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Those of you who got the Sony Xperia P LT22i and might expects for the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update, well good news folks! The Android 4.1.2 test firmware recently leaks. XDA highly recognized developer [DooMLoRD] got the 4.1.2 Jelly Bean build 6.2.A.0.399 at hand. This is a round-up firmware or beta-test build and not completely a whole version, since the GSM support has disabled to make calls.
But for those devs and advance users who might interested to run a test and wants to sneak out on what's new for the upcoming Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean in Sony Xperia P may grab this firmware version 6.2.A.0.399 with kernel version number 3.0.8 and manually flash it via SD card update zip and fastboot mode.
Just refer to DooMloRD XDA-Developers original thread (source link below) and follow any further instructions.
source: XDA
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Dear Parent,
Live Kitchen will soon become SchoolGrid
We have outgrown our 'Live Kitchen' brand, as we now offer a range of features not related to catering, and have decided to change our brand to 'SchoolGrid' on 22nd May 2019.
Please be aware we are still the same company the only change taking place is simply our name. You can continue to use our website, at the regular web address, the same way you always have.
Please be assured that you do not need to take any action at this time.
However, should you have any queries about this change please contact our Support Team on 01506 300310.
Best Regards,
The Live Kitchen (soon to be SchoolGrid!) Team
In September 2017 we changed our school meals provider. We have teamed up with Dolce (live-kitchen) providing a cashless catering system. Being one of the first schools in the area to use this company. Instead of paying for dinners in cash you are able to pay for them on line. The company offers you the option to pay for your child's school meals cashless by Direct Debit. This can save a lot of time and hassle hunting for dinner money in the morning and operates in a post payment system. Just give your email address to the school office to get a Live Kitchen account. You will receive an email from them containing your login details and a link to the website. For any queries/information, please do not hesitate to contact the school office. 01652 654322
Children stay at school over lunch and have either a hot dinner or bring a packed lunch.
Children who have school dinners are provided with a well balanced meal that is prepared within the government guidelines for nutritional and dietary needs. Whilst ensuring that the meals are healthy, we talk with the children and school council in order to adapt the menu to suit their preferences wherever possible. Water is available for drinks.
The fruit and vegetables are fresh and are cooked on the day of use in our own kitchen. A self-service salad bar is available for children having a school meal. Children can help themselves to cucumber, tomato, sweet corn, coleslaw etc.
Children bringing packed lunches are encouraged to choose a healthy option. Please ensure that packed lunches do not contain sweets, class bottles or thermos flasks. We request that parents ensure that packed lunches are packed in a strong container which is labelled with the child's name.
To find out more about live-kitchen use this link: Live-kitchen
About Dolce and Schools Catering
Dolce is a family business with a genuine interest in the welfare of children. The company was born out of a desire to improve upon the offerings of the private and public sector in respect to the catering service, the cleaning provision and supervisory and caretaking duties.
To find out more about the company click here
Free school meals are available to some children according to family income. It's important to register for entitlement to free school meals, even though your child may have a packed lunch, this is so we can review additional funding (pupil premium) which we can use to help your child.
To find out if your child qualifies for free school meals, and for any help or advice, contact North Lincolnshire Council, or click here to complete on line application.

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9.15am to 2.15pm (2 X 2.5 hours) New Edition 4 manual provided to each participant. Morning Tea is provided. Successful completion of the on-line exam will provide a further 3 year accreditation.
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Ask many overseas visitors to Russia to list the country's great cities and you'll be hard pushed to find Kazan on a list. That's not because Kazan isn't great. It's because, despite receiving 2.1 million tourists last year, Kazan is perhaps the greatest Russian city you've never heard of. Movie fans will know it, however – it featured at the end of the 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace when Bond visits Yusef Kabira, Vesper Lynd's former lover. Here's the lowdown on this sometimes overlooked gem.
Officially Russia's third capital
Kazan has been branding itself "Russia's third capital" since 2007 but it's officially been entitled to do so since 2009 after being awarded a formal patent. After Moscow and St Petersburg, this makes it the third most important city in the country, despite it coming eighth in terms of population. In 2005, Kazan celebrated its 1000th birthday with a number of landmark projects including a rebuild of the city's historic heart. That year, the newly rebuilt Qolşärif mosque inside Kazan Kremlin was dedicated, the Millennium Bridge was opened and so was the city's brand new metro.
And it's also Russia's sports capital
A few years later, the city was branded Russia's sports capital, hosting a number of important events. It was the setting for the 2013 Summer Universiade, 2014's World Fencing Championships and the World Aquatics Championship a year later. In 2018, it will play an important role in the 2018 FIFA World Cup All of these events have given the city yet more reasons to spruce itself up, so there's never been a better time to visit.
