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I was alone; left on the curb of the street.
No more than five or six-years-old, I sensed that they had lost me for a moment, for I was rarely alone as a child, and I questioned the uncertain adventure that was before me. I wasn't scared, but it was a curious situation for the middle child of eight children. It was odd, and I knew it.
I looked up to the house only about 30 feet away. The windows invited me in with the yellow light of evening, the warm aroma of dinner cooking on a chilly autumn night, the little heads of my sisters moving about; I was aware of me, but were they? No one called or came out for me, so I let go, for what seemed like a very long time, of the warm blanket of safety that was my family. My timid, tiny self just stopped looking over my shoulder and decided to stay put.
"Being present" wasn't a common term or practice in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and if it was a little girl like me wouldn't have known it. But even though I could not articulate what I was experiencing I sensed that this was a rare opportunity to "be where I am" and to listen to my own thoughts. Honestly, in a family of eight kids, the noise of so many opinions and thoughts got muddled up in my own. I could never be sure if my thoughts were mine…or theirs. So I did what I already knew how do to, I "noticed" everything and decided it was important.
It was a fall evening and the sun was low in the sky, giving the world I knew a golden glow that was cinematic. The white of picket fences and trim around windows popped with light. The colors of the tree bark richly darken from the day's rain, fluttering gold and orange leaves released from their sleepy branches, the red of the fire hydrant and the sturdy brick on our northern houses all created a romantic luster of a magazine picture. I was in love. There was nothing I enjoyed more than beautiful images found in magazines and the movies, and I felt some innate need to capture the moment as if my eyes were a camera lens.
Through a series of thoughts about whether my grandparents and parents could remember when they were young, I made this weird little decision, out loud, that this was a moment to remember. So, I set about the act of observing every detail around me.
I was a petite child, rather meek, and can remember looking closely at my small pink hands as I spread open my fingers in the air with the moody gray sky as a back drop. I observed that I had my father's hands, square and strong, but when I moved them like an Hawaiian girl waving her hands to the Hula, I had the grace of my mother's long slender fingers. She had once been a hand and foot model, and her hand always looked so perfect in my father's. I resolved that my hands were the perfect mixture of both of theirs and suddenly didn't feel so all alone, as if my parents were always at the end of my arms.
The cold breeze on that Michigan night swirled around me and flipped about the bangs of my soft, brown pixy hair (a standard little girl cut in our house) and I watched the silhouette of geese honking their goodbyes as they passed over our rooftop. I could smell the crisp chill in the air combined with the lingering smoke of the day's burned leaves and dead branches. My mother was making a simple meal of hamburger, onions, and gravy that was poured over rice; filler-food, for a lot of kids. It wafted from the partially opened windows, and even if no one else was calling for me to go in, my stomach was. I closed my eyes, my little body wrapped in the natural and home-cooked aromas of the day, and I resolved that autumn would be forever my favorite season…the place I belonged…the season when I was most aware and alive.
I can still see my shoes, brown oxfords scoffed around the toes (probably worn by my sisters) and loosely tied, below brown corduroy pants faded at the knees. Wearing a candy red cardigan sweater over a polo shirt with buttons big and shiny; I liked to finger the smooth edges of those buttons. They looked edible. I recall liking that sweater a great deal, so I felt safely tucked into its familiarity that unusual night. Where I sat on the curb, my oxfords were damming up the run-off rain water as it headed for the gutter. Orange maple, red oak, and golden birch leaves matted the water's edge and little ripples moved the fallen foliage to their final vibrant end under the street. I remember a sense of sadness for their going away, layered with anticipation for the first snow of winter that so many people of the seasons feel and understand.
I seemed to understand the changing seasons, even at such a tender age, as the normal push and pull of life, the sentimental mystery of time passing. Blame it on the movies or my father's songs; I already knew autumn was bittersweet.
Along with the sad leaves in the little river at the curb, sat three little toy boats in primary colors. Made of hard molded rubber, they were propelled by twisting a rubber band around a spindle at the rear of the boat. They didn't go far or make much noise, but they were a favorite water toy of ours. I worried for a moment about their safety in being left outside, but moved passed it to observe the sparkly pebbles in the cement that made up our street. I marveled at how the street could be made up of such jewels of pink and pearly-white stones…like a treasure just ignored as people walked and drove over them.
Only minutes passed, I'm sure, but for me it seemed like time just hung in the air like the aroma of cedar and smoke. Before the urgency of getting called from the house, I took one last look at the pure radiance of dusk and decided that I was meant to remember things. It would be my job, my calling to notice and file away images, aromas, textures and expressions. I would do this for everyone in my family, because I felt deeply that 'someone' needed to slow down and see things; someone needed to remember.
As many young children feel, I believed I was living in the cradle of a perfect family and that my love for my parents and sisters and brothers was unique and stronger that life itself. I believed we would never leave each other; it was unimaginable. And yet, something inside my innocent self felt that, just like the seasons, life turned too quickly. It left me thinking there was a great need to approach all things on a sensory level so to record them in my memory for all time. From the spring time smell of lilacs in the alley, the new smell of vinyl toys at Christmas, the sound of my father's deep base voice to the look of deep emptiness in my mother eyes staring out the window; I experience the world around me with an acute awareness. From the embarrassment of having to wear bread bags over our shoes inside our boots to keep the melting snow from reaching our socks, to the warmth of my sister's legs tangled-up in mine on a cold winter night; I experienced everything with deep emotion, as well, and never wanted to NOT feel those emotions. Over time, very little escaped me.
On that day, alone with myself on the curb, I had an awakening and made vows to the God within my soul to see and remember everything that I thought was important. Little did I know then that the trees and colors of the neighborhood we once lived in would vanish, and that the family that was held together with super-glue love would one-by-one grow up and leave. That I, too, would be so removed from the seasonal changes of my youth, and that I would never know autumn like that again in my adult life. My memories at the curb were just the beginning of a lifelong need to capture moments with my senses, perhaps for the day when no one else would remember.
In today's information rich world, choked by an over abundance of arm-chair psychology and philosophies, one would say I was 'mindful' or hyper-sensitive. I might have even been diagnosed with attention deficit, since I was so often distracted by my senses as to be called a 'daydreamer,' 'lofty' and 'a quiet and shy sort of girl.' But even in early childhood, though I failed to have the vocabulary and understanding to express what I was experiencing, I knew it was some sort of gift or calling, this intense alertness to things around me, and to hold on to, remember, and recall the details of what my senses brought to me.
No one really cared. In those days, our parents were not being trained to listen to their children or promote their special gifts. I had to fit in, do my chores, perform as well as my sisters in school, sit down, shut up, and get to bed! My parents certainly gave me a rich life of music, stories, and nature, but I think they were much too busy just providing for us to single anyone of us out and give us 'extra' attention. We would have to do that on our own. I often wondered if one of my parents or a teacher along the way would have seen this intense perception in me, particularly this sensitivity to the natural world, how I placed value on them and connected them to some sort of quality of life; if they would have encourage me to write or express myself through art, what creative things would have sprung forth?
Instead, I have lived an ordinary life, restricted by conventions and low expectations and my own choices to shelf my sensory perceptions and memories, to be dealt with 'some other day.' Babies to raise, bills to pay, traffic to dodge, people to please; with no encouragement or acknowledgement of any special gifts; I grew up and into what society expected and was quieted by self doubt.
I felt guilty if I shared my perceptions, indeed wrong if I dwelled too often on them. Heavy company, overly dramatic, moody, distractible, highly emotional, too intense; these are the things I've been called. Many times, all bottled up inside myself, I just felt like I was crazy.
But, I wasn't. I know that now, fifty years later. I was born with sensitivity, intuition and the ability to see how fine details affected the bigger picture and people's emotions; the kind of gift that leads to a highly creative life, if nurtured. It wasn't nurtured, so it didn't flow or grow. I let down that little vow-maker on the curb, and I am sorry for that. She was my authentic self and over the years I betrayed her, disguised her to be something else, quieted and shelved her to the demands of other people and voices that discredited her. I was afraid of her.
Authenticity, though, doesn't go away. When autumn comes to South Texas, I see things that people who have lived here all their lives don't see. And I remember the detailed dramatic autumns of my youth, like a memorized movie running in my head. I am still at the curb, taking in every aroma and sound, only now I am not listening for anyone to 'call me in.' I am aware of me, and it no long matters if anyone else is. I am alone and letting the remembering flow like the water along the leaf strewn gutter…cluttered, rippled, and dotted with colorful objects. The only one who is calling is that little voice inside me, wondering when I'm going to respond.
Perhaps my five-year-old self understood something that took me years to comprehend, when she proclaimed that 'autumn' is my favorite season, when I am most alive; the place I belong. Not in the way of 'time in the year,' necessarily, but more in the way of life's cycle. Spring and summer were too busy and binding for the little girl on the curb, and winter is yet to unfold. Autumn would be the place where my own dramatic changes would unravel and become revealing with images and memories flowing like the stream at my feet and sparkling like the road that no one noticed and just trend upon. Seasonality is not only choice for me, it's a gift; an ability to see the beautiful struggle of changes, its entire splendor from life to death, and not only embrace it but yearn, indeed ache for it.
The poets and artists have always known that autumn is the most romantic and memory-inspiring time of the seasons, when trees can no longer keep their leaves and must let go, the shadows grow long, the light is illuminating, and when the changing air sends a little shiver down our sweatered spines. As I let go of youth, the tyranny of convention and obligation, and the privilege of time, so it is that autumn has become my most vibrant season of all. I am most certainly in the season of change, awakened and alive; where the little girl on the curb knew I was meant to finally 'be present.'


