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I LOVE this intern program. In my former life working at companies, hiring interns was always a love-hate process. The time it took to get them self-sufficient (and actually helping me) was never time I had. You hoped for a fast learner and tried to balance the delegated tasks so that valuable skills were honed in tandem with paper cuts and lunch runs. Smart, smart, smart ad agency started the “Tech Apprentice” program to recruit interns. Allen & Gerritsen in Watertown, MA put their prospective interns through an application process to gauge their digital and new media saavy. Once on board, interns are tasked with keeping the agency on the cutting edge of the digital space.

https://lhkmarketing.com/blog/win-win-intern-program

Elon Musk’s dad shades him during recent interview, Britney Spears has her tell-all book delayed for a truly absurd reason, and Ne-Yo’s wife puts him on blast with cheating allegations.

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ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – School data shows there are 56 different languages ​​spoken in Roanoke City Public Schools (RCPS). According to the school district, the highest demographic of non-English speakers speak Spanish. Teachers like Solange Salvo help translate a lot between Spanish-speaking families and educators. She also helped start a class for Roanoke city facility and staff to empower them to translate too. “It’s really the best way I think to not only help our community of teachers and educators grow personally, but it directly helps the families and the students that are involved and so we can kind of help bridge that gap. Invite people into, you know, their education of their child,” said elementary Spanish teacher Solange Salvo. She helps teach the growing virtual Spanish course for educators. “We’ve had school psychologists, counselors, teachers, art teachers, music teachers– anybody who interacts with students is welcome to it that works for Roanoke City Public Schools,” said Salvo. It’s all a part of the school’s continued effort to help educators grow, but also better connect with the population of Spanish speakers in Roanoke. “These educators and everybody in the education field is working so hard to meet all of these students and family’s needs, and their time is really spoken for in a lot of ways— and so to be able to give it to them virtually has been– and to be able to offer it myself virtually while my children are at home has been really just so beneficial,” said Salvo. There are five courses, each about an hour long. During the classes, they discuss a number of topics. “So it’s kind of a quick overview and it’s the basics you know the gender of nouns, common vocabulary that you can use,” said Salvo. Laura Gomez is one of the newest instructors this year. “It makes me feel really good because, as an educator, you know that you want to help. You want to educate people, so it improves their quality of life— and I think by doing this, that makes me happy, whether it’s children or adults— you know, giving them something that’s going to improve their quality of life ,” said elementary Spanish teacher Laura Gomez. RCPS says they’re very fortunate to have a significant-sized multilingual facility and staff. “Roanoke city, we continue to get more and more students from other countries, and they are a vital part of our system. It makes our system so the first and it makes it truly makes us stronger,” said Gomez. Schools leaders say these Spanish courses aren’t the only classes available, there’s an entire department dedicated to helping Roanoke’s educators continue to grow.

https://saloneducationonline.com/empowerment-through-language-teachers-expand-spanish-course-for-educators/

Located in Baie-d'Urfé, the Baie-d'Urfé Boating club (BDBC)is a beautiful, inexpensive and safe place to moor your sail or motor boat. The club is situated between Fritz's farm and the Baie-d'Urfé city hall on Lakeshore road near Morgan road. BDBC is open and operational from mid May to mid October. "Baie-d'Urfé (2006 Population 3,902) is a suburb located near to the western tip of the Island of Montreal, Baie-d'Urfé is a "bedroom community" that extends from Autoroute 40 to Lac Saint-Louis — primarily residential, it is characterized by large houses on spacious lots. The municipality has retained a rural charm, accentuated by its lack of sidewalks and limited commercial activity. It is a favorite spot for boaters, who use the local marinas. The community is located within the region usually referred to as the West Island".* Baie-d'Urfé Boating club is a no frills operation, it provides to its members a boat ramp, docks, moorings, and dinghy to access moored boats. Moored boats are therefore accessible 24 hours a day. No other facilities or services are offered. Since BDBC offers minimal facilities and services, the cost of membership is inexpensive compared to other clubs on Lake St Louis, in fact it is the best deal on lake St Louis. In addition although members are required to lend a helping hand, the time required is generally limited to a few hours in the spring and fall when docks are put in and taken out. Some additional time may be required to effectuate dock repairs in spring.The mooring field is generally comprised of approximately 30 boats The mooring field is well protected from the west and north and somewhat protected from the south. The maximum depth of the mooring field is 6 feet and there is approximately 4 feet of water at the docks when water levels are at chart datum. . Three club dinghys are available and are self serve. Boats can either be moored or trailered down the ramp as required. There is limited parking for cars and boat trailers. BDBC is serviced by the 210 bus which stops at the town hall. Grocery stores, fuel stations and a repair facilities are located nearby. BDBC's location is tranquil and beautiful. Baie-d'Urfé Town hall, garden and Milleium pond are adjacent to the east and Fritz's farm is to the West and North. Trees and flower are abundant. This is a great place for a family picnic on a Sunday afternoon. The aquatic wild life is surprisely diverse for the island of Montreal. Muskrats, otters, frogs and the occasional turtle are observed near the shoreline. Fishing on lake St Louis is excellent. . Water quality as assessed by environment Quebec is generally excellent throughout the summer(a water quality link is provided at left). Members often spend a the weekend quietly moored in the bay or nearby at Dowker island bay and are often found swimming on the south side of Dowker. The mooring field is limited to approximatle 30 boats. Moorings are generally available in early spring.

http://www.cnbdbc.ca/bdbc_en.html

I am always amazed when I see a Fifth Wheel coming down the highway. When you see a pickup truck together with a Fifth Wheel, the sheer size of the Fiver makes it difficult to believe that the truck can pull it. Pull it, they can though… and they do! Continue reading “Fantastic Fifth Wheels” Posted on February 27, 2012 Veggie Soup This time of year there is nothing better than a good bowl of soup. This soup cooks in your slow cooker while you sleep and play. You can also make it ahead of time at home and reheat it when you are at the campground. Continue reading “Veggie Soup” Posted on February 24, 2012 Passion Fruit Mojitos I think that premade drink mixes are just perfect for camping. No need to bring all of the ingredients because it’s all in one bottle. And it also couldn’t be easier… a little pouring, a little mixing and it’s time to relax and enjoy! If you like mojitos and you like passion fruit, you’ll love this one! Continue reading “Passion Fruit Mojitos” Posted on February 22, 2012 Top 10 Signs of a True Camper Non-campers might not get it, but we most certainly do. We know that it takes something special to make a true camper! Here is our slightly tongue in cheek look at what a true camper is made of. How many of these can you relate to? How many of them have you personally experienced? If you find yourself nodding in agreement with then you might be a true camper. If they bring back memories that make you smile then you most certainly are a true camper! Continue reading “Top 10 Signs of a True Camper” Posted on February 20, 2012 Slow Cooker Zesty Chicken Want to spend more time playing and less time cooking? Try this easy to make zesty chicken. Then add some foil packs of potatoes, and a salad and you got a great meal! Continue reading “Slow Cooker Zesty Chicken” Posted on February 17, 2012 Mojito Margarita A little bit mojito… a little bit margarita, this cocktail is a little bit like the weather this time of year. Whatever the weather though, we think you will enjoy sipping this cocktail while you relax at the campground this spring. Continue reading “Mojito Margarita” Posted on February 16, 2012 Travel Trailers – The Terrific Towable When it comes to travel trailers, the Happy Camper family is a household divided. Although I love our truck camper, I am tempted by the extra space we could gain by pulling a travel trailer instead. However, Bruce is anti-travel trailer, no ifs ands or buts! He doesn’t feel comfortable pulling a large trailer and since he does all of the driving, he wins. That doesn’t keep me from admiring them from afar though. Continue reading “Travel Trailers – The Terrific Towable” Posted on February 13, 2012 Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie When you are craving comfort food while camping, chicken pot pie will make you feel warm and comfy all the way down to your toes. You can start this dinner in the morning and let it cook while you enjoy your day! Continue reading “Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie” Posted on February 10, 2012 Lynchburg Lemonade Camping season is coming!! It is so close that you could almost reach out and touch it. While us northern folks are still dreaming about our first camping trip of the year, the camping season never ended down south. If you are one of those lucky folks who find themselves in a warmer climate, relax under your awning and enjoy a Lynchburg Lemonade in honor of us! Continue reading “Lynchburg Lemonade” Posted on February 8, 2012 Class A Beauties… Home on Wheels By the time I was in my teens, my parents had graduated to a Class A. In fact, my fondest camping memories are of traveling around the country in our 32ft Winnebago. I remember getting to ride shotgun when it was my turn to entertain the driver. I remember watching the semis zoom by us as we plodded along on our way to our far off destinations. I remember Continue reading “Class A Beauties… Home on Wheels”

http://blog.thekremers.us/2012/02/

The traditional Italian company Lumina has been creating lamps and luminaires of any discipline since 1975. The luminaires stand out due to their functional design and their great individuality. Lumina attaches great importance to atmosphere, feeling and quality of life and they show this by means of a special adjustability, elegant lines and the interaction of light and design. Many lamps may be bent in various ways and it is possible to adapt them to personal wishes, ideas and needs. Thus, each lamp may function as an expression of an individuals’ own personality and mood. This great deal of experience on the field of designing luminaires brought several design awards worldwide to the Italians, as for example the ones awarded by the Brooklyn Museum, the Judd Foundation, as well as the Best Category Award Light Fair International in New York, the Musèe des arts Decoratifs in Paris, the Design Plus Award in Frankfurt and one award by the Neue Sammlung in Munich. The cornerstone of this success story was laid by Lumina in 1975 with the design of „Daphine“, a “small lamp for a lot of light“. This special table lamp is characterised by a high flexibility of the two articulated arms as well as by the interaction of functionality and elegance. Since then many adaptations of this version followed which also feature the same attributes and which enjoy great popularity with many customers all over the world.

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In 2008, Barack Obama stated that under his plan, “electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket.” Unless something is done about the plethora of mandates being instituted by his liberal EPA, we will see that become a reality in the very near future. In 2015 alone, there were six major rules that were published or that became effective. These burdensome mandates assure the death of coal-fired generation as we know it and threaten industrial growth in the South. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look at these rules and find the true target of Obama’s EPA. It’s manufacturing. In Alabama and other Southern states, we are able to offer lower utility rates to support our large employers. Lowering the bottom line for our job-creators means more jobs for Alabama families. In contrast, Northern and Western states with more restrictive energy policies cannot compete with what we have to offer. It is for this reason that Obama has set out to drag us down tot the level of states that are bent on living under bad energy policy. The means by which Obama has decided to impair our energy policy is by eliminating the use of coal. Even though our nation sits on enough coal to last us another 250 years, the Obama administration has forced us into a position where coal only comprises 40 percent of energy production, and this figure is dropping. Power companies have spent billions of dollars to keep up with the onslaught of new regulations. Alabama Power Company will spend approximately $5 billion in the next two years in order to comply with these federal mandates, and not one kilowatt of power will be added to the mix from that enormous expense. These rules and regulations promulgated by executive agencies have the effect of being laws as if passed by the same Congress these agencies seek to bypass. This is because states and their utilities must begin expending the costs of compliance immediately, regardless of whether the rules are later struck down, in order to meet the imposed deadlines. An example of this happened in June of this year when the U.S. Supreme court overturned the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule, stating that it did not take into account the cost of compliance when it was established. Unfortunately, the compliance date for this rule had passed, and utilities had already modified or shuttered a significant number of coal plants to meet the standard. And now it’s too late to reverse those decisions. We are currently facing the implementation of one of the most costly regulations to come from the EPA, the Clean Power Plan. This plan places arbitrary limits on states for the emission of carbon dioxide from electric generation facilities and will cost consumers billions of dollars, weaken the integrity of our electrical grid, threaten the reliability of our power supply and provide little to no benefit. This rule is predicated on so-called science that attempts to deceive the American people to believe in man-made climate change. Secretary of State John Kerry went as far as to say that if a politician does not buy in to their science, “it seems to me that they disqualify themselves fundamentally from high public office with those kinds of statements.” It’s a good thing that Secretary Kerry was not around when our founding fathers met, or we would still be paying taxes to the King and attending the National Church. By the EPA’s own admission, these standards will only have a minimal effect on the climate. The reductions proposed by the EPA will prevent the lowering of sea levels by the thickness of three sheets of writing paper. Given these facts, this brings us back around to the question of why enact these ridiculous mandates? The answer is clearly that the Obama administration is using them to centrally plan our economy and shift industrial growth back to states that are otherwise unable to compete with the reliable, inexpensive energy we produce throughout the South. There are some effects that we can be sure of from this plan. Reliable and cheap energy from coal and natural gas will be replaced by unreliable and expensive energy from wind and solar. One day, technology may exist that makes solar or wind competitive in the market place, but now they must rely on government subsidies, paid for with our tax dollars, to be competitive. And neither is capable of producing energy 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This is a terrible recipe for economic growth, and the Obama administration knows it. As President of the Public Service Commission, I have fought these mandates every step of the way. I have testified at hearings before the EPA; I have publicly staked out what has been a lonely but principled position on behalf of Alabama at proceedings conducted by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; I have even written a letter to President Obama with my fellow commissioners. The fact of the matter is that we all need to continue to fight these overly burdensome mandates because picking winners and losers in our economy is not the American way. The rise of our nation is largely attributable to our ability to reliably produce low-cost energy. It is the foundation for our manufacturing and technological edge in the world marketplace. We cannot allow extremists in Washington to destroy the critical advantage we have in the world. Failure to maintain this critical advantage will move us toward third world status and leave us dependent on government to provide everything for us. Then again, maybe that’s what they are trying to achieve.

https://www.countoncoal.org/2015/12/epa-regulations-threaten-alabamians-jobs-quality-of-life-and-liberty/

This is a medium wheel thrown porcelain bowl. It was reduction fired to cone 10 in our gas kiln. Megan used underglaze transfers on the surface and glazed with our celadon glaze.

