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A perfectly marbled cut of beef is no farther away than Altoona's Outback Steakhouse.
Low-fat foods are not on the menu at Outback Steakhouse, though, so plan to indulge a bit.
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Head on over to Ponderosa Steakhouse first thing in the morning or last thing in the evening — Ponderosa Steakhouse is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all served at the restaurant, but the dinner menu is the real standout.
Steak and potatoes take center stage at State College's Outback Steakhouse.
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Ceramics artist Pat Mercer looks at a tea set in her home studio.Matt Roth/Special
Pat Mercer has a special talent of creativity that just took a little time to emerge.
She grew up in Louisiana and began taking art classes after marrying Jesse Mercer and having their two sons. Mercer experimented with pastels, charcoal and oil paints, but it wasn't until she moved with her family to the Athens area in 1974 that she found her true artistic love, china painting.
Mercer learned that a friend, who had shown her around Athens, was a china painter. Intrigued by the idea, she signed up for classes as soon as she settled into her new home in Oconee County.
Employed as a social worker, Mercer painted china as a hobby for several years, but gradually, more and more of her friends asked her to paint things for them.
Mercer describes china painting as an ancient art and explains that the paints are actually powdered oxides of minerals. The ground minerals are mixed with oils and then used to paint on a porcelain canvas.
Various colors are painted in layers, but the piece must be fired in a kiln after each layer is applied. Depending on the complexity of a design, a single piece may be fired more than 15 times. During the process of firing, the painted minerals actually become a part of the original glaze on the china. There are no white paints to use with china; areas of white within a design are simply the piece's natural color with an absence of painting.
China painting is a ''very difficult medium to work with,'' said Mercer, but one benefit is that you can wipe off any mistakes and change anything until it is fired. Mercer explains that the minerals in oils won't dry like paints, and the painted design only becomes permanent after firing.
Mercer draws a flower onto a porcelain plate with a pencil in her studio, where she also holds classes. Matt Roth/Special
According to Mercer, too many people see the work of china painters and think the delicately painted flowers or landscapes are simply decals that have been fired onto the china, or they think that the images are traced or stenciled. Mercer maintains a small library of floral designs and antique postcard books, but says they are just for inspiration.
''Almost all patterns are originals, designed by the painter, and there are as many techniques as there are painters,'' Mercer said. China painters practice on ceramic tiles in order to work out a design, and then paint the design onto their chosen piece.
In the past, Mercer has poured and fired her own porcelain for use in painting, but has found it more economical to buy the glazed china pieces already prepared. Her studio walls are lined with shelves laden with plain white plates, vases, bowls, ornaments, trinket boxes and tea sets of many shapes and sizes.
Colors and types of mineral paints also are available in a wide variety, allowing endless combinations for a creative mind. Enamels can be used to create different textures and special lustres can be applied for an iridescent effect. And a 24-karat gold trim creates a rich look on any design.
Fine pieces of china in the hands of experienced painters become beautiful works of art that seem too fancy and delicate for everyday use, and yet they are fully functional. Tea sets painted with intricate floral designs look like antiques from grandmother's china cabinet. The gentle patience and skill of a practiced-china artist like Mercer becomes evident in elegant designs that will endure through generations.
Mercer's basement is devoted to her passion for china painting. She loves to experiment with different techniques, but painting roses are her favorite.
Since retiring, Mercer has taught her own china-painting classes. She currently has about eight students in each of her six weekly classes. She maintains 13 kilns of different shapes and sizes in order to meet the demand of her own work and the work of her students. Many of her students have painted with her since she first began teaching.
In the quiet of her studio, Mercer works on a porcelain plate.Matt Roth/Special
Mercer does sell her work, but finds it difficult to develop an adequate inventory while teaching. Although she hasn't sold at shows for years, she does exhibit locally with the Athens Area Porcelain Artists Club, which has about 70 members.
Mercer is also a member of the International Porcelain Artists and the World Organization for China Painters. The latter group holds annual exhibits in Oklahoma City, and each year 10 pieces are chosen to go in the organization's museum.
Mercer's walls boasts four awards commemorating her work that has been chosen over the years.
''You can be so creative with porcelain art,'' Mercer said.
Speaking of the various art media she's experimented with over the years, she said ''there's just so much in this world for people to do, I just can't imagine anybody being bored.''
A short history of china painting and porcelain art
Designs on china in mineral overglaze colors began to take their place in ceramic decoration in the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644).
Many colored enamels were in use in Persia in the 13th century, but the earlier Chinese red and green bore no resemblance to these. The developed art of painting on porcelain was an invention of the early Ming potters.
The Italians were credited with developing the first 'soft paste' porcelain in 1580 in Europe. The French were the first outside China to develop a satisfactory opaque white tin glaze. This ware became popular throughout Europe.
In 1710 Bottget of Meissen in Germany discovered the method of making true ''hard paste porcelain'' which had until then been a secret of the Chinese. This porcelain was glazed and decorated by hand with mineral paints. Factories in Europe began putting out hard paste china, which appealed to royalty.
In the latter part of the 1800s shops that taught china painting began to appear. In 1882, having studied in Europe and returned to America, Luella E. Braumuller put out ''Lessons for the China Painter.'' A magazine was published in New York and the 1902 edition showed numerous teachers and shop owners teaching the craft.
The art form dropped off after World War I because importing became difficult. It didn't pick up until the 1950s. Today, numerous teachers carry on the traditions of china painting.
- History provided by Pat Mercer
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, June 18, 2003.
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When I shared a bit about the story behind my path to becoming a surface designer in an Instagram Reel a few weeks ago, I never would have guessed that it would become one of my most viral Reels ever! I’ve never had more comments on a Reel, or had anyone tell me they cried while they watched one of my Reels before this, so it was clear that this topic was speaking to other artists.
So I thought it was time to expand on my story a bit and share some of the things over the years that helped me get to the next level in each part of my surface design journey.
The Fire Went Out
I started out my creative journey as a hopeful art student searching desperately for a path that would let me make art for a living. I tried making functional ceramics, but I found that making a profit was harder than I thought, and lugging my fragile yet incredibly heavy work around to craft fairs was simply not the life I wanted. After more than one craft fair tent blew over and sent a bunch of pots crashing to the ground, I considered that maybe I wasn’t cut out for selling ceramics outdoors.
I tried making sculptural work too, but in the end I realized that being tied to a studio with a kiln and materials meant I would never get to fulfill my dreams of traveling the world.
In the meantime, I started experimenting with selling screenprinted napkins and small ceramic sculptures on Etsy, but with only a few sales and a huge closet full of leftover supplies, I was beginning to see the writing on the wall — I just wasn’t cut out to be an artist.
