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It recently came to my attention that there was a gap in the language we had to talk about our experiences in the autistic community. We have nonverbal and semiverbal to discuss our ability to speak with our mouth parts, but not our use of language itself.
So I created a few possible options, and sent out a poll, so that we could coin a new pair of terms to allow us to discuss our experiences. An overwhelming majority (73.3%) of responses liked nonlexic and semilexic. So, to help us discuss our experiences, I give to you:
Lexic: Root Origin - Greek; Definition- of or related to words, speech, and language.
Nonlexic - The total loss of ability to comprehend, process, and produce language.
Semilexic - The partial loss of ability to comprehend, process, and produce language.
i want to thank everyone who supports me and my writing from the bottom of my heart. thank you to those who stuck with me through my blog switch and to those who only found my on this blog. thank you to anyone that ever left a comment, a like, or a reblog. it all means so, so much to me. writing is by no means easy and it’s extremely time consuming, but i feel that it’s worth it because even if there isn’t much feedback, even just a reblog tells me that someone enjoyed it, that it made their day better, that it touched them in someway. that’s the biggest reward: knowing my writing is something others enjoy.
you all know i’m just as much a reader as i am a writer. writing is this thing that can be fun and therapeutic, but it can also be emotionally draining. i know what it’s like to spend days, weeks, months on a fic and pour your soul into it. i know what it’s like to stare at a 10k word document at 2am with burning eyes from staring at the bright screen for so long, wondering if it’s worth posting or not. i’ve experienced the good and bad parts of writing and it’s because of that that i feel it’s so important to show our appreciation to writers who’s works we appreciate. below are a list of my favourite fanfics and writers. please show them all the love! they definitely deserve it!
I'm going to start with this: I love your blog. Now I've been obsessed with it since I've found it, and I can't stop loving your content. You are a great and amazing person and I know you deserve the world. Keep doing your work and stay the way you are because I love it. You are such a great person and I'll just leave this here for now. Have a great night or day, whatever time it is. Love you and your work, you deserve the world, and goodbye for now. - Your Number One Fan
He’s never quite seen a floor covered with blood. Not completely. Not like this but at first glance, there’s a simple beauty to it. One that he can’t really explain other than the way that it seems to contrast with the white linoleum. It didn’t immediately register to him that what he was looking at was in fact blood. In all honesty, it might have been the color of the blood that had him in this sort of trance. It was so dark, so rich that it almost didn’t look like blood.
On tv, in the movies, the blood that spews across the screen is bright red, cherry red, the kind of red that one would find on the label of a coca-cola can but this… this wasn’t that.
It was the substance that raced in his veins, keeping him alive and it was all over the floor.
Slowly, a stiffness started to build up his spine as he started to realize that this simple beauty that was oozing along that floor was actually someone’s life essence.
He followed the blood from where it was nearly touching the toe of his scuffed up sneakers all the way up to the body that was laying in the pool of blood. Dean’s body that was laying in the pool of blood.
It took him even longer to realize that it was in fact Dean’s blood that he was looking at and even then, he refused to believe it. Like what he was seeing and his brain weren’t in agreeance with each other. He didn’t know what to do, what to actually believe. Should he believe what he was seeing with those deceiving eyes or should he still believe that naive ignorance that something like this could never happen to his brother. It just couldn’t.
Dean, he was invincible with that leather jacket that draped his shoulders and that smile that he carried everywhere. And sure, his mouth might get him in trouble but it also got him out of trouble.
Except it was undeniable the moment that Dean opened his eyes and they immediately focused on Sam.
It was like a knife to the heart at the sudden realization that this was his brother bleeding to death.
But then Dean smiled like Sam hung the moon for him and the knife that was already so deep in Sam’s heart was dug even deeper. So deep that it would never scar over, just fester and ooze, constantly reminding Sam of this, of how slow he was, how inexperienced he was, how he wasn’t ready to hunt on his own with Dean.
Sam had begged Dad, begged him to go on a hunt alone with Dean. He was ready, he claimed. He could handle not having Dad over his shoulder, babying him every step of the way like he was incompetent. Even Dean vouched for him, desperate to get Sam alone. He said that Sam was ready. He could run a mile in just about six minutes. He could hit the middle of a bullseye with a blindfold on. He moved without making a sound and he could disarm Dean quicker than Dean could pull a gun on him.
It was supposed to be an easy hunt. Supposed to be but Sam was quickly finding out that there were no guarantees in hunting.
Just hours ago he was sitting in the Impala next to Dean complaining about the fact that Dad picked them the easiest, boring-est hunt that he could possibly send them on and now Dean, he was…
Sam swallowed thickly, everything snapping into focus all at once and his legs that were locked in place finally started to move.
He dropped down next to Dean, ignoring the way that blood was seeping into his jeans, staining his knees as he ripped off his jacket, pressing it down on Dean’s stomach where he was still bleeding profusely. Dean grunted, just barely but he was still smiling at Sam, teeth coated in blood.
“Sammy…” He muttered, voice slow and thick, delirious almost.
Sam blinked past the tears that were forming in his eyes and tore his gaze away from where he was trying to stop the bleeding and looked up at Dean. There were blood flakes that lined his cheeks like the freckles that were underneath.
“Shh.” Sam hushed. “Don’t talk. Save your strength, Dean. Just save it.”
Dean made a sound in the back of his throat as he raised his hand from the ground and grabbed ahold of Sam’s sleeve.
“Sammy…” He repeated, still delirious but urgent. “Just… stop.” He coughed, hard and wet and hacking as he spit out blood. “It’s okay… I’m gonna be… fine.”
“No… No, you’re not.” Sam said shaking his head like a child. “You’re not. You’re bleeding and it’s because of me. Maybe Dad was right. Maybe it wasn’t time yet. Maybe I wasn’t ready. I should have stayed behind…” He was rambling now, going on and on all in an effort to keep the tears from falling. “I’m sorry, Dean. I’m so so sorry.”
With a shaky grip, Dean fisted his hand in the front of Sam’s shirt and yanked him down. Sam went willingly because what else was he supposed to do? He was supposed to follow Dean’s lead. That was his one rule and maybe if he did that sooner, he wouldn’t be in this mess.
Dean then tangled his fingers in Sam’s hair and pulled his head down to the point that their lips were touching.
Dean kissed him soft but desperate, the kind of kiss that was so bitter sweet and painful that Sam felt that he needed to pull away before he got cut but couldn’t manage himself to do so. It was the kind of kiss that would be seared in his memory as his last kiss.
Sam tasted blood in his mouth and it was Dean’s blood and he drank it down, wishing that it was his own blood instead.
Once my girlfriend had a friend over and I mentioned Undertale and they were asking about it so I told them to go on google to get a playthrough but my girlfriend is dyslexic and spelled it "Undertail" which apparently is a porn parody of Undertale and I had to frantically explain that Undertale is not porn.
Swaffelen (or zwaffelen) is a dutch term meaning to hit several topics in a few lines.If you might be dyslexic i hate myself so sincerely
So we know seb is a space nerd.... how much effort do you think he put into seeing the eclipse??? Like did he just get the glasses and watch in between takes or did he like throw a party
idk, is he filming rn or is he in NYC, he wasn’t with Don and co yesterday for it, idk he probably just like, got the glasses, watched the thing and was like “yo this is sick” and then carried on with his day idk


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Wide receiver Donald Driver is ready to step into the Green Bay Packers' rotation of receivers is Greg Jennings is unable to play in Thursday night's game against the Chicago Bears, according to ESPN Chicago.
Jennings is listed as doubtful for the game with a groin injury, but he is still hoping to play. If he doesn't, Driver would be eager to get on the field, as he seemed a bit disheartened with the lack of playing time he received in the Packers' Week 1 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
"I didn't go into that game thinking I wasn't going to play," Driver said, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette. "The way it came out, I didn't. It sucks, but that's the way it goes."
Driver saw the field for only three plays in the opener, and didn't accumulate any stats. However, he was a factor for Green Bay a year ago, catching 37 passes for 445 yards and six touchdowns.
For more on the Packers, be sure to visit Acme Packing Company. Additional coverage on the Bears can be found at Windy City Gridiron, while SB Nation's NFL hub is the place to go for all of your pro football needs.

