text:
Buying a GSD
Most of us buy German Shepherds when they are puppies and many of us have no idea what the puppy will look like as a grown dog, except that it will definitely be a German Shepherd. Yet there are GSDs that look more like GSDs than others, as we saw on the "Companion" page. Some people don't care what the dog looks like so long as it will bark and protect their property. Others want a show dog. Still others are buying a member of the family. What are you looking for when buying a German Shepherd?
Don't buy the first puppy you see
All puppies are appealing. If you are buying a puppy because of its pretty face, it will not look like that grown up. If you are buying it because it seems gentle and quiet, it simply may be well fed and sleepy. If you are buying the one that comes to you and bites your hand, it may do that the rest of its life. Be a discriminating buyer. You will be living with this dog for as long as 12 years.
Insist upon a CKC or AKC registration certificate for your puppy
Some Breeders will sell you a puppy without registration papers "to save you money." Others have no idea how to register their dogs. Still others have unregistered dogs and are unable to provide you with papers.
A national kennel club registration provides you with information about your puppy and it's parents; guarantees that this is a "purebred" GSD; serves as an ownership document; includes the breeder's tattoo number and/or the microchip number for the puppy; and, gives you the registered names and registration numbers of the parents as well as the puppy.
Ask to see the health certificates on the parents
Some breeders will tell you that they have never had a problem with "hips" in their line but will not give you any x-ray information to support their statement. There is only one way to verify whether or not a dog has hip or elbow dysplasia and that is through x-ray screening. There is only one data base available to find out if your breeder has x-rayed their breeding stock and that is through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals or OFA. The OFA lists only dogs that have been cleared for hip and elbow dysplasia. This information is available for search on their web site. Neither the Penn-Hip (University of Pennsylvania Hip evaluation) nor the OVC (Ontario Veterinary College) have an open listing for you to verify the breeder's claims. (More information is given on the page called Titles.htm )
A responsible breeder will have on hand the OFA certificates for both parents of the puppy. These certify that the dog has been x-rayed and has been found to be free of hip and elbow problems. (If the dog is over two years of age, ask to see the "final" certificate. Do not accept the "prelims" or underage certificates.) If the breeder does not have the certificates, ask for the OFA numbers and the registered names of the parents so that you can check to see if they have been x-rayed.
Ask about litter evaluations for structure and temperament
One of the reasons for seeing the parents, if possible, is to get an idea of what the puppy will look like when it is an adult dog. Another is to evaluate the parent's temperament as suitable for your home environment. Ask to see siblings or other relatives, if possible. These will give you a general idea about the temperament and structure of your puppy but are not guarantees. There are methods of testing litters and ranking them on an objective form. Two are most commonly used: Puppy Puzzle and the litter evaluation as described by the Monks of New Skete. (see Education.htm ) Ask the breeder for the results on your puppy. The temperament of the puppy you choose may not be suitable for your home environment.
When people are looking for a puppy as a show prospect, they look for things such as structure, "attitude" and movement. People who wish to use their puppy in Schutzhund, look for a strong play drive. Still others look for a temperament suitable for a home with children in a neighborhood of small children. There are tests for each of these traits. Ask the breeder if the tests were performed on all members of the litter and what the test scores were. If you don't know what the test scores mean, ask for a print-out of the test.
Some breeders are trying to breed puppies that conform to the standards set by the Canadian Kennel Club or the American Kennel Club as to what a German Shepherd Dog is supposed to look like. To do that, they try to breed away from serious faults in structure, movement and temperament in order to maximize what is good in their dogs. The German Shepherd Club of America has an Illustrated Standard posted on its web site available to all serious breeders and buyers. (http://www.gsdca.org/ ) If both parents are not available to view, ask to see pictures.
The following are the faults listed in the CKC Book of Dogs for the GSD that must be considered in any breeding program as they are all inherited:
Disqualifications (Faults that should not be present in any GSD or any of their relatives. Should not be used for breeding.):
Very Serious Faults (when seen in a dog at a dog show will prevent them from winning. These dogs are not to be used for breeding.):
Serious faults (should be eliminated from any breeding program through selection. If this is all you have as breeding stock, make sure the stock to which you breed does not carry these genes):
Faults (present in dogs to a varying degree. Try to breed away from these faults to dogs without these faults.)

domain: pet


text:
The case of a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who sought an abortion in Indiana just after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year became a major flashpoint in the political debate. On Thursday, her doctor was reprimanded and fined for discussing the case — and physicians worry that it will have a chilling effect on any kind of patient advocacy that conflicts with the political agenda of state lawmakers.
The Indiana medical board found that Caitlin Bernard, an OB-GYN, violated patient privacy laws in publicly disclosing that she had performed the abortion without the consent of the patient or their parents, even though she never named the patient and only provided a general outline of the case, as doctors typically do when performing health advocacy. She will be fined $3,000 and issued a letter of reprimand, but will be allowed to keep her medical license.
It’s the result of Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita, who is running for reelection in 2024, filing a complaint against Bernard last year, also claiming that she was unfit to practice because she had not stayed “abreast of current professional theory or practice.” Bernard’s lawyer previously characterized the complaint as an attempt to intimidate abortion providers.
The fact that Bernard is facing professional consequences suggests that there is a legal gray area when talking about patients in an advocacy context, even beyond the subject of abortion, that is ripe for exploitation by political actors. Dr. Tracey Wilkinson, a professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine who attended Bernard’s hearing before the medical board Thursday, told Vox there was a long debate as to whether Bernard had disclosed identifiable information about the patient and witnesses who argued to the contrary.
She said her colleagues around the country were “shocked and devastated” by the ultimate decision, which showed that “politicization can really prevent us from being able to do our job.”
“All of us have an ethical duty to do advocacy,” Wilkinson said. “This got so far because this was about abortion, but we’ve now set the precedent and opened the floodgates to any clinician doing their job and having their medical license put on the line.”
What happened in the Indiana case
The 10-year-old patient sought an abortion from Bernard in Indiana just days after Roe fell last June because she could not obtain one in her home state. Ohio had a trigger ban prohibiting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before most people know they’re pregnant, and she had been pregnant for six weeks and three days. (That ban has since been put on hold by the courts, but could go into effect again.)
The story, initially reported by the Indianapolis Star, went viral. President Joe Biden mentioned the case in remarks at the White House last July: “Ten years old — 10 years old! — raped, six weeks pregnant, already traumatized, was forced to travel to another state.” News outlets, however, questioned whether the case was real, given that the Star had relied on Bernard’s account alone. Right-wing politicians, including South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, called it “#FakeNews.”
The story was confirmed when 27-year-old Gerson Fuentes was charged in Franklin County, Ohio, after confessing to raping the girl on at least two occasions. He later pleaded not guilty to the charges. His trial will continue in July.
How doctors have struggled to navigate the legal landscape post-Roe
Bernard’s case before the medical licensing board was unusual because it became a front in the national political battle over abortion. Rarely if ever does a state’s top prosecutor get involved in medical licensing board hearings, and they generally concern cases where there is a bad patient outcome, which didn’t happen here.
“The outcome of the care that Dr. Bernard gave was exactly what she always does, which was compassionate, comprehensive health care,” Wilkinson said.
Rather, the case concerned her violations of guidelines of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, which specifically mandates that identifiers such as name, date of birth, and address be protected, but also prohibits the disclosure of any unique identifier. Bernard only disclosed the age of the girl and her state of residence, but her hearing focused on whether that could have been considered identifiable information. Her employer, Indiana University Health, concluded last year that she had not committed a HIPAA violation, but the medical board found the opposite.
The decision to punish Bernard has left physicians across the country “afraid of getting in the crosshairs of politicians in their state and feeling that they could be next,” she said. That applies in the context of abortion, but also when it comes to bans on gender-affirming care for trans kids.
It’s exacerbating anxieties that physicians were already feeling in terms of navigating the patchwork of laws across the US post-Roe, many of which include very limited exceptions to abortion bans that in practice discourage doctors from administering medically necessary care. And that makes it all the more difficult for doctors to perform their duty to advocate for change beyond the walls of the medical system.
“I do a lot of advocacy. And I’m not going to stop as a result of this hearing,” Wilkinson said. “But that’s why this is such a dangerous precedent.”

domain: medical


text:
/ NEWS: Ethan Walker Climbs Two 8B+
More impressively, they are differing styles; one a long 'cave-style' and the other a short 'board-style' problem...
British ex-pat Tom Bolger has ticked his 10th 9a with at Finestra sector, Margalef, Spain. Tom has been resident in Spain for a... Read more
An automatic selection of five photos from each of the catagories on site was made based on the votes from the previous 12... Read more
Berghaus is continuing to reduce the environmental and social impact of product manufacture and other business activities.... Read more

domain: news


text:
From Andean pan-pipe ballads to pirate sea shanties, all forms of music share certain common elements, despite being derived from hugely contrasting cultural contexts. This has given rise to numerous theories about the possibility of music being hardwired into humans’ brains, and a new study in the journal Nature Human Behaviour adds yet more weight to this hypothesis.
Intriguingly, the study authors also suggest that it may actually be the shortcomings and imperfections of our cognition that cause us to organize sounds into memorable rhythms and melodies.
The researchers behind the paper recently conducted a separate study in which they analyzed 304 musical recordings from around the world, and identified 18 features that appear to be shared among all musical traditions. Of these, six were related to rhythm: a metronomic beat, clusters of two to three beats, a preference for two-beat components, regular soft and strong beats, a small number of beat patterns per song, and the creation of riffs or tunes using these patterns.
Using this as a starting point, the team recruited 48 non-musicians from the University of Edinburgh to play a game of percussive Chinese whispers in groups of eight. The first person in each group had to copy a series of 12 random beats, generated by a computer, that did not obey any of the six universal principals of musical rhythm. Each successive participant then had to try to emulate what the previous person had played.
By the time the final player had performed their rendition, the originally tuneless succession of beats had transformed into structured, easy to remember patterns that adhered to all six rhythmic universals.
In their write-up, the study authors propose that this occurred because remembering 12 completely random beats is beyond the capability of the human brain, which tends instead to generate memorable patterns consisting of regularly repeating components.
Rhythms therefore emerged as successive players “introduced errors in their efforts to replicate the sequences they heard,” removing the more anomalous beats and replacing them with ones that were easier to reproduce.
As such, the researchers speculate that it is the limited nature of our working memory – which can typically hold between five and seven pieces of information at a time – that causes us to create music with a small number of recurring beats, rather than many idiosyncratic elements.
In other words, the musical structures and patterns that appear in all cultures may be a product of our brains simply not being good enough to remember long, disorganized sequences of notes.

