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Cover: Astronomer Gerard Bodifee with wife TV Presenter Lucette Verboven
Day Six. By this stage in the life of the Universe (11,500,000,000 years ago) there exists something of the order of 170,000,000,000 (170 billion) galaxies each containing between tens of millions and billions of stars.
The name 'galaxy' is from the Greek word for milk which is how they described the whiteish appearance of the band of light we know as our home galaxy. Each of the 170 billion galaxies is indeed a group of stars, but much more than that. They almost certainly hold billions of planets, star systems, star clusters and in most cases, a massive black hole near the centre. They also contain a lot of material in the form of vast clouds of gas and dust particles that are mostly the remains of stars that have exploded at the end of their lives.
It has become clear that every galaxy has more mass (the 'weight' of something on earth) than we can measure by adding up what we can see. (A cannon ball in space may be weightless but it would still make a mess if it hit you because it still has the same mass.) This non-reflective material is predictably called 'dark matter' which incorporates 'dark energy'. As Einstein showed, matter and energy are different forms of the same thing.
Galaxies come in a range of sizes and types from the dwarf galaxies with only 10 million stars to the big boys that can have one hundred trillion (that is, a hundred million million). 100,000,000,000,000. That's a lot of zeros and it's hard to imagine a number so large, especially when we are talking about very hot objects the size of our Sun, which itself is a million times bigger than the earth.
In between there's not a lot going on, but technically, intergalactic space is not empty, but just as near to it as all get out, maybe 1 atom per cubic metre, which is sparse by anyone's standards. In the popular press, quoting distances is done in light years, however the scientists in this field tend to use the parsec, which is 3.26156 light years. One might be forgiven for thinking that it's not exactly a round number, an easily remembered number or one that trips lightly off the tongue, so why use it?
When we see a star, at the same time we also see stars further away. Six months later, when we are on the opposite side of our orbit around the sun, that particular star will appear to have moved slightly compared to the background stars. That's because we are looking from a different angle.
You can close one eye and look at something close, then look through the other eye and it seems to move against the background. The parsec number is defined by measuring this angle. If it appears to move by 1/3600th of a degree, that is one parsec (like 3,600 seconds in an hour) the light would take 3.26156 years to reach us. The cosmologists need really big numbers and even light years aren't big enough for the job, so parsecs it is.
Over the years, a fair number of galaxies have been catalogued, tens of thousands in fact but here is the interesting bit, there are 5 main catalogues and they don't have all the same galaxies listed. Even when they are, they have different identification numbers.
Take Messier 109 for example. In the Messier catalogue, as you would expect, it's number 109 but in the other catalogues it's also code number NCG3992, UGC6937, CGCG 269-023, MCG +09-20-044 and PGC 37617. Clever boys.
Now, in the rest of the scientific world, the custom is to assign a name to whatever is being studied, even the least significant, invisible to us, microbe. Here we have entire galaxies, billions of times larger than our whole planet and all they get is a number. Well, up to five numbers actually, depending on how many catalogues we are looking at.
It should therefore come as no surprise that someone thought the galaxies were not getting a fair deal and decided to make a new catalogue, called with great imagination, 'The Catalogue of Named Galaxies' to give them a bit of dignity and some spiffy names.
Belgian astrophysicist Gerard Bodifee and the classicist Michel Berger began their new catalogue with one thousand well-known galaxies. Each were given a meaningful and descriptive name using the methods of other sciences like biology, palaeontology and anatomy. For example the aforementioned Messier 109 became the new 'Callimorphus Ursae Majoris'.
Hell yeah, that's a much better name.
One cannot pursue the subject of galaxies without mentioning ring galaxies, unusual in that they don't seem to have much in the middle. They are thought to form in a type of bull's eye collision when a smaller galaxy passes through the middle, cleaning up so to speak, leaving a neat ring of stars behind.
It looks like that might be what happened to the Andromeda Galaxy, perhaps more than once as it displays a multi-ring structure. There won't be many rings left after the next collision when our own massive Milky Way smacks into it head on, which it is scheduled to do soon. (Soon in galactic terms, about 200,000,000 years from now.)
Despite the prominence of our galaxy and the millions of other large and very large galaxies, in sheer numbers, dwarfs rule. In fact you could say most galaxies are the smaller variety, perhaps only one hundredth the size of our Milky Way and often host to fewer than a hundred million stars.
Some of these are so small, light photons only take 326 years to travel from one side to the other, almost like crossing the street in galactic terms. They have all the same shapes as their larger cousins, elliptical, spiral and irregular, although the dwarf ellipticals require a little imagination to classify them that way.
Checking out our neighbourhood reveals that twenty seven of the local galaxies are dwarfs and that in itself is somehow surprising, but better yet, the mass of each dwarf (equal to about ten million of our Sun) seems to be very similar, regardless of the number of stars. This, it is argued, lends weight if you pardon the pun, to the conjecture that dark energy/matter is indeed the dark horse in gravitational theory.
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3:00pm PT by Lesley Goldberg
'Girls' EP Inks Deal With HBO, Developing Comedy With Mike White
HBO is locking up Murray Miller.
The Girls co-executive producer has inked a two-year overall deal with the premium cable network, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Under the pact, the American Dad and King of the Hill alum will be promoted to executive producer on the Lena Dunham series. Additionally, Miller will team with Enlightened's Mike White to develop Mr. Romance, a comedy project set up at the cabler.
Based on Joshuah Bearman's 2010 McSweeney's article The Only Muscle I Can't Control: In Search of the Next Romance Novel Cover Man, the nonfiction story recounts the 14th annual Mr. Romance Cover Model Competition and the quest to find the next Fabio. Miller will co-write the comedy script alongside Casper Christensen (who wrote and starred in Danish film Klown). White and David Bernad will executive produce via their Rip Cord Productions banner. Bearman will also serve as an executive producer on the project.
Miller is repped by UTA and attorneys Don Walerstein and Matt Walerstein. White and Bernad are with UTA and Sloane Offer; Berman is with UTA, Circle of Confusion and attorney Linda Lichter. Christensen is with CAA and Douglas Entertainment.
For White, Mr. Romance comes eight months after HBO canceled Enlightened, which he created, wrote and starred in. During its two-season run, the dramedy was nominated for two Emmys (for guest actress Molly Shannon and star Laura Dern) and earned Dern a Golden Globe. It was also nominated for best comedy or musical series at the Golden Globes.
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Why Your Startup Is Burning Through Money Like There's No Tomorrow
Like it or not, startups have a duty to all their stakeholders to keep the rate at which they're spending money to a minimum. In the early stages, before the product is selling, there just isn't the money in the bank for frivolous spending. The problem, however, is that many entrepreneurs get into bad mental habits. They repeat the mantra "you've gotta spend money to make money" over and over again in their heads and start believing that spending money is good, no matter where it's being spent. Before they know it, they're going back to their investors asking for more cash.
Ideally, you want to avoid this situation. There's no guarantee that investors will want to keep throwing cash at your project, especially if you've burnt through all their capital already. Here are some of the reasons you're burning through so much cash and what to do about it.
You're Buying All The Software In The Cloud
As a hip and technically-savvy entrepreneur, you know that the future of business lies in the cloud. As a result, you've spent a fortune on cloud software to help run your business smoothly. You've got all the business apps, like Dropbox, Quickbooks, Slack and so on, and you're using them to your full advantage. But are they actually generating a return? Often you'll find that software you thought could save you a lot of time and money isn't doing anything of the sort. In fact, all that's happening is that your bank account is being drained and you do not see improved productivity in return.
This is why sites like www.makemoneyinlife.com advise startups to make detailed plans. Planning is how you find out whether the tools you're using are really worth the asking price. If your business has a shared drive, do you really need to pay a Dropbox sub?
You Don't Do Anything Yourself
Another common reason for burning through cash is that entrepreneurs are unwilling to do anything themselves. Everything, from driving themselves from A to B to editing their website has to be done by somebody else.
Most entrepreneurs make excuses for this sort of thing by arguing that they are focusing on their "core business." Their time is precious, they say, and so it's wasted on mundane tasks. But, as a startup, you usually don't have the luxury of determining what a mundane task is or is not. Getting other people to do your advertising and build your website is expensive, especially when there are cheap courses available on sites like www.udemy.com where you can quickly learn to do it yourself. As for having your own personal chauffeur – forget it.
You've Never Heard Of IKEA
If you spend enough time reading business blogs, you'll undoubtedly come across one extolling the virtues of having a swanky office for impressing clients. But startups can't afford to jump to this level yet. They need to get the basics in place first. If you've never heard of cheap office furniture stores, like IKEA, then say goodbye to all your cash. It's not coming back.


