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Meirion Ginsberg was born in 1985 in North Wales and trained at Cardiff College of Art. He says of his work:
As a child, cartoons and comics became a drive for me to take drawing seriously. As well as this I was raised in a family of painters and musicians. Drawing became a priority which sometimes or most times became more important than friends, and from a young age I started to become fluent with mark making. In my teens the attraction of comics began to wear thin, partly because of ridiculous story lines that I never really was interested in.
Application and mark making became the interest or factors I was looking for in painting, learning a lot from 'The Great Artists' series, to which my father subscribed. Norman Rockwell and Frances Bacon became my favourite painters. Even today I use elements of these two artists, although my knowledge and influence has expanded from the days of finding these treasures.
Humour plays a big part in my work, but this seems to be mellowed by the intuitive construction of my paintings. I am a strong believer in improvisation and risk taking, which are two strong elements in my mind that strengthen my ideas and skill. In university I tried to move away from the traditional, but always seemed to come back to it in subtle ways. Versatility plays a big part in my work and hopefully will continue to do so".

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Date: 6th November 2013 – 21st December 2013
Time: Open Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Venue: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR (entrance in Exhibition Road).
A free exhibition marking the 175th anniversary of emancipation in the Caribbean
Windrush Foundation presents a story featuring riots, rebellions and revolutions in a free exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in Kensington, London.
Making Freedom (6 November 2013 – 21 December 2013) takes guests on a journey up to and beyond 1838, when nearly one million Africans were freed from enslavement in the Caribbean.
This is the first time that important collections from Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), the National Maritime Museums, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Archives, Anti-Slavery International and the Imperial War Museum have been brought together in an exhibition.
The exhibition will celebrate those resisted enslavement, those who fought to end it, and others who worked in Britain to improve social, economic and cultural conditions in the Caribbean.
Visitors will learn about the unrest – such as Jamaica's 1931 'Christmas Rebellion' – that ultimately led to emancipation, as well as the struggles for independence that ensued.
The exhibition features more than 80 images from the Society's Collections and includes a number of audio-visual experiences for visitors to delve deeper into individual stories.
Arthur Torrington CBE, Windrush Foundation Project Director, said: "The Exhibition breaks new grounds in the way the story of Emancipation is told, and it shows how Africans were the agents of their own liberation."
Members of London's diverse communities have participated in the design of Making Freedom, giving feedback on an earlier version of the exhibition.
Dr Rita Gardner, RGS-IBG Director, said: "The Society is delighted to share our geographical Caribbean Collections with partners led by Windrush Foundation. The fresh perspectives of London communities have brought a contemporary relevance to our historic items and this has been a real source of pleasure.


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A website is as essential to business as a phone or bank account, but a website just for the sake of it is not the answer. Following on from our recent Digital Week 2017 blog, we have another speaker from the week, Three's User Experience (UX) expert Cliona Browne, to share her tips on ensuring your website is up to its very important job.
1. Be clear on what you want your website to achieve.
Every business needs a website but not every business needs the same website. The first thing you need to know is what you want your website to achieve. Whether your website is already up and running or still an item on your to-do list, being clear on this is what will ensure everything else works as it should.
Are you marketing a new product? Are you entering an existing market with a new proposition? Will you be selling from the site using ecommerce or will your site simply be a "shop window" to encourage customers to contact you in other ways? Whichever is the case, it will have a significant effect on your website's content and the way it functions.
The easiest way to decide on the kind of website you need and what it should look like, is to write down your answers to the following questions:
- Who are my existing customers?
- Who are my competitors?
- Who are my target customers?
- What content and tone of voice should my site have, to (1) reach, (2) challenge and (3) attract the above?
You may already know these answers, but formalising them in writing will help to clarify your own thoughts, as well as give you a useful brief which you can pass on to whoever is designing and creating your website.
2. Responsive design is crucial.
Consumers are increasingly accessing the internet and doing their online shopping from mobile devices. Consumer and business customers' needs are alike. They are using your site from a smartphone on the train to work and from a laptop in the office. Your website design and functionality must work across all devices.
Since you can't produce a different website for every device, how can you make your website universally device-friendly? Ideally, you would ensure your website is designed to be device responsive. The next best solution, for those who already have a site and minimal budget or time to have it redesigned is to make some small but significant changes. Limit the home page to provide just enough information to encourage deeper access to the site, but not so much that small-screen users are overwhelmed. Then, from the home page, access to more detailed content should be available with just one or two clicks. Too many links and too much effort provide too many opportunities for visitors to get lost, get bored or simply run out of time.
The trend toward scrolling down through long pages does make it easier to provide information. Long pages can be full of information without requiring any clicks through to other pages, as long as they are broken up into bite-size chunks with headings, images and different text sizes. The more inviting it looks and the easier it is to skim read, the longer people will dwell on the site and the more effectively you can drive them to take whatever next action you require.
3. Familiarise yourself with competitor websites.
Getting to know your competitors' websites will help you avoid the same mistakes they're making, learn from what they do right and ensure your site offers visitors a better experience.
4. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) cannot be overlooked.
SEO is possibly the most crucial element of creating and maintaining your website. A cliché in business used to be: "build it and they will come"; well that's definitely not the case with websites. You need to optimise your site so it can be indexed by search engines, so your customers can find you online.
Without effective SEO, your website will be as effective as a poster hung in a cupboard. It may be brilliant, but no one will see it.
5. Accept that the work never ends.
The content of your site will depend on your product or service and how much or how little you want to tell people about it. The look and feel of your site – including the words and graphics – should be a continuation of your other business communications. This way, your website is another tool to help build your brand. After your site is designed, built and launched (after testing it thoroughly for legibility and functionality on every conceivable device), the job isn't done. Unlike print material a website is never finished and can always be improved. With the continual learnings you can gain from Google Analytics, you can see what elements are not working and why, and understand how to change them. Continually improving your site has the added benefit of keeping it active, which will prevent it being downgraded by search engines.
After all the hard work you put in, you want your website to gather visits, not dust.
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30 August 2014
Michelle Bachelet, the president of Chile, together with Jean-Paul Luksic, chairman of Antofagasta Minerals SA ("AMSA") and Mike Garland, CEO of Pattern Energy Group Inc officially opened operations at the 115 MW El Arrayán Wind facility in a grand opening ceremony at the project site, which is located 400 km north of Santiago on the coast of Chile.
The El Arrayán Wind facility, which completed construction in June, will generate clean, renewable power equal to the needs of approximately 200,000 Chilean homes each year, according to the World Bank. The facility is utilizing 50 Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbines, which Pattern Energy is also using at other wind projects in Canada and the United States. El Arrayán Wind connects to the Sistema Interconectado Central's 220kV transmission system. The facility is located on approximately 15,320 acres of coastal land on a long-term lease with a single landowner.
Pattern Energy owns 70% of the El Arrayán Wind facility, which it also operates. AMSA owns the remaining 30% minority stake. The project sells approximately 70% of its output to Minera Los Pelambres through a long-term fixed-for-floating hedge. The facility sells its remaining output into the Chilean spot market at the prevailing market price at the time of sale. In addition to its minority interest in the facility, AMSA is the controlling party of Minera Los Pelambres.
