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I have over time had hope of my family reuniting. If it's in God's will I believe that can be. I am faced with everyday trying to live without them. I do well because I give the Lord my focus. When I take my eyes off him, I do not do well at all. I find daily reading, praying and being out serving others is my only peace. He knows that too and I give him the Glory. Everything I have done cannot fix my relationship. First it was I could not be who I was before without my disorders (bipolar 1 and post traumatic stress). That is not going to change and really I can live with it. I stay out of situations now that will cause me great difficulties that I do not need. I have with prayer decided I don't need to be rejected by my husband and family over and over. I have since leaving Lebanon in 2010 become a born again Christian. It is nothing to do with me. It is for the Lord's Purpose. I will follow that purpose for the rest of my life. It is because through His Word and prayer he leads me and I know the Truth. I have been told by my husband now that the breakage of our relationship is due to my religion. He says I should return to the Orthodox Church. He can't believe just the few in my church are the only ones that will see Heaven. Throughout this blog he has read all kinds of verses maybe. I know for sure he read the following. He told me he would never read my blog again after that.
The one that stirred him so much was Matthew 16:24-28, as follows: Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels and then He will reward each according to his works. Assuredly I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom."
I choose My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ above all and that will never change. Amen! That He had mercy on me, because He has mercy on who He chooses.
"I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion". Romans 9:15
So what am I saying then? Take up your cross every day and follow the Lord Your God in every way until he returns. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, but My Father only. I pray you read the rest yourselves. Matthew 24:36-44
For as it is written: "As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to me, And every tongue shall confess to God." Romans 14:11
You will know he is the one an only God. Why not know now without seeing it at the end? No choice is still a choice for destruction by his wrath. Because he created in us a conscience that knows, a little Light to grow or to blow out forever.


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My experience of American politics was my best teacher on the subject of helping others to see my point of view. It mainly taught me what NOT to do if I wanted people to see my point of view or if I wanted to understand theirs. Here are a few things guaranteed not to work: Judging, ridiculing, condemning and chastising. As tempting as these things can be in certain situations, they are not the answer to help people understand your perspective. Resist the urge to do these things, and choose a fresh alternative.
Some people may be ignorant, but they're not dummies. As in, if you treat them as such your going to get a big fat, "f___ you." And then they'll likely do or say something to get right up your nose and saunter off, completely unmoved by any of your great points. Everyone loses.
You can also yell and rant and rave and wave your arms around and get support from those who think just like you—but how is that a win for anyone? We used to call that "preaching to the choir". It can be satisfying in a fleeting, temporary sort of way but it does nothing to create insight or change.
Singing to fellow Doves won't attract Hawks. Unless they intend to eat our young.
You cannot sell someone anything unless you can see through their eyes, and understand why and how they think the way they do. You have to approach someone with a curious mind and really talk to them to be able to do this. You have to learn their language, at least to some extent.
Example of singing to the doves:
"People who drink water from single use plastic bottles are stupid and selfish."
(You can hear the cooing of fellow doves.)
Hawks reply, "I will eat you for breakfast. It won't be pretty."
Doves sing, "People who don't shop at local shops and farmers' markets are selfish idiots."
And every dove in the vicinity sing, "Yeah, yeah, oh yeah."
And the hawks squawk, "F___ you, f___ you!"
And so it goes.
But let's imagine a different scenario:
Instead of hurling insults or making the Hawks feel as though their morals and ethics are lacking in some way, the Doves listen thoughtfully to some of the Hawks concerns. Then, they might say to Hawk: "The better local merchants do, the more money will stay in our local economy and the more jobs they'll supply locally. Maybe our kids will get jobs at their shop and learn a skill they can use later." Maybe Dove will even mention that there is lots of congestion on our highways and pollution caused by transporting goods from far away places. Then, Dove listens to Hawk's response.
"What's that? You don't care about the pollution of transporting goods from out of country?" Then, Dove refrains from saying something like, "Well, that's just stupid." Instead, since the dialogue is now open and no one is shouting, Dove could say, Well, ok, but that's giving the future of employment to other countries. Voting with our dollar/pound/euro shows the government where our priorities are, for ourselves, our country and for our children."
Hawk may be quiet or maybe at a slight loss for words and so offers a slightly less raucous, "F___ you." (But only one.)
Even if Dove doesn't convince Hawk at the onset, something important and wonderful has happened. Dove and Hawk are talking to each other, looking one another in the eye, and listening to what is being said. No one has lost face.
We must first show respect to others, even if they think very differently from the way we think. Other people tend to view Earth ambassadors and eco-friendly people as uptight, superior-minded, judgmental, think-you're-so-much-better-than-me, tree-huggers. I know this because I use to be one of those judgemental tree huggers. Back in ignorance. I am still a tree-hugger, but I am much less judgemental these days. I really am curious what makes people tick, what makes them do the things they do and think the way that they think.
I've awakened and am now working to make up for my ignorant ways—people deserve to be listened to and respected. Sometimes, people can be barking mad and nothing you do or say will make any difference. Just move on from those people. But many more people, if treated with respect and interest, will also respect you and become interested in what you have to say. You lead by example, not with a club.
No one is perfect; nope, not even me or you. We'll be better heard by not expecting it from others. I now "get" where 'they' come from and if I don't, I make an honest effort to get them. I have never once convinced anyone of anything by shaming them or making them feel small. My guess is none of us have.
Here's some suggestions for creating a win/win situation with someone you find yourself in conflict with:
First: Stop getting so irate. It's irritating. Even if the issue is a really big deal to you, remember that people shut down, fight or filter out if they feel challenged. Don't argue. Do not be angry. Ask questions. Provide 'alternate possibilities.'
Second: Offer supported, conflict-of-interest-free facts, facts, facts. Educate but don't shame, belittle, or emasculate.
Third: Find the 'what's in it for them.' We need to drop our own agenda (ego) to figure out what's important to them not for them.
Fourth: Celebrate every little, itty, bitty, teeny, weenie contribution. Not everyone will be ready to do an about-face and jump into your camp. But maybe they can move an inch towards your direction. But if they/we are rebuked for not being/doing good enough, we'll revert back to f___ you very much.
Reminder: F___ you is not a win-win.
If we want to change the world we've got to do more of what works and less of what gets people worked up.
If we are mindful of others, and treat them with respect, we'll be far more effective. Plus it just feels better, and that alone makes the world a better place.
What do you think? Please let me know by leaving a comment.


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The development of new therapies is both time-consuming and costly. More than 90% of drugs fail during development, and estimates suggest that in order for a prescription drug to gain market approval it can take more than 15 years and cost $2.6 billion. The same report concludes that another $312 million is needed in post approval development, studies that test new indications, formulation and dosage strengths.
One strategy to reduce the time frame, decrease costs and improve success rates is drug repurposing, where known drugs and compounds are applied to new indications. Repurposed drugs can bypass much of the early cost and time needed to bring a drug to market, and has become more important the last few years as many pharmaceutical companies see their pipelines drying up.