In a frustrated fury I got rid of all my art supplies, got a desk job, moved out into an off-grid cabin in the woods built by my husband, and decided to “give art up for good”.
In the end, putting so much pressure on my creativity to support me financially right out of college burned up every bit of creative fire I had in my body.
A Little Spark
I don’t regret the giving up stage at all, because I think it was exactly what I needed to start fresh with new materials and a better mindset. After all my art supplies were gone I really had to ask myself, “Do I NEED art in my life, or was it just a passing phase? Do I love ceramics or do I just love making stuff? And why did I keep drawing on my pots even when my professors told me not to?”
After few years of a “creative dry spell” I read Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and started to feel a little spark again. I bought some ink pens, watercolors, and paper and just started playing.
I had no intention of making money from the things I was creating, and that left me free to experiment.
After a few months, that little spark turned into a little fire that made me feel excited to get up in the morning. At the time I was working 50+ hours a week and commuting an hour each way to work, so actually wanting to get out of bed in the morning was a somewhat unusual feeling for me.
I started making my first repeat patterns in that period and as soon as that process clicked, it changed the way I thought about drawing, painting, and digital art. I started seeing patterns everywhere and constantly wanted to stop what I was doing to sketch out an idea for a pattern.
A Bright Flame
One day at my soul-crushingly boring job in a museum where the temperature was kept below 60 degrees and there were no windows in my flourescently lit office, I was searching online for new jobs and discovered that Spoonflower was not only a 30 minute drive from my house but that they were hiring.
At the time I really only knew that they put patterns on fabric, but that was enough to convince me. I needed to be around patterns and people who liked to draw, so I basically ran out the door of my museum job to get there.
Over the course of the next 3 years I learned so much about patterns, SEO, and marketing that I never would have guessed would become the foundation for my next career.
At the same time, my husband was going through a change in his work too and started asking me about Spoonflower. What do they even do? How do these patterns get on that site?
So I did a little demo, explaining how you just take some simple shapes (using a motorcycle as an example) and repeat it, then people buy it and you get a commission.
I showed him a few ways we could change the colors and layout of our motorcycles and how to make it for sale. It was the cutest little tutorial ever that turned into the beginning of a new life for both of us.
While we slept, someone went to Spoonflower and searched for motorcycles and we woke up with not 1 but 2 dollars in our account! Holy moly! Someone just gave us $2 for some motorcycles on fabric!
I think you could say “the rest is history” at this point because that first sale inspired us to go down a rabbit hole of creating patterns and selling them on Spoonflower, Society6 and Redbubble. Even though it was only a few dollars a month in the beginning, it lit a fire under both of us that had us dreaming of quitting our day jobs and traveling the world. With each new sale we were even more inspired to keep creating patterns, and over time we got a sense for what our “audience” was looking for.
Get on the Plane
At the same time that our print-on-demand shops started growing into a respectable portion of our monthly income, I started teaching English as a Second Language online and taking clients from around the world for 1-hour private lessons.
I cut back on hours at my desk job and it seemed like every day more and more of our income came from online sources. One day my husband and I went for a walk in the woods and chatted about how we’d like to travel “one day”. We stopped at a local coffee shop on the way home and probably drank way too much coffee because sitting in that cafe we decided once and for all that it was time to set a date for leaving the country.
We chose a date a few months ahead, and started making plans for moving to Thailand. My husband (a spreadsheet fanatic) had already figured out that we could live on less monthly income in Thailand and finally spend the amount of time it would take to build new life where we worked for ourselves and worked when we wanted to.
Getting on that airplane was one of the scariest things we ever did, not for fear of flying but because it meant leaving everything we had known behind, quitting our jobs, and cutting all ties for a big crazy dream.
I spent the next year and a half drinking lots of espresso, making patterns, and teaching English online. As I started building up my pattern portfolio I realized that a lot of artists were using iPads to create motifs for patterns. “What”, I wondered, “is this whole iPad drawing craze?”
At the time I was drawing on paper, scanning it, and importing the drawings into Photoshop to recolor and clean them up. Needless to say, it was a hefty process for someone living out of a backpack!
I decided to find out if iPads really were the digital magic they seemed to be and after negotiating with a Thai teenager at a used technology desk in a possibly illegal market somewhere in ChiangMai I walked away with my first iPad.
Within a week I knew I needed to teach a class on it because it was simply too amazing to keep to myself! I had no expectation for what would happen when I posted my classes, but when Skillshare sent me my first payment of almost $3 whole dollars, I knew what that meant. That $3 was just as valuable as the $2 we made from our little motorcycle pattern not because of the monetary value but because of the meaning: this was evidence that it was working.
I didn’t have any plan for what was coming next, but I knew that if I just kept making patterns, illustrations, and hand lettering on my iPad and teaching people about what I was doing, it was going to change my life forever.
I started the cutest little blog that turned into one of my biggest traffic drivers to both my work and my classes (the same blog you’re reading now!) and started putting my art all over the internet in every way I could imagine.
Behind the scenes, I was so beyond excited that I had found a way to get paid for making art, that I kept thinking it was going to go away. I kept my multiple part-time jobs wayyy too long before finally going full time with my creative work. The moment I told my bosses I was quitting and went 100% full-time creative was one of the scariest yet most freeing moments of my life.
In the meantime, our little shop kept growing and seemed to pick up a new small business that relied on our fabrics each month. We even had a few “big breaks” like patterns featured in Target on shower curtains and a Netflix original featuring Steve Carrell (that’s a moon pattern we spliced together into a repeat using photographs of the moon in the creative commons!).
Over time, my style started to emerge and it was clear that our old shop that got us started didn’t go well with the art career I wanted to build. So I said goodbye to our ThinLineTextiles shops and started my own brand under my name, Liz Kohler Brown. Thin Line Textiles continues to pay us a full-time income every single month, but we haven’t added new designs for years!
Two babies and three countries later and I am still building this crazy thing that all started with one little pattern and a lot of guesswork! It’s been over 7 years since that first motorcycle repeat “took the internet by storm”, and I can’t believe the life I get to live is real.
I make patterns and illustrations for a living, and have the opportunity to choose which art licensors sell my work. I get to work with creatives like me who are working to improve and grow their creative practice, and I get to help other people realize their own creative dreams.
If I could go back and talk to that hopeful art student, I don’t think I would. She needed to go through every hard year, every terrible job, and every frustrating failure to appreciate where she is today. Without all that suffering, the gifts wouldn’t mean much at all.

