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Fan Interview: Author Anne Mallory
The lovely and talented Anne Mallory and I have been friends since 2003, the year we both (along with MJ) were finalists in the same writing contest. She has gone on to wonderful things, including publishing seven historical romance novels and finaling in the prestigious RITA contest this year. She is also a big Supernatural fangirl too, so I decided to talk to her about her love of the Winchesters. (BTW, that's me, left, with Anne, right, at a conference in San Francisco last summer.)
Q. Have you been a fan of Supernatural from the beginning? If not, how did you find the show and when?
A. I found the show about halfway through Season One when we were in London of all places. They were re-running the first episodes, three in a row, and we kept catching them. We looked the show up when we got back to the States and have watched it ever since.
Q. Dean Girl or Sammy Girl?
A. Dean girl. All the way.
Q. What have you thought of this season so far? What do you think of the introduction of angels to the storyline?
A. I think it's interesting. I had wondered where they were going to go after last season, and they've really opened up the world of the show even more. There's some nice dread with what they've hinted at for Dean and whether being on the Angels' side is going to be a positive thing for him. I love how they've switched up the brothers and the theology aspects as well throughout the series.
Q. What is your favorite episode(s)?
A. There are so many great ones, but one that sticks out is the one with mini-Dean. Season three - The Kids are Alright.
Q. What about the show makes you a fan?
A. The relationship between the brothers and the witty banter. Great writing and great chemistry.
Q. To you, what has been the scariest bad guy/urban legend the boys have encountered?
A. The Season One episodes were the most suspenseful, I think. Followed by Season Two. They have gone more to developing overriding arcs than the monster-of-the-week types. But even when they do monster-of-the-week eps now, they still don't do the same edge-of-your-seat, peeking-through-your-fingers, holy-crap-I-can't-watch suspense, I don't think. I remember the painting one making me peek through my fingers. The most powerful bad guy has probably been the trickster, but not the scariest. The guy who took parts to make himself immortal was pretty creepy. Wow, it's kind of hard to choose!
Thanks so much for being with us today, Anne. You'll have to let us know what you think of the remainder of the season and what you think Kripke and company have in store for Season Five.
For everyone else, has something Anne said ring particularly true for you? What do you think has been the creepiest urban legend or bad guy?


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BEN LOMOND, Calif. (KSBW/CNN) – Two Texans were arrested in California after they allegedly tried to steal nearly 30 pounds of marijuana.
In a strange twist, police said the men tried to pull off the heist using pellet guns.
Noah Hatcher, 21, and Anthony Jefferson, 31, are said to have turned up at a house in Ben Lomond, California, on Wednesday with two pellet guns to steal the 30 pounds of illegal marijuana valued at $50,000.
Two tenants were bound inside the home with zip ties, but one of them managed to call 911.
Police said the suspects placed the stolen marijuana in a jeep, but that they ran off when law enforcement showed up.
Hatcher was captured near the home. Jefferson was arrested near Zayante, Calif.
They've been charged with robbery, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy.
Law enforcement officials point out the dangers this type of black-market operation can have in a community.
"Marijuana has a value, and there's certain people that are willing to take a risk to steal it," said Dee Baldwin of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office.
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As a classroom teacher, Dr. Garland taught students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) and learning disabilities (LD). His content specialty is science, and he has managed a $4.5 million endowment from Lockheed Martin to prepare high-quality teachers in STEM content to become educational leaders and for whom teaching is a transitioned career. He has also managed a $1.5 million grant to fund graduate students in obtaining their certification in ASD.
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Lister Centre is the largest first-year residence at the University of Alberta. First and second year undergraduate students typically live in these buildings. The rooms are furnished with a bed, desk, chair, and dresser. The single dormitory style room is shown in this panorama. There is a shared washroom. This residence supports students as they transition to residence and university life with a well-developed orientation program and highly trained staff. For more information please see: www.residence.ualberta.ca/prospective-residents/lister-centre
The capital of Canada is Ottawa, in the province of Ontario. There are offically ten provinces and three territories in Canada, which is the second largest country in the world in terms of land area.While politically and legally an independant nation, the titular head of state for Canada is still Queen Elizabeth.On the east end of Canada, you have Montreal as the bastion of activity. Montreal is famous for two things, VICE magazine and the Montreal Jazz Festival. One is the bible of hipster life (disposable, of course) and the other is a world-famous event that draws more than two million people every summer. Quebec is a French speaking province that has almost seceded from Canada on several occasions, by the way..When you think of Canada, you think of . . . snow, right?But not on the West Coast. In Vancouver, it rains. And you'll find more of the population speaking Mandarin than French (but also Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Farsi, German, and much more).Like the other big cities in Canada, Vancouver is vividly multicultural and Vancouverites are very, very serious about their coffee.Your standard Vancouverite can be found attired head-to-toe in Lululemon gear, mainlining Cafe Artigiano Americanos (spot the irony for ten points).But here's a Vancouver secret only the coolest kids know: the best sandwiches in the city aren't found downtown. Actually, they're hidden in Edgemont Village at the foot of Grouse Mountain on the North Shore."It's actually worth coming to Canada for these sandwiches alone." -- Michelle Superle, VancouverText by Steve Smith.


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What do Palestinians want from reconciliation?
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The Fatah and Hamas movements have reportedly reached a preliminary reconciliation agreement after two days of intensive negotiations in Cairo. Details of the agreement will be made public during a press conference on Thursday.
The next phase of the talks will focus on critical national issues including Hamas' military wing, the issue of weapons and political positions, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Thursday.
Palestine Monitor spoke with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative, about what Palestinians should demand and expect from a reconciliation deal, after ten years of political division.
PM: In what way is this attempt at reconciliation different from previous ones?
: It is different for three reasons. The first is that both Fatah and Hamas realise how upset the Palestinian public is at this continuous division. It is beginning to cost them a lot in terms of people's opinion. Second, the realisation of a complete deadlock politically. Third because Egypt is throwing all its weight behind it and provides the venue, its support and facilitation in an unprecedented manner.
PM: What have the past ten years of political division cost Palestinians?
: The division has cost us a lot. But mainly it has weakened us, it has been the main cause of internal weakness. It has been used as an excuse by Israel for claiming there is nobody that can represent all Palestinians, which is of course not true. It has lead to a huge amount of human suffering of course to people, especially in Gaza.
Importantly in addition to that, we lost our democratic system. We lost the separation of powers, we lost our administrative authority, the need for accountability, and the separation between the executive, judiciary and legislative powers. We also lost our right to elections. And the fact that the last elections took place in 2006 is another indication of how bad our democratic system has suffered.
PM: What do Palestinians want from reconciliation?
: This division was mainly about fighting over an authority that is under occupation, competition about an authority that is limited. We don't want reconciliation to be only about how to organise the authority.
