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Williams' death another reason to pay attention to suicide risk
Robin Williams' zany approach to comedy entertained countless people for more than 40 years.
His suicide last Monday shocked countless more.
But, in one respect, it shouldn't have.
By now we should understand that depression is an indiscriminate mental illness. It cannot be defined by age, gender or socioeconomic status, and it doesn't care about professions.
Even the bright ball of laughter that was Williams wasn't immune to the dark despair of a disease that can be deadly.
"It's great that we're talking about mental health and suicide prevention. However, I just want to be careful about why we're talking about it," Amanda Matthews, executive director of N.E.W. Mental Health Connection in Appleton, told us as part of a front-page story on Saturday.
Many people in our neighborhoods, workplaces and elsewhere in the community are dealing with the same illness, she said, and we need to make sure they get help.
Fortunately, our community has made great strides in raising awareness and improving accessibility to treatment. Numerous groups are working more diligently than ever to provide help and to stamp out stigma that makes mental illness more deadly.
If you, a friend or a family member needs help, please reach out. Do the same if you're someone who wants to make a difference.
As hopeless as depression can feel, our community can't be helpless in combating it.
Here's how you can get immediate help:
• Calumet County Crisis Intervention: 920-849-9317
• Outagamie County Crisis Intervention Center: 920-832-4646
• Waupaca County Crisis Line: 715-258-6304 or 800-472-3377
• Winnebago County Crisis Intervention: 920-233-7707 or 920-722-7707
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255
• Veteran's Crisis Line: 800-273-8255 and press 1 or text message to 838255
— Jamie Mara, managing editor: 920-993-1000, ext. 298, or firstname.lastname@example.com; on Twitter @Jmara1
Warning signs of suicide
These signs might mean someone is at risk for suicide. The risk is greater if a behavior is new or has increased and if it seems related to a painful event, loss or change.
• Talking about wanting to die or to kill oneself.
• Looking for a way to kill oneself such as searching online or buying a gun.
• Talking about feeling hopeless or having no reason to live.
• Talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain.
• Talking about being a burden to others.
• Increasing the use of alcohol or drugs.
• Acting anxious or agitated; behaving recklessly.
• Sleeping too little or too much.
• Withdrawn or feeling isolated.
• Showing rage or talking about seeking revenge.
• Displaying extreme mood swings.
Additional warning signs include preoccupation with death, becoming suddenly happier and calmer, loss of interest in things one cares about, visiting or calling people to say goodbye, making arrangements and setting one's affairs in order or giving away prized possessions.
A suicidal person urgently needs to see a doctor or mental health professional.
Source: Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, www.save.org
Online help
• Test your mood: http://newmentalhealthconnection.org/page/mental-health-screening-0
• Risk factors and warning signs: www.afsp.org/preventing-suicide/risk-factors-and-warning-signs
Mental health community resources in the Fox Valley
• Catalpa Health: Provides mental-health services to children and teens throughout the Fox Valley. 920-750-7000, catalpahealth.org
• NAMI Fox Valley: Supports and empowers those affected by mental illness and the vision to live in a stigma-free community and society that supports and promotes mental health and recovery. 920-954-1550, www.namifoxvalley.org
• Center for Suicide Awareness: Education, prevention and support for those affected by suicide. 920-750-9091, http://suicidepreventionandresourcecenter.org
• N.E.W. Mental Health Connection: Focuses on the consumer of mental health services moving the community forward. 920-636-6876, http://newmentalhealthconnection.org
• CHAPS Academy: Provides a holistic and creative approach to mental-health counseling, specializing in trauma and suicide prevention and intervention. 920-986-3003, www.chapsacademy.org
• Prevent Suicide Fox Cities: Supports suicide prevention, intervention and response. 920-931-2552, www.preventsuicidefoxcities.org
• TeenScreen at Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley: Improves emotional wellness of Fox Valley adolescents by providing school-based assessments for highly treatable mental health needs associated with increased suicide risk. 920-886-9319, http://samaritan-counseling.com/index.asp, firstname.lastname@example.com


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Key backer of Syrian 'White Helmets' found dead in IstanbulComments
By Ali Kucukgocmen
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The British founder of an organisation that trained the Syrian "White Helmets" emergency response group has died in Istanbul, three people with knowledge of his death said on Monday.
James Le Mesurier, founder of the Mayday Rescue group, was found dead early on Monday near his home in central Istanbul's Beyoglu district, a neighbour said.
A security source told Reuters it was believed that Le Mesurier had fallen from the balcony of his home office and his death was being treated as a suspected suicide. A third person, a diplomat, said the circumstances around his death were unclear.
The White Helmets, known officially as Syria Civil Defence, have been credited with saving thousands of people in rebel-held areas during years of bombing by Syrian government and Russian forces in the country's more than eight-year civil war.
White Helmets members say they are neutral. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his backers describe them as tools of Western propaganda and Islamist-led insurgents.
Mayday Rescue, a not-for-profit organisation, began its operations in 2014 and established an office in Istanbul in 2015 to support its Syria project. Its projects have been funded by the United Nations and various governments, its website said.
Mayday Rescue did not immediately respond to an emailed query about Le Mesurier.
A former British army officer, Le Mesurier was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth in 2016 for services to Syria Civil Defence and the protection of civilians in Syria.
The security source said Le Mesurier's wife told police that she and her husband had taken sleeping pills around 4 a.m. and went to bed. She said she was later woken by knocking on the door and discovered that her husband was lying on the street surrounded by police, the source added.
(This story changes award received to OBE in paragraph 8)
(Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Jonathan Spicer)

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I am one of the many people in the world who loves to engage in outdoor activities. Having fun outside is one of the most interesting things that anyone can engage in.
You have a variety of activities to choose from; there is hunting, hiking, camping, skiing and a lot more.
Even though we already know that these outdoor activities are not only supposed to be fun but they're supposed to be adventurous and adrenaline-inducing, there are times when these activities become very uncomfortable and leave you tired at the end of the day.
There is no better welcome you can receive after such a heart days activity than a hot bath.
If you're out camping in the forest, you may begin to wonder how possible it is for you to get the kind of hot shower you will get from the comfort of your bathroom.
If you're one of those who have wondered about the possibility of having that home bath enjoyment, then the answer to that question you is yes. You can have a relaxing warm shower even in the forest.
In this article, we will be telling you all that you need to know about portable water heaters, and we would also be explaining to you why you would need to purchase one.
What are portable water heaters?
Portable water heaters are usually not very complex. As a matter of fact, they're basically similar to the standard water heaters that you have in your bathrooms and kitchens except that they are portable.
Portable water heaters are getting more popular these days as more people begin to engage in outdoor activities.
With the increase in demand for this little helpers, there is no doubt that it will be easy for you to get them from your local market or electronics shop.
Just like when you want to purchase other products, it is very imperative that you do your research before you go ahead to purchase a portable water heater.
There are quite a few brands in the market that offer different features for their water heaters, and each of these products come with their unique pros and cons.
To get a professional opinion on any water heater brand or if what you need is a professional well-written review, it is best that you check a water heater review site to help you with all the necessary information.
One good thing about taking a water heater review site before you go ahead and purchase any specific product is that the help you to pick one product that is what your money instead of spending on something that one last as long as you want or offer the specific features that you are looking for.
What should I look out for?
Purchasing a portable water heater is one of the most wonderful things you can do for yourself and your kids if you love camping together.
I know that a lot of families who engage in outdoor activities believe that it is a lot more interesting if you go without your mobile phones or any other electrical gadget.
However, when it comes to a portable water heater, it can only make your experience more enjoyable and comfortable.
Now that you know how important it is to have a portable water heater in your possession below are some of the essential things that you have to look out for before you purchase anyone regardless of its brand:
1. The size
When going for an outdoor activity like camping it is very important that you know how to manage space.
It is always the best idea that should go for a water heater that can contain more water, but when the problem you are dealing with is space, then you can also go for a more compact size even if it means heating water more than once for you and your family.
It is very important that you can find a balance between performance and size.
2. The performance
It does not simply matter how many gallons of water you can put into your water heater; the most important question you need to ask is how much time you to take to heat the water.
If your water heater can take as much as three gallons of water or four, but it takes a very long time for the water to heat up, then you just might have made the wrong decision.
There are times when you will need hot water, and you will need to have it as fast as possible, but because your heater is slow, you have to wait longer. Make sure that you look for this specification before you buy any water heater at all.
3. The design
When it comes to portable water heaters, the design is not really a factor that you should be concerned about nevertheless if you get to water heaters that are similar in terms of performance and size then it is not a bad idea if you go for the one that looks fancier.
Have you tried the portable water heater before? Let us know what your experience was like; if you liked its performance or if there are other things that make it a must-have product. If there is any other thing you would like to share with us regarding the use of a portable water heater.
Please do not hesitate to leave a comment in the comment section provided below. We look forward to hearing from you.