The American startup Intellimedix is determined to accelerate the discovery and development of new treatments for diseases, and has developed a systematic approach for finding new uses for existing drugs. They work closely with business, academia, non-profits and patient groups to identify needs and solutions that can be delivered quickly.
The process begins with getting a full understanding of the underlying mechanisms of the disease, before identifying mutations in exomes of clients using Next-Generation Sequencing. Using a 3D model of the proteins produced by the mutations and articles relating disease to the same mutations, the company can determine the most likely disease-causing mutation with the help of algorithms developed at Georgia Tech. Finally, Intellimedix will screen for small molecules, both experimental and FDA approved, against the specific disease-causing mutation identified. The results will produce a list of drug alternatives that are likely to bind to the protein target.
The huge potential of Intellimedix is not only in their close cooperation with other businesses and academia, but how they have the patient in focus during the process. In fact, the company also use their gene sequencing and drug screening capabilities to provide precision medicine to individual patients. With a unique history, untraditional (and welcoming) strategy of open innovation in pharma, and a strong belief in precision medicine, this startup certainly has a future to look out for!


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The First 100 Years - Tel Aviv
Saturday, 31 January 2009
This April will mark the 100th birthday of Tel Aviv. Established in 1909 on the sand dunes north of the ancient city of Jaffa, Tel Aviv was established by Jews wanting to escape from the overcrowded area which now makes up just a small district of modern Tel Aviv.
Originally designed to be a suburb, a master plan was drawn up based on European cities of the time. Wide boulevards, eclectic and later Bauhaus style architecture were brought to Tel Aviv by the immigrants who came from Germany and Austria. The city grew and grew, and continues to grow.
It is today the Mediterranean Capital of Cool with a phenomenal night life, beach life, cafe and restaurant culture, as well as a great climate, awesome museums, and fantasticly cool people. And, it is the center of the second most important region in the world for hi-tech industry after Silicon Valley, California.
The centennial makes 2009 the perfect year to visit Tel Aviv. Below is just a selection of the events taking place between April and December.
There really is something in there for everyone! The full program of events can be found here.
This year is going to be one like no other in Tel Aviv
For more information on Tel Aviv you can see the huge number of pages we've written about it at www.touristisrael.com/telaviv.html. And to help you get there, we've just launched a new site cheapflights.touristisrael.com with all the best deals on flights to Israel.


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Metadata Advisory Committee for Australian Repositories (MACAR) Meeting 4
15th August 2008, Qantas Club, Melbourne Airport 10.00am -3.00 pm
1. Attendance and apologies
• KB - Katie Blake - ARROW Central (Co convenor)
• JG - Joan Gray - ARROW Central (Co convenor) & (Minute taker)
• NG - Neil Godfrey – Murdoch University
• KS - Kate Sergeant - University of SA
• AD - Alison Dellit – National Discovery Service
• AH – Ann Huthwaite – Queensland University of Technology
Alex Cooke ( Australian Research Council) attended by teleconference for Item
Angela Lang ( ARROW Central), Tom Ruthven (UNSW/ADT), Simon Porter ( University of Melbourne) John Butera ( Swinburne), Helen Wolff (Swinburne), Susanne Moir (State Library of NSW) Simon Mcmillan (University of New England) Graham Reynolds (DEST), Belinda Weaver ( University of Queensland), Kerry Blinco.
Elizabeth McDonald in place of Jenny Millea to be invited to the next MACAR Meeting
2. Minutes from previous meeting
Minutes of meeting of 17th December, 200 7 – accepted
3. MACAR Strategy Plan
The draft MACAR Strategy plan is available here. The Plan was circulated to the group prior to the meeting. KB spoke to this paper.
Options for management and structure
This paper presents options for the future ranging from no structure to being part of ANDS or coming under the umbrella of the proposed new Repository Support Office. The future of MACAR was also discussed at ARROW Management Committee where it was suggested that a similar structure such as the one proposed for the ARROW community could be provided. A MACAR Committee could be established and managed through the Repository Offic under the auspices of CAUL, hosted at an institution to be decided. A MACAR Steering Committee might consist of a small group nominated by the University Librarians. More details of what the tasks might be are included in the strategy document. At the last ARROW Management Committee meeting support was expressed for MACAR to continue.
KB reported that she had also talked to Kerry Blinco. Kerry would like for MACAR to nominate a representative to attend meetings of the Standards IT 19 Committee.
It was suggested that the strategy doc should include a requirement for .5 person for administrative support for MACAR eg maintaining macar wiki, organising meetings etc
KB noted that she had set up a Google account for a MACAR email account which will make it easy to hand over administrative responsibilty as required.
Action: MACAR should send a MACAR member as observer to the Standards IT19 meeting in October and also attend the first meeting next year.
Action: KB agreed to amend the MACAR strategy doc
- Scope: Should MACAR confine its scope and membership to repositories in higher education, or is its remit broader, to include repositories of any kind, such as those in public libraries and corporations. We currently have one member from the public library sector, but she could not attend this meeting. KB will seek submissions from the repository community and report back to MACAR. This decision will affect the membership of the MACAR Committee next year. There was also discussion about whether MACAR should remain Australian in scope, or whether it should broaden to include South East Asia and New Zealand. NG agreed to consider this question after he takes up his position in Singapore, and to make a submission to the committee in mid-November. KB undertook to contact appropriate people in New Zealand to discuss cooperation and membership.
- Membership: All agree that a review of MACAR membership would be a good thing. The idea of corresponding members was discussed. We now have Associate members and Core Members. Perhaps this idea should be expanded and formalised. It was agreed that for MACAR to be effective it needs a driver, and this probably needs to be a half time person. The duties of this person would be to maintain the wiki, communicate with committee members, arrange meetings, educate and inform the community.
- Relationships:Membership of IT 19 and international organisations.
- JG suggested that she will discuss with the DC Scholarly Communications Group how we might collaborate with them on issues relating to using Dublin Core for describing scholarly publications.
- There was discussion about MACAR's relationship with the IT 19 Standards body. It was agreed that if MACAR were funded for 2009 it would be appropriate to have a member of the committee do a presentation of the work and vision of MACAR to a meeting of IT19. It was suggested that as IT 19 rotates its meetings throughout Australia it may be desirable to send the 'local' MACAR member to each meeting.
The idea of corresponding members was discussed. We now have Associate members and Core Members. This idea should be expanded and formalised.
Action: KB to contact NZ repository managers to find out if they are interested in membership in MACAR.
Action: KB to survey all members of MACAR for their views on coverage
Action: JG to discuss with members of the DC Scholarly Communications Group when she attends meeting in late Sept.
ERA Schema and definitions – how to work with the ARC to ensure that we are all using the same vocabulary
Alex Cooke from the Australian Research Council dialled in for this item.