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A new study that shows a sizeable reduction in the annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with information technology (IT) equipment is clear evidence of the IT industry's commitment to a cleaner and greener world, CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the IT industry, said July 27.
The study released by the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) shows that the IT sector has reduced CO2 emission associated with IT equipment by more than 32 million metric tons worldwide since 2007.
CompTIA is a sponsor of CSCI, a global industry coalition formed in 2007 to reduce the environmental impact of new and emerging IT equipment through energy efficiency.
"The results of this important study clearly indicate that our industry is on the right track," said Todd Thibodeaux, president and chief executive officer, CompTIA. "Our members remain committed and dedicated to CSCI's energy efficiency mission. We look forward to helping achieve even greater CO2 emission reductions in the coming years."
Natural Logic conducted the benchmark study to assess progress of the CSCI's goal of reducing annual CO2 emissions from the IT sector by 54 million metric tons by June 2011. The research shows that annual CO2 emissions from IT equipment have decreased by 32 million to 36 million metric tons worldwide since 2007. This amount is equivalent to taking nine coal-fired power plants offline and is equal to more than $2 billion in annual energy savings.
"When CSCI was established in 2007, desktop computers wasted 50 percent of the power coming from the wall," says Pat Tiernan, executive director of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. "Today, through the collective efforts of our members, hardware manufacturers, large IT buyers and other key partners, the IT sector has cut that waste by at least 25 percent for new systems."
Going forward, CSCI will leverage the expertise and leadership of its members as the organization expands its focus to include commercial and home networking systems and devices. CSCI will begin by setting new energy efficiency criteria for networking technologies. These new criteria will be developed by working with members and through alliances with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and others.
"As the number of networked devices continues to increase the energy demands on networks and networking equipment will increase in step," said Rick Bauer, director, product management, CompTIA. "With this growth, there is significant energy and cost savings potential. CSCI and CompTIA recognize that in order to achieve end-to-end computing energy efficiency, we must address the energy used by connected devices and their interaction with the network."
As part of this expansion, commercial and residential routers and switches, commercial WLAN, and security and access devices will be incorporated into the organization's environmental mission, with the goal of reducing annual CO2 emissions by an additional 38 million metric tons by 2015. This is the equivalent of $5 billion in annual energy cost savings.
"We're also eager to expand our collaboration with CSCI in the training and credentialing of green IT professionals worldwide," Bauer added. "Technology professionals with skills unique to the green IT environment are essential."
The study covered the first three program years of CSCI, Initiative, from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2010. Data was compiled by examining member company progress on power-management adoption and market data, including shipment and installed-base information, PSU efficiency levels, number of units sold worldwide, operating systems in use, market research, and estimates from industry analysts.


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The man who plans to be Australia's next immigration minister has re-embraced the 1970s term ''integration'', raised the prospect of a series of English-test ''barriers'' to attaining citizenship, and vowed asylum boats would be turned back without seeking Indonesia's agreement.
On the day after another boat tragedy claimed four lives, Scott Morrison delivered a speech to a Muslim-founded inter-faith group and insisted Australia would make its own decisions about when to turn back boats. ''It can be done and under a Coalition government it will be done,'' the opposition immigration spokesman said.
Mr Morrison said the English language and jobs for immigrants, not festivals, were the keys to ensuring Australia's prosperity and unity. Australia needed more than a one-off snapshot of immigrants' English proficiency and follow-up tests could ensure language skills did not remain static.
With a big shift from permanent immigration to temporary visas, Mr Morrison said: ''There is a great opportunity to have a series of barriers, if you like - a temporary entry [test], a permanent residence and potentially even citizenship, if people want to have that conversation.'' When prompted, he would not not commit to making English a precondition for citizenship.
Mr Morrison was asked about his celebration of the word ''integration''. ''Whatever name you want to give to the various policies of the past 30 years, I agree with the purpose of them and that is to get Australians to live together and not be separated by language or religion or culture but to actually find the middle ground where we live together as Australians.'' He denied insulting Indonesia by suggesting the country's Foreign Minister was stood over by his Australian counterpart, Bob Carr, to harden Jakarta's line against the policy to turn back boats.
Rick Feneley is a journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald. He was the paper's long-term night editor and an editor of The-Sun-Herald. He is currently the Herald's deputy opinion editor.


