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Developer: Imageepoch/Sega
Publisher: Atlus USA
Platform: 3DS
Release Date: November 17, 2015
ESRB: T for Teen
Seeing the developer name Imageepoch does not automatically inspire confidence within me. It could be because of the very unfortunate RPG mess that was Time & Eternity or my various loose recollections of the wholly forgettable Black Rock Shooter: The Game. Regardless, my recent memory of Imageepoch titles is not exactly glowing. However, rewinding my memories further back, I actually recall liking the strategy-RPG Luminous Arc 2 on the original Nintendo DS. It was hardly the first title you would recommend on the system but there was a certain charm to it that is difficult for me to articulate now.
That said, as of this year Imageepoch filed for bankruptcy. As a possible last hurrah, Imageepoch conducted a spiritual successor to their very first developed game, Luminous Arc, with new turn-based strategy-RPG Stella Glow on the 3DS. One can only hope that Stella Glow leaves their name on a good note.
Unfortunately, the early goings of Stella Glow do not make a strong first impression. The storytelling in particular is derivative to a noticeable fault. Lead character whom may-or-may-not be an amnesiac? Check. Romantic interests for the lead fulfilling pretty apparent anime archetypes? Check. A possibly misunderstood villain figure out to destroy the world? Check. Pretty much every aspect of it feels like a checklist of Japanese-RPG cliches. It also didn't help that the intentionally nostalgic character designs of the lead character Alto and the witch Hilda made them blur together with previous Luminous Arc leads for me longer than they should have.
That said, I warmed up to Stella Glow far quicker than I would have expected. For as stereotypical as the storytelling is, it somehow feels much more charming and cute than cringe-worthy. The cast of characters end up being generally likable (more so through the "free time" events) and Atlus USA"s clever localization knows when to sneak in plenty of tongue-in-cheek quips to give everything a more entertaining flair than it has any right being.
What caught me off-guard more than anything else is how surprisingly polished Stella Glow is as an actual game. Imageepoch has come a long way from the many clunky, mediocre-at-best RPGs that plagued of their entire existence, and it really shows in Stella Glow.
The basic turn-based strategy-RPG gameplay actually reminds me a fair bit level-5's PSP title Jeanne D'Arc, but as a game it is structured a lot better. It does nothing new for the subgenre with its grid-based gameplay at large but it borrows pretty much all of the right things.The main story regularly introduces new battle scenarios that play upon different terrain, varying objectives, orbs skills to personalize characters, and tossing new playable fresh faces in addition.
More distinctly, each character has at least a few unique mechanics to differentiate themselves: The witch Sakuya goes between different attack stances that change both her movement and attack skills, the ninja Nonoka can conceal herself from enemies, the merchant Ewan has an infinite supply of healing items (but... you'll have to pay him upfront mid-battle to use them), and so on. It's fun to go into battle to employ different strategies with the varied cast and the skill animations in particular have quite a lot of personality to complement them (though, the overhead visuals are admittedly far more basic).
Additionally, the witch characters can use song magic to quickly turn the tides of battle, adding an extra layer to the combat. After building up the song gauge by characters dealing and/or taking damage mid-battle, Alto can "conduct" the witch heroines (which... looks like him stabbing them in the heart with knife) to unleash powerful song magic to debilitate foes or buff allies as long as it is active, and varies from witch to witch. The songs themselves are usually of the J-pop variety but end up being catchy regardless.
Actually, the soundtrack in general is shockingly good, but maybe less so when legendary video game composer Yasunori Mitsuda is the one behind it (with RPG fame that extends to Chrono Trigger/Cross, Xenosaga, and even Soul Sacrifice). It certainly is not Mitsuda's best work but there is quite a lot of variety in the score with battle themes in particular.
Going back to combat, though, there are a few issues. For one, it can be annoying to balance the levels of party members because inactive party members gain no experience whatsoever. This may not sound like a big deal at first until you realize how many scripted story battles there are that require certain characters to be in the group and how you generally can only sortie 6 characters per battle (when there are about 15 playable characters by the end of the game). Another qualm is that gameplay will be on the easier side for many strategy-RPG veterans without any option to change.
Outside of combat, Stella Glow also apologetically borrows a Persona 3/4's social link mechanic in the form of "Free time" between the main missions. Alto can take jobs from the Red Bear Tavern for easy cash, explore outside of town on his own to get free items, but the most substantial is without a doubt spending time with fellow party members. In addition to fleshing out most characters, even those not immediately likable in the main story, you get very tangible gameplay benefits in combat as you build up their friendship. Again, very much like Persona 3 and 4.
An extension to the Free Time concept for character relationships is "tuning", which is kind of reminiscent of Ar Tonelico/Ar NoSurge's diving mechanic. Basically, Alto can go into the psyche of the various witch heroines for both character development reasons and to enhance their song magic. It is not as in-depth as something like Ar NoSurge, with literal hours of exposition, but it's a cool addition regardless like most of Free Time events.
There are also a multitude of character endings caused by these character events so Stella Glow very much rewards picking favorites, from romances to bromances, the first time through in its lengthy 40+ hour adventure. Even if players happen to miss out on most of them the first time the New Game+ is fairly thoughtful in dramatically extending the amount of Free Time and combat experience rate for would-be thorough players to see all of the endings.
It is unlikely that Stella Glow will outshine the likes of Fire Emblem: Awakening or Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker in most 3DS owner's eyes. Just the same, however, Stella Glow unassumingly earns its place as one of the best RPGs on 3DS and is pretty much without a doubt the best title from Imageepoch outright. Stella Glow does not attempt to reinvent the wheel amongst strategy-RPGs but, narrative cliches aside, it will likely remind fans why they like the subgenre in the first place because of the deceptive amount of charm and great gameplay fundamentals it has hidden underneath.
+ Generally charming characters and writing
+ Combat animations have quite a bit of personality
+ Fun, if hardly original, turn-based SRPG gameplay with varied characters
+ "Free Time" events are a cool break from combat
+ Great soundtrack
- Main story is nothing to write home about and is incredibly predictable
- Balancing party levels can be needlessly annoying due to no shared EXP between inactive members
- Easier than many SRPGs
Overall Score: 8 (out of 10)
Stella Glow does not reinvent the wheel for turn-based strategy-RPGs, nor does it attempt to, but it can easily remind fans why they like it in the first place with its deceptive amount of charm and polish.
Disclosure: This game was reviewed using downloadable 3DS code provided by the publisher.


