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"Married at First Sight" fans don't have to wait until "Married at First Sight: The First Year" premieres to get the inside scoop on their favorite newlyweds. Season 1 star Jamie Otis started an online book club for her fans, but they probably weren't expecting her to share so much about her relationship with her husband, Doug Hehner.
Jamie picked as the club's first book "The Normal Bar," written by "Married At First Sight" expert Dr. Pepper Schwartz along with Chrisanna Northrup and Dr. James Witte. She discussed the first part of the book and related it to her own relationship. She read a passage about men falling in love more quickly than women, and the similarity to her marriage was obvious.
"If anybody watched 'Married at First Sight,' that's like Doug and I to a T. Doug was pretty much, like, instantly in love with me," Jamie laughed. "And I was like, 'Wait a minute. Let me make sure you're a good guy first.'"
Viewers saw Jamie struggle with letting herself be vulnerable enough to fall in love throughout the first season of the FYI program. The docuseries also showed that Jamie and Doug didn't have sex until the end of the experiment, after a month of marriage. Now, three months after the season finale, fans could see that they're definitely past that phase when Jaime talked about intimacy in the book club video. Apparently, Doug takes her dancing when they're going through a tough time.
"Doug caught on really quickly because, you know, if I ever were going through like, I don't know, a rough patch or a dry patch, he'll be like 'Oh, let's go dancing!'" Jamie said. "It's really such a great way for us, for me, to be intimate."
Those weren't the only private details Jaime shared. The book also had a section about sex toys. "I personally think that bringing in a toy is perfectly fine and it's fun," Jamie said. "And if your husband really, you know, is kind of bored and you can tell he's bored … I think introducing a toy and, you know, just experiencing that and experimenting with it is a great way to get him right back into your corner."
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May have given TMI about my relationship w Doug but here's my review on Part One of @TheNormalBar! #JamiesBookClub https://t.co/GewJi3dfIV
— Jamie N. Otis (@jamienotis) December 2, 2014
The second part will be out Dec. 15 on Jamie's YouTube channel. "Married At First Sight: The First Year" premieres in 2015 on FYI.


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Tomorrow's social welfare
The Legal Education Foundation's fellowship scheme for training social welfare lawyers is being extended to barristers. Matthew Smerdon explains why he hopes the fellows will become future leaders of the profession
The Legal Education Foundation exists to help people better understand and use the law.
One of our flagship projects is the Justice First Fellowship (JFF) scheme, which we launched in 2014 and extended to trainee barristers this year for the first time.
It is an ambitious initiative, which takes inspiration from similarly groundbreaking schemes in America. JFF aims to support the next generation of lawyers who are committed to a career in social welfare law. As well as completing their legal qualification (whether at a solicitor-led organisation or via pupillage), our fellows also undertake a personal project, aimed at directly increasing access to justice.
Despite all the well-known problems which have beset the social welfare advice sector in recent years, the calibre of the JFF candidates to date has been remarkable, and this is reflected in the scope and quality of projects that those already in post are undertaking. These range from training volunteers to give legal advice to domestic violence victims, to developing online support for people representing themselves at social security appeals.
Fellows also receive additional training in skills such as public speaking, business planning, fundraising and media relations, recognising other essential skills they will need alongside being expert social welfare lawyers if they are to fulfill their potential as future leaders of the social welfare law profession.
The shape of a movement
Our two most recent recruits, Harriet Dudbridge, who joins St John's Chambers, and Naima Asif, who joins Pump Court, are proof that the appetite for social welfare law is just as high among trainee barristers as it is on the solicitors' side of the profession.
Before starting pupillage in 2017, Harriet and Naima will spend a year at the Bar Pro Bono Unit (see below). Once in chambers, their training will focus on publicly funded family work – an area where committed barristers can make a significant impact.
Once the 2016 solicitor intake is appointed in November, we will have over 30 fellows in post; and with the first cohort due to qualify in January 2017, the fellowship scheme is starting to take on the shape of a movement.
We don't pretend that a scheme on this scale can solve all the problems caused by the funding cuts which have had such a big impact on the availability of social welfare law advice. But this scheme gives important recognition to the vital contribution that all lawyers in this field make to access to justice, and to the way their work transforms the lives of the poor and vulnerable.
Contributor Matthew Smerdon, Chief Executive of The Legal Education Foundation: jff.thelegaleducationfoundation.org
Fellows will enter profession with eyes opened and skills sharpened
Our two inaugural barrister Justice First fellows, Harriet and Naima, joined us as caseworkers in September. Their presence increases the capacity of the Bar Pro Bono Unit to serve the growing number of applicants coming to the charity. In the past six months, the unit has received an average of 190 applications a month; that is nearly 30 applications per caseworker, or one each, every day of the month.
Of course, Unit caseworkers manage a wide range of additional tasks, not least communicating with the Bar. Through the JFF programme, the fellows are able to use their time with us to build relationships with their training chambers, as well as many other chambers in the same and other specialisms. Fellows will get a unique insight into the workings of clerks rooms and what motivates the Bar to assist vulnerable people.
It is especially timely that they come on board as the Unit continues to receive the majority of its applications in family disputes. On completion of their time as caseworkers with us, they will join family sets for pupillage. Their experience at the Unit will equip them to work with the variety of challenges, emotions and legal problems, being faced by litigants within the family courts. The aim of the fellowship year is for those going on to join the Bar to enter the profession with their eyes open and skills sharpened. Volunteer organisations such as ourselves are asked to assist a diverse range of litigants-in-person, with a wide array of capabilities, from relatively simple legal issues, to the most complex and emotionally testing cases. We expect this training ground will ensure that the next generation of the Bar and next leaders in the pro bono community have a realistic view of those facing our courts, and how the courts, professions and supporting charities can adapt to help.
The fellows will also help the Unit as it develops in its 20th year. The Unit is changing its processes and systems, with the aim not only of continuing to assist all these applicants, but to better support the volunteers. The fellows will learn how pro bono barristers work and what support they might require. So when they are in practice, they will follow the lead pro bono barristers have set, and continue to work with the Unit as panel members to help those who cannot access justice.
Jess Campbell, Chief Executive of the Bar Pro Bono Unit
Care work demands barristers who are highly qualified, committed and motivated
The changes in the ability to receive advice and representation as a result of LASPO have seen an unprecedented number of self-represented litigants enter the family courts in search of a solution to their often complex problems. Clearly, there are limits to what a single chambers can – and should – do to address this issue, but St John's continues to be involved in wider community initiatives: this has included assisting in setting up a website containing information for self-represented litigants and helping establish a pro bono advice scheme for those involved in private law disputes. In addition, we have assisted in identifying and coordinating volunteer and parenting support for parents, particularly those in public law proceedings, who often have a need for practical and emotional support in many areas of their complex lives.
The family practice group at St John's has been chosen by The Legal Education Foundation as one of only two chambers in the country to host a JFF pupil. It is a privilege to play a part in developing the careers of those who have chosen the publicly funded bar as their career path.
A key factor for us in deciding to become a JFF host was the knowledge that the pupil will already have spent a year at the Bar Pro Bono Unit, and will have gained both practical experience and undertaken a research project, allowing them to develop a wider knowledge base and legal/academic research skills. In addition, their commitment to the publicly funded Bar is essential. Given the limitations to public funding post-LASPO, this means a focus on care proceedings. Care proceedings represent the most significant intervention by the state into private and family life, and so it is essential that highly qualified, committed and motivated practitioners are dedicated to undertaking this work.
We were impressed by the calibre of applicants – all were bright, determined and able to demonstrate a strong commitment to helping the disadvantaged or vulnerable – and we look forward to welcoming our JFF pupil Harriet Dudbridge to chambers in due course.
The work undertaken by the JFF is clearly very important, but does raise the wider question (outside the scope of this article) about access to justice in our society. The fact that a scheme like this exists to promote social welfare law training is a reminder of the wider issues around the longer term sustainability of the essential pool of highly skilled practitioners, of which we hope youngsters like Harriet will become a part, and the consequent ramifications for access to justice.
Judi Evans, head of Family Practice Group, St John's Chambers, Bristol
Fellowship scheme fits with our core values
Pump Court Chambers was selected as the first London set to take part in The Legal Education Foundation's 2016 JFF pupillage programme. The pupillage will be predominantly with the family team, with a focus on publicly funded work across a wide range of areas, encompassing private and public law children, financial remedies, and inheritance.
Established over 70 years ago as a family law set dedicated to providing high quality legal services and committed to working to the highest ethical standards, we are committed to equal opportunities across the Bar and providing access to justice, serving the public through all forms of publicly funded work, mediation and pro bono work. The promotion of access to justice, rule of law and equal opportunities is at our core. As a set committed to those values, we feel strongly that high-calibre candidates, dedicated to advancing those aims, should be given a fair opportunity to become successful members of the Bar in an increasingly competitive environment.
Our JFF pupil, Naima Asif, was selected after an intense recruitment procedure. Naima's application also showed an excellent commitment to and experience in pro bono work, including having volunteered to single-handedly represent a defendant facing the death penalty in Pakistan in a successful appeal, reducing the sentence to one of life imprisonment. Naima will have the opportunity to undertake a project of her choice while being employed with the Bar Pro Bono Unit, and she is currently in discussions with chambers and the Unit about the precise details of the project.
Jennifer Lee is a member of the Pupillage & Tenancy Committee, at Pump Court Chambers, London