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During his press conference Friday declaring a national emergency to address the coronavirus and release $50 billion in federal funding, President Donald Trump criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for its handling of the swine flu (H1N1 virus) in 2009.
“If you go back to the swine flu, it was nothing like this,” Trump said. “They didn’t do testing like this. And actually they lost approximately 14,000 people and they didn’t do the testing. They started thinking about testing when it was far too late.”
Facts First: Trump is wrong. The CDC did focus on testing – conducting 5,000 tests in the first month and sending out a total of 1 million tests in the first five months of the outbreak.
The CDC’s summary report of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic outlines how tests were administered at the time. The virus was first detected in the US on April 15. The CDC informed the World Health Organization about initial cases April 18. A test to detect this strain of swine flu was developed by the CDC and cleared for use 10 days later, on April 28, and the CDC began shipping tests across the US and around the world on May 1.
Within the next four months, more than 1 million tests “were shipped to 120 domestic and 250 international laboratories in 140 countries,” according to the CDC’s report.
By May 18, 40 states were authorized to conduct their own 2009 H1N1 testing, with eight states having multiple laboratories that could process the tests, the report says.
Between April 12, 2009 and April 10, 2010, the CDC estimates that the swine flu killed 12,469 people in the US.
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The New York Yankees’ pick of ESPN MLB analyst Aaron Boone as their new manager was an unconventional one, considering that Boone had never been a coach or manager at the MLB level. But Boone, officially named as the team’s manager Monday, has already been getting some advice on how to make the broadcasting-to-managing jump from someone who knows that transition well; Buck Martinez.
After wrapping up his playing career in 1986, Martinez became a broadcaster for the Toronto Blue Jays the next year, and took over as their manager in 2001. He held that role through part of the 2002 season before new GM J.P. Ricciardi fired him, then returned to the broadcast booth with the Orioles from 2003-09 and then the Jays from 2010 on. And Martinez told Ken Davidoff of The New York Post that Boone reached out to him about the broadcasting-to-managing transition while both were covering the World Series this fall:
“He asked me about my experience,” Buck Martinez said of Aaron Boone.
…“Once I got back into the dugout, it was a reminder of how quick the game is,” Martinez, who last played in 1986, said Saturday in a telephone interview. “It’s a great reminder for my broadcasting career to not be so critical when something happens on the field.
“No matter how long we’ve been in the game, you see something new happen. And then everyone on the bench looks at you and says, ‘What’s the rule on that one?’ I think that’s why it’s important to put together a great coaching staff.”
Davidoff’s piece notes that some others have made the broadcasting to managing transition without previous coaching experience, including Larry Dieker, a longtime broadcaster for the Astros who managed them from 1997-2001, and Jerry Coleman, who went from calling Padres games to managing them in 1980, then returned to the booth. (Bob Brenly’s move from announcer to manager with the Diamondbacks in 2001 doesn’t quite count, as he’d previously been a coach in the Giants’ organization.) But while the move worked out relatively well for Dieker, who won four division titles in five years (even if he never received another managing job afterwards), it was rougher for Coleman:
Jerry Coleman, a Yankees infielder during the Casey Stengel dynasty, was enjoying life as a Padres announcer when he decided to give managing the team a shot in 1980. The Padres went 73-89, finishing in last place in the NL West, and Jack McKeon, who took over as the team’s general manager in the middle of that campaign, fired Coleman at season’s end. Coleman returned to the comfort of the broadcast booth and stayed there until his passing in 2014.
In the ensuing years, McKeon said Saturday in a telephone interview, “[Coleman] thanked me so much. He said, ‘You did me the biggest favor of my life, getting me back to the radio booth.’ His heart wasn’t in it. He was away from it for so long, and we had a lousy club with gripers and complainers. That wasn’t Jerry’s style.”
We’ll see how things go for Boone with the Yankees. But one of the apparent points that sold the Yankees on him was the knowledge he’d gained from a wide variety of people throughout his years as a ESPN analyst, and this conversation with Martinez is a further example of that. At the least, Boone knows the right people to reach out to. Whether their advice will be helpful, and whether he’ll be able to implement it, is yet to be seen.


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Postedon Nov 25, 2014 at 06:15 pm
Today, November 25, U.S. District Court Judge Karen Baker ruled in favor of the freedom to marry in Arkansas, declaring the state's Amendment 83, which limits the freedom to marry to different-sex couples, is unconstitutional.
Postedon Nov 20, 2014 at 10:45 am
Today, November 20, the United States Supreme Court denied the state of South Carolina's request for a stay in Condon v. Wilson, a federal legal case in which a federal judge found that South Carolina's constitutional amendment denying the freedom to marry to same-sex couples is unconstitutional.
Postedon Nov 17, 2014 at 11:15 am
On November 17, 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Nebraska, and the law firm of Koenig Dunne filed a legal challenge to Nebraska's law denying the freedom to marry to same-sex couples, on behalf of seven same-sex couples seeking to marry in state or have their legal marriages respected in Nebraska.
Postedon Nov 17, 2014 at 10:45 am
On Friday, November 14, United States District Court Judge Karen Schreier denied the state of South Dakota's motion to dismiss a federal legal case seeking the freedom to marry, Rosenbrahn v. Daugaard.
Postedon Nov 07, 2014 at 05:00 pm
Less than 24 hours after the 6th Circuit's out-of-step ruling upholding marriage discrimination, legal teams for cases out of all four states announced that they would seek review of the ruling from the United States Supreme Court.
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Today, November 7, U.S. District Court Judge Ortrie D. Smith ruled in favor of the freedom to marry in a federal case from Missouri, striking down the state's marriage ban and paving the way for the freedom to marry to begin in the Show Me State.
Postedon Nov 06, 2014 at 04:30 pm
The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit issued the first ruling in favor of upholding laws that discriminate against same-sex couples from a federal appellate court in the past several years.
Postedon Nov 05, 2014 at 03:00 pm
Today, November 5, St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison ruled that denying the freedom to marry to same-sex couples in Missouri is unconstitutional.
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This year, Jorge Goytizolo in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida is mourning the death of his husband, Philip Parrish, who passed away in May after a sudden diagnosis of brain cancer. Now, Jorge is working hard to protect his twin children, Santiago Philip and Ella Starr.
Postedon Oct 31, 2014 at 10:00 am
In a new Freedom to Marry video, Jessica and Chi from Alabama share their story of building their lives with their 7-year-old daughter. "Everyone wants to believe that if you do what you're supposed to do, your family will be taken care of. But we don't have that safeguard."


