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var SlackBot = require("slackbots");
var request = require("request");
var fs = require("fs");
global._ = require("lodash");

var BOTS = _CONFIG.bots.slacks;
var yoobroFacebook = require("./services/yoobroFacebook");

function botmaker(team) {

  var token = team.token;
  var logfile = "./logs/" + team.name + ".log";

  var YooBroBot = new SlackBot({
    token: token,
    name: "Yoo bro"
  });

  fs.exists(logfile, function (exists) {
    if (!exists) {
      fs.writeFileSync(logfile, "");
    }
  });

  function logger(log) {
    fs.appendFileSync(logfile, JSON.stringify(log) + "\n");
  }

  YooBroBot.on("start", function () {
    console.log("SlackBot is started");
    YooBroBot.postMessageToUser(team.botmaster, "Hey, I'm restarted");
  });

  YooBroBot.on("close", function () {
    this.connect();
  });

  function send(channel, message, param, log) {
    YooBroBot.postMessage(channel, message, param)
      .catch(function (err){
        console.error(err);
      });
    logger(log);
  }

  function reply(channel, message, log) {
    message = message.toLowerCase();

    if (message.match(/yoobro|yoo_bro/)) {
      message = message.split(" ");

      if (message.indexOf("hi")) {
        send(channel, "hi");
      }
      logger(log);
    }
    // Other replay have to implement here
  }

  function getYoobroRandomPicture(channel, data) {
    var image = yoobroFacebook.getRandom();
    if (!image) {
      send(channel, "Sorry I'm not STATUS yet", null, data);
    } else {
      var attachments = [
        {
          fallback: "yep, here is one!!!",
          title: "yep, here is one!!!",
          image_url: image,
          color: "#764fa5"
        }
      ];
      send(channel, " ", {
        attachments: JSON.stringify(attachments)
      }, data);
    }
  }

  function checkStatus() {
    send(team.botmaster, STATUS ? "ok": "not ok");
  }

  YooBroBot.on("message", function (data) {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 4))
    var match;
    var channel = data.channel;
    if (data.type === "message") {
      if (!data.subtype) {
        data.text = data.text.replace(/[\s]{2,}/g, " ");

        if (data.text === "yoobro") {
          // send yoobro picture
          getYoobroRandomPicture(channel, data);
        } else if (match = data.text.match(/yoo_bro:\scurl\s\<([\S]+)\>/)){
          // curl from specific url
          var url = match[1].split("|")[0];
          if (url.split("/").length > 3) {
            if (url.split("/").slice(-1)[0].split(".").length > 1) {
                var filetype = url.split(".").slice(-1)[0];
                if (!filetype.match(/php|aspx/)) {
                return send(channel, "Sorry, the request look like file request", null, data);
              }
            }
          }
          request.get(url, function (err, res, body) {
            if (err) {
              return send(channel, "Sorry, something wrong", null, data);
            }

            if (res.headers['content-type'].match("json")) {
              body = JSON.parse(body);
              send(channel, "```\n"
                  + JSON.stringify(body, null, 4)
                  + "```\n", null, data);
            } else {
              send(channel, "Sorry, I can only preform json request", null, data);
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          });
        } else {
          // Other text reply
          reply(data.channel, data.text, data);
        }
      }
    }
  });

  return YooBroBot;
}

BOTS = BOTS.map(botmaker);

module.exports = BOTS;

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ANGOLA, IND. -- The Trine University women's lacrosse team played tough but came up short against Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) regular season champion Calvin College by the score of 16-7.
Trine came out strong with senior Rebecca Plantz (DeWitt, Mich. / DeWitt) causing an early turnover and setting up a free position goal for junior Kierston Osowski (Granger, Ind. / Elkhart Memorial) for the early 1-0 lead.
Calvin got their offense rolling in response and scored the next seven goals to take the 7-1 lead which they would not relinquish for the rest of the game. Despite the trailing the rest of the contest the Thunder would not go away scoring six more goals to hold off a running clock for most of the game.
The Thunder came away with four goals total to enter the intermission trailing by 9-4. In the second half, Trine would add three goals while Calvin would add seven for the final score of 16-7.
Plantz finished the game with a team-high four points including three goals and one assist. With the goals, she raises her season total to 40 and becomes the Trine women's lacrosse record holder for most goals in a single season.
Osowski was the only other player to finish the game with multiple points recording a goal and an assist in the contest. Senior Samantha Ihrie (Kendallville, Ind. / East Noble), sophomore Lilly Dusek (Zionsville, Ind. / Zionsville), and sophomore Renee Bock (New Haven, Ind. / New Haven) each added a goal for the Thunder.
Junior Audrey Poteet (Indianapolis, Ind. / Ben Davis) got the start in net for the Thunder and made some spectacular saves despite allowing the 16 goals. She finished the contest with 19 saves and nine groundballs.
Trine falls to 5-10 overall and 3-4 in the MIAA. They fall to fifth in the standings but remain in contention for the fourth seed in the MIAA Tournament. A victory over Hope College in their final regular-season contest would vault them into fourth place and advance them to the tournament. The Thunder will decide their fate on Saturday, April 28 at 1 p.m. The game is also senior day.


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This work encapsulates all the aspects of painting the artist has been exploring - materiality, mediums, monochromes, edges, automatism, chance and the unforeseen.
The eighteen paintings in the series have been made using a system of rules and controls with freedom given to chance occurrences and outcomes. They use a non-referential grammar referring only to themselves and the materials used to make them; a form of abstract painting that has no underlying symbolism, narrative or meaning. And they are records of the dilemmas encountered between chance and intervention.
3 things inspired the title: the sides of each painting, where edges meet on the surfaces and the artist's fascination with the edges of paintings in galleries.
Andrew Hardy is a British contemporary artist who uses abstract language to explore materiality, repetition, gesture and chance.
1957 London, United Kingdom
Andrew Hardy is a painter who grew up in Derbyshire and now lives and works in London. After a long career as a creative director, he now devotes himself full-time to painting. In 2019 he graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a BA (Hons) Painting (1st Class). During 2020 he had a studio at Turps Art School, London which provides an alternative educational environment at master's degree level for postgraduate painters. His association with Turps Art School continues.
Influenced by 20th century abstract modernist painters, Andrew's work uses an abstract language to explore materiality, repetition, gesture and chance. When painting, he is occupied with the physicality of the process, connecting with his materials, tools and surfaces in different ways. The process is a form of performance. It is about the act of painting and he sees each finished work as a record of the journey he has been on with it.
The question of content is not in the foreground. The paintings are their own subject matter.
The painter says of his work, "I try to make paintings that draw viewers in, to question and enjoy their materiality and to find their own associations. I don't feel any urge to depict things or tell stories or make statements. I don't feel a need to paint scenes, situations or likenesses of people, or to be referential whether literal, stylised, imagined or metaphorical. The works don't usually have any meaning although I do aim for them to be meaningful… which is a different thing."
Andrew has exhibited in London and Paris and his paintings can be found in private collections in Europe and the US.
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As part of the Kardashian-Jenner dynasty, it goes without saying that Stormi Webster already has a destiny of fame, fortune and success ahead of her. Hey, she's already richer than the rest of us can ever dream of being, and hasn't even learned to hold her own head up properly yet. Still, it looks as though the seven-month-old daughter of Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott will be ready to take on the world even sooner than we all thought she would.
Yesterday, new mom Kylie and boyfriend Travis shared the latest adorable family picture of their daughter on Snapchat. It showed Stormi (almost) standing on her on two feet, holding hands with her dad and trying her best to put one foot in front of the other. Oh c'mon, she's already the heir to her mum's billionaire fortune, don't tell me she's gifted and talented as well.
Kylie proudly shared the sweet image on her social media, telling fans: "We about to be walking soon." You might also notice that Stormi is dressed in suitably stylish footwear, laced up in the perfect pair of Nike OG Air Jordan 3s to practice her first steps, obviously.
Add those in-demand sneakers to the Hermés bag that mom is keeping safe for her in the closet, and Stormi has a wardrobe that any of us should be jealous of.
It seems as though 21-year-old Kylie has taken to motherhood like a complete natural. The realty star and makeup mogul can't stop sharing updates of her daughter with her 115.3 million followers on Instagram, and they only seem to get cuter each time. Just last week, Kylie posted a video of Stormi's first dance moves, as she bounced up and down in her mom's arms to a song in the background.
Between Stormi, Chicago Kardashian-West and True Kardashian, the future of the Kardashian-Jenner family is looking pretty perfect.