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Typical performances（Co+Wc melt-cover）
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Wear resistance: about ten times hardness of hard chromium layer
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Surprise, surprise.. I did my nails again! Took a break from the super-fun leopard print design I had on before this and settled for some glitter gradient and neatly dotted dots.
Used OPI's Don't Touch My Tutu as base
OPI's Fly by Nicky Minaj for the dots
OPI's Save Me by Nicki Minaj for the glitter gradient
And I finished off with OPI's Topcoat
This time I had on 5-6 coats of Don't Touch My Tutu so that I'd have a full, solid coverage (unlike the leopard design where it really isn't noticeable if the base is a little see-through) and allowed the dots to accentuate the 'cleanliness' of this mani. Don't worry, I use light coats so it really doesn't feel thick at all.
AND YES DEAR READERS, I HAVE FINALLY STARTED USING THE NICKI MINAJ OPI COLLECTION. I was planning to give it away because it was just too neon but not anymore! I love how the colors turn out on a white base :) plus my hands are just getting steadier at using the dotting tools *proud*. My mom said the glitter gradients are really lovely :) I am super happy about my current mani!

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US Vogue Magazine
I am not a huge Kristen Stewart fan, but I must admit that she looks lovely on the February 2011 cover of Vogue. The lighter hair and refined style suit her well and is a welcomed departure from the tragically pale and sombre Bella we are used to seeing. Kristen wears outfits by New York label, Proenza Schouler throughout the photo shoot. Their Spring 2011 Collection displays a sophisticated surfer girl look with guipure lace in neon colours, sequined hologram dresses, tweed and ruffle detailing.

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In 1743, thirteen-year-old Marguerite Ledoux travels to Maine as the indentured servant of a family that regards her as little better than the Indians that threaten them, but her strength, quick thinking and courage surprise them all.
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When it comes to the aspect ratio of your photos, often times we get stuck with the standard 4:3. The reason is because that’s the dimension of our sensor and that’s the photography world’s standard. Right! We don’t intend to change that. And I’m a fan of tradition. I’m in favor of the 4:3 format as well. It’s just more simple and we see more in a picture this way.
So why the aspect ratio 16:9?
It’s the international movie standard these days. The advantage of that is you see the picture broader or at least it’s visually telling you to see to through one end to another. It fools your brain that you’re seeing more. Now all the computer/tv screens are in 16:9 and not to mention the smartphones as well..you just want to view it this way now. It reminiscent of the movie scenes. So anything you view it with 16:9, it reminds you of a so and so movie.
What type of pictures can convert/crop into 16:9?
I think photos of streets are best to be shown in 16:9. Many details won’t be lost while some landscapes you’d lose many foreground and such. Portraits/street photos, you really want to maintain a good amount of the people’s body. So yea, after observing many online amateur photographers’ work, i believe photos of city street and even rural country side are best presented in 16:9. Of course it’s also a matter of personal preference and up to your composition style.
I’ve got an accumulated input of photos and i’m going to illustrate two of the most obvious ones. They looked very ordinary in 4:3.
The bottom part of the road is gone. In 16:9, it’s more clean and you eyes would concentrate on what’s going on over that side of the street. It saves your viewer’s time moving the attention across the street
The best way to describe photos of city streets in 16:9 is to save your viewer’s time to think about where to look from. And the advantage of shooting streets straight across or directly from the side is that we get to see the whole section of street clearly. It’s almost like a panaroma.
I like shooting streets when i see interesting elements in it. They were all taken with Ricoh GRD IV. The trusty wide angle helped so much to present these photos in 16:9. These are merely a few from my collection. I’m no pro, not sure how to make it into a nice album on my blog. Please enjoy and comment.
Our streets are spreading from both sides, I’m in favor of 16:9!!! And anything other than streets, keep them in 4:3. They won’t go out of fashion.


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Ever since Matt Baker stepped down earlier this year, Alex Jones has been the only permanent host of The One Show. The Welsh presenter is joined by a host of famous faces and BBC favourites each evening but was notably missing from tonight’s show as Michelle Ackerley stepped in to fill her presenting spot.
On Monday, Alex announced she would be joined by Michael Ball for this week’s shows.
Over the last few months, the musical theatre star has presented the programme alongside Alex on several occasions and has become a firm One Show favourite.
However, on Tuesday, Michael revealed he would be presenting the show without Alex on Wednesday.
He said: “Alex is having the night off tomorrow so I’ll be here with Michelle Ackerley and we’ll be talking to Phillip Schofield.”
More to follow…
Read more: Alex Jones speaks out on family mishap ‘Almost drowned in a bath’
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Being a Black man in America is hard enough. But it’s an even bigger journey to be a Black man developing self-love that actively rejects hyper-masculinity.
This is what actress Andrea Lewis uncovers as she interviews several Black men (and young boys), including many Hollywood stars, for her latest documentary short, Black Men.
Best known as Hazel on Degrassi: The Next Generation and for her web series Black Actress, Lewis has taken on the topic of self-love in the Black community before with her three-part documentary series on Black women and self-love. This time around, she’s investigating how hyper-masculinity, societal oppression and stereotypes influence how Black men relate to each other and to themselves.
“A lot of my work focuses on the theme of self-love and finding inner strength,” she said to Shadow And Act. “But in doing that series [on self-love and Black women], I realized that this was a conversation I had never had with any of the Black men in my life and to be honest I felt ignorant to knowing the ways that Black Men gained and developed confidence. I made this project because I was genuinely curious to hear their stories and I wanted to show real love to all of the fascinating and brilliant black men in my life.”
Interview subjects include actors Shamier Anderson, Allen Maldonado, ex-NFL player Sinorice Moss, Sexy TV‘s Dennis Dortch and many more. The interviews are backed up with evidence from scenes from popular TV shows and films, like Friends, The Wayans Bros., Training Day, and Moonlight among others.
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Astonishingly, 2015 will see Suzuki’s tiny hero march into its 17th year on the global market - and it will bring a few tweaks with it.
For the new model year, Suzuki Australia’s Jimny Sierra picks up new 15-inch alloy wheels and - more importantly - electronic stability control.
The update means the Jimny can again be brought into Australia, after strict ESC laws introduced late last year saw Suzuki's local arm offering only what it could ship in for compliance before the deadline kicked in.
Other tweaks for 2015 include a new steering wheel design, a new instrument cluster, and new seat trim.
For the new model year, Suzuki Australia is highlighting the Jimny’s virtues not only off the beaten path, but also as a ‘city car’.
“The Jimny Sierra has always been an off-road icon - and now its retro styling and great value sees Sierra appealing to more younger buyers as a small hatch alternative,” Suzuki Australi GM Andrew Moore says.
As before, the Jimny Sierra is powered by a 1.3 litre VVT petrol engine producing 62.5kW and 110Nm of torque, matched to a choice of five-speed manual or four-speed auto transmissions.
Depending on the occasion, the capable little Jimny offers RWD, 4WD (high) or 4WD+L drive-modes, with a ladder frame chassis and a proper dual-range transfer case extending the little 4x4’s talents.
Other features include dual front airbags, power windows and mirrors, air-conditioning, remote locking and - while archaic by modern standards - an AM/FM and CD sound system.
Suzuki will be looking to these updates to give the Jimny a sales boost in the new model year, with current figures well below the results for 2013.
"We've actually been without manual models for some time, and those make up around 50 percent of Jimny sales" Mr Moore told TMR today.
That's caused a real hit to the range, with year-to-date data showing just 264 Jimny Sierra sales, compared to 646 for the same period in 2013.
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No, you’re not the only one: a bunch of Android users are complaining they’re unable to load Google Search results in full on their phones.
Numerous reports claim Search result pages aren’t completely rendering, randomly leaving a “white wall” at the bottom. The issue has persisted for at least “the past few days,” according to users on Twitter. Indeed, one user on Google’s support forums claims having experienced the issue as early as July 20.
It appears the bug affects a wide range of devices, with users reporting having trouble rendering Search results on Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and S10 lineups, and even Google’s own Pixel series.
Here are a couple of screenshots from the rendering flaw:
Although it seems the issue mostly affects the Google app, some reports suggest the issue also occurs in Chrome for mobile.
The Big G has confirmed the glitch on Twitter, claiming its team is looking into it. Unfortunately, the company didn’t specify how widespread the issue is or when it expects to straighten the kink.
We're aware that for some people, our search results page might not be fully rendering. We're actively working to resolve this bug.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) July 24, 2019
Despite this confirmation, Google’s status page indicates all its services are running smoothly. DownDetector also shows there are no signs of trouble over at Mountain View, so chances are the bug is only affecting a small fraction of people (but still big enough for its Twitter reps to address it).
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PALM COAST, Fla., August 24, 2017 Florida Hospital Flagler has appointed three new community leaders to the Foundations board of directors: Steve Davis, Richard Haas and Sid Nowell.
Davis is a retired healthcare architect and moved to Flagler County in October 2004. During his 35-year career, he specialized in designing hospitals and medical facilities. Working with the Cleveland Clinic, Davis developed the concept of Healing Hospitality. Locally, Davis used this concept to assist Florida Hospital Flagler with making specific changes to common areas and patient care areas throughout the hospital, improving the atmosphere and environment and enhancing the experience and comfort for patients and their families.
As a recent patient, I experienced firsthand the importance of our hospital to the community, Davis said. I am delighted to be serving on the Foundation Board.
Haas has been a Palm Coast resident for more than 15 years and is a retired business executive specializing in advertising and sales.
Haas and his family have personally experienced the quality medical care available at Florida Hospital Flagler. It was this experience that fueled his passion to help facilitate the growth of the hospital and foundation.
I want to do more and donate my time and efforts to help the hospital grow, Haas said. Being a part of the Florida Hospital Flagler Foundation board will allow me to do exactly that.
Nowell has been a Flagler County resident since August 1995. He recently retired after spending 42 years in the legal profession serving governmental, municipal, corporate and individual clients. He previously served on the Florida Hospital Flagler Foundation board from 2009 to 2011.
I am excited to return to the Foundation Board and support the continued growth and reach of Florida Hospital Flagler, Nowell said.
Davis, Haas and Nowell join the team of 17 current board members, bringing the total number of members to 21. The current board members include: Judy Cash, Rema Cole, Peter Freytag, Laura Gilvary, Marilyn Gingles, Charlie Helm, Dr. Ron Jimenez, Skip Keating, Alan Messer, Holsey Moorman, Donald O'Brien, Tony Papandrea, Lea Stokes, John Subers, Bill Tol, Bruce Van Deusen, and Jamie Woyton.
About Florida Hospital Flagler
Florida Hospital Flagler is a member of Adventist Health System, a faith-based health care organization with 45 hospital campuses and 8,200 licensed beds in nine states, serving more than 5 million patients annually. With a mission to extend the healing ministry of Christ, Florida Hospital Flagler has 99-beds and is one of the seven Florida Hospitals in Flagler, Lake and Volusia counties that composes the Florida Hospital Central Florida Division - North Region. As the largest hospital system in the area, the Florida Hospital Central Florida Division - North Region has 1,226 beds and more than 7,800 employees.

