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Episode 8
Episode 8 of Find Your Swedish Ancestors.
Swedish National Archive is turning 400 years this year. Hear about the fire that destroyed a lot of old medieval documents. And what happened to the three men that were found guilty…
From February you no longer need a paid subscription to access the digital records from Riksarkivet. https://sok.riksarkivet.se/digitala-forskarsalen
Swedish Death Index 7 1860-2017, prerelease
At ArkivDigital, population of Sweden increases from 1880-1920 to 1860-1930. A supergreat add!
I am working on some YouTube videos showing how to use the digital research room at Riksarkivet and also some tips and tricks using ArkivDigital. The videos will be published in March.
And, hopefully, next year will be the year I attend Roothtech. Check out the livestream schedule here:
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Episode 7
The interest for DNA-genealogy in Sweden is growing. At the Genealogy Days /Släktforskardagarna in August there were huge lines for people buying DNA-tests, from the morning until closing time in the late afternoon. Most people in Sweden have tested with FamilyTreeDNA, AncestryDNA have only been available for about one and a half year.
News at ArkivDigital: Aerial photographs. If you are an all-in-one subscriber, check out this blogpost on how to search the aerial photos: http://blog.arkivdigital.net/now-we-begin-to-add-aerial-photographs/
250 000 portrait images from thee photography studios in Stockholm have been added: read more here: http://blog.arkivdigital.net/a-quarter-of-a-million-portrait-images/
Riksarkivet (Swedish National Archive) will remove the paywall to 100 millions digital records.
Swedish TV-show Allt för Sverige starts on October 22. Here are the American participants this season: https://www.svt.se/allt-for-sverige/arets-amerikaner-har-anlant/
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Episode 6:
Happy new 2017 and February already! Don't you agree there isn't enough time when doing genealogy and family history research?
My goals for this year:
#1 Dig deep into DNA genealogy. I have with FamilyTreeDNA in 2013 and with Ancestry last year when they made it available to ship tests to Sweden.
#2 Planning what genealogy event to visit this year. RootsTech is coming up next week but I will have to settle for the live streaming (which I love that they are doing). I will also watch Lisa Louise Cooke and the people of Genealogy Gems Podcast doing their live streams from RootsTech. Genealogy Gems is celebrating 10 years this year and is a great inspiration to me.
#3 Going on a family reunion in Minnesota this summer…
Allt för Sverige – Great Swedish Adventure was nominated for an international Emmy award.. and they won! Big congrats! And they are looking for people for season 7 right now.. check out www.greatswedishadventure.com
ArkivDigital, the company that have about 67 millions color images covering various kinds of historical documents such as church records, court records and inventory of estates announced the other day they bought millions of
arial photos. This photos will be digitized and added to the other images. It is photos from the 1950s and forward of houses, farms and gas stations from all over Sweden. Read more on their blog here: http://blog.arkivdigital.net/arkivdigital-acquires-millions-of-aerial-photographs/
Fat Tuesday is coming out! Celebrate by making your own Swedish Fastlagsbulle.
A free, Danish database with emigrants, a lot of them Swedes since many went over Copenhagen. You will find it at ddd.dda.dk. Click on Emigrants and then start searching. Remember if you type in Last residence to type Sverige and not Sweden.
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Episode 5:
In this episode I talk about All Saints Day that is celebrated in Sweden today, November 5. We go to the cemeteries and light candles remembering our loved ones.
On November 6 it is Gustaf Adolf Day in Sweden. In memory of king Gustaf II Adolf who died on that day in 1632.
Second Sunday in November we celebrate fathers day.
In episode 1, I talked about the Swedish Gravestone inventory and I also made a videotutorial on a couple of searches in that database. The video is found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpgijQPPGX8
In this episode I talk about some other resources:
The CD with the database Buried in Sweden 2 (Begravda i Sverige 2)
and four free, online databases with graves:
I have made a videotutorial doing searches on the CD and the four websites mentioned above:
I have three really nice books waiting to get new owners.
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- Swedish Traditions – Jan-Öjvind Swahn
- Wonderful Sweden – photos by Bruno Ehrs and text by Tomas Tengby
- Sweden in pictures
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Episode 4:
I listen to Find Your Swedish Ancestors Podcast episode 4 #genealogy https://cousinlinda.com/podcast/find-your-swedish-ancestors-episode-4/ Click To Tweet
In this episode I talk about the book: Arthur, the dog who crossed the jungle to find a home by Mikeal Lindnord. It is the story about the stray dog that after given a couple of meatballs from the teamleader of a multisport team in a competition in South America started to follow the team and crossed the finish line with them. The team started to call the dog Arthur and it was arranged for Arthur to come to Sweden. This all happend in 2014 and was big news both on news sites and social media.
Link to Facebookpage about Arthur here:
I am a dog person and next to me recording the podcast is the soon to be 13 year old German shepherd Tello (Incidents Othello).
The book got me thinking of how our ancestors dogs left traces for us to find.
First of all, photos ofcourse. But also in documents conserning taxes, like mantalslängder.
Those are found at the Swedish National Archive and a paid subscription is needed to view them.
Marked with yellow is the columns for dogs, dogs for hunting and "unnecessary" dogs, two different columns depending if there was one or many. This particular record is from Farstorp in 1806.
October 17 to October 21 is Nordic Family History Conference at FamilySearch.org. Lot of interesting classes if you are looking into genealogy in Sweden, Denmark, Norway or Finland.
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Episode 3:
In this episode, Swedish reality show Allt för Sverige (The great Swedish Adventure) have been nominated to an international Emmy award. The winners will recieve their awards in New York on November 21. http://www.iemmys.tv/awards_nominees.aspx
The show is popular in Sweden. Americans looking for their Swedish roots comes to Sweden where they will compete in teams and individually. After a month of competing (in contests that all have to with Sweden) and visiting different places in Sweden, there is a winner and the prize is a reunion with the Swedish relatives. Season six that was filmed during the summer will air on October 23rd. Some of the participants already have Facebook fanpages up. http://www.svt.se/allt-for-sverige/har-ar-de-nya-amerikanerna-i-allt-for-sverige
In this episode I use Andrew Richardson as an example on how I try to find out more about a person who emigrated to the US from Sweden. From his obituary, to his death certificate I go to the CDROM Emibas. From the match on the CD, I do a lookup in the household books using the online program ArkivDigital. Since the person happens to be from the Skåne area I also do a search in the Demographical Database for Southern Sweden and from the reference in that database I know what pagenumber I will find the birth in the original birthbook using ArkivDigital again. A video tutorial describing the steps into detail will soon be available.
Obituary of Andrew Richardson
Anders Nilsson Rikars Holmer in the EMIBAS cd. Reference to householdbook in Vinslöv page 54 in 1882.
Page 54 in householdbook of Vinslöv 1882.
From the birth and baptism database in the Demographical Database for Southern Sweden with a reference to the birthbook of Vinslöv, page 54.
Birthbook of Vinslöv, Anders is number 2 from the bottom.
Two new resources:
- The first one, mugshots from the police in Stockholm containing photos from 1869 to 1920. You can search on name, date of birth, place of birth and title. You can also do a text search. This database is hosted by the Cityarchive of Stockholm.
- Second one, Swedish American Newspapers. This database is found at the homepage of Minnesota Historical Society and it is newpapers in Swedish published in the US. I would recommend to search on surname and placenames in Sweden and the US and most of them would translate quite well typing them into Google Translate.
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Episode 2:
Today I list three sites I think is great for getting information when doing genealogy and family historyresearch in Sweden:
- Familysearch.org If you are at the familysearch homepage and click on Search in the top meny and to the right you will see Find a Collection. There you will see a link that says Browse all published collections. If you click on that you will see a long list of historical collection. In the meny to the left, you can click on Continental Europe and you will find Sweden in the list. Clicking on Sweden, you will get a list of records. If you click on any of the links, you will get a short decription of the collection and there will also be a link that says Learn more that will take you to the Familysearch wiki and there you will find more information about that particular collection.If you return to the familysearch.org startpage, click on Search and chose Wiki in the meny you will get to the startpage of the FamilySearch wiki. Type in Sweden in the seachfield where it says search by place or topic. You will come to a page called Sweden Genealogy with lot of information on getting started with Swedish research, Sweden research tools, maps of counties, information on parishes. This wiki is really a good help if you want to look up anything on doing research in Sweden.
- Lantmäteriet – Historical maps Lantmäteriet, who map the country, have a section on their homepage filled with historical maps of Sweden. The digital archive have more than one million historical maps, and the oldest ones are from 1628. They are free to view.
They have great information in English on how to get started with historical maps, for example you need to download and install an image viewer to your computer to be able to look at the maps. You will find maps from 1628 to 1928
- Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (Swedish Genealogy Association). They have a section on thier homepage in English, Finding your Swedish roots, with a lot of information on doing genealogy in Sweden. This is a page you really should check out.
October 4 – Kanelbullens Dag – Day of the cinnamon bun
I found a video on YouTube on How to make Swedish Cinnamon buns by Donal Skehan. Check it out and bake some. His recipe is found here: http://www.donalskehan.com/recipes/swedish-cinnamon-buns/
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Episode 1:
In this episode I talk about how language might be a huge challenge when doing genealogy research in another country. My maternal grandmother was from Estonia, so I know how hard, time consuming and sometimes frustrating it might be. In Estonia I find documents not only Estonian (a language I don't know) but also German and Russian.
Another challenge might be geography, what if I don't find the place names on a map? The patronymic namesystem used back then might be a bit tricky. But I see it as a help or clue instead. If Anders Nilsson have a son, his surename would be Anderson. If he have a daughter it would be Andersdotter where dotter means daughter.
I take all those questions and thoughts I have run into doing my Estonian research and try to answer them for you, because I am sure you have the same questions and more when doing your Swedish research.
I talk about databases with gravestones. Especially Svenska gravstensinventeringen, the Swedish gravestone inventory that is found at grav.genealogi.se It is only in Swedish, but in this videotutorial I am showing you a couple of searchers and how you can make use of the built-in translation in the webbrowser Google Chrome.
And a cheatsheet for you to download:
Im also telling you a story that made the local news, you will find the article here and Google Translate will do a pretty good job translating it for you. http://blogg.hd.se/slaktforskning/2013/05/23/nar-tillfalligheterna-spelar-in/
Swedish words
gravsten – gravestone
kyrka – church
kyrkogård – cemetery
begravning – funeral
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Episode 000 of Find your Swedish Ancestors podcast is an About me episode. I talk a little about my background and why I wanted to start this podcast.
This is my paternal grandmother Lilly, who sings in the end of the episode.
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U2's 1983 hit New Year's Day really deserves more recognition, mostly because its refrain, "Nothing changes on New Year's Day" is so true. Over half of all resolution-makers make and break New Year's resolutions like exercising more, learning a new skill, saving more money, or spending more time with family and friends. How about some New Year's resolutions you can keep? Here are ten New Year's resolutions you can put into practice right now:
Learn to Drive Economically
Fuel economy and emissions have as much to do with the vehicle you drive as with how you drive it. By avoiding aggressive driving, jackrabbit starts, hard braking, and unsafe lane changes, you can help your car last longer, burn less fuel, and avoid unnecessary repair bills.
Change Your Oil Regularly
Honestly, regular engine oil changes are the single most important thing you can do to help your engine last longer. When the heart of your car is beating reliably, daily commutes and weekend trips are a breeze. Always use the right engine oil, change your engine oil on time, and consider switching to superior synthetic oil.
Keep Your Car Clean
Inside and outside, a clean car does more than say you care about your looks, but that you care about your car. Regular cleaning, vacuuming, shampooing inside will help your carpets last longer and your car smell better. Washing, waxing, and undercarriage cleaning outside isn't just shiny, but helps to prevent rust from eating your car.
Check Your Tires Regularly
Tire safety is more than just watching tire wear, but tire pressure as well. True, tire underinflation causes abnormal tire wear and poor fuel economy, but it also causes tire blowouts, which can cause you to lose control of your vehicle. Buy a quality tire pressure gauge and use it weekly. Learn more about reducing tire wear here.
Be Patient with Other Drivers
Wherever you're going, realize you're bound to meet up with all kinds of drivers, aggressive, timid, professional, and inexperienced, and we all make mistakes anyway. This can admittedly be difficult, but patience can go a long way toward making the daily commute more pleasant for everyone on the road.
Stop Idling Your Engine
There's really no reason to idle your engine more than a few minutes. Some might use excuses like, "starting wears out the starter," or "I need to warm up my car," but idling just wastes fuel and money and increases emissions for no reason. Also, "warming up the car" leads to increased engine wear!
Obey the Speed Limit
We've somewhat covered this resolution in others on this list, but speed deserves special mention. Everything is against exceeding the speed limit. It's unsafe, increases wear, wastes fuel, increases emissions, and doesn't save you much time, if any. Stay calm and stick to the speed limit.
Start Saving for Your Next Ride
If there's a single constant about cars, it's that they wear out. Eventually, no matter how much maintenance and repair money you spend, the car will require replacement. Setting aside money for a down payment on a new car is a great way to reduce your monthly payment when that time comes.
Have you already broken your other New Year's Resolutions? How about making a fresh start with your car to help it last longer and save you money? Any other New Year's Resolutions you think should have made this list? Talk them up in the comments. k">