"This project is important for our present and future energy needs, President Bachelet said. "El Arrayán is the biggest wind farm in Chile, and we are pleased at what we can achieve when we use the natural resources the earth has to offer. This project is another step toward meeting our energy agenda objectives." 1
Jean-Paul Luksic, Chairman of Antofagasta Minerals SA, added: "Through this partnership, we have combined our financial and management skills to be part of the solution to one of the major challenges facing our country and the mining industry, which is the generation of clean energy sources."
Compared to generation from a coal-fired power plant, the electricity produced annually by El Arrayán Wind will offset more than 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent to the annual carbon footprint of an estimated 70,000 Chileans, and will conserve enough water to meet the needs of more than 11,000 Chileans, according to statistics from the International Energy Agency, the World Bank and the US Energy Information Administration.
Mike Garland, CEO of Pattern Energy, described Chile as "a great market" because of the President's strong support for renewable energy policies, the country's strong, stable economy and excellent natural wind resources, which can supply domestic energy to the country. "We are also especially pleased to be here with our strong partner AMSA, which is demonstrating to the world that a global mining company can be a leader in clean, domestic energy."
Approximately 200 jobs were created during construction of the El Arrayán Wind facility. In addition, 15 ongoing permanent positions were created. The project was constructed by Skanska Chile SA, a subsidiary of Skanska AB and one of the leading wind-focused construction firms in Chile.
1. Chile's goal is to have 45% of its energy come from clean energy resources by 2025, according to President Michelle Bachelet.
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Ms. Nora
English 10 – B-Block
Crucible Final Project
March 6, 2013
Lying to Live
Are any teenagers willing to speak out the truth to adults that is in charge of certain circumstance to sacrifice only themselves in order to save others life or lie to save their own life? Will I believe that most teenagers will save their own life rather than saving others, unless that people they are saving must be related to them or worth for them to save. It is because they may be scare of getting hurt or ruined their reputation after telling the truth. In The Crucible story, Arthur Miller describes how far humans will go to save themselves from punishments regardless of the consequences and become unstoppable.
Everything starts in Salem, a tiny Massachusetts village where a group of girls lead by Tituba dances in the forest naked and start the witchcraft. During the dance, there is a girl that went shocked, "My Betty not goin' die…" said Tituba. (Pg. 8) There is no point of worrying when you never do anything bad or things that cannot be seen by others. Well, after the parents found out, "What did you do with her in the forest?" said Paris to Abigail chasing for an answer. (Pg. 11) Parents always worry about their child even when they got a tiny cut. As a teenager they afraid of getting whipped, "Be whipped!" said Abigail to herself and getting afraid. (Pg. 19) Humans are meant to be scared of consequences when they have done something wrong and know that's wrong by themselves.
Now the girls are getting a huge pressure from the adults that are in charge to tell the truth about whatever they do in the forest. Hale asks Abigail, "Did you call the Devil last night?" pressuring her to answer a question that she have no idea on. (Pg. 42) Adults often ask questions that teenagers have no idea on and they want answers that do not make sense, and not the truth that he/she give. So Abigail give Hale the answer he wanted, "I never called him. Tituba, Tituba…" and the target switched from her to Tituba. (Pg. 42) In the whole world nobody is trust worthy unless they are your family members, because everyone wants to destroy your successful path with their dirty mind. Abigail successfully put all danger on Tituba, "I should like to speak with Tituba." (Pg. 42) When there is an adult that do not search for any solid evidence and just believe when everyone says, you can


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Winter is the season for soup and it's here already! During the colder months, warming meals are our ultimate go-tos. With winter just upon us, we've rounded up the best recipes for the colder months that'll keep you feeling cosy.
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Beef Stroganoff
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Festive Sage & Onion Pasta Bake
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Berkshire Adventure Race
Course Conditions
Information about the course area and trail conditions for the 2019 Berkshire Adventure Race.
General Notes
Although it's forecast to be dry and warm on race day, some of the trails in the woods where the ground is shaded from the sun may still be damp / wet in places.
On the whole the ground is firm (and is expected to remain so), however the surface of some of the smaller trails quickly become slippery when wet.
Watch out, slow down and give way to other people and animals. Parts of the course area are popular with walkers, cyclists and horse riders so expect some of the trails to be busy with other members of the public out and about. A bike bell is strongly recommended so you can warn others of your approach.
There are also a few fields with livestock in them. Please make sure gates are both shut and properly fastened behind you, so animals do not escape from where they are supposed to be.
The vast majority of the trails are clear but vegetation does encroach on one or two of the lesser used trails. We didn't encounter anything that was very overgrown / impassable when we did the final recce last week but we did encounter the odd stray stinging nettle so you may wish to wear long socks or carry leg protection with you just in case.
Trail Run
The trail run takes place on a whole range of different surfaces, including roads and pavements, gravel and dirt tracks, bare earth and muddy paths, grassy fields and wild meadows of long grass.
You will be in woods or on tree-lined tracks for a significant proportion of the trail run which will give some protection from the sun. However, there are also parts of the course where you will be in open fields that offer little in the way of shade, so make sure you have adequate protection and carry sufficient water with you.
When on roads, you should use pavements if present and if not, you should run single file, keep in to the side and face the on coming traffic.
When off road you must stick to public rights of way and other permitted routes at all times (see key on course map for details). The Trail Run is exactly that - a run on TRAILS. And whilst you don't necessarily have to run - you can trek if you want to - you do have to stay on the trails, including when on open access land. This is very important to avoid damage to sensitive habitats and protected species within the course area.
The paths are generally well kept where they cross agricultural land and well signed everywhere else so keep an eye out for waymarkers and fingerposts to keep you on the right track, though in a couple of places you have to look carefully to see these as they have been all but consumed by the vegetation. Also keep an eye out for other temporary notices and follow them where applicable.
Some of the public footpaths go through church grounds and graveyards. Please be courteous and respectful if you choose to use these routes.
Take care when crossing stiles and when on board walks. Many are in a poor state of repair with lots missing / rotten boards, and nearly all are slippery when damp / wet.
Mountain Biking
Bikes are only allowed on roads, byways, and bridleways. Taking your bike on footpaths, or any other unmarked trail is against the law and is therefore strictly forbidden - there are no excuses - pay attention to the information on the map and the signs on the ground. Make sure you know the difference between footpaths and bridleways. Look out for fingerposts and waymarker posts to keep you on the right track.
The majority of the mountain biking is on a combination of minor roads and gravel tracks that provide good off-road riding in all weather. Many of the dirt tracks are byways and whilst they tend to have a firm base, off road vehicles have made them uneven and rutted in places which results in large puddles accummulating along them after heavy rain.