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God in the club scene?
John Ruffle was rather, er, ruffled that his comment on our news story about the C of E and the BBC got removed.
We're sorry John (and we forgive you for questioning our Christian identity and propriety - about which see here and here.)
The deletion happened as a result of a bit of a mix-up at our end regarding an experiment with comments on news stories. We're in two minds about it, and are 'holding' in the meantime. Drop us a note if you have any views.
So, for the record, here's Mr Ruffles' reponse to Ekklesia's comments:
I agree that the sacred-secular divide is a residue from the Enlightenment, but is it really that easy to "...find God in a night-club..." unless the Christian faithful are intentionally planting seeds of hope and dialogue, along with an element of challenging young people to think through life's issues?
No one disputes that it is possible for a person to find God in a night club. The question is, will they? The primarily intention of the average clubber in west London where I live, is almost certainly to simply "have a good time". I question how many out there on a Saturday night are on an immediate and desperate quest for God. An apostle of the 'pre-modern' Church of the first century indicates why this might be: "...the god of this present age has blinded their unbelieving minds so as to shut out the sunshine of the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God." (2 Cor 4:4, Weymouth). I therefore suggest that a contextualised, intentional dialogue is therefore needed. For instance, a local community pastor and I run a film night periodically in our community. We do not push Christian "message" movies - but we do endeavour to provide a safe non-church space whereby life issues may be thought about in the context of society rather than the church, and where questions can be raised.
So while I agree with Jordan Tchilingirian that there is an over-arching sense of the spiritual that goes beyond church walls, there also needs to be an intentional engagement for Christian spirituality to have meaning and engagement in everyday life. As Robert E. Webber says in 'Ancient-Future Faith', "In the post-modern world evangelisation will take place within the various cultures of the world" (p 146). I endorse the Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, in that as a part of our own media culture herein Britain, (paid for by public licence fees), Radio 1 has no right to be excluded from intentional dialogue when it comes to Christian spirituality.


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"His craft, and what makes him such an inspired and singular voice, is to make it look easy. . . . That it's decidedly not that easy is part of the gag; writing this funny requires immense talent."
—AV Club
"It's that voice. . . . Had me laughing out loud."
—The New York Times
"Benjamin's stories run the gamut from personal to professional and will leave you laughing out loud and embracing your own failures."
"Benjamin's unique take on the classic 'fail until you succeed' self-help industry looks to be as self-deprecating and absurd as his best work."
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"Irreverent, edgy, and hilarious . . . Recommend to all who need a respite from stress and a good laugh."
"Benjamin is up-front and funny as he recounts his unsuccessful launch of a kids' late-night TV talk show (tentative title: 'Midnight Pajama Jam') and documents his parental shortcomings (bad idea: babysitting an infant in a video arcade). Yet failure 'doesn't mean the end of something,' Benjamin writes. 'Often, it's a springboard toward something better.' He delivers these and other words to live by with concision, wit, and a stand-up's sense of timing."
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Millions of businesses worldwide are still operating on paper field inspection forms. Some say it's damaging to the environment. We say it's damaging for your business.
Here's how using mobile forms makes your business better.
You save money
According to the statistics on paper costs, companies are oblivious that they can save from 10% to 30% on switching to digital. Many companies don't even track printing costs. This leaves you with a huge amount of potential savings yet to be discovered.
Do you track how much money you spend on buying paper and printing alone? You can forget about them if you switch to mobile.
Then there are all sorts of hidden costs. You don't just have to print the forms, you have to process them. It's hard to calculate how much you are paying your employees for processing.
First, your inspectors spend more time filling out the forms which translate to lower value produced over the course of the day. If you have people get the paper forms into the database manually, this must take ages to do.
This leads to the next point.
You save time
The same statistics we showed previously states that the average department spends about 15% of the time on printing. That's not all time loss you get when working with paper forms.
The printing hardware breaks down and needs maintenance. It doesn't serve forever too, so you have to update it say every five years. The cost of ten or twenty printers over the course of five years may not be much, but why pay at all?
Think what an average day for an inspector is. You get to the office to collect your paper forms for the day. You drive around locations filling out these forms.
Then you have to find a fax machine to send the forms to the office. If the company is small, you may need to drive there to deliver the forms.
Then other employees have to either catalog the forms or enter the data into the database.
Imagine how much time you could save if your inspectors can just go straight to the location and do their job with a mobile form.
You increase productivity
With mobile forms, the whole company works more productively. It is true for all levels.
You inspectors are not confined to the office. They can go straight to the location to review it with the mobile form. They can collect all types of data, make comments, and get the customer's signature without being connected to Wi-Fi. The forms will be uploaded on the cloud when the inspector connects to a Wi-Fi network.
Forgetting a specific type of form at the office stops the work for a couple of hours. With mobile forms, it's not an issue anymore.
Inspectors do not spend time on manually filling out the forms anymore. This, combined with other factors, helps them work on more objects in a day.
If other employees need access to a specific form, they can do it in a couple of clicks. Compiling reports is now extremely easy.
Top managers have an easier time monitoring their employees and can look into any specific site inspection form if they need to.
The decrease in cost and increase in productivity gives you an opportunity to issue discounts or coupons from a website like Couponbuffer.com. This increases your productivity even more, as you get more clients.
You get better data
Mobile forms allow you to get better data. This is true for both quantity and quality.
Your inspectors will have more time when they don't have to struggle with paper forms. This allows them to collect more data in the same amount of time.
You also get more accurate data because mobile forms don't let you send them without filling out all the necessary information. Inspectors get reminders about the fields they're missing. This reduces human error.
The sheer amount of data you can get from a mobile form can be bigger than what a paper form gives you. Take a look at this sample.
It's just one category, and you can fit a ton of those in a mobile form. You can fit the number of points that would take five sheets of paper in one list.
For instance, your food hygiene inspector would need to answer a couple of questions about hygiene at an establishment with just a couple of clicks.
Getting a signature is also a matter of seconds, even if you don't have a pen.
When you're done, you can upload the form in your database with one click.
A move out inspection will also be a piece of cake for the inspector equipped with a laptop and a mobile form.
Apart from checking the regular things about every room in the house, you can add unique options to the template. Get a free site inspection form sample and see it for yourself.
Data errors become practically non-existent. Your employees don't have to type in the data manually, it's all downloaded to the cloud.
You can analyze your data better
Paper forms make a hell of a job to analyze your productivity. With mobile forms that are stored in the cloud, you can run all sorts of analysis on them.
It can be anything from seeing where you could cut down costs to checking what type of object perform poorer on average. Mobile forms open a gate to the new world of analytics.
You can change forms faster
The worst thing about paper forms is that it takes ages to produce a new form. With mobile forms, you can forget about this problem.
Besides, with our Scan to Form tool, you can scan or take a photo of a paper form, then import it in our editor to build on it just as you would on any other web form. Is there an easier way to digitize documents and ditch paper altogether?
Whenever you update the form to a better standard, all of your employees start working with the new ones. It's done automatically.
You can even give employees different variants of the same inspection form to see which performs best. This allows you to figure out the perfect form faster.


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As a liquid additive, Water Preserver Concentrate disinfects, preserves and effectively extends the storage life of emergency drinking water for a guaranteed 5-years. It does so be killing and preventing the re-growth of harmful water contaminants, such as Coliform bacteria and other diseases-causing microorganisms and pathogenic lifeforms that can cause dysentery, typhoid and other life threatening diseases. Water Preserver Concentrate will also prevent mold, fungus, algae and yeast which can make water undrinkable.
When it comes to surviving the first few days or weeks of a massive natural disaster, staying hydrated is absolutely key. Water Preserver Concentrate will help prevent diseases that are often prevalent during times when water supplies have been compromised. Drinking unsafe water can lead to diarrhea or disease, which can quickly weaken your body, dehydrate you and decrease your chances of survival.
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Another great sale, with great prospects for our buyers!
A Halflinger that will make a driving or pulling prospect sold for $675.
We had a beautiful breeding prospect in an 18 year old dun AQHA stallion.
Our high seller of this month's sale was a 4 year old registered grullo mare.
She sold for $1,300.
A 14 year old registered AQHA sold for $950.
Beautiful 8 year old chestnut AQHA mare sold for $850.
A cute gray pony gelding sold for $500.
We had a TWH/quarter pony cross gelding sell for $300.
There were two for one deals at this sale for those who were looking to raise a foal.
One full size sold for $275,
and one pony size sold for $100.
Here's a younger pony ready for anything,
and a pony that was looking for another little girl.
There were colorful riding prospects. Spotted,
and solid.
We had quite a few gorgeous Palominos this month.
There were speed horses,
or driving horses,
if pleasure or trail isn't your thing.
And many that could do anything you wanted.
We had 10 lots of hay (total of 519 bales) that sold between $2.00 and $5.50 a bale, which averaged out to $3.47 a bale.
We also sold one lot of 55 bales of straw for $1.85 a bale.
Thanks to everyone who attended our sale, especially our consignors and buyers!
If you want to consign your horse, please call or email with details and I gladly advertise your horse before the next sale. We appreciate your support!
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LaRue, OH 43332


