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SNAP Overpaid $2B in Benefits; Program Dollars Up 115.6% Under Obama
By Ali Meyer | July 22, 2014 | 9:39am EDT
(CNSNews.com) - The nation's food stamp program, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), provided a record $74.6 billion in benefits to needy Americans in Fiscal Year 2012 -- paying out $2 billion too much, according to the annual quality control report for FY 2012, the most recent year for which data is available.
And only in Washington could that $2 billion in overpayments be viewed as a good thing.
Combining the $2,069,402,427 in overpayments with the $484,885,314 in underpayments for fiscal 2012 yields a "payment error rate" of 3.42 percent. "This remains the lowest national payment error rate in the history of SNAP," the report noted. (The 3.42 percent payment error rate is the sum of the FY 2012 overpayment rate -- 2.77 percent -- and the underpayment rate --0.65 percent.)
The data show the payment error rate has declined over time, from 5.64% in FY 2007; 5.01% in FY 2008; 4.36% in FY 2009; 3.81% in FY 2010; 3.80% in FY 2011; and the record low 3.42% in the latest FY 2012 report.
But over a five-year period, covering most of the Obama presidency, the size of the SNAP program -- both in dollars and the amount of overpayments -- has greatly increased.
In FY 2008, the SNAP program provided $34,611,397,238 in benefits to recipients. Five years later, in FY 2012, the amount of benefits provided had increased by 115.6 percent, to $74.6 billion dollars. Similarly, the amount of dollars overpaid for benefits increased from $1,386,557,551 in FY 2008 to $2,069,402,427 in FY 2012, an increase of 49.2 percent.
The amount of SNAP overpayments peaked in FY 2011 at $2,147,908,501.
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The quality control report presents data from the SNAP program, including annual benefit totals and error rates, based on quality control reviews of a statistical sample of households participating in the SNAP (active cases) and households for which participation was denied, suspended or terminated. Errors include people who were ineligible for benefits and people who received more or less taxpayer money than they should have.
It's up to local agencies to certify households for SNAP benefits and, along with state agencies, they are directly responsible for operating the program. The report says it is up to the states to "ultimately make the commitment to conduct accurate and efficient program operations."
There is considerable financial incentive for states to get their error rates down.
According to the USDA, in Fiscal 2012, a total of $48 million in performance bonuses was shared among "high-performing states" in various categories.
For example, in FY 2012, nine states received millions of dollars for having the best payment error rates. They include Florida (which received a bonus of $8,072,238); Illinois ($4,092,147); Virginia ($2,020,886); Louisiana ($1,945,592); Alabama ($1,897,845); South Carolina ($1,892,369); Wisconsin ($1,842,047); South Dakota ($296,973); and Alaska ($265,714).
Maryland received a bonus of $1,674,189 in FY 2012 for having the "most improved payment error rate."
The USDA report does not say what percentage of the FY 2012 overpayments were the result of fraud.
But last month, USDA announced the availability of a $7-million grant to prevent food stamp trafficking. "Through increased oversight and improvements in program management, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to help states reduce SNAP trafficking, the exchange of benefits for cash or other goods and services," USDA said at the time.
Record 20% of Households on Food Stamps in 2013
Food Stamp Recipients Outnumber Women Who Work Full-Time
WH: Food Stamps 'Are Boosting the Economy'
Food Stamp Rolls in America Now Surpass the Population of Spain


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-- Provides advertisers and app developers a recommended implementation for developing deeplink support inside of applications.
PALO ALTO, Calif., and NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today several of the leading mobile technology companies led by Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO), TapCommerce and ActionX, announced a major step for the mobile app economy: a specification and best practices guide to support deeplinking within mobile applications. Further information is available at http://mobiledeeplinking.org/.
The Mobile Deeplinking project is a collaborative industry effort to provide a consistent, high-quality source of documentation, sample code, and SDKs to help mobile app publishers create effective, seamless cross-media user experiences and marketing campaigns. The specification provides initial support for iOS and Android platforms, with support for Microsoft Windows targeted for release later this year.
All materials are hosted on mobiledeeplinking.org a new website developed to provide app developers a central location to learn about deeplinking and participate in the development of the specification. All source code is also available on GitHub. The collaborating companies will continue to provide additional features based on community feedback.
In addition to Criteo, TapCommerce and ActionX, the working group includes contributors from Flurry and MoPub. Together they represent integrations across hundreds of thousands of apps and billions of app downloads.
To become a contributor or find out more about the project and those involved, please contact help@mobiledeeplinking.org.
"This specification will help users better navigate their mobile apps, leading to increased app retention and a better customer experience," said Brian Long, CEO of TapCommerce. "As the global leader in mobile app retargeting, TapCommerce is very excited to release this specification with other leading mobile companies."
"With the acquisition of Ad-X Tracking, a leading mobile marketing analytics company, Criteo quickly recognized the issues with current deep-linking specifications. By providing a set of guidelines, tools and source code we believe app developers will be able to enhance the user experience and increase app engagement," said Jason Morse, VP Mobile, Criteo.
"We have seen deep-linking drive significant performance improvements for our retail, travel, and media subscription clients. Guiding consumers to the most relevant section of an app from an ad is a huge marketing win, and this new standard makes it easy for app developers big and small to drive more revenue," said Evan Schwartz, CEO, ActionX.
Criteo is a global leader in digital performance advertising, working with over 5,000 companies around the world. Criteo has over 800 employees in offices across the U.S., Europe and Asia serving more than 40 countries.
TapCommerce is the global leader in mobile retargeting, working with over 35 of the Top 100 grossing mobile applications. TapCommerce is headquartered in New York City's Union Square with offices in San Francisco and London. TapCommerce is a venture-backed technology company with investment from Bain Capital Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Nielsen Ventures.


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Truck Drivers Hospitalized After Fiery Crash on I-35 in Lorena
Aaron Savage
A collision between two 18-wheelers resulted in a fire that engulfed both vehicles in Lorena early Friday morning.
Christy Soto with our partners at News 10 reports that the trucks crashed around 2:30 AM. Both drivers were transported to a local hospital - one by helicopter. Police reportedly said one of the drivers suffered severe burns.
Austin Montgomery, a Lorena firefighter who lives near the scene, spotted the flames over a treeline and was the first emergency responder at the scene. Soto reported that Montgomery at first feared his brother's fireworks stand had caught fire. (Images of the fire as seen from Montgomery's home are included in the video above.)
The trucks were reportedly hauling food products. A member of the News 10 crew at the scene described one of the vehicles as having been "burnt to a crisp".
Crews shut down a portion of I-35 between Exit 321 and Exit 322 as they worked to clear the scene, causing some traffic delays early Friday morning.
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When the unexpected happens, what's a survey researcher to do?
By Laura Silver and Patrick Moynihan
High-quality public opinion surveys can take weeks to conduct. Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Survey, for example, is fielded simultaneously in 30 or more countries each year, and fieldwork can take more than eight weeks in some locations. The potential for a significant, unexpected event to occur during the interviewing phase of a survey is a looming challenge for survey researchers — especially as certain events might make the data collected before the event less comparable with what's collected after.
Unexpected events can take myriad forms, ranging from weather events that might affect fieldwork to global summits, terrorist attacks or snap elections (with potential implications for attitudes toward political leaders, trust in the government, national priorities and foreign relations).
While these types of events certainly may cause researchers some (hopefully temporary) headaches, they may also provide a unique opportunity to look at how events can cause changes in people's opinions, serving as a type of "natural experiment."
Here are two recent examples of this from our international survey work and how we approached them.
Phone survey in South Korea: The case of the Singapore Summit
On June 12, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held the first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and North Korean head of state. The meeting, held in Singapore and abruptly canceled then rescheduled, took place about two weeks after we had begun our fieldwork for a survey in South Korea. The Trump-Kim meeting was consequential in South Korea, where President Moon Jae-in pledged support for the talks and expressed optimism about a "new chapter of peace and cooperation."
Given the praise by the South Korean leadership and the significance of the meeting, we expected that South Koreans' confidence in Trump might be higher following the event than before it, perhaps inflating public opinion and giving us a misreading when compared to our year-over-year trend. But how could we assess that more precisely?