The bridleways vary signifcantly. Those that follow tracks (vehicle / forest tracks) tend to be similar to the aforementioned byways whilst those that don't can be harder work and slower going. Generally, the wooded sections tend to be the roughest what with tree roots and slippery surfaces where the ground is wet (and the odd fallen tree), and hard-baked uneven mud where the ground is dry.
Cyclists are required by law to give way to walkers and horse riders on bridleways. Please make sure you do this and that you slow down / stop when passing horse riders.
When on roads, always cycle single file (apart from being considerate to others, it's more efficient) and keep into the left-hand side so that vehicles can pass when it's safe for them to do so. Some of the roads are rat-runs and others are narrow - moderate your speed accordingly and take extra care at sharp bends / busy road junctions.
The kayaking takes place on a stretch of moving water - it may not be moving much but it is noticeable when you come to paddle against it!
Parts of the waterway are open and offer little protection from the elements. These sections are particularly susceptible to the wind which often combines with the gentle flow of the water making it twice as difficult to paddle upstream.
Access to the water is via a mooring platform on the side of waterway. It's quite a step down onto the water, so best to put the kayak on the water first, then sit on the edge of the bank with your feet on the kayak and gently swing your bottom round and down onto the kayak.
You shouldn't need to paddle under this low bridge but you may need to watch your head (and paddle blades) if you venture beyond this swing bridge - there should be plenty of room to safely glide underneath it but if you do need to duck your head make sure you lean back (do not duck your head forward).
Look out for and keep well away from all weirs and sluices - one weir and set of sluices is under this footbridge (in the distance) - when passing, stay on the other side of the channel to avoid getting dragged in. Follow the navigational signs for all craft along the channels which bypass the weirs.
Access to the kayak transition by vehicle is strictly prohibited. Any spectators wishing to see the kayaking should park at the event base and walk the short distance to the waterway. The kayak transition will get very busy at times so spectators are kindly asked to keep well out of the way of participants getting on and off the water.
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Posted July 30, 2014
So, yesterday I finished Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle. The only Ultima games left for me to play are Ultima VIII: Pagan and Ultima IX: Ascension, Ultima Underworld I and II and the Worlds of Ultima games. But I've heard so many people complain about those games (Pagan and Ascension) and how they lack a true Ultima feel, not to mention that they are plagued by numerous bugs. I love the Ultima series for its epic scope. Since joining GOG.com I've bought quite a few games frome their RPG catalogue which is superb and I hope keeps getting better. I have also completed the Baldur's Gate series (did all the sidequests and expansions) and the Icewind Dale series. I played Ultima because I was curious since I heard it mentioned several times and started all the way from Ultima I: The Age of Darkness. Is it worth it playing these games just to say I've completed the series? Do they have redeeming qualities in your view or would you switch to another series like Might and Magic (which I also bought here but I've never played it)? I have so many games I want to try and several on the wishlist, but I want people's opinions of their experience with these two games.


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The essentials or fundamentals of all religions are the same. Only non-essentials differ. 'The Noble Eightfold Path' corresponds to 'The Sermon on the Mount' of Lord Jesus, and to the practice of sadacara (right conduct) of the Hindus. Every religion shows the correct path to God-realisation.
Every religion emphatically declares: "One can attain eternal bliss, immortality (God-realisation). To do this one must speak the truth, observe purity or self-restraint, love others, and practise concentration and meditation."
An intolerant man cannot attain God-realisation. As his intellect becomes clouded on account of intolerance, he cannot grasp the truth. All prophets are the messengers of God. They are great yogis who have divine intuitive perception of God. Their words are infallible and sacred.
Had it not been for these prophets and their writings, there would be no hope for the salvation and betterment of man. Each prophet helped mankind by the dissemination of knowledge and the founding of the religion which would be most suited to the people amongst whom they flourished. Glory to these prophets and their writings. May their blessings be upon you all!
Beloved Friends! Behold the unity or oneness of all religions. He who knows the truth, who has grasped the essence of all religions, will never again enter into heated debates.
Realise your identity and intimate relationship with all beings – with ants and dogs, with elephants and tigers, with Muslims and Jews, with Hindus and Christians. There is only a degree of difference in manifestation or expression. All forms belong to God or Saguna Brahman.
May you all live happily, with one heart! May you all understand the essential unity of all religions! May the blessings of all the founders of all the religions be upon you! May you all attain God-realisation in this very life!


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Michael Gove's school reforms received another body blow this week, with leading academics from the University of Oxford countering key points underlying the education secretary's sweeping overhaul of GCSEs.
The broadside against the case for change was made in an analysis of research evidence, which casts doubt on ministers' assertions that GCSEs have been "dumbed down", that England is underperforming on international measures and that the reformed GCSEs will improve standards.
The Oxford criticism is the latest high-profile challenge to Mr Gove's controversial reforms. Last month, 100 education academics warned that his national curriculum changes would damage standards by promoting "rote learning without understanding" but were dismissed by the education secretary as "bad academia".
This week, heads' leaders called on ministers to introduce policies that were based on research evidence rather than their own personal beliefs.
In February, when introducing plans for tougher new GCSEs from 2015, Mr Gove said: "These proposals will, I believe, achieve a swift and significant rise in standards, right across the country."
But in their report the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment academics caution: "Raising the level of demand in examinations will not in itself raise standards of achievement."
Their study also calls into question many of the claims made about existing GCSEs, stating that questions have not become easier.
In September, the original consultation on changing the exams said the plan was "to restore rigour and confidence to our examination system at age 16, which has been undermined by years of continued grade inflation".
Mr Gove said in the same month that the reforms were needed to tackle "dumbing down" in GCSEs. But the Oxford researchers conclude: "Evidence does not point to a general pattern of decline in cognitive demand of examination questions."
They found that evidence for grade inflation was "mixed" and could be caused by "legitimate" factors such as better teaching and greater student effort, as well as teaching to the test and falling exam standards.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "I think we are seeing policy that is based on what ministers believe is right, rather than what the evidence says."
Mr Gove has also used England's relative global position to justify the changes, stating that: "while (GCSE) pass rates have soared we have fallen down the international education league tables".
But the Oxford research paper paints a different picture, noting that "international test scores for England show no decline" and that the country's Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) scores are generally close to average, matching its "average level of spending on education".
The academics add that England's scores on the four-yearly Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (Timss) showed "no decline" between 1995 and 2011, and that the latest study places it in the top 10 countries for maths.
Mr Gove's clashes with academia go back as far as last summer when three of the four academic experts he appointed to advise the national curriculum review publicly criticised the way the government was handling it. This week it emerged that the expert panel, whose views were largely rejected, cost taxpayers #163;287,619.
The education secretary has said that GCSEs need reforming to "raise aspirations". But the Oxford academics write that "most young people in England have high aspirations". They add that the proposed changes to GCSEs are "unlikely" to improve aspiration because they will raise demand, reduce resits and lead to "fewer routes to success".
The academics also dismissed claims that breaking down GCSEs into modules had made exams easier. Research showed that end-of-course exams led to a "narrowing of the curriculum" and rote learning, they added.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "It is no good standing still while others race ahead ... There is a problem if grades rise year after year ... yet employers and universities say school-leavers are poorly prepared for the real world.