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Everyone is invited to one of the largest single day model contests that are held on the East Coast. What I'm talking about is the Old Dominion Open that is going to be held on Feb 23, 2013 at the Richmond International Raceway Complex in Richmond, VA. This contest had around 700 models on the tables last year with over 150 vendor tables, all housed in a 30,000 Square foot facility, all under one roof. This year's show will feature 70 categories with up to 15 available splits! We will have a make-n-take for the kids so bring along those kids!!! If they are in scouts, all that much in uniform and entry is free. Registration starts at 8:30 and runs until noon. Awards presentation will start at approximately 5:00 PM. Don't want to compete? Not a problem. Bring your money for a chance at one of the best ever raffles that you will find at any show. Contest Chairman Chazz Klanian expect these numbers to be on parr with a possible larger entry level. The contest location should you like to plug into your GPS device is: Richmond International Raceway Henrico Hall 600 East Laburnum Avenue Richmond, VA 23222 Contact Chazz Klanian at (804)-794-8020 or via email at [email protected] You may visit the IPMS Richmond Chapter website for further information or forms download at: Please see our quarter page advertisement on Page 73 of the November/December issue of the IPMS Journal. Come find out why this contest keeps growing in size, year after year. We look forward to having you visit with us for some GOOD OLD HOSPITALITY.

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Present: President Greg Woodworth, 1st Vice President Pat Rojas, 2nd Vice President Scott Stauber, Secretary Joseph Bates, Treasurer David Prull. Proceedings: Meeting Called to Order at 11:49 am and 6:40 pm respectively by President Woodworth. 1st Meeting Motion to Open: Edwards and Cerone. 2nd Meeting Motion to Open: Nevelezer and Spry. President Woodworth addressed membership to congratulate Jim Sitton on his recent retirement, and also welcomed the new recruits into the MCSPBA. Issues at hand: 1) Treasurer Prull presented the entire financial review and breakdown of the MCSPBA assets. Handouts were made available to the membership. Prull explained why the attorney fees were up this past year (more grievances, several resignations, and the legal costs for a termination). The hourly rate of attorney billing remains the same. Motion to approve financial report 1st Meeting: Hawe and Bradley, 2nd Meeting: Sutherland and Nevelezer. 2) Current grievances: a) The county tried to deny Jim Sitton his health benefits in regard to his pending retirement. This grievance was quickly resolved (along with the support of Sheriff O’Flynn) and the MCSPBA was successful in getting Sitton his proper benefits. b) Dan Klips was recently hired by Orleans County and will not be pursuing a grievance on his past issues. c) Deputy Sloier has requested that the MCSPBA not continue with a grievance on his behalf at this time. d) Deputies LaPlant and Kreuzer are in Step 4 of their grievance of not having their daytime doctor’s appointments covered by overtime. e) We are expecting a ruling on several members’ behalf for the issue of Federal Court overtime not being paid. f) On the issue of FMLA and the issue of time off in regard to a birth of a child, we are awaiting the outcome of a recently filed Jail grievance. The administration is defining the use of Sick Leave as designated for a “serious illness” only. Members are again encouraged to get proper documentation in cases where extended sick leave is required. 3) The MCSPBA is preparing for the upcoming contract negotiations. Several members expressed interest in assisting with the process to include (in addition to the Board): Lane, Favata, Tahara, Shatzel, Ange, Hawe, Lockwood, and Rieger. We will be conducting contract comparisons from all local outside agencies as well as outside county Sheriff departments. 4) MCSPBA clothing has been ordered, and should be available for purchase by the next membership meeting. 5) The position for Secretary was unopposed. Motions to establish Bates as the Secretary were made as follows: 1st Meeting Malsegna and Lockwood, 2nd Meeting Sutherland and Petrosky. 6) The issue of sending members working overtime home early was discussed. It was determined that at this time it should be allowable as weighed out against members being able to comp out when needed. 7) New Federal healthcare guidelines were discussed. It should be noted that dependants are covered up to the age of 23 if in school, and 19 if not furthering their education. When we reach the age of qualifying for Medicaid, we actually will be covered by Medicaid in addition to coverage which is supposed to equal the coverage that a member retired under. (8) If there are any issues/problems with the MCSPBA website, please contact Chris Harrington (cell 739-9900, email In addition, if you have a business and would like your business card posted on the website, please contact President Woodworth. Future Business: Contract negotiation preparation is underway. Continue to monitor current grievances. Motions to Close 1st Meeting: Sitton and Carroll, 2nd Meeting: Re and Wildman. Meeting adjourned at 12:21 pm and 7:26 pm respectively. Minutes submitted by Secretary Joseph Bates Share This Share Share Email Related Projects September 13, 2017 MEMBERSHIP MEETING 9/13/2017 Location: 170 Mt. Read Blvd, Rochester NY * Motion to open the meeting. * The floor was… October 16, 2016 MEMBERSHIP MEETING 10/16/2016 Location: Penfield Fire Department Attended by: Board Members (Auberger, Tantalo, Dyjak, Watson, Elliotto) and 49 Union Members.… December 27, 2012 December 27, 2012 Monroe County Sheriff’s Police Benevolent Association MCSPBA Union Representative Meeting: December 27th, 2012 Location: Jay's Diner, W. Henrietta Rd., Brighton,…

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Kinzanji-miso is a traditional fermentation food which is made from soy beans, barley, rice and several vegetables and is a special product of Yuasa in Kisyu (Wakayama) . You can enjoy it with steamed rice and porridge, or vegetable stick like cucumber. It is good to eat with tofu, cheese and roasted meat as a topping. Yuasa is the birthplace of Japanese soy sauce and also of Kinzanji-miso. The beginning of soy sauce was said that it was liquid found and taken from the fermentation barrels at the process of making Kinzanji-miso. About 770 years ago in 1249, a monk, Kakushin of Koukoku-ji Temple had learned how to make that miso at Kinzanji Temple in china and come back to teach Buddhism to the people by using how to make that miso in Yuasa since the water of Yuasa was good. Ingredients: Rice, Barley, Soy Beans, Gourd, Sugar, Starch Syrup, Sea Salt, Egg Plant, Ginger, Japanese Herb-shiso/Alchole (all from Japan)

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For more than 25 years, Baron Baptiste, creator of the Baptiste Methodology, has devoted his life to creating and sharing transformational yoga practices and programs. An entrepreneur and visionary, Baron is committed to making yoga accessible to anyone and in ways that make a real and lasting difference, transforming the lives and bodies of people everywhere. His adaptive approach to yoga has been a catalyst for worldwide adoption of yoga as a daily practice, and is now being used by millions. 1. Mountain Pose (Tadasana) All other poses originate from Tadasana (Mountain Pose). Every other posture — from Wheel to Handstand — is Mountain Pose in different shapes and planes. In Tadasana, the body is in neutral alignment in order to create both strength and ease within the pose. In the Journey into Power sequence, all else builds from here. 2. Downward Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Savasana) Downward Facing Dog works the entire body. At the same time it engages the body’s major muscle groups, Down Dog serves as an active resting pose where a student can reset and achieve calm. If your wrists or shoulders bother you, a great modification for Downward Facing Dog is to bend the knees or anchor heels at a wall. If you still have wrist or shoulder discomfort, investigate an alternative position with your yoga teacher. 3. Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II) Warrior II is a multipurpose pose. It strengthens the legs, core, and arms while honing the power of breath and concentration. This pose is accessible for all levels, and can be refined or simplified by the stance and depth of the lunge. 4. Tree Pose (Vrksasana) This staple one-legged pose brings students into a natural state of physical and mental stillness. It requires not just a firm standing leg and core muscles, but also relaxed shoulders and face in order to create balance. If balance is an issue, practice near a wall or chair for safety — but do practice without holding on as the challenge will spark adaptation and mastery. 5. Wheel (Urdhva Dhanurasana) Wheel is one of the most vigorous poses in yoga. It strengthens your quadriceps and upper back while creating flexibility in your spine and chest muscles. It has a healthy cardiovascular effect, sends adrenaline and endorphins throughout the body, and adds years to your life. This is a life-changing pose, but challenging if you don’t have the range of motion required to feel comfortable in the pose. Alternatively, you can choose the bridge pose, or practice the backbend over a large stability ball. 6. Final Resting Pose (Savasana) Savasana allows us to experience conscious rest. In Baptiste Yoga, it is the last pose in the sequence and it allows students to soak up all of the physical and mental benefits gained from the practice. Savasana is a divine reset. Just reclining on your back helps regulate and return the parasympathetic nervous system and reset the body to a healthier physiological state.

https://www.24life.com/the-essential-six/

New disinfection solution "Apurgo M3" for combating the growth of bacteria and legionella in potable water. The "Apurgo M3" solution is developed in close cooperation with NTNU and SINTEF and offer cost-effective and environmentally friendly technology for combating the growth of bacteria and legionella in potable water. "We are looking forward to the cooperation between our companies". Legionella Control "There is an increasing need for solutions within legionella control. The solutions described in NIPH’s water report 118, are often difficult to accomplish or not sufficient to achieve good results" says Enwa’s Sales Manager Henrik Rosenquist, and continues; "Apurgo M3" is a product that is efficient, stable and fully automated. There is no handling of hazardous chemicals, no expensive heating of water and no need for investing in extensive dosing installations. A result of advanced water research at NTU The "Apurgo M3" solution is based on silver- and copper ionization. Theuse of silver and copper in water treatment has been known and used for years, but “Apurgo M3” uniqueness is the individual silver- and copper cells and fully automated control- and operating system. "Apurgo M3" is a result of advanced water research at NTNU. "Apurgo M3" is approved by the Norwegian food authorities. The silver- and copper concentrations are well below the drinking water quality limits, which are of great importance for Enwa’s environmental profile. The contract is valid for Norway and other countries where Enwa is established as well as marine and offshore installations. Apurgo AS is a Norwegian company developed and established at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2009.

https://www.enwa.com/enwa-group/latest/press-release-apurgo

For this first week of October, we will finish studying gerunds (look at this sentence) and start to look at future conditional tense. We will also spend a little more time looking at a couple of amendments in the Bill of Rights. We will also analyze some different types of graphs, look at earning power, and match careers/jobs to intelligences. We will discuss careers/jobs you might want to pursue. On Thursday, we will talk about exercise and complete another practice lesson – this week about phone messages.

https://mscoralclass.com/2018/10/01/happy-october/

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The Victory Athletic Center’s mission is to provide high quality, budget friendly experiences for youth and adult sport programming in a safe and professional environment, year-round. The VAC, as we fondly call it, is the premier outdoor sports facility of its kind in Orange County and home to Southern California Box League and San Juan Capistrano Arena Soccer League, as well as several other sports related organizations. The fully lit complex includes the latest in artificial sports surfaces, as well as many amenities to accommodate any kind of group. The venue houses two synthetic athletic fields consisting of: ♦ Main turf field: Surrounded by dasher boards and sports glass, covered team benches, separate penalty boxes and protected scorekeepers area – the field measures 200’ x 85’ (equivalent to a standard-sized NHL rink) electric scoreboard and clock. Lined for men’s and women’s box lacrosse and arena soccer and has two (2) separate bleachers for fans. A 20 foot tall mesh net that can split the field in half. ♦ Performance Area: A fully covered and equipped dedicated weight training and performance training area designed for individual and team sport specific development. Recent activities held on the main turf field: The Academy (girls lacrosse training); Victory SJC boys box lacrosse training; private party – KnockerBall; girls arena soccer; special event – girls lacrosse Draw Control Academy led by WPLL star Sammy Jo Tracy; San Juan Capistrano Arena Soccer League; special event – boys face off lacrosse event led by NLL and PLL star Trevor Baptiste; Victory boys lacrosse camp, Renegade girls lacrosse camp, and more. The VAC has become the “go to” place for the community and local athletes to play and train for baseball, field hockey, football, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, softball, and other team-centric sports and activities, all while enjoying themselves in safety and comfort. Let us host your team, a unique sports party or an event of your choosing. We welcome all facility requests! The Victory Athletic Center was selected two years in a row for the 2019 and 2020 Best of San Juan Capistrano Awards for Gym and now qualifies for the San Juan Capistrano Business Hall of Fame. Victory Athletic Center is located at 3 Via Positiva, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 Click here for Google Maps directions Note: Park in the Kinoshita Elementary School lot. Walk up the stairs to the athletic fields – the VAC is straight ahead, enter through the open metal gates. Make A Donation Amount $ Testimonials “Just wanted to thank you - our son (and us too) had a great experience and we appreciate all your planning and efforts.” View All > The Victory Way is a nonprofit 501 (c)3 organization, IRS identification number 80-0304072. Donations made to The Victory Way are tax deductible in the U.S. Privacy Policy

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The library on the Floyd campus offers services, such as Galileo to assist students. Photo by Nick Whitmire Between the six GHC locations, there are over 78,000 printed books and around 136,000 books online. Leslie Johnston, assistant professor of English, said, “Students also have access to all of the library resources in the University System of Georgia.” The library provides a space where students can study, make copies, print papers/projects and work on homework and even read just for fun. GALILEO is the virtual library that universities in the USG use. Through GALILEO, many articles, books and magazines are accessible by students here at GHC. “A lot of students don’t know we have videos and movies available through GALILEO,” stated Carmelita Brunson, assistant librarian for public service. GHC libraries help students that need other resources as well. Brunson said, “We have some special items that students don’t know about, like graphing calculators and MacBooks you can use within the library.” The library also has textbooks that can be used by students but not taken home. “We don’t have every textbook for every class, but we have some of the lower popular ones, so if you really can’t afford the textbook and you would like to use one in the library, you can make limited photocopies or use it in the room for however long you need it,” said Brunson. Librarians are also here to help. Brunson said, “The biggest resource is us, anything, any question and any problem if we don’t know the answer we can look it up or get you to the right place.” Betsy Clark, assistant librarian for public services at Cartersville, stated, “Don’t be afraid; ask on chat.” According to Sumer Lang, a library associate, GHC libraries have Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts, where they post updates and events that they host or cohost.