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A game as art vs art as a game
Posted on August 29, 2014 by dianamulan
I've created art since I was five years old. I studied seriously with a professional painter for ten years after that. However, I still hesitate to make the statement "I'm an artist." For one, it's a loaded term that implies a lot of grandiosity and arrogance. Mostly though, I don't want to be identified as […] Continue reading →
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Primary Irritant Dermatitis
People who work in areas where their feet are exposed to repeated or prolonged contact to chemicals, oils, or wet cement can develop primary irritant dermatitis. There are certain solutions that people soak their feet in as home remedies. Some of these solutions are safe if used properly, but their improper use can cause a significant contact dermatitis. This can result in skin break down and infection. This is particularly dangerous in people with diabetes; the result can be devastating and limb threatening. A common misconception is the value of soaking in hot water. Some people believe that the hotter the water the better. Quite to the contrary, hot water can cause damage to the skin and result in first or second-degree burns. People will soak their feet in all sorts of solutions. Common solutions are bleach, vinegar, salt water and iodine-based solutions such as betadine. If used properly and under the guidance of a doctor, these solutions can be beneficial. A common mistake that is made is to create solutions that are too strong. Should this occur, irritation to the skin and the development of a rash can develop. The dermatitis that results can also become secondarily infected.
Allergic Contact Dermatitis
Allergic contact dermatitis is the result of exposure to substances that sensitize the skin, so that each time one becomes exposed to it again, an inflammatory reaction will occur. Some people are allergic to the substances in the dyes of socks or the materials used to make shoes. The rash that develops is in a pattern that reflects the exposure to the substance. Adhesive tapes can cause an allergic reaction with blisters or a rash developing beneath the tape. Not all blistering or rashes from tape on the feet however are an allergic reaction. Because of the heat and the accumulation of moisture beneath the tape an acute athlete's foot infection may occur.
Treatment should be directed at the cause of the dermatitis. Burns should not be treated with ointments because ointments are too occlusive and can trap the heat in the burned tissues resulting in further tissue damage. Cool compresses are soothing and can limit the damage caused by the burn. The dermatitis caused by the soaking of the feet in concentrated solutions act like chemical burns and cool compresses are also useful in this instance. Dermatitis caused by an allergic reaction will respond well to topical steroid compounds like hydrocortisone cream. Steroid creams should not be used unless you are certain that the condition is caused by an allergy. Cortisone creams will mask infection and allow infections to get worse while reducing the normal inflammatory reaction associated with infections. Anti-fungal creams are useful in the treatment of athlete's foot that may be caused by occlusion under adhesive tape.


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The Best Home Treadmill – Today everybody has become vigor conscious and action to stay fit, but going to the gymnasium can be a luxury which many tribe do not enjoy because of time constraint. You can solve this funeral by getting a treadmill for your home. Not only can you training at accommodation without owning to go anywhere, you can also exercise at your capability anytime you want.
A home treadmill is a section of exercise equipment where you run on the spot, without fraternization any distance. You can exercise while supervision TV, or even read while you run. Even when there is harm weather you can run indoors.
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Pay poster to the degree of the transportation phantom and the transportation deck. Get a thick extent deck at least 3/4 inches thick, for function of the feet and legs. The clause of the shipment cologne should be at least 48 inches and the thickness approx 17 inches, so that you do not step off the track. You can get a longer trace if you are going to run on the treadmill. Next squad the vibration absorption.
Avoid buying treadmills that have tremor absorbers on the legs as this is not effective tremble absorption. The treadmill's deferment must be directly under the freight deck to provide effective cushioning for the legs, shoes and back. Foam or rubber is used for the padding. Foam can be softer and more comfortable than rubber, but it requires more time to gains to its original amounts after impact, where gum tins recover to full widths instantly and is a better tremor absorbent. So, choosing the right which treadmill is best for your home.
Some treadmills even have a cable of special preset exercise programs that can automatically innovations haste and can even measure your recollection rate. They can be more expensive than the usual treadmills, so if you are on a limited budget you could always buy a cheaper one and get a separate desire rate monitor and develop your own programs.
Bring one home!
Walking is a very effective exercise which everybody is able to do. It is basic, doesn't require a yard of coordination, and can be an excellent provision to deal with dismay by elucidation your head. Anybody of any days can do it, and it is the same for a creator as well as for an athlete. So, if you are an indoor person, cannot go to a gym, or if you do not get time to go out to exercise, you tins get a treadmill and exercise at adjustment whenever you can and escaping to.


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Outside the North Hall of the Moscone Center (i.e. where GDC is being held) Nintendo has a rotating projector ad for Professor Layton and the Curious Village. I'm not sure how effective this eye catching display is going to be considering the daily showers in San Francisco, but the ad is on the path to the W Hotel (i.e. the place where everyone seems to congregate after GDC). Add this visual to a handful of Professor Layton ads at the bus stop and one thing is clear, Nintendo of America is actively promoting Level 5's logic puzzle series.
Sometimes we'll publish a story as a group. You'll find collaborative stories and some housekeeping announcements under this mysterious camel.


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Sky watchers have good weekend to catch falling stars
- Peak visibility over North America from midnight Saturday to just before dawn Sunday.
- Orionids meteor shower is caused by a swath of dust and rocks left behind by the Halley's comet.
- Show should far exceed most years, when about 25 meteors are visible in an hour.
A big meteor shower this weekend could produce as many as 60 falling stars an hour as the Earth passes through the trail of Halley's comet.
The yearly shower, called the Orionids, will have peak visibility over North America from midnight Saturday to just before dawn Sunday.
They'll still be visible the next night — midnight Sunday to dawn Monday — though the shower will be less strong, said Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
The meteor shower probably wasn't the source of the large fireball seen Wednesday night over the San Francisco Bay area. The Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland said that fireball was a car-sized piece of rock and metal from the asteroid belt.
Gerald McKeegan, an astronomer with the Chabot center, said he saw it as he was driving. "I looked up and there was this streaking ball of fire going across the sky," McKeegan said.
But it wasn't part of the Orionids. "Wrong time of the day and going in the wrong direction," he said.
The Orionid shower this weekend will begin just after midnight "wherever you are," Cooke said. The shooting stars will appear to fall from above the star Betelgeuse, the bright orange star marking the shoulder of the constellation Orion.
"The first-quarter moon will set around midnight, so its light will not interfere with the celestial show," said Rebecca Johnson, editor of StarDate magazine.
The annual Orionids meteor shower is caused by a swath of dust and rocks left behind hundreds of years ago by the renowned Halley's comet. Most years, the meteor shower produces about 20 to 25 shooting stars an hour that are visible, but Cooke expects this to be a good year with as many as 60 an hour that can be seen.
"The good news is we've already seen a fair number of bright Orionids on our meteor cameras, which might mean it will be a good year for the naked eye," Cooke said.
Halley's comet (the name rhymes with sally) orbits the sun every 75 to 76 years and won't be visible again from Earth for another 49 years. However, it has left a stream of tiny bits of dust and rocks — as the ice and rock it is composed of slowly melts. That stream hangs in space, and each year the Earth moves through it in mid-October.
"What we're seeing is those little bits burning up in the atmosphere," Cooke said. "They just kamikaze into the atmosphere and burn totally up." For those who "don't want to wait until 2061 to see Halley's comet, you can go out this weekend and look up" and see parts of it, he said.
To get the best view, find a place away from light sources so your eyes can adapt to the darkness. That can take up to 20 minutes. Lie on a blanket or reclining chair to get a full-sky view.
"If you can see all of the stars in the Little Dipper, you have good dark-adapted vision," Johnson said.


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Have you ever been so spooked out by a dark passageway you ran down it to get into a lot area? Or have you ever walked down a dark road, covered in dry leaves and have the extreme paranoia that something or someone is following you when you hear leaves cracking behind you?
That is the human emotion of fear, a survival mechanism built into us (and most animals too) to safeguard our sorry arses when we're in the middle of a s**tstorm.
For today's post, I will be having the usual "surgical" dissection of a topic with brute force ideology and for today, we have the topic of "The compelling power of Fear" and I will be referencing Tasogare Otome X Amnesia.
There will be many various posts in the near future where I speak of various aspects of Tasogare and similar manga/anime (like Sankarea).
Warning: Spoilers for Tasogare. And pic spam
I started reading the Tasogare manga 2 months ago, just shortly before the anime was released for the Spring season 2012. Rather surprisingly (or unsurprisingly since it was rather highly recommended), I got addicted to it quickly. Which is surprising as one of its genre is Horror and I'm a wuss when it comes to Horror (shocking revelation!!).
One of the most interesting incidents (where there are many incidents but I'll use this one since its a rather strong and vivid example) where the power of fear was demonstrated was in the chapter (and anime episode): Akahito-San. A supposedly benevolent spirit that sacrifices humans to appease the gods, there is a ghost story that Akahito-San is exploring the grounds of the school and attacking students, rendering him red from the blood spilled. The main link of this story to all the other ghost stories of the school is that Akahito-San is supposedly looking for Yuuko-San as his sacrifice (Yuuko-San is related to every ghost story of the school. Just a snippet for those that have yet to read/watch Tasogare).
The main complication of this chapter/episode is that it also follows the story of another individual, Kirishima Yuuko, who had the poor luck of having a name that is infamous on the school, for which she gets teased off endlessly, tormenting her. Henceforth, she despises all ghost stories and doesn't belief in them. As it turns out, she was the one who hatched the story of Akahito-San to scare the other students and to convince them ghosts don't exist by dressing herself as this supposed monster.
This plan backfires in spectacular style when the other students, mortified by their fear, decide to follow the story fully and offer Yuuko-San as a sacrifice for Akahito-San. Which means Kirishima was captured and tied up, about to be killed by her now illogical classmates.
This demonstrates the power of Fear rather aptly. There are few emotions that can effect human behaviour to this extent. Greed and Anger would be 2 other I can think off and they too, bring about drastic and sudden changes when the right buttons are triggered.
The human emotion of fear has been utilised throughout the ages to reach many varied aims. One of its more profound effects is to make the unseeable, visible. In other words, to "see" what isn't there, like ghosts or spirits. It boils down to our human imagination and the media, which influences our thoughts, That we think we're being chased by a restless sprit when walking down a dimly lit alley. Combining these irrational fears with the right prods and you can create mass hysteria, subverting huge numbers of people to your control. The medieval ages would be a good example, where they burnt "witches" for many years in fear that they were the ones bringing peril to the land.
There are many other uses of fear And worries to being benefit to those who incited the fear. Climates of fear by rulers can keep the population in line, punishment is used to deter criminals and rumours, myths and other supernatural stories can be used to influence the naive, like children. (if you're Chinese, I'm sure your parents have probably reprimanded you for pointing at the full moon and many other little tales).
It might even extend to the manipulation of the human fear of death that the medical industry reaps in huge profits.
So fear has many usages and influences. I think I've run off a tangent for long enough now. Either way, I just find Tasogare an immensely intriguing manga/anime and I'm really enjoying it and it's little psychedelic moments.