A unique ethnic mix
One thing visitors soon notice on arriving in Kazan is that much of the signage is in Tatar as well as Russian. It's the capital of ancient Tatarstan, but the city was conquered by Russia in the reign of Ivan the Terrible. These days the numbers of Russians and Tatars are largely equal, with most practising either Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Sunni Islam. It's this melting pot heritage that makes Kazan special and much beloved of those who make the effort to visit.
Break your Trans-Siberian journey in Kazan
Lying at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers, this is a city with an impressive location, but the fact that it sits almost equidistant between Moscow and Yekaterinburg on the Trans-Siberian route makes it a very tempting stop-off. The UNESCO-listed Kazan Kremlin is the city's main attraction, containing the spectacular five-domed Annunciation Cathedral, the Spasskaya Tower, which forms the main entrance to the citadel and the leaning Söyembikä Tower, the city's most recognisable landmark. Also, don't miss the Peter and Paul Cathedral and the 19th century mansions which line Kremlevskaya Ulitsa. At the end of the day, Ulitsa Baumana is the place where you'll find Kazan's best selection of cafes, bars and restaurants. There's so much to see, in fact, you'll hope your train is late so you can hang around a while longer.


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You can only be registered as a patient at one GP Surgery so if you register with us you will be de-registered from your current surgery and your previous medical notes will be passed to us.
Please come to reception and ask for an application form. It would assist us if you are able to bring your Medical Card with you or alternatively your NHS number (you can get this from your current GP practice).
When you register we will arrange an appointment for a health check. This is important as it allows us to get to know you better and collect important information on past medical health, current problems and medication and is an excellent time to ensure all immunisations, contraceptive requirements, cervical smears and blood pressure measurements are up to date. As there can be a delay in obtaining your records from your previous doctor this information is vital to your new doctor.
The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them. You can download the guide below.
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Online registration is not currently available. Patients wishing to register will need to call at reception to complete the necessary forms and collect a sample bottle in preparation for a New Patient Medical, which our reception staff will arrange with one of our practice nurses.
These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.
Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups. Open the leaflets in one of the following languages
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Any marketer who's successfully made the move to social media will tell you the rules of traditional marketing have to be reexamined. That's particularly true with Twitter, where brands have just 140 characters to inform, evoke emotion and inspire action. One of the most basic and critical rules for brands on Twitter? Be authentic and transparent in all you do.
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· Supervising the work of accountants in the financial department
· Ensure that approved Audit plans are timely and effectively performed.
· Finalize the Audit report.
· Ensure that all movements and vouchers are recorded on the specified dates without delay
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Ultraprecision components in the aerospace, in the most modern semiconductor factories in the world or perhaps even in the next supermarket: Customer-specific development and production in all fields of ultra precision and micro manufacturing in line with the current state of research and development.
Kugler goes Terahertz
Ultraprecision machining of large terahertz optics
Non-rotation symmetrical imaging optics with a diagonal of 700 mm. After finishing, a roughness was achieved of Ra < 7 mm and a shape deviation of PV < 1 µm.
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Kugler's part in more than 15 years of national and European top research for laser and ultra precision technology.read more
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Cryostat lid for satellite spectrometers
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Air-bearings for wafer steppers
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Produced and inspected like precision metal optics.
Master polygon and alignment cube
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iPhone App Review: Goal DefenseSeptember 4th, 2012 by dancemonkey
If you feel like you've played every possible variation on the tower defense genre, then you might still need to try Goal Defense from developer Dynamic Pixels. It doesn't turn the gameplay of a defense upside-down and shake it by the ankles, but tower defense fans and sports fans will both like the sports-themed fields, goals, and defense pieces that you deploy throughout the game.
Deploy pitchers, shot putters, and boxers against a merciless onslaught of sprinters, linemen, and other opponents that are hell-bent on capturing your Golden Bowl trophy. Note their path across the field and strategically drop "towers" to divert them into bottlenecks for more effective attacks, and use the money you earn defeating opponents to buy new towers or upgrade existing ones.
How It Works
Like any tower defense game, you progress through a series of levels of increasing difficulty. A moving line of arrows shows you the path opponents will take as they enter the field, and you have a limited time to place your blockers before the onslaught starts. Placing a tower in the enemies' path will cause them to choose a new route, but be careful that you don't accidentally divert them around the majority of defenders. There are several waves of attackers per round, and the entry point to the field as well as the overall path to the trophy may change with each wave, so keep a little money in reserve or create clusters of defenders that can reach both attacker routes.