What we want to see from this reconciliation is, first of all, bringing back the democratic system and the separation of powers by reactivating the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Second, bringing back the right of the people to choose their leaders through democratic elections. And third, that it would lead to adopting a unified Palestinian strategy, and creating a unified Palestinian leadership so that that world can see two things: that there is one voice speaking on behalf of all Palestinians and that we have a collective form of decision-making when it comes to political matters, as well as to which forms of struggle we should use.
In addition, it should guarantee Palestinians their freedom of expression, and eliminate all forms of political arrests or political interrogation - or summoning and arresting people because of their political views or opinions.
PM: What are the main obstacles, internal and external?
: There are several obstacles, internal and external. The first obstacle is Israel, which does not want Palestinians unified. When Palestinians engage in reconciliation talks they say Abbas is choosing Hamas not peace. And when we are in a state of division, they say Abbas does not represent all Palestinians. Israel wants to defuse the situation in Gaza today. They are worried about the possibility of an explosion, and Israel itself is starting to suffer from the ecological problems of the pollution in Gaza. But they don't want anything more than just defusing the situation. And they don't want to see us unified and united because they want to keep Gaza separate from the West Bank, so they can manage the demographic problem and can prevent the possibility of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
Internally of course there are interest groups that are benefiting from occupation and do not want to see us unified. And these interest groups might try in several ways to obstruct reconciliation. And there are some regional and international forces who do not want to see Palestinians unified. So these are the three major obstacles.
PM: What should the international community do and not do?
: If the international community care about peace and democracy they should fully and full-heartedly support the reconciliation effort.
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Money Matters: Saving for college by understanding 529 plans
Advice offered by Marc Hebert, president of The Harbor Group Inc., a registered investment adviser.
Expecting a bundle of joy and wondering if you will be able to afford sending him or her off to college? Fortunately, you have a number of tax-advantaged federal and state college savings vehicles at your disposal, including the 529 plan, which comes in two varieties: the prepaid tuition plan and the savings plan.
The Prepaid 529 Plan
A prepaid plan allows you to pay now at today's rates for school tomorrow. In return, your account is guaranteed to pay for the tuition and fees at the state's public universities and colleges by the time your child graduates from high school. Note that prepaid plans often do not cover the costs for room and board. Your child also may use the prepaid account to attend a private or out-of-state school, but you might risk forfeiting some of its value depending on how the plan values its contracts. Note, too, that most prepaid plans require that you or your child be a resident of the state in which the plan is offered.
The 529 Savings Plan
The 529 college savings plan is far more flexible than the prepaid tuition schemes. The money accumulated may be used at any school you choose and for all qualified higher education expenses, including room and board.
Each state determines what the lifetime contribution limit or account balance cap will be in its 529 plan, but typically such limits range between $100,000 and $270,000. Investment minimums are low (most plans let you sock away as little as $25 a month as long as a minimum of $500 is accumulated within two years of the initial purchase date), and there is no restriction on how much you may contribute every year unless the account is nearing the lifetime cap.
However, since 529 contributions are treated as gifts subject to gift-tax limitations, if you want to make a tax-free contribution, it shouldn't exceed $14,000 annually ($28,000 if you're contributing with your spouse). There's one exception, however: You may contribute as much as $70,000 tax free in one year ($140,000 with your spouse), but that contribution will be treated as if it were being made in $14,000 installments over the next five years. That means you can't make other tax-free gifts to the beneficiary during that time and be sure to check the gift tax return election filing requirements.
Most 529 savings plans offer a menu of age-based portfolios, and some also offer a small selection of stock and bond funds. In the former case, your annual contributions get invested in a pre-selected portfolio of stocks and bonds. Early on, the portfolio is tilted toward stocks, and as the time for college nears, the weighting shifts toward bonds. You can switch investments once a year. The quality of 529 college savings plans varies by state, but in most instances you may open an account in any state you'd like. All 529 plans offer generous tax breaks, provided you use the money for qualified expenses. While your contribution is not deductible on your federal taxes, your investment will grow tax deferred and withdrawals will not be subject to federal tax.
You should always compare the 529 plan of your choice with any 529 college savings plan offered by your home state or your beneficiary's home state and consider, before investing, any state tax or other benefits that are only available for investments in the home state's plan. You should always read the Plan Disclosure Document, which includes investment objectives, risks, fees, charges and expenses, and other information. You should read the Plan Disclosure Document carefully before investing.
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Investing in college savings plans comes with some risk. Unlike prepaid tuition plans, they don't lock in tuition prices. Nor does the state back or guarantee the investments. There also is the risk with most college savings plan investment options that you may lose money or your investment may not grow enough to pay for college.


text: Sweet Jane 61 1 Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 We have talked about this at work quite a few times and everyone has their opinion. When you look at classic rock artists, most are from across the pond or another country other than America. We did a top 100 classic artists countdown back in July here at the station, and very few American artists were in the countdown. And when I look at what people love to listen to you get Zeppelin, Stones, The Who, AC/DC, The Beatles, Bad Company, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Fleetwood Mac, Ruch, The Guess Who, Queen, INXS, Cream, Bowie, The Kinks, Elton John, Neil Young and so on. But you do have American artists in there...Bruce, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, The Dead, Aerosmith, Allman Brothers, Janis, Van Halen, ZZ Top, and so on there too. Is it that music is focused on more in other countries? Taught more in schools? re What are the opinions of my fellow SF's? I am curious about this matter, very curious. Link to post Share on other sites


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Betty Apartments are located in the beautiful and traditional seaside village of Drios, in the south coast of Paros. A quiet, green village with greek character and warm people. We are just 100 meter from the beach and our small traditional fishing port, where you can watch the sunset, next to the famous rock carving openings, which were used for ships sheds by sailors to protect the boats from the wild sea in the ancient times. Our family business offers twin and double rooms for couples and individuals but also apartments for families (3-5 people). Each apartment has: - Own bathroom/shower with hot water 24 hours, - Kitchenette / Refrigerator, - Air- conditioning, - You own balcony and parking space, - Free Wi-Fi and Linen/Towels are included too. In a quiet family environment, surrounding by our olive-tree garden to ensure quietness and relaxation! In a walking distance from us, you can find a bakery with fresh baked bread and pastries, a market with a big collection of organic products and the bus station. The beach is just a few meters away too with trees, where you can protect from the strong Greek sun. Just 15 min walking from the cost line, you will find Golden beach, a huge sandy place famous for the windsurfers and water sports! There is a local bar famous for the rock tunes and a variety of different restaurants, some with view in the ocean where you can taste fresh fish, local meat plates and home made wine (plus Ouzo and Suma!). Wishing you safe and memorable travels, The Staff of the Betty Apartments
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is denying reports that executives have taken steps that could lead to the company's sale.
Speculation began to spread Tuesday afternoon after Reuters reported that AMD has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co to explore business options, including a potential sale. According to Reuters, which cited unnamed sources, AMD is not focused on an outright sale of the company but could be looking to offload its patent portfolio.
