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Backing up your computer has never been really exciting, but it's something that needs to be done on a regular basis. And with the increase of file encrypting malware, having a good backup has never been more important. Here's how to backup your files with File History and Windows Backup in Windows 10.
Now there are two (2) different backup programs inside of Windows 10, Windows Backup and File History, and each one does a specific type of backup. Windows Backup is geared more towards scheduled backups (nightly, weekly, etc.) and is usually used for full system backups / complete 'bare metal' system images. File History is more for personal files that change frequently, like Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, as it saves multiple versions of the same file.
File History creates multiple versions of the same file with time stamps in the names
The one thing that Windows Backup and File History have in common is that both of these programs can back up to an external drive or network folder. Windows Backup can also use writeable disks like CD's or DVD's.
With the recent outbreak of file encrypting malware, if you're going to use a network folder it is recommend you do not map a network folder to a drive letter (N:\Files), but instead use Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) (\\Server\Volume\Files).
It goes without saying but never use the same drive that Windows is installed on for File History or Windows Backup. If your computer gets a virus or the operating system gets corrupted, you may have to reformat the drive and reinstall Windows.
Remember when not in use, store the media used for backups (external hard disks, DVD's, or CD's) in a secure place to prevent unauthorized people from having access to your files. It is also recommended to use a fire-proof location, like a data safe, to store the backup media.
File History will automatically create time stamped versions of your personal files (documents, music, photos ,etc.) on a set schedule. If the originals are lost, damaged, or deleted, you can restore them from an earlier point in time. You can schedule File History to run from every ten (10) minutes to daily. And you can also set the length time that File History keeps copies of your files, from 1 month to forever or whenever space is needed.
The main screen for File History
To use File History you will need to have either an external drive or network folder to save the files to. By default, File History will back up your personal folders (documents, photos, videos, etc.) but you can add additional folders to its configuration. Now configuring File History inside of Windows 10 can be a little confusing, as there are two (2) different places to change the settings, Settings and Control Panel.
Here is a breakdown of what options can be changed and where to find them.
The version of Windows Backup included in Windows 10 is actually from Windows 7, hence the name in the Control Panel, Backup and Restore (Windows 7). If you used the version in Windows 7, everything will be familiar to you. With Windows Backup, you can backup just certain files and folders or do a complete system backup / system image. And you can schedule it to run whenever you want.
The main screen for Windows Backup
But unlike File History, Windows Backup creates a single backup that gets updated when it is run. No multiple file versions here, just the latest version of files at the time Windows Backup was run.
Along with using an external drive or network folder for backup, Windows Backup can also use CD's or DVD's. But if you're going to do a complete system backup on CD's or DVD's, be prepared with plenty of blank disks.
If you're creating a complete system image, remember to make a system repair disk to go along with it. If you ever need to restore your computer from a Windows Backup image, you will need to boot your computer from it. The link to create it is in the left-hand column.
With the release of Windows 10 marks the return of the Start menu, missing since Windows 7. With a combination of new and old elements, the Start menu can be quite useful. Here's how to customize the Start menu in Windows 10.
Now some of the Windows users will recognize the Windows 10 Start menu as a revised version of the Start screen from Windows 8/8.1. It is now kind of split with traditional Start menu features on the left side and universal apps / shortcut tiles on the right side. You can only change certain items on the Start menu, mainly what appears on the main screen. You can do minimal editing to the All apps menu, but be careful as you cannot add anything to, or back to, the All apps menu. Once removed, it's gone. Of course you can always add a shortcut to the tiles, desktop or taskbar.
The Start menu now can be run as pop-up menu (desktop) or completely full screen (tablet). You can also change the look and feel of the Start menu couple of different ways.
Just like any other application, you can change the width and height of the Start menu. Hover your cursor over one of the edges of the Start menu until the sizing arrows appear, then hold the left mouse button and drag it to the size you want. You can also modify the Tiles (add, remove, resize and move around).
The majority of Start menu settings that you can customize are located under Settings > Personalization > Start. Items that you can turn on or off include:
Items on the Windows 10 Start menu that you can edit
Items on the Windows 10 Start menu that have important context menus
You can also turn on or off which folders appear on the Start menu. They included File Explorer, Settings, Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, HomeGroup, Network and your Personal folder (where you Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Videos, etc. are stored). If you want to change the color and effects for the Start menu, just go to Settings > Personalization > Colors. There you will find the following appearance settings:
Shortcuts are links to various types of objects on your computer like a program, file, folder or another computer and it can be placed on your Desktop, Taskbar or Start menu. Here's how to create a shortcut in Windows 10.
To create a shortcut in Windows 10, you just need to know where the object is located on your computer. Open File Explorer (left-click the File Explorer icon on the Taskbar or left-click on the Start Menu and select File Explorer) and navigate the the object you want to create a shortcut to. If you want to create a Desktop shortcut, make sure File Explorer is not in full screen mode.
With the release of Windows 10 comes the inevitable upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, And with the upgrade being free for the first year, why not upgrade to Windows 10? But before you do, there are some things you should do before. Here are seven (7) things to do before and after upgrading to Windows 10.
Update 8/1/16: Microsoft ended the Get Windows 10 (GWX) project and the GWX application is no longer available. If you perform an in-place upgrade using Windows 10 media, the installer will check your computer for incompatible hardware and software.
Doing an in-place upgrade has its pros and cons. Even though Microsoft claims that if the software runs on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 it will run on Windows 10, there will be exceptions to the rule. The same can be said about hardware too. Remember that Windows 10 will only come with generic drivers for a good portion of the hardware out there. Running the upgrade advisor will tell what issues you may have and then you can find a fix prior to performing the upgrade. Download any hardware specific drivers that you will need and save them to a flash drive or network folder.
One of the last things you want is to have the upgrade fail because of errors on the system drive. Especially if it the failure were to happen while coping new files and left you system un-bootable. To be on the safe side, run Windows disk checking utility CHKDSK.
Check your hard disk for errors in Windows 7
Check your hard drive for errors in Windows 8
It's now time to clean the system up. Uninstall any program you don't need and/or want and then run Windows built-in Disk Cleanup utility. You can also use a program like CCleaner, but be careful not to go too far with it.
Windows 7 Disk Cleanup
Windows 8 Disk Cleanup
Clean up and optimize your computer with CCleaner
As the old saying goes "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", so a complete backup of your system is the next thing to do. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 both have a built-in File Recovery program that can do a full system image to an external drive, network folder or DVD's. You will also need to create a system repair disk to boot the system so that you can restore the system image you create, just in case. Links to both are located on the left-side column of the File Recovery program screen.
Now the File Recovery program can be kind of hard to find, especially in Windows 8.1. So to make sure you are running it with the correct privileges, I suggest just running the program using an administrative command prompt.
How to open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges in Windows 7
How to open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges in Windows 8
To open the File Recovery program, just type the following into an admin command prompt and hit enter.
Having a complete list of all of the hardware and software inside your computer can come in really handy if anything were to go wrong. Belarc Advisor is a great program for creating an inventory of your computers software and hardware, including any software installation keys. Once it is done creating an inventory, it opens the results in a web browser. Print or save the results to a flash drive, just in case you might need it down the road.
Belarc Advisor
This is not mandatory but I would recommend uninstalling any anti-virus, anti-malware, EMET, etc. program before the upgrade. These types of programs look for malicious activity geared toward the operating system and could create a really big headache during the upgrade. It's better to be safe than sorry.
Grab a drink and have a seat, it'll take a little while.
It's now time to install any device specific drivers you downloaded in Step #1. Once that is done, it's time to download the latest version of all the software you removed in Step #6. If you're unsure what version of a program you had installed, just go through the inventory you created in Step #5.
Have you ever tried to find a file in a disorganized filing cabinet? It can take some time. The same thing can happen when your computer's drive becomes fragmented. But you can keep all of the folder and files on your computer organized with regular defragmentation. Here's how to defragment and optimize your drive in Windows 10.
There are two (2) types of drives used in computers, Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Solid State Drive (SSD). The type of drive you have determines whether you need (or want) to defragment and optimize it. To find out what type of drive(s) you have, just follow the standard instructions below. The Optimize Drives screen will tell you what type of drive(s) you currently have in your computer.
The issue of drive fragmentation actually stems from the early '80's when Microsoft needed an OS and they bought Quick and Dirty Operating System (QDOS) and renamed it MS-DOS. At that time, HDD's were the only type of drive available and they are still the de facto standard in the industry. And they do need to be defragmented and optimized on a regular basis.
Now SSD's are different in that there are no moving parts inside, just memory chips. So when your computer reads and writes to it, the data is going back to the exact same location on the drive. Now you can defrag and optimize a SSD, but it is not recommend since SSD's have limited read / write cycles and any program that intensively accesses the SSD could shorten the life span of the drive. Microsoft started adding support for SSD's in Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 with the Trim command. Since the low level operation of SSD's is different from HDD's, the Trim command handles deletes / format requests.
You can verify Trim is enabled by typing the following into an Administrative Command Prompt:
fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify
If the command returns a 0 then Trim is enabled. If it returns a 1, then it is not. To enable Trim, just type the following into the Administrative Command Prompt:
fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0
defrag <volumes> | /C | /E <volumes> [<task(s)>] [/H] [/M [n] | [/U] [/V]] [/I n]
Where <task(s)> is omitted (traditional defrag), or as follows: /A | [/D] [/K] [/L] | /O | /X
Or, to track an operation already in progress on a volume: defrag <volume> /T
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Gang unit detectives investigating after 2 men shot in Pioneer Square Thursday morning
Seattle Police were investigating after two men were shot in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood early Thursday morning.
The call came in at 2:15 a.m. A 25-year-old man who had been shot in the leg was found in the 200 block of South Washington Street, Seattle Police wrote in a blotter post.
As responders began treating the first man, a 23-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to the hand.
Both victims were taken to Harborview Medical Center. Their injuries were considered non-life threatening.
Witnesses reported to detectives that the shooting began after the two victims confronted a third man who was "slapping women on the street," the police blotter post states. Detectives with Seattle's gang unit were investigating.
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Kilsharvan, County Louth
From The Illustrated Dublin Journal, Volume 1, Number 21, January 25, 1862
THE civil, military, and ecclesiastical antiquities of Ireland have, for several years, presented a fruitful field of research and inquiry to many able writers, who have succeeded, after much toil, and considerable erudition, in dissipating to a certain extent, the mist of indifference and ignorance that has so long shrouded their history. Still, although much has been done, the subject is still so very plentiful, the harvest is not yet exhausted; and there are yet many of these remains, which, from their situation, add considerably to the picturesque and attractive appearance of the country, yet wholly unknown or disregarded.
It is true, nearly all the extensive monastic and baronial edifices in Ireland are already before the public; but there is another class of buildings that has been generally unnoticed; those small oratories which were built on spots already consecrated by the residence of an anchorite, or on the site of a decayed monastery or abbey; and not unfrequently owed their origin to the performance of a vow, or for the support of an ecclesiastic whose office it was to pray for the soul of the founder, whose tomb usually was within the walls.
The church of Kilsharvan is situated about a mile and a half east of Duleek, near the banks of the little river Nanny Water, county Louth, and appears to be of great antiquity. Of the portions of the walls that remain, the most prominent are the chancel arch, which is pointed and clothed with ivy, and a semicircular arch dividing the nave from the choir. In the south wall are two windows, square-headed and deeply recessed.