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Anyone who knows me knows that I can't bear the thought of leaving Honduras and this school in just over a month. In 2015 I took one year of unpaid leave from my teaching job in Australia with the intention to teach for 9 months and travel for a further 3. That was almost two years ago. During my first year teaching here I decided that there was more here for me so I asked for another year of leave, which luckily I got! And with only 3.5 weeks left of school, I am trying to come to terms with leaving.
My decision to volunteer came about due to a few factors: 1. I have always wanted to volunteer in a country less fortunate than my own, 2. I was exhausted from the demands of the education system in Australia, 3. I had nothing but my puppy (Chester) to tie me down at home (don't worry he is safe and sound living with my mum and I skype him regularly!). It has honestly been the best decision of my life. The students and their families at CBS will teach you more than you can ever dream of knowing. One of my best little buddies from 1st grade, whom I taught last year when he was in prepa, has taught me that no matter what you have you can be the happiest kid ever. We play football 'Honduras v Australia' on his cement front porch every time I visit. His goal is between a plant and the stairs and my goal is between two marks on the wall. We play with a plastic ball that has many dints in it, but this boy is so happy. There is no need for a phone, a computer or an iPad, just a ball and someone to play with. Oh and by the way last time Australia lost 32 to Honduras' 100.
My older students are much like any teenager you will meet. Yes we occasionally (very rarely now) butt heads due to typical teenage attitudes, but the respect that the students have for me and I for them is very clear. Today in 10th grade I was talking to a couple of the students about exams coming up and that lead us into a discussion about when I was leaving. One student said 'Miss, I think I am going to cry when you leave', my response was 'I know I am going to'. The students appreciate their education so much and grow to love each and every volunteer teacher that they have. I was out to dinner last night with a few of the other volunteers and one of my 11th grade students was walking nearby and came over to say hi. He gave me a big hug and we had a chat about the day. If students, their families or people that know you see you while you are out and about they will yell out the side of a moto taxi, run across the supermarket to hug you or come over for a chat. I have been invited to the mountains, the beach, the movies, to eat at people's houses and on other excursions with my students and their families.
I'm not going to lie there are a few things that I won't miss! The cold showers in winter, in summer they are a blessing, but stepping into the shower when it is freezing, I will not miss that- hello hot water in Australia! I also will not miss being dirty ALL the time. My students told me to wear socks and Crocs the other day because 'Miss your feet are sooooo dirty'. That is a fashion crime in Australia but here it is acceptable. After that conversation I even looked into buying a pair of Crocs, but no I couldn't do it.
I have learnt and grown so much in my time here at CBS. The students will teach you so, so much. If you are reading this because you want to volunteer for us, do it, the experiences that you will have are unbelievable! I know that I am a better person because of what I have experienced here.
Miss Sarah, 10th and 11th Grade teacher


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Demi Moore is not out of the woods yet as her friends fear that the troubled star is heading rapidly for another mental breakdown. Demi's pals feel the aging star is in danger of suffering another shattering collapse because ex-hubby Bruce Willis just had a baby with his young wife, Emma Heming. A close friend said: "I think all those around Demi fear Bruce's new arrival could trigger a relapse for her. Demi sees herself turning 50 later this year and still being very, very unhappy."
Demi was suffering from drug addiction and anorexia when she collapsed and had to be rushed to hospital emergency with drug-induced seizures on January 23. But her short stint in rehab has not come close to helping Demi solve her deep psychological problems.
Demi feels that her life is a failure largely due to her obsession with staying young – which is of course impossible! Losing Ashton Kutcher to a series of hotter and younger women crushed most of what remained of Demi's fragile ego. Sources say: "Seeing Bruce with this new miracle in his world just drives home all the more what might have been with Ashton." Now Bruce's happiness and fulfillment stands in stark contrast to her own emotionally vacant life, superficial partying and grasping juvenile behavior.
GLOBE Print Edition April 30 has the details: Demi, 49, instantly called the 57-year-old Die Hard hunks to congratulate him and his wife Emma Heming, 33, on the April 1st birth of Mable Ray.
But sources believe the happy event spells more trouble for the Indecent Proposal actress, still heartbroken over the collapse of her marriage to Ashton Kutcher, the 35-year-old star of Two and a Half Men.
"As soon as she heard about the baby's birth, she called Bruce to tell him how happy she was for him and Emma," says a friend. "But when Bruce invited her to come over to see his new daughter she told him she just wasn't up to it.
The friend tells Globe that demi-mom of daughters Rumer, 23, Scout, 20, and Tallulah, 18, with Willis-dreamed of having a child with the 16 years-younger Kutcher, whom she wed in 2006.
"She truly believes the two of them would start their own family, that she would be the one to give her daughter's a little sister or brother," the friend says. "But she had trouble getting pregnant."
Then her life unraveled last November when she split from Kutcher amid reports he cheated with 22-year-old Sarah Leal on September 24, the date of his sixth wedding anniversary to Moore.
The breakup devastated the Striptease beauty and her life "really went off the rails," the friend says. She began hitting Hollywood hotspots with daughter Rumor "seemingly trying to relive her youth," the friend says. On Jan. 23, the actress was rushed to a hospital following a 911 call and claims she suffered seizures after smoking a marijuana-like substance and may have inhaled nitrous oxide.
A week later, she checked into rehab for four-week stay for what her reps called exhaustion. Little Mable's birth has come just one month after Demi left Utah's Cirque Lodge rehab facility and while the Ghost actress is still in a fragile state, say sources.
"We are worried about her," says the pal. "She needs a lot more therapy before her life is going to get back on track."
So there you have it. Can Demi finally grow up and behave like an adult? Or will she go back to partying with people less than one-half her age and cruising young guys? Remember that Demi was partying with Rumer the night she collapsed and was trying to sleep with Zac Efron in the days leading up to her overdose. Will Demi survive on the outside if left to her own devices? Let us know your opinion in the comments below.