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Manalo best man for DFA—Del Rosario
Former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Tuesday recommended that acting Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo be appointed permanently given his career spanning nearly four decades.
Manalo, who replaced controversial Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. in an acting capacity, commands the respect of his peers at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and his counterparts in the global diplomatic community, Del Rosario said.
“Having worked with the acting secretary for five years, it is my belief that it would be in the best interest of our country if he would be considered for permanent appointment,” he said in a statement.
The Commission on Appointments rejected Yasay’s appointment over questions on his Filipino citizenship.
President Duterte had indicated that Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano was more needed in the Senate than in the DFA. Cayetano, Mr. Duterte’s running mate in the 2016 presidential elections, was reportedly considered for the top DFA post.
With Manalo at the helm, the DFA should be able to have a clear differentiation between promoting national security and enhancing economic diplomacy, Del Rosario said.
But promoting national security should be the main priority in view of China’s bold moves to bolster its claims on South China Sea, he said.
“Our northern neighbor, for example, should not be postured as a total solution to our economic well-being, especially to the diminished importance of a host of countries that have been traditionally assisting the Philippines to achieve significant economic growth over the past several years,” Del Rosario said.
“With the recent negative observations in the South China Sea and now Benham Rise, promoting national security, including protecting what is ours, must be paramount,” he added.
The DFA would know how to work closely with the Department of National Defense, the country’s treaty allies and partners to outline options for the President’s consideration, he pointed out.
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Villagers from Kompong Speu province protested for a second day in front of the Phnom Penh headquarters of ANZ Royal Bank on Wednesday, smearing the building’s exterior with red-painted handprints after the lender once again refused to help them resolve their land dispute with a sugar plantation it helped finance.
Several hundred Kompong Speu families accuse a pair of plantations owned by CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat and his wife of stealing their farmland and driving them into debt. ANZ Royal, the local subsidiary of Australia’s ANZ Bank, extended a loan to one of the senator’s plantations that was paid off in full in July. The families say the loan made the plantation’s operations possible and want the bank, which earned interest off the deal, to help compensate them.
About 100 of the affected villagers traveled to Phnom Penh on Tuesday to protest at the bank’s head office and returned for another round Wednesday morning.
After ignoring the protesters the day before, the bank Wednesday sent out an employee at about 10 a.m. with a letter saying only what the villagers had been told by the bank before—that ANZ Royal had no obligation to them because the plantation was no longer a customer.
“Phnom Penh Sugar has not been a customer of ANZ since July, when it decided to repay its loan,” says the letter, which is signed by Ben Walker, ANZ’s head of sustainable development.
“Ultimately, the core of your dispute relates to land and resettlement from land,” the letter says. “These are issues that can only be resolved by Phnom Penh Sugar and the Cambodian government.”
The families say they have been attempting to settle their dispute with the plantation and government for years, to no avail. The plantation has offered them money and replacement land, but the families say the compensation is inadequate and the new land unsuitable for farming.
Disappointed by the contents of Wednesday’s letter, the protesters shouted angrily at the bank employees inside, at which point the staff closed the office and pulled down metal shutters to cover its ground-floor doors and windows.
The protesters then produced a can of red paint, dipped their hands inside and smeared the bank’s walls and the metal shutters with red handprints. They also dipped fake “ghost” U.S. notes into the paint and threw them on the ground in front of the bank’s entrance.
“We threw the ghost dollars in front of the bank and put our handprints on the wall to show the public that the bank is making money from our blood,” said Nguon Dy, a protester.
The villagers left the bank at noon, vowing to return to continue demonstrating later in the month if the lender continued to refuse them help.


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In the path of the Imam (107)
We are going to continue discussing Imam Khomeini’s testament. In this episode, we are going to discuss another part of the Imam’s testament where he exposes the enemies’ plots for forging rift between universities and seminaries.
Seminaries have a long history in Iran while modern universities are considered new institutions; although the older form of academic education dates back to over a thousand years in Iran. This is proved by Gondishapur University in Khuzestan which dates back to the Sassanid era. The first modern university was founded in Iran in 1934 by the name of Tehran University. However, seminaries date back to the first Islamic centuries. Seminaries have shouldered the responsibility of educating Iranian teenagers and youths before the entry of university to the country. As a result of Western propaganda, seminaries were considered as the centers of religious teachings with no link to rationality and rational education. But, with the entry of faithful and devoted students into universities in 1950s, gradually there emerged congruity and convergence between these two educational institutions. Alongside the formation and reinforcement of despotic climate in the country and further assistance between university and seminary students, the political ruling system was more and more criticized by both centers. Imam Khomeini’s high emphasis on the necessity of cooperation between universities and seminaries broke the negative mentality among the members of the two centers and society at large. Furthermore, presenting new political and revolutionary ideas by him strengthened his base among academics.
Imam Khomeini believed that unity between university and seminary would lead to the victory of the Islamic Revolution. After the victory of the revolution, too, he considered this unity very effective for the growth and bolstering of the Islamic Republic system of government. In view of this, he wrote in his testament, “Among the devilish schemes of the big colonialist and exploitative powers, that have been implemented for long years and has reached its climax since the era of Reza Khan and pursued by Mohammad Reza I different ways, is to isolate the clergy. In the era of Reza Khan it was pursued through pressure, suppression, defrocking, imprisonment, exile, disrespect, execution and so on; and in the era of Mohammad Reza it was pursued by scheme and other ways one of which was forging of enmity between academics and clergymen which wide propaganda was carried out in this field. Unfortunately, due to the unawareness of both strata about this devilish plot of superpowers, it yielded greatly. On the one hand, from schools to universities it was tried to appoint the teachers, professors and university chancellors from among westoxicated, eastoxicated, and those who were deviated from Islam and belonged to other religions. And the committed faithful were placed in minority in a bid to train the effective stratum, which would take the rule in future, from childhood to adolescence up to youth in a way that they would hate religions in general and Islam in particular, and the clergymen and promoters. And, at that time, these were introduced by Britain and, later on, by the advocates of capitalists and feudalists and supporters of backwardness and opponents of civilization and sublimity. On the other hand, with wicked propaganda, they would frighten clergymen, promoters and devotees of university and academics and would accuse them of irreligiousness, promiscuity and opposition to the symbols of Islam and religions.”
Imam Khomeini continued in his testament, “The result of those policies is that the statesmen were opposed to religions, Islam, the clergymen and the faithful; and the masses of people, who liked religion and clergymen, were opposed to the government and ruling system and whatever belonged to it. And the deep difference between the government and nation and academic and clergyman opened the way for looters to the extent that all affairs of the country were in their power and all reserves of the nation were poured into their pockets; so that you saw what happened and what was going to happen to this oppressed nation. Now that, with God Almighty’s will and the struggle of the nation- from clergymen to academics to people in the market, workers, farmers, and other strata- have torn up the chains of captivity and broken the dam of the power of superpowers, and rescued the country from them and their lackeys; my advice to the present and the next generation is that they should not neglect; and that the academics, the dear brave youths and clergymen and students of Islamic sciences consolidate the bond of friendship as much strong as possible and do not be negligent of the plots and conspiracies of the deceitful enemy. And as soon as they see a person or persons who try, with their words or deeds, to sow the seeds of discord, guide and advise him. And if it is not effective, leave him alone and isolate him so that they do not let the conspiracy take root.”

