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My second class was this past Sunday and having more of an idea about my kids and their personalities I was able to customize the lesson a little better. First of all, we sat on pillows on the floor and abandoned the table. We talked about their week at school and slowly led it into the lesson. I read them the story of the man who traveled to a nearby city to ask Jesus to heal his sick son, and how Jesus said "Go home, your son is well" and when he returned home he indeed found his son better. We talked about times when we need help and how we can ask Jesus for help when we need it. The kids had so much to contribute to the conversation and its so refreshing to see the world through their eyes 🙂
Instead of coloring I decided they would get more enjoyment from being interactive so we converted the classroom into a "stage" and each of us took a role. We acted out the bible story and completed it with a happy dance at the end when the father arrives home to find his son well. Then we gathered around the table and ate chocolate cake.
When the bell rang for Sunday School to end, the kids groaned and said they didnt want it to be over yet 🙂 I'm really loving my new role although I do miss being in the ladies class. In a lot of ways though, I'm still getting my weekly lesson too. Next week we're going to do finger painting and do a mural (on bristle board) together. The kids need to bring in their favorite stuffed animals as well, I think I'll bring my gray bunny one 😉
A few other things that have been going on; My aunt died last week and it was pretty sudden and unexpected so its made everyone a tad edgy. She had a heart attack last Saturday but it was minor so they sent her home on Tuesday morning. By Tuesday afternoon she was back with another minor heart attack but was stabilized by 4:30. The call went out to the family that the following night would be crucial but she never got that far. Around 5:30pm she suffered a massive heart attack and died.
Greg and I went to Niagara for her funeral and to spend time with my family. Aunt Diane was dads sister and the second of his siblings to die. Most of the conversations were about how everyone went to visit her over the weekend after the first minor heart attack and how she was promising to change her life and how she was going to start spending more time with her family and so on. Its not that Aunt Diane was a bad person, I dont want to give that impression but she was a very independent one, and quick to withdraw. There were many times in my life where no one knew where she was or where she was living; she was like that – if she didnt want to be bothered for a few months, she dissapeared.
The last time I saw her was in June at my dads family bbq. I'm really glad she came to that and spent the whole day… it was a beautiful day and it will be a comforting memory to my other aunts and uncles. I feel sorry that she never got the chance to follow through with her new resolution, and I guess there's no guarantee that you get a second chance. Its a good reminder to be the best person you can be each day.
That said, the other thing thats new is that this week I officially begin my volunteer work in the church. I'll be visiting one of our 5 shut-ins for her birthday and I'm looking forward to getting started. Also this Thursday is the first meeting for the "Village of Faith" project that Gregs baseball league is sponsoring. The Village of Faith is a mission project that provides schools, medical centers and sport fields to approximately 500 children in Sululta, Ethiopia. This is going to be a big project and Greg will have his hands full but I'm excited to be helping with it 🙂
And lastly, it was Noah's birthday a few days ago, and even though I couldnt be there I still made him a pretty cool cake and brought it down when I went for the funeral. When he saw it, he told me I was the best aunty ever and gave me a huge hug. Its amazing what those words can do, even if I know he says them to us all 🙂


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Creole Belle
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Dave Robicheaux is back, in a gorgeously written, visceral thriller by James Lee Burke, "the heavy weight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed" (Michael Connelly).
Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song "Creole Belle" on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf.
Meanwhile, there has been an oil well blowout on the Gulf, threatening the cherished environs of the bayous.
Creole Belle is James Lee Burke at his very best, with beloved series hero Dave Robicheaux leading the charge against the destruction of both the land and the people he has sworn to protect.
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James Lee Burke is the author of many previous novels, many featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. He won the EDGAR AWARD in 1998 for Cimarron Rose, while Black Cherry Blues won the EDGAR in 1990 and SUNSET LIMITED was awarded the CWA GOLD DAGGER in 1998. He lives with his wife, Pearl, in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.


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2012 Media Ethics Workshop -- Save the Date
The 8th annual Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop will take place Sept. 20.
The 8th annual Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop will be Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 in JMC's state-of-the-art First Energy Auditorium in Franklin Hall. Theme for this year is political media ethics. Plan to join Poynter faculty, media professionals and others for this daylong training opportunity. See last year's sports media ethics Workshop archives here.
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Weekend Yum Cha
Weekend Yum Cha pays homage to the popular Cantonese pastime of Yum Cha, a much-loved ancient tradition which brings family and friends together over dim sum and tea, and enjoyed with a sense of celebration.
Weekend Yum Cha is available on Saturdays and Sundays from 12pm – 4pm. Reservations can be made by emailing [email protected].
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half bottle of Henriot Champagne, NV
49 per person
half bottle of Verdejo Dados, Rueda
half bottle of Sangiovese, Gran Sasso, Abruzzo
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Dan Cong Shui Xian roasted oolong tea
Taipei San Xia green tea
Cold brewed tea
Mattari mai-shin
Welcome drink
Chun tian
Cinzano Biano vermouth, Hennessy Fine de Cognac, limoncello, cinnamon, passion fruit, ginger bitters and peppermint bitters
Tanqueray No. 10 and jasmine
Tanqueray No. Ten gin, jasmine green tea, Fever-Tree light tonic and lemongrass
Sencha negroni
Tanqueray No. 10 gin, sencha green tea infusion, Antica Formula vermouth, Mondino Amaro and chamomile bitters
Lychee ginger collins
Tanqueray No. 10 gin, lychee, cranberry, lemon, ginger and tonic water
Thea martini
Zubrowka vodka, ginger, apple, lime, vanilla, chilli
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served with soda water
Lime and passion iced tea
passion fruit, lime, apple and jasmine tea
Luscombe Damascene Rose bubbly
refreshing, fragrant and lightly sparkling
Mattari mai-shin
brewed tea and rice blend
Dim sum
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帝皇蟹水晶餃 King crab dumpling
黑菌三鮮餃 Seafood black truffle dumpling
珍珠玉杯餃 Wild mushroom dumpling
三式北京烤鴨 Three style Peking duck
Bao bun
黑菌花腩 Berkshire pork belly with pickled cucumber and almond
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宮保雞丁 Kung pao chicken
菠蘿咕嚕肉 Classic sweet and sour pork
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剁椒蒸圍蝦 Steamed chilli prawn
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This morning, my second of three days away from work, I sat in a chair on the patio behind my house. There were about a million birds singing—all a different song, but all perfectly intelligible to someone or at least to another bird. The songs were wonderful even though they were not being sung to or for me. Maybe the birds would be offended if they thought I was listening in on their conversations and songs.
I just couldn't help myself and I found myself wishing I knew their language so that I could sing with them.
While I sat on the patio, I read from Scripture. Specifically, I read from John 11 and the story of the raising of Lazarus. Theologians are quick to point out that what happened to Lazarus was a resuscitation and not a resurrection. This is a terribly important theological distinction.
I don't think Lazarus cared what it was: all he knew is that he was alive. Nothing else mattered now that breath filled his lungs again and light flooded his eyes and the warmth of blood once again began flowing through his flesh. Jesus did more than raise Lazarus: he recreated blood, fired synapse's, pushed breathe into his lungs, and gave Lazarus back his movement. Whatever he did, it brought Lazarus out of the tomb. Whatever it was, Lazarus was glad for it.
I suppose I have always thought, probably because I watched some Jesus movie one time, that Lazarus came out of the tomb slowly, stiffly, and without much animation. Maybe. He was, after all, wrapped in 'grave clothes' which probably prevented a great deal of motion. But maybe Lazarus came bounding out of the tomb sort of like that fella that Peter healed one day who went 'walking and leaping and praising God' in the temple courts. Maybe Lazarus came out with a leap and a shout something like, "He get this stuff off of me I can't see, or talk, or run and leap and sing."
Somewhere I read that the reason Jesus said, "Lazarus, come out," is because if he had just said, "Come out," the tombs would have emptied that day. He called Lazarus and Lazarus came out. Isn't it odd that even the dead can hear the voice of Jesus—often are better than the living: the birds obey; the dead obey; the living….well, we practice. Can you imagine Lazarus shouting back, "No thanks! I'm fine where I'm at." But who among us would refuse the call to life? Even the dead are smart enough to know that when someone calls you to life you hear, listen, and obey.
I wonder if any of those others, the other dead, laying bone dry in dusty tombs near Lazarus' tomb lay there thinking, "Oh, please call me next! Please call my name! Please Jesus let me hear your voice!" There's something strange about people not wanting Jesus to call out their name, something odd about those who so continually refuse to hear and heed the call to live and life.
As I read through this story I noticed that people kind of blamed Jesus for Lazarus' death. Verses 21, 32, and 37 all seem to point in the same general direction: Jesus could have done something but since he wasn't there he didn't. I'll bet they would be angry if they knew he purposely stayed behind for two extra days.
- Lord, if you had been here… (21)
- Lord, if you had been here… (32)
- Could not he who…. (37)
It feels like maybe they were thinking he could have done something but for some reason or other he did not. Let's be honest and truthful: this is one of the most difficult aspects of faith and Jesus to deal with on a regular basis. And I am only too aware of the platitudes that mutter things like, "What God could have prevented in his power he allowed in his wisdom" or something like that. Frankly speaking, this is of little comfort to the grieving and wailing. Yet there it is. Jesus could have done something after all he did open the eyes of a blind man! If he had been there he could have done something.
Divine restraint is profoundly perplexing and discomfiting.
Sometimes Jesus just isn't there in time to prevent something. Sometimes Jesus delays for an extra two days so he can shop or catch up on his favorite television programs. I don't know the reason why he delays and I cannot say that I perfectly agree with it—you know, why not set the world right right now? Why is it wisdom to allow death instead of preventing it?
What would have been the greater joy? Receiving a resurrected Lazarus back from the grave or having him healed before he entered the grave? The only response we know of is that Jesus really made a lot of people angry with this stunt and some others put their faith in him. The raising of Lazarus caused a lot of problems and, to be sure, didn't go all that well for Lazarus either (John 12:10).
Here's the thing though. Jesus calculated all this and made the decision and we are privy to the wisdom of his decision with respect to Lazarus even though we are not always privy to the wisdom he employs in his decisions concerning our lives: Jesus was not content to merely ward off death for a little while. No. His goal was to crush death under the weight of its own hubris. Jesus could have prevented Lazarus' death, but it was better to utterly demolish death instead. There is wisdom.
Here I am. I am thinking of that sort of wisdom—wisdom that is powerful enough to prevent anything, but doesn't always do so. I don't understand it, but I don't suppose I have to. Anne Lamott writes beautifully that 'the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns' (plan b, 256-257).
Here I am, living in the mystery, living with the mysterious Jesus who evinces a sort of wisdom that allows pain and suffering and death because there's something better he wants to do. The essence of faith is believing that Jesus' wisdom, no matter how little sense it makes, is wise. The essence of faith is believing that things make sense to God even when they do not make sense to me. I'm not close to mastering this which is why I write about things like anger, envy, and pride.
So what are we to do with this Jesus? NT Wright has some helpful thoughts at this juncture:
What's more, the suggestion that we treat Jesus as a moral example can be, and in some people's thinking has been, a way of holding at arm's length the message of God's kingdom on the one hand and the meaning of his death and resurrection on the other. Making Jesus the supreme example of someone who lived a good life may be quite bracing to contemplate, but it is basically safe: it removes the far more dangerous challenge of supposing that God might actually be coming to transform this earth, and us within it, with the power and justice of heaven, and it neatly helps us avoid the fact, as all four gospels see it, that this could be achieved only through the shocking and horrible events of Jesus's death. (After You Believe, 126)
I have to 'do something' with this Jesus who gave us a glimpse of what this transformed earth and life will be like in the raising of Lazarus. This Jesus who does things like raise people from the dead is not safe and cannot be domesticated. He is unruly and out of control: no one stands up to the biggest bully in town. People are typically content to let the bully have his way, and death was content to continue owning every street corner in town. Jesus came along and changed all that.
Jesus is not safe. What are we to do with him? What are we to do with one who purposely lets death have its way only so he can walk right up to its front door and not even knock before demanding that death give up its claim? If anything we can say that Jesus is not one who will deal nicely with death at all so who are we to think we have a chance of resisting him? The biggest bully in town does not stand a chance against Jesus and all Jesus did was say, "Lazarus, come out!"
What I am going to do with this Jesus? I can't stop him or control him. I can't resist him. I can't not follow him.
It's late now. The birds have put away their songs for the day. They are resting some place safe, waiting and watching for the veil to lift and the the dawn to break. They will awaken me with their songs blaring through my open window in the morning. I still will not know their song or the language they use so I won't be able to sing with them. But I know a song of my own, it's the same song Lazarus sang when he came waltzing or leaping or jumping or hobbling out of the tomb that fine September morning. I can sing it with Lazarus because I, too, have been raised to life.
Jesus let the biggest bully in town do its worst for four days. Then Jesus went to the bully's turf and completely undid the best and worst the bully had to offer. Completely undid death. Completely.
So what do we do with someone who raises the dead, gives life back to corpses, beats up the biggest bully in town? What do we do with Jesus?