domain: psychology


text:
The annual statistical report of the Secours Catholique – Caritas France on poverty in France was released on November 7th. This 2019 edition was co-written by Jean-Noël Senne, with the research assistance of Claire Caumel (undergraduate intern from the Bachelor in Applied Economics). Using large sample data collected all over the country, this year’s report raises the alarm about an increase in extreme poverty and the growing precariousness of migrants in the country. It draws attention to the need for everyone to have access to fundamental rights and takes an international view of the situation of migrant populations around the world.
The full report can be downloaded [here]

domain: economics


text:
by Brittany Hall-Scharf
It is that time of year again! Manatee slow speed zones are in effect. It is important to abide by these speed restrictions between October 1 and April 30 each year.read more..
The tapestry of natural areas, parks, and preserves along Florida’s Adventure Coast support a spectacular diversity of flora and fauna. Spread along the Gulf of Mexico, the region offers 200,000 acres of protected parklands to explore, along with pristine rivers, swathes of old-growth forest, and the beautiful waters of the Gulf. From birding walks to family.read more..
From majestic trees draped in Spanish moss, to gentle manatees floating along the inland waterways, to world-famous mermaids, Florida’s Adventure Coast beckons with a magical—and unique—appeal. This stretch of the state, which encompasses Hernando County and the charming towns of Brooksville and Weeki Wachee, reaches all the way to the Gulf of Mexico on the west to the.read more..
Manatees are more than seagrass munching marine mammals; they are iconic, beloved symbols of natural Florida. View them in Florida’s Adventure Coast waterways, particularly during cooler times of the year.read more..
Florida Manatee, sometimes referred to as “Sea Cows” are frequent sights around the Adventure Coast, particularly in the 74 degree Weeki Wachee River. You already know that these gentle marine mammals are large – generally about 10 feet long, 800 to 1200 pounds – and gray in color like their distant elephant cousins. But did you know that the bones.read more..

domain: travel


text:
Located in Binh Duong province, where there are many traditional villages of pottery. The project aims to create a work of archival, preservation, research on ceramic specimens and introduce the cultural - economic characteristics of the long-standing ceramic craft in Vietnam. It is also a promising tourist destination of Binh Duong province.
The shape of the building is developed symbolically here. Use natural solutions in the works. The connection between interior space and landscape space creates a closer relationship between people and nature, bringing an interesting experience.
The space layout solution is adapted to the shape of the site, taking advantage of the space to create a lobby that connects visitors. The space is clearly distributed to ensure the exit distance as well as the clear sightseeing chain. The exhibition space is connected by corridors and stairs to ensure the independence of each topic about ceramics. Exploiting the surrounding landscape, creating walkways so that visitors can easily access the work from many different directions.
Site area: 4.8 ha
Total floor area: 1.4 ha
Lam Hoang Minh Tri

domain: artistic


text:
California Attorney General Xavier Bacerra has filed Proposition 65 enforcement actions against two makers of baby formula whose products that allegedly contain elevated levels of lead in violation of the Proposition 65 Safe Harbor Level, and the provisional Total Tolerable Intake level for lead of 6 micrograms per day applicable to children 6 years of age and younger, as mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The baby formula makers, Nutraceutical Corporation of Park City, Utah and Graceleigh, Inc. dba Sammy’s Milk of Newport Beach, CA, are alleged to have violated California’s Proposition 65 and related California’s consumer protection laws according to the Attorney General’s complaint.
The Attorney General alleges that , made by Graceleigh, and Peaceful Planet Toddler Supreme Formula, a rice formula made by Nutraceutical. The Attorney General’s complaint, filed in Alameda County, CA, alleges that the levels of lead in both products result in exposures above the Provisional Total Tolerable Intake level for lead of 6 micrograms per day (“ug/day”) applicable to children 6 years of age and younger, as set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A statement issued by the AG asserts that State testing showed that the products actually cause lead exposure between 13 and 15 times the maximum allowable dose under California law. The AG’s office also announced that both companies have voluntarily agreed to stop selling the products at issue in California.
Nutraceutical Corporation said it intends to vigorously contest the AG’s suit, which it said lacks merit. The company reports that its Toddler Supreme protein supplement’s ingredient levels comply with applicable laws and regulations and don’t pose any safety risk to consumers, based on an opinion from a former FDA toxicologist.
For the products to pose no significant risk the products must not exceed two Safe Harbor levels adopted for lead.
The reason that there are two distinct Safe Harbor Levels for lead under Proposition 65, is that lead was listed twice, first as a reproductive toxicant in February 1987 and later as a carcinogen in October 1992. It is one of a handful of substances that have the distinction of causing cancer and reproductive toxicity.
The Safe Harbor oral exposure level for lead as a carcinogen is 15 micrograms per day (15/ug/day).
But the Maximum Allowable Dose Level (MADL) Safe Harbor level for lead as a reproductive toxicant is a mere 0.5 micrograms per day–making it the strictest lead standard in the world.
The Attorney General’s complaint also alleges that the excessive levels of lead, contained in the baby formula products render them adulterated under the California Sherman Food, Drug and Cosmetic laws and, which then triggers violations of the unlawful prong of CA Bus. & Prof. Code section 17200 and The complaint also alleges that false and misleading statements made by the the two companies are alleged to also violate CA Bus. & Prof. Code sections 17200 and 17500.
While Nutraceutical Corporation intends to vigorously contest the Attorney General’s lawsuit, bluster and swagger only goes so far. company’s sued by the Attorney General eventually settle. A company with big pockets and a very skillful attorney managed to prevail against the Attorney General once, and it has not been done since.


text:
In Great Britain, the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, Professor Jonathan Sacks, has come up with a wonderful idea: We should learn about each other's faiths. Rabbi Sacks' idea was endorsed by the Prince of Wales and other religious leaders. (1)
Rabbi Sacks follows in the footsteps of another outspoken rabbi, Rabbi Michael Rodkinson, who did what he could during his lifetime to share the Jewish religion among Jews and non-Jews alike. Rabbi Rodkinson's English translation of the Talmud was published between 1896 and 1903, and reissued in 1918. (32)
Christian theology and Jewish theology having really followed two parallel paths, the history of either cannot be understood without the history of the other.
— Rabbi Michael L. Rodkinson (2)
In a world torn by strife and warfare (much of it between people of different faiths), no person of goodwill could disagree with Rabbi Sacks: that we should learn about each other's faiths. The first project of Come and Hear™ is to assist in this mission.
It is a modern truism that the truth is revealed by comparing and contrasting opposing ideas. We can gain nothing by closing our eyes to religious literature; we gain by reading, discussing, and understanding. No better result could be achieved than by open and informed discussion of the Talmud, the book that lies closest to the heart of Judaism.
"One of the Wonders of the World"
Come and hear what some renowned Talmudic scholars have said about the Talmud:
… the Talmud is one of the wonders of the world … It still dominates the minds of a whole people, who venerate its contents as divine truth …
— Rabbi Michael L. Rodkinson (3)
Religion in the Talmud attempts to penetrate the whole of human life with the sense of law and right. Nothing human is in its eyes mean or trivial; everything is regulated and sanctified by religion. Religious precept and duty accompany man from his earliest years to the grave and beyond it. They guide his desires and actions at every moment. Food and sleep, civic duty and family life — all are under discipline of the Torah, a discipline accepted freely and joyfully. While every religion attempts such regulation, the Talmudic system represents this striving of the religious idea in its perfection. 'In our eyes,' says Arsène Darmsteter, 'this is its greatest title to the respect and consideration of thinkers. In Judaism we have thus the completest, and consequently the most perfect, expression of the religious idea.'
— The Very Reverend the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, the late Dr. Joseph H. Hertz (4)
Speaking of how the Talmud helped Jews through the centuries of persecution and darkness, Rabbi Dr. Hertz said:
It saved Israel from intellectual and moral degradation.
— Rabbi Dr. Hertz (5)
If the Bible is the cornerstone of Judaism, then the Talmud is the central pillar, soaring up from the foundations and supporting the entire spiritual and intellectual edifice. In many ways the Talmud is the most important book in Jewish culture, the backbone of creativity and of national life. No other work has had a comparable influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life, shaping spiritual content and serving as a guide to conduct.
— Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (6)
Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz is the founder of the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications, and has enjoyed the backing of Israeli presidents and prime ministers; he is a recipient of Israel's highest civilian honor, the Israel Prize. He is currently translating the Talmud into English, French, and Russian.
Let us continue with other scholarly statements on the importance of the Talmud. This from the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia:
The Talmud is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable literary productions of all times. It is an encyclopedia covering the whole scene of human life. It is almost impossible to convey to one who has not spent years in the study of this complex work an idea of its true nature, as even the most exact translations cannot catch the inner spirit of the Talmud … As a repository of the Oral Law, the Talmud's authority is regarded as divine by Orthodox Jews, and hence it is held to be binding and immutable. Conservative and Reform Jews, however, do not recognize the absolute binding power of the Talmud, although they acknowledge the great part it has played in determining Jewish religious ideas and observances.
— Herschel Revel, for The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (7)
Gentiles Welcome to Study the Talmud
Rabbi Rodkinson welcomed Gentile students of the Talmud. One hundred years ago, he wrote:
We are also glad to notice that among Gentiles the study of the Talmud is more or less spreading, as we have the experience that a great number of Gentiles and almost all the theological seminaries and public libraries subscribed to the Talmud, and also many queries concerning it frequently came to us from Gentiles. This all shows that the study of the Talmud among Gentiles is not very rare.
— Rabbi Rodkinson (20)
Talmud Relevant Today
Now let us turn to Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, a contemporary and prolific writer on Judaism:
The Bavli [Babylonian Talmud] has formed the definitive statement of Judaism from the time of its closure to the present day. The excellence of its composition, the mastery and authority of those who everywhere studied it and advocated its law, the sharpness of its exegesis and discussion, the harmonious and proportional presentation of all details, these virtues of taste and intellect may well have secured for the document is paramount position … The Bavli served from its closure as an encyclopedia of knowledge and as a summa of the theology and law of Judaism.
— Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner (8) (emphasis added)
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein is the director of Project Next Step of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and a professor of Jewish Law and Ethics at Loyola Law School. Rabbi Adlerstein comments upon a 1999 brief submitted to the US Supreme Court concerning the death penalty. The brief, based wholly on Talmud law, urged that certain principles of Talmud law should be adopted by the US. Interpreting the remarks Orthodox advocate Nathan Lewin, (24) Rabbi Adlerstein writes:
… Lewin builds his case on the strength of what likely is the world's oldest continuously-practiced legal code. He holds up the performance of Florida's temperamental electric chair to the scrutiny of the Jewish Talmud, the backbone of Jewish law for the last two millennia.
… Lewin's essential point is that many of the pressing moral, ethical, and legal issues that are front-burner today were already painstakingly and lovingly considered by savants of the past. Jewish law in particular surprises and delights moderns, because it not only suggests solutions, but teaches how complex moral issues can be attacked and dissected. Within its ancient legal code are deep and detailed considerations of issues like privacy, allocating medical resources, the causes of violence, and many more. So much of the future stands to be illuminated by the minds of those who specialized in pondering deeply and subtly.
— Rabbi Adlerstein (23)