Tapping on a defender shows you its radius of attack, selling price, and upgrade price. As you progress through levels you naturally unlock more and more defensive towers, with a variety of powers, strengths, and weaknesses. The attackers' tactics get trickier as well, until after a fairly few amount of levels you find yourself swarmed by hordes of attackers.
Pros And Cons
Goal Defense is notable not just for its sports theme, which alone provides me a reason enough to recommend it to fans of the genre, but also for itsart direction. The graphics, animation, and theme are a welcome change from the standard "blow things up" gameplay of other games in the defense space, and the graphics themselves have an old-fashioned charm (though they're a bit too small on the iPhone screen to effectively see the attention to detail the artists have clearly put into the animation of each figure).
There is also a natural fit to the sports theme to each of the attackers and defenders in the game. It's perfectly logical that a pitcher throws fast but deals fairly little damage compared to the slower but more devastating shot-putter. The boxer knocks out opponents with one blow, but takes a longer time to recharge to has limited effectiveness for that reason. It's also just plain fun to drop athletes on the field and watch them pummel each other, no matter who wins.
Goal Defense is a great example of a game that manages to cram all of the tropes and cliches of its gameplay category into a fresh, exciting package that feels so natural you wonder why nobody has thought of it before (or if somebody had, I haven't played it). It's fun, cheap, and a universal app, so give it a spin on the iPad too and give those great animations a closer look.


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During spring 2013, I used this blog to host a project I executed for a graduate school course, in which I investigated the practice of a select population through their online activity during a period of time that roughly began in summer 2009 and ended in spring 2013. Specifically, I am referring to those individuals who were using the smartphone app (or companion website) developed by Foursquare to log their regional activities by checking in to venues. More specifically, I tracked their individual and aggregate activity relative to ten Central Phoenix coffeehouses which Foursquare shortlisted for its Best of project which featured 30 major metropolitan cities including Phoenix.
As mobile devices proliferate and geolocation technology pervades our day-to-day activities, online interactions and connections that we used to think of as being the exclusive domain of the desktop computer have given way to more nimble and immediate channels: texting, Twitter, smartphone apps, and synchronized and shared content. How do these channels influence our practices; and how do our practices push these channels to evolve? These questions provide the basis for this sampling of activity within a population that has conducted itself, in part, along one such online channel. While the posts associated with this project have been written to allow for reading in any order, the recommended sequence (if desired) is listed below. They follow in two acts: (1) the context of communities that connect online as well as the use and practice of Foursquare, and (2) profiles of select coffeehouses meant to illustrate some of the major themes evoked by user-generated comments posted to Foursquare.
The majority of this work was conducted during March and April 2013.
Select slides for in-class presentation on May 2, 2013:
- https://netnographyandthehood.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/foursquare-matrix.jpg
- https://netnographyandthehood.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/coffeehouse-tip-analysis-by-topic.jpg
- https://netnographyandthehood.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ms-access-scorecard1.jpg
- https://netnographyandthehood.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/coffeehouse-photo-analysis.jpg
- https://netnographyandthehood.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/giant-coffee-service-tips.jpg
- https://netnographyandthehood.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/lola-coffee-place-tips.jpg
- https://netnographyandthehood.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/jobot-place-tips.jpg
The above image of a Chihuly glass installation at the Desert Botanical Gardens in 2008 offers a visual metaphor for concurrent channels (such as the ones under exploration in this blog): the organic yet slow progression of the cactus blended with the powerful yet fragile constructs of glass…each pulsing with different energy and information
With regard to what this blog is truly about, well, I expect that to change over time. For now, what I've outlined above is what is on the menu. Each time this channel gets tweaked or shifts, I'll endeavor to archive the past here, at the bottom of this page. For now, this is only the first shift away what was intended to be a more regular exploration of online venues during the course of spring 2013. Much of those explorations happened outside the boundaries of this WordPress blog; however, for the genesis of this blog, see my first entry: Adventure Ho!


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Kim Dotcom Promising 50GB Of Free Storage
According to Kim Dotcom's latest tweet, his new site will be giving new users 50GB of storage for free. Not a bad deal but I wouldn't recommend uploading anything important considering old Megaupload customers are still SOL.
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective figuratively
surprised, shocked
- adjective nautical said of a ship, when the wind, suddenly changing, forces the sails aft against the mast
- verb Past participle of
take aback
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I was fascinated to learn that this was originally a nautical term. Here's the OED's explanation:
3. Naut. Said of the sails of a ship, when laid back against the mast, with the wind bearing against their front surfaces. Also, of the ship, when her sails are so laid.