Our South Korean survey was conducted via mobile phone, and dialing wasn't designed to be concentrated demographically or geographically at specific points during fieldwork. That meant we could expect phone numbers called before and after the Trump-Kim meeting to result in relatively similar respondents.
Our practice in South Korea is to call every phone number up to seven times to increase the chances that harder-to-reach populations — for example, younger people or those who work long hours — are represented in the final sample of respondents. Since that's the case, there was a possibility for demographic differences between those we reached earlier in the survey period and those we reached later.
When we examined these unweighted demographic differences, we saw that, by and large, the people reached before the summit and afterward had similar profiles. Given this, we also created separate post-stratification weights for those interviewed before and after the summit.
Having established broad demographic similarity of the two groups, we looked at whether the summit affected respondents' evaluations of Trump. Before the meeting, 43% had confidence in Trump regarding world affairs, compared with 48% who reported confidence following it. This difference was not statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. This may have been due in part to the relatively limited sample size of the post-summit group, so we examined it more closely via two other checks.
First, we conducted a "placebo" test of sorts by asking ourselves whether South Koreans' opinions of other world leaders — which we would not expect to be affected by the Singapore Summit — also were different between the time periods in question. As an example, we looked at President Shinzo Abe of Japan, who was not involved in the summit. Among South Koreans, confidence in Abe did not change at all: It was 10% both before and after the Trump-Kim meeting.
Second, we conducted a regression, which allowed us to control for multiple demographic factors concurrently, giving us more confidence that differences we saw with regard to Trump were related to when people were surveyed, rather than who was surveyed.
Results of the regression suggest that even when controlling for age, sex and education, South Koreans interviewed after the summit had more confidence in Trump than those interviewed before the meeting.
Face-to-face surveys in Greece: The case of the snap election
During our 2019 fieldwork for a nationally representative survey of Greek adults, the country's leaders scheduled a parliamentary snap election that fell midway through our interviewing period. This provided a chance for us to explore some key themes before and after the election, such as general satisfaction with democracy. It also allowed us to analyze how satisfaction with democracy changed among "electoral winners" (those whose preferred candidate or party won) and "electoral losers."
Unlike South Korea, fieldwork in Greece was conducted through face-to-face interviews in people's homes. Fieldwork was not rolled out around the country randomly, but instead prioritized certain regions and times because of weather conditions or transportation logistics.
Given this reality, we were concerned that any differences we saw before and after the election were simply because the people interviewed in one region of the country had significantly different attitudes from those in another, regardless of the snap election.
One way to understand these challenges is to look at people's attitudes before and after the election only in regions where interviews took place in both time periods. For example, if interviews were conducted in the broader Athens region both pre- and post-election, we could feel more confident comparing opinions within Athens to one another.
When we looked just at the geographic regions that had interviews both pre-election and post-election, we saw that the age and education profiles of the respondents were relatively similar. Once again, given these differences, we created separate post-stratification weights for before and after the election.
We were also concerned that some of these geographic regions were quite large and that even within Athens, neighborhoods might differ from one another. Even though we typically return to each household up to three times and over multiple days to complete an interview, there were very few neighborhoods that had interviews before and after the snap election, making statistical inference at that level challenging. Analyzing at the regional level could offer insights, but there were many potential confounding factors that required consideration, such as age, gender, education and ideology. Once again, we returned to using regressions.
Using regressions helped us feel confident that any differences we observed were related to the snap election rather than to different types of people being interviewed at different times. It also allowed us to explore whose attitudes shifted following the election. By interacting our variable indicating when the election took place with the respondent's ideology, we saw that people on the ideological right appear more satisfied post-election. In other words, those who were more ideologically similar to the center-right party that won the election seem more satisfied with democracy after the results were known. In contrast, people on the left were similarly satisfied with democracy before and after the election.
Other approaches
These are not the only ways to look at differences in public opinion before and after unexpected events like the Singapore Summit or a snap election. For example, researchers might consider a regression discontinuity design, depending on the type of event. If a survey contains measures of political interest or news attentiveness, for example, researchers might also be able to look at changes in attitudes among the more-attuned population, in particular. And if a survey also includes benchmarks, these comparisons might prove helpful in understanding how changes pre- and post-event relate to known parameters.
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While there is no magic length that an online survey should be, Pew Research Center caps the length of its online American Trends Panel surveys at 15 minutes.
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Evaluating changes in how we ask Americans for their Twitter profiles
In our March 2021 survey, we decided to take a fresh look at the consent language we used when asking Americans to give us their Twitter handles.
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Pew Research Center recently sought to measure what U.S. adults know about geography, foreign leaders, institutions and other issues.
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More Flights Canceled As Florence Moves Through Carolinas
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(CNN) — More than 1,200 flights scheduled for Friday and Saturday have been canceled as a result of the storm that came ashore as Hurricane Florence, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.com. That's in addition to more than 600 cancellations Thursday.
Operations at many airports along the coast remain suspended as the storm, downgraded to a tropical storm Friday afternoon, slowly moves through the Carolinas.
Florence made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane at 7:15 a.m. ET Friday near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, east of Wilmington.
Service at Wilmington International Airport was suspended Wednesday and was expected to remain halted through Friday, FlightAware said. Operations at airports in New Bern, Fayetteville and Jacksonville, North Carolina, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, were also expected to remain suspended through Friday.
Charleston International Airport, where runways closed on Wednesday, was expected to be open Saturday and officials said they were hoping to resume commercial air service at noon, according to an update Friday afternoon on the airport's website.
Hundreds of miles inland in North Carolina, Charlotte Douglas and Raleigh-Durham international airports have seen some of the most significant cancellation numbers, with more than 450 across the two airports Friday, according to FlightAware figures.
Despite the cancellations, Charlotte Douglas was expected to remain open as the storm moved inland. FlightAware said the airport has one runway that can be used for takeoffs and landings during strong crosswinds.
Airlines have extended waivers and advisories for travelers with itineraries involving airports in the path of the storm.
Carriers including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines have all posted information for travelers online about fee-free changes to affected itineraries this week.
All four major US airlines have said they are capping selected airfares below what last-minute tickets would cost. Last year, some airlines caught flack because of high fares in advance of Hurricane Irma.
Rail and cruise ship travel have also been affected by the dangerous storm.
Amtrak modified East Coast service on a number of routes from Wednesday through Sunday. Many routes in the affected areas have been canceled or will operate on modified schedules during some or all of that period.
Service alerts, passenger notices and other announcements are posted at Amtrak.com/alerts. Passengers can sign up for delay alerts online.
Amtrak will waive charges for reservation changes for the affected period and routes. Call the reservations center at 800-USA-RAIL.
Some cruise ships have rerouted ships or delayed sailings this week due to the storm, according to the website CruiseCritic.com.


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Sex-mad Americans are probably the most unfaithful spouses on the earth reveals boss of 'relationship website for cheats' Ashley Madison – The Irish Sun
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Read more about ashlley madison here.
Is cheating flirting?
For others, flirting is healthy and natural as long as it doesn't lead to anything physical. Yet, the answer can be easy to pin down if approached in the right way, explains Denise Knowles, a relationships counsellor at the charity Relate. "I would never say flirting is cheating outright," says Knowles.
Currently, we now have a balanced community of men and women with a gender ratio of active females to energetic paid males of 1.eleven to 1. When it involves undesirable profiles, we rely on inside processes that flag these profiles and removes them.
Aug 26, 2015 Though Matthew's in the midst of a divorce, the Ashley Madison knowledge Here, Matthew, who asked that his final name not be used so as to defend to create database commands to say, "Show me every little thing in the ZIP code. We used the Ashley Madison database to rely how many accounts had been created in each zip code. That's There are plenty of methods to search for whether or not your information has been exposed within the Ashley Madison hack — all you want is an e mail address. Love them or hate them, Ashley Madison has a well-known status for one of the first "dating" websites that focuses on helping folks cheat.
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Here is what she advised me. Data from the 2015 data leak confirmed that the positioning had over 70,000 bot accounts posing as females and sending fake messages to unsuspecting males.
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(That declare couldn't immediately be verified.) The hackers mentioned they'd launch the database if Avid Life Media didn't shut down for good. The firm saved working Ashley Madison and a associated site, EstablishedMen, after the hack. height and zip code, they'd most likely be in. The stolen database of 32 million individuals who used cheating website Ashley Madison has made its method to the Web. First $15 CASHBACK in points issued immediately and valid for 7 days.
