a new multiplayer mode so you get to play with your friends.
The game costs $24.99 from Steam.
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 is a continuation from the original Half-Life game released back in 1998. You are a research scientist who has to save the world from an alien infestation that you had released yourself a while back. With this release, however, "Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies."
The game costs $14.99 from Steam.
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 lets you wage battle against an opposing team in various modes of gameplay. Despite the cartoonish look of the game, it's a lot of fun that still offers the right amount of violence. It's easy to play multiplayer games in Team Fortress 2, and is still actively played by many despite the game's age. We reviewed Team Fortress 2 Team Fortress 2: The Free-to-Play Steam Game You Must Play Is Team Fortress 2 just a quick game to test graphics and performance, or is it a game worth playing repeatedly? Read More a while back and loved it.
The game is free from Steam.
Football Manager 2014
Football Manager 2014 is a game where you can manage your own football (or soccer, if you prefer) team and make all sorts of managerial decisions to get the best team, the most wins, and the most profit. While it hasn't historically been available for Linux, the latest release made its Linux debut.
The game costs $59.99 from Steam.
Other "AAA" Game Possibilities
While I have already listed eight different games, there's still one potential one I'd like to point out: Battlefield 4. Although the uber-popular game currently isn't available on Linux, and it hasn't been officially announced that it's headed to Linux, there are major signs pointing to the fact that it's possible. The director of Battlefield 4 has already said that he believes that Linux just needs one huge game to explode as a gaming platform, and it believes that Battlefield 4 could be that game. For now, rumors just say that DICE and AMD are working together to bring the Mantle API to Linux and that DICE is porting the Frostbite 3 engine. Once Mantle arrives, it would make things much easier for the DICE developers because then they won't have to write an OpenGL extension to their engine in addition to the DirectX and Mantle ones.
Linux Gaming Is Growing
With these eight games in hand, and the knowledge that more are on the way, it's pretty easy to see that Linux gaming is blooming. Anyone who's curious should take a closer look as Linux (or SteamOS, the specialized distribution from Valve Feel Like Living Dangerously? Then Try Out The New Valve Steam OS Valve has just released their Linux-based gaming operating system for anyone with a spare hard-drive, an NVIDIA graphics card, and nerves of pure steel. Step forward Linux commandos! Read More ) could very well be their next gaming platform.
What other great games on Linux do you think I should have included? Which titles would you like to see on Linux next? Let us know in the comments!
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What is One Squared?
One Squared is a marketing event hosted with the support from Leighton Interactive and sponsors.
It is not your typical business seminar or marketing event. The speakers, topics, and experience at One Squared have been strategically selected to feed your marketing mind with ideas to grow your expertise, grow your business, and grow yourself.


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We went to a fireworks display at the theme park Fantasy Island in Skegness, we got two free firework displays straight after the fireworks at Fantasy Island Butlins let there's off which was awesome, I Love Fireworks.
While we were at Fantasy Island we decided to take long exposure photographs of the rides.
I made a video of all the long exposure pictures we've done so far.
We had everything against us when we got to Fantasy Island the rides were closed for the fireworks, then they opened up again but to our surprise very few of the rides had lights on them, the roller coaster was in total darkness which was a bummer, my hubby got a bad back from standing around and then it started to rain.
Still got some nice shots though :)
We got a couple of shots that were OK to say it was our first time at taking long exposure pictures of at a theme park, I'll have to wait until next year to get some more shots of the fun fair rides, I might try Bottons Pleasure Beach next time :)


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Pamela Bogart teaches academic speaking and writing courses for graduate students, service-learning courses, and a speaking clinic designed for prospective and practicing graduate student instructors (GSIs). In addition, Pamela coordinates winter and summer GSI training programs for LSA sponsored by the ELI and CRLT, the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. Pamela's research focuses on use of technology to promote language learning, on critical pedagogy and teacher education. Before joining the university as a lecturer in 2000, Pamela was Executive Director of Washtenaw Literacy, an adult ESL and literacy nonprofit educational program. She serves on the Advisory Board of MITESOL.


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In a rare move, three major voices of Orthodox Judaism in America have expressed common cause with more liberal Jewish organizations on a hot-button issue in the United States: the separation of young children from their parents in the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement of border security.
The Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America signed onto a joint statement with at least 25 other organizations "to express our strong opposition to the recently expanded 'zero-tolerance' policy that includes separating children from their migrant parents when they cross the border."
Agudath Israel of America issued a separate statement critical of the government's actions, and the OU issued its own supplementary statement.
A few days earlier, the OU had come under fire from some quarters by honoring Attorney General Jeff Sesions at its annual Leadership Mission in Washington.
The joint statement, addressed to Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, said the child-separation policy "undermines the values of our nation and jeopardizes the safety and well-being of thousands of people.
"As Jews, we understand the plight of being an immigrant fleeing violence and oppression. We believe that the United States is a nation of immigrants and how we treat the stranger reflects on the moral values and ideals of this nation."
In its statement, Agudath Israel of America expressed "very deep concern and disappointment" over the separations, "a practice that has caused, and will continue to cause, profound suffering and pain to both parents and children."
"We implore that the policy be immediately rescinded, and that affected families be reunited," Agudah said.
OU President Moishe Bane said that "as an Orthodox Jewish organization whose values are anchored in those of the Torah and Jewish history, we are deeply concerned about any steps taken that affect families and the parent/child relationship. The family is viewed by the Torah as a sacred institution and fundamental building block of society.
"The Orthodox Union has consistently advocated for an array of public policies designed to strengthen and protect the family unit. Thus, we believe that immigration, asylum and border security policies must also be fashioned and implemented in a manner that takes all steps possible to keep parents and children united."