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In a video created by the Young Turks, an unidentified woman blew up at the mention that President Donald Trump once said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and his fans — like her –wouldn’t care.
In the video, the woman was asked to describe socialism and seemed to link it to race and Democrats turning on white people.
Pressed by TYT reporter Emma Vigeland, the woman stated, “I define socialism when you bring down your own country, your own race because he [Joe Biden] is not black.”
“What does that mean? Bringing them down to black people, is that what you mean?” Vigeland pressed.
“No,” the woman shot back. “He’s saying the white people — he doesn’t look at himself in the mirror?”
Asked about Trump’s highly publicized shooting comments, the woman — sporting a MAGA hat — refused to admit the president ever said such a thing, replying, “No, I don’t think so.”
“He did say that, it’s on tape,” Vigeland replied.
“I don’t believe it, that’s fake, that’s fake news,” the woman avidly insisted.
Trump’s claim on halting Ukraine aid contradicted by Pentagon official Laura Cooper
According to a new report from The Daily Beast, after the Pentagon's June announcement that it would give Ukraine $250 million in aid, Defense Department officials received a list of questions, seemingly originating from President Trump, seeking information about the aid.
“We got a question from my chain of command forwarded down from the chief of staff, I believe, from the Department of Defense, asking for a follow-up on a meeting with the President,” top Pentagon official Laura Cooper testified on Capitol Hill last month. “The way the email was phrased, it said follow-up from POTUS meeting, so follow-up from a meeting with the President. So, you know, I'm thinking that the questions were probably questions from the President. That's how I interpreted that subject line.”
Kellyanne Conway snaps after Fox News host mentions Adam Schiff
On Fox News Tuesday, anchor Bill Hemmer asked White House counselor Kellyanne Conway about the impeachment hearings — and she lost her temper as soon as he brought up House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA).
"How concerned is the president over these hearings?" asked Hemmer.
"The president is not concerned at all," said Conway. "The business of the people of this country is not being done ... the Capitol behind me is not a movie set, it is not a cardboard cutout. It’s where your representatives work for you, wasting your money and their time."
"Just to come back to this, I am told that Adam Schiff delivers the opening statement tomorrow," said Hemmer.
House Republicans have a plan to defend Trump during impeachment hearings – it’s all about his ‘state of mind’
Rather than act as impartial investigators, dedicated to ascertaining the facts of the President's actions, and whether or not those actions were legal, or are impeachable, House Republicans will stick to a plan that focuses on his "state of mind" and other intangible arguments.
"Confronted with a mountain of damaging facts heading into tomorrow's opening of the public phase of impeachment, House Republicans plan to argue that 'the President's state of mind' was exculpatory," Axios reports, noting it has obtained an 18-page GOP memo that was sent out to House Intelligence Committee members Monday night.


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Blogger Judy Welles notes that a recent survey showed a significant drop in the number of feds eligible to telework, even though agencies cite positive returns.
In the report to Congress on the status of telework at federal agencies, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry wrote, "We have significant work ahead to develop a strong telework culture." The eye-opening report almost makes that an understatement.
Governmentwide, only 102,900 out of 1,962,975 federal employees -- 5.2 percent --actually teleworked in 2008. And that was a slight increase over 2007.
Agencies with the greatest increases in total number of teleworkers included the departments of Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs and the General Services Administration. One program area that saw a significant increase in teleworking was Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (4,750 to 8,857).
The frequency of telework also increased. More people worked at home one to two days and some even 3 days a week
But the number of federal employees eligible to telework decreased significantly, by some 51,000. Agencies where substantial decreases occurred included the departments of Commerce, State and Treasury.
Although telework is only inching along, agencies still reported cost savings and benefits. The greatest benefit was seen in improved morale. But also, one third of agencies cited productivity and performance benefits.
Among major barriers to telework, nearly two thirds of agencies cited concerns about office coverage. More than half saw management resistance and organizational culture as barriers, and one third cited IT security and IT funding.
Many agencies are tackling the barriers with training for managers and employees; some have established budget for IT expenditures.
Berry emphasized the importance of telework in his guidance last week on H1N1 flu preparedness. Noting that the Federal Government cannot shut down, he called for mitigating the effects of a flu pandemic through "social distancing interventions such as telework."
He also stressed that agencies need to implement and maintain a strong IT system to accommodate remote usage of agency systems. He called for sufficient technical support personnel to resolve remote connectivity issues.
In guidance to agency heads, he wrote, "As many employees as possible should have telework capability...connectivity and equipment commensurate with their work needs, and frequent opportunities to telework so that systems are tested and known to be functional."
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Ignition systems for internal combustion engines fall into two basic design categories. The most common is the Inductive system which is used on almost all production car engines. The other is called a Capacitive Discharge Ignition. This type of ignition, often referred to as a CDI unit, is used for high performance and race applications. There are distinct differences between the two types of ignitions and their applications.
The Inductive Ignition is used on most production cars. The positive side of the coil is fed by the car's 12 volt battery and is then charged by grounding the negative side via a distributor contact breaker or a transistorized module. The charging period, called dwell time, is followed by a ground side release from which spark energy is generated. This ignition method works well on production vehicles that have relatively low cylinder pressures and when the engine operates at relatively low speeds.
Racing engines operate at much higher speeds and therefore require faster coil charging times (dwell time), and as a result makes it difficult for the Inductive ignition type to charge completely and generate optimal spark energy. Most race engines also run higher cylinder pressures and when combined with the lower spark energy/voltage generated by the inductive type ignition can frequently cause misfires and reduced overall performance.
This type of Ignition, also called a CDI, is used in most motorsports applications. It functions by using an amplifier to step the battery voltage from 12 to 450 volts which then charges a large internal capacitor. The charge time is very short and efficient, and is not effected by high engine speeds as is the Inductive type ignition. When triggered, the highly charged capacitor quickly releases all of its energy into the coil to generate a very powerful spark voltage.
A CDI system typically doubles the available spark voltage and delivers 5 times more spark energy than the best Inductive Ignition systems on the market. An additional benefit of the CDI is that it produces full spark energy even when battery voltages are as low as 10 volts whereas an Inductive Ignition output is significantly reduced under these conditions. The ability to create higher spark energy insures optimum combustion and greater performance in all engines running high cylinder pressures and speeds.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry is poking fun at New York ahead of his upcoming trip to convince employers there to move to Texas.
In $600,000 worth of radio spots that began airing Wednesday in New York City and Albany, he scoffs at the state’s “‘new’ New York” promotional campaign.
“The new New York sounds a lot like the old New York,” the ad says. “Higher taxes. Stifling regulations. Bureaucrats telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp.”
Perry’s five-day visit to New York begins Sunday. It follows job-poaching trips to Illinois and California, which also featured ads criticizing those states.