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Zu Ehren ihres Ambassadors und Golfprofis Colin Montgomerie hat die Destillerie Loch Lomond nun eine neue 25 Jahre alte und auf 500 Flaschen limitierte Abfüllung vorgestellt. Der Loch Lomond 25yo Three Wood Matured reifte zunächst in refill American Oak casks, danach sechs Monate lang in First Fill French Limousin Eichenfässern und Oloroso Sherry Casks. Abgefüllt ist er mit 46.3% Alkoholstärke, er wird ca. 280 Euro kosten, wenn man die 250 Britische Pfund, die in der Pressemitteilung angegeben sind, als Basis verwendet.
Alle weiteren Infos zur Abfüllung und die Tasting Notes finden Sie in der nachfolgenden Pressemitteilung:
New triple cask matured single malt commemorates iconic Monty three wood shot
Loch Lomond Whiskies, The Official Spirit of The Open, has released its first triple cask matured single malt Scotch whisky.
The new and highly limited edition expression was created as a tribute to Loch Lomond Whiskies golf ambassador Colin Montgomerie's glorious three wood shot that helped secure victory for Europe in the 1997 Ryder Cup.
Matured in refill American oak before being matured for up to six months in a combination of first fill Limousin oak and Oloroso sherry casks, the Loch Lomond Three Wood Matured 25 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky unites the worlds of single malt Scotch whisky and golf.
Colin Montgomerie – better known to his fans as Monty – is one of the UK's most successful golfers.
Since turning professional in 1987, Montgomerie has recorded 53 tournament victories across the world and became European #1 in 1993 – a position he held for an unprecedented seven years.
Ryder Cup success followed as a player including his legendary three wood tee shot on the 18th hole at Valderrama in 1997 that secured victory for Europe by a single point and gained him "Shot of the Year".
He later famously led Europe to success as Captain at Celtic Manor in 2010.
Montgomerie said:
"As a proud Scot I know that Scotland is world-renowned for both our whisky and our unrivalled golf courses. I am thrilled that the Loch Lomond Three Wood Matured 25 Year Old Single Malt will celebrate both worlds.
"My shot at Valderrama is one that will live long in the memory for me. To know that it has inspired a Single Malt and one which carries my signature is a huge honour. I hope that golfers and whisky fans alike will enjoy a dram as much as I have."
Created by Montgomerie in partnership with Loch Lomond Master Blender Michael Henry, the Loch Lomond Three Wood Matured 25 Year Old is a beautifully balanced and highly limited edition single malt Scotch Whisky. Offering fruit notes of peach and pear, with subtle floral and perfumed notes, it is enhanced by cloves and cinnamon on the finish.
Presented in an elegant black and red gift box that celebrates Monty's golfing achievements, the Loch Lomond Triple Wood Matured 25 Year Old has an ABV of 46.3% and is available globally with an RRP of £250.
Tasting Notes:
- Maturation in refill American oak casks from Loch Lomond's onsite cooperage complements the distillery's signature fruity character while the lightly toasted style of French European oak adds hints of refined spice. Additional maturation in Oloroso oak casks delivers subtle perfumed floral notes.


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Sheikh Burhanuddin talks about his fascinating journey and experiences along his way to become a Sheikh under the guidance of his master, Sheikh Nazim. From an early age when he was very drawn to be in nature he soon committed his life to finding a master who could guide him on his path. His spent time on different 'seclusions' which were very influential and helpful him with many realizations. He also had a session with spiritual healer Stephen Turoff which triggered a very deep state which lasted for nearly 3 years. He goes on to explain the Uwaysi System which is now an integral part of his teaching.