Bane justified hosting Sesions and presenting him with a plaque displaying the biblical verse, "Justice, justice shall you pursue."
"Sessions addressed the OU Leadership Mission to Washington on the important topic of religious liberty," Bane said. "We are very appreciative of Mr. Sessions' remarks on this topic, which are important to the welfare of our community."
Bane said that OU leadership met with Sessions privately and discussed the family separaton policy.
"Over the course of decades, OU leaders have met with political officials across the spectrum for the purpose of advancing our community's values and interests — and we will continue to do so. The Orthodox Union remains committed to effective advocacy work on behalf of our community."
In its statement, Agudah said:
"The problem of illegal immigration is a serious one, and we support reasonable efforts by the administration and legislature to effectively stem the flow of would-be immigrants who have not been accepted through the legal immigration system.
"But the United States, a shining beacon of freedom in the world, must always exhibit humanity and compassion in its laws and policies. Seeking to enforce our statutes does not relieve us of this moral obligation. The extreme anguish, fear and trauma born of separating undocumented immigrant family members, which is particularly harmful to children, deeply offend our highest values. It is wrong and unjustifiable.
"As Jews, we find this practice particularly loathsome. For millennia, Jews in the diaspora have suffered many forms of persecution, including — among the most tragic — the forced breakup of our families. It is a punishment that neither parents nor children should ever have to endure."
The right-wing Orthodox daily newspaper Hamodia editorialized on Tuesday against Trump's family-separation policy.
"Such a policy is a disgrace," the Brooklyn-based Hamodia said. "It's a national disgrace, and claiming it as a legal necessity until new legislation can be passed won't do."
It said "the United States can and should enforce the immigration laws, but current policy borders on fanaticism."
The joint statement to Sessions and Nielsen that was joined by the OU and RCA, said, in part:
"Taking children away from their families is unconscionable. Such practices inflict unnecessary trauma on parents and children … [It] is a cruel punishment for children and families simply seeking a better life and exacerbates existing challenges in our immigration system. …
"Our Jewish faith demands of us concern for the stranger in our midst. Our own people's history as 'strangers' reminds us of the many struggles faced by immigrants today and compels our commitment to an immigration system in this country that is compassionate and just. We urge you to immediately rescind the 'zero tolerance' policy and uphold the values of family unity and justice on which our nation was built."


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Department of PARKS & recreation
101 Field Point Road
Greenwich, CT 06836-2540
Phone 622-7830
July 6, 2009
For additional information contact:
Frank Gabriele, Recreation Supervisor
Press Release
The Department of Parks and Recreation announces Billy and the Showmen will be performing in the Dept. of Parks and Recreation Wednesday Night Concert Series. The Greenwich Police Silver Shield will sponsor this concert. It will take place at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park on Wednesday, July 15, 2009.
BILLY AND THE SHOWMEN, is a 10 piece R & B Band based out of Greenwich, have thrilled audiences for over 40 years performing throughout the Northeast Region and New York City. During the 70's and 80's they had "double-duty" as the back up band for THE CHIFFONS and most recently became the band behind BILLY VERA during his East Coast performance at "Alive at Five" in Stamford, CT and seen on VH-1 Music TV. If you like Motown and "Soul" music performed by a full rhythm section and driven by a horn section, catch BILLY AND THE SHOWMEN at their next performance, July 15th at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park at 7:30 PM.
Roger Sherman Baldwin Park is located on Arch Street by the Teen Center, and Island Beach Ferry Dock.
Some of the other upcoming Wednesday Night Concerts are: Steve D'Agostino, July 22, playing the best of Sinatra, and Martin, Gunsmoke, July 30, playing country music, and The Bearcats August 5, playing Jazz.
For more information please call the Recreation Office at 622-6478.
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July 6, 2009
For additional information contact:
Frank Gabriele, Recreation Supervisor
Press Release
The Department of Parks and Recreation announces that Steve D'Agostino will be performing at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park on Wednesday, July 22 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
Steve D'Agostino has been performing for more than 20 years the songs from The Great American Songbook with an emphasis on the era from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin and Tony Bennett. Steve began his musical training quite young. At the age of 8 he studied guitar and jazz guitar with Tony Perone and Sal Salvador. By the age of 14 Steve was playing guitar with the University of Bridgeport Big Band called Collage under the direction of Gary Riggerio.
Singing began at the age of 16 with his first band called Finesse back in the early 80's where Steve transitioned from playing guitar to vocalists. Steve's smooth phrasing on ballads and swinging style has taken him from coast to coast performing in Las Vegas at the Paris Casino Hotel to Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Ct.
Steve maintains the tradition of this music today adding his own flair without impersonating any of the great artists that came before him. Many say that he sounds like a cross between Sinatra and Darin.
Now is your chance to see this great performer in your own backyard in Greenwich.
Bring your family, a blanket, and a picnic dinner and enjoy a wonderful night of music under the stars.
Other Wednesday night performances are:
July 29 – Gunsmoke - Country
August 5 – Bearcats - Jazz
August 12 – In Harmony – 50's & 60's Do Wop
For more information please visit our website at www.greenwichct.org, or call 622-7830.
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We walk a path every day, for life is nothing but a journey.
I am forever seeing life lessons in nature. I truly believe this is God given, so that I can constantly be aware of His presence. So it is only fitting that He would speak to me about where I had been and where I am at now on my drive home.
It was the spider webs that caught my attention. There were hundreds of them, hanging like old lace between the power lines. Shuddering was inevitable….I despise spiders. Some of them I think are beautiful to look at
the thought of something being able to physically be on me without me knowing it gives me the heebie-geebies!
