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I think I have answered my own question but bear with me. It’s a process. I like to collect Mexican folk art and amongst my collection I have several wooden masks. I have come upon a bit of a mystery (possibly of mistaken identity) regarding a mask in my collection. I purchased this mask (above) second hand from a woman who reckons she (probably) purchased … Continue reading Mascara Mexicana? Mexican Mask?
I have previously written of the mythology (1) of various Aztec deities (2) and even the origin of the word Aztec or if there was even a people known as the Aztecs (3). I recently came across a video regarding Dia de muertos (4) that has convoluted the issue even more. It seems that even amongst those knowledgeable of such things there is even more … Continue reading Aztec Gods or States of Consciousness?

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Dakota Territory - Articles of Incorporation, 1878-1889
This web site includes an index to Dakota Territory, Articles of Incorporation records dating from 1878 to 1889. There are 3,166 corporations listed in the index.
Town of Incorporation
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Various companies listed include mines, churches, railroads, elevators and warehouses, banks, cemeteries, lodges, churches and other miscellaneous businesses.
The .pdf files are in alphabetical order by Company, Town and County name. As these are records for Dakota Territory, the incorporations includes listings from both North and South Dakota.
Information includes company name, town, county, number of directors, capitol stock, filing date, volume and page number. A copy of the incorporation record can be obtained by contacting the South Dakota State Archives at firstname.lastname@example.org


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Best Games Like Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne
A collection of exciting games like "Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne" and detailed information about each game. Also, you can customize the list by preferred release year, platform, type, and other filters.
Here, order is maintained by the Church of Seiros, which hosts the prestigious Officer’s Academy within its headquarters.
Welcome to Age of Wonders, the authentic turn-based fantasy strategy classic that started the hit series. Age of Wonders’ intimate atmosphere with painterly graphics still shines today.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders and Overlord series, bringing all the exciting tactical-turn based combat and in-depth 4X empire building of its predecessor
A World to Build… or Destroy. “A war is coming… a war between East and West - between Kingdoms and Empires, between man and Fallen. A future of blood and death, of chaos and destruction.” – the Oracle Ceresa.
Battle Brothers is a turn based strategy RPG mix which has you leading a mercenary company in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world.
Another sunrise, another day of toil. Food must be grown, industries built, science and magic advanced, and wealth collected.
Age of Wonders III, like the previous games in the series is a turn-based strategy game set within a high fantasy universe where the player assumes the role of a political-military leader.
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans.

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Oxford’s Atlas of World History is the end of years of intense work by a professional team of cartographers, scientists, and teachers. It shows the narrative of humankind in its environmental context, from the appearance of the first hominids to the modern-day. The Atlas includes the newest study into European Asian, African, and Central and South American history.
The Atlas covers parts on the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern World, Age of Revolutions, and the Twentieth Century and ahead. Each section begins with an intro that emphasizes the main socio-economic, cultural, and religious issues of the period, accompanied by spreads of maps, text, pictures, and inscriptions that consider particular regions and epochs.
Spreads describe everything from hunting in Africa in 10 thousand BC to the first states of Southeast Asia in the newest years of the millennium, the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire, the development of the Atlantic economies in the eighteenth century, and standards of living since 1945.
The Atlas features 450 vivid maps showing the significant themes and events of world history, 100 photos, 60 charts, and hundreds of thousands of words of informative text.
The latest edition brings the Atlas into the 21st century and up to the present day. New and refreshed maps and pictures include an extended series of evolving topics such as population shifts, global trading, urbanization, political and economic improvements, education rates, the spread of world languages, and many more important and always timely topics. The coverage of every other part of our planet is updated, making this the most up-to-date Atlas of world history possible, in addition to being the most comprehensive.
A comprehensive index of more than eight thousand notes covers infinite alternative name forms used over the ages.
The Atlas of World History ends with a bibliography that gives a booklist for recommended additional reading. Equally well-suited for a broad audience and students of history or international relations, the Atlas of World History continues Oxford’s presence as the premier publisher of world atlases.
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"Terminal Radar Control Facility (TRACON). A terminal ATC facility that uses radar and nonradar capabilities to provide approach control services to aircraft arriving, departing, or transiting airspace controlled by the facility." -- FAA Acronyms
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Thomas feels like no matter what he does, he can't escape Kyle's persistent bullying. At school, at soccer--nowhere feels safe! Mom said Kyle would grow up over the summer and stop picking on me, but he didn't grow up, he just grew. With support from friends, classmates and adults, Thomas starts to feel more confident in himself and his hobbies, while Kyle learns the importance of kindness to others. The book concludes with activity club pages for kids, as well as information to help parents, teachers, counselors, and other adults foster dialogue with children about ways to stop bullying. For Ages 5-9
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The database has multiple facets that work as an engine for metaphors used as far back as the English language itself. It draws from a broad archive of literature and authorships, while offering the option to filter your search of a particular metaphor by the theme of the particular metaphor you may find interesting to inquire. And as if an army of librarians were shuffling assiduously and speedily through catalogues of the information, the database records for you the rapidness of the search. This is one feature that I found excessive, but became one of the many features that nonetheless impressed me. The database is like a mind. Bolstered by the fact that it is under frequent improvement and development, the database may just be that external mind of metaphors English majors and authors will revel about. After an hour of messing around with “The Mind is a Metaphor”, I began to internalize the metaphor to be true. I childishly fed my curiosity by selecting random categories and discovered fascination. This fascination the many in which the mechanics of the site worked together liked a mini-google search engine (but for metaphors) to produce rapid metaphors under the seekers classifications. An image below explains this, I think.
Another fascinating thing that stood out was the mechanics of the database. The structuring of the search tool makes the site a useful tool for scholars as well as researchers. The database offers multiple filters like: literary period, metaphor category gender of author, genre, and even the nationality and religion of the author. For example, while I researched the site, I was curious about the metaphoric prevalence of food in the industrial revolution period of history. I realized then that maybe the industrial period, because of its lack social progressivism, prioritized authorship for males over females. On the other hand, it leaves room to argue that: maybe female authors in the industrial period were primarily focused on prohibition and social reformation rather than on food, or that they simply didn’t fancy the usage of metaphors. The image below is a sample search of a food metaphor in the industrial revolution based on a population.