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Sorry Athan, we all just got back from the Aussie ride, so i dont think you will get any takers. We are all trying to recover.....3000 kays and now i'm up for a new back tyre.
Nice to meet you and your misses today Athan
Hey Athan, what part of Vic are you from?? I'm in Werribee.Join up to the Aussie page to see rides around town, you can post rides on there. I dont have facebook, so i use this forum to get rides organised.
Any pics of the Ball?
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It's Tax Time Again – Don't forget to submit your return!
So it's my favourite time of the year again, the time when I have to sit down for a few hours and work out exactly how much I owe Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in tax! 🙁
In the UK the cut-off date for submitting your tax return to the Inland Revenue is midnight on the 31st of January. If you forget to do it and you submit it after this date then you could be in line for a £100 fine.
I'm usually not as last minute in submitting mine as I have been this year. Often times I get it sorted out way back in April so that it's out of the way. I've just been that busy this year that I decided to leave it and it seems to have been continuously getting put off since.
I'm also considering reining in the help of an accountant this year too. I'm pretty comfortable with figures so I'm usually quite happy to sit down and work everything out myself with some online accounting software*. This year, though, I've found that having an online business has thrown up a lot of questions, specifically about what expenses and capital expenditures are allowable and which aren't. So, I think a bit of advice from somebody with experience in the field might not go amiss.
There is also the added bonus that any fees you pay to an accountant are tax deductible. If you are thinking about taking on a mortgage too, then I think it always looks better if you can provide a lender with a set of certified accounts.
If you are planning to submit your own return within the next couple of weeks and would like to find out more about allowable business expenses then the HMRC have provided some pretty handy online guides to help you out.
You can view the guide on allowable expenses here. There are also online tools available to help you to work out the amount you can claim. If you would prefer to use what they call 'simplified expenses'. Simplified expenses mean you can claim a set amount for things like working from home costs and motoring costs rather than having to work them all out. If you think that this option might appeal and work better for you then you can find the calculating tools for those expenses here.
One final reminder is that if you are planning to submit your return online – which you now have to with the deadline for submitting it in paper form having passed on October 31st 2018 – it might be wise to log in to your account today to ensure that your account is accessible and you haven't lost any of your passwords and details. At least then you will know that you will be ready to submit your return with no stumbling blocks just as soon as you have finalised your figures.
One definite goal for me for 2019 is to restore my old habit of getting my tax return in early as I hate leaving it until late in the day. This year will be different!


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The European Union Delegation to The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is looking for: Project Officer
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The European Union (EU) is an economic and political partnership between 28 European countries. It plays an important role in international affairs through diplomacy, trade, development aid and working with global organisations. Abroad, the EU is represented through more than 140 diplomatic representations, known also as EU Delegations, which have a similar function to those of an embassy.
The EU Delegation to The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan offers a post of Project Officer. Under this post, the recruited person will be attributed functions depending on the needs of the Delegation. Upon recruitment, the successful candidate will occupy a specific job function as Project Officer. Under this job function the successful candidate will serve as support staff to the following tasks and responsibilities under the supervision and responsibility of the relevant head of section:
– Civil Society environment analysis, Sector analysis, strategy formulation and programming.
– Support policy dialogue with all relevant ministries, agencies, donors and other relevant stakeholders in all areas of concern.
– Contribute to sector analysis and to the definition of a sector strategy for the European Union under the thematic lines and European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI), e.g: Single Support Framework (SSF), etc.
– Assist in launching, managing and monitoring calls for proposals, tenders, evaluation and selection of projects to be funded by the EU.
– Monitor the implementation of projects financed, attend management and monitoring meetings, elaborate progress reports on projects and propose remedial action if and when needed.
– Ensure the follow up of the implementation of projects and the performances of project managers and partners, monitor contractual obligations (via periodic reviews, audits, reporting and assistances, etc.) and coordinate external expertise.
– Support communication and other horizontal and networking aspects programmes/projects in Jordan, as appropriate and based on security/confidentiality/political appropriateness concerns.
– Maintain good and effective contacts with the local operators in the field, with the national authorities and institutions, with representatives of the diplomatic missions of the EU Member States, with representatives of the principal international donors, with NGOs and other local non-official actors;
– Prepare and assist in missions from Headquarters.
– Extract and disseminate best practices and facilitate exchange of experiences.
– Contribute to the production of publications/information material.
– Produce and disseminate, as appropriate and at the request of the Head of Delegation, the results of projects at workshops, seminars and other public events.
And any other tasks under the supervision and responsibility of the Head of Section. The working hours will be 37.5 hours per week from Sunday to Thursday. The place of employment is Amman and the post is group I.
We offer:
We offer a competitive position in an international environment. Benefits, such as additional pension scheme and medical insurance, are offered to employees and their families under certain conditions.
We look for:
The EU Delegation is seeking a highly motivated candidate to occupy the post of Project Officer in the Cooperation Section of the EU Delegation. The successful candidate will have the following profile and qualities:
University level education of a duration of at least 3 years in Law, Politics, International Relations, Social Sciences, Management or equivalent relevant education.
Successful experience in specific areas of expertise
Proven pertinent 5 years' experience in the following areas:
- Project Management, preferably in an international context. Geographic desk work or EU Delegation (or equivalent) experience will be an advantage.
- Project management theory and practice. Understanding of EU structures and procedures.
- Professional experience in the management of external aid actions, working with/through Civil Society/NGOs, Public Administrations and other actors.
- Management of Grant, Service and Supply Contracts.
- Working knowledge of the procedures for the implementation of the general budget of the European Union.
- Ability to work in a team and in a multi-cultural environment and to handle issues of a sensitive political nature.
- Competence in monitoring, evaluation and other quality control and assessment techniques.
General skills and competences
Candidate should demonstrate:
- Ability to communicate in meetings
- Ability to understand and be understood
- Capacity to communicate technical or specialised information
- Capacity to present issues to an audience
- Ability to chair meetings
- Excellent Drafting skills
- Computer literacy
Flexibility, accuracy, resistance to stress and committed to deadlines.
Minimum working experience
Proven pertinent working experience in the above mentioned areas of minimum 5 years. Experience in project management, preferably in an international context. Geographic desk work or EU Delegation (or equivalent) experience will be an advantage. At least two, and preferably more, of the minimum of five years of prior professional experience should be directly pertinent to the type of duties to be carried out. Relevant experience in the field will be an advantage.
Working languages
Excellent command of English and Arabic is must, knowledge of French would be an asset.
How to apply:
Please send your application and supporting documents to email@example.com. The subject title must CLEARLY indicate: "Project Officer /Civil Society".
The package should include a cover letter and a detailed CV.
Deadline: 29 July 2017 by 16:00 pm.
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A pharmaceutical packaging manufacturer will locate its first U-S manufacturing plant in Wilson County.
The Governor's Office today announced Neopac US, Inc will bring its new North American headquarters and a manufacturing plant to the Wilson Corporate Park. Neopac plans to invest more than $30.8 million in the plant and create 44 new jobs. The project is eligible for a $300,000 performance-based grant from the One North Carolina fund if it meets job creation and investment targets.


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Advent chaos. It gets to the last day of November and I am overwhelmed by all of the fabulous things I have not done in preparation for advent. Decorations, Jesse tree and a new and inventive advent calendar….. So here are some last minute ideas I have been collecting on Pinterest. The last one is for the grown ups!
Variations on the small paper bag theme are endless. Find some great advent readings online and print them out and add a small treat.
Super fast way to reuse your muffin tray!
If you are good with a hot glue gun and spray paint, here is the peg and board idea.
Covered rolls are simple and fun, especially if you are trying to theme your Xmas decorations and use natural products – linen, brown paper and string.
This idea is super cute and one I can imagine leaving up after the event.
More paper bags – it is all in the way you hang them. Different lengths add visual interest and caters for small kiddies and slightly older teens wanting to participate.
Really simple use of newspaper and wash tape. Possibilities are endless here, but I like their uniform size and shape. Find a great box or container to hold them all.
I am sure you have seen this one on social media. Advent for grown ups. You could substitute anything really for the wine. Boutique beers, small bottles from the mini bar, a new coffee bean or cordial favour?
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My preview of the Pet Shop Boys' New York shows is in today's Post.
It'd be preposterous to introduce the Boys' music at this point — or even focus on their latest album since the tour is more of a career retro — so I decided to zero in on their stagecraft. If a band can bring together pop heads and show-tune queens, it's this one. Appropriately, their current Pandemonium tour is staged by an opera and theater designer and choreographed by someone with two new shows on Broadway this season.
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- isaac butler said...
Didn't they do a piece that involved Simon McBurney and The Battleship Potemkin in London?
- Elisabeth Vincentelli said...
Yes indeed! They wrote a score for Battleship Potemkin for a screening at Trafalgar Square about five years ago. Apparently McBurney came up with the concept and read an intro before the screening.
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Fillet of Veal Asian Style Recipe
- Prep 5mins
- Cook 20mins
- Ready 25mins
- Serves 4
1 Gourmet Direct Veal Tenderloin
1 x pack Gourmet Direct Veal Tenderloin
¼ C Brandy
2 tsp Mixed Wasabi Paste
2 T Butter
¼ C Chopped Coriander
1 tsp Finely Chopped Fresh Ginger
2 T Soya Sauce
1 tsp Crushed Garlic
Set oven at 200°C. Brown Veal on high heat in pan on all sides with a tiny bit of Olive Oil. Deglaze the pan with Brandy and transfer to pre-heated oven. Cook for 20 mins. Combine Wasabi paste, Butter, Ginger, Coriander, Soy and Garlic. Mix well until combined.
To serve once Veal is cooked, Place Veal on plate and top with butter mix. Drizzle over pan juices
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Serve with steamed Bok Choy and a Kumara Mash. Serves 4.