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Keeping in the Halloween spirit this week, I'm still thinking back to great costumes I have known and loved.
My favorite costumes are those that telegraph the character in a few brilliant props. I most admire home-made costumes, because come on, anyone with money can go rent or buy something. As for me, I give highest points for creativity and cleverness.
The winners, from various chapters of my life:
COLLEGE: A guy friend threw on a tennis dress, some screw-on earrings he borrowed from me, and carried a Wilson racket. Voila, Rene Richards.
POST COLLEGE: Chris and his friend David attended a party as Goofus and Gallant from Highlights. Chris was unfailing polite and thoughtful, and David was a boor. They wore nametags reading "Hello, My Name is Gallant, How Are You?" and "F*** You, I'm Goofus." To this day, 25 years later, they still get the occasional comment from those who recall their tandem costume.
LITTLE KIDS: Chris once crafted the world's greatest cardboard-box-based costume for Ian, who was 3 at the time. Ian was Thomas the Tank Engine, and the costume was cut, painted, and crafted to perfection. Sadly, I think we got to 3 front porches before Ian tired of the heavy, cumbersome box, and ditched it. The same was true of his friend Freddy, who was the green engine. But the photos live on! (Come back on Friday, I'll post the train photos then!)
OLDER KIDS: Once again, Ian had my favorite elementary school costume. The neighborhood party was about to begin, and panic was setting in. We needed something easy, fast! I suggested Howard Hughes, in his crazy years. Ian actually knew the reference from Simpsons episodes (everything he knows about history, he learned from Matt Groening), and we whipped around the house finding a robe, rubber gloves, and two Kleenex boxes. Once the boxes were emptied of tissues, Ian wore them on his feet, just like Howard. None of the kids at the party got it, but I remember one adult being wowed by his get-up.
COSTUME I HEARD ABOUT BUT DIDN"T SEE: My friend Anne answered the doorbell one Halloween night to find two high school girls in dressy attire, holding plastic martini glasses and acting ditzy. "And who are you?" she asked. "We're the Bush twins!" they responded. Genius.
And now it's your turn – please share any costumes you have worn and loved, or seen and admired.


