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REVIV3 PREP is a gentle deep cleansing & exfoliating shampoo formulated to remove environmental residues and product buildup. A major contributor of thinning and hair loss over time. PREP combines a blend of 12 plant-based ingredients, proteins and Vitamin Complexes to nourish and repair follicles damage and restore scalp health for stronger, healthier hair.
Size – 25.4 fl. oz
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Bali Private Driver (Transport) and Tours
Hi my name is Mank Kayak (nickname Norm) I have been a driver in Bali for 15 years. I love meeting new people and showing them my beloved island of Bali. You can book half day or full day transport to anywhere in Bali I have no restrictions to where you want to be driven too. I can organise all your tours personalizing to your needs, I have already many packages in place that you may be interested in too the various attractions around Bali including cultural, family, Bali tourist attractions and adventure tours or you can chose your own interests if I don't have that package and I will get you discounts. I can also organise all your business trips, including shipping and cargo to your country for any items bought. If you aren't sure what you want to do in Bali send me a message or call and we can meet to discuss your needs, I also do airport transfers, my van can fit 8 people, if you need more room please contact me and I can organise a second vehicle.
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GENEVA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - South Korea can impose annual trade sanctions of $84.81 million on the United States after challenging U.S. anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on washing machines, a World Trade Organization arbitration panel ruled on Friday.
The sum was much less than the $711 million that South Korea had asked for, but the arbitration ruling also provided a sanctions formula for South Korea to apply in the future, in case the United States imposes similar tariffs on other products in breach of the WTO rules.
South Korea initially went to the WTO after a 2013 decision by the U.S. Commerce Department to impose anti-subsidy duties of up to 82 percent on washers made by Samsung Electronics Co , LG Electronics Inc and Daewoo Electronics Co, prompted by Michigan-based Whirlpool Corp.
South Korea complained to the WTO about the methodology used to calculate the duties and won an appeal ruling at the WTO in 2016. It later complained that the United States had not lifted the duties to comply with the WTO ruling, and demanded the right to impose sanctions. (Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Toby Chopra)


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Right now, I am sitting at my air-conditioned desk on the 12th floor of my office building. My day as an audiologist consisted of hearing test after hearing test after hearing test – 11 patients total – with a leisurely lunch break mid-day. Throughout the day, I had various distractions ranging from an exploding email inbox to celebrating a coworker's new baby to stressing over some large projects on the horizon. When I go home tonight, we will heat up some leftover food, play with our son, and if we're lucky, catch our favorite TV show before falling asleep – and then the cycle begins again tomorrow. Can you relate to this?
And where does India fit in to all of this? The answer is, it really doesn't. India is a completely different reality. While I feel a special bond with Indian people and culture, I do find that it takes a conscious effort to remember the kids of Bethania. I'm just being honest here. Day after day, I am surrounded by such incredible comforts of American wealth. This makes it extremely difficult to be mindful of the very real catastrophes of poverty in India. It truly is unfair that I have been blessed with so much, while others have so little. And the problems seem so overwhelming… yet, with everything that distracts me, I can pretty easily forget about them.
God never forgets about the Bethania children. He knows and loves Divya and Prakash exactly the same as he knows and loves you and me. He also knows and loves the countless other needy children whose lives have not yet been touched by Bethania. One of my favorite passages of scripture is found in Psalm 103, where it says:
"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust." (Psalm 103:11-14, ESV)
Thankfully God's love is constant and unchanging, even in spite of our shortcomings. Though I can be self-absorbed at times, I know that Jesus Christ forgives my sin. I am inspired by God's love to share the blessings that I have been given with the Bethania children. Through the mundane routines in life, it is important to keep the Bethania children, and all of those who are hurting and feeling unloved close in our hearts and minds. How do you try to remember all of Christ's needy children throughout the daily routines of your life?
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Swedish Animals Apoteket Athlet is a specialkombinerad mix with valuable nutrients needed for good joint health in the long term. Athlet promotes joint health and normal functioning, works anti-inflammatory and are the building blocks of joint cartilage. Athlet gives a more alert and healthy animals.
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Ingredients powder: Glucosamine sulfate 2kcl, Methylsulfonylmethane, lyophilisate from lipped mussel, L-arginine, Chondroitin Sulfate, Calcium ascorbate (vitamin C), Manganese.
Declaration per dose measures á 1.4 g (2 mL) Declaration per measuring cup 4 5.6 g (large dog)
Glucosamine 400 mg Glucosamine 1.6 gMSM 400 mg MSM 1.6gLipped mussel 250mg lipped mussel 1 gL-arginine 200 mg L-arginine 800 mgChondroitin Chondroitin sulphate 100 mg 400 mgVitamin C 50 mg Vitamin C 200 mgManganese 11 mg Manganese 44 mg
Athlet 310gDosageMixed in the food once / day.Dosage Measures included in the package enough about:140g 310gCats and small dogs up to 10 kg A measuring cup / day 100 days 220 daysDogs between 10-20 kg Two measuring cup / day 50 days 110 daysDogs between 20-30 kg Three measuring cup / day 33 days 73 days Dogs of 30-40 + kg Four measuring cup / day 25 days 55 days
Tablets Ingredients: Glucosamine sulfate 2kcl, Methylsulfonylmethane, lyophilisate from lipped mussel, L-arginine, Chondroitin sulfate, Calcium ascorbate (vitamin C), Manganese.
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Many feel that they are a stronger and better functioning immune system with MSM. MSM powder makes the cells more permeable, which means that the cell can more easily get rid of toxins and more effectively take nutrients, MSM powder can be used year after year without a break of cells optimal function.MSM is found in every cell in the body with the highest concentration in the joints, muscles, hair, skin, nails, connective tissue. The body uses MSM to create new cells, work that is going on around the clock. If the sulfur is, the building then. In the healing of injuries, resulting sulfur deficiency often severe scarring. Excess sulfur excreted from the body within a day and there are no side effects and MSM are considered one of nature's most non-toxic substances.
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This unique clam contains nutrients from the sea that the organism needs to build up the skin, cartilage, connective tissue and synovial fluid. The mussel is characterized by an unusually high content of amino sugars - glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), which has a positive effect in the treatment of joint diseases. These glycosaminoglycans are water soluble and absorbed directly from the intestine, and is supplied via the blood directly into the synovial fluid and cartilage. Chondroitin, one of the natural components of the lipped musselextraktet, helps to prevent degradation of articular cartilage. Additionally, the extract including the unique, unsaturated fatty acid, ETA, and other omega-3 and -6 fatty acids with properties inflammationsreducerande
L-arginine is an essential amino acid and one of the eight essential. L-Arginine increases blood circulation which gives better 'lubrication' of joints and ligaments. the damage and inflammation that is an increased blood circulation in the injured and inflamed the area critical to the healing process.
Long kondroitinkedjor is the basis of all the cartilage tissue and help to make cartilage resilient so that it can take up loads and operate cushioning. The cartilage does not have its own blood supply that can provide the nutrition for construction and maintenance. The nutrients that the cartilage needs construction and maintenance may instead from the synovial fluid that flows around the joint, when the joint work.Chondroitin acts like a magnet for this liquid, and make it easier accessible to the cartilage. Chondroitin also prevents existing cartilage from deterioration and as glucosamine helps also to the formation of new cartilage tissue. By increasing the levels of chondroitin in the diet increases the formation of new cartilage.
Vitamin C (Calcium)
Our vitamin C is calcium ascorbate, which is gentle on the stomach. Vitamin C has a variety of functions including the immune system's normal functioning and as antioxidants protect against damaging free radicals that constantly formed during metabolism. Vitamin C also promotes collagen formation of cartilage and benstommens normal function.