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Please, Please Buy This Gun Company
Posted May 14, 2018 9:02 p.m. EDT
Remington Outdoor, one of the country’s oldest and largest gun-makers, is getting ready to emerge from bankruptcy.
The question is whether somebody — anybody — will buy the company, especially at such a politically and emotionally polarized time for the gun industry.
The usual suspects of potential buyers are circling, including rival gun manufacturers like Sturm, Ruger & Co. and some small financiers willing to accept whatever criticism would come from buying Remington.
More tantalizing is a pie-in-the-sky idea: whether a beneficent billionaire, like Michael R. Bloomberg, could buy the company and either try to transform it or shut it down — a sort of philanthropic euthanasia in the name of gun control.
Yet all of those options have challenges. So here’s a practical idea that should be considered more than just a thought experiment:
What if the big banks that have provided financing to Remington during its bankruptcy were to back the ambitions of one or more of the big private equity firms willing to buy Remington with a plan to transform the company into the most advanced and responsible gun manufacturer in the country?
After all, virtually all the banks have a “social impact” unit or at least an initiative meant to “do good.” And so do many private equity firms, like TPG and Bain Capital.
And they would not be out to kill the business; quite the opposite. They could create a profitable model for the rest of the industry using technology and sound sales policies to reinvent the modern-gun manufacturer.
A re-imagined Remington with a new management and mandate could develop smart-gun technology. It could back fingerprint technology mean to prevent anyone who is not the gun’s owner from shooting it, a measure that could greatly reduce suicides and the potential for guns to be stolen. It could add an identity stamp to ammunition fired from any of its guns. It could also establish and standardize responsible sales policies for retailers to sell its firearms.
What would happen, for instance, if a consortium were to come together so that the banks offered the buyer a below-market loan, giving a socially responsible investor the advantage of a lower cost of capital? What would happen if one of the big retail chains like Walmart and Dick’s — both of which have already established that they only want to sell guns in a responsible way — were to guarantee distribution, sales and marketing support?
Such an approach would be in the best interests of all of the players, the banks and retailers included.
Of course, it would takes leadership, and a substantial amount of courage. The National Rifle Association and other industry groups have been pushing back hard against even the slightest addition of restrictions on gun sales.
There is pressure from within the government, too. Just two weeks ago, Michael Piwowar, a Republican commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, used a regularly scheduled meeting with Citigroup executives, one intended to discuss various banking regulations, to berate them over the bank’s new policy distancing it from financing gun manufacturers, according to Bloomberg News.
Bank of America, which has also started putting gun-makers at arm’s length, was criticized along with Citigroup by Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who wrote a letter admonishing it for “using their market power to manage social policy.”
Before it established its policy, Bank of America decided to provide financing to Remington. It insists that it will not offer such financing going forward.
Yet the opportunity for Bank of America — which said it had “more than $11.3 billion in assets with a clearly defined environmental, social and governance approach” as of the end of 2016 — could be a perfect candidate to take a piece of Remington. Other banks, like JPMorgan Chase, which also owns a stake in Remington as a result of previous financing, says it is trying to reduce its relationship with gun-makers. It, too, has been a big proponent of impact investing.
And here’s a big opportunity.
To be sure, efforts to invest and develop smart gun initiatives have long been troubled. Ron Conway, a revered investor in Silicon Valley, has for years been investing in gun companies employing new technology, and has seen little success. The NRA and others have pressured retailers not to sell the new firearms. (That’s why a buying consortium that includes retailers is so important, and why a billionaire buying a gun company would quickly lead to a boycott.)
Investors have been hard to find. After all, many people who are interested in gun control cannot stomach the thought of actually investing in any kind of gun company, no matter how responsible it may be. Many of the banks, which have pledged to stop backing gun-makers, might now find it difficult to change course, even for a company that is aimed at changing the industry.
The gun complex clearly does not want change, but the biggest opportunity for change may come from investors who can get themselves on the inside, as I described in a previous column. Last week, Sturm Ruger opposed a shareholder proposal to detail its plans to monitor violence associated with their guns and develop safer products; the shareholders prevailed.
Those investors, which included a group of nuns, have the right idea. Those who share their vision of a safer gun company would have the opportunity to not only make a social impact, but reap the profits that come with innovation.
Make no mistake: There is absolutely a market for a gun company focused on safety technology. A poll conducted by Johns Hopkins University researchers and published online by the American Journal of Public Health showed 59 percent of Americans were willing to buy a smart gun.
Will someone step up to make it happen?

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MUCCRI has been engaging university students through Boot camp meetings and with support from the USAID/ Uganda Education and Research to Improve Climate Change Adaptation (ERICCA) Activity, MUCCRI has made university students from different campuses aware of the facts about Climate Change. So far, four annual Climate Change University Students’ Boot Camps have been organized in 2015, 2016, 2017 and in 2018.
Bootcamps usually have intensive short period training and field-based learning activities in areas within Uganda which give an idea to students of how global issues related to climate change are reflected in the local environment (e.g. with deforestation, and physical impacts). Bootcamps workshops do have participatory sessions where students from different backgrounds and campuses share their experiences, observations and views about Climate Change to support the understanding that Climate Change knowledge can be applied in many aspects of their lives.
The 4th Annual Climate Change Students Boot camp brought together students from universities across Uganda to raise their awareness on: what climate change is, its causes and impacts; how climate change can be addressed globally, nationally and locally; and, how change in attitudes and behavior can be vehicle for addressing climate change.
The Makerere University Center for Climate Change Research and Innovations (MUCCRI) and USAID/Uganda Education and Research to Improve Climate Change Adaptation Activity held the 3rd Annual Climate Change Boot camp. The Boot Camp was built on the lessons learned from the previous two youth training engagements. The model for the Bootcamp training will remain focused on creating a cascade effect among Ugandan youth where the key intension is to equip the students with skills and knowledge to reach out to other youths and children in schools.
The 2nd Annual Climate Change University Students Boot Camp was held from the 27th -30th, of January 2016. The intention of the 2nd Boot camp was different from that of the first in that the 1st Boot Camp was to increase general awareness and knowledge around climate change issues and was open to nearly any college student who wanted to participate. While the 2nd Boot Camp aimed at transitioning that awareness and knowledge of up to 30 University students who had demonstrated their serious desires to be able to share this information with younger students through development and practicing of climate change related classroom-type activities and lessons.
The 1st Climate Change University Students Boot Camp was held from the 28th-30th, of January 2015 and 71 undergraduate and graduate students from different university campuses around Uganda actively participated in a three-day intensive climate change training effort held at Makerere University in Kampala. This intensive training – dubbed Boot Camp – approach was so unique that it generated interest and support from many partners, including local and international NGOs, various university departments (not all science) and well-known local climate specialists.
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Congratulations to Timothy Nguyen for his Superior with Distinction at State solo & ensemble this year! We are so proud of you and all your accomplishments!
So proud of our former student, Alyssa Dessoye who is performing in "Carmen" at Indiana University Opera Theatre. That's the way to do it, Alyssa!
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The Griffin Charitable Foundation's mission is to celebrate the legacy of the Griffin family by enhancing the quality of life in Rome and the surrounding communities. We will accomplish this objective by using our resources to contribute to, and thereby strengthen, specific local organizations whose primary purpose is improving the daily lives of our citizens.
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Getting to Net Zero: How Precast Concrete and Thermal Mass Help Reduce Total Energy
Nov 13, 2012 5:30-7:30 pm
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Join the USGBC-Illinois Rockford/Northern IL Branch Getting to Net Zero: How Precast Concrete and Thermal Mass Help Reduce Total Energy Use.
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This program will look at two case studies: the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado, and the 2011 Team New Jersey Solar Decathalon Project. Although vastly different in scope, both of these buildings use the thermal mass of precast concrete, in conjunction with a holistic design approach, to take the building to "net zero." Each project brings a novel approach to the same concept -- showing how designers can use massing to reduce energy and integrate many systems into one building product. Additionally, we will look at several of the key ideas that designers use to approach net zero.
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Water is the most treasured resource on the planet. Developed international locations vary considerably in the perceived cleanliness of the tap water available to the residents that live there – in many countries, tap water is considered pristine, while in others there is a longstanding trust that the faucet water is only secure for watering plants.
How Do Other Cultures View the Cleanliness of Water?Worse still, in many growing countries the citizens don’t have get admission to to tap water, and ought to battle day by day to accumulate drinking water from unclean or unpurified sources. The cleanliness of water in any subculture has a large have an impact on on how human beings live their day-to-day lives.
In America, public consciousness of the contaminants in drinking water has reached an all time high. More families than ever earlier than make use of a water filter or filtration gadget in their domestic to eliminate contaminants and impurities before consuming water from the tap.
The assumed cleanliness of the water in our u . s . a . varies by way of area – in some cities like New York, the water fantastic reports show that the water is secure to drink, and many humans will gulp water without delay from the faucet. America is special in that almost every municipality problems a comprehensive water document so the residents of that place can without problems access concrete information about their water. cleanliness.edr1rxd1 water filter
In other parts of the world, the cultural fixation on hygiene is much less intense. Some societies are less actively concerned about the cleanliness of their water, in phase because they’ve usually had access to smooth drinking water.
Norway, for example, has a couple of packages in place to screen the water systems in the u . s . and assure that the ground water does now not end up contaminated with runoff. This makes the purifying procedure of their water sources easier, so that families are receiving fresh and clean consuming water besides worry.
The source of the water in nations additionally affects how clean the water supply is, which also impacts how the cleanliness of that water is perceived. Luxembourg obtains its drinking water almost completely from contained springs, the place illness is less likely.
American cities get water from lakes, rivers, snowpack, reservoirs, and even in the ocean in areas where desalination flowers are used, and the variant in cleanliness creates a heightened cognizance culturally.
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Hello and Happy Monday! Here’s some stuff going on in our little corner of the world.
A former Deloitte partner is suing Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for disability benefits, saying he’s unable to return to his “highly-demanding” position because of multiple mental health conditions:
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, accuses MetLife of improperly denying the partner’s claim for benefits using the opinions of doctors who never personally examined him and who made “value-laden judgments” based on his social media presence. MetLife made no substantial effort to talk to the partner’s treating physicians, all of whom agree he’s disabled, according to the lawsuit.
Financial Times wrote that, according to insiders, the EY split is now a “shitshow“:
The next few weeks will be critical in deciding whether Everest will survive. EY’s US boss Julie Boland blindsided the global leadership when she announced in a webcast to US partners on Wednesday that the plan would be put on “pause” to resolve an international row over how much of the tax practice would stay with EY’s core audit business.
Boland was not talking off the cuff, people at the firm said. Her words were pre-prepared and one person who watched the webcast said she appeared to be using a teleprompter.
But the extent of the fallout seems not to have been anticipated. Partners and staff across the firm’s operations expressed shock, confusion and anger. “Chaos” was one of the words used most frequently. Others called it a “shitshow”.
So the Oscars came and went. It’s been six years since the PwC partners entrusted with Oscars envelopes screwed up, they’re never gonna live that one down:
According to the academy website, just two PricewaterhouseCoopers partners know the results beforehand. PwC is the accounting firm that tabulates the votes. Each partner is stationed in the Dolby Theatre’s wings during the ceremony with a full set of winners’ envelopes. They’re charged with handing the sealed envelope to the winner.
Infamously, in 2017, a PwC accountant handed Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope, resulting in the “La La Land”/“Moonlight” best picture fiasco.
— ABC News (@ABC) February 27, 2017
The World Baseball Classic will feature some of the greatest players MLB has seen in quite some time, and also a KPMG auditor playing third base for the Czech team.
Deloitte has doubled its workforce in India in three years:
Nearly 50,000 professionals have been hired by Deloitte in India over the last three years, doubling the headcount as it invests in people and productive capacity in the country, the company said in an official statement on Friday.
“The organization plans to continue to invest in people and productive capacities in India, with a focus on innovative approaches to support education, digital skills development, and training opportunities,” the audit firm said.
A blonde accountant who the internet mistakenly identified as the crazy racist lady in this video tells her story to Guinnett Daily Post. Her little firm was hit with hundreds of negative Google reviews and she is still worried that someone might break in even though the police have expressly told the internet to stop harassing middle-aged white accountant ladies:
Candice Bogar changed her name because she didn’t want to be called a Karen, but that hasn’t stopped the internet from doing so.
Bogar, who legally changed her name in 2021, did not want to be associated with the archetypical name for someone perceived as a white woman of privilege. Yet, that pejorative — and a bigot — are all she has been called on the internet since being mistaken for a woman who spewed xenophobic vitriol at a Hatboro pizza shop owner last month.
“This was hate I’ve never been exposed to before,” said Bogar, 55, the president of the Jenkintown accounting firm Bogar & Associates Inc.
“It was the worst day of my life,” said Bogar. She still worries for her personal safety and ability to take on clients during tax season, even though the defamatory comments have been deleted and reviews are disabled for Bogar & Associates’ Google and Facebook pages.
PwC’s Skilled Service Hub in Adelaide is hiring:
As a darkening cloud hovers over the consulting industry with news that McKinsey & Company and KPMG are set to slash their local and global workforces due to a downturn in demand, PwC has happily celebrated another recruitment milestone at its Skilled Service Hub in Adelaide, which was first announced in mid-2018 with the promise of creating 300 new jobs over the next eighteen months.
That timeline has now passed, but with it the professional services firm has easily surpassed its original recruitment target – and by a considerable margin.
For its $500,000 gift to the University of Mississippi, one of the nation’s top public accounting firms, Forvis LLP, will be honored with the naming of the undergraduate and master’s programs suite in the new Patterson School of Accountancy.
“The long-term success of our firm – and, for that matter, our profession – requires a strong pipeline of talented candidates who will help us achieve our mission,” said Tom Watson, the firm’s CEO. “The graduates we hire from Ole Miss are top-notch, and we are proud they call Forvis home.
“We are honored to support the Patterson School of Accountancy and look forward to its continued excellence in training the profession’s next generation of leaders.”
A few other things:
- ‘Big Short’ Michael Burry Warns of Another Major Bank Collapse
- Sen. Warren calls out ‘sham audits’ while SVB threatens crypto bankruptcy
- Deloitte director comes second in woman of the year award 2023
- KPMG: Tech leaders interested in metaverse’s future, not its present
- 75% Of Women Executives Experience Imposter Syndrome In The Workplace
- Feds charge former owner of Deerfield-based accounting firm with intentionally filing false tax returns for clients
That’s all I’ve got for today, should be plenty to whet your news palate. Have a lovely week for me eh?

