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~ Short Term Doc Proposal ~
How do facial features of inter-racial parents, who self-identify as one race, manifest in their children? Are dominant facial features always expressed?
I will be working within the Visual Anthropology genre. Visual anthropology examines how aspects of culture can be pictorially or visually interpreted and expressed, and how images can be understood as artifacts of culture. Historical photographs, in particular, are seen as a source of ethnographic data, expanding our horizons beyond the reach of memory culture. This genre supports this question because it is the visual aspects of the facial features I will use to make comparisons.
This visual approach is imperative in my study because comparisons will be made of the facial features expressed in the inter-racial children. I will find three couples. Each member of the couple will be self identified as one race. There child will be a 50/50 representation of each race. The facial features that will be compared are the shape and size of the eyes, nose and mouth, the general shape of the face and the skin tone. I will act as an outside observer with no alignment to either of the parents in order to make an objective visual analysis.
The dominant facial feature will be expressed 100% of the time.
Identify three couples in which both partners self identifies as one race. Each couple must have a child. I will take medium format color studio portraits of each person in the family. The lighting will be the same and the frame will be a head shot, from the shoulders up. This will allow me to be able to study the features of the parents face and how they manifest in the child. The lighting set up will be one beauty dish to light the face, two background lights to light a white seamless backdrop. The image will be simple and clean. The face will be large and in the center of the frame with a white background. The medium format camera will be used in order for highest clarity of the facial features to be seen. Color film will be used so skin tones and color variations will be noticeable. The images will be printed on 11×17 archival quality photo paper and will be presented as triptychs. One the left will be the mother, in the center will be the child and on the right will be the father.
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Kainaz – I love your photos, and the stories they tell.. we miss you here in the bay too!! Interested in taking some pics of Japanese/Pakistani offspring? hahaa, just kidding.


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Mangaluru, Aug 26,2016: Reports indicate that a Twitter account set up on directions from AAI, Airports Authority of India, is supposed to give flyers, domestic and international, using the airport at Kenjar an opportunity to convey their feelings and observations to the MIA authorities. MIA is one among the 65 operational airports across India under AAI control that have been asked to have official Twitter accounts and thus be in sync with thoughts of the modern-day flyer who are increasingly use tweets to do so.
Just two tweets in four days may not suggest a good strike rate in the race to dash off 140 characters on the microblogging site - Twitter. Yet @aaimlrairport - the official twitter account of Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) that is taking its baby steps on social media in its endeavor to reach out to air passengers is having a slow take-off. Despite this, the Twitter handle has already registered 41 followers and in turn is following the account @narendramodi.
J T Radhakrishna, airport director, MIA said that even AAI HQ will henceforth be in a position to monitor public reactions and suggestions on service improvements pertaining to particular airports and act on them at the headquarters level. This also allows the respective airport directors or their deputies to take stock of the public feedback and take necessary corrective action at their respective level, he said, adding such actions will also add to customer satisfaction.
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What is Dermaplaning and What Are the Benefits?
We all want more radiant skin that has an even, more youthful appearance. If you visit a local dermatologist, spa or physician you will see that there are many anti-aging skin treatments to benefit a wide variety of skin types. Some promise immediate results, some promise delayed results, some have downtime, some have no downtime, some are painful, some are not painful – there are so many skin treatments from which to choose! One popular type of skin treatment may sound a little odd at first but offers a great deal of benefits – dermaplaning.
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October 06, 2017
A full day in Vava'u
Ship's Log
Current Position
alongside in Neiafu, Vava'u
Ship's Heading & Speed
Warm, clear, winds force 2
Today was another exciting day in Neiafu. The day started off with another opportunity to work with VEPA (Vava'u Environmental Protection Association). We headed to Keitahi Beach this morning. The beach was gorgeous upon first glance, but the trash up and down the beach soon caught our attention. In only about an hour, we filled 47 bags of trash. We also had a few students filtering sand through mosquito net filters VEPA made to sort microplastics on the beach from the sand. According to Ali, who was doing some of the filtering, there luckily weren't very many microplastics in the sand. We cleaned for about an hour and then jumped in the water quickly to cool off before heading back to the ship for lunch. Working with VEPA has been so interesting. As Amy said yesterday, VEPA is the only NGO working on environmental issues in Tonga, so they have a lot on their plate and a lot of knowledge to share with us. I'm excited to learn more from them when they join us for a day sail tomorrow!
The afternoon today was a big chunk of free time for exploration. I visited a few shops and a market in town and got a chance to relax for a few hours on solid ground. When we got back to the ship after our break, it was all hands to prepare the ship for our dinner guests. We welcomed a group of about 20 high school students from the area onto the ship to eat dinner with us and get to know each other. A few of them will be coming on our day sail tomorrow as well! Our other dinner guests were Betty, a local craftsperson who sells her items at the market nearby and has been a longtime friend of the ship, and her grandchildren. A few of us had bought things from Betty in the market earlier so we were excited to see her again and get to chat more.
The most exciting and a little stressful part of the dinner was being sung to by the high school students (who all sung beautifully) and then having to get a song together to all sing back on the spot. Luckily, most of the students knew the words to Wagon Wheel, so even if it may have not been our first choice of song, we pulled something together very quickly and sounded pretty good.
Tomorrow we set sail again and I'm excited to share our boat with the friends we have made in Vava'u on the day sail. After the day sail, we'll be headed back out to sea. It's just a few day sail to get to Tongatapu, our next stop in Tonga, but nevertheless, I can't wait to be moving again.
- Flannery
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Friday, 24 December 2010
Tommy Sheridan...........Verdict ?
I would categorise the polarities of the reactions – media and individual -to the verdict in the Tommy Sheridan perjury trial as follows -
1. Justice has been served – he brought it upon himself. Sheridan was undoubtedly guilty. Perjury is a serious offence, and has the capacity to seriously damage the criminal justice system – it must be feel the full force of the law and be punished severely. It was not a political trial – it was public money well spent.
2. It was a political trial – a show trial – designed to satisfy News International, Rupert Murdoch, those who detest socialists of whatever ilk, and it was also a valuable smokescreen to cover the much more serious questions hanging over Andy Coulson, former editor of the NotW, now a senior advisor in the ConLib Government, over the phone tapping scandal by the News of the World. Tommy Sheridan is innocent of all the charges brought against him. There was a wide-ranging conspiracy to bring him down, one that included most of his former Scottish Socialist Party colleagues, News International, the Scottish Police and the Scottish justice system.
The truth, as always, probably lies somewhere in between, and that is the area I find myself in, much as I would like to be absolutely clear-cut in my view.
Let's try to nail a few things down …
Did Tommy Sheridan bring it upon himself?
Leaving aside for the moment the question of his guilt or innocence (the Law has spoken but in a free country we may express our doubts over its verdict), Tommy Sheridan faced two crucial decision points – one when the News of the World's made allegations about his private life, and the second when the Crown Office launched a prosecution for perjury against him and his wife, Gail Sheridan.
The original choice was to either ignore or contest the NotW allegations. To ignore them would undoubtedly have cost him his leadership of the SSP, and perhaps ultimately his parliamentary seat, but he could have survived that, diminished but not destroyed. His enemies would have claimed that his failure to contest the allegations was tantamount to an admission of guilt. His wife, the staunchly loyal - and in my book, wholly admirable - Gail Sheridan, would have stood by her husband. He could have rebuilt his career, perhaps with a new, Jack-the-Lad dimension to it, and could even have enhanced a media profile.
If Tommy knew the allegations were true, he was extremely unwise to pit himself against the Murdoch empire, and in choosing to do so, he was following the paths of Aitken and Archer, both of whom destroyed their political careers and were imprisoned as a result of their choice. Only cynical self-interest, the instincts of a gambler and vanity could have led him to contest allegations that he knew were true.
If Tommy was innocent of the charges, then given his personality and the core of his political convictions, he was inevitable going to engage in the fight, even though the risks were appalling.
My advice to him, regardless of his guilt or innocence of the charges would have been – don't do it, Tommy.
Nobody expected him to win, and there is some evidence that he did not expect to win against such a powerful adversary. Although he trumpeted his win in typical barnstorming, populist style, he must have know the inevitability of what would follow. The die had been cast, and a 21st century tragedy was about to unfold.
The second choice was whether or not to defend himself against the perjury charges laid by the Crown. Here, in my view, he had no real choice, whatever his private knowledge of guilt or innocence – he had to defend himself. To suggest as some have done, that he should not have defended himself to save the public purse the expense of a trial is utter nonsense. It is the legal system and the nature of the police investigations that create these enormous cost, estimated at £1m for the police investigation and £4m for the trial.
Sheridan was facing the inevitability of prison and crippling costs that would lead to bankruptcy. In my view, he had to fight, guilty or innocent. Most importantly, it would have been a betrayal of his wife's unflinching loyalty and commitment to give up. There was no way back.
I say no to both questions. It should have been left the News International to decide what their remedies were after losing the initial civil action for damages.
Perjury, an offence that is committed countless times in every court daily throughout the land, is almost never prosecuted, and the egregious exceptions to this have been political – notably the Jonathan Aitken and Jeffrey Archer (Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare) perjury prosecutions.
In both these case, the prosecutions were justified by the rationale that these were powerful politicians and public figures – both Tories – who could not be seen to flout the law. Jonathan Aitken was seen as a future Prime Minister: Archer was a life peer and had been Chairman of the Conservative Party.
The same arguments and justification have been applied to the Sheridan prosecution. Why therefore was it wrong to prosecute him?
My answer is that in the Aitken and Archer cases, only they had been accused of perjury – in the first Sheridan trial, the Crown believed that many witnesses must have perjured themselves, but they only chose to prosecute Tommy and Gail Sheridan? Why not the others? Why not the ones who had testified against Sheridan? Why was a police investigation launched that appeared to focus solely on the Sheridans?
Where did the public interest lie under these circumstances, and where did the other, shadowy interests lie? In a time of economic stringency, was it wise or prudent to divert substantial police resource to investigating allegations of three-in-a-bed sex? To incur a cost of millions to the public purse for a long-drawn out show trial?
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This morning we will be doing a recap of the main points we explored during our Paraclesis series – thinking about how we can encourage and support each other. An opportunity to reflect, to think, to commit to change.
We'll also have Brian and Lydia with us – BMS missionaries from Thailand – who will be sharing some of their experiences including how some of these Paraclesis principles have worked out in their very different situation.
Reading: 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
Questions to think about:
- How has the idea that God comforts us so we can comfort others (v4) affected how you engage with God and with others?
- What is one way you, as an individual, are going to change as a result of the Paraclesis series?
- Are there things you are able to do as a group to more effectively support each other?