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Buying lawn care customers.
To grow your business, you can buy lawn care accounts and get a bunch of them in one fell swoop or you can utilize your lawn care marketing and build them up more organically over time. Either way, it's going to cost you to do it. Either time or money. So if you have the cash on hand, you might consider what these lawn care business owner did to grow. They each shared with us some insights as to how they made it work on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.
One business owner wrote "I was curious to know if anyone has had the opportunity to buy some new lawn care customers? More specifically I was wondering the type of terms business owners have dealt with and if there were any good or bad stories that were experienced going through the process of buying customers. Did you ever have the chance to buy them but just never pulled the trigger?
In my area we have about 30 cuts a season and there is a local lawn care company selling a group of customers that are worth $30,000 in annual mowing contracts for $15-$16k. Is this a good price?
I am a little concerned about going through with it. There are a bunch of issues I am hung up on. How do you work the terms out? How do you let the customers know you are taking over? Do you send out a letter stating what's going on, or try to call them, or just show up and continue mowing?
These contracts also have fertilizer customers in them as well and I feel the fertilizing customers hold a lot more value then that actual hard labor mowing accounts, but is this actually the case?"
A second lawn care business owner shared "here in my state of Florida, lawn care customers sell for 3-4 months income of said customer. So for example a $100 monthly mowing account would cost you between $300-400. I've had some good experience buying lawn care accounts. Sure there is a risk associated with it, but if you are smart and a bit lucky, it is a fast way to grow your business. My accountant also told me I can write off the buyout on my taxes.
Prices will vary based on many factors including location. I don't think the northern states are pulling 3-4 month income for accounts, I think they only get 1 month. To be sure, ask around your area with some other local guys to see what they suggest. Also, look online, especially on those classified ad sites. You surely will find some businesses being posted for sale and you can see what kind of price they want compared with how much the accounts are making.
I would not buy accounts for 50% of the annual income though. The example you gave seems way high. If you buy mowing accounts for 50% of the annual income, you have to mow them for free for half the season plus cost of overhead for the work. So you are more like 75% of the season before you even break even. If you lose some of those high priced lawn accounts, which is inevitable, it will sting A LOT!
Paying 3-4 months income is much less of a risk. The faster a profit can be turned on these bought customers, the better. Some business owners are just not willing to take this gamble. So they won't consider buying accounts.
The terms of the deal are easy to handle. It simply comes down to what does he want and what you want to pay. From that you find middle ground with a number everyone can live with and you purchase them.
When I bought out another local lawn care company in the past, he wanted 4 months income for his mowing accounts. I told him ok I will work with you for one month we can use my equipment and after one month I will pay you for the remaining 3. This way the customers were all introduced to me by him and when the month was up we sent out letter saying that the two companies merged and all future payment needed to be sent to my company name. So in total I paid about 3.5 times the monthly customer income, since we worked together for 1 month.
This worked out well for me. It has been three years now and I only lost two of the mowing account I bought from them. Those accounts were both paid for and making a profit before they went away.
This type of deal may not be possible in all situations, but it was ideal for me and really help build trust with the new lawn care clients."
A third lawn care business owner said "I just got a bunch of lawn care properties for this season from another lawn care company and maybe my story will teach you something new. This other business owner and I started to make a deal for me to buy his lawn care accounts about 2 years ago. But we could never come together and meet in a happy middle range. He wanted way too much for the properties. Being very friendly, I always asked if he would reconsider and he didn't. Finally we met up last winter, and he just gave me the properties. All he wanted in return was to rent one of my mowers for a week as payment. He realized no-body wanted them for what he was asking and I was the most friendly and stayed in contact with and that's why he said he gave them to me. He got burnt out from running his lawn care business and he just wanted out.
So sometimes it pays to pull the trigger and make the deal happen while other times it pays to hold and wait. Feel out these situations and find one that works for you. What ever you do, don't go into negotiations overzealous because that is the best way to go bankrupt over it"
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text: Police booked two class 12 students of Kendriya Vidyalaya in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, for trying to set a teacher's house on fire in demand of good marks. The duo had been giving sleepless nights to the teachers for the last month, exploding crude bombs and petrol bombs outside their homes and setting their vehicles on fire, to compel them into giving good marks in the supplementary exam, said police. A police officer said they even made phone calls impersonating a local MLA and municipal officer to create pressure on them. When disciplinary action was taken against them, they turned violent.


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Health: Thankfully Noah is feeling better. He still has a runny nose and seems congested at night. We use the nosefrida and vapor rub at night trying to help Noah sleep.
^^^ When I saw this shirt at Old Navy I knew I had to get it since it looked just like Socks the Fox!
Social: On Sunday, we went over to Chris' parents' house for dinner. Noah got to see his Uncle Justin! They got him some sensory balls, a wagon filled with jumbo legos, and some Giants footballs.
On Monday, we met up with the MOMS Club's Walking Group. I am now the coordinator, and this week we met 2 other moms (and babies) at the Loantaka Reserve. On Tuesday, we went to Alstede Farms... but I plan to do a separate post on that soon. Noah and I went over to Owen and Becky's house for lunch on Wednesday.
Noah and I went to his first "Music & Me" class at the YMCA on Thursday. It technically started last week, but since he was sick we had to skip it. Noah had fun, but it was definitely geared to older kids, so we won't be going back.
Diet: The other day, Noah wanted nothing to do with his pureed baby food lunch. However, when I heated up some leftover pasta for myself and gave him some, he devoured it... and made a mess ;) And of course, Noah loves our afternoon ice cream dates on the couch!
Baby Gear Love: There have been some days where I've wanted to go for a walk with Noah but I end up not going just in case it rains. So I finally pulled out the rain cover that came with the stroller, figured out how to put it on, and put it in the basket underneath "just in case". I hope I don't end up having to use it, but this way I know Noah will stay dry regardless.
Noah also LOVES his walker... he's getting better using it all the time.
Noah also LOVES his walker... he's getting better using it all the time.
Daddy Time: Chris spends a lot of time on the weekends, and tries to spend as much time as he can during the week from 6:30 to 7:30/8pm while Noah is still awake.
They have fun, but when Noah gets tired, all the fun ends and he has to go to sleep...
They have fun, but when Noah gets tired, all the fun ends and he has to go to sleep...
Likes: Noah really likes books. We read during the day and before bed. I've put a bunch of his books in a basket in the playroom so that he can "read" them on his own as well. So far he just enjoys taking them ALL out of the basket.
He especially loves his flip books, thought he already destroyed one of them after only 1 day!
Noah had to wear socks on our way to swim class (since it was colder). It took him maybe 5 minutes before he got them off. He had way more fun playing with them.
Noah still love balloons. When we stopped at Party City (for birthday party supplies) last weekend, the woman behind the counter was nice enough to give Noah a balloon. Unfortunately it popped in the car while we went into the next store! We were maybe gone 20 minutes... what a bummer!
Who needs toys... Noah prefers playing with my soap bottles. We've given him one of my old bottles and he's now a happy boy!
Mommy: I love having friends who are teachers that get out of work early! It means we can meet for dinners on a regular basis and it doesn't mess up Noah's bedtime! This week I met up with Marlaina for a nice dinner at George and Martha's. When Chris got off the train he came to the restaurant (right across the street from our apartment) and took Noah home to hang out. We got to finish our dinner and when I came home, Noah was passed out on Chris :)
Happy 47 Weeks Noah!