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A flying, wearable, bulletproof Iron Man suit is real
It's safe to say that following 2008, when Iron Man hit cinemas, basically everyone wanted to 'BE' Iron Man
Adam Savage, former Mythbusters co-host is working on it, he's now made a flying Iron Man suit that is also bulletproof
The creation is based off of Stark's Mark II suit, the first true Iron Man suit the comic book inventor made
Adam Savage is loved by everyone for his wackiness, excitability for blowing stuff up, and now for his ability to make your becoming Iron Man a reality. Savage and his team on his eponymous show 'Savage Builds' have just recreated the iconic suit and it actually flies and repels bullets.
In his eight-episode series with the Discovery Channel, Savage works on creating various builds that you've always wondered could exist, such as vehicles from Mad Max and now the Iron Man suit.
Savage remade the iconic Mark II suit, the first flying suit Stark made, by 3D-printing the entire thing with titanium. Once he got the shell, he worked with Gravity Industries' (sadly not Stark Industries) Richard Browning to add a jetpack and thrusters. Yep.
"I swear, if Tony f**king Stark was not fictional and he was making an Iron Man suit right now, this is precisely how he would do it and this is the exact technology he'd be using," says Savage.
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There are about seven colleges within 15 miles of Memphis, TN, provide medical assisting programs. Many of these schools are for-profit institutions; however, there are also options at one community college and one private not-for-profit school. Based on size, student-to-faculty ratio and number of degrees awarded, the following school is considered a top school in the Memphis, TN, area for medical assisting studies:
- Winner: Mid-South Community College is located about 13 miles from Memphis, TN, but across the state border in Arkansas. It is the only public college in the area offering medical assisting studies. The school awarded the highest number of 2-year degrees in this subject in the area in 2013. The school also has a certificate program in nursing assisting.
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|Mid-South Community College
|Named a Military Friendly School in 2013 by Military Advanced Education magazine*
|West Memphis, Arkansas
|School Type
|2-year, public
|Tuition & Fees (2013-2014)
|Undergrad: $2,458 (in-district); $2,938 (in-state); $7,498 (out-of-state)**
|Medical Assisting and Nursing Assisting Degrees Offered
|Medical Assisting Degrees Awarded (all levels) in 2012-2013
|Undergraduate Graduation Rate (in 150% of normal degree time) for 2010 Entering Class
|Medical assisting program accredited by the Arkansas Department of Health Section of Emergency Medical Services; Nursing assistant program accredited by the Arkansas Department of Human Services Division of Medical Services Office of Long Term Care
Sources: *Mid-South Community College; **NCES College Navigator
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- Low 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio
- Medical assisting program offers externships and seminars in addition to classroom learning
- Graduates of the medical assisting and nurse assistant programs are prepared to sit for national certification exams
Mid-South Community College (MSCC) is a public, 2-year college that covers about 89 acres. MSCC's Allied Health Sciences Department offers certificate of proficiency and associate's degree programs in medical assisting, certified nurse assisting, emergency medical technology and phlebotomy. Students in the Allied Health Sciences Department may also complete the general education requirements to transfer into the nursing associate's degree program at Arkansas State University.
The Associate of Applied Science in Medical Assistant Technology program requires 60 credit hours and takes two years to complete. Upon completion of this program, graduates are qualified to sit for national certification and can take a course to review for the certification examination before graduation. Students take general education courses as well as courses in medical terminology, clinical procedures, laboratory procedures, medical billing, phlebotomy, anatomy and physiology. The Certificate of Proficiency in Nurse Assistant requires completion of courses in patient safety and rights, basic nursing procedures and basic care services. Labs accompany classroom instruction.


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2-167 To Major General Daniel Van Voorhis, May 10, 1940
To Major General Daniel Van Voorhis
May 10, 1940 [Washington, D.C.]
Dear Van Voorhis:
I feel that I have neglected you sadly in the past few weeks, particularly in view of the fact that you did such a splendid job in connection with the fire disaster in Colon. I did draft a radiogram for the Secretary to send you, which reflected the views of both of us. The Ambassador from Panama, our State Department and apparently, the President were all very much gratified and pleased with the rapidity with which you acted, and the completeness of your arrangements. Mr. Norman Davis, of the Red Cross, was especially complimentary in his relation with you in the matter of funds, etc.1
I have taken rather a busy day to write a letter because since midnight last night when the word came in of the German move on Holland, we have been very busy with special estimates and other proposals, which the President will now approve. I have just returned from the White House an hour ago and am having a number of detailed statements prepared which I must take up with Mr. Morgenthau and the Budget people at 9:15 tomorrow. Meanwhile, to make everything extremely simple, Mrs. Marshall is on the verge of receiving about 2,000 people this afternoon at a reception and garden party. I say she is doing it, because it looks a little bit dubious about my getting there at all.
I do not think I have written you since my trip to Hawaii. That journey was delightful and astonishingly quick. My time from Honolulu to Shreveport, Louisiana, was 27 hours, I could have come into Washington in 30 hours had there not been foul weather over the Rockies and a sleet storm in Washington. I learned a great deal in Hawaii about the general status of affairs and the personnel and an understanding of their problem and the general Army problem. As a matter of fact, I have found these hurried trips of mine of incalculable value in giving me a reasonably sound basis for determining the relative priority of requirements, as well as a splendid opportunity to acquaint myself with general conditions and the point of view of the local personnel.
Unless the European situation prevents, I expect to leave here the latter part of June for Alaska, and that should complete my foreign garrison inspections for some time to come. I do have to go to the Maneuvers in Texas and Louisiana next week, and I will have to go clear around the United States to drop in at each Army maneuver in August.
Some day I do want to sit down and enjoy a period of lazy contemplation, but with the world growing more desperate and chaotic, the outlook for a rest in the near future is not very inspiring.
Please give my warm regards to Mrs. Van Voorhis; incidentally I am still in a battle with the Customs people to give me a clearance to permit the entry of those grass rugs. They have been almost a month answering my last letter.
Faithfully yours,
Document Copy Text Source: George C. Marshall Papers, Pentagon Office Collection, Selected Materials, George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia.
Document Format: Typed letter.
1. On the night of April 13-14 about one-third of Colon burned, leaving about 10,000 persons homeless in the tenement section. General Van Voorhis sent troops to patrol the city—at the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal—and to set up a large number of tents and field kitchens. The American Red Cross cabled $15,000 for relief on April 14. The next day, Marshall wrote the following radiogram for the secretary's signature: "Your prompt action to assist and succor the people of Colon is to be commended. The War Department feels confident in trusting to your good judgment as to the further requirements of this situation." (Woodring to Van Voorhis, Radio, April 15, 1940, GCMRL/G. C. Marshall Papers [Pentagon Office, Selected].)
Recommended Citation: ThePapers of George Catlett Marshall, ed.Larry I. Bland, Sharon Ritenour Stevens, and Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr.(Lexington, Va.: The George C. Marshall Foundation, 1981- ). Electronic version based on The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, vol. 2, "We Cannot Delay," July 1, 1939-December 6, 1941 (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), pp. 208-209.
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Charlie Sheen came into this world as "Carlos Irwin Estevez" on September 3, 1965. His parents are actor Martin Sheen (whose birth name is "Ramon Estevez") and mother Janet. Charlie Sheen has three siblings: actors Emilio Estevez, Ramon Estevez Jr. and actress Renee Estevez. His family moved from New York to California. He attended Santa Monica High School where he was a star baseball player. This led to his authentic pitching in Major League (1989). Read this informative article and learn some more little known facts about Charlie Sheen you're sure to find interesting!
His Career
In 2001 Sheen started off the New Millennium by moving from movies to television. He played the part of "Charlie Crawford" in ABC's Spin City after Michael J. Fox left the show. Poor ratings forced the show to be canceled in 2002.
Since 2003, Sheen has played the part of "Charlie Harper" in CBS' Two and a Half Men. A little known fact about Charlie Sheen is that his role in Two and a Half Men now earns him a cool $350,000 for every episode.
Before that, Charlie Sheen made his mark as a Hollywood actor by appearing in more than three dozen movies, including Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Platoon (1986), Young Guns (1988), Hot Shots! (1991), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) and The Three Musketeers (1993), et cetera.
Sheen is known for his many romances. But, a little known fact about Charlie Sheen is that he also loves his 1970 Buick GS 455 Stage 1. Nearly a dozen of these cars make up his special collection.
As for the women in his life, Sheen has been married twice and has three daughters- Cassandra Jade Estevez (1985), (he never married her mother), Sam J. Sheen (2004) and Lola Rose Sheen (2005). He and his second wife Denise Richards divorced in 2006.
A little known fact about Charlie Sheen is, he was subpoenaed to testify in the "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss trial in 1993. Sheen testified he called on Fleiss' call girls on a regular basis spending more than $50,000 on their services. Reportedly, Sheen was a Cocaine addict at this time.
Charlie Sheen was engaged to Kelly Preston (the present Mrs. John Travolta) in 1990. He accidentally shot her in the arm. The wound was minor, but the effect it had was serious. The relationship soon ended.
According to the Maxim website, Sheen came in number 2 on their "Top 10 Living Legends of Sex" list in 2006. Another little known fact about Charlie Sheen is that he claims to have slept with 5,000 women.
The five-foot-ten-inch actor entered rehab in 1998 to fight his drug and alcohol abuse. Since 2000, Sheen has reportedly been clean and sober.
A final little known fact about Charlie Sheen is that he self-published a book of poetry in 1990. The book is titled A Peace of My Mind and it's available at the Amazon web site.