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The cat's gonna go old school here and talk about The Message. Yeah, yeah, we all know by now that it's not done anymore to discuss The Message of books or even worse to discuss questions like "what is the moral of the story?" or because books (and by extension their authors) have their own raison d'être and discussing such petty things like Message or Moral… big no-no… But, considering that an author puts something out there, for everyone to read, I figure they're OK with people critiquing and criticizing what they have to say. So what does Kody Keplinger have to say with The DUFF?
Bianca is our 17-year-old protagonist, she's what one would call "snarky". She's smart, has 2 very good friends – both of whom she considers to be way prettier than she is – but doesn't really think she's got all that much in common with the rest of the teenage population. When her two girlfriends go out clubbing, she'd rather spend time talking to the barman than partying with her friends. She doesn't get why girls swoon over boys and why they don't use their common sense more. She's had her heart trampled on by an older guy when she was I dunno, 14, and ever since she has issues with love. Then one evening, the high-school man-whore, Wesley Rush, calls her the DUFF – Designated Ugly Fat Friend – and would like her two hot friends to see him associating with her, because that's a guarantee way for him to get them to have sex with him. If they see him taking pity on her, they'll think it's adorable and … well, you get it. Obviously Bianca is furious, as she rightly should be, but then the story takes on this almost cartoonish twist in that Bianca starts having random sex with Wesley…to get things out of her system… As a distraction. And Wesley is her drug. That she can't get enough of. She's like addicted. So there. That's the story.
Silly (and predictable!) story aside, I can get the whole frustration thing for not being the one that gets noticed in a group of friends. This is 100% teenage reality. The way that Bianca felt after this is indeed very pertinent. Every teenager at some point will feel like the odd one out in a group. Part of growing up is the whole idea of figuring out what your "issues" are and then either working through them or learning how do make the best of things despite them. But what does Bianca do? She works out her problems by escaping from them WHILE HAVING SEX WITH THE GUY WHO POINTED THEM OUT TO HER AND KEEPS ON DOING SO. The guy she hated even before she called him the DUFF. And she feels dirty after having had sex with him (Bianca: "What is wrong with me?"). The guy who keeps on calling her Duffy, who keeps on insulting her, even when they're having their escapist no strings attached sex thing. Who she keeps on hating. Until of course she doesn't anymore, because we all know that good girls like bad boys that are no good to them. Now, if that stereotype doesn't infuriate you enough, then let's get to The Message: it's OK to use a person – sexually – if you have issues. Also, Bianca seems to be thinking she's " a feminist", chastising her female friends for gushing and lusting after boys, but clearly she has no clue whatsoever what the word means. Does Kody Keplinger? Oh, I did read the ending too, of course, where both protagonists come to an insight about their issues, but yet again the message is: it's ok to do so, as long as you feel remorseful afterwards. What Kody Keplinger's message also entails is that sex is something to feel disgusted by (Bianca felt dirty after the sex, the sex was a coping mechanism, etc). And that I'm sure, is not something she set out to do. I'm sure in her opinion, she's being open about teenagers' sexuality, what with Bianca being on the pill and them using condoms (thank the heavens!).
Anyway, let's not dwell on the Message-thing too much, and just try to avoid that other elephant in the room… Let's move on to the writing. And that, ladies and gentleman, reads like it was written by a high school senior. Oopsie…I did just talk about that elephant, didn't I? Yes, Kody Keplinger wrote this when she was 17, and to be honest, it also reads like it was written by a 17-year-old. The language – though obviously you can't get a more Authentic Teenage Voice then this – is too obvious, there's very little subtlety in the descriptive parts of the book. When you do it right I don't need another adverb to tell me that something was said "sarcastically". The whole book actually oozes inexperience: plot threads that are wrapped up too neatly (the whole Toby thing, WTF?); issues that are thrown out there, then dealt with very carelessly (the OCD, the alcoholism, the divorce), characters that are flat and hardly developed.
I'm sorry, but these are the sorts of things that should be weeded out by a good editor. Don't be taken aback by the fact that the writer is "only 17". Just try to get the best story out of the writer as possible, the best possible language. And if this is the best Kody Keplinger can do then age 17 or age 35,… that doesn't matter anymore. The DUFF is nothing but an unoriginal, badly executed, teenage fantasy.


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Communication and Influencing Strategies
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My 2nd family that offered to be my guinea pigs!
I really love this family picture. Wish I had on of my own.
Aren't they cute! I love their color scheme.
This is one my most favorites. Total candid shot with mom looking back at the kids. I just love this one.
I really wanted this one to work out but it's just O.K. I think I needed to raise my focal point up. The kids are focused but mom and dad not so much.
Carlaya, a beautiful 9 year old.
Mya, she's 3 and would not look at the camera. She's a cutie though!
Noah is 7. Handsome young man. He can be quite photogenic!
I'm happy with these pictures. I think these ones turned out pretty good. I've played with these ones a bit in photo shop. I had to learn how to adjust the hue on these. I think it's the leaves that casted a blue tint over everyone. Noah's face was the worse I think showing the blue hue. Having said that I don't see blue faces anymore.