One of the world's largest chip makers, AMD has been struggling in recent years against competitors like Intel, as well as a PC industry that has been pummeled by the growth in sales of tablets and smartphones.
Just last month, the chip maker announced it was laying off 15% of its workforce.
However, late this afternoon, AMD said it's not looking to sell. "AMD's board and management believe that the strategy the company is currently pursuing to drive long-term growth by leveraging AMD's highly-differentiated technology assets is the right approach to enhance shareholder value," the company said in an email to Computerworld. "AMD is not actively pursuing a sale of the company or significant assets at this time."
Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with ZK Research, said he wouldn't be surprised if AMD was looking into different sale options.
"I think selling off parts of the business would make sense," he said. "Raise some cash and then get laser focused in the higher growth areas.... Sell off some of the dead parts of the business and focus on gaming, mobile, etc. -- the high growth areas. Ditch PCs."
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I'm currently looking at Lemma 13.2 in Munkres' Topology. It states the following: Given a collection $C$ of open sets of a topological space $X$ such that for each open set $U$ of $X$ and each $x$ in U, there is an element $C'$ of $C$ such that x $\in C' \subset U$. Then $C$ is a basis for the topology of $X$.
In the proof, it is both shown that $C$ is a basis and that the topology generated by $C$ is equal to the collection of open sets of X. What is the purpose of the second part of the proof? Is it because a particular topology ("the" topology) is specified for X in the lemma? I'm confused because the definition of a basis for a topology on X doesn't mention this.


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This month, Karen released her second book, Destination Adventure. This charming story is about Karen as a young girl and the exciting, unpredictable circumstances she and her family experience one summer vacation. In this story, we meet the author's spontaneous … Continue reading
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The perfect holiday gift for kids, and kids at heart!
The Magic Straw Hat Offers Kids a Magical Journey Exploring the Importance of Heritage
Everyone needs a little magic in their life, and kids are no exception. In The Magic Straw Hat, author Karen Jonice Bricker combines her own family history and her unique creativity to share the story of Caitie, a young girl who discovers her great-grandmother's straw hat and embarks on an adventure, learning much about herself and her family in the process.
The discovery of this magical hat leads Caitie, an affable young girl, on a journey that teaches her much about herself and her family history through the hat that her great-grandmother left behind. Filled with portions of stories from her own family history, Bricker uses her creativity to blend these experiences, valuable family memories, and well-loved traditions of her Irish heritage to tell a story filled with twists and turns as Caitie sees where the magic straw hat leads her during one afternoon. The story centers on what the straw hat represents and leads to a hopeful ending where Caitie enjoys a new friendship and understands more about her own family.
Bricker's talent at storytelling comes from years of practice. Bricker has always been attracted to stories about her Irish heritage, which led her to spend time creating stories for her children and her former elementary school students. "Creating stories out of the ones told in my family for generations was a way for me to teach my own children about who they are. That same love of heritage is what I'm trying to pique in The Magic Straw Hat," said Bricker. Her penchant for storytelling led her to spend hours each evening telling tales to her children. The Magic Straw Hat is the culmination of all of those stories.
The Magic Straw Hat, currently available on Amazon and through SDP Publishing, will lead readers on a gentle journey of family experiences that are drawn from three generations of strong, sensitive Irish women. Appealing to young children from a variety of backgrounds, The Magic Straw Hat takes the reader on a joyous adventure and shows the importance of family history, culture and the honoring of heritage.


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DĂ¼rer: The Feast of the Rose Garlands 1506 - 2006
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PRAGUE, 19 August 2006—Some one hundred works of art that aim to illustrate the exceptional character of Albrecht DĂ¼rer's The Feast of the Rose Garlands in the historical context of European art are on view at the Waldstein Riding School in Prague (until 1 October 2006).
Considered a landmark work in the transition between the late Gothic and the Renaissance, The Feast of the Rose Garlands was created during DĂ¼rer's sojourn in Venice in 1506. It was commissioned by German merchants, settled around the commercial center known as the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, as the altar painting for their chapel in the parish Church of San Bartolomeo. The commissioners selected the theme: the painting depicts an ideal congregation of the Brotherhood of the Rosary. The Virgin with the Infant Christ, Saint Dominic and the angels dispense on the gathering of the faithful a symbolic blessing in the form of rose garlands. To the left are representatives of the clergy with the Pope at their head, while on the right the representatives of secular power receive the blessing. Among the latter we may clearly identify the Holy Roman Emperor in waiting, Maximilian I. The faces of other figures have the aspects of portrait, undoubtedly they portray prominent personages of the German colony in Venice, but the centuries that have elapsed make it difficult to identify them. Still, we can identify the man standing under a tree to the right: it is DĂ¼rer himself.
According to period testimonies, the painting drew crowds of visitors from all over Europe while the Emperor Rudolf II was determined to acquire it at any cost.
The exhibition presents also other works by Albrecht DĂ¼rer and his circle, as well as a number of works created in the subsequent centuries, which either strove to come to terms with the legacy of The Feast of the Rose Garlands, or portrayed imaginary episodes from the life of DĂ¼rer (1471 – 1528).
Albrecht DĂ¼rer: The Feast of the Rose Garlands 1506 - 2006
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Single volume edition with complete illustrations of Erwin Panofsky's classic text first published in 1943 in two volumes. Jeffrey Chipps Smith's new introduction smooths the path to Panofsky's landmark erudition on the life and work of the Northern Renaissance master.
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When it comes to 2D beat 'em ups, it's fair to say that Capcom pretty much wrote the history books. Capcom Fighting Jam takes characters from five of the illustrious developer's seminal scrappers - Street Fighter II, Darkstalkers, Street Fighter III, Red Earth, and Street Fighter Alpha - and puts them back into combat for an old school battle royale.
If you've ever wondered who would have the upper hand in a bout between SF III's Chun-Li and Darkstalkers' Felicia, this is your chance to find out. Although the characters and backgrounds both benefit from an added layer of PlayStation 2 gloss, the retro gameplay is as authentic as it gets. Each character retains their exact moves from the original games, all mapped out on a classic six-button control scheme.
Combatants' strengths and weaknesses must be carefully considered, particularly in Capcom Fighting Jam's two-on-two battles, in which you get to mix and match well-loved characters from the five classic games, picking one fighter for each bout. Only by exploiting the relative strengths of the different fighting systems will you end up victorious.
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Bisons push past PawSox
The Bisons put an end to their two-game slide when they defeated the Pawtucket Red Sox 5-3 tonight at McCoy Stadium.
The win tonight is the 13th victory for Buffalo in their last 15 games. Over the Bisons eight day venture away from Coca-Cola Field the Herd played extremely well, going 5-2 while having Thursday's game with Scranton postponed.
Buffalo opened the game up the game in the third inning when Justin Turner scored on a fielder's choice, putting the Herd up 1-0 early. A Jack Hannahan double in the fourth would then tie the game at one.
