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Snakereadsfanfic April 3, 2019, 8:12am #145
VrayZrone:
"I'm unclear if it's due to my heritage as Averion or being in the organization with my clearly seeable red eyes that prevents me from receiving disdain. After all, who cares about someone if they aren't your enemy?" He rested his arms on the bar and eyes narrowed. "Trusting others isn't an ideal way of striving forwards. I trust you Daemon and your judgement, however I don't do the same to just any person I see. You understand why I trust you, and I know why you entrusted me with what you know…and feel."
I think the dialogue's too concentrated
"I'm unclear if it's due to my heritage as Averion or being in the organization with my clearly seeable red eyes that prevents me from receiving disdain."
(something)
"After all, who cares about someone if they aren't your enemy?"
and then do that again for the next one.
He rested his arms on the bar and eyes narrowed.
is grammatically incorrect.
other than that it's pretty chur
(mine)
Alien Detective
"Good man." Mr. Zebra sighed, patting the alien's shoulder roughly, before lumbering off, disappearing around the corner.
Griffin got up and kicked the lamppost that had graciously allowed him to rest on it. The old woman was shocked by this outburst, but she still smiled at him comfortingly as he turned in her direction again. Griffin rolled his eyes and stomped off, arms folded.
(i'm not entirely sure what a paragraph is, ngl)
AprilCox7 April 3, 2019, 6:27pm #146
I would break up the second paragraph to separate out Griffin and the old woman just for clarity's sake. Also the lamppost graciously allowed him to rest on it? Is the lamppost alive? This does make the sentences very short though. Who is your point of view character? It sounds like it could be Griffin, so maybe add a little with his thoughts or something to show that he is the point of view character here.
"It's a trap."
"What?" George blinked at her sleepily. He had nearly dozed off.
"This whole thing is a trap," Thea said. "He doesn't care about Jax and Valentina. He doesn't even need me right now," she explained. "He knows how to reverse the dais. He wants me to close the tear that he's going to open."
"The tear in what?" George asked her, alert now.
"In the space-time continuum."
VrayZrone April 7, 2019, 3:53am #147
AprilCox7:
Well, foreboding ending aside, I would say that adding "He had nearly dozed off." is a little repetitive, considering you already indicated he was already near sleep. Also, the paragraph where she explains things I think could have the dialogue linked up together. Sort of having instead of "Thea said" and "she explained" just have the explained one and all the dialogue linked together to help reading flow. Other than that it was a fine read. 8.6/10
And now for mine
Shattered Crests
Mephiles gave a hefty sigh as he rolled his neck and said. "Well…if you want to know now. Your name was 'Abel Evans' and y-"
Abel interrupted with, "wait, what do you mean by 'was'?"
Mephiles gave him an annoyed glare and stated, "well if you want to know now I suggest you shut your curious yammer up so I can explain it."
Abel shrank back a little from the reprimand and sat back down on the comfy little couch and focused on listening intently.
"Basically, you were experiencing a memory of yours. You see that memory was five years ago."
Abel felt his heart sink at hearing that. Five years? He repeated in his mind in disbelief. Five years‽ How, h-h-how is that possible?
"And well, three years ago you were convicted of murdering a few fellow rehabilitating patients in an escape attempt. This lead to a few more things where you started doing some murdering of Bastions soldiers and well eventually was caught."
"Five fellow patients and I went on a killing spree?" Abel began to tremble. He was a murderer.
"Yes, and well…you were sentenced to be executed for your…hmmm violence. You see, your what vocabulary dried up peace enforcers would call a serial murderer. Here this explains it better." Mephiles offered a piece of paper to Abel, who accepted it with shaking hands. Mephiles started taking some notes while Abel began reading this information.
AprilCox7 April 7, 2019, 4:32am #148
The content itself is good, but there are a lot of punctuation errors and one or two spelling errors. This needs a good edit. 7/10.