Those webs had been there all night. I had driven home and never seen them. It took a heavy fog and the warming sun to reveal them. It was then He spoke.
My life walk has been a rough one as of late. Being true to my word, I will be honest in this blog. Being called out of the boat to walk on water was amazing. . . not being able to see God at times, not so much. If I am completely honest, I will admit that I do not believe I took my eyes off of Him.
There was a fog that set in on my life that made clarity impossible.
This fog was thick, laden with doubt and regret. It carried the screaming voices of those who were still in the boat – deafening them to whispers that fell heavy on my soul. The clothing of my life became drenched in the constant droplets of defeat. Every part of me felt heavy; each step seemed nothing more than a shuffle.
Shuffling is still moving forward, I would tell my heart.
Then, the sun began to burn away the fog. I could feel it dissipating. I looked up (not that I sank, but my eyes were not focused upward!) and there was a peace that flooded the very core of my being. There is no other way to explain the contentment I felt than to help you imagine warm clothes fresh out of the dryer. One warm piece of clothing can warm your whole body. That was exactly what I felt.
Now that the sun is shining in, I am walking hand in hand with my Papa. He directs my thoughts to small things that are appearing in my life that needed – and still need – to be addressed. I couldn't see them before. They were hidden by night, invisible in the sunlight, but hanging all in the lines of my mind and heart.
Just like the webs hanging on the power lines…..
It is truth that words and actions of people – ourselves included – can sneak into our core. We may never notice the spinning that has happened. Maybe we never realized there was something crawling in (or on) our lines of life.
Sometimes, it takes a fog to settle and lift before we can see the sticky, intricate webs that catch hold of little things. Those little things that should have flown right through our thoughts, our dreams, our hopes…..they get stuck and reverberate in our soul, causing tremors of fear and doubt.
When the fog lifts, and we allow the sun to shine, it becomes clear…….It is time to clean.
I saw the fog as the most horrible part of my shuffle, but it was necessary so that my being can soar.
If you are walking (or shuffling!) through a fog that seems endless and drenching, I hope that this gives you hope. That truly, He will use all things for His glory – even the fog. Don't forget to look up, and remember that when it finally lifts,
He will be there for the cleanup. **Job 23:10 "But he knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold."


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Ava St. Claire, Founder / Principal Strategist of The MoonRose Agency, Inc.
Ava is an ultra talented founder working on a somewhat unconventional digital agency called The Moonrose Agency, complete with a psychic on staff. Situated in Chicago's south side, she is also super involved with getting kids involved with community projects and teaching valuable lessons.
In this episode we talk about the challenges she has faced being a minority tech leader and how she overcomes by making it a part of the company culture. We also talk about the programs she is working on, like a logo project to collect every logo of businesses in Chicago, and what she is offering for that project.


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It is said that a main appeal of "cryptocurrencies" like Bitcoin, and ethereum, is their ability to replace the need to "trust" intermediaries in transactions with a cryptographic, mathematic-based consensus that does away with the requirement that one trust a third party.
Major institutions in the post-industrial, information-age Western world are still considered to be trustworthy by customers and the general public. This is despite the huge data breaches sustained by customers of the credit bureau agency Equifax, the internet company Yahoo!, and even some government agencies.
The institutional advantage in selling "peace of mind" to consumers should have been eroded by these events, unless consumers and the general public have become resigned to the inevitability of data breaches and other malfeasance by bad actors, lumped into a catch-all category referred most often to as "hackers."
Nonetheless, the Western world's consumer markets still hold faith in large companies. This may explain some (but not all) of the skepticism about the overall value of digital protocols which are traded, on one exchange or another, and used as alternative, non-government-issued stores of value. The cryptographic nature of some of the protocols has given rise to the term "cryptocurrency."
This skepticism persists, despite and perhaps even because of the recent rise in most cryptocurrencies' trading prices. Bitcoin has risen from $3,000 to $16,000 in little more than three months, and from $1,000 just twelve months ago.
However, this skepticism may illustrate the huge difference between the post-industrial West and the "rest of the world," and hint at why cryptos are being valued the way they are.
Modern economies' naysayers say that Bitcoin and similar protocols should have no value because they are intangible and represent "nothing."
These theories mistakenly project Western experiences over the rest of the world. In the process, they reveal a thorough misunderstanding of the cultural, economic and government systems most prevalent in the rest of the world.
In most of the world, institutions are simply not trusted. The Western paradigm is flipped on its head; banks, governments and even churches are often overtly distrusted and assumed to be corrupt, untrustworthy or incompetent.
In those societies, an electronic form of value transmission is a needed, essential avenue to safeguard and transfer data. In the absence of trusted repositories for portable assets, or for intangible assets such as electronic data, access to cryptographically secure systems for ensuring an "original state" of data deposits, or a non-corruptible transaction ledger, may have a value of ... infinity.
In short, the value of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology foundation can only be appreciated by those who understand the value of a system of economic transfer which does not require its users to "trust" (or more accurately, to "hope" in the honesty of) institutions or other intermediaries whose past performance or behavior has often demonstrated their untrustworthiness.
Westerners from nations with relatively developed economic and legal systems most often do not have (or don't realize they haven't had) the experience of institutional betrayal from once-trusted institutions.
Until Westerners at large and the financial community in general realize they cannot trust the institutions in their societies to safeguard their assets, their data or their rights, they will not fully appreciate the value, potential and utility of blockchain technology. In the interim, those from non-Western cultures will have a big head-start in developing and implementing this groundbreaking technology.
