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The Modern Dreamer is a nostalgic fantasist, curious to discover, to go beyond the obvious.
He looks to the future and he does it by drawing on his own experiences and travels.
He is an art lover, a creative person who thrives on experiences and emotions, and that’s why being a dreamer today means being able to get in touch with your emotions, to dominate and to share them.
He doen’t let himself be frightened by what he doesn’t know, but he is attracted by the mysterious and the unknown. Always ready to embark on a new journey to discover new cultures, new landscapes, new encounters.

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If it’s the season for good will toward mankind the country did not see compassion from 40 percent of the Senate, but despite the fiercest opposition the most significant social legislation in decades cleared the final Senate test early on Christmas Eve morning.
It is premature to declare the bill passed since it must now go to the House of Representatives, which has its own version. The two legislative bodies face the daunting task of agreeing on such divisive issues as a public option and whether abortion coverage should be separate from federal subsidies. The margin for alteration is literally non-existent. With 58 democrats and two independents in the Senate currently in favor and 40 republicans opposed, the country cannot afford for the bill to change in a way which would cause someone in favor to change their vote. It’s likely a compromise between the two will be reached. Compromise is a theme of the battle to pass health care reform. Holdouts like Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) threatened to derail the bill with their respective opposition to a public option and abortion funding, but they now support it after revisions to the bill.
Having followed the issue closely for more than a year I’ve been surprised, humored, shocked and even confused.
Beginning with the confusion, I still have no idea why some protestors held signs featuring an image of Heath Ledger’s Joker makeup over a picture of President Obama’s face. I am slightly less confused by the pictures of Obama with a Hitler mustache. My guess is the people who throw around the socialist claim are doing this to compare Obama to history’s worst leader of such a regime, although I find it difficult to believe anyone with such a poster in hand has such an educated grasp on history as to know the Nazis were in fact, a socialist party.
Using socialism as a scare tactic amuses me, and politicians mentioning “Europeanization” as if it’s supposed to sound threatening is even funnier. Yes, I know there are such “third world” countries as France, England and Sweden in Europe, but they seem to be managing quite well.
Outside Europe, other countries manage to thrive with socialized medicine. I recently travelled to Vancouver, British Columbia to see Lady Gaga (shameless plug) and while there, spoke with a Canadian about the effectiveness of the country’s health care system. What I found in this admittedly unscientific study was they are content with the health system, but see room for improvements.
People who fear governments who prioritize health will be glad to know in spite of its political structure, Canada treated me very well and I made it home safely and without incident from the country’s oppressive socialist regime.
Surprise has come from just how misinformed and uneducated the public is. The most absurd and laughably tragic outburst I recall from the summer’s town hall meetings was the demand from someone for officials to “Keep your government hands off my Medicare!”
It was around this time hysteria among certain groups reached cinematic proportions, fueled by ludicrous accusations, none more offensive and false, perhaps, than Sarah Palin’s claim of Obama setting up “death panels” to determine who is fit to live.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), a staunch opponent of benevolent legislation added to this by telling his constituents they were right to fear the bill for establishing a government-run program which would “decide when to pull the plug on Grandma.”
His explanation on “Face the Nation” for why he said this was as egregious as the statement itself.
“I let my constituents set the agenda. A person that asked me that question was reading from language that they got off of the Internet. It scared my constituents,” he said.
It’s disconcerting to think the statements of politicians are influenced by whatever nonsense can be posted online.
A combination of surprise and shock came from the variety of attacks against the legislation, which ranged from political to the theological, with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) saying, “What the American people should pray is that somebody can’t make the vote.”
The Senate bill would create at least two new national health insurance plans similar to those offered to federal workers, including members of Congress, and overseen by a federal agency, the Office of Personnel Management. At least one of those new plans would have to operate on a nonprofit basis. Health insurance companies could no longer deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican leader attempted to scare people into opposing the bill based on the number of pages it contains. Stacking the pages on top of one another next to him in the Senate, he lamented how massive it was and how many pages it contained. In his defense, scaring people with the threat of pages and words makes sense to him since his represented state of Kentucky ranks below 48 other states in literacy, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Arguments against the bill or against the tactics of supporters were tired, flawed, obvious, and flew in the face of facts and official reports.
After the Congressional Budget Office determined the bill would not only be paid for through taxes and fees, but would decrease the deficit, opponents continued to reiterate it would add to the debt.
After the AARP gave the bill an official endorsement, opponents continued to say the bill would harm seniors.
Even the endorsement from the American Medical Association could not persuade opponents to drop their campaign against the bill.
There was at least one report from an organization which stated health reform was not a positive achievement.
A report released in October by the health insurance lobbying group America’s Health Insurance Plans, which stated premiums would rise more if reform were to pass. The report was deeply flawed and was given a proper lashing on opinion pages of newspapers including The New York Times. President Obama spoke out against the misrepresentation in the report and PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was hired by AHIP to do the analysis, wrote in their report the conclusions drawn do not include the subsidies provided in the bill or any other cost-lowering measures.
At some point common sense needs to trump hysteria and people must realize if one of few reports opposing the health care measure comes from an ally of the health insurance industry, the bill is beneficial to consumers. Does anyone else remember when tobacco executives testified under oath, stating they believed nicotine is not addictive?
There are two who although opposed the bill, earned my respect.
In October Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) voted for the bill to move out of the finance committee proceedings and enter Senate debate. This was a rare and welcome reach across the aisle and while there were enough votes for the bill to proceed without her support, it is a bipartisan approach to the issue which deserves commendation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) deserves praise for his honesty even while trying to defeat health care reform.
“Our Democratic friends are about to walk off a political cliff here,” Sen. Graham said. “Do we really want to change one-sixth of the economy without a single Republican vote?”
While others hid behind flimsy facades and excuses for not supporting the bill, including statements about the bill not doing enough in the way of reform, or about the bill being rushed though and in need of a less pressured debate, even after the blockage efforts, Sen. Graham had the courage to admit he, like others, views health less as a right to people, but more as a business.