The following documents were supplied by Alex Cooke as part of the Excellence in research for Australia (ERA) initiative :
- Context diagram for research outputs for ERA
- Research output types
- Metadata field for research output
- Comparison metadata terms (table compares the data elements identified by ERA , MACAR and Qualified Dublin Core)
These documents were discussed prior to Alex dialing in to the meeting.
The MACAR Group were keen to find out more about the ERA requirements and MACARs response would be based on this.
Alex and his business/system analyst ( Therdpun Klinjun) joined the meeting at 11.00 am
Alex explained that he was keen to get feedback about the draft ERA schema.
Alex noted that citation metrics and other kinds of metrics as well as expert review will be used for evaluating research excellence in Australian higher education institutions. This requires a unique identifier from the citation data provider for each research output. He also said that the agreed schemas would be converted to an xml schema to assist institutions to submit their publications information as part of the submission process.
JG noted that the entity relationships shown in the context diagram was one way of structuring the data but that other data models such as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) can be used for research outputs. FRBR is an entity/relationship model based on 4 key entities eg work, expression, manifestation and item and this model is the basis of work recently undertaken by the eprints community in the development of the Scholarly Works Application Profile.
Alex asked if these standards would be applied in Research Offices. It was agreed that Research Offices would collaborate with repositories to provide the required outputs for ERA submission AD noted various mappings could be used to derive the data that was required without necessarily creating or storing all the data in repositories.
MACAR recommended that ERA metadata should be standards based and if there are requirements that are not met by the current standards MACAR would provide feedback on these. MACAR will soon be undertaking a review of Resource Type Vocabulary and it would be timely to have ERA requirements that are not currently covered by this vocabulary.
The release of the pilot system is planned for early October. Timelines are fairly tight for the release of the documentation. Alex agreed to send a list of properties that are not covered by existing standards to MACAR by next week.
Action: Alex Cooke to provide a list of resource types that are not covered by the MACAR Resource Type Vocabulary. MACAR to discuss in its soon to be reconvened Resource Type Vocabulary Group and provide recommendations.
Action: Alex Cooke to provide a list of properties/attributes that are needed and are not already covered by the existing standards and MACAR to provide definitions and comments.
Action: MACAR to provide more information about new conceptual models such as FRBR, FRAD, SWAP, DCAM etc which will allow metadata to be captured in different and useful ways for resource discovery and interoperability.
There was further discussion among the MACAR group members about the ERA requirements.
It was agreed that the draft ERA Research Output types were too granular and some of these could be captured as part of the descriptive metadata. The Types list attempts to capture version identification data such as revisions (preprint, postprint, published etc), statuses (refereed or non-refereed), translations etc which could be described as refinements of dc:relation or in the eprints model these relationships could be grouped together as expressions of a work. Publisher role eg non commercial was also discussed but no agreement was reached as to how this requirement/use case could be supported in the metadata.
Action: Ann agreed to look at the ERA Resource Output Types and recommend which of these might be attributes of the resource rather than type.
Action: KB and AD will arrange a face-to-face meeting with Alex Cooke to follow up on some of these issues and to ensure that MACAR will be providing ARC with the information they need.
HERDC recommendations
KB asked if there was any feedback on the MACAR recommendations on the HERDC issues. It was noted that it would better to rearrange the HERDC – the metadata issues pages on the wiki with the MACAR reommendations more prominently displayed on the page.
Action: KB to separate the MACAR recommendations from the email discussion and notes of meeting and make them available on the wiki
Review of the survey done on resource types
In July 2008 a survey of MACAR type vocabulary was posted on Google Groups -ARROW-repository and the ANZ Institutional Repositories Group. Community feedback requested. Copies of the MACAR Type Vocabulary and the Guiding principles.doc were attached and also made available on the MACAR wiki site. KB tabled the responses and made them available on the MACAR wiki. The results of the survey were very positive. 8 institutions responded to the survey and more messages were posted on the wiki site. It was agreed that a review was needed and that the Resource Type Group should be reconvened to address the issues raised.
What needs to be done next on the resource types and who will do it ?
It was agreed that a review of the vocabulary was needed based on the findings of the survey
The ERA (replacement for the RQF) needs must also be addressed.
JG agreed to reconvene the Resource Type Group, undertake a review of the current type vocabulary and report back to the wider MACAR Group.
There was an unclear statement in the current type vocabulary which NG agreed to fix. The sentence under Book -Notes "Hence a book of conference proceedings will be entered as conference proceedings, not as a book" to be removed.
Action : JG to reconvene the Resource Type Group and undertake a review and make recommendations by end of year.
Action: NG to amend the notes field under Book
List of properties and mapping to MARC and DC – what needs to be done and who will do it ?
KB asked if the MACAR list of properties should be removed from the macar wiki. It was agreed that it should stay, as it was felt that some people could use it as a guidelines document. The data dictionary is not complete. More definitions are needed. If it is found to include richer metadata than DCMI Metadata Terms http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ and there are use cases for these metadata fields for Australian repositories then we should investigate further. If it is useful then MACAR xml schemas could be developed to support implementation of the data dictionary, data models, application profiles etc..
It was agreed that the mappings (crosswalks) table is also very useful and should be completed.
Action : AH agreed to help KB with completing the properties list and the mappings to MARC and DC
Is there any MACAR work that could be done on naming authorities?
KB asked if MACAR members had any comments about the Name Authorities – discussion document she had written and was available on the MACAR wiki.
JG noted that she had recently seen a paper by Amanda Hill which looks at approaches to name authority control in repositories and describes the work of the Names Project in the UK. and recommended that it was good reading. It is available at
[http://names.mimas.ac.uk/documents/Names_ISKO2008_paper.pdf] She also noted that there are some international developments on authorities which we need to monitor closely and keep the community informed.
What additional vocabularies need MACAR input ?
JG pointed out that there was a draft status vocabulary on the MACAR wiki site. A version vocabulary may also be needed to provide values to address version identification issues.
Action: NG agreed to investigate what values and definitions are needed for a version vocabulary
A review of the MACAR wiki
Who is to manage it, how is it going, is it the most effective tool we have ?
KB asked who is using the Wiki, whether the group thought it useful, whether there there is content that should be up there that isn't currently available and could be useful to the community? It was agreed that the wiki is a useful tool for communication and should be maintained.
Other business
ANZSRC codes
As Angela Lang was not present at the meeting she asked JG to raise the issue of the ANZSRC codes for Australian and New Zealand research publications. Angela was asked by the HERDC Group to follow this up with MACAR. The RFCD codes have been replaced with FOR (Fields of Research) codes and SEO (Socio-economic objective) codes. A recent post on the ANZ repositories list indicated that a mapping from old to new codes is available and XML files for the new codes were also available from the University of Tasmania. MACAR members agreed that use of a subject property or field would continue to be used to encode these values.
Action : No action required by MACAR
13. Next meeting
Meeting closed at 3pm. Date of next meeting to be advised.


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There's something happy about these bow ties by Otis James. The story of how it all began is pretty awesome.