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As we get older, we begin to recognize that we don't quite have the flexibility that we had when we were younger. This is especially evident when we are parents and we look at the way that our children are bending, sitting and doing everything without any effort whatsoever. It seems as if their bodies are able to bend in ways that are not humanly possible from our standpoint, but it could end up getting them in trouble.
One of the things that many of us did when we were younger was to sit on the floor. We did so while we watched TV and we may have done a wide variety of other things, from coloring in coloring books to reading a book. Children tend to sit in a variety of ways when they are seated on the floor but there is one position that you should always be cautious to help your children avoid.
One of the comfortable ways that many children sit is in the "W" position. It seemed as if it was the most comfortable and convenient for all of us when we were younger. In fact, it almost seemed as if our legs naturally went into that position and it never really caused us any problems. The fact of the matter is, however, it is something that needs to be addressed with your children and parents need to know of the dangers that could occur from this seemingly innocent seating position.
If you notice that your child is sitting in the W position, you will want to stop them from doing so and ask them to sit another way. What your children don't realize is that there can be serious orthopedic consequences that could last for the rest of the life as a result of sitting in that way. Now you know the truth, be sure to pass it along.
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World's Biggest Real Estate Binge is Coming to a City Near You (Including the Seattle Area…keep reading)
November 14, 2016 — 8:00 AM PST – Bloomberg News:
If they were anywhere else in Beijing, the five young women in cowboy hats and matching red, white, and blue costumes would look wildly out of place.
But here at the city's biggest international property fair — a frenetic gathering of brokers, developers and other real estate professionals all jockeying for the attention of Chinese buyers — the quintet of wannabe Texans fits right in. As they promote Houston townhouses ("Yours for as little as $350,000!"), a Portugal contingent touts its Golden Visa program and the Australian delegation lures passersby with stuffed kangaroos.
Welcome to ground zero for the world's largest cross-border residential property boom. Motivated by a weakening yuan, surging domestic housing costs and the desire to secure offshore footholds, Chinese citizens are snapping up overseas homes at an accelerating pace. They're also venturing further afield than ever before, spreading beyond the likes of Sydney and Vancouver to lower-priced markets including Houston, Thailand's Pattaya Beach and Malaysia's Johor Bahru.
The buying spree has defied Chinese government efforts to restrict capital outflows and shows little sign of slowing after an estimated $15 billion of overseas real estate purchases in the first half. For cities in the cross-hairs, the challenge is to balance the economic benefits of Chinese demand against the risk that rising home prices spur a public backlash.
"The Chinese have managed to accumulate very large amounts of wealth, and the opportunities to deploy that capital in their own market are somewhat restricted," said Richard Barkham, the London-based chief global economist at CBRE Group Inc., the world's largest commercial property brokerage. "China has more than a billion people. Personally, I think we have just seen a trickle."
While a dearth of government statistics makes it difficult to gain a comprehensive view of cross-border real estate investments, most industry projections point to a surge in Chinese purchases. Ping An Haofang, an online real estate platform owned by China's second-largest insurer, says its $15 billion first-half estimate, derived from market data, nearly matches the figure for all of 2015.
Fang Holdings Ltd., the country's most popular property website, predicts overseas buying on its system will increase 130 percent this year, while transactions through September at Shenzhen World Union Properties Consultancy Inc., China's largest broker for new-home sales, were already 50 percent above last year's level. The country overtook Canada as the largest source of residential purchases in America last year after an estimated $93 billion of buying from 2010 to 2015, according to a May report by the Asia Society and Rosen Consulting Group.
It adds up to the world's biggest-ever wave of overseas residential property investment, according to Susan Wachter, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School who specializes in real estate markets. While Japan had a similar boom in the 1980s, it was mainly focused on commercial buildings, Wachter said.
Today's Chinese buyers have a long list of reasons to flock overseas. The yuan's slump is eroding their purchasing power, while returns on local financial assets — including stocks, bonds and wealth-management products — are shrinking as the $11 trillion economy slows.
Chinese real estate, meanwhile, has grown increasingly out of reach after a speculative boom sent domestic home prices to all-time highs. Residential property values in Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai all jumped more than 30 percent in the year through September, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
"Properties in Shanghai are ridiculously expensive," Chen Feng, 38, said as he evaluated prospects at a property fair in Shanghai in September, lured by television commercials for the event the night before. "With the amount of money it takes to buy a small apartment here, I can buy a building of apartments in many places in the world."
That line of reasoning is nothing new, of course. Sydney, Vancouver, Hong Kong, London and a handful of other cities have long been popular destinations for Chinese buyers.
The difference now is that those traditional hotspots are starting to lose their appeal, due to soaring prices and new measures to deter an influx of overseas money. In Hong Kong, the government enacted a 30 percent tax on foreign property owners this month after Chinese demand pushed home values toward record highs.
The risk of similar measures in other cities can't be ruled out as politicians including Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect, tap into local discontent over rising living costs, according to CBRE Group's Barkham.
Ocean Views
Chinese buyers have responded by branching out to cheaper cities. In the U.S., they're increasingly searching for properties in Houston, Orlando and Seattle, which displaced San Francisco in the first quarter as the third-most viewed U.S. market on Juwai.com, a Chinese search engine for offshore real estate.
At the national level, countries in Southeast Asia have grown more popular. Juwai.com's queries on Thailand are surging at a 72 percent annual rate, helping it surpass Britain as one of the top five most-targeted destinations worldwide earlier this year.
In Pattaya Beach, Chinese investors have snapped up 20 percent of the luxury condos on offer from Kingdom Property Co. over the past year. The properties offer Gulf of Thailand views for as little as $120,000, or less than a quarter of what buyers would pay for a typical apartment in central Shanghai, according to Han Bing, a 30-year-old anchor in Chinese television shows who doubles as a sales agent for the Bangkok-based developer.
"It's a cool bargain for a retirement plan," Han said.
Capital Controls
In the Malaysian state of Johor, across the Northern border of Singapore, major Chinese builders including Country Garden Holdings Co., Greenland Holdings Corp. and Guangzhou R&F Properties Co. are all developing new projects. Country Garden agents handed out fliers for the firm's $37 billion Forest City development at the Beijing property fair in September, advertising permanent property rights, zero inheritance taxes, long-term residence visas and high-quality hospitals.
One challenge for Chinese investors is getting money out of a country that caps individuals' foreign-currency purchases at $50,000 a year. While that limit hasn't always been strictly enforced, the yuan's slump is prompting policy makers to clamp down. This year, they've banned the use of friends' currency quotas, curbed on the cross-border activities of underground banks and asked lenders to reduce foreign-exchange sales.
Still, alternative routes abound. Many business owners finance their homes through offshore trading companies, while some Chinese developers allow clients to pay for overseas units in yuan. Foreign-currency mortgages also play a role, helping to fund more than 80 percent of China's international property purchases, according to an estimate by Fang Holdings based on user searches and surveys.
Planning Ahead
"Where there's a will, there's a way," said David Ley, a professor at the University of British Columbia who wrote a book on the flood of wealthy migrants from east Asia in the 1980s and 1990s.
This year's purchases could be just be the tip of the iceberg. Chinese holdings of global real estate, including commercial properties, will probably swell to $220 billion by 2020 from $80 billion in 2015, according to Juwai.com.
As the first generation born after China's opening in the late 1970s approaches middle age, many of them want an overseas base for family members to travel, study and work. Chinese parents with children at foreign schools have been a major source of demand, accounting for an estimated 45 percent of cross-border buying, according to Fang Holdings.
Zha Liangliang, a 31-year-old owner of commercial wheat farms in China's eastern Jiangsu province, said he purchased a $587,000 apartment in Sydney in August and plans to add five more before sending his children to high school in Australia. He's flying to the country this month to view homes and farmland, hoping to buy before the yuan weakens any further.