"We are transforming our exam system to get rid of an over-reliance on modules and coursework so that pupils can develop an in-depth and lasting understanding."
Research evidence relating to proposals for reform of the GCSE by Jo-Anne Baird, Ayesha Ahmed, Therese Hopfenbeck, Carol Brown and Victoria Elliott is available at bit.ly11909RO
The number of state schools using IGCSEs has increased more than fivefold since 2011, figures released today show.
The sharp climb - from 166 schools in 2011 to 368 last year and 963 in 2013 - means that the state sector now accounts for nearly three-quarters of the 1,339 UK schools offering the Cambridge International Examinations version of the qualification.
Originally developed for the overseas market, the IGCSE has the linear, reduced coursework structure the government now intends to introduce for domestic GCSEs. Until 2012, the majority of UK schools using it were in the independent sector.
Sciences have experienced particularly large growth, with entries up from 3,797 last year to 8,689 in 2013, of which more than half - 4,716 - are in the state sector. The figures do not include IGCSEs offered by other boards such as Edexcel and AQA.
Source: Cambridge International Examinations.


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One hundred years ago, in 1918, the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants was founded to help new Americans in their journey to finding a home in Fairfield County. Next month, on Feb. 8, the Fairfield Museum & History Center will open a new exhibition, "An American Story: Finding Home in Fairfield County," which honors the 100th anniversary of CIRI, highlights the history of immigration and refugees in Fairfield County and features portraits of local immigrants and refugees who share how they have rebuilt their lives here.
CIRI is a statewide nonprofit organization that assists refugees and immigrants resolve legal, economic, linguistic and social barriers so they become self-sufficient, integrated, and contributing members of the community. CIRI achieves this mission through legal, social and educational programming and by promoting cross cultural understanding and decent treatment for all. Each year, CIRI assists close to 5,000 individuals from its offices in Bridgeport, Stamford and Hartford, providing transformative services for refugees, immigrants, survivors of torture, and survivors of human trafficking.
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The topic of the exhibition, "An American Story: Finding Home in Fairfield," is timely, as the world is living in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II. According to the United Nations' high commissioner for refugees, there are 22.5 million refugees in the world today. More than half of all refugees worldwide come from just three countries: Syria, Afghanistan and South Sudan. More than half the population of Syria is displaced by the country's ongoing conflict.
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"An American Story: Finding Home in Fairfield County" runs from Feb. 8 through July 23, and begins with an opening reception on Feb. 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Fairfield Museum, 370 Beach Road. It will feature remarks by Fairfield resident and political consultant and international development activist Jack Leslie on the state of immigration and refugees in the U.S., plus wine and international hors d'oeuvres.
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- This article is about the anime episode titled "Shizu". You may be looking for the character Shizue Izawa.
Shizu (シズ Shizu) is the sixth episode of the anime adaptation of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.
After being exiled from the nation of Dwargon, Rimuru and the dwarves return to the village of the goblins. After their arrival they a lot of goblins from other villages who Rimuru proceeds to name. A few days after a few adventurers arrive after being chased by fire ants and are saved by Rimuru, with one of the adventurers being another world traveler. While the other adventurers are having a meal he has a talk with her about their old home while riding on Ranga.
At the Kingdom of Blumund's Free Union HQ, Guild Master Fuze is debriefing three adventurers, Gido, Kaval, and Eren on the state of the surrounding area. Simply put, their intelligence combined with the trio's report has confirmed two things: The Eastern Empires are not moving on the surrounding areas, and the second is that Veldora has indeed disappeared from his prison.
With this in mind, Fuze gives the trio three days off before he sends them off on another investigation into the Great Forest of Jura. While the three are complaining they are approached by another adventurer named Shizu who asks to go with them on their mission as the forest is on her way anyway. Meanwhile, Rimuru has returned to the Goblin Village to discover a change that has occurred while he was gone.
Five Hundred Goblins have moved into the village seeking Rimuru's protection. After the Great Sage informs him that the goblins will be wiped out by other stronger monsters that are now moving on the village, the Ogres, the Orcs, and the Lizardmen, he decides to take them in and name them. After exhausting all of his energy and entering low activity mode for three days again Rimuru awakens to discover his village further changed.
Under Kaijin's instruction, the goblins are now learning how to make tools and weapons, while Garm has taught the goblins how to make proper clothing, Dord who is teaching them craftmanship and Myrd is guiding them in make buildings, with a dash of influence from Rimuru who lends his limited knowledge of the infrastructure of his homeworld.
Gobta, who was forgotten about in Dwargon, has freed himself by summoning his Tempest Wolf and returning to the village by themselves where they are now sharing their experiences. Rigurd has been made the official King of the Goblins with the former chief's of the absorbed villages his Goblin Lords. Speaking of Rigurd comes in with a report about a group of humans who have gotten themselves into bind nearby.
Kaval, Gido, Eren, and Shizu are being chased by a hoard of Giant Ants, several of which Shizu destroys with a Magic Sword and the last Rimuru dispatches with Black Lightning. Once they've introduced each other Rimuru realizes that Shizu is his 'destined' one he's meant to meet according to the Elven prophecy he received. Getting a better look at Shizu's companions Rimuru learns that they are the same trio that he met on his way out of Veldora's cave.
Rimuru breaks the tension using a Slime Joke he heard from a video game that elicits a laugh from Shizu. Once the Adventurers explain why they are there Rimuru confirms that the Freedom association shouldn't have any problem with them building a village there. Meeting with Shizu alone Rimuru confirms that she is from Japan and Shizu confirms the same as him.
The pair share their stories of how they came to be there: whereas Rimuru merely died and was reincarnated as a slime Shizu was summoned to this world by force on the tail end of the second world war. The individual who summoned her pulled her out of the firebombing of Japan so to cheer her up Rimuru shows her images of the rebuilt Japan and of it being put back together.
However, the mood is suddenly interrupted by some kind of painful injury on Shizu's part, while she seems fine Rimuru is called away to discuss the building of the village. Shizu meanwhile has a flashback of her summoning and of the man who did the deed leaving her body severely burned in the process, deducing that she had an affinity for fire Shizu's summoner forcibly bonded her to a fire spirit named Ifrit.
- Veldora Tempest (Mentioned)
- Orcs (Mentioned)
- Ogres (Mentioned)
- Lizardmen (Mentioned)
- Gobchi
- Gobte
- Gobzo
- Gobtsu
- Elves (Mentioned)
- Shizu
- Five Hundred Goblins/Five Hundred Hobgoblins/Goblinas
- Shizu's Summoner
- Ifrit
- Kingdom of Blumund
- Free Guild: Blumund Branch
- Goblin Village
- Great Forest of Jura
- Armed Nation Dwargon (Mentioned)
- Sealed Cave (Mentioned)
Adaptation Notes
This Episode Adapts the Following Material:
- Light Novel Volume 1: Empowerment
- The Girl and the Demon Lord
- Chapter 4: The Conqueror of Flames
- Manga Volume 2
- Chapter 7: The Hero-King's Judgement
- Chapter 8: A Familiar Scent
- Chapter 9: Demon of Flames
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The yearly highlight of the global aluminium industry is set to begin on Wednesday in Berlin: Metal Bulletin's 33rd International Aluminium Conference. The three-day meeting is typically considered the ground for the so-called "mating season," that time of the year when deals are struck between aluminium suppliers and their buyers for what sales of aluminium above LME premiums will be carried out over the course of the coming year.
