This piece is a firsthand recounting of the school shooting in Aurora, Colorado, that happened in 2021. The author wrote it a week after the tragic event. We ask that you use your discretion.
You think you can handle it. You can prepare and know the routine. You can lock the doors and shut off the lights and huddle on the ground. You can instruct your kids to turn off any noises on their phones. To remain quiet. To stay away from doors and windows. Locks, lights, out of sight.
But then it becomes reality. And your fearless leader comes over the loudspeaker, and you can feel her voice tremble in your bones. “This is not a drill. Take cover in your rooms. Lock your doors. Turn off the lights.”
Something like adrenaline rushes through your veins. But not the adrenaline you feel when you are going on stage to speak in front of a crowd. It’s the adrenaline that is preparing you to face whatever is on the other side of that locked door should it somehow open. It numbs you. You can’t feel anything in your body other than your pounding heart, and all you hear is your breath against the cold concrete beneath you where you lie curled in a ball. It’s your lunch break, and you are facing this alone under your desk, the chair pulled in so it looks as if the room is abandoned and empty. Your students are out there in someone else’s hands, and it hits you like a wall of bricks. It’s out of your control.
Your friends at school start to text you: Are you safe? Are you breathing OK? Are you hidden?
I text my mom, my partner, and my brothers: “Something bad is happening at school. Can’t talk now, but I love you guys so much, and I am going to be okay.”
It feels like it’s been hours of pure fear, although it’s only been 10 minutes. You find out through franticly hitting the refresh button on your google search that it’s a shooting. Three teens shot in the parking lot on the other side of the building, transported to local hospitals. Their condition and names are unknown. It might be your student that you said goodbye to 30 minutes prior.
You start to shake. Not a nervous tremble—a full-body crescendo. You cry the gut-wrenching tears that consume your body in a way you’ve experienced before in the form of panic attacks and bipolar depression. But these tears are so different. It’s not about you anymore. It’s about your students, about your friends on staff, about the community and the innocence lost this afternoon.
Safety feels like a privilege.
I wish this wasn’t the truth, but it is. I would like to say that senseless violent acts like these shake me into some sort of heroic action. I want to come out stronger and more determined to lead and educate others on gun violence and the snowball effect that poverty has on the collective well-being and mental health of my community, but instead, I can’t find the right words. I freeze. And I stay frozen. My stare is empty and hollowing to the core.
A week has now passed, still frozen in my own skin. One minute I feel fine, I feel like myself, I can handle things. I can make breakfast, I can go to the grocery store, and I can even watch TV. But the next minute, I’m back in a ball, physically shaking and trying to release the anger and sadness and grief and confusion that crawl right beneath the surface. I’m back under my desk alone with just the question of: “How could I have prevented this?”
I know that I did nothing wrong, that this is so much bigger than me, but I want so badly to find some sense of control in what happened. I need to be strong for my students, but I feel weak and incapable, overcome with the emotions of being a vulnerable human facing trauma.
This isn’t the way things are supposed to be. And I can’t change a damn thing on my own. I need help. To teach your kids, your friends, your loved ones that violence is not the answer. It is never the answer. Teach them that their purpose in life is so much more than putting the end to someone else’s dreams and ambitions. Because that one bullet hits so many more people than the target it is intended for. This has to stop. And it starts with me when I face my students in person on Monday morning and continue to listen to their stories and their hopes and fears and their struggles, and I tell them how much I love them and believe in them.
Because it starts with love. It ends with love. The only way out of this mess is love. Love your neighbor. Talk through differences with your enemy. Work through the pain. Love yourself enough to put down the weapon.
We need mental health resources and people to care about the safety and well-being of one another. We need those in power to problem-solve and find ways to be proactive about eliminating violence and not just reactive when tragedy strikes. Because I care about my students more than you will ever know, but I can’t do this alone.
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Although some people who have never traveled to the desert region of America may not be so keen on moving there, more and more people are moving to this strikingly beautiful part of the country. Tucson, AZ has become one of the most populated cities in the state boasting well over 500,000 residents according to the last census. Why are so many people moving to this city? There are a variety of reasons and if you want to make a move to a new place, here are some things you need to know about moving to Tucson, AZ.
It Might Improve Your Health
Although the desert environment is not ideal for every human ailment, studies have shown it is significantly helpful for those who have asthma and other breathing concerns. Generally, what makes asthma and lung issues worse is high humidity. Therefore, many of the southern states can be very difficult for those who have breathing conditions. However, the arid, dry climate of Tucson, AZ is ideal for keeping lungs open and operating correctly. Many doctors have recommended patients with chronic breathing problems invest in a desert move like Tucson, AZ.
Embrace the Cowboy Experience
When living in Tucson, AZ, you will come to live the cowboy lifestyle and you do not have to invest in your own expansive ranch to enjoy the experience. The cowboy lifestyle of bronc riding and the classic Vaquero heritage is alive and well hear. Each year the La Fiesta de Los Vaqueros is a celebration of the American Bronc Buster and is culminated by a variety of cowboy related events and the largest non-motorized parade in the country, so it is worth a visit to this annual festival of proud cowboys.
Like New Food Experiences?
America is full of unique foods and culinarians throughout the nation are encouraged to invest in new flavors and bring multiple flavors together for a new experience. Where you might be under the misconception that only New York and LA can provide a truly unique food experience, you will be surprised that amazing food options are found throughout Tucson, AZ. Tucson is home to some of the biggest foodies in the country and most food options here revolve around locally sourced, organic varieties, so when you want to venture out of the norm, head down to downtown Tucson, AZ for an unbelievable food scene you are going to love.
If You Hate Rain, You Will Love Tucson, AZ
Taking the family out for a day of fun can be ruined by a popup shower or storm and in certain areas of the country, these things are just difficult to predict. However, when living in Tucson, AZ you might forget what rain is. Each year, the city boasts a staggering 350 days of endless sunshine, so you never have to worry about a rain shower ruining your day. Even if it does rain, wait just a few minutes, and it will pass, so you can go about your day in blissful sunshine.
The option of endless sunshine is great, but it does make for issues with storage in your home. Homes built in Tucson, AZ tend to be low to the ground without traditional attic or basement storage, so many people opt for storage units in Tucson, AZ to help alleviate the strain of where to put extra items. Storage units offer a substantial opportunity to declutter your home without having to rehome valuables and items you want to keep. Investing in a storage unit, whether standard or climate controlled, is a smart idea for anyone moving to Tucson, AZ.
Always a Place to Party
Even though Tucson, AZ is a substantially large place, it remains a very community focused city, so regular festivals and parties are welcomed events here. Downtown Tucson plays host to a variety of annual events such as Tucson Meet Yourself, which is a festival that embraces the history of the city. Locals have begun to call the festival, “Tucson, Eat Yourself,” Due to the high amounts of food offered, but that is certainly not a bad thing. Other regular events include the monthly Second Saturday and the Heirloom Farmer’s Market that comes to downtown each week. There is always something fun to do for any age in Tucson, AZ.
The Ghost Stories
You cannot have a place like Tucson, AZ and its incredible history without a few ghost stories floating around. Tucson is a very spiritually minded place even in modern day. Residents can seek advice from a local shaman and for those who want a little fright in their night, the Historic Hotel Congress even has a haunted room you can stay in. Additionally, the Wailing Woman is said to haunt the banks of the now dry Santa Cruz River. However, locals claim that the sight of the woman brings about bad omens, so you might want to avoid that one if you are superstitious.
Rock Climbers Love Tucson, AZ
One look at the desert environment surrounding Tucson, AZ and you will instantly see why so many rock climbers make the trek to this part of the country. The landscape is a rock climber’s haven with endless sheer faced rock cliffs to choose from. The entire desert is like a rock climber’s dream and even if you are new to the sport, you are sure to find a few locals willing to show you the ropes. Even if you do not intend on climbing the rocks, plenty of photo opportunities can be found throughout the day. Try venturing out at sunrise or sunset for a truly remarkable light show across the desert. You will not regret it.
There are so many places that offer an enjoyable life to live, but few have the same opportunities that Tucson, AZ offers. This city is among the most popular desert cities in the country and residents here truly embrace the history of their city and the modern amenities it now offers. If Tucson, AZ sounds like your type of place, pack your bags and make that big move today.