domain: library


text:
Vintage Stamped Friendship Spoon-Bee You
The Lofty Fig
Each vintage spoon is foraged by the artist, and hand stamped, letter by letter, creating a truly unique, curated collection of one of a kind pieces. Please expect some imperfections, as each spoon has it's own character.
Vintage Stamped Friendship Spoon

domain: design


text:
- Product 601419
Yamaha HS10W 8" Powered Studio Monitor Subwoofer
- Write a Review
The Yamaha HS10W powered subwoofer contains a 120-watt long-stroke, 8" woofer and bass-reflex design cabinet that maintains high efficiency and low d...Click To Read More About This Product
We're sorry-this item is unavailable.
Find a similar product below or contact our experts for a recommendation of great alternatives. Call us at 800-449-9128.Customers Also Viewed:
The HS10W powered subwoofer provides the bottom-end needed for accurate hip-hop and bass-heavy mixes.
The Yamaha HS10W powered subwoofer contains a 120-watt long-stroke, 8" woofer and bass-reflex design cabinet that maintains high efficiency and low distortion. Connections include dual XLR and 1/4" inputs, and 3 balanced XLR outputs (Mix, Left/Right). Controls include master level, phase and low/high cutoff frequency. The Yamaha subwoofer is the perfect low-end complement to the HS50M (sold separately) and HS80M monitors (sold separately), and easily handles today's bass-enhanced music or the most dramatic surround effects. Speaker enclosure is constructed of high-quality MDF material and feature a multi-layer finish that minimizes resonance.
- 120W, 8" long-stroke woofer
- High-quality MDF enclosure with mulitple-layer finish and lighted Yamaha tuning fork logo
- Dual XLR and 1/4" inputs
- 3 XLR outputs (Mix, Left/Right)
- Master level control
- Phase switch and low/high cut controls allow custom tailoring to a number of applications
If you want that low-end thump to come through in your mix, the Yamaha HS10W is the sub for you. Call or click to order now.
HS10W 8" Powered Studio Monitor Subwoofer
8" long-stroke woofer
30Hz-180Hz frequency response
Dual XLR and 1/4" inputs
3 XLR outputs (Mix, Left/Right)
Phase switch: Normal/Reverse
High Cut control: 80Hz-120Hz (center click)
Low Cut control: 80Hz-120Hz (center click)
11-4/5"W x 13-3/4"H x 15-1/5"D
Reviewed by 1 customer
Displaying review 1
- Attractive Design
- Easy to Mount
- Easy To Set Up
- Good Power Output
- Great Sound Quality
Comments about Yamaha HS10W 8" Powered Studio Monitor Subwoofer:
Great compliment to Yamaha HS80M 8" Powered Studio Monitor!
- Was this a gift?:


text:
The word sankalpa in sanskrit can be translated as ‘resolve’, so is it the same idea as a new year’s resolution? Well… sort of.
You may have heard the term sankalpa used at the start of a yoga class. The teacher asks you to set an intention for the class. This is your resolve to remain focussed on your breath, or honour your body or offer up your practice to someone or something else.
A deeper definition of sankalpa is a vow to follow your most heartfelt desires, to be connected to the highest truth and follow your dharma (your life’s purpose). Yoga teaches us that we already posses all we need within us to fulfill our dharma, it is just a case of focussing and channeling our energy in the right direction. With this in mind the sankalpa is very much a resolve to connect to our truth within.
New year’s resolutions are given a bad name with the majority of resolutions being broken by the end of January. The resulting feeling of failure can leave people despondent and often lead to worse habits and behaviour. New year’s resolutions are often framed in way that requires we change something about ourselves. Either our appearance (“I will lose 5kg this year”), our habits (“I will not smoke”) or our actions (“I will not spend as much money on clothes” or “I will meditate every day”). They are also often made hastily (at 11.59pm on new year’s eve?) with no plans in place to achieve them.
I don’t think it is necessarily the practice of making a new year resolution that is at fault but the way they are made so, perhaps we can learn from the process of setting a sankalpa when making our more symbolic resolution on the 1st of January.
How to find your heartfelt desire
You can start this exercise by bringing to mind the statements that you might have chosen for a new year’s resolution. Examine the statement and ask the question ‘why do I want this?’ You may need to ask the question numerous times over to get to the deeper meaning behind your resolution. For example, if your statement is ‘I want to lose 5 kilos’ this could be because you want to be fitter, because you want to enjoy good health. On the other hand it could be because you want to fit into a certain outfit, because you want to feel good about yourself. The underlying desire, and sankalpa, could be quite different in the two scenarios.
Setting your sankalpa
Unlike most new year’s resolutions the sankalpa is stated in the present tense using positive language. Using the examples above it could be I enjoy good health or I feel confident and happy. The best way to deepen the resolve is to repeat the sankalpa during meditation or yoga nidra. As the sentence is framed in a positive way it helps to connect to the idea that you already have everything you need to fulfil your dharma, rather than focusing on what you are missing or failing at.
It may seem strange to be setting a resolution to achieve something but then stating that you already have it! This is an important aspect of yoga where we are directing our energy to achieving something while at the same time being content with exactly the way things are in the present moment.
All actions should be viewed through the lens of the sankalpa but also with compassion for yourself. If you make choices or act in a way that goes against your sankalpa, examine why this may have happened, how you feel and what you could do differently in the future to reduce the risk of this occurring again. During the practice of mindfulness through awareness of the breath when the mind wanders we kindly bring it back to the breath without judging. In the same way we can kindly bring our whole being back to the sankalpa when it strays off the path.
It’s still only January so I encourage you to create and set your sankalpa! Here’s mine:
I act with compassion and nourishment towards myself and others.


text:
Prediction On Match Between Alex Hernandez VS Drew Dober
The forecast of our experts for this MMA match:
Alex Hernandez plays at home against Drew Dober on 05.14.2020.
After a detailed analysis of previous home matches of Alex Hernandez and away matches of Drew Dober, as well as analysis of the form of key players Alex Hernandez and Drew Dober, we assume that the match will end with a victory of Drew Dober.
The average odds of betting companies on Alex Hernandez victory is 2.
The average odds of betting companies on Drew Dober victory is 1.8.
Alex Hernandez vs Drew Dober Prediction | 05.14.2020 | MMA

domain: sports


text:
Does anyone know what the best meat is to eat on Christmas day? What wine is best with it?
My girlfriend wanted to do turkey but I am not sure whether that's a traditional Christmas dish in France. Anyone know?
The Christmas Day meal isn't a big feature of French tradition - the local celebrations take place on the evening of 24th with lots of oysters. foie gras and so on.
Me, I like a duck or a goose on the 25th, washed down by a decent burgundy.