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This month, I am interviewing Sue Galloway, a local author. Sue Galloway was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, but now lives in rural France. She has always had an interest in creative writing. She decided to bite the bullet and throw herself into her writing, and has since written and published two books. One isContinue reading "Interviewing Sue Galloway, author of 'Growing Roses'"
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Interview with Denise Bloom
I have decided to start a blog to share my thoughts and feelings, tell you any news about my new books and releases, and to generally keep in touch with all of my readers. In collaboration with Cindy Mobey, who helped me design my website, we are both publishing an interview Cindy conducted a weekContinue reading "Interview with Denise Bloom"


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Whenever you think of a budget trip you could plan it here in no time. Meghalaya is enriched with cultural and natural beauty. Adventure, weekend trips, shopping, fun time with friends and family are hot deals of it. You will find the magic and serenity of the place once you enter its boundary. No wonder India has lots of places to visit but Meghalaya should be the top of your bucket list.
If you think of doing something crazy, just pack your bags for Shillong. I used to do it often. Every time your experiences will be different.
Rushed there with your essentials that too instantly. All you need to do is reach International airport of Guwahati, Assam from any place. You can keep it simple, low budget and self-customized. Straight from the airport to the Guwahati city will cost around 500 or you can book Ola/Uber for less price and reach Paltan Bazaar Taxi Stand where you will find available rented taxis on the personal basis which will cost around Rs. 1200 for the car or for sharing basis Rs.300 each person.
Once you started your trip with the taxi it will reach Shillong in two hours. On the way, you will find Nongpoh where evening tea or lunch can be done. It is the starting point from where you will feel the beauty of the State popularly known as 'Abode of Clouds'.
Before reaching the city of Shillong you will witness the scenic beauty of Umiam Lake popularly known as Barapani. It is known for hydro power project constructed a dam which is also famous for boating, kayaking, water cycling etc.
Shillong is situated at 1496m above sea level which has most dwellers from the Khasi and Jaintia Tribes. It is surrounded by hills in most of the places. Police Bazaar is the place where you will find hotels at reasonable prices starting from 1000-1500 to stay for 3-4 nights. Within the city, one can feel the scenic beauty of the land. The main attraction of the place includes Elephant falls, Hydari Park, Shillong Peak, Wards Lake, Golf Course, State Museum, Don Bosco center for Indigenous.
Meghalaya has been evolving faster in the new era of travel and tourism. One must not miss this place which will give immense pleasure for being in this State.
More interesting posts will come up in near future.


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Secure360 starts tomorrow May 12th.
A group of @securitytwits are getting together tomorrow night at the Great Waters Brewing Co. at 7:00 p.m. I'm not sure where we are going to be in the place or how many of us there will be, but fun will be had 🙂
If you think you might be coming by, drop a note in the comments so we can keep any eye out for you.
Great Waters Brewing Company is located at:
426 Saint Peter St
St Paul, MN 55102
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"…world trade routes are mostly the same as they were 150 years ago at the height of European colonial exploitation. In the same way that colonized nations provided cheap sugar, chocolate, coffee, and fruit to the West, 'developing' nations now provide cheap semi-disposable clothes to the West and global economic upper classes."
Interesting read on the intersections of sustainability and colonialism. Semaan's main focus is the fashion industry, but a lot of her points are relevant in terms of the global food trade as well. I particularly appreciate her point that buying in a sustainable and socially-conscious way doesn't have to mean spending more money. I read this several weeks ago and it has stuck with me, so I figured I'd share! Read the whole article below:


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August 08, 2022 at 20:17
Emergency financial services provider, Kentucky Title Loans, is drawing attention to the recent recognition that the Louisville MSA received from a major business publication. Louisville readers who are curious about the bespoke financial services that Kentucky Title Loans offers can find out more about the company by heading over to the link: https://kentuckytitleloans.net/locations/louisville-ky-40258/.
Full-service media brand specializing in the site selection marketplace, Business Facilities Magazine, has ranked the Louisville Metropolitan Statistical Area third on its list of Logistics Leaders, a ranking that measures all forms of transportation logistics including shipping by air, rail, water, and highway. This is the second year in a row that the Louisville MSA has ranked on the publication's Top 10 list.
A spokesperson for Greater Louisville Inc, an organization that works to promote the growth of business in the city and surrounding counties in Kentucky, reacted to the recognition by calling Greater Louisville "a natural hub for logistics". The city's reputation as a logistics stronghold is nothing new as Expansion Management magazine had also previously given the city a five-star logistics rating and ranked it as the second-best in the country for logistics.
Louisville's success as a logistics hub can be attributed to the efforts of Greater Louisville Inc, formerly the Louisville Area Chamber of Commerce, as well as the city's robust transportation infrastructure. For example, one of the initiatives of Greater Louisville Inc is the Advanced Manufacturing & Logistics Network (AML), a collaboration between logistics and manufacturing companies to share best practices and engage with resources to improve business performance and strengthen the community. It focuses on five key areas including networking and industry collaboration, advocacy, workforce and education, economic development, and structure.
Louisville, due to its central location is also home to UPS Worldport, the international shipping and supply chain management company's worldwide air hub. For businesses that rely on ground transport, the city is within a day's drive of over two-thirds of the country's population. The highway system in Greater Louisville provides one-day access to well over 66 percent of the major domestic markets via Interstates I-65, I-64, and I-71. When it comes to rail transport, Greater Louisville is served by three Class I railroads – Canadian Pacific (CP), CSX, and Norfolk Southern (NS) – and multiple regional and short-line railroads. For connectivity via waterways, the region has 48 private terminals and 3 public inland ports on the Ohio River - Jefferson Riverport International (Kentucky), Meade County Riverport (Kentucky), and Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville (Indiana).
When asked for its thoughts on the recognition that Louisville MSA received from Business Facilities Magazine, a spokesperson for Kentucky Title loans was on record saying, "We are glad to see the area growing as a national logistics hotspot." Louisville residents who want to find out what the community is saying about Kentucky Title Loans can head over to its Google My Business page at the link: https://goo.gl/maps/icvPXPQdRDtc8aM37.
Even though Louisville's accomplishments in the logistics industry are worth talking about, there are plenty of Kentuckians who feel left out of the economic windfall that the rest of the state is benefiting from. Instead, their day-to-day attention is more likely to be occupied by the rising prices of gas and everyday goods which are straining their already tight budgets. If they are faced with sudden medical bills or other expenses that need to be dealt with fast, coming up with the required funds can seem nigh impossible.
Louisville residents caught in such a quandary can turn to the financial services offered by Kentucky Title Loans which promises disbursal of funds up to $50,000 in as little as 24 hours, straight to the applicant's bank account. The company even accepts applications from clients with a poor credit history. Kentucky Title Loans approves all kinds of vehicles including cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs, and more, as long as they are not older than 1999 and are in excellent condition.
Louisville residents can click here to find out more about Kentucky Title Loans or contact a representative for the company at (502) 563-8535.
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Guest post
Lesson from a graduation ceremony
Some summer ago, I had travelled for the graduation ceremony of a very good friend of mine (yeh! my brother from another mother). We had studied the same program at the university (I was only about a year or two ahead), and I was very very happy to see him leap to the next phase of his life.
As the graduates were being called out to the stage to be honoured by the vice-chancellor, there I was sitting happily among the attendees waiting to cheer up my friend and capture videos/pictures of him as he walked majestically across the stage. Then all of a sudden I felt this burst of emotions as I started reminiscing my own past graduation moment – my name getting announced with my tummy-squalling not from fear but excitement (I was probably contemplating what stunt to pull when I got on center stage), me walking across the stage and the booming sound of cheering coming from my 'fans' who were amongst the crowd of attendees (my friends and well
I had attended friends' graduation ceremonies that took place before mine, and I could clearly sense a different emotion while I was at this friend's graduation which had occurred after mine. At the former (i.e. at the friends' grads that preceded mine), I remembered always looking forward to my own upcoming graduation, envisioning myself completing my program with a great distinction (aka first class), and taking lots of pics with my friends and well
It was then that I got this strong personal epiphany, that truly, truly it's only those things that are ahead of us that can motivate and pull us; the past probably will not do that. This was when I was fully convicted that it is our envisioned future/rewards, not even past successes that stir up our juice of excitement. And that excitement stems from looking forward to what's to come in the future – that's what pulls us.
Ever since that revelation, I've become more obsessed with and more conscious about continuously creating heart-bounding goals/visions ahead of me that'll motivate and pull me into the realm of excitement and fulfillment in the future. I encourage you to do the same as that's what makes life fun and adventurous.
Irrespective of your past successes and victories (which could be enemies of your future success if you let them), I can assure you that your best days are still ahead. So keep envisioning, keep looking ahead and keep doing great things!
To your successes ahead !
About the guest
Franklin H. Ezenwa is a software developer by vocation and an author & aspiring international speaker by avocation. Based on surveys from current students, his book https://allroundachievers.com/book/ Be A High Achiever: Achieving all-round Success in College & University is fully loaded with tested and proven ideas, inspirations and techniques that will help students achieve the success they desire at school as well as equipping them to be the best version of themselves as individuals.
Have a nice week ahead 🙂