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I was eager to hear Philip Hammond's first Autumn Statement to Parliament, in particular his response to the proposed IR35 legislation. You may recall my blog back in July, IR35 Reform up for Discussion. At the time I reviewed the consultation concerning the IR35 changes and said:
"My only concern, as we have seen in the past, is that despite extensive lobbying and "there is no way they can pass this" comments, the Government has a way of passing significant legislation that has a substantial impact on a lot of business owners."
The Autumn Statement confirmed that I was right to be concerned. From April 2017, off-payroll working rules in the public sector will be reformed. This means that agencies will now be responsible for ensuring that one man band companies, namely Personal Service Companies (PSCs), are paying the correct tax and NICs. The legislation is aimed at tackling non-compliance with the current rules and aims to ensure that anyone working through a PSC in the public sector will pay the same tax as employees.
In summary, agencies will be responsible for assessing whether IR35 should apply to each PSC. If an agency were to decide that the IR35 rules did not apply, HMRC could challenge their assessment and then assess any tax and NI on the agency. In reality I think this means that it is highly likely that agencies operating within the public sector can no longer allow their contractors to work via their own limited companies.
What's more, those caught within the IR35 legislation and working within the public sector will no longer be entitled to the 5% tax free allowance. The allowance was given to take into account the administration burden for 'on-going running costs'. However, as contractors will no longer be responsible for calculating their pay, the government has decided to scrap the allowance altogether.
Consequently, the impact of these changes will most likely mean the end of PSCs in the public sector. There will be no financial benefit whatsoever for a contractor to operate under a PSC and they may even be worse off for doing so. It also means that agencies are going to have a lot more responsibility and work.
I suspect that this change is just the beginning and it will only be a matter of time before the new rules apply to all PSCs, not just those in the public sector.
Some other changes that came from the Autumn Statement, which you should be aware of are:
- Disguised remuneration avoidance targeting. The government is extending the changes announced at the Budget 2016 to tackle the use of these schemes by the self-employed.
- Flat Rate VAT Scheme (FRS). From April 2017, a new 16.5% rate on the FRS will be introduced for businesses with limited costs. This is targeted at businesses who spend less than 2% of their VAT inclusive turnover on VAT inclusive goods. Consequently, the tax advantage of operating the VAT Flat Rate Scheme is likely to disappear for most contractor companies.
- From April 2017, the National Living Wage will increase by 4.2%, from £7.20 to £7.50.
- Employers and Employees National Insurance are due to be equalized at £157 per week.
- Tax savings on salary sacrifice and benefits in kind to be stopped. For more information read our article, Salary Sacrifice Benefits Soon to be Limited.
If you have any questions concerning these updates (in particular the IR35 changes) and how you should begin to plan and prepare for them, contact me at email@example.com. I have already advised a number of clients and will be working closely with the recruitment sector in the coming months to help it to get to grips with the new legislation.


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So I finally got my volumes 3 and 4 of "The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine" and have been flying through volume 3. In less than a day I'm on page 130 of 307 and I am enjoying it alot, but it scares me because it's so challenging, I'm realizing that my "education" in medieval and late medieval history that I received at university was almost nothing more than Modern Humanist Propoganda. I also learned that Roman Catholic attitudes that Protestantism is COMPLETELY innovative are also incorrect.
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
In complete honesty Pelikan I find is very fair, but does clearly read like an Orthodox Christian who was educated by Lutherans. My bold assertion there is based on a few facts. He likes to point out the Western acceptance of the filioque as kind of a universal 'accident' and talks about how the West (Anselm particularly) F-ed up Christology pertaining to the 2 wills of Christ. He also talks about the "seeds" of the Lutheran Law-Gospel distinction in the 10th century preaching of "consolation and warning" and the "two-fold fashion" and sacramental nature of preaching. So yes he seems very fair, but it's just interesting to note those hints of the traditions he's most familiar with. (I think he's awesome I'm not trying to call him biased).
There's Something about Augustine:
His story-like telling of the history of Western Dogma is very kindred of my favourite historians who at the price of possibly over-simplifying, commit the sin of "making History interesting" by telling it as a narrative (Gibbon's account of the Roman Empire was the same). But the narrative seems to be all about St. Augustine of Hippo. Augustine is always the source and summit (to borrow the phrase on the Eucharist from the Catholic Catechism) of theology. Everyone is always fighting about Augustine and the story which ends up as a tragedy with the Reformation seems to be all because of Augustine. Pelikan's Lutheranism also is evident in his constant affirmations that the catholic faith was always "prima scriptura" scripture as the highest authority followed by the fathers (mostly Augustine) and then reason.
So it seems VERY interesting to me to know more about Pelikan's conversion as he had spent so much time studying the West and how to become East Orthodox you ultimately have to say that this whole Augustinian school of thought that becomes the centre of every debate was just wrong from the start. Original Sin is untrue, Predestination is only a mystery, etc. I really need to buy his volume on the East.
What's it to Me?
The interesting thing is seeing his sort of commentary on authentic developments and inauthentic developments of tradition. For example he seems to be completely Orthodox in his assessment in this book. He notes wherever the supremacy of Peter or the Papacy is called into question but unlike a Lutheran, he always asserts that it was the bishops who held this equal authority with Peter having Primacy but not Supremacy (a very Orthodox assertion). He also always notes that the belief in Justification by faith alone was an innovation and not to be found in medieval teaching (a very non-Lutheran assertion). But he also talks about penance and the penitential system with great disdain (a very Orthodox and Lutheran assertion), and talks about the constant belief in the objective efficacy of the sacraments (an everyone but Reformed and Anabaptist assertion).
So maybe he's just recording history. I'm just too stuck in polemics. It's great to have a challenge though. During this whole conversion process things would've been much better if people told me to read more Church History and used more Church History to sway me. Oh well, nothing is set in stone, it's good to have this 'dead theologian' Pelikan to 'dialogue' with through his writings, perhaps if I ever gain Slavic citizenship the Orthodox might eventually consider me worthy of attending their eucharistic celebrations and I could see what he was 'on about'.


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Schmidt, Obler
MARSHALL — Alysha Schmidt and Jamie Obler announce their engagement. Parents of the couple are Pat and Peggy Schmidt of Brooklyn Park and Chuck and Lori Obler of Marshall. Schmidt is a 2009 graduate of Champlin Park High School, a 2013 graduate of the College of St. Benedict, and currently works for Target in Mesa, Ariz. Obler is a 2009 graduate of Marshall High School, a 2013 graduate of St. John's University, and is currently a medical student at A. T. Stills College of Osteopathic Medicine in Mesa, Ariz. The couple plans a Sept. 8, 2017, wedding at Leopold's Mississippi Gardens in Brooklyn Park.