After her successful recovery or rather victory from the dreaded cancer (Multiple Myeloma, to be precise), the Canada-born Indian actress Lisa Ray is now planning to open her own research institute for cancer in India. She is now planning to join hands with Shiladitya Sengupta (the winner of 2009's 'DoD Breast Cancer Research Program Collaborative Innovators Award') in order to open an institute, that's pencilled on the lines of Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
After a sabbatical, Lisa also recently expressed her wish to star in Bollywood films once again. The actress is known for her performance in films like Kasoor, Hollywood Bollywood and Water. She is married to management consultant Jason Dehni.


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The Hebrews, the first Middle Eastern people to embrace one monotheistic God, understood Him as loving and benevolent—and involved in their lives in an immediate sense.
The Hebrew prophets presented a dichotomy of God’s disownment and punishment on the one hand, with His love and promises of redemption on the other. The book of Hosea makes this clear.
To place the prophet Hosea in Israelite history, it helps to understand that the united kingdom of Israel, reigned over by Saul, David, and Solomon, had split into the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah by approximately 930 BCE. This happened early in the rule of Solomon’s son, Jeroboam I, who then ruled Israel while Rehoboam ruled Judah.
Hosea’s long ministry in Israel began about two hundred years later, from the mid-730s to the early 720s BCE. The Assyrians conquered Israel in 722, deporting so many of its inhabitants throughout the Assyrian empire that no further mention of the ten tribes of Israel was made in the Hebrew Bible.
In his chapter in the Hebrew Bible, Hosea 1:1 places him in the times of several Hebrew kings, whose reigns spanned several decades:
The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel.
Hosea—the only classical prophet native to the kingdom of Israel—preached against the socioeconomic abuses at grave odds with the Mosaic teachings. His prime target were the priests and false prophets who aided and abetted religious hypocrisy:
You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. – Hosea 4:5.
And it will be: Like people, like priests. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. – Hosea 4:9.
As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes. – Hosea 6:9.
The more priests there were, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful. They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness. – Hosea 4:7–8.
Hosea recognized Assyria as God’s instrument of chastisement to the Israelites. Assyrian soldiers were stationed just across the border, waiting for the order to invade. Hosea prophesied that the faithlessness of the people would be the cause of their defeat: “The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword …” – Hosea 13:16.
A Marriage Metaphor
The first instruction Hosea received, recorded in Hosea 1:2, was, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.”
The book of Hosea states that he subsequently married such a woman named Gomer, and the first three chapters of the book are devoted to the resultant metaphor—that Israel and its peoples are like an unfaithful spouse. In the book of Hosea, raw emotions of outrage, distress, and betrayal burst forth because the Israelites of God’s covenant with Moses had prostituted themselves with idolatry and other sins.
Gomer falsely believed that it was her lovers––the gods of idolatrous worship––who gave her food, water, wool, linen, olive oil, and drink. So in Hosea’s symbolic telling, God blocked her path with thorn bushes, walling her in so that she could not find her way to them:
She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.’ She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold—which they used for Baal. – Hosea 2:7‒8.
After expressing God’s pain and anger with Israel, Hosea revealed the divine plan to lure Israel back:
Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. – Hosea 2:14–15.
Achor, the name of the valley located halfway between Jerusalem and the north shore of the Dead Sea, translates from Hebrew as “trouble.” Akka, also called Akko and Acre, later became the prison city in Palestine to which Baha’u’llah, his family, and some of his followers were exiled by the Ottoman government. Baha’u’llah wrote:
The Apostle of God―may the blessings of God and His salutations be upon Him―is reported to have said: “Blessed the man that hath visited Akka, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of Akka.”
In a tablet included in Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, Abdu’l-Baha referred to Hosea’s door of hope as the prison city of Akka: “It is recorded in the Torah: And I will give you the valley of Achor for a door of hope. This valley of Achor is the city of Akka …”
When Shoghi Effendi wrote about Baha’u’llah’s exile to Akka in his book God Passes By, he also referenced Hebrew scriptures that foresaw Baha’u’llah’s exile, including the meaning of Hosea 2:15:
Indeed such a consummation [Baha’u’llah’s exile from Persia that ended in Akka], He assures us, had been actually prophesied “through the tongue of the Prophets two or three thousand years before.” God, “faithful to His promise,” had, “to some of the Prophets” “revealed and given the good news that the ‘Lord of Hosts should be manifested in the Holy Land.’” Isaiah had, in this connection, announced in his Book: “Get thee up into the high mountain, O Zion that bringest good tidings; lift up thy voice with strength, O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings. Lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah: ‘Behold your God! Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him.’” David, in his Psalms, had predicted: “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.” “Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence.” Amos had, likewise, foretold His coming: “The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.”
Akka, itself, flanked by the “glory of Lebanon,” and lying in full view of the “splendor of Carmel,” at the foot of the hills which enclose the home of Jesus Christ Himself, had been described by David as “the Strong City,” designated by Hosea as “a door of hope,” and alluded to by Ezekiel as “the gate that looketh towards the East,” whereunto “the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East,” His voice “like a noise of many waters.”
Hosea’s Valley of Achor might also symbolize today’s troubled humanity—and this door of hope its redemption through Baha’u’llah’s teachings of unity and peace.


text: The Wall Lake Public Library continues the “Universe of Stories” summer reading program next week with the first in a series of maker camps for children 10 years of age and older. Beginning at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 17, participants will gather at the library for a cookie decorating session with Brianne O’Neil. On Wednesday, July 24, the kids will be treated to stencil painting, and they will have the chance to experiment with wind tunnels on Wednesday, Aug. 7. The final session will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 14 and features acrylic pour painting with Laura Comito from Artworks Studio in Carroll. The first three camps are offered at no charge, but the final session does have a $12.50 fee to help cover the cost of supplies. The deadline to register for the maker camp is Friday, July 12. Registration forms, which can be found included with this story on our website, can be turned in at the Wall Lake Public Library. For more information on the programs, contact the library at 712-664-2983.

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This is not something Detroit Red Wings fans want to hear with the regular season right around the corner.
According to a report from Helene St. James, Red Wings center Dylan Larkin was hurt in practice on Tuesday after trying to avoid contact with Darren Helm.
Dylan Larkin leaves ice after appearing to hurt himself along boards. Went off on his own. Will post when have update.
— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) October 1, 2019
From Detroit Free Press:
Dylan Larkin went down along the boards after trying to avoid contact with Darren Helm about halfway through Tuesday’s 90-minute practice.
Larkin left the ice on his own accord.
“He kind of curled up with the puck and just kind of at the same time, he almost ran into Helmer,” coach Jeff Blashill said. “And then kind of went into the wall a little bit.