The gradual-movement automotive crash as the database was revealed on-line, load by load.
Impact Team produced the data Tuesday, August 18, by way of the Tor network, a type of parallel web or "dark internet" that keeps all traffic knowledge anonymous.
They are in search of online flirtation, for something informal, and for discreet relationships.
Some most likely needed to find their dishonest husbands.
Find Ashley Madison's cellphone, address, and e-mail on Spokeo, the main on-line listing However, it turns out that Ashley Madison kept a treasure trove of data for each user that's good enough to identify that person.
I've seen many who allow you to get confirmation concerning the presence of an e mail in Ashley Madison, others that return everything about the user. Publicly. To anybody. If Ashley Madison's breach is any indication, blackmail makes an attempt or public shaming may outcome from the Hookers.nl breach. That's what happened after the adulterer hook up web site was breached in 2015, with the subsequent publicity of names, email addresses and sexual fantasies of nearly forty million customers.
What age is considered senior citizen in Virginia?
Be 60 years of age or older. Be a legal resident of Virginia. Be admitted to the college as an in-state student. Provide a copy of the previous year's Virginia Tax Return (p.1) OR pages 1-2 of your U.S. Federal Income Tax Return OR your Social Security statement if you are not required to pay taxes.
Indeed, the last 12 months at Ashley Madison has centered on rebuilding user trust partly within the wake of the 2015 scandal. The firm hired a new chief privacy officer and chief security officer who have been in charge of building a new cybersecurity framework.
Who hacked Ashley Madison?
Back in August 2015, the 'dating' site Ashley Madison was hacked, exposing married cheaters the world over. We found out 86 per cent of the site's users were men, São Paulo had the most registered users of any city and it's mainly used by rich, powerful men.
05亿条记录。 LeakedSource的一位发言人曾在某单独采访中提及,网站团队的某些成员有着其他收入来源,有的甚至还是在校学生。 LeakedSource今年最大的"宝藏"是获取了3.
Today's visitor on the difficulty with sacks is Isabella mys. She's the director of member relations for Ashley Madison.
Ashley Madison mother or father in $11.2 million settlement over knowledge breach
So the web site was born at this idea that if you're going to cheat, if you are going to step exterior your marriage, why not be a bit more, like you said, thoughtful about it a bit more discreet. You know, we always say we're in the business of profitable affairs, which are undiscovered affairs, right?


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Mental Health Crisis Hotlines
Serving Greater Boston
This resource list includes 24/7 support lines available in Greater Boston and beyond, to provide support for a range of mental health issues, both crisis and non-crisis, and serve different populations. Many helplines offer phone call and text chat options, and are free and confidential.
PATHWAYS FOR CHANGE: DEAF SURVIVORS PROGRAM
Deaf Survivors Program (DSP) is a statewide program that provides free and confidential services (in-person and Zoom/Video Phone) for all Deaf and Hard of Hearing survivors in Massachusetts. Our counselors are all Deaf/ASL fluent. Services include 24/7 ASL Video Phone hotline; 1-on-1 and group counseling services; medical, court, and police accompaniment; and referrals. If you are not fluent in ASL or need additional accommodations such as captioning or Certified Deaf Interpreters, we will provide them! Email: DSP@pathwaysforchange.help
Massachusetts, USA
https://pathwaysforchange.help/pfc/agency-programs/deaf-survivors-program/
Massachusetts, video, Deaf community, domestic abuse
BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER (BARCC) HOTLINE
The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center offers counseling for groups especially for men, their friends and families. BARCC also refers men to other professionals who have experience helping male survivors. Services include a 24/7 hotline, individual counseling, support groups, a referral network and personal support and advocacy for rape survivors and their families, 24/7 hospital accompaniment/medical advocacy, legal advocacy, and case management. All services are free, confidential, and available for English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole speakers.
99 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge MA 02139
https://barcc.org/help/services/hotline
Boston, hotline, rape, web chat, phone
SAFELINK
SafeLink is Massachusetts' statewide 24/7 toll-free domestic violence hotline and a resource for anyone affected by domestic or dating violence. Are you worried about someone or do you have questions about abuse? Do you recognize warning signs of an unhealthy relationship? Do you need help or support? Call us. Each call is answered by a trained advocate who provides non-judgmental support, assistance with safety planning, and information on appropriate resources.
https://casamyrna.org/get-support/safelink/
Massachusetts, domestic abuse, hotline
The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States.
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
National, Crisis, Hotline, Phone
Trans Lifeline's Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans and questioning peers. Call us if you need someone trans to talk to, even if you're not in crisis or if you're not sure you're trans.
https://translifeline.org/
Phone, Hotline, transgender, national
Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by empowering a community of trained volunteers to support people in their moments of need. Text "HOME" to 741741. Also available on WhatsApp.
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National, Crisis, Text
CALL2TALK
Call2Talk is a mental health, emotional support, and suicide prevention program run by Mass211. It operates 24/7 and provides confidential, compassionate listening to assist people – including those who may be despondent or considering suicide – during stressful times. Call2Talk is a National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Crisis Center and partners with Crisis Text Line to respond to people by text. Alternate numbers: 413-505-5111, or text C2T to 741741.
46 Park St, Framingham MA 01702
https://mass211.org/call2talk/
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DOD SAFE HELPLINE (SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT)
Safe Helpline for Military Sexual Trauma- The Department of Defense has contracted with RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) to provide independent and anonymous services for this hotline for the DoD Community
https://www.safehelpline.org/
MASS 211
Mass211 is a 24/7 telephone resource that provides information about local health and community services. Resources include support groups, volunteer opportunties, donation programs, and youth and elderare services. Calls are free, anonymous, and confidential. Resource listings are also available through the Mass211 website.
tel: 211
PARENTAL STRESS LINE
The Parental Stress Line is a confidential 24/7 helpline for parents and caregivers who are looking for support. The helpline provides parents with counseling, information, and referral to community services.
108 Water St, Watertown MA 02472
https://www.parentshelpingparents.org/
SAMARITANS HELPLINE
Samaritans Helpline provides a free, confidential 24/7 telephone helpline to people having throughts of suicide or who need help with life's challenges and difficulties. Samaritans also provides a text service through the same number and an online chat service through their website.
https://samaritanshope.org/
Phone, Crisis, Massachusetts, Hotline
24/7, confidential crisis support for veterans and their loved ones. Call 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text message to 838255. Support for deaf and hard of hearing individuals is available.
tel:1-800-273-8255, press 1
https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/
Greater Boston Regional Suicide Prevention Coalition
c/o Justice Resource Institute
160 Gould Street, Needham, MA 02494
www.greaterbostonpreventssuicide.org
info@greaterbostonpreventssuicide.org
In case you might be in a crisis, dial 9-1-1.
Otherwise, consider calling the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, 800-273-TALK (8255).


Are there alternatives to eWeLink.
I have tried IFTTT but this is very basic and only control one device per app.
I have seen the articles on dawn to dusk etc and I really would like to get a good app that has these capabilities.


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THE GREAT ATEN
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The symmetrical plan of this tomb is very simple with a cruciform layout consisting of a deep, corridor-like hall connected to a broad hall and a shrine at the very rear of the tomb.
The doorway is surrounded by a simple frame containing texts of prayers and figures of Ahmose adoring cartouches, though these depictions are barely visible today.
Within the entrance to the outer hall (a short corridor), Ahmose stands in a pose of adoration. Here, the texts is an abbreviated version of the Hymn to the Aten. Ahmose is shown with the symbols of his office, a tall fan and an inverted axe, slung over his shoulder. Additionally, portions of the original painted designs on the ceiling have been preserved.
Within the outer, deep hall, the roof is vaulted at the front but flattens out to a ceiling at the end. As a way of improving on the poor quality of the native rock, the wall surfaces were given a fine coating of plaster.
The decoration of this hall was left unfinished. The right hand side of the hall was carved in relief and include figures of the King, Queen and the three princesses of the royal family beneath the Aten (near the entrance), but the left side has sections that were only partially drawn with the draughtsman's red outline only.
The upper register of the left side depicts a royal visit to the Great Temple to the Aten. Near the front of the tomb in this register is an abbreviated architectural drawing of the temple itself.
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Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart what is true.