Eric Dixon is a New York-based lawyer and strategic advisor who got involved in the cryptocurrency space in 2013. He has two blockchain technology inventions, was an influential commentator on the New York State "Bitlicense" upon its proposal and revision in 2014, drafted the first United States Congressional bill on blockchain technology regulation (111th Cong., H.R. 5777), and has met with state regulators on related industry issues. He advises several blockchain startups including Synapse Foundation's smart contract data "oracle" technology initiative called the Zap Project, and Blockchain Technologies Corporation.


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Alex Kurtzman, "The Mummy" (2017)
Somewhere in this hokey action blockbuster film is a story about flawed humans acting for purely selfish reasons and the consequences that result from the idiot decisions they make: destruction, loss of human life and ultimately the loss of their own immortal souls. The plot has more holes than Swiss cheese, not that you'd notice very much because the material is so paper-thin as to be transparent. Whatever character development exists is very superficial because the characters are secondary to the digital special effects, the action and violence, and the need to pack in as much of those as possible so viewers don't notice the film's other flaws. Tom Cruise is very miscast as adventurer Nick Morton – he's meant to be a dodgy thieving treasure hunter of dubious morality but ends up being another variation of action hero with a heart of gold – and his character generates no chemistry with archaeologist side-kick Jennifer Halsey (Annabelle Wallis). Really the only decent acting performances are those of Russell Crowe as the dualistic Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde head of mystery organisation Prodigium and of Sofia Boutella as the eponymous monster.
Five thousand years ago, evil scheming Ancient Egyptian princess Ahmanet, miffed at being displaced as heir to her father's throne after a half-brother is born, summons the help of Egyptian death god Set and with his special knife slaughters Dad, Step-Mum and Baby Brother. Her crime is so heinous and her union with Set so blasphemous that the high priests banish her to an underground prison deep down in … Mesopotamia of all places. (Could they not have buried her beneath the Valley of the Kings in the Sahara?) Centuries later, the special knife with the glowing red gemstone falls into the hands of Christian Crusaders who take it back to England where the gemstone is buried with one Crusader and the knife hidden in a statue in a cathedral. More centuries pass, the US invades Iraq and treasure hunters like Nick Morton and pal Vail (Jake Johnson) flood into the country seeking archaeological artefacts to sell on the black market. Under fire from terrorists, Morton calls for help, the US air force responds with a bomb drop and uncovers the tomb of Ahmanet. At the same time, the Crusader's tomb with the red gemstone is uncovered under London during excavations for a new underground train tunnel.
"Coincidence" builds on "coincidence" and Morton discovers, with the help of Halsey and Henry Jekyll, that he is possessed by Ahmanet who seeks him so they may enter into union and through that Ahmanet can sacrifice Morton to Set and give Set a human form. Evil would then be incarnate upon Earth and the future of humanity and life itself would be in danger. From here on in, the plot focuses on Morton's attempts to escape the influence of Ahmanet and at the same time save Halsey from the mummy's clutches and save himself from Jekyll and Prodigium's plans for his dissection. Ahmanet herself seeks out the knife of Set by manipulating Morton and various English folks whom she turns into zombies.
For a supposed horror film, the first in a "Dark Universe" series of films by Universal Studios resurrecting famous monsters of Hollywood legend, "The Mummy" has very little horror, and for an action thriller, "The Mummy" is as thrilling as paint drying on walls. There's not much fun to be had, even in scenes sending up Tom Cruise's past films in which he escapes car crashes and explosions with naught but a scratch on his handsome visage or in scenes featuring Vail as Morton's comic foil. One doesn't hold too much hope for what's next in the Dark Universe.


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Before long, a volunteer corps of thirty women (mostly wives of area physicians and dentists) had established what began as a six-month pilot project. On December 4, 1967, Mobile Meals delivered its first meals to just four clients. But as word of the program spread, demand rapidly increased. In its first three years in operation, Mobile Meals grew to over 500 volunteers and delivered 74,730 meals to 550 clients.
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Yo yo!!! It's Dom here from MTBUK!
Hows it going? Today's interclub was totally amazing! It was such a wicked experience I don't really have words to describe how it felt being in the ring but I will give it a shot!
First martin was on, he did so well. When i first began sparring, I did a few rounds with him and he was quite heavy handed, which was quite the eye opener for me! He did well in his round though! It was good that it was non-competative, that kind of put my mind at ease really. He was the first of us to go up out of the group of people that went with us from Northern Kings.
I was second to go up. I thought I had longer than I did but I had just got changed and finished wrapping my hands and then my name was called. they must have had a shuffle of the running sequence. Either way, I think it was a good thing because i didn't really have time to psych myself out. I was totally nervous, I had been up and down all night last night because I was thinking about it quite a lot. When I got in the ring it kind of felt natural. All of the nerves went away and the adrenaline kicked in! Everything else in the room disappeared and all I could think about it was what was in front of me.
I think I did pretty well to say it was my first experience in the ring. It started quite slow, the guy who I was sparring with was a little taller than me and had a really mean old teep! Using both his back leg and his front leg. I got a little video that my wife recorded but she was quite far away and didn't turn the phone on the side so it isn't fantastic quality. By the end of the rounds we were going quite heavily. It wasn't full 3 minute rounds, we did five 1 minute rounds which was just right for me and the level i am at currently.
I took a few heavy shots but I like to think I gave a few back. I managed to somewhat use my kicks to my advantage. I do have a lot to learn, that is a fact. Mainly on my defences!
The other lads did so well too! I was a proud team mate! I have got some videos that I am currently uploading to YouTube so I will put the link into my next blog when I manage to get them up because they are taking an absolute lifetime to do so!