Otis had never made a tie in his life when a co-worker asked him to make neckties so she can gift them to her father and brother. After receiving more commissions to make custom neckties for weddings, Otis launched his eponymous brand in 2010. The line includes neckties, bow ties, ascots, lady ties, pocket squares, scarves, and caps.
Everything is handmade from his studio in Marathon Village, Nashville, Tennessee. Even the labels are carefully written by hand. If I lived anywhere near, I would love to drop by and watch how each one is made, take snapshots, buy some goodies, and gift them to all the dear gentlemen and ladies in my life.
Connect with Otis James on Facebook or Twitter; or visit the website. Take a virtual peek at his studio and see him create through this video. It takes only two minutes and the song is cool. I love that he handprints the labels. Seriously, it made my day.


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Over 111 episodes of Shark Tank, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has invested $19.9 million in 85 companies. When we asked Cuban to comment on his investments, he told the Dallas Observer he couldn't "call out my babies." He obviously takes his on-air investments to heart. Here are his five most expensive deals so far.
Ten Thirty One Productions: $2 million invested
During this episode of Shark Tank, Ten Thirty One Productions founder Melissa Carbone asked for $2 million for 10 percent of the company. During the pitch, the entertainment company that "creates, owns and produces live attractions in the horror space" had zombies and other creepy creatures haunting the room and the sharks. Daymond John offered $2 million for 40 percent, and when Carbone countered with $2 million for 20 percent, Cuban jumped in and said he would take the offer.
Suddenly, John was out of the deal and Cuban had secured his most expensive investment on the show to date. "I think the next level of entertainment is experiential entertainment, where people get out of the house and go and get a unique experience," Cuban said on the episode.
Rugged Maniac Obstacle Race: $1.75 million invested
During this Season 5 episode of Shark Tank, the two founders of Rugged Maniac Obstacle Race, a 5K loaded with 25 obstacles, asked the sharks for $1 million for 10 percent of their company. After the founders revealed they had a second company, a running-with-the-bulls challenge, some sharks lost interest and trust in the deal. However, Robert Herjavec and Kevin O'Leary offered the founders a joint deal, and Cuban offered $1.5 million for 25 percent of the company. The men countered Cuban with $1.75 million, and the three agreed to a deal, making it Cuban's second-most-expensive investment in his Shark Tank career.
HyConn: $1.25 million invested
HyConn is a company that makes an extension to connect and disconnect a hose to a fire hydrant more quickly. The owner, Jeff Stroope, asked for $500,000 for 40 percent of the company. After a few sharks announced they were out of the deal, Stroope pulled out a smaller attachment for water hoses at home. Suddenly, the other sharks' ears perked up, including Cuban's. Cuban offered Stroope $1.25 million for the company, a three-year employment deal at $100,000 per year and a percentage of the profits. Stroope agreed to the deal, but after filming wrapped, the deal fell through, according to HyConn's Facebook page. Stroope wrote on Facebook that Cuban "let his 'ego' (or whatever you want to call it) overload the reality of what he would do."
Beatbox Beverages: $1 million invested
The three founders of Beatbox Beverages, a boxed wine company, sought $200,000 for 10 percent of their company during this segment on Shark Tank. They described their product as a "party in a box" because the boxed wine, which held seven bottles of wine, came in different flavors and colors. While O'Leary and Barbara Corcoran made offers, Cuban's experience and ideas eventually won over the three founders.
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"You guys don't sell wine," Cuban told them. "You guys sell fun."
Cuban made an offer of $600,000 for 33 percent, and when the founders countered with $1 million for the same stake, Cuban took it.
The Red Dress Boutique: $600,000 invested
The two owners of Red Dress Boutique, an online clothing store, sought $600,000 for 5 percent of their company. They told the sharks they needed the money for a new website. Herjavec offered $600,000 for 15 percent, but the married couple turned it down. When Cuban asked what equity they would be comfortable with, they said they would go as high as 10 percent. However, Herjavec and Cuban teamed up and gave $1.2 million for 20 percent of the company. The couple took it, making it Cuban's fifth-most-expensive investment.


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I am in the middle of finalizing my plans for next semester, but I am not quite ready to blog about them yet. In the meantime, I recently sent an email to several people on screencasting, and I am re-posting it here. This is nothing groundbreaking—other people have said it better elsewhere. But I'll describe what I do anyway.
I started screencasting last semester, and it is surprisingly easy as long as you do not want too polished of a project. Here is what I did:
- I bought a Bamboo tablet.
There were some screencasts that I wanted to look nice, in which case I created a Beamer presentation for the text. Most of the screencasts, though, were of the quick-and-dirty variety (which take less than half of the time of a Beamer screencast to create). A tablet works great for this.
So you do not need this, but it can save you a lot of time.
- Get a free account for Jing and download it to your computer. This is the actual tool that creates the screencast. It is ridiculously easy to use (you need to click on roughly three buttons). You can store the screencasts easily on screencast.com. This is an online storage site that makes it really easy to store screencasts and get links to the screencasts. It is by the same people who created Jing (Techsmith), so your Jing account doubles as your screencast.com account.
One potential drawback is that you can only create five minute presentations. However, I actually l like this, since it does not cause me to worry about planning the screencasts too much (in particular, it is really not worth editing them, even if you wanted to) AND it matches with the attention spans of anyone who might watch the screencast.
- If your computer does not have a built in microphone, get one of those, too.
If you are interested in screencasting, I urge you to download Jing right now, play around with it for five minutes, and see how easy it is.
Extra credit: If you get Jing Pro ($15 per year), you can upload the screencasts to YouTube (again, one click). I just started this, and I imagine that it will make things a little easier for some students. It is easy to watch YouTube videos on a smart phone; it is less easy to watch them on Moodle, which is where I put the screencasts last year.
Here are several examples of screencasts. The first was done in Beamer, and the last two were done in Microsoft Paint with a Bamboo tablet I use . Note: it looks like I write like a second grader in those. This is because it is difficult to write neatly with the tablet. I normally write like a fourth grader.
The first example is to show you what it looks like with Beamer. The second example is a standard "whiteboard" screencast (note the use of different colors). The third example is to show you an example where I use a Java applet to supplement my whiteboard work. The last two examples are to show you a possible drawback of Jing: if you go over five minutes, you need to split it into two screencasts. Again, I don't think that this is much of a problem, since I think students would probably prefer two 5 minute screencasts over one 10 minute one.