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Give your fish the roughage they need with Tetra RiverShrimp Sun Dried Krill Freshwater & Saltwater Fish Treats. Improper diet and lack of roughage can cause constipation which can harm your fish and even cause death. Tetra RiverShrimp Sun Dried Krill Freshwater & Saltwater Fish Treats contains whole freshwater shrimp including the shell, an excellent source of highly digestive fiber. It is rich in protein for energy and carotenes to enhance coloration.
Complete and balance meal that supports healthy digestion
Helps prevent blockage and constipation
Rich in protein
Complete shrimp, including the shell are high in protein and an excellent source of roughage to support digestion
Naturally provides carotenes to promote color development
The description says they are appropriate for tropical freshwater fish, but your fish would have to be gigantic to be able to deal with these. They are huge! Maybe I should have known that but I thought the description would say if it wasn't appropriate for regular aquarium fish. My fish did nibble at them a little, but then the shrimp carcass is left floating around the aquarium, which is not appealing, and then gets stuck next to the filter draw. It is just not worth it. I do generally like this brand for other things though.
goodstuff is coming
on May 17, 2021
All the fish supplies we buy from chewy is very fair prices. tropical fish is very expensive. That is why we buy from chewy. They always have very good prices.
Not for bettad
on Jun 9, 2021
It is way to big for bettas would be great for other larger fish but its to big for bettas
River Shrimp sun dried krill treats
on Mar 15, 2020
The River Shrimp is a little bigger than I realized they would be, so when I give my gold fish some, I need to break them up in small pieces. They would be great for bigger fish. I definitely will continue to shop chewy.
shrimp make a tasty snack
on Feb 4, 2019
my goldfish fish love it & the shrimp are a good size!
Not happy with order
on Sep 25, 2018
My fish food was broken and spilt all over inside my box.
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My fish Bessie loves it It don't fall straight to the bottom it actually floats giving my old fish bessie time to eat.

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Super Meat Boy Forever has been delayed
According to a Tweet from Team Meat, the new version of their breakout platformer has had to be delayed while the last touches of polish are put on.
The game was actually slated to be an entirely mobile version of Super Meat Boy, the big smash-hit platformer from the indie developer. Super Meat Boy Forever was debuted at PAX 2014, and quietly worked on behind the scenes. Some fans started to lose hope as the game had not dropped by 2017, although hope for the title was renewed that same year when a port of the title was announced for the Nintendo Switch. Team Meat began working on the game in earnest at that time, and has been doing so ever since.
We’ve been knocking out the last bits of Super Meat Boy Forever at record speeds while keeping a healthy and sustainable pace. We are going to keep that pace which means we are not going to hit our April 2019 release. Sorry about that. We could have sacrificed our minds, bodies and social lives to make April 2019, but that’s stupid. Team Meat isn’t some studio owned by an Evil Asshat corporation that has say over what we do and how we do it. We are fortunate enough to have control over how we work and we choose not to run ourselves into the ground.
We could have sacrificed our minds, bodies and social lives to make April 2019 but that’s stupid. Team Meat isn’t some studio owned by an Evil Asshat corporation that has say over what we do and how we do it. We are fortunate enough to have control over how we work and we choose not to run ourselves into the ground.
Team Meat has been at PAX East this last little bit, and though fans were likely a little disappointed about the news, the developer says, “everyone we told was super cool about it,” which is a good sign. Let’s just hope that all this wait was worth it and that the final game really blows us away. Or chops us into chunks, as the saws and other devious traps the platformer is sure to feature will love to do.
Super Meat Boy Forever is set to launch for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux. We also included one of the trailers for the new title, if you want to check it out, down below.
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Couch Guy Reviews: Black Panther
Welcome to my 1st movie review of 2018. Today we are reviewing one of the most anticipated movies of the entire year, Black Panther. Black Panther is the new superhero movie and the 18th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is directed by Ryan Coogler and stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Letitia Wright and Andy Serkis. Let’s get into it people because the hype is real. At the time I am writing this review, Black Panther is the highest rated MCU movie ever on Rotten Tomatoes as stands at 97%. Does it live up to the hype? Hell yea it does! Black Panther is not just a fun superhero movie, but it’s also a very smart emotional film as well. There a lot of positives in the movie so let’s start with the performances.
Obviously, the most important part of a superhero movie or really any movie in general is that the title character has to work. I can safely T’Challa/Black Panther is the best part of the movie and Chadwick Boseman is great once again. Civil War was a great introduction for the character, but this movie was truly Black Panther’s coming out party as he becomes king of Wakanda. Another huge strength of the movie are all of the supporting characters in the film. Lupita Nyong’o plays Nakia who is a Wakandan spy and T’Challa’s ex-girlfriend. The two of them have fun back and forth and I liked her a lot. But the two standouts were Danai Gurira as Okoye and Letitia Wright as Shuri. Gurira is the leader of the Wakandan army and she has some of the best action scenes in the movie. Wright plays Shuri who is T’Challa’s younger sister and tech genius. She’s basically Wakanda’s version of Peter Parker and she has some of the funniest moments of the film.
I also have to say that Michael B. Jordan was excellent as the villain Killmonger. One of the big criticisms of the MCU is that they lack compelling villains but that is not the case here. Killmonger has a legit gripe against T’Challa and Wakanda in general and you get it. I don’t think he’s on the level of Loki but he’s in my top 5 for Marvel villains. Moving from the performances, I have to talk about Wakanda itself. It was cool witnessing what Wakanda looked like. People have described it as African culture meeting the 22nd Century and I couldn’t agree more. It’s going to be fascinating how Wakanda fits into the MCU going forward. Finally, the action and the humor is up to the level of previous MCU movies. I was surprised how much humor was in the movie but it worked throughout the film.
In conclusion, Black Panther is a fantastic film. There were minor issues that I had with the film but none that could overshadow the positives. It’s also worth mentioning that there are two post-credit scenes so stay till the very end. Like Wonder Woman, Black Panther is film that is going to be a lot more important to other people. This film proves that you can make a Hollywood blockbuster with a black director and a black cast. We’re not where we should be as a society when it comes to race but as this movie proves; we’re getting closer.
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NORTH ANDOVER — Bottled up and held in check much of the night, Chance Brady still managed the final word.
The area’s leading rusher erupted over the final two minutes, scoring two of his three touchdowns and powering Haverhill to a 38-22 victory over North Andover last night.
The Scarlet Knights (4-5 overall, 3-2 MVC 2) did a decent job against Brady, limiting the senior to an average of 3.6 yards on his first 27 carries. But with Haverhill (8-2, 4-1) holding a thin 22-14 advantage, Brady busted loose with 84 yards and a pair of touchdowns on his final four carries.
“In the beginning, I was getting hit quite a bit,” Brady said. “But my (offensive) line stepped up and my fullback Jordan Hunt sealed some blocks. It just worked out great for us.”
The biggest carry was a 34-yard burst in which the Hillie captain dragged a tackler the final 10 yards before a couple more Knights helped bring Brady down at the 2.
“All I could see was the end zone,” said Brady, whose touchdown two plays later gave Haverhill a 30-14 lead with 1:56 remaining. “I knew he was on my back, but I really wanted that touchdown. I could feel myself being dragged back and could feel weight (on the jersey) but I was just thinking about the end zone.”
Down but not out: After Brady’s touchdown, North Andover answered Brady’s touchdown with a 76-yard kickoff return by Bubba Shkliew, who had caught a 35-yard touchdown from Casey Walsh early in the fourth. Walsh and Shkliew hooked up for the two-point conversion that kept the Knights within one score.
But after recovering the on-side attempt, Haverhill secured matters on the last of Brady’s three touchdowns, a 48-yard blast with 1:34 left.
The Closer: Brady finished with 181 yards on 31 carries. On the season he now has 1,955 yards on 232 attempts (12.7 yards per carry) and 30 touchdowns. That kind of production helps ease the sting of failing to land a postseason berth.