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Times Square Video Campaign - Future Investment Initiative
Location: Times Square, NYC
Date: October 2017
Client: Richard Attias & Associates, WPP, Future Investment Initiative, Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.
In partnership with Thomson Reuters (Branded cities division).
Scope of work: art direction and production of a promotional video campaign for a new high-level event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The campaign ran on 13 screens in the middle of Times Squares for 2 weeks.
Photos courtesy of Max Lakner/ Fiat Lux NY
Motion graphics by Tomasz Rozynski


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September 2017
President Ryken is on sabbatical from May through September. In his absence, ePartnerships will feature contributions from members of his Senior Administrative Cabinet. This month Provost Margaret Diddams offers parents a window into the intersection of the academic side of life at Wheaton along with everything else.
From Provost Dr. Margaret Diddams
Dear Parents,
On college campuses everywhere this fall new students arrive with great energy, returning students eagerly catch up with their old friends, and the faculty bring renewed vigor and vision.
At Wheaton College we will also gather for another year to worship in community. The week before classes began, faculty and staff met at the Edman Chapel steps to walk through the campus in prayer, with hymns of praise. When parents of new students met at the close of orientation weekend, they prayed for their offspring and shared meaningful verses of Scripture. The night before classes began, 2,000 students gathered for communion and worship.
Throughout the coming year at Wheaton—in classrooms, dorms, co-curricular clubs, the athletic field, musical rehearsals, and chapel—students will experience their faith, work, play and studies come together in holistic and transformative education. Thank you for helping to bathe Wheaton College in prayer as we worship Jesus Christ. We are eager to begin the new school year.
In Christ,
Margaret D. Diddams Ph.D.
Provost and Professor of Psychology
Family Weekend
We in Parent Engagement, together with the Parent Council, look forward to welcoming ALL families back to campus November 3-4 for Family Weekend!
Visit our Family Weekend webpages for a list of weekend events and links to area activities and hotels.
Register now to join us for this exciting family event.
2017-2018 Year Verse
A word from Chaplain Tim Blackmon
If Martin Luther was asked to select the Wheaton College year verse for 2017-2018, the year of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, I'm almost sure he would choose Romans 1:16-17:
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
Thunder struck when Luther finally realized what he read in Paul's letter to the church in Rome. God saves sinners and declares them righteous through faith in Christ. God gives free, unconditional and invincible grace to the undeserving. This great discovery of the gospel of grace changed everything. The gospel is the good news of all God has done, is doing and will ultimately do, to redeem the world through his Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ. Now, some 500 years later during the 2017-2018 school year, we will take time to rediscover, re-think and re-engage what the Reformation means for us at Wheaton College.
Global Programs and Studies
Please join us in prayer for the 67 Wheaton students studying and interning around the globe this semester: 30 students are six-month interns through the Human Needs and Global Resources (HNGR) program; 3 are student teaching at international locations; and 34 are studying at approved study abroad locations. Global and experiential programs can complement any major at Wheaton and are offered fall, spring and summer! Students are invited to explore these opportunities at the Study Abroad Fair on Thursday, September 14 from 2-5pm in Coray Auditorium. Applications for Spring 2018 study abroad are due October 20. Applications to be part of the fall 2019 cohort of HNGR will be available on September 11 and are due November 27.
Refer a Student to Wheaton
As parents of current Wheaton College students, you can help play a critical role in helping us identify the best and brightest students. We value your input and invite you to join us in the recruitment process!
Here's a way you can help craft the next class of students at Wheaton: refer a student using this online form. Our Admissions Team will make sure they get connected to Wheaton, hear personally from their admissions counselor, and receive a gift from the College.
Your perspective as a parent can be the difference maker for students and families who should consider Wheaton – you know first-hand what Wheaton stands for, the impact it has on students' lives, and why Wheaton is a good fit for those you refer – because you sent your student here.
Let us know who you think could be a great fit for Wheaton (and for whom Wheaton would be a great fit) by referring a student today at wheaton.edu/refer. Thanks in advance for your partnership!
Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities
Wheaton's Office of Competitive Fellowships is available to help your student identify and apply for a number of highly competitive undergraduate and post-graduate scholarships and fellowships. Our office is always looking for students who would be competitive applicants for such international opportunities such as the Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, Truman, Fulbright, and more.
These competitive scholarships and fellowships provide opportunities for students to study at some of the most prestigious institutions in the world, support independent research, and make connections with other highly motivated, accomplished people. If your student is one who would be interested in learning more, please encourage them attend our Fall information session on October 3, at 3:45 PM, Blanchard 222. More information about fellowship opportunities can be found here.
The Center for Vocation and Career
It is a new day in the Center for Vocation and Career (CVC)! This summer we added four new team members, including three career coaches, and we hope to add a fourth coach in the coming weeks. All academic departments will have an assigned career coach, creating a powerful collaborative environment between students, faculty, alumni, and coaches.
Also new to our office is Handshake, a career platform used by over 400 colleges and more than 200,000 employers. Handshake will connect our students with top employers across the country. Its personalized job recommendations, messaging platform, and mobile app make career searching easy. Handshake is also the place for students to make an appointment with a career coach, RSVP for CVC events, and submit their resume for review. Handshake is a dynamic tool that enables us to make personalized, targeted connections with your student.
Lastly, if you are a parent of a sophomore, encourage them to attend the opening night of Canvas, our special five-part event series designed to guide them through the process of exploring vocation and career. Canvas events always include relevant content for sophomores and a delicious meal. Students can reserve their spot at Canvas: Opening Night on Handshake.
Wheaton Graduate School
Students are invited to attend the Wheaton Graduate School's upcoming Academic Program Receptions. These receptions consist of a meet and greet time which allows for a unique opportunity to connect with faculty members, current students, and other visiting students interested in a similar academic path.
Students can RSVP for any of the following receptions:
- Psychology - October 20
- M.A. in Teaching - October 26
- M.A. in TESOL - October 27
- Biblical and Theological Studies - November 2
- Christian Formation and Ministry - November 9
Refreshments will be provided. Email graduate admissions or call 630.752.5195 with questions.
The Wheaton Fund: Invest in Affordability and Excellence
Every year, hundreds of parents like you help make the Wheaton experience possible for their students when they support the Wheaton Fund. Your support for the Wheaton Fund is an investment that immediately impacts the affordability and excellence of the Wheaton experience, and we are very grateful!
The Wheaton Fund works to keep the College affordable by funding areas that are not supported by tuition alone, which reduces the overall cost of attending for every student; it also fosters excellence in liberal arts instruction and student programming by providing competitive faculty salaries and supporting student development experiences.
A student from Phonathon will be calling you soon to talk more about what the Wheaton Fund means to them and to invite your investment. You can also give online to start supporting the Wheaton experience through the Wheaton Fund today.
Football and women's soccer were selected first in their respective CCIW Preseason Coaches Polls. Men's soccer was picked second in its poll and volleyball was fifth in the preseason poll. Women's tennis and women's cross country also earned first-place picks in the their respective polls. Women's golf was selected third in the preseason poll and men's cross country was picked to finish fourth.
Seniors Kyler Kregel and Chase Greenlee earned preseason All-American recognition for the Thunder football team this summer. Several other players also earned preseason accolades from various preseason publications. Head coach Mike Swider's team is ranked fifth in the D3football.com Top-25.
Thunder fans can watch many home events on the Wheaton Thunder Sports Network at http://livestream.com/wheatonthunder or watch by downloading the Livestream app on ITunes, Google Play or Roku Store.
For complete information on Wheaton's 21 varsity athletics teams be sure to visit athletics.wheaton.edu for schedules, recaps, videos and much more. Sign up for text alerts from Wheaton Athletics. Be sure to follow Thunder Sports on Facebook (facebook.com/WheatonAthletics), Twitter (@Wheaton Thunder) or Instagram (@Wheaton_Thunder)
Season passes for the 2017-18 campaign are available for those planning to attend a variety of Thunder sporting events at home.
How can you pray for Wheaton this month?
- Pray for students as they explore extra-curricular activities, church fellowships, and other service opportunities available. Pray that they find a balance of work and recreation that will help them to live well.
- Pray for President Ryken, members of his Senior Administrative Council, and Chaplain Blackmon, that the Lord will give them wisdom and joy in their work.
- Pray for families who enter this school year feeling financially challenged or burdened by concerns of health or relationship. Each student brings their own personal story to campus. Pray that each one will experience the Lord's peace in the midst of those challenges.
With thanks for your involvement and prayers,
The Wheaton College Parent Engagement team


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Hinder is one of those "modern" bands I'm enjoying the most. Take it to the limit is great. It's got everything that was cool back in the day with the 80's hard rock, with the plus of a modern sound and songwriting. There's not a bad song in it, and "Last kiss goodbye" is my favourite, I'm still not sure why, it's probably that kind of flow…pure awesome. I'm hooked.