“It didn't look vicious at all. Not vicious, that's not the right word. It didn't look anything much. It looked fairly innocent. Then he went off the ice. We'll wait for the doctor's reports and see where everything is at.”
Let’s hope this is nothing and Larkin is 100% for the Red Wings season opener this coming Saturday in Nashville.


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More than one in 10 of Norfolk’s doctors are EU nationals, figures reveal
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Norfolk hospitals depend on the European Union for more than one in 10 doctors, new figures revealed, as uncertainty over Brexit threatens to worsen the crisis in the NHS.
Data collated by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism showed 13.6pc of frontline staff - that is doctors, nurses, and midwives - at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King's Lynn were EU nationals.
This compared to 8.5pc at the James Paget University Hospital (JPUH) in Gorleston, and 7pc at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH).
Unison eastern regional head of health Sasha Pearce said: 'There's a straight line between Theresa May's chaotic dealings with Brussels and the panic felt by many staff on the hospital floor.
'Norfolk's hospitals are already reeling from a serious shortage of staff - the last inspection at the QEH found that one in five nursing posts was unfilled and last month the hospital decided it didn't have enough staff to actually keep all its services running.'
All three hospitals had more than 10pc of their doctors from the EU - 13.3pc at the QEH (equating to 46 doctors), 12.1pc at the JPUH (37 doctors), and 10.4pc at the NNUH (106 doctors).
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While a high number of nurses at the QEH were also from the EU (14.5pc or 117 nurses).
The proportion of EU nurses leaving the trusts was also stark.
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Between 2017 and 2018 the QEH lost 35 EU nurses, while the JPUH lost 10. But the NNUH gained 9.
Ms Pearce said: 'It's hard to see how QEH – or any of Norfolk's hospitals – could cope with so many of its frontline staff deciding to up sticks and leave because they can't cope with life in the Tories' 'hostile environment' as we leave the EU.'
Meanwhile recruitment from the EU has 'plummeted' said Danny Mortimer, chief executive of trust representatives NHS Employers, warning that if numbers of nurses continued to fall then waiting times would go up dramatically.
'We would have to close capacity because we couldn't man the beds or run the theatres. Costs would go up because we had to rely on agency staff and they are more expensive.'
Joan Pons Laplana, a nurse at James Paget Hospital in Gorleston who independently campaigns on behalf of EU NHS staff, said: 'We feel quite deflated as EU staff and quite angry that [the government] is not solving the issue. They don't seem to realise there's five million people whose lives depend on this deal.'
He said while staff leaving had been an issue these had mostly been young people, while others, like him, had put down roots and made a family and home in the UK.
And that Brexit worries came with a backdrop of rising demand and dwindling resources in the NHS.
'We're trying to keep good care with less resources,' he said. 'But we're playing Russian roulette and you're hoping no one is going to die in your care. Then on top of that, while working hard to support the NHS, you have Brexit and we're told we may have to pay £65 to register to stay here.'
From November, EU staff working in health and social care will have early access to the government's EU settlement scheme before it launches fully in March.
NHS Employers said trusts should consider reimbursing staff the £65 fee it takes to register. No Norfolk hospitals said they were doing that as this stage.
If every one of Norfolk's NHS trusts paid for their EU staff to register for the scheme it would cost £65,845. Those who already have indefinite leave to remain or a permanent residence document would not be charged.
Mr Laplana said: 'I don't disagree there should be registration but it should have been done much sooner. And now I need to ask permission to continue living in my house. They should have thought of the EU people's rights from the beginning, we need them to feel welcome and valued. The government has done the complete opposite.'
Alex Stewart chief executive at Healthwatch Norfolk said: 'There are obviously concerns as to the impact Brexit will have on staff recruitment at hospitals across our region, which really is unknown at present.'
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said the number of EU nationals working in the NHS had increased since the referendum. The DHSC spokesperson said the 'NHS is preparing for all situations', but stressed that EU staff in the NHS 'will be among the first to be able to secure their settled status'.
What do the hospitals say?
The county's hospitals recognised uncertainty had been caused by Brexit and all said they continued to support their staff.
Jeremy Over, director of workforce at NNUH, said: 'Whilst we appreciate that the Brexit vote has caused uncertainty for some, we continue to recruit staff from the EU, which shows how attractive NNUH is as a great place to work and how popular Norfolk is as a place to live.
'We have previously had targeted recruitment campaigns and continue to actively promote the trust to our local graduates from universities, at national job events and through targeted recruitment campaigns to other EU and non-EU countries.'
Director of nursing at the JPUH Julia Hunt said; 'The James Paget recruits staff – including doctors, nurses and a variety of other health care professionals - from the UK, the EU and from across the world. Nationally, NHS recruitment is a key issue that is affected by a number of factors and the hospital works to ensure staff recruitment and retention through a variety of measures, including advertising abroad for staff, and this will continue.
'EU staff are a valued part of our workforce and we will support each member of staff on an individual basis. As with any organisation, there is an impact when any member of staff chooses to leave, whatever the reason, but we try to ensure the Paget is a good place to work and to build a career.'
While Karen Charman, director of human resources at QEH added: 'We value every member of our workforce regardless of their nationality.
'We operate a flexible rolling recruitment programme and continuously look to recruit staff from the UK, Europe and further afield. We therefore do not anticipate Brexit having a huge impact on our overall ability to recruit.
'Regardless of their nationality we support all our non-UK born staff to settle in the UK and offer help with permits and paperwork.
'We are also offering support to our current EU staff who may have concerns about the impact of Brexit on them and so far have we have not seen higher numbers of EU workers leaving than we would expect than during the normal course of staff turnover.'


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On Friday afternoon November 30 at approximately 1:45, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office responded to South Warren High School in reference to a message that students received indicating the possibility of a school shooting.
In addition to the Warren County Sheriff’s Office, the investigation into the incident involved multiple law enforcement agencies, including Kentucky State Police, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife and the FBI.
Police said that on Sunday night, as a result of the investigation, Warren County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as 18-year-old Andres Orellana-Lozano, of Bowling Green, a student at the high school. Orellana-Lozano was located at his home where he was interviewed and confessed to making the threats.
Orellana-Lozano is accused of using the Airdrop app to send the messages, which said “school shooting incoming,” “y’all better run” and “I’ll make Columbine look like a joke.”
(The Columbine reference refers to the 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that killed 12 students and one teacher.)
He was arrested and lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail where he’s been charged with second-degree terroristic threatening and tampering with physical evidence.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek lawmakers will vote this weekend on a controversial austerity bill that Athens needs to avoid a messy default but which is fuelling a domestic political and social crisis that has brought thousands of Greeks out on the streets in protest.The cabinet approved the draft bill late on Friday - paving the way for a new multi-billion euro bailout and a debt-cut plan - after another day of rocky politics where six cabinet members resigned over the additional austerity demands.