For some investors, it's never too early to pull the trigger. Richard Baumert, a partner at Millennium Partners Boston, tells the story of a 33-year-old Chinese man who purchased a luxury home for his future children in August, convinced they're destined to attend one of the city's prestigious universities.
The buyer shelled out $2.4 million for the property, Baumert said, unfazed by the fact that he's single and it could be two decades before he has kids old enough for college.
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Ten years ago, when celebrating the 10th anniversary of my company, Elias Events, I wrote an article about the 10 changes I witnessed over the years. Now at the 20-year mark, I feel the need to write another article. This time around the changes in the special events industry are astounding, and to say advances in technology are a driving force behind special events is an understatement. In the current Silicon Valley–driven environment, the top minds in the world are constantly producing apps and software that not only help with everyday work product flow but also can be used during actual events, thereby allowing you to "Keep Up With the WOW!"
Let's start with the obvious: Smartphones and the world of apps did not exist 10 years ago. With the advent of the iPhone and its subsequent many iterations, the world of planning events has completely changed. Well, frankly, life in general has! At no other time in history could an event be planned from a device that fits into the palm of your hand.
Ten years ago, the phrase "There's an app for that" did not have meaning. Cut to 2019, and the number of apps and their ability to help the planning, designing and implementation of events is too many to count. The phone can be used to check people into an event, measure the length of a room, take memorable videos and photos, and remind us when to do it all over again.
Much to the chagrin of the National Transportation Safety Board, drones are here to stay, and I, for one, am excited. For outdoor events, they are a perfect way to capture all aspects. If done correctly and within safety guidelines, they can also be used to transport items, such as drinks. Unbelievable shows like the synchronized lighted drones show at the Olympics and Super Bowl are taking entertainment to a whole new level.
To say that virtual reality is a big thing at events is another understatement. Transporting guests to alternative realities is an exciting application to enhance events. The wave of the future is the ability to market events, venues and locations without ever having to leave the office.
The use of frozen liquid nitrogen is making a huge splash, and the reaction is spectacular. This product must be handled with great care and by a professional, but its ability to take drinks from boring to extraordinary is always a crowd pleaser
Another huge game-changer in the audiovisual component of events are LED walls/ screens. Using these instead of a traditional projector and screen is useful for so many reasons, including the ability to not have to rig and the versatility in their use, and frankly, they look so much better. I am obsessed with using them and always glad when a client agrees.
3D printing has become a cool addition to events. The ability to print on-site many items—from sugar desserts to giveaways—is fun, imaginative and, with the advent of more products, becoming cheaper to do.
A new cool element to add to events are artists who create paintings on-site. They typically will paint a scene such as the ceremony of a wedding or the venue for a birthday party. Guests love to watch the piece unfold, and clients have a visual reminder of the event for years to come.
From speakers to LED lights, Bluetooth products have become a staple in the industry. Their use has allowed for sound and lights in places where this might not have been possible before. These products are activated by remote control and many are accessible from apps on smartphones.
One of my absolute favorite new products is indoor sparklers or fireworks. The dynamic additions to the pyrotechnic arena have made a huge explosion—pardon the pun. The biggest plus is that they can be used indoors, do not require permitting and are safe (they can be touched without any fear of harm).
Deborah Elia, CSEP, CMP, CIS of Elias Events, LLC is an award-winning event planner. She is passionate about all things events related with a focus on event technology and products to wow her clients, guests and colleagues.


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Why Harihar should be your next trekking destination this monsoon?
Harihar fort / Harshagad is a fort located 48 km from Igatpuri, Nashik district, of Maharashtra. It is an important fort in the Nashik district and was constructed to look upon the trade route through Gonda Ghat. It receives many visitors because of its peculiar rock-cut steps.
A wide, safe trekking path starts from the hillock north of the Nirgudpada. It passes through the scrub forest until it reaches an open ridge that is connected to the fort. It takes about an hour to reach the scarp of the hill on which the fort is situated. The ascent through the 60 m rock-cut steps is wonderful. It is like a stone ladder placed at 60 degrees along the scarp. The steps are worn out at many places yet the holes on either side of the steps are conveniently cut for holding onto. After reaching the main entrance, the paths take a left traverse and again helical rock-cut steps are to be climbed, which are steeper than the earlier. the steps finally end with a narrow entrance. At many places, the steps are very narrow that, only a single person can climb at a time.
Height: 3500 feet Approx
Type: Hill Fort
Region: Nashik
Grade: Medium
Best Time to Visit - June to August for Monsoon Trek,
Duration: 1 Night / 1 Day.
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11:30 pm: Nitin Company Thane (W)
12:00 am: Kalyan Bhiwandi Bypass
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Every mum knows that the key to happiness is an undisturbed dip in the bath – glass of wine in hand makes it even better!
This is the card I have sent to my own mum, I know she was so happy when we finally got a lock on the bathroom door!
The image is from jellypark and I have coloured it with promarkers. I think the papers are from Dovecraft, and the ribbons are from my ribbon drawer!
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I have been seriously busy busy busy, and haven't gotten around to my favorite challenges sites as often as I have wanted in the past couple of weeks. I sent Tracy a pic of my craft table, and she so kindly said it wasn't the worst she has ever seen. But I am sure she is just being her kind self !!
Soooo, today's entry is going to City Crafter where they have this gorgeous picture
I am reading a book about Chinese immigrants, and came across a Welcome Blessing,
Happiness is coming through the gate.
How many wonderful things that could mean.
Here is my take on the photo, and the theme.
Hope your happiness is coming through the gate too !
Cardstock - Recollections
Design Paper - K & Co
Die Cut - Cuttlebug
Punches - Martha Stewart, EK Success
Flower & Bling - Recollections
Metal frame - Making Memories
Stamp & ribbon - stash


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We're at an exciting time in the security industry. Our capabilities are expanding rapidly with new product announcements and daily advancements in technology. Video surveillance, access control and integrated systems are fast-growing categories of our industry and we are energized about what our future holds. Because of our industry's remarkable progress, NBFAA Strategic Planning and Executive Committees and its Board of Directors realize that the words "burglar and fire alarm" describe only a portion of the products and services our members, and the industry as a whole, provide. The words "burglar and fire alarm" limit our association's ability to increase membership among integration and supplier companies and, as a result, we are falling behind the trends of our industry. We need to address this issue now.I would agree with this. Burglar is just an antiquated word in general. All I can think of is the Hamburglar, really, although I think McDonald's decided he was a bad idea a while ago. And, really, the idea of a burglar, like that guy dressed all in black in the Broadview commercials, is sort of an antiquated one. I don't think the methheads that are robbing your house bother with the all-black stuff anymore. They're not quite that coherent.
After many hours of discussion and reflection, the NBFAA Strategic Planning and Executive Committees and its Board of Directors voted unanimously to recommend an update of the association brand name. Strategically, we feel that a name change will strengthen our association and allow us to connect with a broader membership demographic.Again, I mostly agree with this, but, on some level, what's in a name? There's been a lot of talk in the offices here about branding, considering Broadview's new name, Niscayah, TAC moving to Schneider, and now the NBFAA potentially making a switch. What do you lose in brand equity that you gain in a new message, etc.? In the cases of Broadview and Niscayah, they didn't really have a choice, and with TAC, it's not like that's a 20-year-old brand. But look at ASIS. Doesn't anybody think of them as the American Society for Industrial Security anymore (and did I even get that right? They don't even have the acronym spelled out on the Web site anymore)? I don't think so. Why couldn't the NBFAA just be the NBFAA and not worry so much what the letters stand for anymore? That way, they don't have to spend a bunch of money and effort on the rebrand, and the people they've been working for and lobbying to over past decades won't be confused. Just a thought.