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The UFC is starting off a new era with a new championship belt.
This one's for Legacy.
The NEW UFC Legacy Championship Belt will debut Saturday night! #UFCBrooklyn pic.twitter.com/cZwuwkT3qz
— UFC (@ufc) January 18, 2019
Friday morning, the UFC debuted its new 'Legacy Championship Belt' on social media.
A graphic of the new belt breaks down the meaning behind it.
The UFC logo is polished in gold on the center piece. Surrounding the logo are 25 stones, representing 25 years of the UFC. Also surrounding the center price are eight flags– these represent the first eight countries that were gone to UFC champions.
Gold Octagon buttons snap on to the straps of the belt on each side. On the left side, a custom nameplate for the champion is in the middle of an Octagon along with their native country flag. On the fight side, the UFC champion logo fills a name plate surrounded by an Octagon.
Rather than the champion receiving a new belt each time they make a successful title defense, they will instead receive a red stone (signifying a title win) to go around the right plate on their single belt.
The @ufc's championship belt got an upgrade for the #10YearChallenge 👀 pic.twitter.com/ksYnrRhDej
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) January 18, 2019
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— UFC (@ufc) January 18, 2019
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7 Do's and Don'ts The Night Before Breast Reconstruction Surgery
By: Courtney Floyd
What should you do to prepare the night before breast reconstruction surgery?
- Shower with Hibiclens (4% Chlorhexadine) the night before surgery. Give special attention to the breasts, chest, abdomen and underarm.
- Do not use any powder or deodorant in the underarm area after bathing and avoid ALL lotions and perfumes. Do not use any powder or deodorant in the underarm area until given clearance by your nurse or surgeon.
- Do not eat solid foods or drink any fluids after midnight unless you are following our new ERAS protocol.
- Be sure you've picked up your prescription medications and have them ready to take with you to the hospital.
- Place a pillow in your car for the ride home from the hospital. This will help cushion the seat belt from digging into your abdomen or chest and will make your ride home more comfortable.
- Make sure you have your hospital bag packed and ready to go. Include loose fitting clothes that don't need to be put on over your head, your medications, a toothbrush, some comfy socks or slippers, some entertainment (book, crossword puzzles, etc.), and cotton t-shirts to go under your abdominal binder.
- Get plenty of sleep. As hard as it may be with your anticipated big day, it is important for your body to be rested and ready to go for your surgery.
It's the night before your breast reconstruction surgery. You are probably feeling a bit anxious and perhaps even a little stressed over your upcoming day. No worries! This is completely normal!
In the midst of all these feelings, we don't want you to forget any of the important to-do's! Here are 7 things to remember the night before your surgery:
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Following the surgery, lymphatic drainage ( https://haltmyswelling.com/cosmetic-surgery-therapy-faq ) by a qualified Certified Lymphedema Therapist (CLT) is critical. You will not get the same result by going to a big box massage chain place. CLT's undergo rigorous training that qualifies them to work with complex lymphatic conditions. They are the most qualified people to see.
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Younger is making its big return this summer! The critically acclaimed, smash-hit series from the Emmy winning writer-producer Darren Star will remain at TV Land when it debuts its upcoming sixth season on Wednesday, June 12 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. In season six, Kelsey (Duff) is leaning into her new role as publisher at the freshly minted Millennial Print, while Liza and Charles get acclimated to their new normal now that Charles (Hermann) is no longer running the business.
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Premiere: Walney Island for two cellos by Maja Bugge
Bev Paddon-cello / Maja Bugge-cello
Performance at Full of Noises
Sat 18th August, the Nan Tait Centre, from 19:00
Maja Bugge has been one of the artists in residence at Walney Island this year. As part of her residency she has been working on a piece for her cello student Bev Paddon who is based in Barrow and who has been playing with Maja for the last 3 years. Teaching is a important part of Maja's practice, and in the new piece for Bev, Maja has been using the natural sounds of Walney Island as an inspiration for musical material.