"Wow, I really do look different," said Luna, after Thea had finished working on her disguise. Her usual blonde hair was now brown, and her big, eagle eyes were now much smaller and also brown. Thea had also changed the shape of her face from its normal oval shaped, to a rounder more heart-shaped face. "I'm entirely undistinguishable," said Luna. The idea had been for them to blend into the background.
Thea got started on Neville. She started out by making his hair lighter and longer and gave him more facial hair. She made his eyes lighter, and like with Luna, she made his face rounder.
Neville looked in the mirror. "Thanks, Thea. I hardly recognize myself."
"You're welcome," Thea told him. "Although really, I should be thanking you."
"We'll find them," said Neville. "We'll find them, and then we'll all go in and bring them back. Your plan's a good one. It's going to work."
"Thanks, Neville," said Thea. And then it was time for them to head out.
ridinacherry April 7, 2019, 7:37am #149
I like the concept of what's going in this paragraph. The content gives the reader a feeling of anticipation and there is not too much going on. What I think would make it better is replacing the word "said" with other words like "replied, whispered, beamed etc." Those little descriptive words would add more feeling to the character's dialogue and create a personality for your characters. Overall 8.5/10. Keep working on it.
I needed to speak. This was too awkward. Turning my attention away from the boys, my gaze fell on one of the bodies on the floor. Stiffly curled up, the body was moving in a fiddling manner. I hesitantly lifted my finger and pointed at him.
"I think he's texting someone." I whispered.
Asian boy and Poodle followed my finger and acted fast; Asian boy shouted threats while Poodle grabbed the phone and checked its content. I, on the other hand, took this time to grab my belongings and run. Pushing my body off the wall I extended my arm and grabbed my bags. Alas, my great escape failed. My body jerked as someone tugged against my bag and everything fell to the floor; including me. A bulky arm was wrapped around my throat. Human contact against my own will was not the way to approach me.
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hestia-of-the-fire April 8, 2019, 2:29pm #151
The paragraph seems well written with good use of adjectives in each sentence. I really like the descriptive context which gives the story more context even though I know nothing else about the story. As for areas of improvement… there's nothing I can really pick up on because I'm not a pro. It flowed well and was engaging, so I'll give it a 9/10. Great job!
Here's mine: (I realize the "old boy" reference might not make sense because it's only one paragraph haha)
To her left lay the road she had been travelling on, to her right lay a dark, unwelcoming forest. Frost lay heavy on the ground; her breath drew clouds of mist in front of her. Some distance away stood a medium sized boy, perhaps a little older than her with crazy ginger hair. His face was covered in freckles. He had large dark green eyes, that, at this point in time seem somewhat concerned. He was bending over an old, dark grey horse, who sat or rather lay on the ground panting heavily. The boy didn't notice Edel, he was too busy talking to the horse, which Edel could only assume was "Old Boy.''
MahrukhChughtai01 April 9, 2019, 4:44am #152
8/10. The syntax is placed very nicely but you could have added more thoughts.
Ink on your body - does that sound strange to you or are you fascinated by it? It's rather obvious that the latter is a more famous answer than the former, with due thanks to the modern era of uninhibited humans that has led to versatility being a huge part of society today. Speaking of versatility, tattooed humans seem to be highly fond of adaptability to the point that they'd get anything that would suit their aesthetics as a tattoo on their bodies.
VrayZrone April 12, 2019, 5:14pm #153
I like the writing style in this, however, I'm unfamiliar of the speaker and the wording might take a few re-reads to understand what is being said. I would say that the second sentence sort of is an odd thing to say, considering we aren't talking about the answers as much as the two questions. Something leading from the questions to the answers feels missing.
"Okay, okay, I get it," Mephiles answered, rushing him saying it clearly showing his indifference.
"Trust me, Mephiles." Ahuizotl stopped. He looked at Mephiles in the eyes as a dark twisted smile crossed his face. It was almost as if it snuffed out any peaceful aura around.
Mephiles remained unphased, merely getting annoyed at Ahuizotl's overly dramatic pausing.
"It will be far worth it for our cause."
"It better be," Mephiles grumbled as he floated on. "Else, I have half a mind to make you donate as much blood as was lost today."