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Meet our slimming champions Danny, Tom and Ollie, who've lost an inspirational 48st between them and completely transformed their lives…
'I'm the man I was meant to be'
Slimming World's Man of the Year, Reverend Danny Crosby, 45, is a Minister for the Unitarian Church and lives in Altrincham, Cheshire. He's 6ft ½in tall and weighs 12st 3lbs, having lost 8st 1lb at Janet Cullen's group in Altrincham, where he's a target member
The pats on the belly were the thing that finally got to me. I was at my nephew Joe's wedding reception – I'd dressed in a sharp new suit and, looking in the mirror that morning, had thought I looked OK. Even the best tailoring I could afford couldn't disguise my 44in waist, though. Part of me knew I was overweight. Yet that evening, it was as if for the first time ever, I understood how big I really was. My heart pounding, I excused myself from the room and stood sobbing in the pitch-dark car park. Nobody had meant to upset me – I knew I was loved. I'd just realised what everyone else already knew: that I wasn't a big, strong man. I was a big, overweight man. When all the tears were gone, I did the thing I always did in dark times – I started to pray. And I soon realised what I was going to do... For the second time in my life, I was going to walk into a room full of strangers and admit I needed help. In 2003, I'd managed to quit drinking. Would Slimming World help me to change my unhealthy eating habits?
As a skinny child, I'd always wanted to weigh more. I was born with a spine problem, where the nerves that affect the movement of my back hadn't formed properly. I saw myself as a weedy-looking kid, who walked with a shuffling gait. I couldn't run or play footy like my friends, and was nicknamed 'penguin'. My teens and early 20s were very unhappy. I'd grown out of some of my back problems so walking around was easier, but I never developed a healthy self-esteem. I left school without qualifications, drank far too much, joined a punk band, and struggled with what I wanted from life. Eventually I became a mature student at the University of Manchester, where the lifestyle – beer, takeaways and junk food – meant that for the first time I gained weight. By the time I graduated with a degree in politics and modern history, I had a 36in waist. Rather than being alarmed, though, I was pleased. Now I had the bigger body I'd always wanted.


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The EPA Tier 4 compliant locomotives will be produced at the GE Manufacturing Solutions facility in Fort Worth, Texas. They will be equipped with GoLINC networking technology, Trip Optimizer fuel saving system and Locotrol distributed power controls. The deal announced on September 5 includes a multi-year support agreement.
'With strong demand across our business, we continue to invest for the long haul with these locomotives that further expand the reliability and size of our fleet', said CN President & CEO JJ Ruest. 'With expanded infrastructure and new equipment, we are giving our industry-leading transportation team the tools they need to provide higher levels of service with greater operating efficiency.'


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Wayland Academy is designed with long term learning in mind, students should be able to take what they learn into adulthood and use it to provide them with opportunities to succeed in life.
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Not many Americans noticed, but this week the House of Representatives passed legislation giving the Treasury Secretary authority to regulate excessive pay at any company that takes government bailout funds. The fact that this legislation passed on April Fool's Day, unfortunately, doesn't make it a joke. No, it's very, very real.
At first blush, you may take this legislation for entirely reasonable, after all, they are getting taxpayer money and we wouldn't want them to waste it. But, there are so many problems with this action it's hard to know where to begin. First, and most obvious, Congress doesn't bother to define "excessive". Gee, does anyone think that might be problematic? What a joke this government has become! And, I'm not picking on the Democrats, both parties are absolutely worthless. Pass a law that hinges on a totally ambiguous term like "excessive compensation" without bothering to define even the general parameters of your legislative intent behind the word "excessive. Are they serious? Really?
The intent of the TARP money was to stabilize U.S. banks to prevent the economy from collapsing. To that end, it would be wise for a bank to keep the money until certain it has avoided any calamity. However, another problem with this action by the Congress is the incredible pressure it places on these financial institutions to pay the money back early, perhaps too early, in order to get out from under government control.
Many of the banks who took TARP funds are now expressing concern that with these compensation restrictions they will struggle to attract the best talent. Their competitors in the U.S. who didn't take TARP funds and foreign banks, whose governments aren't so short-sighted, will not face these same restrictions and will have a competitive advantage over the TARP recipients. I know what you're thinking, "Who cares, they failed and now they'll have to suffer the consequences". Well, you better think again. As a taxpayer your money is on the line. Taking any action that hampers the competitiveness of the TARP recipients puts taxpayer money in further unnecessary jeopardy.
So in the end, we have yet another poorly written law by an inept Congress which will restrict the ability of the banks to hire and/or retain the appropriate talent decreasing the likelihood of eventual repayment of the people's money. And need I remind you, this government can hardly afford to waste any more of the people's money.


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Searched high and low for a command to get CPU usage on the internet to no avail. From a DOS command prompt (Windows server 2003) CPU usage for all nodes:
WMIC CPU GET LoadPercentage
SNMP was my other alternative, but not all deployments would have this service.
This does not aggregate the values, nor does it easily feed into a batch file. For that I use a
FOR loop.
FOR /F "delims= " %%i in ('WMIC CPU GET LoadPercentage') do @echo %%i


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Captain Harry George Armstrong, a salty ex-Marine doctor, is director of the Army's efficient Aero-Medical Research Laboratory at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Ten years ago Dr. Armstrong made his first parachute jump from an altitude of 2,200 feet, then published a cold, detailed medical report on his "free fall in space."
"The period of free fall," he wrote, "was remarkably free from abnormal physical sensations. . . . Consciousness was unclouded, and ideation [thought] was rapid, precise, penetrating and clear."
Last week Dr. Armstrong officially opened a new branch of medical science with a weighty tome, Aviation Medicine
(Williams & Wilkins, $6.50), first book...


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Revision as of 10:21, 5 April 2019
|Brainsmoke, Guido, Realitygaps
|OpenWRT, basic electronics
- 1 Spacebutton mkII
- 2 Spacebutton mkI (This spacebutton is no longer in use!!!!!)
The current Space button consists of:
- an 8Devices Carambola2 dev board, running a custom LEDE(was OpenWRT) linux system
- an industrial stateless button.
- a Techinc Badge
- a wired Internet connection
- a USB power adapter / mini-USB cable
The Carambola 2 runs a custom compiled LEDE (formerly OpenWRT) firmware with a go program for the logic.
Compiling LEDE
Sadly, precompiled packages of Openwrt/LEDE do not support MIPS
hardware float emulation out of the box, and
the (default) Go
compiler does not (yet) support software float.
Solution: compile LEDE with in-kernel hardware float emulation
Happy Update
Go 1.10 https://golang.org/doc/go1.10 now has support for MIPS w. soft-float, A custom LEDE/OpenWRT should not be needed anymore in the future.
LEDE with in-kernel hardware float emulation
No longer needed!
Follow the steps at:
apt-get install subversion g++ zlib1g-dev build-essential git python rsync man-db apt-get install libncurses5-dev gawk gettext unzip file libssl-dev wget git clone https://git.lede-project.org/source.git lede cd lede git checkout -b lede-17.01 ./scripts/feeds update -a ./scripts/feeds install -a make menuconfig # select Target System -> Atheros AR7xxx/AR9xxx # select Target Profile -> Carambola2 board from 8Devices make kernel_menuconfig # select Kernel type -> [*] MIPS FPU Emulator make # resulting sysupgrade image: # bin/targets/ar71xx/generic/lede-ar71xx-generic-carambola2-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Compiling spacestate
GOARCH=mips go build -ldflags="-s -w"
GOARCH=mips GOMIPS=softfloat go build -ldflags="-s -w"
Techinc Logo State Indication code
make make fuses make flash
Nanode code
(and EtherCard fork) https://github.com/techinc/ethercard
The code uses DHCP to obtain an IP address and find a gateway.
The button is a circuit breaker. Connected to pin 3, it pulls this input pin to ground when not pressed.
The code enables the internal pull-up resistor, so no external one is needed.
The LED is connected to pin 5, also using a pull-down circuit. (So the led should be *on*, when pin 5 is low.)
The LED blinks:
- every four seconds: No link
- every two seconds: No DHCP
- every second: No DNS
- twice a second: Changing the space state, but no response yet from the server
- two seconds on, two seconds off: 'upstream' space state unknown.
The nanode is now powered through a USB-port.
DO NOT power it using 9V. There are some issues with the voltage regulator (which is not used when fed through (5V) USB.)
Notification App
An Android app is available to monitor the current state of the space and notify when it changes. The source code is available on GitHub: Source
The app can be downloaded from Google Play or GitHub