Ahmose adoring the abbreviated Hymn to the Aten
In this depiction of the temple, we may note that statues of the King and Queen stand beside some of the columns and also the main altar in the middle of the large courtyard, which is otherwise occupied by smaller altars and side chapels with doors. Just in front of the temple are two short rows of seated male musicians. Below the temple is the animal slaughter court and to the right of it is a low platform supporting the sacred benben-stone with a rounded top. This is the ancient symbol of the sun.
To the right of this depiction the wall is damaged, but further into the left wall are four lines of soldiers in two groups, running in a stooped posture, and preceding the royal chariot. In the front of each line are Egyptian soldiers, followed by a few foreign soldiers. The foreign soldiers consists of Syrians with pointed bears, a Libyan with a feather in his hair and a Nubian with closely cropped hair and earrings. Some of the soldiers carry standards. Between and in front of the two groups of soldiers stands a trumpeter. An officer with a baton runs at the back of each line of soldiers. Towards the rear of the chamber in this register, their is a partially finished red outline of the King and Queen riding in a chariot.
In the lower register, only a partially finished area near the front of the left wall survives. Here, to the left, we find a representation of the King's House in Central City. It shows the King's bedroom in the top left hand corner, with a bed, mattress, headrest and steps carefully depicted. In the center of this group of scenes are a group of girls, some of whom are playing musical instruments. To the right are traces of a large depiction of the King (right) and Queen (left) seated and eating a meal. There is also shown one princess sitting on the Queen's lap, and another on a stool below her chair.
From the deep hall, a short passage leads into the broad hall, which runs transversely to the axis of the tomb and is mostly undecorated. It has a burial shaft opening at either end, one finished and the other unfinished, surmounted by a door-shaped stela carved in the eastern and western walls.
The shrine opening from the very back of the broad hall on the center axis of the tomb was undecorated, though a seated statue of the tomb owner was cared at its back. However, this is now badly mutilated. A libation basin was cut into the floor in front of the statue. The roof of this chamber is vaulted. Note that there are pivot-holes carved into the floor of the shrine entrance, showing that the shrine was once sealed by wooden, pivoting doors. The doorway to the shrine has rows of uraei above the transom.
Many Greek graffiti are scratched on the walls of this tomb. A total of fifty-nine have been recorded. Most are thought to be of the Ptolemaic Period, and record the names of visitors, several of them being from Thrace, perhaps, mercenary soldiers. The most interesting occurs on the wall outside, just on the right of the doorway: "Having ascended here, Catullinus has engraved this in the doorway, marveling at the art of the holy quarries."
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T H E G R E A T A T E N
The God and Disk of the Sun
In connection with the Sun-gods of Egypt and with their various forms which were worshipped
in that country must be considered the meager facts which we possess concerning Aten,
who appears to have represented both the god or spirit of the sun, and the solar disk itself.
The origin of this god is wholly obscure, and nearly all that is known about him under the
Middle Empire is that he was a small provincial form of the Sun-god which was worshipped in
one little town in the neighborhood of Heliopolis, and it is possible that a temple was built in
his honor, in Heliopolis itself.
It is idle to attempt to describe the attributes which were orginally ascribed to him under the
Middle or Early Empire, because the texts which were written before the XXIIIrd Dynasty give
us no information on the subject.
Under the XVIIIth Dynasty, and especially during the reigns of Amen-Ra-Heru-khuti, Horus, etc.,
but it does not follow that they orginally belonged to him. In the Theban Recesion of the Book
of the Dead, which is based upon Heliopolitan, we find Aten mentioned by the deceased thus :---
"Thou, O Ra, shinest from the horizon of heaven, and Aten is adored when he resteth {or setteth} upon this mountain to give life to the two lands. Hunefer says Ra, Hail, Aten, thou the lord of beams of light, {when} thou shinest all faces {i.e., everybody} lives. Nekht says Ra, O thou beautiful being, thou doest renew thyself and make thyself young again under the form of Aten; Ani says Ra, Thou turnest thy face towards the Underworld, and thou makest the earth to shine like fine copper. The dead rise up to thee, they breath the air and they look upon thy face when Aten shineth in the horizon;------I have come before thee that I may be with thee to behold thy Aten daily: O thou who art in thine Egg, who shinest from thy Aten," etc.
These passages show that Aten, at the time when the hymns from which they are taken were composed, was regarded as the material body of the sun wherein dwelt the god Ra, and that he represented merely the solar disk and was visible emblem of the great Sun-god.
In later times, coming to protection afforded to him by Amen-hetep III, the great warrior and hunter
of the XVIIIth Dynasty, other views were promulgated concerning Aten, and he became the cause of one the greatest religious and social revolutions which ever convulsed Egypt.
After the expulsion of Hyksos, Amen, the local god of Thebes, as the god of the victorious princess
of that city, became the head of the company of the gods of Egypt, and the early kings of the
XVIIIth Dynasty endowed his shrine with possessions, and gave gifts to his priesthood with a lavish hand.
In spite of this however, some of these kings maintained an affection for the forms of the Sun-god which were worshipped at Heliopolis, and Thothmes IV, it will be remembered, dug out the Sphinx
from the sand which had buried him and his temple, and restored the worship of Ra-Harmachis.
He was not the only monarch who viewed with disamy the great and growing power of the priests of Amen-Ra, the "king of the gods" at Thebes.
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Amen-hetep III, the son of Thothmes IV, held the same views as his father in this respect, and
he was, apparently, urged to give effect to them by his wife Thi, the daughter of Iuaa and Thuau,
who was a foreigner and who was in no way connected with the royal house of Egypt.
Having married this lady, he gave her as dowry the frontier city of Tcharu, and her natural ability, coupled with the favor of her husband, made her chief of all the royal wives, and a great power in
the affairs of the government of the country. It has been thought by some that she was a native
of the country near Heliopolis, and it is possible that she herself was a votary of Aten, but be that
as it may, she appears to have supported the king in his determation to encourage the worship of
the god.
At an early period in his reign he built one at Thebes, quite close to the great sanctuary of Amen-
Ra, the priests of whom were, of course, powerless to resist the will of such an active and able king. Soon after his marriage with Thi, Amen-hetep III, dug, in his wife's city of Tcharu, a lake, which was about 6000 feet long by 1000 feet broad. On the day of the festival when the water was allowed to flow into it, he sailed over it in a boat called "Aten-neferu, i.e., the "Beauties of Aten ;" the name of the boat is a clear proof of his devotion to the god Aten.
Amen-hetep IV, the son of Amen-hetep III. by the foreign lady Thi, not only held the religious views
of his father, but held them very strongly. His life shows that he must have been from his youth of
an adherent of the worship of Aten; it is supposed, and with much probability, that the intensity of
his love for Aten and his hatred for Amen-Ra were due to his mother's influence.
Amen-hetep IV succeeded his father without difficulty, even though his mother was not a member
of the royal family of Egypt, and for the first few years of his reign he followed the example of the earlier kings of his dynasty, and lived at Thebes, where he no doubt ruled according to his mothers wishes. He offered up sacrifices to Amen-Ra at the appointed seasons, an was, outwardly at least,
a loyal servent of this god, whose name formed a part of his name as "son of the Sun."
We may note in passing, that he adopted on his accession to the throne the title "High-priest of
Ra-Heru-khuti, the exalted one of the horizon, in his "name of Shu who is in Aten," which is clear
proof that he was not only a worshiper of Ra-Harmachis, another of the forms of the Sun-god Heliopolis, but also that he endorsed the views and held the opions of the old College of Priests
at Heliopolis, which assigned the disk {Aten} to him for a dwelling-place.
Amen-hetep's titles as lord of the shrines of the cities of Nekhebet and Uatchet, and as the Horus of gold also prove his devotion to a Sun-god of Heliopolis. During the early years of his reign at Thebes
he built a massive Benhen, in honor of Ra-Harmachis at Thebes, and it is probable that he took the opportunity of restoring or enlarging the temple of Aten which had been built by his father. At the
same time we find that he worshipped both Amen and Aten, the former in his official position as king, and the latter in his private capacity.
It was, however, impossible for the priests of Amen -Ra to tolerate the presence of the new god
Aten and his worship in Thebes, and the relations between the king and that powerful body soon became strained. On the one hand the king asserted the superiority of Aten over every god, and
on the other the priests declared that Amen-Ra was the king of the gods.