The other lads utilised other skills needed in Muay Thai, some of the lads used the clinch a bit more whereas I was quite distant and used boxing and kicking. Andrew in particular was good in the clinch! That was good to watch. I guess a big part of getting in the ring is listening to your corner, it's hard when you are concentrating so much on what you are doing and what your opponent is doing.
I love it! There really isn't a feeling like it. Like I said, I will post the videos on here so you can see them all, let me know what you think of them :).
Finally I just want to let you know, the blog has had a lot of views and attention over the past 48 hours. I have doubled my views and subscribers. I have now made a YouTube channel to which I am uploading the videos, and the Twitter and Facebook I am using now too! Something crazy happened last night too! The Muay Thai equipment provider Sandee wrote to me on twitter and asked me if I might like to, one some point, like to write a guest blog post for them! WHAT!!! SANDEE, asking ME to write a post for them! I was totally Flabbergasted (love that word)!! Here is a link to their website, have a look at the stuff they can do for you, they stock all sorts of things you would need in your Muay Thai journey from gloves, shin pads, thai pads, bags, wraps you name it!! All very high quality products, all the items I use are made by Sandee.
Head on over to the pages, give them a like, follow, subscribing to. I will be updating each of the pages regularly with new content, trying to keep it fresh and stuff. I am in the process of creating a website so I have a decent place to share the blogs and let people share their thoughts and feelings with me too!
Thank you for all the support I've had so far! It means so much, again, if you ever have any questions, just give me a shout and I will reply as soon as I can!! Thank you again! Take care and I will be posting again very soon!
Peace! Dom – Muay Thai Blog UK


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The Burgtheater (en: (Imperial) Court Theatre), originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.
The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the Viennese population; its theatre company of more or less regular members has created a traditional style and speech typical of Burgtheater performances.
The theatre opened on 14 March 1741, the creation of the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa of Austria who wanted a theatre next to her palace. Her son, Emperor Joseph II, called it the "German National Theatre" in 1776. Three Mozart operas premiered there: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782), Le nozze di Figaro (1786) and Così fan tutte (1790). Beginning in 1794, the theatre was called the "K.K. Hoftheater nächst der Burg". Beethoven's 1st Symphony premiered there on 2 April 1800.


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I heard last night that PCC maybe (is?) moving to the doggie daycare site on Rainier where the Farmer's Market used to be. First I had heard of it. There were lots of rumors about PCC expanding with housing and other retail on its current site, and that never happened. Anyone know anything about whether this is fact or fiction?
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According to the developer of the Columbia Plaza property, PCC has signed a "letter of intent" as a major tenant of the new building. But development is unlikely to be complete before 1214. I was also told that the smaller Seward Park store would remain even after the new store opens. Whether this happens according to plan is anyone's guess.
Don't think it would be appropriate for the food to be so near the dogs for two reasons:
1) the dogs might eat the food,
2) dogs are too dirty to be around the food, even if they could be trained to leave it alone.
3) Cats are cleaner, but they're not to be trusted around the food either.
4) I think the space could be better used as a dealership for all-electric cars or a nail shop, with real nails like a real old fashioned hardware store instead of those plastic nails so popular with the young ladies. Just a thought…
Amen to the hardware prayer. Hard to tell through your joking, but I'll clarify anyway that we're talking about a future development. There's a new property owner, and the beginnings of a new plan for what they want to build on the site. It sounds like even more than a new plan — a welcome new approach to neighborhood input.
From the Columbia City Business Association's News Site
Columbia Plaza Development Plans Unveiled
March 8, 2012 : Posted in News
Seattle-based real estate development company Security Properties has briefed CCBA's Business Development Committee and the local review committee of the Landmarks Preservation Board on Security's proposed development for the Columbia Plaza site. The proposal is quite different from the previous plan put forward by HAL Real Estate. Security's project would take up substantially less of the site, with substantial setbacks from both Columbia Park on the west and from the Hasegawa Dentistry property on the north. Security proposes pedestrian-friendly drive aisles on both the west and north sides. The biggest news is that, in addition to about 200 apartments on the upper floors, Security plans to provide space for a full-service grocery and three smaller retail spaces, providing new retail frontage on all four sides of the development. PCC is in discussions with Security to be the grocer.
The proposal was favorably reviewed by the Business Development Committee, which concluded:
1. the proposal effectively expands the business district by providing three new block faces of needed retail space;
2. it provides the key missing business… a grocery store. This will be our first retail "anchor" in the business district that should increase overall revenues across the business district by 10 to 20 percent;
3. it provides ample parking for both shoppers and residents;
4. it enhances public safety by activating Columbia Park and providing many additional "eyes on the street";
5. it will make the South Edmunds pedestrian connector more pleasant, more interesting, and safer; and
6. the 200 apartments will provide an additional 300 or so new neighbors and customers for our Columbia City businesses.
That's huge news. Will the parking be underneath or will their be lots?
Good question! Let's try to shut this down if there is an issue about parking! Yeah, TOD.
Well I thought it was a valid question. I think we can assume the parking will all be underground. I'm understanding there's something like a perimeter driveway along the park and on the north side — I'd like to see drawings to understand that better.
According to the Master Use Permit signs, the proposal includes both underground and surface parking.
I am working with Security Properties on the Columbia Plaza site and would be happy to show all interested parties the site plan and get your comments. For right now I can answer the parking questions.
Just in brief, we do have underground parking planned for both the residential and the retail, but we also plan to re-institute the street grid here, in keeping with other alleys and back streets in Columbia City, and it will have some parking to serve the retail. It is focused on being very pedestrian and bike friendly, the woonerf concept.