As the ghost floated away, Ahuizotl pulled his hood back over his head with one paw. I'm sure you'll agree when you see what we catch because of it. A controlled pawn that isn't aware he is one is better than simply having a tool. We aren't masters of every proper approach or perspective, and that is where freedom in chains truly is an interesting thing. Ahuizotl gave a little chuckle to himself as he walked down a row of crates. "To surpass our limits," he whispered under his breath as he vanished in the dark areas of the storage facility.
dhania April 13, 2019, 6:33pm #154
I really like fantasy so of course I liked this one about ghosts and what seems to be the aftermath of a bloody… battle?
I think it'd be better to tell less and show more? In this case, in
Might've been better if you just left it as
"Okay, okay, I get it," Mephiles answered.
Readers can just tell from this much that he's annoyed and indifferent at whatever was being said before.
Same for the following paragraphs. Simpler is sometimes best.
Try reading it all out loud.
"Oh, you were worried?" Abba says, grinning. "We've been spending these years just waiting for you to waltz in the door, finally 'worried' for our well-being. Is that what you think?"
When I'm quiet, staring at my hands, which are clenched tightly in my lap, he continues.
He's hunched over now, his head in his hands. "Where did we go wrong in raising you? We were so careless. How would we have known—"
"Abba," I breathe, out of my mouth. "You have— "
"You shouldn't have come here today. I didn't want to do this. You wouldn't understand. But we all had no choice."
I can feel the vibrations in the air, the tell-tale signs of witches' magic, so I know what he's done.
"Abba, calm down." I repeat, louder. "I knew what I was getting into when I showed up here today."
JustinW11 April 15, 2019, 12:27am #155
9/10 I felt engaged in this paragraph and quickly figured this between a parent and their child. I could feel that tension between them.
The Element of Life
He walked me back to the principal. It was Regina's turn. I asked the principal if I could stay in his office until Regina was done and he agreed. He sat at his desk and worked on an email while I sat there. With my eyes closed, I found myself in a small room with Regina and Officer Lang. Of course, I wasn't physically there. He searched her backpack as he found textbooks, pencils, notebooks, and a bag of weed. Oh crap! Regina didn't even do weed let alone sell it. Somebody planted this operation. I continued to follow them as they walked back. With my eyes still closed I waved my hand which allowed me to change the formula of the weed. I was basically killing the ingredients the made it weed. They came back into the office. The officer tested the weed to see if it was in fact weed. It turned out after my ingredient changing that it wasn't a bag of weed. I saved Regina. After everything had ended, the bell rung. The day was over. We walked out of the office only to see Janelle from a distance covering her face in a magazine. It became clear that she was the one who planted the weed on Regina.
"That skank!" Regina shouted.
Anger took over me. I wanted nothing more than to kill her. I could've easily done it, but I figured that it wouldn't end well. She zoomed out of the area and we followed her. Maybe I would just smack her a little.
smallwinter May 9, 2019, 2:40pm #156
Well, this thread is almost dead. But hope this revives it somehow. Anyway, I'd give this a 5/10. To be honest, this did draw me in a little with the MC being in trouble but once the out of body experience happened, i was just turned off from reading it. Also, it's a lot of telling and not a lot of showing. for eg:
JustinW11:
We walked out of the office only to see Janelle from a distance covering her face in a magazine. It became clear that she was the one who planted the weed on Regina.
how is it clear that she was the one who sabotaged Regina? was it the way she stood? was it the way she was glancing up every few seconds to avoid suspicion? as the audience, we just see her standing there with a magazine covering her face, which doesn't really make sense as she couldn't see MC and Regina and run away from them.
how does Regina immediately know it's her? Janelle could just have been reading a magazine. also, isn't it the end of school? wouldn't there be a lot more kids that the MC couldn't just spot Janelle immediately?
that's all from me. hope this helps!
With a heavy heart, I pulled myself from the couch and sauntered over to the kitchen in search of food. As I poured myself a cup of much needed coffee, my phone rang.