domain: food


DJI Gamesir T1d (Controller) (Camera Accessories)
Imitation leather controller that provides a lightweight feel, high-precision joysticks that can navigate 360 degrees, and a high-speed connection to GameSir Connecting Mode.
Out of stock
This controller can instantly transform your smartphone into a drone controller, designed to provide a lightweight feel, smooth experience, and convenient operation. With two high-precision 3D joysticks, the controller can orient your aircraft to any location, making more difficult maneuvers possible.
The controller includes a high-speed connection to GameSir Connecting Mode so you can begin flight immediately.
In the Box:
GameSir T1d Controller ×1
- Supporting Platform: iOS 7.0+, Android 4.0+
- Bluetooth Version: BLE 4.0
- Charging Voltage: 3.7V-5.2V
- Working Temperature: 0°C-40°C
- Working Humidity: 20-80％
- Working Distance: 7m
- Battery Capacity: 600 mAh


text:
The province’s new respectful workplace policy aims to combat harassment, including explicit jokes and emails that may have been overlooked in the past.
Rochelle Squires, the minister responsible for the status of women, said the updated policy provides clear reporting procedures and a broader definition of harassment itself.
“What might have been dismissed as a colourful or off-putting joke a decade ago and might not have been addressed as sexual harassment … is sexual harassment,” said Squires.
The policy states that inappropriate jokes and remarks about gender, sexual orientation or sexual acts, as well as gossip about sexual activity and sexually explicit emails, will be considered harassment. It also requires a supervisor who receives an allegation of sexual harassment to immediately report it to human resource officials.
A director previously had the authority to dismiss that type of allegation.
“We have removed that layer of decision-making so that every allegation of sexual harassment needs to get reported,” said Squires.
The policy does not impose minimum penalties for specific behaviours. Squires said that’s based on a belief that no “one-size-fits-all” approach can address every situation.
The policy notes those found guilty of harassment could be suspended without pay, demoted or terminated, while employees who make false allegations “for frivolous or vindictive reasons” could also be disciplined and/or fired.
The civil service policy will be paired with an awareness campaign.
The policy also calls for complainants to be updated on the status of a formal complaint within five to seven business days of the allegation being reported. Complaint investigations should be completed within 30 business days, with updates provided when that timeline can’t be met.
The new rules follow some high-profile allegations of workplace misconduct at the Manitoba Legislature.
In February 2018, several women publicly accused former NDP minister Stan Struthers of subjecting them to unwanted tickling, touching and comments. Struthers issued an apology following the reports, which stressed he intended to treat women as equals.
In October 2018, two female staff members publicly accused Emerson MLA Cliff Graydon of inviting them to sit on his lap on separate occasions. Another woman alleged she told Graydon he had food on his face and he invited her to lick it off. And in November, The Canadian Press reported that another former staff member alleged that Graydon groped her at a party function.
The former Progressive Conservative MLA was ousted from his party following the allegations and apologized for having a “bad sense of humour.”
None of the allegations have been proven in court.
While the new workplace policy doesn’t apply to elected officials, Squires said a policy to guide their actions will be released “very soon.”
Squires said there were 370 investigations of harassment in the provincial workforce during 2017-18. She said that number may rise under the new policy, which stresses that no employee should face reprisal for making a “good faith” complaint.


text:
Jul 25, 2004 - 1:55 pm
My mother is in her late 70's and was diagnosed with SCC of the tongue. She had removal of the tumor and margins on her tongue along with a neck dissection in Dec. 2003. In late January, she began 33 radiation treatments of the tongue, neck and lymph nodes. She has dry mouth which wakes her up frequently during the night. She eats pureed foods and alot of milk products. She is constantly drinking water. From March through mid-June, I saw her begin to get energy and an interest in her hobbies. Then in June, she began complaining of feeling very tired and lethargic. It is now an effort for her to get up and eat her meal. She has thick phelgm in her throat again. Upon a scoping exam, the doctor says that there is no evidence of cancer and that she is healing. The doctor has also run blood tests for thyroid, anemia, and electrolytes. He is also treating her for depression. She has started complaining of feeling "sick to her stomach". Has anyone experienced this months after radiation? What else should I be looking for or doing with mom?


text:
Deepika Padukone has reportedly dropped out of a project that was to also star Shahid Kapoor.
Producer Sajid Nadiadwala is said to have shelved Heer Ranjha, which would have paired the actors for the first time, the Mumbai Mirror has reported.
Speaking to the paper earlier in the year, Nadiadwala said that Padukone had no issues with the height difference between her and Kapoor, who is shorter.
Despite the comments, a source revealed that Padukone was never contracted to be in the film in the first place.
The 24-year old actress will next be seen in Desi Boyz, a film set in London.


The folks at Eagle Rock's Colorado Wine Co. are still reeling from the loss of their sidewalk chalkboard sign -- which helped drive traffic into the store. The sign also was a small reminder to the neighborhood that, hey, interesting, lively things are happening here.
But turns out those sidewalk signs are illegal. The city is willing to look the other way until people complain -- and indeed, someone eventually did. Mr. Grumpy Pedestrian began his campaign against the sign rather passive aggressively -- kicking it to one side for starters. But then things escalated:
We would keep our dinky little chalkboard sign on our half of the sidewalk which is approximately 13 feet wide. Well, what began as a surgically precise shift of our sidwalk advertising became a grumble and a swift kick which ultimately left our advertising flat on the ground or facing the store instead of the street every day. Polite confrontations posing questions like "excuse me, sir, why do you do that" and "are you angry at wine?" became pretty heated with quotes like "all you people are only in it for the money!" and "why should I have to walk on the side of the sidewalk! I want to walk down the middle and it's a free country!" In it for the money? Clearly he's never been in retail.
To be fair, though you see these types of signs up and down every retail corridor in our city, they are illegal. And soon enough, after a few more run-ins with our friendly neighborhood sign abuser, we received a notice from the city forcing us to remove it from the public sidewalk. And when an employee accidentally put the sign out the following week, our landlords were summoned to appear before the city downtown! Ultimately, we settled with the city over the phone and all was forgiven provided we never EVER spit in the face of justice again by putting out our little chalkboard trying to make our business a little more noticeable.
The Colorado Wine folks have dubbed the guy "Mr. Very Angry Irish Man." MVAIM may soon find a new target of his ire: According to commenters on the Colorado Wine Co. site, the Coffee Table restaurant and bar up the street has started using a sidewalk sign as well.
Post a Comment


Looking for a More Rewarding Lifestyle?
Become a Franchisee: Learn More
At Jim’s Heating and Cooling we offer a wide variety of Heating, Cooling, and Refrigeration services. We provide a steady stream of work including new installations, break down and repair work, servicing and preventative maintenance programs.
Jim’s Group started as a part-time gardening business while Jim Penman completed his PhD in history. Jim went full time in 1982 and first franchised his business in 1989. Currently, there are over 3,500 Franchisees in four countries, growing at the rate of around 200 per year. Jim Penman is the owner and full-time CEO of Jim’s Group.


text:
Pages: 168 Genre: Young-Adult
Subgenre: Historical Fiction
The life of Jason Stevens is told through 13 short stories that can be read all together as a novel or each one by themselves and still get a good story, either way. Jason lives in the small, historic town of Harper's Ferry in West Virginia during the 1970's when life was determined by one's wealth, skin color, and town gossip. Each story shows a different moment in Jason's life when something , even if it's just something little, changes about him or his life. Jason wants to be an artist, but surviving your teen years in Harper's Ferry, especially when your father is the most-hated, racist, stubborn man in the whole region, is none too easy.
Ugly to Start With is real, raw and smart. The unique short story format focuses on Jason's change, rather than a set plot and plays to its own advantage, giving the already interesting story an edge. Every one of the stories brought me a little bit more of Jason and a little bit more of the dynamic and old-fashioned Harper's Ferry. At times it made me laugh as Jason would describe the strange traditions of Harper's Ferry. Other times it would bring me to the brink of tears or send a wave of pity through me. The whole time I was amazed (and maybe even a little shocked) at how deep the author went into and how real the whole community of Harper's Ferry seemed. I could just imagine these characters gossiping in their kitchens or barely making a living. It just seems impossible to not feel like these characters are something more than just people in a good story. The characters were definitely what made this book so good. Ugly to Start With navigated through risky topics, but did so very well using a great cast of characters.
Cover:I love this cover. The whole packaging of the book is gorgeous, to be honest! This cover could not be more perfect for Ugly to Start With.Level of Romance: Medium? A little? I'm not really sure how to categorize this one because it really depends on which story is read. Jason is trying to find himself and I guess one could say it takes some romantic experiences to get there.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Warning: This book contains some mature themes that, in my opinion, require a mature reader. Recommended for ages 15+


The CSIRO has developed new technology which can be used to pull cabon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere and put it into beer and other beverages.
French multinational oil and gas company Total is partnering with several Chinese companies and universities to build "an innovative plant that will produce electricity and steam without releasing CO2 into the atmosphere".
A new study based on satellite observations, just released globally by Australia's science agency the CSIRO, is likely to cause a stir among anti-carbon dioxide global warming alarmist circles. According to the study, over the past three decades the rise in atmospheric CO2 has contributed significantly to the greening of our planet.
'Australian intelligence' (as pre-briefed by US DHS & NSA then used in circular logical fallacy as a 'credible source') -[…]
Show me even a microscopic speck of evidence to back up the myriad claims made about China and Huawei and[…]
And your evidence for this conclusion? Journalism is not a jingoistic enterprise, it has nothing to do with nationalism, it[…]
This sounds like sour grapes from a company that failed to adapt to a changing worldAttacks occur on every type[…]
Sam is definitely a paid shill for Chinese interests.