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Archive: Workers
Sir Humphrey headache solved? Civil servants could be booted out of capital
Cost-cutting efforts may force more civil servants' jobs outside central London
Opinion Former Articles
Tribunal Fee Ruling is a 'Victory for Workers'
Supreme Court rules to outlaw employment tribunal fees
NASUWT: Workers Memorial Day takes on new poignancy
The NASUWT, the largest teachers' union, will be supporting Workers' Memorial Day, the biggest national event in support of health and safety on 28 April. It is being seen as a day of action to defend health and safety from the unprecedented attack currently being mounted against workplace safety by the Coalition Government.
Government decision to sack disabled workers "barbaric" says Unite
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has called the UK government's decision to sack over 1,000 disabled workers at Remploy 'Barbaric'.
TUC: New laws would only help nasty bosses
Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, responds to recommendations in a leaked report that unfair dismissal laws should be scrapped:


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7QT - NaNoWriMo, Jesus: CEO, and St. Therese of Lisieux
I'm doing NaNoWriMo!! I had never heard of it until the April A to Z blogging challenge, and came across several mentions of it then. But I heard about it again last week, so I checked it out and thought it sounded like fun! I've always wanted to write a work of fiction, and this is as good a time as ever! Better, actually, since I'm actually not in school this semester. So...I'm going for it. I don't know if I will hold myself to 50,000 words of actual text or not, but I have already begun my research and writing out character descriptions and plot ideas, etc. I plan to use this month to plan the book and get it started. So...I'll let you all know how that goes! I have actually started writing text, and as of this posting my word count is at 2265 (yeah, I'm behind already). I'm pretty excited about it! My title is The Order of the Oak, and I am thinking of it more as part of a series (fantasy genre). Want an excerpt? Here are my first few paragraphs:
He stumbled across the plain of grass in the direction of the trees about half a mile ahead. Occasionally the new moon shone for an instant between dark clouds rolling swiftly, angrily overhead. It would have been very dark if not for the incessant streaks of lightning staking the land as if to mark the boundaries for a coming battle. The thunder roared, a little more loudly this time than last. The rain held back, but clearly the river god, Thyrodo, was going to air some terrible grievances through a pugilistic storm this night.A great bolt of lightning struck a tree ahead and to the left, the crash of it issuing a threat as real as any of the others Red Runner had heard lately, and that was saying something. He lifted the clay flagon to his lips for another gulp of Rowan berry mead; more ran down his chin and neck than down the inside of his throat, but what he swallowed burned to please. He tripped but didn't realize it until he hit the ground hard. The cool grass felt soothing against his sweaty face. He could have lain there and slept contentedly for the night, but knowing this storm would likely yield flooding, he knew he should get home if he wanted to wake in the morning, undrowned. Sober he might have decided to stay there and pass silently in his sleep, but drunk as he was, deep thoughts and regrets did not register. He regained his feet and stumbled on, slightly uphill, as the first raindrops began to tease the windblown land.The Oak leaves gave shelter from the sprinkles when he reached them. He continued to plunge through the light undergrowth until the woods grew thicker. It would be a little while yet before the rain found its way through the thick canopy above, but he could already hear that its cadence had grown steady. Another burst of thunder reassured any listeners that the night's portents had only just begun. It was nearly pitch black in the cover of the trees, but Red Runner knew the way through them without needing his eyes to guide him. He had traveled this same path nearly every day of his twenty-seven years of life. This was the path from the main village to his own dwelling. There had been a council of warriors tonight. All the men of hunting and fighting age had been present to decide as a group what to do about the recent signs of disease in the trees down by the river…all the men except Red Runner, that is. He had filled his flagon at the community drinkhouse next to the meeting place, thrown the ladies in the far corner a playful wink on the way out, and strutted past a handful of men about to duck into the meeting, probably the last of those coming, on his way to the river below the small plain west of the village. Those men had glared at him disgustedly as he shoved past them, and one had even called after him, "It shouldn't surprise me anymore that you don't care enough to do your part to protect the land that keeps us all alive! You know this affects you, too, don't you?"Red Runner hadn't answered. He hadn't even looked back, but kept the same stride toward his destination. His angry neighbor had shaken his head of long, dark hair angrily and proceeded inside to the meeting.
---2---I have been doing a sort of a daily devotional reading out of Jesus: CEO by Laurie Beth Jones. (Okay...I don't do it every day so much as every day I remember. But that's okay. I'm learning to live with my quirks, and this is something I'm doing for me, not someone else who demands I do it a certain way.) Today's lesson talked about how Jesus expressed Himself, and the author pointed out how our society pays exorbitant amounts to entertainers because, she thinks, we express ourselves vicariously through them. One of the suggested reflection questions asked how much it costs me (financially and emotionally) to allow others to express themselves in my place, including entertainers, writers, etc. That made me think...what exactly is it that I wish to express through writing this work of fiction? ...In answering I'm still trying to decide whether to keep it simple with, "My creativity," or get all deep and use it to decide a few of my plot motifs. If I did that, it would certainly have to include a character's search for understanding.... Personally, I kind-of think that's what the fantasy genre is about anyway.
---3---I read a post by Leah Libresco this week on how she's using Jennifer Fulwiler's Saint Name Generator to study a new saint each month. I went over there for fun and got St. Therese of Lisieux. I have not read much about saints ever..seriously, though:.I have read a little bit about St. Francis of Assisi, and maybe snippets about one or two others. So I clicked over to the provided link and read about St. Therese and found myself quite surprised how much I identified with her!
The source said, "Her pain [from tuberculosis] was so great that she said that if she had not had faith she would have taken her own life without hesitation. But she tried to remain smiling and cheerful - and succeeded so well that some thought she was only pretending to be ill." I have felt that intensity of emotional pain, and struggled, and at times attempted to hide it because I thought it made me weak or less spiritual.... The more I have studied it, however, the more I have come to realize that thoughts of suicide are not terribly enigmatic...they are a consequence of human pain. I have also felt the added strength of faith during times of suicidal contemplation.
She was passionate; experienced early significant grief and personal loss; enjoyed a deeply personal relationship with God; and was an encourager, particularly to missionaries through prayers and letters. And one of the well-known things about her that has sometimes brought her unflattering scrutiny is that she struggled greatly with her emotions. At the occasion when she considered herself to have entered true conversion, she was able to override her automatic desire to vent her own extreme emotions and behave more sensitively to her father's feelings than her own. I have run the gamut with emotions in my lifetime. I experienced early trauma and became an overemotional young child because of it. Then, as I got older, I learned to supress my emotions and never let them show because it was the only thing in my life over which I was permitted to exercise much control. Now I think I fluctuate between healthy expression of emotion and depression, which is in my mind an extreme negative emotionalness...but I am learning to cope with it better. So...I get Therese's struggle there.
One other thing that stuck out to me was this: "By the time she was eleven years old she had developed the habit of mental prayer. She would find a place between her bed and the wall and in that solitude think about God, life, eternity." I was maybe three or four years older than that when I, too, became serious and individual about my faith. I remember a time when I was about 15, and I made a commitment that God would be the first thing I thought about when I awoke in the morning and the last thing I thought of before I went to sleep. In making that conscious decision, Christ moved to the place of priority in my mind; that is when my life became Christ-centered, and I began to relate all the nuances of everyday life to Him. And it wasn't long after that when my prayer life became more personal and relational, too. I remember the moment that happened, too. I had been reading a new devotional called Mature Christians Are Boring People (and Other Myths) by Ron Luce. I had been applying my mental energies to learn more about God. And I think it was that book (along with other sources, I am sure) that mentioned how praying is simply sharing your life with God - talking to Him like you would to a friend. And one evening after my brother had died and my family was moving into another house, my parents left me at the new place with the younger kids while they went to get more cleaning supplies. In one of the rooms was a foldaway cot, and I crawled into it, a peaceful, protective cave of comfort, and it was there that I had my first "conversation" with God, and told Him about my day, and about how I had been feeling about all the things in my life that were out of control.
St. Therese demonstrated the great significance of consecration in the SMALL, everyday things. How beautiful.
---4---Got the email this week that I was not accepted into the physics program at MSU. They said they do not do provisional acceptance, but I am welcome to reapply if/when I catch up on the prerequisite courses. I was a little discouraged at the news...not so much because I believe physics is the calling of my life, but because I feel like I have undergone/am undergoing a bit of a crisis of faith...or at least a huge transition of faith...and it has caused me to question the educational path I have taken thus far. I don't regret my theological education. I do, however, wish it had been a little less expensive. I'm thinking now about taking some time off to decide what exactly I want to do next. No need to rush things, right? Life, after all, is what happens right now, not something I'm working toward and will achieve with some degree in the future. So, as I was wallowing a little in my disappointment today or yesterday, I came across the following tweet:
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."
— Typical Pastor's Kid (@Typicalpk) November">https://twitter.com/Typicalpk/statuses/398199207955554304">November 6, 2013
Guess I'm still learning that "graceful letting go" part.
BUT, speaking of Twitter, there were also a few posts in my feed that made me chuckle this week:
|"The Lord shall preserve thy Pinterest..."
|"...so that we may be wholly Pinterest..."
|"Amen, Pinterest!"
|"...God's beau, Pinterest..."
|"I will find rest nowhere but Pinterest."
|I often give thanks through Jesus to Pinterest, how about you? ;)
---5---Made one of my all-too-frequent visits to the DMV this week. Heard a truck driver and apparently a truck driving company owner or administrator having a conversation. Apparently the owner/administrator guy spends one week out of every month on the road with a driver, in his words, " making their life meaningful." He explained how the drivers sacrifice a lot being away from their families so much, and he gives them an occasional companion for conversation, " to be heard and receive affirmation," as he put it. I thought that was pretty cool. (And he really seemed like a nice guy...I don't think he meant truck drivers' lives are meaningless; he just choose his words poorly.) Wouldn't that be a cool job (for an extrovert, of course, as he apparently was)?!
---6---One of the bloggers I follow posted this link to artist Roland Deschane's combinations of Star Wars with Thomas Kinkade artwork. Here's an example:
---7---My Albie-boo is going to be a year old on Sunday!! I love my little sweetie so much. :)
|(A picture from 3 or 4 weeks ago after I gave him a haircut.)