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World Building: The Art of Creating Fictional worlds
Today I wanted to start a new series of articles about a topic that I really like to think and talk about. It is a topic that, in my opinion, strongly influences how immersive a work of fiction can be. It changes how people feel about any work, whether it is a game, a novel, a comic, short form content or other fiction. That topic is world building.
A well built world can draw in a reader or player in a way that gives longevity and impact to an otherwise standard plot or setting. A world that is carefully crafted by its creators can become not only an interesting place for a story to be told, but a foundation upon which entire series of works can be built and is one that can hook fans in a way that lesser narratives cannot.
World building is about a mix of setting and plot, and a good world build influences both. World building helps ground our settings and our stories by providing a context for them. It enhances the motivations of the characters we read about while also allowing them the room to show weakness and to grow. When a well built world is taken into the creative process, it helps the stories and characters within it to be more cohesive, believable and interesting.
Any work can benefit from a good world build, whether it utilizes each detail or not. Even the things left unsaid through narration shape the way the writer approaches the nuance of setting and interaction, providing grounding and invaluable detail.
World building provides a strong basis especially in situations where a writer is working with a team, such as a comic artist or in video game development. The better fleshed out the world is, the better equipped artists and other team members will be to realize a shared creative vision. At the same time, this cohesive vision will enhance the experience of those on the receiving end as well.
Today I will introduce three basic strategies of world building as I see them. Each of them has a different goal and aims to serve a different need. While each of them starts quite differently, there will eventually be quite a bit of overlap. Indeed, if one world builds long enough, it may be hard to distinguish which method was originally chosen to begin the build.
World Building Techniques
Character Centered
"I want to flesh out the world in which my character and their friends live…"
The Character Centered world build is one that I aim to offer to people who have a strong character or cast of characters already in mind. Perhaps you have a protagonist that you just need a setting for or maybe you have a villain who needs a world befitting their masterful intellect. No matter what character cast you have in mind already, the Character Centered approach allows you to craft a world with your cast in mind from the start.
This bottom up approach aims to help you find a place for your cast in a world while at the same time helping ensure your characters retain the sort of consistency that can help make them excellent. Those with existing characters who are well fleshed out benefit most from this approach while those who don't might be better suited with a different one.
The world for Star of Ashor, my own novel, has its genesis in this technique. It was not something I did on purpose at the time, and it had no name of course. It all started with the original sole protagonist, Tony Karo. Characters I added to the lineup helped me flesh out the world more, each one requiring something new and different to become part of the story and eventually, it became what it is now.
Conflict Centered
"I want to have a world in which an epic struggle between good and evil is raging…"
The Conflict Centered approach, rather than focusing on a cast of existing characters, focuses more so on major conflicts. The goal of the Conflict Centered build is to inject a world with sets of major conflicts around which the desired type of plot can be written or created.
A Conflict Centered build is one in which the writer does not insert characters, but essentially picks characters out of the conflict setting that is being created. While the Character Centered approach is building the world to the needs of a cast, the Conflict Centered approach does not make many concessions to character. Instead, it encourages writers to organically choose characters within the setting.
I see conflict centered builds quite a lot in interactive mediums like video games, where the writers want to tell a story surrounding a particular conflict and the choice of protagonist is somewhat secondary to that. That is not to say that I think all interactive mediums use this method, but conflict centered builds, with less emphasis on specific characters, often tend to allow for a more open ended choice of protagonists or villians. This is something one would want to consider heavily in a medium where the one experiencing it is expecting more choice than is generally offered by traditional storytelling formats.
"Thousands of years of epic history from various races make up my fantasy world…"
World Centric building is the most high level approach of them all. It starts at a huge, macro level and gets more granular with time. This sort of approach is the kind in which you will often find yourself looking at various world shaping events, much like you might in conflict centered building. However, unlike conflict centered building, you tend to use such events as a way to "build the history" rather than for the purpose of telling a specific story at that time.
World Centric building is the kind of technique that I feel tends to create those long running epics that span several books. Writers like the late J.R.R. Tolkein are some of the greatest pioneers of this sort of art form with the in-depth world histories that surrounded classic high fantasy worlds like Middle Earth.
A world build with this sort of development would be a shame to use once and throw away. To build such rich histories, the conflicts and stories that shaped it naturally lend themselves to storytelling. With languages, cultures, races and heroes throughout their long histories, World Centric builds are a class of their own. They seem daunting at first but the good news is that one does not always have to start with a world centric build. Because of the way they are, these sorts of builds can blossom naturally from either conflict or character centered builds.
I personally feel like any good build has aspects of world centric building in it, even if it is limited in scope.
Questions are the key
World building requires creativity and passion, but can feel impossible at times when one wonders, "What's next?"
Answering this question is simple and for any world build, questions can be key to moving forward. Always asking questions about your world is the best way to keep it growing and the best way to advance it. Question everything about your world, question whether it fits, question whether it affects characters, question why it happens or what caused it.
No Silver Bullet
It is also important to remember that just because one spent some time world building, it does not garuntee anything about the story reliant on that world. Effective employment of world building is a skill in and of itself as well, rooted in the concept of consistency.
In the next few articles, we will go over each of the above techniques in more detail. We will talk about how to ask questions to generate the consistency we are looking for, and then apply it to the technique we are using. Stay tuned for the next article in the series, focused on the Character Centered world build approach: The Champion
CategoriesWorld Building, Writing Blog TagsWorld Building, World Building Basics


Help us test our unique face detection system and we are putting a 300K ENU bounty for it.
Just create an account and upload your picture as instructed and join the telegram group to discuss about it and let us know if you have found errors/bugs or if you have suggestions.
At the end of the testing period, we will distribute 300K ENU to all participants depending on your ranking and accuracy. Since this is a test, we expect some problems along the way and we will continue to improve the system.


New TV Queen! Amber Rose Lands Her Own Talk Show—Will She Diss Kanye West?
Someone is making major boss moves! Amber Rose is heading to the small screen with her own talk show, it was revealed this week!
The 32-year-old was speculated last year to be having her own reality show, but it was never confirmed. It turns out that the speculation was accurate, and we can only imagine what Muva will be discussing on the VH1 show, which is produced by Dr. Phil and Stage 29 Productions and set to premiere this summer.
Let's hope it does a lot better than Kris Jenner's talk show, which was cancelled back in 2013 after a little over a month!
Considering Amber is BFFs with Blac Chyna, who is engaged to Kris' son, Rob Kardashian, and was once dating Kanye West, we wonder if she'll end up talking about the famous reality stars.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely she'll be talking about her past relationship with Kanye, now that she's cool with Kim Kardashian, though we know how she feels about him already! In March, she told OK! exclusively, "I just don't like him as a person. I don't know if I ever will. It's very simple." But maybe she'll be able to dish on Blac Chyna's relationship with Rob!
What are your thoughts on Amber having her own show? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.