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Charles F. Knobeloch, 80, of Centralia passed away Friday, January 1, 2021 at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Centralia. He was born on April 7, 1940 the son of Edgar and Irma (Heinke) Knobeloch in Mascoutah. From his marriage to Charlotte Morse two children were born. Survivors that will remember Charles’ zest for life include his beloved family, daughter, Dr. Jodi Charlene Nettleton; grandchildren, Samantha Nettleton and husband John Thomas of Florida, Alexandra Nettleton and significant other Steven Abbot of Florida; great-grandchildren Kali, Tabitha, Thoren, and Luna of Florida; sister, Joyce Gibson of Centralia; and nephew, Joseph Gibson of Centralia. Charles was preceded in death by both his parents; brothers, Larry Knobeloch, and Jerry Knobeloch; and his son, John Charles Knobeloch. Charles had a great personality and was a genuine jokester, making sure to bring laughter everywhere he went. His kindhearted nature was evident to everyone and he had a way of putting others at ease. He lived for spending time in the great outdoors and had many outdoor hobbies. Charles was a master hunter, whether it be looking for whitetail deer or morel mushrooms. He enjoyed fishing from the depths of the Florida Keys to the local freshwaters in Illinois. He had a green thumb and grew beautiful vegetable gardens every summer. Charles considered himself a lucky man and hoped to choose a winning card at Bingo. He also extended his lucky streak at Casino Queen while playing the slot machines. Charles was so proud of his daughter, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. At the end of his life he loved to spend time with his daughter, Jodi creating lasting memories, and sharing love for each other. Charles will be remembered fondly and deeply missed. Irvin Macz Funeral Home in Centralia is privileged to be assisting the family of Charles Knobeloch with arrangements. A private family service will be held. To continue Charles’ passion for winning “The Jackpot”, the funeral home will be accepting scratch off tickets in Charles’ honor to give to his family. Online condolences and memories of Charles may be shared with the family by visiting and/or on the funeral home’s Facebook page.

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Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira wanted to have a perfect daughter. Her daughter Hildegart read at 2, spoke 4 languages at 8, joined law school at 13, becoming professor there at 18, writing on socialism and sexuality. Her mother shot and killed her when she was 19.

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You shoot a regular laser pointer at the photoresistor when the light is green. (The yellow light also comes on right before green is about to go off as a warning.) If you shoot it while the light is red, you loose (code runs loose function). The photoresistor is also put in a black paper cone to reduce the regular light. The problem is that it somehow gets to the loose function even when the light is green, which I dont understand.

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Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin are giants of contemporary fashion photography. Now showing at Fotografiska in Stockholm, The Pretty Much Everything exhibition tells the story of the duo’s thirty-year career. Highlights include advertising campaigns for luxury brands such as Chloé and Yves Saint Laurent, editorial work and portraits featuring celebrities and models from Lady Gaga to Kate Moss, as well as fashion films and ambiguous artworks questioning standards of beauty and challenging preconceptions about gender. So when did Inez and Vinoodh first decide to make a retrospective surveying their body of work? “Inez was expecting our son Charles when Karl Lagerfeld said, ‘You are pregnant, you should do a book.’ It was a great idea so we started the process and soon realized that making it in chronological order wasn’t interesting to us, so the whole book was instead about the purely associative pairings of the images. How they relate to each other and what the connections are for us. But it was a long trajectory; it took us eight years to complete because we kept shooting.” In 2010 the Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam was the first to host the Pretty Much Everything exhibition based on that retrospective, before it travelled to the Biennial Pavilion in São Paolo and to the Dallas Contemporary. “The exhibition at Foam was comprised of more than 300 works and constructed like one flowing sentence where each image was a word that would follow naturally after the other in this idea of combination. When Fotografiska in Stockholm asked us if they could have the same show here, we said yes right away, but later realized that the space was not big enough.” Inez and Vinoodh took the opportunity to make an updated version of Pretty Much Everything, adding new pieces made in the last five years. “We narrowed it down from the 666 works in the book to the 300 to the 125 that are being shown here. We decided to work on this idea of triptychs and diptychs, using this series of portraits of flowers that has partly been shown at our gallery Gagosian in Los Angeles as a starting point for curating the exhibition in conjunction with new works.” Inez and Vinoodh were born in the early ’60s and met in 1986 when they were studying fashion in their native Amsterdam. Symbolically enough they broke into the fashion industry with the series “For Your Pleasure” showing a space shuttle taking off in the background. “We had worked on the series for more than two months for a Dutch magazine that published it without our names by mistake. We then sent it to The Face in London who immediately bought it and published it in April 1994. The moment it came out it was like the whole world started calling and it really changed everything for us because within a year we had an agent and were living in New York.” In contrast to the grunge movement that had been dominating popular culture in the early ’90s, their work was colorful, energetic, hyperreal and turned out to be what the fashion world had been waiting for. Looking back on the short history of digital photography, Inez and Vinoodh are widely regarded as pioneers when it comes to using the digital medium in fashion imagery. In the series with the space shuttle the models and the backgrounds were shot separately and then combined on a computer – a Photoshop technique that was new to the fashion context but had its roots in advertising to market products such as cigarette packs and cars. Over the years their creativity has further evolved including a sculpture collaboration with Inez’s uncle Eugene van Lamsweerde, which is also a part of the exhibition at Fotografiska. “Trying to find a way to visualize an internal state through the use of very heavy metal was a super exciting element that we added to our work. It was a very important moment for us to break through the canvas and really go beyond the picture on the wall. [laughs] We are also showing all our videos in a seperate room. It is one and a half hours of music videos and fashion films shot on the RED camera.” What is the biggest difference between fashion photography and film for you? “The way you work with fashion photography is very flexible, immediate, and fluid, and the biggest difference when you start working with film is that you have a giant crew, a big, heavy camera and it takes forever until everything is put together. With RED, however, which is what we are using now, the camera is very lightweight and the process is similar to the way you shoot photography. It has changed our lives because video just adds so much energy and excitement to our work. It has really been an incredible journey, mainly thanks to RED, for us to sort of cross over into another field.” Are you thinking about making a feature film? “Yeah, we are. For us fashion films are basically a style exercise in finding the way to translate our photography into the moving image and a feature film is definitely something that is on the horizon and that we are working towards.” You are in constant dialogue with both commerce and art. Is there sometimes a tension? “Not really. We always try to be as free as possible in any kind of situation. We do so many different things. Most of the time we are positively challenged by limitations and at the same time a lot of our clients come to us knowing that we have our own ideas and always bring a solution to the table for them.” Are you moving towards being artists rather than photographers? “We sort of say we are visual artists because we work in so many directions now: we make jewelry, we design jeans with Frame and have a fragrance with Byredo. We could see ourselves designing furniture, dishware, glasses, or a hotel, because we are interested in everything that has a design or a visual element to it. Like the colors in our apartment in New York are the same colors that we use for our jewelry line, so everything kind of constantly circulates and informs each other and for us the most inspiring thing is to really work on the Inez & Vinoodh universe.” When did you find your aesthetics? “Already in school. I still look at what I did then and see that I’m fascinated by the same things, so that is why, when young photographers ask us for our advice we always say stay in school for as long as you can because what you develop there is something you can draw on for the rest of your life.” Why do you still find fashion interesting after three decades? “What we like is working with the codes of fashion to create a character. I think that is why we never can get enough of it because it is almost like making a movie. By choosing the type of shoe this person is wearing you state something about her personality and her life and maybe her upbringing or what kind of movie she likes. In fashion you are talking in codes and constructing a character based on your own memories. You are building a language and a narrative with clothes, accessories, hair, and makeup in order to be able to convey something about the times.” Did you work as assistants? “No, never, we are not the type, we are too alpha to be assisting anyone.” [laughs] How many assistants do you have? “In our office we have about fifteen people who work with us on every level, editing videos, printing, retouching, and producing, so it is quite a few. Many photographers have a new assistant every year but we try not to loose anyone. Our light technician has worked with us for twenty-two years, for example, so it really is a family and a very tight-knit group of people. Tell me about your long-term collaboration with the art directors M/M (Paris) who have designed your book published with Taschen. “For us to work with M/M is definitely when it is the most fun because we understand each other on a very deep level. We have the same cultural influences and backgrounds in terms of imagery so it is a very organic process. They are really about making the image and then later they will figure out the layout. There are other art directors who say to us, this is the layout, try to fit your image in, and it is a different way of working.” You’ve mentioned documentary photography as a source of inspiration. Whose work do you find especially interesting? “Ed van der Elsken, a Dutch photographer, is definitely one of our heroes, and I really feel that newspaper photography is the purest form of photography that is still around today when there is so much digital manipulation. With documentary photography the whole purpose is to show reality, knowing that photography is never real since it is shot through the eye of the photographer, but it is as close as we can get to what I think the medium used to be and I still have quite a nostalgic feeling about that. We even look at nature photography and there is this book we love so much called Teenage by Joseph Szabo who was a teacher who photographed the teenagers in his classes in the seventies. The Swiss painter Franz Gertsch has also been an incredible inspiration for many of our photographs, his hyperrealism, the use of color and the fact that he starts from a photograph and paints as big as the walls around us.” What other heroes do you have in photography? “Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, and Guy Bourdin.” So they were your entryway into fashion photography? “Yeah, those guys were definitely it… And of course Yves Saint Laurent who informed all our ideas about all these codes and the language fashion speaks.” The works in the exhibition are displayed in various sizes and frames. What are your thoughts behind the framing of the portraits of Yves Saint Laurent? “Since he is such a hero, we turned those two portraits with the silver frames around them into what people have in their home as family portraits or an alter or something like that, but he is the one we look up to the most in the fashion world so we figure he deserves such a frame.” When it comes to the portrayal of women in fashion and choosing models, do you have any guidelines? “We have a rule that we don’t photograph models under 18 unless they are a movie star or a musician. Apart from it being completely unethical to have children work, it also feels wrong to photograph young girls who have no idea yet who they are, what their sexuality is about, have no experience in life, and who are being judged based on their looks at such a delicate age. It can potentially be so hurtful to have people stand around you and talk about you as if you are not in the room and you need to finish school first.” Being a team both creatively and romantically, I can imagine that you often get questions about your collaborative relationship. What do you usually answer? “Yeah, people ask us if it’s strange to work together and the answer is no. We get to spend 24/7 together and we don’t have two separate lives, we don’t have a work life and a home life. For us it is almost the opposite – from our perspective it must be strange for people who live lives where they are somebody completely different at work, then come home for six hours and go back to work in the morning. We are so passionate about our work and so passionate about each other. For us it is the only way to do it and it all just grows together. Our son Charles now travels with us when we are shooting and it is wonderful that we are always together.” You started working on your book Pretty Much Everything just before your son was born. How old is he now? “Twelve.” Does he photograph? “Yeah, he takes pictures, but he’s more into video –, he is a part of the next generation.” [laughs] The exhibition Inez & Vinoodh, Pretty Much Everything is showing at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden, until September 27, 2015 The two-volume retrospective publication with 666 photographs of “Pretty Much Everything” is available at

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Walmart is one step closer to adding 25,000 square feet to the east side of its building at 1300 Desplaines. On Monday night, the Forest Park Planning Commission unanimously recommended to the village board the passage of five zoning variations that would accommodate Walmart’s proposed plans. Troy Paionk, a project engineer who represents Walmart, fielded questions from board members, which included concerns over the rerouting of a Pace bus stop, plans for additional green space and the issue of pedestrian safety. According to the current plans, the Pace 103 bus, which stops at the west end of the store, would move to the east end, and then drive north, through the parking aisles, to exit the lot. “I’m not crazy about a bus in the aisles,” said John Plepel, a board member. “Is the bus going to be able to exit safely?” Paionk told the board that Walmart’s discussions with Pace were “just starting.” “I know it’s a necessary store, but anything that can enhance that part of our town, I can’t implore you enough,” said board member Kevin Harnett, expressing a desire for additional green space on the site. Despite their concerns, all of the board members voted to move the proposal on to the village board, which will review the recommendations next week before granting or denying Walmart’s requests on another date. The five variances are: allowing fewer parking spaces than currently required; smaller parking stalls; less mandated loading space; permission to build, even though the present plans do not comply with ordinances; and allowing an existing sign that exceeds the height code.