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[WASHINGTON] South Korea's President Moon Jae-In arrived in Washington Wednesday on his first overseas trip since taking office, for planned talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump.
Mr Moon, who backs engagement with nuclear-armed North Korea, was to meet Thursday with Mr Trump during his first foreign outing since being sworn in last month after a landslide election win.
Late Wednesday, he was scheduled to take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at a war memorial in Quantico, Virginia, and later was to attend a summit with Korean and American business leaders.
His agenda on Thursday includes meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and an evening visit with the US president and First Lady Melania Trump, including a reception and dinner.
On board his flight to the United States, Mr Moon said Seoul and Washington should offer concessions to Pyongyang if it complies with their demands, according to multiple South Korean reports.
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"Without rewarding North Korea for its bad actions, South Korea and the United States should closely consult what they may give the North in return for a nuclear freeze," he said.
"We should start dialogue with North Korea," he said, but with conditions, saying that "at least, North Korea should restrain itself from further nuclear and missile tests and promise a nuclear freeze before full-fledged dialogue for nuclear dismantlement can start."
"A nuclear freeze is a gate to dialogue and the exit of the dialogue is a complete nuclear dismantlement." Washington, South Korea's security guarantor, has more than 28,000 troops in the country to defend it from its communist neighbour, which has been intensifying missile tests - including five since Mr Moon's inauguration.
Pyongyang is seeking to develop nuclear-capable ballistic missiles that could reach the continental United States.
Mr Trump has been pushing for tougher sanctions against Pyongyang to curb its nuclear ambitions and whose administration has said military action was a possibility.
Also expected to be high on the agenda is likely to be a controversial US missile defence system that has been installed in South Korea to guard against missile threats from the North.
Though parts of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system are already in place, Mr Moon suspended further deployment following a furious campaign of economic sanctions and diplomatic protests by Beijing against the US missile shield, dealing a blow to Washington's regional security policy.
Officially, the delay is to allow for a new, comprehensive environmental impact assessment, but analysts say the move is a strategic one by Mr Moon to delay the tricky diplomatic situation he inherited.
Holding out the prospect of a peace treaty to finally replace the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953, Mr Moon added: "Together with the nuclear dismantlement would come the establishment of a peace system on the Korean peninsula."
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Duration: 94 min
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Announced as first test and development driver of Formula E, Lucas di Grassi became an ambassador for the fully-electric championship. After driving a handful laps with the Spark-Renault SRT_01E car, the Brazilian former Formula 1 driver terminates his test job to become a Formula E race driver during the first year, starting in September 2014.
According to Motorsport-Total.com, the FIA decided that test drivers will not being allowed to race during the first year because of the advantage a race driver would have. "When I heard this news, I immediately terminated my test job. I want to race!" said Di Grassi to German media.
The first official test with the car was completed by the 29-year old driver, but that shouldn't bring his ambitions in jeopardy. "I moved the car, but we mainly checked the systems. That's all." The car was not equipped with the latest technology: the battery was much smaller and performance was limited.
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Re-socialisation of convicts to be target of the Ministry of Justice in the penitentiary sector in 2019
On 24 January, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Artak Zeynalyan paid a visit to the Penitentiary Service to sum up the activities carried out in the penitentiary sector in 2018. Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Suren Krmoyan, Head of the Penitentiary Service Artyom Mkhoyan, Deputy Heads of the Penitentiary Service, heads of penitentiary institutions and others participated in the meeting.
During the presentation of the report on the activities, it was reported that a total of AMD 315,078,000 had been saved from the funds allocated to the penitentiary system under different programmes and returned to the State Budget.
In 2018:
- 236 people were granted identification cards and passports, exceeding the indicator of 2017 by 96;
- 2075 people were transferred to civic hospitals (327 more cases compared to the same period in 2017);
- for the purpose of ensuring employment for convicts, the Penitentiary Service and the "Support to Convicts" Foundation engaged 563 convicts in different activities, including for other employers, and 148 convicts were included in recreational unions;
- 138 convicts exercised their right to education (compared to 108 in 2017), including 47 (general education), 84 (vocational) and 7 (higher education and post-graduate education);
- penitentiary institutions organised 116 sporting events (1400 people participated), 19 enlightening events (390 people participated) and 17 cultural events (899 people participated); chess, draughts, tennis, domino and football, billiard tournaments were held;
- the "Legal Education and Rehabilitation Programmes Implementation Centre" State Non-Commercial Organisation held courses on "Healthy Lifestyle", "Social Training and Life Skills" and "Decorative-Applied Art" at "Abovyan" Penitentiary Institution, and 78 female convicts participated in the courses; a course on "Basic Literacy" (Armenian language and literature, mathematics) was held for minor detained persons and convicts, four participated in the course; courses on "Pottery and the Technology of Pottery Firing and Painting", "Contemporary Applied Arts and Crafts", "Woodworking and Artistic Wood Engraving", "Computer Skills Training", "Basic Knowledge of Russian Language" and other courses were held with the participation of 25 convicts at "Armavir" Penitentiary Institution;
- English language courses (8 participants), computer skills courses (13 participants, 8 of which received certificates), fitness courses (12 participants), yoga lessons (14 participants), hairdressing courses (5 participants) and culinary courses (7 participants) are held at "Abovyan" Penitentiary Institution through funding provided by the U.S. Embassy and within the scope of the "Establishing a Culture of Effectiveness and Transparency of Rehabilitation" Programme being implemented by Civil Society Institute NGO at "Abovyan" Penitentiary Institution;
- a handicraft works club (crocheting, carpet weaving) opened at "Abovyan" Penitentiary Institution with the support of the Women's Development Resource Centre Foundation, 8 people were engaged.
The Minister of Justice asked the administration of the Penitentiary Service about the indicator of convicts benefiting from video calls, the activities aimed at improving the quality of food and eliminating the criminal sub-culture and assigned to oversee and prevent manifestations of corruption, gambling, penetration of prohibited items with maximum strictness and to make the change of regimes for convicts predictable. According to Minister Zeynalyan, even though positive dynamics is noticeable in the system, nevertheless, he is not preparing to be satisfied with what there is, and the activities for development of the penitentiary sector will be carried out with more vigour and more rapidly.
Suren Krmoyan expressed gratitude to all the employees of the Penitentiary Service and emphasised that, in 2019, the target will be the re-socialisation of persons being kept at penitentiary institutions, the application of incentive measures for convicts who behave properly, as well as the development and implementation of programmes aimed at preventing self-harm and suicides. At the same time, the Deputy Minister emphasised that the statistics on recidivism upon release from penitentiary institutions will underlie the indicator of assessment of the effectiveness of the activities carried out by the Penitentiary Service and penitentiary institutions throughout 2019.
Head of the Penitentiary Service Artyom Mkhoyan also gave a number of assignments to the employees of the system, requiring them to be intolerant towards corruption and the criminal sub-culture and maximally reduce the number of cases of penetration of prohibited items, rule out gambling, continue the activities aimed at improving the quality of food, etc.