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How investors would adjust under the GOP House tax reform proposal
Municipal investors said the House GOP tax reform bill may create some opportunities, even as it slashes issuance of bonds and raises credit risk.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (HR1), approved by the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday, would eliminate tax-exempt advance refundings, private activity bonds [PABs] for housing, private universities, not-for-profit hospitals, certain airports, ports, toll-roads, stadiums, and industrial development, as well as tax credit bonds, and alternative minimum tax paper.
The Senate Republicans’ tax reform proposal, based on an outline released late Thursday, would preserve private activity bonds and even enhance them, while advance refundings would still be terminated after this year.
"The biggest change in the Senate version is the ability of non- for- profits like hospitals to continue to issue tax-exempt bonds and other private activity type entities such as airports and toll roads to also issue tax-exempt debt to finance those type of projects," said Dan Heckman, senior fixed income strategist Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank. "This makes sense from the standpoint of emphasizing Infrastructure projects in the US. Both the House and Senate versions however do eliminate advance refunding’s, reducing billions of dollars in additional bonds that would come to the market, consequently denying governments the ability to refinance existing tax-exempt debt."
“The most concerning aspect for investors should be the expected decline in municipal bond issuance moving forward as we see the stadium bond proposal as highly likely of becoming law,” Michael Pietronico, chief investment officer at Miller Tabak Asset Management, said regarding the House GOP's bill last week.
“This potential decline in issuance tells us investors are too underweight in duration and as such should look to add both cash and duration to their existing municipal bond portfolios,” Pietronico said.
“If passed in its current form, the proposal would create a supply nightmare and lead to a wide range of credit issues for the public finance sector,” Triet Nguyen, head of public finance credit at New Oak Fundamental Credit, in a weekly municipal report on Nov. 3.
He noted that state and local governments would lose a tool for reducing their debt service costs if the elimination of advance refunding issuance is approved. As a result, “there might be a tendency to reduce the call protection period for investors, which will only add to the negative convexity already associated with municipal bonds,” Nguyen wrote.
Speculation that a proposed reduction to 20% from 35% in the top corporate income tax will create less institutional demand for municipals will be offset by the reality that “the municipal market is dominated by retail investors,” Heckman said. “Demand from individuals outweighs demand from institutions.”
That could all change if the House version of tax reform becomes law, according to a Nov. 6 report by Peter Block, managing director of credit strategy at Ramirez & Co. Block.
He said the bill's passage probably would transform the municipal market from a largely retail market into a more institutional market. He estimates that under the existing bill’s proposal, gross tax-exempt new issue supply likely would decline by between 30% and 40% and only be partially replaced by taxable bond supply.
“Taxable supply would be structured to appeal more to institutional investors rather than retail investors with par coupons, make-whole calls, and shorter durations,” he said. “The plunge in exempt supply would make tax-exempts the last remaining legal tax shelter available to individual investors -- even if individual rates remain 39.6% at the top bracket and/or corporate rates are 20%.”
Although the general exemption for municipals remains, “we can’t help but think that the GOP’s mission was to dilute the exemption as much as possible,” Jeffrey Lipton, head of municipal research and strategy and fixed income research at Oppenheimer Inc., wrote in a Nov. 6 report.
Heckman estimated that the elimination of private activity bonds would remove between $12 billion and $25 billion in issuance from the municipal market annually.
“Although it’s not a gigantic slice of the overall muni market, it is incremental,” he said, adding that PAB issuance is nearing pre-recession levels, after doubling in 2016 from 2015.
Over the past three years, tax-exempt advance refunding bonds and PABs together accounted for an average of 40% of gross municipal market supply, according to Block.
“The potential elimination of tax-exempts for this purpose is alarming for the market,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, the imbalance of supply and demand in the municipal market may worsen if the tax reform gains approval, buyside experts said.
“If these tax changes become law, the supply/demand chasm will widen further -- assuming tax reform does not appreciably undermine demand for the municipal asset class,” Lipton said in his report.
There is a strong argument to buy tax-exempt bonds in light of the proposed tax reform – and its impact on volume going forward, Nat Singer, senior managing director at Swap Financial Group, told The Bond Buyer.
Pietronico agreed, saying, “some tax deductions will be done away with and as insurance against that we urge investors to stock up on the municipal bond exemption as it may be harder and more expensive to find in the coming years.”
Singer said a tax reform-induced supply slump will be exacerbated by the already expected lack of current refundings in 2018 and 2019, as volume in 2008 and 2009 was dominated by Build America Bonds -- most of which had make-whole calls rather than standard 10-year calls.
“As a result, there will be less bonds in the market to current refund in the next two years,” Singer said in an interview. Combined, the dearth in issuance of advanced and current refundings will make it harder for investors who remain in the 39.6% top tax bracket to find adequate tax exemption for their growing income, he said.
That, Singer said, “could crowd more high net-worth investors into the tax-exempt market.”
“Less supply and more demand creates a scenario where muni bonds may become very rich,” and lead to declining ratios, Singer said.
Heckman agreed, saying that the likelihood of the top tax bracket remaining at 39.6% -- on top of a 3.8% Medicare surtax -- “enhances the need for tax-exempt paper more than ever” ahead of the potential for a significant drop in volume if the House tax reform bill passes in its current form.
“When a high-income individual is looking for ways to minimize their income taxes, tax-exempt munis are one of the few options,” Heckman said. “It becomes even more so the case if these measures pass.”
Heckman said the supply crunch for investors would be compounded by the elimination of tax-exempt issuance by 501 (c) 3 non-profit organizations like hospitals, higher education facilities, and nursing homes.
These entities have significant capital needs often financed by municipal bonds. “If that provision passes we will see more taxable municipal issuance,” Heckman said.
Still, some analysts said some of the bond reforms could lead to increases in price, value, and demand – and other technical factors - if the House version of the bill passes.
“Muni bond buyers hit a triple with this news and could fare very well in this proposal,” Michael J. Belsky, senior portfolio management director of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s Vector Group, told The Bond Buyer on Nov. 7.
“Although issuance might spike to take advantage of any changes in the law, I expect a marked decrease in supply, which should keep prices buoyant,” he said. “I don't expect an increase in rates as I did previously. Any decrease in corporate tax rates that would force rates higher is mitigated by the tighter supply.”
Lipton said there is potential scarcity value by eliminating certain types of financings, which can produce tighter spreads within these sector categories.
Heckman said the increase of taxable issuance by 501 [c] 3 entities under the new House bond reforms could turn into a positive for investors since the void “will increase the value of current tax-exempt bonds and any future issuance of tax-exempt bonds.”
Both the elimination of PABs and tax-exempt issuance by 501 [c] 3 entities “could add to the appeal and attraction of existing and any future issuance of tax-exempt bonds,” Heckman added.
“Should this financing vehicle be spared the ax, it may actually benefit from the spillover demand for yieldy instruments,” Nguyen said of the proposed elimination of tax exempt issuance by the non-profits.
The supply curtailment could also benefit all outstanding traditional high yield municipals, according to Nguyen, but he said, the investment grade portion of the market may not fare as well – particularly from a credit standpoint.
“The potential repeal of the AMT should lead to outperformance by bonds subject to the AMT, as the yield on those bonds would converge toward pure tax-exempt yield levels,” he explained. In addition, “the proposed elimination of PABs and stadium bonds should boost the scarcity value of yieldy paper.”
Buyside analysts said they were surprised to see the proposed elimination of new PAB issuance after it was previously considered the solution to a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure via public-private partnerships, but were not surprised by the elimination of tax-exempt stadium-bond financings.
“The [Trump] administration was pushing public-private partnerships as a way of achieving maximum operating results,” Belsky said.
Nguyen pointed out that “after months of debates about an expansion of the PAB sector as a potential solution to America’s infrastructure problem, drafters of the tax proposal ended up going in the opposite direction.”
“Market participants were completely blindsided by the proposed elimination of tax exemption for advance refundings and for private activity bonds,” Nguyen said.
“Proponents of tax-exempt financing were bracing themselves for a potential hit on the marginal demand for municipals, primarily from a tax rate reduction for corporate buyers such as the banks,” he wrote. “What they got instead was a wholesale assault on the supply side of the equation.”
As a percentage of total supply, advance refundings have been on a decline, according to Nguyen, as public issuers have largely exhausted refinancing opportunities in the low rate environment. But, he pointed out, “any further reduction in supply will only exacerbate the already tight technicals in our market.”
There are also disadvantages for the sell-side, the experts noted.
Lipton said the loss of both PABs and AMT-subject bonds could create a dramatic shift in the technical landscape of the municipal market and issuers would find themselves “economically penalized with significantly scaled back access to the tax-exempt market.”
“The proposed elimination of state and local income and sales tax deductions may severely limit the revenue-raising flexibility for high income tax states,” Nguyen noted, even though the same may enhance the tax shelter appeal from those states.
This elimination could elevate demand for in-state municipal bonds in high taxed states, Lipton added.
“It’s a bad day for issuers, as the plan restricts pre-refunding, puts limitations on non-profit hospitals and universities, and a reduction of exemptions for property and casualty companies,” Belsky of Morgan Stanley said of the House plan.
“States and locals will have to tighten budget belts again, as they don't enjoy the same flexibility, especially with pre-refunding restrictions,” he said, Belsky said he continues to prefer essential service revenue bonds for his high net worth individual investor clientele.