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Companies everywhere spend a lot of time focused on outside security threats like hackers and organised cybercrime groups. But the truth is that businesses' greatest threat is in their employees' own hands: mobile devices. The smartphones, tablets, and other tools that have become integral to our lives—both professionally and personally—are betraying us. Combating shadow BYOD needs to be every company's next big priority.
We live in an age where we're constantly juggling our different devices and increasingly doing work on demand, calling up files on our phones in an airport, on a tablet at a meeting, or on our laptops when we work from home. I watched with interest as this shift in workplace norms took hold at my own company and many others, and I've been fascinated to watch, for years now, as sync-and-share services have evolved to make this change nearly effortless. In fact, now working remotely and on devices is something most of us take for granted. All our files are on all our devices and in the cloud, ready to be accessed anywhere, anytime. That's great—until it isn't.
It's a commonly cited fact that lost or stolen mobile devices are one of the primary causes of data breaches, but people still don't appreciate the risk. Just recently, Lahey Hospital was required to pay $850,000 and enact a robust corrective plan for a HIPAA violation incurred after a laptop with unencrypted information was stolen. More than 3 million smartphones are stolen every year (and another 2 million are lost), and 40 per cent of employees use personal smartphones and tablets for work purposes, so the numbers add up.
The device problem is more complex than mere employee carelessness. While popular cloud storage providers offer substantial security measures that encrypt and protect files on their servers, they weren't designed to protect files synced to mobile devices. So when data does get pulled down to devices, you're on your own.
Every day, employees are syncing corporate files, patient records, and company IP to their devices to work from home, prepare for presentations, or meet with clients. If they even think about it (and to be honest, they probably don't), they likely assume the cloud provider's security extends to their synced files, too. It's a reasonable assumption, but that oversight leaves thousands of files exposed on the cloud—often unbeknownst to their employers, who may not even be aware that this is a problem.
I've worked with many CEOs and CTOs in the healthcare, finance, and legal industries, and they're all curious about how to stop this plague. Data breaches are reaching an all-time high—so what can businesses do about it? Keeping a few practical steps in mind will make a world of difference to your company's security:
1. Don't crack down on the cloud, but to find ways to protect it instead
Denying your employees the ability to use mobile devices or sync files to the cloud is only bound to backfire when they find backdoor solutions and continue using the cloud anyway. Some 80 per cent of employees nationwide use unapproved cloud software on their work computers or personal mobile devices, which means that employers have no control over any of the data that software's being used for.
2. Sanction an employee-preferred cloud provider
Eliminating BYOD won't solve your problem, but making sure your company's cloud use is consistent across the board will. Regaining control—without being overly controlling—is the first step. And knowing how your employees want to—and already do—use the cloud is vital.
3. Secure the cloud on mobile devices and laptops
Adding an extra layer of encryption to already existing cloud security does the trick. Encrypting at the file-level safeguards sensitive data before it ever reaches the cloud and after it leaves it, meaning that when a file is synced to a mobile device, it's no longer vulnerable. More importantly, mobile device loss or theft is no longer your business' largest threat. The files stay securely encrypted and only readable by intended users. It's the way encryption should always work, everywhere.
4. Ensure you can block access from devices
The ability to block device access with the touch of a button is an important step to keeping company information safe. As soon as a device is reported lost or stolen, an administrator at the office can block access to it remotely. This is also key to keeping disgruntled ex-employees from sabotaging or leaking company files (which is a real threat!). Bear in mind, of course, that while wiping the data from a device can be helpful—it's also time-consuming, depending on how much data is stored there. Revoking encryption keys, on the other hand, can be done instantly.
5. Get end-to-end audit trails
Keep an eye on company files by auditing who's accessing files on any devices your employees are using. This is one feature a cloud provider won't provide by default but that's extremely useful. If you notice an unauthorised user, you can investigate the situation, block access, and stop a data breach before it's too late.
By now, cloud usage in a workplace setting is practically inevitable. But until this device problem is fixed and the cloud can be used freely, mobile devices will continue to be a major risk. As IT leaders, we can do better.
Asaf Cidon is CEO and co-founder of Sookasa
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The heat and humidity can be challenging this time of year and it is important to know just how to beat it. This is especially true for those of us who are in town only sporadically and have not yet acclimated. With that thought in mind, I would like to share my favorite ways to cool down and remain at least relatively dry.
1. Sit all day at the computer with a floor fan no more than 3 feet away, pointed directly at you and turned to the high position. It helps if there is also a ceiling fan directly overhead. If you have to have food, make sure it is cold -celery and carrot sticks with your favorite dip, a nice crisp salad with sliced cucumber. Hint: if you would like to rest your eyes for a few moments, move to the bedroom along with the floor fan, grab a couple of cool cucumber slices and place over your eyes. Relax and think of those cooler days.
-this works equally well with reading, writing, or cross-stitching.
Downside: you're stuck inside and not really enjoying the sights of this fabulous city.
2. Get in your car or call an air conditioned cab and head for the mall. Stay there for several hours, window shopping and sipping a cool drink. At least with this option you can kill two birds with one stone - staying cool and getting exercise by walking around the mall. Hint: Wear sensible shoes. When you return home, go back to number 1.
-you could also try hopping from one air-conditioned restaurant or coffee shop to another, but be aware that staying too long in either of these establishments obligates you to spend money.
Downside: see number 1.
3. Jump in the pool, if you are so fortunate as to have one, and stay there. Come out only for potty breaks (don't be tempted), grab a cool drink and slide back in. If your skin starts to look like a well-dried prune, recover only in a shady spot. If your space lacks a shady spot, sit on the edge of the pool with a cool drink in one hand and a large umbrella in the other.
Downside: although more enjoyable than numbers 1 and 2, you're still not taking advantage of the sights (or sites).
4. This is the best and my favorite way to beat the heat. Get yourself down to La Michoacana on Calle 47 y 60, right next door to Comex and just across the street from Parque Santa Ana. It is a small, walk-in store selling cold drinks and frozen treats, but not just ho-hum treats. The frozen fruit bars are, in a word, divine. They come in a variety of tropical fruit flavors , my favorite being lime (I'm saying OMG here). Don't just buy one or two. Take a small, hand-held cooler and fill it up. Keep your freezer stocked with these frozen wonders and keep your cool.
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Government Grants Crowd Out Fund-Raising by Charities
Every $1,000 in government grants a charity receives ... reduces fund-raising expenditures by $141, [which]... reduces [private] donations by an estimated $757.
In Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities (NBER Working Paper No. 16372), co-authors James Andreoni and Abigail Payne find that for every $1,000 in government grants a charity receives, contributions to the charity increase by an estimated $41, but the charity reduces fund-raising expenditures by $141. Because charitable fund-raising is highly profitable, with more than $5 raised for every dollar spent, this reduction in fund-raising expenditures reduces donations by an estimated $757. Overall, therefore, the response to the $1,000 grant is that "total contributions to the charity fall by $757, and the charity nets $385 including the money it saves on fund-raising."
The authors conclude that charities themselves are responsible for almost all of this crowd-out. And, although these findings are preliminary, they imply that government policy could remediate crowd-out by requiring that charities match "a fraction of government grants with increases in private donations" or require that "total spending by the charity must rise by 100 percent of the grant amount."
The estimates were made with data on charitable organizations' IRS 990 filings from the National Center for Charitable Statistics from 1985 to 2002. The 8,000 charities included in the sample were 501(c) (3) nonprofits operating in the continental United States in human and social services. Although there were substantial differences in dependence on private money relative to government money by charitable specialization, the average charity in the sample collected $787,000 in donations, $905,000 in government grants, and spent $91,000 on fund-raising.
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Magic Tools Shopping
The weather that day was great.
Nayuta and Setsuna had a request for Rokuko and I, so we met with them.
I was using [Super Transformation] while we met with them just in case. It's pretty cowardly even for me, but oh well. My life's important. I couldn't sleep anymore if I'm dead. I don't accept death as sleep.
Rokuko was defenseless, so I'll be a meatshield in case of an emergency. I basically have an extra life due to [Super Transformation] after all.
"Rokuko-sama, Village Chief-san. Today's our day off… but could we sell stuff to adventurers in the dining room!?"
Setsuna spoke with a rather energetic voice. It's not her work hours right now, so she's in her gym outfit.
"Sure? I don't really mind, Kehma?"
"Wait wait Rokuko. Let's see what you want to sell first. What is it?"
"It's stuff that Nayuta made through alchemy. We were thinking about what we could use for the Hero's information fees, so we wanted to earn some change."
Nayuta's alchemy, huh? In this world, alchemy means using tools to carve magic formations and making magic tools. Selling magic tools directly is rather lucrative.
"Could I buy that gun from earlier for a gold coin?"
"Nn? Huh? What should I do Nayuta, sell it?"
"That bang banger eh… hmmm, I don't really want to sell an unfinished product though."
"Wouldn't it be alright if it was as a toy?"
"… Let me think about it please. I'll sell it if we don't sell much this time."
Honestly, it'd just be a toy even if I bought it, so it's perfect. Besides, me offering a gold coin for it's nothing but indulging in something interesting. It might even give me something good and it's not like I'm lacking in money either.
"More importantly what are you selling specifically? Show me, show me."
"Various things, Owner. Take this for example, a Smoke Ball. Smoke billows out of it when it is struck against the ground, producing a smokescreen. It is quite cheap at just one silver!"
Oh, a disposable smokescreen for 10,000 Yen? It looks pretty small, around the size of a ping pong ball.
Rather, why are you speaking to her so civilly, Nayuta? Eh, is it that? The polite language given only to your employer? Do you not recognize me as your employer?
"Isn't a silver coin for a disposable item a bit expensive?"
"… Umm, the conditions needed for combining things into this for the smokescreen are pretty strict. To the point that it'd be good if Onee-chan successfully makes one out of ten tries. The wind magic formation that causes the smokescreen is hard. But it's really useful for when you need to escape from an enemy. Buying your life for a single silver is cheap right?"
Well, buying your life for a single silver is pretty cheap, yeah.
"So, does it work against Golems?"
"Yep. There's bone dust with magical power in it mixed into the Smoke Balls in order to deal with monsters that can perceive things through magic, like Golems. There's a deodorizing effect to deal with smells as well, so it's usable in most cases."
So it's like chaff? It really is useful, seeing as it can be used in so many situations. [1]
"There is also this Water Ball. Well, it is similar to a jug magic tool in that it can replenish your water. Water comes out from the hole when you press this button. You could put it in a cup or drink it directly."
"Hey, have you figured out a price for this one?"
"Yes… it is a striking five silver coins!"
By the way, a jug magic tool is around three silver. And she's back to speaking politely for Rokuko yet again.
"That's pretty expensive."
"It's because making so small is hard. But it being this small makes it convenient since it won't keep you from bringing other luggage. We have a flask-type as well, but it's four silver."
It's also about the size of a ping pong ball. I guess it is pretty small comparatively? The flask-type would also be convenient given a suitable situation.
"There is also this Fire Ball, meant for offensive uses. It will turn into a ball of fire three seconds after pressing the button. This one is one silver for three. It is a magical fire, so it is effective against ghost-types as well."
A timed ignition device… that seriously is convenient. It could even be a trump card for warriors that can't use magic.
It'd be meaningless for me since I can use magic, but maybe I should give buying it a shot?
"There is also this Quiver Ball, it can be used to give massages. When you press this button here, you can place it against your shoulders. It feels quite refreshing. I was inspired by the massage chair here and made it."
"Heeh, its pink color is so cute!"
"I am greatly happy that it pleases you, Owner. Ah, this one is three silver coins."
This one's also ping pong ball sized. Rather, why's everything ping pong ball size?
When I started thinking about that, Nayuta grinned.
"Huhuhu, did you notice? This is the concept of having a standard, improving its usability through keeping the sizes equal. You can attach five of your preferred balls onto this Ball Holder—sold separately! Their different colors make them easily distinguishable. I'll throw in a free holder if you buy ten balls now!"
"Hoooh. You've thought a bit about this."
It's just like those mail-order sales commercials.
"There's even more too! This Sand Ball can produce white and black sand. It is good for taking notes on the floor when you need to puzzle your way through a riddle. This Breath Ball can be used for breathing underwater. You could even use it in places where the air is thin, like mountains. In addition to those, there's this Sweet Ball. It tastes sweet when you lick it. However, as it isn't as though it will fill your stomach, it is only at most recommended to use it by supplementing your emergency food rations. Or perhaps you have a sweet tooth and don't want to grow fat? These are my works of art!"
With that, she took out various balls of different colors.
They were interesting, so I decided to buy one of each. I'm earning enough to make this kind of shopping possible, I even got two holders as a bonus.
"Well, they look like they'll sell well. That Sweet Ball in particular. It'd be amusing if it had other tastes in it as well though."
"This one's an original I came across while researching magic formations after all. When Onee-chan was licking the plate I'd carved a magic formation into, I thought she'd finally gone crazy…"
"Hey! You owe your super find to me!"
"In truth, this one is the best seller. Thanks, Onee-chan."
When I tried licking it, it was faint, but it certainly was sweet.
Seeing as how this world puts a huge price on sweetness, I'm convinced that this sells well.
"Kehma, let me try it."
"Yeah, here."
I tossed the Sweet Ball I licked over to her… Ah, Rokuko turned red. Right. So this is the 'indirect kiss' huh.
"Alright, hand it back here for a moment."
"I refuse! It's mine!"
"But I'm the one that bought it…"
"You bought it with the inn's money, so it's mine."
So that's what she's going with… Well, she looks happy for some reason, so I guess it's fine?
"Huhuhu, Owner really is on good terms with Village Chief-san. So, Owner, I'd like to show you something to you alone…"
"Hoh… let's do it!"
"Oi, don't go alone."
"It's alright, we can trust Nayuta. It's okay if you leave!"
And now Rokuko's 100% ensnared. How the heck…
"But right now I'm also acting as Rokuko's guard. I can't leave Rokuko defenseless."
"It'd be nice if we could say that our employer can trust us… Right now, we're also adventurers that are employed by Owner. It'll be alright since we're there, right?"
"Employees and guards are different roles."
"Huhun, I understand that you're worried about your partner, but his it women's talk for women. Could you not show restraint? Well, in this case is…"
"T-that's…! Un, Kehma, it's alright. If you have to, call for Ichika okay?"
"… Oh well then."
I called for Ichika and had her be Rokuko's guard.
"… Ichika, don't be cajoled by them alright?"
"Goshujin-sama. Aren't ya worryin' too much?"
"It's an order."
Additionally, it looks like the magic tools Nayuta sold did pretty well.
… But what was that thing they sold to Rokuko only? She bought whatever it was in the end.
It was three gold coins.
"Goshujin-sama. Make sure ya tell Rokuko-sama she's gotten prettier 'kay?"
Ah, it was a beauty product. Yep, got it.