1697 JUMPER in Lond. Gaz. mmmcccxv. 1, I braced my main topsails aback. 1762 FALCONER Shipwreck ii. 427 Away there! lower the mizen yard on deck, He calls, and brace the foremost yards aback! 1790 R. BEATSON Nav. and Mil. Mem. II. 58 The Revenge was necessitated to throw her sails all aback. 1847 ROSS Voyage to South Pole II. 217 We instantly hove all aback to diminish the violence of the shock.
b. Hence the nautical phrase to be taken aback, 'when through a shift of wind or bad steerage, the wind comes in front of the square sails and lays them back against the masts, instantly staying the ship's onward course and giving her stern way; an accident exceedingly dangerous in a strong gale.' Sir John Richardson.
1754 EELES Let. 2, in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 144 If they luff up, they will be taken aback, and run the hazard of being dismasted. 1870 Daily News Sept. 16 This proves to my mind that the Captain was taken as flat aback as could be by a squall striking her from starboard.
I also found out that "freeze the balls off a brass monkey" has a nautical origin as well, but I'm still looking that up...
Weird. I was just a minute ago reading that scuttlebutt was originally a nautical term, and I started thinking, "Hmm. A Wordie list...."
Wait! Scuttlebutt doesn't list any kind of nautical meaning. Post, reesetee! Post!
Oh! Well, you see....
*getting comfortable, pushing spectacles farther down on nose*
Oh, hell; I'll let World Wide Words explain it. :-)


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My name is Kirill Grouchnikov and I am a software engineer. I work at Google on the Android team. I have zero patents to my name, and I intend to keep it that way. I have been doing client side development professionally since 1999 in a variety of UI toolkits and libraries that spanned Motif, MFC, VB, Ada, Delphi, Swing and SWT.
Want to get in touch? You can reach me at [firstname] dot [lastname] at [gmail] dot [com] if you can figure out the secret encoding of the email address. Technically I'm still on Twitter, but that's been dormant for a while now. I also post occasionally on Instagram.
Presentations – Android
- Google I/O 2017 – "Architecture Components – Persistence and Offline" with Yigit Boyar. Video recording.
- Google I/O 2016 – "Designer & developer communication" with Shona Dutta, John Schlemmer and Mark Wei. Video recording.
- Udacity 2015 – Talking about Google Play Store app. Part 1 and Part 2 videos.
- Google I/O 2014 – "Going responsive with the Google Play Apps Suite" with Marco Paglia. Video recording.
- AnDevCon III 2012 – "Responsive Mobile Design in Practice". PDF slidedeck.
- AnDevCon II 2011 – "Responsive Mobile Design". PDF slidedeck.
- AnDevCon I 2011 – "Designing for the Mobile Form Factor". PDF slidedeck.
Conference presentations – others
- JavaOne 2009 – "Flamingo: Bringing the Ribbon Component to Swing". PDF slidedeck.
- EclipseCon 2009 – "On The Shoulders of Giants: Harnessing the Power of Eclipse Enterprise Ecosystem". PDF slidedeck.
- JavaOne 2008 – "High Resolution Monitors" with Mike Swingler of Apple. PDF slidedeck.
- OSCON 2007 – "Advanced Effects in Java Desktop Applications". PDF slidedeck.
- JavaOne 2007 – "Bringing Life to Swing Desktop Applications" with Alexander Potochkin of Sun and moderator of the "Next-Generation UI Elements for Swing Applications" birds of feather. PDF slidedeck
- DesktopMatters 2007 – "Swing Effects". PDF slidedeck.
- JavaOne 2005 – co-presenter on birds of feather that introduced Web Services & XML community at java.net. My part was on the JAXB Workshop project (see below).
Active open source projects
Radiance is a set of libraries for building modern, elegant and fast Swing applications . It includes:
- Neon provides a core set of APIs to work with images and text that scale with the display resolution.
- Photon enables usage of vector-based icons in Swing applications.
- Trident provides powerful and flexible animation APIs that scale from simple, single-property cases to complex scenarios that involve multiple animations.
- Substance provides a powerful and flexible set of APIs that can be used to skin Swing applications to address the most demanding, modern design requirements.
- Flamingo provides a robust set of additional Swing components that can be used as building blocks for creating modern, rich Swing applications.
- Meteor is a set of Kotlin extensions that expose selected core Swing APIs for idiomatic Kotlin usage.
- Ember is a set of Kotlin extensions that provide a more elegant way of working with scoped Substance APIs.
- Plasma exposes the entire API surface of Flamingo as a concise, focused and approachable Kotlin domain-specific language (DSL).