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Cockroaches are nocturnal insects, which are found in more and more important quantities in Switzerland.
They colonize in appalling amounts buildings and neighbourhoods. It is estimated that for one cockroach spotted, there are about a hundred times more hidden in the walls. They feed on organic particles and paper but they do not transmit infectious diseases.
Symptoms of allergy to cockroaches are typically chronic rhinitis and asthma.
Treatment consists of allergen avoidance and taking appropriate medication according to symptoms.The eviction is done by specialized companies that put poisoned food pellets, which insects pick up and bring into their hiding place, thereby destroying the entire colony.For an eviction to be effective it must be done for the entire building, and probably repeated regularly. Otherwise, re-colonization is fast. For now there does not exist an effective desensitization against cockroaches.


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The Local Development Finance Authority (LDFA), as established by The Local Development Financing Act, Act 281 of 1986, Section 125.2151, is composed of five members and appointed for four-year terms by the Mayor subject to the approval of City Council. The Authority's primary objective is to encourage local development to prevent conditions of unemployment and to promote economic growth; to provide for the establishment of local development finance authorities and to prescribe their powers and duties; to provide for the creation of a board to govern an authority and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the creation and implementation of development plans; to authorize the acquisition and disposal of interests in real and personal property; to permit the issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness by an authority; to prescribe powers and duties of certain public entities and state officers and agencies; to reimburse authorities for certain losses of tax increment revenues; and to authorize and permit the use of tax increment financing.
City liaison: Economic Development Specialist, 248.524.3314.
Meetings: The LDFA meets on the third or fourth Monday of April and October at 3:30pm at Troy City Hall.
In 1993, the City of Troy established the Automation Alley SmartZone. Central to the SmartZone was the designation of an area as a "certified technology park" (PDF Map). This zone of approximately 75-acres was created as a Local Development Finance Authority (LDFA). The tax increment will be used to fund infrastructure for the park, marketing efforts to attract high technology companies to this certified technology park and establishment of a "technology accelerator program" to assist technology based companies in bringing new products to the market. Council appointed a five member SmartZone committee.
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Like so many others, I have been having a hard think about what happens now. Still seeking answers that may never come, but I am renewing my commitment to make art that is part of the solution, not the problem. I'm not wholly sure what directions this will take me in, I only know that complacency is the enemy.
Fortuitous perhaps, that I have something I care about so deeply to throw myself into right now. We are making stops in Baltimore, DC, and Charlottesville, as well as streaming the final show on Concert Window. Hope you can join us this weekend, in person or remotely…
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At this year's MLA, there was much ado about Digital Humanities – from Pannapacker's article in The Chronicle of Higher Ed to the Twitter backchannel. And MLA 2012 is shaping up to offer much more depth to Digital Humanities.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, who organized "The Past and Future of Digital Humanities" Roundtable at MLA 2011, gathered myself, Steve Ramsay, Tara McPherson, Brett Bobley, Bethany Nowviskie, and Alan Liu. The tweets and blogging that ensued from this discussion exploded the conversation outside of the confines of the room and into weeks after the conclusion of the conference, including Matt Kirschenbaum's historicizing of Digital Humanities for an ADE article and Steve Ramsay's follow-up to the cool kids party talk. What follows are my 3-minute remarks [revised slightly] from the MLA 2011 panel. The rest of the kerfuffle can, well, be googled, quite frankly. (I think it all died down in favor of the Digital Humanities Conference proposal acceptances/rejections being made public in mid-February.)
Teaching and Learning in DH
Last year, when Kathleen asked me to join this panel, she did so because she recognized my frustration with the Digital Humanities community and was working to really listen, assuage and include the point of view of teaching and learning in Digital Humanities conversations. I had been active on the backchannels of Twitter for various acerbic conversations and continually asked about the representation of teacher-scholars in Digital Humanities circles. Where are the people who teach 3/3 and 4/4 and 5/5 loads, often carrying more than 100 students and 3-4 preps every semester. How are they able to do the labor-intensive work of digital projects with little to no institutional support? How do they include their undergraduate students in this collaborative environment? And in what capacity can they include themselves in this very spirited and generous community? The potential inclusion could come in the form of sharing strategies for incorporating digital content into a course, using digital tools like Zotero, MIT's Timeline or For Better or Verse in the classroom, having students construct digital projects including scholarly editions or digital poetry.
Even before we could skip the 2010 MLA conference and re-convene in our groovy new style, Project Bamboo and the Mellon Foundation responded to some of these issues. CUNY's Academic Commons is a direct response to these types of teacher-scholar issues and allows virtual collaboration across 18 campuses. DHAnswers also very specifically responds to this call for an online community with a category labeled DH in the Classroom. The DH Community on Twitter has been enormously useful in sharing syllabi, interesting assignments and useful results [as well as the Zotero DH group]. Even the 2009 and 2010 Day in the Life Project managed by Geoffrey Rockwell allowed participants to write about teaching days. Period-specific organizations are also resorting to this type of online community: Romantic Circles recently initiated a Teaching Romanticism blog and invited several Romanticists to contribute with quite a few DH people writing regularly. As the editor of the E-Resources reviews for SHARP's newsletter, I'm ecstatic when reviewers of digital resources include a pedagogical focus.
The Digital Humanities Conference program committee also responded in various ways – and we'll find out how in February when the acceptances are distributed and the program is completed. [See Stefan Sinclair's reaction to the twitteratti upheaval about acceptances to the DHC for 2011. Some of the major players in DH didn't get their proposals accepted, interestingly.] All of this community requires crowdsourcing and, really, is contingent on good PR. Merlot is a project out of the Cal State system that amasses teaching materials online and solicits across an international audience. But, it suffers from a lack of PR.
Even with all of this good stuff, as has been said over and over at yesterday's panels, at last night's tweetup, during informal hallway discussions, and across academia, teaching is often invisible labor, though it's the largest part of our jobs. In today's [January 7, 2011] Inside Higher Ed, two interviewees remind us that the flagging economy forces higher education in general to justify itself to our students.
Yes, she (Teresa Magnum) said, it's frustrating to be in a world where one has to explain why great novels matter. "But maybe that's something we stopped thinking about and we shouldn't have," she said. "We have to return … to where our students are coming from." (Teresa Magnum "Moving Beyond Venting")
In the same article, Stephanie Foote asks why the creation of a syllabus for an exciting new course shouldn't be seen as "an intellectual research project" and count in the way that only traditional publishing does now.