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Photo by Tamara West
This spicy apple strudel is quickly made. You could use five, rather than seven, sheets of filo but the more sheets you use the flakier the strudel will be. Keep the thawed package of filo folded and covered as you go, so it won't dry out. Filo pastry is best served hot or warm.
|3||Apples, peeled and quartered|
|½||Orange, zest and juice, or use zest and juice of 1 lemon|
|75 g||Dates, chopped, or use raisins or currants|
|2 Tbsp||Caster sugar|
|¼ tsp||Five spice|
|¼||Grated nutmeg, fine|
|7 sheets||Filo pastry|
|¼ cup||Melted butter|
|1 sprinkle||Icing sugar, to dust|
- Using a mandolin or sharp knife, finely slice the apples in to a bowl. Add the zest and juice of 1/2 an orange or 1 lemon, the dates (or use raisins or currants), caster sugar, cornflour and spices. Toss well to combine.
- Preheat oven to 200C. Place one sheet of filo on a baking paper-lined tray and brush with melted butter. Place another sheet on top and butter again. Continue layering until you have a stack of 5-7 sheets of buttered filo. Spread apple mix on top, leaving a 5cm edge left and right. Brush extra melted butter around the edge and fold the sides in, then roll to a large sausage shape. Turn seam-side down. Brush more melted butter on the outside and bake until coloured and crispy. Dust with icing sugar to serve.
Check out more of Warren's strudel recipes

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Every month on our photography forum members nominate images that they like. Then at the end of the month I choose an excellent image and talk about why it rocks. The photo I choose is not necessarily the best one of the month. I’ve come to realize it’s not really logical to pit images from totally different genres against each other. That’s why there are categories in photo contests. I just choose a photo that has extremely strong elements that we can learn from.
This month’s choice is (Click to see the larger version of this image) And miles to go before I sleep… And miles to go before I sleep by jumpinjimmyjava
I chose this image for several reasons:
1 — It tells or suggests a strong story & Composition — The title of the image is a well known phrase from a poem that many of us studied in High School (Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert frost). Just reading the title helps to support this image and veers our interpretation of it in a certain direction both with visual and thematic elements. I love the position of the man in this image. It’s close to the edge but not quite at the edge. This adds tension to the image and helps support the theme that “there’s still work to be done”, it’s not over just yet) .The wintry scene also supports the theme of a person in their sunset years but the image is bright, not dark, again supporting a thematic element.
I like the layered aspect of the image where the bottom of the image is darker than the rest. The middle part of the image shows lines moving from right to left. The top part of the image shows more sky and is distinct from the other 2 parts of the image. These ‘divisions’ or layers as I like to call them add visual interest to the image. Our eyes like them.
2 — Colour — The subtle colour palette in this image works very well for me, the colours are very harmonious. For me they are calm, well chosen colours. The blue of the jacket stands out really well against the white and brings our full attention to the focal point of the image. In addition, the blue of the jacket is complimented by other subtle blue tones in the image, again helping to create the overall visual harmony.
3 — Post processing — This image is a composite of several images or textures. I don’t know exactly how many but I’d say at least 3 (the snow flakes, the man, the wintry landscape). Either way the blending of the images is well done to my eye and each part of the image compliments the other parts.
And the whole image, is greater than the sum of its parts.
For all these reasons, this is my choice for image of the month. Since we all have opinions, some members may disagree with my choice. That’s cool but THIS thread is not the place for debate over my pick, NOR is it the place to further critique the image. The purpose here is to suggest strong elements in the photo that we may learn from.
Congrats again jumpinjimmyjava for creating this wonderful themed image!