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This time, he slid his arm around her waist. They weren't running at full speed, so there really wasn't a need for it. But it brought her a sense of security she wasn't aware she craved. They were traveling at a leisurely walk, and even though Anya knew she had a thousand things to do when she got back to the clinic, she didn't complain.
She could feel the muscles of his chest against her back, and her mouth suddenly went dry. The man was incredibly handsome in spite of his often surly attitude. Even beneath his ranch clothes, she could tell he was muscular, but feeling his biceps flex as his arm curled around her, she knew he was even more so than she'd originally thought. And it was hard not to look at him.
His face was just as fierce as he was, with strong, angular lines and a square jaw. His jet–black hair and dark eyes only emphasized his olive skin and full lips. He was a man who knew what he wanted and would stop at nothing to get it—-at least, that was what his expression said every time she looked at him.
The warmth of the morning sun beat down on her, and she found herself relaxing deeper and deeper into his embrace. His arm tightened around her waist, and she smiled. The next thing she knew, his lips were against her skin, murmuring softly. Then she felt a small kiss behind her ear, and she slowly let her head fall to the side as he layered kisses down her neck. Heat built within her lower belly, and she didn't want it to ever stop.
"I'd love to stay like this all day, but I think the horse might get a bit irritated with us," he whispered in a husky voice against her ear.
"Mmm," she replied, wanting more. His arm tightened around her gently, then began to release her, and her eyes opened slowly. They were back at the ranch house, sitting atop the horse near her truck. She had been asleep! Had it all just been a dream? A sweet, wonderful dream? "Oh!" she said, sitting upright, unaware she'd grabbed ahold of his forearm. "I'm so sorry I fell asleep."
"I'm not," he said in a deep, rumbling voice, sending vibrations through her chest, and her nipples tightened in response. The man exuded everything masculine and sexual, from the way he moved to the way he spoke. And she was practically draping herself all over him. Reluctantly, she peeled herself out of his warm embrace and instantly felt cold and lonely.
He dismounted quickly and pulled her down gently, letting her body slide down his. She felt him inch by agonizing inch until her feet were firmly on the ground. His cologne was intoxicating—-a warm, heady aroma of spices, leather, horses, and the delicious scent of man.
She needed to control her wayward mind. She had so many things to do, and standing here fantasizing in the arms of this man wasn't going to get anything accomplished.
He reached up slowly, as though approaching a skittish young filly, stroked some of her unruly hair out of her face, and hooked it behind her ear. "Where do you go from here?" he asked softly.
"I leave from here to the clinic. We don't open for another hour, so at least I'll be able to get some paperwork done and freshen up a bit. That is, so long as there isn't another call for a calf birth."
"You look practically dead on your feet as it is." Had his words not been framed by his expression of concern, she would have been offended. She gave him an amused shrug of her shoulders.
"I get to sleep when all the calves are born."
"That could be weeks!" When all she did was shrug once more, he frowned deeply and slid his arm around her waist again in a protective gesture.
"Come inside." He said it as if it were a command, but she decided it was a request, and her heart began to beat wildly in her chest. This man was…dangerous. She could feel it in the leashed power of his muscles, see it in the mystery stirring deep in his dark eyes, and knew it from the way she could sense he hadn't been completely honest with her about his past. But somehow, deep inside, she believed he wasn't a danger to her. The way he looked at her, the way he had so carefully removed the thorns from her, the way he wanted to protect her now… He wouldn't hurt her.
She nodded, and he kept his arm around her waist as he led the horse to the patch of green grass near the house. He released her only long enough to tether the horse, then returned to wrap his arm about her, holding her against his side. It felt natural, as if that were where it belonged. She wondered if he could feel her racing pulse.
A wave of cool air washed over her as she stepped into the magnificent foyer of the home, and she smelled the scent of bacon wafting about the house. She heard men talking and laughing boisterously, and hesitated. Stryker's arm tightened around her. She looked up at him, suddenly filled with doubt. "I…I really should go back to the clinic. I didn't mean to intrude."
"You aren't intruding. I invited you in, remember?" His voice was still a low rumble, and it was making her insides quiver. What was it about this man? She had never felt this way before. Maybe she was getting sick.
She drew a deep breath and nodded again, and he smiled down at her. Suddenly she didn't care about the other men in the house, didn't care about her thundering heart or the butterflies low in her stomach, because she thought she was going to melt into a giant puddle on the floor. "You should do that more often," she said softly.
"Do what?"
"This," she whispered, and before she could think better of it, her fingers lightly traced his smiling lips. His eyes darkened, and the smile slowly slipped from his face.
"You're playing with fire, bella." His reply was soft and almost seemed to caress her.