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|Major John Andre
Supposedly one of the oldest--if not THE oldest--taverns in America, this historic building, built in 1686, simply exudes history. From its old brick exterior to its dark, wide-planked floors, to its monstrous, hand-hewn beams and actual period bric-a-brac, this place should be in the dictionary next to the phrase the kids like to use-- "back in the day."
Except in this case, the "day" is during the American Revolution. And this tavern was in the thick of it, to hear owner Robert Norden tell the tale--which he does animatedly and exceptionally well. Norden, whose now-deceased father (also Robert) owned NYC's oldest tavern--Fraunces Tavern, grew up amid tavern history and was the architect hired to restore the Old 76 House to its colonial glory. Apparently, he liked the job he did so much, he bought the place.
|The Old 76 House, Tappan, NY
|Benedict Arnold's picture in the tavern
And it was in the very room where we polished off pint after pint of delicious Tavernkeeper Ale (which is actually a lager made by nearby Defiant Brewing) that Washington declared April 19, 1783 the real Independence from Great Britain Day, because that is when Great Britain officially recognized America as a free and independent nation.
As fate would have it, the day of our visit was the anniversary of the hanging of John Andre by Washington just in back of the house. And as fate would also have it, today was Sunday Brunch day, and the bikers got to select from an array of foods that would make a cruise ship maitre d' jealous. Delicious Eggs Benedict, Succulent Omelets, Roast Beef, Pork, Chicken Marsala, fruit, vegetables and salads and bread goods were all available in seeming perpetuity.
|Owner Robert Norden regales us with history
|Katerina and Inalit
Though Major Andre did not do actual "hard time" while a prisoner in the tavern, I somehow doubt that his experience was as pleasant as ours. So much so, that every member of the group declared they would be coming back to the Old 76 House. It's about an hour from Central Jersey, and well worth the trip.
|The actual door that imprisoned John Andre
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Even before Thanksgiving break began, the residence halls at Elon University were decked with Christmas decorations. Previously, cobwebs, spiders and pumpkins were the main source of ornamentation, but as early as Nov. 1, these scary adornments were replaced by cheerful bows, stockings, snowflakes and garland.
"I decorated before Thanksgiving break so I wouldn't need to worry about decorating when I got back because I knew I would be busy with finals," said freshman Madison Iskra. "I also did it so I could enjoy the decorations for a little longer than just two weeks."
Carolina Hall is one example of this. On the first floor, stretched from door to door are strings of shiny blue, red and gold tinsel. Tiny red stockings with the name of the occupant hang on the door of each room. One pair of roommates even completely covered their door with Christmas wrapping paper. And on the second floor, a door is made to look like a present, topped off with a large bow.
This level of dedication to the holiday is not uncommon, though most people stick with the more mundane miniature Christmas tree to embellish their dorm room. This small token is a reminder of the big tree that awaits the eager students at home.
Aside from being a tribute to the traditions at home, decorating for Christmas is a way for friends to bond. "All of my friends decorated for Christmas," Iskra said. "My mom and I thought it would be cute to get all of my friends mini Christmas trees and ornaments as presents. We all got together the week before Thanksgiving break and decorated them together."
While this perhaps premature Christmas cheer is a source of anticipation and excitement for most, to one pair of roommates living in Global, whether to decorate early for Christmas was a source of contention. Elon freshman Catherine Dickey believes it's not appropriate to start celebrating Christmas until after Dec. 1.
"Because Christmas is already so commercialized, I think that Thanksgiving deserves a full season as it's about being thankful for what you have," Dickey said. "People don't celebrate Thanksgiving to the extent that they do Christmas, but I like being thankful better than I like gifts. That's just me."
For her roommate, Caroline Moore, Christmas is a more significant holiday.
"I like Thanksgiving and don't have anything against it. But we have so many Christmas traditions and memories because that holiday is the one where both my mom and dad's side are all in Greensboro and it's just so much family time, [which] is so special to me," Moore said. "That's why I love decorating and listening to Christmas music as early as possible because it reminds me of how much I love [the holiday]."
So Moore, and even Dickey, the self-proclaimed "Thanksgiving Enthusiast," will be decorating their dorm room this year for Christmas, though of course not a moment sooner than Dec. 1.
"I think we might put some snowflakes and other wintery stuff up, and we might get a small tree and put some cute little ornaments on it," Dickey said.
For students looking to spice up their living space, some common places to shop for Christmas trinkets and trimmings include Target, Michaels, Homegoods and Amazon.


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I have a Gigabyte N-1060G1 (full size card). I purchased a Gigabyte X570 Gaming. The card won't clear the top of a part of the motherboard. There is only 1 PCIE16 slot, there is a PCI 4 slot, which wont run the card. Thus, I am left with the height problem. I have a full-tower case, so that is fine. Short of buying a new GPU ($ is an object), is there a way to lift this up. I have looked at something called a Riser. Any help is appreciated!


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After his team lost 85-77 to Moscow Spartak Region in Brno, Bobrovsky said: "I know the quality of Spartak Moscow, but from my view is only one player on the world — Lauren Jackson. She decided about the result."
With 33 points and nine rebounds, the world's best player stood out in a star-studded team that leads the Euroleague's group C with an 8-1 mark. Jackson is averaging 22.1 points and 6.3 rebounds in the top European club competition, and is one of a handful of Australian men and women in super form with Russian clubs that, basically, are world all-star teams.
They have Basketball Australia confident of strong performances from Opals and Boomers in the Olympic Games in Beijing in August if they can continue their stellar form.
Three other Opals — Penny Taylor, Kristi Harrower and Suzy Batkovic — play with UMMC Ekaterinburg, on top of group B with an 8-1 mark despite losing 64-62 to top French club Bourges in Ekaterinburg.
Forward Taylor, most valuable player when Australia won gold at the 2006 world championships, averages 9.9 points, seven rebounds and 2.1 assists; point guard Harrower 4.6, 3.4 and 3.9; and centre Batkovic 8.8, 5.2 and 0.8. Fellow Opal Belinda Snell averages 12.2, 4.1 and 3.6 with Bourges, which is second on 5-4.
The Australians' teams sit second (Spartak, 10-1) and third (Ekaterinburg, 8-2) behind CSKA Moscow (11-0) in the Russian Superleague. CSKA (9-0) tops group A in the Euroleague.
Boomer David Andersen, a power forward-centre, had 18 points and nine rebounds as the CSKA Moscow men beat Lithuania's Zalgiris Kaunus 88-60 in group A of the Euroleague. CSKA is on top with a 10-2 record, and leads the Russian Superleague at 13-1.
In the National Basketball League tonight, the Melbourne Tigers (16-6, second) will host the New Zealand Breakers (12-11, eighth), the visitors being without key forward Tony Ronaldson (Achilles). South Dragons (4-18, 13th) will play the Perth Wildcats (13-9, fourth) in Perth.