text:
pop'n music 8 (PlayStation 2)
|pop'n music 8|
A home port of Konami's pop'n music 8 arcade rhythm game. It is known to be the first installment in the series to have some involvement by Konami's Shanghai branch, which contributed with some of the new character designs.
NOTE: None of the graphics listed below have proper filenames; the names are given based on the order in which they are present in IMAGE.DAT.
File 4 contains the assets seen in the game's title screen. Within it, are also some leftover graphics from the game's original arcade release, including those for the coin counter, the stage number indicator, and even for the shop number ID seen in the top right corner of the screen.
There also exists graphics for a "Debug" button, but the function itself does not seem to exist anymore. Using the following codes can make it appear in the title screen:
0019321c 28a20010 00193244 28620009 0019324c 24630009 00193258 2463fff7 00193228 28a10008 00193230 28a1000f 001932d4 28620009 001932dc 24630009 001932e8 2463fff7 00193080 24020008 0019308c 28420009
Unused Character Icons
File 6 contains the character icons seen in both the mode selection screen and during gameplay when using the "Character Pop-kun" ojama. Many of these never actually seem to appear due to its respectivecharacters not being in the game.
File 34 contains the artist graphics seen when selecting a song. Much like the unused icons, there's a lot of unused graphics; many of them are arcade leftovers.
Unused (New) Character Sprites
The character Elle [CS8], whose files are contained in Files 511 for the 1P palette and 510 for 2P, contain an unused sprite. Do note that the iteration of this character seen in pop'n music 4 has a similiar sprite seen in the song selection screen, as well as before the song starts in the PlayStation and Dreamcast ports of the game, and that, considering this new variation seems to be a redrawn version of that, this sprite could have simply been redrawn without knowing it was no longer used.
There's also three unused characters within the game's data; the Nyami variants for the songs Minashigo Hutch and THUNDER BIRDS, which are the two new licenses from the original arcade release that are absent from this home port, and the MZD variant from Oedo hanafubuki TEYAN-day MIX. This latter character can also be found unused in the arcade version, as that song is not present in there either.
Nyami [TV&ANIME-THUNDER BIRDS]
The Pop'n Music series
|Arcade||pop'n music • pop'n music 2 • pop'n music 3 • pop'n music 4 • pop'n music 5|
pop'n music Animelo • pop'n music Mickey Tunes • pop'n music Animelo 2gou
pop'n music 6 • pop'n music 8
|PlayStation||pop'n music 3 Append Disc|
pop'n music Disney Tunes • pop'n music 5 • pop'n music 6
|Dreamcast||pop'n music • pop'n music 2 • pop'n music 3 Append Disc • pop'n music 4 Append Disc|
|Game Boy Color||Pop'n Music GB • Pop'n Music GB Animation Melody • Pop'n Music GB Disney Tunes|
|Windows||pop'n music DA!!|
|PlayStation 2||pop'n music 7 • pop'n music Best Hits! • pop'n music 8 • pop'n music 9 • pop'n music 10|
pop'n music 11 • pop'n music 12 Iroha • pop'n music 13 Carnival • pop'n music 14 FEVER!
|Arcade||pop'n stage (ex)|
|Xbox 360||Beat'n Groovy (Prototype)|

domain: hobby


text:
In this study, Pediococcus pentosaceus VTCC-B-601 was investigated and characterized for bacteriocin production. This antimicrobial activities was produced strongly at the late exponential phase (5x108 CFU/ml), corresponding to the activity of cephalosporin (13.3µg/ml) against Salmonella typhimurium ATCC 19430, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853, Staphylococus aureus ATCC 25923, and Micrococcus luteus ATCC 10240. The antimicrobial activities were determined due to a bacteriocin having 3.5 kDa in molecular weight. This bacteriocin was lysed by proteinase K and stable with high temperature, and precipitated by ammonium sulfate from 40%- 60%. This work supplied a Pediococcus pentosaceus bacteriocin identification which was useful in food preservation, clinical use, and agriculture.
antimicrobial activities, bacteriocin, Pediococcus pentosaceus VTCC-B-601, thermostability

domain: biology


Pre-orders for a Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin limited edition are now available through the e-Capcom storefront. Several pre-order benefits will be available to consumers that choose to pre-order the game directly through Capcom. This includes an acrylic standee, a carrying case for the Nintendo Switch, and badges designed to look like polaroid photographs. Consumers can purchase this limited edition for ¥13,200 (or $120). [Thanks, 4Gamer!]
Additionally, pre-order of the Monster Hunter Stories 2 limited edition through the e-Capcom store will net consumers a special postcard. A total of three postcards will be available to obtain. Each postcard will feature various scenes from the upcoming game. However, the postcards will be randomly distributed through pre-orders.
Monster Hunter Stories 2 amiibos are currently available to purchase as well. However, these amiibo will only be released to select retailers in both the United States and Canada. These amiibo will provide in-game cosmetics in the form of layered armor. There are a total of three amiibo currently available to purchase. Japanese consumers can currently pre-order the Monster Hunter Stories 2 amiibo on the e-Capcom shop as well.
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin will arrive on the Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam on July 9, 2021.


text:
- Dancing Kim Jong-un video sparks North Korea fury
- Delta cancels all Israel flights over missile fear; US Airways also stops flight to Tel Aviv
- Philadelphia mosque leaders try to sever hand of accused thief
- NAACP: Detroit water shutoffs are racially motivated
- Obama family set to buy $4.25M desert home in California: report
- Big milestone for Britain’s little Prince George who turns 1
- Murphy: Israel must be wary of Hamas using civilian deaths for recruitment
- Royce: Putin recruiting ‘every skinhead and malcontent around Russia’
- Nancy Pelosi is adamant: Congress worked together when Bush was president
- ‘Slender Man’ stabbing victim receives Purple Heart from anonymous veteran
Main Street’s financial advisers confident in Romney, but not in victory
Question of the Day
The people who manage money, Main Street’s financial advisers, are overwhelmingly voting for Mitt Romney in this year’s election — but are far less certain he will win, according to an online poll by the Financial Services Institute.
The advisers are increasingly gloomy about the U.S. economy — just 16 percent say they expect it to recover this year — and are bracing for higher capital-gains taxes in the future, with a whopping 95 percent of them saying they think those tax rates are headed up.
Mr. Romney easily topped President Obama as the advisers’ choice for the White House, by 81 percent to 15 percent.
“There has to be a change,” said Kelly Campbell, president of Campbell Wealth Management in Alexandria. “I’m a registered Republican but I’m not saying I’m necessarily voting for a Republican, I’m voting for change.”
But the advisers were far less likely to believe Mr. Romney will actually win. Just 53 percent said the presumptive Republican nominee will unseat Mr. Obama, while 47 percent said the president will ride to re-election.
In contrast, 70 percent said they think the Senate, currently controlled by Democrats, will flip to Republicans in the election.
FSI emailed a questionnaire to its 35,000 members in a self-selecting, nonscientific poll, and 2,376 took the poll, which was open Aug. 8-10 — before last weekend’s announcement that Rep. Paul Ryan would be the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
“I think this focuses the election right there on the budget and the economy, which is really what our No. 1 priority is,” Mr. Harman stated, though he said he is not sure those messages trickle down to average voters. “I don’t know those issues sway the middle as much, I don’t know the middle sometimes understands that, but it puts focus where it should be.”
The financial advisers said in many ways their views reflect those of their clients, who are the kinds of successful business owners and professionals who pump money into the economy. Mr. Harman said part of that view is that more government stimulus — while popular among many economists — is not viewed as a long-term growth plan by much of Main Street.
Overall, the FSI poll showed the advisers are less confident that the U.S. economy will recover. In February, 38 percent said they expected a recovery this year, but that has slipped to just 16 percent.
The poll’s capital-gains finding was particularly striking.
Mr. Campbell said most financial advisers believe they’ve been living on borrowed time with the 15 percent tax rate on capital gains — which was part of the 2003 tax cuts President Bush signed.
The rate had been 28 percent in the 1990s, was cut to 20 percent in 1997, then reduced an additional 5 percentage points in the 2003 law.
“People believe that the 15 percent capital-gains tax was a gift, and it’s been something we’ve been very lucky to have,” Mr. Campbell said. “It kept getting extended, but it’s probably too low. That doesn’t mean it should go to 25 or 30 percent — there’s probably a happy medium.”
Mr. Harman said advisers may disagree with raising the rate, but that there’s a sense of inevitability that revenue needs to go up, and that lawmakers are more likely to hold the line on income-tax rates rather than capital-gains rates.
© Copyright 2014 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.
About the Author
Stephen Dinan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
- Lois Lerner emails reveal gaping open-records loophole
- Two-thirds of illegal immigrant children approved for asylum: report
- Top Justice official denies conspiring with IRS on tea party targeting
- Boehner: No bill on border surge
- Taking Obama to court a long shot but lawsuit not folly, Congress is told
Latest Blog Entries
TWT Video Picks
U.S. appetite for drugs begets violence migrants are fleeing
- IRS seeks help destroying another 3,200 computer hard drives
- Rep. Jared Polis' anti-fracking crusade riles Colorado
- Obamacare dealt massive setback by federal appeals court
- Jewish woman booted from JetBlue flight over fight with Palestinian
- LYONS: Small-arms treaty, big Second Amendment threat
- MERRY: Handicaps in Hillary's way
- PRUDEN: A deadly enemy within exacerbating immigration crisis
- YOUNG: A sinking presidency, deeper after November?
- Hamas terrorists wear Israeli army uniforms to ambush soldiers in Gaza
- Hillary Clinton dogged for refusing reporters' questions on book tour
Obama's biggest White House 'fails'
Celebrities turned politicians
Athletes turned actors
20 gadgets that changed the world
Fighting in Iraq