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“Red Rose” rescuers are courageous pro-lifers who risk harassment, threats, and their very freedom to rescue babies “being led away to death” and reach mothers who are “staggering to the slaughter.” (Proverbs 24:11)
Red Rose Rescues are the very last line of defense before the abortionist’s scalpel or chemical cocktail extinguishes an innocent human life. Rescuers go inside abortion mills to talk with women and urge them to choose life for their unborn children. The movement is named for a red rose given to each woman along a short note and information about local pro-life pregnancy centers. In many rescues, women leave the abortion clinic, red rose in hand.
Life Legal is currently representing Red Rose rescuers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, and New Orleans.
One of the Ohio rescues took place at Northeast Ohio Women’s Center, where in July a pro-lifer found the body of a 17-week aborted baby in the clinic’s dumpster. The clinic is run by abortionist David Burkons whose medical license was suspended after he violated the basic standard of care in the treatment of at least 14 women. In addition, Burkons has had to file numerous reports with the State Medical Board after his patients experienced complications from chemical abortion drugs including infection, hospitalization, incomplete abortion, and severe bleeding (source: abortiondocs.org).
Over 20 of Burkons’ obstetric patients have filed medical malpractice lawsuits against him. In one notable case, a baby girl he delivered suffered a severe brain injury during birth. Her parents won a $4 million settlement against the hospital. The judge in that case refused to allow the parents’ attorneys to present any evidence of Burkons’ abortion practice to the jury – yet another example of the “abortion distortion” so prevalent in our legal system.
Despite ongoing legal issues, Burkons says he enjoys doing abortions because every woman “comes in with a problem and leaves without a problem.”
As someone who paid an abortionist to kill my baby many years ago, I can assure you that women who seek the “services” of butchers like David Burkons leave abortion clinics with a much bigger problem than an inconveniently timed pregnancy.
The judge in the Ohio rescue case sentenced the pro-lifers to jail for trespassing, but our Life Legal affiliate attorney in Ohio successfully argued to have the sentence suspended, which means the defendants do not have to serve any jail time.
Our goal in these cases is to provide a witness for LIFE in the courtroom and to ensure that pro-lifers are able to return to their mission of saving babies and women from the scourge of abortion.
Our most recent Red Rose case is in Pennsylvania, where police took rescuers into custody two weeks ago during a rescue at a Planned Parenthood abortion mill. One of the two abortionists at that facility is nearly 80 years old and was sued in the past for “accidentally” aborting a woman’s baby after he failed to check whether she was pregnant before removing uterine polyps.
In Louisiana, rescuers went to the Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge, which has a long history of health violations, including failing to have basic medical supplies on hand that resulted in lifed-threatening injuries to women. Just two months ago, a homeless man rummaging through the trash behind the abortion mill found bloody medical waste, along with a sign-in sheet naming 13 women who were scheduled for abortions on a single day.
And in Washington DC rescuers are facing criminal trespassing charges and a “stay away” order after entering an abortion facility run by notorious late term abortionist Stephen Brigham, whose medical licenses in 7 states were revoked for gross negligence.
The upcoming Red Rose hearing dates are:
- Pennsylvania: Preliminary hearing on August 24
- Washington DC: Status hearing on August 28
- New Orleans: Trial set for November 16
Thank you for standing with us as we represent pro-lifers who risk their safety and freedom to “Rescue those being led away to death” and “Hold back those staggering toward slaughter” (Proverbs 24:11). Please pray for our pro-life clients facing trial in the coming weeks and months.


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In this article you will read about how grade 3 students planned and designed their classroom space under the transdisciplinary theme of “sharing the planet”.
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This article is available in Spanish and English. It shares an inquiry into the way that the physical space influences teaching and learning with young children. It describes what provoked the inquiry, the questions that were asked, the research done and how the action was taken to re-design learning environments to better support child friendly […]

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DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE THERAPY
Deep Tissue Massage Therapy is bodywork which goes bellow superficial connective tissue with the intent of breaking up old structural patterns and allowing the free flow of nutrients and oxygen in the blood. It requires that therapist apply a considerable amount of pressure which in some cases may cause some discomfort.
palpation– use of the touch to examine the tissues of the body and can be performed before or after massage
diagnosis of trigger points also known as trigger sites or muscle knots which are diagnosed by examining signs, symptoms, pain patterns and manual palpation
neuromuscular technique therapy– form of soft tissue manual therapy where pressure is applied to the skin with the aim of stimulating specific areas of skeletal muscle

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If you are not looking for it, you will miss the news that one of the West’s oldest Protestant denominations is on the verge of a schism. A council of Bishops in the United Methodist Church proposed a resolution that will be voted on later in 2020 aimed at separation. If the vote passes, which observers believe it will, the American branch of the UMC will break off from the more conservative international wing of the denomination.
The issue? Same sex marriage.
There was a critical juncture on the road to acceptance of SSM and schism early in 2019 when their international convention voted to keep the biblical teaching that marriage is between one man and one woman. By in large, it is accepted that traditional marriage won the vote because of the African delegation. The American UMC long ago began a slide toward accepting homosexuality and SSM as normative (my wife grew up in the UMC and recalls lesbian pastors and church leaders 30 years ago). But while the American church was ready to accept an expanded version of marriage and sexuality, the international delegation moved the vote in the other direction.
The reaction against the largely African vote was incredible. Methodist and progressive Christian leaders like Jim Wallis and William Willamon openly regretted having Africans vote, and wondered if a vote is “the best way to discern the will of God.” These kinds of things are said by those who don’t want others with differing points of view (in this case, their African brothers), to have a voice. The reaction from progressives was stunningly intolerant, culture-bound, and elitist. It is becoming a trope to say that those who demand the most tolerance from the rest of us are the least tolerant, or those who claim to be the least racists among us are the first to gripe with other ethnicities don’t tow the progressive party line.
The progressive American UMC wants to sanction SSM, and now they will get their chance. The denomination will likely split, with a cash payment given to the conservative branch that breaks off. Churches will be caught in the middle of the split, congregations will be fractured, and buildings will be caught up in costly legal and ecclesiological wrangling. All so a group of culture-bound progressive church leaders can perform same sex marriages, contrary to Scripture.
One of the lessons for the larger church is pretty simple: don’t think you will not have to deal with this one way or the other. This issue will not go away, and those who support it are vocal, politically powerful, and have a lot of funding behind them. The church and denomination you belong to will face this pressure sooner or later and it is critical that pastors and church leaders are ready to deal with it both theologically and legally. The old saying about the “nose of the camel in the tent” applies here.
This is one of the places where the American church will have an opportunity to be different from the world for the sake of the world. As one commentator on the UMC situation put it, “American Christianity and society desperately need a theologically cohesive rejuvenated Methodism. I’m looking forward to participating in a Methodist revival!”
He is right. We need to pray for the UMC, and for those who are working hard to stay faithful to the clear teaching of Scripture and to our Lord’s injunction to love our neighbor.
Watched the voting process a few months ago. It was astounding how those who weren’t happy with the results reacted. Determined to marry same sex couples anyway. Rebellion at its finest 😜


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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild already looks like it will have plenty of stuff to do – just take the vast scale of the open world the game is set in. But in addition to this, it turns out Breath of the Wild will also have more than one story ending to discover.
Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma divulged as much in a discussion with IGN Portugal (via ubergizmo), where he said that if players meet “certain criteria” they can access the different ending. For a series with such rich lore as Zelda, this is a tantalising prospect.
The criteria in question is unknown for now, but with the amount of stuff to do in the world, completion of different challenges could well be part of it. We’ll have to wait and see – and we won’t be waiting long now, either; The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild launches on Nintendo Switch and Wii U simultaneously on March 3rd!