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Tumbling telephone boxes
Kingston upon Thames does not have much public art but it does have this rather lovely set of tumbling telephone boxes.
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Create a seedbox with Docker and transmission-daemon
Update (May 2018): This guide has been updated to use my Docker container for installation and setup, rather than the old method of simply installing the
transmission-daemon package.
It is remarkably simple to use the
transmission-daemon package to create a Linux-based seedbox that runs on essentially whatever type of device you can think of, effortlessly handling your BitTorrent downloads/uploads.
Since there is a great deal of variation in the hardware or software that can be used for this guide, hardware choices and OS installation will not be covered here. You can really build a "seedbox" out of any kind of hardware you want.
Installing Transmission
In this guide, we will install Docker and use it to run my
transmission-daemon container.
Docker allows us to run apps inside containers, allowing us to run Transmission in a secure and sandboxed environment that only grants it enough permission to read and write to the areas of our system we specifically allow.
We can install Docker on a Ubuntu system with the command below. Most Linux distributions will also package Docker in their main repositories, or you can find specific instructions on the Docker site.
sudo apt install docker.io
It's probably helpful at this point to add your current user to the
docker group so you can use Docker commands without needing root access:
sudo usermod -a -G docker $(whoami)
Configure Transmission
Before we go starting Transmission and expecting everything to just work, we need to create a directory and put our config file in it.
Transmission ships with a default
settings.json file for configuration, but I have included a mildly-modified version here for convenience. This version makes a few changes that make life with Docker easier, and should make a good starting point to work from.
Create a directory somewhere and save this file as
settings.json. Take note of this location. It will permanently hold your Transmission config,
Common Config Options
Now we can edit the
settings.json file we just downloaded. You can find the configuration options online, but there aren't many that we need to change to get this working.
peer-port option defines the port that Transmission will listen on when transferring data over BitTorrent. You can change this to any value you really want between maybe
10000 and
65000 but the important thing is that we remember it for later.
"peer-port": 51413,
peer-port-random-on-start option does exactly what it seems like and will pick a random port for Transmission to use every time it starts up. We definitely need this disabled due to the fact that we need to know specifically what port we're using so we can tell Docker later.
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
Remote Connection Whitelist
The remote connection whitelist is a whitelist of IP addresses or ranges which are allowed to connect to Transmission's web interface. By default, we probably want to put in all of the networks found in RFC 1918, which defines all of the IP address ranges which should be treated as "private networks".
The main benefit of doing this is to protect ourselves in case we accidentally allow incoming connections to the WebUI from the internet somehow. As our config will be set up to only listen for connections from local addresses, it will not serve any machine connecting from the open internet.
Alternatively, if you know the specific IP addresses of any machines you will be connecting from, you could enter those here. If you are running the container locally only, it may be tempting to restrict this list just to connections from
127.0.0.1, but since we are using a Docker container we need to ensure that (at least) the
172.*.*.* range used by Docker is also in the whitelist. (Yes I know that RFC 1918 only defines
220.127.116.11/12 as a private network and this will allow anything from
220.127.116.11/8, but the Transmission config does not support CIDR notation and it still gives us increased security vs not having any whitelist.)
"rpc-whitelist": "127.*.*.*,192.168.*.*,172.*.*.*,10.*.*.*",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
Remote Access Password
The options below can be set to ensure that a username and password are needed to connect to Transmission. They should be fairly self-explanatory:
"rpc-authentication-required": true,
"rpc-password": "nicelongpassword",
"rpc-username": "usernamehere",
When you enter a password in the settings file above in plaintext, it will automatically be converted to a hash the first time Transmission runs. This ensures that the password is not stored unnecessarily in plaintext in your config file.
Other Options
The config options I have covered in this guide are really the main ones that you will need to ensure that Transmission will work inside your Docker container the way you would expect it to, but you are free to change other options which you think might be beneficial.
For a full guide on Transmission's
config.json syntax, see this wiki page.
Launching Transmission
You can launch Transmission with Docker Compose using a simple file that looks like this:
version: "2.3"
# Set the USERID and GROUPID environment variables to the User/Group
# IDs that you want Transmission to run under.
image: registry.gitlab.com/alexhaydock/docker-transmission:latest
container_name: transmission
mem_limit: 2G
- "9091:9091"
- "31967:31967"
- "31967:31967/udp"
- /home/a/TransmissionConf:/transmission/config
- /home/a/TransmissionDownloads:/transmission/downloads
For some explanation of what's going on above:
USERID and
GROUPID variables set in the
environment: section allow you to run Transmission as a different user or group ID. This is useful for controlling permissions on your host system. In the example above, Transmission will run with a user ID and group ID of
1000. This will probably make file manipulation nice and convenient, as this is probably the same ID as the primary user on your host system. This means effectively that files can be manipulated by the Transmission user as if it was the primary user on the system. This may not be what you desire, for security reasons or convenience reasons, so you can change the IDs Transmission uses in this file. Most people can probably leave this at
mem_limit sets a value limiting the maximum memory that the Transmission container can use. 2GB seems to be a sensible limit so I have configured this here.
ports: directive specifies the ports that will be accessible from outside the container. Here we need to specify two ports.
9091 is the default port for access to the Transmission interface, and in this example
31967 is the port we have chosen for transferring torrent data. We need to declare the
31967 port twice as you will see – once for TCP, which is the default, and once for UDP, which we specify by including
volumes: directive allows us to mount filesystems inside the container. This is where we will keep Transmission's config data, and any data we download. We need to do this so that it is accessible outside the container, and so the data persists after the container is stopped. Here I mount a
TransmissionConf/ directory from my home directory into
/transmission/config inside the container. And I mount a
TransmissionDownloads/ directory into the container as
/transmission/downloads. It's probably a good idea to leave the container paths (to the right side of the
: character) the same when you're editing this config file, but you're free to mount the Config and Data directories from wherever you please on your host system. Just be aware that if you changed the
USERID or
GROUPID earlier then whichever IDs you chose will need to have write access to the files in question.
You can change the ownership of files (for instance to a user and group ID of
5001) with:
sudo chown -R 5001:5001 /path/to/directory
Once we're happy with our Docker Compose file, we can save it as
docker-compose.yml and then run:
docker-compose -f /path/to/docker-compose.yml up -d
When we run the above command, not much output will turn up in the terminal (beyond downloading the Docker image if you didn't already have it). To check it's definitely running, we can use
docker ps. For more info about debugging and interacting with Docker containers, see the Docker documentation.
Connecting Remotely via Web Browser
We can now connect to our Transmission instance by inputting the IP address of our server and the port defined in the
rpc-port value into a web browser, for example:
Now, after entering the
rpc-username and
rpc-password also defined in the config file, we should be able to interact with Transmission through our web browser.
Try adding and removing some torrents!
Connecting Remotely via Transmission Remote GUI (Optional)
The Transmission web interface may work well for you, in which case you don't need to follow the rest of this guide and are now done!
If, however, you prefer the look of more traditional desktop clients, Transmission Remote GUI is a wonderful piece of software that allows you to connect to
transmission-daemon with a GUI that strongly resembles the uTorrent or Deluge BitTorrent clients.
You can install it on most distributions as the
transgui package, and it is also available for Windows and OS X on the official site.
Once you have installed the software, launch it. You will be presented with a graphical configuration tool that allows you to enter the details of the system running
An example using appropriate settings is shown below:
Not much of this will differ for you, but you probably want to change the IP address to the address of the target machine, and the port if you changed the
rpc-port value. You will obviously want to change the username and password fields also.
After completing this configuration, save it and Transmission GUI should connect to the
transmission-daemon process running on the remote machine.
You are now connected to Transmission and can freely add/remove torrents at will. Downloads and uploads will continue when you disconnect, and even if you turn the machine off that you are connecting from. As long as the machine running
transmission-daemon remains on, you will continue to contribute to the BitTorrent community.


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By Madina Toure
BRIARWOOD — The NYPD is renewing efforts to find the suspect responsible for the shooting death of Far Rockaway-raised rapper Chinx in Briarwood in May 2015.
At about 4:04 a.m. on May 17, 2015, police responded to a 911 call of a male, identified as Lionel Pickens, 31, of Ozone Park known as Chinx, shot at the corner of Queens Boulevard and 84th Drive, according to the police.
Upon arrival, police observed two victims with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, police said.
Pickens, who had multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, was taken by EMS to Jamaica Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, officials said.
The second victim, a 27-year-old man and Pickens' friend, who had gunshot wounds to his back, was also taken to Jamaica Medical Center where he was in critical condition, police said. He made a full recovery. A police spokeswoman said there is no new information and that the NYPD re-released the case because it was still under investigation.