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US History Timeline(Free)
Description 'US History Timeline(Free)' is an application which shows the list of important events from US history.
Each event includes a hot-link to the appropriate entry of Wikipedia.
This will help users get more information about the event.
The application also features the maps of important times, list of important people, and comparison table of US history and World history.
You can enjoy US history easily on the go with US History timeline.
1. US history timeline
2. Hot-links to the entries of Wikipedia
3. Maps of important times
4. List of people and the Presidents
5. Comparison table of US history and World history
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1. 3G or WiFi access is required in order to access Wikipedia.
2. The explanations in Wikipedia may be different from the developer's opinion.
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Banish muddy paw prints with this attractive and durable Large Doormat from Soggy Doggy.
Constructed from a series of micro-fibre 'noodles'. This anti-slip mat soaks up water like a sponge, absorbing 5 times more moisture than a regular cotton doormat.
It's quick drying technology means that it is odour free and bacteria free, so you can wave goodbye to that pungent damp dog smell too!
Measuring 66 x 91 cm, and soft and snuggly in texture, this mat doubles as a great crate liner or travel bed.
Easy to clean, simply machine wash on a cool temperature and it's as good as new.
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The 'Natural Europe Learning Pathways' workshop aims to offer to formal and adult educators (such as school teachers or other education practitioners) the means to design and create their own educational pathways through the digital cultural heritage collections for the performing arts. Through use of IT and digital libraries, teachers will be offered the means and opportunity to introduce new educational approaches.
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The 'Natural Europe Learning Pathways' workshop intends to:
• introduce an enhanced paradigm of access, usage and incorporation of educational material related to cultural heritage collections for Performing Arts within the formal and informal education contexts
• promote interconnection between the Inquiry-based educational model and creative and "edutaining" educational practices
• put forward this alternative way of Performing Arts education through training of the academic community
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A couple of new character posters have been released for director Dean Parisot's (Galaxy Quest) Red 2, a much-anticipated sequel to an indulgently fun summer blockbuster franchise. The new posters showcase stars Bruce Willis and John Malkovich in all of their "retired" glory. The sequel finds Frank Moses (Willis) pitted against Victoria (Helen Mirren) when M16 gives the go ahead to his assassination by declaring him Interpol's "most wanted." All the while, Moses and his team work to track down a missing nuclear device. Mary-Louise Parker will return while Catherine Zeta Jones, Byung Hun, and Anthony Hopkins join the cast.
Although Red 2 looks indulgent (much like The Expendables franchise), we all can admit that we like to watch Willis blow stuff up and we enjoy seeing Malkovich, well, be himself. Hit the jump to check out the new posters and to read the full synopsis. Red 2 opens on July 19th.
Posters via Yahoo. Click to enlarge.
Here's the official plot synopsis for Red 2:
In RED 2, the high-octane action-comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. To succeed, they'll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the next-generation weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow. Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills, and each other to rely on as they try to save the world-and stay alive in the process.


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- Momo: See, I said you would get better and better! That was a neat win!
- Nikki: I feel a sense of familiarity when it comes to the wasteland style. It's like the Bohemian ethnic style in our previous world.
- Contestant in Group C: I saw the whole match back stage. To defeat the opponent from the Republic of Wasteland at her own style, that's incredible!
- Nikki: Hi! Thank you!
- Contestant in Group C: I am in group C. It will be my turn soon. Could you please do some warm-up with me over Lilith gorgeous dress?
- Nikki: Sure, no problem!
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I hope to offer a safe, comfortable, and supportive space as you address challenges, and explore patterns that keep you stuck and/or frustrated. Together we will experiment with small changes to help move you toward the life and love you want. We do this at your pace. I always have water, coffee and tea available for you to enjoy while we talk (and chocolate, too).
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Welcome! Please bear with us as we update our website and programs. Check back soon! The Center for Beef Excellence seeks to partner with others in the beef industry by developing an infrastructure to enhance opportunities for all enterprise segments. Learn more about CBE »
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Let the GIF Spamming begin
We set out the week excited about our new venture and all it holds for us. We downloaded GIF Keyboard from Google Play and got started. Once we implemented the GIF-only chat order we were spamming them left and right. During the first hour we found over 20 ways to say good morning.
As the day progressed, we really got a good feel for the app and enjoyed exploring the options. When I wanted to see if my colleagues were ready for lunch I did a quick search for 'lunch' and found a ton of GIFs and one in particular had a question mark on it. That was what I trying to convey. My colleagues responded with GIFs of Winnie the Pooh eating honey and Patrick from Sponge Bob eating a hamburger. I knew lunch was on and my colleagues were famished.
Finding appropriate GIFs proved to be quite easy with the app. You can explore different reactions like #chillout, #eyeroll, #imissyou, #please, etc. From there you can further explore the GIFs with more specific phrases. For #please you can choose from 'puppyeyes', 'pretty', 'beg', etc. Once you've chosen your GIF you can customize it with different animations like thumbsup, partyhard, dealwithit, teareyes and many more. You can then choose from the messenger you can to send it out with. Once the recipient has it, they can open it via the web. We used WhatsApp throughout the week and you get a preview image in the text box next to the URL.
Our communications changed
When you only message with GIFs you have to be more creative to communicate effectively. You need to pay attention to what is going on in the animation to get the right idea of what the person needs or what you want to express. This brings a more visual element into your messages and to our language in general.
Text messaging was a lot more entertaining when we only used GIFs. One of my colleagues got the song 'Final Countdown' caught in his head. In the past we would have just sent him messages throughout the day that alluded to the song. But with the GIF keyboard we were able to send him more colorful ways to remind him.
During this week we saw a surprising difference in our face-to-face interactions. Our verbal communication was different. We used fewer words when we talked. We would use words associated with GIFs to express how we felt or thought. We also would copy the mannerisms from GIFs we shared earlier.
GIFs give us more subtlety
The week ended and we opened up using words and emojis again. Well, not surprisingly we used far fewer GIFs. The GIFs we used started to become more subtile. Since we used all of the popular ones that really fit with the messages we found more interesting ways of expressing ourselves through the GIF app.
Our GIFs integrated into our messages quite well. This has enhanced our communications, there is just so much more subtilty you can express with the GIF. We also have a few more inside jokes. This might be a bit excluding to our other colleagues unfamiliar with our GIF experiment but it has given us better team cohesion. As GIF apps are used by more of our colleagues we could expect the same change in our face-to-face communication.
This phenomenon is not new. Think back to how LOL and OMG changed the way we talked and communicated. Emojis had a similar effect but more on our messages. GIF keyboards have the potential to be much more pervasive. They can affect our face-to-face communications as much as our messages and that's powerful. Overall, I think this change is positive and brings us together more.