…and I would extend that conversation to innovative teaching practices using digital tools as well. Why not gain some professional credit for classroom use? But this is perhaps an argument more for the administrative process rather than us to resolve here today.
Scott Jaschik's article is a tacit reminder that students are the reason why we have our jobs. My question for DH: how can we turn that creativity, discovery, playfulness back to our students, specifically for me, undergraduates? Both in the classroom and in our scholarship. This means including undergraduates in collaboration. Or, sharing strategies for things like project-centered courses, which seems to be a particularly onerous format for larger classes. These are questions for our audience.
But before I end, let me complicate the role of DH in academia in general and offer up this idea for the future:
While all of the previously-mentioned activity is an incredible step forward, what I came to realize was that we're talking to each other. Don't get me wrong. It's a great conversation even when we disagree and critique each other. I think what we need to be doing is talking to those who don't do DH to explain and demonstrate the benefits of digital whatever in the classroom. That Romantic Circles blog is a most intriguing model for talking about pedagogy, curriculum development, individual class experiences, assignments, student responses to Blake and using digital tools and resources in all facets to communicate about Romanticism. That's the beauty of the blog – DHers are simply part of the discussion.
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Three electors at an Auckland city polling place fill in their ballot papers on Saturday 8 November 2008 – the day New Zealand's 49th parliamentary elections were held. After voters have marked their ballot papers in secret (in the privacy of temporary cardboard booths), they fold them and deposit them in ballot boxes such as the orange one in the foreground.
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Ajar Nugroho, Niko (2008) UPAYA CAMAT DALAM MENINGKATKAN DISIPLIN KERJA PEGAWAI (Studi Pada Kantor Kecamatan Bugul Kidul Kota Pasuruan). Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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Work discipline is related with work on time in presence, fullfil duty and less of absence or work deliberate or undeliberate. In working time, a lot of staff leave their duty at office only for take a break or just walking around. Its make their work unmeaningfull and a lot of people felt loss out. Because of that, the writer are very interesting to review with title Subdistrict Leader Way to Increase Staff Discipline (Study at Subdistrict Office Bugul Kidul, Pasuruan). This research's aim is to know how subdistrict leader increase the discipline, and supported and unsupported factors. The research location at Bugul, Pasuruan with 5 Subdistrict leader and their Secretary, Government Section Principles, Social Prosperity Section Principle and Subdistric Office Staff. The writer using primary and secondary data and the analyzer is qualitatif. The research's result are the subdistrict leader doing some action, such as training, delegation, motivation, reward and punishment to the staff. From attitude view with give motivation, advice, presence card, give a reward to the staff who have a good discipline, coordination and communication relating with their work. And in behavior views, Bugul subdistrict leader joining and participation with his staff, such as asking staff opinion and give reward. The communication conduct by the leader is direct comunication with the staff and working in togetherness. Obstract factors of this programs is there is still undiscipline staff who is not pay attention with the regulation and presence. It is because of the lower of education level of the staff.
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Happy New Year everyone.
I would really like some advice on how to maintain some oxidisation in the recesses of a silver ring.
I made some rings with a deep laser hallmark on the outside and have tried various methods of making it stand out.
Using platinol and also using some stamping ink. Can you advise on the best way to keep the black colour? I'm attaching a photo to show you the ring.
I wondered if there was a liquid sealant i could paint into the recess? The edges of the hallmark are a bit sharp, so can't really use a cloth to rub a waxy sealant into it, so is there a liquid?
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A shrunken agreement to leave internal borders open might, for example, exclude countries in south-eastern Europe. A huge number of refugees have arrived in Europe on boats from Turkey, landing in Greece and attempting to travel north.
He turned that into a more startling analogy, according to a report from the Financial Times. Here's the kicker:
"As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected," said Mr Rutte in an interview with a group of international newspapers. "So we really have an imperative that it is handled."
He's one. His concern is perhaps not unrelated to the fact that Geert Wilders' hard-right and anti-immigration Party of Freedom leads some Dutch political polls by double digits right now.
But Rutte isn't the first or only person to make the analogy. Historian Niall Ferguson made a similar point about the EU and Rome in the aftermath of the Islamist attacks on Paris this month.
Here's a snippet from his op-ed in the Boston Globe:
Let us be clear about what is happening. Like the Roman Empire in the early fifth century, Europe has allowed its defenses to crumble. As its wealth has grown, so its military prowess has shrunk, along with its self-belief. It has grown decadent in its shopping malls and sports stadiums. At the same time, it has opened its gates to outsiders who have coveted its wealth without renouncing their ancestral faith.
The tremendous surge in the number of refugees arriving in Europe is the latest in a series of crises that the bloc has attempted to muddle through in recent years.
From Greece's bailout and the economic turmoil in southern Europe generally, to the heightened security concerns following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it seems like Europe drifts from one challenge to the next, failing to find a healthy balance between national sovereignty and the need for collective action.


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- The A59 runs ColorOS 3.0 based on Android 5.1.
- The Oppo A59 features VoLTE capabilities.
- Oppo's A59 will be available in Gold and Rose Gold colours.
Oppo has disclosed its new A59 cell phone in China. Evaluated at CNY 1,799 (around Rs. 18,500), the Oppo A59 will be accessible to purchase beginning June 18 by means of the organization's authentic online store.
The A59 cell phone will be accessible in Gold and Rose Gold shading alternatives. The Chinese organization starting now has not uncovered any arrangements for the universal dispatch of the Oppo A59.
Oppo A59 highlights a 5.5-inch HD (720×1280 pixels) IPS show and accompanies a pixel thickness of 267ppi. It is controlled by an octa-center MediaTek MT6750 processor timed at 1.5GHz combined with 3GB of RAM. The handset packs 32GB of inbuilt stockpiling and backings expandable capacity by means of microSD card (up to 128GB). It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop with the organization's ColorOS 3.0 UI on top.
The cell phone brandishes a 13-megapixel back camera with a LED blaze and PDAF (stage recognition self-adjust). It can record video at 1080p determination. There is a 5-megapixel front-confronting camera on board too.
Oppo touts the A59's metal unibody plan and incorporates a 3075mAh battery. The A59 bears double speakers on the base board close by the charging opening.
The cell phone measures 154.5x76x7.38mm and weighs 160 grams. Network choices on the cell phone incorporate 4G, VoLTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS/A-GPS, and Micro-USB. The official posting of the Oppo A59 affirms that the cell phone is perfect with Indian LTE groups. The cell phone highlights unique mark scanner that is installed on the home catch and Oppo cases can open the cell phone in 0.22 seconds.