Following a Turner single to lead off the sixth inning, Lucas Duda did what he does best and hit a no-doubter home run to give the Bisons a 3-1 lead. Paw Sox starter Fabio Castro tried to sneak a fastball on the inside of Duda and he was able to turn on it and made him pay by sending it out of the ballpark. Duda's 17th long ball of the year cleared the scoreboard in right field as it was another classic Duda bomb. Duda went 2-5 in tonight's contest and added two RBI. During his short time in Triple-A the rookie has posted eye-popping numbers. He is hitting .320 for the year and in 54 games with the Herd he has his 17 homers and 52 RBI.
On the bump for the Bisons tonight they received a strong outing from right hander Fernando Nieve. Nieve went 6.2 innings allowing only three runs off of five hits. The starter was cruising for most of the game before he got into a bit of trouble in the seventh.
After getting the first two batters of the inning out, Nieve gave up a single to center field to Lars Anderson. Yamaico Navarro then made the game interesting as he hit a two-run home run to center to put the Paw Sox to within striking distance. Mike O'Connor then relieved the starter and got out of the inning before any more damage was done.
An RBI single from Turner added an insurance run and put the Herd up 5-3 in the ninth. O'Connor then finished out the game by striking out the side in the bottom half of the frame to secure the victory.
The win for the Herd now puts them at 65-56 for the season and with Louisville having an off day today they moved to within 2.5 games of the IL's lone Wild Card spot.


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This man has developed a device that enables phones to charge using a dynamo
Meet Elliot Mwebaze a Telecom Engineering graduate, who has made charging phones that much easier by lessening their dependence on electricity. Over a period of 9 months he developed a device that enables phones to charge using a bicycle dynamo. A dynamo is that device that enables bicycles to produce light. His innovation converts that rotating energy from the bike into electrical energy which is more suitable to charge the mobile phones within 120 minutes.
When he is not working for Galooli Uganda, he spends his time looking for opportunities through which he can improve his innovation and make it accessible for all bicycle riders. This technology is ideally based for the rural population of Uganda who use bicycles more often as a mode of transport. Rather than travelling miles to charge a phone in the nearest town centre, their phones can charge on their journey to other meaningful work.
His initial inspiration to create an alternative energy source for charging mobile phones. Having missed a final exam missed because his phone had blacked out in a remote village in Rukungiri and the only way he could get it back on was to move to the next town to re charge. He then devoted most of his free time and energy on finding alternative ways through which phones could stay on even in places without power supply.
He was picked by the UCC to represent Uganda in the East African ICT exhibition organised by the East African Communications Organisation. Where his innovation got more visibility with the East African community.
He has faced very many challenges trying to build his idea into a tangible product, the most significant being difficulty in finding the necessary equipment. But with his knowledge in engineering and extreme patience, he managed to grow his concept to the product that help keep people on air longer. This experience has taught him to have no reverence for failure. "You have to fail before you can succeed" he says. Failure is something that will happen more often than not. But it can only make you better if you do not choose the easy way out and quit.
In a discussion on the increasing levels of unemployment and under employment In Uganda, he puts the blame largely on our theoretical education system which does not focus on technical skills which in turn leads to failure of ideas to develop into something tangible. The lack of manufacturing industry too which could be an opportunity to create thousands of jobs and boost the local economy. With reports of Uganda having the largest number start-ups and failed businesses he points to lack of basic skills such as book keeping, integrity, customer service.
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How Segawa is advocating for reproductive health through creative arts
No better way of approaching critical subjects like sexual reproductive health rights than with hip hop, ballet, contemporary Latino dances. Bring on these, you have the attention of the young people. What started as a university passion by a group of friends has turned out to impact many Ugandan youth.
Meet Segawa Patrick an energetic, proactive and self-motivated Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) advocate and Public Health practitioner with passion for social entrepreneurship and ICT for health. He works with youth and community empowerment projects, health education and promotion (Music, Dance & Drama), research methods, volunteering, customer care service and developing working relationships between the community and local leaders towards addressing prioritized health needs.
He is the Founder and Programme Manager at Public Health Ambassadors Uganda (PHAU) and CEO for Rabbit Factory Ltd; a specialty green business enterprise dedicated to improve the livelihoods of all youths and women through Rabbit Farming in Wakiso district. He is also working as an Advocacy Officer at Community Integrated Development Initiative (CIDI) with the Advocacy for Better Health Project in Nakasongola, Luwero and Kayunga District funded by PATH and USAID.
Segawa is the winner for the Green Business Plan Competition 2014 organized by International Labor Organization and Youth Entrepreneurship Facility. Furthermore, he has participated in the Young Innovators Hangout on UN Day on 24th, October 2014. Recognized for an outstanding exhibition display on innovation that contributed positive change in the community through the School Chalk Making Business Project. He has ventured into school chalk making business as a social enterprise for empowering young people with business and entrepreneurship skills through training and mentor-ship.
Segawa was part of the Ugandan delegates during the High Level Youth Dialogue on Sustainable Development Goals in August 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya. The High Level Youth Policy Dialogue on SDGs is an African youth event, open to international youth, with an aim of gathering and strengthening political commitment for governments to support prioritizing investment in youth development in the post-2015 era. These meeting cultivated recommendations made by young people and created political goodwill for African countries to champion the youth agenda at the intergovernmental negotiations (September 2014-September 2015).
He has been selected to be part of the Women Deliver's Young Leaders Program 2015 and attending the Women Deliver Conference in 2016. Women Deliver seeks to harness the untapped potential and passion of young leaders. Women Deliver works to develop the skills of young advocates in developing countries through our workshops, online learning communities, scholarships to key events, and high-level networking opportunities.
Segawa has also received the "IHSU Health Promotion and Educative Arts Award" for his outstanding contribution in the area of Sexual and Reproductive health through creative and performance arts from International Health Sciences University.
He hopes that in ten years, PHAU will be a global movement and platform for young people who are passionate about making a difference within their countries especially on the issues of Sexual and Reproductive Health that affect youths and communities. This platform will be used to advocate for better health policies address SRHR issues in targeted populations and provide oversight of developed and established public health partnerships, synergies and consortiums at a national, regional and international level for evidence based SRHR interventions in different countries. In addition, provide a joined voice for young people to foster capacity building, research and innovations in the area of Sexual and Reproductive and Rights.
Remit is changing the way money is transferred to Uganda from allover the World
Remit Uganda is most definitely changing money transfers from allover the world into Uganda. It is simple to use, cheap, secure and fast because the recipient will receive the money instantly.
Remit was born out of the need to solve an international money transfer challenge. Stone Atwine the CEO, having worked away from home faced challenges of sending money to his grandmother that lived in Uganda. It was hectic, inconvenient and time consuming. Together with his friends; David Madra, TMS Ruge and Collins Mugume they came up with a solution that led to the birth of Remit Uganda.