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The projects are listed in chronological order by the date when I became involved in them. Projects in which I still take an active role are shown with a yellow background. Please direct questions, bug reports, etc. for older projects to the new maintainers or to the respective mailing list. Floppy driver extensions (1992) My first contribution to the Linux kernel was the addition of disk format auto-detection and low-level formatting to the floppy driver. Status: Part of the Linux kernel since 1992. The floppy driver has undergone heavy modifications since these days. MS-DOS file system (1992-1993) Kernel-based file system driver that can read and write MS-DOS (FAT) file systems. Status: Part of the Linux kernel since 1992. I'm no longer working on that file system, and the code has been greatly extended by other people since then. LILO (1992-2000) Boot loader for Linux and other operating systems on i386 platforms. Over the last decade, LILO has been the by far most popular boot loader on Linux, and will probably continue to be so for a while. Status: Very mature. Since mid-2000, LILO is maintained by John Coffman. Home page: psmisc (1993-2000) Small utilities that use the /proc filesystem, such as fuser, pstree, and killall. psmisc is a standard part of most Linux distributions. Status: Generally stable, but occasional changes of the /proc interface in the kernel require updates. Handed maintenance over to Craig Small at the end of 2000. Home page: IFS (1993) Kernel-based layered file system based on the idea of Sun's TFS (Translucent File System). IFS allowed to mount a "stack" of file systems such that files in lower layers could be superseeded by files from higher layers. That way, one could make read-only media virtually writeable. Status: this project was abandoned after producing a prototype that worked most of the time, because it turned out to have far too many dependencies on other kernel internals. For the full story and recent developments, follow the link below. Home page: dosfsck (1993) File system checker (like DOS' CHKDSK) for MS-DOS (FAT) file systems. Unlike CHKDSK, dosfsck is designed to avoid senseless destruction when repairing a file system. Status: I produced a quite usable alpha version serving as proof of concept, but then lost interest in the project. Roman Hodek has since taken over maintenance of dosfsck and distributes it in his dosfstools package. Home page: ATM on Linux (1995-2000) This project produced a working implementation of the most important components of the ATM protocol suite, including signaling, IP over ATM, and LAN emulation. This project incorporates major contributions from dozens of people from the whole world. Status: I initiated the project in 1995, and coordinated it until handing it over to Mitchell Blank in 2000. The ATM-related kernel changes have been merged into the mainstream Linux kernel with version 2.3.99. The project is now maintained by Chas Williams. Home page: Initial RAM-disk (initrd; 1996-2000) initrd is a RAM disk loaded by the boot loader, which is available before the regular root file system is mounted, so that drivers needed to access the root file system can be loaded by the environment set up on the initrd. This work was done in conjunction with the "big" zImage extension by Hans Lermen. In 2000, the clumsy change_root mechanism used by the original initrd was replaced by the more elegant pivot_root. Status: Mature, but gets occasionally broken by other changes. initrd is now maintained as part of the general file system infrastructure of the kernel. It may at some point get replaced by initramfs. Linux-7k (now PsiLinux; 1998-2000) The goal of this project was to port Linux to the ARM-based Psion S5 palmtop computer. I did most of the initial kernel and driver port. Status: The project yielded a port that worked well enough for daily use. I stopped working on the project after it became apparent that Psion Ltd. intended to abandon the product line. Other people have continued the work, and have also made a port to the more recent S5mx model. Home page: Canon PowerShot A50 driver for gPhoto (1999) Even the first very basic version of this driver was already the joint work of people from at least four continents. My role was in reverse-engineering and implementing the image download protocol. Status: the basic driver has been incorporated into gPhoto, and it has been greatly enhanced by other people over time. Home page: bootimg (2000) bootimg loads a kernel image and executes ("boots") it. That way, a Linux system can act as boot loader. Status: this project was suspended after producing a working prototype, mainly because of a lack of time. Meanwhile, a more comprehensive solution is available with kexec (old link). Home page: (no longer maintained) newlib on Linux (2000) newlib is a small C library. The goal of this project was to make newlib work on a regular (i386) Linux system, in order to use it in initrd environments, in particular with bootimg. Status: this port was completed to the point of providing the standard newlib functionality, and the changes have been merged into newlib. Since the main goal was to use this with bootimg, work on extensions specific to booting was stopped when running out of time for bootimg. Meanwhile, klibc provides most of the functionality intended for this project. Home page: Differentiated Services on Linux (2000-2002) This project extends the traffic control subsystem to provide the infrastructure needed by Differentiated Services. Status: Alexey Kuznetsov, Jamal Hadi Salim, and I started the project in 2000. The code was merged into the mainstream traffic control subsystem in 2001, after which I handed coordination and maintenance over to Jamal, but I still follow the mailing list, and help occasionally with maintenance. Home page: Traffic Control Next Generation (tcng; 2001-2004) This project revises the network traffic control infrastructure of Linux to overcome shortcomings of the existing architecture, mainly in the areas of usability and extensibility. Status: Hibernating, working prototype available. The project has so far produced a prototype that, while not perfect, is suitable for reasonable use. Looking for a maintainer. Home page: UML simulator (umlsim; 2002-2004) This is a spin-off of the tcng project. The primary goal of umlsim is to turn UML into a network simulator similar to tcsim. Of course, a deterministic test environment on top of UML has many more uses than just playing with traffic control ... Status: Completed and hibernating. Home page: Seiko InkLink driver (2002) Seiko's InkLink device looks like the perfect alternative to a graphic tablet. All we need is a Linux USB driver for it ... Status: Stopped until I find some time for this (famous last words, I know). The data format is still a mystery to me. Home page: none yet TCP connection passing (2002-2005) Experimental mechanism to allow cooperating applications to pass TCP connections from one host to another. This is mainly blue sky research, but may have some real-life uses in HA and clustering scenarios. Status: Proof of concept prototype. Home page: Networking blackbox (2002) Records skbs in a ring buffer, and allows them to be read from user space when a certain trigger event occurs. netbb only provides the infrastructure, but leaves it to the user to place the actual taps. netbb includes a dump utility, dumpbb, that allows dissecting the data contained in the dump under script control. dumpbb is part of umlsim. Status: Completed and hibernating. Home page: Active Block I/O Scheduling System (2003-2006) The Active Block I/O Scheduling System (ABISS) is an extension of the hard-disk storage subsystem of Linux, whose main purpose is to provide a guaranteed reading and writing bit rate to applications. Status: In progress. First code is available. Home page: kboot (2005-2007) kboot is a boot loader based on kexec. It potentially offers the functionality of an entire Linux system environment in the context of the boot loader. Compared to other boot loaders, this should greatly simplify development and maintenance, and encourage new, experimental work. Status: Proof of concept prototype. Home page: LED Toy (2005-2006, 2012-) The LED Toy is a small microcontroller-based circuit that uses motion to produce 2D images with a line of LEDs. This project also serves as a proof of concept that modern components can be used with technology readily available to hobbyists and other low-budget projects in Argentina. Status: In progress. Development information for a working prototype is available. Home page: M8C utilities (2006) m8cutils is a collection of utilities for programming microcontrollers based on the Cypress® M8C core, including the PSoC™ family. m8cutils contains, among other tools, an assembler, a programmer, and a simulator. (This is an offspring of the LED Toy project above.) Status: In progress. Pre-alpha code is available. Home page: Openmoko (2007-2009) The Openmoko project produces the software and hardware for a smartphone designed from the ground up to run Free Software (i.e., the Linux kernel, etc.). I've joined the project in February 2007 to work on low level/kernel items. Status: See project Web site for details. Home page: GTA02-Core (2009) GTA02-Core is a smartphone design based on the key elements of the Openmoko FreeRunner (GTA02), using an open development process and Free Software tools. Status: Schematics available. Stopped. Home page: Qi-Hardware (2010-) Qi-Hardware is a collection of loosely connected projects which are developed in a Copyleft Hardware process using Free Software.