text:
The Current Relevancy of Keeping and Bearing Arms
15 University of Baltimore School of Law Forum 32 (1984)
by Robert Dowlut
The Framers of the United States Constitution considered the
right to keep and bear arms so important that the second
amendment to the Bill of Rights guarantees, ''A well regulated
Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the
right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
It is well known that gun control is a vehemently debated political issue. It is also well known that a guarantee in the Bill of Rights ''was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a long lapse of ages....''1 Following a brief look at the history of the second amendment, the current relevancy of this guarantee, as well as its application to the states, will be demonstrated.
Development of the Right
Recent commentary has revealed that the right to keep and bear arms was an important right at common law.2 Nevertheless, it should be noted that ''in England the authority of the Parliament runs without limits, and rises above control.... [T]here is no written constitution.... In America the case is widely different: Every State in the Union has its constitution reduced to written exactitude and precision.... [T]he Constitution is the sum of the political system, around which all Legislative, Executive and Judicial bodies must revolve.''3
The state conventions ratifying the United States Constitution were faced with deciding whether a Bill of Rights was necessary. The Antifederalists demanded a Bill of Rights and proposed 186 amendments.4 ''The Constitution was ratified in the belief, and only because of the belief, encouraged by its leading advocates, that, immediately upon the organization of the Government of the Union, articles of amendment would be submitted to the people, recognizing those essential rights of life, liberty, and property....''5
The Framers could not enumerate all the specific rights they enjoyed and wished to protect because the Constitution could not take on the prolixity of a civil code. Only its great outlines should be marked. The Bill of Rights is the condensed progeny of the ideas enunciated in the cumbersome 186 proposals. To carry out its spirit, liberal construction is required.6
To understand the scope and meaning of the right to keep and bear arms, it is necessary to review proposals on arms in the state conventions for they serve as the roots of the second amendment. A minority in the Pennsylvania convention proposed the following:
..........That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves
..........and their own State, or the United States, or for the purpose of killing
..........game; and no law shall be passed for disarming the people or any of them,
..........unless for crimes committed, or real danger of public injury from individuals;
..........and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they
..........ought not to be kept up; and that the military shall be kept under strict
..........subordination to and be governed by the civil power.7
The minority proposal in Massachusetts included a guarantee ''that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress... to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.''8 The New Hampshire majority proposed that ''Congress shall never disarm any citizen, unless such as are or have been in Actual Rebellion.'' Furthermore, New York's majority proposed ''That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well regulated militia, including the body of people capable of bearing arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state.'' Virginia, North Carolina and Rhode Island's proposals were similar to that of New York.9
The concise language of the second amendment satisfies all of the proposal's concerns on arms. The introductory clause, (''A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state''), contains prefatory language and without the people being able to keep and bear arms that prefatory language's goal would be unattainable. The commanding language of the main clause, (''the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed''), is broad enough to prevent the infringement of traditional uses of arms, including self-defense. The idea that the main clause was not meant to be restricted to a military purpose is supported by the Senate's defeat of an attempt to insert ''for the common defense'' at the end of the word ''arms'' in the second amendment.10
Recently a historian noted, ''But advocates of the control of firearms should not argue that the Second Amendment did not intend for Americans of the late eighteenth century to posess arms for their own personal defense, for the defense of their states and their nation, and for the purpose of keeping their rulers sensitive to the rights of the people.''11
The arms which may be kept for those purposes are such as are commonly kept by the people. Colonial militia statutes reveal that ''arms'' included firearms fired from the shoulder and pistols.12 When British General Gage ordered Bostonians to surrender their arms, the surrendered arms included 1,778 muskets and 634 pistols.13 However, weapons such as ''cannon or other heavy ordinance not kept by militiamen or private citizens'' and ''[m]odern weapons used exclusively by the military'' were outside the protected boundary because they were not ''commonly possessed by individuals."14
A. There is no social interest in preserving the lives and well-being of violent criminal aggressors at the cost of their victims. The only defensible posture that society can adopt is one that will guarantee the right to have and use arms commonly kept by the people to protect one's person, family, and home from violent, felonious aggression. Keeping arms in the home is the core element of the constitutional right to arms since history shows that the defense of home has been the most favored branch of self-defense from the earliest times.
Indeed, the practical aspects of this right should be kept in mind, for neither the government nor its law enforcement officers owe a duty to protect the individual citizen or prevent crime. This principle was stated thusly, ''there is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen."15
''Private citizens inevitably play an important role in controlling crime. By limiting their exposure to risk, investing in locks and guns,... private citizens affect the overall level of crime, and the distribution of the benefits and burdens of policing.'' We should not ''forget that private policing was the only form of policing for centuries....'' Those who think of private enforcement as evidence of ''dangerous vigilantes forget the value of private crime-control efforts, and the crucial difference between vigilantes and responsible citizens playing their traditional role in crime control.'' T'he legitimate role of private citizens is to ''limit their function to deterrence and, occasionally, apprehension; they neither judge guilt nor mete out punishment.''16
B. The militia is a relevant force even in the nuclear age. The avoidance of a protracted war of attrition in a people's homeland is a consideration of every military strategist. The lessons of Central America, Africa, and Afghanistan illustrate the limitations of push button warfare.
The militia has been defined as ''all citizens capable of bearing arms,'' and it is not restricted to the organized national guard.17 During World War 11, the Maryland National Guard was activated by the national government for overseas service. Maryland Governor Herbert R. O'Conor called on:
..........[E]very able-bodied man to assist in protecting his home and
..........his community against enemy activities. The militia will be organized
..........under our State Law, and the men who enlist at this time of our
..........grave emergency will be known as the 'Maryland Minute Men'....
..........[T]he United States Army cannot be expected to furnish sufficient
..........arms.... Hence, the volunteers, for the most part, will be expected to
..........furnish their own weapons. For this reason, gunners (of whom there
..........are 60,000 licensed in Maryland), members of Rod and Gun Clubs,
..........of Trap Shooting and similar organizations. will be expected to constitute
..........a part of this new military organization.18
No doubt, the fear of invasion was very real at a time when Nazi submarines were sinking American ships off the Atlantic.
C. The twin hallmarks of traditional liberal thought are trust in the people and doubt in the government. The late Senator Hubert Humphrey echoed this view when he stated, ''The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.'' It has been noted in the same vein that:
..........A general may have pipe dreams of a sudden and peaceful takeover
..........and a nation moving confidently forward, united under his direction.
..........But the realistic general will remember the actual fruits of civil war-
..........shattered cities like Hue, Beirut, and Belfast, devastated countrysides
..........like the Mekong Delta, Cypress, and southern Lebanon. Is that what
..........he wants for San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia; for the San
..........Joaquin Valley, Iowa, and Mississippi? However, some generals may
..........despise the country's current civilian leadership and policies, most will
..........be realisitic enough to recognize that the situation would be far worse
..........with the country wracked by the civil war that would inevitably follow
..........a military takeover. Even if a general is certain that he could eventually
..........win such a civil war, he must also evaluate its effect in leaving the country
..........vulnerable to foreign invasion.19
The Framers were cognizant of crime. This is revealed in the proposals on arms of Pennsylvania (''unless for crimes committed, or real danger of public injury from individuals''), Massachusetts (''who are peaceable citizens''), an New Hampshire (''unless such as are or have been in Actual Rebellion''). Hence, the mentally deficient, felons, and infants may be constitutionally excluded from the enjoyment of this right. While misconduct with arms is obviously not protected by the constitution, the lawful use of arms falls under the constitutional umbrella. Thus, this right guarantees the use of arms in a rude, angry, or threatening manner without fear of successful prosecution when a person's body or home is feloniously attacked. However, a person steps out from under the protection of the constitution when without lawful justification he or she becomes an armed aggressor.
Application to the States
The constitutions of 39 states guarantee a right to arms. The Framers of the fourteenth amendment intended that the second amendment apply to the states, for they specifically cited the right to keep arms in condemning efforts to disarm freedom. Even prior to the adoption of the fourteenth amendment, many believed that the second amendment also protected the people against state infringement. Thus, the Maryland convention of 1867 decided not to add to its Bill of Rights a guarantee that ''Every citizen has the right to bear arms in defense of himself and the State'' because the second amendment was deemed ''amply sufficient.''20
Gun prohibition, like the exclusion of all persons of Japanese ancestry from designated West Coast areas during World War II, the ''separate but equal'' doctrine, and efforts to avoid the exclusionary rule, is merely another effort to tailor the law to the perceived needs of the moment and thereby reduces a constitutional guarantee into an intangible abstraction.
West Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Neely wrote, ''Lawyers, certainly, who take seriously recent U.S. Supreme Court historical scholarship as applied to the Constitution also probably believe in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny.''21 While some courts even sidestep history, as does a two to one decision upholding a complete pistol ban with the puzzling comment that ''the debate surrounding the adoption of the second and fourteenth amendments...has no relevance on the resolution of the controversy before us,"22 other courts have been mindful of the intent of the Framers. Thus, in striking down an arms statute a court noted:
..........We are not unmindful that there is current controversy over
..........the wisdom of a right to bear arms, and that the original motivations
..........for such a provision might not seem compelling if debated as a new
..........issue. Our task, however, in construing a constitutional provision
..........is to respect the principles given the status of constitutional
..........guarantees and limitations by the drafters; it is not to abandon
..........these principles when this fits the needs of the moment.23
Finally, the right to keep and bear arms is not merely a second-class right. Its location in the Bill of Rights is evidence that the Framers felt it belonged in the catalog of indispensable freedoms. If this is too burdensome, article V of the Constitution contains the appropriate mechanism for change.
1 Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 14 U.S. (1 Wheat. ) 304. 326 (1816).
2 Malcolm, The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law Tradition, 10 Hastings Const. L. Q. (1983); Caplan. The Right of the Individual to Bear Arms: A Recent Judicial Trend, 1982 Det. C. L. Rev. 789.
3 Vanhorne's Lessee v. Dorrance, 2 U.S. (2 Dall. ) 304, 308 (1795).
4 The figure becomes 210 if New York's preliminary recitals are added. Discounting duplications, 80 substantive proposals emerged. E. Dumbauld, The Bill of Rights and What It Means Today 32 (1957).
5 O'Neil v. Vermont, 144 U.S. 323, 370 (1892) (Harlan, J., dissenting).
6 Boyd v. United States, 116 U.S. 616, 635 (1886); McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316, 407 (1819).
7 3 The Roots of the Bill of Rights 658-59, 665 (B. Swartz ed. 1980).
8 Id. at 675, 681.
9 l Debates on the Adoption of the Fed. Constitution 326 (J. Elliott ed. 1836) (N.H.); id. 327-28 (N.Y,), 335 (R.I.); 3 id. 659 (Va.); 4 id. 244 (N.C.).
10 5 The Roots of the Bill of Rights 1153-54 (B. Schwartz ed. 1980).
11 Shalhope, The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment, 69 J. Am. Hist. 599, 614 (1982).
12 Records of States of U.S. Composite microfilm reel of printed militia laws and regulations of the states, 1724- 1847. Library of Congress.
13 R. Frothingham, History of the Seige of Boston and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill. 95 (6th ed. 1903).
14 State v. Kessler, 289 Or. 359, 614 P.2d 94, 98-99 (1980). See also State v. Kerner, 181 N.C. 574, 107 S.E. 222 (1921).
15 Bowers v. DeVito, 686 F.2d 616, 618 (7th Cir. 1982). See also Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C, Cir. 1981) (en banc).
16 Moore & Kelling, "To Serve and Protect'': Learning From Police History, 70 The Public Interest 49, 59 (1983).
17 Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252, 265 (1886), See also State ex rel. McGaughtey v. Grayston. 349 Mo. 700, l63 S.W. 2d 335 (l942) (en banc); People ex rel. Leo v. Hill, l26 N.Y. 497, 27 N.E. 789 (1891); 10 U.S.C. §311 (1971); Md. Ann. Code, art. 65 §§1, 5 (1979).
18 3 State Papers & Addresses of Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor, at 616-620 (1942). See also U.S. Home Defense Forces Study 58 (Office of the Sec. of Defense, Mar. 1981). On file with the Law Forum is a discharge certificate from the Md. Minute Men and an affidavit stating that personally owned arms were rifles, shotguns, pistols and hunting knives.
19 Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out 184-85 (D. Kates, Jr. ed. 1979).
20 Dowlut & Knoop, State Constitutions and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 7 Okla. City U.L. Rev. 177 (1982); Halbrook, The Jurisprudence of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, 4 Geo. Mason L. Rev. l (1981 ); Kates, Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment, 82 Mich. L. Rev. 204 (1983); Debates of the Md. Convention of 1867, at p. 151.
21 R Neely, How Courts Govern America l8 (1981 ).
22 Quilici v. Morton Grove, 695 F.2d 261 , 270 n. 8 (7th Cir. 1982).
23 State v. Kessler, 289 Or. 359, _____, 61 4 P.2d 94, 95 (1980).
Dowlut & Beard, Attorneys