Using Remit is very simple –visit the website, sign up, log in, enter amount of money and the recipient's registered mobile money number. Money can be transferred from anywhere around the world. This process leads the sender to a page where they can enter their card details, money is taken out of their bank account and this will trigger a transfer to the recipient's mobile number which will be received instantly.
For now, although one can send money from around the world, the only recipient country is Uganda.
Remit has given the recipient the luxury and convenience to receive money on any day, at any time, in every corner of the country as long as there is a mobile money point unlike in the past when one used to wait for banks to open. Uganda alone has over 50,000 mobile money agents and they are spread right across the country.
Remit has won a number of awards; they were the best startup in Uganda at Seedstars World 2014 and represented the country in Geneva. They have been voted among the top 10 startups in Africa at the global competition Get in the Ring and they were recently involved in Village Capital's Fintech for agriculture program.
For a start up like Remit, there are challenges of regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering, countering of financial terrorism and a lot of money is needed to facilitate the start up to get it to international levels.
"This business is not for the faint hearted. This kind of work calls for resilience."
"Resilience is a trait that young innovators must possess. Many young Ugandans are creative and they have put their minds to work to see that they use IT to create solutions to these challenges.
While the young people shouldn't wait for the government to do something, Stone Atwine strongly believes that government ought to set up serious programmes that will help innovators incubate their ideas through providing basics such as space and Internet.
"When kids come up with ideas, they are at a very basic seed level so they need seed stage capital to keep going. Unfortunately, most of them close their businesses because of lack of capital so there must be a system to help them move forward."
"The ecosystem of Nairobi has gone to another level because innovation is supported." Atwine says.
Africa is going places in digital financial services. In five years, Africa will be a global leader in mobile financial services like credit, savings, micro insurance and remittances.
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From the Oak: Let's hear it for the God!
Many are those that focus on female divinities, leaving male divinities in the shadows if they get mentioned at all. This is a shame. Here I will share my thoughts, stories and prayers on male divinities. Currently focusing on divinities placed in an atheist "graveyard".
Asklepios: son of Apollo made divine, epithet for Apollo or memorialized hero?
Asklepios (Aesculapius) is traditionally described as the mortal son of Apollo by Koronis or Arsinoe who was then deified after death. Traditionally it is said that as a babe Asklepios was cut out of his dead mother's body and raised by the centaur, Kheiron, who taught him the arts of healing. He later became so proficient that Zeus ended his life to maintain status quo. Asklepios then was raised up as a god with many temples where people would seek cures.
In Homeric poems, Asklepios is treated as a mere mortal with two surviving sons. No mention of his divine origins. Homer also calls all those who practice the healing arts descendents of Paean (Apollo). The two sons of Asklepios listed in the Illiad were described as physicians in the Greek army. This is interesting because the Asclepiadae was an order or caste of priests whose knowledge of medicine was considered to be regarded as a sacred secret, transmitted from father to son. The Asclepiadae were also described as descendents of Asklepios.
Now my personal opinion is that Homer (or Homers depending on if you believe the theory that there was more than one author of his works) was a hack. An entertaining hack, whose writings inspired many, but still a hack. This is not unlike authors of our own time who have inspiration worlds such as Star Wars, Star Trek, the wizarding world, etc. While there may be truths with in Homer's works, we are too distant from the culture to pick out those truths from artistic invention.
Maybe Asklepios is an epithet for Apollo, one that makes him more accessible to those who feared approaching the great god of Delphi. There are places where it is inferred that Asklepios and Paean are one and the same divinity. Apollo is one of those divinities who seems to inspire absolute devotion or absolute fear. I can readily see asking Asklepios for assistance where as approaching Apollo would make me very, very nervous. He is known as the God of Pestilence too.
Now let's pretend for a minute that Asklepios isn't a god or the son of a god but only a really good healer who went on to inspire other healers. Then praying to him would be similar to the Christians praying to saints for healing or any culture that prays to their ancestors for assistance. I say if it works for you, go for it. (Just don't forget to do the practical aspects eh? The gods help those who help themselves and all that.)
So what is your opinion? Is Asklepios an epithet for Apollo, a divinity in his own right or a memorialized hero?
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Ms. Brokaw,
This is a very good question. I agree with Sallustius' view, which is that there are twelve divine powers we call the Olympian Goddesses and Gods. Other deities not included in Sallustius' list of twelve, are actually aspects of some one of the twelve...Gods within Gods, to paraphrase him. This does not detract from Their Godhood in any way, or make Them less worthy of praise and honor.
I do make offerings to Apollo, but more often in His solar aspect as Helios. During the cold and flu season, I usually make at least one offering to Asklepios...praying for relief from our ailments.
Thanks for the great article! What greater divine friend could sick mortals have than Asklepios?
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Messages of courage dominated Colby's 185th Commencement Sunday, May 28. Francis Chapuredima left his village in Zimbabwe four years ago and became one of the most admired members of his class, the student-elected class speaker and recipient of the prestigious Condon medal. Acknowledging that this is a time of anxiety for graduates, Newsweek columnist and Pulitzer-prize winner Anna Quindlen used Chapuredima's triumphs to exemplify the importance of confronting — and conquering — fears. With Miller Library as a backdrop, President William D. Adams presented the 465 members of the Class of 2006 with diplomas on a glorious sunny day.
|Francis Tapiwa Chapuredima '06 performs before delivering his speech as trustees and honorary degree recipients Alan and Jette Parker (front), whose foundation funded Chapuredima's scholarship, look on.
Following Chapuredima's spirited address that began with African drumming and ended with a standing ovation, Quindlen called courage "the secret of life."
"You already know how important courage is," she said. "After all, you chose as your class speaker someone from a small village in Zimbabwe who got on a plane to transcend hemispheres, customs, and cultures to come to Colby College. You can look at him and know that a flying leap of fearlessness is possible."
While greatness stems from courage, no good comes from fear, she said. "You must learn to put the fear aside or at least refuse to allow it to rule you . . . It is fear that always tamps down our authentic selves."
"The voices of conformity speak so loudly out there. Don't listen. People will tell you what you ought to think and how you ought to feel. They will tell you what to read and how to live. They will urge you to take jobs that they themselves loathe and to follow safe paths that they themselves find tedious," she said.
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
As if anticipating Quindlen's theme, Chapuredima began his speech by sharing his realization that, to deliver the class speech, he did not need to conform to any formula. "I'm going to be myself," he declared. "The next problem though is . . . me. As you can hear I have a very thick accent. I've been here for four years but I haven't done much to try to speak like the rest of you. I guess I've been busy trying to stay warm."
Chapuredima marked his college years with service to others, and he called upon his classmates to continue doing the same. "I think we're privileged to have been educated at Colby and hopefully we can embrace the societal responsibilities our privileged position brings," he said.
An Oak Scholar at Colby, Chapuredima thanked the benefactors of his scholarship, Alan and Jette Parker, who, by coincidence, were on stage to receive an honorary degree. To his surprise, Chapuredima received another honor: Colby's Randall J. Condon Medal, the only prize presented at commencement, for his commitment to constructive citizenship.