The aluminium mating season is of singular importance to suppliers for obvious reasons, no less because it usually guarantees that downstream aluminium users – such as the countless small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) so important to the economies of many European countries – are readily supplied with the metal.
Which is why this year's Conference will have repercussions all along the aluminium value chain. While buyers and sellers will seek to lock their aluminium supplies for 2019, the event is overshadowed by the fact that United Company Rusal, the second largest aluminium producer in the world, will likely be relegated to the sidelines.
According to Reuters, the sanctions imposed on UC Rusal on 6 April will make customers reluctant to enter into agreements with the company, as no long-term supply agreement is possible considering the 23 October deadline set by the U.S. Treasury for unwinding all business with the company. With UC Rusal thus effectively barred from concluding year-long deals, over 20% of Europe's aluminium demand is facing virtual elimination from the market. Last year, UC Rusal supplied 6% of the world's primary aluminium and 7% of its alumina.
Replacing UC Rusal's aluminium is no easy task, especially since Europe is only now experiencing the tip of the sanctions iceberg. But should the punitive measures remain in place, metal supply lines will be severely disrupted as well due to UC Rusal's important production of alumina. At the core is the Aughinish alumina refinement plant in Ireland, where its 450 employees and 220 contractors produce over 1.9 million tonnes of the white powder every year. The plant is vital in shipping alumina to smelters across the European continent where it is turned into primary aluminium.
For example, Europe's largest primary aluminium smelter in Dunkirk, France uses alumina from Aughinish to produce its metal, which is subsequently sold to European downstream aluminium producers across the continent. However, when the sanctions finally bite full-force, Dunkirk will soon find itself without a reliable alumina source, and may very well be forced to shut down, at least temporarily. Such a scenario would come with an eye-watering price tag for its owner, Rio Tinto. The company would have to spend tens of millions of euros to turn the potlines back on, as well as lay off employees. A similar fate could await UC Rusal's only smelter on European soil, the Kubal plant in Sweden. Responsible for 500 jobs, the smelter is another key producer for the European market.
In addition, European costumers are heavily reliant on the affordable availability of aluminium to preserve razor-thin margins and remain competitive against Chinese rivals. A tightening supply of ever more expensive aluminium would therefore break this equilibrium and send European firms into a tailspin – along with the industries they serve.
And there's little optimism that Washington will relent on the sanctions prior to 23 October. Market watchers fear that the US may not be willing to make a decision ahead of the US elections, meaning that this uncertain situation for aluminium markets could prevail for the foreseeable future. In fact, the sanctions are almost guaranteed to remain in place at least until after the 6 November midterm elections in the US.
Being left out in the cold in Berlin this week is sufficiently devastating by itself. However, for UC Rusal, the body blow will be but one in a flurry of hits the firm is expecting in the near future. The company has already halted production at one of its smaller plants in Nadvoitsky, as the entirety of its production is typically destined for American buyers. The month of September could see more shut downs as contracts begin to expire and production is packed away in warehouses. More value-added activities will be ramped down this month owing to the company's inability to negotiate with certainty any deal beyond the October deadline.
The ripples, which were temporarily eased when the Treasury Department pushed back the deadline for third-party compliance from June to October, will likely get amplified in the coming weeks. In a report released last week penned by CRU and Fitch, aluminium prices are expected to climb to dizzying heights should no "acceptable resolution to Rusal sanctions is found". From a current price per metric ton of US$2,100, the report contemplates the same quantity of metal fetching a price of US$3,000 by 2021 should sanctions continue. Were Washington to relent on sanctions, the report foresees a price rise to only US$2,470.
However, just as the full repercussions of the UC Rusal sanctions have been merely postponed, so too are the probable outcomes should they not be lifted – nationalization, or sale to buyers from China. As removing UC Rusal from the control of its founder Oleg Deripaska has been at the top of Washington's list of demands, turning the entirety of the firm over to the Russian government may satisfy such a requirement. However, should the Kremlin turn it down, there's little doubt that Chinese buyers would pass up this golden opportunity.
For both European and United States interests, neither outcome is appealing. With relations chilling between Washington, Moscow and Beijing, losing UC Rusal to either party is likely to set the firm far beyond the reach of any law or regulation the Trump administration wishes to place upon it. And, as Chinese suppliers have shown few qualms about flooding Europe with below-cost aluminium, the continent's industrial base and its 250,000 workers employed in the aluminium sector have little positives to look forward to should this eventuality become reality.
The next several days are a make-or-break period for UC Rusal, its customers as well as European and global supply lines. Battered this year by sanctions and tariffs, aluminium markets are now staring down the abyss as analysts' worst fears are set to become reality in Berlin. As Eoin Dinsmore, a consultant at CRU Group in London, put it: "In the best-case scenario, we see a further extension for Rusal, but the U.S.-Russia relationship is highly political, so we could even see something even more severe that the market isn't expecting."


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I recently returned from a long Labor Day weekend in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and had a blast! After my afternoon flight and checking in to my downtown hotel, my first stop was the Fish Fry at Lakefront Brewery. It's a Milwaukee tradition! Of course I had to order some beer and cheese curds too. Afterwards, I enjoyed great tiki drinks and met an awesome couple at Foundation.
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Fall 2015 | Volume 20 | Issue 1
How to Maximize the Blessings and Minimize the Curses of Being a Psychology Major
Drew C. Appleby, PhD, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
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Psychology majors are both blessed and cursed. Their first blessing is their ability to prepare themselves for a remarkably wide variety of careers because the psychology curriculum provides so many of opportunities to develop the seven crucial sustainable job-related skills (i.e., communication, collaboration, critical thinking, professional, self-management, technological, and ethical reasoning) that employers value most during the hiring process (Appleby, 2014). These same seven skills also help new hires gain positive on-the-job outcomes (e.g., new responsibilities and promotions) and avoid negative on-the-job outcomes (e.g., reprimands, discipline, and termination; Gardner, 2007). This blessing is the reason why "students who complete a baccalaureate degree in psychology will have completed an almost ideal workforce preparation" (Halonen, 2013, para. 6).
Psychology majors' second blessing is the knowledge they acquire as they learn about the causes and consequences of human behaviors and mental processes, which are perhaps the most interesting, complex, and important topics addressed in higher education today. The captivating nature of psychological knowledge attracts huge numbers of students to the major, produces more than 100,000 bachelor's degrees in psychology each year (National Center for Education Statistics, 2012), and prepares psychology majors to enter a wide range of careers that deal with people and their interactions with each other and their environments (Appleby, 2015b).