- Beamer Example
- Standard "whiteboard" Example (note the use of different colors)
- Java Applet Example (you can do more than just draw in Microsoft Paint)
- Two Part Example (Part I, which demonstrates a potential drawback with Jing—there is a five minute limit)
- Two Part Example (Part II)
- Intro to Example (Part I) (screencasts are great for these non-content things that the students need to know)
- Intro to Example (Part II)
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Advanced Time Synchronizer is a computer clock corrector. It works with time servers on the Internet, supports most time synchronization protocols, proxy servers, auto-dialing and more. Advanced Time Synchronizer connects to all the servers in the list one by one until either the time is successfully updated or the list is over. Advanced Time Synchronizer can update the system time at certain time intervals from one second to few months. If you use a proxy server, you can set up Advanced Time Synchronizer to work through a HTTP, SOCKS4, SOCKS4A or SOCKS5 proxy server. Advanced Time Synchronizer adds time protocols support to the computer on which it is running so you can use it as a local time server for your Local Area Network. Advanced Time Synchronizer can be used from the command line or from batch files, and it can be started as a Windows Service. To install Advanced Time Synchronizer, you will need a computer with Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8 Desktop 32 and 64-bit.
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The one way to slow devastating storms and reverse climate change is clean energy, and the only way to do that is to pay more for R&D.
We're losing the war on climate change. And our best weapon is one we're badly under-utilizing.
The world is in the midst of the greatest surge in carbon emissions it has ever seen. In 2013, the residents of planet Earth will likely emit around a billion tons more CO2 than they did in 2012, where in turn they emitted almost a billion tons more CO2 than they did in 2011.
The drivers of this surge of carbon pollution are simple. Around the world, 6 billion people are climbing out of what most Americans would consider poverty. Those men, women, and children–in Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Latin America–crave cars, larger homes, central heat, air conditioning, televisions, and mass-produced goods of all sorts. All of that takes energy. And what sort of energy do people choose? The cheapest kind available.
There are a host of proposals for how to address climate change around the world: a global cap-and-trade system, pervasive carbon taxes, renewable energy mandates, even geo-engineering schemes. All of those are worth pursuing. Many of them are yielding fruit today. But so far, they've proven very far from sufficient in tackling the problem.
There is one over-arching, unilateral strategy that would address climate change, without the need for global treaties or bruising fights with industry. It's this: Make renewable energy so cheap that it hardly makes sense to use anything else. Make it cheaper to use solar and wind than coal or natural gas, and utilities and industry will switch. The larger the price difference is, the faster that switch will happen.
The potential is there. The Sun strikes Earth with thousands of times more energy than humanity uses from fossil fuels. The energy in just a few weeks of sunlight is greater than our known or projected reserves of fossil fuels, combined. Solar panels on less than 1% of Earth's land area could meet all of our energy needs for the century to come. And the prices of solar panels are already plunging, dropping by more than half in the last two years, and by a factor of four since 2000.
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Les Kellett is one of the most mysterious figures in British wrestling.
Simon Garfield's epic quest to meet the man ended with failure despite the proliferation of letters he sent.
But the anecdotes from his co-workers of the time were terrifying. (Pat 'Bomber' Roach seemed to be the only one who found time to mention a kinder part of Kellett's personality.)
He may have been hilarious in the ring, but he was also physically tough – and terrifying.
"To get to anything about Les Kellett is almost impossible – the myth, the nonsense," admits screenwriter Harvey Auzorst.
Researching and writing a biopic of Kellett, then, must be one of the most difficult tasks – but Auzorst has had a helping hand along the way, courtesy of William Regal.
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The Paly-NY featured competitive tennis, warm weather, interesting conversation, good food, and lasting memories on Sunday (8/28). Congrats to MXD Winners Marla K and Brian M, and Finalists Karen C and Gavin W; and Mens Singles Winner Adrian and Finalist Abeezer. Every entrant received a Palo Alto Tennis Club's "City Slam Series" T-shirt. Food was tasty pastrami sandwiches, bagels and more. Thanks to all helpers and participants.
-Jim Hollingsworth, Tournament Director
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People all over the States are gearing up for the gastrointestinal cram-fest known as Thanksgiving. The day where we gather friends & family around a table groaning under the weight of a metric-shit-ton of food and dine until we are all too full to do anything other than fall asleep on the couch while watching the NFL.
Some Americans further plan on going to the stores the next day, to participate in a public brawl of epic proportions in the hopes of getting a great deal on something that will go under a tree in a month, and in the trash the month after that when it breaks.
I do neither of these things – but who am I to judge…
I don't do a full bird on T-day. I've done variations – such as just the breast, (which is the only turkey meat I enjoy) and those little turkey-loafs in the freezer section. You know the ones I'm talking about – turkey meatloaf, frozen in an aluminum tin of its own gravy, that you pop in the oven and bake until the paper lid burns?
I can hear the kitchen-warriors out there screaming in terror as I type this
I cooked a full bird once.
Let me say that again: ONCE.
It was a very scary experience. First – I'm not a whiz in the kitchen. Sure, I can make pies (as long as I get store-bought crusts & fillings), cakes and cookies (from a mix), and broil a steak (well done, anyone?). I can do things with vegetables that probably shouldn't be discussed in polite company…
And do have a couple of good family passed-down recipes that make some pretty tasty stuff. The family never starved or lacked variety in a diet when I was head of the kitchen, although we probably did consume too much salt.
But when it comes to really, REALLY involved stuff – like a full bird? A baked Alaska? A souffle? The best I can do is a stern warning to DUCK AND COVER.
The last time I attempted to cook a full bird for T-Day – I ended up summoning an Elder God…badly. We managed to get a snapshot of the beastie JUST before it sprang to life, and managed to beat it into submission with the gravy boat.
Thank (Insert Supernatural Being of your Choosing) I'm not a better kitchen witch, eh?


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Locate your Form 1099-R. Your IRA custodian, or the firm that hosts your IRA account, will send you this tax form at the end of any year in which you take a distribution or perform a rollover. It will contain all the information you need to report to the IRS regarding your rollover.
Confirm the amount in box 1 of your 1099-R. This box should show the exact amount of your rollover distribution.
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This is my first official post. I did not intend this to be the topic of the first post but it just happened to be the most relevant because this lady is coming to Toronto this weekend.
**** This post I have edited from the original since it has gotten much attention I have added to it to reflect the input from the readers. Please do not add comments that have already been addressed.
Kat Ker, can we believe her?
A few years ago there was a women that came by my church claiming that she has been to heaven, and that God takes her to heaven all the time. I am open to anything and will not write someone off just because their claims are way out there. I know that God has taken people to heaven in the past. As with everything I will give people the benefit of the doubt until they violate some sort of truth that I know from God's written word or the truth from FACTS that I have already uncovered about a certain subject.
We as the body of Christ should not just take someone's word for it, but test all things (1 John 4:1). On top of that the bible commands us to be discerning and JUDGE the people in the Church.(1 Corinthians 5:11-13) Yes I did say Judge, there are allot of people today that say when you try to point out any error in leadership "you are judging and we as Christians are not supposed to judge but act in Love". That is a twisting of scripture that they try to hide behind because they don't want have to have any accountability.
People write me and tell me that I have no right to say anything against Kat that I shouldn't touch God's anointed, that I am siding with satan the accuser. I tell you straight up that is brainwashed tactics from the emergent church, you are only saying that because you heard that from some preacher or read it in some book. Not only does that not make sense it's twisting the scripture. This lingo is put out there so you will not question what the leaders are doing, they use it as a scape goat.