Analysts expect the deeply unpopular package to be adopted by parliament on Sunday after being discussed in committee on Saturday, but the political situation remains highly unstable and a number of lawmakers have said they would vote against it.
Even after the vote is completed, the EU expects the government to specify a further 325 million euros ($430 million)of spending cuts before it agrees to the 130-billion-euro bailout.
The EU and IMF have been exasperated by a series of broken promises and weeks of disagreement over the terms of the bailout, which would be Greece's second since 2010, and will not release the aid if they do not get clear commitments by main party leaders that the reforms will be implemented.
The uncertainty has roiled world financial markets, with stocks snapping a five-day winning streak on Friday and the euro slumping as planned wage and pension cuts in Greece hit a new obstacle.
Outside Greece's parliament, police fired teargas at black-masked protesters who threw petrol bombs, stones and bottles at the start of a 48-hour general strike against the cuts ordered by the "troika" of international lenders.
But the street protests against the austerity - which many Greeks blame on Germany - were relatively small compared to last year's mass rallies.
Unions have called protesters to rally again in Saturday and Sunday after they chanted on Friday: "Do not bow your heads! Resist! No to layoffs! No to salary cuts! No to pension cuts!"
The biggest police trade union said it would issue arrest warrants for Greece's international lenders for subverting democracy, and refused to "fight against our brothers."
EXACT AMOUNT LEFT OUT
The bill, approved by the cabinet along with hundreds of pages of accompanying documents, sets reforms including a cut of the minimum wage by 22 percent, pension cuts worth 300 million euros this year, as well as health and defense spending cuts.
But it does not spell out the exact amount of the bailout, which is left blank. Euro zone officials have said another 15 billion euros may be needed for the recapitalization of Greek banks after the debt swap.
"The government believes that sustained implementation of this policy program, complemented by debt restructuring, will put the public debt on a clear downward path," it says in a draft letter to EU and IMF chiefs, attached to the bill.
In the same letter, the government pledges to speed up implementation of reforms in the labor, product and services markets, cut spending, and push through a privatization plan.
Technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, who was parachuted into the helm of a coalition government in November to clinch deals on the twin bailout and debt-swap deals, told his turbulent cabinet earlier on Friday to accept the harsh bailout terms or condemn the nation to disaster.
"We cannot allow Greece to go bankrupt," he said. "Our priority is to do whatever it takes to approve the new economic program and proceed with the new loan agreement."
Greece faces bankruptcy unless it gets the funds from the IMF and European Union by March 20 when it has to repay 14.5 billion euros ($19 billion) in maturing bonds.
"It goes without saying that whoever disagrees and does not vote for the new program cannot remain in the government," Papademos said in televised remarks.
A minister who took part in the cabinet meeting later said the draft bill was approved. The text also lays out the legal groundwork for a debt swap plan in which private sector bondholders will agree to take a real loss of 70 percent to help bring the country's debt down.
One of the attached documents, which spells out the reforms Greece will have to undertake in return for the aid, says the target of cutting the debt to "about" 120 percent of GDP by 2020 from about 160 percent now will be achieved.
Analysts say only a breakdown of party discipline can sink the package in parliament, where the coalition has a huge majority.
"There will most likely be a string of defections and abstentions but I don't believe that the measures will fall short of the majority required," political analyst George Sefertzis told Reuters.
Far-right leader George Karatzaferis, who leads the junior party in the coalition formed in November, said later on Friday he could not back the tough terms attached to the bailout and all four cabinet members of his LAOS party submitted their resignations, along with two from the socialist PASOK party.
The PASOK party, however, called on its lawmakers to vote for the bailout, even though 35 of its lawmakers protested against pressure from euro zone ministers.
"Our lenders are once again presenting the dilemma: either you take the measures or you lead the country to a default," they said in a protest letter. ($1 = 0.7582 euros)
(Reporting by Harry Papachristou and Lefteris Papadimas; Writing by Ingrid Melander)


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Eight years after Russell Crowe’s take at the classic folk tale, it’s the Kingsman’s turn now.
Joined by Foxx as Little John, Jamie Dornan’s Will Scarlet and Tim Minchin’s Friar Tuck, Robin Hood and his band of merry men will take on Ben Mendelssohn’s Sheriff of Nottingham.
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The producer said: “It’s actually very different. Much more grounded, a little bit more serious than this [King Arthur].
“[It’s] about a man coming back from war and seeing what’s happened to his country.
“[He’ll] realise that what he was fighting for was actually very different.”
And now the official synopsis has finally been revealed.
Robin Hood is released on November 21
The official synopsis reads: "Robin of Loxley (Taron Egerton) a war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander (Jamie Foxx) mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown in a thrilling action-adventure packed with gritty battlefield exploits, mind-blowing fight choreography, and a timeless romance."
Sounds like the classic tale we all know and love, but the trailer shows a more modern spin on it, much like Guy Richie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword last year.
Robin Hood will be released in UK cinemas on November 21, 2018.

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 14, 2013
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
On January 14, 2013, we entered into a written Employment Agreement with Shad Stastney. Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Employment Agreement:
- Mr. Stastney will serve as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of our company for a period of twelve (12) months;
- Mr. Stastney will earn a base salary of $175,000;
- We will issue to Mr. Stastney an option to acquire two million (2,000,000) shares of our common stock at an exercise price per share of $1.00 with a term of 5 years; and
- Mr. Stastney will be entitled to participate in any employee benefit plans, as established by our board of directors.
Mr. Stastney also agreed to keep certain information confidential and not compete with or solicit from our company for a period of time.
The foregoing description of the Securities Redemption Option Agreement and Employment Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of Securities Redemption Option Agreement and Employment Agreement filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
SECTION 3 – Securities and Trading Markets
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
The information set forth in Item 1.01 is incorporated into this Item 3.02 by reference.
The issuance of an option to Mr. Stastney under his Employment Agreement was made in reliance upon exemptions from registration pursuant to Section 4(2) under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder.
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We have appointed Shad Stastney as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of our company, to hold office as provided for in his Employment Agreement. David Lester has resigned as our President and Chief Executive Officer, and has assumed the positions of Chief Operating Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of our company. David Harrell has resigned as our Chairman, and has assumed the positions of Vice Chairman and Chief Strategic officer of our company.
The employment histories for Shad Stastney, David Lester and David Harrell are provided for in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2012 (the “Annual Report”), which is incorporated herein by reference.