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My Great British Bake Off challenge continues with dessert week, and I decided to try and expand my baking repertoire by attempting meringues. I've never made meringue and I've yet to see a Bake Off series that doesn't feature them in some way (this week they poached them as part of the technical challenge. I decided against that!), so the dessert I made was a summer berry pavlova.
My summer berry pavlova was basically just a meringue base topped with freshly whipped cream, a selection of summer berries and finished with a dusting of icing sugar. The result was extremely delicious (if not a little sweet) and I think it's actually a great showcase dessert for a dinner party as it's fairly easy to make, the meringue can be done in advance and the toppings added at the last minute, and I thought it looked deceptively impressive!
More about meringues:
The meringues were the only tricky thing to master in this dessert, so I did a bit of reading around in various books and online sources to try and identify the major pitfalls:
- The ratio you need is 2oz caster sugar for every egg white.
- You'll need to whisk the egg whites into stiff peaks and then add sugar gradually whilst whisking. You end up with a glossy white mixture in the end.
- You need to avoid getting any egg yolk mixed in with the whites. Apparently it's a good idea to split the eggs when cold from the fridge, but allow to reach room temperature (takes about 30 minutes) before whisking. Also I read a lot of advice suggesting using a metal or glass bowl.
- I didn't get the high stiff peaks I wanted even after whisking for ages! Turns out it was a mistake to take a little break in the middle of the process –which I only did once or twice for a couple of minutes to check my book, but this was clearly not the thing to do! Piping edges onto my base didn't really work.
- Even so, my finished meringue was crunchy on the outside and chewy and marshmallow-y on the inside, which is as meringue should be!
- I baked the meringue base on a low temperature (130°C) for 75 minutes and then left it in the oven to cool for several hours after, which allowed it to fully dry out.
- I didn't add the toppings until I was ready to serve, as this would have made the meringue slightly soggy on top.
So despite the lack of height in my meringue peaks (sad times), it still looked and tasted fantastic!
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Quran Read Along: Al'-Imran 190-200 – The Message of the Final Verses
Nature Ex Nihilo
The opening verse here is very philosophical in its nature, insinuating that written all throughout nature is evidence of God – we only have to know what we're looking at. That is to say, everything comes from God and the reason there is so much harmony in nature and things are designed as they are is because it is all divinely planned.
A few examples regarding the absurd construction of natural things often pop into my head when people talk about how perfect nature is, but setting these things aside, nature certainly is wondrous and the argument of God being behind its design is a most necessary one religiously for a great many people.
The terminology here makes me want to confirm, though: does Islam believe in creation ex nihilo? Islam has a strong philosophical tradition, and much of that philosophy champions the notion that the cosmos are eternal. What is the traditional Islamic line about that notion?
The Conclusion of Al'-Imran
Verse 195 holds quite a promise and a reassurance for the downtrodden. The notion of suffering in God's name is one I associate generally with Christianity, as it is a religion focused almost obsessively on suffering. This is not a focus of Islam, or at least I haven't found that to be so, but it makes sense that God would promise those who do happen to suffer for righteous reasons a stake in the afterlife. "Efface their bad deeds" sounds like "sin forgiveness," another concept I associate with Christianity.
Pointing out these similarities is not meant to undermine what is written here by applying a syncretistic bend to it, but merely to say that it is rather logical that these religions born of the same impetus (people who needed more than they were getting) and of the same God are to emphasize these inherently humane notions: all will be okay for those who are good yet suffer. When we think, why do bad things happen to good people, the Quran replies, God straightens it all out in the end.
My thoughts incline towards the fact that these are the concluding verses of Al'-Imran. Why? Are they a warning to the new Muslim community not to ultimately misinterpret this revelation as the religions before it misinterpreted theirs'? Verse 199 certainly seems to champion this notion as it provides the other side of this coin: that there are those of earlier revelations who have remained true to said religions and who deserve the same recompense as Muslims in the hereafter.
Please add what you can to our understanding of these final verses of Al'-Imran! Al'-Imran 190-200
190. Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the succession of night and day, there are indeed messages for all who are endowed with insight, 191. [and] who remember God when they stand, and when they sit, and when they lie down to sleep, and [thus] reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth: "O our Sustainer! Thou hast not created [aught of] this without meaning and purpose. Limitless art Thou in Thy glory! Keep us safe, then, from suffering through fire! 192. "O our Sustainer! Whomsoever Thou shalt commit to the fire, him, verily, wilt Thou have brought to disgrace [in this world]; and such evildoers will have none to succor them. 193. "O our Sustainer! Behold, we heard a voice call [us] unto faith, `Believe in your Sustainer!' – and so we came to believe. O our Sustainer! Forgive us, then, our sins, and efface our bad deeds; and let us die the death of the truly virtuous! 194. "And, O our Sustainer, grant us that which Thou hast promised us through Thy apostles, and disgrace us not on Resurrection Day! Verily, Thou never failest to fulfill Thy promise!" 195. And thus does their Sustainer answer their prayer: "I shall not lose sight of the labour of any of you who labors [in My way], be it man or woman: each of you is an issue of the other. Hence, as for those who forsake the domain of evil, and are driven from their homelands, and suffer hurt in My cause, and fight [for it], and are slain – I shall most certainly efface their bad deeds, and shall most certainly bring them into gardens through which running waters flow, as a reward from God: for with God is the most beauteous of rewards." 196. LET IT NOT deceive thee that those who are bent on denying the truth seem to be able to do as they please on earth: 197. it is [but] a brief enjoyment, with hell thereafter as their goal – and how vile a resting-place! – 198. whereas those who remain conscious of their Sustainer shall have gardens through which running waters flow, therein to abide: a ready welcome from God. And that which is with God is best for the truly virtuous. 199. And, behold, among the followers of earlier revelation there are indeed such as [truly] believe in God, and in that which has been bestowed from on high upon you as well as in that which has been bestowed upon them. Standing in awe of God, they do not barter away God's messages for a trifling gain. They shall have their reward with their Sustainer – for, behold, God is swift in reckoning! 200. O you who have attained to faith! Be patient in adversity, and vie in patience with one another, and be ever ready [to do what is right], and remain conscious of God, so that you might attain to a happy state!
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Deputies seize $300K of marijuana plants from Cypress grow house
Deputies seized roughly $300,000 worth of marijuana plants from a home in Cypress late Thursday night, the Harris County Precinct 5 Constable's Office said.
The Precinct 5 narcotics unit raided a grow house on the 8200 block of Polaris Point after conducting surveillance on the home for weeks, the constable's office said.
Deputies confiscated more than 200 hydroponic marijuana plants, plus several large bags of marijuana.
The constable's office said it didn't appear anyone actually lived in the home -- but when narcotics investigators arrived, they found two men harvesting the plants in the grow room.
One of them surrendered immediately, while the other ran and hid under insulation in the attic, deputies said.
Inside the house, deputies found expensive lighting hooked up to timers, as well as a fertilization schedule taped to a bathroom mirror. They found fertilizers, growing products, thermometers -- all of them adjusted differently in order to create different growing seasons in different rooms, deputies said.
The constable's office also said it appeared the men were stealing electricity in order to keep the costs of the operation down.
The bust came as a result of a tip.