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As usual, Jeremy was on his bicycle, going back home from school. And as usual, he was passing through the playground; his route to his home. His cycle was creaking way too loudly today; courtesy of the fall and the overnight rain, no doubt. And as his luck would have it, the chain of his bicycle got dislodged right in the middle of the ground. Jeremy immediately got down and went about fixing it. He hoped it wouldn’t take much time. But the fat boy had been eyeing Jeremy unobserved. He approached him now, pulling at the end of his cap. “oi” he said. Jeremy recognising the dreaded voice, didn’t turn but continued on with fixing his bicycle as fast as possible. That was his only means of escape afterall. “oi” said the fat boy again. Jeremy sensing it might not be such a good idea to ignore him altogether, looked up, only to see the 14 year old squatting next to him now. Without a word, he pulled at one end of the chain and Jeremy found it much easier to line the chain properly with the grooves. Maybe there were things that you could do better with some help? Something new Jeremy learned that moment. “hey, you are Jeremy right?” the fat boy asked. Jeremy Dupitt nodded. “look, I wanted to say sorry. Alright? For yesterday. And other days.” Jeremy nodded again. It wasn’t like he didn’t want to say anything, but more like he couldn’t. He looked at the fat boy’s face from the corner of his eyes, and realised they looked something like his. Hurt. Jeremy got up to his feet and took off the bully’s cap in an instant. “why did you -?” But Jeremy could see it, even as the fat boy snatched his cap away and put it over his head low. Jeremy had already seen the black blue eye, but beyond that, he had seen his anguish, his pain and his embarrassment of apologising to Jeremy. He understood that the fat boy wasn’t really apologising, no not really, but it was something that the fat boy wanted to be done to him. So Jeremy did. “hey. I am sorry.” “what for? T’wasnt you who beat me up for being fat. Those fucking high school kids, I will kill them one day for this.” “I know. But I am still sorry it happened to you.” The fat boy looked at Jeremy a bit, then smiled and extended a hand. “I am Tom.” “cool.” And Jeremy was off on his cycle, leaving a bewildered Tom behind. Jeremy didn’t realise for sometime, but he had made a friend that day. So all in all, as Jeremy dropped his bicycle on the dried grass of his frontyard and entered the shadows of his home, he thought today had been a good day. Standing at the doorway and looking at the mess of the couch his father had slept in, he knew with certainty that today had been a good day. And all he wanted to do was talk to someone about it. Having spent less than a minute inside, Jeremy took off again, his bag left on the floor and his recently fixed bicycle creaking ever so loudly. It was perhaps half an hour later that Jeremy realised he didn’t know where Ana lived. Riding his bike aimlessly in the woods and shouting “Ana, Ana!” would hardly yield any results. So he tried remembering what she had said yesterday. She lived at the edge of the woods, she had said. Problem was, it was probably at the other end. And that would take quite a long time. Yet, Jeremy didn’t much care, it was a part of his routine anyway. Chasing squirrels in the woods or searching for the Lady of the Lake, it didn’t matter, no one was waiting for him at home anyway. His heart felt heavy suddenly, and this reminded him of Anahasika. The sun had moved from its overhead position and the sky had become a darker shade of blue, but all this was shielded from Jeremy’s view; all he could see was the tops of lush green trees which was all the better, for he did not have to worry about anything today. All he had experienced was a normal day, and yet that was a first for him. It felt refreshing. So when he reached the edge of the woods, following a shallow ravine through which a steady stream flowed, he was surprised to see that the sun was hanging low, like the makeshift ones used in their school plays. Squeakily cycling a bit slower now because of the slope, Jeremy could clearly see a steel colored caravan, shining golden in the low sun’s light, parked next to the flowing stream. A few clothes were flying about against the wind from a line, and Jeremy was keen to notice one bright red kimono amongst them. Deciding that this had to be Anahasika Misaki’s home (of course, who else?) Jeremy cupped his hands together and shouted through them, “Ana!” and was about to do that once more when a hand came out of nowhere and held his mouth shut. “they will see you! Come back.” Jeremy was delighted to see Ana, dressed in a white kimono with purple embroidery, dragging him by his hand, and even more delighted to see that she was acting as mysterious as ever. “why are you here?” she asked in a soft voice. Her expressions were unreadable. “I just… Wanted to see you.” Jeremy dared not to look up. For some reason he felt stupid. But when he did, Ana was still smiling in that weird way of hers, wide with her eyes close to being closed. Jeremy for the umpteenth time thought it was the prettiest smile he had seen. “walk with me” she said. Jeremy pulled his cycle with him as he fell in step with her. And so they found themselves laughing with the chirping birds, and Jeremy, no doubt in an attempt to impress her, chased the birds on his cycle, and Ana laughed more. Later, she sat behind Jeremy, holding on to his shirt, on his cycle as he rode slowly now, along the stream, deeper and deeper into the forest. The gushing noise of the water served to calm both of them down. ” hey Ana?” Ana focused her big brown eyes up at Jeremy, whose face she couldn’t see. It was so indescribably nice – like experiencing firsthand that “blue” could be both a color and a feeling – to be so close to someone, in silence. Ana was loath to break that comfortable spell, choosing to listen to the loud clinks of metal of Jeremy’s bike everytime he went over a twig, and the distant noises of the wildlife (the occassional buzz of a dragonfly or the musical coo of a sparrow). So when he stopped his cycle near a massive boulder covered in moss, and it was time for Ana to get down, she did so with some small disappointment. And so they remain there, seated on folded legs upon the floor of the woods, amidst the sounds of the nearby stream, Jeremy’s cycle left propped up by the boulder and Ana’s hair disheveled by the ride, for quite some time. While they had had no trouble conversing before, as the sun sank low, and both realised it was nearing time for them to go, neither he nor her had it in them to speak up. Finally Jeremy began again. ” hey Ana?” ” yes, Jeremy?” ” how are your parents like?” Ana didn’t look at him, but down at a line of ants steadily marching away. “they are okay, they are nice to me, I suppose.” but her voice seemed to imply something else. “what do you mean,” you suppose”? You don’t know for sure?” ” nothing like that, they are nice. I just wish they let me out to play more often.” ” you are out right now.” Jeremy observed. ” well, yeah, but you know. They don’t like me mixing with other kids. They only let me go out to the woods where there aren’t any people.” ” you are mixing with a kid right now. Me.” Jeremy half laughed. Ana smiled her perfect smile. ” you are the only one who comes to the woods to play. Other kids don’t.” “so is that why you didn’t want your mum and dad seeing me?” ” yeah. It’s not just you, Jeremy, they just don’t like uncalled visitors.” Jeremy nodded. He didn’t understand, of course not. But he did understand that need some people had to be left alone, to be isolated. It was a shell close to impossible to break. Looking at Ana, Jeremy wondered whether Ana had been his impossible. “don’t you feel that’s unfair? They can’t tell you not to meet people. Isnt it natural to want to talk with others? I mean, thats what humans do: communicate.” ” but I am communicating.” Ana objected, her foreign tongue having some difficulty getting around the word, “I do communicate.” “but they are limiting it, and that’s wrong.” Jeremy’s hands were absentmindedly playing with a blade of grass, but his eyes kept stealing fleeting looks of Ana, who still looked at the line of ants intently. Jeremy noticed her increasing discomfort with this conversation, and yet he made no move to change his approach; he wanted to know more about the girl who had broken his shell. Was that selfish, Jeremy wondered. “I never had any parents, you know?” “what? What do you mean?” Jeremy’s eyes reflected the shock he felt. “I was born in a different country. Japan, I am told. Dont really remember anything about my real parents, but I remember the shrine I used to live in, just fine. I was abandoned there, see, in a shrine next to a lake. That old lady took care of me.” Ana smiled. “old lady?” “yeah, she was so old. Couldn’t even talk.” here, she laughed a short sad laugh, “but she used to play with me when I was little. Braid my hair, send me to sleep, catch fish from the lake and cook it. She taught me those little things. I wish I knew her name, but she couldn’t speak and I couldn’t understand the alphabet because no one could teach me.” Ana looked at Jeremy, and he held her brown eyes’ gaze level with his own. “one day, I was coming back from the forest, carrying a pile of firewood as big as me back then, and when I entered the shrine, I knew she wouldn’t be there. I could feel it, feel the loss. When I entered her room, she was sleeping. And she stayed asleep. ” I never thought I was alone, the concept hadn’t developed in my brain till then. But her death was terrifying. I can’t explain how scary it was.” But her shudders explained enough. Jeremy extended his hand and took hers in his to let her know it was alright. ” I owe it to these people, Jeremy. You say it’s wrong for them to limit my communication? Honestly, I have never known more communication in my life. When they found me in that shrine, and took me here, fed me and educated me and clothed me, they gave me my life. I owe them.” She was shaking, as if from an undiagnosed epilepsy. All Jeremy could do was hold her hand, firmly, as he sat on the forest floor just wondering how beautiful she was. Later, he would walk her back to the edge of the woods and she would leave giving him a final smile and then she would spend the night with people she wasn’t related to, who imposed unreasonable rules upon her, and Jeremy would go back to his father, who imposed no rules at all, but all that was later. For now, Jeremy held her hand and hoped he could heal her the way she had healed him. PART 6 The wind was strong that night, so much so that the little hair on John Daye’s head whipped from one end to the other. As he got down from his lead colored car, and looked up to see the medical research facility and asylum looming overhead, he hesitated. John Daye’s nature, if one were to ask, was a complex one; on one hand, he was a man of science, well educated and learned, and hence he often fixated about the facts of a matter, choosing to base his deductions upon them. But that is not the same as saying he based his deductions only on them, because on the other hand, his nature was such that he was easily swayed by his heart; often symptoms of sympathy and pity manifested upon him, and he was well aware of it. What this duality (and his knowledge of it) did to him was pretty straightforward – he was a man who undervalued his own assertions, thinking it came from one side of his nature or the other – and this was, perhaps, the main reason why he hesitated. His basic scientific nature dictated he had to meet Alicia Lamb to get all the facts straight. His more emotional state of being told him he should stay far from Alicia Lamb, for there was only so much of shock the world could handle. This hesitation would have only increased had Rebecca White included herself to this excursion to the facility Mrs. Lamb was admitted to, and John was secretly glad that she, when he asked her to come along, had said in no uncertain terms – “sorry, John, I got no wish to see that pyromaniac.” Needless to say, the presence of her niece would be an unnecessary complication to today’s meeting. It wasnt the first time that John Daye was walking through the long corridors of the asylum. He had, on exactly two occassions, paid Alicia a visit sometime last year for his book. On both times he had been received by the unusually calm Alicia Lamb, and both times he had had amicably intelligent conversations with her. If not for the ambiance, John Daye would never be able to tell she was insane, despite the degree in psychiatry that hung on his office wall, and this he had admitted to his agent in exactly those words. And as the nurse opened the ward to a cautiously designed cell, even with all the time between their visits, Alicia smiled to John without wasting a second and his eyebrows furrowed together in that instant. He would never forget the heinious acts of crime she had committed, but he always found it hard to remember that in her presence, and that disgusted him. There was a reason why he had only visited her twice. “oh hullo, Mr. Daye, hullo. How you been?” Daye’s frown increased in depth, but he knew that for a psychiatrist it was important to always be seen by the patient as a person of superiority. “Perfect, Alicia. Beautiful night outside.” A flash of anger was very quickly subdued by the Lamb, and Daye might have very well imagined it. Alicia looked away as if looking at a far off thunderstorm. “pity, I haven’t seen the outside like ever. So what brings you here?” “the same thing that brought me here last time.” Alicia looked at him now, and in her eyes he could see greed. “Why? You didn’t finish your book yet? Thought all my “cult” members had been caught for arson. What you up to?” Daye suffocated his feeling of unease. “Arson and reckless endangerment of life. Children’s lives, Alicia. They burnt down a public library with kids inside. Kids!” ” Oh I wasn’t involved, as I have said countless times to you before.” ” your cult, your people.” The flash of anger substantiated itself again in her eyes. “my religion! My disciples!” She hadn’t raised her voice, only her temper. John raised a hand in mock defeat, but she continued anyway, in much softer tones, “in any case, I wasn’t aware of that as you very well know. What “my people” chose to do that night was not something I told them to do, but i agree I share responsibility.” “Share responsibility?? How can you be so callous about the attempted mass murder done in your name? You do realise your people did that because you were burning yourself and your child? Because you told them the sacrifice of children would save the world? That night while you burnt down your family, they burnt down a public library. It was lucky we could save those trapped in the library, but your child perished. Do you not feel anything, woman?” But John had managed to lose his cool and hers. She slammed her hands down on the table between them and said, ” do I feel nothing? I feel everything! I can feel the flames consume me every hour of every day! It’s a pity you cannot! I sacrificed my child so that I could save this world, or are you so blind that you cannot see that our world is dying? Do you feel nothing?” John looked at her the way a hawk looked at a disease carrying rat. He felt disgusted and hungry to kill her at the same time. The power of belief was so utterly terrifying. But this conversation was growing steadily pointless. He needed information, not about the fire cult but about her, Alicia Lamb. So John said venemously, ” What I fail to understand, woman,” calling her that seemed to infuriate her, much to John’s satisfaction, “is why would you burn your own daughter, when you were trying so hard to have one?” Alicia was mum for the first time. No, it was much more than silence, it was severity. Her eyes became like blank marbles, her cheeks much more gaunt and her mouth withdrew to a thin line. Somehow her reddish-brown hair (so similar to Rebecca’s, despite having no blood relation to her) became like fire, as if fanning and stoking itself with rage. But John, despite that, carried on, finding it so satisfying to anger her. ” you wanted a child, did you not? A daughter you could love like your own. A babe you could take care of. You felt the need to be needed, Alicia, and that’s understandable. Thats human.” But Alicia Lamb smiled a devilish smile. She contrasted so starkly in her nature when compared to the man uttering these words; for her nature was neither of science or of love. It was pure hatred – hatred of the world, hatred of her people, but most of all hatred of herself. So she smiled her devilish smile, and as John Daye recoiled, he missed the tear that escaped from the corner of her eyes. ” I wanted a child so I could burn her” Daye’s eyes became like two saucers, so wide with shock. His heart wrenched with the thought of such pure evil. He was so horrified, he wanted to leave at once. But there was still the matter of the Lady of the Lake. His lips twisted in disgust, and he stood up, as he demanded. “tell me about the Lady of the Lake” Alicia considered. ” oh going to destroy one more “cult” are you, Mr. Psychiatrist? Oh but she isn’t a cult. She is a goddess.” ” how so?” he asked with narrow eyes. ” she heals people, Mr Daye. She heals them with a touch and for a price. Of course, you asking me that question means you already know how I was able to give birth. See, when I was a young girl, my neighbour took quite a liking to me. So one night, while I went out to buy some groceries for me mum, he decided to rape me. Oh, he did more than just rape me. – he damaged me. Growing up, I forced myself to forget that “incident”. I went on about my studies and I went on to find a job and such. And when, years later, I found Patrick and we married and we decided to have a child of our own, the doctors told me I couldn’t carry. My womb was inflamed – it was burnt away, unfixable. So I went to the Lady of the Lake, a little Asian girl she is. And I thought “heck they swindled my money”, I mean she was just a little kid dressed up in proper traditional Japanese clothes. “nonsense” I thought. But I was very desperate, and I believed. So me and Patrick, we went to the place they told us to come, went inside this silver caravan, and did this whole incense filled ritual sort of thing, you know? And all I thought then was “shit, this is nonsense.” And then it happened.” ” what?” ” what else, Mr. Daye? The little girl touched my arm, and I don’t know what happened to me, I swear. All of a sudden, I was crying and telling her about all my sorrows and shit. And I felt it, I felt the stress leaving me, I felt that tomorrow would be another day, you know? And I wept in that little girl’s lap, still crying. I felt free. When I got home, I was pregnant. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever witnessed. I don’t know how it happened, or why it happened. Those nine months, people preached to me, worshipped me as their goddess, but I never told them who was the real goddess. The Lady of the Lake. See, there is a legend in Japan, a legend Patrick heard about from his time spent in Kanto. Once upon a time, there was a young samurai who fought for his lord loyally and chivalrously. This lord of his was waging a war against some other lord, you know what the lords do, and the young samurai fought in his stead. But he was wounded, fatally so, and half in deliriums he walked through the forest and found himself near a lake. Drinking a sip from the waters and deciding this was as good a spot as any, he lay down waiting for death. But next morning he woke up to find his wounds healed and his exertion gone. He went back home to tell his lord of the magical water, and the lord hearing this brought his whole retinue to the lake, built a shrine there and in time built an entire town around the lake. Soon, as could be expected, the water in the lake depleted, for everyone drank the water in hopes of a long life. So one day, the gods descended and to their horror, found their holy water nearly exhausted. In their wrath, the gods put a curse upon any who had tasted the water. The entire town faced plague and disease and starvation, and the lord in desperation begged the gods to free them from the curse and promised to never drink from the lake again. They then told him – “you have taken from this lake, so you have to give something back”. And the lord asked them what he could give back, and they answered – “your daughter.” And so he sacrificed his daughter to the lake. In time, it became a ritual of the village to leave a baby girl to the shrine next to the lake, where she is brought up like a goddess. When that girl becomes old, the village chooses one more to be sent to the shrine. And so it goes on. That girl is called the Lady of the Lake.” Daye spat on the floor and walked away. PART 7 The night grew steadily darker, and the wind even harsher, and right about the time Daye’s spit hit the ground, in another part of the city, Jeremy was riding his bicycle with his torch on. He seemed in no rush, and he was hardly concentrating on the dirt road that he had finally found which led right to his front yard. In his mind, he replayed not Ana’ smile, beautiful utmost, or her words, unnerving enough. In his mind, he kept seeing visions of her tears, which never fell but remained glistening in her eye. Jeremy paddled softly, and wondered what it must feel like to not have parents. He remembered the loss of his mother; the day she was lowered into the ground and Jeremy’s father had refused to cry, holding his son’s shaking hand in his firmly, was a memory engraved into the little eleven year olds mind – one that he did not want to revisit, but, until very recently, had every night. And somehow his father and him had grown distant, both of them choosing to grieve alone and forever. For some reason, both son and father had decided that the only way to respect her memory was to never let her go, and thus they cried, in their own way, Jeremy at the end of his bed and his father at the bottom of a bottle. Shame, that they could not mourn her together. Yet, losing a parent isnt the same as never having one. What Anahasika Misaki had endured was something that Jeremy Dupitt could sympathise with a whole heart, but never truly understand. He wondered, as he paddled a bit faster now, seeing that the top of his house was poking above the trees – which was better? Not knowing the concept of a parent until you are much older, taken to a country you do not belong to and have no relation to, by strangers who claim to take care of you but keep you caged in a caravan, and still believing that this was afterall the better side of the coin? Or growing up with loving parents, facing an irreversible loss of one and watching as you see the other change into someone you no longer know, feeling alone in your own home hearing the words come out of their own father and wondering who this stranger was? Which was better? Which was easier? When his house came into view, Jeremy suddenly stopped his cycle and looked front in straight up wonder. His father was standing outside on the front yard, talking on the phone, a worried expression etched on his face. Seeing Jeremy, he quickly rushed to his side and wrapped his arms around him, his phone forgotten and lying on the grass. He said nothing, he simply picked the little boy in his arms and brought him inside. Inside, the first thing his father did was shout at him, asking him whether he had any idea what the time was, if he had the minimal amount of sense, and whether he thought he was so grown up that he could decide on his own accord at what time he should come back home. Often, his father’s rage reached such peaks that whatever came out of his mouth became incomprehensible. Jeremy, through it all, stood in silence and his head down. But it was doubtful his head was held down in shame; rather, the dangerous twitch at the ends of his lips threatened to break into a smile, for the child was keen to recognise the actions that come out of love. Perhaps because it had been such a long while since the last time his father had looked at him, or perhaps, despite the stench of booze escaping his angry mouth, it had been such a long while since his father looked sober. Either way, it had been a long while, and Jeremy held his head down knowing full well that smiling in such a situation would bring about quite a few unpleasantaries from his father. But Mr. Dupitt had caught his son’s comical behaviour, and in the middle of gesturing angrily with his hands and ranting about the bad things that happen so late in night, he stopped. ” are you laughing, Jeremy?” he asked him, incredulously. And Jeremy stopped smiling immediately and shook his head in denial. When his father insisted he speak up, he did, “I am sorry, it’s just that you reminded me of mum just now.” The wall the Dupitt men never talked about was breached. Mr. Duppitt’s face softened and Jeremy, taking that as an indication, smiled. In an hour or so, the father had showered and sobered up, and for the first time in a long while, he cooked. There was only tuna to be had, the least favorite dish of both son and father, and when the fish was laid in front of Jeremy, he made a face, for the edges were slightly burnt. Yet, that was the only complaint the son (and in fact the father) had; that dinner was spent reminiscing about the time Jeremy’s mother had lost her cool at Mr. Duppitt for coming home late from office once – in quite the same fashion that he had lost his cool with Jeremy tonight. And that one story led to others and others still, until son and father found themselves laughing, or awkwardly shifting in their seats, or much worse, downright embarrassed. Jeremy felt strange, for he had not known that so many emotions could coexist together and yet form this happy viscous feeling. When Jeremy went to sleep, he found his father at the doorstep switching the lights off for him. He whispered “goodnight” and Jeremy, having practiced the earlier night, replied with “love you, dad” The door creaked shut behind his father’s footsteps. Jeremy found his bed warm that night, and sleep came as if instantly. In the other room, the same could not be said of his father. He sat up late, in his side of the bed still, clutching an old picture to his chest. Jeremy could never forget his mother’s funeral; the same was true for his father many times over. If vivid visions replayed in jeremy’s mind every night of Mr. Duppitt holding his hand next to the grave and refusing to cry, Mr. Duppitt was haunted by them. He could almost hear his wife’s voice, then and even now, and without the bottle of whiskey downstairs, it was hard to forget. The tears he never shed in that funeral fell now in full, here in the bed which he had shared with Jeremy’s mother. He now whispered the words to that old photograph against his chest. “love you.” And once again, things had changed in the Duppitt household. Next morning the house at the farthest end welcomed bright sunlight through it’s kitchen windows, and fell on a tray of buttered toast and bacon. Jeremy was shocked to see his dad in an apron, and he bit into the hard toast with raised eyebrows. Jeremy’s father scratched his head, his way of apologising, and then hurried his son along. He had work to go to too, he said to his son, and he smiled and somehow it seemed they had forgotten the many years since her death. Well, good enough, for it was their new start and Jeremy couldn’t have been any happier. The Freudian theory may be subject to many controversies, and the neighbourhood may or may not agree to it, but when Jeremy walked from his home (leaving his squeaky bicycle behind with the idea that he would ask his dad to get it repaired later), his thoughts were content and happy and this led him to wonder after the well-being of others. Worrying seemed to be his ailment, and, as it had been for the past couple of days, the strange girl from the woods his cure. So he walked, with his head down, now deep in his own thoughts, thinking about the time from the moment he met her till the very present. In two days, Jeremy had changed from crying alone, surrounded by paladin trees, with a broken back, into her lap to… He didn’t know how to describe it, only that when he crossed the block, he knew he wasn’t smiling but he also knew he could. This was a difference only he could understand, perhaps, but listening to his rhythmic footsteps crunching gravel underneath, he wanted Ana to understand it too. Jeremy was very sure that Ana was broken inside, for it spoke to him everytime she smiled. It was the kind of a rejected beautiful smile one attains after believing that this was, afterall, their life and nothing better could come off it. It angered Jeremy that she would think that of herself, and in his anger he kicked a pebble off his path. He wanted to fix this. He wanted to fix her. But before he could think of any viable way of doing that, there was a voice shouting rashly down the street and Jeremy whipped his head that way, “Oi, Jay-roh-mee!” Jeremy blinked in surprise at the massive girth of fat which was Tom, swaggering up close to his face. ” I have been calling you since when, you know? Where you headed?” “school” Jeremy replied. He wasn’t completely sure why Tom, whose tummy moved this way and that, was talking to him in such a aggressive friendly manner. Tom pulled down his cap and in its shadow Jeremy could see a light in his eyes. ” I found them, man,” he was saying, “those bloody high schoolers. You up for some sweet revenge?” Jeremy’s eyes narrowed. “no, not one bit. Dont you got school to attend?” “you think I can sit in school with those fuckers roaming around freely? Justice has got to be served, man!” Tom excitedly punched the air, his rotund belly jumping up then down lazily. But Jeremy was already walking away, shaking his head, while the fat boy looked at him incredoulously. “stop, you pussy fuck! You are just gonna walk away from me? ‘cos I don’t care, I will go alone if I got to.” “well? Dont think I’m stopping you.” But Jeremy, turning back, saw that this seemed to mean something to Tom. He was excited and scared and he, unlike Jeremy, did not know how to hide those emotions. “you gon’ let a friend fight alone?” Tom asked dejectedly. And that word alone, something he had craved to hear for a long time, was enough. Half an hour later, as the sun hid itself behind some clouds, Jeremy realised he had skipped school for the first time and there was no going back. He also realised, sitting behind fat boy’s cycle as he paddled with seemingly huge amounts of strain, that this was also way more fun than sitting in his class and listening to his homeroom teacher. Ten more minutes later, Tom took a turn next to the “24×7” store, and got down from his bike. “what’s the plan, fat boy?” Jeremy asked without a care in the world. “don’t call me that. Okay, you see the store? Those cronies are inside. You see them? Them boys in jackets, pretending to be all smart and grown up, buying them a pack of fags?” “yeah I see them, Tom, what do you want me to do?” “what do you think, dummy? You see them coming out, you give a shout. Like you know, shout some kind of a code word.” ” ‘fat boy’?” ” don’t call me that, you fag! And no! Shout “God bless the queen” or some such shit.” Jeremy looked at the fat boy with peaking interest. “god bless the queen”? Didn’t Tom had the most colorful imagination? An amused Jeremy laughed. “don’t laugh you moron! Okay i’m going!” “wait, what are you gonn –” But Tom was already speeding towards a black ford truck, which was undoubtedly the high schoolers car. Jeremy, as instructed, kept watch. He watched the clouds, he watched a bee buzzing past, and in some instances, he watched the boys in jackets talking to themselves. Jeremy was almost bored, but not quite. He wondered what the fat boy would do to their truck. Let out all the air, perhaps? From his angle, Jeremy couldn’t see Tom at all, and this served to increase his curiousity. He craned his neck this way and that, and still unable to see the elder boy, looked inside the store. With shock, he saw the high schoolers had already reached the door, and knowing not what else to do, he shouted, ” God bless the queen! God bless the queen!” Then suddenly, he heard a loud thump behind him, from the truck. The high schoolers had heard it too, and one of them ran to his truck, but Tom was already running, and Jeremy was on the bicycle. “Tom! God bless the queen!” “I heard you the first time, you moron!” Tom had jumped on already “ride, man, ride!” And Jeremy rode like his life depended on it, which might as well had been, for they heard a cry from behind, “HE DID WHAT?” And then, to their horror, the boys saw the high schoolers chase after them. The pain in Jeremy’s legs from overexertion was ignored as adrenaline kicked in. The fat boy wasn’t making things easier, but thankfully the bike seemed to be able to carry the weight well enough. In no time, they had gained the distance against the high schoolers, but Jeremy did not stop, not for a bit, and turning back he saw the tired high schoolers clutching their knees and screaming abuses, and Tom laughing loudly behind him, holding two middle fingers high against the sky. Finally, Jeremy dropped from the bicycle near the edge of familiar trees, and Tom plopped down beside him, both of them breathing very heavily. When Jeremy caught his breath, he looked at the far boy angrily, “what the hell did you do, fat boy!” But Tom had to clutch his belly before he could answer, such were the fits of laughter that overcame him. “I peed in their car.” Jeremy’s eyebrows might as well had disappeared above his hair line. And Tom was still laughing uncontrollably, so the younger kid punched his belly. “you are mad, fat boy, complete nutter!” “ow, what?” But Jeremy was laughing too now and he fell down on the prickly dried grass. This was the first time he had done something crazy with a friend. Undoubtedly, if his father came to know he had skipped school and helped vandalised someone’s vehicle, he would be grounded and properly so. But, and Jeremy was amazed to realise, it did not matter to him. He had fun. Moreover, he realised he had, unknowingly, passed a rite of acceptance – Jeremy had made a friend and they would always remember this incident irrespective of how old they become. And with this thought, a brainwave hit him. Ana was broken, just as Jeremy had been. But at that instant, Jeremy felt he could take on the world, and she needed to feel the same. She needed friends. “hey Tom? You want to meet a friend of mine? It’s all the way at the other end of the woods though so it would probably take some time.” ” dude, we skipped school. We have all the time we need.” grinned the fat boy. Select Page below to Continue Reading… Pages: 1 2 3 4 Read more like this: by Author Debo in category Love and Romance with tag boy | lake | magic | pain | psychiatrist | smile