domain: politics


text:
NAIROBI, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Kenya has received 3,000 international cruise ship tourists in the past two months, a government official said on Thursday.
John Ololtuaa, Principal Secretary at the State Department of Tourism, said that Kenya is benefiting from infrastructural development at the newly revamped cruise terminal at the port of Mombasa which has helped the destination tap into the cruise tourism segment.
"Two more cruise ships are expected to call on the port before the end of this quarter," Ololtuaa said in a statement after receiving 800 visitors and crew aboard the MV World Odyssey cruise ship at Kenya's port of Mombasa.
Ololtuaa noted that the development of the terminal was significant with more cruise planners now targeting Kenya within their itineraries.
He also noted that the return of the MV World Odyssey cruise ship was a testament to the appeal Kenya has among international travelers.
"This is a clear indicator of the growing interest by cruise companies in our destination and in particular the coastal region which forms a key component of Kenya's multi-dimensional tourism product," he added.
Ololtuaa revealed that Kenya will capitalize on the niche cruise tourism market as part of the country's diversified tourism marketing strategy.
He noted that cruise tourists form a crucial part of the tourism industry owing to their high spending thereby generating additional crucial revenue for the destination, adding that cruise tourism is a high-value market worth billions of dollars, especially for destinations that have invested heavily in the relevant infrastructure as well as marketing their destinations globally.
John Chirchir, acting chief executive officer of Kenya Tourism Board, said that the return of MV World Odyssey to Kenya shows that the destination has tourism opportunities that suit every visitor who arrives in the country.
"With the enhanced experiences at the Kenyan Coast and other parts of the destination, we take pride in being able to accommodate global visitors of diverse interests and tastes," Chirchir noted. ■


text: 1. The hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) contains neuroendocrine neurons that regulate endocrine secretions by releasing substances which control anterior pituitary hormonal release into the portal blood stream. Many neuroactive substances have been identified in the ARC, but the existence of excitatory neurons in the ARC and the identity of an excitatory transmitter have not been investigated physiologically. 2. In the present experiments using whole-cell current- and voltage-clamp recording of neurons from cultures and slices of the ARC, we demonstrate for the first time that some of the neurons in the ARC secrete glutamate as their transmitter. 3. Using microdrop stimulation of presynaptic neurons in ARC slices, we found that local axons from these glutamatergic neurons make local synaptic contact with other neurons in the ARC and that all evoked excitatory postsynaptic potentials could be blocked by the selective ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX; 10 microM) and D,L-2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (AP5; 100 microM). To determine the identity of ARC neurons postsynaptic to local glutamatergic neurons, we used antidromic stimulation to reveal that many of these cells were neuroendocrine neurons by virtue of their maintaining axon terminals in the median eminence. 4. In ARC cultures, postsynaptic potentials, both excitatory and inhibitory, were virtually eliminated by the glutamate receptor antagonists AP5 and CNQX, underlining the functional importance of glutamate within this part of the neuroendocrine brain. 5. GABA was secreted by a subset of ARC neurons from local axons. The GABAA receptor antagonist bicuculline released glutamatergic neurons from chronic inhibition mediated by synaptically released GABA, resulting in further depolarization and an increase in the amplitude and frequency of glutamate-mediated excitatory postsynaptic potentials.


text:
A Business Center designed for your professional needs. Affordable workspace solutions, business center, working space, virtual office, office for rent for 1 to 8 people, and meeting rooms with a full range of services.
A solution for every business need
For entrepreneurs who seek to project a credible professional presence without the need of a physical one, and saving the costs of having an actual office space.
Locate your business in a place with fully equipped spaces, 24/7 access and services, corporate environment and all the networking benefits.
Enjoy all the benefits of networking, and choose where you want to work in our common areas designed to work alone or with your team.


The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning at 2:10 p.m. Oct. 21 for a stretch of interstate along I-40 just east of Two Guns. A tornado was seen by those in the area traveling the I-40 corridor. The warning was lifted around 2:30 p.m.
A tornado was seen traveling the I-40 corridor Oct. 21. (Photo/Saraphina To'ahani Adson)
Saraphina To’ahani Adson was traveling on Interstate 40 Oct. 21 and was able to catch the beginning of a formation of a tornado northwest of Winslow. The tornado was confirmed by the National Weather Service just after 2 p.m.. There were no reports of damage. (Photo/Saraphina To’ahani Adson)


Expect a sea change in HMRC’s approach to tax debt as the economy emerges from the pandemic.
Protecting livelihoods. Keeping people in work. Helping businesses with temporary cash flow issues to survive. These have been HMRC’s guiding principles on tax debt ever since Covid-19 began. That starts to change this autumn.
What happens next?
As government support schemes wind down, so HMRC begins to return to something nearer its normal debt collection procedure. Though it’s still committed to what it calls an ‘understanding and supportive approach’, the word ‘but’ forms part of the updated messaging. It comes here: ‘But where businesses have little chance of recovery, we do have a responsibility to act’. The emphasis is on supporting ‘viable businesses where we can’.
HMRC contact if there’s tax outstanding
HMRC urges any business or individual worried about paying tax to phone its dedicated Payment Support Service as soon as possible. Where taxpayers don’t take the initiative, HMRC will itself make contact and the importance of responding can’t be overstated. Initial HMRC triage for tax debt is to establish if taxpayers can’t, or simply won’t pay, and cooperation here is vital. Failure to engage may mean enforcement procedures are escalated to the next level.
HMRC messaging: ‘If you can pay your taxes then you should do so – but if you’re struggling, we want to work with you to agree a plan based on your financial position.’
HMRC support includes Time to Pay repayment plans for tax. These are arranged to fit individual circumstances, with the aim of paying as quickly and affordably as possible. But HMRC will also consider short-term deferrals where nothing is paid for a short set period.
If a business has used a government loan support package, like the Bounce Back Loan Scheme, HMRC expects it to use the flexibility this provides to the full. This could mean, for example, including extending repayment terms, to maximise the chance of keeping tax payments up to date. It also advises that the existence of such a loan doesn’t preclude HMRC debt collection activity: even, as a last resort, pursuing for insolvency.
If taxpayers fail to respond, or refuse to pay, HMRC may want to visit either the home or business premises. But the aim at this stage is still to agree a payment or payment plan without further action.
From September 2021, HMRC may start the process of collecting tax debt using its enforcement powers, where someone is unwilling to discuss a payment plan or ignores its attempts to make contact.
Whilst the emphasis is still on a ‘cautious approach’ to debt enforcement action, HMRC powers are extensive, and it is obviously wise to take appropriate action before this stage is reached. Where a company is considering a Company Voluntary Arrangement, early engagement with HMRC is particularly important.
If you have any concerns about the payment of tax, please talk to us for further advice.