"Sixpack and Dogwelder: Hard-Travelin' Heroz #1," written by Garth Ennis with art by Russ Braun and John Kalisz, begins with Dogwelder searching for his past; Sixpack (in his own drunken way) strives to get the team together. Bueno Excellente and Guts are having marital problems. A mysterious character offers a bit of life changing advice to Dogwelder, and hints a bit about his 'true nature.' Maybe our team is meant for something greater?
This dark comedy stars the least successful superhero team in the DC Universe. Issue #1 is a clear re-introductory edition. Therefore, background is necessary even to grasp the nastiness of the characters. Sixpack and Dogwelder first burst onto the scene in John McCrea's Hitman (#1). The team is most known for defeating the demons known as The Many-Angled Ones with an ending that's… not so glorified, let's just say. The shock value and obscene humor has never been stronger than in this episode.
This story-arc, being a part of the Rebirth line, is expected to get crazier and crazier as the arc progresses. Ennis adds characters from Gotham just for fun and the team is in utter disarray. It will take a miracle for the team to completely reconcile and get back together. Interestingly enough, Dogwelder's background delivers the complexity readers want. The creepiness of Dogwelder peering in on his old family as they discuss getting a puppy is just the beginning of a great background story. The secrecy surrounding Dogwelder's origin is very successful especially with the added mystery of the trench coat wearing/cigarette smoking guy in the alley.
THE VERDICT: This re-introductory issue frankly falls flat . If you are a lover of comics with high expectations, then this issue is not for you. The plot has difficulty coming together as well; even though it's a #1 issue, you would still need to be debriefed or have researched all of the characters and previous story-arcs to figure out what is really happening. However, all isn't lost. Dogwelder's background and origin does give the plot some complexity, as does Sixpack's moment of clarity. Ennis hopefully will build on these two pillars and deliver more concise episodes as the story-arc continues.


This series will forever be one I treasure. I knew it the moment I first finished The Forest of Hands and Teeth. That book left my heart bleeding. It was just like nothing I had ever read before. Then after The Dead-Tossed Waves, my heart was mended because of the ending. It left me feeling hopeful for the outcome of these characters I had fallen in love with. Now here we are, at the end of this amazing trilogy.
Carrie Ryan has taken us through a very scenic journey. First with the Village surrounded by a forest in the first book, then Vista, an ocean town. Now we get to see the Dark City, which is what's left of what used to be New York City. It's dark and gritty…perfect dystopian setting.
I'm not really sure what I expected Annah, our main character, to be like, but I did not expect her to be so wounded, emotionally and physically. She's had to live with the regret of having left her sister in the forest when they were five. She feels ugly because of the scars she has on her face and body from an accident a few years back. But…she's a survivor. Of all protagonists in this series, Annah's had it the worst in my opinion. I loved getting to see her transform from this insecure, angry girl to a strong, confident woman. Some of the things that happen to her in this book made me so angry!
I seriously hated the Recruiters. The way they treated everyone, especially their captives, was completely enraging!! And I hate to say they got what they deserved in the end, but they did, and I was happy about it.
Annah is able to get past some of her issues, in part, thanks to a couple of people. One would be Catcher. Although Catcher gives Annah the whole "Hands Off!" spill, I could see that he really did care for her. Catcher is just as wounded as she is, maybe not on the outside but definitely on the inside. Catcher and Annah are also very alike in that they don't let people get close and in the way of how they feel about themselves. I think this is why they connect so deeply.
I thought I had an idea of where this story would go or how I hoped it would end, but Carrie Ryan honestly surprised me. I was on the edge of my seat for most of this book! The ending, while not what I imagined (it was better), was sooo her. I felt okay letting these characters go because Carrie Ryan has written an ending that makes me believe they are going to one day make their world better. I don't have to worry about them, they'll be just fine.
I loved it. It was a beautifully written conclusion to an amazing series. And like I said before, I will treasure these books always.
There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face when she and Elias left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the horde as they found their way to the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters.
Annah's world stopped that day and she's been waiting for him to come home ever since. Without him, her life doesn't feel much different from that of the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Then she meets Catcher and everything feels alive again.
Except, Catcher has his own secrets—dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah's longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it's up to Annah—can she continue to live in a world drenched in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction?
Review: Waiting On You by Kristan Higgins + Giveaway & Excerpt!
I'll be reading this one soon. I've read the first two books, and fell in love with them. Great review! I hope I end up liking this book as much as you did.
I've only read the first so far. I have the second checked out and can't wait to read. Never thought I would like a zombie series so much. Thanks for the review.
This series is going on vacation with me! Thanks for the post!
I really did not like letting these characters go! I really think there's enough for another book…don't you? One can always hope….
I just bought Forest of Hands and Teeth! I am so excited to get it!
Oh, you must read it soon!!! It's one of my most favorite series!
Oh my gosh, I love these books. They started my love of zombies. I remember when I read this one. I was so sad they were over. Like near devastation. A few days later, my husband comes home with the first season of The Walking Dead. He had no idea, he just wanted to try the show out, but I felt like my life was back!!! He didn't even think I'd watch it with him since I didn't like zombies. Ooh, but I do now!!!


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More Details on US Special Forces' Raid on Yemeni Province of Bayda 5 out of 5 based on 6 ratings. 6 user reviews.
More Details on US Special Forces' Raid on Yemeni Province of Bayda
The MV-22 Osprey convertiplane, evacuating US troops from the raid's site, experienced a 'hard landing' and was destroyed by an US air strike.
The MV-22 of the US Marine Corps lands in the desert (Photo: US Marine Corps / Lance Cpl. Brandon Maldonado)
On Monday, some new details on ground raid of the US Special Forces on the mountain village of Yakla, located in the central Yemeni province Bayda, were revealed. The operation, aimed on elimination of the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was conducted on last Saturday. According to the New York Times newspaper, citing its own source in the Pentagon, an aircraft, crashed during the battle, was not a helicopter.
The newspaper noted that the MV-22 Osprey convertiplane, evacuating US troops from the site of the raid, "experienced a 'hard landing'." Subsequently, the damaged convertiplane was destroyed by an air strike in order not allow terrorists to obtain its wreckage.
Wreckage of the MV-22 Osprey convertiplane, destroyed in the Yemeni province of Bayda (Photo: kokpit.aero)
Wreckage of the MV-22 Osprey convertiplane, destroyed in the Yemeni province of Bayda (Photo: yemenakhbar.com)
A number of Russian media reported about participation of the US Marine Corps in the special operation, however, this information was not true. US military sources noted that the raid was carried out by the SEAL Team Six of the US Navy, which is a part of the US Special Operations Forces.
The Pentagon also reported that a 36-year-old officer of the US Navy, William 'Ryan' Owens, a native of Illinois, was killed during the operation. Three other US officers were wounded.
Chief Petty Officer William 'Ryan' Owens (Photo: Naval Special Warfare Command / Capt. Jason Salata)
Tags:al-Qaeda, bayda, MV-22, us marine corps, US Navy, US special forces, us special operations forces, US Troops, usa, yakla, yemen
In Photos: Houthis' Remote Control Explosive Boat
Military Situation In Yemen On July 1, 2019 (Map Update)
Military Situation In Yemen On June 2, 2019 (Map Update)
Ansar Allah Regained More Ground From Saudi-led Forces In Its Push To Recapture Yemen's Qatabah (Map Update)
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More carter than Nixon?
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Go Houthi's! Destroy the Saudi's terrorists!
For a brief moment the US switches sides and hits the Saudis , Al Qaeda guys . No mention of the success of the operation , eliminating the leader , only one Seal killed and three wounded .