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Let the lord be your guide
I came to know God at an early age through my Nana, I spent summers basking in the sun under the willow tree in Hood River eating english muffin bread with homemade jam and watching shows on tv about Jesus. I also watched the compassion of my great grandma: her 2nd husband had dementia and was a verteran who no longer was able to communicate, he sat in his chair all day long unaware of his surroundings but my Nana loved that man. She fed him, read the bible to him talked to him, professed her love to him, and Jesus's love and also shared that with me. I always knew that was what being a true Christian was about. As i got older my grandpa Bill passed away and summers at Nana's stopped, as she needed to move to Portland to live with her daughter my Mema so they could help one another. It was nice having her closer to home, but as I went through a tough time battling the enemy severely and unaware as a teen what I was up against i sunk into depression. At school I strived to be the best an overachiever at everything I did to make my family proud of me so I wouldn't be the disappointment that i felt i was to myself. I was made fun of for being chubby but I joined cheerleading anyways and even climbed my way to captain and to the top of the pyramid despite my weight troubles. I was called ugly, stupid, no one ever wanted to take me to the dances or dance with me. Would get into fights and fell into the wrong crowd. I had friends, don't get me wrong, but some were wolves in sheep's clothing. I made friends easily most of the time and it didn't matter what their popularity was I was always friendly compoassionate and still felt like I was falling short. I began dabbling in cutting myself and had thoughts that I'd never be good enough. My own family had their own hidden abusive problems but i forgave them. I felt it was a normal part of growing up and maybe I deserved all that hurt and pain. I started getting into drugs at my junior year in high school smoking pot and drinking and one Halloween night at my own parent's house at a party in the basement I felt chastised for an argument yet again with my parents and my mind started yelling f them all, f it, f them all and I was offered a line of meth and took that decision and never looked back. I fell into the habit fast and hard and grew further apart from my family and friends I eventually ended up so depressed that I dressed in all black and wrote depressing poetry but was too afraid to share it for fear of being shut down, as whenever i tried to share my feelings with family they would turn the other way and shut me down making me feel worse. One night I had enough- I downed a bottle of tylenol and then realized JESUS, JESUS WAS CALLING OUT TO ME CRYING IN MY HEART AND I PICKED UP THE PHONE AND CALLED THE FIRST PERSON I COULD THINK OF AND TOLD HER WHAT I HAD DONE, APOLOGIZED AND BEGGED HER NOT TO TELL ANYONE, BUT THE VOICE WASN'T MY OWN, IT WAS THE LORD'S AND I KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO CALL MY PARENTS I KNEW AND AS THE LORD SPOKE THROUGH ME MY EMOTIONS STARTED SCREAMING AT ME TWO DIFFERENT WAYS A LOUD SCREAM IN MY HEAD TO HANG UP THE PHONE AND HIDE AND THE OTHER CRYING TO MY HEART TO KEEP TALKING TO JANELLE. I GOT SCARED AND HUNG UP THE PHONE AND A SECOND LATER IT RANG AND I HEARD MY HEART SCREAM HALLELUIAH WHILE MY MIND SHOUTED TO HIDE DON'T LET THEM FIND YOU YOURE WORTHLESS YOU DONT DESERVE TO LIVE. MY DAD ANSWERED AND I COULD HEAR HIS TEARS AS HE AND MY MOM RAN UPSTAIRS GRABBED ME IN MIXED ANGER, NOT AT ME AT THEMSELVES AT THE SITUATION AT EVERYTHING AT THE FACT THAT I COULDN'T TALK TO THEM AT THE FACT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE ME, THEY FELT LIKE THEY HAD FAILED ME AND NEXT THING I RECALL IS WAKING UP IN THE HOSPITAL WITH A TUBE BEING FORCED DOWN MY THROAT AND VOMIT BEING PUMPED INTO A BAG MY PARENTS WERE LOOKING THROUGH A GLASS WINDOW AND PAIN WAS IN THEIR EYES, SHAME WAS IN THEIR EYES AND MY HEART YELLED KEEP ON FIGHTING AS MY MIND SCREAMED F THEM ALL. THEY LET MY DAD COME SIT WITH ME WHEN THEY WERE PUTTING CHARCOAL INTO MY STOMACH BUT MY MOM COULDN'T COME IN. I KNOW WHY SHE FELT BAD ASHAMED AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK. AS MY DAD HELD MY HAND THE DR TOLD ME NOT TO THROW UP THE CHARCOAL OR THEY'D HAVE TO GIVE ME MORE. I COULD FEEL IT BUBBLING UP MY THROAT AND BEFORE I COULD STOP IT IT WENT ALL OVER MY DAD WHO DIDN'T BUDGE BUT SAT THERE LOVINGLY LOOKING AT ME AND THIS PAIN WAS IN HIS EYES. I APOLOGIZED AND THEN I DONT RECALL MUCH , THEY MADE ME START SEEING A PSYCHIATRIST AND I FELT LIKE THE DR DIDNT REALLY EVEN LISTEN, I FELT LIKE NO ONE REALLY CARED OR LISTENED BUT SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH MY MOM STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE AND WENT WITH ME TO MY NEXT APPOINTMENT WHERE SHE WAS UNHAPPY WITH MY DR AND STOOD UP FOR ME FIRING HIM ON THE SPOT. I WAS STILL GOING UP AND DOWN AND THEY PUT ME WITH ANOTHER DR WHO CONVINCED MY PARENTS TO LET ME MOVE OUT QUIT SCHOOL EARLY, I HAD ALL MY CREDITS DESPITE EVERYTHING AND ALMOST ALL A'S TO BOOT. THEY RELUCTANTLY AGREED THINKING THEY WERE DOING WHAT WAS BEST SO BEGAN MY DOWNWARD SPIRAL. I ENROLLED AT PCC FOR WRITING 121 (ONE OF MY BEST SUBJECTS) TO FINISH UP THE 1/2 CREDIT I NEEDED FOR GRADUATION. I STARTED WORKING AT ANOTHER JOB AT THE MALL DOWNTOWN AND LIVING WITH A GAY GUY I THOUGHT WAS MY FRIEND AND IN ALL ACTUALITY KNOW I LEARNED SOMETHING FROM HIM HE WORKED THERE TOO. WE WERE BIG INTO THE DRUG SCENE AND PARTYING AT CLUBS DANGEROUS FAST PACED LIFESTYLE I WAS STEALING FOOD AND MONEY FROM MY EMPLOYER TO SUPPORT MY DRUG HABIT AND MY ROOMATES SO I COULD HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE AND WAS REALLY SCREWING UP HARDCORE, MY CHUBBINESS MELTED OFF MY BODY I GOT FIRED FROM MY JOB KICKED OUT FROM MY FRIENDS, STARTED LIVING WHEREVER I COULD FIND A PLACE, I WOULD STILL PRAY AND I STILL FELT GOD THERE BUT THAT SCREAMING IN MY HEAD ALTHOUGH NOT AUDIBLE (YET) WAS TELLING ME THAT I WASNT GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOD ANYWAYS. I DIDN'T BELIEVE IN MYSELF BUT I KNEW THAT VOICE WAS WRONG I JUST WAS STUCK AND DIDNT KNOW HOW TO GET OUT. I BEGAN SLEEPING IN MOTELS, UNDER TREES, PARK BENCHES, IN DRUG DEALERS HOUSES, PUT IN SERIOUSLY DANGEROUS SITUATIONS, I WAS STEALING FROM STORES AND RETURNING ITEMS TO GET CASH OR FOOD TO GET DRUGS OR TRADE FOR DRUGS WHICH BECAME MY FOOD, MY BODY WAS LESS THAN A TOOTHPICK AND I THOUGHT THIS WAS WHAT SOCIETY WANTED ME TO BE WHAT WAS EXPECTED, BUT I DINT LIKE MYSELF. I WOUDL TALK TO MY FAMILY ON AND OFF AND THEY WOULD COME PICK ME UP TO SHOWER AND EAT OR GET A FEW DAYS REST AND OFF I WAS. AT ONE POINT I WAS THROWN OUT OF A DRUG HOUSE FOR MY BELIGERANCE AND WENT TO THE FIRST CHURCH I COULD FIND WHERE I RECALL SEEING SHADOWS NOT DRUG INDUCED BECAUSE THEY TOUCHED ME SEXUALLY AND DISGUSTED ME I RECALL SCREAMING AND PRAYING AND ENDING UP BACK AT THE DRUG DEALERS HOUSE WHERE THEY CALMED ME DOWN IN FEAR THE COPS WOULD BUST THEM TOO. I RECALL A TIME ON 4TH OF JULY I GOT ANGRY AND THREW MY WOODEN MAKEUP CASE ACROSS THE DRIVEWAYS AND IT BROKE OPEN SPILLING OUT SYRINGES AND ALL I COULD SAY WAS THEY WERE A DIABETIC FRIEND OF MINES I WAS ASHAMED NOT JUST FOR MYSELF BUT AS MY OWN DAD BENT DOWN AND HELPED ME PICK THEM UP AND PUT EVERYTHING NEATLY BACK INTO MY CASE I FELT BAD, VERY BAD I KNEW THAT I HURT HIM MY MOM TOO, MY MEMA TOO AND IT HURT BUT I WAS SO NUMB FROM DRUGS THAT IT DIDNT HURT ENOUGH. I TOOK OFF AGAIN AND BEGAN A BINGE THAT ENDED ME GOING INTO NORDSTROMS AND ATTEMPTING TO STEAL A COAT AND BY GOD'S LOVING GRACE AN ANGEL SLAPPED HANDCUFFS ON MY ARMS AS I ATTEMPTED TO LEAVE THE STORE AND ALTHOUGH ASHAMED AND NOT KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN A PART OF ME FELT RELIEVED. I WAS TAKEN INTO A BACK ROOM WHERE THE SEARCHED FOUND, THE STOLEN ITEM, DRUGS AND A BUTCHER KNIFE THE NEXT ANGELS TO ENTER THE ROOM WERE THE PORTLAND POLICE WHO TOOK ME INTO CUSTODY READ ME MY RIGHTS AND HANDCUFFED ME AND PUT ME INTO THEIR POLICE CAR WHERE I WAS DRIVEN TO THE JAIL. i SPENT THE NIGHT IN A ROOM BY MYSELF MY OWN FAMILY WOULDNT COME HELP TOLD ME I WAS ON MY OWN IT HURT BUT I UNDERSTAND WHY NOW. I WENT TO COURT THE NEXT MORENING AND WAS GIVEN THE OPTION OF A COURT MANDATED TREATMENT PROGRAM OR JAIL TIME. i DECIDED THAT TREATMENT SOUNDED EASIER? I HADNT MADE IT IN MY PLANS TO EVEN BEGIN TO KNOW WHAT CLEAN AND SOBER WAS OR MEANT OR WAS EVEN REAL FOR ME, I JUST FIGURED THAT IT SOUNDED EASIER THAN JAIL, LITTLE DID I KNOW. I WAS LIVING AT A MOTEL DOWN THE STREET FROM TREATMENT STILL USING WHEN I STARTED ATTENDING THEY TOOK MY OICTURE AND LOOKING BACK I LOOKED UGLY, STUPID, A JOKE, NOT THE HAPPY CHEERLEADER CHUBBY AND CUTE AND FUNNY, I LOOKED LIKE THE WALKING DEAD. i ENDED UP GOING TO A FRIENDS? YEAH ANOTHER WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING WHERE I TOOK OFF WITH A BRIEFCASE THINKING I COULD SELL ITS CONTENTS TO MAKE A QUICK BUY AND GOT TWACKED AND STUPID WENT RIGHT BACK INTO THE PKACE I HAD JUST TAKEN THE BRIEFCASE FORM AND WAS MET WITH THE BARREL OF A GUN POINTED TO MY HEAD WAS TOLD TO FORGE A CHECK AND GO CAH IT OR THEYD BLOW MY HEAD OFF I WAS HANDCUFFED FOR HOURS AND RELUCTANTLEY JUST COOPERATED. I WENT TO THE BANK TO CASH THE CHECK (A BUSINESSES CHECK)THEY SET ME UP AND I WAS TOO NAIVE TO SEE THAT IN REALITY THEY DID ME A FAVOR I TOLD THEM AT THE BANK I LOST MY IDENTIFICATION OUTSIDE THEIR LOCATION IN A ROBBERY/PICKPOCKET AND THEY WERE PRETTY SCETCHY SO I MADE AN EXCUSE THAT I HAD TO LEAVE AND WOULD COME BACK THE NEXT DAY TO PICK UP THE FUNDS. I WENT BACK THE NEXT DAY AND THE ANGEL AT THE TELLER WAS NICE AND TOLD ME TO STAND STILL AND GLANCE OVER MY SHOULDER I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL APPROACHING ME WHO PLACED HIS HANDCUFFS ON MY WRISTS AND LED ME OUT TO HIS CAR. I WA SPUT BACK IN JAIL OVERNIGHT AND THIS TIME IN COURT FACED A FORGERY 2 THE ANGEL THAT HELD THE GAVEL WAS NO NONSENSE BUT COMPASSIONATE AND I TOLD HIM THE TRUTH I KNEW I NEEDED HELP THEY ENDED UP PLEA BARGAINING IF I WOULD TAKE TREATMENT SERIOUSLY OR I WOULD FACE PRISON. I STILL DIDNT QUITE CATCH ONTO THE CONCEPT OF SERIOUSLY UNTIL I MET TWO MORE ANGELS MY PERSONAL AND GROUP COUNSELOR AT THE STOP PROGRAM, BOTH EX CONS, BOTH RECOVERING ADDICTC NOW HELPING OTHERS IN A WAY I FELT INSPIRED BY IF THEY COULD DO IT SO COULD I THEY DID KNOW HOW I FEEL NOT LIKE THE DRS THAT LEARNED OUT OF A BOOK BUT THESE PEOPLE WERE ACTUAL ADDICTS THAT KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE AND WERE NOW HELPING OTHERS WHICH IS WHAT I WANT TO DO(ONLY WITH A CHRISTLIKE APPROACH) MY CLEAN AND SOBER DAT IS 9-16-1995 AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD I DID MAKE IT TO MY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION, GOT AN A IN MY PCC WRITING 121 AND WALKED ACROSS THE STAGE GRADUATING 6TH IN MY CLASS. I MADE IT THE FULL YEAR IN TREATMENT WITHOUT SCREWING UP GOT A JOB IN THE SAME BUILDIN DOING SOMETHING I HAD NEVER DONE AND EXCELLED AT AND FINALLY PROVED TO MY FAMILY THAT I WAS WALKING THE WALK THEIR PRAYERS HAD BEEN ANSWERED. I MOVED BACK HOME AFTER A FEW MONTHS OR SO AND GOT MY LIFE BACK ON TRACK AT MY GRADUATION I THANKED MY ANGELS THE JUDGE AND POLICE OFFICER FOR SAVING MY LIFE AND MY NANA STOOD UP IN COURT AND TOLD THEM THANK YOU FOR SAVING HER GRANDAUGHTER AND HER AND MY FAMILIES PRAYERS AND HOW PROUD SHE IS(I KNOW SHES STILL PROUD). MY NANA PASSED AWAY 2 YEARS LATER OF A STROKE AND I GRIEVED HER VERY HARD. I WAS ASHAMED OF MYSELF FOR LOSING THE TIME I FELT I SHOULDVE BEEN THERE WITH HER BUT INSTEAD I WAS OUT BEING STUPID, AND HURTFUL, AND RUDE TO MYSELF AND MY FAMILY. THE LAST TIME I SAW HER I WAS READING HER THE BIBLE WHEN SHE SAID TO ME THAT SHE HAD DONE HER JOB AND PRAYED ME BACK TO THE FAMILY AND IT WAS TIME FOR HER TO GO HOME MY MEMA AND MOM SAID SHE WAS INCOHERENT BUT I KNOW IT WAS SOMEONE TELLING ME SOMETHING THROUGH HER REGARDLESS IF SHE COULDNT SPEAK THE LORD WAS SENDING ME A MESSAGE. I RELAPSED 2 TIMES FOR 1 DAY EACH TIME AND EACH TIME I DID THAT I FELT STUPID, BAD, AND SELFISH SO I SAID YEAH KNOW WHAT THE lORD WANTS ME TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE AND NEVER DID i LOOK BACK. i ENDED UP MEETING MY NOW EX HUSBAND IN 1998 OVER THE INTERNET WHILE HE WAS LIVING IN FRANCE WE CYBER DATED FOR 6 MONTHS AND HE MOVED HERE AND I FELL IN LOVE HE WAS INVOLVED FOR THE WRON REASONS WHEN HE ASKED MY HAND IN MARRIAGE. HE IS A VERY ABUSIVE, SATANIC WORSHIPPER WHO COULD HAVE NVER BEEN IN HOLY MATRIMONY WITH A CHIRSTIAN AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER WEDDING HIM I HEARD THE ENEMY LOUD AND CLEAR NOT LIKE BEFORE BUT ACTUAL VOICES MY EX HUSBAND TOOK ME TO PSYCHIATRISTS HAD ME LABELED PSYCHOTIC AND SCHIZOPHRENIC, I KEPT WORKING AND GETTING PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY SICKER AND AFTER MOVING WITH MY EX TO CALIFORNIA I SUFFERED A STROKE A MEDICINE MY EX HAD ME PUT ON HAD CAUSED ME TO BALLOON UP TO 345 POUNDS AND CAUSED A STROKE. HE SUGGESTED SSI DISBILITY WHICH WAS PUT IN OUR JOINT ACCOUNT THAT I WASNT ALLOWED TO TOUCH, HE WOULDNT HELP ME TAKE CARE OF ME, NEGLECTED ME MEDICLALY AND HEALTHFULLY, TOLD MY OWN COUSIN I WAS GROSS, BUT STAYED WEDDED TO ME ANYWAYS FOR MONEY, TREATED ME LIKE A LAB RAT TO MAKE EASY MONEY FOR HIS FAMILY IN EUROPE WHOO BELONG TO AN ANARCHY GROUP WHILE I WAS ABUSED AND THROWN INTO HOSPITALS AND PRESCRIBED MEDS HE WOUDL DOSE ME WITH EXTRA MEDS THEN LIE TO DRS. I KEPT GETTING SICKER AND SICKER AND HE KEPT GETTING MORE AND MORE ABUSIVE THE SICKER I GOT THE MORE I READ CHRISTIAN BOOKS, THE BIBLE, AND CHRISTIAN SELF HELP BOOKS AND IT DRIVE A WEDGE INTO OUR RELATIOBSHIP. I EVENTAULLY FOUND OUT HED BEEN CHEATING ON ME AND HE FINALLY ADMITTED TO IT AND ASKED FOR A DIVORCE. WARNED ME TO NOT GET ATTORNEYS OR ELSE AND MY DAD AND BROTHER SAID NO WAY AND HELPED ME FIND AN ATTORNEY. THEN THE RETALIARTIONSH STARTED MY EX WAS ARRECSTED THE NIGHT HE FOUND OUT I HIRED AN ATTORNEY AND LEGALLY TOOK MONEY OUT OF OUR JOINT ACCOUNT TO DO SO. I FILED A RESTTAINGING ORDER AND HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE THE HOUSE. i EVENTUSALLY FOUND MY OWN HOUSE AND WAS SO SICK AT THAT POINT I HAD ASKED ON THE RESTRAINING ORDER FOR HELP WITH A CAREGIVER AND IN WALKS GREGORY ANOTHER WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING, THE WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING POSING AS THE CAREGIVER THE HEALER THE ANGEL OF LIGHT, ONLY I SAW IT IN HIM IN HIS EYES WAS THE DARKNESS, THE EVIL THE VERY SPIRIT OF SATAN AND i WANTED IT OUT OF THERE. I KNEW HIS VOICE SOUNDED FAMILIAR AND FOR A BRIEF PERIOD THE VOICES HAD STOPPED AND WHEN THEY STARTED UP AGAIN WAS AFTER GREGORY GOT OUT OF JAIL THE FIRST TIME FOR RUNNING FROM THE LAW AND LYING TO ME ABOUT IT THEY HAD GINS AIMED AT HIM AND EVERYTHING, BUT HE WAS A LEECH WOULDNT LEAVE LED ME ON TO BELIEVE HE WAS DOWN ON HIS LUCK JUST WANTED TO BE LOVED AND PLAYED ON MY EMOTIONS UNTIL I FIGURED OUT WHERE I KNEW HIS VOICE FROM HE SPEAKS TO MY MIND THE WHOLE TIME I WAS WEDDED TO A SATANIC WORSHIPPER HIS BUDDY SATANICALLY PSYCHICALY TELEPATHICALLY CONNECTED TO ME AND SCREAMS LIES AND BLASPHEMY AND EVIL AND TOUCHEDS MY BODY IN SICK PERVERTED WAYS AND MAKES ME FEEL WEAK. HE IS IN PRISON NOW BEING INVESTIGATED WITH MY OWN EX HUSBAND AND UNCLE(ASSOCIATED TO GREGORY BY SERVING PRISON TIME YEARS AGO TOGETHER) FOR FEDERAL FINANCIAL FRAUD WITH INT TO FRAUD(STEAL)PERSONAL PROPERTY AND MONEY DURING A PERSONAL PROPERTY AND MONEY SETTLEMENT DIVORCE BETWEEN ONLY MYSLEF AND FREDERIC. THEY ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION AS WELL FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER MULTPILE ATTEMPTS AT MURDER AND DRS HAVE ACCUSED THE PSYCHIC CONNECTION AND MR FATHER OF LIES WONT BE ABLE TO DENY THE FACTS YOU SEE HE CLAIMS HE OWNS MY SOUL THAT MY EX SOLD IT TO HIM WHEN NOONE BUT THE LORD JESUS WHO DOESNT WALK IN THE FLESH OWNS MY SOUL MY MIND AND MY HEART AND HE TRIED TOO MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT EVERY CHRISTIAN GIRL HE MEETS HAS TO BE A BLASPHEMOUS IDIOT IN THE SOCIETY SO HE CAN HAVE THEIR MONEY AND THEY CAN BE HIS SAVIOR BY LYING FOR HIM...I DONT LIE FOR MYSELF OR ANYONE AND SACRIFICING THEIR OWN LIFE BY COMMITTING SUICIDE SO HE CAN TRY TO WEAZEL HIS WAY OUT OF DEER RIDGE PENETENTIRY BY TRYING TO BLAME OTHERS WHEN AS LONG AS I STAND ITS WRITTEN ON COURT PAPERWORK NONE OF THEM WILL WALK FOR WHAT THEY PUT ME THROUGH. I BELIEVE IN MYSELF BECAUSE THE LORD IS IN ME AND GROWS ME SPIRITUALLY AND IS MY WISDOM AND GUIDANCE TO DEFEAT THEM ENEMY. I KNOW THROUGH MY EXPERIENCES I CAN HELP OTHERS THROUGH THE POWER OF CHRIST THE LORD OVERCOME ABUSIVE SITUATIONS FROM OTHERS AND ABUSING THEMSELVES AND FIND A NEW MEANING IN LIFE THE LORD NEVER FORSOOK ME NEVER WILL HE SENT PLENTY OF ANGELS THAT I CAN ATTEST TO THAT WOULDNT HAVE EVEN BOTHERED WITH ME IF THEY DIDNT SEE HOPE.
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Even though it's still super hot in Alabama in August when the calendar swaps to this month I start to think about Fall, Football, and comfort food. 30 Minute Flaky Chicken Pot Pie from Marilyn's Treats definitely fits the comfort food title.
Pumpkin recipes also hit my radar this time of year. Pumpkin Bars with a Gingersnap Crust shared by From Playdates to Parties are on my to-bake list for when it's not regularly 90+ degrees.
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Looking for a recipe to impress but is beyond easy? Herb and Garlic Boneless Pork Roast from Julia's Simply Southern is just what you need.
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Class-action push brings new threat to NFL schedule
As the NFL and its players strive to agree on a new labor deal to end the now four-month-old lockout, a separate issue has emerged that could still endanger the preseason and perhaps the regular season: how to unwind the antitrust case filed against the league by 10 players.
Outside counsel for the players, which include Tom Brady and Drew Brees, are pushing for the case (Brady v. NFL) to become a class action before it's settled as part of a new labor deal, multiple sources said. A class-action settlement requires a 30- to 45-day window for comment, perhaps longer. So even if a deal on issues like revenue split and rookie wage scale is reached as soon as this week, unless the league is willing to lift the lockout before the resultant settlement is formal — something league brass have publicly said they will not do — it could mean a longer wait to open the NFL season, these sources said.
Jim Quinn is representing players in the antitrust lawsuit, alongside Jeffrey Kessler.
"I really don't get how they get it done on time," said Mark Levinstein, a sports labor attorney at Williams & Connolly who is a counsel to the United Football League. "The players' view is the league will open camps on faith [once the framework is agreed to], and the league's is players will just drop the lawsuit and have a union."
Quinn in an email replied "nonsense" to questions about whether pushing for a class certification would delay the process. He did not reply to follow-up questions about how the season could open on time if a class motion is filed and the league will not open camps until all legal procedures are completed.
For Brady v. NFL to become a class action, counsel would need to file a class motion before the court, which would then give class members — in this case, all players — time to object. The court could then certify the class and approve the settlement, with the labor deal likely an amendment to the agreement. This is what unfolded with an antitrust case against the league in 1993.
In late May, at an owners meeting in Chicago, NFL general counsel Jeff Pash said the league would not lift the lockout until every "i" was dotted and "t" was crossed. Asked later about the issues of class certification, he responded there was no class, so it should not be an issue. Indeed, two immediate options would be that the 10 named players could voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit, or only they sign a settlement.
That would destroy the leverage of NFL players in future negotiations, Levinstein contended. The threat to decertify and file antitrust cases is a major weapon of players, he said.
In recent weeks, the sources said, Kessler and Quinn have advocated for a class certification as a way of protecting NFL players' future rights.
If a class is certified, the lawyers would likely become trustees of the class, which would earn them fees. Kessler had been trustee of the now-defunct "White class," which formed in 1993 in the wake of the settlement of the Reggie White antitrust case. The White class expired with the old CBA in March.
In addition, antitrust cases that are settled traditionally bring judicial oversight. The league opposes judicial oversight of the NFL's labor ties with the NFLPA. Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters in May that he anticipated a new deal would drop judicial oversight. The NFLPA has declined to comment on this point. So even if the league and players can figure a way to agreeably and expeditiously resolve the lawsuit, they would still have to agree on the issue of dispute-resolution mechanisms.
"Thirty-two owners will stay shut for the season over that one," said one league source about judicial oversight.