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Workshop part of effort to boost economic development of region.
A new economic development effort to benefit the region began Thursday as Elevate Northeast Florida held its first work session at the Renaissance Resort at World Golf Village in St. Augustine.
The workshop was part of a three-day trip by Austin, Texas-based Avalanche Consulting, which has been retained by the Northeast Florida Regional Council, JAXUSA Partnership and CareerSource Northeast Florida.
Elevate NEFL is an effort to promote a regional, rather than provincial, approach to economic development.
It follows Innovate Northeast Florida, a strategy developed in 2012 and implemented over five years,
During the workshop, participants engaged in tabletop discussions on aspects of economic development.
Topics included economic momentum, talent and education, culture and recreation, trade, global brand, and innovation and entrepreneurship.
The ideas were collected and will be included in the strategic initiative.
Amy Holloway, president and CEO of Avalanche, told the group about the progress the region has made since her firm led the Innovate Northeast Florida project.
"The charge of that strategy was to create a region that was more innovative across many platforms," Holloway said. "It's generated really amazing results."
She said in the last six years, the region has created more than 19,000 net new jobs and attracted $2.7 billion in capital investment.
"Elevate Northeast Florida is how to take it to the next level of competitiveness, not only how to become the best business climate in Florida, but how to make it the best and most competitive in the country," Holloway said. "And I think that's possible here."
The strategic planning process includes assembling a regionally diverse steering committee of public, private, education and nonprofit leaders to build the framework and facilitate the strategic plan.
It will develop economic assessments and benchmarking analysis, target businesses determined to have the greatest potential for success in Northeast Florida, create a workforce development strategy and provide economic and marketing recommendations to help the region continue its economic momentum and build a global brand.
Avalanche, Holloway said, specializes in a holistic approach to economic development, taking the process beyond job creation.
"It's truly about making it a better place for every single person here," Holloway said, adding that approach translates into economic vitality.
Key to that goal is a public survey, available on the project website at elevatenefl.com.
Holloway urged participants to recruit people to take the survey. The deadline is March 23.
"We want every single person in this region to know they should participate in that survey," Holloway said. "The more input we get, the better the strategy will be."
Avalanche plans to issue its report in August.


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Daytime UFO video filmed in United States 26-Jul-2012
More info about the exact location to come soon!
Moving so slow – we are not sure it's moving..

If he had not had a tripod we would probably not have seen it move.

And if there had been stars – It would have looked just like a star.

TRIPOD POWER!!
where did the jet aircraft come from?
maybe the planet nibiru everyones talking about.dont like the video because you never show the moon then the object,as so nothing to compare it to.maybe a star and helicopter pilot if so knew about it,just stay stationary instead of going after it.could be good footage but to many red flags.
Since I am a born and bred Long Islander, now living in the Midwest, I would like to know if you are referring to I 495 on Long Island, NY? I sure looks like it and one can see some of Mac Arthur Apt. from the Expressway. Thus the chopper.
First i want to say i like your approach and what you are saying in the vid! Its not you go crazy and wow wow wow this is a UFO! but rather you describe what you see without any conclusions. Nice video!

And a tip for eveyone who are filming or looking at the sky and happen to own a smart phone there are some apps with star maps. I dont want to promote anything here but there are some
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Are you the type to fight with a friend or spouse over a beautifully burnished, crackly, crispy pig's ear like a couple of starving terriers? If the answer is yes (or even maybe), then has The Cookery got the meal for you!
Photos by Peter Carr/TJN
The appropriately named Pig Dinner promises a submersion in "gastronomic perversions and barbarism." I, for one, can see the barbarism aspect, an entire pig placed between 6-8 hungry people with naught but a few pairs of tongs to rip and shred, but perverse? If loving a whole pig is wrong then I don't wanna be right!
In fact, as someone who's been known to roast an entire pig myself, I find it the opposite of perverse. There is absolutely no waste, no meat carved away to prepare a restaurant worthy loin chop for example. And the flavor when the animal is cooked whole? Again, I've described it as the opposite of perverse, pure. My exact words at the time were, "It was clean tasting, as if cooking it whole left an unblemished purity."
For those who have never been to The Cookery, it is cool. Sort of that '90's grunge band, "I don't gotta play by the Man's rules!" cool. With exposed brick in some spots and a chalk board proclaiming specials many places could look like they're trying too hard, like my dad with an earring. But at The Cookery it all just falls into place. Hip servers offer hip specials and one finds himself jealous of the patrons who are known and addressed by name before being led to one of the solid wooden tables.
But not, however, the prime table set in the window at the front of the restaurant. Oh no, the only table at The Cookery that may be reserved, this is saved for those partaking in the Pig Dinner.
Priced at $65 per person, the Pig Dinner includes an appetizer, the aforementioned pig, and three market side dishes and dessert. Rustic as a whole pig might be, the appetizer allowed Chef David DiBari to flaunt his technique and attention to detail. A small slice of terrine was accompanied by a fantastic whole-grain mustard and vinegary cornichons, as well as beautifully charred bread. I knew what was in store for me food-wise but still finished every crumb. Also, on the plate was a blood pudding, served over a dollop of polenta. Both were incredible. The polenta managed to be creamy while maintaining a toothsome bite. It was a perfect foil for the much milder than expected blood pudding. Even those at the table who seemed at first dubious of the pudding finished every bite.
[A different charcuterie plate is here, but you get the idea:]
As great as the appetizer was, excitement was building to a fever pitch for the main event. Though I was sitting with my back to the dining room (take that normal diners not feasting on a whole pig!), a buzz amongst the other diners alerted me that it was showtime. As servers frantically cleared space at the center of our table, Chef DiBari himself walked the beautifully glistening pig to our table. He proceeded to, very quickly and efficiently, carve our pig right there on the table. Though broken down, the pig was still left in caveman sized hunks. We were left with tongs, instructions that the cheeks and ears were the best part, and the express hope that the table didn't devolve into Lord of the Flies-esque anarchy.
At the risk of repeating myself, one bite of the rich, sticky meat reinforced my perception about the purity of flavor. It was clean and porky and delicious. Paired with perfectly crispy skin it was irresistible. The pig was accompanied by potatoes and vegetables that it had been roasted upon, as well as an order of "buttery salty potatoes with parmigiano and slovenian fleur de sel". Allow me to repeat that. Buttery salty potatoes with parmigiano and slovenian fleur de sel. Only on a table with a whole pig would those not be the most delicious thing being served.
The Pig Dinner is an event and the pig itself is a showstopper. Also, a stranger stopper. Not content to merely openly gape at our pig, numerous diners stopped by the table to see if it was all it was cracked up to be. After hearing our ravings I'd guess their attestations of a return visit were sincerely meant. Not willing to cede any ground on the "perversion" part of the dinner, I prefer my title, A Porktastic Orgy Of Self Indulgent Excess. That seems about right to me. Do yourself a favor: reserve a table soon and see if it seems right to you!
The Cookery website is here: TheCookeryRestaurant.com


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i-Tech 7 Hires New Business Development Manager
i-Tech 7, Subsea 7's life of field business unit, has appointed Craig Roberts as its new regional business development manager for its Asia Pacific & Middle East region.
Roberts, who joins from Total Marine Technology (TMT) where he was operations manager, will be based in the company's Perth office, in Australia. He brings to the role more than 25 years' experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, specializing in the delivery of remotely executed subsea solutions and tooling across the entire lifecycle of a subsea development.
Roberts will work with Simon Hird, i-Tech 7's Asia Pacific regional director, who joined the company earlier this year.
"[Roberts] is a well-known face to many of our existing clients and brings key relationships from across the industry which will assist us as we pursue our growth strategy in the region," Hird said.
"Craig's appointment, coupled with our extensive life of field capabilities and the recent charter of specialist subsea support vessel, the MMA Pinnacle, ensures we are well positioned as the go-to partner for all our clients' subsea life of field challenges."