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Join us every Saturday for a reading of some of your favorite books, as well as some that we think you'll enjoy! All ages are welcome!
Sat, Feb 1 11:00 am to 11:30 am Kings Bay Library
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Sat, Feb 1 11:30 am to 12:00 pm Kings Bay Library
Enjoy coloring activities with your friends and family
Kids Create: Writing
Sat, Feb 1 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Sunset Park Library
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Little Scientists
Sat, Feb 1 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Sunset Park Library
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Mon, Feb 3 10:00 am to 11:00 am McKinley Park Library
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Mon, Feb 3 11:00 am to 11:30 am Kings Bay Library
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The more you read, sing and talk with toddlers, the more they learn! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children during this program dedicated to active toddlers.
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Learn to play together with other kids and share the toys.
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More than 200 landlords breach deposit law in Scotland
More than 200 Scottish landlords have been found in breach of deposit protection laws in 18 months, according to new research.
SafeDeposits Scotland, which advises tenants and landlords on their rights and responsibilities, also found that £186,657 was repaid to tenants after they took landlords to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland.
Since 2012, landlords in Scotland that take a deposit from their tenant have been required, by law, to lodge the deposit with one of three Government-approved schemes within 30 working days of the tenancy commencing. Failure to do so can result in fines of up to three times the deposit value, which the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Housing and Property Chamber) presides on.
Accessing papers publicly available on the tribunal website, SafeDeposits Scotland studied decisions made by the tribunal since it began hearing cases of non-compliance with deposit protection at the end of 2017.
It found that £186,657 had been paid out to tenants, the equivalent of more than £900 per case. Although landlords can be fined up to three times the deposit value, the average award for the cases studied is 1.31 times the deposit value.
The largest award was made to tenants renting a property in Edinburgh, where the landlord was ordered to pay out £3,937.50, and the lowest was £50 for a property in Hamilton.
Rented properties in Glasgow accounted for the greatest number of cases heard by the tribunal, closely followed by Edinburgh, with 38 and 37 cases respectively.
'Deposit protection legislation is designed to protect all parties involved in the private rented sector and costs landlords nothing to comply with. The schemes also offer free and impartial adjudication services to ensure that any deductions from deposits are fair and can be scrutinised,' said Victoria Smith, chief operating officer at SafeDeposits Scotland.
'We believe that the overwhelming majority of landlords operate within the rules, but the findings from our research into the first 18 months of the First-tier Tribunal demonstrates that there are some out there who don't,' she pointed out.
"In most of the cases we've looked at, the landlord has not acted out of malice, but was either simply unaware of the legislation or forgot, however, that does not reassure tenants or save landlords from fines.
She explained that landlords must protect a tenant's deposit within 30 working days of receiving it with a government-approved scheme like SafeDeposits Scotland. Tenants should also receive confirmation from landlords about which scheme their deposit is with.


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On this date, January 12, 2019, I declare that a state of emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Virginia based on the need to prepare and coordinate our response to winter weather forecasted to impact the Commonwealth on January 12th. This storm could result in significant snow and ice accumulation, create transportation issues, and result in significant power outages.
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by § 44-146.17 of the Code of Virginia, as Governor and as Director of Emergency Management, and by virtue of the authority vested in me by Article V, Section 7 of the Constitution of Virginia and by § 44-75.1 of the Code of Virginia, as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the Commonwealth, and subject always to my continuing and ultimate authority and responsibility to act in such matters, I hereby proclaim a state of emergency exists. Accordingly, I direct state and local governments to render appropriate assistance to prepare for this event, to alleviate any conditions resulting from the situation, and to implement recovery and mitigation operations and activities so as to return impacted areas to pre-event conditions as much as possible.
A. Implementation of the Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Operations Plan (COVEOP), as amended, by state agencies along with other appropriate state plans.
C. Activation of the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia Defense Force to state active duty to assist in providing such aid. This shall include Virginia National Guard assistance to the Virginia Department of State Police to direct traffic, prevent looting, and perform such other law enforcement functions as the Superintendent of State Police (in consultation with the State Coordinator of Emergency Management, the Adjutant General, and the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security) may find necessary. Pursuant to § 52-6 of the Code of Virginia, I authorize the Superintendent of the Department of State Police to appoint any and all such Virginia Army and Air National Guard personnel called to state active duty as additional police officers as deemed necessary. These police officers shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as the Virginia State Police officers appointed by the Superintendent. Any bonds and/or insurance required by § 52-7 of the Code of Virginia shall be provided for them at the expense of the Commonwealth. In all instances, members of the Virginia National Guard and Virginia Defense Force shall remain subject to military command as prescribed by § 44-78.1 of the Code of Virginia and are not subject to the civilian authorities of county or municipal governments.
D. Activation, implementation, and coordination of appropriate mutual aid agreements and compacts, including the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), and the authorization of the State Coordinator of Emergency Management to enter into any other supplemental agreements, pursuant to §§ 44-146.17(5) and 44-146.28:1 of the Code of Virginia. The State Coordinator of Emergency Management is hereby designated as Virginia's authorized representative within the meaning of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, § 44-146.28:1 of the Code of Virginia.
E. This Emergency Declaration implements limited relief from the provisions of 49 CFR §§ 390.23 and 395.3 for the purpose of providing direct relief or assistance as a result of this disaster.
F. Authorization of the Virginia Departments of State Police, Transportation, and Motor Vehicles to grant temporary overweight, over width, registration, license, or hours of service exemptions to all carriers transporting essential emergency relief supplies to, through, and from any area of the Commonwealth. This authorization also applies to water, food, heating oil, motor fuels, or propane, agricultural products, agricultural supplies, livestock and poultry, livestock and poultry feed, forest products and salvaged wood, waste, and trees cut in preparation for the storm, and providing restoration of utilities (including but not limited to electricity, gas, phone, water, wastewater, and cable) or removal of waste to, through and from any area of the Commonwealth in order to support the disaster response and recovery, regardless of their point of origin or destination. Weight exemptions are not valid on posted structures for restricted weight. Weight exemptions are also not valid on interstate highways unless there is an associated federal emergency declaration. The exemption shall not exceed the duration of the motor carrier's or driver's direct assistance in providing emergency relief, or 30 days from the initial declaration of emergency, whichever is less.
1. All overwidth loads, up to a maximum of 12 feet, and overheight loads up to a maximum of 14 feet, must follow Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles' hauling permit and safety guidelines.
2. In addition to described overweight/overwidth transportation privileges, carriers are also exempt from vehicle registration with the Department of Motor Vehicles. This includes vehicles en route and returning to their home base. The agencies cited in this provision shall communicate this information to all staff responsible for permit issuance and truck legalization enforcement.
G. Implementation and discontinuance of the transportation-related provisions authorized above shall be disseminated by the publication of administrative notice to all affected and interested parties. I hereby delegate to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, after consultation with other affected Cabinet Secretaries, the authority to implement and disseminate this Order as set forth in § 2.2-104 of the Code of Virginia.
H. Authorization of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to grant a temporary waiver of the maximum vapor pressure prescribed in regulation 2VAC5-425 et seq., and to prescribe a vapor pressure limit the Commissioner deems reasonable. The temporary waiver shall remain in effect until emergency relief is no longer necessary, as determined by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
I. Provision of appropriate assistance, including temporary assignments of non-essential state employees to the Adjunct Emergency Workforce, be rendered by state agencies to respond to this situation.
J. Authorization of appropriate oversight boards, commissions, and agencies to ease building code restrictions, permitting requirements, and to allow for emergency demolition, hazardous waste disposal, debris removal, emergency landfill sitting, and other operations and activities necessary to address immediate health and safety needs without regard to time-consuming procedures or formalities and without regard to application or permit fees or royalties. All appropriate executive branch agencies are to exercise discretion to the extent allowed by law to address any pending deadlines or expirations affected by or attributable to this emergency event.
K. Authorization for the heads of executive branch agencies, with the concurrence of their Cabinet Secretary, to act, when appropriate, on behalf of their regulatory boards to waive any state requirement or regulation where the federal government has waived the corresponding federal or state regulation based on the impact of events related to this situation.
L. Activation of the statutory provisions in § 59.1-525 et seq. of the Code of Virginia related to price gouging.
M. Authorization of a maximum of $100,000 in state sum sufficient funds for state and local government mission assignments authorized and coordinated through the Virginia Department of Emergency Management that are allowable as defined by The Stafford Act, 42 USC § 5121 et seq. This funding is also available for state response and recovery operations and incident documentation. Out of this state disaster sum sufficient, an amount estimated at $50,000 is authorized for the Department of Military Affairs for the state's portion of the eligible disaster-related costs incurred for salaries, travel, and meals during mission assignments authorized and coordinated through the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
N. Implementation by public agencies under my supervision and control of their emergency assignments as directed in the COVEOP without regard to normal procedures pertaining to performance of public work, entering into contracts, incurring of obligations or other logistical and support measures of the Emergency Services and Disaster Laws, as provided in § 44-146.28(b) of the Code of Virginia. Section 44-146.24 of the Code of Virginia also applies to the disaster activities of state agencies.
O. During this declared emergency, any person who holds a license, certificate, or other permit issued by any state or political subdivision thereof, evidencing the meeting of qualifications for professional, mechanical, or other skills, the person, without compensation other than reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses, may render aid involving that skill in the Commonwealth during this emergency. Such person shall not be liable for negligently causing the death of, or injury to, any person or for the loss of, or damage to, the property of any person resulting from such service as set forth in Code of Virginia § 44-146.23(C). Additionally, members and personnel of volunteer, professional, auxiliary, and reserve groups identified and tasked by the State Coordinator of Emergency Management for specific disaster-related mission assignments, as representatives of the Commonwealth engaged in emergency services activities within the meaning of the immunity provisions of § 44-146.23(A) of the Code of Virginia, shall not be liable for the death of, or any injury to, persons or damage to property as a result of such activities, as provided in § 44-146.23(A) of the Code of Virginia.
P. Designation of physicians, nurses, and other licensed and non-licensed health care providers and other individuals, as well as hospitals, nursing facilities and other licensed and non-licensed health care organizations, political subdivisions and other private entities by state agencies, including the Departments of Health, Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Social Services, Emergency Management, Transportation, State Police, and Motor Vehicles, as representatives of the Commonwealth engaged in emergency services activities, at sites designated by the Commonwealth, within the meaning of the immunity provisions of § 44-146.23(A) of the Code of Virginia, in the performance of their disaster-related mission assignments.
Q. As provided in § 44-146.23(F) of the Code of Virginia, no individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, fraternal organization, religious organization, charitable organization, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, officer, director, representative, or agent thereof, who, without compensation other than reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses, provides services, goods, real or personal property, or facilities at the request and direction of the State Department of Emergency Management or a county or municipal employee whose responsibilities include emergency management shall be liable for the death of or injury to any person or for the loss of, or damage to, the property of any person where such death, injury, loss, or damage was proximately caused by the circumstances of the actual emergency or its subsequent conditions, or the circumstances of this emergency.
Upon my approval, the costs incurred by state agencies and other agents in performing mission assignments through the VEOC as defined herein and in § 44-146.28 of the Code of Virginia, other than costs defined in the paragraphs above pertaining to the Virginia National Guard and pertaining to the Virginia Defense Force, shall be paid from state funds.
This Executive Order shall be effective January 12, 2019, and shall remain in full force and in effect until February 12, 2019, unless sooner amended or rescinded by further executive order. Termination of the Executive Order is not intended to terminate any federal-type benefits granted or to be granted due to injury or death as a result of service under this Executive Order.
Given under my hand and under the Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, this 12th day of January, 2019.