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Published on the 04/04/2016 | Written by Hayden McCall
Fourteen of 20 enterprise ERP solutions available in the A/NZ region have delivered fully browser-based access…by Hayden McCall
Fourteen of 20 enterprise ERP solutions available in the A/NZ region have delivered fully browser-based access…by Hayden McCall
A long hard slog to re-architect ERP systems around modern web-based platforms is entering a new phase as vendors complete re-design projects to deliver their software via browsers.
R&D teams will not be the only ones sighing with relief. Product managers, marketers and advertising copywriters will finally be able to stop using exuberant and factually dubious terms to legacy 'cloud' architectures: terms like 'available in the cloud', 'cloud-ready' or 'cloud-enabled', which in reality meant 'can be hosted in a third party data centre, but only for use on your desktop'. A cloud by any other name.
The transition has not been painless. It's expensive, time consuming and the much-touted merits of fully browser-based solutions are not universally accepted. But the cacophony created by those vendors with built-for-web solutions combined with user expectations of anywhere, anytime and any device access have been impossible for vendors to ignore.
Xero has a lot to answer for, along with Salesforce, NetSuite and a raft of enterprise-grade solutions being delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS) models.
So why change? Patrick Saundry, head of SMB Solutions at SAP partner UXC Oxygen commented: "The pressure to remain competitive is felt by people on the front line and it is these line-of-business users that are driving the demand for more heterogeneous business tools, particularly mobile apps."
A thorn in the side of orthodoxy
The rapid increase in the availability of web-based business software has been a thorn in the side of the established ERP software houses, prompting two stark choices – massive investment or sunset solutions.
The cloud revolution that brought ease of use, rapid, lightweight implementation and on-demand user licensing has created new expectations across all software categories and ERP has not been immune.
ERP buyers and system owners, of course, have understood that the functionality necessary to run their unique, complex business couldn't be delivered through a browser. The gob-smacking amounts of cash spent on configuring ERP systems meant they were ahead of the pack and could "run simple" as SAP puts it. 'These SaaS systems are for companies that settle for the generic, bland and undifferentiated – that's not us' they said.
Err, wrong. In fact it is that "simple" word that is pivotal. If software processes aren't simple and easily accessible they will be circumvented. Process compliance will be paid lip service while back-office workarounds prevail. Underutilisation of ERP investments is commonplace – a Telsyte survey last year reported that Australian CIOs reckon less than six percent of staff use 80 percent of ERP functionality.
Quantifying cloud investments (and returns)
The investment by ERP solution providers to modernise their architectures is a matter of survival. And as a result, the spend has been massive, but so too are the returns.
Analyst estimates put SAP's spend on rebuilding its all-cloud BusinessByDesign product at around A$4.4 billion, over the course of seven years. Justified, perhaps, by annual cloud revenue growing 109 percent to A$3.4 billion (as of Q4 2015). But against a total SAP revenue of A$31 billion, it's a tough game.
The global CEO of Microsoft (no less) was the man announcing the latest 'cloud-first' release of the Dynamics AX suite, providing an indication of the visibility the investment has inside Microsoft.
Satya Nadella is not alone. Eye-watering cloud R&D investment announcements from ERP vendors over recent years are commonplace. As one example, announcing a doubling of product R&D investment, Unit4 said "we will invest even more aggressively in innovation and R&D". Closer to home, Peter Dickinson, Greentree CEO and cloud sceptic who once described some cloud vendors as "sandal waving zealots", has budgeted around NZ$20 million to build the browser-based Greentree4. This from a company with annual revenues at the time of around NZ$15 million.
And, according to vendors' responses to iStart's annual ERP Buyers Guide, the R&D investments are starting to pay off. Fourteen products of the 20 that made the cut have confirmed that "all screens are accessible via browser", with all others (bar one) progressively converting screens to be browser-enabled.
Mobility is also on the same track, with 14 vendors reporting that they have built mobile apps (iOS or android) for their solutions. Most of those are not in fact native mobile apps, but rather responsive versions of the same desktop screens – such is the beauty of the HTML5-compliant code base most have used.
PwC prepared a report back in 2013 entitled 'ERP in the cloud: Is it ready, are you?', outlining the key considerations for cloud implementations at the time. Paramount among them was the extent to which ERP vendors were "investing significantly in enhancing their offerings, expanding the functionality and availability of their services, and reducing the risks of adoption".
In 2016, it seems, that investment is now in production and available for deployment.
Upgrading legacy client/server-based installations to the latest versions is seldom a trivial exercise. There will be new web servers, public visibility and security architecture issues to resolve, so it will be some years before user communities start to enjoy the latest features.
Saundry points to hybrid cloud as a way through this phase; "Most often we will recommend a hybrid cloud environment where the business can augment the investment in its existing SAP ERP on-premise solution by adopting any one of a number of line of business cloud applications."
The ERP vendor community is now switching its focus toward simplifying user experience in the application and building implementation accelerators to reduce project risks and failure rates.
The issue is becoming less about whether the ERP products are ready; rather, the question now is whether businesses are ready to invest. And that is not a new challenge for most vendors and their partners.
The iStart 2016 ERP Buyer's Guide provides side-by-side comparison of the leading ERP solutions in the A/NZ region. The full PDF can be downloaded here, and detailed product fact sheets on each of the individual solutions can be accessed here. If you require assistance with your ERP selection and evaluation process, the get-a-shortlist service accelerates the challenge of matching of your requirements against vendor and product capabilities.
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
۲۶۱۰ Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles
Eighth Edition
The data for this edition was collected during the first week of April 2018 of a BETA list of the public profiles of the most highly cited researchers (h-index larger than 100) according to their declared presence in the Google Scholar Citations database.
The list, that includes both living and deceased authors, is ranked first by h-index in decreasing order and when ties appear, then by the total number of citations as a secondary criteria.
This ranking is far of being complete, as many scientists have no developed a GSC public profile yet, that it is a very easy and free task and with a surprisingly large coverage of both contributions and citations. It is also probably we overlooked a few profiles, so please contact us with any information regarding gaps, missing profiles or the full project. Our editor is available from this email address Isidro F. Aguillo ([email protected]), but we strongly suggest to read Methodology in advance.
This ranking has been funded by the Project ACUMEN European Commission 7th Framework Programme, Capacities, Science in Society 2010. Grant Agreement 266632 and the CSIC Intramural 201310E040
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Reputation is key but is not the only consideration.
Companies looking for a data centre service provider look for price, company reputation and good service level agreements.
72% of respondents selected the company's background and reputation as a key criterion, 20% more than in 2012.
Service Level Commitment was cited as important with 70% ranking it as a very significant standard when selecting a colo provider. 56% voted Facility Technical Specifications as important.
Taylor Man, Executive VP of the Cloud Business Division at NTT Com Asia said: "Companies nowadays want more than a 'service', but rather a holistic data centre 'experience' based on tailored customer requirements.
"Providers need to cultivate a strong relationship with clients right from the beginning – from initial project planning, to implementation, to control monitoring, to round-the-clock support, and to always-on operations."
Unsurprisingly the NTT Communications survey found organisations pay special attention to value-for-money when signing a contract.
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- 1 lbs flour
- 1/4 lbs butter
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 3 tbsp powdered sugar (confectioner's)
- 1 tbsp yeast
- 1/4 cup dried Raisins, marinated in brandy
- 2 tbsp chopped almonds
- 1/4 tsp salt
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- In a large pot, mix together the milk, Sugar, and butter.
- Cook over low heat, just enough to let the butter melt.
- When the butter melts, transfer to a large mixing bowl.
- Let it cool for 30 minutes.
- Add the eggs, yeast, salt, Raisins, and flour - little by little.
- Use an electric mixer to beat the mixture until smooth. Let the *dough* rest for about 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 400 F (or 200 C). Arrange chopped almonds at the bottom of a greased *kugelhof* mold.
- (loaf pan or cake mold is ok - kugelhof mold is a round mold with a well in the middle)
- Add the dough, then bake in the oven for 40 – 45 minutes, until cooked.
- Check by inserting a knife in the middle. If it comes out clean, then the cake is cooked.
- Remove from oven and let it cool for 1 hour.
- Remove from the mold, then dust with powdered sugar. Serve warm.
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The top U.S. securities cop has a message for people eager to cash in on the white-hot market for digital currencies: Watch out.
So-called cryptocurrenices are increasingly in the spotlight, with Bitcoin prices soaring nearly 1,600 percent this year. Trading in Bitcoin futures contracts started this weekend on the Chicago Board of Exchange, a sign of growing acceptance on Wall Street.
A growing number of companies also are raising funds through "initial coin offerings," or ICOs, complete with celebrity endorsements.
Yet while the uninitiated may view ICOs as similar to an initial public offering of stock by a company going public, looks can be deceiving, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton warned Monday in an unusual statement on the agency's website.
"Investors should understand that to date no initial coin offerings have been registered with the SEC," he said. "The SEC also has not to date approved for listing and trading any exchange-traded products (such as ETFs) holding cryptocurrencies or other assets related to cryptocurrencies."
"If any person today tells you otherwise, be especially wary," Clayton added.
Anyone thinking of investing in an ICO or buying digital currency should ask a number of questions, according to the SEC. These include:
- Is the product legal?
- Is it subject to regulation, including rules designed to protect investors?
- Does a given product comply with those rules?
- Is a company offering an ICO or crypto product licensed to do so?
- Are there substantial risks of theft or loss, including from hacking?
"Please also recognize that these markets span national borders and that significant trading may occur on systems and platforms outside the United States," Clayton said. "Your invested funds may quickly travel overseas without your knowledge. As a result, risks can be amplified, including the risk that market regulators, such as the SEC, may not be able to effectively pursue bad actors or recover funds."
Trading in bitcoin futures roared out of the gate on Sunday in their first day of trading on the CBOE, with the contract that expires in January rising as high as $18,850. The rival Chicago Mercantile Exchange is scheduled to start trading bitcoin futures on December 18.