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Wells Fargo and T.D. Jakes Group announced a 10-year partnership aimed at “revitalizing neighborhoods” and creating long-term change in communities most in need.
The announcement comes a year after Bloomberg reported that only 47% of Black homeowners who completed a refinance application with Wells Fargo in 2020 were approved, compared with 72% of white homeowners.
The partnership with T.D. Jakes, a prominent Black minister who leads a Dallas-based megachurch, will focus on initiatives including affordable housing, small business development and financial education.
Over the next 10 years, the partnership could result in “up to $1 billion” in capital and financing from Wells Fargo and grants from the Wells Fargo Foundation, the companies said.
“This alliance with our organization allows us to further our four decades-long work to provide economic justice, eradicate food deserts, construct desirable workplaces and affordable housing, closing the digital divide and ultimately help families leave a rich and lasting legacy for the next generation,” T.D. Jakes said in a statement.
In its first project, Wells Fargo plans to support the revitalization of the nearly 100 acres of Fort McPherson, the historic former army base in Atlanta, Georgia.
“This strategic partnership goes beyond a one-off capital investment and underscores our continued commitment to diverse and inclusive communities,” Charlie Scharf, CEO of Wells Fargo, said in a statement.
T.D. Jakes Real Estate Ventures began purchasing the site in 2022 to create commercial and residential spaces. The plans include mixed-income housing in the form of single-family homes, townhomes, and apartments.
The partnership represents Wells Fargo’s largest minority home lending and development initiative to date. It also follows several scandals related to its lending practices.
In December, the bank agreed to pay $1.7 billion to settle multiple consent orders related to automobile lending, consumer deposit accounts and mortgage lending with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
The bank repeatedly misapplied loan payments, wrongfully foreclosed on homes, illegally repossessed vehicles and charged surprise overdraft fees, affecting 16 million customers’ accounts, according to the CFPB. Consequently, the regulator ordered the bank to pay more than $2 billion in redress to consumers.
Bank executives at the time hinted that they would be shrinking Wells Fargo’s mortgage footprint and exiting the correspondent channel, where it was the largest lender and bought billions of dollars in government agency loans, an engine of homeownership for minority communities.
In January, the bank said it would continue to be the primary mortgage leader to Wells Fargo customers and minority homebuyers through its mortgage retail team. Wells Fargo also announced plans to invest an additional $100 million to advance racial equity through its $210 million special purpose credit program, which came in the wake of the Bloomberg report in March 2022.

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The Lecht is one of the 5 ski areas in Scotland, based amid the beauty of the Eastern Cairngorms along the infamous A939 Cockbridge to Tomintoul road. The idea to develop the area was started by James McIntosh, teaming up with Pieter du Pon during their time in the Air Arm Fleet. At the time, James was head ski instructor at Glenshee, during this time Glenshee was at its’ height and wasn’t big enough to hold the growing numbers. James also wanted to develop an area that was more suitable to the beginners. The only thing at the Lecht before 1977 was a lay by for 3 cars at the cattle grid. The ability to attract and hold snow was the ideal place and it was turned into the adventure that is now the Lecht. The company was formed in December 1977 along with Ronnie Winram and Professor Jim Petrie. The Lecht maybe the smallest of the 5 resorts but it packs plenty of punch. Ideal for beginners it still offers great snow sports for the more experienced.
Last season the Lecht opened the Penguin Park. The park is specially designed for children as young as 2 years old. With the New Rotondo Carousel lift it allows kids to get to grips with balancing and sliding around on skis for snowboards for the first time in a safe and fun way, there is also another lift to take them to the top of the penguin park. Along with the fun penguins, snowmen and toadstools there is dragon slalom and arches to weave in and out of making learning to ski or board all the more fun. Not to mention they may get a glimpse of the resident penguin Parker. The idea to make a kindergarten area was because there was nothing for the really small children and the Lecht wanted to get kids excited and interested in snow sports from a young age. The rental department stocks a variety of sizes of skis and snowboards. Last year the Lecht introduced Burton Riglet Snowboards for kids, the riglets have a reel tow cable attached to them with makes it the easiest way to teach the kids by pulling them in the right direction, however if you don’t feel you’re the best person to teach them, you can always book them into the ski school for a lesson or two from their experienced instructors.
For the more advanced skiers and snowboarders there are a variety of rails and jumps to try, and throughout the season there are rail jams and air and style competitions to show off your skills, with a range of goodies up for grabs.
If snow sports isn’t your thing then you can always come up to see the spectacular sight of the ski centre in full swing and enjoy a hot chocolate from the cafe bar or even take a chairlift ride to the top.
Snow sports isn’t the only thing at the Lecht, in the summer months it opens its two downhill mountain bike trails. No need to waste your energy in biking up the hill, simply hook your bike onto the chairlift and enjoy the ride to the top. There are two trails a blue for the
beginners and a red for the more advanced, these have many features including dirt jumps, bomb holes and features build from rock. There is also a skills park with many features to improve your skills.
There are many upcoming events on at the Lecht this coming season.
- 27th December – Burton Riglet Demo
- 28th December – Skimo
- 14th January – January Rail Jam
- 1st February – SSSA Alpine Race Series Primary Schools
- 2nd February – SSSA Alpine Race Series Secondary Schools
- 25th February – Lecht Air and Style
- 25th March – Slush Fest
For more information on The Lecht Visit http://www.lecht.co.uk/ where you will be able to find out more about their current slope status and be able to see live links to video cameras set up on site.
They would also be delighted to answer any questions you may have by either emailing email@example.com or calling them on 019756 51440