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Japan on Saturday launched a rocket and put the third of its new quasi-zenith satellites into orbit to help improve the precision of the global positioning system.
The launch from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima prefecture came a week later than originally scheduled due to a technical problem in the rocket, Xinhua news agency reported.
The H-2A rocket was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and carried the Michibiki No.3 which is part of a four-satellite constellation.
The satellite went into the planned orbit around 2.57 p.m. (local time).
Michibiki satellites are used to determine locations of objects on earth and the system’s first satellite was sent into space seven years ago, and the second was launched earlier this year. The fourth one is scheduled for October.
The new satellite system will be officially put into use next year and complement a network of US satellites that Japan previously used for its GPS needs.
According to informed sources, GPS, which is owned by the US, has a margin of error of about 10 meters when it comes to global positioning.
When Michibiki and GPS are working in tandem, however, that margin is said to be reduced to just a few centimetres.


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Shredded Raw Papaya Salad (Kacho Mewa ko Achar) Recipe!!
When I saw raw papaya in the Asian Grocery store yesterday, I was literally jumping because its been years since I hadn't had my favorite achar. This particular achar goes really with simple rice and black lentil or with any regular Nepali Meal (recipe here). Also, need not to mention, this recipe is super easy and effortless to prepare. Here you go guys my favorite and so can be yours, the Shredded Raw Papaya Salad (Mewa ko Achar) Recipe :x
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Prep time: 10min(s) Cook time: 5min(s) Total time: 15min(s)
Things you will need:
Raw Papaya (1 medium size)
Serrano Pepper (2, finely chopped)
Salt (according to taste)
Turmeric powder (1/2 tea spoon)
Mustard powder (1/2 table spoon, grind fresh black mustard)
Sesame powder (1 table spoon, roast and grind into fine powder)
Red Chili powder (1/2 table spoon)
Fenugreek seeds (1/2 tea spoon)
Oil (2 table spoons)
Lime Juice (2 table spoons)
Papaya: Peel, cut in large chunks, take out seeds and clean with fresh water.
Shred Papaya with whatever consistency you would like (Refer to the second picture for example).
On a large bowl, add papaya, salt, Serrano pepper, turmeric, sesame, red chili, and mustard powder.
Heat oil and add fenugreek seeds. Cook until seeds become brownish black.
Carefully pour the oil over ingredients in the bowl.

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Unions step up attack on private equity
Trade unions have launched a fresh assault on the buyout industry with an investigation into how many of UK's private equity-owned companies, which they view as overburdened with debt, are faring as the credit crunch bites.
Ahead of the upcoming political party conference season, the TUC has made discussion on indebtedness a priority at a special session on private equity at its annual Congress, which begins on Monday.
Meanwhile, the GMB union will also put forward a motion against Deutsche Telekom, which is part-owned by Blackstone.

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Note from Andrew: I really enjoy writing for all of you beautiful people, but occasionally I find something out on the web that I just need to share with you. Here’s another great piece of work by Steve Pavlina. I’ve shared the first part of his article here, but feel free to click through
to read the rest!
After reading this, I realized how deeply this message needs to be heard, so I would very highly recommend taking your time as you read through this. There are keys to true happiness and abundance in almost every paragraph!
Learn to notice and appreciate the hidden abundance obscured by scarcity and lack, and more abundance will flow to you.
Although I enjoy some very nice abundance in my life today (time freedom, work I love, travel, wonderful friends, amazing kids), I don’t need anything in particular to feel rich. As I see it, I attracted these things into my life because I learned to cultivate a relationship with life based on appreciation and gratitude before all of this showed up.
Years ago when I was broke and experiencing quite a lot of lack, I focused on deepening my appreciation for simple things: a long walk at night, a warm hug, the sensual experience of a sweet piece of fruit, etc.
Beyond that, I also looked for ways to appreciate the painful parts of my life, and especially for the amazing growth lessons they contained.
I allowed myself to appreciate my colorblindness; I see the world differently than most. I gave myself permission to see the good in being arrested multiple times when I was a teenager; I can empathize with people who commit crimes without condemning them. I forgave myself for all the bad business decisions I made; I understand the temptation to focus on making money first and foremost.
If you perceive a sense of scarcity in your life right now, I feel for you. I can empathize with what you’re going through since I’ve been there myself. I know how stressful it can be. I used to have creditors calling me 10 times a day, asking “When can you make a payment?” I also know how frustrating it can be to keep seeking that next opportunity to finally make something happen, only to repeatedly watch your efforts crash and burn. I lived that way for years.
A Transformational Question
I pose to you a question that I found immensely transformational many years ago:
Is it possible for you to still enjoy your life even if your financial situation stays the same or even gets worse for the rest of your life?
When I asked myself that question, at first I wasn’t sure. But as I pondered it, I began to see that there’s so much more to life than money. Why center my happiness and sense of self-worth around something that reduces to a number in a computer database?
At the time, my number had a minus sign in front of it. And I had assumed that this tiny horizontal strip had the power to rob me of much of my enjoyment of life. I believed that without enough money flowing, I couldn’t fully enjoy my life. And so I created — yes, created — a lot of unnecessary stress and frustration for myself.
I determined that even if I stayed completely broke for my whole life, I could still enjoy my life immensely if I really committed myself to that. I could still enjoy great relationships, long walks, healthy food (which grows on trees), stimulating conversations, writing, hugs and affection, and even world travel. Other broke people had enjoyed all of those things. Why not me? I soon concluded that a lack of financial success could not prevent me from creating a very happy and abundant life. A minus sign simply didn’t have that kind of power, unless I yielded my own power to it.
That realization permanently transformed my relationship to money — and beyond that, to life itself. I no longer felt this clawing neediness to earn more money and to get out of debt. I stopped caring how much or how little I earned. I stopped using my income as my measure of success.
I decided to center my work around what I loved to do instead of around what I thought I needed to do to make money. That completely turned my financial life around within a year. To this day, money seems to flow into my life very easily. But even though I have more money flowing through my life today, I still don’t fuss over the numbers. I measure my success by my happiness and enjoyment of life, and this is under my control regardless of what’s going on in my finances.
It’s not the craving for more money that invites abundance. It’s the release of fear attached to being perpetually broke. Can you let go of your fear and resistance to being broke? Could you still enjoy your life even if you remained broke and in debt for the rest of your life? If you can do that, you will welcome the experience of true abundance into your life.
What good is abundance anyway if it can be ruined just by changing a number in a database? True abundance should be unconditional, should it not? If abundance can be threatened, it’s not abundance; it’s still scarcity.
It isn’t hard to see that neediness is repulsive to people, and since money flows through people, neediness repels money too. The more you need money, the less you’ll have it. Haven’t you experienced this already?
How do you feel when people ask you for money, stating that they need it badly? Does their need stir loving generosity within you? Or does it make you clench up a bit? Maybe a mixture of both sometimes, depending on the circumstances?
When do you most enjoy giving? Do you love giving to the neediest people? Or would you rather give to those who will truly appreciate and value your gift the most?
The key to abundance is to stop needing more, and start appreciating what you already have.
Life can be very generous with those who cultivate a sense of appreciation. Even when it seems like you don’t have enough, could you allow yourself to perceive that perhaps you already have more than enough? Is it possible that you already have everything you need to be happy?
Have a joyful day!
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Atomera Collaborates with Synopsys to Model MST® in Sentaurus TCAD
Enables more customers to quickly evaluate and adopt Atomera’s material innovations
- Atomera’s Mears Silicon Technology™ (MST®) enhances transistors to deliver significantly better performance in today’s electronics.
- Synopsys’ Sentaurus™ TCAD (Technology Computer Aided Design) tools help manufacturers develop and optimize semiconductor process technologies and devices.
- Atomera’s MST® module can now be modeled in Sentaurus TCAD.
- The collaboration will enable manufacturers to shorten the time it takes to integrate MST® into their production lines
Atomera Incorporated, a semiconductor materials and intellectual property licensing company focused on deploying its proprietary technology into the semiconductor industry, today announced its collaboration with Synopsys, Inc to model Mears Silicon Technology (MST®) in Synopsys’ Sentaurus TCAD tools. As semiconductor-scaling challenges continue to grow, MST® enables semiconductor manufacturers to achieve dramatic improvements in device performance and power efficiency.
The collaboration uses Synopsys’ “Sentaurus Process” and “Sentaurus Device” TCAD tools to show how MST® can provide significant advantages to semiconductor manufacturers that plan to install MST into their production lines. These new Sentaurus TCAD models for MST® will reduce process integration cycle time, reduce costly wafer runs and enable parametric device data to be extracted for semiconductor manufacturers evaluating MST® architectural and material innovations.
“Synopsys is the recognized leader in TCAD simulation software for semiconductor process research and development”, said Scott Bibaud, Atomera President and CEO. “The collaboration with Synopsys is just another example of the growing momentum of Atomera with foundries and integrated device manufacturers. The ability to easily demonstrate the improvements enabled by Atomera’s MST® combined with the ability to shorten time to production is critical for accelerating the adoption of our technology.”
“Synopsys’ collaboration with Atomera represents how we work with cutting-edge technology providers to assist our customers in understanding, adopting, and integrating the latest advancements in the semiconductor market,” said Terry Ma, Vice President of Engineering, TCAD at Synopsys.
MST® provides many potential advantages to semiconductor makers including:
- Allows manufacturers to address their yield, power and performance challenges at a fraction of the cost of alternative approaches.
- Extends the life of legacy semiconductor fabs by providing up to a full node of performance benefits to existing fab production lines.
- Improves a number of device performance parameters including mobility, gate leakage, variability, matching and reliability.
Atomera Incorporated has developed Mears Silicon Technology™ (MST®), which increases performance and power efficiency in semiconductor transistors. MST® can be implemented using equipment already deployed in semiconductor manufacturing facilities and is complementary to other nano-scaling technologies already in the semiconductor industry roadmap. More information can be found at www.atomera.com