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On January 11th, 2017, we received another EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) approval for an Assistant Professor in the Field of Chemical Engineering (Approval Notice).
General Field: Chemical Engineering
Position at the Time of Case Filing: Assistant Professor
Country of Origin: China
Service Center: Nebraska Service Center (NSC)
State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Kansas
Approval Notice Date: January 11th, 2017
Processing Time: 2 Days (Premium Processing Requested)
Case Summary:
An assistant professor from China only waited 2 days for the USCIS to take action on his EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) petition. The reason for such quick adjudication is because he opted for Premium Processing (PP), which significantly trims the overall wait time from 4-9 months to under 15 days. Although we have PP to thank for the short wait, we have no doubt that the combined efforts of the team at North America Immigration Law Group (NAILG) paved the way for case approval. These are some of the details our client's comprehensive EB1A petition dossier contained:
- We noted his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and added evidence such as his CV and details of his current job to strengthen the case.
- Our client's 25 publications and the 30 times he had conducted peer reviews were also listed.
- We also made it a point to mention the 390 times our client's work had been cited by other researchers.
- Perhaps one of the most important elements of our client's petition detailed his work in the field of chemical engineering. For one, we noted his research on the applications of density functional theory, catalytic kinetic modeling, and molecular dynamics in order to investigate and understand key catalytic functionalities of catalyst materials. We also demonstrated that our client's findings are of great importance to the United States and that he should be allowed to continue his work in the country.
- We also incorporated 5 recommendation letters into the petition, one of which contained this flattering statement: "[Client's] research benefits important national industries as well, a fact that is illustrated by the application of his framework to the evaluation of reactions on a novel solid oxide fuel cell surface. The results of this project confirm that [Client] is an innovator within his field and a reliable source of original scientific ideas."
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DECATUR, Ala. - If you're looking for some entertainment this weekend, look no further. The Curtain and Lights Theatre Company is proudly presenting the holiday classic, 'It's a Wonderful Life.'
Based on the film by Frank Capra and the story by Peter Van Doren Stern, "It's a Wonderful Life" will play at the chapel at First Baptist Church in Decatur on December 6th & 7th at 6:30 PM and December 8th at 2:00 PM. Parking and entry for the event is on Lafayette Street.
Tickets are $12 each and are available here. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Neighborhood Christian Center.
'It's a Wonderful Life' tells the story of George Bailey, whose dreams of adventure and escape from Bedford Falls has been quashed by family obligation and civic duty.
Bailey's guardian angel descends on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him - by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born - that his has been, after all, a wonderful life.
The cast of 22 includes: Craig Anderson as George Bailey, Nathan Johnson as Clarence Odbody, Dakota Layton as Mr. Henry Potter, Annabeth Kirby as Mary Hatch, Andrew Cagle as Uncle Billy, Emma Schroer as Aunt Tilly, Heather Anderson as Mother Bailey, Samuel Brown, Jaelyn Fink, Colton Naylor, and Karsyn Echols as the Bailey Children. Directed by Heather Anderson.
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Factors to Consider When Hiring Property for Sale Agent
Choosing a house to rent during the holiday or to permanently move to the house, it can be real hassle you. This is because of the many options that you have for the home and you may not have enough time to go through them all. The best way to deal with the confusion is to hire a professional real estate agent with more knowledge in the various existing property for sale. Due to their experience they will be able to advise you on the new homes that have been built which matches your home specifications. Selecting the right real agent service provider is also not a simple task to do. The guidelines below are supposed to lead you to hire the best property for sale agent.
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F.U Peritoneal Cancer – V3.0
Give the middle finger to peritoneal cancer with this F.U Pin. Peritoneal cancer is a rare cancer and is the main reason for me starting this charity project; it's the cancer that's decided to affect one of the people I care about the most!
This pin has been designed by said person, who has integrated their favourite colour and flower into a design. The jasmine flower is associated with love and in some cultures represents appreciation and good luck. So, quite an apt flower to include in this pin.
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The peritoneum is a layer of thin tissue that lines the inside of the tummy (abdomen) and covers all of the organs within it, such as the bowel and the liver.
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A next assumption simply by this trainer was manufactured in a more comment where she mentioned, "There can be too little exposure to a selection of teaching types and instructing methods. They are only getting the same old boring mom. " Now being a mother that is home teaching this opinion, in a great of alone, is totally offensive. It suggests that mothers to begin with are boring along with not being able to utilising different approaches any time facilitating the educational of their particular children.
Further to the though, is a remedy which can be encapsulate exactly why home schooling is indeed effective : networking. There is certainly this extensively thought opinion that residence schooling signifies school in the home. When this kind of viewpoint will be taken usually in conjures thoughts of your mother flying over the girl children's neck with ruler at your fingertips, with the girl offspring sitting in front of books and also mother repairing every mistake because it is produced. For several home teaching families this might not become further from your truth! Modern day home education and learning families, on the other hand, often report that they have to reel their particular children home because they're out and also about a great deal.
This away, the marketing ability regarding home school teachers enables these to efficiently link these to experts inside fields exterior their talent sets which can be both inside of and beyond your home education and learning community. In case you are wondering just how this almost all happens then you should start obtaining you neighborhood and express home education and learning groups. Often these kinds of groups function both using a physical presence along with an on the web presence. Often you'll be able to locate both express based support groups and residence education groups which can be oriented for the nature of one's family or perhaps learning approaches by doing a browse Yahoo teams.
These teams link associates to guides, curriculum, classes, and experts including medical experts, legal help and school teachers with specialities which can be sometimes less difficult taught by somebody else. This, needless to say, is as well as organising routines for members to accomplish together coming from informal taking walks in neighborhood national parkland right through to planned studying activities around all studying domains, which can be presented simply by home school teachers or professionals which they bring directly into speak around the topic. Not too long ago, a residence schooling mommy arranged to get a member with the Department regarding Primary Market sectors and Resources ahead and describe geological principles including the way to identify nutrients and uric acid. The educator from your department typically only introduced to higher secondary pupils and school students and also was relatively amazed on the ability regarding home-based pupils from the age of five to be able to fifteen furthermore actively ingesting all which he explained in their mind. How completely wrong was in which teacher inside her feelings?
This, needless to say, coincided this kind of week using a report via Flinders University's Research 21 (also referred to as Flinders Middle for Research Education inside the 21st Millennium) in which examined the particular qualifications regarding science educators in To the south Australian universities. The record detailed which they had identified that simply 84% regarding general research teachers for decades 8-10 pupils were qualified as well as the findings simply got a whole lot worse from right now there. In mature classes (Yr 11 & 12) the outcome dropped away from significantly. Inside Biology simply 75% regarding teachers have been appropriately certified, in Hormone balance only 72% held the typical of training course expected and also in Physics simply 57% held the correct qualifications. In reality, if your kid's teacher inside South Quarterly report is outdated between 25 and 34 years you have got approximately any 1 inside 5 possibility that their particular teacher will be appropriately certified. Sadly also, geology failed to rate any mention as there was only some responding teachers who have been all certified but that a year ago there have been only ten geology lessons held inside the entire express leaving tiny space regarding broad evaluation.
I locate this being an intriguing contrast for the argument put forward by the particular 35-year knowledgeable teacher plus it makes myself wonder just what the training course results could be for subjects not in the sciences. Would we start to see the same trend for your state being below the particular national average along with below just what many fee-paying mom and dad expect coming from our schooling departments? It really is food regarding thought, can it be not? Maybe, it was a very important thing that this kind of teacher stayed anonymous due to the fact I, for starters, would want to have had the oppertunity to compose a letter seeking clarifications on her thoughts specifically in consideration with this recent record.
I can determine in which, in several respects, this record puts more importance to the truth for residence schooling. Home education and learning parents are usually resourceful enough to get those teachers that are qualified who are able to support pupils in certain academic scientific studies where parental information falls quick. At once, too, parents are able to instruct their youngsters in expertise, crafts and also academia that's not taught inside traditional education and learning models : left as an alternative for Educational institutions or perform places. The top quality of schooling that residence schooling mom and dad provide is not only weighted in opposition to their power to meet program outcomes (which can be how software are assessed) but in terms of preparing adults, it can be the awesome breadth regarding experiences inside both school learning, sociable exposure, and interaction with your world in which truly help make home education a good choice for most families.
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The Circumstance For Residence Schooling : Parental Resourcefulness
There is obviously a circumstance for residence schooling and also parents elect to home instruct their children to get a broad array of reasons. For each and every case you can find voices regarding opposition and also doubt. This write-up is certainly one of a collection addressing a selection of the ideas raised simply by these comments – the particular concern above parental resourcefulness.