As, however, Amen-Ra was the center of the social life of Thebes, and his priests and their relatives included in their number the best and greatest families of the capitol city, it came to pass that the
king found himself at the worship of Aten wholly supported by the great mass of its population,
whose sympathies were with the old religion of Thebes, and by those who gained their living in connection with the worship of Amen-Ra.
The king soon realized that residence in Thebes was becoming impossible , and the fifth year of
his reign he began to build a new capitol on the east bank of the Nile, near a place which is marked
to-day by the Arab villages of Haggi Kandil and Tell el-Amarna ; he planned that it should include a great temple to Aten, a palace for the king, and houses for those who were attached to the worship
of Aten and were prepared to follow their king there.
While the new capitol was in the process of building the dispute between the king and the priests
of Amen-Ra became more severe, and matters were much aggravated by Amenhetep IV.
At length the king left Thebes and took up his abode in his new capitol, which he called "Khut-Aten," i.e., "Horizon of Aten," and as a sign of the entire severance of his connection with traditions of
his house in respect of Amen-Ra he discarded his name "Amen-hetep" and called himself Khut-Aten i.e., "Glory of Aten," or, "Spirit of Aten." At the time he changed his Horus name of "Exalted One of
the double plumes" to "Mighty Bull, beloved of Aten" {or, lover of Aten}, and he adopted as lord of
the shrines of Nekhebet and Uatchet the title of "Mighty one of sovereignity in Khut-Aten," and as
the Horus of gold he styled himself, "Exalter of the name Aten."
http://www.touregypt.net/aten.htm
High-resolution DigitalGlobe satellite imagery shows the Great Aten Temple at Tell el-Amarna, Middle Egypt. Even though the northern enclosure wall of the temple is buried beneath a modern cemetery, it is still possible to see the buried wall.
Tell el Amarna, Capital of the Disk
AKHETATEN
.......An entire city thus emerged from under the arid soil of Tell el Amarna.
Given the sad state of the vestiges excavated by successive waves of English and German
research teams, the city's original glory is hard to imagine.
Despite being subjected to destructive attacks early in the century, the Boundary Stelae the
King had set up to demarcate his territory - and they alone - continue to speak out of times
Akhenaton's kingdom covered a territory the size of "six iteru, three-quarters of a khe and four
cubits the side," - from the north stela to the south stela - or about thirteen thousand meters.
They also proclaim that "His majesty mounted a great chariot of electrum and, on the favorable
day, marked out the limits of the site he had named The Horizon of the Aten; then, as men,
women and all things rejoiced, he had set up an altar and made an unprecedented oblation to
the Aten.
Then, all those near to the King, the high-placed officials, the army chiefs, were brought before
him and bowed low to him although he asserted that it was the Aten Himself who had designat-
ed this site (...), to which the court replied that Aten would unveil his plans to no one but him
alone and soon all the nations of the world would come here to bring Aten, giver of life, the
tribute they owed to him.
Then the Pharoah had raised his hand towards the Disk at its zenith and had vowed he would
build Akhetaten there for Aten his father, at this precise site and nowhere else; that he would
listen to no one, not even the queen, should one try to persuade him to build Akhetaten else-
Then he had listed all the grand and beautiful monuments he planned to set up, the House of
the Aten, the Mansion of the Aten, the Pavilion for the Queen, the House of Rejoicing for the
Aten in the Island "Exalted in Jubilees", and all the other buildings and works necessary to
celebrate the Aten, the Apartments of the Pharoah and the Apartments of the Queen."
The foundations for most of the buildings listed in the royal text have been identified, in parti-
cular the Great Temple (House of the Aten) and the Smaller Temple (Mansion of the Aten) of
the Aten, the vast palace onto the back of which were built the administrative buildings,
the House of the King or Little Palace, the Apartment of the Queen.
Above all, an eight hundred meter stretch of the royal street that ran through the center of
the city has been cleared. Beyond this stretched the leisure quarters, the homes of the high-
ranking officials, and further to the north, the suburbs, a complex mosaic of tightly grouped,
small houses.
The city of Akhetaten
North Palace, called the Palace of Nefertiti
Great Temple of the Aten
Central Quarter
South Suburb
North Tombs
South Tombs
The Cult of the Disk
For a very long period of time, the worship of the Aten (also spelled Aton) was held to be a heretical doctrine invented by Akhenaten, source of such upheavals that religious tradition in Egypt never fully recovered. A few comments on certain aspects of the problem will suffice to set the picture straight.
Dynasty XVIII Nefertiti making an offering to the Aten
Low relief from the antechamber
Tell el Amarna, civilian necropolis, the tomb of Mahu
In the first place, Akhenaten did not invent the Aten.
His name appears as early as in the Old Empire Pyramid Texts, where it is listed under the Litanies as one
of the avatars of Re, manifested in the form of a Disk. Moreover, it is a fact that worship of the Disk took
root in Thebes well before Akhenaten's arrival on the scene.
It seems that Tuthmosis IV already embraced this old Heliopolitan doctrine with great fervor. Although one
cannot go so far as to say he abandoned the official cult of Amon (also spelled Amun), it is interesting to
note that he was one of the first pharoahs of the New Empire to recognize the authority of Re, thus link-
ing up with an already millenary theological system.
By having the famous "Dream Stela" carved between the paws of the Giza Sphinx, he asserted that he
owed his throne to Re-Harakhty, Re of the Two Horizons:
"I shall give you," the god says, "royalty on earth at the head of the living, you will wear the White Crown
and the Red Crown."
Thus, at a time when orthodoxy still held a firm grip, Amon was deprived of his basic right of deciding
for himself who was worthy of manifesting him on earth, who was his son the sovereign.
After Thutmose IV, Amenophis III went even a step further, as testified by a block found in the founda-
tions of the tenth pylon at Karnak. Here the king is shown in the company of the same Re-Harakhty,
designated as the "Jubilant in the Horizon in his name of Shu which is the Aten."
Why, one wonders, did this return to the doctrines of Heliopolis occur?
Most certainly it was an attempt by the kings to escape the Amon clergy, whose members
were becoming more insolent by the day and were gradually taking over everything. But,
beyond this, it was above all out of a need for authenticity, as experienced in the learned
circles of the capital towards the end of Dynasty 18.
Under the influence of Amenophis-son-of-Hapu (who, in turn, belonged to the Heliopolitan
colleges), the ancient writings were re-studied, the old rituals re-honored. We know,
for instance, that the celebration of Amenophis III's first jubilee instigated an enormous
compilation one month prior to the event, in order to ensure that everything would take
place in the right tone.
There is much reason to believe that all the painstaking research involved allowed theo-
logians to rediscover the pure source of early sun worship, long since eclipsed by the
cult of Amon.
This could only lead to the reassertion of the primordial deities Re-Harakhty and the Aten.
If in effect, then, Akhenaten did not invent the Aten, but merely adopted the ideas of
his forefathers, where does the heresy lie? It lies with the fact that he claimed it as
absolute, devoting himself exclusively to celebrating the Aten and proclaiming himself
prophet thereof by adopting the epithet 'ur mau', from Chief Prophet, as borne tradi-
tionally by the highest pontiffs of Heliopolis.
As master of the rituals, he asserted himself as the living aspect of the Aten, identify-
ing with that god to the point of having himself represented, in the upper part of the
civil stelae, as the unique vehicle of popular piety.
Nefertiti and the royal daughters were subsequently linked to this myth: the familiar
scenes uniting the king, the queen and the princesses in the intimacy of their apart-
ments are not in the least anecdotal: their figuration was intended as a reminder that,
beyond his basic unity, the Aten is at once father, mother and child - that is, the
principal creator and creature.
Hand of Akhenaten making an offering to the Aten
Sandstone - H 0.235
From Ashmunein
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
As a child of the Aten, Akhenaten assumed the prerogatives which, until that time, had
been reserved for the prophets and grand priests.
And, truly, a first in Egyptian history, he even claimed to guide his people along the way
to revelation. Many a courtier from Tell el Amarna had the stelae at the entrance to their
tombs carved with the boast of "having been taught the doctrine by the King himself" or
"having listened to the doctrine day by day from the lips of the King himself."