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Rising from the woods yet merging with the surrounding water and forest sits Pinecote Pavilion. One of several major structures which define architect E. Fay Jones, an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Pavilion is the highlight of the Crosby Arboretum located near Picayune, MS.
Fans of E. Fay Jones will delight in the Pavilion which is a symmetrical shed. As with all of his designs, this ones blends into its environment with the base being earth toned brick surrounded by earth, water and trees. The structure is used for various events with the main use being a gathering place. There are also talks and discussions, music events and the starting point for nature walks. But again, like most of Jones' designs, Pinecote Pavilion brings peace and serenity to most who view it from a distance.
The Arboretum is much more than the Pavilion. There are walking trails highlighting the Gulf Coast Region as well as the Mississippi woodlands. The Savanna Exhibit is a landscape native to the original Gulf Coast featuring wildflowers, grasses and native shrubs and trees. The Woodland Exhibit was planted on the abandoned strawberry farm. It will take the forest approximately 200 years to be dominated by the hardwoods.
These exhibits and all that goes with the Crosby Arboretum would not have been possible if it were not for a strawberry farm. The farm was developed by the Crosby family out of necessity due to the depression. The family's main business was timber and related products. One family member, L. O. Crosby, Jr. may have enjoyed strawberries, yet he was more – lumber executive, civic leader and philanthropist. After his death in 1978, his family turned the strawberry farm into an interpretive center. The Crosby Arboretum Foundation was formed and in 1997 it teamed with Mississippi State University. The Arboretum has various exhibits and focuses on native plants of the Pearl River Drainage Basin.
If you enjoy nature walks, trees, water and flowers, Crosby Arboretum is the place to visit. Plan a day – pack a picnic lunch, grab your walking stick and hat and have the camera ready.
Clearwater RV Park is the perfect place to stay to enjoy all Crosby Arboretum has to offer. We are approximately ten miles from the Arboretum. Call, (601) 749-8142, to reserve your site today and remember "Quiet Never Sounded So Good!"