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Emmet's Car (From Lego city) was a mini model available to build at Toys 'R' Us on February 8th, 2014 and again on April 12th, 2014. Employees handed out clear plastic zip bags and guests picked the pieces out of bins. Two instruction sheets were available, one to build Emmet's Car and the other to build Emmet's Fly Car. A variant of the car is included in 70818 Double-Decker Couch which includes a slightly different build featuring a radio panel on the dashboard as well as other modifications.
- This set is fairly similar to the set 3177 Small Car, the car available with 7939 Cargo Train, and the car available with 60200 Capital City.
- Unlike in the movie, the physical set does not have a radio panel on the dash.
- If the Toys R Us store ran out of pieces, the Super Secret Police Enforcer polybag was given.[source?]
- It also came in set 70818.
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|Clickteam logo (present day)
Clickteam was established in 1993 by pioneering concept developers; Yves Lamoureux, François Lionet and Francis Poulain.
Clickteam is the development group behind award winning software titles such as Klik and Play, The Games Factory and Multimedia Fusion.
he two main software authors of Clickteam are François Lionet and Yves Lamoureux. Both can be called "pioneers" of personal computing and have been releasing commercial software since 1983. Prior to working with Yves, François was the author of successful titles on the Atari ST and Amiga computers. These included STOS Basic and AMOS Basic. Yves worked on many successful games for different companies, and then worked with François in 1994 on Europress' Klik & Play (published by Maxis in the US). Since then, Yves and François never stopped working together on the "click" range.
Yves Lamoureux
Lead Developer: Yves is one of the lead developers for Clickteam Fusion 2.5, Install Creator and Patch Maker. His main role inside the company is to lead the development of the current product range. Yves mainly develops on the core of the Fusion 2.5 runtime, he compiles the latest betas and ensures the product is in good standing for beta and official releases. Yves also heads the development of other products in the Click range such as Install Creator (Pro) and Patch Maker.
François Lionet
Lead Developer: François is the other half of the lead developers for Clickteam Fusion 2.5. His main role inside the company is working on the runtimes, the editors and innovating new features.
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I was waiting for the phone call. I grabbed it as soon as it rang, and I heard the news. Mazel tov! It's a girl! My sister's baby daughter was born on Tisha B'av afternoon. Unexpectedly, following the waves of joy came the pangs of hurt fast and furiously. Everything seemed wrong. My mother should have been the one to call me with the news. Instead I was asking my brother-in-law if he needed help making phone calls. It didn't take long for the tears to come. I missed my mother.
It was so easy for me to imagine my mother sitting on the phone making call after call, informing everyone of this simchah. I could see her excited face and hear her excited voice. I could imagine the discussion of when there would be a kiddush and when my parents would come in. But we have none of that. My parents aren't here to enjoy this simchah.
Typically, it's so important for me to focus on what I have and to appreciate the good with which Hashem did bless me with. But this day was Tisha B'av. Tisha B'av is the day to look at our pain and suffering, to bring it to Hashem and cry to him, to beg him to end our suffering with the geulah. This day is the day to be in touch with our pain, to really feel it, to own it and to connect it to our living in galus. Tisha B'av is to mourn what we don't have and to realize that we are missing out on so much, that what we have is not enough. We so desperately need Mashiach and the geulah.
My newborn niece is named after my mother. The name Nechamah, comfort, was added on. This baby should iy"H bring comfort to her parents and to the whole family. And this should be the year when all of Klal Yisroel should be comforted with the geulah sheleimah


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I trace my awakening to the Mother archetype to my dreams, especially one Big Dream. Raised under patriarchal religious paradigms, I salute the amazing Power of the Dream Source that gave me, "Howling Mary."
Happy Mother's Day to all women, and perhaps to all men. (What are the odds, if you choose this life setting often, that you've been both sexes?)
Thanks to all women who choose to give birth, and to those who don't.
Thanks to all men, who don't just plant seed, but nurture it.
Happy Mothers and Fathers day.
Howling Mary is the Goddess pissed off about a whole lot of things. The way the boys are running things; the wanton destruction of hearts and earth. She's the return of the Feminine to Divinity. I don't just want equal pay, I want Her to share divinity with Him. Mother/Father, Sister/Brother. When She is recognized as One Who Has Always Been, the Archetype of Divine Motherhood, the Creator and Nurturer, the Earth, things will change. Mothers are a good influence in general; She is the psychic part missing from our paradigm.
With all apologies to Mary; the Goddess is Not a Virgin. She likes sex. She gives birth, not just once but continuously, to us and to all that is. She also wouldn't step on a snake or anything else. She can be Wild, She is Nature. But Mother Virgin Mary is as much of the Goddess as the boys could take, the people wouldn't give her up and they had to give them something.
Howling Mary is Mad as Hell and She Ain't Going to Take it Anymore. That seems to be what my dream is saying. How many of us will join her in howling?
I love women; the women in my life, starting with my mom and continuing with the dearest of dear friends; I wish we'd get busy doing more to ensure that women aren't rendered inconsequential once again. I shudder at the thought of being legally bound by life altering and restricting rules, just because I'm a woman, and because only men make the decisions. I love men, for the very same reasons. My dad is my Buddha; it just came naturally to him to be the best father possible. My brother is a wonderful man and a loving friend, my loving husband, Jim, and so many wonderful guy friends. I call on them to get busy, too. Whatever happened to 50/50 here in the USA?
Honoring the Mother is a great first step to healing the planet; can you imagine a Middle East that honors Her? I think any religion that relegates Her to the bench, relegates women to varying degrees of jeopardy. Extreme, rigid, dogmatic men are dominant in Christian sects today, too. I think western women need to participate more in changing the paradigm for the sake of future generations, especially. Dogmatic rigidity kills Spirit; just ask Jesus.
I sing a heart song for the Mother today.


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Mail Online reported:
BP will spin off its efforts to manage the fallout from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into a separate division to be headed by renowned troubleshooter Bob Dudley.
Chief executive Tony Hayward told investors that US citizen Dudley would lead the long-term response once the spill is over, adding: 'I don't believe we could have a better person to lead this organisation.'
The spin off strategy raises legal liability questions. What advantages does a "spin off" provide? The selection of Robert Dudley is interesting, given what BP didn't say. Dudley was appointed to the BP board in February 2009.
Board members are selected for their business acumen and connections. CEO Tony Hayward's tapping a board member to manage the spill mobilizes serious horsepower. Dudley is not Big Oil's first board member involved in the Deepwater Horizon blowout.
President Obama selected a ConocoPhillips board member to co-chair his Oil Spew Commission. William Reilly has $250,000 in annual compensation and controls over $2 million in stock from ConocoPhillips. ConocoPhillips is a joint venture partner with BP in the massive Tiber field in the Gulf of Mexico.