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Patriots or extremists?
That was the title of a
that aired this morning, looking at how some 100 new volunteer militia groups have sprung up since President Obama was elected.
The story focused on the
, filming them while they trained at Camp Stasa in Bancroft, a city halfway between Lansing and Flint.
According to a show of hands at the training session, about half the members there were new.
"Any time we get a democratic president in office people become concerned, including myself, and we get a resurgence out here," said a militia member identified only as Brian.
Another show of hands showed that every single militia member in attendance was worried about the constitution.
"I think he could be dangerous for the nation," volunteer Michael Lackomar said of President Obama. "Just the simple fact that we are out here and we are doing this will give people pause, will make them think twice."
The story is based on an August
, which found that right-wing militias are appearing in large numbers around the country.
The story obviously struck a chord with people.
The term "Michigan Militia" became number one on
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Obama vulnerable with 100 days until vote
With 100 days to go before the US election, President Barack Obama appears to have a slight edge over Republican rival Mitt Romney, though he is still at the mercy of a stumbling US economy.
Polls show the Democratic incumbent's lead is shrinking as voters lose faith in his ability to tackle crucial domestic issues, in particular the economy, as growth slows and the job market stubbornly refuses to pick up.
According to a Wall Street Journal and NBC poll published this week, only 36 percent of American voters are confident Obama can improve the economy, while 43 percent prefer Romney, a multi-millionaire former venture capitalist.
Obama and his team have been hammering away at Romney's argument that his business experience makes him the better choice to get Americans back to work, alleging that his firm often sacked US workers and sent jobs abroad.
But the attacks appear to have gained little traction with a pessimistic electorate. Unemployment is stuck at 8.2 percent and is not expected to fall below 7.9 percent by the end of the year, the White House acknowledged Friday.
Figures released by the US Commerce Department on Friday showed GDP growth in the second quarter slowing to 1.5 percent from 2.0 percent in the first, amid falling consumer demand.
Economists warn that growth of less than two percent is not enough to make inroads into unemployment, and Romney's economic advisers claim that their policies could quickly double the rate.
Sixty percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, the poll found.
An average of national polls compiled by RealClearPolitics.com, a non-partisan website that tracks political trends, shows Obama slightly ahead of Romney overall, with 46.4 percent of the vote to 45.1 percent.
His lead has narrowed from 3.6 percent at the beginning of July, even though polling expert Nate Silver of The New York Times, gives Obama a 65 percent chance of being re-elected thanks to the lead he enjoys in certain key states.
In his speeches, Obama exhorts his followers to mobilize for what he warns will be a tight election. In fact, the WSJ and NBC poll found that only eight percent of the electorate remains undecided at this point.
The campaign is likely to gather in intensity in August, and several key events in the coming weeks could still shift the momentum.
Romney must unveil his running mate, Republicans and Democrats will hold nominating conventions at the end of August and early September respectively and televised debates have been scheduled for October 3, 16 and 22.
"What matters most is economic news over the next 100 days," said Thomas Mann, an expert on the US presidency at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
"Every democratic government around the world faces a daunting challenge getting re-elected during these difficult economic times," he told AFP.
But Mann said he was "impressed by the fact that Obama has maintained a small lead over Romney and job approval ratings just a few points under 50 percent over the last months is spite of the economy."
Still, Obama has recently suffered a drop in his personal popularity. Some 43 percent of voters responding to the WSJ and NBC poll said they had a negative opinion -- 32 percent of them "very negative" -- of their president.
The decline comes amid an onslaught of aggressive Democratic campaign ads targeting Romney's Swiss bank accounts and what they portray as a record of lost jobs at companies controlled by Bain Capital, the investment company he led.
The two camps have pummeled each other on issues as diverse as foreign policy and support for small business. Romney accuses Obama of espousing a view of the economy that is "foreign to the American experience."
For its part, the White House has mounted a deft counter-program to Romney's current trip overseas, hailing the "special relationship" with Britain on Thursday just as Romney struggled with a gaffe over the Olympics in London.
On Friday, Obama signed a law strengthening US cooperation with Israel in an Oval Office ceremony that happened to be held just ahead of Romney's visit to the Jewish state this weekend.
On the campaign trail, Obama strategy has been to position himself as the defender of the middle class while lambasting his rival as an "outsourcing pioneer."
He has campaigned heavily in states that could decide the outcome of the November 6 election, such as Ohio and Florida, to where he travels next week.