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The little man is still awake and it is already an hour past nap time. He is fighting it and I don't like it one bit. I know what he is like when he doesn't get enough sleep.
I will wait another thirty minutes and see if he will settle down. If not then maybe he is giving up his naps for good. I sure am not loving it but then I can't dictate him on what to do. I am only here to assist him.
I hate the screeching he does. It annoys me. But I am not going to give in to him. This will be a battle of wills. Sort of. Lol.


Korean seasoned raw beef (yukhoe) is a delicious, fantastic totally unique dish: cool, garlicky, nutty, a little sweet and of course meaty! It makes for a great side dish for drinking. My recipe uses a lot of garlic, so plan in advance for garlic breath!
This recipe has been a favorite in my family for a long time. Over the years I've tried many different versions in restaurants and experimented with ratios, but I always come back to this one. I love the contrast between the strong garlic, sesame oil flavor, sweetness, saltiness, and cool beef.
Many Korean restaurants add an egg yolk to the middle of the plated dish, but I've never liked that method. I don't alway want egg yolk on my yukhoe. But recently I've come to enjoy a yolk on the side, and this way you can ask your guests if they want a yolk of their own, instead of putting it on the dish for all to share. Give your family or guests a little freedom, let them dip their yukhoe in a yolk, if they like!
One of the keys to this dish is to buy fresh, good quality beef that's tender and has almost no fat. I find it best to talk to my butcher directly and tell him I'm going to eat it raw, so he (or she) can recommend the most suitable cut. If you can't talk to your butcher, you have to be careful to buy the freshest you can get from a place you trust.
The other key is to make sure everything is cold. I keep my beef in the freezer for an hour or two before making yukhoe from it, that way it's a little icy, easier to cut, and really cold when it's mixed with seasoning sauce. Try not to handle it too much with your warm hands when you cut it, so it stays cold. I chill my serving platter too, by putting it in the fridge.
8 ounces (226 grams) of fresh tender beef. Choose any tender cut of beef without fat: flank steak, filet mignon, round, etc.
Freeze the beef for 1 to 2 hours.
Make the seasoning sauce by combining garlic, green onion, soy sauce, honey, ground black pepper, sesame oil, and sesame seeds in a bowl. Mix it well.
Mix 2 cups of cold water and 1 tablespoon sugar in a bowl with a spoon.
Peel the pear and cut it into matchsticks. Soak them in the sugar water for about 10 minutes.
Drain the pear sticks and dry with paper towel. Put them on a plate, clearing out a spot in the center to put your yukhoe.
Take the beef out from the freezer and rinse it in cold running water. Pat dry with paper towels.
Cut the beef into thin matchsticks and then Mix it with the seasoning sauce.
Place the yukhoe in the center of the plate of pear matchsticks.
Sprinkle with pine nuts and serve right away as a side dish for alcohol, or as a snack or appetizer. An optional egg yolk for dipping can be served to each diner.
Posted on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 at 11:37 am. Last updated on February 26, 2016.
Posted March 6th, 2016 at 1:48 am | Log in to reply.
Hi Maangchi, What are some other side dishes this can be had with?, planning on making it for dinner one night this week.
Posted March 6th, 2016 at 11:25 am | Log in to reply.
I think kimchi stew, japchae, bok choy muchim, and braised tofu will go well with yukhoe dinner party. I'm sure you don't forget to make rice. : ) Good luck with your Korean food party!
Posted December 17th, 2015 at 10:06 pm | Log in to reply.
I've slowly transitioning to the mega-paleo caveman diet; carnivore basically. Raw meat.
It's a great diet but you really need to find unconventional recipes and I am glad I found this thread. I recently moved to San Fran and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a Halal?
I've been asking locals for meat at local watering holes but haven't found a decent place to by cuts yet.
Posted March 3rd, 2016 at 6:09 pm | Log in to reply.
Go across the bridge … Oakland Halal for meats and Saba for very fresh halal chicken. Both in Oakland. I think there is a larger Muslim community in the East bay, and the Fremont area than there is in SF.
Posted October 4th, 2013 at 1:10 pm | Log in to reply.
I made this last night and finally remembered to take a picture before indulging like I usually do! It was sooooooooooo delicious with Korean pear. Thank you so much for the recipe, Maangchi! The best part was the full flavor from garlic~!
Posted October 5th, 2013 at 7:46 pm | Log in to reply.
"The best part was the full flavor from garlic~!" yes, you are right. Cheers!
Posted December 19th, 2011 at 2:19 pm | Log in to reply.
1. Have you ever made, or had, Yukhoe Bibimbap? I had this many times at a restaurant in Seattle WA USA, called Shilla, and it was wonderful. Served Bibimbap style with a raw egg on top. Each time I had it, I had to argue with them to serve it to me (I am not Korean heritage)! But delicious.
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Thanks and Rock On! Maangchi Rules!
Posted December 11th, 2011 at 9:30 pm | Log in to reply.
I don't know if I know how to order the freshest beef in Korean… but maybe I will bring a co-worker to help me ^_^ I love Yukhwe!
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Apologies for the thread necromancy, but in case anyone new is reading this. . .
Yes, raw beef can make you sick, but the risk is far, FAR lower than westerners seem to think. Those E.Coli incidents were generally due to factory-ground raw beef that was left in its ground state for a long time, and were left undercooked at the restaurant. If you take some basic precautions, you can avoid the risk of getting sick greatly (I've never gotten sick, despite all the times that I've eaten raw beef).
2. Don't cut up the meat until it's time to serve. Bacteria can't grow deep inside the meat: they can't penetrate the structure, so they mostly live on the surface. Keep the meat in one piece until just before serving. If you want, you can cut the surface off the meat and only use the interior portion to further decrease the risk of contamination. Don't throw those bits away, though: marinate them in a little bit of Maangchi's bulgogi marinade, cook it up in a frying pan, and serve it over a bowl of rice as a nice snack for the cook!
3. Don't let the raw meat sit at room temperature for too long a length of time. If you're serving large amounts to a large number of people, prepare small batches and rotate them out regularly. I've never done this, but once per hour might be a good rule of thumb: make one batch, place a couple more filets in the freezer to firm up, take away any leftovers by the time you make the second batch (although I seriously doubt you'll have leftovers, since this dish tends to go quickly. Again, so long as the beef isn't completely spoiled, you should be able to cook any leftovers you don't feel comfortable serving raw: so long as it's thoroughly cooked, you should kill any bacteria that happen to have taken up residence.
4. WASH EVERYTHING. Sterilize your cutting board (several web sites can teach you how to do this), don't use the same cutting board for meat and vegetables, wash your knife and hands and mixing bowl, and make sure the plates and vegetables you serve this on are freshly washed. Reduce cross contamination: make sure that the equipment you use for making yukhoe ONLY gets used to make the yukhoe, and thoroughly wash them before you use it for anything else. This one VERY BASIC precaution can save you a ton of trouble!
5. Your tongue and nose are actually very good indicators of whether or not food is spoiled: that's what they evolved to do! (Much of the time, when people get sick from undercooked beef, it's because the undercooked parts are hidden from the nose and tongue by the properly cooked exterior.) Smell and taste the meat before adding the seasonings and serving to your friends. It should taste clean, slightly metallic, and meaty. If it tastes bitter or spoiled, toss it out.
I don't mean to say that raw beef is perfectly safe, but then no food is: people have gotten sick from raw spinach and such. But the risks of eating raw beef are overblown in the minds of many Americans: many of those same Americans wouldn't think twice about eating sashimi at a reputable restaurant, and yukhoe is much the same. Take basic precautions, and you can enjoy delicious steak tartares and yukhoes without having to spend long hours hunched over the toilet.
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I remember when I ate this with my dad. I didn't really like it, but I think it was the cut of meat. It tasted a little chalky and not very flavorful. He put more on my plate, though, saying "It's good for you! Eat up!" I'll have to make this myself and see if it comes out better.
This recipe was originally posted on April 7, 2010 at 11:37 am by Maangchi. It was last updated on February 26, 2016.
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This is supposed to be an amplification stage for a piezo microphone connected on J1.
The "ANLG_PWR" is at 3.0 volts. When probing the output (TP1) the DC output is at 3V.
I figured I had too much amplification and so reduced R6 from its original 1Mohm value to 200Kohm. That did improve the situation and got the output voltage down to 1.84V. When probing both inputs of U2 i get 1.48V.
Why is the DC output voltage not centered around 1.5V like I designed it to be?
I do need the original amplification (about 1:500) but need the DC output to be 1.5V.