- Lightbeam provides tools for Swing look-and-feel developers to measure the performance of their libraries.
Inactive open source projects
Historical snapshots hosted on GitHub:
- BindMark – a comparative benchmark for Java XML binding frameworks and libraries
- Checkers – a collection of Checkers games
- Ixent – a framework for non-photorealistic rendering
- JAXB Workshop – a collection of tools for JAXB 2.0 including Eclipse and IDEA plugins for XJC
- Matrix rain – Matrix screensaver for Swing apps
- Strider – ripple effects for Swing applications.
- Trellis – a collection of Tetris-inspired games
- XSOM – XML Schema Object Model (part of JAXB 2.0). I was a small-time contributor.


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I have won a Literary Arts Fellowship for my novel in progress. Still a bit in shock. I really had -almost- forgotten that I had applied. This is the second time and I thought it was a long shot. I mean, I still feel like such a beginner as a writer, though when I recently looked up some queries, I realized that I've been sending things out for at least 8 years. Not that those first stories were very good, but 8 years is a while.
After my initial screaming, my thoughts quickly turned to, "Damm, now I really have to finish it and it has to be good." No pressure! I have to admit that I had hit a low point and this Fellowship is a great vote of confidence. I've already done more work in a week than I had in the two months before.
Go Barbara!!
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Mars is colonized. Yet its inhabitants are cut off from mother Earth. An event known as the "Pulse" is eating light and energy on Earth. And Mars has been blamed for it.
Now, forty years later, Darion Wallace travels the ever-darkening Earth with his daughter, looking for a way to get to Mars. His search will bring him face to face with a being thought to be myth. Yet, Darion knows these tall tales are true. He's seen him. And Darion knows he's coming back.
The road is open. Mars awaits.
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As most of you know my book is faith based. It talks about teens and a community who are facing faith challenges. Over the past few years faith based films are becoming more popular. My goal is to continue doing my part to keep Christ in social media, books, blogs, professional sites and film. I have made a commitment to God.
He has shown me favor by sending me here. I have no idea what exactly what God's plan for me is. I plan to represent myself the way God would want. My hope is that God's light will shine through me.
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Pymble's Term 2 Success
Wednesday 25 June, 2014
The College motto of 'All' Ultimo Lavoro' – Strive for the Highest was certainly seen in the achievements of Pymble students over the past term. In sport Pymble students have been victorious in hockey, netball, football, cross country, basketball and mountain biking. Our Eisteddfod Jazz and Contemporary White placed first at Dance Life, qualifying for the Nationals and the top Secondary Eisteddfod Jazz group is currently undefeated.
The Junior girls have also been successful with their most recent achievements experienced last Sunday with the Jazz and Lyrical dance teams coming first and the Chamber Choir placing second at Eisteddfods.
Pymble was successful in the 2014 da Vinci Decathlon with Junior and Secondary teams winning their division and in film Pymble student Natasha Ng was the winner of the Alliance Girl's Australasia film competition for her film Paint.
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The Salvation Army in Cuba
In 1918, Cuba and the United States were political allies. Trade between the two countries flourished. Guantanamo Bay had already been leased to the U.S. as part of the Platt Amendment of 1902, which among other things gave the U.S. the right to intervene militarily in Cuba.
General Mario G. Menocal, president of the Cuban Republic and a former manager of the Cuban American Sugar Corporation, announced that Cuba would join U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in declaring war against Germany at the start of WWI. Menocal had prepared 25,000 Cuban troops to set sail for Europe.
That same year, The Salvation Army officially launched its spiritual fight for the souls of the Cuban people, having already commenced its war on sin and poverty there as early as the 1890s.
In 1912, General William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, made his last public appearance in Royal Albert Hall in London on May 9. And on August 20, he was promoted to Glory.
His memory inspired Salvationists around the globe and in Cuba to continue the fight. Religious meetings and social services became the hallmark of the Army's work on the island. And in 1918, the government's campaign against the dreaded malaria virus was in full swing.
Then in 1953, the 26th of July Movement, led by Fidel and Raúl Castro, overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista during the Cuban Revolution (1953–59). As a result, Communism became the nation's system of government.
That government required all foreign–born Salvation Army officers to leave the island. Many Cuban Salvationists also fled to the U.S. Under the new regime, Christianity was barely tolerated. President Castro recognized all churches that had been in Cuba prior to 1959, but rigorously restricted their activities.
The Army's children's homes closed. Open–air meetings, the sale of War Cry magazines, and the wearing of uniforms were prohibited. And because of these restrictions, the Army's social work and church growth seemingly stopped.