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I don't see any stations in Venezuela on my maps, so I'd say some coverage is better than no coverage!
When I first set my station up, I had the E-field probe hanging over a doorway in an inside room of my house. It was able to log strikes deep into Mexico as well as Baja California from 2,000+ kilometers away in New York State. I suspect that you will get useable results despite the surrounding buildings.....
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Foothill Soils
Evaluating the soils in your vineyard requires, generally, several steps:
- Research the geologic parent material of your soils, which can be found in the Natural Conservation Service and Geologic Survey source: The Soil Survey. This will give you broad, baseline information about your soils and is a good place to start when assessing your site for farming potential.
NEW!! Toby O'Geen, UC CE Soil Resource Specialist, has updated the soil survey information online, so that it is easier to use and works with iPhone, iPad or desktop. Choose "Soil Web" for the newest app. Then click on the menu button in the upper left corner to navigate. Check it out!
Toby's 2009 Grape Day presentation: Understanding foothill vineyard soils: implications for nutrition and terroir is available here as a PDF.
- Dig several soil pits on your property to assess soil depth and soil properties. A backhoe is best, but even a shovel will do. This is an excellent time to sample your soils and get them analyzed for basic properties:
- Soil texture
- Water holding capacity
- pH
- Cation exchange capacity
- Phosphorus, which is often low in foothill soils because it becomes tied up or "fixed". Since P is not highly soluble, you may want to add it pre-plant.
- Boron. Deficiency or toxicity.
- Organic matter content.
- Other parameters (nitrate-N, K, Zn, Mn, Cu, Fe,and Mo), if desired.
- IF desired, lime requirement (tons/acre) for soils with a pH of less than 6.5. Most foothill soils are indeed acidic (pH less than 6.5), and many growers do not add lime nor try to adjust the soil pH. Instead, they consider the acidic soil pH part of foothill "terroir".
Check our List of Laboratories for Tissue/Soil/Water - Agricultural Analysis to determine where to send your sample.
Soil depths can vary on a single site.
A single vineyard site can vary greatly with respect to soil depths. These 2 soils pits, one shallow, and one so deep we couldn't reach bottom, were both dug in the same vineyard. What are the implications for vine management?


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A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released.
A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. First Samuel and Peter were joined by special guest Edmund Harriss to talk about his time at Gathering for Gardner 10 and Five math things to do before you die, then they spoke with eachother about: Snowflake Growth Successfully Modeled from Physical Laws; A Joint Position Statement of the Mathematical Association of America and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on Teaching Calculus; All the Math Taught at University Can Be Outsourced. What Now?; Mathematical Fonts; Intersections, Henry Moore and British modernism exhibition; Emmy Noether: The Mighty Mathematician You've Never Heard Of; Rechner Calculator; Math Awareness Month: Mathematics, Statistics, and the Data Deluge; and much more.
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"Trump's going to f--- you."
"You f------ need to leave, you f------ Asian piece of s---!"
A Silicon Valley CEO's anti-Asian rant went viral, forcing Solid8's Michael Lofthouse to apologize. Anti-Asian incidences like this have only been increasing as President Trump continues to use phrases like:
"Kung flu. I can name 19 different versions of names."
Even after the World Health Organization discouraged coronavirus names that stigmatize groups of people. President Donald Trump continues to use anti-Asian, racist descriptions to describe COVID-19.
President Trump: "It's got all different names. Wuhan, Wuhan was catching on."
For conservative Asian Americans who once supported President Trump in 2016, how are they reconciling the support they have of the president and his use of racist words? For that, we spoke with Cliff Li, the executive director of the National Committee of Asian American Republicans. He was also the Asian Pacific American advisory committee for the 2016 Trump-Pence campaign.
Li: "It concerns us more [that] the crowd actually chanted about the 'kung flu' virus. And certainly the president worked with it."
President Trump: "Coronavirus, right? Kung flu." (Crowd cheers.)
Asian Americans are the fastest growing voter demographic. They make up 5% of the nation's eligible voters, and while they mostly lean Democratic, nearly a quarter of all Asian American voters went Republican in 2016. The numbers may seem small, but they could have an outsized impact in a close election. And while Li initially voted for Trump in 2016 because of policies like tax cuts and deregulation, he's concerned that the rise of anti-Asian incidents have hit close to home. His 7-year-old daughter was bullied in school.
Li: "A boy … in school is telling other boys that my daughter is from China. So stay away from her. ... I can feel my own daughter — or my own little daughter is feeling the threat simply because she looks Chinese; she looks Asian."
Stop AAPI Hate has been tracking anti-Asian incidents around the country. From March 19 to June 24, they received more than 2,000 reports of discrimination that includes verbal harassment, physical assault and being coughed on. Professor Russell Jeung launched the organization and has seen a correlation between President Trump's anti-Asian words and a spike in anti-Asian incidents.
Jueng: "Using those terms creates this association that the virus is Chinese and that Chinese people have the virus. And by creating that association, people then develop an implicit bias and began to racially profile Asians as being diseased. … The other thing that it did was that it gave people license to make fun of Asians by using terms like 'kung flu' or 'the plague from China'. And so by blaming people for the disease rather than it just being a natural virus, that opened up license for people to harass and attack Asians."
Despite President Trump's use of racist terms and the hateful actions of some of his supporters, Li thinks there's a difference between the president's public and private persona because of the inconsistencies in his messaging.
Li: "Trump himself is not a racist. It is a campaign year. Sometimes he has to work with the crowd. Have to rise the crowd. … At one point, he talked about the 'Chinese virus.' Then later came up with one tweet saying, you know, Asian-Americans, Chinese Americans, they're great."
Li told Newsy his members aren't as enthusiastic in this 2020 election as they were in 2016. Based on their survey, 40% will vote for President Trump; the other 60% aren't sure. We're four months away from the election and the organization has yet to decide if it will back President Trump this November.
Li: "We want to see how the president is able to unite the country. We cannot have a divided country."
Cat Sandoval, Newsy.


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The weekly challenges for this week six of Fortnite Battle Royale were rolled out on January 10, and players were quick to notice that something was off about the list.
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As usual, this week's challenges are comprised of three that are available for everyone to complete and four that are reserved exclusively for those who own this season's Battle Pass.
One of the Battle Pass challenges has three stages, the third of which requires players to deal 200 points of damage to opponents using Grenades, Clingers, or Stink Bombs.
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There is an issue with that list of options however, as Clingers were vaulted a month ago and would thus be impossible to use for the purposes of this challenge.
- Read More: Dr DisRespect compares Epic Games to Daybreak after hilarious, rage-induced Fortnite death
As expected, it did not take long for players to take to social media and Reddit to point out this error and take the opportunity to roast Epic Games in the process.
There are two possible explanations for this kind of error – either the developers in charge of designing and sending out these challenges in-game simply made a mistake, or these challenges are created well in advance and thrown into a database from which seven are picked each week.
Players are reporting that Dynamite, the explosive that essentially took the place of Clingers, works for the purposes of this challenge, which leads to the possibility that the developers meant to put the new explosive in the list instead of the old one.
An error like this has led some to question how on top of things some employees at Epic Games are, considering this was not the first oversight that a representative made today.
On December 10, a Reddit user posted a suggestion for improving Mounted Turrets that Epic employee 'EpicDustyDevo' thought was a brand new idea, when in fact the concept had already been implemented and was just being hindered by a bug.


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Kings Of Leon Perform 'My Party' On 'Pancake Mountain'
Kings of Leon had an unlikely gig, playing two songs during a taping of 'Pancake Mountain' at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, including 'My Party' and 'Razz'. The band handed out earplugs to the young fans, who seemed a little uncomfortable with the loud music. Afterwards, an onlooker joked to RollingStone.com, "Just thank God they didn't play 'Sex on Fire'." Watch their 'My Party' performance below.
Update: Here's a performance of 'Razz' from the taping just posted (12/9) too:


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Sorry but we are not dupes - anyone with half a brain can see that cowardly, effete wars are being waged against cultures that are 'too masculine' and family-oriented; world population is being reduced, secretly pleasing those who make a religion of world population reduction; the only constitutions in the entire Mideast that give "gays" special rights are those tailor-written by the USA in Afghanistan and Iraq; all this is every bit as much about furthering a social engineering across the globe, as it is about oil... and both evil parties are complicit. Trying to paint the scumbag Rove as a "homophobe" is just another really, really desperate confusion tactic that isn't even worth responding to. W
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FINDLAY, Ohio—Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has promoted Carson S. Miller to tire testing manager for its tire division.
He will oversee the tire testing operation, which provides testing services for the product assurance and tire division technical departments.
Miller joined Cooper in 1992 as a materials engineer in the corporate fabric development department. He later served as process development engineer at the company´s Findlay plant laboratory.