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As top-level domain names are being rolled out and up for grabs, the Vatican has scored control of .catholic. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which coordinates the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses around the world, has been allowing entities to apply for ownership of hundreds, and soon thousands, of new domain names such as .london, .insurance and .xbox, among others. The Pontifical Council for Social Communications completed the application process last summer and just received approval that it will now control the new Internet address extension .catholic and decide who is allowed to use it. The Vatican will control .catholic and its equivalent in other languages using Latin letters, as well as the equivalent of the word “Catholic” in the Cyrillic, Arabic and Chinese alphabets. Its request for .catholic in Chinese is number one on the ICANN list of priority domain names, right above .Amazon in Japanese. … Read more » … lire la suite » Posted: October 15, 2013 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=7246 Categories: CNS • In this article: internet, Vatican Transmis : 15 octobre 2013 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=7246

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When it comes to fictional locales, they range the gamut from awesome to terrifying. The Land of Ooo is awesome, Oz is both and Silent Hill definitely leans more towards the terrifying end of the spectrum. Still, fans of the Silent Hill franchise are always looking for an excuse to go back. Thankfully, IDW gives them a reason to in Silent Hill Downpour: Anne's Story #1, written by Tom Waltz, illustrated by Tristan "T-Rex" Jones, colored by Michael Spicer and lettered by Neil Uyotake. Anne Marie Cunningham will be familiar to those who played Silent Hill Downpour. For those who didn't, she's the enigmatic prison officer bent on bloody revenge against the game’s main protagonist, Murphy Pendleton. The thing is that even those who played the game weren't entirely aware of why Anne ended up making her way through Silent Hill. Or why she was even there in the first place. Rumor has it that Silent Hill Downpour: Anne's Story #1 was supposed to be DLC for the game and the book plays out something like that. Because it was supposed to be DLC, it feels a little disjointed when read on its own. Without having the base game fresh in the reader's mind, this first issue plays out somewhat confusingly. Waltz relies on a very staccato-like dialogue that feels rapid-fire and doesn't really let up on the reader, presenting lines that accentuate brevity over elaboration. The pacing is a little erratic as well, as the story jumps around quite a bit and doesn't really wait for the reader to catch up at all. Jones' illustrations are a good match for the subject matter. The characters have an air of uneasiness about them and rightfully so considering the circumstances surrounding Silent Hill. There's a good blend of colors as well that help the reader keep up with when the story is taking place. One minor gripe about the art though is that a lot of it is exceedingly dark, almost to the point where it's hard to make out what's happening. Despite the darker tone of the book, Jones does a good job making the world feel terrifying and dangerous, tapping into the monstrous on a regular basis for the terror that resides in Silent Hill. Silent Hill Downpour: Anne's Story #1 is a return to Silent Hill after two years of not really giving fans a way back in. Sure, there was the recent "reveal" that teases a new game in the series (with some pretty heavy hitters involved), but the last game was in 2012. Waltz does an admirable job with the issue, filling in the blanks for those who played the game, but unfortunately, Silent Hill Downpour: Anne's Story #1 isn't very accessible to new readers who haven't played the game. Jones' art is classically creepy and effectively conveys to the reader the horrors found within Silent Hill, even if some of the style is a little too gritty. Silent Hill Downpour: Anne's Story #1 is a book that fans of Silent Hill Downpour will definitely want to check out.

https://www.omnicomic.com/2014/09/review-silent-hill-downpour-annes-story.html

Acupuncture is used to promote natural healing, improve mood and energy, relieve or reduce pain and improve the function of affected areas of the body. Treatment is the healing art of inserting fine, sterile, disposable needles into the skin. Your body’s health depends on your Qi, the life force that flows through the body via a network of meridians and collaterals. These run from head to toe connecting the body’s organs and systems. If the Qi is strong, balanced and free flowing, there is health. If the Qi is weakened, blocked or unbalanced, illness will ensue. Disruption in the flow of Qi can occur in many ways, such as; climatic factors, emotional upset, physical trauma, poor diet and overwork. Acupuncture treats the person as a whole – mind, body and spirit and seeks to cure the causes of illness rather than just the symptoms.

https://www.shenglowacupuncture.ie/acupuncture.html

10th Caulfield organised and swam in the District Swimming Carnival at Waves last night. The event was well attended with 8 troops in attendance. Congratulations to 5th/6th Moorabbin for overall 1st place. Well done to our scouts for participating in a fun night.

https://www.10thcaulfieldscouts.org.au/district-swimming-carnival-2015/

New patients will receive an invitation to our secure Patient Portal after the first appointment is scheduled. Upon receiving the invitation, a new patient is asked to create a Patient Portal account and complete registration and history forms electronically. If you are unable to complete forms in the portal, you may print the applicable forms below, and bring completed forms to your visit. Registration Form – Required for all new patients Adult Female Health History Form – Required for new female patients, age 18 and up Adolescent Female Health History Form – For new female patients younger than 18 Male Health History Form – Required for all new male patients Specialty Consultation Questionnaires Patients scheduled for an initial consultation for the conditions below are asked to create a Patient Portal account and submit specified questionnaire(s) prior to the consultation appointment. If you are unable to do this through the portal, you may click on a title below, print, and complete manually in advance of your appointment. Female Hormone Health Questionnaire – Required for Female Hormone Health Consult Male Hormone Health Questionnaire – Required for Male Hormone Health Consult Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Questionnaire – Required for Bladder/Bowel Control Consult or Pelvic Pain Consult Records Release Forms Records Release TO Women’s Wellness Center. To request records be sent from another healthcare provider to WWC. Send this request form to the provider from whom you are requesting records. Records Release FROM Women’s Wellness Center. To request records be sent from WWC to another healthcare provider.

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Citizens of Great Britain yesterday decided their country would be better off without the European Union and voted to leave the 28-member economic bloc. Stock markets have sold off in advance of this decision and may continue to be volatile for a few days to a few weeks. However, we don’t think this move will have major or long-lasting effects on the world’s economy or stock markets. It is likely Britain and the EU will renegotiate agreements to allow continued trade, travel, and immigration. Some have speculated that the exit will strengthen the EU, since Britain’s influence had checked moves towards further economic and political integration among EU countries. If panic selling takes hold in the markets that could indicate this is a good time to buy stocks, rather than sell. As uncertainties about the effects of the Brexit ease over time it is possible world stock markets will recover and eventually move higher.

https://levelfa.com/what-investors-should-think-about-the-brexit-decision/

It’s all-out war between the players and characters in a role-playing game that has taken on a life of its own. The fighter Delrael, the sorcerer Bryl, as well as famed scientists Verne and Frankenstein, use every trick in the Book of Rules to keep the world of Hexworld intact while the outside group of players does everything possible to destroy it. The end is here. Or will it be a new beginning? Experience the epic finale of the Hexworld Portal Fantasy Saga from the International Bestseller Kevin J. Anderson, author of the Dune Prequels, Duke of Caladan, Numerous Star Wars novels and over 160 other books.