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A Review of Get rid of Jones ‘Duck Amuck‘
Chuck Smith ‘Duck Amuck. ‘
Cartoons all over the Showmanship Studios at this time resembled the ones from Disney, because of their connection associated with editing and using an quickly moving gag surface in their plot. But with those cartoons getting considered as a comic book fantasy style, animators could experiment with the actual medium. Warner Bros. have been a big believer in this, generating situations wherever their show characters might talk to the very audience and also refer to the animator or possibly studio operatives. These cartoons compared to Disney were varies greatly, the motion was often more thrashing and quicker paced, adjusting the predicaments regularly. Throw away Jones got to past hope with his toons, extending the limits and alarming the viewers. One of the greats being ‘ Joker Amuck ‘ wheresoever he implemented every bone tissue in his human body to create that is definitely now named one of the professional pieces of animation, using each element to have a 7minute picture just using Daffy and the silent and invisible animator. Through the use of these elements he was able to adjust Daffy in different situation, generating an span with the customers that nearly anything could happen following.
Dodge Amuck , a toon subject to its deconstruction. The particular cartoons conventions are continuously challenged, using the colour, dress-up costume, sound visual effect and all the main elements need to create often the cartoon, frequently without the understanding of the market. Daffy‘s first appearance in the form of musketeer, some cavalier waving his sword around together with such self-assurance soon understands he has been betrayed via the animator, that background with the scene possesses disappeared as well as as well as the crowd is left side uncertain towards the context we were accustomed to. Daffy rapidly lowers character plus addresses the actual camera, answering in a somewhat professional way as if this individual were an element of any live-action movie in addition to enthusiastically demands the tegnefilmstegner to carry on. The farmyard field is fascinated, although not just what Daffy had been expecting, they continues on, changing to accommodate the landscape. But yet again as he‘s just about modified to the stage, an wintry layout is normally displayed in the back. Throughout the piece there is a continual battle among foreground in addition to background, plus above all the partnership between the nature and the permanently changing geographical context. Most of Daffy‘s actions are completely outclassed by their reaction to the area he uses up. Tensions such as help the fundamental structure for narrative practically in most cartoons. With the changes, Daffy‘s main assumed is for typically the animator to create up his or her mind. Using Daffy‘s human body, each ecosystem is revealed through a number of iconic societal illustrations the main dungarees as well as straw ushanka in the farmyard scene, the exact grass cover and banjo in the Hawaiian setting. Although white room is defined as often the empty wording of the toon, although there is definitely unlimited room or space, Daffy‘s sense of consciousness becomes out of the way and hopeless. To make factors worse they are then erased from the page, where really that remains is usually his style. Chuck Burt intensions if he created his characters exactly where for them to get recognized executed situation, to help exist to be a body without a voice, or simply a voice without a body. Specifically in this landscape, a developed perception associated with Daffy like a character is considered, where he is able to be realized by any kind of his areas. Perhaps, the only real element the very animator is not able to get rid of is Daffy‘s style. If this was going to be taken, the particular cartoon would likely no longer be any Daffy Duck picture. Even if, the elements are generally altering and also manipulated, the audience is able to recognise its the Daffy cartoon. Daffy is definitely shown simply because eager to remember to and entertain, but is provoked as well as angered by means pay for homework of any negligible change, so to top them off incorporates a rather crazy behaviour, especially when he doesn‘t get his or her way. Joker Amuck exhibits all her traits in the form of character by using his system and physical activities, using the stops of just about any control Daffy thought he. As the crowd it is easy to watch an cartoon and forget the effort given to design the backdrop scenery. it‘s almost minor. Are recognition is continually on the character types and their things. Duck Amuck reminds us there’s more in that case what satisfies the eye, as this case on the screen and only by eliminating the setting, can we understand and come to know this.
Daffy is endlessly alienated, looking to keep this image and also self-respect, nonetheless contradicts themselves by constantly losing his particular temper. When Daffy is actually repainted once again on the tv screen as a western style with a martin guitar, we because audience set up music shall be played or possibly daffy definitely will sing. Daffy modestly parts his jaws and strums the guitar, although with the jolt on his face acknowledges there isn’t any sound. This individual holds up a small sign saying ‘Sound Satisfy. ‘ Since the audience we could drawn to the point that anything might happen, and Daffy would not be expecting it. He snobbishly goes to strum the guitar, to locate it creates requirements of a appliance gun, then the horn and a donkey. The employment of mismatching appearance and good, is yet another comedic element utilised within this film, helping result in a sense involving alienation in the direction of Daffy, through every thing he is confined by the artists command. This individual breaks playing the guitar with disappointment, and will try plea to the animator, to find out he has received the style of chicken and a few many other different hens. After countless attempts your dog slowly will lose his will certainly, so with one particular last look at he work to communicate, but in a extreme sound level his express returns. Uncomfortable, Daffy is certainly once again discovered helpless for the animator. Daffy‘s traits are generally explicitly displayed, especially his or her willingness. Your dog stresses for your scenery and also colour, nevertheless is given a kid like pulling background, as well as being painted involving colours and patterns. It is followed by a mini fit by Daffy. Daffy is regularly challenged by way of the world approximately him, although his side effects to the gatherings increase the probably hood belonging to the next steps made by the exact animator. When he was not really such a drama queen in addition to self ingested, the constant bad luck happening could most likely end up being lowered. However , clearly, the very circumstance on the cartoon is still issued for the desire of the animator. These types of series of aventure only bring about added expectations from the race fans who want to deeper witness the sum of knockbacks the type can take. Place Jones gives you Daffy focal point stage, still at the same time regulates every part with him in the animation, subsequently breaking the fourth wall and also highlighting the development of the course art form. By using a simple understanding of concept of fate, the visitors are able to get together a small indicating from the portion that no matter just what exactly life carries out at you, one should adjust as well as accept what nature provides planned available for you, instead of get fault.
In the whole computer animation, whatever Daffy‘s expectations are actually or wishes to receive, he is given the entire opposite. Several times he tries to take control of the circumstance, to find himself being manipulated even more, nonetheless at the same time often the audience can simply witness this anger levels rising. A great example of this can be he confirms himself over a small deserted island inside the distance, the person calls for a close up, how the audience can easily hardly listen to. But instead about receiving the video camera to come more detailed, the style of the computer screen shrinks to help frame your pet, Daffy‘s first of all response is quite sarcastic however , soon blows up with aggravation. The video camera quickly zooms in to show you just Daffy‘s aggravated eyes. Daffy tries to gain an understanding between on his own and the tegnefilmstegner, but he or she is soon interfered with by a black material studying him lower, eventually removing up the ‘screen‘. He then proceeds to promoting the toon should begin though it has already been operating for several minutes. All through the piece Daffy continuously attempts to regain the strength along with control, but time and time again they are interrupted through some kind of sp?g narrative. Daffy is eventually appointed in the form of pilot, nevertheless this is simply to launch a series of gags, including a great off television screen air crash, the slide, his parachute turning into some weight, often the explosion of the weight that becomes a an explosive device. At this point Daffy is kept helpless, some loss of virtually all control, good results . one as a final point attempt to take back some self-esteem, he calls for to know ‘Who is responsible for pretty much everything? I demand that you demonstrate yourself! ‘ The closed boarder that the audience is currently accustomed to is broken for the reason that camera paletot away to disclose the filmtegner Bugs Bunny. The whole piece is a series for independent gags, no concordance to one another besides to anguish Daffy. But with such impact and big surprise to the major gag coming from all, that it was the arch-enemy Discrepancies Bunny who had been the guy the entire time. Place Jones very good skill has been creating a tebeo suspense, seeding a joke and letting the audience wait for the evitable finish result. By doing this, the item created a build-up for laughter, the fulfilment of a gag. Duck Amuck demonstrates this specific immensely, almost every ‘rest‘ point in the very animation is a start associated with a gag. While Daffy is actually reassuring him or her self possibly from a gag, he could be yet unacquainted with the next fun about to begin.
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Almost one in two Australian secondary and tertiary schools do not have an IT security awareness program in place and alarmingly, 53 per cent didn’t know what information was taken during a data breach, according to a study commissioned by Symantec.cloud.
The study asked around 500 teachers and administration staff at 168 private and public secondary and tertiary schools across Australia about their IT security landscape and what precautions they had in place to protect students.
It claimed that the education sector was now under “unprecedented pressure” to secure laptops used by students to mitigate the risks of malware and other security threats.
Dr Julian Dooley, associate director, Sellenger Centre for Research on Law, Justice and Social Change at Edith Cowan University told CIO Australia it is a concern that there aren’t more schools with formalised IT security programs.
“In my experience it has been many times higher than [the one in two schools quoted in the survey],” said Dooley. “I do a lot of cyberbulling and technology research and when schools agree to participate they are motivated – these schools have invested a lot of time and effort [in programs].”
According to Dooley, it was worrying that more than half (53 per cent) of the schools surveyed didn’t know what information was taken during a security infringement.
“Equally concerning is what the kids are freely giving up on social networks,” he said. “It [the research] – assuming that is accurate – is an indication of how overwhelmed schools are and how under-resourced they are. The data reflects that they feel that they are out of their depth in this area.”
Edith Cowan University recently collected data from 900 students at schools in Western Australia and found that 90 per cent had multiple accounts on social networks, almost half were sharing passwords, email and home addresses through these accounts.
“We don’t have good evidence that any cyber safety resource works,” said Dooley. “You can implement all these things and get kids being conscious about what they are doing, sharing and how they are using it, [but] there’s no evidence that any of those are effective strategies.
“There’s not enough work done with kids, people coming and going and saying ‘this is what I think let’s run with that’,” he added. “There’s a well-intentioned push to address [security] problems but without fully understanding the nature of the problem, there is a no real follow up.”
According to Dr Dooley, there’s a “funny juxtaposition” between technology and human behaviour in relation to security.
“You can control some of the tech, but you can’t control human behaviour in the same way,” he said. “Students are doing things that might compromise your [security] system. These are the sort of things that are very hard to predict.”
Security issues rarely reported
The Symantec research found that when security issues arose, they were rarely reported to students and their parents. Only 20 per cent of staff received regular reports from IT staff on security, while an alarming 63 per cent of parents and 73 per cent of students respectively never received any reports or information about a data breach.
On a positive note, 87 per cent of respondents had deployed anti-virus software on all desktops. Still, 10 per cent had no protection at all.
Dr Dooley agreed that education was the key to helping students and teachers understand how to spot suspicious email attachments and web links that could potentially infect school networks.
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New state data reveal that California workers face years-long waits to resolve cases of wage theft through California’s Labor Commissioner’s Office. Last year the average wait time for a worker to get a hearing on a claim that their employer didn’t pay owed wages was more than three years in Oakland – the worst in the state. San Francisco’s wait time was a little over two and a half years. According to advocates, the delays discourage workers from reporting wage thefts, in turn reinforcing systems of worker exploitation. The Labor Commissioner’s Office cites staffing shortages as a key problem in hearing cases efficiently, compounded by the pandemic. We’ll learn more about the causes and effects of California’s wage theft claims backlog.
State Data Reveal Years-Long Waits to Resolve Wage Theft Claims
Veronica Chavez, Interim Workers' Rights Directing Attorney, Centro Legal de la Raza
Farida Jhabvala Romero, reporter, KQED
Carlos Torres, assistant chief, Wage Claim Adjudication Unit, California Labor Commissioner's Office