There are no family relationships among any of our current or former directors or executive officers.
Our newly-appointed officers have not had any material direct or indirect interest in any of our transactions or proposed transactions over the last two years, except as provided herein and as described in our Annual Report.
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Grubhub has unveiled the company’s latest initiative, “We Serve Restaurants,” a reaffirmation of its commitment to restaurants and support of the industry. Built out of in-depth research with restaurateurs and diners, this initiative marks a return to Grubhub’s roots, helping restaurants build a business by leveraging digital tools to enhance diner relationships and drive demand.
“Since my early days knocking on restaurant doors in Chicago more than 15 years ago, Grubhub’s sole focus has been helping restaurants grow. Restaurants were, and always have been, vital to our every day, and now their recovery is crucial,” said Matt Maloney, founder and CEO of Grubhub. “As communities reopen and we enter this next chapter, we’re dedicated to helping restaurants do what they love whilst successfully building their business.”
“We Serve Restaurants” builds on recent product updates and partnerships, launching with a 360-degree marketing campaign. As its centrepiece, the campaign features a “love letter” to restaurants, a national television spot highlighting the true labour of love that goes into every order.
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Friday, 6:30 pm EST:
Ringer Spy DD sends in some great pics from an advance copy of the Sunday New York Times!
Saturday, 3:23 pm EST:
Tehanu reports on the Minas Tirith Press Conference that PJ held with some of the rings stars.
Saturday, 8:29 pm EST:
Tehanu checks in again with a great link to a site with a log of what Peter Jackson said at the conference.
Sunday, 3:55 am EST:
Peter Jackson speaks!! You can view clips from the conference here.
Sunday 11:42 pm EST:
I reported on some exciting trailer news! It seems the LOTR trailer may very well be on the Kevin Costner pic ’13 Days’.


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The emergence of DeFi (decentralized finance) in 2018 is one of the most debated topics in the crypto space. Because DeFi operates in systems that do not require permission and trust, its vision is thought to violate traditional financial accessibility and the principles defining the sovereignty of wealth.
Metaverse is another popular Web3 concept that has sparked the interest of many, and it has evolved into another technical invention that combines augmented reality and virtual reality, supporting human interaction in various social and commercial activities (such as playing games, watching movies, hosting virtual conferences, etc.).
In addition, the Metaverse offers a virtual space and a virtual economy for people with avatars to work, earn money, buy and sell property.
The combination of these technologies gave birth to the new concept of MetaFi. There is no single definition of MetaFi, but there are two versions of it. The meaning of each is different, but they all agree on one thing – it is a concept that implies the unification of DeFi infrastructure and all types of blockchain projects into one meta-universe: GameFi, SocialFi, Web3 and NFT.
Metadata + DeFi
MetaFi is an integration of two concepts: “Meta,” which stands for metadata (not Metaverse), and “Fi,” which comes from decentralized finance (DeFi). The MetaFi concept aims to standardize blockchain technology and how it works to create a single standard for improved interaction on the Web3. The new concept aims to bring together all blockchain-based projects and innovations, such as Metaverse, GameFi, SocialFi, Web3 and NFT, offering an advanced and sophisticated DeFi framework under one roof.
The cryptocurrency exchange Binance invented the term “MetaFi” in 2022 as a new and innovative paradigm shift aimed at standardizing blockchain technology for traditional large-scale Web2 applications (social networks, gaming apps, browsers, etc.).
What is Metadata?
Metadata is data that provides information used to describe data contained in web pages, documents, or files. Simply put, metadata is a set of data that describes and provides information about other data. For example, metadata associated with images taken on your device might include information about resolution, date, and location. Another example of metadata is data associated with blockchain transactions, including the day, time, and hash values of said transaction.
In the case of NFT, basic properties such as the name, description, image references and anything else the creator deems important are described to help users identify the features and properties of the image, artwork or collectibles.
What is Metaverse?
The Metaverse is a virtual world in which people interact with each other as they do in the real world with the use of interactive avatars. The metaverse originated from the novel “Snow Crash,” written by Neal Stephenson in 1992, where people interacted with each other in a three-dimensional environment. “First Player Standby” is a good example of what the metaverse looks like. In the movie, the players had different experiences, such as doing extreme physical activities or driving technologically advanced vehicles.
Possible applications of MetaFi
MetaFi will provide various possibilities with decentralized applications (DApps) in a multitude of ways once it is fully developed. Here are some of them:
MetaFi can be used to create a standardized marketplace for each individual list of asset types that may exist in multiple chains. This will enhance the collectors’ experience by giving them access to all NFTs in a single interface, making exchanging assets very convenient and efficient. one. NFT marketplaces like Opensea and Rarible allow users to trade independently and create NFTs directly. MetaFi will offer anyone interested in buying and selling on these marketplaces a one-stop store for all types of NFT. These items will not be limited to just images, but will also include virtual wearables, in-game items, NFT art or real estate and more.
The concept of the metaverse aims to create multiple and persistent shared interfaces where users can have different experiences together and interact with each other for different purposes: communication, commerce, gaming, etc. With MetaFi, applications that support these virtual worlds, such as Sandbox, Axie Infinity, and Decentraland (Metaverse’s most famous projects), can seamlessly and reliably interact with each other. MetaFi will also enhance the functionality of digital assets and virtual tokens by providing options for use outside of their native virtual worlds.
With MetaFi, you can leverage your NFTs – borrowing by using your NFTs as collateral. The borrowed asset can then be extended with a secured NFT at a higher rate, resulting in higher profits. The owner receives a portion of the lender’s income for leasing his NFTs to others. This shows that integrating NFTs into DeFi’s crop-growth liquidity provisioning tokens is possible because MetaFi’s goal is to provide a framework in which DeFi and other blockchain-based projects can be synergized.
Currently, the technique and cost of creating and exchanging fan tokens varies for each blockchain. MetaFi will help simplify the process of creating, buying and trading fan tokens. Owners will be given access to different forms of value, which can be interchangeable or non-interchangeable tokens, giving them access to different communities and minted tokens in the future.
What is so special about MetaFi and what are the Challenges
The idea behind MetaFi is to link all blockchain projects into one ecosystem using a single metadata standard. It should be used in all blockchain technologies: cryptocurrencies, NFTs, GameFi, DeFi, DAO, etc.
Thanks to metadata standards, assets will be easy to read and sort. They will be usable in any blockchain. For example, if the metadata in the blockchains were of the same standard, one NFT marketplace would be able to contain NFTs from all the blockchains. But such a metadata standard would not work without the infrastructure – so called crosschain bridges. This is a set of tools for creating communication between blockchains. In it, smart contracts freeze and release tokens, oracles keep track of price matches, and nodes perform validation. As a result, assets are frozen in one blockchain and copies are released in another. All projects approach this solution differently, but the principle described remains the same.