We have produced an audio presentation regarding the name change which you can view at http://www.alarm.org/av/brandupdate.wmv. Should you have any comments or concerns, please email us at [email protected] by July 22. A vote of the general membership will be conducted (via mail) within the next 60 days.They couldn't have just put that up on YouTube? Then I could have embedded it...
Our association is looking forward to a future of growth. I urge you, along with all of the members of the Strategic Planning and Executive Committees and NBFAA Board, to back this recommended update. Please support us in this endeavor as we work to strengthen the future of your association.It's worth remembering that this vote could go awry. The last time they tried this, people rebelled. I'll keep you posted.
One comment on the quote from Mike Miller:
"The words "burglar and fire alarm†limit our association's ability to increase membership among integration and supplier companies and, as a result, we are falling behind the trends of our industry."
If they want to attract more integrators and suppliers, I am not sure changing the name to "Electronic Security Association" is that helpful. The reality is most people are now looking at IP as the future so naming your association to be about "Electronics" makes the organization seem antiquated.
For what it's worth, originally I called my site "CCTV Market Info" but changed it because of concerns that the term CCTV appeared antiquated to many. The negative side effect of naming the site "IP Video Market Info" is that people think I am universally pro-IP. However, it's probably better than people thinking I am an outdated CCTV person.
Anyway, I think it's tricky and I am not sure there is a right solution.


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I often think about what the future holds for our consumption of media. I also ponder whether or not it will be a bright one. I have viewed many of the posts for this blog prompt, and I have seen a common theme of fear for the impending advancements that society will see in technology and its relation to media.
It seems to me that with all of the freedom that we have as producers and consumers of media through the Internet and other technologies, there will be a following of stricter control over how we interact with these freedoms. I'm not too sure if this is a good thing. The thing is, all throughout this class we have really only been able to study the past of media, and how it has developed to what it is today. This is because what the future holds is very unclear. Thus, with this uncertainty of what and how media becomes in the future, it seems that all of us will be unsure how to handle it. Take for instance the whole buzz over the NRA over the last year. A lot of people were very upset when it was found out the lengths in which the government can take through monitoring our activity as members of the internet. On one hand I am upset as well, but on the other I realize that it was the only measures plausible to ensure that there was some length of legal control over our freedoms.
One phenomenon that I find interesting is the new fad that we see on facebook where members of universities create confessions pages. There is clearly someone who manages these facebook pages, yet at the same time people feel anonymous enough to post some pretty embarrassing stuff, and they seem to not realize that there is someone reading it. Thus, I think there needs to be a balance and realization that people need to embrace when it comes to anonymity through text. You can see the DU confessions page here.
Another perplexing concept when it comes to the idea of instant information within society is that I believe we think we are more connected than we actually are. Take for instance the mystery behind the missing Malaysian Airlines Jet. It seems that in today's time we are always a click away from knowing exactly what happens all over the world. Yet somehow, despite the abundance GPS utilities that comes along with it, has been missing for many days now. I feel that we perhaps can over estimate exactly how accurate the information we receive actually is. If a massive airline jet can go missing so easily, then how can we be sure that information that is quickly updated on the web about events all over the world is accurate? Perhaps we have a far too reliant attitude towards the media and its connection to us.
In the end, I feel that we are taking the initial steps needed to understand our relationship to how media is changing. However, I believe we need to further it by taking more in depth views at how we are going to be agents of how it changes in the future.


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It's hard to have a conversation about wine these days without hearing the French word terroir. Derived from a Latin root meaning "earth," terroir describes the relationship between a wine and the specific place that it comes from. For example, many will say the characteristic minerality of wines from Chablis comes from the limestone beds beneath the vineyards (although, when pressed, they generally admit that they've never actually tasted limestone). The idea that one can taste the earth in a wine is appealing, a welcome link to nature and place in a delocalized world; it has also become a rallying cry in an increasingly sharp debate over the direction of modern winemaking. The trouble is, it's not true.
When terroir was first associated with wine, in the 17th-century phrase goût de terroir (literally, "taste of the earth"), it was not intended as a compliment. Its meaning began to change in 1831, when Dr. Morelot, a wealthy landowner in Burgundy, observed in his "Statistique de la Vigne Dans le Département de la Côte-d'Or" that all of the wineries in Burgundy made wine essentially the same way, so the reason some tasted better than others must be due to the terroir — specifically, the substrata underneath the topsoil of a vineyard. Wine, he claimed, derived its flavor from the site's geology: in essence, from rocks.
In recent years, the concept that one can taste rocks and soil in a wine has become popular with wine writers, importers and sommeliers. "Wines express their source with exquisite definition," asserts Matt Kramer in his book "Making Sense of Wine." "They allow us to eavesdrop on the murmurings of the earth." Of a California vineyard's highly regarded chardonnays, he writes, there is "a powerful flavor of the soil: the limestone speaks." The sommelier Paul Grieco, in his wine list at Hearth in New York, writes of rieslings that "the glory of the varietal is in its transparency, its ability to truly reflect the soil in which it is grown." In his February newsletter, Kermit Lynch, one of the most respected importers of French wine, returns repeatedly to the stony flavors in various white wines from a "terroirist" winemaker in Alsace: "When he speaks of a granitic soil, the wine in your glass tastes of it."
If you ask a hundred people about the meaning of terroir, they'll give you a hundred definitions, which can be as literal as tasting limestone or as metaphorical as a feeling. Terroir flavors are generally characterized as earthiness and minerality. On the other hand, wines with flavors of berries or tropical fruits and little or no minerality are therefore assumed not to have as clear a connection to the earth, which means they could have come from anywhere, and are thought to bear the mark of human intervention.
If this seems confusing — especially given that wine is made from fruit — it gets worse when you ask winemakers about how to get the flavors from the rocks into the glass. According to them, a good expression of terroir requires more work in the vineyards, or possibly less; it's the hotter climate in California that leads to its high-alcohol, fruit-forward, terroir-less style, or possibly not; even the oft-heard contention that a winemaker must "work with what the vines give you" is contradicted by Ales Kristancic of Movia winery, whose family has been making wines from vineyards on the Italy-Slovenia border for hundreds of years. "Plants need to understand what the winemaker wants," Kristancic says. "Only a winery with great tradition can make great vineyards."
Since there's so little consensus among winemakers about how to foster the expression of place — what Matt Kramer calls "somewhereness" — in their wines, what are our wine experts tasting? How can a place or a soil express itself through wine? Does terroir really exist?
Yes, but the effects of a place on a wine are far more complex than simply tasting the earth beneath the vine. Great wines are produced on many different soil types, from limestone to granite to clay, in places where the vines get just enough water and nourishment from the soil to grow without deficiencies and where the climate allows the grapes to ripen slowly but fully. It's also true that different soils can elicit different flavors from the same grape. Researchers in Spain recently compared wines from the same clone of grenache grafted on the same rootstock, harvested and vinified in exactly the same way, but grown in two vineyards 1,600 feet apart, one with a soil significantly richer in potassium, calcium and nitrogen. The wines from the mineral-rich soil were higher in apparent density, alcohol and ripe-raisiny aromas; wines from the poorer soil were higher in acid, astringency and applelike aromas. The different soils produced different flavors, but they were flavors of fruit and of the yeast fermentation. What about the flavors of soil and granite and limestone that wine experts describe as minerality — a term oddly missing from most formal treatises on wine flavor? Do they really go straight from the earth to the wine to the discerning palate?
Consider the grapevine growing in the earth. It takes in elemental, inert materials from the planet — air and water and minerals — and, using energy captured from sunlight, turns them into a living, growing organism. It doesn't just accumulate the earth's materials. It transforms them into the sugars, acids, aromas, tannins, pigments and dozens of other molecules that make grapes and wine delicious.