Unfortunately, there are downsides (i.e., curses) to these blessings. The first curse is that the prospect of making a decision from such a massive set of career choices is a daunting task for many psychology majors. Unlike their education-, accounting-, and nursing-major peers who know exactly what they will become when they graduate (i.e., teachers, accountants, and nurses), only a small percentage of psychology majors continue their education, earn graduate degrees, and become psychologists (Hettich & Landrum, 2014). The rest enter the workforce immediately after graduation in diverse fields such as business, advertising, human resources, social services, health care, law enforcement, technology, education, fitness, recreation, and the military (Appleby, 2015b). The second curse is that psychology is a very popular major. This may initially appear to be a blessing, but it also means that a bachelor's degree in psychology places psychology majors at risk in the job market simply because so many are competing with one another for jobs. If psychology majors lack the ability to prove the possession of a strong set of job-related skills, they risk job dissatisfaction (Light, 2010), the disturbing belief that their jobs are not related to their major (Borden & Rajecki, 2000), and the very real possibility of having to accept a job that does not require a bachelor's degree (Rajecki & Borden, 2009), or—worse yet—that presidential candidate Jeb Bush was correct when he stated that psychology majors end up "working at Chick-fil-A" (Mills, 2015, para. 2).
The experience of teaching, advising, and mentoring thousands of psychology majors during my 40-year academic career has led me to conclude that this group is composed of two subgroups: occupationally savvy students and occupationally not-so-savvy students. These subgroups approach their professional futures in profoundly different ways.
Savvy students adopt a proactive, two-stage approach to their collegiate experience by deliberately using it as an opportunity to explore, identify, and refine their career goals. They create and follow a well-crafted plan to acquire the skills they will need—and the evidence that they have acquired them—to attain their post-baccalaureate aspirations. In other words, they intentionally use their undergraduate educations to decide who they want to become and then begin a systematic process to construct themselves in the image of that person.
On the other hand, not-so-savvy students live their undergraduate lives under the ill-fated illusion that they are entitled to, and will acquire, a good job after they graduate simply because they possess a college diploma certifying that they have accumulated enough credit hours to graduate. These are the students who take courses to "get them out of the way," avoid challenging classes in which they could strengthen important career-enhancing skills (e.g., writing, public speaking, and math), choose easy rather than skill-building electives, and spurn extracurricular opportunities because they believe them to be a waste of time, rather than opportunities to develop valuable collaboration and leadership skills. These unfortunate strategies, paired with the misconception that the work required as an undergraduate student cannot be applied to the "real world" of work, can produce negative consequences. Case in point is the extreme disgruntlement one of my former students described several years ago in The Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/28/ebay-diploma_n_593105.html) who, in debt and without a steady job, attempted to sell his diploma on eBay® for $36,000 plus $3.50 shipping and handling. Perhaps as a result of living out a self-fulfilling prophecy, he was quoted as saying, "Universities are handing out too many degrees that have zero real-world application."
So how can you maximize these blessings and minimize these curses? I recommend that you become a savvy psychology major (Appleby, 2002) by pledging to take an active approach to preparing for your life after graduation by doing your best to construct honest and accurate answers to the following four questions.
I have created a resource to help you answer these crucial questions that consists of more than 2,000 hotlinks you can use to explore 280 careers (organized into 15 broad occupational categories) that psychology majors can prepare to enter (Appleby, 2015b). Persons employed in 56 of these careers are psychologists who must hold the appropriate graduate degree. Persons employed in the remaining 224 psychology-related careers (that require the demonstration of psychological knowledge and skills, but which do not carry the title of psychologist) are divided almost equally into two categories: those that can be entered with a bachelor's degree and those that require a graduate degree. To access this resource, visit http://www.teachpsych.org/Resources/Documents/otrp/resources/appleby15students.docx
Once you have used this resource to construct the answers to these four questions, your next step should be to meet with your academic advisor. Explain your answers to these questions during this meeting, and then ask your advisor to help you create a plan for the remainder of your undergraduate education that will enable you to enroll in classes and engage in extracurricular activities (e.g., internships, service learning, and leadership opportunities) that will enable you to develop the skills and knowledge you will need to prepare yourself for the career you have chosen. The final step will depend upon if your career requires you to earn a degree beyond the bachelor's. If it does, seek the aid of a faculty mentor who can help you create and obtain the documents you will need to apply successfully to a graduate program (i.e., a curriculum vitae, a personal statement, and at least three strong letters of recommendation from appropriate people). If you can enter your chosen career with a bachelor's degree, visit your career center where a professional employment counselor can help you create the necessary documents and information you will need to be hired (i.e., a resumé, a cover letter, and effective answers to challenging interview questions). It is also prudent to create a Plan A and a Plan B—one requiring graduate school and one requiring a bachelor's degree—to make sure you have an alternate career strategy if your preferred plan does not produce your desired results. The approach to professional development for undergraduate psychology majors that I have presented here is based on Goal 5: Professional Development of the American Psychological Association's most recent set of Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major (APA, 2013). The authors of this goal clearly state that there are entirely too many "psychology graduates who are not only ill prepared for the work-place, but who also demonstrate significant naiveté about the work-place and entitled attitudes that do not breed work-place success" (p. 10). The solution provided by Goal 5's authors was to urge psychology programs to create and implement strategies to help their students develop "clearer linkages between baccalaureate preparation and the workplace" (p. 10). I hope you take full advantage of my resource to help yourself develop professionally. If you find it to be a useful tool in this endeavor, I also hope you will bring it to the attention of your faculty by directing them to An Introduction for Faculty to an Online Career-Exploration Resource for Psychology Majors (Appleby, 2015a), so they can become aware of how to utilize my resource when they teach and advise other psychology majors in your department. http://www.teachpsych.org/Resources/Documents/otrp/resources/appleby15faculty.docx In closing, I would like to share three very relevant quotations. The first is by Dr. Monique Valcour (2013) from an article she published in the Harvard Business Review titled "Craft a Sustainable Career."
The second quote is from Dr. David Shapiro, the coauthor of a soon-to-be published book titled Uncover Your Calling: Work Reimagined, who said,
The third quote is from Shapiro's coauthor, Richard Leider, who further clarified the concept of a calling by saying,
My fondest desire is for you to use my resource to identify, investigate, prepare for, obtain, and succeed in the kind of occupation that fits the description of both Valcour's "sustainable career" and Leider and Shapiro's "calling." The best way to do this is to make a firm commitment to engage in the following six-step professional development strategy.1
Begin this strategy now, not tomorrow, not at the end of the semester, and absolutely not until after you graduate. Just remember the 100,000 other psychology majors who will graduate with you. They all want good jobs too, but until they read this article, you will be the only one who has my resource and a six-step strategy to obtain a sustainable career.