Kat says that she has visited heaven, not just once but she goes back and forth and a regular basis. She tells her stories of the tours of heaven she has been taken on and then she comes back with messages from God to the Church. She has written a book called revealing heaven and also has this website below.
Are her claims true? Does her story add up? Let's take a look at some of the things she is saying.
Let's examine some of her claims.
1. Frequent visits to heaven: Kat claims to go to heaven all the time, almost like she has a season's pass to the throne room. We know that God has taken people to heaven before but out of all the stories in the bible and all the modern day stories there has never been a person that has gone as frequently as Kat.
2. Her picture of heaven: Kat paints heaven like a mystical Disney land with roller coasters, movie theaters and even a place to see what you look like with other skin colors. I'm sure heaven is filled with many amazing things, but the far out claims that Kat makes about heaven are not found in the bible and no one else that has been to heaven testifies to the things she is saying.
3. She looks directly into God's face: Kat claims to go in and out of the throne room and sit on God's lap. She says she sees his locks of hair and even looks into his eyes, she say his eyes are blue. This claim actually is a direct contradiction to scripture :
John 1:18
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
(some people said that this scripture is not good enough for my point, that there is evidence that we can see his face. True that there are future promises to see God's face in heaven, but there are no accounts that I know of in the bible of people looking into God's deep blue eyes, and if there were they would not be talking so casually about it like Kat. If you find any scripture stating that someone has seen God's face and looked into his eyes in the past, please post it and I will edit this posting.)
Exodus 33
19 The LORD replied, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will call out my name, `the LORD,' to you. I will show kindness to anyone I choose, and I will show mercy to anyone I choose.
20 But you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live."
Hmmm the bible says here that no one can see God's face and keep living???
If you read your bible the people who have been in the throne room and seen God do not describe any of his features. In fact they describe a much different scene that Kat. Kat makes the throne room seem like a playground. She says there are multiple throne rooms. Everyone from the bible and even modern day people have described encounters with God in the throne room as fearful, awestruck and trembling.
4. A golden age of Christianity: This is Kat's main message that from 2010 to 2025 there will be a golden age on the earth for Christians. She states that heaven will invade earth and God's glory will completely cover the earth for a season that this is his time to show people heaven. Great wealth and leadership will be given over to Christians all over the earth. She says that it is going to be very popular to be a Christian at this time, and that angels will be making television appearances. This is where I really started to question Kat. This message does not line up with the Factual truth I know is going on in the world and it does not line up with the word of God. In fact it is a complete contradiction to what Jesus said:
Matthew 24
24 And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
2 But he answered and said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
3 And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.
8 But all these things are the beginning of travail.
9 Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.
10 And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.
12 And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.
13 But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.
At what point in this scripture does it say God's glory is going to fill the earth? If you haven't noticed we are currently between vs 7-9. There is no golden age between vs 9 and vs 14. Search the scriptures yourself and tell me if this is not a lie! The truth is that the world will grow more wicked, Christians will be persecuted and the devil will set up his kingdom here on earth (rev 13). After that God will judge the earth with fire (2 Peter 3:7), God's glory will not consume the earth until the new heaven and new earth is made. (2 Peter 3:12-14)
Kat's prophecy is also a direct contradiction to the Facts that I know to be true about the world today. For her prophecy to come true Christians would have to take over the entire anti-christ system put in place. The day and the hour is late and the devil is setting up his kingdom through a one world government. He is doing this through the New World Order and the secret societies. If you are not up to speed on these things you need to do some research to see how the world really operates. If you are about to throw this argument out on the basis of a worldwide conspiracy you better listen to this next piece.
I phoned Kat Kerr personally to talk about these contradictions, she stated herself that she KNOWS about the New World Order and the Illuminati! So if you are about to stop listening to me because I believe in conspiracy well than you need to stop listening to Kat too because she told me she believes in it too. She proceeded to tell me that God was going to do something really amazing in the white house in the summer of 2010 to change the situation. Even though she admitted to knowing about the conspiracy herself and continues to make predictions of this false golden age coming.
Well guess what 2010 came and went and her prophesies were false. I contacted her about this false prophecy and she refused to answer why her prediction was false and then put it back on me saying I need to believe God and in his timing not my own those things she predicted would come true. She I guess forgot that she gave a specific date.
So if she is constantly going to heaven and communing with God why would she give a false prophecy? Why does her view contradict the bible and other prophetic messages today? The true message to the church is not get ready for the glory, but rather repent get your hearts right and get ready for persecution and judgment. The church in North America is in a horrible sin state, do you think God is going to send his glory?
Check out these prophecies by David Wilkerson, his prophecies have been tried and tested for decades. His message is the opposite of Kats.
5. Mitt Romney is God's Choice for 2012: Kat claims God told her that he wants everyone to vote for Romney. Yes she actually says he is God's choice and that Romney stands for Justice, Truth and Life.
Just watching this video to me makes this women very un credible, declaring that she is heaven's revelator with some dude standing in the background with his arms crossed.
This is a big problem when someone that claims to go to heaven all the time is getting involved with worldly politics to the degree that she is telling people who to vote for. This is public manipulation to persuade public opinion. She says she knows about the New World Order and does not tell people the truth that no matter who they vote for things will not change! The government as in most nations is a puppet government controlled by a shadowy elite.
You may not believe that, but that is the truth. Even if you don't believe that, can you believe that Mitt Romney is a Mormon? Mormonism is a cult and at that it is a Satanic cult. How can she really think God wants you to vote for someone who belongs to a satanic cult. Really there is no choice, a Muslim (really I think he is a Universalist) or a Satanist. Mormons want to create a worldwide theocracy where Jesus Christ will come back to rule. This leads me to my next point.
6. Dominionism. All of Kat's messages fall within the scope of one particular ideology. Dominionism. This is a huge topic which I will not cover now, but in another post. Dominionists believe that Christians will take over the earth and rule. Only then will Jesus come back. Most people that preach this "soft sell it" so they will not come right out and say it, but it is what they think. This movement is growing like rapid fire in the church. This is frightening since the next person to take the worlds stage and rule the whole earth will be the Anti-Christ! Could this be the reason that she wants you to vote for Mitt Romney? This whole situation can take pages to explain, which is why I have written 80 pages on the subject in another report. Click here to read what Dominionism is all about:
7. Doctrine of Pre- Existence: Kat states that she sees little orbs that are spirits before they are born circling around the throne asking to be sent down to the earth. Not only is this not biblical it is also a New Age teaching. Some people have stated that there is nothing wrong with this. This idea in itself is neither wrong or write because we just don't know. BUT it is NOT in the Bible and this idea is closer to new age thinking.
8. Focus on Heaven & Glory: Kat says that the forward to her book was written by scribe angels. That with her introduction talks all about heaven invading earth and the glory coming. She states that God is eager to give earth his greatest gift Heaven. There is no mention of Jesus here all the focus is on heaven. This is not right, everything is about Jesus and every message from God in the past was to reveal Jesus NOT heaven. She is taking focus off of his written word and his living word Jesus. Read the intro, does it really sound like scribe angels??? Wake up people!!