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It is understood legislation to allow abortions will not be introduced into the Dáil until the autumn.
The Government has received legal advice that it can not proceed to make new laws until court challenges to the referendum result have been decided.
Health Minister Simon Harris says he is still confident the new laws will be in place for the start of next year.
But he has warned there has been a delay to the process.
He said: "My understanding, based on legal advice is that as of today the Eighth Amendment remains in the Constitution until the President finds himself in a position to sign the referendum bill and obviously that requires the legal process to be concluded.
"Whilst the people of Ireland have very clearly voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment just under three weeks ago, that can only take effect when the legal challenges are finished."
- Digital Desk


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A MAJOR house builder was told they were being unfair on neighbours as they sought approval for a sub-station.
Persimmon Homes were seeking to build a sub-station on land at their latest Hipperholme development.
But councillors rejected it outright, telling the developer it would impose on people living near to the build site.
Calderdale councillors heard yesterday how the sub-station would look like a garage to new residents of the site at Crosslee, Brighouse Road.
But to those living next to the site, in houses which date back 140 years, the sub-station would tower above their homes and gardens.
Clr David Hardy, an Elland planning committee member, said: "It's to be build on land which is 7ft above the level of these homes.
"So if it's 14ft high it will be 21ft over their homes and gardens, that is not right."
Clr Faisal Shoukat, a planning member, said: "I think it's completely unfair on the residents.
"If this came to us originally as part of the planning application it might not have been passed if the neighbours objected on these grounds."
Councillors told Persimmon Homes they did not oppose the aesthetic of the sub-station, but the location.
They rejected it on grounds of visual amenity.
It was the second alteration Persimmon Homes sought for the 147-house development, which is under construction.
Just weeks ago councillors rejected changes to the highways agreement.