Our current site plan shows us set back over 60 feet from the park, with some surface parking there facing what we hope will be a new PCC (about 20 spaces), and continuing around to the north with an extension of Angeline, and some more surface parking, again around 20 stalls. Lots of details remain to work out, including with the park itself, and with our neighbors to the north for shared access around the site, to Edmunds and to Rainier.
Essentially, though, we have turned all the open space on the site to the outside rather than toward an inner courtyard. We have second story set-backs on the property line behind the bank as well, facing Rainier, rather than 65' high blank walls like the preceding plan. We aren't sure of the precise size and shape yet. We presented three options at the last CCBA and are developing those further.
In addition to the grocery, with storefront facing South and West — along both Edmunds and the park side — we are planning on three smaller side-by-side retail locations facing East along Rainier Avenue, just south of Angeline, about 1,450 sq. feet each. The north side will also have some retail frontage, the leasing office, windows overlooking the grocery, the entrance to underground parking, etc.
We have received very favorable comments from the CCRC and the CCBA on the site planning ideas, but we of course have a long way to go to turn it all into a building and receive buy-in from the Landmarks Board, our adjoining neighbor, and the community.
Feel free to give me a call, maybe set up a coffee to look at the site plan. 206-547-1008 at work. Jeanne
Thanks Jeanne, that sounds really promising. You've mentioned some fundamental moves — responding to the street grid, considering the park, smaller storefronts along Rainier — they respond to many of the issues raised consistently during public discussions about the site.
For some visual background, here are some images of existing woonerfs.
I don't think we've linked to the recent Times article about this.
PCC grocery could be part of Columbia City project
Seattle developer Security Properties has proposed a six-story apartment and retail building on Rainier Avenue South that may be anchored by a PCC Natural Markets grocery.
Seattle developer Security Properties has proposed a six-story apartment and retail building in Columbia City that may be anchored by a PCC Natural Markets grocery.
PCC has signed a letter of intent to lease the 25,000-square-foot ground-floor space at Rainier Avenue South and South Edmunds Street, according to several sources.
Tom Monahan, PCC's marketing manager, wouldn't confirm that. "We have interest in that neighborhood," he said, "but no lease in hand."
I know that this may not be a popular idea, but I sure hope that PCC is not moving to this space. This neighborhood needs an affordable grocery store choice. PCC is great in many ways, but it is terribly expensive and cannot serve the needs of most of our population. Would be much happier to see a Red Apple, QFC or Trader Joe's. There goes the neighborhood!
Although it would be great (and a bit cheaper), Trader Joes has never expressed any interest in the South End …ever.
There is a Red Apple and a QFC and a Safeway less than 5-10min away. The Seward Park PCC is packed and way too small. Apparently, PCC has been looking to expand the Seward Park location for years. Rumor has it, that they have finally given up on those efforts due to failures to purchase the needed properties to make a bigger space possible.
I think this project is beyond "hoping for something besides PCC." All signs are pointing to it happening.
While I am happy that PCC is moving to Rainier and we will have an anchor supermarket on the edge of CC, I agree that it is way too expensive an option for my family. I am sure that they will do just fine, with or without my money.
I will stick to Costco and McPhersons.
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A friend of mine sent me a pic of a part of my conversation. In addition, he can also see what I type on my search tab.
Is this normal behaviour? How can I stop it?
A friend of mine sent me a pic of a part of my conversation. In addition, he can also see what I type on my search tab.
Is this normal behaviour? How can I stop it?
Well, if you and and your "friend" are on the same Wifi network, he could actually be sniffing packets on the network.
That being said, by sniffing packets he could see what you websites you are visiting, what are you typing on google.... and also could steal your facebook cookie and reinject it into his browser, and, in this case he is ..... connected to you facebook in the same time as you and he sees everything you do and could also speak for you.... just like it's his own account.
I'm pretty sure that''s the case here.
no they can't, check your facebook security..
A conversation can only be viewed by the parties involved. I think the friend who showed you the pic is not a part of it. So either he might know your account details/password. Or even more, he may have keylogged you.
no~maybe the other one sent the pics to your friend.
If he sent you a screenshot of a conversation you were not having with him then he has compromised your account. Change your password.
If he can still see what you are doing then as previously suggested maybe he has installed a keylogger on your machine but as a beginning change your password.
Compromised your account, but based on the tab search thing I'd say also the system in some way. I wonder if VNC is installed without his knowledge.
Aeron: check your system tray for any unfamiliar programs. If this friend has visited your home recently he may have installed software for spying.
If you don't want you friends to see your chat, I asume you have sent him a friends request or vica versa then use the private message to talk to your other friend.
nope others can't see your chats & neither search tab.
yes if u had marked as private and on ur wall
Your friends CAN see your conversations, even if you delete them from your account. As far as I know he shouldn't be able to view things you've typed on the search tab unless he's keylogged you.
The only way I know he can see your fb conversation is if he is part of this conversation, if it's a group conversation. Otherwise I can assume he has stolen your credentials and can log in your account and see your past conversation. In that case you should change your password and update your security setting.
No other people cannot see you chat as they dont know your passcode


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Veteran political strategist Donna Brazile is the former Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the author of The New York Times bestseller Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. She is also the author of the 2004 best-selling memoir Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics. She is a co-author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics.