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Can you be denied unemployment compensation for refusing to work with AIDS patients?
A certified nursing assistant who refused to care for geriatric AIDS patients was denied unemployment compensation because the nursing care center claimed the nursing assistant was fired for "willful misconduct."
An employer may fire an employee for willful misconduct if the employee willfully disregards the employer's interests, deliberately violates a rule, disregards a standard of behavior that the employer is entitled to expect, or is grossly negligent. In deciding whether an employee's conduct amounts to willful misconduct, the courts will examine the reasonableness of the employer's rules or requests and the reasonableness of the employee's refusal to follow the rules or requests. Nevertheless, an employee must show "extraordinary circumstances" to justify his or her refusal to follow a rule or direct order.
In this case, the court found that there were no extraordinary circumstances that supported the assistant's refusal to treat patients suffering from AIDS. The court reviewed in detail the written training precautions provided by the employer. The precautions required that health care providers treating all patients use rubber gloves to protect against contact with body fluids. Additional procedures involving the use of aprons, gowns, and masks were required by the employer for more invasive or involved treatment. The nursing assistant admitted that he did not follow the recommended procedures in treating the general population of the home, despite the fact that the training directives cautioned employees that it was not always clear whether or not a patient might be carrying the AIDS virus.
The court concluded that the nursing assistant harbored unnecessary fears and misconceptions concerning AIDS patients. Finding that his reasons for refusing to have any contact with AIDS patients were unreasonable, the court upheld the employer's decision and denied the assistant any unemployment compensation.
Employees who are required to engage in work they feel is too risky must support their concerns with clear facts and focused testimony. The burden to justify their conduct as compelled by "extraordinary circumstances" is a very difficult one to meet. An employer who encounters resistance from employees to rules or requests should be sure to document the reasonableness of his or her position.


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Virgin Media Super Hub 1, 2 and 2ac 'hack' - How to change your admin and WiFi passwords
If you haven't already done this, now would be a good time.
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Hats off to UK consumer rights watchdog Which? for flagging up a potential security risk for Virgin Media customers with older versions of the Super Hub routers.
To be clear, no 'hack' has taken place, so any publications writing it up as such either don't understand or are being alarmist for easy clicks.
However, Which?'s research has shown that Virgin's own-brand SuperHub 1 (pictured) 2 and 2ac routers, which come with eight-character long WiFi passwords by default can be easily compromised.
The method which Which? (?) used to break into the target device - a Super Hub 2 - sound very much like what's called a brute force attack; this is where you get a program to throw a every possible sequence of letter and number combinations at a system until it comes up with the correct one.
Virgin Media databases haven't been hacked - but change your password anyway
If anything, the test is a stark reminder to customers that when they get new hardware from their ISP - whether that's Virgin Media or anyone - they should change the default passwords as soon as they're able. You should also make them as long as possible.
As Which?'s own post says:
"In our hacking investigation, we targeted a real home that used the Virgin Media Super Hub 2 router for its cable broadband. The user had remained on the relatively weak default password – only eight characters long, using just lowercase letters from an A-Z alphabet, with two letters removed…
"The Super Hub 3.0 uses much stronger passwords than its predecessor. These are, by default, 12 characters long, with a mix of cases and numbers. This has significantly improved security, as confirmed by our own tests. While it took mere days for us to crack the Super Hub 2 password, using the same approach it would take 262 million years to breach the Hub 3."
Correct Horse Battery Staple
If you've been on the Internet for more than ten picoseconds, there's a good chance you'll have read xkcd No. 936 - aka Correct Horse Battery Staple.
This webcomic serves as a decent introduction to password entropy, or, in other words, how to make your password hard-to-impossible for script kiddies to guess, while at the same time suggesting a fun and easy way to make that tricky-to-crack password easy-to-remember.
Which? notes that Virgin's Super Hub 3.0s ship with longer passwords, making them harder to guess by default.
Even if you've got a Super Hub 3.0, you should still change both the admin password (which gives you access to the router itself) and the SSID password (aka your WiFi password).
If you're a Virgin Media customer and you've not done this, the admin password and SSID can be found printed on the back, side or base of the device itself, depending on which model Super Hub you have.
In most cases you'll need to type http://192.168.0.1 into your browser and enter the admin password when prompted.
If WiFi's turned off or you can't connect to the Internet, make sure your desktop or laptop's plugged in to a spare Ethernet port on your router.
From here you'll be able to change both the SSID/WiFi password and admin password.
How can I generate my own password?
If you want to create a super-secure password, you might want to rely on a password generator like this one for inspiration. Whatever you change everything to, make it easy to remember or if you can't, write it down and keep it somewhere safe and out of view.
Also, don't do what these twerps suggest. Sticking your SSID and password on a window? Yeah, good one.
"super hub" by mjtmall (tiggy) is licensed under CC BY 2.0.


text: boojam #1 Posted December 11, 2014 In season 5 the story will be in Braavos , looks like, more than Arya's story, tho that should be the bulk. Re-reading Arya's chapters the Kindly Man gets so irritated with her Braavosi language skills he sends her out to live and work in the port. I am kind of doubting David Peterson has been tasked with creating , what?, Braavosish ... that does not sound right, what the language name? I guess we won't know until season 5. It's interesting that Arya understands a word of Valyrian now and then, in the Braavos language. (A common happenstance in Essos.) The show has not emphasized it but seems in the book the Westeros high born and the educated at Kings Landing court know High Valyrian , that's logical. Besides Arya there are other major characters in GRRM's story who not only seem to understand HV but speak it too. I always thought this was interesting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


text: Of all the simple pleasures in life one of my favourites is print. How wonderful to see photographs in their true form printed onto paper. Photography always feels valuable when printed onto paper, even if just off the printing press – they come alive. So I am thrilled to see Alice & James wedding in Rock n Roll Brides latest issue (15) -'The ultimate guide for alternative brides'