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Building Management System (BMS)
The Building Management System (BMS) operates the controls of a building. The system is meant to operate all of the electrical and mechanical equipment from lighting to HVAC to security systems. The BMS is sometimes able to alert you if there is a problem in the building.
Why It Matters
The purpose of the BMS is to control the building, not to provide information about the building. If you don't have a BMS in your building, the first logical step is to install meters to gain transparency into your building. This will give you the information you need to make changes immediately. It will also help justify capital investments such as installing a BMS.


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- Visible balance encourages pre-paid mobile users to go beyond voice
- Helps 24 million Mobinil subscribers in Egypt and potentially 3.3 billion users worldwide
- Converged charging and billing reduces costs for operators
Today, 72 percent of the world's 4.6 billion mobile subscribers use pre-paid services. A big barrier to these mobile users spending more is that they can't see their current balance. Being able to keep track of how much they have left to spend, on the other hand, makes users more willing to splurge on mobile internet and messaging.
In Egypt, where most people use pre-paid services, subscribers are taking control of their spending thanks to a charging system from Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC). The country's leading mobile operator, Mobinil, is modernizing its charging system serving over 24 million subscribers across the nation.
Mobinil will be able to provide more benefits to its customers as it ensures full control and flexibility over the different offers provided to them. It also improves the company's marketing capabilities, via customer segmentation, and the fast time to market the different promotional campaigns introduced to the market. The new system instantly calculates any type of transaction and offers both the consumer and operator access to the current balance.
Mobinil CEO Hassan Kabbani stated, "Mobinil's successful completion of this important and historical milestone is a confirmation of our continuous and long term investments into our network and IT infrastructures on which our valued customers rely for their communications. Our commitment is to leverage on innovative and responsive partners, such as Ericsson, that can help us offer customized and tailor-made services to suit our customers' diverse needs. Ericsson's leading capabilities in revenue management systems perfectly fits our needs for developing our offering and services."
Jan Wäreby, Senior Vice President and head of Business Unit Multimedia at Ericsson says; "Revenue management is becoming increasingly important for operators. By converging charging and billing, operators can reduce operational costs and offer much better service. Ericsson has performed over 50 similar transformation projects, replacing legacy systems by one single platform in live networks. These are complex projects since they require the seamless transfer of existing subscribers and services to a completely new system."
About 250 service providers around the world are using Ericsson and LHS's charging and billing solutions with more than one billion consumers.
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Red onion with peanut butter & chilli
Prep: 5 mins No cook
Raw onion isn't for everyone, but red onions have sweetness that you can complement with the flavours of peanut butter, lime and chilli for a low-fat snack
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegan
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal65
- fat4g
- saturates1g
- carbs3g
- sugars2g
- fibre2g
- protein3g
- salt0.15g
Save to My Good Food
- 1 small red onion, halved and peeled
- 1 tbsp peanut butter (sugar free and without palm oil)
Peanut butterpee-nut butt-ah
Peanut butter starts with dry roasting peanuts, which concentrates and heightens their flavour…
- lime (zest and juice)
The same shape, but smaller than…
- chilli powder, for dusting
Carefully peel the layers from the onion halves and cut the big outer layers into small pieces. Smear with the peanut butter and grate over some lime zest then dust with a little chilli powder. Squeeze over lime juice and eat with your fingers.