Twenty-five years ago we (well, technically I) hung out the proverbial shingle to announce to the Houston printing and advertising industry that there was a new typesetter in town: ImageSet.
As technology changed, so did our service offerings. From typesetting to film output to digital printing, we followed the path dictated by our customers’ needs.
And they’re still changing today. For example, while a typical job nowadays might still involve a direct mail piece, more and more often we’re also providing the e-mail and web components to that campaign, as well as list acquisition and database marketing strategy.
Particularly indicative of the changing nature of our business is the growing number of customers who have migrated their print ordering to our e-procurement solution for collateral-on-demand. I find it ironic that an old-standby of offline media, print, is increasingly being procured through an online vehicle, the internet.
Like many of you, we’re wondering what the next 25 years will look like. Will it be a paperless society? Probably not, say the experts. But the paper communications of the next quarter century will definitely take a different format, and be produced with entirely new technology.
But for now, we’re focusing on the next year, and the year after that and the year after that, because we’ve learned over the past 25 years that you can’t control what you don’t know. One thing we do know: just as we’ve observed and responded to technology trends in the past, ImageSet will keep evolving to meet your communication needs in the next year, and the next decade, and hopefully, in the next quarter-century.


Water heaters are pretty solid systems, and can operate for many years without running into any serious problems. Assuming, of course, that you take proper care of them. Even if you schedule maintenance on a regular basis, though, you still need to keep an eye out for any and all signs that your water heater might be dealing with some sort of problem. The faster you can identify an issue with your water heater, the faster you can have it dealt with and the more potential damage you can prevent. The following are just a few of the different symptoms you might encounter that indicate a problem with the water heater. Make sure that you call for repairs quickly if you notice any of these problems.
A leak of any kind is not something you should ever ignore. Even small leaks can cause a lot of damage to the water heater and surrounding area, depending on the location. A small leak in the storage tank, for example, can eventually grow large enough that it causes the entire thing to rupture. Leaks in valves or circulation pumps can also interfere with the proper operation of the system. Always call a professional to patch a leak as soon as you can.
Low Heating Output
If your water heater seems to be having trouble providing enough hot water for your needs, it might have one of a number of different issues affecting it. It’s possible that you have sediment building up in the storage tank, which is insulating the water inside from the heat being generated by the burner assembly. It’s also possible that the burner assembly itself is clogged, which will prevent the system from generating enough heat to warm the water in the tank. You’re going to need to have a technician check out the system for you to be able to tell for certain. Just as with the other problems on this list, though, the worst thing you could do is ignore the issue.
Sudden Changes in Temperature
If the water coming out of your faucet is rapidly switching back and forth between hot and cold water, you probably have a problem with your dip tube. The dip tube is a PVC tube that runs from the water lien to the bottom of the storage tank. It is meant to ensure that fresh water entering the water heater is directed to the bottom of the tank, where it will warm up faster and be kept separate from the warm water leaving the top of the tank. If the dip tube cracks, it will leak cold water into the warm water leaving the system. The dip tube will need to be replaced to resolve this issue, so make sure you call a professional to take care of it.


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Mystery Object Falls Into Florida Couple’s Yard
No, this did not come from a UFO or deep space.
A Florida couple had an experience last month that one might see on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” but this real-life incident occurred last month when a metal sphere with red ribbon was found in their yard.
Teresa Fuhr and her husband, Bill, have lived in Titusville for 50 years and she told Inside Edition Digital that “no one ever saw anything like this before.”
The sphere just hung over their yard high in the trees between their property and their neighbors. Bill moved the strange object over to their yard and called the Brevard County Sheriff's deputies to investigate, My News 13 reported.
“The first police to arrive were very cautious thinking it might be radioactive and they did not want to get too close to it at first,” Teresa told Inside Edition Digital.
The object weighed about 8 to 10 pounds, according to My News 13 and eventually cops called deputies with BCSO Bomb Unit, who arrived and inspected it further.
“They called in someone knowledgeable with bombs,” she said. “He looked at it and then determined that it probably belonged to a weather balloon.”
Teresa said that authorities were on her property for two-and-a-half hours before giving the all clear.
Teresa said weather balloons are common in the area due to the proximity of the Space Station nearby but has not seen one before, adding, “we first saw it we had no idea.”
Weather balloons are the primary source of data that allows for the input of computer forecast models, local data for meteorologists to make forecasts and predict storms, and data for research, according to the National Weather Service. They added that weather balloons are released simultaneously from almost 900 locations worldwide, including 92 released by the National Weather Service in the U.S. and its territories.
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Car Crashes Are Bad, by Kyle Anderson
Nothing screams “Oscar bait” like foreign films about social issues and none have screamed louder lately than the Argentinean film Carancho, directed by Pablo Trapero. It is a film so sure of its edginess and grittiness that it thinks it can coast on that alone and not deliver a proper narrative or character development. The general conceit of the film is quite interesting and could have produced some very meaty character pieces, but instead it falls back on melodrama and some admittedly brilliant directorial flourishes.
The film opens with a series of titles describing the growing problem of rampant car crashes in Argentina and we’re told that 8,000 people die every year from it. The government pays victims who survive quite large sums of money as settlements. With this backdrop, the film introduces us to its two leads, Lujan (played by Martina Gusman), an overworked hospital doctor and paramedic who has taken to shooting morphine into her foot to get through the day, and Sosa (played by Ricardo Darin), a lawyer who has had his license taken away and now works for The Foundation essentially circling car crashes in order to convince the victims to grant him power of attorney. Both characters are coasting through life largely unfulfilled and doing things they’d rather not have to do.
They meet after a man on a bicycle is hit by a truck and Sosa is immediately, almost creepily attracted to Lujan, though she is quite wary of him as a “carancho,” Spanish for “vulture.” And indeed, he seems to be just that, waiting around hospitals and police stations, tricking people into becoming his clients. It’s around this same time that Sosa wears Lujan down and she agrees to go out with him and they begin a relationship, though she’s clearly much cooler on the idea than him. This portion of the film crawls along at a rather flat pace and devotes far too much time to people doing nothing, done surely to evoke a “realness” to the surroundings.
The actual plot begins to take shape when Sosa agrees to help a sick, old alcoholic man get money by staging a car accident in the middle of the night, horrifically breaking the man’s leg before the old man throws himself on a passing car. Unfortunately, things go wrong(er) and Lujan is there to witness this. Up to this point, aside from being slow, the film was fairly interesting from a narrative standpoint and delved deeper into either the character’s state of mind or the politics behind the insurance racket, but unfortunately it fizzes away into a half-developed crime narrative.
After the incident Sosa gets cut loose by The Foundation and that’s when we learn of the corruption that goes on in the organization, and probably countless others. It seems the government awards the victims hundreds of thousands of pesos as compensation, but the Foundation pockets all but a small chunk which it gives to the victims’ families claiming that’s all there was. Sosa tries to get back at them by snaking clients away from the Foundation and giving them their proper settlement, which puts his life at risk.
All right, fine, now it’s a movie about corruption exploitation by seemingly clandestine organization passing itself off as a public service. The trouble is, there’s not enough time spent on the intrigue of the whole thing or the people supposedly carrying it out, to the point that when the villains are spoken about, the audience has no clue who these people are by name. The villains themselves are so one dimensional that they may as well be out of a Steven Segal movie from the 1980s and they are played with the arch diabolicalness of Snidely Whiplash.
There’s also the problem of the relationship between Sosa and Lujan which just seemingly goes from ice cold to boiling in a matter of screen minutes. Sosa from the get-go comes across as a psycho-stalker and there’s nothing within the film’s narrative to explain why Lujan would be with him other than that it was written in the script. There’s a great deal of time spent on watching the two of them together and “in love,” with an overly long scene of them dancing at a party followed by an awkwardly-paced scene of them making love afterward, but never once was the nature of their relationship explored further than the initial “I think you’re special”-type things at the beginning. As was bound to happen, Lujan is put in danger at various points in the movie which prompts Sosa to take violent, reckless action as retribution which keeps things moving, but it’s nothing more profound than what you’d find on a nighttime soap opera.
Despite all this, the film does have some bright spots, the most prevalent being Trapero’s frantic direction and superb cinematography. Clearly influenced by Alfonso Cuaron’s work on Children of Men, Carancho has some truly inspired handheld tracking shots that seem to go on forever, following characters performing and witnessing various horrible things. A few times, the action is such that there would have to be a cut in the filming or a seam of editing somewhere, but it’s truly done well enough that you don’t notice it for a second if it’s there. The film ends with two quite spectacular “single-take” shots that are impeccably done and truly shows the director’s prowess, unfortunately what’s happening in the narrative around it is impossibly frustrating and the effect of the final shot was producing a rush of anger quickly followed by disdain as they had done the most obvious thing possible in the least compelling way.
Carancho is a film with a lot of promise and some interesting real-life topics to discuss, but gets too mired down with trying to be “edgy” and “gritty” to actually have any emotional impact. The only lessons it offers are that car crashes are bad and lawyers are greedy, something most people probably already know. Despite some fantastic camera work and finely choreographed action pieces, the film is uneven, frustrating, and ultimately boring.