"Plants don't really interact with rocks," explains Mark Matthews, a plant physiologist at the University of California, Davis who studies vines. "They interact with the soil, which is a mixture of broken-down rock and organic matter. And plant roots are selective. They don't absorb whatever's there in the soil and send it to the fruit. If they did, fruits would taste like dirt." He continues, "Any minerals from the solid rock that vine roots do absorb — sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, a handful of others — have to be dissolved first in the soil moisture. Most of them are essential nutrients, and they mainly affect how well the plant as a whole grows."
Most of the earthy and mineral aromas and flavors that we detect in wine actually come from the interaction of the grape and yeast. Yeasts metabolize the grape sugars into alcohol, along the way freeing up and spinning off the dozens of aromatic chemicals that make wine more than just alcoholic grape juice. It's because of the yeasts that we can catch whiffs of tropical fruits, grilled meats, toasted bread and other things that have never been anywhere near the grapes or the wine. The list of evocative yeast products includes an organic sulfur molecule that can give sauvignon blancs a "flinty" aroma. And there are minor yeasts that create molecules called volatile phenols, whose earthy, smoky flavors have nothing to do with the soil but are suggestive of it, especially in wines from the southern Rhone.
Grape minerals and mineral flavors are also strongly influenced by the grower and winemaker. When a vineyard is planted, the vine type, spacing and orientation are just a few of many important decisions. Growers control the plant growth in myriad ways, such as pruning, canopy management or, most obviously, irrigating and replenishing the soil with manures or chemical fertilizers. The winemaker then makes hundreds of choices that affect wine flavor, beginning with the ripeness at which the grapes are harvested, and can change the mineral content by using metal equipment, concrete fermentation tanks or clarifying agents made from bentonite clay. Jamie Goode, a British plant biologist turned wine writer, describes in his superbly lucid book "Wine Science" how techniques that minimize the wine's contact with oxygen can increase the levels of sulfur compounds that may be mistaken for "mineral" character from the soil.
So, if vines absorb only rock that is dissolved in water, if grape and wine minerals are not a reflection of the rocks' minerals, and if earthy aromas in wine come from microbes and not the earth, do soil minerals have any real role in wine flavor?
Hildegarde Heymann, a sensory scientist at U.C. Davis, is skeptical about the usefulness of the terms 'terroir" and "minerality" as they're used today. But she is intrigued by "minerality." "People who talk about minerality are describing something they perceive that's hard to grab on to," she says. "My guess is that it's a composite perception, something like 'creaminess' in dairy foods. 'Minerality' might be a way of describing a combination of complexity, balance and a substantial body. We do know that mineral ions can affect wine flavor by affecting acidity, chemical reaction rates and the volatility of aromas. And we're just now looking at whether they can affect the body of wine, its 'mouth feel.' They might."
It's possible, then, that soil minerals may affect wine flavor indirectly, by reacting with other grape and yeast substances that produce flavor and tactile sensations, or by altering the production of flavor compounds as the grape matures on the vine.
The place where grapes are grown clearly affects the wine that is made from them, but it's not a straightforward matter of tasting the earth. If the earth "speaks" through wine, it's only after its murmurings have been translated into a very different language, the chemistry of the living grape and microbe. We don't taste a place in a wine. We taste a wine from a place — the special qualities that a place enables grapes and yeasts to express, aided and abetted by the grower and winemaker.
In the years following Dr. Morelot's missive on terroir, the quality of a wine became synonymous with the quality of the vineyard where it originated. This meant the value of that wine was tied to the land instead of to the winemaker, which allowed it to be handed down from generation to generation. The French went on to codify their vineyards into legal appellations, creating gradations within those appellations that demarcated clear levels of quality (grand cru, first growth and so on), the economic effects of which are felt to this day. Given that it was landowners who benefited most, the commonly held idea of terroir — wine as proxy for a piece of dirt — looks a lot like one of the longest-running, most successful marketing campaigns of the modern era.
Today, it's easy to ascribe all this terroir talk to commerce, to the European reaction to California's recent rise in viniculture status. It's been suggested that terroir is just the Old World saying to the New: It's the land, stupid — we have it and you don't. But that doesn't explain why so many Americans have embraced the concept with near-religious zeal. To paraphrase the great French wine historian Roger Dion, why have so many brilliant and passionate wine professionals been so eager to attribute solely to nature what is actually the result of hard work by talented winemakers?
The answer lies in the complex relationship between tradition, culture and taste. Those wine professionals have all spent vast amounts of time and energy learning what traditional European wines taste like, region by region, winery by winery, vineyard by vineyard. The version of terroir that many of them hold is that those wines taste the way they do because of the enduring natural setting, i.e., the rocks and soil. These wines taste the way they do because people have chosen to emphasize flavors that please them.
The pioneering French oenologist Émile Peynaud wrote nearly 25 years ago: "I cannot agree with the view that 'one accepts human intervention (in vinification) as long as it allows the natural characteristics to remain intact,' since it is precisely human intervention which has created and highlighted these so-called natural characteristics!" Modern European views of terroir recognize that typical local flavors are the creation of generations of growers and winemakers, shaping the vineyard and fine-tuning the fermentation to make what they feel are the best wines possible in their place. Typical flavors are expressions not of nature but of culture.
But culture, unlike nature, isn't static. It evolves in response to shifting tastes and technological advances. Over the past 30 years, the staid world of European winemaking has been roiled by an influx of American consumers, led by their apostle, the writer Robert Parker. In his reviews, Parker has brushed aside the traditional practice of judging wine according to historical context (that is, how it should taste), focusing instead on what's in the bottle. His preference for hugely concentrated, fruit-forward wines — the antithesis of distinctive, diverse terroir wines — has dramatically changed the economic landscape of the wine industry. Throughout the world, more and more winemakers are making wine in the style that Parker prefers, even in Europe, where this means abandoning distinctive local styles that had evolved over centuries. "Somewhereness" is being replaced by "anywhereness."
The simplistic idea of terroir as a direct expression of nature has become a rhetorical weapon in the fight against this trend. Kristancic — who interrupted our interview to raise his fists and shout to the heavens, "They're ruining wine!" — sees an advancing wave of homogenization that will eventually turn wine into a soulless, deracinated commodity. Like many others, he is afraid of losing what is special about the traditional role of wine in human life, its way of connecting people to the land and to one another. Conjuring granite in Alsatian rieslings and limestone in Chablis puts that connection to the land right in the bottle, ours for the tasting.
If rocks were the key to the flavor of "somewhereness," then it would be simple to counterfeit terroir with a few mineral saltshakers. But the essence of wine is more elusive than that, and far richer. Scientists and historians continue to illuminate what Peynaud described as the "dual communion" represented by wine: "on the one hand with nature and the soil, through the mystery of plant growth and the miracle of fermentation, and on the other with man, who wanted wine and who was able to make it by means of knowledge, hard work, patience, care and love." "Somewhereness" is given its meaning by "someoneness": in our time, by the terroirists who are working hard to discover and capture in a bottle the difference that place can make.


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It's been 24 hours since Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to replace Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Since then I've seen him described as a religious ideologue, an ultra-conservative, and (my favorite) a sign that "The American Experiment Is Over".
This isn't a slight misstatement, a matter of nuance or a bending of the truth. It's laughably, ludicrously wrong.
Look, I get it: Donald Trump nominated this guy, so he must be evil. Given some of this president's other nominees (though hardly all), that's understandable, the more so if we also consider Mr. Trump's high scores on the Supervillain Index. (No cape, and his monologues (more…)


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|Reviews for Mystique
| S4AdE chapter 1 . 9/3/2018
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| rc chapter 1 . 9/21/2006
Just doing my annual check to see if this fic is updated ;) I hope that the single page of the next chapter will grow larger before the year is out...
| Aikiko-Ashra chapter 8 . 4/25/2006
This is really good so far! Are you not writing anymore? Please do and update soon!
| golden-eyedwolf842 chapter 8 . 12/26/2005
Very nice. I like this story very much! I HAVE to add this to my favorites section. Anyways, great job! You had very nice writing style. Makes it very enjoyable to read. :P
| Macky chapter 8 . 8/9/2005
Nice chapter please continue.
| Hawkmoon chapter 2 . 2/1/2005
Very much enjoyed the story and writing style.