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utulivu :: stability
[ black spinel ]
There is palpable angst in the air, making it easy to get caught up in negative emotions. Use this stone to ground yourself and find stability.
A rare mineral and valuable gemstone, Black Spinel was cherished by English monarchs. It is a protective stone, used to ward off negativity.
Black Spinel supports its owner to let go of any negative feelings, such as anger, and helps them to find a sense of grounding and calm. It is a useful aid to find more effective ways of communicating.
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16.75" Black Spinel necklace with 14K gold fill beads and findings. Adorned with a 14K gold plated shell pendant and our signature made with love tag.
dunia :: earth
[ precious gem collection ]
The Maasai have lived in harmony with the earth for as long as they have been alive, walking miles through the savannah in silence and solitude, with only their cattle and their thoughts as company.
Imagining the peace felt as long strides are taken towards the horizon, the grounding sensation of soil beneath their feet, and the warmth of the African sun on their back, lead us to dream up our DUNIA collection. These limited edition pieces are made from the precious gems that our earth produces naturally, which hold healing powers that can bring peace to one's heart.
This collection has been sitting quietly, waiting for the moment to show itself. In light of the collective anxiety felt across humanity today, it seemed it was time to share these calming totems from nature that have been handmade by Maasai women, who know our earth so well.
This collection is a celebration of the earth, and an aspiration to be more like the Maasai tribe, holding ourselves with grace and peace during hard times, and being one with our earth.


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WGSN seminar-driving the 2012 consumer landscape
Old versus new consumer segmentation: market segmentation is still based on demographic data than on consumers' behavior which is much more authentic market segmentation.
Where are we now vs where to go:
2010 is defined by confused overwhelmed
2011 divided consumer
2012 the triumph of beauty/ functional and breathtaking
Consumers have raised the bar of creativity because of their high level of being creative. Creative design shall walk hand in hand through all the process of developing a product, not only at the beginning or at the end.
And finally but not less important, the brief is something to design, is about background and shall induce a 360 experience.
Corina & Iulia – Young Marketer empowered by Impression


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HP All in One Computers for Sale
HP All-in-One computers offer impressive performance and stylish design that fit right in. Meet your business needs now and into the future with a smart HP All in One PC. Here at Landmark Computers we offer an amazing choice of the best HP All in One desktop computers for home and office use, and we provide expert advice and support. Whether you are looking for a touchscreen aio, or a 27-inch all in one HP pc, we've got the largest range at the lowest price in Australia.


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AD&D 1e - Book of Sorrows AP Episode 24 - Finale
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Primary Division
Level I – The young dancer ages 7 – 12 years old will begin to work through the class like a professional dancer. The exercises are divided into two parts – those taken at the barre, and those in the centre. Recommended two classes per week.
Level II – This level is for children who have accomplished the elements of Level I. Level II introduces more exercises at the barre and a larger vocabulary of movement in the centre, as well as concepts of pointe work. Recommended two classes per week. There will be additional performing opportunities at this level.


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5pc 9-12mm 2.91g Petroleum Quartz (Golden Enhydro) from Pakistan
This product is currently sold out.
- Origin: Pakistan
- Quantity and Size: 5 pieces, 9-12mm
- Weight (approx): 3 g
Petroleum quartz crystal, also known as golden enhydro, or "golden water within". You can see the small pockets of oil inside, known as inclusions. These inclusions range in color, size, and quantity, but are always fluorescent, which means they glow in the dark! Some inclusions within this unusual quartz crystal variety even have tiny air bubbles trapped inside! The air bubbles move around as you hold the crystal in your hand - they are quite a site to see and play with. Due to their size, these petroleum quartz crystals are versatile and are usable in many ways. Use them for decoration or for jewelry today!


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I made this for my sister.
Category Archives: Clothes
De Coloured T-Shirt
To make this t-shirt I used De Colourant Mist (i got it in Art Van Go, at the Knitting and Stitching show in the RDS in the Autumn. If you are not an Irish person who likes crafts, you will probably have no idea what on earth that is. i looked it up and found a place that sells it for thirteen dollars here: http://www.uniquestitching.com.au/p/1193990/decolourant-mist–a-fabulous-bleaching-agent-without-additional-colour-the-effect-of-the-mist-is-fantastic.html)
i made a stencil out of freezer paper first (it says warpaint, which is the name of my favourite band), and then i just hung it up on a line and went crazy with a spray bottle full of the de colourant. (i had to transfer the liquid to a better spray bottle, as the one it came in let out big drops, which was not really the effect i was looking for.)


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This homemade guacamole is so simple to make and is packed full of flavors! The roasted garlic and red pepper adds just the right amount of 'wow' to make this one great recipe!
Roasted Garlic Guacamole Dip is a refreshing twist on your typical avocado favorite! Roasted garlic and red bell pepper gives this guacamole recipe an edge over the others!
Avocado is a super food and while it can be bought year round, it is best during the late summer season. My husband isn't a big fan, but I try to incorporate avocado into a lot of dishes for myself.
Roasted Garlic Guacamole Dip is slightly different from most because it contains no tomatoes. Yes, you read correctly, NO TOMATOES. Can you believe it?
Instead, Roasted Garlic Guacamole Dip blends Avocado, an entire head of roasted garlic, fresh cilantro, fresh lime juice and a few other spices.
While I like to make my roasted garlic and red peppers from scratch, you can buy these pre-made at your grocery store to save time. I will challenge you to roast your own red pepper and taste the difference between the bottled version.
Another tip for any guacamole is to always add lemon or lime (something citrus and acidic) to your guacamole or avocado dishes- it prevents oxidation and preserves the color for at least 24 hours. It just isn't appetizing when it goes brown.
More easy avocado recipes:
- Shrimp Salad Avocados
- Avocado Pesto Chicken Salad
- Maple Citrus Salmon with Orange-Avocado Salsa
- Avocado Ice Cream
Tools for making Roasted Garlic Guacamole Dip:
Wood cutting board – wood won't dull your knives like plastic and if treated properly, has natural antimicrobial properties.
Good knife – Global is my favorite! They are worth the price, I promise. I am kind of obsessed with them and store them tucked away so no one else can use them. Including hubby. Hands off my good stuff!
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Roasted Garlic and Red Pepper Guacamole
- 1 large head of garlic
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 red bell pepper
- Cooking Spray
- 1 large ripe avocado
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro , finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon sour cream
- 1 lime
- Salt and pepper
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut off the top of the head of garlic. Place it in aluminum foil. If you have trouble with it standing up or all of the pieces staying together you can prop it up in one muffin slot of a muffin tin. Pour 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil over the top of the head of garlic. Fold over aluminum foil into a tight little ball. Bake in the center of the oven for 30-35 minutes or until cloves are browned, sticky and soft.
- Remove each clove from the skin to a medium size bowl. Mash cloves well with fork.
- Preheat oven broiler. Cut red bell pepper in half. Remove and discard the seeds, membranes and stem. Place a sheet of aluminum foil on a baking sheet. Spray with cooking spray. Place bell pepper halves, skin up, on the aluminum foil and smash down using the palm of your hand. Halves will be flat and spilt in places. Spray skin well with cooking spray.
- Place flattened bell peppers in the top half of the oven under the broiler. Watch very closely. You want the peppers skin to be blackened. When almost fully charred, remove from the oven.
- Immediately place the red pepper halves an airtight plastic bag. The bag will steam up, assisting the skin to separate from the pepper. Allow to sit in the bag for 10 minutes. Remove from the bag and peel off skin. Mince bell pepper and add to mashed garlic bowl.
- Slice avocado in half and remove the pit. While still in the skin, use a small knife and cut crisscross lines into each half. Using a large metal spoon, scoop out the halves. You should scoop out already diced avocado. Place in the bowl with mashed garlic and minced roasted red pepper.
- Heat lime in microwave for 30 seconds. Heating will yield more juice. Juice both sides of the lime and add to the mixture. Add in cilantro, sour cream and season with salt and pepper.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve.
- If you've tried this recipe, make sure to come back and let us know how it was!