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Fall in love with the big city all over again, be a tourist for a day in New York City!
Join us on April 25, 2009 at the newly-opened Lomography Gallery Store in NYC as we take a special ‘Be an NYC Tourist for a Day’ workshop. We’ll roam around the streets, alleyways and everywhere else this wildly suburban city could offer – analogue style! Take great shots of one of the most recognizable cities in the world with shutter-happy pals and that east-side swagger! Fall in love with the big city all over again!
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New York, NY 10011, United States
LomoAmigo Sophia Ragomo went behind-the-scenes with Nashville-based alternative rock band Halfnoise in New York City to show what a day in the life of the band is really like. From soundcheck to pre-show to performance, Sophia was there to capture all the action. Check out her photos here.
New York Fashion Week turns the whole city into a runway and everyone tries to be part of the glamorous magic. LomoAmigo Christopher Logan once again heard our prayers and takes us backstage some of the biggest fashion shows of the year.
Last week, the TEN AND ONE winners flew in from all over the world to enjoy a week of workshops and exchange about their love for photography. I had the pleasure of spending a day with them and the Lomography staff, going on one of the famous LomoWalks.
It's just like any other night for New York-based photographer Daniel Schaefer. In the city streets of New York, he and his model who goes by Dove Mother grab some dumplings for dinner, with the side salad of night photography using the handy Lomo'Instant Square.
We are proud do introduce our new LomoAmigo Band Lucius and even more excited to share some exclusive Lomo-shots of the band's Spotify Live-recording at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City.


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Doctor Who: The King of the Happy/Sad Ending, a guest post by author Leah Rae Miller
What do these Doctor Who scenes have in common?
Do you know yet?
In my opinion, all of these are perfect representations of the happy/sad ending. The happy/sad ending is when things don’t work out perfectly, they might even make you cry, but they work out the way they need to.
About Leah Rae Miller, author
Mother, wife, and YA author living on a windy hill in Natchitoches, Louisiana. I love fuzzy socks, comic books, cherry coke, and brand new office supplies. THE SUMMER I BECAME A NERD debuted Summer 2013 from Entangled Teen. Stay cool!
Sci-Fi Month is brought to you by Rinn Reads. Check out the full schedule of Sci-Fi Month posts! There are reviews, discussions, giveaways, and more!
Doctor Who Week is a joint venture between Maria’s Melange and Teen Librarian Toolbox. We have a full week of fun posts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.
About Karen Jensen, MLS
Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).
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The latest teaser for the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato shows a more powerful supercar cruising along unpaved roads and along beautiful beaches. The video gives a good look at the upcoming model but gives no hint as to when the model will debut.
Compared to the regular Huracan, the Sterrato has a higher ride height and some significant body modifications. Two sticks of light stick to the edge of the nose. The fender flares have black cladding. Roof racks make it possible to transport equipment. The roof-mounted scoop directs air to the engine.
There are no interior images of Sterrato. We don’t expect any significant changes compared to the standard Huracan. Lamborghini might use some new upholstery or trim.
The powertrain for the Sterrato remains a mystery. It’s unclear if the company will massage the V10 engine for additional power. Given the focus of the off-road model, tweaks to the all-wheel-drive system to provide more traction are a possibility.
The Sterrato concept debuted in 2019. It boasts a suspension seat 1.85 inches (47 millimeters) taller than the standard Huracan. The front and rear tracks are 1.18 inches (30 millimeters) wider. The company added aluminum body reinforcements to the front and strengthened the side skirts. Slip plates under the nose and tail protect the mechanical components.
Inside, the concept has a titanium roll cage, aluminum floor panels and seats with carbon fiber shells.
When the Sterrato concept debuted, Lamborghini said it was just one time. However, a recent teaser suggests the company now has different plans. We don’t know exactly when the production version debuts but expect the unveiling to happen before the end of the year.
The Huracan range is nearing the end of its production. Lamborghini is working on a successor. According to recent rumors, the new model may sport a hybrid-assisted twin-turbo V8, rather than the naturally aspirated V10 from existing vehicles. The new engine is expected to spin up to 10,000 rpm.


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Who owns the beach?
Summer in Ontario for many means heading to a public beach on the Great Lakes. But in some parts of the province, there are questions about whether the beach actually is public. Fences have been put up, fists shaken, lawyers called. We spoke with Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor who wants the right to a walk on the beach enshrined in provincial law Listen (runs 6:32)
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Here's a bad santa prank that fits perfectly as a tribute to the 2003 movie starring Billy Bob Thorton as a miserable thief who poses as Santa Clause every year in order to rob mall safes.
This bad Santa prank comes from Prankk Bros and is shot by a single camera across the street as a man dressed as Santa Clause stops random pedestrians and offers them a gift.
Some pedestrians offered a gift accept willingly and act as if they've just hit the jackpot. Others look at the Santa with skepticism and one young man even asks, "Am I going to regret this?"
The kicker of this bad Santa prank is that Santa is actually giving each person really bad gifts they would never want.