A bit of review and cleanup before post would help to keep from distracting from the story with things that spellcheck misses (such as 'here' in place of 'her' and 'made' instead of mad.) Otherwise grammar and spelling look great, and it's obvious effort was put into that.
Look forward to more from you, take criticism constructively, just trying to help.
| rc chapter 8 . 6/29/2004
To my shame, I didn't know it was updated 'till after a month you posted a new chapter :(... I hope it doesn't take as long for the next chapter!
| 19Nina Sakura07 chapter 8 . 5/29/2004
my first review here was gone...wonder y,hmm,eventhough you kinda took forever to update...it was really worth it!VERY NICE chappy!pls update really soon!see ya!_~
| razie chapter 7 . 4/22/2004
This is really good. I really like the pairing. _ Please continue~! Great development.
| rc chapter 1 . 12/17/2003
I am shocked... shocked... to find that you updated your Ruin Explorers fanfiction. I hope it won't take as long (according to my reckoning, it wasn't updated since July of 2002!) for the next chapter. I'm just afraid you won't get many reviews, because the Ruin Explorer section in general has been pretty dead, so your old readers might not be aware that it as been updated.
| Einstein's Toupee chapter 6 . 3/7/2003
hey!loved youre story so much!pls update really soon ok!see ya!;D
| Explorer Mylo chapter 1 . 10/30/2002
Fantastic. I had no idea anyone could write so well. At first, i was a little confused at how you started everything out... but soon discovered the greatness due time.
Amazing continuation. Superb flashback story.
And I really hope you continue this.
Otherwise~ be careful with grammar and how you make people say certain phrases.
I'm trully impressed. Now... If only I can get my ! #$%&* fanfic account set up. My computer is still giving me crap. But hopefully that'll all change with a new computer or something. HELP!
| Watson chapter 1 . 9/23/2002
PLEASE UPDATE! I love the whole idea of Irie and Lyle togther...though I also love Fam and Lyle togther...can't stand Rasha and Miguel is mine...Some one can have Gaulduff...
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| DarthMind chapter 5 . 5/1/2002
So far, so good. You've cuaght my attention, and that takes alot when it comes to already established series. You know they reall should make more RUIN EXPLORERS, don't you think? :) Anybody agree? :P Can't wait for more! ~Mastermind
| Meekachu chapter 5 . 4/25/2002
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I really dislike gbeboruns and I'm not alone. Traditionally snitches or rats have always met grisly ends in the mafia world. Ok, I'm not mafia but you get the gist?
I'm a very private person or maybe I just pretend to be but then who cares. In fact it's so bad that most of my shady friends have NDA clauses by default (if you have such with me, now you know how you are internally classified). Ok, enough rambling.
To imagine that my computer could easily give me up, I mean my emotions, to random people is really pathetic.
Let's cut to the chase.
Some scientists just discovered that your mouse movements can be a telltale sign of your emotions at any particular moment. It can even track the way your mood swings.
It's not that difficult to do, the lamest JavaScript coder can track mouse x/y coordinates and with AJAX, just slip stream it to some backend services; there are well developed APIs for that.
While SEOs have always analyzed heat maps showing where mice love to play on a web page, this is the first time it's being analyzed for the emotions of the users holding the input devices.
Like everything technology, it can be used for good and evil.
The Good
Banks, websites, 4Chan, Nairaland, etc. can track your mouse movements to determine if the pages are relevant, or just annoying. Take that mouse feeds from many visitors and you have a large data set to optimize from.
Systems may be able to know if you need assistance and push help/chat to you right away. Hi Visitor, do you want to know how doh dah works?
The Bad
Google and others may be able to develop advanced algorithms that can turn mouse movements into digital motional fingerprints to identify users. Could be used to authenticate or, em, deliver relevant ads.
Website or news could use it to filter news and content. Serve this for angry guys or that for loving lasses.
The Ugly
NSA may use that to track you around. Know everywhere you go, what you read and maybe one day just hack your brain.
The Salvation
I'm cock sure someone is going to have a software or system that can abstract or smoothen out mouse movements into an anonymous mess without sacrificing usability and then we patiently wait for the next hack.
The Beautiful
Tell a website visitor it's a beautiful sunny day out there, don't just read the news.
Adédèjì Ọlọ́wẹ̀
Your mouse will give you up
I really dislike gbeboruns and I'm not alone. Traditionally snitches or rats have always met grisly ends in the mafia world. Ok, I'm not mafia but you get the gist?


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Scot Nobles, my good friend and fellow Igloo Tornado artist, is in a group show at Gallery 825.
2006 Open Show
825 Gallery
825 N. La Cienega Blvd
La, Ca 90069
Opening reception is Saturday December 16th from 6-9
Show runs through Jan. 19
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Scot Nobles in group show...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Go see this show!!!
Two of my favorite artists,
Go see it:
Errant Days in a Wayward World
Kathleen Lolley, Andy Kehoe, and Kevin Titzer
December 8th thru January 8th
Opening receptions Friday, Dec. 8th 7-9 pm
Harmony Gallery
5911 1/2 Franklin
Hollywood, CA 90028
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Category Archives: Religion and Spirituality
Your Deliverance Has a New Look
The Way is Hard Pressed [leading to life], and, not many there are that find it (Matthew 7:14).
Deliverance has a new look.
Let's talk today about how difficult it might be for us to keep our bearing. Scripture speaks of the Way in terms of struggle and pain during the walk. Hence, there is misconception brought about by those who deliver these messages of prosperities which has deceived us to the point that we do not look any place to find Yah, except in our wallets.
Then we should ask then what if our wallets are empty? Or what if our houses are substandard? What if we don't own a car, or the car is in disrepair? What then are we to do with ourselves if the Way is prosperity which everyone seeks, then, where does that leave many of us who love the Most High?
Think again and consider what that means.
If people continue to take in the lie, then we begin to see this is the very reason why trust has been lost. Many people have lost trust in the Most High, because no matter how they try there is still trouble, hopelessness, and struggle. Hence, what we need to do is look elsewhere, because the Way is hard pressed and not easy as in prosperity teaches.
"Enter in through the narrow gate! Because the gate is wide – and the way is broad – that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in through it. "Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed [or the way is afflicted] which leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).
Today: Press through the lies and hypocrisy of erroneous teaching and know that your answer is in the search of Truth in the Most High who says He will be found when we search with our whole [entire] heart. What that means is that He is not in our wallets as is the thing in the broad road to destruction.
For your hearing:
Matthew 7
Infidelity Costs More than You Think!
So you believe that since you stopped cheating on him or her that thing is over? Well the affair might be over, but the saga of the infidelity and the unfaithfulness lives on. It is not the case that a person likes to dwell on a thing, however, what one must know is that once trust is broken its difficult to give that again. Hence, an issue of broken trust is far reaching. In fact, people can not trust the person as far as they can see [See: 10 Signs You're Having An Emotional Affair].
If it is a matter of an emotional affair, then, it might have been better for you had you went through with the actual act.
Scripture says, "If a man even looks at a woman with lust in his heart he has committed [the act of] adultery already".
Take heed, because in this view people have lost trust and in some instances not able to find that again.
For your hearing:
Matthew 5:27-28
Watch: Emotional Infidelity: Is It Worse Than A Sexual Affair?
What and Who are You Celebrating?