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Various Artists
- Music Reviews
- July 14, 2020
Brown Acid — The Tenth Trip (RidingEasy Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Anyone. Review by Stacey Zering.
Quântico.(Discmidia Music) Review by Stacey Zering.
The Story of the Most Influential Radio Station in America
A Sentimental Education (Double Feature Records). Review by James Mann.
It's been thirty years after Roi Tamkin saw 10KM take the stage at the 40 Watt Club….
Tired of Tomorrow (Relapse Records). Review by Jen Cray.
Death And The Internet (Fire Talk Records). Review by Jen Cray.
The Post Romantic Empire Album (Our Sweetest Songs). Review by Carl F Gazue.
The Post Romantic Empire Album (Our Sweetest Songs). Review by Carl F Gazue.
Optica (Merge). Review by Laura Pontillo.
A contemporary American songbook comes alive with the sophisticatedly sweet voice of jazz-country singer, Kat Edmonson, at New York's City Winery.
Coexist (Young Turks). Review by Jen Cray.
May Terry relives a bit of teen pop nostalgia with The Ugly Club in NYC, where the ladies swoon over girl-candy frontman Ryan Egan.
Bestival Live 2011 (PIAS America). Review by Scott Adams.
Betrayal of Hearts (Sovereign States). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Covers 80's. Review by Tim Wardyn.
Belong (Slumberland). Review by Scott Adams.
Memories of an Echo. Review by Robert Sutton.


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I have lived in the Eastborough neighborhood for the past 42 years. We are located a good distance from a bus stop and far from our medical appointments.
I am a retired Army major, and after traveling around the world, I selected Colorado Springs to be my adopted home city. We arrived in 1971 and have experienced the city's tremendous growth, but not in the Southeast sector.
We lost a Sam's Club and a Red Lobster on South Academy Boulevard. There's a large selection of fine restaurants in the metro area, but only a few in the Southeast.
Meanwhile, in the Southwest, older parts of South Nevada Avenue are getting renovation attention. The move of Bristol Brewing into the former Ivywild Elementary School was a great start. Now new retail space is being developed all around the Edelweiss German restaurant, and nearby on South Tejon Street a new prime steak house has opened.
Back in Southeast – nothing!
We have a new city councilor who lived in the Southeast area during its demise, and who is taking steps for a change in the future. I know she feels like the Southeast Express can be a sounding board for those who care and want to be a part of this change.
Congratulations to the people behind the Southeast Express for taking an important leadership role, and for publishing a communication vehicle to guide us along the way!
Your supporter,
Robert A. Garrity
Colorado Springs
The Southeast Express accepts letters to the editor. Please email your letters of no more than 300 words, to firstname.lastname@example.com or send them to the Southeast Express c/o Editor Regan Foster, 235 S. Nevada Ave., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903. Please include a daytime telephone number for verification purposes only.


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What's the news?
West Virginia University's Experimental Rocketry team is preparing to take off for competition at the Spaceport America Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where it will compete against 110 teams from 11 countries. The team has built its own 12-foot fiber glass rocket designed to carry 8.8 pounds of payload 10,000 feet into the sky, which it will test next month at a Tripoli Rocketry Association event.
Quotes and comments
"I think we have a real shot at winning and we are looking forward to showing the world what WVU can do." Tim Bear, mechanical and aerospace engineering major and WVUER president
The altitude the rocket reaches is a major component of the score but the quality of the design and construction is scored as well. In an attempt to achieve the maximum score possible, the team has built every component of the rocket from scratch except for the parachutes and safety-critical electronics.
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A peek inside Linda's creative process.
Sunday, August 26, 2018
More Dunes
With these closer dunes I get to liven up the color relative to the most distant dune. At this size, it is difficult to see some of the color subtleties which are needed to have this block feel like sand. Some of the oil paints I used: quinacridone coral, cadmium red, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow, naples yellow, and titanium white. I also worked in some of the lighter purple shadow color from the background dune.
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Polish State-Controlled Firms Team Up to Explore for Shale Gas
Five state-controlled Polish companies agreed Wednesday to join forces to step up exploration for shale gas in a promising area of northern Poland, under the aegis of their controlling shareholder, the Treasury Ministry, whose top official has staked his career on the development of the fuel.
Poland's shale gas and conventional reserves combined could cover 35-65 years of the country's demand for natural gas, according to the Polish Geological Institute. The country hopes shale gas will reduce its dependence on what it says is expensive natural gas from Russia.
But soaring optimism has been replaced by moderate pessimism since Exxon Mobil Corp's (XOM) decision to pull the plug on its exploration efforts in the central European country, prompting speculation about which private sector investor would be next to move on.
In anticipation of such a scenario, the Polish government has pushed the companies it still controls to fill the potential gap.


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Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department, Major Crimes Division are investigating the homicide of a 24-year-old male that occurred in Silver Spring early this morning.
On Sunday, May 28, at approximately 2:30 a.m., 3rd District officers and Fire and Rescue personnel responded to the Days Inn located at 8040 13th Street for a disturbance in the parking lot. First responders located the victim in his hotel room suffering from life-threatening trauma to his body. He was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that the victim left his room at approximately 2:30 a.m. Witnesses reported that he was assaulted by a group of suspects in the parking lot. The victim was able to return to his room where police were called.
This remains an active investigation. Additional information will be released as it can be confirmed. Police are urging anyone with information to contact the Major Crimes Division at 240.773.5070. Those who wish to remain anonymous may call Crime Solvers of Montgomery County toll-free at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477). Crime Solvers will pay a cash reward of up to $10,000 for information provided to them that leads to an arrest in this case.