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text: Because your mouth may affect your pregnancy, you should make sure you're seeing your dentist at least for your six month appointments. Rising hormones can cause things such as swollen gums, in turn causing a good trap and leading to an irritation or possibly an infection. If you have been diagnosed with gum disease make sure you are being seen every 3-4 months. It's been suggested that the risk for premature delivery has been linked to gum disease. Read more »


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Any gardener knows that good soil is necessary to support plant life. And a garden full of good soil symbolizes the support Central New York women looking to escape addiction, abuse and poverty find at Exodus 3 Ministries.
Exodus 3 Ministries is one of Reformed Church of Syracuse's community partner ministries. The organization offers safe housing and services to women interested in growing and renewing their lives. Exodus 3 Ministries' mission statement reads, in part,
"Exodus House is a strength-based, solution focused program for women. Through our residency program, women are assisted with the skills and resources necessary to build a bridge out of poverty and to develop healthy, sustainable relationships with their families, service providers, faith communities, and the community at large."
Our church supports Exodus 3 financially but in other ways as well. When an RCS member recently learned of the need for some garden space for Exodus House, he built some raised-bed gardens for fruit and vegetable growing. It's just one more way we are hoping to reach out to others in our community and plant seeds of encouragement.
The Witness Committee invites you to join us for a potluck supper at the church on May 8th at 6:00 pm, followed by a presentation by Pastors Suzi and Jim Harriff, about the rebirth and revitalization of Rwanda. Suzi and Jim will share in word, song and pictures stories of the miraculous rebirth and revitalization of Rwanda, a tiny African nation, in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi people. A freewill offering will be received, and authentic Rwandan coffee and samples of Rwandan handicrafts will be available.
Bowl-a-Thon benefiting Habitat for Humanity rolls down the lane Sunday, February 8
The annual S.W.E.A.T. for Habitat Bowl-a-Thon is coming up on Sunday, February 8th, 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at Bowl Mor Lanes in East Syracuse, NY. Youth and adults are invited to bowl and help raise money for Syracuse Habitat for Humanity. There is a sign up sheet for bowlers and sponsors in the church Narthex. Sponsors are encouraged to sign up and donate generously. Our church members have in the past few years collected some of the largest donations for the event -- let's continue our good track record!


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#FurryFriendFriday pets
Contessa Julia McDermitshire
Mickey and Mitchell
• "Emerson," is a male pit mix, almost a year old, a sweet boy, about 35 pounds. He was surrendered because his family couldn't take care of him. He gets along well with other dogs and would probably enjoy having a friend to play with. If you would like an application for Emerson, email email@example.com. Likes: watching televised tennis, playing fetch outside, playing fetch inside. Dislikes: when ants get in his outside food bowl, ants, sticks that don't have the stamina for chewing.
• "Miley" is a 4-year-old, female terrier mix, between 25 and 30 pounds. Would be very happy to be an only child. She seems to be dog selective and would probably do best in a house without young children. She is housebroken. If you would like an application for Miley, email firstname.lastname@example.com. Likes: rainy days to relax on the couch, knitting, Swedish cattle calls. Dislikes: siblings (human or quadruped), licorice, mornings.
• "Numan" is a male, pit bull mix, black and white, 13 months old. A nephew left Newman at his uncle's house months ago and said he would be back for him, but the uncle has his own dogs to care for, so Numan ended up at the shelter. He's a very social boy, but quiet and does well with other dogs. If you would like an application for him, email firstname.lastname@example.com. Likes: snakes, playing pranks, world domination. Dislikes: abandonment, order, breed-specific exclusions.
• "Lenny" is a 1 1/2-year-old, male, collie mix. An Amish family had too many dogs, so they surrendered Lenny. He's a very sweet, laid-back kind of dog. He's fine with other dogs and social. He has a gorgeous, thick, wavy coat. Staff aren't sure what his breed mix actually is, but he's a unique boy. If you would like an application for Lenny, email email@example.com. Likes: scrolling through Twitter for hours, organizing things, reading books on farm management. Dislikes: loud music, being left behind on car rides, fireworks.
• "Onyx" is a female, black Lab mix, about 8 years old and about 55 pounds. She was surrendered with two other dogs by an owner who could no longer take care of them. She has the beginnings of cataracts, but she's a spunky girl, who gets along well with other dogs. She's social and happy. Likes: naughty words cross-stitched with flowers onto throw pillows, rides in the car (especially to the lake), binge-watching "The Golden Girls" and MMA fighting. Dislikes: getting caught in the rain, people who don't recycle, slow internet speeds.
• "Aatu" is an adult, male shepherd-husky mix who was taken in by family members when his owner died. He didn't get along with the other family dogs, so he was brought to the shelter. Likes: pasta with red sauce, a good therapist, a home with air conditioning. Dislikes: pasta with white sauce, summer weather, lizards.
• "Buford" is a 4-5-year-old, male beagle mix, about 30 pounds. He has some hair loss due to fleas, but he has been treated and should be good in a couple weeks. He has finished his heartworm treatment and he's ready for adoption. He's good with other dogs and people, but staff aren't sure about cats. Likes: a really good belly rub, aroo-rooing, sticking his head out the window on car rides. Dislikes: fleas, closed-window car rides, lobsters (the taste, concept and sight of them).
• "Miss Bear" is an Aussie mix, 3 years old, spayed. She acts like a true border collie, always looking for something to herd. She will run a fence and chase cars. She also stalks cats. Staff and her foster humans say they aren't sure she would harm them, but that this may be related to her prey drive. She wants to be top dog, so she needs to be with an experienced dog owner who knows how to work with her or as an only dog. If you would like an application for adoption, please email email@example.com. Likes: freedom, wide-open spaces, catching cars. Dislikes: the conundrum of what to do with a car once she's caught it, lack of anyone paying attention to her for the slightest moment, the smell of fish.
• "Princess" is a black Lab mix, about a year old, about 45 pounds. She was surrendered when her owner could no longer take care of her. Staff aren't sure what she is mixed with, but she has white feet with brown speckles — Aussie colors. She gets along with other dogs and has been around kids, according to the owner. She is a house dog. She was very scared a tthe shelter and didn't make a great first impression, but once they took her into the office, she was very affectionate and a lot less afraid. She's currently in foster care. If you woul like an application, contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
• "Mickey" and "Mitchell" are 5-month-old male pit mixes, between 25 and 30 pounds. Their owner surrendered the rest of the litter when they were abotu 8 weeks old, but kept Mickey and Mitchell. These boys are not socialized, but would really like to trust people if someone would give them a chance. Like: romping, chewing on tough toys, the entire DreamWorks catalogue of fine feature films. Dislike: when their toy gets stuck under the couch, when the food bowl is empty, radishes.
• "Angelo/Angeline" is a tiger and white, adult cat. Likes: opera, antiquing, knitting. Dislikes: Jackson Pollock paintings (and, indeed, most modern art), Russian literature, poor hygeine.
• "Gerald" is a tiger and white kitten, about eight weeks old. Likes: string cheese, the good kibble, pouncing. Dislikes: cat fights on reality TV, dampness, getting his claws stuck in his towel.
• "Cotillion" is a tabby cat. Likes: dancing like no one's watching, dancing in the rain (when there's somewhere dry to go afterwards), dancing in the street. Dislikes: when someone is watching without letting them know, when E. Burton Russell, IV, puts videos of her dancing on Instagram, when the salmon is overcooked.
• "Steve" is a gray kitten, between 8 and 10 weeks. Likes: frisking, chasing the red dot, posing for Instagram. Dislikes: getting his paws wet, getting his whiskers wet, dry cat food (you see his conundrum).
• "Stella" is a long-haired, female cat, between 1 and 2 years old, mostly white with some darker patches on her head and tail, currently in foster care. She is an inside cat ONLY. Her head tilts. She has been seen by a veterinarian, but the cause is unknown. It doesn't seem to affect her. She loves to sit in your lap and be petted and is used to being in a house with other cats, big and small dogs, and kids. If you'd like to meet Stella, contact firstname.lastname@example.com for an application. Likes: sleeping on freshly dried laundry, al dente spaghetti, napping spots near heating vents. Dislikes: stepping on a piece of tape or a sticker, humidity, leaf vegetables.
• "Mynx" is a gray tiger kitten. Likes: using their sad kitten face to their advantage (they're cute and they know it), getting out of their kennel, hunting houseplants. Dislikes: when things they'd like to knock onto the floor are too heavy or attached to the counter, when their friends don't know their Instagram angles and post bad pictures publicly, coffee (smells good, tastes bad. Why? Explain, humans).
• "Contessa Julia McDermitshire" is a gray kitten with faint stripes and a dark tail. Likes: judging your eating habits, sneaking bread, trying to eat plastic. Dislikes: being told not to eat plastic, being informed that bread is not for cats and having it taken away, election season.
Adoption fees include rabies shot and normal cost of spay and neuter. Adoption cost for dogs is $80 and $50 for cats. The return-to-owner fee is $10, plus a $2 per-day board fee and proof of rabies shot or another $10.
Shelter hours are Tuesday through Friday, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Closed on Sunday, Monday and holidays. Contact Salem Animal Control or the Salem Shelter at 812-883-3673 or Washington County Animal Control at 812-883-5999.
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Here's a recent problem that I've come across and found a pseudo-elegant way to solve it.
So I'm writing a MATLAB gui to do some video processing and I want it to be able to process different kinds of video formats, .avi, .mov, etc. But I've got this really weird format that it has to process. I don't want the user to sweat the different formats though — I want them to just choose their file name, hit run, and have things just work. Here's a snippet of code that I've come up with to deal with file formats.
cases = {'.avi', '.mov', '.spl'}; num_cases = numel(cases); reg_cell = regexp(vid_path_name, cases); for ii = 1:num_cases if isempty(reg_cell{ii}) continue end switch ii case 1 % Read .avi file case 2 % Read .mov file case 3 % Read .spl file end end
The basic idea is to list the file formats in the 'cases' variable, do a
regexp on the filename (here, the filename is called 'vid_path_name'), and then iterate over the regexp output with a switch statement to read in the data. In each of the cases, I can go in now and read in the video file however I want. For the case of the .spl file, it's dependent upon some custom read code — that is, I can't use MATLAB's fancy
mmreader function.
Really, it's just a work-around for the MATLAB switch statement which uses
strcmp instead of
regexp, which is why I call this code snippet "pseudo-elegant". Either way, it works, but maybe somewhere out there has a better way to do this? If so, leave a comment!