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The Telugu film RRR is an incredible mixture of genres, influences, and ideas: a historical epic with obvious ahistorical qualities, a combat-heavy actioner with exuberant song-and-dance numbers, a homosocial friendship drama with recognizably romantic montages. Strong notes of melodrama accent its potent blend.
In 1997, a young Ike Nnaebue, along with free of his friends, left Lagos, Nigeria for a journey across West Africa, hoping to get into Europe by road (and ultimately) by sea, but a fortuitous encounter at Mali’s capital city caused him to make a detour, one that would change the trajectory of his life forever.
Pili Puppetry is a well-known Taiwanese glove puppet series, which transposes wuxia tales of martial arts chivalry to a fantasy setting.
Part of coverage of the 2022 New York Asian Film Festival.
If we think of film as “visual storytelling”, Blood Sisters certainly gives us the “visual” even if it sometimes leaves us wondering about the “storytelling.”
There are few words fit to describe Blue Island (憂鬱之島), apart from “masterpiece.” The film stands out as an example of its genre, while also managing to be highly powerful and personal.
A Review of "Singing in the Wilderness" written in collaboration with Cinema Escapist, as part of coverage of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Keep an eye out for more!
This is a No Man is an Island film review written in collaboration with Cinema Escapist, as part of coverage of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Keep an eye out for more!
A Review of Episodes One and Two of Gold Leaf (茶金)
FATHER (爺爺和父親) is a standout documentary, whose strengths primarily derive from the revealing moments it manages to capture on camera. This is due to the fact that director Deng Wei is filming his father and grandfather as the documentary’s subjects.
I’m getting ready for the function at the junction And baby you’d better come on right now Because everybody’s gonna be there We got people comin’ from everywhere – “Function At The Junction,” Shorty Long, 1966 There’s a long, long legacy of Black folks gathering around food and funk, bbq sauce and song.
THE SOUL (緝魂) stands out among recent Taiwanese film as an effective and well-executed commercial thriller.
Building off of Taiwan’s complex relationship with intersex issues stemming from the 1950s, 2021’s "Born to Be Human" brings light to contemporary misunderstandings of intersex people and the continued medical violence they face. The film proves an emotionally harrowing look at the medicalization of the gender binary through the lens of intersex rights.


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On Sunday 13th July, Ed Solomons was crowned the World FITASC Sporting Champion after shooting 191ex200 at Vale das Pedras in Portugal. Ed led the event from the first parcours to the last, and was 2 shots clear at the finish. I sat down with Ed, to get a few words on his win and the event.
ShootClay : Firstly Ed, congratulations on a stunning win. How does it feel to be crowned World Champion?
Ed Solomons : I’m over the moon. Very pleased with my performance, which I don’t think was bad for a sporting shooter!
SC : Has the win started to sink in yet?
ES : Yep, it’s starting to – I had a day off to get used to the idea, and now I’m heading straight back to coaching work, but the World Champion title will always be there, it’s my first and no-one can take it away from me.
SC : What are your thoughts on the event?
ES: I thought it was good, well put together and well organised. The targets were definitely better for me than the European Championship at the same ground in 2012, with a few longer lead targets – I’d have been happy with even a few more, but it was a great shoot.
SC : Did you practice for this one?
ES : Nope, I took a week off to rest in Southern Portugal prior to the event, as I’ve been working flat out since the start of the year. I shot the British Grand Prix at Hodnet about a month ago, and one other FITASC at Westfield earlier in the year, but apart from those I wanted to be fresh and hungry for this one.
SC : Who helped you for this shoot, and all the other shooting you do?
ES : I’m really lucky to be supported by a great team. I have to call out Krieghoff for providing me with a great gun, Hull for my regular Pro-One shells, and Nick Truter at justchoking.co.uk for the Muller Chokes.
In terms of preparation I have to thank Ed Lyons who looks after my eyes with his Sports Vision Service, he recently tweaked my prescription in my Oakleys and gave me super-human vision! I also have to mention Henry Hopking who helps me with the mental side of my game, and was available on the end of the phone all week to keep me focused and ready. Both Ed and Henry were the perfect people to have in my corner all week.
Finally – I have to thank my family and friends, who give me tons of support and keep me level-headed!
SC : What is next for you?
ES : Well, straight back to work coaching, but then I’m looking forward to the Troy Foods FITASC Classic at Westfield at the end of July. I like Steve Lovatts targets, so I’m really excited for that shoot.
SC : So, you are already back coaching, what advice would you give to aspiring shooters?
ES : Firstly, keep plugging away, keep shooting. Take a common sense approach and be realistic about what you are good at, and what needs improving. When you discover what you need to work on, make sure that you get a good coach and focus on those techniques and shots you need to improve at. My article about finding the right coach has some good advice to help you find the right person.
SC : The FITASC World Championship has been won by 4 different shooters in the last 4 years, what do you think that says about the top competitions?
ES : I think it’s very exciting, there is a pool of about 40 shooters that can compete for the top spaces at the big events, maybe 10 or 15 from the UK, 10 or 15 from the US, and the remainder from around the world. So it makes these World and European events even more exciting with a bigger pool of shooters able to win. The competition has never been hotter, and that makes it fun!
SC : Finally – a couple of lighter questions. You spend a lot of time travelling around to shoot, what is your favourite ground?
ES : That’s an easy question for me, I really love Grimsthorpe a ground which shows some amazing targets, in a beautiful setting, and it’s run by great people. I also love Sporting Targets and Kibworth – I coach at both, and spend so much of my time at those grounds that they feel like second homes!
SC : And then one last question, if you could handpick any shooters to join a dream squad – who would you choose?
ES : That’s a tougher one, so many good shooters – but I think I would have Dave Carrie, Sean Bramley, Guy Hoh, Rob Russell, and Rosie Brumby. That would a fun day out of top shooters!
SC : Thanks Ed, once again, sincere congratulations from everyone at ShootClay on winning in Portgual and bringing the World Championship home.