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Sudan: Militia Continue Attacks - Hundreds Flee
Hundreds Flee Western Sudan As Militia Continue Attacks, Un Refugee Agency Says
Hundreds of Sudanese fleeing attacks by Janjaweed militias in the western Darfur area must be transferred to refugee camps located well away from the Chadian border before the rainy season begins, the United Nations refugee agency said today.
Nearly 81,000 refugees are now living in the seven camps in eastern Chad, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Kris Janowski told the press in Geneva.
The figure is up from some 78,000, the total UNHCR gave last Friday.
In the Sennette area, near the Chadian border town of Birak, a UNHCR team is pre-registering 250 new refugees who said the Janjaweed militia attacked their villages last Saturday afternoon, he said.
Those refugees, mainly women and children, walked all night, crossed the border and built makeshift shelters in Chad, Mr. Janowski said. They are slated to be relocated further west in Mille camp.
Today 14,000 registered refugees in the northern border town of Bahai are receiving sorghum, oil and beans from the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Meanwhile, the existing camp in Kounoungo, which
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further 4,000, Mr. Janowski said.


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Come dine with us on the farm and experience the pleasures of eating locally. Our farm to table dinners feature our farmers and local chefs. Every dinner we will begin with a farm tour which will be lead by one of the farmers. They will highlight how we grow here at Lox Farms and share their passion for growing food for our local. Each dinner will be uniquely themed featuring local chefs from Palm Beach County.
Giving Back To The Community
Each of our Farm dinners will be benefiting our NEW Farm to Hospital Project. Fresh vegetables will be provided free of charge, from the farm a local hospital to patients, receiving outpatient treatment. Plans to construct a garden on the hospital campus are a vital part of the project. Once the garden is built on the hospital grounds, it will provide an environment for patients, family and staff to experience education as well as relaxation and meditation. Workshops will be structured to teach nutritional meal planning, simple cooking methods and organic farming practices for the home. This project will focus on growing vegetables used in nutrition therapy, a recognized complementary intervention for those with cancer, heart disease, diabetes and many more health issues. In order to make this non-profit initiative a reality, we are reaching out to the community and asking for donations. Our dinners will help make it possible to provide produce to patients, free of charge. We aim to help reduce stress, due to medical bills as well as illness.
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Seniors and their wonderful hearts
Seniors are usually the backbone of a church. New Buffalo has some that are awesome! Some are unable to physically work in the church, some are retired and able to work more. Most are happy just being able to come to church and spend time with others. In Fact we have some that have more fun than the children. We depend on them to set examples for all others especially our young, like tithing, attending all church services possible, calling our sick and praying. We have some that are mighty Prayer Warriors at New Buffalo and are called on day and night. I love working with our seniors because some of them are just great examples and have so much love to give and who doesn't love to be loved.


The future arrived at Dallas Love Field last month. And I can say with confidence that the future ain’t what it used to be.
Airport personnel have decided to embrace the future of technology and install robots in the concourse. They are primarily programmed to monitor passengers and ensure the mask mandates are being observed. Think of them as high tech busy-bodies.


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CHICAGO - The Mega Millions estimated jackpot has surpassed $800 million — the lottery board’s third-largest jackpot in its 20-year history.
The jackpot will likely surpass this amount by the next drawing on Tuesday evening, July 26.
As players pick their numbers in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands — and dream about their chances of winning — few know how they’d protect themselves if they actually won.
Financial experts have resources available for lottery hopefuls.
Here’s what lottery boards, insurance companies and private wealth management advise lottery winners do to keep their personal life and funds safe and secure.
Watch out for scams
Lottery players need to look out for scams whether they’ve won or not.
Some scammers falsely identify themselves as lottery employees to steal money from unsuspecting people, Mega Millions warns.
"No representative of Mega Millions would ever call, text or e-mail anyone about winning a prize," the multi-jurisdictional lottery board’s website says.
Lottery scammers are "persistent," use real or made-up company names, and offer a "free play" or "prize" to try to look legitimate, warns Mega Millions.
Scammers can also ask for personal information or payments that they claim are for "taxes" or "fees."
Helpful tips that Mega Millions offers include being suspicious of any lottery winning from a game that’s never been played, as well as being suspicious of emails that come in with "misspellings or poor grammar."
The lottery board also warns that people should be suspicious if a contact asks to keep correspondence confidential or asks for banking information.
"No real lottery tells winners to put up their own money in order to collect a prize they have already won," Mega Millions notes.
Get professional advice
Lottery winners should put together a team of financial experts if they’ve won a large prize, Mega Millions says.
The lottery board recommends that winners look into resources, financial planning tools and personal specialists from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a national professional organization that has more than 428,000 CPAs affiliated with it.
Lawyers and financial advisers could also be worth consideration, according to State Farm Insurance.
Seek help if gambling is a problem
If a lottery winner or someone close to a lottery winner has a gambling addiction, Mega Millions says getting help from a gambling addiction association might be a key step.
Two organizations the lottery board recommends are the National Council on Problem Gambling and Gamblers Anonymous.
The National Council on Problem Gambling has affiliate locations in 34 states, while Gamblers Anonymous has hotlines in each state along with in-person and virtual meetings.
Secure the ticket
Lottery winners should make "several copies" of their winning ticket, according to State Farm.
These copies can be shown to lawyers or accountants while the original ticket remains stored in a personal safe or bank deposit box.
State Farm also warns that lottery winners should read each game’s rules and contract before signing their winning ticket.
"In some cases, signing your ticket might prevent you from creating a blind trust later," notes the insurance company’s "What to do if you win the lottery" article.
Protect your privacy
State Farm says lottery winners should keep their winning private before they turn in a ticket.
Winners should also be prepared to change their contact information. This is because many lotteries share names or require interviews or press conference participation for transparency reasons.
"Be sure to change your phone number and set up a new P.O. box beforehand to avoid being inundated with requests," State Farm writes.
The insurance company notes that some winners might be able to form a blind trust through their attorney, so that winnings can be anonymously received.
Make a plan for the money
While forming a team of financial experts is an important step for most lottery winners, State Farm says winners should make a general list or plan about what they wish to do with their money.
"Write down your personal, financial, lifestyle, family and charity goals, and return to that plan later to help keep things on the right track for the long run," the insurance company says.
Put off making big decisions right away
Winning a few million dollars would tempt any person to make a big purchase or lifestyle change — but private wealth managers at Cresset Capital advise against this.
"You need to consider how your employment contributes to your sense of self and your mental well-being," Cresset Capital says in its "What To Do (And Not Do) If You Win The Lottery" article.
Instead of choosing early retirement or making some other dramatic move, the Chicago-based financial planning firm says lottery winners might want to consider taking on part-time jobs or engaging in higher education, volunteer work or passion-filled hobbies.
Cresset Capital also cautions lottery winners against "becoming an ATM for family and friends" in order to avoid jeopardizing financial plans early.
"This is not to say that you should keep all of the money for yourself, but take time to consider how and when you want to give so that you do not become resentful or end up being used for your wealth," the firm writes.
Question whether you should take a lump sum
Some winners are fine with taking a lottery’s lump sum, while others could benefit from taking an annuity payment (a series of equal payments broken down over a period of time).
Cresset Capital advises winners to seek input from a financial adviser to determine which option is best for them.
"Compare after-tax returns, investment returns, your life expectancy, etc.," Cresset Capital writes.
"Careful planning and consideration can result in a higher overall value of your win."