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jrra's zone
Welcome to jrra's zone
I am an IRC enthusiast who plays a lot of video games.
What's here
N64 Games And Hardware You Didn't Know About
- my list of N64 curiosities, with a lot of pictures
SGI/IRIX CDs
- a bunch of old SGI- and IRIX-related CDs. I went kind of nuts collecting these.
Game hacking stuff
Pokemon Stadium 2


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Over the past couple of years, there have been few films I actually felt compelled, like as in compelled in Italics, to purchased directly after seeing (or in these cases, experiencing) them. Going slightly further back (if only to illustrate my point), over the past five years, I'd rarely experienced something cinematic that inspired further consumerism on my part, the most recent one previous to this list that's about to be in front of you was Only God Forgives, which I feel I was lucky enough to catch in its limited theatrical release back in 2013 -- but that's another story. Following this, my consumerist involvement in new cinema has been... well, shall we say, limited. However, over the last two years, there's been a slight resurgence in my energy towards supporting modern cinema, thanks to some very inspiring films and filmmakers. All five films on this forthcoming (I promise, I'm getting to it) list had quite varied platforms of experience-delivery into my system between 2015-2017 -- the first one being Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy, to which I had been invited to a cinema press screening pre-limited-release in Vancouver. Following this, my wife and I had rented Neon Demon, the follow-up to Only God Forgives, from a local (and one of the only remaining) video stores. Said video store was also responsible for me finding Roman Polanski's latest and weirdly quiet release, Venus In Fur, which is a phenomenal follow-up to his previous filmed-play Carnage, the latter which featured only four actors. In Venus In Fur, there are but two actors throughout the entire affair, but two is all that was needed to tell the surprisingly erotic and energetic story of an about-to-be-cast-play-within-a-film. Nearly a year to the day after seeing Venus In Fur, in 2017, it was Netflix Time and a casual click of a remote control button engaged me with Ex Machina, the hugely impressive and multi-layered directing debut of frequent Danny Boyle collaborator Alex Garland. For the last on this list, we're back to the video store and an initially trepidative rental of Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, which turned out to be one of the most in-depth, quiet, and surprising revenge-thrillers I'd ever watched.
A thank you to all of the filmmakers who provided these hours of amazed entertainment for this rabidly curious viewer. And now, to share...
(The Duke of Burgundy)
(Venus in Fur)
(The Neon Demon)
(Ex Machina)
(Nocturnal Animals)


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Grandma's Moving In!
Learning to Care Series
Hardcover. 32 Pages
We are living in a day when grandparents are disposed of. They are sent away from those who love them to impersonal institutions where they are viewed as simply more needy people requiring care. But that's not the vision of ''honor thy father and thy mother'' which we seek to communicate.
In this uplifting illustrated children's book, little Albert wonders how he can care for his elderly grandmother who is moving into his home.
Will caring for Grandma be too hard? What can Albert even do to help her?
Journey with Albert as he discovers that caring for Grandma isn't as frazzling as he had imagined. From Benjamin the bakery man to Workout Wendell, Albert learns that you don't have to be a grown up to help care for an aging loved one. By God's grace, even a little boy like Albert can help care for his Grandma.
Author Stephanie Cone has drawn upon her own personal experience of caring for her grandmother and teamed up with illustrator Matthew Sample to produce this beautiful book which will inspire your children to embrace the opportunity to care for Grandma or Grandpa.