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Context and objectives
Terrestrial evaporation (ET) is an essential component of the climate system that links the water and energy cycle. By doing so, it regulates the interaction between land and atmosphere through multiple feedbacks on climate, shaping local precipitation, cloudiness and temperature. Due to the scarcity of in-situ measurements – and the so far unsuccessful attempts to apply traditional optical and infrared techniques to derive ET over large domains, conventional field-scale ET formulations driven by remote sensing data of radiation, temperature and environmental properties have recently been used to develop global ET datasets. However, these global datasets cannot be easily downscaled to the resolution required for local or regional-scale studies, since the meteorological input variables they use are often very coarse. Given these constraints, the following research questions arise: Can current global remote sensing-based evaporation models be used to derive high-resolution retrievals at continental scales? Can those retrievals inform on the variability of root-depth soil moisture and evaporation to local stakeholders? Could these datasets be operationally produced in near-real time? ET–Sense addresses these questions by taking advantage of the high-resolution observations related to a number of geophysical variables provided through the Sentinel satellites and incorporating these into a state-of-the art global evaporation and soil moisture model, namely the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM). By adapting the modelling framework to assimilate the wide palette of Sentinel observations in a novel and innovative way, we will aim at producing, not just ET, but also root-zone soil moisture data. This will be done for the entire Europe, operationally, at high spatial resolution and at daily time scales. This will be the first panEuropean dataset of this nature and will allow us to bring recent research developments from the hydrology and climate community to the actual water management and agricultural needs.
Expected scientific results
New insights into how to combine multiple observations from the Sentinel satellites into a simplified land surface model updating multiple state variables simultaneously.
Societal (including environmental) relevance
High-resolution monitoring of evaporation and soil moisture across Europe will benefit analysis of heat-waves, droughts, wet anomalies as well as improve the overall knowledge of the hydrological cycle.
Expected products and services
High-resolution evaporation and soil moisture across Europe as an operational service.
Scientists, water managers, policy makers, large-scale agricultural stakeholders, the interested public.
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A mock drill was conducted on Wednesday to assess the preparedness of the police and other law enforcement agencies in case of a terrorist attack.
A total of 11 ‘terrorists’ were ‘arrested’ as part of the 24-hour long Operation ‘Sagar Kavach’, a mock drill organised by the Marine police wing of the Coastal Security Group to test the defence preparedness of various security agencies to prevent Mumbai type terror attacks when terrorists infiltrated through the sea.
During the mock Operation “Sagar Kavach,” which was jointly conducted by the Coastal Security Group (CSG) and police, searches were conducted in vehicles at vital junctions of the city, a police release said.
Special teams that were deployed, “arrested” 11 CSG personnel, who attempted to gain entry into the city from various locations including sea, by posing as terrorists, it said.
While three persons were ‘arrested’ by the Marinapolice, another three were held by a team of Shastri Nagar police and two were apprehended at Kanathuron the ECR.
Sources said two more ‘terrorists’ were arrested bythe Neelangarai police at the Akkarai check post during vehicle checks when they attempted to enter the city by road from Mahabalipuram.


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|rivaldo: Interesting stuff from the FT - several bidders apparently. Looking like Thales have got it though judging by the price action:
"Ncipher recommends £51m takeover bid
By Rob Minto, Technology Correspondent
Published: July 11 2008 18:19 | Last updated: July 11 2008 18:19
Ncipher, the Cambridge-based data encryption specialist, has recommended a £51m bid from Thales, the French military electronics company, ending a lengthy sale process that attracted several bidders.
Rumours of the 300p a share bid emerged on Thursday, causing the shares to rise by almost three-quarters. After the move was confirmed on Friday, they rose 26p to 286p.
A previous bid in 2006 by SafeNet, a direct US rival to Ncipher, fell through after it was referred to the UK competition regulator. The Thales offer was described by Geoffrey Finlay, Ncipher chief executive, as "a good result for shareholders".
He said there were no plans for redundancies. Alex Dorrian, chief executive of Thales's British operations, said the deal would beef up its security products and improve its data security services.
Analysts were positive about the deal. Ian Mitchell of Charles Stanley Securities said shareholders should "take the money".
Ian Spence of IS Research described it as a "cracking deal". He added: "The market has struggled to understand the prospects of Ncipher and the price was clearly a surprise. But this is a solid, synergistic deal."
With the share price as low as 125p a few months ago, a 300p a share offer must be a relief for many shareholders. After a management reorganisation earlier this year that removed the company's founders, Alex and Nicko Van Someren, and a substantial investment programme, Thales has realised a good buying opportunity although one that surprised the market. But the SafeNet bid of two years ago valued the company at £86.1m and, in that light, £50m does not seem quite so high. That may be explained partly by the fact that Ncipher counts several banks among its clients at a time when the financial services industry is in the midst of a crisis. But the company also works for governments, whose software and security requirements are far less cyclical. Thales wants Ncipher to access its hardware. The French company makes more than 60 per cent of its sales to the military and operates in more than 50 countries, so has the opportunity to increase Ncipher's estimated £25.1m 2008 sales."|
|weatherman: A new CEO has an incentive to trash the share price by issuing a profit warning when announcing a new direction - then his Options are worth more when the company goes back to fair price. 130p to 260p would be 100% and look pretty good, but pretty rubbish really to trash it in the first place mind. He could have planned faster growth while keeping the eps healthy.
Yes I am a cynic, but seen this too many times.
Still it could be a good investment from here.|
|clogue: Tim Tom2,
The point you made in your previous post(27) was that you were happy with the previous management. In my opinion the previous management were not good for the share price and you must remember the price was down to 150p before this clown made his results statement.
Whither the new team can produce the goods remains to be seen, but lets not get dewy eyed about the last lot.|
How about charting the share price over the last three years against any index you like, I can tell you it does not look good.
They sat on a mountain of cash and didn't have a clue what to do. When the previous management did move they made a complete mess of things.
The new CEO may have made a mess of his results statement but he does not have a tough act to follow in terms of increasing shareholder value.|
|clogue: On further consideration I now now see that the gross profit will be there, and even increased, but that the bottom line will be less due to the profits invested in the business.
In my simple way of thinking I would just take some of my cash and invest it in the business but I take it that accountancy rules would make me set it against profits for that year.
I take the point that we had a company with a pile of cash but little idea of what to do with it. We now have a company with cash (or near cash) of at least £9m and a plan that they can fund out of profits.
As long as they don't throw the baby out with the bath water we should see real progress from a company with plenty of cash and a large and expanding market.
Edit: You don't have to show bottom line profit for the market to upgrade the company. With rising turnover and increasing top line the share price will rise.|
|clogue: Increased inventory of £2m and increased deferred revenue of £1.6m brings us back up to £11m figure.
I can't say I like the style of the new CEO. Can you really say that, through a deliberate policy change you will be substantially reducing profits in the next year, and just leave it at that ?
The share price has been battered and he (deliberately?)batters it some more. Is this a not very cunning plan to make himself look smart further down the line ?|
|rivaldo: Excellent results, but the comment about investment affecting 2008 results is far too vague (apart from the obvious reduction!) - does he mean reduced from 2008 expectations or from 2007 levels?
The market probably won't like it, but then the share price has been so beaten down already that there may not be that much more to go!
NCH has £7.3m of cash too against the £24m m/cap, though that's far less than I thought due to the increase in working capital - the receipt of debtors should increase the cash back to £10m or so.|
|rivaldo: Sophos have now pulled their IPO given market conditions - hardly surprising! The valuation looked far too toppy to me.
More surprising is the decline in the NCH share price. Only two months ago the Chairman was buying 100,000 shares at 245p. the volumes have been pitifully small, so I suspect any interest would perk things up quickly.
There was a trading update on 18th December last year (mixed in with Abridean news) so hopefully we'll get another one soon.
Remembering that NCH had £11.1m of cash against the £38m m/cap at the interims (probably £12m now), here's the latest forecasts:
Broker Date Rec Pre-tax (£) EPS (p) Pre-tax (£) EPS (p)
KBC Peel Hunt Ltd 07-12-07 BUY 3.58 9.91 4.29 15.93
Panmure Gordon 07-12-07 BUY 3.37 9.11 3.39 12.88
Charles Stanley 26-10-07 BUY 3.40 10.27 4.10 16.69|
|rivaldo: Lots of PR in the papers about the impending IPO of Sophos, a fellow British security company, including the article below.
Interesting to compare the two:
Sophos - £400m m/cap, £83m sales, loss-making (per other articles)
nCipher - £43m m/cap, £25m or so sales, £11m cash, £4.5m PBT (say) this year
Purely on a simple comparison basis NCH should therefore be valued at three times the current share price.
Comments from more tech-minded posters than me appreciated!
At the least the IPO might focus a bit of attention on NCH and its sector:
"Computer & Internet Security News07 November 2007
Sophos to go for brave IPO
By John E. Dunn, Techworld
Despite instability in global markets, UK security vendor Sophos is to press ahead with plans to float itself on the London Stock Exchange.
A timescale, price and prospectus have yet to be made public, but the company [PDF] has boasted of its track record as one of the most prominent security software outfits, with reported billings for 2006-2007 of $167 million. The intention to float has been one of the industry's worst-kept secrets in recent months, with speculation putting the value of the company at around £400 million ($800 million).
The rationale is simple, even if the timing is brave.
"Increasingly open corporate networks, device proliferation, and an always-on threat environment mean that security focus has shifted from protecting the network perimeter to protecting the endpoint. Complex individual product strategies are being replaced by simple and coherent suites of products," an official release stated.
This is another way of saying that security is still a boom market, and protection of the troublesome endpoint the PC for the most part is still to the fore, just as it always has been since the beginning of software security.
More importantly, the big spenders on security are in the US, and an IPO raises a company's profile on that market. Earlier this year, recently-appointed CFO Paul Smolinski was quoted as saying to a third party that the company's attempts to break into the lucrative US market were hampered by its lack of profile there. "They already have 100 security companies and many of them are already listed," he said wistfully.
Public offerings of UK security companies are few and far between, perhaps the last major one being nCipher, engineered by its high-profile CEO, Alex van Someren, in 2000."|
|nirvs: rivaldo - So you do not expect to see any nasty surprises on Thursday?(I am currently long).
I am aware of the cash pile and their top-notch relationships with Microsoft etc.
I am very surprised by the lack of interest in NCH share price...
Where can one view the trend in revenue etc?|
Ncipher share price data is direct from the London Stock Exchange