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Benefits claimant had £130,000 in the bank
A woman with over £130,000 in the bank has admitted to receiving state benefits which were not due to her
A woman from Burnley in the United Kingdom has been found to have been claiming state benefits while hoarding more than £130,000 in her bank account.
Burnley magistrates heard how Elizabeth Neale received £3,400 of taxpayer money while setting aside an inheritance of £133,000 left to her by her deceased mother.
The Department for Work and Pensions, which has been implementing coalition government plans to stamp out benefit fraud, has said that Neale has yet to repay around £2,000.
Neale admitted three counts of failing to notify authorities over the change in her financial status, affecting her entitlement to jobseekers' allowance, council tax benefit and housing benefit from Burnley Council for the period of August-December 2011.
The defendant, who had no previous convictions, was given a 12 month conditional discharge and was told to pay £100 costs.
A spokesperson for Neale said her mother had died of cancer after being ill for a number of years. Her mother and grandmother had died within two weeks and it had been a very difficult time for her. She added that Neale is now back at college, on an environmental studies course.
Recent figures show the level of fraud convictions over benefits have risen by more than 40 percent amid a new crackdown on benefit cheats. Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, admitted last year that fraud and error was "rife" in the current welfare system.
In 2012, Michelle Taylor, 40, of Bloxwich was handed a 12 week suspended jail term after being convicted of claiming more than £21,000 in benefits due to her 'inability to walk without support or a wheelchair'.
Walsall magistrates heard that she was filmed walking to the gym after an anonymous tip-off to investigators.
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Gadget Addicts, Take Care of Your Neck
The world may seem lot more frightening after going through this particular post. It discusses what we put ourselves (and our dear ones) through in the name of being civilized and learned and upbeat. So be prepared for your pupils to dilate exponentially as you come to know the reasons behind, which make boxers, athletes and wrestlers put some extra TLC on building a strong neck.
The 'neck' story :
A strong neck is an insurance against bursitis, pinched nerve(s), whiplashes, tendonitis, herniated cervical discs or rotator cuff injuries. The neck is naturally built to tolerate sudden high impacts and act as a channel that ensures uninterrupted communications between the brain and the body. Trying the neck for all those it's not supposed to and thus, damaging it is a direct breakdown in overall strength and power output of an individual.
However, airheads obsessed with their respective gadgets (computers, Xboxes, PSP etc.) seldom get things straight until they are bent out of shape.
Anatomy of the neck :
It's the lower neck and the upper back that supports the head, while the top three joints in the neck allow for its movements. So, it is a complete and full-fledged supportive structure, which, if gets affected adversely, cause muscles to tighten (to compensate the lost support) and initiate the pain.
What triggers an achy-neck-y feel?
Ever since this new breed of workers called IT professionals came into the scene, funny ways to relax ("I was really beat developing the app, so relaxing with Max Payne now") and recreate came up. It's considered being upper-class, with the times et al being into such…er…activities; what one doesn't feel that headiness is slowly bringing in is an unprecedented crisis on identity, actions and behavior. And most of that begins with a small pain in the neck.
Or, take the example of commuters to work. The journeys are usually long and boring, so there comes up an urge to use smart phones and tablets for playing the games or watching movies. The use of personal gadgets has increased over the last few years and so have arthritis and other types of repetitive strain injuries. And in number one, there's the Text Neck, followed by the mockingly named laptop/tablet/iPad hunch. All of these may bring neck pain, though the root of the problem may not be in the neck itself. The hunch and the RSI may signal numerous other spinal problems, muscular tightness of the neck and the upper back or may be even due to the pinched nerves in and around one or more of the cervical vertebra. Joint disruption also stays a chief cause, which again gets started another slew of problems. It's difficult telling if that disruption is taking its toll on any specific nerve (or, nerves) unless there are overt symptoms, but by that time, it will already be too late. An affected nerve (or, group of nerves) may also trigger a large spectrum of physical and emotional health problems, which is worse than dealing with physical (muscular or joint) stress (due to prolonged postures), brain fogging resulting in day to day minor injuries and affecting further the upper back problems.
An account of most common neck problems :
Hunching over anything for prolonged periods places the weight of the head on the last joint of the neck. Now, that's absolutely no problem if for a limited period; but here, it occurs for two-thirds of the day (mobile work computer mobile home computer), straining the neck joints more than their fair share. The muscles tire and it's the bone joints that sometimes start rubbing against each other. For Blackberry users, it's worse.
Scrolling and typing is no more associated only with computers; with the office getting smaller as much as a Blackberry, the squinting of eyes is already a common syndrome among Blackberry users. That's giving them the Blackberry frowns - but that's not where the real problem is. It's the awkward chin thrust that's throwing things outta balance and portable computers (laptops, iPads and the likes) are fanning the flame even higher. These take tolls directly on the spine and the pressure makes the discs take a different arrangement, which is – at best - very painful to straighten out.
Maim the pain: Waking from an ergonomic dream
Ergonomics is still in its nascent stages, so wake up to reality. That's the first step you will take towards freeing yourself from all that gadget-filled confinement. Else, find yourself sleepwalking towards a future where some intelligent device and daily drug cocktails shall replace your muscle power, senses, moods and performances. And no amount of Prozac shall be able to break things out of the prosaic surrounding. The effects of the electronic devices shall be felt on the micro-cellular brain structure and in its complex biochemistry.
All that are not going to make the hedonistic even this bit aware and he/she would go back almost instantly to live up the lost computer-generated moments, but for the rest, here are a few quick tips:
- Sleep either on your side or on your back.
- Never try sleeping on your stomach. It arches the back and gets tough on your spine and often, the neck.
- Support the natural curve of the neck by tucking a small neck roll into the pillowcase. Use a flatter yet softer pillow, but best is using a memory foam pillow or one with a built-in neck support. Or, use a feather pillow. High or stiff pillows are equally bad; they aggravate pain and stiffness and doubles them overnight.
- Side-sleepers, try keeping your spine straight. Use a pillow that is flatter under your head than under the neck.
- Must you use your gadget while travelling; invest in a horseshoe-shaped pillow.