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Development a Machine for Drinking Water Processed with Hybrid Green Energy for Removed Areas in VietnamJournal: International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD ) (Vol.10, No. 3)
Publication Date: 2020-06-30
Authors : Tuan Phan Anh; Tan Nguyen Minh;
Page : 5849-5856
Keywords : Drinking Water; Process; Disinfection; Green Energy; Removed Area;
This paper mentions to a research and development a Machine for Drinking Water Processed (MDWP) with hybrid green energy for removed area in Vietnam. The machine is designed for processing the qualitative drinking water by hybrid wind and solar energies. This machine is designed for people who live in removed areas where the national electrical grid is does not provided. There machine uses two disinfection technology for drinking water process. Firstly, raw water from drilled wells will be disinfected by electrolysis cell (using MOX electrodes) treatment technology. Secondly, the preprocessed water is disinfected by ultraviolet (UV) treatment technology. Power for water process is provided by a hybrid green energy system, wind and solar energies. A Mixture Axis Wind Turbine (MAWT) is designed and manufactured for converting wind energy to electric supply for the machine. Solar panels are integrated to the wind energy unit for being hybrid green energy system. Prototypes of MDWP have made and now testing for drinking water processed in a removed area in Vietnam.
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U.S. Deficit Growing–Not Tax Receipts
Monday’s post closed with, “. . . The nonpartisan agency projected the government will run a deficit of $229 billion in February, the highest monthly figure ever.” (Click here for the complete report from the Washington Times.) That means the government spent nearly $8 billion more than it took in each and every day of last month (29 days). This is not a sign of economic “strength” but of tremendous weakness. You cannot print your way to prosperity, but it can pave the way to an economic collapse.” (Click here for Monday’s complete post.) The $229 billion (February) deficit was reportedly revised upward, making the situation worse than I reported. Tax receipts are, also, not keeping up with the monthly deficits. You cannot grow the deficit to infinity. This is totally unsustainable, and the only question is when will the game be over? Please keepin mind, the real annual U.S. budget deficit is really near $5 trillion (using GAAP) not the $1.3 trillion reported by the MSM. This according to a recent Shadowstats.com report. Zerohedge.com had a good piece yesterday to explain the terrible news. It said, “A few days ago we noted that based on preliminary data, the February budget deficit would hit $229 billion (yes, nearly one quarter of a trillion in one month, about where real Greek GDP is these days) – the largest single monthly deficit in history. Unfortunately, this number was low: the final February deficit was just released and the actual print is $231.7 billion. It also means that in the first 5 months of the fiscal year, the US has raked up $580 billion in deficits, oddly matched by $727 billion in new debt issuance, 25% more new debt issued than needed to fund deficits… And that in itself would not be horrible – February is traditionally the worst month for deficits as the Treasury sees a surge in tax refund issuance – if it wasn’t for something even more troubling. As the second chart below shows, through last Friday, and net of tax refunds, total US tax revenues were actually lower in the fiscal 2012 year to date period than compared to 2011, by just under $2 billion, at $625.5 billion. Which is the weakest link for any argument that the US is actually growing:” (Click here to read the complete Zerohedge.com post and see the charts that give an ugly picture of the rising U.S. deficit.) –Greg Hunter–
Tax receipts not growning. No problem komrade. Just raise tax rates.
And the political cartoon was spot on
My husband told me an interesting “factoid” yesterday that he recently heard: 49% of U.S. citizens pay taxes…only 49%! I count myself and my husband two among the 49%-ers. He heard that a large majority of our population now relies on government support to sustain them.
I kind of already knew about this tax imbalance; corporations such as GE (and the like) getting away with paying NO taxes!
We are really in trouble. Sad. Never thought I’d see this happen in my lifetime.
I saw a new reality show called “Doomsday Preppers” (on NatGeo).
you may want to inform your husband that since apprx. two thirds of the population is either children or retired, that number (49%) is about right.
now, if you are counting (and you must be to make your argument stand) that those on social security are relying on the government to support them, then you are falling for a huge bald faced lie. social security is a self contained program whereby money to fund it is paid in by those who eventually qualify to take it out. while social security checkoffs from you paycheck are often referred to as taxes, they are, in reality, no more a tax than a checkoff for a 401k.
social security is a retirement program paid for soley by those who work and paid to those who paid into it.
another popular misnomer that has been going around is that the social security system is broke. hardly. the ss reserve, as we speak, is at an all time high of apprx. 2.6 trillion bucks. this is enough to last for apprx. the next 25 years at the current rate of payoout. and the current rate of payout is at an all time high, of course, because of all the retiring baby boomers. and alot of folks are misdirected from the fact that this is ok because those same boomers paid in the (by far) biggest share to date.
as for that 25 year reserve life, most boomers will be gone in 25 years reducing the payout to reflect those (again) who actuall paid in.
yes, our esteemed government has robbed the pool on several occasions, but they have not come close to killing it. and of course they should be made to pay it back.
here is an excellent recent article from saturday evening post that lays it out quite concisely.
I wouldn’t get too excited about that ss reserve of 2.9T….although it looks good on paper it’s really nothing more than a big promissory note from a bankrupt entity (fedgov) that already owes at least 50 Trillion or more in unfunded liabilities that’s virtually unpayable. Add in trillions more from QE funding that’s been used to keep our economy ( & the EU )on life support for the last 2-3 years it should be obvious even to a mainstream news mag we’re in for a world of hurt.
Ayn Rand said…’you can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality’. We’ve ignored reality for long enough….now it’s time to deal with the consequences.
Thanks, G. Johnson. Yes, my husband knows that 2/3 of the population are retirees and/or children. He was talking about working-age folks and those who refuse to work because government support is too good for them (example: people who keep having children with no viable means of supporting them and then the taxpayers end up footing the bills). He/I are not referring to people who NEED assistance: truly disabled, elderly, sick, etc.; as a society, we have to help those who cannot help themselves. And, as I pointed out earlier, the corrupt corporations who maneuver their monies off-shore in order to avoid paying their fare share of taxes in this country. There is something wrong with the tax system!
As a back up to my point:
Example: I know someone who has two children. Both fathers are, essentially, deadbeat dads…never paid an ounce of support, alcoholics/drugs…you get the picture. She has been on state aid (Maine) ever since her youngest was born (he is now in his early 20s). She had a second child just as the first one was getting ready to graduate high school (she was 40 at the time). She is now on “round two” of getting state aid. She recently got a new job where health insurance is offered and I said, “That’s great! Now you can get yourself and your son on the company’s health insurance policy.” She said…”Why would I want to do that? I can get it from the state for free!”
In talking about governmenet support, my husband was not referring to Social Security, which has been a very good social program. Thanks for the link to the article; I have printed out to read (I should have more carefully phrased my comment before posting).
I like Ron Paul, but I totally disagree with him on his views of Social Security.
Its probably 49% of the working population. Either way 95% of all statistics are wrong.
Spot on reporting!
The awfull truth is it is to late. Greece, Spain, all of Europe is just about done as far a the economy goes. I believe that the only reason that the U.S. has not gone over the edge yet is the upcoming election. Afterall, Obama has to look as good as possible.
What is really a concern will start happening about a year from now when Obama is back as President and he suspends the Constitution. The U.N will send in troops to back him up and we will be in deep do do.
Since we are following the Marxist model, I hope the elitists and so call academics, and the media will go the same way as they did in Russia. Then maybe “We the People” can get something accomplished.
What is amazing is how fast Obama has been able to pull this off. The congress has been his biggest supporter and helped him implement our downfall in less than 4 years. Even the Russians have 5-year planning periods.
@ Diane and Greg, are we at 257? after the announcement of Greg Smith Goldman CEO resignation? seems this is PR stunt/damage control/more than just a coincidence, all wrapped in one.
Also, Note: Jake Siewert will assume the interim Goldman post. the revolving door continues. This guy is a communication/PR guy, who along with being VP of ‘public strategy’ at Alcoa was also advising Geithner and had a two-time brief press sec positions for Clinton and Obama. Also, goldman gets White house council, Greg Craig. Craig was a legal advisor in the white house during the SEC goldman Civil case, and is currently in the Skadden Law firm that has represented Goldman for a long, long time.
the revolving door continues and most of my friends think this is a sign the Obama Admin is getting tough on Wall St…(sigh)
GAAP = generally accepted accounting practices. Like a household or business is required to use. As opposed to “cooking” the books like the government does
HOT tip: kindly check out this blog compilation titled: 320 RESIGNATIONS FROM WORLD BANKS, INVESTMENT HOUSES, MONEY FUNDS at http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/p/131-resignations-from-world-banks.html
Quote from the author: “I first began tracking this phenomenon just a few weeks ago when I found a blog talking about the 81 top-level resignations that had happened in a matter of just a few months. The thing that struck me then was that 12 of those resignations had happened in the day I found that article. So it seemed to me this was a growing phenomenon. I began to write a blog post …A few days passed and the number swelled to 155 resignations! Again life got in the way for me and now that I am sitting here to FINALLY make this blog posting… the number is up to 254 resignations! This is just 15 days since it was 81!”
Perhaps you would look into this and write about it since there’s definitely a story here.