By 1962, the United States had severed all diplomatic relations with Cuba, imposed a trade embargo, banned all U.S. citizens from traveling there, and had strongly encouraged other nations to do the same.
With all contact with the outside world essentially cut off, it was thought that Salvation Army ministry had ceased to exist in Cuba. For the first time, a remnant of Cuban Salvationists found themselves taking charge of a struggling movement that was determined nonetheless to remain alive—against all odds.
A great moment
In 1973, Salvation Army Major Francisco Ramires traveled from Cuba to Jamaica to attend a Christian Caribbean Conference of Churches. There he met Colonel John Needham, then commander of the Caribbean Territory. When Needham saw the Spanish words Ejército de Salvación written on Ramires' hat, a conversation ensued. Ramires wrote down the names of the corps that still existed in Cuba. He explained that the training college was also still operating. And the numbers of Salvationists were actually growing, mainly through the courageous sharing of personal testimonies.
Needham looked at Ramires in disbelief, but also with gratitude. They both thanked God for His faithfulness and asked Him to bless and to guide The Salvation Army in Cuba.*
*The War Cry, February 7, 1998
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Thoughts on Names
This week's blog post is brought to us by Ben Gilbert of Crayons and Cardboard ...
Names. I don't really think too deeply about them. I try to be clever and make each name an in-joke or unusual or a light teasing of the artistic nomenclature. Is there actually one? Or is a lot of it made up as the creator goes along? It amuses me so the answers do not really matter.
'Stache Momentum" Mustaches are a trend. I figure I had to do one as a matter of course, a base touch as it were... Perhaps it's tied in with the ebb and flow of the trends. The surrounding black lines delineate movement and also could be said to represent shaved facial hair the Stache bulls through as it screams its way through our collective unconscious.
"The Yawn" had to be done since "The Scream" was done already. I don't think it's my best work but it amused me. Life is tiring and boring sometimes, and it is an unstated snapshot in time.
"Martian Luna See" What happens when your take off your helmet in the wrong place. Asphyxiation does funny things to people.
"Elevations" Perhaps not the same as those British buses... But there are levels... Oh who am I kidding... It's a study in beauty…
Red Dwarf Falling into White Dwarf... A tragic spacing and flensing of a member of a mountain clan…
After this we come to the psycho squirrel series... three paintings of very bad rodents.
Before that there was a Maneki- Neko, a bucolic looking surveillance camera, A lady in black leather, and my cousin as part of a homage to Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
I am able to [----what verb?] to all of this and more because I don't have any commissions and creating is not a part of a job with any deadlines... Having a job with free time helps also. I'm always looking for unusual images to capture and will continue to try and improve and punctuate the mundane reality of existence with quirky points of fun.
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Ben. You have a unique view of the world. Thanks for sharing it. I know there are so many inside references to each picture sometimes I understand and sometimes I scratch my head. By answering how you name things I learned a little more about you and your art!
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I recently received a comment on one of my posts. These days, I'm both cautious and suspicious of much. (I am especially suspicious of people promoting themselves or their products!) However, to be fair, I decided to read through the comment and I prayed for discernment, as to whether or not to approve it. I did decide to approve it, and have copied and pasted it to the end of this post as well.
After reading through the comment, and checking out some of the content on Jeff's site, I felt it would be worth buying a PDF copy of his book. (I am a real spendthrift, so that says a lot! Thankfully, since I am such a 'cheapskate', it was only $5.00!)
I have to admit, I am not schooled in linguistics, nor do I have the vocabulary or experience that pertains to such things. I am, so far, finding the book hard to follow–on a purely logical level. In other words, a lot of the time it is 'as clear as mud' to me.
However, some manner of understanding is bypassing all that difficulty, and I think I am 'getting' what he is trying to say! It is as if that 'mud' has somehow opened my eyes to an even deeper way of seeing things.
Furthermore, along those same lines, I feel like God is really revealing some specific, prophetic things to me. Just as I have not been able to figure out how to rephrase what Jeff is trying to convey in his book, I am not able to break down how I am coming to understand the things (in prophetic passages in the Bible) that I am now understanding (as a result of the book).
My goodness, I hope my writing is not going to continue to be as hard to interpret as what I've said so far today . . . !
At any rate, I am publishing this [comment] as a background to how I came to the understanding of some things that I believe I will be sharing soon. (I don't yet know whether I will simply share what I am coming to see, or if I will be able to actually explain the process that led me to the conclusions that I will make.) Let this post serve to 'give credit where credit is due'–at least as far as human influence is concerned:
Thank you Jeff, for visiting my site, and for sharing what the Lord has revealed to you.