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Sanctuary at Redfish located in the West end of 30A on the Beautiful Beaches of South Walton. Here you will find the luxury and serenity of one of the finest resorts in Florida. The resort is located on a fifteen acre nature preserve on Big Redfish Lake, perfectly situated between Grayton Beach and Blue Mountain Beach.
The property overlooks a fifteen acre coastal dune lake providing breathtaking lake and gulf views. Sanctuary at Redfish is within a bicycle ride of the quaint seaside village of Grayton Beach, less than two miles from WaterColor and Seaside, and just a short drive to Rosemary Beach. Your family can maintain their privacy and still be conveniently close to the area's finest restaurants, shopping and other amenities.
This luxurious third floor unit is the most Private with the Best View at Sanctuary at Redfish. The unit can be rented as a three bedroom (sleeps 8) or add the OPTIONAL Penthouse Master Suite (sleeps 10.) The condo features two Master Suites with two private balconies overlooking Big Redfish Lake and the emerald waters of the Gulf. The condo is ideal for two families to enjoy.
The amenities of this gated community include a huge pool complex with four large pools (one heated) and two hot tubs interconnected with spectacular waterfalls, fire pit, and a lakeside dock with a private boat or golf cart that ferries you and your family to the beach on demand. Here you will find an umbrella and two beach chairs set up daily for your exclusive use in season. The Resort includes underground parking and a fully outfitted fitness center with weight and cardio machines.
This luxurious unit has been professionally decorated with upscale furnishings. Designed with 10 foot ceilings, two king master suites, guest suite and a third bedroom with four bunk beds.
A large, living room is beautifully furnished with elegant, leather sofas with four recliners, coffee table, side tables and lamps all centered around the gas log fireplace. The electronics setup includes a 50” flat panel HD TV mounted above the fire place, Blue Ray and wireless internet. Sliding glass doors lead to two large covered balcony's with gulf and lake views. A dining table with 6 chairs and two lounge chairs with side table complement this outdoor space. Open kitchen showcases GE Profile stainless appliances (electric range, fridge with ice maker & door ice/water dispenser, microwave and dishwasher), granite counter tops and ample cabinetry. Fully stocked with high quality dishware, cookware and glassware. Kitchen also has an island with 3 bar stools plus plenty of room for grocery storage.
The main level Master Suite feature hardwood floors, huge king bed, 2 side tables with lamps, dresser, 32” flat screen HD TV, ceiling fan, carpeted floors, and sliding glass doors leading to the covered balcony. Large master bath with double sinks in granite counter tops, tiled walk-in shower and separate jetted spa tub plus a walk-in closet.
Guest Queen bedroom features hardwood floors, ceiling fan, 2 bedside tables, 2 lamps, 32' flat screen HD TV, and a private bath with vanity sink in a granite counter top, and a tiled walk-in shower.
Kids bedroom features hardwood floors, (2) Bunk Beds (four beds), dresser, ceiling fan, 32” HD TV with Blue Ray, Xbox One console and private bath with a vanity sink in a granite counter top, tiled floor and a tub/shower.
OPTIONAL Penthouse Master Suite features a King Size Sleep Number Bed, Kitchenette, Luxurious Jacuzzi Spa with private balcony overlooking Big Red Fish lake and the Gulf.
Laundry room has super capacity washer and dryer. Foyer has a powder room.
Keywords: Gulf View, Sandestin, Blue Mountain Beach, Grayton Beach, Panama City, Destin, Cabana, Panama City-Bay County International Airport, Golf, Physical Fitness Center, Heated Pool, Jacuzzi, Dune Lakes


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Breast cancer occurs when cells within the breast grow and multiply abnormally. This process can cause a tumor to form. In many cases, the tumor is benign (noncancerous). In the case of a malignant (cancerous) tumor, the cells continue dividing uncontrollably and can invade nearby tissues and potentially metastasize (spread) to other parts of your body. These tumors are known as invasive tumors. There is also a form of noninvasive breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS); some DCIS tumors may become invasive.
Although it’s much less common, breast cancer can also occur in men. Learn more about male breast cancer.
Just because you have the following symptoms doesn’t always mean you have breast cancer, but you should see a doctor right away if they occur:
- a physical change in the breast, such as a lump or a thickening
- an inflammatory change, such as redness or hardening of the breast
It’s also possible that even though your breast feels normal, a screening test shows an abnormality.

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Question: We are moving into a brand new house which we just purchased in approximately one month and we have already affixed the Mezuzot. Was it correct to do so?
Answer: The obligation of the Mitzvah of Mezuzah rests upon one who resides in the house. However, if one has a completely empty house which he does not reside in, one need not affix a Mezuzah to it. Our Sages (Baba Metzia 101b and Rashi’s commentary on Pesachim 4a) derive this from that which is states in the verse, “The doorposts of your home”-only a doorpost which you go in and out of. The Rambam (end of Chapter 5 of Hilchot Tefillin) rules likewise.
Maran Ha’Chida therefore writes in his Sefer Birkei Yosef (Orach Chaim, Chapter 19) that if one is about to move into a new home, whether it is rented or purchased, one should not affix the Mezuzot before one begins residing in the home, for one is not yet obligated to do so. When one comes to live in the house, one should immediately recite the blessing of “Likbo’a Mezuzah” and affix the Mezuzah.
Based on the words of Maran Ha’Chida, the Mishnah Berura (Chapter 19, Subsection 4) writes that one should only recite the blessing on affixing the Mezuzah immediately before beginning to live in the house, just as one recites a blessing on a Tallit only immediately before wrapping one’s self in it.
On the other hand, Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”l (in his Halichot Olam, Volume 8, page 218) disagrees with the Mishnah Berura and writes that one need not affix the Mezuzah specifically before beginning to live in the house; rather, one may affix the Mezuzah when one is preparing the house to begin living in it, such as by bringing some furniture, bedding, and other appliances into the house, for one becomes obligated in the Mitzvah of Mezuzah from then just as one who has ten houses must affix Mezuzot on each of them although he only enters the house once a year and does not live there steadily. He quotes most of the great Acharonim as ruling likewise.
Summary: When one is about to move into a new residence, one must affix a Mezuzah. The Mezuzah should be affixed when one begins bringing in some household items, such as furniture, into the house. Nevertheless, one should not affix a Mezuzah when the home is completely empty and one only plans on living there at a later time.