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What's in Condoleezza Rice's memoir?
Critics are divided on Condoleeza Rice's new book, Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family. In the Los Angeles Times, Bob Drogin calls it "disappointing" and says parts "read like a résumé." By contrast, The Daily Beast's Stephen L. Carter describes it "a briskly written... fascinating look into her childhood." But, everyone agrees that the book, which focuses on Rice's parents and her growing up in the Jim Crow South and ends with the 2000 election, provides at least some insight into George W. Bush's famously enigmatic former Secretary of State. (Watch Rice discuss the book.) Here, a list of interesting revelations:
1. Painful childhood memories
The book is full of "raw vignettes" showing "a child's pain that has endured unhealed in middle age," says Tunku Varadarajan in The Wall Street Journal. For instance, Rice recounts how, to celebrate the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, her parents took her to a Birmingham, Ala., hamburger stand where blacks had previously not been allowed. But after biting into her burger, Rice discovered she had been given a bun cruelly filled with nothing but onions.
2. Olympic dreams
She dreamed of being an Olympic figure skater and practiced hours before and after school each day. "Rice felt she could accomplish anything, despite not being able to shop in white stores in downtown Birmingham," says Stanton Peele in Psychology Today. Her fatal limitation? She could never get airborne on jumps.
3. A dislike for delving or doubting
"As national security advisor and then secretary of State to President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice never displayed any doubt or admitted any errors in the White House decisions that led to war in Iraq," says Bob Drogin in the Los Angeles Times. "Rice seems similarly immune to introspection or self-criticism in her disappointing new memoir."
4. Radical family friends
Rice says her father, a Presbyterian minister, "was fascinated with the radical side of black politics," and drawn to controversial figures like Louis Farrakhan and Black Panther Stokely Carmichael. "When so much attention was paid to then-Senator Obama's radical associations, I wondered what might have been made of the people who sat at our dinner table," she writes.
5. A taste for team players
"Nearly every boyfriend or crush she lists — and she lists a lot of them — was an athlete," notes Stephen L. Carter in The Daily Beast. Rice has never been married and denies rumors the she is a lesbian. She dated onetime Denver Bronco Rick Upchurch and thought she had "found them man I wanted to marry." What happened? He "had too many irons in the fire," she writes cryptically.
6. A certain elusive quality...
Despite having published a 352-page memoir, Rice remains inscrutable. "One grapples for an adjective to describe her personality, even after reading her autobiography," says John McWhorter in The New York Times.


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text: Data in animals and adults indicate that central serotonergic (5-HT) function may be involved in the development of alcohol abuse. Despite this, studies exploring this mechanism in individuals at risk for alcoholism are scant. This study used a fenfluramine (FEN) challenge procedure to investigate the relationship between risk for alcoholism and 5-HT function in 7- to 11-year-old boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The prolactin (PRL) and cortisol (CORT) responses to FEN were examined in 10 sons of alcoholic fathers (FA+) and 30 sons of nonalcoholic fathers (FA-). The FA+ group had a significantly greater CORT, but not PRL, response to FEN relative to the FA- group. The discrepancy between the CORT and PRL responses may be due to the different mechanisms that underlie their 5-HT stimulated release. This suggests that, among ADHD boys, those at familial risk for alcohol abuse may differ from those who are not at risk in 5-HT function.