I also wanted to say, to my few faithful readers, that I have not disappeared! I have times where much is burning in my heart to share with you–and at other times, when I am silent, there is much that I am reading, listening to, and praying about. As long as God wills, I will always be back!
Here is Jeff's comment:
"A islamic/Arab religion mixing with Democracy was predicted 2600 years ago in the Bible.
In 2 Thessalonians it says that "the man of lawlessness will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God and worshiped".
In other words, he will declare himself God, but what god? And of what religion?
In Daniel 2 we have the prophecy of king Nebuchadnezzer's vision called the "Great image". This image consisted of five future kingdoms that would rule over Israel, beginning with Nebuchadnezzer's Babylon.
The fifth and last kingdom, would be a kingdom that would rule in the last days, the Bible says that this kingdom would be one of both mire and metal or "iron mixed with clay", the key word being mixed.
I believe it's not a coincidence that this verb mixed occurs only three times throughout the bible and all three occurrence are found in Daniel 2: 40-43.
So by knowing the Aramaic and Hebrew meaning of this verb, we can understanding what form of governments the iron and clay depict, and we can know the identity of this last days religion.
What is the translation of this verb mixed? It is the word "Arab."
Now here's the kicker! We know that any religion outside of Christianity is a religion built by Lucifer in the spirit of antichrist. Right?
Now in Isaiah 14: 13-14 (a prophecy about Lucifer's fall) it says:
'You (Lucifer) said in your heart' "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God… I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."
The Hebrew word for "ascend", as in "I will ascend to heaven… I will make myself like the Most High". Is the word Allah.
Go to my website http://www.prophecycodebook.com and learn more."
Update 3/24/11:
After reading the entire Prophecy Code II book, I have to say that I am not convinced of the author's assertions. I think there may be legitimacy to the idea that certain words are key words that can help us to decode prophecy. But the numeric claims–I'm not so sure. Many times his logic escaped me.
I also disagree with his claims that the 'Eucharist' (communion bread and wine) actually become the flesh and blood of Jesus when we consume them–and that they infer some sort of physical sustenance and protection to us. That is a Catholic doctrine. Catholicism is a blend of early Christianity and pagan worship. (There are many places to find more info on that subject, it is not a subject I feel comfortable trying to teach.)
Ultimately, we are all best served by really getting to know what is in the Bible and taking it at face value. For those who are well versed in Scripture, feel they have time, and desire to 'decode' prophecy–this book may offer another potential tool. But for new believers, or those not well versed in Scripture–I think it could be potentially dangerous, and at the very least can take away time that would be better spent learning the Bible.
Time is short! True Bible understanding is in short supply! This is remarkable, considering that the Bible is readily available and the United States has a high literacy rate! I cannot stress it enough–read your Bible!! Don't leave it to someone else to interpret it for you! If you are a Christian, the Holy Spirit will teach you as you read the Bible! You are in much more danger of being deceived if you take other people's interpretations of it, than if you read the Bible yourself and pray!
Many people sacrificed or died to make sure that God's Word was made available to the common man. The Dark Ages were 'dark' because the Catholic Church taught that only priests could understand God's word. The people did not have Bibles! Today Bibles are everywhere, yet virtually no one reads them–how ironic!!
The Fourth Kingdom–Iron And Clay
A Fourth Beast–Terrifying, Frightening, And Very Powerful


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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Tracy Morgan is showing signs of improvement following a six-vehicle accident on the New Jersey Turnpike (See Previous Story).
Morgan's publicist, Lewis Kay, issued the following statement on Thursday:
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I've used this approach on a couple of occasions and a recent post on Quora reminded me of its effectiveness. Stop concerning yourself that it could be misleading. Have you ever answered the phone and said "I'm on my way," meanwhile you haven't left the house yet? Same difference. Maybe you didn't respond from your mobile device as you originally planned. No harm, no foul. Consider this technique your "Get Out of Jail Free" card to help you avoid declaring email bankruptcy!


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Survivors May Now Visit State/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Gulf County
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A disaster recovery center is now open in Gulf County.
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- Return to the original position, do not let the band pull you back or force the shoulders past where they feel comfortable. Maintain a stiffness in the core and keep your body upright.
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- Wrap the band underneath the feet and find a comfortable stance.
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- Raise the arms up towards the sky and squeeze the biceps.
- Control the movement and return to the original position.
Standing Front Raise.
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 x 3 Sets of 15 Repetitions
- Wrap the band underneath the feet and gently grasp the band. Keep the chest proud, eyes uplifted and core braced, palms face together.
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FasterEFT – How does this work and how can I benefit from it?