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Cowles and Thompson Associate Helen Hutton Re-elected to DAYL Board
November 30, 2017 (Dallas, TX) -- Cowles & Thompson associate attorney, Helen Hutton, was recently elected to a second term as a Director with the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (DAYL). She will also continue as Co-Chair of the DAYL Judicial Internship Committee, and has been a member of DAYL since 2012.
Helen practices in the areas of civil litigation and civil appeals, with a primary focus in insurance defense and commercial disputes. Previously, she served as a briefing attorney for the Honorable Douglas S. Lang, Fifth District Court of Appeals of Texas, 2014-15 and as a judicial intern for the Honorable John R. Roach, Jr., 296th Judicial District Court, 2012.
In addition to DAYL, Helen is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Dallas Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the William "Mac" Taylor American Inn of Court. She received her B.S. in Business Administration with concentrations in Economics and Finance, magna cum laude, from Saint Louis University and her J.D., cum laude, from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.
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Katrice Bridges Copeland once worked as an attorney in Washington, D.C., defending pharmaceutical companies in fraud cases. The experience was an eye-opener. Now she teaches white-collar criminal law at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law, where her research targets illegal marketing practices by the pharmaceutical industry. Most of the illegalities stem from off-label marketing of prescription medications. Such uses constitute fraud because companies receive government reimbursements for those drugs even though the purposes are not FDA-approved.
Copeland maintains that federal deterrents against such practices are ineffective, and she offers some solutions that she says will help solve the problem. The government pays out a whopping $60 billion a year in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to drug companies, so what she has to say is getting national attention. See a recent USA Today story, for example.
What usually happens, Copeland explains, is that the government launches an intense investigation of a drug company's alleged violations, the company admits guilt and pays a fine—and then becomes a repeat offender. Another investigation and fine may follow, but the fines are often outweighed by the increased profits that accrue from the illegal practices.
The government is generally unwilling to pursue pharmaceutical manufacturers through the courts because as the law stands now, conviction means excluding a company from receiving any Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements for any of its drugs. That would seriously harm innocent parties: shareholders, employees, and patients who are prescribed any of the company's drugs. (Patients would have to pay for their medications from their own pockets.)
Copeland suggests several solutions to the problem, including holding corporate officers who participate in illegal practices criminally liable, and removing only the drug in question from Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement. Innocent third parties would be shielded from the devastating consequences of having all the company's pharmaceuticals excluded.
Copeland explains in this brief Penn State Law video what prompted her research. Her recent paper, "Enforcing Integrity" offers more details about her proposed solutions.