The class marshal and valedictorian, Matthew M. Meredith of Tabernacle, N.J., led the procession of seniors.


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Central Massachusetts residents should prepared for winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour Monday and Monday night as Hurricane Sandy hits the Northeast.
The latest forecast expects Sandy to hit southern New Jersey near Atlantic City on Monday, according to Mathew Doody, meteorologist in the Taunton office of the National Weather Service. Mr. Doody was attending the Southern New England Weather Conference this morning.
Mr. Doody said there is a possibility the storm could come ashore on Long Island, which would increase its severity in this area.
Mr. Doody said the storm is changing from a tropical system to a storm more common in this part of the country and that change is increasing its strength and expanding the area likely to be hit by high winds. That means high winds will hit Central Massachusetts, even though the storm's center will be several hundred miles away.
The storm is predicted to take a westward turn into the New Jersey coast, which many forecasters say is unprecedented.
"Storms in this part of the country usually don't go from east to west," Mr. Doody said. "This is a very dangerous storm."
Heavy rain is predicted, and Mr. Doody said several inches can be expected. Worcester County could see especially heavy rain as strong east winds push up against what he termed the Worcester Hills, causing heavier rain than what would be expected if the wind was coming from the west. Higher elevations could be whacked by the strongest winds, capable of knocking drown trees and causing power outages.
"Some places could really get a lot of rain," he said. "After all, it is a system of tropical origin."
The storm is arriving on the one-year anniversary of the 2011 snowstorm that dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of Central Massachusetts, but Mr. Doody said snow is not expected anywhere in New England.
There is a possibility a weak tornado could form, because the atmosphere will be very unstable. However, Weather Channel severe weather expert Greg Forbes, who is attending the conference, said that is very unlikely, and any twisters would more likely occur south of this area.
Because Sandy is transitioning from a tropical system to type of a storm more common to this area, tropical storm or hurricane watches most likely will not be issued by the National Hurricane Center, Mr. Doody said.
Glenn Field, warning coordination meteorologist in the Taunton NWS office, said a high wind watch and flash flood watch, which could be changed to warnings as the storm gets closer, could be issued later today.


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Wait, no, it's a Glorious Morning, Comrades! The central planners have good news regarding the health of their country… yes, it's true that 6 million people losing their jobs is really the same as creating 2 million jobs, and now we can rejoice in knowing that a failing economy is really growing at a 5.7% pace! Truly glorious!
And for that masterfully trumped up report we get slightly higher equity futures, the bounce in the DOW and S&P can be seen below. I left the DOW as a 30 minute chart so that you can see the channel boundaries. A rise above the upper boundary will indicate that wave 2 has likely begun, should it fail to pierce the boundary, then wave 1 is still in progress, having already lost nearly 700 points from top to bottom:
I feel embarrassed and ashamed to even talk about the GDP report. Disgraceful how far from reality that number is. And the fact that I, or anyone else, needs to waste so much time explaining why it's so far separated from reality is just sad. Let's start by remembering that on these quarterly reports they annualize the number, meaning that their measured growth was about 1.4%, and it will be undoubtedly revised downward in the subsequent revisions, the revisions become so huge that no one can possibly value this report as having any value or meaning at all. Also, you will not read the headline from the cheerleaders that 2009 GDP for the year was -2.4%, even with their trumped up numbers. Remember, GDP is measured in dollars, not anything real, it is then highly manipulated via the deflator and a multitude of other adjustments.
Here's Econoday's report, when you start looking inside at things like imports falling and inventory adjustments, it doesn't look so hot:
Fourth quarter advance estimate of gross domestic product was up more than expected at an annualized rate of 5.7 percent. This was the quickest growth rate in more than six years. Analysts had expected an increase of 4.5 percent. The fourth quarter gain primarily reflected an acceleration in private inventory investment, a deceleration in imports and an upturn in nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by decelerations in federal government spending and in PCE. Real final sales of domestic product - GDP less change in private inventories - increased 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 1.5 percent in the third.
The change in real private inventories added 3.4 percentage points to the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after adding 0.7 percentage point to the third-quarter change. Private businesses decreased inventories $33.5 billion in the fourth quarter, following decreases of $139.2 billion in the third quarter and $160.2 billion in the second.
Fourth quarter real personal consumption expenditures increased 2.0 percent compared with an increase of 2.8 percent in the third. Durable goods declined 0.9 percent, in contrast to an increase of 20.4 percent. Nondurable goods increased 4.3 percent, compared with an increase of 1.5 percent. Services increased 1.7 percent, compared with an increase of 0.8 percent.
Real nonresidential fixed investment increased 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter, in contrast to a decrease of 5.9 percent in the third. Nonresidential structures decreased 15.4 percent, compared with a decrease of 18.4 percent. Equipment and software increased 13.3 percent, compared with an increase of 1.5 percent. Real residential fixed investment increased 5.7 percent, compared with an increase of 18.9 percent.
Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment edged up 0.1 percent after jumping 8 percent in the third.
Slower inventory depletion is not the most promising way to guarantee growth and may indicate a slower rate of growth ahead until companies become more confident about the recovery. The biggest challenge to sustainable growth still remains with employment.
It's my contention that the real economy has not really grown at all in the past decade and that our stated total goods and services produced is DRASTICALLY overstated. Not just because of a falling dollar, but in large part due to the "growth" of financial engineering where assets are marked to model and hidden from view, yet counted as adding to our productivity.
Here's a link to the report at the BEA: QTR 4 GPD.
And here's a John William's Shadow Stats alternative GDP chart, while his calculations are showing far lower than BEA reported growth, I think that actual activity is substantially less but that cannot be measured due to the opacity of the shadow banking system and its effects on GDP.
The inability to produce reliable and realistic economic data is a MAJOR flaw of our current system. When we look back on what happened, what is occurring with the data will be a major contributor. If you can't measure what's happening, how can you make any valid decisions? This mislabeling leads to huge misallocation and the assumption of far greater risk than is appropriate. People who compare our debts to our GDP, for example, are NOT comparing apples to apples if they look at historic ratios. Our actual debt to GDP, since GDP is vastly overstated, is vastly understated.
This is why Freedom's Vision creates the Independent Data Panel that rolls all the government statistics into a single, completely Independent and transparent reporting agency. Their basic tenant is to produce accurate data, remove opacity, and remove any insider advantage.
1. Complete transparency is one of several, yet ultimately the final check and balance:If you want to live in a nation in which you are proud, I would encourage you to support Freedom's Vision and take the money power back to secure our money, freedom, and future.i. ALL data is made available to the public, free of charge.
ii. NO ONE, individual, firm, or politician is to have access to the data before the public. This prevents the insider advantage and again is a check and balance on those collecting and disseminating the data.
iii. Method of data collection and raw data MUST accompany all reports.