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Credit Union Name: Choice One Community
Website: http://www.choiceone.orgFull Time Employees: 30
Part Time Employees: 1
President: John Mellon
CEO: Thomas M Smith
Branch Locations: 3
ATM Locations: 3
Corporate Office Address:
511 E Main St
Plains Township, PA 18702-6920
Phone Number: (570) 823-7676
Wilkes Barre Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Where is the Choice One Community online account access for Wilkes Barre customers?
Wilkes Barre customers can access their accounts online at http://www.choiceone.org.
Are auto loans available for customers at the Wilkes Barre of Choice One Community?
Yes, Wilkes Barre customers can visit the branch to see auto loan rates offered by Choice One Community. You can also find the full auto loan rates and terms online at http://www.choiceone.org.
Where can I apply for a Choice One Community credit card?
The Choice One Community does offer credit cards. You can find out more about credit cards by going to the Wilkes Barre at 111 Hazle St.You can also find out more about credit cards offered at http://www.choiceone.org.
Can I get a mortgage from the Wilkes Barre of Choice One Community?
Mortgage loans are available at Wilkes Barre. You can get current mortgage rates and get approved for a loan by visiting customer service at the Wilkes Barre. Alternatively, you can compare mortgage rates at http://www.choiceone.org.
Are online bill payments available?
Customers of the Wilkes Barre can pay bills online by setting up online access at http://www.choiceone.org.
Wilkes Barre Location of Choice One Community at 111 Hazle St, Wilkes Barre, PA
Other Credit Union Branches in Wilkes Barre, PA
Citymark - Main Office
Corner Post - Corner Post FCU
Cross Valley - Main Office
Cross Valley - N Sherman Street
Holy Rosary Church - 324 Hazle Street
Luzerne County - Corporate Office
Luzerne County - Courhouse Branch
Penn Wilco - Loan Department
Pentagon - Wilkes Barre
Saint Nicholas - Saint Nicholas FCU

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[FULL HD 1512p @30FPS] - Stunning high definition recordings at a smooth 30fps frame rate, perfect for catching every detail needed. The next step up from a 1080p body camera and much clearer. Also features a huge 40MP camera, with this you will be able to take ultra clear shots at both day and at night, you can take pictures while the G1 is recording by pressing the camera button once. [BUILT IN GPS] - The GPS mode which will track where you are so if you need evidence of your location then this has you covered. All you need to do is turn on the GPS mode within the settings then once you have recorded a video the latitude and longitude position will show on your video footage alongside the time & date. (The GPS will only work outdoors). [H.265 VIDEO CODING FORMAT] H.265 is the new upgrade from H.264. It provides higher quality video recordings and takes up less memory, compresses files more efficiently and encodes videos at a lower bitrate. More details are in the manual. These cameras may have scratches on the body and they have been tested, and in working order and will not reflect the quality of the recording. With 6 months warranty, NO 14 RETURNS.


The heart rate monitor includes a user system that is close to the user's skin and communicates with the remote processing system.
When the heart rate monitor is operating, the medical staff pastes the heart rate sensor in the patient's chest and pastes the light-emitting diode indicator on the patient's cheek. When pasted, Heart Rate Monitor the heart rate sensor sends a signal to the light-emitting diode indicator immediately. If the heart rate is within normal range, the LEDs emit green light in each heartbeat of the heart, Heart Rate Monitor and if the heart rate is too high or too low, the LEDs glow red.
Heart rate monitors can improve the efficiency of health care workers. Because the light-emitting diode LED is clear, it will improve the safety of detection and avoid misdiagnosis.
Working principle of heart rate monitor
The combination of heart rate, a data that shows the intensity of the exercise, can more accurately measure the amount of calories a user burns per day. In addition, Heart Rate Monitor users can use the heart rate glance function to check their own heart rate situation anytime, anywhere. However, in addition to the features that these two users will use, the new supporting documentation details the technology behind the hardware, Heart Rate Monitor as well as some little-known software features. There are documents that measure your heart rate quietly in the background every 10 minutes. This data is stored in the iOS 8 health application for later viewing and integrates with third-party health tracking applications and hardware.
The "Photoelectric volume pulse wave method" was used to collect the heart rate data. Heart Rate Monitor This technique is based on a very simple truth: the blood is red because it can reflect red light and absorb the green. Therefore, the use of green LED lights with a photosensitive photodiode to detect any time flow through the blood of the wrist. When the user's heart beats, there will be more blood flow through the user's wrist, the amount of green light absorption will be greater. In the heart beats the gap, the blood flow reduces, causes the green light absorption also to reduce. By flashing the LEDs hundreds of times per second, you can calculate the number of beats per minute-that is, the heart rate.


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ONCE AGAIN A BRIDE
A bit of gothic suspense, a double love story and the right touches of humor and sensuality add up to this delightfully fast-paced read about second chances and love’s redeeming power.
Alec Wylde arrives at his deceased uncle’s estate to find a young, beautiful widow. Charlotte Wylde endured a miserable marriage to a husband who spent her dowry on his collection of artifacts while demoralizing her. Charlotte is finally free. She is none too happy to have his nephew poking about. There is an instantaneous distrust as well as a mutual attraction between them. Suddenly, questions are raised about her husband’s death, the house is broken into and Charlotte finds she needs Alec’s protection. Living together fuels the passion that simmers under the surface and brings danger, since a killer hovers nearby, waiting to strike. (SOURCEBOOKS, Feb., 416 pp., $6.99)


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A grandfather-of-six from Southport has spent nearly a month riding 10 miles a day.
He is still less than a third of the way through his epic cycling challenge but has already raised thousands for charity.
Harry Kessler is attempting to cycling 900 miles in 90 days to raise money for the charity Guide Dogs.
Guide Dogs started 90 years ago in a garage in Merseyside, since then it has supported people with sight loss to enable them to live the lives they want.
The charity trains 1,500 guide dogs a year to support adults, children and young people.
Harry, who fled to Southport as a child because of the Nazis, said the charity has been close to his heart for many years.
The avid cyclist had hoped to raise £999 for the charity but that target was reached in the first 48 hours, now Harry has set his sights higher.
Harry has already raised more than £3000 but is still a way off from his new £5000 target.
According to Guide Dogs, it takes £50.000 to look after a guide dog throughout its lifetime and an average person can have up to six or seven.
Harry knows that cycling 10 miles a day for 90 days won't be easy but he's confident that he will reach his goal.
The challenge will end on 11th December where we'll see if harry manages to smash his target.
If you would like to find out more about Harry's challenge click here.