Those are a few of the core problems with Kat's Claims, there are also some other things that I will just mention. Remember this lady claims to go to heaven on a regular basis, so we should see some pretty amazing stuff from her.
1. She has numerous contradictions to her stories, she will say one thing one time when she describes her experiences and then something different the next. One example is how time moves when you are in heaven, one moment she says 1 day in heaven is many days on earth and then says 1 day on earth is like many days in heaven. I'm not the only one that has a disagreement with Kat. Robert Alan King was so offended by her, he took the time to cross reference everything she said. He wrote a book written that has a chapter on her contradictions:
A Christian Rebuttal to Kat Kerr's Revealing Heaven An Eyewitness Account I and II
I have also heard her in video interviews contradict her stories of how she first got taken to heaven. I don't have time to cross reference all she says, so if you find something post it in the comments.
2. She holds up giant fake gemstones in her meetings and talks about how God is dropping real ones?? If she really goes to heaven so much wouldn't she stop in the gift store and get a real one as evidence??
3. For her mandate of getting this message out to everyone her books and dvd's are grossly overpriced. For poorly made dvd's and books she is charging over $20 a piece! Someone told me her prices have dropped by when she came to my church a few years ago that's what she was charging.
4. She says she has seen someone who I know is a 33rd degree free mason taken to heaven in a Chariot. Satan worshipers go to heaven too? And recently she claims Whitney Housten is in Heaven? Is that true? Who knows if Whitney repented on her death bead.
Kat Ker says Micheal Jackson is in heaven?? Well this testimony unlike Kat's shook me to the core of my spirit: 23hrs dead Angelica Zambrano, she went to Heaven and Hell and claims she saw Micheal Jackson in Hell. So who is lying? This girl or Kat?
5. She states on the Patricia King show that the 12 elders before the throne are ancient beings not human, not angel but something else? …Aliens perhaps?
I could continue with many more pages but I think I have highlighted the most important. Has Kat really been to heaven? Does she really speak the words of God?
1. Contradicts written scripture
2. Gives false prophecies
3. Promotes Dominionism
4. Promotes New Age Doctrine
5. Says outlandish things about heaven that don't line up with anything else
6. Contradicts herself
7. Encourages people to vote for a Mormon
8. Holds up fake gemstones in her meetings
9. Charges way too much money for her stuff.
We need to beware of false prophets. Kat may say lots of nice things that make us feel good, she may even say Jesus is Lord, but the truth is that she is deceived about many things. We must stay grounded in the word of God and keep our minds focused on God's essential truths. I do not know for what reason she is lying, she needs to repent of what she is doing so that she will not be judged by God on the day of the Lord. It is possible she believes what she is doing, her experience of first going to heaven was in a church where she was on the ground shaking for many hours in a trance. Sometimes God can do that, but also this is very characteristic of the counterfeit spirit in the third wave church.
Some people comment that I need to let God out of the box, that my mind can't accept Kat's experience because I'm too religious. If you only knew the truth about me. None of you know me or have met me, so who are you to judge me? you are going on nothing. I believe other's have gone to heaven, I believe in miracles, speaking in tongues, prophecy and have been a part of the Third Wave for 4+ years. My ministry is throwing parties in nightclubs in order to win the lost. How is that for getting God out of the box! So before you post a comment on my blog telling me off you better go do your homework. People read my blog and read Kat's book or watch one video and think they know it all. I urge my readers to get the big picture, read my series on the Church, and read this whole post instead of knit picking at little parts. Normally I would never bother with someone like Kat she is a small player on the scene, but since she invaded my personal space by deceiving my church I will make the truth known about her.
Here is a link of somebody with a relevant word for the church today:
Ken Peters


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I'd like to introduce an interesting and unusual song sent to me by a band called Yearning Curve. Instead of interpreting an archived song, they've used snippets of the text from Pádraig Pearse's 1914 essay 'The Murder Machine' in a new composition. Pearse's essay on the inequities of the Irish education system and the dysfunctional realities of imperialism and occupation can be read in full on UCC's Corpus of Electronic Texts. Yearning Curve's version of 'The Murder Machine' also includes modern-day sound-bites, painting a sound-picture of an Ireland swathed in corruption, still offering up its young to an indifferent imperial ruling class a hundred years after Pearse's essay. In this post, Bairbre from Yearning Curve tells me a bit more about 'The Murder Machine'…
"A machine vast, complicated, with a multitude of far-reaching arms, with many ponderous presses, carrying out mysterious and long-drawn processes of shaping and moulding…"
– Patrick Pearse,
The Murder Machine (1914)
'The Murder Machine' is the title track from our debut album inspired by Patrick Pearse's book, 'The Murder Machine' (1914).
Using lines from Pearse's book, samples from the infamous bankers tapes, Vincent Browne in full flight and Bertie Ahern on the steps of Dáil Éireann, we wanted to explore the idea of 'The Murder Machine' and the relevance of it in our time.
Although Pearse's book deals mainly with the early 20th century education system, 'The Murder Machine' of the corporate world is surely as oppressive as anything the imperialist world could dream up as we struggle daily with the grinders of poverty, inequality and conformity.
I read somewhere once that Bertie Ahern kept a photo of Pearse on his desk and the irony of that couldn't be lost on those who are living in the Ireland that Ahern and his policy-makers have left behind. The 'Murder Machine' song is some attempt to reclaim our history in the spirit of those who visioned a fair and free future for all of us. Kind of like Jinx Lennon, but not funny.
Listen here:
Album out May 1st:
What is 'The Murder Machine'?
The personal and political meathooks,
the myriad ways we can be ground up?
And why make music about it?


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Kyndle provides information, services, advocacy and economic development expertise for the businesses and governments of Henderson and Webster counties. Kyndle is the lead industrial recruitment and expansion assistance organization for all four counties.
Policy Board
Kyndle is governed by its Policy Board, which has nine directors.
Tony Krampe
Chair - Old National Bank
Jennifer Keach
Vice Chair - Big Rivers Electric Company
Dick Beaven
Air Hydro
Garland Certain
Treasurer - United Community Bank
Mickey Dunbar
Planters Bank
Debbie Gray
Bob McIndoo
Windimere Farms
Greg Risch
Lin Shannon
Fine & Hatfield
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Industry Leaders Committee
The purpose of this committee is to create a network of plant managers/leaders from existing industries to discuss similar issues and successes that focus on 'Safety, productivity and cost'. Become aware of programs to help with workforce, incentives, utilities and efficiencies in the workplace. Also, identify workforce needs for training opportunities, etc.
Sub-committees Of Industry Leaders Committee
- Safety Summit (Safety Managers)
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Idaho Latest State To Stand Against Federal Assault On Gun Rights
This article was written by Joe A. Wolverton II and originally published at The New American
Idaho may soon become the latest state to stand up to the Obama administration's attempt to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms.