American Psychological Association. (2013). APA guidelines for the undergraduate psychology major: Version 2.0. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/about/psymajor-guidelines.pdf
Appleby, D. C. (2002, Fall). The savvy psychology major. Eye on Psi Chi, 7(1), 29. Retrieved from http://www.psichi.org/?page=071EyeFall02cAppleby
Appleby, D. C. (2014). A skills-based academic advising strategy for job-seeking psychology majors. In R. L. Miller & J. G. Irons (Eds.), Academic advising: A handbook for advisors and students, Volume 1: Models, students, topics, and issues (pp. 143–156). Retrieved from http://www.teachpsych.org/Resources/Documents/ebooks/advising2014Vol1.pdf
Appleby, D. C. (2015a). An introduction for faculty to an online career-exploration resource for psychology majors. Society for the Teaching of Psychology's Office of Teaching Resources. Retrieved from http://www.teachpsych.org/Resources/Documents/otrp/resources/appleby15faculty.docx
Appleby, D. C. (2015b). An online career-exploration resource for psychology majors. Society for the Teaching of Psychology's Office of Teaching Resources. Retrieved from http://www.teachpsych.org/Resources/Documents/otrp/resources/appleby15students.docx
Borden, V. M. H., & Rajecki, D. W. (2000). First-year employment outcomes of psychology baccalaureates: Relatedness, preparedness, and prospects. Teaching of Psychology, 27, 164–168. doi:10.1207/S15328023TOP2703_01 Gardner, P. (2007). Moving up or moving out of the company? Factors that influence the promoting or firing of new college hires. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://ceri.msu.edu/publications/pdf/brief1-07.pdf
Halonen, J. S. (2013, Winter). The worthies vs. the great unwashed: Overcoming psychology's tier problem. Eye on Psi Chi, 17(2). Retrieved from http://www.psichi.org/?172EyeWin13aHalonen
Hettich, P. I., & Landrum, R. E. (2014). Your undergraduate degree in psychology: From college to career. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. Light, J. (2010, October 11). Psych majors aren't happy with options. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704011904575538561813341020.html
Mills, C. (2015, October 24). Jeb Bush: Psych majors work at Chick-fil-A. Washington Examiner. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jeb-bush-psych-majors-work-at-chick-fil-a/article/2574851
National Center for Education Statistics. (2012). Degrees in psychology conferred by degree-granting institutions, by level of degree and sex of student. Digest of Education Statistics 2012. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_361.asp
Newcott, B. (2015, September). Life reimagined: The tools to find the work you'll love. AARP Bulletin / Real Possibilities. Retrieved from http://www.aarp.org/work/working-after-retirement/info-2015/dream-job-tool-finder.html
Rajecki, D. W., & Borden, V. M. H. (2009). First-year employment outcomes of U.S. psychology graduates revisited: Need for a degree, salary, and relatedness to the major. Psychology of Learning and Teaching, 8, 23–29. doi:10.2304/plat.2009.8.2.23 Valcour, M. (2013, July 15). Craft a sustainable career. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2013/07/craft-a-sustainable-career/
Drew C. Applyby, PhD, received his BA from Simpson College in 1969 and his PhD from Iowa State University in 1972. He served as the Chair of the Marian University (IN) Psychology Department, the director of Undergraduate Studies in the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Psychology Department, and the Associate Dean of IUPUI's Honors College during his 40-year career. He has used the results of his research on teaching, learning, academic advising, and mentoring to create strategies to enable college students to adapt successfully to their educational environment, acquire academic competence, identify and set realistic goals, and achieve their career aspirations. He has published over 100 books and articles including The Savvy Psychology Major and made over 600 conference and other professional presentations including 20 invited keynote addresses. He created the Society for the Teaching of Psychology's (STP) Project Syllabus, transformed STP's Mentoring Service into an online clearinghouse, and founded and served as the director of the Indiana High School Psychology Teachers Conference. He was honored for his outstanding contributions to the science and profession of psychology by being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Midwestern Psychological Association, and a Distinguished Member of Psi Chi. He has received 44 national, regional, and institutional awards and recognitions for teaching, advising, mentoring, and service. His work with IUPUI's varsity athletes led him to be named "My Favorite Professor" by 71 student-athletes, and he was designated as a mentor by 777 IUPUI psychology majors, 222 of whom indicated that he was their most influential mentor by selecting the following sentence to describe his impact: "This professor influenced the whole course of my life, and his effect on me has been invaluable." Dr. Appleby retired from IUPUI in 2011 with the rank of Professor Emeritus.
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How Meditation Helps!
Throughout our daily lives we are bombarded with so many emotions and feeling that can persuade how we act, think, and feel. These certain emotions and feelings can root from our sense of self. How we feel about ourselves and others. A natural tendency we feel as humans are that we feel the need to compare ourselves to others around us. Meditation helps us calm our minds in the face of adversity. When we reflect in and put our lives into perspective, we can learn from our past mistakes and change the direction of our lives. There are numerous texts that explain how to meditate, and numerous ways to meditate.
Different Types of Meditation
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Transcendental Meditation
- Guided Meditation
- Vipassana Meditation
- Loving-Kindness Meditation
- Chakra Meditation
- Yoga Meditation
Just to name a few.
There a many benefits that meditation can provide. From a personal standpoint, if life is overwhelming you, find a quiet place. Sit and focus on your breathing and visualize a calm space. Imagine yourself on a calm beach or any place that you'll feel safe. Focus on the positives in your life. Negatives may arise but allow yourself to feel those emotions and dismiss them. Allowing yourself to expand and realize that your a small piece of the universe, but also that you are significant and important. Everything that happens in life may come at you out of nowhere, but realize that you are not that situation or event. When you can realize who you are and become aware, then many external event can't control you or your actions. Having clarity of the invisible forces that dictate the world, will have no hold of you. Then you are free to manifest your desires with intent, with this knowledge you become aware of what you allow into your life. Everyone deserves to be happy and live a life of abundance and love.
Love not Hate
It's easy to operate out of hate and become victim to life's whims. Operating out of hate is not the way but that's just my opinion. Every human being on this planet is given free will. We're free to operate on whatever feels good to our nature. When we operate out of love we can begin to heal ourselves and others. It doesn't matter what religion you belong to, we can all reap the benefits of meditation and mindfulness. When your soul is happy, then your happy. Point blank period.
I'm going to end it here. I can only provide knowledge on what I experience as an individual. The struggles I've been through in life have led me here. I've been given the opportunity to reach out to others as a living testament. Your mistakes and your past can't make you, but if you choose to grow the benefits can be reaped. Don't fold, life is a blessing and the situations are a lesson.


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HURBANOVO made headlines in the Slovak media once again in mid-June, as the small town in the south of Slovakia, along with the entire country, marked a tragic anniversary. One year ago on June 16, a police officer killed three people and injured two others in what has since become known as the Hurbanovo shooting spree.
The police originally investigated the case as a racially motivated crime, as all of the victims were Roma, but they later abandoned this theory, and the shooter, Milan Juhász, was sentenced to nine years in prison when the court acknowledged that he had acted without being fully aware of what he was doing.