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By Stefan Stanford – All News Pipeline – Live Free Or Die
Are Russian Diplomats Being Assassinated? Globalists Continue March Towards World War 3 As Russian Ambassador To The UN Mysteriously Dies In New York
– Half-A-Dozen Senior Russian Diplomats Mysteriously Dead Since Late December
All the way back on election day in November of 2016, Sergei Krivov was found just before 7 a.m. lying on the floor of the Russian Consulate in New York. Found unconscious with an unindentified head wound brought on by 'blunt force trauma', by the time emergency responders arrived, Krivov was dead. Initial reports said the then-nameless man had plunged to his death from the roof of the Consulate. That story was quickly changed to 'he suffered a heart attack'. Police officers later called the death 'natural' and the case was closed. Three months later, the New York City medical examiner isn't sure he had a heart attack after all.
According to this November report on the incident from Sputnik, Krivov was a 'consular duty commander' at the Russian Consulate.
That position is no ordinary security guard. According to other public Russian-language descriptions of the duty commander position, Krivov would have been in charge of, among other things, "prevention of sabotage" and suppression of "attempts of secret intrusion" into the consulate. In other words, it was Krivov's job to make sure US intelligence agencies didn't have ears in the building.
While the death of Krivov raised no eyes nor ears from the mainstream media and this is the first we're hearing about it, a brand new breaking story today makes us ask what is really going on in the global world of politics after the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations was also found dead in New York today.
While two deaths of those working in Russian politics here in America recently might not sound like much, in the last few months alone there have been AT LEAST 6 deaths and possibly 8 among Russian diplomatic channels.
The Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, was recently found dead in New York according to this breaking story and the 2nd video below from Kev Baker in which our videographer asks, has another Russian diplomat been assassinated? Interestingly, Russian president Vladimir Putin had recently ordered extra security measures for Russian diplomats living abroad.
For those who have been paying attention and keeping track, back in December of 2016, 56-year-old Petr Polshikov was discovered with a bullet wound to his head at his home in Moscow. Polshikov's death came just hours after Russia's Ambassador to Turkey, 62-year-old Andre Karlov was killed at an art exhibit in Turkey. Back on January 9th of 2017, the Sun reported Russian diplomat Andrey Malanin had been found dead in his home in Athens, Greece. Also, back in January First Post reported that Russia's Ambassador to India had succumbed to heart failure. Alexander Kadakin was 67-years-old and was awarded the Order of Friendship Russian recently, for his efforts in strengthening and the bilateral ties between India and Russia.
After India's surgical strikes against terror launchpads across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Kadakin in October had said that Russia was the only country to clearly say that Pakistan was responsible for large-scale terrorism.
Are we now witnessing political assassinations of Russian diplomats made to look like natural deaths and how do all of these recent deaths fits into 'the big picture', if they are indeed more than just 'coincidences' after all? Another interesting mysterious death that we have to add to this un-Godly soup that's been brewing has to be the death of NATO's auditor general Yves Chandelon who was found dead back in December of 2016. While authorities call his death a suicide, his family vehemently disputes that and in fact, his job of investigating terrorism funding should send out a loud and clear alarm knowing who is funding much of the terrorism now going on in Syria and the Middle East.
As Susan Duclos just mentioned, "if they can't start a war one way, they'll find another way to start one." Might NATO globalists and Ukrainian Nazis in Kiev now be finding that 'other way' to get us into WW3? And what do far-right-wing Ukrainian Nazi's have to do with all of this? As we learn below, they are the 'rot' beneath all of the stink.
According to Senator Rand Paul in a recent interview with ABC News, Americans are very lucky that Senator John McCain isn't in charge. John McCain is clearly the face of the swamp in DC that must be drained for America to move beyond the mentality of "death, destruction and war" that pervades much of Washington DC. McCain is also one of the staunch supporters of the Neo-Nazi nationalist puppets that the US government installed in the Ukraine who non-stop push for war with Russia. Why would parts of the US govt be in bed with neo-Nazi terrorists?
With McCain one of those in Washington DC leading the 'Russians are coming' chant and charge towards World War 3 with Russia that would quite instantly lead to 'instant karma' and the 'end of America' as we know it, Senator Paul warns us exactly why Americans are lucky that death-and-war-hungry McCain doesn't have his rotting hands on the nuclear triggers. And with the remnants of a failed politics still pushing for war with a country that could instantly send America back to the dark ages, we must remind you what might happen to America should we be 'so lucky' should war-hungry politicians sitting now in Washington DC such as John McCain and Lindsey Graham have their way.
We'll close with these two warnings and excellent words of advice from 'Russian insiders' living here in America about what the US might look like within a half an hour to an hour after if we ever did something as stupid as launching an attack upon a sovereign nation that could completely destroy us. Those who would somehow surviv such an onslaught but were unprepared for what was to follow would likely wish that they were killed by the initial devastation. If totally unprepared, would you want to live through this?
If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the United States will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up dead.
The operational abilities of the new Russian military have been most persuasively demonstrated during the recent action against ISIS, Al Nusra and other foreign-funded terrorist groups operating in Syria. A long time ago Russia had to respond to provocations by fighting land battles on her own territory, then launching a counter-invasion; but this is no longer necessary. Russia's new weapons make retaliation instant, undetectable, unstoppable and perfectly lethal.
Thus, if tomorrow a war were to break out between the US and Russia, it is guaranteed that the US would be obliterated.
At a minimum, there would no longer be an electric grid, no internet, no oil and gas pipelines, no interstate highway system, no air transportation or GPS-based navigation. Financial centers would lie in ruins. Government at every level would cease to function. US armed forces, stationed all around the globe, would no longer be resupplied. At a maximum, the entire landmass of the US would be covered by a layer of radioactive ash.We tell you this not to be alarmist, but because, based on everything we know, we are ourselves alarmed. If attacked, Russia will not back down; she will retaliate, and she will utterly annihilate the United States.
We also get these words of wisdom from the Russian Insiders about why the US under President Donald Trump should try to forge ahead with peaceful relationships with a country that could annihilate us if they wanted to.
Russia is clearly not Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan nor ISIS.
Such a fight would be suicidal for all sides.
We strongly believe that a conventional war in Europe runs a strong chance of turning nuclear very rapidly, and that any US/NATO nuclear strike on Russian forces or territory will automatically trigger a retaliatory Russian nuclear strike on the continental US. Contrary to irresponsible statements made by some American propagandists, American antiballistic missile systems are incapable of shielding the American people from a Russian nuclear strike. Russia has the means to strike at targets in the USA with long-range nuclear as well as conventional weapons.
We also appeal to the American people to take peaceful but forceful action to oppose any politician or party that engages in irresponsible, provocative Russia-baiting, and that condones and supports a policy of needless confrontation with a nuclear superpower that is capable of destroying America in about an hour.
Speak up, break through the barrier of mass media propaganda, and make your fellow Americans aware of the immense danger of a confrontation between Russia and the US.
We are absolutely and categorically certain that Russia will never attack the US, nor any EU member state, that Russia is not at all interested in recreating the USSR, and that there is no "Russian threat" or "Russian aggression." Much of Russia's recent economic success has a lot to do with the shedding of former Soviet dependencies, allowing her to pursue a "Russia first" policy. But we are just as certain that if Russia is attacked, or even threatened with attack, she will not back down, and that the Russian leadership will not "blink."
With great sadness and a heavy heart they will do their sworn duty and unleash a nuclear barrage from which the United States will never recover. Even if the entire Russian leadership is killed in a first strike, the so-called "Dead Hand" (the "Perimetr" system) will automatically launch enough nukes to wipe the USA off the political map.
We feel that it is our duty to do all we can to prevent such a catastrophe.
We join the Russian insiders in expressing such sympathies.