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Microsoft To End Support For All Windows 10 Mobile Devices
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 Mobile Devices by the end of this year. Giving up on its mobile manufacturing endeavor, Windows is now focusing on creating and developing apps that work with Android and iOS. What does that mean for Windows mobile users?
Read on for the full story.
Windows 10 mobile Devices' Last Year Of Support – Full Story
Last week, Windows updated its Lifecycle FAQ support page with "Windows 10 Mobile, version 1709 (released October 2017) is the last release of Windows 10 Mobile and Microsoft will end support on December 10, 2019."
This means that after December 10 of this year, Microsoft will no longer issue any security update, patches, or system updates to Windows 10 mobile devices. Additionally, Microsoft is urging its users to move to iOS or Android phones, choosing Android as the mobile version of Windows.
What That Means for Windows 10 mobile Users
The company also released a support page dedicated to the end of Windows 10 support. The page also explains how the services found on the phones will start phasing out, explaining to Windows 10 mobile users exactly what to expect:
- End of support for Windows 10 Mobile (version 1709) will be on Dec. 10, 2019.
- Automatic and manual backups will be available till March 10, 2020.
- Services like photo uploads and device restore "may continue to work for up to 12 months from end of support".
- Third-party apps may end support "at any time".
If you have a Windows 10 device and you want to continue using it after Dec. 10, then you need to have a back-up made before that data. To perform a manual backup, you should:
- Go to Settings.
- Click on Update & Security.
- Select Backup.
- Select More Options.
- Tap on Back up Now.
This way, you'll have a manual backup of your device before the end of support date, making it easier for you to regain your information even if you ran into a problem after EoS.
Which OS Should You Move to?
As I mentioned above, Windows is asking it's users to move to either iOS or Android devices. If you're a Windows mobile user, you don't have to select a new OS without knowing what's best for you. We've already compared the security value of Android and iOS phones, but here's a quick overview of the comparison to help you make a better decision:
- Apps allowed on Apple's store follow a more rigorous screening process than those found on Google Play Store. This means that iPhone users are less likely to encounter malicious apps than Android, especially since Google Play store has more lenient rules for developers looking to release their Android apps.
- Since Apple both develops iOS and manufactures the hardware of the phones, it can limit the number of vulnerabilities found on its released phones. Android phones, on the other hand, are composed of different hardware manufacturers using the open-sourced Android code.
- Apple forces all of its users to update to the latest security patch or OS version. Android phones, on the other hand, don't use any kind of mandatory update, leaving it up to the user to keep their device as secure as possible.
This is why we suggest that Windows 10 mobile users make the switch over to iOS devices instead of Android. This is double-true since Android users themselves are going through the same shift, forgoing the OS they've been using all this time for one that is more secure and private.
End of Support for Windows 10 Mobile Devices – Final Thoughts
There you have it, ladies and gentleman, the end of Microsoft's OS making days. If you've just got yourself a Windows 10 phone, it's important to keep in mind that you will have to change it in a year's time. The thing is, not having support for your OS is very dangerous, as it means that your system isn't going to be updated to fend off new threats. Hopefully, you'll take this time to do your research and figure out which OS shift works best for you.
Do you have a Windows 10 mobile? Are you planning on shifting to Android or iOS? Let me know in the comment section below.


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New study explores ecosystem stability
In an era of rapid ecological change, scientists are turning to historical periods of persistence to better understand what drives stability. A team from the California Academy of Sciences and the Field Museum of Natural History has examined the structural complexity of ancient ecosystems by looking at the number of species and how they're organized by function, such as top predators or decomposers. All stable ecosystems have species grouped by function, and the study found that these functional groupings are more important to an ecosystem's stability than the sheer number of species present. Surprisingly, the study also found that among simulated systems of equal but different complexity, those representing actual ancient ecosystems tended to be more stable. The team is now investigating why certain functional compositions are better than others and how those structures arise over time. Understanding the organization of stable ecosystems of the past allows scientists to better predict whether modern human impacts have pushed our current planetary system past a point of recovering to its original state.
To run their analysis, the team studied a large mass extinction event that took place 252 million years ago and its impacts on ancient South African ecosystems. Their findings, published this week in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, present one of the strongest arguments to date for saving systems of species rather than individuals in the modern day.
"In examining the communities before and after this mass extinction event, we found that the longest-lasting systems were not distinguished by any obvious features, except for having longer evolutionary histories," says Dr. Peter Roopnarine, lead author and Academy Curator of Geology. "The functional structures that arose over time in those systems allowed species to have lower probabilities of extinction, and to coexist more stably, under varying ecological conditions. The opposite was true of several communities that arose quickly after the mass extinction, although those communities were also rich in species."
The team then modeled millions of alternate structures in search of other ways an ecosystem could support strong species coexistence, but very few structures proved superior to the stable systems they'd identified in the fossil record. The team's alternate functional arrangements all varied; some organized the species into different functions, others changed the way those species interacted, and some even altered the flow of energy between species.
"It's unlikely these successes arose purely by chance," says Roopnarine. "This tells us there's a strong imprint on history—a clear repetition—of how ecosystems are built over geological and evolutionary time. We don't know why the stable communities pre-extinction and post-recovery were so much better than our modeled alternatives, but evolution clearly favored them and their functional organization. Figuring out why stable communities emerge over time is one of the next big questions."
Step into the Karoo
The team chose the Karoo Basin in South Africa for the study due to the region's unparalleled fossil record. The study analysis begins about 254 million years ago, when Africa, Antarctica, and South America surrounded the Karoo in the supercontinent known as Gondwana. Ancient relatives of mammals dominated the then-forested landscape.The Karoo had reached its highest level of species diversity when climate change hit.
"Around 252 million years ago, huge volcanic eruptions occurred in what is now Siberia," says Dr. Kenneth Angielczyk, Associate Curator of Paleomammalogy at the Field Museum of Natural History. "In the process of these eruptions, magma burned through coal deposits in the surrounding rocks, releasing greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide. Additional greenhouse gasses were released by the erupting lava, and together these processes began to alter global climate. It was essentially a massive burning of fossil fuels, with parallels to what we're seeing today, but over tens of millennia."
Several waves of extinction followed, reducing the Karoo ecosystem to a fraction of what it was. Eventually, a rebound in diversity formed a new ecosystem that included survivors of the extinction plus species that had migrated in from surrounding areas. Despite the uptick in species numbers, the system was geologically short-lived. As the recovery proceeded over the next several million years, a system emerged that had a familiar feature: a functional organization that supported above-average stability of species coexistence.
"When you have species on the move because of environmental upheaval, or you force species together into communities in which they did not co-evolve, those systems are almost invariably less successful than systems where species have shared histories," says Roopnarine. "Today, we can't tinker with ecosystems, have them fall apart functionally, and expect life to carry on and recover in a way that normally takes tens of thousands of years to happen. The fossil record shows this approach isn't sustainable."
Considering alternate histories
The team modeled millions of alternate histories to better understand the Karoo's collapse and recovery. They based their models on direct and indirect evidence of interactions from the fossil record: Fossilized stomach contents and skeletal damage indicate signs of predation, while body size, skull size, and habitat indicate potential species interactions. The team also drew analogies to modern animals that are ecologically similar or closely related on the evolutionary tree. Using computerized mathematical models, they then conducted millions of "thought experiments" on each community to test the effect of changing a community's functional organization on its extinction rate.
One alternate structure the team modeled eliminates all functional organization, so that species are free to interact without any established hierarchy of who eats whom. Another alternative preserves the original number of functional groupings and the number of species, but changes the interactions among them so that energy flows differently between species. A third alternative changes the number of species in each functional group altogether—such as the ratio of predators to prey—but this made a negligible difference in the community's stability.
"We found that any kind of species organization is better than no organization, but some patterns are definitely superior to others," says Angielczyk. "Exactly how species evolution leads to the assembly of stable communities from the wide range of possible alternatives, and the mathematical reasons for why those alternatives differ in stability, are some of our next big questions."
The team hopes that better understanding periods of persistence will inform how far along modern society is in disassembling current planetary systems. "The points of departure for species and ecological communities aren't necessarily the same," says Roopnarine. "The question is whether our entire planet has already turned down a new ecological and evolutionary pathway entirely or if we're still operating in the capacity of our current system."
The study findings highlight the importance of the fossil record in helping to forecast the future.
"The ecological systems we have today are documented products of geological and evolutionary history—they're not easily made nor easily recovered," says Roopnarine. "We have a choice in alternate histories here, and my hope is that we choose to take care of the planetary system that has supported life as we know it for millennia."