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No Longer With Us
What happens when you die? A big, fat nothing. Or so Colin Wilkinson thought. Until one day, in the isolated basement morgue of St Theresa's Hospital, the ghosts of seven cadavers lying in the body storage unit appear before him. Waiting to depart for the next life, the dead recount their fateful tales to the stunned mortuary technician. United by the timing and location of their demise, each death is distinguished by a different cause: Natural. Accident. Suicide. Murder. Initially terrified by the spirit encounter, Colin soon realises the visitants are just as incredulous as he is about their reanimation. How and when will they pass? And what comes next? Do any of the ghosts pose a real threat to Colin's own life? Ultimately, his destiny may be just as uncertain as theirs.


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Well kids, if you want to make some real money consider going into politics through local government.
On Sept. 9, the Capital Regional District Board will consider a report that recommends they give themselves a raise. Directors, of which there are 22 plus the chair and vice-chair, would see their stipends rise from $8,940 to $17,000. The board chair Nils Jensen would see his pay go from $29,400 to $42,000. Total those up and you are looking at a yearly cost to the taxpayer upwards of $416,000. That's just for the CRD Board. Then when you factor in the stipend they each receive for serving on their various councils/regional districts and you can see this makes for a well-paid gig. They meet once a month and sit on committees which meet once a month or so. As an example, the councillors in Victoria make $40,000 each and in smaller communities the pay is $10,000 and up. Then there are the mayors' salaries. It's certainly seems worth it to "serve" your community and then serve yourself up a little extra cash.
So what's wrong with this picture?
For one, since when is public and community service a job? Yes, we all know they have plenty of meetings and sit on numerous committees and boards. But isn't that what they signed up for when they went into politics. When a consultant says they need to "keep up" with the rest of the province, that doesn't quite wash. It is taxpayers' money that they are digging into. It just seems that once they get into office, many of them have no problem voting themselves a raise. They talk about cost-cutting measures and mindful spending but that never seems to come up when their pay is on the agenda. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all do that, hire a consultant to tell us we're not making enough money for the work we do. Most of those (taxpayers) who pay the salaries and honorariums of the elected are hard pressed to find any extra cash in their pay packets.
When anyone signs up to serve the public, then they should be considering the public rather than themselves. The rising costs of local government is astounding and it is absurd that there is so much double-dipping going on. When we see what some of the senators in Ottawa gave themselves it's not so hard to see where that attitude of entitlement comes from.
The elected feel they should get paid for all of the hours they spend sitting in meetings, but what about the average volunteer who does what they do because they believe in their community. They also do important work and don't get a dime.
If the CRD Board wants to hike their pay they will, but they have to realize the public will remember.