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Joints Per Pound
Ever wonder what a pound of marijuana really is — how many joints can be made from a pound of Marijuana.
Of course there are variables, but at .5 grams of marijuana per points, one pound makes about 900 joints — almost 3 a day for a year! (Using half a gram per joint, 28.35 grams per ounce and 16 ounces per pound.)
Recently a Oregon man with a "medical marijuana" card was found in Idaho with almost 69 pounds of marijuana on his way to Utah. He claimed it was legal because he had a card. That was over 62,000 joints worth of pot headed for Utah consumption.
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California's two major party candidates for governor face off in their third and final debate tomorrow night.
Polls show voters care most about jobs and the economy. But charges Republican Meg Whitman knowingly hired an undocumented immigrant dominated the news last week.
Claremont McKenna College government professor Jack Pitney says Whitman needs to change the subject at tomorrow's debate. "It's something that she needs to do. Every day that she is talking about the housekeeper issue is a day that she is not talking about the economy."
Pitney says Democrat Jerry Brown has a different mission during the debate. "He needs to talk about traditional Democratic concerns such as the environment and protection of the less fortunate."
The debate is at Dominican University in San Rafael in Northern California. Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw will moderate it.


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LBTH posted the Planning Inspector's binding report on the Core Strategy here.
Read the MERA representation on the draft Core Strategy here
"The Council is pleased to announce that following the delivery of the Planning Inspector's binding report, the Core Strategy has been found sound, subject to minor changes. This brings the Examination in Public for the Core Strategy to a close."
The inspector did take on board residents concerns about the vision set out for Mile End…
"Lack of sensitivity to local concerns undermines the credibility of the vision diagrams. For example it was highlighted at the examination hearings that the new shopping centre indicated at Mile End (Figure 51) incorporates residential areas and listed terraced houses."
She also questioned the ease of access…..
"A recurrent difficulty in this CS (Core Strategy) is the reliance on endnotes which refer to evidence base documents to justify the strategy. The endnotes refer to entire documents and in order to fully understand the reasoning and justification for some policies a detailed reading of these documents is required. This has been exacerbated because the "why we have taken this approach" sections, which are intended to justify and explain policies and link them to the supporting evidence, are placed after the policies. Consequently the CS does not flow or unfold in a logical way and is not an easily accessible document. This has represented a barrier to engagement with the local community".