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Mahoora Tented Safari
This is luxury camping in the wilderness zone just outside of Wilpattu, Ude Walawe and Yala National Parks. Depending on the grade of tent you choose will determine the luxury level. Being so close to the boundary to the National Park, you will have the Park very much to yourself for the first hour or so in the early morning. At night, the campsite is illuminated with traditional oil torches and hurricane lamps. There is so little light pollution in these areas, it is a perfect location to see the night sky and if you are lucky, shooting stars!
Hotel At a Glance
Standard : Luxury Camping
Rooms : Tents: Mahoora Elite - larger tent 15' x 12' and a partitioned ensuite washroom (with hot and cold water) & toilet. Mahoora Premium - spacious tent 15' x 8'- toilet and washing facilities is set close to tent. Mahoora Explorer - tent 12' x 10' – toilet and washing facilities is set close by to tent.
Pool : none
AC/fans : none
Wi-Fi : none


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FilmLoop is a new [Web 2.0?] photo-sharing startup from Guy Kawasaki. For my money, it beats Flickr hands-down. To use it, you will need to download the FilmLoop player, but therein lies FilmLoop's beauty. I suggest you also view Guy's own presentation and explanation of FilmLoop. And last, stop in at the FilmLoop Network. I do believe, just as Guy states in his presentation, FilmLoop will be big.
(Comment: Yahoo must be wishing it had waited a little longer. Instead of Flickr, they could have FilmLoop. So the question is, "Who will acquire FilmLoop within the next 6-12 months? Google? Yahoo, still? Microsoft? An unknown? Who needs it?)
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From Iron Maiden to Mastodon and Pig Destroyer to Tankard, every band seems to be partnering up with a brewery and releasing their own beer.
For some bands, it's turned into a lucrative merchandising outlet and for others it's just a chance to nerd out and do something with their favourite brewery.
As an introduction to Headbrewers Ball, here's 10 metal band beers that you might have missed.
The Haunted x Hydra Beer Company
South Dakota's Hydra Beer Company have a slew of beers named Immortal, Emperor and Baroness, so it should come as no surprise that they're probably into metal. The Sioux Falls brewery paired up with Gothenburg's The Haunted, for the brilliantly named 'The Haunted Made Me Brew It', a nod to their 2000 sophomore record. It's a dank IPA, double dry hopped with Simcoe and Columbus, all wrapped up with a label akin to the band's classic LP.
Thy Art Is Murder x Anspach & Hobday
Probably the most unlikely pairing on this list is the sleek London brewery Anspach & Hobday with Aussie deathcore crew Thy Art Is Murder. This 3.5% Black Citra Sour came about after Paul Anspach got chatting to the band after a gig. Simple as that!
Sinister x HappyFace Beers
A collab between Dutch death metal masters Sinister and self-styled badass brewery HappyFace Beers. This beer was made exclusively for Sinister's 'Syncretism' album release party back in February 2017. Clocking in at 6%, this stout aptly named 'Sinister Dark' was a special edition bottle run for the event.
Fun HappyFace facts: Brewer Rob Zwaan is the tallest man in the Netherlands at 2.23 meters tall and ex-Asphyx / current Soulburn drummer Bob Bagchus sorts out all their merchandise. Bosh!
Venomous Maximus x Brash Brewing Company
Don't mess with Texas when it comes to BIG stouts. Based in Houston, Brash are one of the best at strong, flavoursome stouts, with a viscosity like Texas Crude. The likes of Vulgar Display Of Power and Hammer Smashed Face really don't muck around! 'Milk The Venom' is a collab with fellow Houstonians Venomous Maximus, and this milk stout packs a real punch, loaded up with coffee, toasted coconut, cinnamon, and chipotle. Bonus points for packaging a beast of a beer into stubbies! Ale Satan.
Entombed x Macken Brewery / Entombed A.D. x Warpigs
Seen as there's two versions of Entombed, makes sense that each one should have their very own beer.
Alex Hellid's version of the band wanted to celebrate the Entombed legacy and teamed up with Macken Brewery for a Swedish style Helles; 'Entombed Sverige'.
Meanwhile, LG Petrov and Entombed A.D. aligned themselves with Copenhagen's Warpigs for 'Freeman'. The Swedes went for an Imperial Stout that's a cross between Mikkeller's 'Beer Geek Breakfast' and 3 Floyds' 'Dark Lord', an incredible combination if ever there was one! To top it off, the band made the most of their brew day and filmed a music video while they were there. LG's 'off down the pub with a wad of Kroner' face is probably the best thing committed to video.
Godflesh x Five-Oh Brew Co
An off chance Twitter exchange with Justin K Broadrick is what lead to this beer by Prestwich pico-brewery Five-Oh Brew Co. Brewed especially for Godflesh's Manchester show of the 'A World Lit Only By Fire' tour. 'New Dark Ages' is a 6.5% industrial black IPA filled with loads of US hops and a sprinkling of Sorachi Ace.
Chris Dodge x Thrash Zone
As far as names go, 'Chris Dodge's Ham Slappin' Aru Chu Ale' by Thrash Zone is by far the best beer to grace this list! The 13% barleywine was brewed for Spazz / Infest / Slap-a-Ham Record legend Chris Dodge by Thrash Zone in Yokohama, Japan. Be sure to check out Dodge's latest project Trappist for more beer themed goodness.
Mutoid Man x Sixpoint Brewery
Brooklyn's Sixpoint Brewery really went all out with this Mutoid Man collab. This blood red IPA (check out some pictures, it's VERY red) was a homage to the bands album 'Bleeder'. It was also bittered with Warrior and Magnum hops as a nod to then upcoming album 'War Moans'. To top it off there's also 14 pounds of the mutant hop Idaho #7 in there too. Bet it tastes delicious!
1349 x Surly Brewing Co x Lervig Aktiebryggeri
This pair of collabs between Norwegian black metallers 1349, Minnesota's Surly Brewing Company and Norwegian brewers Lervig Aktiebryggeri are pretty interesting.
One is a 13.49% (see what they did there?) black ale, chock full of freshly ground Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee. The other is intended to be a partner beer to this, clocking in at a devilish 6.66%, it's a pale ale with Curacao orange peels and lemon peels added to the end of the boil for zesty, tropical citrus flavours.
Integrity x Oliver Brewing Co.
The hops and the yeast have finally fused as one. A relatively new addition to this list, and a beer that will perhaps elude anyone outside of the US for a long time. Oliver Brewing Co.'s collab with Integrity is a nod to frontman Dwid Hellion's adopted home in Belgium. Named after most recent album 'Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume', the beer was brewed in Baltimore, especially for Decibel's 2018 Metal & Beer Festival. The Belgian style blonde ale is fermented with Bastogne yeast and dry hopped with Styrian Goldings and Lemondrop.


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I'm still reading on Atlas Shrugged. I'm about 750 pages into it now, about 2/3 of the way through. As I'm sure I've noted before, it's very topical due to the current political regime in power. The book does strike some anachronistic notes that let you know that the book is fifty years old: The ubiquity of trains as the way to travel long distances (Eisenhower's Defense Interstate Highway System was in its infancy), classical music as the highbrow music of the day (our heroine Dagny Taggart has a favorite composer), and especially, the common acceptance of cigarette smoking in all social situations. Ayn Rand's cigarettes in the book are so omnipresent that they are almost a minor character.
Still, it is the objectivist philosophy that the book conveys that makes it a must-read. Their enemies, the "looters," are everywhere, and just as in our society today, they tell the productive people that it's their duty to produce for those who leech off of them and give them nothing in return but scorn for their "greed" and "selfishness." The looters promote policies to "make the rich pay their fair share," and in the book, it provokes a strike by the people who make the motor of the world run. In real life, we may be seeing the beginnings of the same thing, as more and more people realize that it is foolish to work harder in order to be taxed at a higher rate.
When Dagny gets to Galt's Gulch, the strikers' secret hideaway in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, she meets a number of productive people who have gone on strike. One of them is a famous doctor. She asks him to give her his reasons for doing so (p. 744):
"I quit when medicine was placed under State control, some years ago," said Dr. Hendricks. "Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, of the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all of the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything -- except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the 'welfare' of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, only 'to serve.' That a man who's willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards -- never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind -- yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it -- and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn't."Topical? You make the call.