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Maximillian Oppenheimer (6 May 1902 – 26 March 1957), known as Max Ophüls (German: [ˈɔfʏls]), was a Jewish German-born film director who worked in Germany (1931–33), France (1933–40), the United States (1947–50), and France again (1950–57). He made nearly 30 films, with those from the last period being especially notable: La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952), The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) and Lola Montès (1955).
Max Ophüls was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, the son of Leopold Oppenheimer, a Jewish textile manufacturer and owner of several textile shops in Germany, and his wife Helen. He took the pseudonym Ophüls during the early part of his theatrical career so that, should he fail, it wouldn't embarrass his father.
Initially envisioning an acting career, he started as a stage actor in 1919 and played at the Aachen Theatre from 1921 to 1923. He then worked as a theater director, becoming the first director at the city theater of Dortmund. Ophüls moved into theatre production in 1924. He became creative director of the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1926. Having had 200 plays to his credit, he turned to film production in 1929, when he became a dialogue director under Anatole Litvak at UFA in Berlin. He worked throughout Germany and directed his first film in 1931, the comedy short Dann schon lieber Lebertran (literally In This Case, Rather Cod-Liver Oil).


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It's been a long time since I faced the terror of a school report myself, but it all came back after I landed upon this Slate article, pointing towards Charlotte Brontë's. Made available online by the British Library as part of its fabulous new digital English literature resource, the write up is hardly glowing. Apparently, the girl who would go on to pen Jane Eyre "writes indifferently" and "knows nothing of grammar, geography, history, or accomplishments". The eight-year-old is, however, "altogether clever of her age", but "knows nothing systematically".
The report is taken from the school register of the Clergy Daughters' School, at Cowan Bridge, and published in the Journal of Education. It also mentions Emily Brontë, then aged 5 ¾, who "reads very prettily, and works a little", and, poignantly, Elizabeth and Marie Brontë, then aged nine and 10, both of whom left "in ill-health", and died later in 1825.
"Typhoid fever hit Cowan Bridge, leading to a number of deaths among its pupils, thought to have been exacerbated by the school's poor food and harsh regime," writes the British Library. "Maria and Elizabeth fell ill; after being sent home, they both died of tuberculosis in May and June, respectively. Shortly before Elizabeth's death in June, Charlotte and Emily were also removed from the school. The school's routine and conditions, combined with Charlotte Brontë's memory of her sisters' deaths, provided inspiration for Lowood School in Jane Eyre."
Charlotte Brontë is not the only author to have failed to receive a good send-off from school. Robert Graves writes in Goodbye to All That that, leaving Charterhouse, his headmaster's "parting shot" was "Well, goodbye, Graves, and remember that your best friend is the waste-paper basket". (Graves adds: "This has proved good advice, though not perhaps in the sense he intended: few writers seem to send their work through as many drafts as I do.")
Catherine Hurley has even compiled a whole book of school reports of the famous, Could Do Better – which is weirdly compelling. PG Wodehouse, at Dulwich College in 1899, was told "he has the most distorted ideas about wit and humour; he draws over his books and examination papers in the most distressing way and writes foolish rhymes in other people's books", and Helen Fielding, at Wakefield Girls' High School, that she "must learn not to use such flowery language".
The Wall Street Journal gives us report cards from the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Norman Mailer here, but I think I like Hurley's look at Beryl Bainbridge's report best. From Merchant Taylors School in Crosby, in around 1943, Bainbridge's English report at least admits that "her written work is the product of an obviously lively imagination", although "it is a pity that her spelling derives from the same source". As for geography: "Her knowledge of the subject is so poor as to make one wonder if she is simple-minded."
If that's what can be said of someone as fantastic as Bainbridge, then there's hope for us all.


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History of Modern Banking
Back to 1960, when Charles Sanford signed up with Bankers Trust, he raised the ranks to end up being chairman and president in the late 1980s. Throughout his period, which lasted till 1996, the bank originated a variety of practices that would later on end up being typical in the market, consisting of the advancement of brand-new methods to determine danger.
By composing and then repackaging loans for sale to other market individuals, Bankers Trust developed a secondary market for loans. It also put loans with owners whose financing profiles were a much better match for the long-lasting nature of the credits.
Any business owner might leave the banking and go into a company without any constraint or licenses. In this post, we will trace the development of banking i.e., how banking altered to be the extremely controlled company that it is today.
Goldsmiths to Moneylenders
The banking occupation, in the strictest sense of the word, was very first brought on by goldsmiths in the middle ages Europe. The goldsmith, for that reason, began taking deposits, and this was in a method the birth of modern-day banking.
Taking deposits and making loans together altered the nature of the goldsmith's business to cash financing. Over some time, this would, even more, end up being and progress banking.
Uncontrolled Age
This was the period of uncontrolled banks. Anybody who desired to might set up a bank and go into the service. By then, banking had ended up being a huge business, and some of the popular lenders like the Medici household and the Rothschild household were thought about to be more effective than kings!
Issuance of Private Bank Notes
Personal Banks would release personal banknotes. The notes were absolutely nothing also an invoice for gold that had been transferred at the bank and might be withdrawn if the invoice was provided.
At one time, there were over 30,000 various kinds of personal banknotes inflow in the United States. Needless to say that this developed significant confusion, and as an outcome, unique books needed to be released.
Development of Central Banks
To bring order to this turmoil and avoid the truthful banks from losing the company, main banks came into presence.
Main banks were banks produced by a unique charter by the federal government. Central Banks are universal in the modern world. It is downright difficult to find a nation without a main bank today.
Fractional Reserve Banking
If a bank gets $100 as a deposit, it needs to preserve, let's state $10 as deposit, and the rest can be utilized for financing. The Central Bank sets this $10 quantity and regularly differed from reducing the cash and increasing supply as needed.
Nowadays, banknotes themselves form the reserves based on which more banknotes are released.
The banking business has gone through remarkable modifications over time. The fundamental nature of business has dramatically altered from safekeeping to complete reserve cash providing to the modern fractional reserve banking.


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$7 ARM9 SoC gains development supportMay 28, 2008 — by Eric Brown — from the LinuxDevices Archive — 3 views
Timesys is offering a LinuxLink subscription for Atmel's ARM9-based AT91SAM9G20 system-on-chip (SoC). The subscription includes a 2.6.25 Linux kernel, toolchain, and hundreds of glibC and uClibc packages optimized for the low-power $7 SoC, says Timesys.
Announced earlier this month, the AT91SAM9G20 consumes a maximum of 80mW, says Atmel, and offers has twice the clock speed and four times the cache of its pin-compatible predecessor, the AT91SAM9260. Like the 9260, the 9G20 is equipped with an ARM926EJ-S core, but it quadruples data and instruction caches to 32KB apiece, doubles internal ROM to 64KB, and doubles SRAM from 8KB to 16KB. The clock speed, meanwhile, has increased from 190MHz to 400MHz.
The LinuxLink subscription offers a Linux platform that has been "pre-complied, integrated and tested" for the AT91SAM9G20 Evaluation Kit, says Timesys. The package also provides the company's TimeStorm development tools, plus web-based support and documentation. In September of last year, Timesys offered a free board support package (BSP) for Atmel's AT91SAM9-series microcontrollers, including the AT91SAM9260.
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Stated Greg Quiggle, VP of Sales and Marketing for Timesys, "With LinuxLink, subscribers have access to the software, tools and support to quickly assemble, test and profile a custom Linux platform for a wide variety of PoS terminal, industrial and building automation applications."
The LinuxLink subscription for the AT91SAM9G20 is available now, says Timesys. More information on Timesys support for Atmel's processors may be available here.
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Grandma & Grandpa. I pray these words fill you with sweet memories! I was blessed to have four amazing grandparents as I was growing up. Oh the memories that come flooding back as I write these words. Long car rides in the countryside (when I would have rather been swimming at the community pool!), baseball games in the backyard, Thanksgiving dinner and decorating for Christmas before changing to our pajamas and falling asleep on the long car ride home, working puzzles and playing games, riding bikes, singing songs about Jesus…I could go on and on. I have been blessed with an amazing heritage!
Along with all the fun of grandma there is also a great responsibility, and it is this.
"Train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled." Titus 2:4
Grandma, mother, aunt, sister, you have a great responsibility. We think loving our family and raising our kids will come naturally but this verse says it does not. "Train the young women to love…" Loving our spouses and our children is not easy. They say there's no manual to tell us how, but there is. Yes, we have the Bible, but more than that we each have living examples. Each of us as Christians are called to teach the next generation how to live for Christ. Do you take this responsibility seriously? Do the words you say and the actions you portray teach the young women in your life to be loving and self-controlled and kind?
And grandpa, you're not off the hook.
"Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us." Titus 2:6-8
Your children and grandchildren are looking to you as an example. They are soaking in every word you say. The are observing every action you take (or don't take). They are learning from you every time they are in your presence.
What legacy are you leaving? Will your grandkids one day read the words Paul wrote to Titus and give praise for the heritage you left? I pray they will.
And if you aren't fortunate enough to have amazing grandparents, seek out an older couple who can take you under the wings. Pray for God to direct you to someone that has a heritage they are willing to pass along.
Each one of us is leaving a legacy. Let us live in such a way that our family, for generations to come, will point to us as an example of what it means to follow Christ.