I like the birth of the Messiah story, don't you? Hence, we see that Mariam being very pregnant; her and her espoused had to change direction, that is take another course because their enemy was out to kill. Yep, and how many know that the couple turned into Egypt to hide (Matthew 2). Hence, what we see is a couple led by the Ruach run to safety among white people?
No, black people cannot run into the arms of their enemy if they want to be saved. Its deceptive to believe that anyone is safe in the land of oppression [as we will see later], however, what we need to see right now is that Egypt was safe then because of the color of the people's skin. So how do we get this across amidst images of white in a black land?
So the movies portray this, however, how is it no one gets the idea of those people being sunburned along with that? It is the case, that it humanly impossible for albinoes to remain in temperatures that can be well over 104 degrees in the summer.
Ask: If these people cannot stand the heat in America which in some places is extreme how could they stand it then or today? How can that be?
In any case, the premise here is the time of year reflected today for the birth is impossible as well when even in the winter in Egypt temperatures can plummet to well below 32 degrees so what we are saying here is that according to today's standard that our Messiah was subjugated to neglect?
See: White People are Cursed by God
In other words, to cement the idea of a white baby the winter birth suffices for those asleep.
Its so Hard to say to Goodbye to Yesterday? No not Really!
The scriptures say that the believers are to judge within the body. What that means is if we see someone in a sin [sexual or otherwise] then we are to be confronted or to confront on that thing. The scripture says to convict them.
In other words, you have heard of an intervention? This is it.
"And if your brother sins against you, go and reprove him, between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. "But if he does not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might be established.' "And if he refuses to hear them, say it to the assembly. And if he refuses even to hear the assembly, let him be to you like a gentile and a tax collector. "Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be having been bound in heaven, and whatever you loosen on earth shall be having been loosened in heaven". (Matthew 18:15-18).
As we can see there is no binding up if the leaders are urging the folly.The judging comes in as an excuse to keep on with it, however, the scripture is clear on that as well saying:
"But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone called 'a brother,' if he is one who whores, or greedy of gain, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler – not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are inside? But Elohim judges those who are outside. And put away the wicked one from among you! (1 Corinthians 5:11-13).
Escape or Excuse?
It is a bunch of crock and bull to use the excuse 'its a spirit' concerning homosexuality, or rather, all sin for that matter. Well yeah, duhhh it is a spirit, but if we have authority to case out demons in the Name because these people are carrying a wicked spirit then why aren't people able to cast those out?
In essence, we yell its a spirit, because we do not know what to do. Its like giving up, helpless, without hope and walking away.
Hence, here comes another excuse because people cannot get help which says they are born that way. Bull corn, fooey and boloney! No! Yah said male and female. So if someone is saying different that means they are lying to them self. A lie has to be thought of, convincing self to belief and then acted out. Then someone none discerning believes the lie too wanting to be well like, wanting to be a good parent, friend, not wanting to offend. People are tricked to unbelief. Because there is always a way out. Yah said it, he provides an escape (1 Corinthians 10:13), but we don't want escape we want excuse (Romans 1).
Come on now let us reason. Better yet, let us look at the fact that anyonThe Most High said that people are without excuse (Romans 1).e needs help. There is a problem that has over powered the so called church, and its not cause people are not praying, it is because they are praying in the wrong Name.
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Romans 1-2
The Most High Comforts where it Hurts
I had no idea Lady GaGa was so pretty. She is a beautiful woman and speaking of her rape at 19 years old, and a subsequent video about the event she says, "I was messed up!" Notably, the star says that she was not so messed up when the event took place, but decidedly pronounces that years later did notice her plight. She spoke about not telling anyone, and even a time when she saw her attacker in the store where she shopped she says though afraid she never told. In essence, it is that way until we own up to the truth, that is it happened and learn to deal with the pain.
In saying that we learn to tell with the pain, Lady GaGa doesn't see herself as messed up but her outer appearance is a matter of deviance to cover up something, and says something altogether different.
In essence some of us are all covering something, that is, hurtfulness never dealt with. Hence, we do outlandish things to draw attention away…lest any one know our secret. No matter, Yah knows our hurt and he cares.
Today: Cast it away!
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Cast your burden on יהוה, And let Him sustain you; He never allows the righteous to be shaken. For You, O Elohim, do bring them down To the pit of destruction; Men of blood and deceit do not reach half their days; But I, I trust in You. (Psalms 55:22,23).
There shall be no other signs, you have the Book of Moshe' [Torah]
While we are here let's talk about that. Remember the story about the man who lived his life any kinda of way [Luke 16:19-31]. Apparently he did what he wanted to do with no regard of the poor at all. As a matter of fact, that man being rich passed by a poor man who sat at the gate begging each day and never gave a penny so the man could eat. One day the beggar died and so did the rich man, however, the two ended in very different places because of how they lived.
It came to pass that the beggar walked himself to the bosom of Abraham; while the rich man walked himself to hell, and suffering his plight asked for a cool finger to cool his tongue.
Abraham responded to the request saying, '"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that in your life you received your good, and likewise Elʽazar the evil, but now he is comforted and you are suffering."
Continuing the rich man asked that word be sent to warn his brethren, however, Abraham said:
'They have Mosheh and the prophets, let them hear them.' If they do not hear Mosheh and the prophets, neither would they be persuaded even if one should rise from the dead.' "
Ladies and Gentlemen, there is no other word to redeem us to the Most High.
He that hath an ear to hear will hear.
Did the Most High Create Evil?
Here are some terms which without doubt are causing confusion concerning Isaiah 45:7 which reads, "Forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil. I, יהוה, do all these.' [Read the entire text to understand better].
For this analysis we are concentrating on Yah saying through the prophet Isaiah that he creates evil, because it is here that people are being confused and yelling that Yahuah doesn't create evil the devil does. Well, true, the devil does create evil situations through people, but in and of himself cannot create evil. Hence, if Yahuah created Satan and Satan is evil then Yahuah created evil. Does that make sense?
See then, that Yahuah created man in his image, right? However, because of sin man is made evil then if Yahuah created man, and sin is evil, then, Yahuah created evil also, because if that were not the case then there would be no evil. Then we see [too] the fact that evil and good is in the plan of free will. Hence, without evil to choose as an alternative then there is not a thought process, because people tend to choose from the choices available to them. Hence, the scripture "Choose life, choose this day who you will serve".
Here are a choice of words that may deflect truth.
calamity —an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.
A disaster can be a natural event, or even a trial for some people, however, one cannot say that the disaster is evil though people might be killed, injured or displaced. What a calamity does is create a situation allowed by the Most High to get our attention so that we can call him. In essence, calamities happen but are not necessarily evil.
In fact, scripture tells us do not fear, " Do not be afraid of sudden dread, Nor of the ruin of the wrong when it comes; For יהוה is at your side, And He shall guard your foot from being caught." (Proverbs 3:25-26).
The same thing here:
a sudden event, such as an accident or a natural catastrophe, that causes great damage or loss of life.
Hence, the use of terminology is misleading the flock. For example, there was a calamity created during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when people resorted to looting in their time of distress. These then, are conditions of immoral character which is evil brought on my a natural disaster, that is killing, stealing, and even rape occurring, however, the event [the natural disaster] itself was not evil.
What is evil? To be evil says that people are profoundly immoral and malevolent.
The term malevolent here is important. Malevolent means that a person(s) is intentionally bring harm to people which was the case when after the flood in Louisiana, there was no immediate help though officials were promising that help would arrive, people had no humane facilities, no food, no water and no rescue for days. Hence, evil in the face of a disaster.
The problem here then is knowing which is which.