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Abortion stigma restricts access to medication for miscarriage recovery
Because mifepristone is known as the “abortion pill,” it has been strongly regulated in the U.S. since being approved to induce abortions
With a whole world of science and medication at their fingertips, doctors are finding it difficult to prescribe treatments that are in the best interest of their patients due to complicated regulations around the medication mifepristone.
Though it is commonly used for medical abortions, mifepristone can also help ease the recovery process during a miscarriage, something that many people experience but rarely discuss. When a pregnant person learns that their pregnancy is no longer viable, they often must make a decision about the best course of action. This decision making process can unfortunately be restricted due to debate around abortion.
Many people have shared stories of deciding to assist their bodies in expelling and completing their miscarriages by using misoprostol, only to find that misoprostol alone has not been enough. In many instances, people have had to take multiple doses of the medication, sometimes to no effect, all the while waiting and hoping to avoid surgery. However, misoprostol combined with mifepristone can lead to completion of miscarriages more easily.
The new regimen of both medications helps with a quicker completion of miscarriage, improving care for people experiencing this diagnosis and allowing them to recover more quickly and return to their normal lives. This protocol is recommended by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, among other groups.
Unfortunately, because mifepristone is known as the “abortion pill,” it has been strongly regulated in the U.S. since being approved to induce abortions in 2000. It is not stocked at commercial pharmacies in the U.S., and to carry it, a clinic must apply for special permission. This makes mifepristone harder to access for all people, including those who need it for miscarriages.
While abortion rights opponents argue that mifepristone restrictions are for patient safety, there is very little risk associated with the medication. The FDA and medical groups say that it is a safe, effective medication, though the FDA continues to regulate it.
For many physicians, the FDA’s regulations are an obstacle to prescribing the drug to people going through the process of a miscarriage, which can be incredibly traumatic and stressful. Doctors like Kristyn Brandi of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School try to help their patients get through miscarriages as quickly as possible.
However, Dr. Brandi says that she cannot currently prescribe mifepristone due to regulations, lamenting that it’s been difficult to know that there exists a medication to help her patients, but that she is unable to give it to them.
Kirsten Herbst of Toronto says she’s thankful to live in Canada, where there is easier access to mifepristone. “[Miscarriage is] such a terrible, terrible experience in every way, that to make it harder is just cruel,” she says.
Women Help Women believes that all people should have access to medically and scientifically accurate information surrounding all aspects of abortion and reproductive health and believes women should have agency over their own reproductive choices. Our organization provides accurate information about what exactly a medical abortion with pills is, the pills’ effectiveness, how to use the pills, and what to expect after using abortion pills. If you are pregnant and do not want to be, get in touch with us online at www.womenhelp.org or by email at email@example.com.


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When everyone’s got their eyes on a recipe, you know it must have something special that you will want to try! That’s the case for these 10 vegan viral recipes that went viral last week. They’re some of the best, and trust us when we say that you don’t want to miss out on these incredible viral recipe creations from our bloggers!
We also highly recommend downloading the Food Monster App — with over 15,000 delicious recipes it is the largest plant-based recipe resource to help you get healthy! And, don’t forget to check out our Popular Trends Archives!
1. Mini Churro Twists
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2. Pineapple Fried Rice
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3. Street Corn Salad
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4. No-Chicken and Cheese Quesadillas
5. Enchiladas Potosinas
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Enchiladas potosinas get their beautiful color from chile-infused dough wrapped around creamy queso and spicy salsa. Every bite of these Enchiladas Potosinas by Mitch and Justine Chapman is full of delicious Mexican flavors!
6. No-Bake Granola Bars
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7. Mixed Berry Muffins
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Blueberry muffins are wonderful. They are sweet, fluffy, and so decadent with pungent bursts of tart berry flavor from the blueberries folded into a soft, buttery cake-like texture. These Mixed Berry Muffins by Kristina Humphreys incorporate vibrant and sweet berries along with delicious flavors and textures.
8. Pasta with Sausage and Kale
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9. Vegan Scampi in Lemon Garlic White Wine Sauce
This Vegan Scampi in Lemon Garlic White Wine Sauce by The Meatless Monday Family Cookbook, Jenn Sebestyen is a really simple dish that tastes elegant. Hearts of palm are the perfect stand-in for scallops. They have a similar look when sliced and a briny quality reminiscent of seafood—great for those with a shellfish allergy.
10. Yaki Onigiri: Japanese Rice Balls With Sweet Potato and Avocado Filling
Vegan onigiri are really simple to make (and fun to eat!) Onigiri (stuffed rice balls) are a popular snack in Japan. Typically, onigiri is eaten cold but these yaki (meaning “fried”) and are best right after frying. Quick frying on a hot pan makes yaki onigiri nicely crispy. These Yaki Onigiri: Japanese Rice Balls With Sweet Potato and Avocado Filling by Maikki Vasala are made even more yummy when dipped in a homemade teriyaki sauce. The sweet and savory sauce added some extra deliciousness to this little snack. Try out these vegan onigiri! They’re great for on-the-go and picnic snacks!
Learn How to Cook Plant-Based Meals at Home
Reducing your meat intake and eating more plant-based foods is known to help with chronic inflammation, heart health, mental wellbeing, fitness goals, nutritional needs, allergies, gut health, and more! Unfortunately, dairy consumption also has been linked to many health problems, including acne, hormonal imbalance, cancer, prostate cancer, and has many side effects.
For those interested in eating more plant-based, we highly recommend purchasing one of our many plant-based cookbooks or downloading the Food Monster App which has thousands of delicious recipes making it the largest vegan recipe resource to help reduce your environmental footprint, save animals and get healthy! And, while you are at it, we encourage you to also learn about the environmental and health benefits of a plant-based diet.
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- Weekly Vegan Meal Plans
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- The Ultimate Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition
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- High Protein Plant-Based Recipes
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After the release of the July 2014 Issue of ELLE UK cover that is featuring an image of superstar Pharrell Williams wearing a Native American headdress, which sparked controversy over the internet accusing the “Happy” Singer of being insensitive of the culture.
The outrage prompted Pharrell to issue the below apology statement.
“I respect and honor every kind of race, background and culture. I am genuinely sorry,”
Photos courtesy of: Doug Inglish/ELLE UK

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CAMPBELL, Calif. — Abby Lee Brazil will headline Cams.com’s “Cams Exclusive” series next month.
Brazil will appear on the show on Thursday, February 13 from 4 to 5 p.m. (PST).
“Abby Lee Brazil is a seductive entertainer with an impressive body of work. We’re excited to add her to the Cams Exclusive line-up. Abby will be giving away a few free tickets to the show, so stay tuned,” said Cams.com’s Gunner.


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Birth of Victory - American Shipyards - Educational Documentary. With
battle fronts separated by vast oceans the conduct of a global war
depends upon mass waterborne transportation of materiel. This means
ships, ships, and more ships... Here is presented the human and
production spectacle of the Richmond shipyards and their part in the
origin of victory.

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The 25 gallon plant kit is designed to keep water plants alive. It all starts with the Coralife Aqualight Dual T-5 Fixture. The fixture is 40% brighter than a normal single fluorescent strip light. The Aqualight Dual Fixture comes with a 6700K Lamp that closely resembles the natural light from the sun and a colormax lamp to bring out the color of the fish. Everything you need to get started is includes, add gravel, water and fish.
Made in China.


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The image that your team exudes has a great deal to do with how popular your team becomes and the following that it can garner, which makes an effective team logo design very important in your branding and marketing efforts. The logo design that you create for your team should create an image that is easily identifiable with your team - and many of the most famous teams in the world are recognized at first by their design identity.
There are numerous organizations throughout the sports industry that should have a custom logo in place. Whether you are looking for an actual team, club, tournament, or sports accessory logo - getting it right the first time is important because the identity of a team is a big part of the team in the eyes of fans and supporters. A great design should be one that you are proud to use for many years to come.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, your sports logo is certainly worth a million! When designing for your sports team or sports organization, your identity should tell your fan base what you want them to know about you - in limited words and images.
Simple is the best style of logo, and is oftentimes the most effective. If there is too much happening in your design then the message being portrayed gets distorted. People have a limited amount of time, in most cases, to "take in" your logo and understand the story that you are attempting to tell with just a few second glimpse. A more challenging design can be too complicated, and thus, much less effective than one that can be understood at a glance.
When designing your team logo, it is important that you don't lose the message that you're portraying. An identity that is too obscure or (inversely) too overdone will not be the valuable marketing aid that you are looking for. A good logo design will have one main concept or idea behind it.
Keep in mind that you might be using this same design for ten, fifteen, twenty, or more years. While we cannot see into the future to determine if your logo will endure to meet the changing tastes and styles of the American consumer, ideally you should go with a design that allows you to foresee no changes its perfect and effective now and for whatever changes you have planned.