The sentence has disappointed the families of the deceased as well as observers, particularly Roma rights activists, who perceive it as unjust and lenient. One year after the shooting spree, a group of Roma rights representatives gathered in Hurbanovo to mark the anniversary and to announce that they were filing a complaint with the Constitutional Court, calling for a more severe punishment for Juhász.
"We will fight even on the international field if necessary," the attorney of the family of the victims, Stanislav Jakubčík, told the Sme daily, calling Juhász's act "a triple premeditated murder". Jakubčík stated that he has already filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court, objecting to the fact that there were no controlled expert forensic evaluations to confirm the claims of the forensic psychologist who recommended that Juhász receive psychiatric treatment.
If the complaint to the Constitutional Court is not successful, the family will take their case to the European Court of Human Rights, Jakubčík confirmed for Sme.
Roma organisations held an event in Hurbanovo on June 16 to mark the anniversary. This followed another protest gathering of several hundreds of Roma, which took place on April 8, 2013 in Košice, and which was organised by the Party of the Roma Union in Slovakia (SRÚ). The protesters marched to the Constitutional Court to express their disapproval with what they see as a light punishment for Juhász.
The shooting
The shooter, Milan Juhász, aged 51 at the time of the spree, was employed as a municipal police officer in Hurbanovo. On Saturday, June 16, 2012, shortly after 10:00, he parked his car in front of the house of a Roma family on Komárňanská Street in Hurbanovo and, using an illegally-purchased firearm, proceeded to shoot dead a 44-year-old man, his 19-year-old son and 24-year-old son-in-law. A second son was shot in the lung and the son's wife was shot in the leg. The police detained Juhász shortly after the killings, who was by then threatening to commit suicide. About an hour later, he was found sitting in front of the house of Hurbanovo's mayor, Margita Zemková.
Juhász reportedly knew the residents of Komárňanská Street, where two Roma families live in neighbouring houses. Four of the five victims of the shooting had criminal records, according to Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák.
Milder sentence
On March 27, 2013, Juhász was sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security prison. The court also ordered him to undergo three years' protective treatment in a hospital or mental institution.
During his trial, the Specialised Criminal Court in Pezinok heard from psychiatric and psychological forensic experts that Juhász was not completely sane when he committed the crime. The experts claimed that Juhász was not fully aware of what he was doing and recommended that he receive psychiatric treatment. They did not offer a clear opinion about whether the crime was racially motivated.
Based on the psychiatric report, the prosecutor proposed a reduced prison sentence for Juhász.
The sentence, considered by some observers to be relatively mild for a crime which could have been punishable with a life sentence under the Slovak penal order, came as a shock for the family of the victims. Their lawyer is calling for a controlled forensic evaluation, contesting the fact that the court relied on one sole forensic report.
"The decisive thing for me is that the court accepted [our] report," one of the report authors, psychiatrist Miroslav Čerňan, told Sme. He considers the report to be free of errors, and as such has recently submitted it to an international conference of forensic psychiatrists, according to Sme.
The psychiatric experts have reasoned their conclusions from all viewpoints and, thus, there was no reason to doubt their report, according to special prosecutor Ján Hrivňák.
"I understand the family and the Roma community, that questions keep rising in their minds, but on behalf of the prosecutors I can guarantee that the issue was documented not to 100 percent, but to 1,000 percent," Hrivňák told Sme in an interview shortly after the court sentenced Juhász, adding that nine years might seem to be too few for a sane perpetrator, but Juhász "doesn't belong to the category of sane [people]".
Juhász's treatment questioned
Despite his mental state, however, Juhász is reportedly not serving his sentence in a facility with a psychiatric hospital. There is only one such hospital in Slovakia, located in the city of Trenčín.
Sme reported on June 18 that Juhász was still imprisoned in Leopoldov, which does have a psychiatric department, but which specialises in treating addiction.
The authorities have yet to explain why Juhász is not serving his sentence in Trenčín, explaining that Juhász has not given his consent for them to discuss his whereabouts publically, Sme wrote. Possible reasons could be due to the full capacity of the Trenčín facility, or the condition of the prisoner's mental or physical health.
Racial motive
Reports on the early stages of the investigation showed that the police were originally investigating the crime as racially motivated, basing this on the theory that Juhász was unable to handle problems related to a particular group of inhabitants in the small town where he was working as a municipal officer, and he therefore took matters into his own hands. This version was, according to Sme, supported by the sole explanation offered by Juhász when brought before a judge: "I woke up in the morning with the thought that I have to restore order around them."
Prior to the investigation, however, the police said that the shooting was probably not racially motivated. They argued that if it had been, Juhász would have killed even more people, Sme reported shortly after the shooting.
Roma rights activists however are not satisfied with this and similar explanations.
"Milan Juhász, in his statements, spoke about his internal need to solve the Roma problem," Marek Szilvási from the European Centre for Roma Rights told Sme.
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Packed with essential time-tourist facts and tips, this humorous spoof travel guide takes readers back in time to Egypt during the reign of Rameses II. Written in an amusing style with cartoon illustrations, this visitor's guide is full of historical information about interesting tourist attractions, important festivals and the fashions and customs of Ancient Egypt. Includes 'Top tips for tourists', quotations from notable Egyptians, a glossary of famous people in Ancient Egypt and a timeline. A fun and memorable way to learn about life in Ancient Egypt, with internet links to recommended websites to find out more via Usborne Quicklinks.
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AFAIK we do not have functional version of heavy workarounds present in other resolvers.
We need to verify if my claim above is true, and if not correct this and release a new version which removes workarounds.
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On this week's edition of Wrestle Talk Radio, Omega, Mase & The Producer Sir Rockin recapped the events this week in pro wrestling. Topics on the show included:
*RAW's Low Ratings & What their problems are
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*New Day Anniversary
*Greatest Booker of All Time
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Sometimes I like to think consumers still have a say in things.
And for most things, that's probably at least partially right. But then there's the nasty trends and lack of focus on consumer wishes. Phones are getting thinner, staying fragile, and battery life remains relatively stale. Not to mention, the headphone jack is being taken away from us. Sure, vote with your wallet, yadda yadda, but if people continue to stick to brands they know, that limits their voting options. Unless… you vote by rebellion.
Some time ago, a guy posted a video to YouTube on how he spent inordinate amounts of time gathering parts and getting them to work together to — get this — build his own iPhone. Expensive gear and time-consuming assembly aside, the parts ended up cheaper than the entire phone.
And then this week, he posted this video. He added a headphone jack back into a modern iPhone. "It's gone because the phone got thinner" they said. "We need the space it took up" they said. Nothing could be less true, and this people's hero managed to prove it.
This guy's an inspiration, and he documents his work so well!
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A straphanger at Grand Central Station was critically injured early Wednesday when he fell onto the subway track and touched the third rail, authorities said.
The 59-year-old man stumbled off the 5 train platform and landed on the roadbed around 12:30 a.m.
At some point, a part of his body came in contact with the electrified third rail.
The man suffered severe burns and other injuries and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition, officials said.
Police do not believe the man was the victim of a crime and described the incident as accidental.