Possibly relevant with specific GoFlex drives
by rkabear - 5/1/12 10:10 PM
In Reply to: Re: readyshare by Kees_B
I am also having a problem with a GoFlex Drive - I have a 3 TB drive, and have reformatted the drive right out of the box (saving the data on the drive on a separate drive for safe keeping). There is still 177 MB of used space, when I looked at the properties of the drive, after a *long* 2 days reformatting the drive (the computer I had available to let sit and use the CPU exclusively for reformatting is a Centrino Duo laptop, and probably wasn't the best choice in hindsight.)
I am trying to be able to use this drive on a Netgear WNDR3700 Router, with a "readyshare" USB option, to network a drive. Is it possible there is something in that 177 MB of hidden data that is keeping the drive from being able to be recognized as a drive useable by the router, even though Seagate and Netgear both list the 2 TB counterpart drive as being available and useable in this fashion?
Another possibility would be the new base units for these drives, which change the drives over 2 TB to "look like" they are using a 4 GB kernel as opposed to a 512 MB kernel for operating system recognition. The new GoFlex drives are coming out with the new interchangeable base units because drives larger than 2 TB aren't useable by operating systems prior to Windows 7 (actually I am not sure if Windows 7 can view the larger drives) because they have larger segments in the formatting. This is a work-around, to enable the drives to show up on legacy computers. It also allows people to upgrade the drive (not the storage space, but the amenities), so if you want USB 3.0 later, or an ethernet port, or a wireless N Mac address onboard, you just upgrade the base unit (for a cost, or course,) not the drive with all of your data on it. Relatively neat, but not if I cannot use the drive from the get-go.
If it is the base unit, I need to actually just take the drive back to the store, and cut my losses, getting a 2 TB drive and reformatting it to NTFS to go on the router (or maybe even two 2 TB drives with a splitter or small USB hub, to get more than 2 TB networkable - not sure if the router would understand that, but who knows.)
The software for the GoFlex offers a way to make the drives accessible (through a USB connected computer) through the internet, generating a URL for the drive accessible with password access, in addition to the use on the internal network. The Netgear router will do the same.
I cannot get the router to recognize that there is a drive attached to it with the 3 TB GoFlex Desk external drive at all, but I *can* get my two 320 GB SimplePortable portable drives to be recognized, as well as my older, huge footprint 250 GB and 750 GB Seagate external drives (none of which have any capacity for "making the drive a network" or "generating a URL for internet access outside the home".)
Any help is appreciated. I get *nothing* when I talk to Netgear, nor to Seagate - they both just say that it should *work*, although both says the pairing of these two particular devices is not supported - they don't have the two as incompatible, but by exclusion, do not support it either, because it isn't on their "supported drive to router" list.
Thanks in advance!
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The story of Jesus is said to be taken from a man named Heru from Egypt, said to be African and born of a virgin. Heru is supposed to be a story before Jesus. Who is Heru?
The claim you heard falls into a category of claims that the story of Jesus is a myth, borrowed from other god-man myths which were common in the Greek, Egyptian and Persian cultures.
First of all, let it be said that the thesis that there were a number of god-man myths in the Near East is certainly true. Here are many such claims. Such myths include Osiris, Horus, Empodocles, Krishna (actually from the Indian subcontinent), Peregrinus. Mithra and many more. The problems with such claims are many.
For one, the claims of such parallels are massively overblown. If we look at the myths about Osiris, Mithra, Krishna or, in the case you are asking about Heru (more commonly known as Horus) you will find perhaps a very small amount of overlap, but the description of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, on balance, is not even remotely similar to any of these myths.
Besides, Jesus was a real person. We know where he was born. We know where he died. We know when and how he died. We know the names of his mother, his father, and three of his brothers, as well as dozens of his close acquaintances. He is mention in historical documents by those who knew him directly (John, Peter, Matthew, Mark and more) as well as Jews and Romans who did not know him personally, but who give us historical details of his life. This is true of none of these others. Krishna was not a real person. He is pure myth. Osiris is not a real person. We cannot find a date of his life or the names of his acquaintances, or the location of his birth, as he is not a real person. The same can be said for Horus/Heru. There was no such person, and the idea that the New Testament writers borrowed their historical account of the actual person Jesus Christ from a pagan Egyptian myth is ludicrous. This claim is groundless on many levels. Can any rational person actually believe that these Jewish monotheists would construct a conspiracy to create a messiah using an Egyptian pagan myth as their model?
Then there is the actual “information” we have on the Egyptian god Horus. If you take a simple look at the description of Horus (who was not real, and who no one I know of believes was a real person) you will find the claim that the story of Jesus’ miracles, his teachings, his death on the cross and his resurrection were obviously not borrowed from Horus. Here is some information on Horus which reveals how silly it is to think of the biblical story of Jesus of Nazareth having been borrowed from this pagan Greek myth.
Horus is pictured as a human with a falcon head. Horus was born to the goddess Isis after she retrieved all the dismembered body parts of her murdered husband Osiris, except his penis which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by a catfish, or sometimes by a crab, and according to Plutarch’s account used her magic powers to resurrect Osiris and fashion a golden phallus to conceive her son (older Egyptian accounts have the penis of Osiris surviving). Once Isis knew she was pregnant with Horus, she fled to the Nile Delta marshlands to hide from her brother Set who jealously killed Osiris and who she knew would want to kill their son. There Isis bore a divine son, Horus. Horus was told by his mother, Isis, to protect the people of Egypt from Set, the god of the desert, who had killed his father Osiris. Horus had many battles with Set, not only to avenge his father, but to choose the rightful ruler of Egypt. In these battles, Horus came to be associated with Lower Egypt, and became its patron. According to Papyrus Chester-Beatty I, Set is depicted as trying to prove his dominance by seducing Horus and then having intercourse with him. However, Horus places his hand between his thighs and catches Set’s semen, then subsequently throws it in the river, so that he may not be said to have been inseminated by Set. Horus then deliberately spreads his own semen on some lettuce, which was Set’s favorite food. After Set had eaten the lettuce, they went to the gods to try to settle the argument over the rule of Egypt. The gods first listened to Set’s claim of dominance over Horus, and call his semen forth, but it answered from the river, invalidating his claim. Then, the gods listened to Horus’ claim of having dominated Set, and call his semen forth, and it answered from inside Set.
I could go on here, but on the face of it, the claim that the early church borrowed their description of Jesus from the pagan god Horus is laughable. In any case, this is no virgin birth here. You should feel free to dismiss this claim for what it is—completely bogus.

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Korean Teams Prove Their Dominance Once Again This Week In Esports Betting
After four exciting quarterfinals and some huge shocks in the group stages of the tournament, normality was restored in New York over the weekend with two very different semifinals between the four remaining teams in the 2016 League of Legends World Championships.
Recapping the Worlds semifinals
The opening semifinal on Oct. 21 is another game that will go down in the annals of esports history.
At the start of the tournament, the two clear favorites were ROX Tigers and SK Telecom T1 and experts by and large felt that the winner of the tournament would likely be one of these two Korean giants.
Despite being upset by Russia’s Albus NoX Luna in the group phase, ROX Tigers joined SK Telecom T1 in the quarterfinals, where both recorded 3-1 victories to progress into arguably the most anticipated match of the 2016 Worlds.
In an epic semifinal, SKT took the opening game, but ROX Tigers bounced back to win both the next two games to put themselves 2-1 up and on the cusp of reaching the final.
However, SKT showed their class as current champions to win the fourth match and set up the first fifth-game decider of the event.
The final game swung both ways, but in the end it was SK Telecom that emerged triumphant, largely thanks to the play of Faker and Bengi. They earned their place in the final this weekend at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Just 24 hours later, the third Korean giant, Samsung Galaxy, took on the outsiders, H2K, and this was a very different affair.
Samsung Galaxy emerged easy winners in a 3-0 drubbing that left no doubt as to where the highest quality League of Legends gaming in the world lies.
That win was Samsung Galaxy’s tenth in a row, yet they enter the final on Saturday as the rank outsiders with Bet365 having them down as 10/3 shots.
The reigning champions, SK Telecom T1, are 1/5 on to retain the title from last year and win their third World title in total.
Bet365 is also offering some exciting and unique markets on the Player of the Tournament competition, which will be announced following this weekend’s final.
At the moment it is Faker from SKT that is the slight 6/4 favorite, with teammates Bang (10/3), Bengi (7/1), and Duke (7/1) also among the frontrunners.
Crown (10/1), CuVee (12/1), and Ambition (16/1) of Samsung Galaxy are next, with SKT’s Wolf a 20/1 shot.
There are plenty of other betting markets still available, including the chance to bet on the correct score for the final, with SK Telecom to win 3-0 or 3-1 as the current 2/1 joint favorite selections.
Who will emerge triumphant at the Overwatch World Cup?
As a comparative newcomer to the esports scene, the success of Overwatch was not certain even just a few months ago.
Blizzard Entertainment’s 6v6 first-person shooter, with strategic elements common to Dota 2 and League of Legends, didn’t enjoy a smooth passage to success.
But the news that Blizzard is developing a professional Overwatch league certainly means it has a more pronounced signature on the esports radar.
In addition to this pro league, events such as the forthcoming inaugural Overwatch World Cup taking place at BlizzCon in Anaheim, California will certainly bring the game to a wider esports audience.
The World Cup starts on Oct. 29 and will initially be open only to PC gamers.
Three online elimination qualifiers were held in September to decide the finalists alongside the six invited teams. To ensure a good mix of teams from around the world, the finalists are composed of six teams from Europe, six from Asia-Pacific, and four from the Americas.
- South Korea
- United States
The first part of the competition is a round robin group stage with four groups of four teams, and within each group each team will play the other teams once to decide which two teams from each group qualify for the playoff stages.
The groups have already been drawn for the event and are as follows:
- Group A – Sweden, Spain, Canada, Brazil
- Group B – United States, Russia, Germany, Chile
- Group C – South Korea, Finland, Australia, Taiwan
- Group D – China, France, Singapore, Thailand
Once the eight qualifiers are known from the group games, the playoffs begin with the quarterfinals, and it is then a straight knockout competition until the final on Nov. 5.
Overwatch Cup betting
Betting interest in the event has been high especially on the To Win Outright market, and seeing as this is the first-ever Overwatch World Cup, the esports betting odds on the teams competing are generally competitive and there are some intriguing bets to be had.
Currently, Bet365 has Sweden as the surprising 7/2 favorites to win the event, with the United States and South Korea, who many would expect to be the default favorites, both 9/2 joint second favorites to win.
Finland, who impressed in European qualifying, are 5/1, with China 7/1, Russia, and Germany 10/1, and Spain 12/1.
Outside of this group of teams, there are more outside bets including Thailand at 20/1, Taiwan and Canada at 50/1, France and Singapore, 80/1, Australia 300/1, China 500/1, and the rank outsiders are Brazil at 1000/1.
Bet365 is also offering plenty of other bets on the event, including on which team will reach the final, the region the winner will come from, the winner of the event’s group, group betting, as well as extensive match betting on matches in the initial round robin stage.
Image credit: Katherine Welles / Shutterstock.com