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Play It Forward
Five progressive strategies from Mike Ginns MPA '03 to turn the coach into a fan.
When Mike Ginns learned the story of Will "Cannonball" Jackman, a pitcher in the Negro Leagues from 1925 to 1942, he was inspired to create an exhibit that would "highlight him as a person of critical importance in the fabric of sports history in Boston and New England." Yet he also wanted Jackman's "spirit of competitiveness, love for baseball, and passion for community to live on in an active and real sense." Ginns designed The Cannonball Prospects program "to help those kids who are good baseball players, committed students, and want to give back to their communities" by providing opportunities on and off the field, including assistance in achieving a college education. But Ginns also wanted young people who benefit from the program to earn their support, so he requires they volunteer for organizations such as Miracle League and Special Olympics.
The "pay it forward" concept is one Ginns knows from personal experience. While attending Suffolk, he was nominated for the Presidential Management Fellows Program by the faculty of the Public Management Department (now the Institute for Public Service). "This allowed me to get into the federal government and exposed me to various programs and agencies looking to hire graduates [wanting] to dedicate themselves to a public service career," Ginns explains. This experience led to his present job in public policy and statistical analysis with the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). "I use all the skills and knowledge I obtained with my Suffolk degree both at The Cannonball Foundation and at HHS," he says. "The professors and courses I took provided me with a broad foundation on how to look at government and nonprofit institutions and ask the tough questions. They encouraged me to do my own analysis and draw my own conclusions before passing judgment or making important decisions." Here, Ginns provides a perspective for parents who want to help their player develop strategic skills.
1. Play the Field
A utility player is invaluable to every coach. Teach your child to play multiple positions for maximum versatility.
2. Ace the Basics
Encourage your player to go for ground balls from different angles, hit the ball to all fields, and brush up on basic skills.
3. Don't Wait… Anticipate
Teach, learn, and practice situational baseball, stressing the importance of knowing what to do if the ball is hit to each possible position.
4. Quick! Study!
Smart base running means more than speed. Those who have analyzed the defense and know the situation are best on the basepaths.
5. Scout Out Your Coach
Keenly observe the particular baseball skills your coach prioritizes and the parts of the game they believe are important in a player's development.


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January 9
Highlights In Today's Reading:
As the great patriarch Abraham dies, we meet Isaac's family — his wife Rebekah and their twin sons, Jacob and Esau.
Only two men in the Bible are called hunters — Nimrod and Esau. The fact that Esau is described as a hunter like Nimrod, the rebel, gives us some insight into Esau's true character. He revealed his lack of interest in spiritual things when he said: Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright be to me? (25:32-34). Esau could not have been at the point of death because of missing one meal. Obviously, he had no concern for the things of God, who later called him a profane (godless) person (Heb. 12:16). The family birthright included, among other things, the sacred position of spiritual leadership of the family and heir to the covenant between God and Abraham and his descendants. The birthright was a link in the line of descent through which the Messiah was to come (Num. 24:17-19).
Though much maligned by Esau and others, the fact is that Jacob purchased the Abrahamic covenant from Esau for what Esau thought it was worth. In sharp contrast with Esau, Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents (Gen. 25:27). The Hebrew word for plain is the same word translated in other Scripture as perfect, upright, undefiled; so the word plain refers to Jacob's character — Jacob was a man of God. God declares twice: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated (Rom. 9:13; Mal. 1:2-3). And David records: The Lord hath chosen Jacob unto Himself, and Israel for His peculiar (special, sacred) treasure (Ps. 135:4).
Many today, like Esau, are willing to gratify fleshly cravings in total disregard for God's will in their lives until it is too late. Then, like Esau, they find fault with the people of God and blame their failures on someone else. Inevitably, the faithful servant of God will be falsely accused and betrayed; but, it is encouraging to see from Jacob's experience that it is impossible for anyone to keep the chosen servant of God from accomplishing the perfect will of God.
Rather than criticizing others, we need to guard our own hearts: Looking diligently lest any one fail (fall short) of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. . . . Afterward . . . he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance (no way to undo what he had done), though he sought it carefully (desperately) with tears (Heb. 12:15-17).
Thought for Today:
It is not too late for us to impart godly spiritual values to our children or someone else's as long as we have them ourselves.
Christ Revealed:
As the spiritual Seed that would bless all the nations of the earth (Gen. 26:4). Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. . . . as of one . . . which is Christ (Gal. 3:16).
Word Studies:
25:6 concubines =secondary wives without inheritance rights; 25:8 gave up the ghost =died; 25:16 castles =settlements; 25:21 intreated =prayed earnestly; was intreated of him =granted his prayer; 25:23 two nations =the Israelites and the Edomites (36:9); 25:29 sod =cooked, boiled; 26:3 Sojourn =live temporarily; 26:8 sporting with =showing loving affection; 26:9 of a surety =clearly; 26:10 lightly =ignorantly; have lien =had sexual relations; 26:11 charged =warned; 26:13 waxed =became; 26:14 store =household; 26:19 springing =running; 26:31 betimes =early; 27:15 goodly raiment =choice clothes; 27:28 fatness =best; 27:37 corn =grain.
Prayer Needs:
Pray for Staff: Karen Hawkins • Government Official: Rep. Michael Capuano (MA) • Country: Tonga (109,000) in the southwestern Pacific • Major languages: Tongan and English • Religious freedom • 55% Protestant; 22% Mormon; 14% Roman Catholic • Prayer Suggestion: Cry and pour out your soul in prayer in time of affliction (Is. 26:16).
Optional Reading: Matthew 9
Memory Verse for the Week: Matthew 1:21


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25 Ways to Be Alone, But Not Lonely
Ladies, let's get real. We have all made decisions when it comes to relationships that were based on the fear of being alone. I know all about it, because I have done it many times in the past. And those were not relationships that felt magical or lasted. Sometimes they even led to poor decisions that left me feeling guilty and bad about myself. I have even been in relationships where I felt more lonely than ever.
What if you chose the alternative and loved being with yourself so much you never felt lonely again? The outcome would be amazing. You would never date someone just because you felt lonely or were afraid to be alone. You would never settle. You would never accept a partner who possesses any of your deal breakers. You would start to pick partners you actually wanted to be with, and they would want to be with you equally as much because you are so freakin' awesome. You would feel copious amounts of joy, and let me tell you, that is majorly attractive to other people who love living joyful lives, too. Bonus, right?
Let's do this ladies, and start to love being alone with ourselves. We are our own soul mates, and everyone else is just a super awesome bonus soul mate. And, who knows who you will meet who has similar interests as you when you are out doing your thang.
Here is a list of 25 ways to be alone, but not lonely. Feel free to add to the list and take activities away that don't feel authentic to you.
- Go out to see a movie of your choice that is super girly and leaves you feeling good and happy.
- Take yourself out to a three-course dinner at a restaurant that serves amazing food.
- Put on your favorite girl power song and have a dance party.
- Make a list of why you are beautiful, and post it on your bathroom mirror. Read it every time you look at yourself in the mirror.
- Clean out your closet, and donate all the clothes you don't feel hot and healthy in to charity.
- Read a feel good book from cover to cover.
- Take a luxurious bubble bath with organic essential oils or flower petals. Light some candles for ambiance.
- Go for a walk, and strut your stuff.
- Put on a little black dress, and go out dancing.
- Purchase some of your favorite healthy food, and make yourself a delicious meal, eaten by candle light.
- Take a dance class.
- Have a spa day at home. Look up organic treatments you can give yourself, such as a mayo hair mask and cucumber slices on your eyes.
- Play a musical instrument.
- Go contra dancing alone.
- Take a yoga class.
- Write down five things you are grateful for each night before you go to bed.
- Write down a list of five qualities your soul mate must have, and work on those qualities in yourself.
- Meditate.
- Sprint at full speed around your block.
- Write a love letter to yourself.
- Make a vision board for the kind of relationships you want to attract into your life.
- Put on Dolly Parton, and deep clean a room in your house.
- Make a list of the relationships that no longer serve you, and burn it.
- Create some artwork.
- Give yourself a hot towel scrub.


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I've just uploaded my first Tune of the Week essay on the Banjo Hangout website:
The Banjo Hangout "Tune of the Week" (TOTW) Group and its weekly thread was organized as a way to get clawhammer players involved in sharing their knowledge of the linages of old time tunes, and providing video examples of how these tunes are played in a way that shows the unique regional twists to old time instrumentals.
I've been finding the TOTW exercise an interesting way to learn a new banjo tune. I usually hunt through the various versions until I find one that sounds as though I can find it on my fingerboard.
I tape that version on my iPhone – using the "Voice Memo" function – creating a 10 to 20 minute loop, and then play it while I'm jogging with my hounds the next morning at about 0500.
I keep the volume soft, and the iPhone sits in my pocket, so it's low enough to hear but not loud enough to disturb anyone else who might be out at that hour.
That digs the tune into my brain, and I'm pretty much able to find at least some artifacts of the core tune once I pick up the banjo later in the day.
While not necessarily as satisfying as sitting at the feet of an accomplished old time Master and learning the tune the traditional way, for those of us who live in areas deprived or archaic banjo and fiddle music, it is a good internet-driven substitute.
Take a detour in your day and explore the index of these great TOTW "lessons:"
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San Diego Invaders hire Marek Miller as Manager!
Posted by Pacific Shore League on Mar 27 2020 at 05:02PM PDT
The Invaders are proud to announce the manager for the 2020 season is Marek Miller!
Marek is an alum of Cal State San Marcos and Rancho Bernardo High School. During the regular season he's a coach at Oceanside High, with a specialty in pitching.
He's a player first coach who is committed to doing everything in his power to make each player better. We're thrilled to have Marek leading the Invaders this year!!