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Leaving Moab Behind
We need to learn what the significance of Moab means as it pertains to Ruth the Moabitess leaving her homeland. You remember Ruth don't you? Well Ruth married the son of an Israelite woman Naomi, which in the Hebrew (Ruawth) means 'friendship'. Ruth and Naomi (No`omiy [ no·om·ē'])were close so close that she was greatly influenced by her mother n law's love and commitment for things of the Most High Yah.
We know that because of her declaration, " But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim" [An example of how a gentile is "grafted in"].
Moab is a place of idolatry.
There is always talk about Ruth meeting her Boaz, however, this is a scheme to take us away from the truth of the message, which is love for the truth of Yah so strong as to persuade and teach our sisters of Him. That is the message that we take the message of truth to all women, even those who will listen outside of the tribe. Out of this love to lay down her life, a gentile woman bore the lineage of King of Israel David.
So though we are taught about waiting on a man, and yes, we should wait on 'the chosen' man of Yah for us instead of being the aggressor in relationships. We must take hold to this text, that is, being a woman of influence. In essence, who are we following if they have not truth?
Today: We first must leave Moab, and secondly, leave Moab behind us that means change that thinking.
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Isaiah 15
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Alex Rios has been shut down and won't play over the final seven games of the Texas Rangers season after having last played in early September while dealing with a thumb injury.
It's hard to blame Rios for wanting to shut it down and get well, because the Rangers' right fielder will almost certainly be out on the free agent market this winter as it's expected that the Rangers will pay him a $1 million buyout instead of picking up their $13.5 million club option.
Back in the first part of the season, it looked like a lock that the Rangers would pick up that option. That was back when Rios was hitting .305 over the season's first half and led the league in triples despite having a career-low power year that will end with him having hit just four home runs for a guy that has capabilities to hit 20-25 homers.
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Now, it's almost a certainty the Rangers will give him the buyout and allow him to become a free agent after his awful second half has dropped his season average to .280. But Rios said he'd be open to taking a cheaper deal than the one he'd be owed with the team option to stay in Texas.
"That's a situation you have to examine," Rios told the Star-Telegram, adding he'd be open to staying in Texas and that money won't be the leading factor to decide where he plays in 2015.
Interim manager Tim Bogar, who could very well be hired full-time this winter, said he'd love to have Rios back if he's with the club in 2015.
"He's much more valuable than four home runs," Bogar said. "There's more to Alex's game. I don't think it's fair to say Alex Rios has to carry the team with power."
Take 2013 for instance, when Rios split time between Texas and the Chicago White Sox. He hit 18 homers, which is a respectable total, and also stole a career-high 42 bases, a number that dipped to 17 this season.
He has the talent to be a special player, it just remains to be seen if the Rangers want to try to pursue him this winter or save their money to spend on pitching.


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If you only had a few minutes before you lost your hearing, what three songs would you listen to? British director Lindsey Dryden poses this question on her website, asking visitors for their "Panic Lists" -- answers have ranged from listening to "my son play jazz on any one of his three saxophones" to "Radiohead's Paranoid Android, because it is like listening to 3 different songs in one track." The prompt works conceptually as a prequel to Dryden's first feature film, in which it becomes a catch-22 -- what would you listen to after you lost your hearing?
Dryden, who is deaf in one ear, explores the lives of three deaf subjects in her documentary, "Lost and Sound," which premiered at SXSW earlier this month. For each, music is such an inextricable part of their lives, they found a way back in -- or into it for the first time -- after losing their hearing.
Music critic and obsessive listener Nick Coleman, went deaf in one ear due to sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Coleman's bad ear "fizzle[s], hisse[s] and clank[s] around the clock like a detuned radio." At first, this painfully cut him off from the hundreds of records that line his apartment. Eventually, however, Coleman formed new mental paths to reach music, and even feels "the quality of [his] listening" has improved.
Holly Loach, a high-spirited 12-year-old, was diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis as a baby, leaving her profoundly deaf. The granddaughter of director Ken Loach (who stopped listening to music when Holly lost her hearing) and daughter of two musicians, music was not encouraged, but mandatory growing up. Holly has a cochlear implant and plays the piano unnaturally well, completing exercises that allow her to conceptualize the space between and heaviness of notes.
Emily Thornton, a dancer who has been profoundly deaf since birth, is also fitted with a cochlear implant, and is filmed as a student at the esteemed Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in England. In a particularly revealing moment, Thornton submerges her ears underwater in her bath -- it's the one place she can hear fully, she says.
Reactions to the film post-screening were warm, the audience sharing in something intimate and unexplainable about the human spirit. Dryden was flushed with happiness when she sat down with The Huffington Post to discuss how her relationship with music has changed, and the frightening prospect that she might one day go fully deaf.
How did you lose your hearing?
I lost my hearing in one ear when I was 3, and no one really knows how it happened. It was quite a mystery until a few years ago when I was getting a lot of dizziness, a lot of strange symptoms, and I was diagnosed with Meniere's disease, which may one day migrate to the other ear -- there's no way of knowing, there's no guarantee that it will happen or it won't. So, I've always been deaf, as long as I can remember. And I've always had an amazing relationship with music.
What was your relationship with music like before you lost your hearing -- was it more as a listener, or did you play an instrument?
I'm a slightly obsessive, annoying music listener. I have a history of really winding up my flatmates over the years by just being really obsessed with certain things over and over again. And I played the piano and the cello and things like that, but it's mainly listening.
How has being partially deaf affected that for you?
I sort of feel that it hasn't in many ways. I'm very careful when I go to gigs, got lots of nice things to block my ears up, and make sure they're protected because I'm very conscious of that, and I tend to force other people to look after their ears at gigs as well. When I go to classical music concerts, I always try to really carefully put myself in a place where I know I'll get a feeling of surround sound, cause I've never properly heard stereo -- but I don't know that, I don't know what the difference is, and to me what I hear is incredible.
You mentioned that there was the possibility you might go fully deaf -- has this film changed your feelings about that?
It has. I think it's a really frightening prospect that I might lose the hearing in my other ear one day. A couple of years ago I was sitting on the sofa, late at night watching a film, and suddenly my ears sounded strange and I thought, it's happening, this terrible thing that I'm petrified of is happening. But then I went to bed and got up in the morning and everything was back to normal again. And this film I think is about other people -- it's about three incredible, amazing people who I'm fascinated by -- but there were definitely moments during the filming where I felt this sense of relief and reassurance because the things that I learned, through those people and through the scientists that we worked with, were very comforting.
What we thought was interesting was how you visualize sound in the film. Was that conceptualized in any way by what you see in your brain?
I think it was just what I want to see in many ways (laughs). I wanted to create a quite subtle, beautiful way of visualizing sound. There's an organization in London called Deaf Rave, and they host raves that are so loud that deaf people feel the vibrations of the songs really fully and they sign the lyrics of the songs, and there are lots of video installations and lots of visuals going on there, so I did a lot of research looking into the kinds of things that they use, and ultimately came up with an amazing animation company in London called Karrot.
Did anything surprise you when you were making this, did you learn anything that you didn't already know?
Ooh. Good question. Hard question. Lots of things surprised me. When we went along to a hospital in Cambridge to see an incredible [doctor], David Baguley, he gave Nick… lots of really wonderful information about what happens when you lose your hearing, what happens to music, how to get it back again, how to train yourself. And all of that information was a real surprise because it was very clear and made a lot of sense of what had happened to Nick, what might happen to me. I was also continually surprised by how people can balance this feeling of being anxious all the time about their hearing with not being anxious about it at all and just getting on with their lives. I was really dazzled by the people in the film for that.
Watch the trailer for "Lost and Sound":
Lost and Sound trailer [subtitled] - music, deafness and the incredible human brain... from Lindsey Dryden on Vimeo.
What three songs would you listen to if you only had a few minutes of ordinary hearing left? Let us know in the comments, or drop us a line at email@example.com.


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