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School board makes quick work of June meeting
PINEDALE – The Sublette County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees breezed through a brief agenda at the June 17 regular meeting.
The 2021-2022 Student Handbook passed on second reading by a 4-2 vote. Contention remained around proposed changes to the dress code.
Trustees Chris Nelson and Charles Prior voted against the handbook in opposition to the revised dress code. Chairman Jamison Ziegler changed his stance on the issue and voted in favor of the handbook with trustees Stacy Illoway, Marie McGuire and Rachel Weksler. Trustee Clayton Olson was absent.
Board members voted unanimously to adopt the 2021-2022 Coaches Handbook on second reading. The 2021-2022 Transportation and Personnel handbooks passed on first reading with no opposition.
The board unanimously agreed to buy out the remainder of an information technology contract with a company called K12itc, part of Menlo Inc. The district entered into a 5-year contract with the company to install an IT management system called “Albert” in 2020, said Chris Rule, the district’s director of information services.
Rule told the board he was concerned with the companies’ rollout of the system and its unreliability in responding to problems and questions from the school district. Albert’s shortcomings were “unacceptable” for a district rated “number one in the state for technology.”
In a memo written for the board, Rule projected that terminating the contract would save the district approximately $300,000 over the next four years.
Trustees voted to join the Hot Springs Early Childhood BOCES with a mill levy not to exceed a half-mil to boost the district’s early childhood budget.
Wrapping up the regular meeting, the board approved a stipend for interim superintendent Jeryl Fluckiger. The trustees also accepted a bid from Nicholas and Company for the district’s school lunch program.


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In November, 1922, a polymelous specimen of Rana clamata was brought into the laboratory by one of my students who informed me that it was found on the grounds of his home in the city in a pool which had been stocked with frogs' eggs which were collected in the environs of St. Louis in the spring of 1921.
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
©1923 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
"An Instance of Polymely in the Frog,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 30(1), 157-161.
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Fun's "Some Nights" is one of the biggest albums of the past 2 years, already having won a couple of Grammy's. The band has decided to give back to the fans by offering up a 6 songs free download called: “Before Shane Went To Bangkok: fun. Live in the USA. I’m not sure who’s responsible for naming these things but, wow. Interesting title. Did we need to know that Shane went to Bangkok?
But thanks for the generousity Fun.! All you have to do to download the free EP is head to their website and enter your email address, which I assume signs you up for their mailing list.
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Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has
sought more collaboration with the Nigeria Army in the training of the
He made the call when he hosted the Commandant, Army War College,
Major General Charles Ofoche, in Abuja.
Oyeyemi said that FRSC had enjoyed much support from the army in
terms of capacity building of its personnel and needed more of such
He expressed appreciation to the Chief of Defence Staff for granting the
corps, opportunities in the usage of some facilities for training of its
Earlier, Ofoche said that the army had enjoyed some level of synergy
with the corps which was geared toward nation-building.
According to him, nation-building is a big task that every individual
should participate in for a better society.


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Photograph by Lucinana Calvin/Courtesy of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
Image gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall ©President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. PM# 2001.29.641
Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari
Photograph by Coral von Zumwalt
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
Illustration by Phil Foster
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
Fresh efforts to understand the writer’s history and craft
The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth
Courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.

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Tuesday marks the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. China has introduced a new rehabilitation system to curb drug use, which as CGTN’s Mark Fontes reports, will focus on areas of the country where other systems have failed.
Chinese drug rehabilitation agencies have stepped up efforts to curb drug use nationally, taking comprehensive, scientific and people friendly measures.
In the past, differences in drug rehab practices across China led to an unbalanced treatment system. Some provinces suffered from a lack of resources, while others offered high-quality treatments.
But now, a new national system looks to level the playing field.
“It will manage and specialize the rehab system,” according to Cao Xuejun from the Ministry of Justice. “For example, we have set up a unified standard for rehab education, medical management and physical training in different regions.”
In order to keep pace with the science-based rehab concept, China continues to explore new technologies and methods to help drug users free themselves from addiction.
Among them are measures such as “trans-cranial magnetic simulation,” and virtual reality addiction assessment.
“When applied, users start to abandon drugs mentally,” Vice Minister of Justice Liu Zhiqiang explained. “We hope these measures play an active role in health recovery, confidence building and anti-relapse efforts.”
Mike Vigil on China’s fight against drug abuse
Mike Vigil, a contributor to online publication “Cipher Brief” and former Chief of International Operations for the US Drug Enforcement Agency, discusses China’s fight against the drug trade with CGTN’s Asieh Namdar.


A novel approach for electrical circuit modeling of Li-ion battery is proposed in this paper. The model proposed in this paper is simple, fast, not memory intensive and does not involve any look-up table. The model mimics the steady-state and dynamic behavior of battery. Internal charge distribution of the battery is modeled using two RC circuits. Self-discharge characteristic of the battery is modeled using a leakage resistance. Experimental procedure to determine the internal resistance, leakage resistance and the value of RC elements is explained in detail. The variation of parameters with state of charge (SOC) and magnitude of current is presented. The internal voltage source of the battery model varies dynamically with SOC to replicate the experimental terminal voltage characteristics of battery. The accuracy of model is validated with experimental results.


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Pen & ink of my dog Frosti.
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This was inspired by my adorable dog, Frosti. Pen & ink used for the eyes, nose and mouth, watercolor for for everything else.
This illustration was the result of an experiment I did to see how the Moleskine Watercolor journal would react to flooding the pages with watercolor. The pages actually flattened out after it dried. The image was inspired by how I was feeling at the moment.
The first letter in my Moleskine Sketchbook Alphabet Series. Water color pencils, marker, pen * ink and gold pen were used.
The letter “S” in my Alphabet Sketchbook Series. The shape on the left is from a cutout that was borrowed from the previous letter “R”. This shape exposes a pink background created with Aquarelles water pastels topped with silver spirals. The blue background was created by applying tissue paper to acrylic paint. Once dry, black and silver were used to add dimension and a silver “S” was painted.
Another letter in my Moleskine Sketchbook. This pop-up letter “V” was inspired by the symmetrical quality of the book and pages. The large “V” was created by folding the bottom corners of 2 pages in to the middle and pasting them together. V-shaped flowers in different fonts were attached to the inside of the “V”. which was glued to the adjoining pages so it pops up when the pages are opened. http://www.journalingarts.wordpress.com.
Another letter from the Alphabet Series in my Moleskine Sketchbook. I used a Tombow black roll pen. I was feeling a bit OCD when I did this, can you tell?
The letter “J” from the Alphabet Series in my Moleskine Sketchbook. Acrylic paint was applied with a roller for the background, which gave the pages a texture similar to a find stucco. White pen was used for the white areas.