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Diesel's wife hates basketball so much that he practically has to take a vacation to watch his favorite game. He gets his first chance in the hotel room, but somebody on the team dropped the ball. Scott, from house keeping, comes in to do a little clean up, but he winds up making a big spill…on Diesel's crotch. Slippery fingers on the court can't be helped, but a slippery cock is a different matter. Who cares if his team can't get it up? Diesel can, and he's going for the rim-shot.
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The New Hampshire state attorney general's office said Thursday that it would conduct a criminal investigation into a group of Massachusetts police officers who were videotaped Wednesday as they repeatedly beat a man following an hourlong high-speed chase across state lines.
The video shows at least two officers repeatedly hitting a man who had dropped to his knees after getting out of his vehicle.
The suspect, Richard Simone of Worcester, Massachusetts, faces charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, larceny and failure to stop for officers, according to Massachusetts State Police. It was not clear whether Simone was injured.
Proliferation of videos
Despite the proliferation of videos showing alleged and actual acts of police brutality, the rise or decline of these incidents in the U.S. is unknown.
"We do know there is more public attention to it and we know there is a significant problem because these incidents keep happening," said Samuel Walker, a policing expert at the University of Nebraska.
University of Pittsburgh law professor David Harris said the lack of insight into police use of excessive force results from a lack of national reporting standards.
"We have very poor reporting in the United States as a whole on the use of force by police," Harris said. "That's frankly deplorable."
While some local police departments compile and report information about their law enforcement activities to the federal government, submitting the information is voluntary.
'Data is essential'
Walker said "data is essential" to identifying patterns of police misconduct and fixing them. But he believes a more effective solution is "strengthening the level of supervision on the street."
When there are police chase incidents like Wednesday's in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, "officers lose their judgment and forget what their policies are," Walker said.
Training police sergeants to enforce local law enforcement policies "is the best training an officer is going to get," he added.
But implementing uniform national or state police standards, which exist in other countries such as Britain, also would strengthen policing on the local level, Walker said. "We have this very fragmented, decentralized system, no national standards on use of force."
Harris noted that the federal government does not have jurisdiction over state law enforcement agencies. But he said the federal government should make its funding to the states conditional to urge compliance with police reporting requirements.
"We have 18,000 police departments in the United States," he said. "It's a hodgepodge."


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Bachelor of Science (Hons) Actuarial Science
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|Exam Body
|Internal Degree, Malaysia
|Course Duration
|3 Years
|Part Time/Full Time
|Full Time
|Fees (International Student)
|UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur Campus
|Faculty of Business
|Conducted entirely in Malaysia
|Awarding Country
|Level of Study
|Bachelor's Degree Level
|Field of Study
|Mathematics & Statistics
|Course Description
Actuaries are professional deal with the financial impact of risk and uncertainty. They use skills in mathematics, economic, computer science, finance, probability and statistics, and business to assess the likelihood of occurrence of certain risky events formulate policies that minimize the cost of these risks. As such, actuaries are essential to the insurance and reinsurance industry. In addition, they can be consultants to other businesses, including sponsors of pension plans; and to government agencies such as bank Negara Malaysia. The 3-year BSc (Hons) Actuarial Science programme provides a solid grounding in mathematics, accounting, finance and statistic to integrate theories with actual experience and build a foundation for students to pursuit professional career in the financial risk management industry.
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|Entry Requirements
For general Business degree: UCSI Foundation year Pass, with a minimum CGPA of 2.0 STPM Minimum 2 principals (C) (CGPA 2.0) in 2 subjects and pass in Mathematics and English at SPM Level A-Level Minimum 2 principals (E) UEC Minimum 5 credits (B6) including in Mathematics and English National Matriculation Minimum CGPA of 2.0 International Baccalaureate (IB) Minimum score of 26 points in 6 subjects Canadian Pre-U Minimum average of 60% in 6 subjects SAM Minimum average of 60% in 5 subjects Australian Year 12 ATAR 65% Other qualifications deemed equivalent to STPM/A-Level by Malaysian Qualifications Agency Minimum overall average of 60% Diploma (business-related) Minimum CGPA of 2.0 Other equivalent qualifications To be reviewed by the faculty on a case-to-case basis *For Accounting, Actuarial Science, Diploma and School of IT programmes, please refer to http://www.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/fobis/ for more details on entry requirements
|Intake Months
April, September, December
|Career Prospects
Many corporations today have acknowledged the need for financial specialists with the skills to manage risk. Upon completion of this programme, graduates will be furnished with the proper understanding of management know-how and are prepared for the relevant professional examinations. Graduates can seek employment in key industry streams such as:
All fees are in RM (Ringgit Malaysia) currency unless stated otherwise.
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Dzemal Mahmutovic's lineup for Mantù featured elegant looks that revealed thoughtful details. For example, a gray wool coat featured a lining in camel and was paired with a gray A-line skirt done in a subtle textured pattern. That same motif was used on the hemline and bodice of a black shirtdress with 3-D floral embroidery.
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TNPSC Group 7 Application Form 2017-18 for Executive Officer (EO) Recruitment is available online at official website of Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission. Candidates are advised must ensure their eligibility and other conditions before filling the Online TNPSC Application Form. Candidates can also fill their Application form from the direct link provided below.
TNPSC Group 7 Executive Officer (EO) Application Form 2017-18
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission has released notice for Executive Officer Recruitment 2017-18, The exam will be conducted on 20th and 21st January 2018. Those candidates who want to apply for TNSP EO Recruitment can apply by the given link below.
|Date of Notification
|14 Nov 2017
|Last date for submission of applications
|13 Dec 2017
|Last date for payment of Fee through Bank
|15 Dec 2017
Apply Online: Click Here to fill the application form of TNSP Group 7
Official Website of TNSP www.tnpsc.gov.in
Eligibility Criteria
Knowledge of Tamil
- Applicants should possess adequate knowledge of Tamil on the date of this Notification.
Certificate of Physical Fitness
Applicants selected for appointment to this post will be required to produce a certificate of physical fitness in the form prescribed below before his appointment.
|Name of the Post
|Standard of Vision
|Form of Certificate
of Physical Fitness
|Executive Officer, Grade-I
|Form prescribed for
Executive posts.
Applicants with defective vision should produce eye fitness certificate from a qualified eye specialist.
Educational Qualification
For EO Grade-I
- Must pose a degree in Arts or Science or Commerce
of any University recognized by the University Grants Commission.
- Provided that other things being equal, preference shall be given to the employees of Religious Institutions (other than Government Servants) who have put in not less than 5 years of Service.
- Provided that other things being equal, preference shall be given to persons who hold a Diploma in Epigraphy and Archaeology awarded by the Institute of Epigraphy in Tamil Nadu.
Note :
- The educational qualification prescribed for this post should have been obtained by passing the required qualification in the order of studies 10th + HSC or its equivalent + U.G. degree and also a degree in Law as required in Section 25 of Tamil Nadu Government Servants (Conditions of Service) Act, 2016.
- Applicants claiming equivalence of qualification to the prescribed qualification should upload and submit evidence for equivalence of qualification in the form of G.O. issued prior to the date of this notification when called for, failing which, their application will be summarily rejected. The G.Os issued regarding equivalence qualification after the date of this notification will not be accepted.
- According to G.O.Ms.No.318, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (R) Department, dated 29.12.1997 and G.O.Ms.No.139, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (M) Department, dated 07.10.2009, the applicants who possess the Professional degree or any degree are eligible to this recruitment.
Application Form Fee
- Registration Fee – Rs. 150/-
- Examination Fee – Rs. 150/-
How to Apply
- Applicants should apply only through online mode in the Commission's Websites or go to the direct link given above.
- One Time Registration (OTR) and applicant Dashboard are mandatory before applying for any post. Applicant should register only once in the One Time Registration by paying Rs.150/- as registration fee.
- For applying in One Time Registration, the applicants should have scanned image of their photograph, certificate wherever insisted and signature in CD/DVD/Pen Drive to upload the photo, certificate, and signature.
- Applicants who have already registered in One Time Registration on or before 29.09.2015 shall use their existing user ID and Password to create applicants Dashboard in the new One Time Registration system. No applicant is permitted to create more than one registration ID in One Time Registration.
- All the particulars mentioned in the online application including name of the Applicant, Post applied, Educational Qualifications, Communal Category, Date of Birth, Address, Email ID, Centre of Examination etc. will be considered as final and no modifications will be allowed after the last date specified for applying online. Since certain fields are firm and fixed and cannot be edited, applicants are requested to fill in the online application form with the utmost care and caution as no correspondence regarding change of details will be entertained.