2. Statistics shall be separated and reported in three categories:i. Raw data.
ii. Timeless data – methods shall be developed to report data in such a manner that the methods of calculation can be repeated and reported consistently over time. This ensures that future generations can compare apples to apples.
iii. Modern data – these are data that can be improved and changed over time. However, all such changes shall be completely transparent and shall always be presented with the raw data and with access to the way in which the statistic is compiled and calculated.
And in the more to be proud of department, our fine Senate yesterday voted to increase the deficit ceiling by a mere $1.9 Trillion:
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate voted to increase the federal debt limit by $1.9 trillion, to $14.3 trillion, a figure lawmakers said would be enough to accommodate borrowing for the rest of 2010.Terrific to politicize this issue. Once again the central bankers are the ones who set up this system and it is they who profit from it while it shackles the rest of America.
The vote was 60-39 to send the measure to the House, which will take it up next week. The increase is more than twice the size of any of the four previous debt increases lawmakers approved in the past two years.
The party-line vote was a win for Democrats who fended off Republican attempts to force them to pass repeated, smaller increases in the debt ceiling before the November elections.
"Why $1.9 trillion? So that the Congress doesn't have to face up to the debt ceiling before the next election," said Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. "The people in this country have a right to know whether or not this Congress is going to do something about controlling the rate of growth in the debt before the next election."
$1.9 Trillion will only last until the end of the year?! And that's without counting all the other unfunded liabilities. How much money is that? Let's break it down…
$1.9 Trillion divided by 307 million, the population of the United States, equals $6,188. That's for every man, woman, and newborn, or equal to $24,755 for my family of four!
$1.9 Trillion divided by the BEA's 140 million workers in the United States equals $13,571 for every worker! Guess what, all four members in my family work – that's $54,284 for just my family, for just one year, it is just the debt on the Federal level and does not include prior debts, future debts, debts on other governmental levels, or INTEREST, which, by the way, at 5% adds another $2,714.
Does that math work?
Okay, let's do the same for $14.3 Trillion, our current account deficit at the end of 2010. First of all, at 5% interest (yes the interest rate is lower than that now, but we are spending TRILLIONS to artificially buy that rate down) the interest expense this year will be $715,000,000,000 (reported to be half that by the Treasury, again a number based on shoveling more money to buy down rates - this will come to an end). That's Billion with a capital B. Please keep in mind that our national INCOME is now only running about $2.2 Trillion, meaning that interest alone with 5% interest will take up about a third of our income.
Oh, and if we are running a $1.9 Trillion deficit, or more, in 2010, then our deficit just this year is nearly equal to this nation's income! You want to talk about math that doesn't work. Go ahead, Congress, and vote to keep increasing the ceiling, you might as well because game over occurred quite some time ago.
$14.3 Trillion equals $46,579 for every man, woman, and child.
$14.3 Trillion equals $102,142 for every worker, $408,571 for my family of four.
Again, this is without counting any future liabilities which drives the national level indebtedness to well over $1 million for just my family alone.
Is it fair to say that it's time to step outside of the central banker DEBT backed box? I think so.
Now, how does this administration handle this? Well, they see that wages are not going up and they see that businesses are not hiring, so why not just make every new hire in the nation a government employee by giving businesses $5,000 for each person they hire? Sure, we can afford to do that with our debt backed money, surely that will help Americans right?
$33 Billion isn't anything, is it? And what do you suppose the unintended consequences of this little ditty might be? Wage inflation? More devaluing of our dollar? Is this really America? Do people really think that can work in anything but the very short term? I swear it's like living in some sort of fantasy nightmare, somebody please wake me up, okay?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- When President Obama called last month for a new tax break to spur job creation, critics blasted him for offering no specifics. On Friday, Obama plans to fill in the details: He wants to give businesses a $5,000 tax credit for each net new employee they hire this year.
Job creation "must be our No. 1 focus in 2010," Obama said Wednesday night in his State of the Union address. "We should start where most new jobs do -- in small businesses."
Obama will travel Friday to Baltimore, where the local unemployment rate is nearly 11%, to unveil his tax-cut road map. The $5,000 per-worker tax credit he's calling for would be available to businesses of any size, and would be retroactive to the start of the year. Startups launched in 2010 would be eligible for half of the tax credit.
Obama is also proposing a reimbursement of the Social Security taxes businesses pay on increases in their payrolls this year. Firms could earn the credit by raising wages or increasing the hours of their current workers, as well as by hiring new employees. The tax credit would be adjusted for inflation, and would not apply to wage increases above the current taxable maximum of $106,800.
The proposal will cost $33 billion, according to estimates released by the White House, which expects 1 million businesses to benefit from it.
I had a bunch of charts to show you, but this is taking far too much time to get posted so I just want to say that the downward channel has broken to the upside, and that we formed a descending wedge over the past couple of days that has now also broken to the upside, meaning that it appears that wave 2 up is beginning.
I'll try to have more technical stuff as I have time, but I think the fundamental landscape is far more important at this juncture. Those who think that the debt situation is workable are simply mistaken. There's a brick wall up ahead and we're doing over 100 mph straight at it. Eh, what's another $1.9 Trillion, just another brick in the wall…
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Our trips to the bookstore have become limited so when we had time to spare a couple of weeks ago, I made sure to check out favorites for new books. And guess what I found? Yep, Pugad Baboy 22! We did not know there's a new issue and upon googling I found out that this was released early this year (or late last year, not sure) but copies were scarce. I am glad we grabbed a copy at once because it seems there are limited stocks only.
Here's one of my fave strips in this issue:
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I hope I posted this in the correct forum, as I have a really burning question here... You see, I am studying for an English exam and one of the excersises will contain phrasal verbs. But they did not give a list because it's Masters level... But now it's not working anymore. Everytime I click on it I get this:
I really hope someone can solve this problem, because I haven't managed to find a better website yet .Missing page: http://www.usingenglish.com/referenc...phrasal-verbs/
We're sorry but the link you followed is not valid. Please use the search box below to find what you were looking for:
Oh, I just noticed that the idoms and irregular verbs aren't working either (in the language reference section).
Hi there!
Yes, sorry about that.
We had a technical error occur that disabled the entire reference area for a few hours this morning. The error has now been corrected.
Our thanks goes to you and other members for pointing this out to us and allowing us to fix it quickly.
I'm not a teacher, so please consider any advice I give in that context.


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Most people have to look up to the heavens, but a rare view of the Northern Lights was enjoyed by passengers on a plane flying above the clouds.
The spectacular lights of the Aurora Borealis lit up the sky last night, giving a unique perspective of the celestial phenomenon to people on a flight from Gatwick to just off the coast of the Shetland Isles.
The red, yellow and green lights were clearly visible, shining and dazzling above and beyond the clouds.
The flight was chartered by Aerobility, a charity that gives people with disability the chance to fly, and had 74 passengers on board, including BBC's The Sky At Night presenters Pete Lawrence, Jon Culshaw and Dr Paul Abel.