https://aethonbooks.com/book/end/

Back in 2019, I wrote a special feature about the indie games I had the chance to check out at SXSW Gaming convention in Austin (wow, that feels like ages ago). One of the games that was mentioned in this feature was The Gardens Between, which was already out at the time but had a demo was available to play at the convention. I enjoyed the game ever since I played the short demo, and I'd picked it up not too long after SXSW. It's one of those games that I hadn't gotten around to for a long time, but it popped up on my library and I decided to just go for it. The Gardens Between is a puzzle adventure game where you control time instead of the characters. The Gardens Between is full of mind-twisting and fun time puzzles that tell a story about two best friends and their memories together. You can assume that these two friends are perhaps neighbors and built this treehouse together. The Gardens Between starts off with the story of two best friends who are hiding from a storm inside of their small tree house. It's not clear what's going on, but you get a feeling that they're both feeling quite sad on this rainy night. Suddenly, a strange light appears and they are transported to some sort of dream world. These small worlds or "gardens" you'll travel through all seem to have literal pieces from their memories together incorporated into them, such as video game consoles and toys. The Gardens Between has a very simple concept to its mechanics. You use the joystick to the left to move back time, and to the right to go forward in time. Occasionally, you use one button to cause the characters to interact with an item. That's all of the controls. Yet, the game does quite a lot with its simple mechanics. It starts out fairly simple puzzles that just involve going back in time and having the characters grab an item, then going forward in time to put it where it needs to go. However, the puzzles later get more complex and involve you using the time mechanic in different ways. For example, letting time stop over certain items will cause them to react in certain ways, triggering a path. If you think too much about how things work in these gardens inside and outside of time, it's a little strange, but it works really well for puzzle-solving. It makes you have to think outside the box quite a bit, and when you figure it out it sort of blows your mind. It reminds me of Monument Valley in the way it makes you look at a 3D world differently depending on perspective. This is probably a strange thing to point out, but this game might have the one of the best title screens of any I've played. The art and the soothing music combined with the thunderstorm sound and visuals could honestly work as a stand-alone "rainy day" relaxing YouTube video to play on loop. The art style of The Gardens Between is really cute and cell-shaded, making the worlds really exciting and full of life. The environments convey a feeling of nostalgia, reminding us what it was like to be a kid. The soundtrack mostly consists of soft, ambient piano pieces and at times more synth-like sounds that purposely sound a little more dated. As I often mention, I love soundtracks with a vocals and there's a few in this. The credits theme evokes a sort of bittersweet, longing feeling that makes you feel what the characters feel. Despite there being no dialogue in The Gardens Between, there's definitely a story being told. The two kids, Arina and Frendt, are close friends and have spent a lot of their childhood together. However, as you can assume from the moving boxes in the first garden, one of them is moving away. Dealing with this is unfathomable for the two friends, so instead they're temporarily escaping together to a world crafted by their favorite memories together. It's a story that can hit anyone pretty strongly, as it did for me. I think most people know what it's like to have to move away from or stop seeing a best friend, and how as a kid that can feel like the world is ending. The two kids reminded me a lot of myself and one of my childhood best friends, back when we lived only a few houses away from each other. I spent almost every day in the summer at her house, and we never ran out of things to do and adventures to go on. Often times the characters will run in separate directions and open the possibilities of what you can affect. The Gardens Between is an unique take on puzzle and adventure, and it definitely plays very differently than anything else. It's a fairly short adventure, but it manages to tell its story little by little as you develop a bond and relate with the two friends. I personally love a puzzle game that can accomplish telling a story with its mechanics, and it's an extra plus that it's a beautiful-looking game as well. It tugs as your heartstrings using nostalgia and feelings of close friendship, making you long for when everything was simpler. I recommend this game to anyone into adventure games or puzzles - even though the puzzles near the end can get a little challenging, you just have to take a second look a everything and be creative.

https://www.sleepytoadstool.com/post/the-gardens-between-2018

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1837, Calcutta, colonialism, East India Company, first-person narrative, historical fiction, India, M. J. Carter, nineteenth century, racism Review: The Strangler Vine, by M. J. Carter Putnam, 2014. 369 pp. $28 William Avery believes in the East India Company, which rules most of that immense land in 1837, but he knows the company doesn’t believe in him. A lowly ensign in Calcutta, Avery has little chance of promotion, but maybe that’s just as well, since he can’t stand India, which he considers savage. He would as soon resign his position and return to England, but he has no prospects there, either, and no money to pay the fare. General Post Office, Calcutta, 1833 (Courtesy Wikiwand). His last chance to make a name for himself comes in poisonous form, to second James Blake on a secret mission deep up-country. Avery rightly suspects that he’s unlikely to survive, which may be his superiors’ intention. Moreover, he can’t stand Blake, an extremely unpleasant, older man who threw away a promising career with the company and adopted indigenous ways. But all that takes second place when Avery’s only friend is murdered and his name slandered as a drunken, lecherous, debt-ridden schemer. With barely time to grieve, Avery must take his journey to what he thinks will be oblivion. This is where The Strangler Vine excels, as a story of adventure and political intrigue. Blake refuses to take Avery into his confidence, or, often, even to talk to him; whenever possible, Blake scouts on his own, which leaves Avery feeling wounded in pride, frustrated, and, reasonably, wondering what purpose he serves. It also creates tension, because the reader, kept in the dark like Avery, has no idea whom or what to trust. Gradually, though, the younger man observes more of the land and people, and you sense his mind stretching to accommodate the new: The road was not yet as busy as it would become once the rains stopped for good, but it was already a full day’s entertainment in itself. There were frenzied ash-smeared fakirs who gamboled grotesquely and stuck their palms out for money; women wrapped in layers of cottons–saffron, pink, blue–with babes on their hips and dull brass bracelets tinkling; small insolent boys chewing sugarcane. There were jugglers with families of monkeys in their turbans; wealthy Sikhs in yellow silk waistcoats with enormous beards and huge dastars [headgear], leading columns of camels and carts; wedding parties in red and silver, with painted elephants, encircled by the scent of jasmine; and carts of dull-eyed, ragged indentured servants. More profoundly, Avery realizes that Blake, though stubbornly difficult, has put his keen observational and linguistic skills to serve a moral code, and that the older man has much to teach. Avery struggles mightily with the challenges to his certainty. Even so, he comes to similar conclusions: that the company has betrayed English ideals in pursuit of profit, and that whatever benefits it has brought have dearly cost the populace. Most particularly, the company has perpetuated myths about violent bandits to excuse military operations that expand the area under its control. Consequently, the company has created a monster that only it can slay, a corruption that will doom it in the long run (as would, in fact, happen twenty years later). What an absorbing, provocative tale this is, remarkably well told for a first novel, and vivid in attitudes and scenery. I like Carter’s characterizations of Avery and Blake–the callow traditionalist versus the jaded radical–and many people they meet have their own complexities. I question, though, how quickly Avery loses any thought of his late friend, much maligned, only to have the death wrapped up just as quickly at the end. Further, Blake’s absolute silence about every conceivable detail seems too convenient. True, he doesn’t trust Avery’s judgment, but Blake carries this so far as to make me think it’s an authorial ploy to keep the reader guessing, a drawback of using a first-person narrative. Finally, since Avery is a crack shot, his sole visible talent, you can be sure that will come into play, which occasionally tips off where the narrative will go. That said, The Strangler Vine has much going for it, not least its resonance with current issues. The East India Company, as Carter shows, provides an early example of corporate governance and the abuses that entails. Substitute terrorist for bandit, and the novel also offers a nineteenth-century take on an up-to-the-minute controversy. Did bandits exist in India? Yes. Were they as widespread and dangerous as the company claimed, and did their presence justify its policies? Those are the questions, then and now.

https://novelhistorian.com/2015/12/14/killing-the-bogeyman-the-strangler-vine/

RICE LAKE TOWNSHIP, Minn. (AP) - Family members say the father and daughter who died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning and two siblings who were injured were living in a camper in St. Louis County. Rick Cozzi says his brother, Michael Mechley, did the best he could to get by and that his three children "were his universe." loading... The 39-year-old father and his 11-year-old daughter, Charlene, died in the 5th-wheel camper Wednesday in Rice Lake Township. Two other Mechley children, 15-year-old Karley and 14-year-old Noah, are being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning at Hennepin County Medical Center. Cozzi says his brother was divorced and the children lived with their dad during the winter and attended Duluth schools. Cozzi says his brother was a great father who was always willing to help family, friends or anyone.

https://wjon.com/victims-of-carbon-monoxide-lived-in-camper/

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“We do have 11 wins,” Coach Tom Coughlin, who congratulated his team on the division title before going over Sunday’s mistakes, said not to make too much out of one loss. Very Michael Salisburyesq. That's my QB... always cool headed when steering the ship. Omaha, Omaha! On the flip side...Jerry Jones calls out Marion Barber! Wow... Jones must have been fuming Sunday Night. Apparently, Jones said, "Barber could have taped and braced the toe well enough to allow him to play. ""He can play with that injured toe," Jones said. "He can play with the soreness and a combination of those things. I see nothing that led us to believe he couldn’t." Who wants to play for this ass? Or is Jones Right? I may be biased, but Jones is an ass. Are you kidding me? Where was this when Romo was out with the pinkie? Why now ...why Barber's pinkie toe? Is Jones a toe-phobe??? I do not remember any owners in the past calling out their players. Stay in the owners box you douche. Leave the coaching and motivating to the professionals on your team. You know... the puffy guy on the sideline with headphones on... The Big Blue Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. I wish I only had a picture for you... Well this is just as good!

http://www.bigbluedfw.com/2008/12/coach-coughlins-kinder-and-gentler-side.html

David Kuenzi majored in History and Political Science and graduated from UW in 1989. He was fortunate to be mentored by several UW history luminaries including David MacDonald, who helped foster for David an enduring fascination with Russia. He also had the good fortune of studying with Thomas Skidmore, Alfred Senn, Maurice Meisner, Melvin Croan (Political Science) and Edward Friedman (Political Science). Kuenzi went on to a career in finance, working in London, Moscow and New York City, before returning to Madison and founding Thun Financial Advisors. Thun Financial was sold in 2020 to Creative Planning, one of the largest independent wealth managers in the United States. Kuenzi now serves as the Director of International Wealth Management for Creative Planning, leading its international expansion.

https://history.wisc.edu/people/kuenzi-david/

We all part with a loved one at some point in life and paying tribute is an important part of processing your loss. This moment tends to be hard and unimaginable. After the send-off, life has to go on

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Instagram blocked in Russia completely: In Russia, the social network Instagram has been completely blocked, according to data from the GlobalCheck blocking monitoring service. The availability of the social network is 0%. Instagram began to be blocked on March 13, although Roskomnadzor promised to restrict access to the social network from 00:00 on March 14. Russian authorities decided to block Instagram for “posting information containing calls for violence against Russian citizens” after Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, changed its moderation policy. The company stopped removing threats and calls for violence against the Russian military in some countries, as well as death wishes for Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko. On March 11, the Prosecutor General’s Office filed a lawsuit demanding that Meta be recognized as an “extremist organization.” The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the company’s employees for public calls for extremist activities and assistance in terrorist activities (280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

https://www.earlyintime.com/2022/03/14/instagram-blocked-in-russia/

Hello and welcome to the first day of the course, where you are going to spend the week living with your spirit. Today is all about enlivening and rest; enlivening your spirit and then resting into it. So press play on the video below, or if your internet isn’t cooperating see the the written guide below. When you were born you were full of spirit, in fact you weren’t much else, but at some point you would have started putting your spirit away. Maybe the other kids said you couldn’t play with them, or you were told off for doing what came naturally, so you started to hide. Well we don’t want that anymore! And the first exercise is designed to enliven your spirit and give you something to rest into. The very first thing is to simply set up a practice of allowing yourself to receive. There can be a strong tendency for our energy to go outwards, we are constantly urged to engage with something or someone outside of ourselves. Our arms are part of the heart chakra’s circuit, and without even realising it, energy often flows out of us through our hands. So we’re going to use that same system to bring ourselves in. Start by rubbing your hands together (really go for it!) to generate some energy, then bring your hands together and see if you can feel that energy you’ve just created. Next, allow the energy to move your hands far apart until your arms are stretched out. Let the energy flow out through our hands, as if we were healing the air. Just let it flow naturally out of you. Now, let’s reverse the direction of the flow, as if the traffic changed direction, and allow yourself to come home, back into you and your heart. All the energy that was going out is now coming back into you. Breathe it downwards to your belly and then your feet. Bask in your own essense as if instead of sunbathing, you were YOU-bathing. Breath yourself in, allowing this energy to enter through your skin, and to enliven every cell in your body. For today, think of your body as the temple for your spirit. Long ago we used to think of the body as being sacred, but we forget. Today let’s remember. When you feel like you have brought in as much self as you want, when you feel full, begin to allow your spirit to be around you. You don’t need to keep it locked up inside your heart out of fear that it will be denied or rejected in the world. Even if your connection to your spirit isn’t strong, your spirit is super strong. For today, allow yourself to sit within the cosy armchair of your spirit, let it be around your body as well as inside it. It wants nothing more than to live life with you, in whatever capacity best suits you. It is not your spirit that would ever criticize or berate you. It doesn’t in anyway think that you’re not enough. Today, if you have any undermining thoughts, remind yourself that they don’t come from your spirit. The other tool I’d like to offer you for today, is simply to look into your own eyes for half a minute. Just look and see what you feel. Do you feel yourself looking back? What do you find is looking through your eyes? This is a powerful tool, and it’s amazing how little we actually look in our eyes. We can get to know someone else by looking in their eyes, so let’s take some time to look into our own and see what we find. Do these exercises as often as you’d like throughout the day, they shouldn’t take more than 30-60 seconds each so use them as much as you’d like.

https://avantishivpuri.com/foundation-course/day1-x4hby3eyxo0c/

Coming up soon at CityEdge, we have Vision Sunday! This is a phenomenal day where we will hear vision for the year of 2020 from our lead pastors! We are so looking forward to this!

https://empowerchurch.org.au/events/vision-sunday-2020/

The statue of Al Boscov is adorned with flowers from mourners on Saturday at Al Boscov Plaza in Reading. (CHRIS SHIPLEY / THE MORNING CALL) Flowers and other memorials were placed at Al Boscov's statue at Al Boscov Square in Reading following the death of the founder of Boscov's department store.

https://www.mcall.com/business/mc-al-boscovs-statue-20170211-photogallery.html

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A treadmill is a type of exercise machine that assists in providing cardiovascular and strength training exercises. Walking and running on a treadmill is an easy way to get in shape or maintain one’s fitness level. Treadmills usually include settings for different speeds, inclines, and programs such as intervals, tempo runs, and heart rate control. A study found that when combined with dieting and exercise, these machines help people to lose weight. The benefits of using a treadmill are many. For one, there is the convenience factor. Treadmills are available in many varying shapes and sizes to fit any home or office space. They can be used for walking, running, incline walking, interval training, and even programs for specific fitness levels like weight loss or endurance training. There's also the affordability factor.