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Wrong tone on school funding
On one level, Labor's schools funding policy has much to recommend it. It belatedly tackles an inequitable and anomalous Federal Government funding formula. It tears away the charade that state schools are funded solely by the states and private schools by the Commonwealth. It seeks to quantify - $9000 a year for primary school students and $12,000 for those in secondary schools - the basic taxpayer funding entitlement of every child, whether publicly or privately educated. Characteristically, however, Labor went too far. For all the hysteria generated, its error is not that it has returned Australia to the divisive debate, settled more than 30 years ago, over whether tax dollars should be spent on private education. State subsidies are realities and will remain so. Labor's error was to couch a policy in rhetoric and specifics so as to inflate perceptions it was encouraging the politics of envy and denying help to Australians seeking to climb the highest rungs of Mark Latham's ladder of opportunity.
What is exciting the ire is Labor's plan to take from wealthy Peters to pay poorer Pauls. The 67 wealthiest private schools - those that charge annual tuition fees of more than $12,000 - would be stripped of excessive taxpayer subsidies and the $520 million five-year savings would be redistributed across the majority of non-government schools. In NSW 33 elite private schools would lose money, another 35 would stand still with only limited indexation, and 830 private schools would get more cash.
It is not that the wealthiest schools would be losing a long-enjoyed entitlement. The excesses result from the Government's Socio-Economic Status formula - the funding scheme introduced in 2001 with the irresponsible promise that no school would be worse off. Rather than maintain funding levels, however, payments to some wealthier schools have tripled in the past four years because the funding formula is clumsy and imprecise.
But there are equity issues with Labor's plan, too. The pool for private schools remains constant, albeit reconfigured. The "new" money - $1.9 billion over five years, and $850 million more than the Coalition's pledge - goes entirely to government schools. Some see this as discrimination against the less-expensive, smaller and popular end of the private school market. Unlike Labor's 2001 education package, however, this latest plan is built on equal benchmark funding for each student, seemingly enhancing fairness. The same cannot be said of exemptions for Jewish schools charging high fees, apparently aimed at Labor retaining a Melbourne seat with a large Jewish population.
Labor, it seems, unwisely expects the gratitude of parents whose children attend the 90 per cent of private schools that would get a funding boost. Many of these parents regard themselves as aspirational. Vicariously, they consider an assault on the wealthy as an attack on their own values. That's why Labor's education policy sales personnel should not so publicly, nor with such apparent glee, rub noses in the prospect of lost funding.
Guantanamo, Hicks and the rule of law
The federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, has a habit of rejecting criticism with petulant denigration. He has done it again in responding to the report for the Law Council of Australia by Lex Lasry, QC, on last month's preliminary hearing of charges against David Hicks by an American military commission at Guantanamo Bay. Mr Lasry, an experienced and respected Melbourne criminal law barrister, was the only independent Australian legal observer at the hearing. His report deserved better than Mr Ruddock's dismissive suggestion that it was a predictable exercise in "chauvinism", and that it could have been written without going to Guantanamo Bay at all. The point is that Mr Lasry did go. It should be a matter of deep concern, not smugness, to the Government that what he saw at first hand confirmed the fears of many legal experts here and abroad that the military commission process is irretrievably flawed.
Mr Lasry concludes that a fair trial for Hicks under this process is "virtually impossible", and the Law Council says the same applies to the second Australian prisoner, Mamdouh Habib. Mr Lasry reports the normal rules of evidence are "all but absent", coerced confessions are admissible, there is no genuine appeals process, and the five presiding members of the military commission lack independence or impartiality (some served in Afghanistan and one admitted at the hearing that he had previously said all the Guantanamo inmates were terrorists). Only one member has legal qualifications, although all would decide issues of law as well as fact.
Hicks has already served more than two years of harsh, isolated incarceration and interrogation. He has been denied legal rights guaranteed to people accused of the most vicious crimes in Australia. Recently and belatedly, the Howard Government has asked the US authorities to consider apparently minor changes to the military commission's procedures. But it has singularly failed to show the readiness of say, the British Government, to defend the interests of its captive citizens.
The Ruddock defence of this victors' tribunal as necessary to protect security information seems a feeble rationalisation for agreeing to unacceptable compromises of the legal and democratic principles for which we said we were fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Law Council is right. Hicks and Habib should be brought before civilian US courts, or a properly constituted court martial-style tribunal, or be brought home.


Colloquium: “Climate, Environment and Migration in Historical Perspective”
The Princeton Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) will host the colloquium “Climate, Environment and Migration in Historical Perspective,” which will explore the influence of environmental and climate change on human migration throughout history, starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144. The event is the latest in CCHRI’s annual Colloquium at Princeton series.
Alex de Sherbinin, associate director for science applications at the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network, will deliver the keynote lecture, “Understanding the Past to Project Future Climate Change-Induced Migration: Lessons from the Groundswell Project,” at 4:30 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies with support from the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI).


Description and determination of an object’s color are not simple. A few standards, such as CIE 1931 and CIE Lab, allow for objective definitions of colors, while several other color spaces are related to special devices, such as printers or screens. Color measurement is normally performed with high-level – and high-cost – equipment to get reliable results.
In a recent project, Agudo et al. have developed a low-cost color measurement system with relatively high reliability, allowing for color detection using an Arduino board and an inexpensive sensor. The software developed in this project is open-source, thus it can even be tailored to fit the needs of the respective user. The results close the gap between color detection by an “educated guess” and the expensive professional devices.
Juan Enrique Agudo, Pedro J. Pardo, Héctor Sánchez, Ángel Luis Pérez and María Isabel Suero
A Low-Cost Real Color Picker Based on Arduino
Sensors 2014, 14, 11943-11956
Next topic: Quasi-one-dimensional nanostructures


As the world continues to recover from the Coronavirus, we're all finding ourselves in unfamiliar territory given the subsequent lockdown that is keeping us off of stages and confined to our homes. Luckily, there's comfort in the fact that we're all in this together, and that there are still many outlets for us musicians to keep us active and sane throughout this quarantine. We're checking in with bass players from all over the world to see what they're doing to stay entertained, healthy, productive, and safe during this trying time.
Bass Player: Julio Tavarez
Bands & Artists: Bob Moses, WORK, The Dylan Farnum Collection, Extremely Bad Man, Jesse Jo Stark, The Dirt and the Grime, The Black and the White, Dawn Richards, Jamie N Commons, Empires, Kilimanjaro, As Tall as Lions, lliikkeeaagghhoosstt
Home: Los Angeles, California
How have you been passing time during the lockdown?
I’ve been writing a lot of music and recording for my new projects. That’s been taking up most of my time lately.
What have you been working on in terms of your bass practice routine?
To be honest, I don’t practice much. I’m always writing and recording, which gives me a purpose to play daily.
What music, songs, recordings, artists, bass players have you been listening to as a source of comfort and inspiration that you recommend?
I’ve been digging Cindy Lee’s “The Last Train’s Come And Gone.”
What Bass gear have you been playing and trying out?
Because I’ve been home recording a lot, I’ve been playing around with pedals—not just for bass but also for guitar and vocals. I’ve been playing my short scale Fender Mustang at home, as well. My new favorite toy is the Red Panda Particle pedal.
What non music activities, books, shows, movies or workout recommendations do you have?
I’ve been skateboarding and watching the TV series Unsolved Mysteries and The Last Dance.
What projects do you have coming up when the world gets going again?
What advice can you offer fellow bassist for staying positive and keeping morale high?
Play only the E and A strings, and the D string only if you really need it. If you’re playing the Gstring at all, something’s not right. I’m just kidding… kind of.
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All check-ins compiled and edited by Jon D'Auria & Chris Jisi


Lung cancer is often diagnosed in a late stage, and as a result, the 5-year survival rate for lung cancer is only 18%. If lung cancer is detected in an early stage, the prognosis is much better. Therefore, improving early detection is the most promising strategy to reduce lung cancer mortality.
Early stage lung cancer is typically diagnosed after the detection of an incidental lung nodule on CT imaging of the thorax that was ordered for other medical reasons. For this reason, accurate detection and characterization of incidentally detected lung nodules is of great importance.
In this project, we aim to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for fast and highly reliable detection and assessment of nodules in chest CT, and to validate the novel AI-assisted nodule workflow at two Dutch hospitals.


(Huffington Post) Mount Fuji is primed to spew.
After 307 years, the massive active volcano in Japan may be due for another eruption as a result of a buildup of pressure from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the country's eastern coast in 2011. While volcano eruptions may often be difficult to predict, a new study published by a team of French and Japanese researchers indicates that Mount Fuji is in a particularly precarious state.
"Our work does not say that the volcano will start erupting, but it does show that it's in a critical state," lead author Florent Brenguier, a researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences in France, told The Guardian.
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