A: You really ought to link to the opamp datasheet in the question.
This shows the input offset voltage is typically +/-3mV. Multiply by your stage gain of -450, and you'll see the output offset voltage is about +/-1.5V, and with a single 3V supply rail, I hope you can see that will be a problem.
What you need to do is to reduce the stage gain at DC.
Incidentally you would probably be better to split the gain across both opamps, 22 in each, (well, 22 in the first, -22 in the second, if you keep the current topology) and AC couple from one to the other to eliminate accumulated offsets. Just turn U1 into a classic non-inverting amplifier (values shown give a gain of 23, reducing to 1 at DC) and reduce the gain in stage 2 to compensate.

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
This will have another potential benefit : instead of one fast (unity gain) stage and one very low bandwidth stage (GBW/450 = 4kHz) both stages will have bandwidths of about 90kHz (GBW/23 or so)

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The cyberproceedings for the recent Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) conference in Salt Lake City are now being posted online. My paper can be accessed here.
The latest edition of Sacred Tribes Journal is available, Volume 4, Number 1 (Spring 2009).
'Transitions' » Pair extends a bridge to those leaving the faith.
Saving Mormon souls from the perceived falsehoods of their faith typically has included dubbing the church a "cult" and providing a point-by-point comparison with traditional Christianity, while caricaturing Latter-day Saint believers and practices.
Such tactics may fill the pews and energize the Evangelicals, but to John Morehead and Ken Mulholland, they are not the best tools for ministering to Mormons.
"We need to provide something constructive and Christ-centered that takes into account a true understanding of the journey they've have been on," Morehead says.
To that end, Morehead and Mulholland have produced a 14-minute trailer for a full-length multimedia effort called "Transitions: The Mormon Migration from Religion to Relationship."
It mirrors the personal approach seen in "Mormon Messages," made by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and circulated on YouTube, featuring individual converts, telling the story of their faith and how they came to join the church.
In a similar way, Morehead and Mulholland took to Salt Lake City streets, interviewing people who had left the LDS Church and who stayed, asking each how they viewed those who didn't share their beliefs.
"I loved growing up LDS. ... The tipping point for me was desperation," says Shawn, about his reasons for dropping out of Mormonism. "Nothing gave me solace, peace in my heart."
After a series of personal crises, Christine Nelson says, she didn't know where to go. "I saw no hope, I didn't know if my life could ever be OK again. Nothing had prepared me for that moment."
Emigration is the best metaphor for the experience of leaving Mormonism as thousands do each year, Pastor Ross Anderson says in the trailer.
"Because a person is coming out of the homeland, they've made a decision to go somewhere else," he says. "But they bring with them all their stories and heritage and identity. An immigrant settling into new land doesn't have to repudiate all that, but they have to learn to live in this new home. That's the experience of Latter-day Saints coming to live among traditionally believing Christians."
The "Transitions" trailer is the first major project of a new think tank, the Western Institute for Intercultural Studies, Mulholland and Morehead created in Utah to "equip individuals, congregations and Christian academics to communicate the Christian faith to adherents of new religious movements with understanding and sensitivity."
As America's religious landscape continues to evolve, theirs is an urgent assignment that goes well beyond Mormonism, they believe.
While 40 years ago, an interfaith encounter might have involved a Methodist living next door to a Catholic, in the 21st century the situation has changed dramatically: Your neighbor might be a Mormon, a Wiccan, a Pagan, a Muslim, a Hindu or a Buddhist.
This exotic mix of religions perplexes most Christians, Morehead says, but it cannot be ignored since family members, loved ones, friends, neighbors and co-workers increasingly are adherents of these movements.
How are followers of Jesus Christ going to respond to this changing society?
"A lot of people in Protestant churches don't know what these movements are or they have the crudest ideas about them," Mulholland says. "They want to share their faith but they don't want to be jerks. Unfortunately, the only model they've seen is combative."
Morehead and Mulholland have been working on providing a model for cordial interactions for more than a decade.
Mulholland was founding president of Salt Lake Theology Seminary, which closed its doors earlier this year after 20 years of operation. Morehead taught at the seminary and is co-editor and contributing author for Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach. He is also the editor of Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue and co-founder and co-editor of the "Sacred Tribes" e-journal.
In the months before the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Mulholland and others at the seminary worried that out-of-town Evangelicals would descend on Utah, attacking Mormons in a negative way. So they produced "Bridges: Helping Mormons Discover God's Grace," a video about LDS beliefs that included the perspective of Mormons themselves. It offered a kinder, more respectful approach to sharing Christian teachings with Mormons, drawing on years of living among Latter-day Saint neighbors and friends.
"Bridges" included an emphasis on interactions between Evangelicals and Latter-day Saints through the development of "relationships rather than confrontation," Morehead says.
Mulholland estimates that more than 25,000 Christians have now used "Bridges" as a way to share their faith with Mormons.
Now the Western Institute's "Transitions" adds to that approach.
"God has been so gracious in pouring out a new kind of grace into our hearts into really love these people," Mary Golding says in the trailer. "Not just love them so they get converted, but to love them enough to walk with them to get them through the process, to say you are not an accomplishment, a project to us. You are an individual that Jesus loves."
Such Christians are saying, "I'll walk with you across the bridge," Golding says, "and in this transition for as long as it takes."
For more information about the Western Institute for Intercultural Studies, go to http://www.wiics.org/.
Saturday I will attend the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) international conference in Salt Lake City with the theme "Mainstreaming and Marginalization of Religious Movements." The conference will be held June 11-13 in Salt Lake City's City Hall building. The program can be accessed here. I will be presenting a paper titled "From 'Cults' to Cultures: Bridges as a Case Study in a New Evangelical Paradigm on New Religions." I am looking forward to taking in some lectures, making my presentation, connecting with colleagues, and forging new academic relationships.
Fears and scenarios concerning the ultimate End of things are far more broad and diverse in the late modern West than the Left Behind novels of evangelicalism and popular culture. Elizabeth Rosen discusses this topic in Apocalyptic Transformation: Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination (Lexington Books, 2008), one of the most enjoyable books I have read in a while.
Rosen begins her discussion with an introduction into apocalyptic thinking. She notes that just as human beings need origin stories or myths to explain our beginnings, so we also incorporate stories of the End in order to come to grips with the threats of the end in the face of social chaos and the finality of the human story. She also draws the reader's attention to the fact that stories of the End are sense-making myths that serve as "an organizing principle imposed on an overwhelming, seemingly disordered universe." Used in this fashion, apocalyptic stories function much like conspiracy and chaos stories.
In the history of the Western world the Judeo-Christian apocalyptic has been the most influential. In that religio-cultural context one of the key apocalyptic texts has been St. John's Book of Revelation. In that piece of literature the Greek word for apocalypse refers to an "unveiling," literally meaning a revelation provided to the reader as a means of providing a sense of peace and purpose to the seeming chaos and social disruption surrounding them. In contemporary popular usage the term "apocalyptic" has moved beyond this specific meaning to serve as a general phrase referring to the End. Although the Judeo-Christian apocalyptic continues to be popular in various circles, and to exert influence outside of its specific religious context, other visions of apocalypse are found throughout popular culture. Here the context of late modernity or postmodernity puts an interesting twist on apocalyptic myth as it seeks to, as Rosen states, "reject the myth's absolutism or [to] challenge the received systems of morality that underlie it."
Having laid her foundation through the Introduction Rosen then explores differing ways in which apocalyptic myths have been explored in popular culture. Given my personal and academic research interests I appreciated the diversity of cultural sources that she drew upon in consideration of apocalypse, including graphic novels, books, and film. Several case studies in Rosen's exploration were of great interest to me. These include a look at Alan Moore's graphic novel Swamp Thing, which Rosen describes as "a veritable collection of apocalyptic stories," a differing apocalyptic twist in Moore's Watchman graphic novel, Terry Gilliam's films Brazil and 12 Monkeys, and the Wachowski Brothers' Matrix trilogy of films.
And just as the deities in these postmodern recastings of the apocalyptic myth are sometimes doubting and unsure, Gilliam, too, has identified his films as part of his own search for meaning.
If you look at everything I've done ... they're all trying to discover the truth....Perhaps they're really trying to find out what the question is. I used to think I had the questions and it was just the answers I was searching for. But the older I get, the more lost I feel, which stimulates more questioning.
As I read through Rosen's book it seemed to me that many evangelicals are likely not even aware of the popularity of apocalypse in the postmodern imagination, and in the variety of ways in which the Judeo-Christian apocalyptic is being deconstructed and reconstructed, and new apocalyptic visions are being created in popular culture. Perhaps rather than merely consuming a fictional form of evangelical Dispensational apocalyptic we might broaden our awareness of other visions for the End (whether conceived in linear or cyclical fashion), in order to consider how differing visions of the New Jerusalem speak to the late modern imagination.