Divested of their basic powers, the traditional clergy openly challenged the King, transforming
what might have been but a positive cleansing of the dogma into a fierce battle for prestige
between partisans of the Heliopolitan tradition and the upholders of Theban orthodox doctrine.
The struggle gradually grew into a conflict between Re in his aspect of the Aten and Amon,
and, finally, between the King and the priests.
It was at this point that matters became dramatic, since Akhenaten, forced into a defensive
position by the events, had to adopt a policy that was certainly more intransigent than he
would have desired: in his fourth regnal year, he changed his name from Amenophis,
Satisfaction of the Aten, to Akhenaten, Acting Spirit (that is, incarnation) of the Aten.
Less than two years later, he left Thebes to found, "at a site belonging to no god or goddess,
to no sovereign, to which no one had any rights," a new capital, a new epicenter of his authority, Akhetaten, Horizon of the Aten.
Aak -en-Aten
The period during which the King set up his court at Tell el Amarna coincided with extremely
serious troubles in Thebes: the holy city's temples were shut down, its priests banned from
office.
All images of Amon were desecrated, and his name and epithets hammered out; his wife Mut
was subject to the same fate.
Indeed, fanatics beyond all limits, the partisans went so far as to break into the necropolises
to erase, at the very bottom of the tombs, all mention of that contemptible god. Still others
heaved themselves up to the top of the obelisks to attack the sun symbols.
Evidence was even found of a scribe who had gathered together all the archival documents
under his responsibility in order to wrathfully cross off all the words in any way analogous to
the names Amon and Mut; not even the word mut, mother, was spared! Akhenaton could do
nothing to avoid having his own father Amenophis's cartouches defiled.
The cult of the Aten was hardly the love doctrine it purported to be!
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/
T H E S U N G O D
From earliest times the great cosmopolitan center of Anu (or Annu) the On of the Bible
and the Heliopolis of the Greeks -- the City of the Sun -- was the seat of the worship
of Tem.
Another form of the solar-god, according to Budge, was worshipped in Lower Egypt,
known as Ra, whose name does not seem to be Egyptian and whose origin is unknown --
it may be Asiatic. (!!)
In Anu was the famous Well of the Sun, from which tradition declares that the Virgin
Mary drew water when the Holy Family halted in the city. Fortunately for the story this
well had its source in the inexhaustible waters of Nu, otherwise it might have dried up
during the thirty odd centuries before the Christian era and we might have considered it
a well of wisdom of which the youthful Jesus partook.
This well was the property of the priests of Ra, who became so rich and powerful from
the tribute received from grateful travellers for the watering of their beasts, that they
were able by the VIth dynasty to elevate Ra to the position of over-lord of all the other
gods and from that time Tem, Khepera, Horus became Ra-Tem, Ra-Khepera, Ra-Herakhuti
(Horus of the two horizons) and so on.
Maspero claims that the complex beings (?) resulting from these combinations never
attained to any pronounced individuality, the distinctions referring merely to details of
their functions and attributes.
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Sonic Entanglements: Listening to Modernities in Sound Recordings of Southeast Asia, 1890-1950 endeavors to expand the historiographical archival corpus to include the early sound media and technologies as primary sources for the theoretical reflection of the Southeast Asian cultural history of modernities and the region's entanglement with modern globalization. The project methodologically shifts away from the philological analyses of historical texts, towards developing a framework of knowing how residents of Southeast Asia understood and constituted modernities through hearing and listening. In doing so, the study aims to provide a corrective in the text literacy-based historiography of Southeast Asia modernities which occludes non-literate actors and 'voices'. This study on historical sounds of the Southeast Asian region also contributes to expanding the geographical and cultural bases of the sound studies and sound history. The project will examine three themes of modernities in three different case studies: (1) modern racial epistemology and the colonial practices of ethnomusicology, (2) urbanization and 'noise' policies, and (3) anti/postcolonial political identities and early radio broadcast.
Sonic Entanglements will produce academic publications and a podcast series to make its findings available to the public. Through the support of the Transregional Studies Forum-Berlin, meLê yamomo has recently organized a workshop that brought together sound scholars and sound experts in/about Southeast Asia. Through this workshop, the project envisions to kick-start an inter-institutional research, artistic collaborations, and digital humanities tool.
Sonic Entanglements is a research project funded by the Dutch Scientific Research Organization (Nederlands Wetenschappelijk Organisatie – NWO)and is embedded at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Visit the Sonic Entanglements Website.


Mind Portal is a beautiful, low poly stylized, first-person exploration game centered around three things: interesting story, hard mazes and atmospheric music.
You will be available for a number of beautiful levels you will explore. To advance further in story and find out what Mind is and what it wants from you, you have to find and pass maze that will require a bit of patience.
For fans of Journey, Firewatch and Bound.
For fans of low poly stylized games.
Hard maze levels, which will took a while to pass them.
Interesting story (actually just text) with two different endings.
A lot of atmospheric beautiful music.


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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Stephen Herek
By Scott A. Gray
For the many highs (The Matrix, My Own Private Idaho) and lows (The Watcher, The Lake House) that followed, we have Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure to thank for being the film that ignited Keanu Reeves' career. It's also the first time the popular but seldom respected actor uttered the immortal term "whoa!" that has frequently (fairly or not) painted him as a one-trick stoner. In fact, Bill & Ted is probably the most beloved burn-out film to not actually feature any hint of the mind-altering plant, being a decidedly PG affair; or maybe these two prototypical slackers really are just meant to be amiable idiots.
Age and maturity does this distinctive product of the late '80s no favours. It's a lot harder to simply overlook the unadulterated foolishness of their ultra-convenient time-tripping odyssey once one has acquired any kind of life experience (read: is no longer under the age of ten), or not high as a kite with a nostalgia craving.
Like the film's titular "heroes", writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon are well intentioned but prone to acts of unthinking senselessness. The contradictory message behind all the simplistic history-hopping shenanigans seems to be that society and indeed, the whole planet, would be better off if everyone stopped worrying about knowing stuff and just learned to have a good time. If you grew up in the '80s, chances are you're familiar with the plot. A radical (meant in the generally positive, not political, usage of the word) dude from a pollution-free future where everyone likes bowling, waterslides and electric guitar shredding uses a Tardis-biting phone booth time machine to visit the future saviours of the planet and keep them on the path towards enlightenment and not sucking.
This means giving two guys with barely the concentration to play a two-chord sequence the use of a time machine in order to collect historical personages to present at their oral report for the history class that both bodacious underachievers are rocking an F in. If they fail, Ted's dad means to ship him off to military school, thus messing with the space-time continuum for a future where air-guitar is a regal sign of respect and bro-speak reigns supreme.
As they fumble through time, Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Reeves) have exceedingly brief and superficial encounters with exactly who they need to find, reducing each historical figure to a couple of catch phrases and sight gags – Sigmund Freud brandishing a drooping corn dog while talking to two young women is much more amusing than Napoleon being banished from a bowling alley. As for the two imbeciles who will found the world-changing wank-metal band, Wyld Stallyns, most of their jokes revolve around the clueless phonetic pronunciations of Socrates and Beethoven.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is the type of ludicrous fantasy where everything happens just as it needs to – friendships are forged without reason and everyone from presidents to warlords are happy to pitch in when Bill's trophy wife mom won't give him a ride until his chores are finished. Right down to its conclusion, this strange bit of cinematic history reinforces the idea that knowledge is unnecessary when you have shock, awe, and a positive attitude at your disposal. Party on?
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure screens at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of the Whoa: The Films of Keanu Reeves retrospective at 9pm on February 1st, 2013. (Orion)
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Combining Family and World War Two History: Michael Korda on Dunkirk
His actress mother served sandwiches and beer to soaked, shoeless, surviving soldiers. His movie-making father and uncles were friends of Winston Churchill. Described by critics as the perfect companion read for fans of this summer's hit movie, bestselling author Michael Korda's new book "ALONE: Britain, Churchill and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory," combines a six year old's memories of this pivotal moment during World War Two with new insight into the events leading up to the heroic evacuation of British troops at Dunkirk and its importance to the future of democracy.
FOX's Jane Metzler talks with Michael Korda about his new book and why he felt compelled to write it. This long-time former editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, who worked on books by authors as diverse as Jacqueline Susann, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, also discusses what it's like to be an editor and to be edited. And, as the author of bestselling biographies of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, among others, he addresses the controversy over Confederate monuments.