Ms. Brazile has devoted her life to working for progressive change, responsible governance, and the advancement of all people in a society that is fair and equitable. Brazile first got involved in politics at the age of nine when she worked to elect a City Council candidate who had promised to build a playground in her neighborhood; the candidate won, the playground was built, and a lifelong passion for political progress was ignited. Brazile has worked on every major presidential campaign since 1976 and in 2000 Ms. Brazile became the first African American woman to serve as the manager of a major party presidential campaign, running the campaign of former Vice President Al Gore.
Ms. Brazile loves working with young people, encouraging them to vote, to run for office, and to work within the system to strengthen it. She has lectured at over 200 colleges and universities across the country on such topics as "Inspiring Civility in American Politics," "Race Relations in the Age of Obama," "Why Diversity Matters," and "Women in American Politics." In 2013, Ms. Brazile was appointed by President Obama to serve on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. She is also the proud recipient of more than ten honorary doctorate degrees from major colleges and universities, including her alma mater Louisiana State University. In October 2017, Ms. Brazile was the recipient of the W.E.B Du Bois Medal, Harvard's highest honor in African American studies. Brazile has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University since 2002 and spent the fall of 2017 serving as a Joan Shorenstein fellow in Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. O, The Oprah Magazine chose Ms. Brazile as one of its 20 "remarkable visionaries" for the magazine's first-ever O Power List. In addition, she was named among the 100 Most Powerful Women by Washingtonian magazine, Top 50 Women in America by Essence magazine, and received the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's highest award for political achievement. In 2016, Ms. Brazile was awarded Wonk of the Year from the Kennedy Political Union at American University.
Ms. Brazile has worked passionately on behalf of her beloved hometown of New Orleans. In the aftermath of the two catastrophic hurricanes that devastated the Gulf region, Ms. Brazile was appointed by former Governor Kathleen Blanco to serve on the Louisiana Recovery Board to work for the rebuilding of the state and to advocate for the Gulf recovery on the national stage. Ms. Brazile was also appointed by former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to serve on the Tricentennial Commission.
Ms. Brazile was formerly a contributor to ABC News, CNN, and a syndicated newspaper columnist for Universal U'Click. Most recently she's joined Fox News as a commentator to, as she wrote in her announcement, "Listen more, talk less. Be civil to one another. Find common ground." She moonlights as an actress and is especially honored to have made three cameo appearances on CBS's The Good Wife, and two cameo appearances on Netflix's series House of Cards. She most recently appeared on BET's Being Mary Jane. Ask her and she'll tell you that acting, after all, is the key to success in politics.
Ms. Brazile is the founder and director of Brazile & Associates LLC, a general consulting, grassroots advocacy, and training firm based in Washington, DC.


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Roche leads quartet of Panthers in double-figures
LYNDONVILLE, Vt. – Junior Brittany Roche (Londonderry, N.H.) scored a game-high 17 points, including four three-pointers, to lead Plymouth State University to a 62-48 win over Northern Vermont University-Lyndon in a non-conference women's basketball game at George W. Stannard Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon.
The Hornets played Plymouth State nearly even for three quarters, but PSU limited the hosts to just seven points in the final ten minutes to pull away for the win.
Plymouth State extended its best start to the season in nearly a decade, improving to 4-0, while Lyndon drops to 2-2.
The Basics:
Plymouth State 62, NVU-Lyndon 48
Plymouth State 4-0
NVU-Lyndon 2-2
How it Happened:
* Trailing 5-3 in the early going, the Panthers used a 12-1 run to take a 15-6 advantage midway through the opening quarter. Senior Debra Morrill (Concord, N.H.) kicked off the spurt with four points and classmate Jess Conant (Canton, Maine) added a pair of buckets in the stretch.
* Lyndon answered with five unanswered points, but the Panthers followed with a 6-0 run of their own and Conant's layup pushed the advantage to double-figures, 21-11, with 2:19 left in the frame.
* Lauren Young (Danville, Vt.) converted an old-fashioned three-point play to pull the hosts to within 23-17 as the first quarter expired.
* After the up-and-down first quarter, both offenses slowed down significantly in the second. The Hornets used a 9-0 run, highlighted by five points from Lea Crompton (Dunbarton, N.H.), to regain the lead, 26-23, with 3:33 left in the half. Conant put the Panthers back on top with a pair of free throws, but Lyndon answered at the other end.
* Senior Cassidy Emerson (Concord, N.H.) sank a jumper inside of two minutes remaining, and Roche drained a triple to give the Panthers a 32-28 halftime advantage.
* Conant's steal led to a layup for Roche as PSU extended to a 38-30 lead in the opening three minutes of the third quarter, but the Hornets responded and Crompton's jumper with 2:54 left in the quarter knotted the game at 38-apiece.
* PSU responded as Roche and Morrill both hit from beyond the arc to give PSU a lead it would not relinquish and the Panthers went into the fourth quarter with a 44-41 lead.
* Alissa Mitchell (Milton, N.H.) made a layup for the Hornets early in the quarter to pull within 44-43, but that was as close as they would get as the Plymouth State defense went into lockdown mode. The Panthers held Lyndon scoreless on its next ten possessions (0-8 FG, 2 turnovers) as the visitors pulled away. Emerson sank a pair of free throws as PSU went ahead 57-45 with less than two minutes to go.
* Victoria Carlson (East Haven, Conn.) finally broke the Hornets' scoreless drought with a three-pointer, ending a span of 6:32 without a bucket to make it 57-48, but it was too little, too late for the hosts.
Inside the Numbers:
* Roche's 17 points were a season-high. Conant added 16 points, six rebounds and four assists, while Emerson posted her second double-double of the year with 15 points and 11 boards.
* Morrill stuffed the stat sheet with 12 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and three steals.
* Carlson led the Hornets with 12 points, while Crompton added 11.