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In a Tokyo railway station there stands a statue of Hachiko, an Akita who waited nine years for his master, who had died at work. Testament indeed to the resolve, will and loyalty of the breed. These traits, coupled with an Akita's protective instinct, make confident, assertive training essential.
Early Socialization
Give your Akita regular physical contact as soon as he is separated from his mother and litter. This should happen no sooner than six weeks after birth. Stroke him, give him toys and get him used to human contact. If he nips at you, mimic the response of his litter mates and give a high pitched "yelp." This is how puppies tell each other off when things get too rough. It's important to discourage this behavior early, as uncorrected nipping in a protective, powerful breed like the Akita can lead to big problems later on.
Walk him around the house and yard on a long leash. Let him explore but use the leash to keep his movement in check. If he tries to pull away, gently restrain him and say "heel." Akitas are naturally very bold, so get him into the habit of walking by your side from an early age.
Introduce your Akita to family and friends while he is still very young. Encourage others to play with him so he becomes accustomed to being touched. Tell the kids not to play chase with the Akita. The breed has a strong prey drive, so this sort of behavior will stimulate his hunting instinct.
Basic Obedience
Hold a biscuit in front of his face. Move it so it passes over his nose, behind his head. Say "sit" as you do this. As he follows the treat, he'll eventually park his bottom on the floor to get a better look.
Release the treat as soon as he sits.
Give verbal praise and physical fuss to reward the action. With plenty of repetition, your Akita will learn that the sitting action has a positive outcome and will eventually do so on command without the need for a treat. Use the same principles to teach the "down" command, but instead of moving the treat over his head, move it from his nose toward the ground. The sit and down commands are very useful for keeping unwanted behavior in check.
Out and About
Go for regular walks, but always leash your Akita. Exercise is essential for this high-energy breed, as it relieves boredom. It also enables him to learn manners when around new people and dogs.
Give verbal praise intermittently for as long as he walks politely by your side. Correct any misdemeanors, such as pulling and barking at other dogs or people by changing your walking direction and removing the praise. Use the leash to gently guide him if necessary. This distracts the dog from his previous action.
Issue the sit command directly after distracting him.
Issue the down command, then give him verbal praise. This shows him that you're in charge, an important lesson to learn for these strong-willed dogs.
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This week, The New York Times calls the Mid-season Finale one of the year's most memorable TV episodes, while Vogue spoils Season 7 (so far). Plus, ComicBook.com lists the show's five best moments in 2016. Read on for more:
• The New York Times list of the year's most memorable TV episodes says one way of looking at the Season 7 premiere is that it "gave the most realistic, uncompromising rendering in the show's seven years of how people would actually think and behave in a zombie apocalypse."
• Vogue spills the major spoilers of 2016, including how "Negan killed Glenn and Abraham with a mean-looking barbed-wire bat named Lucille" in the Season 7 premiere.
• ComicBook.com checks out The Walking Dead's "most astonishing, heartbreaking, and terrifying moments" in 2016.
• According to The New York Times, The Walking Dead is "most popular in rural areas, particularly southern Texas and eastern Kentucky."
• Screener chooses the year's most epic TV moments, including Negan's introduction in "Last Day on Earth": "When he arrived it took almost no time at all — if you forgive the break between seasons — before he killed two beloved faces, ushering in a new era of The Walking Dead."
• ComicBook.com spotlights a Reddit user who calculated each character's kill count, revealing "who the most deadly character in Season 7 has been."
• Speaking with Blastr, Chad L. Coleman describes Tyreese as "an everyday man, and there's no superhero-ness to him. He's very human and that humanity sits up front…"
• ComicBook.com features a video that sets Negan's best lines to "a laugh track. You know, for that nice, warm, sitcom feel."
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Moses Harman
Moses Harman (October 12, 1830 – January 30, 1910) was an American schoolteacher and publisher notable for his staunch support for women's rights. He was prosecuted under the Comstock Law for content published in his anarchist periodical Lucifer the Lightbearer. He was arrested and jailed multiple times for publishing allegedly obscene material. His daughter, Lillian Harman, was also a notable anarchist.
Moses Harman
|January 30, 1910 (aged 79)
Los Angeles, California, US
|Schoolteacher, publisher
|Known for
|Anarchism, women's rights
|Lillian Harman
Moses Harman was born on October 12, 1830 in Pendleton County, West Virginia[1] to Job and Nancy Harman. Their family later moved to Crawford County, Missouri. Harman taught subscription school courses and attended Arcadia College. After completing his schoolwork, Harman worked as a Methodist circuit rider and teacher.[2]
Harman married Susan Scheuck in 1866. Although they had several children, only two survived and Susan died in childbirth in 1877. Harman left the ministry and began his involvement with eugenics and social reform following Susan's death. In 1881, Harman edited the Kansas Liberal newspaper in Valley Falls, Kansas.[2]
Harman has been credited as one of the founders of what became the eugenics movement. "He gave the spur and start to this effort. Through his journals, Lucifer, the Light Bearer, later renamed The Eugenic Magazine, encouraged by a small circle of earnest men and women, he dug down below the surface endeavoring to bring forth a stronger and better type of men".[3]
In 1881, Harman co-edited the Valley Falls Liberal, and eventually became the editor. On August 24, 1883, Harman changed the name of the publication to Lucifer, the Light Bearer. He moved the location of the newspaper several times for financial and philosophical reasons: to Topeka, Kansas in 1890, to Chicago in 1896, and to Los Angeles in 1908. The name of the paper also changed to The American Journal of Eugenics in 1906.[1]
Articles published in Lucifer discussed topics such as religion, relationships, and raising children.[2] Through his work, Harman rejected all forms of religion and government, including marriage, and promoted freedom, love, wisdom, and the use of knowledge. Due to the radical nature of his views and publication, Harman constantly dealt with lawsuits, charges of immorality, ridicule, and issues with mailing what was considered obscene material through the United States Postal Service. Consequently, Harman was sentenced and released by courts several times in the 1890s.[1]
He died on January 30, 1910, aged 79, in Los Angeles.[4]
- ^ a b c "Moses Harman". Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ^ a b c "C3802 Harman, Moses (1830-1910), Papers, 1858-1984" (PDF). The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ^ The Naturopath and Herald of Health, March 1914
- ^ "Dagger In heart, Last Will". Chicago Tribune. January 31, 1910.
Moses Harman Dies in Los Angeles at the Age of Nearly 80. ... Moses Harman, one of the pioneers of the eugenics movement in America, died yesterday in Los ...
Further readingEdit
- Herrada, Julie (2007). "Harman, Moses". In Dawkins, Richard (ed.). The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. Prometheus Books. pp. 378–379. ISBN 978-1-61592-280-2.
- West, William Lemore (Spring 1971). "The Moses Harman Story". Kansas History. 37 (1): 41–63.
External linksEdit
- Works by or about Moses Harman at Internet Archive
- Moses Harman: A Kansas Portrait from the Kansas State Historical Society
- Moses Harman: The Paradigm of A Male Feminist by Wendy McElroy
- Sex Slavery by Voltairine de Cleyre, an 1890 essay supporting Harman and attacking the institution of marriage