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1st Annual Masonic Carolina Pig Jig BBQ Cook-off
The 1st Annual Masonic Carolina Pig Jig BBQ Cook-off was held on September 16th, 2006 at the NC State Fairgrounds – here in Raleigh, NC.
Special Guests
• U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge
• Prince Hall GM Milton F. Fitch Jr.
• GM Gene T. Jernigan ( 2006 )
First Prize Winners
Joey Transou & Cliff Pranke of Salem Lodge #289 won the Grand Championship as well as the People's Choice award.
First, Second and Third Prize Winners


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Floor 1, Drive up, Outdoor access
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Gate hours are way more convenient, price is good for the size I got. Staff made the whole process easy and quick to get a storage unit....
Recommended: Yes
good value
We needed a large storage space in kind of low level emergency reasons. the guys at North Chester were super helpful through the whole process, which helped alleviate some of the stress that we were dealing with. The unit is nice and clean and large. Metal walls instead of cheap broken chunks of drywall like so many other stage places.
We're very satisfied!
Ease of process
Ease of registration and drop off recreational vehicle
Great storage facility
The staff was very helpful, great pricing and it appears to be a secure facility
Nice clean place
Checked around and this place seemed good enough. The others were more expensive.
Perfect solution to my storage needs
Excellent facility AND customer service. Close to home, very secure, and very clean. I know I shall feel that my goods are secure and protected, and this takes a huge weight off as I go through this move. Thank you so much!
Great place, great value
The staff was very helpful and Jimmy showed me my options of storage units. He was very professional and nice. The entire process took only a few minutes. I highly recommend this facility.
Very pleased
Great location. Great fast customer service.
Very affordable
Easy, quick process to set up account.
Great experience
The young man who took my info, was friendly and thorough. Explaining all the paperwork and policies.
The facility is clean and easy to access.
Very professional
Staff was extremely helpful. Everything is spelled out so there is no reason for someone to complain when they are so thorough explaining procedures.
The hours are great and staff is great
Very good experience.
Was very satisfied with the customer service in renting my storage unit. Agent was very polite and helpful and did a good job explaining your policies.
Very nice people and place
Very nice place and people she even got me a bigger unit
I went to check out the space for my RV before I moved in!! The lady at the front desk was very nice and explained everything to me, the place was very clean!! Secured and I felt safe leaving my RV with them and great price for the space canât beat it!!
New customer
Just got my unit. Seems to be perfect size so far. It's conveniently down the street from where I live which is a major plus. Mostly satisfied with the fact that my belongings are no longer getting ruined in my yard. Hoping the storage unit will prevent any further damage to the bed my PaPa handmade for me and my sister, when we were young.
Good customer service
Good customer service
Great price
Great location
Friendly and quick service
The staff was very helpful and showed me my options of storage units. They were very professional and nice. The entire process took only a few minutes. I will definitely recommend this facility.
Clean facility
Clean facility. Lacks lighting in the units. Staff demands their deadlines are met, although they fail to comply with your requests.
Great storage
Wonderful place... very clean and super friendly.
Ok price
Great unit space and a great location near home...
People are nice and the place is a little further than I like but very clean and well protected
Manager was very helpful, very friendly and am happy to be their costumer.
I am very happy to be their costumer.
Not bad very nice girl..
Love that there are kids there. And my son gets aling with most kids. Seems like a safe place all around. I dont have much and was hoping to spend less. Great customer service too..
Love the place
Customer service was very good place was very clean and I would highly recommend this storage place to anybody.
Nice Storage Facility
North Chester Mini Storage is great for many reasons. The staff in the office are nice and very intentive to your needs, the value for your money, The lot is clean and best of all the gate hours are extended to 9pm WOW!!! I love north Chester Mini storage and I guarantee you will too!!!
The best monthly price I found in the Bakersfield region
The facility seems secure, with a code-entry gate to enter storage and lighting throughout, though I've only been there during the day. The hours are also reasonable--7 days a week from 6AM to 9PM, with a sharp closing time of 9PM (gates lock). Unlike other storage facilities whose storage rooms are littered, North Chester's, from what I've seen, appear reasonably clean. The facility is exposed to the elements, so one has to be aware of any potential effects of heat on sensitive equipment (electronics...).
Over the years I've used a few storage facilities so know there's always paperwork involved. However, North Chester's was by far the most complex. It was no simple arrive, sign a single contract, then leave. There were pages after pages after pages of legal documents to fill out and sign, together with a requirement either to purchase their insurance policy or have home-owner's or renter's insurance. I have to confess I was so overwhelmed by the volume and severity of the legal documents (language...) that I almost canceled the transaction--but I had a friend waiting for me in my moving van (and wait he did! Nearly a half hour while I finished all the paperwork...).
I'd found a coupon for North Chester on Sparefoot, and the facility honored it, though at first it seemed they might not. I'm grateful they did, though, as I wouldn't have rented the space if I'd had to pay an administrative fee on top of a monthly rental fee--just to keep part of my library out of my tiny apartment. So be sure you have a copy of any promotional emails and ads that clearly state the terms of the promotion.
To end on a couple of positives: the young woman who waited on me was pleasant--which, sadly, is too often not the case in "customer service" in a big city today. And my favorite part of the whole experience, other than finally finishing my move, was the go-cart ride to the actual storage unit she was going to assign to me and back to the rental office. It was surprisingly fun!
Great personnel and courteous service.
Quick and easy service. Personnel was very courteous, professional and helpful. Easy access and easy exit to the unit.
Polite staff, decent facility
The lady in the office was efficient and thorough. She explained everything well. The grounds are clean and neat. The door on the storage unit is a little difficult to roll up and down, but not really a problem. The inside of the unit was a little dusty, but it's Bakersfield, so that's expected.
Excellent customer service
Great place to rent a storage unit
Nice place
To facility is very clean and well kept easy access and better gate hours than most storage facilities
Quick and friendly
Great services
our family really did appreciate the staff there at North Chester mini storage they protected us from a possible theft and we really appreciated the hard work that they put into watching out for us. thank you
great customer service
Front desk very helpful i would definately store here in the future and refer to others..thank you
Everyone here has been very wonderful, efficient, and extremely helpful
It was fast, easy, rates are the best in town, and service was very helpful and friendly.
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I did!!!
Ok, there are a few of us out there that put minimal cash in the pockets of shampoo manufacturers anymore (@Chris, I know you can relate) follically challenged...hehe
nowadays I go back and forth with either a bottle of shower gel or a bar of soap. In the vision of packing smaller and lighter the bar of soap makes sense...but also makes a mess
I was just about done with it, I had tried zip lock bags, or trying to 'dry' the bar of soap before packing it, and also a specific plastic bar of soap holder, they all kind of fail one way or another and mostly the soap ends up in mess and eventually falls apart sooner that expected.
Off to the internet to see if if anyone else was having a similar issue, and not surprisingly there was...first world problems!
...and I found this, with very high reviews, Matador FlatPak Soap Bar Case Wash Bag. I do have to say when I bought it, it was around $15.
Why is it so good?
It's a cordura bag with a breathable one way membrane. Shake the excess water off your bar of soap and put it in the bag, close the clasp and forget about it. What it does is let the moisture out thru the wall of the bag (but its not wet) and when you go to get your bar of soap its not in bits or a slimy mess.
I've been using it for about 6 months and it works exactly as described and as an added bonus makes your luggage smell fresh from the soap


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The Greek Crisis, Austerity, EU Integration, and a Disrupted Future: An Interview with Nikos Passas
A renowned expert on corruption, illicit flows, UN sanctions, informal fund transfers, terrorism, white-collar crime, financial regulation, and organized international crime, Professor Passas is a scholar whose criminological research in the area of human rights is globally respected. The Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Crime, Law and Social Change, he is the Chair of the Academic Council of the Anti-Corruption Academy in India; and the Organized Crime Observatory Representative to the UN. He has more than 220 publications in 14 languages, regularly serves as expert witness on all continents and consults with international organizations such as OECD, OSCE, the IMF, the World Bank, the UN, the European Union, and FinCEN.
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