In 2000 I studied and became certified in Thought Field Therapy. This was the original healing technique I used on clients to assist them release and heal mind-body associated problems. This technique was used to consciously become aware of what particular stress was affecting you, noticing where it was felt in the body and 'tapping' with your fingers on particular meridians of the face and body and disrupting the feeling of that stress so that you no longer felt impacted by it. This modality was effective but quite time consuming and I found my clients did not achieve the results as well as I would have liked.
I went on to discover FasterEFT in 2012 and found that this encompassed a similar method to Thought Field Therapy but was far more effective in achieving results and was 'faster'.
So what is FasterEFT?
FasterEFT is a modality that developed organically as a result of Robert G Smith, its founder, simplifying, amplifying, blending and practicing a number of powerfully effective modalities together, including Thought Field Therapy, EFT, Neuro Linguistic Programming and Hypnosis, to name just a few.
FasterEFT integrates a structured methodology of uncovering what is going on in your mind and how those thoughts, beliefs and attitudes are resulting in what is happening to you in your life. FasterEFT is based on the understanding that your body's reactions are not the cause of your problems but rather the expression of what you hold within your mind – your perceptions – and how your perceptions originate from your memories and experiences. So in order to release the impact of those negative reactions and the subsequent conditions of the body, FasterEFT aims at changing the way you hold your memories which consequently changes your perceptions and ultimately how you see the world as a result.
How does FasterEFT change memories? Once you understand how you know you have a problem – how that is reflected in the feelings and emotions in your body, and once you uncover the memory associated with that problem, FasterEFT directly aims at changing the memory using tapping protocols.
FasterEFT is changing how the subconscious mind encodes, processes and reproduces experiences from the past. It not only releases the emotions from our experiences, it also changes the way we hold the experience
– Robert G Smith.
The Tapping Process
The tapping process involves using your fingers and tapping on particular meridians of the body in order to disrupt and scramble the message within the electrical/chemical system of the mind-body. The meridian system is the communication highway to your organs and it stores feelings and emotional markers to past events and perceptions. The tapping process of FasterEFT successfully disrupts the stored information within your mind from reaching your body by 'tapping' on these meridians while processing the related memory.
Not only is the tapping process effective in disrupting the feelings and emotions in the mind-body connection. It is also promotes deep relaxation and centres you back to the present moment while integrating into the subconscious mind that the memory is now over and is no longer true or valid.
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My sister and I were having a conversation yesterday about all the wild variations of mistakes people make when using "me" and "I" in sentences. It was a heated conversation because we both kind of know when to use what and were luckily raised by an English major.
I have a few different views of the English language. The first one is, "What's wrong with you? Why can't you speak correctly? Have you seriously been talking this way your whole life?" The second view is, "I really have no love for the English language. If it were up to me, we would all be speaking Spanish right now. At least Spanish makes more sense. Screw it up all you want." Finally, the last view I have about the English language is, "Okay, we've all gone to school for enough years now to know the difference between Me and Jane went to the mall and Jane and I went to the mall. You are just being lazy." I think I like the third view the best. Not by choice, but by the simple fact that I have had my English corrected for most of my life.
Here is the one that I find excruciatingly annoying:
Come look at the picture of Jane and I.
That one kills me. It absolutely kills me. I don't know why I let things like this get to me, but I do. I admit that it's a personality defect. I see it all the time, especially in photo captions on the internet.
Let me be clear here. I am not thinking of anyone in particular as I write this. I promise. This post stems from the conversation my sister and I had yesterday. I know how paranoid I get when people write about certain things. I always think they are talking about me. I am not talking about you. I swear.
Here is the simple rule that my mother used to tell me all the time when I was running out the door. I would say, "Me and Rob are going to the store." She would reply, "Hold it right there you handsome little devil. It's Rob and I are going to the store. Just take Rob out of the sentence. Would you say, Me am going to the store?"
That rule makes pretty good sense. So, instead of saying, "Come look at the picture of Jane and I," I would say, "Come look at the picture of Jane and me." Just take Jane out of the sentence.
Laura is much more forgiving when it comes to these types of things, but that's not to say she doesn't recognize errors in people's grammar. She tells me that we have had this "I" thing jammed in our brains for way too many years and now people are using it for everything. It's true, I guess. I mean, why else would everyone be doing it? Back in the day it was "me." All sorts of people were saying, "Me and Jane went here" and "It's for me and John."
My sister emailed me a funny website that has a continuation of this conversation. You can find it by clicking here.
You know, sometimes I wish I was really the type of person that says something like, "This blog is owned by I." Life would be so much easier.