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Ghosts and Scholars Book of Shadows, published in 2012 by Sarob Press, as a beautiful limited edition hardback. The book was a collection of prequels and sequels to the classic ghost stories of M.R.James, including my own story Alberic de Mauléon, a prequel to Canon Alberic's Scrap-book.
I am thrilled to say that the book was so well received that Sarob are bringing out a second volume, which is scheduled for publication in September 2014. You can see the gorgeous cover art by Paul Lowe on the left. Anyone who is familiar with M.R.James' stories will recognise it as being from Count Magnus!
Volume 2 of the Book of Shadows again includes one of my own stories, The Third Time, a sequel to James' A Neighbour's Landmark. If you haven't read the original story, you can find it here: A Neighbour's Landmark on A Thin Ghost. Incidentally, if you want to know more about this particular tale, there is a super episode about it on the M.R.James-themed Podcast to the Curious. You can listen to it here: Podcast episode 26.
So why did I choose to write a sequel to this particular tale? When the idea of the first Book of Shadows came up, writing something about Canon Alberic's Scrap-book was a no-brainer for me, really. It's one of MRJ's best known stories (with good reason) and I have spent a lot of my own time researching it: I visited St. Bertrand de Comminges, where it is set, and I also wrote an article about the demonology of the story. You can read that online, here: The Nature of the Beast. For the first volume, I chose to write a prequel, set in France in the late 1600s. I aimed for a rather old-fashioned, perhaps Edwardian tone to the prose.
When it came to the story for Volume 2, I wanted to do something completely different. I decided to write a sequel set in the present day, in all its modern grubbiness. I also chose as the starting-point a story of MRJ's that I have enjoyed many times, but that I have never particularly researched nor pored over.
I've always found A Neighbour's Landmark particularly creepy, although it is not one you hear many people mention when asked which of James' tales is their favourite. Perhaps the shrieking ghost is a little too subtle? However, I must say for me it is one of his most frightening stories. The idea of hearing that terrible scream when you are not expecting it, and then the suspense of waiting to hear it a second time, is just appalling! Even if you are not interested in modern sequels, do read the original story; it's fabulous and chilling.
Other contributors to this new volume include David Longhorn, better known perhaps as the editor of Supernatural Tales, and Reggie Oliver, who is a playwright, biographer and writer of many excellent ghost stories. I have not yet read any of the contributions other than my own, so I can't wait to get my contributor's copy so that I can devour them!
Details of how to order the Ghosts and Scholars Book of Shadows Volume 2 are here, on the Sarob Press website.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Ghosts of things past...and of things yet to be
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Iz feel so much safer wid youse
We want to hide with you under the futon! The humans will never find us there. Never! Plus, we will hug you and purr with you, Annie, because we love you!
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I knew I didn't love him anymore.
The only man that genuinely loved me. Or, rather, acted it out so well.
From the way my shoulders slouched on sighting his beautiful face at my gate, and my heart sank deeper within me eliciting intense feeling of irritation, I knew the cord that once held our hearts together was severed. I hadn't approved of his visit to my place that day. But when he appeared at my gate, I was clueless. It had been happening that way since the past three years. Yet, it was impossible for me to keep him out even if I wanted to, because, hard as it was for me to admit it, he was still special to me. I was sure it was the specialty he was mistaking for love. Once more my guilty conscience assailed me with inquiries about my actual love for this man from the onset as I unbolted the small black gate that secured my two rooms apartment to let him in. As always, I found no answer to those inquiries, simply because they lied with my old self which was long dead.
I welcomed Adinoyi with a greeting not louder than a mumble. He responded with pressing me against his hard body. His scent filled my nostrils as my head pressed against his chest. He never used cologne. Not like he smelt bad anyway. His scent brought back regretful scenes of the night I'd taken in all of him, a scene that haunted me unending for two years, and I cleared it off with a sigh. It had been that easy for me to handle since after then.
"How are you?" he asked, planting a kiss noisily on my left cheek and flashing his front set of obviously artificial teeth. Each time I saw those teeth, I imagined how rough he used to be before I met him. That was a part of him I was yet to experience. He had told me the story of how he lost those teeth in a fight just once, and it had strangely stuck to my memory since then. With the subtle way he treated me, it probably no longer existed, but a part of me didn't believe that.
"I'm fine," I replied without smiling, walking back into the house. Someone suddenly bumped into me. Otoyinoyi! I stretched my hand and hit him on the back.
"Have you lost your manners, or do you think I'm a piece of furniture?" I demanded with a glare. Without apologising, he ran into his father's hands, scratching the part of his back where my hand had touched him. Otoyinoyi was a carbon copy of his father. The pliable lips, the black eyes . Except that he was a darker version.
For a while, his father just stared at me.
"Is that the way you treat him?" he asked in a whisper, amazed.
"Didn't you see what just happened? Besides, you're not the one training him," I snapped. Instead of getting upset, Adinoyi began to laugh. That soft, hearty laughter I knew him with.
"But I told you to marry me so that we can train him together and you refused."
"You'll grow green hair waiting for me," I mumbled.
"Hey, this woman!" he exclaimed, "but the green hair has yellowed already."
I forced back a laugh making its way to my throat. "Adinoyi, what do you want? I've told you to stop visiting." My face assumed its usual grim appearance. At this moment, Oloyinoyi left his father's hand and went back to face the TV screen where he had been since the past two hours. Since I slapped him the last time for standing with us listening to our conversation, he had learned to use his senses. I watched him pick up his game pad and return to his video game, then I turned back to Adinoyi. Not necessarily that I disapproved of his listening to us, but even if he wanted to, courtesy demanded that he shouldn't show it.
"Ebiere, it's been ten years!" Adinoyi whispered. I looked into his eyes. The longing for me was still there. As fresh as ever. I wanted to tell him to swear that he hadn't seen underneath the cloth of any other woman since then, but I already knew the response. He would swear till heaven came down on us.
"There are ladies outside, Adinoyi. Heavy girls!"
He smiled and shook his head at my utterance.
"I don't need you to tell me that."
"Then go with them. Go and stop pestering my life," I said, irritation clogging my mind.
"Get me one first," he joked. I laughed for just a moment, sighed and took my seat on one of the single leather sofas in my sitting-room. He was still standing when I turned.
"So, you won't even offer me a seat," he inquired. I sighed in exasperation.
"That's the problem with you men. You always want the women to do everything for you. Even poke your nose to remove dried mucus obstructing your breathing."
"Ebiere, you're a woman. Stop being stubborn!"
I watched him finally settle into a white plastic chair near the door. He stretched out his legs before him and began to undo the upper buttons of his shirt.
"I'm thirsty." he yawned. I looked him from head to toe and let out a low hiss. Another smile appeared on his face when he saw my reaction.
"But, why do you hate me so much, what have I done to you that's so unforgivable?"
"You keep asking unnecessary questions. You put me in this condition I've been unable to get out of."
"I've accepted responsibility. And you know why everything happened the way it did. I'm good now. Let's get married."
"You think I'm a fool?" I asked, wide eyed.
"So, you want to remain this way, alone?"
"You taught me. Now, it's my life."
"Living alone is the life of a prostitute."
I turned away from my TV screen and faced him.
"How I so wish I had been one, Adinoyi." I said, narrowing my gaze, "I should have been a whore, used my life to the full, then get married. That way, I can accept whatever a man does to me." By the time I finished, I was blinking uncontrollably to keep back tears that were forming in my eyes as memories made their ways back to my mind. The hawking to keep us, the abandonment at the hospital, my eventual disappearance, his sudden appearance.
"Then you should have done that if that should have made marrying you easier for me."
I didn't find his statement in the least funny. Instead, I felt sparks in my head.
"Adinoyi, get out!" I got up, walked to the door and held it open. Adinoyi's mouth was agape when I turned.
"Get out, please," I insisted.
"Yes, I mean it, and don't come back."
He didn't get up until several minutes after. As he got up to leave, I knew from his downcast gaze that he was awash with embarrassment. Probably, this was the most he could take from me, I thought frightfully.
As I watched him walk silently out of my apartment into the darkness that had taken over outside, I waited patiently for my own life to end too.


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May 24, 2013
New graduate draws inspiration from his mentors
Though the school year is over, the SIU campus continues to be a very busy place. We are hosting orientation sessions throughout the summer for hundreds of incoming freshmen and their families. These are important first steps for the members of the Class of 2017 as they begin to learn about the many valuable resources available to them.
The most important of those resources are the faculty and staff who are so passionate about student success. Many of them attended commencement on May 11 because of how proud they are of the Class of 2013, students who they not only taught, but also mentored.
Calvin Zimmerman, who is from Chicago, had plenty of supporters at the SIU Arena as he earned his bachelor's degree in sociology. He was all smiles as I shook his hand and wished him much success as the next chapter in his life unfolds. In the fall, Calvin starts graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania as the recipient of a prestigious five-year fellowship.
Calvin's dedication as an undergraduate – he maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average in his major – prepared him for the fellowship. He is quick to credit his SIU mentors with helping him develop new perspectives and attitudes.
As a freshman, Calvin was considering a sports marketing major. When he became a McNair Scholar – a program that promotes academic excellence and success in graduate school among members of underserved groups -- and learned he had to complete a research project, he realized he was more interested in community organizing and social change. That led him to sociology and his first exposure to research.
Calvin's personal growth continued through participation in the Progressive Masculinities Mentors and MEN of Distinction, both part of the Black Resource Center's Black Male Initiative.
"The Progressive Masculinities Mentors meetings pushed me to look into myself and my attitudes and behaviors, and correct them," Calvin said. "The focus of the group is to move college men out of the macho stereotype and show them affirmative possibilities. I evaluated myself and really took my education seriously."
He also benefitted from the weekly MEN of Distinction meetings, where the discussions often centered on education and current events and issues.
Calvin became interested in conducting research on college men and masculinities. He won a competitive grant through our REACH program, which encourages undergraduates to work on an independent research project with a faculty mentor. He presented his research in March at a Midwest Sociological Association meeting.
Calvin's many mentors, including sociology Associate Professor Rachel Whaley and Derrick Williams, coordinator of the Black Resource Center, also inspired him to give back. As a senior, Calvin mentored first-generation students who are in our First Scholars program.
"I'm a first-generation student, and I decided I had an obligation to help," Calvin said. "I felt I should pay it forward. Anything they needed help with, I wanted to help."
After he completes his doctoral degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Calvin hopes to become a university faculty member. Like those who helped him succeed at SIU, I am confident Calvin will be a great influence on the students fortunate enough to have him as a mentor.