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I love to repurpose items and make something old out of something new. I believe that discarded items can be used again in anew and interesting way that gives them a whole new life. and I take it on as my job to figure out what the new life for that item is.
Laurel Uenaka
I am in grad school to become an elementary school teacher.
I also teach group exercise classes at fitness clubs.
I absolutely love my niece puppy!
One of my favorite places in the world is the Paris Flea market.
What got you started crafting?
I have been crafting as long as I can remember. My grandmother used to always have something for us to make together when I saw her. She taught me how to paint, collage, draw, mosaic, and even pastel. Since then I have been encouraged by my mother who is an elementary school teacher to make something if I wanted it.
I love watching home decor shows and reading style magazines. When I went to college I made my room look like on a from a magazine using all garage sale and thrift store finds. My friends thought I had spent a fortune! I love to re-paint and repurpose anything and everything.
What is your source of inspiration?
I love to repurpose items and make something old out of something new. I believe that discarded items can be used again in anew and interesting way that gives them a whole new life. and I take it on as my job to figure out what the new life for that item is.
What have you made recently?
Recently, I made a pencil or pen holder that goes on a desktop from a vintage book that was being discarded. The book is titled, "Ideas for Writing", so I thought a pencil holder would be a great idea. I took out all of the pages from the book and basically made a box out of it using balsa wood. I kept the top open and covered the balsa wood with pages from the book. Then I filled the box with rice almost to the top and stuck my pencils in it. You can find it within the next day or two on my etsy shop. I think this a unique and fun way to dress up a desk and bring a quirky conversation piece into a room. Plus, it gives and old item a new life!
Where do you sell your crafts presently?
I sell my creations on etsy. However I do not sell my bigger items on etsy because shipping would be too big of a hassle when the item is a dresser ;)
Why are handmade crafts important to you?
Handmade to me means made with love and with a purpose. People have to really like what they are doing and believe in it to be making it by hand. It gives me a chance to put a part of myself into everything I make and every piece I save from the landfill.
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How To Do Knee Pushups
Knee Pushups Exercise
Knee Pushups are a unique variation of the standard pushup in that the exercise primarily focuses on the triceps muscles instead of the chest muscles.
This is because bracing the knees against the floor raises the angle of the upper body slightly higher and transfers most of the work to your triceps. The closer hand spacing further accentuates the involvement of the triceps.
Knee Pushups are a good way to finish out a triceps training session. Focus on keeping constant tension on the triceps and use high reps.
Knee Pushups How To
- Assume the top position of the standard pushup but keep your knees on the floor. Your knees should be placed behind your buttocks not tucked in so that your upper body can still maintain a flat position.
- Your hands should be positioned in line with your shoulders but spaced a bit closer to transfer the focus on the triceps. Make sure to keep your elbows tucked in to your lats to avoid elbow flaring.
- Inhale then bring your body down under control until your chest almost touches the floor.
- Exhale then push back up to the starting position. That is one rep.
- Repeat the movement until you have completed the desired number of reps.
Form and Technique
Don't lock out your elbows at the top of the movement in order to maintain constant tension on your triceps.
Only go as low as you possibly can without rounding your shoulders inward. Shoulder rotation places your rotator cuff in a vulnerable position.
Variations: Push Ups, Triangle Push Ups
Routine for Strength: 5 sets x AMRAP (30 secs rest between sets)
Routine for Muscle Gains: 5 sets x AMRAP (45-60 secs rest between sets)