One of the examples of this approach – the MetaFi project. It is a launchpad (launchpad is a platform where crypto startups raise funds for further development and launch) that focuses on GameFi, NFT, and meta universes.
The MetaFi team plans to launch two products in the fourth quarter of 2022:
Metaverse bank – a platform for NFT transactions from different projects. Its users will be able to buy, sell, lease, store and stack their tokens. The platform will work with crosschain bridges, as well as the entire ecosystem of the MetaFi project; Guilt agregator – a platform where users will be able to search for different Play-to-Earn guilds and interact with them through a single interface. Crosschain bridges will also be used here.
There are some other obvious MetaFi limitations that will come into play.
Lack of hardware and software tools
To build a standardized infrastructure that fits MetaFi’s vision, which includes marketplaces, tools for creators and various business models, the Internet will need more capabilities to support VR, AR and AI-based 3D virtual worlds, as well as network security. Although companies such as CUDOS are integrating cloud computing to connect developers and blockchain services to the global pool of computing power. However, mass adoption is still relatively slow for businesses.
Another limitation of MetaFi is that different blockchains create frameworks that only work within their networks, with no ability to interact with other platforms. To achieve scalability and interoperability between different disparate blockchains, it is important to explore improvements in fundamental/infrastructural technologies, such as Layer 1 blockchains, to ensure that applications running on blockchain protocols are more accessible across the board. This ensures that applications running on these blockchain protocols will receive lower transaction fees, increase speed and provide scalability.
While several projects are starting to provide interoperable solutions and infrastructure, the road to unrestricted blockchain connectivity has only just begun. MetaFi can only remain a concept until interoperability is achieved at all levels of the blockchain ecosystem.
When it comes to DeFi, there is a need for a stable tokenomics so that users are guaranteed more stable and reliable incentives to accelerate long-term growth and prevent large sell-offs by users driven by APY volatility or incentive rewards. This needs to be taken care of before the MetaFi concept can be fully adopted.
Exciting times ahead! While the future of MetaFi is still uncertain, it demonstrates the possibilities that will significantly change the blockchain space, giving users easy access to their digital assets and personal data. Whether in the meta-universe, games, or other areas, this MetaFi concept will have many applications and more innovations in the blockchain and cryptospace.


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text: AIMSBiomaterials are widely used in ophthalmology, and biodegradable polymers have been evaluated for use in surgery, tissue engineering and targeted drug delivery. We examined the tissue reactions attributable to 3 biodegradable polymers in the rat eye.METHODSInion GTR™ membrane [a blend of 85:15 poly(L-lactide-coglycolide) and 70:30 poly(L-lactide-co-1,3-trimethylene carbonate) copolymers in a molar ratio of 70:30], a 50:50 molar ratio of poly(DL-lactide-coglycolide) (PDLGA 50:50), and a 85:15 molar ratio of poly(DL-lactide-coglycolide) (PDLGA 85:15) were surgically implanted into the subconjuctival space of rat eyes. Biocompatibility was evaluated by following the eyes clinically and with histo- and immunohistochemical techniques.RESULTSNo clinical signs of inflammation were observed around the implants during follow-up. However, immunohistochemical sections revealed increased accumulation of magrophages around PDLGA 85:15 at 2 weeks and of myofibroblasts around GTR membrane material at 1 month. The order of the degradation time of the material was GTR membrane material > PDLGA 85:15 > PDLGA 50:50; Fourier transform infrared microscopy revealed some differences in the degradation behavior of the polymers. Immunohistochemical staining for plasma or cellular fibronectin was observed around all implants.CONCLUSIONSDespite the different decay times and influences on the expression levels of fibronectins, all polymers evoked rather similar tissue reactions during the observation period. This study provides new data on the biocompatibility of biomaterials in rat eyes. Our findings of the tissue decay of the implant and biomaterial-induced tissue reaction may help in the development of better biomaterials for eye surgery with optimal drug delivery properties.


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If you were one of the half-million T-Mobile customers who pre-registered to be notified about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S5 and its new sleather (S Leather — get it?) battery cover, you’ll officially be 1 step closer to owning the device this coming Monday, March 24th. That’s the day the T-Mobile Galaxy S5 will be available for pre-order both online and in-store for $0 down. Of course, monthly commitments apply, so expect to pay $27.50 over the course of 2 years (total = $660).
T-Mobile also mentioned that early birds who pre-order by March 31st will get some sort of special “introductory price” for the S5, although T-Mobile didn’t mention exactly what that price would be (and $660 already sounds a little higher than full price). Those that pre-order have a chance to skip the line when the phone officially becomes available in T-Mobile stores on April 11th.
Of course, T-Mobile is still offering to pay your ETFs, should you be thinking about making the trek over from another carrier but are still locked into an agreement. Anyone out there looking to pick up a Galaxy S5?


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A Beginner's Guide to Discrete Mathematics
Wallis's book on discrete mathematics is a resource for an introductory course in a subject fundamental to both mathematics and computer science, a course that is expected not only to cover certain specific topics but also to introduce students to important modes of thought specific to each discipline . . . Lower-division undergraduates...
A Beginner's Guide to Graph Theory
Concisely written, gentle introduction to graph theory suitable as a textbook or for self-study
Graph-theoretic applications from diverse fields (computer science, engineering, chemistry, management science)
2nd ed. includes new chapters on labeling and communications networks and small worlds, as well as expanded...
Revised and updated, this second edition of Walter Gautschi's successful Numerical Analysis explores computational methods for problems arising in the areas of classical analysis, approximation theory, and ordinary differential equations, among others. Topics included in the book are presented with a view toward...
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As you can see above, Audi has put out a commercial that mocks many of the common doubts people have about electric cars. Featuring the all-new Audi E-Tron, the ad tries hard to portray an EV doubter as someone ridiculously uninformed.
For example, the narrator states that “electric just doesn’t have enough range” as the E-Tron speeds by in the middle of the desert. Or the statement “electric just can’t keep up” as a Formula E racecar speeds by on a track, along with the E-Tron.
By getting all the electric car myths out in the open, it’s like Audi is calling out people’s ignorance. I haven’t seen an automaker do this so effectively before, but Audi has always boasted some of the slickest marketing campaigns in the automotive industry.
With the E-Tron debuting in the United States next month, Audi has a vested interest in everyone realizing EVs aren’t just a gimmick.