The British Airways flight took off at 8.20pm and shortly after departure the cabin lights were turned off to help the passengers' eyes adjust to the night sky.
The aircraft returned to Gatwick at around midnight.
On Thursday night, the lights of the Aurora Borealis lit up skies as far south as Gloucestershire, Essex and Norfolk, the result of a strong magnetic storm.
The lights could be enjoyed in Glasgow, Orkney and Aberdeenshire in Scotland, at Preston in Lancashire and in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside.
The Northern Lights are usually visible in only the more northern parts of the UK, but a surge in geomagnetic activity led to them appearing much further south than usual.
The display occurs when explosions on the surface of the sun hurl huge amounts of charged particles into space, according to the British Geological Survey .
Those thrown towards Earth are captured by its magnetic field and guided towards the geomagnetic polar regions. Charged particles collide with gas molecules in the atmosphere, and the subsequent energy is given off as light.


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Exhibition The Art of Outline: Drawing in ancient Egypt
from April 19, 2013 to July 22, 2013
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© Musée du Louvre / G. Poncet
This exhibition is supported by the Total Foundation.
Papyri, ostraka, paintings, steles and low reliefs in stone, wooden furniture, and various earthenware, terracotta, and leather items are brought together here in an illustration of the inspired creativity of Egypt's draftsmen.
Curiously, drawing as it is to be seen in Egyptian art of the pharaonic era has never been given an exhibition all to itself. This is probably due to the problem Egyptologists and art historians have in according the status of artists to these creators of over three thousand years ago: while universally admired, these works can rarely be attributed to a known hand.
With two hundred examples given a fresh perspective that reveals a largely unsuspected reality, The Art of Outline: Drawing in Ancient Egypt calls for a challenge to this approach, not to say the mindset it reflects.
The exhibition opens with a presentation of the "outline scribes", as painter-draftsmen are termed in the Egyptian texts. It continues with works showing the characteristics, rules and variations of Egyptian drawing that gave rise to unique works of art. The third and final section presents the Egyptian world in drawings—or, more exactly, the world and imaginative vision of the draftsmen: the gods, the afterlife, magic, the pharaohs, the Egyptian people, foreigners, the landscape, and animals. There is special emphasis, too, on the satirical and the erotic.
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Guillemette Andreu-Lanoë, Department of Egyptian Antiquities, Musée du Louvre.
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From April 19 to July 22, 2013
Musée du Louvre, Richelieu wing, lower ground floor
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Night opening until 9:45 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays
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Michigan City, Indiana – Horizon Bancorp (NASDAQ GM: HBNC) has named Craig M. Dwight its new Chairman of the Board as well as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Dwight has served as the Company's Chief Executive Officer since 2001, Director since 1998 and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Horizon Bank NA since 1998. Mr. Dwight's appointment will become effective following the retirement of Robert C. Dabagia as Chairman and Director on June 30, 2013. Mr. Dabagia has served as Chairman since 1998, director of the Company since 1986 and Director of the Company's predecessor Citizens Bank since 1980.
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Potato Kugel Recipe
While I didn't grow up eating noodle kugel, potato kugel was always a staple at our house. My mother once said that if she could eat one thing every day, she would gladly eat potato kugel. I don't disagree. A hearty mix of potatoes, onion, and eggs, folded with some flour, makes for a substantive and filling meal.
As a Russian, and liking all things potato related (vodka, anyone?), I like to have both latkes and potato kugel at my Hannukah meal. In my mind, there can never be too many potato dishes. This recipe is pretty identical to what we make at home, except I decided to add a little bit of baking powder to give my kugel a little bit of a rise. I was glad I did—the kugel tasted light and airy. Perfect!
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- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:about 1 hr and 30 minutes
- 2 1/2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled and grated on large holes of box grater
- 2 large onions, grated on medium hole of box grater
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 cup canola oil
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons table salt
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 400°F.
Place grated potatoes in fine mesh strainer and allow to drain for a few minutes. Transfer to large bowl and add grated onion, eggs, baking powder, oil, flour, salt, and pepper. Mix well with clean hands.
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I'm Robert Adam and I am the Aerial Photographer with the Aerial Survey Team, recording all aspects of the historic landscape that makes Scotland what it is. In my twenty-nine years as photographer with the RCAHMS, I have had the good fortune to travel the country and photograph both architecture and archaeology from the air and on the ground.Not being an archaeologist hasn't prevented me from appreciating, learning and understanding the basics of the subject. However, like many other non archaeologists, I always thought that archaeology was found in the hinterlands of any country. From the farm land fields of Scotland, of which I have photographed many a crop mark site to the highland clearance areas through to an Indiana Jones type of site set in the deserts.
However, I found that you do not need to travel further than your front door to encounter an archaeological site. I live in the south side of Edinburgh and found only recently the Caiystane near Oxgangs Road, a standing stone with weathered cup markings. Nothing particularly outstanding, and one of many in the area.
There are several suggestions as to the origin and purpose of the stone. The stone may have been erected in the Neolithic period and marks a burial. Others suggest it commemorates the site of a battle between the Picts and the Romans.
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California (February 19, 2014) – On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of people whose livelihoods depend on a healthy California film and television industry, we welcome the introduction of AB 1839.
For the past 15 years, our industry has been increasingly threatened by film and television productions fleeing the state in search of better financial conditions. As other states have ramped up their incentive programs, California has lost nearly all big budget feature film production and most television production to other locations. In 2012, only one big budget feature film was shot entirely in California, and in 2013, just 39 out of 137 one-hour television series were filmed here – shocking declines for a state that has been the heart of the entertainment industry for almost 100 years. Without the current limited California production credit, which has made filming in California a viable scenario for only 50 projects a year, these figures would be even worse.
When production goes elsewhere, so do the jobs, tax revenue, and spending that are critical to the strength of our state's economy. In order to once again be competitive, California must put in place a meaningful, expanded credit that will bring back jobs, increase revenue, and support small businesses and vendors all across the state. We thank Assemblymembers Raul Bocanegra and Mike Gatto for their leadership, as well as the 59 additional co-authors from all over California for their support of this critically-important legislation. Too much is at stake for the people of California to let this heritage industry slip away.
The California Film and Television Production Alliance is a coalition of guilds, unions, producers, small businesses, and associations that have worked together for more than a decade to promote, improve, and enhance film and television production in the State of California by securing an incentive that will allow California to compete for the films and television shows that generate thousands of jobs and millions in revenue.
The members of the Alliance include: Association of Talent Agents; California Teamsters Public Affairs Council; Chef Robért Catering; Directors Guild of America; FilmL.A.; FLICS – Film Liaisons in California Statewide; Independent Studio Services; International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees; International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 399; Laborers' International Union of North America, Local 724; Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.; Producers Guild of America; Professional Musicians Local 47; Recording Musicians Association; and SAG-AFTRA.
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