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The St. Gregory's Prayer Book is a beautifully produced leatherette prayer book compiled by the Ordinariates established by Pope Benedict XVI and drawing on the riches of the Anglican liturgical heritage and the exquisite Cranmerian language of the Book of Common Prayer to further enrich the panoply of Catholic liturgy and devotion.
The text includes ancient English collects, introits and hymns available together for the first time for the whole Church as approved examples of Catholic liturgy. In addition to the Liturgical texts, classic translations of traditional prayers and devotions for use in the Church and in the home have been lovingly compiled and edited in St. Gregory's Prayer Book.
This lovely book of prayers is user friendly and accessible to Catholic faithful with a love of beautiful language and in search for supplementary resources for their prayer life that are both new and at the same time respectful of Church tradition. With gold blocking on cover and spine, and a silk ribbon marker.Contents1. An Outline of Duties of the Christian Life 2. Common Forms of Prayer & Professions of Faith 3. Various Prayers & Intercessions 4. Devotions for Days of the Week & Hours of the Day 5. Devotions for the Morning 6. Devotions for Midday 7. Devotions for the Evening 8. A Selection of Psalms 9. Divine Worship Collects 10. Devotions for the Church Year 11. Penitential Devotions & the Sacrament of Penance 12. Devotions for Holy Communion: Prayers Before & After Mass 13. Prayers at Mass: People's Order of Mass – Divine Worship: The Missal 14. Eucharistic Devotions & Visits to the Blessed Sacrament 15. Devotions to the Holy Trinity 16. Devotions to Our Lord Jesus Christ 17. Devotions to the Holy Spirit 18. Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary 19. Devotions to the Saints & Angels 20. Devotions for the Sanctification of Sickness & Death 21. Devotions for the Faithful Departed 22. Prayers for Various Occasions & Intentions 23. Emergency Baptism
Font: Garamond. Font size: 11 point headings and 9 point body text.
The lovely book does not replace the Divine Office and the Mass but is meant to flow from them and into them, in the tradition of "primers" and similar texts. (For the office, search amazon "Ordo 2019 for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross", and you'll get a book by "Nigel McBain". That Ordo includes the full, usable text of the Office, which you can supplement it with the US/Canada Ordinariate Ordo from the latter's web site, for calendar purposes.) The SGPB expresses what Pope Benedict XVI called "the Anglican Patrimony," with prayers from throughout the history of English (and English-speaking) Catholic and Anglican Christianity.
I am excited about this book being part of our normal prayer at home, especially those fit for liturgical seasons and particular needs.
This could be a go-to prayer book for any English-speaking Catholic, even those without a relationship to the Anglican patrimony. It will be one of my standard gifts for confirmations, etc.