The Gymei, short for Gymnasium Meiendorf, was founded in 1966 and is located in the district Meiendorf in the northern part of Hamburg. There are approximately 950 students attending grades 5-12 at the Gymei, with a focus on bilingual and musical aspects. The staff consists of 75 teachers who are teaching languages (English, French, Latin and Spanish), natural sciences (Biology, Chemistry, and Physics), social sciences (Geography, History, Politics and Economics, Religion, and Philosophy), Art, Music, Drama, P.E., Computer science, Media science, and MUN. Subjects such as History, Geography, Politics and Chemistry can be taught in English instead of German. Our school has an orchestra, a concert band and several choirs which are part of the musical branch of our school. Since September 2009, our Model United Nations conference is held yearly at the Gymei, named Model United Nations of Hamburg. We are the only school in Hamburg hosting a MUN conference. If you like to learn more about our school please visit the schools website.


Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) was an Italian fashion designer, affectionally known as Schiap. Between the two World Wars, she was arguably as powerful and influential as Coco Chanel – and yet today, while Chanel remains a huge and iconic fashion force, dominating magazines and catwalks, Schiap languishes as a footnote in fashion history. So who was this intriguing woman? And just how big is her almost forgotten legacy? Using bold patterns, geometric shapes and collaborations with Dali and Cocteau, Schiap fused the worlds of art and fashion together in a way that is widely accepted today, but was beyond avant garde at the time. Think Alexander McQueen, Peter Pilotto and Raf Simons – now imagine a woman doing this in the middle of the last century. She was closely associated with the Dada and Surrealist movements, and her most famous creation, the beautiful Lobster Dress, could easily be worn today.
Like Chanel, Schiap's story is mysterious and full of shadowy tales and half-truths. In her autobiography, she describes her childhood with fantastical drama – pretending she was an orphan; believing that the goat's milk she was fed as a baby made her become "both revolutionary and stubborn"; and planting seeds in her throat, ears and mouth in the hope that flowers would grow, and she could become as beautiful as her sister.
In 1914, aged 24, Schiap took a brief trip to London where, following a whirlwind romance, she married conman and palm-reader Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor. After he was deported under the Vagrancy Act for fortune-telling, Schiaparelli followed him to New York, and they had a daughter, known as Gogo. The marriage did not last, and Schiap moved to Paris where she found work as a freelance fashion designer and later as the couturière for a small dress house. Her first collection, of "strikingly original sweaters", was presented at 20 rue de l'Université, Paris, in 1927 and was an overnight success. Schiap opened her own salon later that year, quickly gaining a reputation for "daring and originality". This culminated, between 1936 and 1939, in collaborations with a number of Surrealist artists including Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti. Her imaginative designs during this period included the Lobster Dress and a hat shaped like a shoe.
According to Meryle Secrest's 2014 biography, Schiap was also a German spy – under observation from the FBI, but able to travel between Europe and America. She returned to France after the war and was questioned by the authorities but never charged with collaboration. However, her designs, reputation and livlihood never recovered, and despite hiring a young Hubert de Givenchy as her assistant, The House of Schiaparelli closed in 1954. In 2007, Diego Della Valle acquired the brand, and Marco Zanini was appointed in September 2013. Although Zanini has now gone, and the brand is currently without a head designer, their spring/summer 2015 Paris Couture Fashion week show (with Carla Bruni in the FROW) references Schiap's designs whilst finally appearing able to move on.
And in case you thought I'd forgotten…hats!
Lady Gaga. Schiap would be proud.
I thoroughly enjoyed this piece! Great post!! I loved reading about her. It's sad how the importance of many great minds gets minimized over time while others become immortalized. It makes me wonder why one and not the other. I hope you'll do more posts like this!!
I hope you do keep the post up and running, because it was so enjoyable to read and learn. I shared the post with my husband, and he said he's going to incorporate her into his lectures. We both thought it was a first-rate article!