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You shouldn't be willing to make your opinion public without also being willing to admit you're wrong every once in a while. Well, I'm willing to admit I was wrong when I said that I wouldn't write about the stadium again. In addition, certain… facts…. came to light this morning that made much of what I wrote yesterday pointless at best and inaccurate at worst. For starters, a site plan is out:
Very good news for 11th Ave – it seems that the stadium will merely cantilever over the roadway, expelling doomsday scenarios about closure or tunnels. It may actually be an improvement over today's 11th Ave, gusty with parking-lot reinforced winds. We'll have to wait for something more detailed to be sure, however.
Potential plaza problems remain, although apparently stealing the morgue from Hennepin County is no longer being considered. The plaza depicted is about the same size as the Morgue Plaza I considered yesterday, but is potentially better enclosed by theoretical buildings. A new worry, however, is this "Open Space Gameday Tailgating" loaded with so many contradictory purposes that the cartoonist just gave up and colored it green. There is no way that a space used for tailgating will be in any way green. Even if they use grow-through pavers, this will still be a parking lot. Anyone who's been to the Renaissance Festival knows what I'm talking about – what was a pleasant country meadow becomes a muddy pig sty once it's filled with cars. And speaking of, what the hell are those mysterious gray blobs north of the Armory?
They sure aren't the Star and Tribune Building, which I guess isn't historic but sure is classy. If its destruction is inevitable it will be missed by one person at least.
Despite releasing a new summary of financing, no more details have been released, and in fact some have been obscured: parking is not mentioned in this new summary. The ever-wary newsole has pointed out that the summary from 35W Financial uses both the words "meters" and "stalls", implying a distinction that can be explained by assuming the latter refers to spaces in parking ramps. I haven't seen anything to confirm this, but if it's true it would render much of what I said yesterday inaccurate. In the interest of containing further inaccuracy, I'm going to button my lips about this. Um… thanks for reading?!?! This is absolutely definitely the last thing I'm going to say about a stadium forever I promise cross my heart. Probably.


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Traveljunkieindonesia.com – One of the most important months of the Muslim calendar is the fasting month of Ramadan. As a profession of faith and spiritual discipline, Muslims abstain from food, drink, cigarettes and other worldly desire (including sex) from sunrise to sunset. Exemptions from fasting are granted to pregnant women, the ill or infirm, young children and those undertaking extreme physical labour.
Ramadan is often preceded by a cleansing ceremony, Padusan, to prepare for the coming fast (puasa). Traditionally, during Ramadan people get up at 3am or 4am to eat (this meal is called sahur) and then fast until sunset. Many Muslim visit family graves and royal cemeteries, recite extracts from the Koran, and spinkle the graves with holy water and flower offerings. Special prayers are said at mosques and at home.
The first day of the 10th month of the Muslim calendar is the end of Ramadan, called Idul Fitri or Lebaran. Mass prayers are held in the early morning, followed by two day of feasting. Extracts from the Koran are read and religious processions take place. During this time of mutual forgiveness, gifts are exchanged and pardon is asked for past wrongdoings. This is the big holiday of the year, a time for rejoicing, and the whole country is on the move as everyone goes home to be with their family.
During Ramadan, many restaurants and warungs are closed in Muslim regions of Indonesia. Those owned by Catholic, Budha, Hindu, Protestant, and the others will be open, but in deference to those fasting, they may have covered overhangs or will otherwise appear shut. Ask around for open restaurants. In the big cities, many businesses are open and fasting is less strictly observed. For night owls the cities come alive for the night meal.
Though not all Muslims can keep to privations of fasting, the overwhelming majority do and you should respect their values. Do not eat, drink, or smoke in public or in someone's house. If you must, excuse yourself and go outside.
Ramadan is an interesting time to travel but it can be difficult. Apart from having to hunt down restaurants and abstain from imbibing in public, the first few weeks are not too restrictive, but travel is a real hassle towards the end of Ramadan.
Around a week before and a week after Idul Fitri, transport is chaotic and packed to the gunwales. Don't even consider traveling during this time. You will be better off in Catholic, Budha, Hindu, Protestant areas – eg Bali, East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, West Papua, Papua or North Sulawesi – but even these areas have significant Muslim population and Idul Fitri is a big national holiday of two days duration for everyone. Plan well, find yourself an idyllic spot and stay put.
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I had a request for current information on the wildflowers for Lake County in the Valley Fire area. Last year this was a wildflower hotspot as the area was recovering from the fire. You can see what last year looked like at http://www.renyswildflowers.com/2015-Valley-Fire_Nature-Recovering/ Every year is different especially after a fire and often the first year is especially interesting. If anyone has been there recently could you please post a comment. Thanks.
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ほしの島のにゃんこ "Kitty Star Island" iOS Game Review.
Today I am bringing you an adorable Japanese-take on the farm-type games such as Farmville and the like. The game I have been playing is called ほしの島のにゃんこ or, "Kitty Star Island", developed by Colpol. Colpol is known for making adorable cat-themed games so this one does not disappoint!
ほしの島のにゃんこ "Kitty Star Island" Japanese Language Complexity Scale:
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"Simple Japanese, with big child-like text, along with cues to understand the game fully, despite language understanding."
So, the game starts off very typical of a crop harvesting game. Let me explain the dynamics of them and about this one in particular if you haven't ever played one before. Basically, you spend your time harvesting crops with individuals who are your laborers. In this case, they're adorable kitties! Basically when you begin harvesting there are real-time cool-downs on when the various crops and foods will be available to harvest and then sell. As you build your funds you can continue to build your farm bigger, more efficient and even more adorable!
As you can see from above, different customers (which are also other adorable kitties) start coming to your on-farm grocery store to get the items that they need, which will in-turn yield you a lot of in-game cash. As you continue to play their demands become more intense, so it's often hard to keep up with the orders. There is however, much like Farmville, if you are feeling impatient or not wanting to wait for the real-time counter to pass to get your crops or yields you can use rubys which is a premium in-game currency. You begin the game with 4 or 5 of them but any more will cost you yen. It's a great idea to have this in the game for those who are rather impatient or busy and don't have time to hover the game. Rest assured if you don't spend yen, you can still enjoy the farm game! Below, I have included a fan-made video of the game. I hope it gives a better idea on how the game works and also how adorable it is! Enjoy!


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(Washington, D.C. – Jan. 12, 2009) EPA is proposing to exempt from Oil Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure requirements milk containers and associated piping and appurtenances. The containers, piping, and appurtenances must be constructed according to current applicable 3-A Sanitary Standards, and are subject to the current applicable Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO) or a state dairy regulatory requirement equivalent to the current applicable PMO. The capacity of these milk containers would not be included in a facility's total oil storage capacity calculation.
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