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It is only a matter of days before we jet off to sunny Majorca on our first family holiday, yay! I am so excited but also very stressed, I can’t stop worrying about taking Leo on a plane. As far as the whole holiday planning goes though, I have found it all pretty easy and much less stressful than I was expecting.
How to plan your family summer holiday
Are you picturing your family lounging on a gorgeous Mediterranean beach or eating pastries in a beautiful French Chateau? Perhaps you’re looking for a more adventure filled holiday or want to travel off the continent. To help you plan your holiday, it’s important to decide what you want from your trip and this will help you choose your destination and accommodation. Leo is only 22months old so we decided that a self catering holiday in Majorca, staying in an apartment was going to be best for us. This way Leo will have his own bedroom so Oli and I are able to enjoy some alone time in the evenings. We used owners direct to find our appartment, this website is great for searching through holiday rentals and reading reviews. If you’re travelling with small children you also need to consider the flight duration. Majorca is only a 2.5hour flight away, that’s approximately 5 episodes of Night Garden, that’s totally doable (I hope!). Any longer on a flight with an almost 2 year old sounds like my idea of hell.
* Shop around for flights and be flexible *
When looking for flights you can save a fair bit of cash just by being flexible with the airport and day you want to fly. We saved over £100 just by changing the airport from Cardiff to Bristol and flying on a Monday instead of a Saturday. That £100 can be changed into euros or put towards savings for your next holiday.
* Don’t forget the little things *
If you are used to arranging your hollybobs through a travel agent then it can be easy to forget about the small boring things. Make sure you get yourself and your family travel insurance, we found a great deal for the 3 of us using Money Supermarket. For a stress free arrival to your accomodation, book your airport transfers in advance. In all the excitement of searching through golden beaches and amazing hotels, don’t forget to book your car in for it’s holiday too. We have paid just over £30 to park at Bristol airport for the week, we were very happy with that.
* Plan ahead *
The earlier you get everything booked and paid for, the more time you have to hit the shops and buy your holiday wardrobe. Our holiday has been paid off since April and over the last couple months we have been buying everything from suncream to swimsuits, to bikinis and even a pop up beach tent. It feels so good knowing everything is payed off and we have been able to just spend the last 8 weeks getting more and more excited.
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Before you make your final decision do some research to see if where you are staying has everything you need. As we are going self catering we wanted to make sure there was going to be lots of shops and restaurants close by. We are not renting a car so it was important for us that the beach, shops etc are all in walking distance. Google Earth is great for checking out the area where you are staying. Get on TripAdvisor and read some reviews, people are very honest on there and it will give you a good idea of what to expect while you are away.
I can’t wait to be running around on the beach with my family, soaking up the sun and making lots of memories.
Are you thinking of planning a family holiday or are you jetting off somewhere soon too? I hope you have a great time. If you hve anymore holiday planning tips I’d love for you to share them.
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Mike Foley is not related to Democrat Dan Foley, a current longtime county commissioner currently running for a statehouse seat. Democrat Russ Joseph is in his first campaign for public office, while his brother, Matt Joseph, has been on the ballot multiple times and won terms on the Dayton City Commission.
The clerk of courts candidate Foley said he would rather “stick to how we differ and why I’m a better candidate and not go back and forth about trivial matters.”
Foley said his background as a 12-year Bureau of Motor Vehicles deputy registrar that worked closely with the court clerk and his current ownership of multiple small businesses, among them four tax and accounting offices including one in Fairborn, make him the better candidate.
“My experience in both government and small business operations is what dramatically sets me apart from somebody that’s worked strictly in government all his life,” Foley said.
Joseph said his more than a decade as chief deputy clerk of the Dayton Municipal Court provided him the experience to lead the county’s courts.
“I gained invaluable experience in court administration and budget development. During that time, I became a Certified Court Manger through the Ohio Supreme Court and the National Center for State Courts,” he said.
The county clerk’s office is responsible for receiving and maintaining legal documents for Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, Domestic Relations Court, two county municipal courts, the state’s Second District Court of Appeals and five auto title offices. The clerk oversees a budget of about $7.7 million and a staff of about 100 employees.
Joseph was named by Democrats to the office last November to replace Greg Brush, who retired and took a job with Hamilton County. A state law required an election this year to fill out the final two years of Brush’s term that would have ended in 2020.
Both candidates said the office would gain improved technology and the public better access to records under their watch and faster, more secure filing for those using the courts.
“One of the most important duties of the clerk is ensuring that every case filed in our courts is handled with the care and consideration that we would give our own case,” Joseph said. “People generally do not look forward to visiting us in the courthouse, but it is our job to ensure that their case is handled carefully and efficiently.”
Foley said while technology has been upgraded over time, the clerk’s office still falls short in providing access and services to the various courts through a unified filing and records system.
“I’d like to have one central location all the courts in the county can be accessed to search public records.” Foley said, pointing specifically at the lack of Domestic Relations Court. “Time is money and, technology offers countless opportunities to maximize efficiency, thus saving taxpayers money.”
Joseph, a Dayton resident, said he too would expand electronic filing to the Domestic Relations Court as well as adopt new online chat-bot technology to assist customers after business hours.
“The Montgomery County Clerk of Courts runs efficiently and effectively. Our Auto Title Division is operating so efficiently that we have saved the county $1 million a year,” Joseph said. “Our office will continue to make customer service and accessibility a priority.”
Foley, an Oakwood resident, ran unsuccessfully against Brush in 2012 for the same office and was similarly accused then of trading off his last name. But this year, Foley said the accusations are worse: Joseph aired an ad and posted online that Foley “owes thousands to the Montgomery County Child Support Agency,” attaching a Montgomery County Common Pleas court filing from September.
Foley, divorced with custody of a 13-year-old daughter, said Joseph “resorted to incivility and dirty campaign tactics” by attacking his family.
“I’m deeply saddened that Russ Joseph has decided to come after my family with his lies and accusations,” Foley said. “I not only don’t owe any child support, but actually receive child support from my ex-wife after I was awarded full custody of my daughter two years ago.”
The court filing showed that as of March, Foley was behind $2,765.30 in certain payments he says were not direct child support but involved a temporary order for spousal support. Foley circulated a document on Oct. 23 he said was generated on the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, office of Child Support, customer service portal that showed his balance as zero.
Joseph said this week “it’s clear as day” Foley owes thousands of dollars in back support.
“This coming Tuesday people will have the opportunity to elect the new clerk of courts, and I hope they take time to look into it and see what kind of a candidate they really want representing them,” Joseph said.
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Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 24 saves and Max Pacioretty scored the deciding goal as the Vegas Golden Knights moved into a tie for first place in the Pacific Division with a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Monday afternoon in Las Vegas.
Pacioretty's goal was his sixth in the last six games. Reilly Smith and Nick Holden also scored goals for Vegas, which won its third straight game and split its two-game regular-season series with the Capitals.
T.J. Oshie scored two goals, his 29th career two-goal game, and Jakob Vrana had two assists for Washington, which suffered its second straight loss and sixth in the last nine games. Braden Holtby had 26 saves for the Capitals who lost in regulation on the road for just the eighth time in 30 games (21-8-1).
Alex Ovechkin went scoreless for a season-long fifth straight game in his quest to become the eighth player in NHL history to score 700 goals. Ovechkin sits at 698.
Vegas jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the 3:43 mark of the first period when Holden deflected a William Carrier pass from the right circle into a wide-open left side of the net for his fifth goal of the season.
Smith made it 2-0 near the end of the period with his 23rd goal of the season, taking a feed from Jonathan Marchessault while cutting to the net, then chipping a shot over Holtby's left shoulder and under the crossbar.
Pacioretty extended the Vegas lead to 3-0 near the end of the second period with his 27th goal of the season. William Karlsson stole the puck behind the goal, then hit Pacioretty camped out alone of the right side of the net where he quickly fired a shot past Holtby's glove side.
Oshie then scored two goals in the span of 1:53 midway through the third period to cut it to 3-2. The first came when he ripped a wrist shot from the right circle over Fleury's right shoulder and off the far post, snapping Fleury's shutout streak at 112:59. The second, his 24th of the season, came on the power play when he one-timed a Vrana pass from the right circle past Fleury's glove side.
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