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AMONGST the sombre records of war in the stacks at the Australian War Memorial, a couple of bays of shelves stand out, filled with colourful books with equally colourful titles: Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Flesh in Armour, The Turkish Spy. These are Australian war novels, collected despite Charles Bean's opinion that the Memorial should limit itself to providing sources for the official histories and future historians: 'Novels etc. with a war flavour [...] would simply be collected to be stacked in cellars and eaten by silverfish.' But the novels are there, nonetheless, powerful reminders of the close relationship between memory and literature, between remembering and imagining. These books are war records of a different kind: records that can help us today to write the history of what Samuel Hynes has called the 'war in our heads' (74). Such a history treats the First World War as the great imaginative event of the twentieth century.
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Published 1 October 2007 in Volume 23 No. 2. Subjects: Australian war literature.
Cite as: Spittel, Christina. 'Remembering the War : Australian Novelists of the InterWar Years.' Australian Literary Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2007. https://doi.org/10.20314/als.650bc99d12.


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Encouragement for the Battle
Inspiration for your Journey in the Word of God
Monday, June 19, 2017
Daily Bible Reading - June 19, 2017
Today's Reading:
Mark 4:
2 Samuel 11-12
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In our Bible reading from today, the Scripture that especially caught my notice was at the end of Mark chapter 4. The Saviour is sleeping in the boat with his disciples. There is a storm - great enough to terrify seasoned fishermen. They cry out to Him for help. He stands, speaks to the storm, "Peace. Be still." And all is calm. Can you picture that moment? What did the disciples take away from that experience? A deeper awareness of Christ's Authority, Power, and Protective Care. Who is this? What sort of Person is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?
What about you? Have you experienced any overwhelming storms - situations so terrifying or so devastating that there was no human way out? Did you cry out to God, like the disciples that stormy night? Did you see His loving Power manifested on your behalf? Did He speak into your life with the words, "Peace. Be still"?
If He doesn't still our storms, it isn't that He is powerless. And it isn't that He doesn't care. His lack of intervention is more likely because we do not ask in for His Help, crying out to Him in faith that He really will save us, lest we perish.
On our trip to Canada, we saw some of God's saving Power. We
cry out to Him, in an overwhelming situation - and He
speak Peace into our impossible storm. Last Monday night, we were busy packing to leave. We planned to leave for Canada early the next morning. My husband, daughter, parents and I were all planning to drive up to Manitoba, Canada (a 27 hour drive) in order to attend my son's wedding the following Sunday.
I'm sure you can imagine the state of our home as we worked to get our suitcases packed and prepared for the big trip. Suddenly, my husband gasped, "Oh
I stared at him. "What's the matter?"
In his hand he held three passports belonging to himself, me, and our daughter. "Look at this." He held out a passport for me to see.
As I looked, I noticed the problem, "Oh
," I echoed, "They're
His head was in his hands. My heart was in my feet.
It was the night before we were to leave. And somehow we had misread our passport expiration date when we looked at them before. We had thought they expired in 2018... But the expiration dates on all three passports clearly said, "February, 2017". It was June 12 of 2017.
Knowing that it takes at least two weeks to get a passport,
paying extra to rush the job, we could see no possible way to attend our own son's wedding, which was taking place on Sunday, June 18, 2017. We were devastated!!
My husband began frantically looking for any suggestions online. It was too late in the evening to call any office. We both began praying, crying out to God for help.
It was an impossible storm! We were without hope for a solution. But do you know what God did? He spoke Peace. And miraculously we had three,
, fully renewed passports by 4:00 pm the very next day -
less than 24 hours later
. Impossible? Yes! But nothing is too hard for God!
Mark found a long-shot possibility online that night. So, the next morning, instead of driving towards Idaho and continuing Northeast, we headed to Seattle, Washington. It was about 6 hours out of our way, but it was where God gave us our miracle.
The Seattle office is the regional passport headquarters for the whole northwestern US. If anyone could rush a passport process through, it was this office. When we arrived, it was nearly 2 pm. The office closed between 3 and 3:30 pm. And the waiting room was packed with probably 75 people, all needing passport help, just like we did.
Two armed security guards patrolled the waiting room, making sure no anxious waiters turned road-rage ugly. Passport agents stood behind Lexan, bullet-proof glass, calling people up to their windows by speaking into a speaker system which broadcasted loudly in our waiting room area.
"G2714, Now calling G2714 to window 12". Really? My thoughts raced. If
was our long-shot, we still needed a miracle!
My husband had possessed the presence of mind to call ahead. He had gotten an appointment. So, instead of starting at the back of the line, we were directed to the appointment line. We now waited behind about 15 people, instead of 75. But time was against us. The sign on the door stated that passport office closed at 3 PM. It was 2:30 pm by the time we were called to the window.
Looking at our passports and listening to our story of how badly we needed the passports, the agent shook her head and replied, "You should have come earlier in the day. Maybe we can rush this through in the morning, but..."
"We'll be grateful for whatever you can do," we responded. Praying quietly. We knew that if we didn't get the passports and get on the road, we'd not be able to make the long journey in time. And flying was not possible considering the cost for the five of us (my folks were riding with us) all the things we needed to bring for the wedding (cameras, microphones, etc., etc...).
The agent shook her head again and glanced at the clock. "We'll see what we can do."
We sat down in the waiting area. Praying. Praying... And somehow we just knew, God was going to come through for us - to His glory. The room quieted down. 75 people dwindled to about 10. Still we sat. 3:00 pm came and went. But they didn't tell us to leave. So we waited.
At nearly 4pm, the agent called us back to the window. There in her hand were three beautiful, new, passports - one for me, one for my husband, and one for our daughter (my parents already had valid passports). Our hearts sang for joy as we left that building. We stopped together before the steps, bowed our heads and thanked God.
I am writing this post from our hotel room in Manitoba, Canada. We made it to our son's wedding! And yes, we are singing praises to our Almighty God, who speaks - and even the winds and seas obey Him.
What winds and seas overwhelm you? Don't forget, the Master is in you boat! Cry out to Him - in faith.
June 19, 2017
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