Artist: The Three Sounds Featuring Gene Harris
Album: Groovin’ Hard: Live at the Penthouse 1964-1968
Label: Resonance Records
Release Date: 01/13/17
If only the walls of Seattle’s cozy old jazz venue The Penthouse could talk, they could go on for days about the greats who played there. The mind-blowing list includes Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and there’s more where that came from, including The Three Sounds. A piano-based trio that sold more records for Blue Note than anybody else on the esteemed label from 1958-1962, they were club favorites, with the legendary Gene Harris tickling the ivories with groove-mongering gusto.
Technical mastery, a great feel for orgiastic swing and the crowd-pleasing heart of an entertainer – Harris had every tool a great jazz pianist should. His dazzling chops, as well as those of bassist Andy Simpkins and all the drummers of The Three Sounds, from original skinsman Bill Dowdy to Kalil Madi and Carl Burnett, make the fully loaded archival concert package Groovin’ Hard: Live at the Penthouse 1964-1968 sizzle and pop.
Stylish standards such as “Yours is My Heart Alone” transition seamlessly from brooding and pensive to bubbly and vibrant, as Harris darts this way and that across the keys with a deft touch, a bass solo roams freely and the threesome collapse in an exhausted heap at the end, as if they’d run a marathon. The blazing “Rat Down Front,” a manic, sweaty, propulsive boogie-woogie meltdown always in danger of flying off the rails, is one of four sublime originals brought to life onstage here at The Penthouse that never graced any Three Sounds album, while the rich, seductive cocktail jazz of their elegant, rapturous version of “Girl Talk” slows to a tantalizing crawl.
Unpredictable, with a gregarious personality, The Three Sounds carried on lively musical conversations in such environs, communicating in languages ranging from the blues to bebop and bossa nova. Local jazz radio guru Jim Wilke used to record such groups live for his KING-FM radio show, “Jazz from The Penthouse.” This material is culled from his archives. The writings in the accompanying 20-page booklet tell the story with great insight and thoroughness. It’s one that deserves a rapt audience.


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What could you do with an item like this?
You can use it as a frame to create a photo collage!
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- Black Tray (as shown here)
- 1 Sheet of Bo Bunny "Timepiece" Paper
- 1 Sheet of 7 Gypsies Tissue Paper
- Sizzix 3D Flower Die
- Tim Holtz Idea-ology Embellishments
- Scor-Pal Scor-Tape
All supplies used for this project can be found at our Bonney Lake store.
- Use the scissors to cut your photos and the Bo Bunny Timepiece paper to fit the spaces in the tray.
- Adhere the paper and photos in the spaces of the tray using Scor-Tape or an adhesive of your choice.
- Use Sizzix 3D Flower Die (or another flower die) to cut 8 flower dies from the 7 Gypsies tissue paper to create the flower. Remember, if you do not have a die cut system, you could use our Die Cut Center free of charge when you purchase paper from our store.
- Layer the flower cut outs by stacking them all together, and use a brad to secure it. Scrunch or bend the petals upward to give it a 3D effect.
- Apply the flower and the Idea-ology embellishments, using the Scor-Tape, on the desired areas of the tray.
- Proudly display your photo collage in an area of your home.
Love to scrapbook? If so, be sure to join us for our January scrapbooking events:
- Scrapmania, January 14, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to midnight. Scrapmania is one of our most popular scrapbooking events. You will receive 20% off of your purchase of scrapbooking supplies, free use of our Die Cut Center, and a chance to show off your creative skills for our Page Layout Contest. Just bring your basic scrapbooking tools and supplies. The fee is $10 and you can register online or in store.
- Scrap-a-Day, January 22, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Scrap-A-Day is an all-day crop. We will have a counter of yummy scrap goodness of papers, stickers, embellishments for you to use. Just bring your basic scrapbook tools, supplies, and creativity! The fee is $25 and you can register online or in store.


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In the Season 1 finale of Heartbeat, when Dr. Alex Panttiere (Melissa George) isn’t fighting to save the lives of Jesse, Pierce and Ji-Sung from a mysterious illness, she’s trying to help an older man, Jasper Shaw, who’s looking for his missing wife. Alex’s conversation with Mr. Shaw prompts her to make a drastic decision about her love life.
Mr. Jasper Shaw is portrayed by veteran actor Paul Dooley. He’s known for his roles on Huge (Joe Sosniak), Curb Your Enthusiasm (Cheryl’s father), ER (Henry Lewis), The Practice (Judge Philip Swackheim), Grace Under Fire (John Shirley), and Dream On (Mickey Tupper), among others. Dooley is also recognized for his roles in the films Sixteen Candles (Molly Ringwalds’ father), Runaway Bride (Julia Robert’s father), Hairspray (Mr. Spritzer), and A Mighty Wind (George Menschell). Or maybe you recognize his voice — he’s Sarge in the Cars movies. Heartbeat airs Wednesdays at 8pm on NBC.


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The first comprehensive biographical, critical, and bibliographical source on lesbian writers, this reference book features essays on 100 contemporary writers of poetry, fiction, and drama in the United States. Many had written as self-identified lesbians at some point during the 1970-1992 period of coverage. Each essay comprises a biography, with personal history often derived from interviews, an analysis of major works and themes, an overview of the critical reception, and bibliographies of primary works and of critical studies and reviews. The volume introduction, by Tucker P. Farley, situates contemporary lesbian literature in its historical and political contexts. Appendices list publishers of lesbian writers and periodicals featuring lesbian writing. An extensive bibliography provides nonfiction resources focusing on lesbian issues, including works in psychology, sexuality, parenting, health, history, and theory, as well as literature. A companion to Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson (Greenwood Press, 1993), this work will be an important addition to college and university libraries supporting gay and lesbian and women's studies programs and literary curricula incorporating this material. It will also be a valuable resource for public and school libraries and collections and specialists in American literature, providing information and analysis for understanding the expanding literary canon.
Number of pages: 688
Weight: 1089 g
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 36 mm
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As Hurricane Matthew threatens the eastern side of Florida and eventually the southern Atlantic Coast Friday through Saturday night, there are safety concerns everywhere.
And then there’s scheduled college football in our state and elsewhere that may be affected.
As of Tuesday afternoon, here’s the latest from the National Hurricane Center on Matthew’s path:
Now, any Floridian knows that Hurricane projections beyond 48 hours are mostly useless. It’s educated guess work with computer models, etc. And that still photo projection above will change every few hours. We will all have a better idea of Matthew’s path for Thursday, tomorrow. Likewise for Friday, the day before.
We know with the threat to the state of South Carolina for Saturday Governor Nikki Haley has ordered a million people already to evacuate Wednesday through Friday just in case. And she said Tuesday afternoon, “I don’t see how” the South Carolina home game with Georgia scheduled for Saturday night will be played, as scheduled.
Nothing official on that yet.
Here’s what we know for Florida college games: the UCF home game with Tulane for Friday night is the most likely the only college game in the state that could be affected, delayed, etc.
The Gators vs. LSU game in Gainesville and the USF game with East Carolina in Tampa are both at noon Saturday. That should be well after Hurricane Matthew is gone out the area. And also, Tampa being on the west central coast is not expected to be bothered really at all.
Also, FSU at Miami is a Saturday night game at 8 p.m. and likewise the Hurricane should be long gone and shouldn’t affect it.
Back to Friday and UCF in Orlando, especially if Matthew slows down Wednesday or Thursday, the school is already preparing for contingencies:
— Danny White (@UCFDannyWhite) October 4, 2016
Never dull in Florida in Hurricane season. Stay tuned.


The best jazz gigs of the week
Sunday, November 10thJohn DoneganHugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, hughlane.ieIrish pianist John Donegan is UK-based these days, but his musical heart is still tuned in to his homeland. Like Holiday, Coughlan’s art has been forged in the crucible of personal tragedy and the Galway vocalist shares Holiday’s ability to invest a standard song with searingly authentic emotion. Friday, November 15thZrazyBewley’s Café, Dublin, bewleyscafetheatre.comPioneering pop-jazz duo Zrazy have been blazing their own breezy trail through Irish jazz since their debut album Give It All Up won the 1992 Music Critic’s Award for best new band. Fans of Heffernan’s jazz singing will be delighted therefore to see her return to her roots this week with a powerful quartet featuring pianist Phil Ware, bassist Damien Evans and drummer Kevin Brady. Talented Belfast vocalist Suzanne Savage, herself a songwriter of growing assurance, headlines this latest in Galway guitarist Aengus Hackett’s ongoing JazzGate series at the Black Gate, celebrating some of the icons of jazz.