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Continued From
Episode 60 'You Dirty Little Slut'
With 20 years perspective
'The cock may crow but it is the hen who lay the eggs'
-Margaret Thatcher
This is a
First world tale
Of sex. Adolescence &
Distorted perception
In a mirrored pool
My Lust
1994 — Age 14
There was once
A little girl
Who knew little about daring
And little about sharing
She knew how to be,
But not unconditionally
Or unconsciously
She knew little of sexual
And nothing of attraction
She lived
In her own
Powerless asexual world
Until Slut zero came along
And entered my thinking
Then everything changed
She showed me
She was what she was
She knew
What she wasn't
She wasn't an insight
Into the psychology
Of female
Sexual insecurities
2016 — Age 34
With 20 years perspective
There is a theory
That says some fetishes
Can be burned
Into the pshche
Based on events
At an age
between 11 and 14
When 11 and 14
When the child
Is sexually maturing
And is in a certain
Chaotic state of
These events
Are usually
Quite minor
Sexual experiences
They are then
By a vulnerable mind
Leading to
Certain 'Distorted' desires
Being permanently
Baked into that child's
Mental. Emotional
And sexual
Operating system
This can then
What they find
Sexually arousing
For the rest
Of their lives
It can also become
An immersive
And obsessive
Circular coping strategy
To continually process
The noisy guilt
Of the original
Silent sin
But silence gives way
To distractions
And so it did for me
It became
Just a way
To pass the day
Just the way
I liked to play
Sex is everywhere, sex doesn't care. People do.
I looked at something in 1994 that I didn't know anything about, and I guessed at it — Awkwardly
But after the initial awkwardness, there would be three phases
To my sexual over the next 20 years…
1. Tease 2. Pleeze 3. Squeeze
And those 3 little words are what the next 189 films are about
"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know, or perceive a sense of oneself until it has been reflected back in the mirrors of another human being."
-John Joseph Powell
'The slut who never came to dinner'
If I could have dinner with anyone, it would be her
To compare notes, to compare reasons
I would tell her that I finished
What she started
In my mind
But I went
In a whole other
I veered left at acceptable
For years, I didn't comprehend why I reacted to certain things sexually
This moment of one of those things
The moments when
My sexual switch
Got flipped
From nothing
To something
And ever since
I have pushed & pulled
Walked & run
Away from
But here I am now
With my companion
Called destiny
Destined to be
What I am


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If you've been reading the past few days, you might be able to tell that I've been half-assing most of my blog posts. I blame NaNo, because I'm spending most of my writing time on that.
So let me take this newest half-assed blog post and mention how awesome BlackRapid support is. I complained about my Coupler jamming up all the time when attaching the camera. They sent me two new ones which fixed design flaws overnight. I don't know why they sent me two as I only have one R-Strap, but hey. The new one fixed the problem perfectly. They even sent Tony a completely new R-Strap when his webbing started looking funny. Those guys are good people. You don't get that when you buy a knockoff R-Strap.
Also, over the next two weeks I'll be having two long weekends in a row, so expect even more poor attempts at posts. Toodles!


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Okaka, Christopher Ehighaukhuo (1984) Studies on the biology of Cyathocephalus truncatus (Pallas, 1781) (Cestoda : Spathebothridea) in its fish and crustacean hosts. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
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During the examination of Salmo gairdneriq Salmo, trutta and Thymallus thymallus from the Driffield section of the river Hull and its tributaries, Eastburn Beck and Driffield Beck,all fish were found to be infected with the cestode Qvathocephalus trunca. A prevalence of 2.2% was recorded for the procercoids of C.truncatus in the amphipod crustacean Gammarus pulex in the same habitat. Other helminth parasites recorded in both fish and gammarid hosts include Echinorhynchus truttae, Echinorhynchus salmonis, Neoechinorhynchus rutili, Cystidicola farionis, Cucullanus truttae and Crepidostomilm metoecuse. The life cycle of C. truncatus has been studied in the laboratory together with aspects of embryonic development, procercoid and adult morphology, establishment of infection and host-cestode interractions. Hexacanth embryos of C.truncatus were found to develop optimally in eggs cultured at between 15'0c and 20' 0C for about 25 days. Gammarus Pulex became infected only by swallowing egg capsules a containing hexcanth embryos fed to them on pieces of 6 lettuce leaves. The young developing embryo grows over a period of about 10 weeks to the infective procercold stage in the body cavity of the amphipod. In fish,the tapeworm forms an attachment in the distal end of a pyloric caecum 3 days after infection and matures in 8-10 days with production of eggs. By the 15th day the attachment to host tissue has become so firm that it is impossible to separate the worm from it. The tapeworm's hold on the caecal wall is probably achieved by the sucking effect of the funnel-shaped scolex supplemented by the spike-like microtriches of the inner scolex surface. The ultrastructure, of the soolex and body wall of strobila of both the procercoid and adult tapeworm have been described. Hydrolytic enzymes such as alkaline phosphatasep acid phosphatase and non-specific esterase have been localised in both the procercoid and adult tapeworm. Pathological effects of the tapeworm infection in fish are seen as swelling and proliferation of tissues of the caecal wall where the tapeworm forms an attachment. In long established infections erosion of the caecal wallq penetration by worms through the caecal wall into the body cavity and their attachment to the abdominal musculature of the fish host are common notable features.
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Finally, Camp A is winding down for Mae. Last week was sooo much better than the first four weeks, and this week has been good overall it seems. The theme for last week and this is Science Wizards, and since she wants to become a chemist, this is right up her alley. She's been enjoying making gooey, sticky stuff and learning about the periodic table. She comes home in a good mood and she has been more pleasant and energetic in the mornings. In addition to Mae having a strong interest in the subject matter, I think it has helped that the Science Wizards director is an experienced teacher. This has been a tremendous learning experience for me about camp selection and I'm already thinking about what we can do better for next summer.
This morning, though, Mae let me know that it hasn't been all peaches and cream in Science Wizard land. I don't know what brought it to her mind, but she said, "Another reason I don't like [Camp A] is because the kids don't show compassion." She went on to explain that when she fell while playing sharks and minnows, nobody came to help her. And, she hit her hand yesterday and E saw it happen and didn't show "compassion or empathy." I told her that that's too bad, and she can be a role model and set an example for the other kids because she knows how to show compassion and empathy. She responded, with what sounded like disappointment in her voice, that E is an older kid and should know better. Hubby told her that she should still do what she knows is right even if other kids don't.
I was proud of Mae for recognizing situations that called for compassion and empathy. It's not new; she's been good at showing compassion and empathy for a big part of her seven years and four months. Sometimes, she forgets or lets her emotions get the best of her. Her and Jay's school emphasizes kindness and even in preschool, the teachers teach and praise the kids for thinking of and promoting each other's happiness. The conversation this morning was right out of her classroom and school playground experiences.
Even Jay recognized that Mae was saying something she'd learned at their school because it reminded him of a very important lesson that he's picked up: "In Ms. [K]'s class, we don't kiss."
Thank goodness for that!


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The 41 new cases reported for the week ending June 6 bring the total for the year to 1,022, the CDC reported June 10, and that is more than any year since 1992, when there were 2,237 cases.
Idaho and Virginia reported their first cases of 2019, which makes a total of 28 states with measles cases this year. The Idaho case was reported in Latah County and is the state's first since 2001. In Virginia, health officials are investigating possible contacts with an infected individual at Dulles International Airport and two other locations on June 2 and 4.
Outbreaks in Georgia, Maryland, and Michigan have ended, while seven others continue in California (Butte, Los Angeles, and Sacramento Counties), New York (Rockland County and New York City), Pennsylvania, and Washington, the CDC said. New York City has the largest outbreak this year with 509 cases through June 3, most of them occurring in Brooklyn.