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Flu Shots Available at Monroe Area Parish Health Units
High-risk populations urged to get the shot
Each year, millions of individuals get the flu, with more than 36,000 people dying from this virus. While many are ill for about a week and view the flu as nothing more than an inconvenience, there are many people for whom the flu can be deadly.
The Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health in Region 8 (Monroe area) will begin providing flu shots. First priority will be given to people 50 years old and above and to children from six months to five years old.
LDH encourages those who meet the high-risk definitions to get their shots as soon as possible. Flu shots are available at parish health units throughout northeast Louisiana on the dates below:
Lincoln Parish Health Unit
Dec. 12 and 13: 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Lincoln Parish Council on Aging
Nov. 28: 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Morehouse Parish Health Unit
Nov. 27 and 28: 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Morehouse Council on Aging
Nov. 28: 8 a.m. - 12 noon
Richland Parish Health Unit
Nov. 29: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Nov. 30: 12 noon - 6 p.m.
East Carroll Parish Health Unit
Madison Parish Health Unit
Dec. 8: 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
West Monroe Senior Center
Tensas Parish Health Unit
Caldwell Parish Health Unit
Nov. 27 and 28: 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Franklin Parish Health Unit
Nov. 30: 12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Dec. 7: 12:45 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Dec. 8: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Ouachita Parish Health Unit
Ouachita Council on Aging
Union Parish Health Unit
Nov. 27 and 28: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Nov. 29: 12:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
West Carroll Parish Health Unit
Nov. 27 and 28: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
West Carroll Council on Aging
Dec. 4: 1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Jackson Parish Health Unit
Nov. 27 - 29: 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.


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Q: DropDownList selects first item in list when the selected item is the last item in the list on postback I am having a problem with my DropDownList.
The list is working fine until I select the last item in the list and click the button to do the post back. Once the postback occurs the selected Item in the list is changed to the first item.
All the other items in the list work fine and stay selected.
The List is generate inside of an if (!IsPostBack)
There is no other code controlling the selected item of the list.
To fix this I added a blank list item to the end of the list and it seems to fix the problem.
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These are the only sections in the code behind that interact with the drp down list that is causing problems.
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YSU recognizes donors to WATTS project
YSU recognized donors to the WATTS campaign. From the left are Jim Tressel, YSU President Cynthia E. Anderson, Ellen Tressel, Phyllis and Anthony Cafaro Sr., and Norma and Frank Watson.
Youngstown State University recognized and thanked today donors who gave to the campaign to help build the Watson and Tressel Training Site, an indoor athletics practice facility on the north end of campus.
"On behalf of everyone at YSU, I want to thank the nearly 350 individuals, families, organizations and others who pledged more than $4 million to help build and equip this wonderful facility," YSU President Cynthia E. Anderson said. "While this building provides state-of-the-art facilities for all of our student athletes, more than anything it represents the community's continued faith and confidence in the future of Youngstown State University."
The WATTS, which opened last fall, was named after Frank and Norma Watson and Jim and Ellen Tressel, who donated a combined $1 million to help fund the new indoor practice facility. Jim Tressel was head football coach at YSU from 1986 to 2000 and guided the program to four national championships. His wife, Ellen, is a YSU graduate and daughter of Frank and Norma Watson. Frank Watson, former president of Youngstown Welding and Engineering Co., is a 1949 graduate of Youngstown College, a former member of the YSU Board of Trustees and one of the original members of the YSU Foundation Board of Trustees.
Also donating $1 million was the Cafaro Family. The track and lobby area of WATTS is named in honor of the family. In addition, Candy and Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. donated $750,000 for the playing surface, Ray and Jan Travaglini gave $253,000 and the YSU Penguin Club pledged $250,000. Making $100,000 donations were the Schmutz Family, The Lariccia Family, Tony, Mary, Natalie and Dana, and Robert and Marilyn O'Leary.
The WATTS, located east of Stambaugh Stadium, features a full-length football field, a 300-meter track, two long-jump pits, a high-jump pit, four batting cages, a training room and locker rooms. The facility is used primarily by YSU's intercollegiate athletic teams, including baseball, football, soccer, softball, golf and men's and women's track. In February 2012, the WATTS hosted the Horizon League Indoor Track and Field Championship.
Read more about the YSU WATTS.
About Youngstown State University
Youngstown State University is a comprehensive emerging urban research university that offers over 14,000 students more than 135 undergraduate and graduate programs backed by a strong tradition of teaching, scholarship and public service. As a major educational and economic development resource in the region, YSU is known for its focus on academic research and creative programs that transform its students into successful professionals, scholars and leaders. Located in the heart of the Tech Belt between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, YSU provides opportunities for students to actively participate with accomplished faculty, often in one-on-one settings, on advanced research and creative collaborations. The beautiful 145-acre campus includes high-tech classrooms, state-of-the-art labs and performance facilities, a variety of on-campus housing options and recreational facilities among the best in the nation.
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Eden Park Primary and Nursery School - Well Done Ralph!
A fantastic out of school achievement!
We are proud to share with you that Ralph Croft in Pufferfish class who took part in the British National mini bike series recently, finishing high at 13th from a large starting grid.


Have you been avoiding the dentist due to the fear of dental pain? If so, you could have dental phobia. Dental phobia is not only caused by a past experience with a neglectful dentist, but it can also be caused from many other things. Estimates say that 5 to 8 percent of Americans have dental phobia. Some Americans relate their dental phobia to a bad experience from a past dental office. Others relate their fear of the dentist with an unpleasant side effect from various mood disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse disorders, or the posttraumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, which is experienced by war veterans and other victims of trauma.
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You can barely leave the house without tripping over a restaurant or cafe opened by a banker. It has become so commonplace to hear about City-types packing in their well-paid careers to start a creative one that it might elicit an eye-roll down at the pub. Less common however, is hearing how somebody gave up a dream job in say, photography, or baking, to work as a banker. It's a more challenging change, but one that could prove to be worthwhile.
The long hours, the hard slog, and the generous remuneration means that many bankers are burning out by 30 and are craving a taste of the good life. By contrast, creative types have spent the last ten years grafting with enormous fulfilment, but little cash or benefits to show for it. It's reasonable, therefore, to assume that occasionally, those in the creative industries might want a more lucrative change.
For creative-types, a corporate job at 21 might seem like the world's worst decision, but by 30, the perks can feel more attractive.
Moving a freelance career into a corporate one can be tough. Unlike a banker moving to music, who has already proved they have the discipline, the teamwork, and ability with numbers, those in the creative industries just have the fruits of their individual passions to show for it. Being a musician is unlikely to help you succeed at Goldman Sachs, and while a writer could be capable at writing reports for a consultancy, they may not be detail-oriented.
Aimee Bateman, founder of careercake.com thinks it's never too late to change careers from a creative to a corporate one, but there can be difficulties. She says: "While in some respects you may 'lack' the skills needed to understand how a commercial office works (i.e. commercial targets, 'office politics' and the working day mentality) the characteristics you've developed from your current role will certainly put you in good stead to approaching certain tasks differently.
Retraining is another, simpler way to change careers, although it'll mean starting from the bottom again. Doing a law conversion and the Graduate Diploma in Law is one way to move into a corporate role from a creative position. It'll require time out to study, and course costs, but gett a role at a Silver Circle or Magic Circle firm and you will more than make your money back. Fancy a move to banking when you've only been a session drummer so far? It sounds impossible, but as long as you have a degree, showing will is most vital.
Like Isabelle, Lucy* was also concerned about a future with no stability. "I'd been secretly smug watching my housemates go to work every day. I just headed to the kitchen and set up my editing software to do video work.
"But I began to worry about career progression - I loved what I was doing, but could I imagine doing this day in, day out, forever? Nobody was ever going to say "well done" or promote me. I started looking for in-house video work, with the aim to get a full-time job." After a few months, Lucy was picked up by a big bank, working with the marketing team shooting their promotional videos.


Is there a more succinct summary of the political divide since Trump's election than this?
At least a handful of Trump administration officials have endured public harassment by left-wing activists since inauguration.
Senators Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) were both accosted at restaurants while dining with their spouses.