Thompson Center Encore/Prohunter Barrel made by BERGARA. This is a used, but in super shape, with very low round count. Comes with a WARNE steel scope base and a BELLM TC heavy duty lockup spring installed. The barrel is 24 long. It has the typical crescent marks from the frame. It’s a great addition to your TC barrel collection. The item “Thompson Center Encore/Prohunter Barrel made by BERGARA. 223, blk matte” is in sale since Saturday, August 14, 2021. This item is in the category “Sporting Goods\Hunting\Gun Parts\Rifle”. The seller is “wbbethke1141″ and is located in Montrose, West Virginia. This item can be shipped to United States.
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Burgers, New American
- Per the owner, the following are NOT HALAL which includes but are not limited to Elk, Bison, & Ostrich. He also owns Smokey Burger and the Thai restaurant (next door) in Manhattan on 339 W44th Street.
- Elk, Bison and Ostrich are NOT halal. Pulled Beef Burger was really good.
- This place has great prices and great food!! Definitely glad I stopped by!
- Burgers duh
- BYOB ... YOU ARE WELCOME :)
- Camel and alpaca burgers? And what's with the 'specialty' burgers (aka burgers with toppings) costing twice as much as the regular ones? First and last visit.
- We loved the food and fast service The auto door was pretty cool touch
- Halal food can vary, ask your server.
- Honestly just don't go here. It's really terrible.

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MONTGOMERY, ALA. (October 8, 2012) – Jere L. Beasley, Founding Shareholder of the Montgomery, Ala., based law firm of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has issued the following statement regarding the death of University of South Alabama college student Gil Collar:
“Our firm has been retained to investigate the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Gil Collar, a student at the University of South Alabama. The family is leaving all media contacts relating to this matter to us. They have lost an 18-year-old son, are grieving and would like to have their privacy. Hopefully, the officials at the University will cooperate with us during this difficult time for the Collar family. Gil was a freshman at the school and his family had been assured by campus police back in August that a safe haven would be provided for all new students coming to the University. The University should not attempt to defend this incident by releasing information to the media until such time as a complete investigation is done. There are some issues that deal with rules and regulations covering incidents of this sort that must be addressed. When our investigation is completed, a decision will then be made by the family concerning their course of action.”
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Our overall goal is to identify, quantify and prevent fecally-associated pathogen contamination in produce and, in so doing, to engage the U.S. and Mexican agricultural community.<P> Our three specific aims are through: 1. Research, identify routes and quantify the types and likelihood of contamination with fecal matter and bacterial and viral pathogens during the production of produce, including microbiological analysis of produce, water, soil, and hand hygiene. 2. Through extension, implement and evaluate an intervention aimed at multiple routes of contamination and quantify the change in fecal contamination and pathogen load. 3. Through extension and education, engage the research community and produce associations in Mexico, Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia with our findings and develop an eXtension Internet-based training module.
Non-Technical Summary: Our goal is to understand how fruits and vegetables become contaminated on farms. We plan to study crops that are at high risk of contamination like jalapeno peppers, cantaloupes, and tomatoes. We will test these fruits and vegetables for bacteria and viruses that cause disease. We will also use new laboratory methods to find where these fruits and vegetables became contaminated (e.g. water, hands, soil). Our study area is the U.S. Mexico border states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas. Our subgoals are to: 1) study these questions on 15 farms; 2) test a prevention strategy to reduce contamination on fruits and vegetables; 3) develop internet-based education modules and work with produce associations in Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina to share this information. This study and information will help to better fruit and vegetable practices and therefore reduce the number of outbreaks due to fruits and vegetables. <P> Approach: We propose to study at-risk crops (jalapeno peppers, cantaloupes, tomatoes), key bacterial and viral pathogens (E. coli O157, Salmonella, Shigella, norovirus), and bacterial and viral indicators (generic E. coli, Enterococcus, coliphages) on farms. To better understand potential sources of human or animal fecal contamination, we also propose the application of innovative molecular epidemiology and microbial source tracking methods including 1) amplification and discrimination of Bacteroidales 16S rRNA genes; and 2) generic E. coli and F-specific bacteriophage strain typing. Our chosen study area comprises the U.S. Mexico border states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas.


A System Architecture for Battery-free IoT Networks
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While much research effort has been invested in long-range and low-power uplink communication for battery-free IoT networks, current deployments lack a scalable bi-directional communication infrastructure for data collection and processing with battery-free devices. To fill this gap, we introduce LoW-Fi, a system architecture specifically designed to meet the requirements of battery-free IoT applications. We show the suitability of LoW-Fi for deploying monitoring systems for precision agriculture indoors. This sector is revolutionizing with the installation of smart greenhouses that require the constant monitoring of ambient parameters to ensure optimal conditions for the crops growth. Our system is implemented using commercial off-the-shelf devices, and it works at the intersection of WiFi and LiFi for downlink and RF backscatter for uplink, retaining the advantages of each technology and solving their practical limitations. We evaluate LoW-Fi performance in a real greenhouse, and the experimental results show that it can achieve an uplink (downlink) range of 45 m (70 m) with 0% BER. The aggregated data rate is up to 4.5 Mb/s.


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By: Lou Yeboah
I am a Harriet Tubman, a Sojourner Truth, a Fannie Lou Hamer, a Rosa Parks, a Zora Neale Hurston, a Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a Maya Angelou, a Mary McLeod Bethune, a Elma Lewis, a Wangari Muta Maathai, a Meta Warrick Fuller, a Dr. Jane Cooke Wright, a Septima Poinsette Clark, a Madame C.J. Walker, a Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Bessie Coleman, a Deratu Tulu, a Zora Neale Hurston, a Charlotte E. Ray, a Maritza Correia, a Mary Church Terrell, a Coretta Scott King, a Flo Kennedy, a Katherine Johnson, a Gwendolyn Brooks, a Mary Mahoney, a Octavia E. Butler, a Shirley Chisholmand, a Tegla Laroupe, and a Josephine Baker. Oh, Yes I am!
I am a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Malcolm X, a Frederick Douglass, a Nelson Mandela, a Booker T. Washington, a W.E.B. DuBois, a Benjamin Banneker, a Louis Armstrong, a Duke Ellington, a Paul Robeson, a Jackie Robinson, a Howard Thurman, a Langston Hughes, a Ralph Ellison, a Richard Wright, a James Baldwin, a Kofi Annan, a Romare Bearden, a Imhotep, a Bob Moses, a Desmond Tutu, a Toussaint Louverture, a Lewis Latimer, a Joe Louis, a Muhammad Ali, a Hank Aaron, and a Jesse Owens. Oh, Yes I am!
What makes me all of them: We are all co-heirs with Jesus, sons and daughters of the promise given to our father Abraham. And, because, “I am my mother’s daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.” [African proverb] [Mary McLeod Bethune].
No matter who we are, where we live, or what our goals may be, we all have one thing in common: a heritage. That is, a social and spiritual legacy passed on from one generation to another. Every one of us is passed a heritage, lives out a heritage, and gives a heritage to our family. Consider our LEGACY and the legacy of others. What do we leave behind? And what do we do with what is left to us? What impact will our life have on those around us? What will your legacy be? Our legacy be?
As we celebrate our history let it remind us that empowered by God as they were, we can continue their work and likewise pass down legacies of strength, perseverance, faith, and victory to future generations. When I think about my ancestors, and when I think about how they lived their lives and followed God. They continue to impact my life as a heritage of faith that is worth following. For God has established his testimony in Jacob, he’s established his Law, his Word in Israel, and it’s each generation’s job to make sure the next generation gets it, that they would know God, that they would put their hope in God, and learn how to walk with God. That’s each generation’s responsibility toward the next.
In concluding, as Joshua Pawelek, a Unitarian Universalist minister, wrote: I believe it is a sign of spiritual health when we practice remembering and honoring those upon whose shoulders we rest. I believe it is a path to spiritual wisdom when we seek to know our ancestors’ stories. What obstacles did they face? If they were enslaved, how did they achieve liberation? If they wandered in the wilderness, how did they survive? What was their relationship to the Most Holy? For what were they thankful? What did they pass on to us? As we know more clearly who our ancestors were, we know more clearly who we are. May we remember and honor the ancestors, whether those we were born into or those in which we were adopted, and to all those who gifted us with something of value.
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”
[Maya Angelou, from “Still I Rise”]