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It's surely a known thing that leaving a post-it note for someone taking them to task for an aspect of their behaviour - for instance a flatmate who uses up the milk without replacing it, doesn't wash up or who consistently leaves the loo seat up, and so forth - is a classic form of passive aggression. I believe with this 1604 incident discovered in Early Modern England: Society, Culture & Everyday Life we may have one of the earliest instances of note-based passive aggression on the historic record.
If, like me, you love nothing more than a smash-hit stage musical to ignite a keen interest in revolutionary history then IÔÇÖd encourage you to look no further than American History, 1493-1945 where you can find a trove of documents from the Gilder Lehrman Institute on the rise and fall of Alexander Hamilton.
On 16th September 1963, Prime Minister of Malaya Tunku Abdul Rahman declared the formation of the Federation of Malaysia, joining Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah. Indonesian leader Sukarno strongly opposed this union, resulting in the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, or ÔÇśKonfrontasiÔÇÖ.
The newly published Food and Drink in History: Module I is a real treasure trove of content for students and researchers, from a vast range of cookbooks, to documents charting the development and influence of staple brands, to anthropological research into African food cultures. A highlight that IÔÇÖve found particularly fascinating to delve into is the collection of MAF files (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ÔÇô then known as Ministry of Food) sourced from The National Archives, UK.
Yank, the Army Weekly now available via the second module of Adam Matthew DigitalÔÇÖs Service Newspapers of World War Two, offers todayÔÇÖs researchers an insight into the life of the serving American between 1942 and 1945. The magazineÔÇÖs different editions, New York, British and Far East reveal shared experiences, as well as those unique to the different theatres of war.
One hundred years ago today and after six months of protracted negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference, the Treaty of Versailles was signed.
Chernobyl, HBOÔÇÖs latest hit mini-series, has thrust the catastrophic events of the infamous nuclear accident back into the public consciousness, prompting new discussions about how the disaster unfolded and who was ultimately accountable. Watching the series over the past few weeks, we here at Adam Matthew were reminded of a Soviet-made documentary we had seen in the online resource, Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda.
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This week Culture & Society, the third and final module of Socialism on Film, launches. Comprising documentaries produced in states such as the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and Vietnam, it touches on themes including the arts, sport, everyday life, youth and education, providing Western audiences an unparalleled insight into life behind the Iron Curtain. Rigorous and informative documentaries focussing on healthcare, womenÔÇÖs work, environmentalism and politics can also be found in this collection, but today, we hope youÔÇÖll forgive us a few moments of glorious kitsch.
On Friday 22 March 1765, the British Parliament voted to pass one of the most incendiary and politically damaging pieces of legislation in its history - the Stamp Act.
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Upon the conclusion of the First World War, the victorious countries convened for the Paris Peace Conference. At the conference, peace terms were stipulated for the defeated Central Powers. One of the major discussion points was the confiscation of the Central Powers overseas territories.
In 1967, the sentiment against the Vietnam War had spread nationwide. Many Americans had protested U.S participation and had become involved in a largely nonviolent and diverse war resistance. In October of 1967, at a march in Washington organised by The National Mobilisation Committee to End the War in Vietnam, the anti-war movement entered a new stage ÔÇô typified by a willingness to engage in direct confrontation with authority. This became known as the March on the Pentagon.
To celebrate the publication of module IV of Colonial America: Legislation and Politics in the Colonies earlier this week I wanted to highlight one of my favourite documents from the collection. The New Jersey: Minutes of Council in Assembly, January-February 1748 may not have the most intriguing of titles but, within ÔÇťa brief state of facts concerning the riots and insurrections in New JerseyÔÇŁ three years earlier, dedicated readers are rewarded with dramatic details of Nehemiah Baldwin's hearing.
Adam Matthew Digital's Colonial America is a magnificent achievement, testimony to the company's vision and the skill and dedication of the staff in providing accessible, machine readable facsimiles of original historical documents. As a research resource, it is unquestionably enriching the research process. Together with printed collections, online repositories, and archival collections, scholars today have opportunities to scope projects on larger scales. The publication of module IV, covering the proceedings and legislation of the continental American Colonies, enables intercolonial comparative research like no other resource.
Adam Matthew Digital announces publication of Medical Services and Warfare, Module II: 1928-1949
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By Lisa Gawlas, The Shift of Time and Energy, November 26, 2015
Today, in the USA, it is Thanksgiving, a true feast day!! A day set aside by Abraham Lincoln to take the focus off the civil war and focus inwards with gratitude.
A declaration of a national holiday to focus on what unites us, instead of what separates us and to take that moment to be grateful inside and out. Today especially, I would like to give special, love filled thanks to all the unseen helpers within my life and every life there is.
To our unceasingly patient, guides, teachers, loved ones on the other side of the veil who assist us unceasingly, who love us with unyielding support, who break thru the barriers of all that we think separate us (from them) to touch our lives. Equally, I give tremendous thanx and unyielding love to that which I call God, Source, Creator who gives us abundant life in all sorts of varieties, who loves us enough to let us fall and let us find our way back up again. Who shows up as each one of you, in a package that only you can display and You wrap around my life like ornaments on a tree. You brighten and enhance my world in ways I could have never dreamed possible.
So to our spiritual teams that moved heaven and earth to make sure we found each other on this planet of 7 billion people, to the Source that shines thru You as You and most especially to YOU, my gratitude runs over this morning. I love you, I honor you and am filled with the deepest thanks that YOU and I are alive, together and share in these incredible moments of human evolution. Thank you for loving me the way you do!! Happy Thanksgiving my Loves!! ❤
I suppose I have awakened in the after glow of the full moon. I wasn't even sure how yesterday would unfold since the day prior, I was able to see the first people on the field, clear as day, my 6th one showed up, nuttin. Well, sorta nuttin, I didn't see my floor, but I also didn't see her field either. At least her team was chatty enough to help us understand why. Some people are in a three-day intense cycle with the moon energy itself, culminating today. I have no idea what the difference is, between those I can see and those I cannot see, but it is going to be exciting to find out since yesterday, half of my appointments were visible, the last half were not, save the last one, but I will get to that in a moment.
For those three I could see, the layout was similar to each. Spirit used the triangle I was seeing as in inlay within their field, each persons terrarium if you will. The apex was absorbing the radiance of the moon beams coming thru directly over head. Altho I could not see their bodies, I knew what I was looking at cuz we just used that example in the sharing. But instead of explaining each one, let me pull it all together for the enormity of what is or was at hand.
If we can look at our consciousness itself as a tremendous series of cogs that are constantly running and accessing higher and lower bits of information, this moon in particular serves to change out some of the running cogs to new ones. Changing the matrix within our consciousness, accessing fields of information and dare I even say, memories and knowings never available to us before. Hidden in the spiritual cloud banks of amnesia, on purpose so that we did not taint their purity with our bias.
As I was watching one lady's cogs change out, it equally started to change the building blocks that was once her past trail to this moment. This stunned me. First, they really did look like a ton of building blocks, all natural wood in color:
I would have thought for sure, at least in this lifetime, our path to this moment was solid, set, knowable. Not even a little bit. I watched as these blocks changed the pathway, the energy that we never realized, and it even connected to what we think of as our past lives, those connections changed to. I suppose the reality is, the past we thought we lived is not as true as we think it may have been. (A head scratcher even for me lol.) With this change out of our consciousness cogs (connections and accessibilities) and the change out of our past, of course, it would have to change out our perceived future, creating a dynamic that has never been available to us before.
With one of my ladies, I had seen her future pathways suddenly change, move like an automatic puzzle would move into a higher alignment with itself. She had four options before her, each choice a different outcome, and as we were talking her choices merged into one higher path, encompassing instead of individuated. She had asked a question that shed light on what I was seeing and let me be clear, this merger happened BEFORE she asked the question, which means, she had already held the answer in her heart, the question only served to validate from her team, what she had already felt to be her best choice.
The question she asked gave a reply that excited me and will help many with the clarity that can often times, be very confusing.
She had met a man who lived far away, they had amazing connections non-physically and they finally met physically recently. That magnetic attraction was still there, however, some things changed or maybe better stated was not all that magnetic once in person.
When we meet close members of our soul group, the souls we incarnate with from the other side of the veil, there is a magnetic charge to the energy exchange between the two. Like intense energy swirling around and creating moments of bliss in the shared unity unfolding. What we often confuse this energetic exchange with is "relationship" energy because often times if feels more intense than anything we knew before. We have safe guards built-in to tell us, nope this was not meant to be a relationship, or equally, take it all over the top to shout… YES!! Lets play here!!
Sex and/or communication!! If the flow of communication suddenly changes when we are together, that's a big tell. Something changed magnetically. But if sex isn't all that and a bag of chips, if it doesn't match the magnetic flow that happens when you're not in that unified sacred space, that is a HUGE tell. The plug was never meant to go into the outlet. (smile)
Something huge shifts when we move from the phone or computer to in person. I learned this very well trying to do in person readings. I really didn't like it at all. It changed the energy flow that happens when we are not physically present. Our egos fill the room (and that's not said as a bad thing at all, it just does change the energetic dynamic in the physical.)
So if your body and/or your mind is saying… not so much. Trust that communication. On the other had, if either or both sends you into the bliss of heaven… play there often!!
I had this man yesterday who showed up in his triangle, but the focus was on the ground beneath this energy system. Dirty white ground boiling. He is being uploaded and downloaded with secrets from the earth that has been held out of our consciousness to bring forward in their purity and create new building blocks with it. What I found kewl, was the imagery and explanation that his team sent for understanding. This part feels like it will apply to many of us going forward.
They showed me a can of beer, my favorite beer Coors Light (smile) and the silver bullet can. I don't have to see whats inside the can, I assume its beer. The image and the constants have been entrained in our minds, and we think we know something. Lets just move into we don't know shit, it will keep assumptions out of our tainting what is going to be revealed.
Instantly, the can of beer became a clear glass of beer, but not not only could he/we see the beer inside, we knew its make up, its full energetic construct simply by changing the container. I know there is more to it than that, but I don't know what that is… yet!!
My fourth and fifth lady's, invisible to my eyes. My 6th, kinda weird and leaves me puzzled even now. I was seeing her before our call, she was standing on the ground in her field of life, spread eagle, arms and legs extended outwards, every strand of hair extending outwards from her head, each strand and her whole body was embedded with ice crystals. The energy of the full moon, for her, was like a tremendous snow storm, I could see it circulating around her and the eye (think hurricane) of this storm directly above her. When we connected tho, like the two before her, I got my damn floor and no understanding of what this means… dammit!!
We shall see. Well, I have three breakfast entrees (readings) this morning and it's creeping towards that time. Feel my heart reach out and wrap around yours as I give you tons of Thanksgiving Kisses, I am beyond grateful for your Presence in my Life!! I love you soul much!! In-Joy your day and the food that blesses you this day and every day, too!!
Lisa Gawlas www.mysoulcenter.com/bookreading.html
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