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Stuart and his brother planned a little surprise dinner for them. We had to hit the road early this morning so we could get to Baton Rouge in time for the surprise. Stuart made these two incredible framed collages that read "50". He made it out of 50 pictures from his parents' earlier years up to today. He spent a lot of time on them and it really shows. It was truly a labor of love. Stuart's brother did most of the planning in Baton Rouge. He reserved a private room at Juban's for the dinner. Juban's is special to us because we had our wedding rehearsal dinner there as well as a surprise one year anniversary dinner there. Steve told his parents to meet them there for dinner but they didn't know that we were driving in for the occasion. We all waited quietly in our private room for the guests of honor to arrive....well as quietly as we could with four young children who were so excited they were about to burst! Finally, they walked through the door....SURPRISE! Nicholas couldn't wait to give hugs! Donna had set up Alyssa's speaking device with a recording of Jessica saying "Happy Anniversary" which would play anytime Alyssa hit the button. The lovely couple got a personalized menu congratulating their anniversary. Wine and flowers. I was able to find a copy of the couple's wedding announcement and found out the type of flowers in the wedding bouquet and Steve had a similar arrangement ordered for the table. The food at Juban's is just incredible. Just take a look at this Halleluah Crab standing at attention. It was so flavorful and delicious! Happy 50th Anniversary! We all headed back to Stuart's parents' house. They graciously invited us to stay with them even though our stay was completely unannounced. We did make the offer a little more enjoyable with a joint present of a new TV!

http://www.savorthedays.com/2011/04/50th-anniversary.html

In recent years, resin 3D printing has become much more affordable, while still maintaining the superiority over FFF/FDM solutions in providing more detailed results. Of course, the majority of SLA machines are still expensive, even though there are quite a few devices in a budget price range. But where the SLA/LCD devices shine is a higher price point with the machines that are aimed at the professional, industrial, and commercial purposes. The Uniz Slash 2 is one of these 3D printers, being another impressive addition to the Slash series of LCD 3D printers from Uniz. Source: Overview Source: The Uniz Slash 2 is an upgraded version of the largely popular Slash 3D printer. This version addresses the shortcomings of its predecessor, improves its strong points, and has some interesting additions to boast. It’s a high-speed device that utilizes the LCD printing technology. The main advantage of the Slash 2 is the fact that it implements a sophisticated liquid cooling system. Combined with the intelligent heat management, this allows the Slash 2 to reach incredibly fast curing times and extremely high printing speeds. The quality and speed can be balanced: a user has an option to choose between high and low resolution, with the latter being faster to cure. Source: The Slash 2 features an engineering-grade LCD screen with the 4K resolution, and a dedicated light array provides a uniform exposure that is even across the whole print platform. In addition, the machine boasts high accuracy, offering industrial-grade precision while maintaining an affordable price. This makes it ideal for digital dentistry, jewelry design, and rapid manufacturing. Source: @coutelas_v / Another great feature is a very durable resin tank that is able to withstand up to 1000 hours of printing according to the manufacturer. The automatic level control is supported to make the process easier. It is also worth mentioning that the machine has a rather large-sized build volume, which lets you produce high-quality medium-sized parts as well as multiple batches of the same item. Source: @coutelas_v / Specifications What’s in the box The device comes completely assembled. Apart from the printer itself, the package contains: USB cable Metal spatula 5 cardboard cards Sandpaper Spare air pump (with mounting and a hose) 1.5 L of Uniz zABS proprietary resin Empty bottle Wrench Screwdriver Allen key Awl For some items, package content may change. In case of any questions, please get in touch. Preparation and Software The printer can be controlled through the proprietary Uniz Desktop software. It requires USB-tethering for operating. Various file formats are supported, including heavy files that are larger than 1 GB. Moreover, multiple printers can be managed simultaneously. Source: There’s also a mobile app available for Android and iOS enabling a full remote control over the machine. You can monitor, pause or cancel the printing process anytime, anywhere with the help of your mobile device. Source: The Desktop software offers essentially a combination of slicing and printing control features. To download it, go to the ‘Software’ tab on the official website and download a version for macOS or Windows. Source: Once it’s done, you can connect your PC directly to the Slash 2 and select the printer in a dropdown list of available models in the top right corner of the program. The next step would be to set up the Wi-Fi connection. Source: After that, you need to level the platform. To do so, click the ‘Reset Z-axis Zero Position’ in the control sidebar. Source: Confirm that you want to go through the calibration process. Source: Then, you will have to manually push down the platform to the LCD screen and press ‘Yes’. Source: The machine will calibrate the platform automatically. You can test how effective it was by clicking on the ‘Show Logo’ button and confirming that the logo is properly displayed on the LCD. Source: The next step would be to fill up the resin tank and prepare a model for printing. The software offers a powerful slicing functionality, so from now on it all depends on the skills of the user. Source: The program offers a variety of standard functions. It allows moving, rotating, resizing models, and setting up supports. For the latter, you can adjust thickness, distance between bars, maximum overhang angle, and so on. Source: You can also change the layer height and exposure time for different sections similar to working with the Simplify3D. Source: Applications Dentistry The Uniz Slash 2 is primarily used in dentistry. For example, this master model was printed with the proprietary zDental Model Sand resin from Uniz. Source: The following example further shows the precision of complex objects: the teeth perfectly fit the designated holes. Source: The machine can easily handle prosthesis with complex structure, thin walls, and elements requiring supports. Source: Jewelry One of the several spheres of application that will definitely benefit from the precision of the Uniz Slash 2 model is jewelry making. The machine is capable of incredible quality when it comes to intricate design and complex geometrical forms. Source: The surfaces of this ring look great. Source: Due to the large build volume, users can make identical accessories in handy batches, just like with this ring here. Source: You can use any material for jewelry manufacturing, even dental resins will provide decent quality printouts. The following rings are a vivid example. Source: Source: Custom manufacturing The Uniz Slash 2 is an ideal solution for creative printing. Enthusiasts will appreciate its level of detail when making figurines, customized parts, and decorative objects. Source: Take a look at the skin texture reproduced by the printer. Source: The impressive print speed will be useful for small-scale manufacture in various spheres. Source: For example, the vase below (15 cm) was printed in just 2 hours and 20 minutes. The Slash 2 is a find for quick printing of technical models that do not require perfect looks. Source: Additionally, the device is capable of printing delicate models without supports, which will provide smooth surfaces and reduce the production time. Source: Pros and Cons Pros Relatively affordable Metal casing Large build volume Easy to get ready for the first print Extremely fast Offers high accuracy and industrial-grade precision The resolution is very high thanks to the 4K LCD screen Automatic leveling Designed with durability and longevity in mind: the LCD screen and resin tank can withstand thousands of hours of work Powerful and intuitive software; cloud capabilities and a mobile app are also provided Cons While being affordable for its class, still can be very expensive for some hobbyists Doesn’t support UDP No screen to control the device without the PC / mobile connection Conclusion The Slash 2 from Uniz is a very powerful successor to the famous original Slash. It still maintains the design and basic functionality of the original, while improving the quality and speed of printing thanks to a high-tech cooling solution. The build volume has grown significantly and the machine is now very easy to use. The Uniz Slash 2 is also quite affordable, while still providing highly accurate prints with the industrial level of quality.

https://top3dshop.com/blog/uniz-slash-2-3d-printer-review

On almost every international show they ride, Gerrit Veenstra (NED) and Pleasure Toltien (For Pleasure) will win a class. Just like today, Friday, in the 1.20m […]

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Born in Leningrad in 1967. Graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatoire in 1990. With the Mariinsky Theatre since 1999. Has rehearsed Lucia de Lammermoor, Das Rheingold, Lohengren and other. She has taken part in the International festivals of chamber music in Russia and abroad.

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Shame! The ethics of the nation deifies girls and ravage its body in the dark. In my land vicious male free to assault girls’ modesty but the girls are compelled to put on the veil of propriety. When India will ensure safety for its daughters? Another teenage girl was gang raped by upper cast men of her village Hathras, UP. The rapists severely injured her spinal cord and cut her tongue in a warning to keep silent. Finally after fortnight she has succumbed to her injury. Police cremated her body without consent of her family in the dark. Are we living in a benighted country? Just two months ago in August a 13 year minor girl was raped and brutally murdered for defecating on the farmland in UP, Kheri District. Rape in India is surging and is being done with impunity. It seems that Law and Orders are black and bold on the papers only, in reality ugly power of vice still rules flaunting in the face of women. We are living in a culture where male brutes are bay for woman’s blood inflicting ignominy terrifying the society to stay blind. Beside rape women are at the receiving end of numerous other cruelties such as domestic violence, dowry, abuse by partner, sexual harassment, gender based violence and list just goes on. Women’s body are mint to be stripped, raped, roughed, hurt and dishonored into any degree and since history we are seasoned to complicit these high index crimes. There are deep malfunctioning and manipulations in the ranks and files. There is kowtowing of power. Now it has become imperative to improve our policing. Police and judiciary should abide the law by keeping it’s accountability straight and high. The response from the police should be empathetic to prevent the victims from being shy out and give them a more combustive atmosphere to articulate their violence without fear. A bold internalized ‘aversion’ from the core of the collective souls of humans can only bring some solution this ghastly crime. The culprits should punish without any leniency. Anti-Rape law should be more stringent to create a fear in offenders. An unimaginable fear for conviction can only check this crime.

http://www.tinysworld.com/uncategorized/in-the-eerie-silence-of-night-her-grief-cremated-into-ashes/

This attractive nesting doll is imported directly from Russia with love. Open it up and it reveals a set of smaller dolls inside with scenes from the famous fairy tale Cinderella. Makes a great gift or home decoration.

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Socotra is the largest and most easterly island of an archipelago-including the Brothers (Abd al Kuri, al Ikhwan and Darsa)-administered by Yemen and located in the Indian Ocean c.190 km east of the horn of Africa and 480 km off the Arabian coast. An undulating limestone plateau (at 300-700 m) extends across much of the island, being interrupted in the north-east by the Hajhir (or Hagghier) massif which reaches 1,519 m. Since the pioneering expeditions of the 1880s, Socotra has been renowned for botanical curiosities (e.g. the endemic tree Dracaena cinnabari whose resin, 'dragon's blood', has been used for dyeing since ancient times), with 28-32% of plant species being endemic (WWF/IUCN 1994). Socotra's location subjects it to a wet-dry climatic regime, and the mountains attract sufficient precipitation for the growth of evergreen bushes and scrub. The coastal plains are vegetated with semi-desert dwarf shrubs and grasses, developing into a more diverse, deciduous shrubland on the lower mountain slopes, on the limestone plateau and on escarpments. Some places are dominated by succulent trees (such as cucumber tree Dendrosicyos socotranus, the only arborescent species in the family Cucurbitaceae). Western areas are very arid. There have been few ornithological studies on Socotra (Porter and Martins 1996), and some areas, especially those in the west, remain unexplored (Porter and Stone 1996). Restricted-range species There is some evidence that different vegetation types influence the distribution of restricted-range species on the island. Cisticola haesitatus, for example, favours scrub at lower altitudes, while Onychognathus frater prefers areas with wild fruit, and Emberiza socotrana, the rarest of the endemic bird species, is apparently confined to high plateaus (Al Sagheir and Porter 1996). A further 11 subspecies are endemic to the island (Martins 1996). Species IUCN Category Socotra Warbler (Incana incana) LC Socotra Cisticola (Cisticola haesitatus) NT Socotra Starling (Onychognathus frater) LC Socotra Sunbird (Chalcomitra balfouri) LC (Passer insularis) NR Socotra Bunting (Emberiza socotrana) NT Important Bird Areas (IBAs) IBA Code Site Name Country Hadiboh estuaries of Hadiboh, Sheck and Sirhan (Socotra) Yemen Limestone plateau above Siko village, Socotra Yemen Neet, Socotra Yemen North slopes of the Haggeher Mountains (Socotra) Yemen Wadi Di Negehen (Socotra) Yemen Wadi Merkoh (Socotra) Yemen YE036 Jabal Ma'alah / Ma'alah Plateau, Socotra Yemen YE037 Ra's Hebaq, Socotra Yemen YE038 North coastal plain: airport to Di Selmeho / Ghubbah (Socotra) Yemen YE040 Shidahah, Socotra Yemen YE041 Wadi Ayhaft, Socotra Yemen YE043 Jabal Jaaf (Socotra) Yemen YE044 Rookib hills, Socotra Yemen YE045 Hamaderoh plateau and scarp, Socotra Yemen YE046 Shu'ub Coast / Coast of Bindar Di-Sha'b, Socotra Yemen YE047 Haggeher (Socotra) Yemen YE049 Di-Ishal foothills, Socotra Yemen YE050 Diksam (Socotra) Yemen YE051 Falang - Momi coast and cliffs (Socotra) Yemen YE052 Firmihin near Jabal Keseslah, Socotra Yemen YE053 Noged Plain, Socotra Yemen YE055 Abd al-Kuri (Socotra) Yemen Threat and conservation Much of the climax vegetation on Socotra has been destroyed through overgrazing (mainly by goats and, to a lesser extent, cattle) and by the cutting of wood for timber and fuel. Because wood-cutting is largely controlled sustainably by local people, the most important factor in the survival of the remaining native habitat is the density of livestock. The sinking of new wells and the construction of cisterns to hold rainwater is extending grazing areas and seasons, but drought, disease and the lack of supplementary fodder currently constrain flock sizes. There are, however, various development plans, including the building of roads and provision of port facilities, which, if implemented, could have serious environmental consequences (Evans 1994, WWF/IUCN 1994). Oil and gas exploration may also be a threat in the future (O. Al-Saghier verbally 1996). Three restricted-range species are judged to be threatened based upon their small populations, believed to number under 1,000 individuals. Habitat loss and degradation are the most likely causes for their rarity, although Emberiza socotrana may also be confined to slightly moister areas through competition with Cinnamon-breasted Bunting E. tahapisi which is widespread in the Afrotropical region. Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus is a common and widespread resident with a locally significant breeding population possibly exceeding 1,000 pairs, thus making Socotra the most important breeding area for the species in the Middle East (Evans 1994). Socotra Cormorant Phalacrocorax nigrogularis (a Near Threatened seabird endemic within the Arabian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden) occurs in small numbers as a non-breeding visitor on all islands in the Socotran archipelago. There are currently no protected areas on Socotra although some areas are believed to be managed for their traditional resources (e.g. for bee-keeping and grazing) and there is a proposal to declare the island a Biosphere Reserve. Evans (1994) lists 19 sites as Important Bird Areas, based upon standard criteria including the presence of threatened species, regionally threatened or declining species and concentrations in significant numbers of endemic or regional populations. A biodiversity survey of the Socotran archipelago started in 1997-a joint 3-year project run by the Environment Protection Council of Yemen, BirdLife International, the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh and the University of Aden-and will result in a detailed inventory of the birds and plants of the islands. This Darwin Initiative project will work collaboratively with a larger multidisciplinary GEF-funded conservation programme which is awaiting final approval. Recommended citation BirdLife International (2022) Endemic Bird Areas factsheet: Socotra. Downloaded from on 03/10/2022.

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