Liberal celebrities including Kathy Griffin, Snoop Dogg, and Madonna have displayed what can at best be described as extraordinarily irresponsible and callous actions aimed at the President.
The left-wing domestic terrorist organization Antifa has unleashed violence in cities including Berkeley and Portland. Senator Tim Kaine's (D-Va.) son also wanted a piece of the action and was arrested in Minnesota after fireworks and smoke bombs were set off inside the state capitol.
This divisive rhetoric is ironic coming from someone whose presidential campaign slogan was "Stronger Together." (I haven't seen Clinton distance herself so much from her own remarks since TPP!) It should be no surprise, then, that some in the Democrat base feel emboldened to harass, intimidate, and bully anyone they see fit with this kind of disgusting leadership from their own party. Hillary, delete your 2020 campaign — preferably with BleachBit.
But while Democrats have increasingly embraced mob-like tactics in their "resistance" to President Trump, the Trump administration and the Republican Congress are on track to create around 2.5 million jobs this year.
President Trump's superb exercise in branding puts greater pressure on Democrats to put forth a real plan for job creation. Until Democrats are able to fight off their party's increasingly socialist base, their policies stand no chance of igniting booming economic growth — no matter how much they riot.


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Eric Gagne, out of majors since 2008, gets serious about comeback attempt
Eric Gagne hasn't thrown a pitch in the major leagues since Sept. 25, 2008, but the former National League Cy Young winner wants to make a comeback.
Fresh off a surprisingly impressive showing in the World Baseball Classic, the 41-year-old right-hander has signed with the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League, the team announced Friday.
According to the New York Daily News, "You could feel the sense of disappointment in the (Port St. Lucie) crowd, no matter how early it may be on the baseball calendar."
A scout told the Daily News, "I was surprised his fastball didn't have a little more life."
In a separate piece in the newspaper, scouts said that it looked like Harvey was "throwing across his body, dragging down his arm speed on his fastball."
While Harvey said he was satisfied with his 39-pitch outing and Best Cheap Jerseys From China that he is dealing with a stiff neck, he tempered expectations he has for himself, saying after the game, "Honestly, I don't have any. I just want to make every start."
Upon his return from Tommy John surgery two years ago, Harvey's first pitched clocked in at 99 mph.
But it's early March and way too early for Mets fans to freak out. Harvey has plenty of time to get stronger before the regular season starts.
"We've got a long way to go," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "As long as he felt good about it, we're on the right track."
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Seaspan is an independent charter owner and manager of containerships. Co. primarily deploys its vessels on long-term, fixed-rate time charters. As of Feb 15 2018, Co. operates a fleet of 91 vessels and has entered into contracts to purchase of an additional two newbuilding containerships and one second-hand containership. The average age of the 91 vessels in Co.'s operating fleet was approximately 6 years as of Feb 15 2018. Co. operates in markets that are very competitive and based primarily on supply and demand. Co. competes for charters based upon price, customer relationships, operating and technical expertise, professional reputation and size, age and condition of the vessel.
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Born to Tass and Doreen Dyer in Kingston, Jamaica on July 27, 1979, Mark Dyer aka 'Warrior King' has always had an affinity for music.
In the nineties, Dyer's sound was infused with dancehall. His stage name 'Bounty Junior' indicated his love for then mentor 'Bounty Killa', a Jamaican dancehall icon. After changing his stage name to 'Junior King' at age 16, it was another popular dancehall entertainer named 'Frisco Kid' aka 'Ancient Monarchy' that changed his stage name to 'Warrior King'.
Warrior King's debut single "Virtuous Woman", produced by Michael 'Lion Paw' Johnson was released in 2001. It was an international smash hit. It's righteous lyrics prompting the Jamaica Observer to declare the singer "one of the artistes who has made a difference" in 2001.
In 2002, his first album entitled Virtuous Woman was released by VP Records spent nine weeks on the Billboard.com charts. That same year, the singer spent three weeks on his first tour across the United States to open for Luciano "The Messenger". Then, in 2003, Warrior King went on a seven week tour with the Abyssinians all over Europe.
In 2005, his second studio album entitled Hold the Faith, also released on the VP Records label, was also a major international success. The artiste released Love is in the Air, 2009 and Tell Me How Me Sound, 2011 on the Tads Records label. Throughout his career, Warrior King's compositions have consistently charted in the Caribbean, the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa.
The singer's hit singles "Never Go Where Pagans Go", "A Friend Indeed", "Can't Get Me Down" and other compositions such as "Empress So Divine" and "Jah Is Always There" – which was a summer smash on Atlanta's More Fire chart in 2002 have brought Warrior King much favour. Other hits such as "I Love You" released on Tixie's Label went number one in Japan in the early 2000's and "Baby Girl" went number one in Ghana in 2005.
In 2008, Barrack Obama, former President of the United States of America (USA) publicly declared "Virtuous Woman" as one of his favourite songs and Warrior King as one of his favourite reggae artistes on CNN Live and NBC. The latter notion was seconded by British Formula One race car driver Lewis Hamilton on BBC Television.
Among his many recognitions and awards, Warrior King received The Marcus Garvey Music Award in 2010 along with Jimmy Tucker for their musical work.
Warrior King has toured extensively across the United States. The holistic singer has also performed at many major festivals, concerts, clubs and special events across the USA, South America, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia and the Caribbean. Having performed on numerous occasions across the USA with reggae icons Luciano, the Abyssinians, Sanchez, Bushman and Junior Kelly, Warrior King also joined other legendary acts Lady Saw (Marion Hall) and Jimmy Cliff in representing Jamaica music in 2014 at the Boom Town Festival in the United Kingdom.
Throughout his far-reaching musical career, Warrior King has collaborated with Little Blacks aka Persistence, Jahmali, DYCR, Beres Hammond, Barrington levy, Richie Spice, Max Romeo, Linval Thompson, Bescenta, Turbulence, Black Judah, Decodia and Yunzie.
He has worked with many talented producers including Micheal Johnson (Lion Paw), Sheldon Stewart (Calibud), Bobby Digital, Donovan Jermaine (Penthouse Records), Collin York (Bulby), James Lord (Irie Sounds International), Khabir, Computer Paul, Coco Tea (Roaring Lion), Bread Back, among others.
The singer believes that education is the key to better lives and hopes that his music will serve to convey the teachings of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie I. "As a Rastafarian, I understand we must teach religious tolerance, peace between all. I don't just sing music; I sing music with a purpose, a mission and love. To the four corners of the earth I carry my music, the message of the King…" says Warrior King.
Warrior King's most recent studio album The Rootz Warrior, released in April 2016 already has a global buzz around "Ain't Giving Up", the first single from the new album; with each song on the album bearing a different style and feel. The Rootz Warrior brings forth messages of Purity, Truth, Strength and Love.
The new Warrior King album, The Rootz Warrior, is now available through all major online music outlets.


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Bacana Beach Volleyball Launches Website
The Bacana Beach Brand
Introducing Bacana Beach Volleyball
Team Guides
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Women's beach volleyball is the fastest growing sport in women's college athletics. Our primary goal is to get every athlete to see their own potential and strive to take their game to the next level. Our athletes are valued as individuals and given training, competition, and experience to push them in their goals while preparing to play at the collegiate level.
We practice and compete in tournaments every month for nine months from November till July. Our typical down time runs from mid August to mid October. Bacana Beach Volleyball Club is open to girls and boys 12 – 18 years old. Both full-time and part-time options are available for all athletes.
Bacana Beach offers programs for everyone. Contact Coach Latacha if you are interested in playing at the club level and look for camps/clinics that will be offered throughout the year. Bacana Beach is currently located at 121 Competition Center Drive, Morrisville, NC 27560 behind Triangle Volleyball Club.
Bacana Beach Volleyball was founded in 2021 under the direction of Coach Latacha De Oliveira. Coach Latacha has over twenty-five years of volleyball coaching and playing experience. Originally from Utah, Coach Latacha was a three-sport athlete playing volleyball, basketball and softball. She earned All-Conference and All-State team selections in all three sports and was recruited to play D1 basketball anb softball. Volleyball quickly became her passion which she has turned into a successful coaching career. Prior to opening Bacana Beach, Coach Latacha assisted Durham Academy's Varsity volleyball team to a final four appearance in 2018 and a state championship appearance in 2019, two of the most successful seasons in the program's history.
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