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I really love Moses, and have a long list of questions to ask him one day. Dude was not at all seeking a position of leadership of power. As a matter of fact, he was pretty much doing all he could to run far away from any chance of ever being in charge...even when the Lord God Almighty set a bush on fire right in front of his face, he tried to talk the God of creation out of using him to free the people! Serious self-image issues...probably owing to a prominent speech impediment he had. And yet he was the one God wanted to use. You know, that whole "qualifying the called, not calling the qualified" thing.
So, once Moses realized he was not getting out of this gig, and that his little brother Aaron was also going to be a major player, he gathered up the elders and talked to them about God's mission to set His people free.
I have never seen the old Ten Commandments movie with Charlton Heston, but it's enough a part of the 1950's pop culture that I can hear the "Let My people go" in that deep, sing-song voice. Even in other recreations of the exodus, the message to Pharaoh was always the line "let My people go." The actual statement from the Lord, repeated many times, was "Let my people go that they may serve Me." Hmmm. How many times do we celebrate and cherish the freedom we have, but we forget that the purpose for setting us free was that we would choose to serve Him?
The plagues come to Egypt with ample warning from God through Moses. Pharaoh is a big fat liar, and he pretends to set the people free several times. Thus, the plagues. They were:
1. Nile turned to blood
2. Frogs
3. Gnats
4. Flies
5. Death of livestock
6. Boils
7. Hail
8. Locusts
9. Darkness
10. Death of firstborn
Immediately before the last plague, in which the firstborn son of each household was struck dead, God gave Moses the instructions for the Passover. This was the event which every household still keeping Jewish traditions celebrates to this day.
The most exciting chapters are as the people are truly, finally set free, and begin to pass through the Red Sea (conveniently parted by the Creator of the universe, thankYouverymuch), and the Lord begins to give them statutes and laws for their new government. In chapter 22 we see the Bible's first mention of the importance of caring for orphans. "You shall not afflict any orphan or widow" (22:22) There is a note in my Bible about this chapter that indicates that the Hebrew law is noted for its fairness and social responsibility to the poor. The heart of God is that we care for those who cannot help themselves!
Once God gives instructions for the governing of the people, then He lays out in specific detail how the tabernacle is to be built. There are hundreds of verses about specifics that range from the loops on the curtains to the cups on the lampstand, and I had to ask the question: if God wanted it to be such an exact thing, why didn't He just give it to the people? He could have created it in a half a millisecond. BOOM, there's your tabernacle. The people would have cherished it even more if it had come straight from His hand. In talking with my husband about this, he clarified that this was mostly about an exercise in obedience. It took discipline and fortitude and courage and strength and faith to believe these instructions and to carry them out to the finest detail. And many of the callings God places on our own individual lives are very much the same: acts in obedience.
There are even detailed instructions on the clothing that Aaron and his sons (the first high priests) were to wear. Jewels and breastplates and fancy cording with tinkling gold bells...beautiful! And then they have to go sacrifice and sprinkle blood all over everything. Ick! I know the significance of the sacrifices, atonement for sin and all that jazz, but somewhere there had to be some Hebrew chicks who were sad to see those robes get stinky animal blood all over them.
Another notable moment in this book was that when God gave all these instructions to Moses, He had him up in the mountaintops with Him for like 40 days. Part of those instructions were about the importance of Aaron's involvement as a high priest. During that time, sweet little Joshua was waiting faithfully on the ground for Moses to come back. Aaron, though, was catching it from the people. They were doubting that Moses was coming back or that God cared about them, so they wanted an idol. Aaron, bless his heart, caved and made them one. Guess he was good at the public speaking thing but bad at the actual leadership thing. Anyway, so what I thought was amazing here was that even while Aaron was betraying the Lord by building an idol for the people to worship, God was planning Aaron's role as a high priest of the Israelites, one of the most reverent and trusted positions in the society. Wow, that is some serious grace!
Exodus ends as the tabernacle is completed and all the priests are doing their thing. I loved the warm fuzzies given off by the last verse, which describe how the cloud (which was the glory of the Lord) covered the tabernacle tent, and remained with them throughout all of their journeys. Aaahhh....good stuff. The Lord might call us out to a wilderness and test our obedience but He will remain with us every single step of the way, even when we run from Him and try to convince Him of our unworthiness. Serious grace, I tell ya.


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Happy Tuesday!
This week's vlog king is Troye Sivan!
Yes, he's "that guy in Spud!", although he is all grown up now and he makes YouTube videos. Troye vlogs about things that relate to people that are forever online, whether it be Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, other YouTubers or making awesome songs that mention every significant thing that happened in an entire year (check out "The 2013 song").
This allows him to have a broad audience and a large fan base. What I like about him is that his target audience is not restricted to a specific skin colour, country of origin, or religion. I mean, most of the people reading this article have social media accounts and will recognise all or at least most of the references in his videos. Another thing I love that some of my favourite YouTubers do is they do all the on-camera work on their own. A nice example of this working for me is his video entitled "If Websites Were People". It is HIGHlarious (no typo) and just goes to show that you don't need to have fifty other actors with you to make good quality content, the numbers speak for themselves: 884,498 views for that video alone.
This is not to say that all he does is vlog about social media, he has a range of topics that are addressed in a way that you can't help but laugh. I particularly enjoyed his video called "I Get The Shivers When I Pee???" which basically resonates with some of us that have serious cases of hypochondria. Videos like this which are just about the everyday experiences of the average person make us laugh and go "yes Troye, we're in the same boat", which feels quite good. It's nice to know you haven't lost your marbles. I honestly recommend you watch each and every one of his videos (launch alert) because you really can't get enough of him, I know I can't!
See y'all next week for another entertaining YouTuber that has you grabbing onto your ribcage for fear of it breaking (from laughter, if that wasn't clear).


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Dracantropii Warlord A (Dracantropii Kingdoms)
This product contains one finely detailed, resin Dracantropii Warlord A. It includes 2 head versions (one with helmet and one without) to choose from. Model supplied with a 25mm x 25mm plastic base.
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"...Royal blood flowed in his veins and harsh was the training he had been submitted to. But in the Araves wars, he had been a coward. He had fled the battlefield hiding back into the Jungle. He felt the disgrace and banished himself to wander the lands of the Orcs, then plunged into the Dwarf caverns only to end up in the cold and hostile Northern Alliance territory. Many had thought he had died, others simply did not care.
...Years had passed and the Dracantropii were preparing to defend themselves against the incoming Araves invasion. For some wicked reason, their Heavy Dracantropii troops had been badly defeated, and the Light Dracantropii Infantry was left to defend the City alone. When the Sand People came, the Dragon Race stood heroically but inevitably took heavy losses and would have fled the City had it not been for him. Out of nowhere he had appeared, looking much different from what they remembered. He stood in front of the main gate alone, slaughtering anyone who came close. He kept killing so many and so fast, he formed a pile of bodies on which he climbed, simply to keep the body count rising. The City was saved. And the Dracantropii Warlord had returned..."
Dracantropii Royal Archives of the line of Ax'urausis, Tome II, page 156.


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Squan & Monmouth (University) at River Rock
The Gateway Toyota Coaches Corner finds us at River Rock Restaurant and Marina Bar Thursday from 7-8pm on 105.7 The Hawk featuring the Manasquan Warriors and Monmouth University Hawks (that's right).
Appearing on the live radio broadcast will be Warriors coach Jay Price and seniors Jack Mallett and Damaso Jaime. Squan is off to a strong 3-1 start with their only loss coming against Middletown South. Also coming on the show will be Monmouth University coach Kevin Callahan and former Shore Conference high school standouts Mike Basile (Brick Memorial) and Dimitrius Smith (Jackson). Fans and supporters of both programs are invited to catch the live broadcast at River Rock Restaurant and Marina Bar on the Manasquan River in Brick. The show is broadcast every Thursday evening during the high school football season with River Rock, Lefty's Tavern and Bum Rogers the host locations. The Shore Sports Network team of Kevin Williams, Ed Sarluca, Matt Harmon and Bob Badders make up the co-hosts for the weekly show.
The Gateway Toyota Coaches Corner is the only live weekly program of its kind devoted to Shore Conference Football and is sponsored by Gateway Toyota, Route 37 East in Toms River. The show can be heard on 105.7 The Hawk, 1057.com and shoresportsnetwork.com


text: Ralph Acampora is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hofstra University in New York. He conducts research in the fields of environmental philosophy, bioethics, and animal studies. After earning a B.A./M.A. at CUNY, Acampora gained his doctorate at Emory University (writing a dissertation on inter-species ethics and phenomenology of body). He has authored Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006: www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=35804), edited Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter After Noah (Lexington Books, 2010), and co-edited A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). He has published work in a variety of books and journals, referees for Environmental Ethics, and is a member of the editorial board for Society & Animals. Recent interests of his include the hermeneutics of spectatorship at zoos, moral issues pertaining to the built (including biotechnical) environment, and the ontological status of nature.