* The Panthers shot 46.0% from the field and 45.5% from distance and sank 111-of-14 free throws.
* PSU outrebounded Lyndon by a 38-29 margin and held a 12-3 advantage in fast break points.
* PSU held the Hornets to just 2-of-19 shooting and three turnovers in the decisive fourth quarter.
Straight from the Coach's Mouth:
"Our up-tempo play gave us a lead throughout the first quarter," said head coach Allison Flynn. "Our team defense really picked up in the fourth quarter. Brittany [Roche] had a couple of big three's and Cassidy [Emerson] hit some key jump shots for us."
Up Next:
* The Panthers visit Colby-Sawyer for a non-conference contest on Tuesday (Nov. 20) at 5:30 p.m.
* NVU-Lyndon opens North Atlantic Conference (NAC) play at home against Husson a week from Friday (Nov. 30) at 7:30 p.m.
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On 21 September 2017, on the margins of the 72nd UN General Assembly, the Global Solutions Exchange (GSX) marked its first year of activity by hosting #GSX2017 – Innovations in Civil Society and Other LocallyLed Efforts to Prevent Violent Extremism. The all-day event brought dozens of civil society practitioners— many at the helm of women's and youth organizations including members of the global networks such as the Women's Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL)—from around the globe together with representatives from national and local authorities and multilateral institutions, to highlight their unique contributions to reducing recruitment and radicalization into violence in their communities. More than 180 policymakers, practitioners, diplomats, and experts attended the event.
Participants underlined the innovative approaches that each sector brings to PVE and the necessity of ensuring diversity in the planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of national and local strategies. Despite their contributions, however, the representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) reminded the audience of the ways in which the legal and political space for CSOs is shrinking in certain contexts, often in the name of counterterrorism (CT), and stressed that governments and multilateral institutions must recognize and support independent civil society as a strong partner in PVE.
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Back in Indonesia, we used to eat this type of cookies that we call butter cookies. That was the extent of our knowledge of Danish food until we went to Solvang.
Sure, there are many places that sells only desserts. It is only to be expected and they are simply exceptional. I had the best butter cookies and tea biscuits in a place called Olsen's Danish Bakery. We had our first taste of æbleskiver, which are rounded Danish pancakes, in a place called Red Viking Restaurant. Another place specialized in Belgian waffles. You might want to ask: what is a Belgian waffle doing in a Danish village? Well, it turns out that Belgian waffles are not from Belgium, but from North America. Its presence in Solvang now makes more sense, doesn't it?
Desserts, however, is just the tip of the iceberg. While talking to some people at the hotel we were staying in, we came across a couple who recommended a place called Pea Soup Andersens Inn. As you have probably guessed, their specialty is split-pea soup. I never really liked peas but the soup is delicious. Beware, however, of the incredibly large portion! If you are traveling with other people, make sure to share your food.
Restaurants aside, there are many places that specializes in wine or chocolate. We are not old enough to go wine-tasting, but we visited a vineyard and had plenty of fun there.
All in all, Solvang provided a wonderful culinary experience. If you have a chance to go visit this city, don't hesitate!
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If you are a loved one of an LGBTQ+ survivor of sexual assault, it is important to remember that the survivor may be experiencing many different emotions. Following an assault, remind your loved one that you are there for them and are willing to support them. Everyone's healing journey is different, and we must support each individual unconditionally.
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If you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community, you may be nervous in seeking medical attention for a sexual assault. However, health care is often the first step to healing for many survivors. If you are interested in seeking medical attention, you deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. You may reference local hospitals and other medical resources here: https://cmsac.org/education-safety-reporting/
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We are so excited and honored to announce that we will be receiving a grant from Otto Bremer Trust (OBT) to build community relationships, develop education, and provide direct services tailored to LGBTQ+ and male victim/survivors of sexual abuse/assault. CMSAC is committed to providing services that honors all identities and sexual orientations within our diverse communities. We cannot wait to see what our next year brings us!
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Gender identity is defined as: one's internal sense of being masculine, feminine, neither of these, both, or another gender(s). Everyone has a gender identity. For transgender people, the sex assigned at birth and one's internal sense of gender identity are not the same. Female, woman, and girl and male, man, and boy are NOT necessarily linked to each other; but are just six common gender identities.
Gender expression/presentation is defined as: the physical manifestation of one's gender identity through clothing, hairstyle, voice, body shape, etc. Most transgender people seek to make their gender expression (how they look) match their gender identity (who they are), rather than their sex assigned at birth.
Sex assigned at birth is defined as: the assignment and classification of people as male, female, intersex, or another sex based on a combination of anatomy, hormones, and chromosomes. Chromosomes are frequently used to determine sex from prenatal karyotyping (although not as commonly used as genitalia). Chromosomes do not determine genitalia.
Sexually attracted to is also known as sexual orientation. It is important to note that sexual and romantic/emotional attraction can result from a variety of factors including (but not limited to) gender identity, gender expression/presentation, and sex assigned at birth.
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$ 795.00
ORIGIN: Italy
AGE: 19th century
DIMENSIONS: 24¾" w x 23½" d x 35½" h
MATERIALS: Poplar wood
CONDITION: Very good; rustic well-worn condition consistent with age and use
A simple and rustic 19th century prayer kneeler from a nun's bedroom in a convent in Florence. Constructed of poplar wood and having a storage space beneath the kneeling area, an upper drawer, and a storage area behind two doors. A nun would have kept all of her worldly possessions in this simple cabinet - still a few holy cards left inside the drawer. In Italy, these antique prayer kneeler cabinets are often used as bedside tables, and would also make an interesting console for a small entry or hallway.