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Q: how can we call SQL stored procedure in Entity framework 6.1.3? We tried to add SP through a model, but after adding SP into the model, the following code is generated and is getting build-in errors. We aren't able to build the project. Please find the below code (Context.cs file) for reference. Please help us.
public virtual ObjectResult<Usp_GetAppUsers_Result> Usp_GetAppUsers(string displayName, string userName, string userPassword, Nullable<int> orgBranchID, string activeStatus)
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I have done my time as a production assistant and have worked with hundreds more, and I thought it was time someone put together a list of what exactly makes a good PA.
Here's my top 10 list when I'm thinking about rehiring or promoting.
1) Show up ready to work.
Be early and wear something appropriate. This can be difficult to guess, and it's OK to ask. Appropriate attire for a PA could be a three-piece suit or a one-piece swimsuit, depending on the day. Be comfortable and if you think you might need something, bring it.
2) Be prepared on set.
Do you have a tool chest and a flashlight in your trunk? Did you bring an extra jacket and an umbrella? A road map and sunscreen? Producers often forget the small details when they are making big plans and are very grateful when someone can step up to handle the simple but big problems.
3) Don't step on toes.
If your opinion is wanted, it will be solicited. Remember that there may have been a dozen meetings or years of market research backing up these odd decisions. Always assume that the producer is knowledgeable and informed. On some sets, you may find that PAs are only supposed to carry certain gear, or not allowed to help with the camera or lighting departments. Figure this out as quickly as possible and get out of the way when necessary.
4) Put down your cigarettes.
If the producer isn't taking a break, you shouldn't be either. Silence your cell phone, stop checking Facebook and don't ask if you can smoke. Production teams are exactly that: teams. They need to play together and break together to function effectively.
Many producers travel across states or countries and aren't going to know where to go for whatever the production needs. A good PA will know where things are in the neighborhood. If you're not from the area, look up the basics before you get to set. Office supply stores, supermarkets and coffee shops are a good place to start.
A good on-set PA should be able to lift at least 75 pounds and stand all day. Being able to bend steel is a bonus. If you're not in shape, you're probably not going to make a great PA.
7) Have a career plan.
Great PAs are great because they aspire to be more. PA-ing is an opportunity to network with people that have the job you want, learn the trade and become more comfortable on set. If you're there for the free lunch, maybe you should be working at McDonald's.
8) Anticipate issues before they happen.
This will be easier the more you know about the project and your production company. When you have down time on set, check the weather and if it changes, update a producer. If you see an actor getting cold, grab a blanket for them before they step off set. Producers tend to focus on their biggest problem, so when you have time, you can be focusing on the smaller ones.
It seems so obvious that I shouldn't have to mention it, but every shoot has someone who can't stop talking about not having a good time. Maybe it's how you cope or how you bond with the crew, but please find a way to stop. If your feet hurt, buy new shoes. If the insects are bugging you, bring insect repellent next time. And if you don't like it, quit. Negative attitudes are poisonous.
10) Research the project or client.
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Thanos (Josh Brolin) has one goal – to obtain all six Infinity Stones. Whoever possesses all the stones will be the most powerful being imaginable. With the snap of his fingers, Thanos will be able to wipe out half of the population of the universe. With his children, known as the Dark Order, Thanos begins his quest to find all the stones.
When word gets to the Avengers that Thanos is coming to Earth, they spring into action. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Peter Parker (Tom Holland), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) will do everything in their power to stop Thanos from obtaining any Infinity Stones on Earth. Meanwhile, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and the Guardians of the Galaxy (Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista, and Vin Diesel) work to secure the Infinity Stones in space. With the fate of the universe in the balance, the Avengers must stop their most dangerous enemy.
Avengers: Infinity War represents ten years and eighteen movies in the making. There are so many major events in the film that I will only confirm what information is readily available in the trailers. That said, if you can avoid the trailers and go into the movie blind, that is the best way to experience it.
Just about every character the Marvel Cinematic Universe has introduced over the past decade makes an appearance in the biggest superhero movie of all times. The cast delivers in every aspect you can imagine. It really is amazing just how many big personalities the Russo brothers were able to squeeze into this film. They each have just enough time to shine through. Josh Brolin's Thanos really is the "star" of the film, though. We haven't learned too much about Thanos' past or how he became the feared Mad Titan aside from a brief mention here and there. Infinity War gives us some insight into his backstory to see where he came from and shows just how ruthless he is on his quest.
Avengers: Infinity War is the movie we have all been waiting for since Tony Stark built his first Iron Man suit. It is a nonstop, intense, fun movie with heart and some serious stakes. The pace of the movie makes the two and a half hour run time fly by, making you wish they had combined this movie and next year's Avengers movie – an obvious part 2 – as one long epic film. It helps if you are up to date with all the Marvel movies, especially Thor: Ragnarok, to fully understand everything that is going on. But if you have missed a couple here and there, you should be fine. Obviously, this is a movie you won't want to miss. I would recommend seeing it as soon as possible to avoid any spoilers that are bound to find their way to the internet.
My only complaint about the movie has nothing at all to do with the movie itself. After you've seen the movie, let me know what you think and I will tell you what bothers me most about it.


If you want to be a soccer star, you must always be willing to learn. This article will talk about how you can improve your game. Read on to gain some insights that will help make your goals a reality.
When a defender is rapidly approaching, pass the ball away. The ball should be kept for a long time so you're able to advance past everyone safely so you can pass it off. This will allow your teammates some seconds before the defenders change targets and close in.
Always look for times to practice. Take your ball with you when you go out, and do drills when you have a pocket of time. Just directing it with your feet when you're walking from one location to another is a great form of practice.
TIP! It is best to pass the ball as soon as a defender closes in on you. If you are still able to safely advance, keep the ball, but when defenders close in, pass it right away.
If the fields getting congested where you are, look for a wide-open teammate who you can pass off the ball to. The open player will have time to make a play before the defender gets to them, at which time they can pass back to you.
Always find ways to shock the other team. If you continually repeat the same moves, that will be noticed and predicted by the other team. If opposing players are closing in, send the ball behind you or to players on the other side.
Know that soccer is based on teamwork. Don't become selfish or forget this while playing. Team work is the most important part of playing soccer. Hot dogging will backfire on you. It is important to play on behalf of the full team. Your team wins when you sacrifice your own game for the good of your overall team.
Start long distance running in the off-season to boost stamina for soccer. In one game, you may run as many as eight miles. By doing long distance runs, you will increase your stamina on the field.
To get a position the the main team, show you have a combative spirit. You shouldn't give up and should be willing to run around on the field, defend and attack, help out everyone on your team, and be inspiring. Showing off your skills can help give you a winning chance.
Utilize a tennis ball to practice dribbling and improve your skills. Practicing with this little ball helps you get used to making constant adjustments with your feet to keep it in control. When you've gotten comfortable with them, the regular soccer ball should be simpler to dribble.
Don't only play soccer outside. Indoor soccer uses a smaller field. Because of the smaller area, you'll need to work on the ball control and your decisions will need to be made quickly. When outdoors, this will be noticeable and your skills will be even more beneficial for the team.
You should learn the correct way to kick a soccer ball. Keep in mind that the process of kicking the ball involves more than simply kicking. Place your kick at the base of the ball so it goes higher in the air. Using your foot similar to a wedge, slide it under the ball while kicking and leaning backwards.
Soccer players have a lot of emotions. At times you may feel like you're a winner, but other times you might feel like a loser. Controlling these emotions by focusing on the positive and releasing the negative will improve your own play and the morale of the team. This can make or break the game for you.
Focus on figuring out how to correctly trap the ball, with the bottom of your foot or instep. You are going to have to use this skill from time to time to stop the soccer ball. Trapping practice, and making sure you can quickly control and move again, is important.
TIP! If your dribbling skills are lacking, use a tennis ball to practice. By practicing with a small ball, you will become accustomed to making adjustments to your feet to keep control of the ball.
Use the advice that you have received to mature into a better soccer player. This will make the game more fun and make you more involved in the game. But, you need to be committed to learning about the sport, so keep on researching.


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Indian Hills Golf Course is an 18-hole public facility open year-round that offers a resort style atmosphere in Murfreesboro. The beautiful Stones River meanders through the golf course providing a uniquely scenic setting for championship golf. The par 72 layout is 6,800 yards with ample tee boxes to challenge golfers of all abilities. The course is located on Calumet Trace, off S. Church Street just miles from Interstate 24.
The facility features a 10,000 square foot clubhouse and a 1,000 square foot golf shop with the latest in golf equipment and apparel. We also offer a first class, award winning, golf academy.
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