Earlier this week, the state House of Representatives approved a pro-gun-rights bill already passed by the state Senate. The measure now awaits action by Governor Butch Otter.
The published purpose of SB 1332, the Idaho Federal Firearm, Magazine and Register Ban Enforcement Act, makes clear the intent of state lawmakers:
This legislation is to protect Idaho law enforcement officers from being directed, through federal orders, laws, rules, or regulations enacted or promulgated on or after January 1, 2014, to violate their oath of office and Idaho citizens' rights under the Idaho Constitution, Article 1, Section 11. This Constitutional provision disallows confiscation of firearms except those actually used in commission of a felony, and disallows other restrictions on a lawful citizen's right to own firearms and ammunition.
The State Affairs Committee,the listed author of the bill, was right to point out the state's right to refuse to executive unconstitutional demands of the federal government. The authors understood that states are constitutionally, legally, and historically on solid ground when they hold these usurpations as null, void, and of no legal effect. That state governments have the power to take this tack with regard to unconstitutional acts of the federal government, the Founders were universally agreed, as I have explained in earlier articles.
In The Federalist, No. 33, Alexander Hamilton wrote:
But it will not follow from this doctrine that acts of the large society which are not pursuant to its constitutional powers, but which are invasions of the residuary authorities of the smaller societies, will become the supreme law of the land. These will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such.
He restated that principle in a later letter, No. 78:
There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.
James Madison, also writing in The Federalist Papers, recommended that state legislators, in order to prevent federal abridgment of fundamental liberties, should refuse "to co-operate with the officers of the Union."
Speaking during the War of 1812, Daniel Webster said:
The operation of measures thus unconstitutional and illegal ought to be prevented by a resort to other measures which are both constitutional and legal. It will be the solemn duty of the State governments to protect their own authority over their own militia, and to interpose between their citizens and arbitrary power. These are among the objects for which the State governments exist.
In the Kentucky Resolution of 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes — delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
Finally, founding era jurist Joseph Story described the Second Amendment's critical check on tyranny:
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
Recently, three states have recently passed Second Amendment-protecting bills: Arizona, Missouri, and Idaho. Last year, Kansas passed a bill nullifying the federal assault on gun ownership and the action drew the ire of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed the bill in April 2013 and Holder immediately called him to the carpet, or at least tried to.
Holder sent a letter to Brownback informing him that the Obama administration would ignore a new Kansas law nullifying federal gun control laws. Furthermore, Holder warned the governor that federal agents would "take all appropriate actions" to enforce federal gun control laws, calling the Kansas statute "unconstitutional."
In a response to Holder's letter sent on May 2 of last year, Brownback defended his state's right to protect its citizens' right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
"The right to keep and bear arms is a right that Kansans hold dear. It is a right enshrined not only in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, but also protected by the Kansas Bill of Rights," Brownback wrote. "The people of Kansas have repeatedly and overwhelmingly reaffirmed their commitment to protecting this fundamental right. The people of Kansas are likewise committed to defending the sovereignty of the State of Kansas as guaranteed in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution."
In spite of Holder's tough talk and threats of federal invasion, Judge Andrew Napolitano reckons federal gun control laws and regulations would be "nearly impossible to enforce" if states would stand their ground.
Idaho is trying and activists are noticing. The Tenth Amendment Center's national communication director Mike Maherry praised the Gem State legislature in a blog post:
This is an important first step for Idaho. Getting this law passed will ensure that any new plans or executive orders that might be coming our way will not be enforced in Idaho. Then, once this method is established and shown to be effective, legislators can circle back and start doing the same for federal gun control already on the books. SB1332 is an important building block for protecting the 2nd Amendment in Idaho.
To Idaho's credit, on April 11, 2013, Governor Otter signed into law the "Preserving Freedom From Unwanted Surveillance Act," an act reinforcing the Fourth Amendment's guarantee of "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."
The law amended the Idaho code, placing new restrictions on the use of drones by government or law enforcement, particularly when it comes to the gathering of evidence and surveillance of private property.
Such laudable legislative acts are critical and urgent, particularly in the case of the fundamental liberties protected by the Second and Fourth Amendments.


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The O&M Regional CD for Unilever Asia requested me specifically to write this very special print / outdoor project. His letter, on my site, states in part: "I was recently handed the job of adapting Unilever's global, multi-award winning Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. The nature of this job is probably as intense as it gets in terms of who and what's involved. Barry stepped up to the plate to deliver all the major copy for the print on this campaign."
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Comment #21 Monday, March 29, 2004 10:01 AM
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make sure you have the very latest build of dx. I got the same error until I updated it.
Comment #23 Monday, March 29, 2004 11:46 AM
revoltedlogo - LOL
Cheers macrobaye
c242 - it would get my vote...apart from the existence of my 'secret project' LOL
Thankyou OC
Cheers corbin397 - Aleatoric is correct, this object uses a script call only introduced in the latest version of desktopX (2.19).
Thanks for the assist there Aleatoric
Comment #24 Monday, March 29, 2004 1:27 PM
"secret project", eh? That sounds interesting
That must be how you keep a skin fan in suspense! LOL
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Good work
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Comment #31 Thursday, April 1, 2004 8:03 PM
You can change the colours of the backgrounds if you just use an app. like photoshop to open up the original backround png. file and use a hue/saturation filter. then you can pick to change to any colour your heart desires
Comment #33 Saturday, April 3, 2004 12:04 PM
Icons would be another great addition...
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Anyway, You can also click on all the texts and pulling up properties. The *state* tab has color options. should read "has font options*.
Comment #39 Saturday, April 3, 2004 11:31 PM
icons...yes, definitely...eventually
cursors...haven't had any inspiration on the cursor front as yet but you never know...
still working on dx stuff at the moment really, it's slightly addictive, just a calendar to do and then bundle it all up into a theme or something maybe
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Through the course of evolution, the brain has undergone considerable changes. In many invertebrates, such as worms, the nervous system consists of no more than a net or bundle of nerve cells. In fish, amphibians, and reptiles, the brain is a well-developed organ consisting of several distinct structures, such as the cerebellum, tectum, and basal ganglia. These structures are specialized for different basic functions, such as detecting visual patterns, generating walking or swimming movements, generating reflexive responses, and so on. Mammal brains also contain many of these primitive structures, so scientists can understand many aspects of our own brain function by studying these areas in other animals.
Mammal brains have undergone dramatic evolutionary changes which are thought to be responsible for their increased thinking capacity. One striking aspect of mammalian brain evolution is the development of neocortex (pink shaded region in the rat, monkey, chimpanzee & human brain). Compared to other mammals, higher primates such as humans and chimpanzees have disproportionately larger neocortices. In some primates, the neocortex has expanded at such a rate that it has folded in on itself. Scientists believe that it is this development of neocortex, and in particular, of the frontal region, that is responsible for our increased intelligence and capacity for problem solving.