Metal Garage Door Installation in Your Area
Various parts and components completes a garage door system. They all plays a task for the whole garage door operation. Property break-in and burglary prevention can be accomplished as soon as you get a strong garage door set up. Seeking an expert? Our company can assist you out! If it has stopped carrying out its work, it may lead to great hassle to you as being the home or business owner. Rollers are one of the parts that operate whenever the garage door opens and closes. To have them work properly, it is needed to have them lubricated on a regular basis. In the event should you be requiring a service provider company to fix your broken garage door or perhaps provide assistance in repairing your door back to its working condition, finding the right assistance from the right people is the next smart move you should be looking forward to. We are a company available to provide garage door services 24/7 in 365 days even during the night, weekends and holidays. Our garage door replacement doors include:
- New Residential Garage Doors
- Commercial and Industrial Doors
- Overhead Doors
- Section and Panel Doors
- Tilt-Up Doors
- Metal and Steel Doors
- Decorative Doors
- Wooden Doors
- Fiberglass Doors
- Broken Rollers
- Roller Replacement
- Broken Springs
- Spring Replacement
What to expect from our company?
- Available during weekends and holidays
- Free quotation and recommendation
- Same Day Service Delivery
- Job done right the first visit
- Arrives on your site on-time
- Insured and licensed garage door techs
- Live customer service agents
- Budget Friendly Services
We know the increasing demand for security and safety in both the public and private sectors. It is why we are always available. We only employ garage door technicians who are skilled, insured and bonded. Our main goal is to ensure that your garage door issues will be given high quality solutions right away at very competitive rates. Whatever issues you are dealing with garage door whether it's a broken parts or you simply in need of replacement, our company is your safe harbor for the right solutions. With our upgraded tools, we will be checking on what needs to be fix around your house or office.
We are focused on doing only the best as we want to satisfy our customers.
We are available for appointments on the weekends for customer convenience. We also offer same day service in most cases, depending on the needs of the customer.
With us, you can no longer think about keeping your garage door on its tip top shape because we can do it for you. No job too small or too big for us, we will always respond to you. There is definitely no big or small problem to us. No matter how easy or complicated the job is, we're going to finish it in a timely manner. Take action immediately! Today is definitely the proper time for you to solve your issue.
What are you waiting for? Drop us a call today! Give yourself a break from your current trouble. Take advantage of our free of charge estimates. Our customer service agents are ready to answer all your inquiries anytime. You could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Regardless of the emergency, we want to make sure that we can help you and provide you with long lasting solutions.


text:
Black Cabinet Knobs The Strathcona area of Vancouver, British Columbia, began as a carpenters' community, says clothier Tanya Mclean, proprietor and inventive director of Mango Design Co. Row properties and cottages for millworkers, as well as a few stores and a school, sprang up around Hastings Mill within the overdue 1800s & early 1900s. The Strathcona couple who got here to Mclean for help in reworking their 3-tale 1902 house wanted to honor its architectural historical past even as melding it with their number of midcentury up to date furnishings, and to make it a livable space for their small family. A century-antique house in Canada gets new existence with a black-&-white colour scheme & midcentury furniture.
September 7, 2017
This entry was posted in Ideas and tagged Black, Midcentury Style, Tours, Victorian Design by Lawry Gumb. Bookmark the Black Cabinet Knobs Homss excursion: black cupboards, trim and doorways wow on this victorian.


text:
A Broken Heart Song Free Download >>> DOWNLOAD (Mirror #1)
Original Title: A Broken Heart
After a joint box opening with nemesis Anna and fighting her for a piece found in a church in Spain, Sydney must go on another mission in Morrocco to spy on an industrialist. However, a mingle with a bodyguard who injured her in the past aborts the mission, but she faces two heartbreaks: her colleague is killed by the said bodyguard, and back home her father cancels a dinner date with her. However, Michael finds a clue about Sydney's former fiancé and Francie discovers Charlie cheating on her...
Sydney and Dixon are sent on a dangerous case involving the safety of the United Commerce Organization. Francie gets suspicious about Charlie and spies on him. Meanwhile, Will continues to investigate the truth about Danny's murder.
After opening the mysterious box in Berlin, Sydney and Anna find a self-destructing code. They both memorize it, and when Sydney goes to where the code leads, Anna is waiting for her. Syd comes out on top (no pun intended), and gets a new mission: to go to Morocco and stop a terrorist's plans. Much like the previous episode, this one begins excitingly (it's a treat to see Sydney and Anna fighting each other, plus Gina Torres is utterly gorgeous), but then it almost stops to a halt with subplots dealing with Sydney's friends, before resuming the action near the end. I can see why those scenes are included - to give us a feeling of Sydney's "normal" life and add more humanity to her and other characters - but maybe they could be placed at the start of the episode, so that it will build to the best parts, instead of giving you the best parts first. *** out of 4.
Quieter than episodes surrounding it, A Broken Heart focuses deeper on the characters, with extra attention given to the ones not involved in SD-6 espionage. It's humanity that this episode is filled with, and I kinda liked it. In my previous review, I wrote how show should balance less between Sydney's two lives and they did it here. We got to see Syd's softer side and her interaction with her friends and it was funny. God knows that if it wasn't, Sydney would have drown in her sea of confusion.
But, in the between of heartwarming scenes, we get to see why we came in the first place. Over the time, Alias' missions become shorter and more dangerous. In the first scene there are Sydney and Anna trying to remember really long code (and this is where smartphones could find "themselves" useful) and then that code leads them to Spain where she encounters Anna once again.When she gets home, she stays there for five minutes and she is already sent to another mission that will turn into another one that will end episode with a cliffhanger. Confusing, right? Try to imagine how she felt during those, I don't know, two days?
Even though episode sounds like a complete mess with scenes just thrown together, they actually did a very good job. Something that Alias never made a mistake with is how to tell a story. Everybody in the show is beautiful but the lightning adds one more + to the grade. And that market shop in Morocco is stunning (you know, show kinda tend to advertise a lot of world locations) .
For the new fans, "A broken Heart" is probably gonna be better the second time around, you know, once you get to know the story better. All things aside, I was entertained throughout the duration of the episode so ten stars from me.
Dust full movie download in hindi hd
Cruisin full movie in hindi download
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrath of the Darkhul King full movie down...
Chez Amy movie free download hd
Beware the Gray Ghost full movie hd 1080p download
the Kansas City 24 full movie download in hindi
Sonic and the Secret Rings full movie in hindi free download
Brace Faced Vampire full movie in hindi 720p
Episode 1.23 720p movies
Episode 20.14 full movie hd 1080p download

domain: entertainment


Can’t get bored of the latest Bernie meme trend, this new Bernie meme-generator lets you take Bernie around the world.
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have come across the latest Bernie Sanders meme saga. And now, thanks to this new meme generator built by Nick Sawhney, you can take Bernie anywhere around the world with Google Street View.
The Internet has fallen in love with Bernie Sanders sitting on a foldable chair (that he probably brought himself) with his legs crossed, wearing oversized mittens made out of recycled materials together with a warm winter jacket. From that picture taken during the Presidential Inauguration on January 20, the memes started to flood the Internet. They literally are everywhere.
Bernie is a real good sport, of course. His team even created a sweatshirt with the meme that sold for $45 and gave all the proceeds to Meals on Wheels Vermont, a charitable organization that offers healthy, nutritious and tasty meals to eligible seniors disabled adults.
Now, Nick Sawhney, a NYU masters student, is taking the meme even further (literally.) His online Bernie meme generator allows you to place Bernie Sanders, his folding chair and oversized mittens, anywhere in the world with the help of Google Street View.
Naturally, the meme generator went viral in a matter of hours: “I was freaking out because I was like, oh my god I’m going viral,” nick sawhney told wired. “and then I was freaking out because I had to stop the site from crashing.” the site did crash, but the creator was able to get in touch with heroku — a cloud platform that lets companies build, deliver, monitor and scale apps — which was able to have it up again and running a couple of hours later.
The site has now been archived because Sawhney could not cope with the costs of running the API, after nearly 10 million Bernie memes were created using his tool.
“Thank you everyone who used this tool, it was a wild ride! I’m in awe that so many people enjoyed seeing Bernie Sanders go places. A total of 9,849,938 Bernie memes were created. Due to API costs, I cannot keep the site going, but it was a blast to maintain while it lasted! Check back later for more as I figure out what to do with this.”
Go forth and put bernie on things!
You might also like
More from Social Fun
Veriforever is a web app that lets you create a personalized plaque to commemorate your Twitter verification. Before Elon takes …
It's hard to realize how deep the oceans are until you compare their depth with famous landmarks like The Eiffel …
The “Key Bou” is an insane 5-foot straight bar keyboard designed by Google to promote its virtual GBoard, available on …
Fisher-Price is bringing back its beloved Chatter Telephone and enabling it to make and receive real calls with Bluetooth.
Balenciaga celebrated the return to fashion events with an entertaining cartoon representation and a live show that disrupts the norm.
If you are looking for a fun, easy-going, and funny costume for Halloween, why not become a true Among Us …


text:
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?" My favorite part.
Wow, I think this might be the longest movie yet on this website! It was of course much surpassed by "Demented Cartoon Movie!". Oh, another stick cartoon. I really do love this cartoon. I especially like the part with the bus. I thought that was part of his plan at first.
You had really funny voices in this. I'm surprised that something with this high a rating doesn't have a Daily Feature. You really see 2000 submissions that high. I felt like you deserved it. The animation is good for its time.
this movie is intense
Brings back memories :)