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I enjoy walking down Madero Street to the Aqueduct. The fountain and park there are beautiful. It is a great place for people watching.
Incredibly preserved aqueduct. Very accesible for detailed view and photos. Ask where it starts and follow it all the way down to the stunning colonial style downtown of Morelia. A must see.
Walk from the Tarascan Fountain to the Sanctuary of Our Lady Guadalupe Church. December 12th is the annual celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe which includes a procession along this pedestrian only avenue. It is a lovely stroll with large shade trees and old mansions which are now restored to house museums, offices and schools. It is just more example... More
The Aqueduct was a very pleasant surprise. I expected to see something in ruins which would be located somewhere at the edge of the city but it was far from that. The walk around the Aqueduct takes you to park area, interesting churches and by stately old homes. Wonderful!
The construction of this aqueduct started in 1549 and its lenght is of 1,700 meters with 253 arches. It has been renovated several times, last one was made in 1998.
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The Acueducto blinds in so charmingly with the rest of Morelia, quietly making its way above the street to vanish quietly into the streets. Very pretty walk and a nice site. A picturesque walkway runs parallel with it and ends into a beautiful Marketplace ( may be seasonal) and a gorgeous church. Walking distance from the cathedral so don't miss... More
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They waited almost four decades to make their relationship legal. “When we were finally able to get married, we decided to make our wedding small, intimate and special,” explained Duane about he and his now-husband, Robert Beach-Barrow, who married in Palm Springs, California. While marriage equality in the United States has been a longtime coming, most of us in the LGBT community remain astounded at how quickly the tide has turned in our favor.
While countless individuals and organizations are responsible for the victories thus far, some stand out, including Evan Wolfson, Founder and President of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide in the U.S.
As his official bio explains, “In 1983, Evan wrote his Harvard Law School thesis on gay people and the freedom to marry. During the 1990s he served as co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case that launched the ongoing global movement for the freedom to marry, and has participated in numerous gay rights and HIV/AIDS cases.” He is the author of the book, “Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality and Gay People’s Right to Marry”, published by Simon & Schuster in July 2004.
Deservedly, “the National Law Journal in 2000 named Evan one of the most influential lawyers in America. Newsweek/The Daily Beast dubbed Evan ‘the godfather of gay marriage’ and Time Magazine names him one of ‘the 100 most influential people in the world.’ In 2012, Evan received the Barnard Medal of Distinction alongside President Barack Obama.”
The first legal same-sex marriages in the world transpired in the early 2000s. After decades of activism, parliament in The Netherlands took legislative action ruling that “a marriage can be contracted by two people of different or the same sex.” According to Wikipedia, “the law came into effect on 1 April 2001, and on that day four same-sex couples were married by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, who became a registrar specifically to officiate at the weddings.”
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Back to the future (or at least the present), organizers who have worked on the Freedom to Marry Roadmap to Victory national strategy explain, “our movement has built a critical mass of states and a critical mass of public support to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to bring the country to a national resolution.” Both proponents and opponents of marriage equality believe this will be solved once and for all in 2015—in favor of marriage equality, of course.
Freedom to Marry offers on its website an amazing timeline, with the first U.S. victory taking place May 5, 1993, in which the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled “that denying marriage to same-sex couples violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Hawaii Constitution.”
All of the marriage equality losses are documented on the timeline as well, but as documented, on 17 May 2004, Massachusetts became “the first state in the United States to allow same-sex couples to share in the freedom to marry,” and this was upheld by 75% of the electorate on June 14, 2007. Freedom to Marry continues “to partner with individuals and organizations across the country to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage and the protections, responsibilities, and commitment that marriage brings.”
As bigotry continues to be defeated across the land, the Freedom to Marry timeline also reflects that on October 6, 2014, the United States Supreme Court most recently denied “review in five different marriage cases; clearing the way for lower court rulings to stand and same-sex couples to finally have the freedom to marry in Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Indiana and Wisconsin. The decision also paves the path for the freedom to marry in Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming. It was an historic day with the effect of bringing us to 30 states with the freedom to marry and 60% of the population living in a marriage state.”
“The Western world has come a long way in terms of gay rights in the last decade, but it’s not over until we have equal rights for LGBT people all over the world,” explained Euvie Ivanova of Equalli.com. The company has launched a high-end line of gay and lesbian engagement and wedding rings made with rainbow sapphires arranged as a pride flag — born out of a desire to better serve the LGBT community. “We need to keep the conversation going,” added Ivanova.
As for Duane and Robert Beach-Barrow’s long-awaited and-they-lived-happily-ever-after big day, explained Duane, “We contacted Fr. Andrew Green at St. Paul’s Episcopal and reserved the church for the day, our 35th anniversary. Then we scheduled the pre-wedding counseling, skipping the one about family planning. We then went shopping for our wedding outfits—grey slacks, blue shirts, yellow and blue ties, and blue blazers. I ordered two white rose boutonnieres, and two dozen red roses.”
Keeping the romance alive, Duane added, “As a surprise for my husband, I went to Over the Rainbow Bakery and ordered a totally sugar-free chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and white frosting. I found two grooms at Jensen’s (a high-end grocery story), and arranged to have the cake delivered to TRIO Restaurant where we were having our wedding dinner—just the two of us. We then proceeded to call and invite 15 guests. It was exactly what we wanted, and for us, perfect.”
LGBT equality advocates throughout the world are coalescing into a global movement, and we’re learning from one another along the way. Ultimately, our success has come for the willingness of individual members of the LGBT community to come out, expressing the truth of our lives to our friends, families and communities, bringing about the greatest change. This collective journey of humanity continues, but thankfully, in the right direction.

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