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Do not you Just despise slow sites? Well, you're definitely not alone. your visitors hate them and, to make things worse, so does Google. That's correct, if you'd like your website to rank highly in search engines, sell more products, generate more prospects, earn more revenue, or just deliver a more positive user experience, it must load fast. Wp Rocket Woocommerce Sort
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So just how Can you create your WordPress site faster? Well, if you're still using a generic shared web host, among the best options will, of course, be to simply switch to a higher performance hosting company. However, what if you just haven't got the money or time to make the change?
Well, Luckily, there is something different you can do that is extremely quick and easy — something that needs next-to-no technical know-how whatsoever! I'm speaking, of course, about using a caching plugin.
Today, I will be taking an comprehensive look at one of the leading caching plugins around. WP Rocket. In the next review, I'll show you by exactly how much — and how easily — it can speed up your website (using real-life evaluations and actual data).
What is WordPress Caching?
Caching Involves creating — and saving — a readymade static (i.e. unchanging) version of your website on your own server ready to show to visitors at a moment's notice. This reduces the need for your website (or the user's browser) to communicate back and forth with the host to assemble the behind-the-scenes information that creates your website's webpages.
With less Communication happening between servers, and less information being loaded whenever your site is obtained, the time necessary to load your articles and pages is significantly reduced.
WP Rocket Will potentially.
· Cache all the articles and pages on your website
· Allow browser caching
· Defer loading of JavaScript documents
· Decrease bandwidth usage with gzip compression
· optimise Google fonts
· minify and concatenate CSS and JS files
· Defer loading of images.
You may Be wondering what happens if you publish a new blog article on a cached website, since, presumably, an unchanging cached version of your website would not take this newly created data into consideration.
Not so! WP Rocket will regenerate the cached pieces of your site each time you update your articles, thereby ensuring that your visitors will always see the most up-to-date variant of your site.
Features of WP Rocket
It is worth Pointing out that, when it comes to features independently, WP Rocket contrasts fairly Favorably using its rivals. Granted, you're probably more interested in just how much faster your website will probably be following installing WP Rocket (and rightfully so), but it is wonderful to know you are not missing out on any significant attributes.
With WP Rocket, you get page caching, cache preloading, gzip compression, browser caching, Google Fonts optimization, picture and movie Lazy Load, minification, and a great deal more.
If you do Choose to learn more about the further settings and choices WP Rocket supplies, you'll see it's a couple of tricks up its sleeve for potentially improving speed even further, like the choice to only load media files (such as images) whenever the visitor reaches them on a webpage (a feature known as Lazy Loading).
One of The highlights of WP Rocket is the simple installation procedure, which makes it a pretty much fool proof caching choice for active WordPress webmasters. It is called being'childishly simple to set up' — something users who just need to get the work done and move on will almost certainly appreciate. Wp Rocket Woocommerce Sort
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Actually, When the plugin has been uploaded and activated on your site, the cache will be automatically generated whenever someone visits the website. Everyone visiting your website thereafter should immediately begin experiencing significantly faster loading times. Simple!
WP Rocket Aims to eliminate all such confusion by being mechanically up-and-running right out of the box — without being overly stiff that it is unable to deliver excellent results. After activating WP Rocket, you will see only a couple of tabs on the admin panel, each with just a couple of easy-to-understand settings.
You can See the rest of the basic settings display here. When there are a couple more options to work with, the plugin works just fine without any of them enabled. This really is plug'n' play caching for WordPress!
Of Course, it's suggested that you read the online documentation to actually determine what this plugin can do and just how much extra performance you can squeeze out of it, however, for all those in a hurry (or with a zero technical interest in the ins-and-outs of caching), it is safe to say speeding up your site using WP Rocket couldn't be made much easier.
FAST AND Effortless SETUP
The main Selling purpose of WP Rocket is how simple it makes enabling caching on your website. With many other caching plugins, you are faced with the sometimes daunting task of knowing — and filling out — multiple pages of configurations and options. Depending on how you configure them, you could easily end up inadvertently doing something a bit screwy (and even, in rare situations, inadvertently breaking up your website ).
WP Rocket Is also compatible with content delivery network (CDN) services. if your site is big enough to warrant distributing its documents to multiple servers across the world for quicker loading times, you will find WP Rocket over accommodating.
Custom Made CACHE LIFESPAN
There's In addition, the option to alter the default cache interval. However, unless you're displaying particularly fast-changing or important external dynamic content on your website (for instance, critical content from social media feeds), the default 24-hour lifespan ought to be fine.
Cache — Fundamental Cache Options
The Cache tab enables you to control How your page caching works at a fundamental level. you're able to. Wp Rocket Woocommerce Sort
· Include/exclude mobile users from seeing cached pages.
· Include/exclude logged-in users from seeing cached pages.
· Enable caching on HTTPS pages.
· Decide how long a webpage remains cached before the cache gets cleared (the default is 10 hours).
Most of the timeyou can Render these as the defaults.
Media — Lazy loading + More
From the Media tab, you can empower Lazy loading for images and/or videos, as well as disable WordPress emojis and embeds.
One feature That's really nice here's your choice to replace YouTube video iframes with a static preview picture. If you embed lots of YouTube videos on your site, this is a great way to speed up your site without sacrificing much, if anyusability.
Document Optimization — Minification And Concatenation
The File Optimization tab is Where you are able to set up WP Rocket's minification and concatenation performance.
· Minification — shrinks the size of your site's code by removing unnecessary characters (like whitespace) without changing any functionality.
· Concatenation — minimizes the number of documents on your site by blending multiple CSS/JS documents into a single.
You can also install some other Settings like.
· Remove render-blocking CSS/JS (PageSpeed Insights is notorious for yelling at you concerning this issue).
· Combining Google Fonts documents (useful if you use multiple Google Fonts on your site).
· Remove query strings from static sources (this one will not have a big effect, but it might enhance your GTmetrix score, should you really care about that).
I urge Enabling as many of these settings as you can. I state as possible because a number of the settings for CSS or JS may cause difficulties with your site (this is not WP Rocket's fault — it is always a potential issue with minification/concatenation).
What I like is that WP Rocket Makes this clear once you go to activate one of these configurations.
Three cheers for good UX Layout!
Preload — Preload Your Own Cache File
Without Preloading, your website only"assembles" the cache for a page when someone actually visits the page. That means the very first visitor after the cache lifespan expires doesn't observe the cached version (because the cache has not been constructed yet).
Cache Preloading lets you guarantee all visitors view the quick-loading cached page by"warming" yourself, rather than waiting for someone to visit the page.
One of those Benefits of WP Rocket is the fact that it provides you two distinct ways to preload your cache, whereas some caching plugins don't even provide one.
· Sitemap preloading — Reload your cache based on all the pages on your sitemap.xml file. It has low impact, however the disadvantage is that it doesn't cache newly published or edited articles.
· Preload bot — mechanically crawls URLs once you publish/edit a post to make sure that recently edited/published content can be preloaded. The only disadvantage is the fact that it is a little bit more resource intensive, which could cause issues on"weak" servers. Wp Rocket Woocommerce Sort
You can choose to utilize zero, One, or the two approaches to preload your cache, depending on your needs.
Database — Clean Up Your Database
As your site ages, your Database will pick up all types of"gunk" from the form of revisions, trashed comments, transients, etc..
This area helps you wash out All that unnecessary crap from your database with one click.
Personally, I find this to be The least exciting area of WP Rocket because there are plenty of free plugins which do a fantastic job cleaning your database. However, I guess the main advantage here is that WP Rocket removes the need for you to install a separate plugin.
CDN — Integrate With Your CDN
Should you use a CDN to accelerate The worldwide delivery of your website, WP Rocket can help you.
· Rewrite your URLs to use your CDN
· Exclude certain files from your CDN
While you can find complimentary Plugins to do the first part, the second component, in addition to the fact that you're able to book CNAMEs for specific document types provides you more flexibility than most of these free choices.
For example, you may use one CNAME for your images, and another for the rest of your documents.
If you are using Cloudflare, WP Rocket also includes a dedicated Cloudflare add-on that could help you to get setup with Cloudflare and control specific aspects of the Cloudflare service directly from the WP Rocket interface.
And that pretty much sums up The new WP Rocket 3.0 interface!
Through The plugin settings, you can also enable caching for both mobile users and logged-in users all with a simple click. After moving to the'advanced' tab, however, things start to get a little more complicated.
To give you even greater control over how caching Functions on your website, you're also free to exclude pages from the cache with the addition of their URLS into the'not cache the subsequent pages'
Through The CDN tab, you can configure the plugin to work with your content delivery network of choice, whereas the tools section gives you quick access to the clear and preload cache programs.
What's More, should you get stuck, the FAQ and service tabs make it incredibly simple to access the online instruction, and even open a support ticket from inside your WordPress dashboard — a beautiful touch!
Overall, WP Rocket intends to be everything to all people. On one hand, it is quite easy to set up and start using on your site with default settings which truly produce good results, nevertheless, on the flip side, there's also a much large choice of configurations and options to cater to more sophisticated users with specific needs, or people who need more control over how caching works on their website.
By Default, each time you print a new post or add new content to your site, WP Rocket will automatically regenerate that portion of the cache. Not only that, but will also refresh the related areas of the cache (such as the archive pages( menus, or widgets). Wp Rocket Woocommerce Sort
If You need to refresh everything from the cache, however (not just newly updated or modified content), you can force WP Rocket to regenerate it from scratch. Going a step further, you will also find options to have unrelated components of your website automatically regenerated when a new post, page, product, remark, or another kind of content gets added.
field. (Note. Shopping cart and checkout pages are automatically excluded in the cache as part of their eCommerce service of WP Rocket.)
Documentation And Support
While Utilizing WP Rocket out of the box is very simple, in the event you get stuck or need to know more about the intricacies of how it functions, there is quite a bit of high-quality documentation supplied — including a getting started section, various tutorials, useful FAQs and a handy troubleshooting section.
As long As your license remains active, you may even open tickets with assistance to get whatever WP Rocket-related assistance you need.
My WP Rocket Testing Results
As Mentioned at the top of this guide, I had great results from using WP Rocket to cache my WordPress site. By analyzing the speed of my site with GTmetrix — with the default settings of WP Rocket and uploading and activating the plugin prior to creating the cache and conducting the tests — the average page loading times dropped from 2.2 minutes to 0.9.
The site I tested the plugin was a WordPress blog using the free Twenty Twelve theme, with approximately 80 posts and 37 plugins. The website is hosted on an entry level shared hosting plan in HostGator, and has no CDN in play.
No two WordPress websites are the same, however, so that these results might not be common for many sites. They do, however, show that a very basic WordPress blog on the lowest priced hosting will almost surely be able to achieve significantly improved load times using the plugin.
Other Methods to Speed Up Your WordPress Website
Whether You decide to use WP Rocket in your site or not, there are a range of other ways to speed up your WordPress website that is well worth mentioning, such as.
· Deactivating all redundant plugins (many plugins will significantly slow down your site)
· Assessing and optimising all images
· Employing a CDN service
· Upgrading into a WordPress-specific high-performance web host, for example WP Engine or Flywheel (if your budget allows).
All of These are well worth trying in the event that you haven't already.
WP Rocket Pricing
With Prices starting at just $39 to be used on one WordPress site, WP Rocket is an affordable alternative for many. Additionally, there are some other powerful free options available — for example WP Super Cache, and, for the technically minded, W3 Total Cache (to name but 2 of many. If you're looking for something which's exceptionally easy to set up and use, however, and also provides access to an extremely beneficial premium support desk, WP Rocket is a strong competitor.
The full Pricing choices are as follows. Wp Rocket Woocommerce Sort
· Personal. $39 (1 site)
· Business. $99 (3 sites)
· Pro. $199 (unlimited websites )
All Options include a year's access to plugin updates and support. After this period, you may keep on using the plugin or renew your permit to maintain access. There's also a 30-day refund on offer in case you aren't completely satisfied with the plugin after purchase.
WP Rocket Is really quite striking. Not only is it incredibly easy to use, in addition, it delivers great results.
Most of The tasks you can execute to optimise the rate of your site take substantial time and effort — whether that's optimising media files, reviewing and consolidating your plugins, then migrating to a different web host or altering topics. WP Rocket, on the other hand, can be implemented to your site in only a couple clicks.
What's More, if you are a WordPress freelancer, whether helping customers with their existing websites or creating sites from scratch, having something like WP Rocket on your toolkit could be of huge benefit. In only a couple of minutes, you will be able to accelerate a customer's site and deliver them tangible results (in the shape of'before and after' online speeds tests), also, when the best way to separate yourself from your competition would be to offer more value to the client, things like this can definitely help.
As a Data-backed article over on Moz sets it. "Fast websites have more visitors, who visit more pages for longer periods of time, who come back more often, and are typically more inclined to buy products or click advertisements."
Thanks to Its quick setup procedure, speeding up your site using WP Rocket is an easy win in the war against slow loading times.
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Annika and I had planned on going for our normal bike ride yesterday however since the family talk and now that the stress has chilled we needed rest more. We slept in a little and made the day a relaxing and family day and plan to ride this morning. We visited the fountain in Fountain Hills and it was actually running.
We also took our son and his wife out to look at new cars, Annika and I are considering getting a 2019 Mini possibly in the near future. We ran all over town to just sightsee and do some fun errands together and then we headed home to eat and relax. A bit of PC Gaming, a movie or two and a good nights rest before this mornings adventure bike ride.
Annika and I are hoping to do about 30 miles of adventure riding for the day before her dentist appointment. Tomorrow I plan to do Zwift for some long miles, fingers crossed as we're still doing things on a daily basis while things get normal. It's gonna be a very busy week for us but I do plan to do a good bit of Zwift as I have the time.
Whelp it's that time, have an epic day and thanks so much for the support.


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A good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction. Got a good idea? Then do something about it. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence.David J. Schwartz
Do you have an IDEA today?
All of us are thinking everyday and new ideas are being born everytime. We all have once thought of an idea that may change the direction of our life. However, somehow or rather, we chose not to implement out the idea simply because of the fear that it might fail. In our journey of life, we can have many great ideas being birth out from us about the ways to improve in any aspects of our life. However, many times we never once took action to try out any of the ideas we had.
Therefore, in the end of the day, our life still remain the same without any change. The thought that was once given to us died with us without having a chance to live. Without a doubt, an idea is the one that started all great inventions as Earl Nightingale says, 'Everything begins with an idea'. However, an idea without action will still remain just as an idea.
A bad idea acted upon will give you a lesson, A good idea not acted upon will give you no progression.David Ng
Hence, if you think you got a great idea today, start by taking action, implement and act out the ideas that you have because you will never know how big of an impact the idea may have. You might asked, 'What if the idea won't work?', 'What if it fail?', the answer is to learn from mistake and start improving the idea till it worked. Remember, always be flexible on your plan but be stubborn on your goal.
The great Michael Jackson during his younger days, had an idea of creating the moonwalk. However, when he first showcase it to the world, he was not satisfied but he continue to polished his craft and add new ideas to his moonwalk till he perfected it. Thomas Edison had an idea of creating the lightbulb, failed miserably in many attempts, however, he keep continuing and changing his plan and ideas till one day it finally paid off and the lightbulb works.
So in closing today, whatever ideas you may have right now, be it about your career, your family, your education, your relationship, anything,
start acting out your ideas now for we will never know what one great idea can do for you and your life.