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Neighbor: (noun) One living near or adjacent to another.
In New Jersey, we had neighbors by definition alone. Everyone lived in their little houses all within feet of each other. You could not help but know what your neighbor was doing because you were there, literally right next to them. I can honestly say that the only "neighbors" we actually had in the 15 years we lived in that neighborhood were the man who lived next door, some friends of ours that rented next door to us in our home and my in-laws when they moved next door. Otherwise, there were no neighborhood parties, no cups of coffee, no borrowing a cup of sugar, really nothing.
Here where we live in Vermont, our neighbors don't necessarily fit the definition in the dictionary but are what I'd like to call Vermont neighbors. Who is a Vermont neighbor?
- the person who waves at you when you pass (or they pass you)
- the person who always has time to chat and doesn't think it strange or forward to just "stop by"
- the person who will watch your kids when you just need to run an errand or two because she knows that you'll do the same for her
- the person who will make you chicken soup or just check in on you when the whole family is sick with some ungodly bug or other.
- the person who will loan you or borrow from you….a whatever, because why should someone buy it when someone else has it.
- the person who'll invite you over for lunch or coffee or tea or drinks…just because
- the person who will babysit your animals for you when you go away — again because you'd do the same.
- the person who will help you cut, mow, move, build, take down, construct, re-construct, demolish or whatever needs to be done 'cause that's what neighbors do.
- the people who live next door, down the road and around the 'block'. Neighbors don't have physical boundaries.
- our "Vermont neighbors" we're lucky to have them all. Thanks!


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A super PAC controlled by Republicans is making a late effort to boost Cynthia Dill, the Democratic candidate for Maine's U.S. Senate seat, in an attempt to divert progressive support from independent former Gov. Angus King.
Safe Nation PAC has spent nearly $25,000 on a mail piece promoting Dill. According to the Associated Press, the mailer touts Dill as "the only Senate candidate progressives can trust."
Safe Nation PAC was incorporated in late September, according to records on file with the Federal Election Commission, and Dill appears to be the only candidate the committee is supporting. The committee's treasurer, Atlanta lawyer Bryan Tyson, is a Republican redistricting expert. According to his law office biography, Tyson has been active in both legislative and Congressional redistricting in Georgia over the past decade.
The Safe Nation PAC strategy of encouraging Democrats to side with Dill in an effort to create an opening for Republican Charlie Summers is a familiar one. In August, the Republican-backed super PAC Maine Freedom started airing ads touting Dill as a "Democrat you can feel good about." The PAC spent $359,000 total on that ad campaign.
Maine Freedom's treasurer, Michael Adams, is general counsel for the Republican Governors Association. The PAC's recent quarterly finance report shows the group received its financial backing from donors who often appear on Maine Republican Party donor lists: Houston businessman and Southport summer resident W.E. Bosarge ($100,000), White Rock Distilleries president Paul Coulombe ($200,000, including $100,000 through a G. Coulombe Trust at the same Bonita Hill Springs, Fla., address) and Liberty Media executive John Malone ($100,000), whose firm BBC Land in 2011 purchased nearly 1 million acres in Maine forestland.
The late mailer supporting Dill comes as the national parties' Senate campaign arms have withdrawn their Maine Senate race advertising. That's not to say that all outside groups have withdrawn, though. The 501(c)(4) non-profit group Americans Elect continues to spend on King's behalf while Crossroads GPS this week spent $348,000 more on anti-King advertising. The National Rifle Association also continues to send mailers supporting Summers.
Outside groups have now spent more than $7 million on the Maine Senate contest.


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Does this not sound like your average black op zio banker plan of "Problem, Reaction, Solution" scenario? I can see merit in such a plan by TPTB to create a condition where the outcome would warrant U-N/N-A-T-O forces to control a civil unrest situation. What would wanna be free people do if living in a metro/urban area when they can not get to $$ and food was scarce while a suppressive regime was taking control of their lives? Wait a sec, isn't that happenening now one step at a time? All wars are banker wars and we all work for the bankers.
Monday, 01 April 2013 05:35 Tom Chatham
This article was written by Tom Chatham and originally published at Project Chesapeake
The past several years the federal government has embarked on a strategy of militarizing the local law enforcement agencies around the country. They have provided the money and equipment to give these agencies the appearance of small military units that act in a manner far removed from the community service of days past. This has pushed many local departments away from the friendly approach they utilized in the past to serve the public interest.
I have seen it myself in the local department where I live. In a county with less than 20,000 people we now have a police force with almost 50 officers and the sheriff wants at least 100 more auxiliary police officers. What all of these police are for in this sparsely populated area has yet to be answered. The sheriff has also made it a point to hire deputies from outside the county to ensure there is no close connection between the police and the local community.
This is exactly what the federal government wants, to ensure the local police will not be in a position to side with locals if anything happens. It is in the governments' best interest to drive a wedge between the communities and law enforcement. The government is apparently designing a confrontation between citizens and the government and they are using local agencies to assist.
A recent purchase of shooting targets by DHS met with outrage by the population when the pictures on them were discovered to be pregnant women, children and old people. It is now known that the designs were not from the target maker but in fact came from law enforcement. This is how you desensitize people to kill others. You reduce the enemy to nothing more than a paper target to prevent hesitation when the time comes to shoot them.
If there is a financial crisis that shuts down the banks for any period of time and prevents the use of plastic forms of money, there will almost certainly be chaos nationwide. There will eventually be riots and looting as people who are dependant on the state for basic necessities start taking what they need. The first line of defense in cases like this are the local law enforcement officers. They will have the task of maintaining order in a quickly deteriorating situation. Many of these confrontations will be violent and require deadly force.
What happens if chaos breaks out and the police have very little or no ammo to use in the preservation of order? Will officers be willing to go out into hostile crowds with little or no weapons to protect themselves? What will violent criminals and gangs do if they realize police have no ammo to shoot them with? Will officers show up to work in circumstances like this if they know they may get killed with little in the way of protecting themselves?
With the support of federal funds and equipment, and with ever more instruction from DHS, many local agencies have become distant and even hostile to the local populations. If something chaotic happens these locals will be less inclined to assist local police and hostile actions will become more likely. This will ultimately lead to the failure of local law enforcement to maintain order in a deteriorating situation. So what would this lead to?
DHS has ordered a great deal of ammo in recent months. Much more than is needed in normal operations. This has helped to dry up the ammo market preventing not only civilians from buying ammo but also police departments nationwide. Since many law enforcement agencies around the country use the same calibers, the massive DHS purchases have led to the shortages in the local agencies. If DHS were really working with local agencies to insure the peace they would be willing to make some of this government stockpile available to local agencies for normal operations.
If chaos breaks out and local agencies are left to their own demise they may run out of ammo early in the game. In some instances it is likely that criminal elements will provoke gun fights with police with the sole purpose of expending their limited supplies of ammo. After several weeks of a slowly developing crisis, many departments may indeed run out of ammo. This would cause an explosion of violence and criminal activity. It would eventually cause people to call on the intervention of federal forces to regain order when local agencies fail.
This is what some have stated the federal government wants to do. Allow chaos to spiral out of control until citizens scream for government control and the government will be waiting on the sidelines with the men and equipment to move in and take charge. After the failure of the local departments the federals will be seen as saviors and nothing they do initially will be questioned.
With the local agencies rendered impotent the federal government will have complete control. This could be one reason for the massive ammo purchases by DHS. If the ammo shortage in the law enforcement community continues and DHS makes no attempt to bolster local supplies then it will be a good indication of their intentions. At some critical time DHS may offer the local agencies full access to ammo but only if the agencies relinquish their authority and are absorbed into DHS. Local agencies that have subverted their local community support will find it difficult to maintain order since the bonds between law enforcement and community have been broken. All of the actions now being taken by law enforcement nationwide will ensure violence if a crisis arises and the probable failure of local agencies. The people should be prepared for that eventuality.


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This Is Why Being Intelligent Makes You Unpopular, Claims Study
I always thought that my penchant for people was an asset, but it turns out that it just means I'm basic.
A new study in the British Journal of Psychology has found that intelligent people are less likely to be satisfied with socialising because it distracts them from their long-term goals.
Now, when I'm sitting in my local pub chatting shit and having the time of my life, I'll remember that intelligent people would not be satisfied with such mediocre pursuits on a Tuesday evening.
The study, which took place over a number of years, looked at a varied sample of 18 to 28-year-olds and found that those who socialised were the happiest.
Ignorance is bliss I guess. If you you're not thinking about anything, and distracting yourself with pints of the cheapest pale, then of course you're going to be happy.
Authors Norman Li and Satoshi Kanazawa explain how our evolutionary history could explain how socialising performs a different function now compared to our hunter gatherer days.
Humans are innately social creatures, but in modern day life, survival is no longer our highest priority… that one's a given for most of us lucky people.
As Maslow explained in his hierarchy of needs, we are fulfilled in terms of having a roof over our heads and food in our belly's, so now we look to more complex goals of self-actualisation and ever-growing intelligence.
These days, less socialising can actually help intelligent people to focus on better adapting to life and furthering themselves.
There are more and more of us on this planet, but we're becoming more atomised because we need each other less.
As long as you've got Siri right?
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2017 Undergraduate Research Colloquium
Held at the end of each Spring semester, the OSU Marion Undergraduate Research Colloquium showcases student research to the Marion community. Undergraduate students from any discipline and all academic levels are invited to present their research and creative projects. The colloquium provides a forum for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting edge research conducted here at OSU Marion.