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HONOLULU – Jun. 4, 2007 - Hawaiian Airlines recorded the nation's best scores for baggage handling and fewest cancelled flights in April, according to the monthly Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
Hawaiian had the airline industry's top ranking for fewest misplaced bags at 2.75 bags for every 1,000 customers during April. Hawaiian was also the nation's #1 carrier for baggage handling in 2005 and 2006.
Additionally, Hawaiian reported the industry's best score for fewest cancelled flights at 0.2 percent, representing only 11 cancellations out of 4,565 total flights in April.
Hawaii's biggest and longest-serving carrier had 95.1 percent of its flights arrive on time during April, ranking second nationally. (To meet DOT standards, a flight must arrive within 15 minutes of schedule to be considered on time.)
The DOT report covers 20 airlines, including 10 carriers providing service for Hawaii. The full report is available online at http://airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/reports/atcr07.htm.
About Hawaiian Airlines
The nation's top-ranked airline for service in the 2007 Airline Quality Ratings, Hawaiian also led all U.S. carriers in on-time performance for 2004, 2005 and 2006 (including a record 36 consecutive months from November 2003 to October 2006,) and in fewest misplaced bags for 2005 and 2006, as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Consumer surveys by Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and Zagat all rank Hawaiian as the top domestic airline serving Hawaii.
Now in its 78th year of continuous service in Hawaii, Hawaiian is the state's biggest and longest-serving airline, as well as the second largest provider of passenger air service between the U.S. mainland and Hawaii. Hawaiian offers nonstop service to Hawaii from more U.S. gateway cities than any other airline (nine), as well as service to Australia, American Samoa and Tahiti. Hawaiian also provides approximately 100 daily jet flights among the Hawaiian Islands.
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (AMEX: HA). Additional information is available at HawaiianAirlines.com.


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2 years full-time
International £20,450
BCC (A-level)
Please note: The last intake for this programme will be September 2021, this course will be permanently withdrawn from September 2022 onwards.
This exciting Flood and Coastal Engineering foundation degree has been developed in partnership with the Environment Agency to address the growing need for capable flood engineers in the UK.
Your tuition fees will be funded by the Environment Agency so you can focus on making a difference.
The course is led by Brunel and delivered in partnership with HR Wallingford, a world-renowned civil engineering and environmental hydraulics organisation.
You'll be introduced to engineering, the environment and flood risk, and your learning will be focused on the flooding hazard across the UK. This flood and coastal engineering course will provide you with the skills to effectively deal with the issues of flooding and coastal management, allowing you to become a flood engineer of the future.
During the course, you'll have access to Brunel's testing facilities that include hydraulic benches and flumes. In addition, you'll benefit from the hydraulics testing facility at HR Wallingford, the largest in the UK. Their world-class test facilities include: wave basins; tsunami generator; and remote controlled river survey boats.
To complement your professional development, there are arranged visits to Environment Agency sites where you'll enjoy a series of seminars from invited guest speakers. There's also the opportunity to go to conferences and exhibitions where you'll network with key water industry professionals.
Throughout the first two terms of both years, you'll study the taught modules and then you'll go on a paid work placement for six months at either the Environment Agency or a local authority where you will earn £1000 per month tax free.
During your first year placement rotation, there's also the residential summer school at HR Wallingford. Here you'll participate in challenging team building tasks such as the design, build and testing of your own flood product. As well as this, you'll go on additional civil engineering site visits and look at flood protection projects.
During your two placements, you'll be mentored by an industry professional and will gain real-life experience on what it's like to be an engineer in the water industry. The experience obtained on placement and in the first year summer school plays a major role in developing your professional skills and readiness for work.
Unfortunately we are not able to offer places on this programme to International students who require a Student visa. This is because the amount work experience in this course exceeds the limit we can sponsor a student for a Student visa for a Foundation level course.
Our flood and coastal engineering course is accredited by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) and is accredited by the Joint Board of Moderators (representing the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Structural Engineers, the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, and the Institute of Highway Engineers).
On successful completion of the course, you'll have the full educational base to apply for Engineering Technician (EngTech) status.
You can explore our campus and facilities for yourself by taking our virtual tour.
The first and second year follow the same structure. You'll take the taught modules in the first two terms and then you will go out on placement for six months. Your second year design project will come from industry partners, such as the Environment Agency.
This course can be studied 2 years full-time, starting in September.
This course has a placement option. Find out more about work placements available.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Read more about the structure of undergraduate degrees at Brunel.
Our Flood and Coastal Engineering foundation degree is designed to equip you with the knowledge and practical experience you need to start a career in flood risk management.
As the Environment Agency are sponsors of our Flood and Coastal Engineering courses, they aim to secure a continual intake of high-calibre graduates. Alternatively, you could go on to work for other flood risk management authorities, non-governmental organisations and civil engineering companies.
Graduates of this course have the opportunity to complete the Flood and Coastal Engineering BSc top-up to gain an honours degree and develop their experience and skills.
Five GCSEs at grade C or grade 4 and above are also required, to include Maths and English Language.
Please check our Admissions pages for more information on other factors we use to assess applicants as well as our full GCSE requirements and accepted equivalencies in place of GCSEs.
If you do not currently meet our Maths or Physics entry requirements the Admissions team may be able to provide you with an opportunity to sit a Maths entry test as part of your offer. This test will be based on the material provided at: http://www.facepreparatorymaths.net/, which you will need to study independently beforehand.
Unfortunately we are not able to offer places on this programme to International students who require a Tier 4 visa. This is because the amount work experience in this course exceeds the limit we can sponsor a student on a Tier 4 visa for a Foundation level course.
If you require a Tier 4 visa to study in the UK, you must prove knowledge of the English language so that we can issue you a Certificate of Acceptance for Study (CAS). To do this, you will need an IELTS for UKVI or Trinity SELT test pass gained from a test centre approved by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and on the Secure English Language Testing (SELT) list. This must have been taken and passed within two years from the date the CAS is made.
You can find out more about the qualifications we accept on our English Language Requirements page.
Should you wish to take a pre-sessional English course to improve your English prior to starting your degree course, you must sit the test at an approved SELT provider for the same reason. We offer our own BrunELT English test and have pre-sessional English language courses for students who do not meet requirements or who wish to improve their English. You can find out more information on English courses and test options through our Brunel Language Centre.
Please check our Admissions pages for more information on other factors we use to assess applicants. This information is for guidance only and each application is assessed on a case-by-case basis. Entry requirements are subject to review, and may change.
£9,250 full-time
£20,450 full-time
Fees quoted are per year and may be subject to an annual increase. Home undergraduate student fees are regulated and are currently capped at £9,250 per year; any changes will be subject to changes in government policy. International fees will increase annually, by no more than 5% or RPI (Retail Price Index), whichever is the greater.
Fees for EU applicants – For entry in 2022/23 academic year, eligible EU applicants will have the same tuition fees as UK students to continue our support during this transition period. These fees will be applied for the duration of the course.
More information on any additional course-related costs.
See our fees and funding page for full details of undergraduate scholarships available to Brunel applicants.
Your progress will be assessed via assignments, essays, lab reports, design reports, presentations, individual project and report, and written exams. Marked work and feedback is typically returned four weeks after the due date.
Read our guide on how to avoid plagiarism in your assessments at Brunel.


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If you want to fit as much as possible into a vacation in a brief space of time, there aren't many better options than a brief boat. While trips to far-flung areas may not be ideal for short breaks, there is nothing stopping you enjoying a few relaxing days in St. Augustine.
The fantastic thing about best boat tour in St. Augustine is the variety of things to do. The huge boats are not only home to fine dining restaurants, concierge services, and fantastic social gatherings. You can enjoy water sports in the pool, hiking, and diving.
That is only on the boat though. You stop off at regular points in different nations, where you are free to go off by yourself or follow some organized group excursions to museums and famous landmarks. The centerpiece of the boat is the vast marble reception, with glass walls offering a number of the best sea views out there in almost any boat in St. Augustine.
It's also extremely spacious, which means that you won't feel too bloated, even if you're out at sea. The serene, yet quality service provided on this boat provides a great introduction to the wonderful boats for those new to it. There is a sense of openness here, with lots of large windows offering magnificent views of the ocean and all around it in St. Augustine.


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Hey guys!
Welcome back to another Top 10 Tuesday weekly fun on my blog! Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. If you want to join in the fun, hop on over to their blog to see what it's all about!
This week's topic is Top 10 Futuristic Books That I Love.
Now I am not that experienced in the sci-fi genre as some other readers might be and most of my picks are dystopian books with sci-fi elements. So I apologize if I get them mixed up. But never the less I hope you enjoy the books I have chosen for this week's topic!
10. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
9. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
8. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
7. Cress by Marissa Meyer
6. Legend by Marie Lu
5. Prodigy by Marie Lu
4. Champion by Marie Lu
3. Saga Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
2. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
1. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Well there you have it! Top 10 Futuristic Books I Love. Do you agree with my choices? Give me some awesome recommendations of YA books in the Sci-fi genre please!
Until next time,


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This is a premium rougui (Chinese cinnamon, or cassia) I purchased from a dealer in Wuyishan who approached me directly. I wasn't expecting to be wowed by her selection, but I let her know I had exacting standards for Wuyicha and that I am very, very skeptical of any tea that has the zhengyan label (original cliff, implying it is from the protected area of Wuyishan, which is a national park) applied, especially if the tea is priced well below market value for the real deal. I also told her I had never found Wuyicha that met my standards at any of the large tea expos in China, or at the largest tea market in Guangdong, and that I have excellent sources for Wuyicha down here, so I seldom feel the need to source Wuyi teas from across the border since I've found so many of the teas on offer there to be subpar.