I picked up on the second ring. "Hey, I'm so sorry about what happen–"
"Kayla, it's been too long. I'm not sure if Tyler told you but we want to invite you over for dinner tomorrow night. It'd be nice to catch up after all these years." Alice's voice made me smile despite the murky feeling in my chest.
"Hi Alice, it's good to hear from you. Sure, I'd love to come over."
"That's great. Is Tyler there? That boy isn't picking up his phone."
"No, he isn't. Do you want to leave a message?"
"No, I just want to check up on him. You know how he gets. Anyway, I'll see you tomorrow dear. Bye now." She hung up and I was left alone again.
giiix0x0 May 13, 2019, 6:23am #158
7/10 I enjoyed it but, I wish that there was more action going on rather than just the dialouge. What was Kayla doing or reacting to what Alice was saying on the phone?
I feel the part of me that's really me come out to play, to feel the vibe of the music and let my body go free. One moment, one brilliant feeling of togetherness suspended in time. Music, friends, good times, dance. With that music, that beat, those crazy, crazy lights I know I'm alive, I'm real, and reality is awesome. By the end of the night I'm quite drunk, I should cut back but who's counting?
An excerpt from the first year
Davrielle May 13, 2019, 2:50pm #160
6/10 While I like the sentiments the speaker of the excerpt is saying, there's a lot of repetition going on about feeling. Feeling is expressed at least three times in two sentences or so. One way to counteract this is to describe the sensory details. How does the music sound and feel against their body (I'm refraining from using gender specific pronouns as it's a bit unclear). How do the lights look? How do the people around the character look? Then we get to the bit about them being drunk which is a bit abrupt. Overall, I think the writing could really focus on the sensory applications as it would make the writing stand out more.
Silence takes over the room as Henry stares at nothing. Millie closes her eyes and brings him closer to her, feeling his body grow tight. He edges himself away and put his fingers into his mouth, pulling down on his lower lip.
"I'll sing to you. Singing makes everything better."
Millie takes his hand, but he releases it and flails as he moans. "No touching! Do not touch! Mama! Mama! Bread! Bread! Mama's coming!"
"Ssh, Henry. Mama isn't h-here anymore," Millie says, her throat constricting as her heart squeezes tight in her chest. "I'm going to sing to you now."
He is sprawled on the faded out rug. "Sing the pretty roses song." He smiles and laughs.
Millie looks away in the direction of the window and for a moment, she feels her mother's presence.
"O my love is like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June. O my love is like a melody that's sweetly played in tune. . ."
She continues to sing, but her throat constricts and her words falter. Her mother's image is faceless. She tries reaching out for her, but her mother is disappearing —like a soft, gentle breeze, caressing. The golden-yellow aroma of baked bread floats around them. As a bit of sunshine, the warm presence of her mother —but it is a poor substitute for the real thing.
am_dork May 14, 2019, 4:12am #161
8/10. It's well written and it shows plenty of emotion it's just a little bit scattered.
<~*~>
With that, Sean woke up, the technician's voice coming through the halls. With a groan, he gets out of bed, staring at his stark white sweatpants. He took a deep breath, taking these moments to prepare himself for morning group and hygiene. He got up and walked out of his room, his two roommates having left minutes ago. He stands in line, waiting for his turn to take his salmon pink bin full of hygiene supplies. He took a deep breath, ignoring the glare of James. James didn't like anyone really, but he really seemed to hate Sean.
Not that Sean cared. He didn't do anything to James so why in Hell should he? Annie approached him from behind, placing a hand upon his shoulder. In consequence, the male was startled, suddenly proclaiming 'stront'. He then notices it was just Annie and takes a deep breath. "Don't scare me like that-"
Excerpt from The Last Door
mongolgirl May 14, 2019, 11:25pm #162
5/10. First off, you keep jumping back and forth between present and past tense which throws me off. In addition, a lot of your sentences start with "he" which starts to sound boring, so try to vary it up a little bit. Also, I would avoid referring to your characters with identifiers like "the male" because it sounds very detached. I would suggest using an identifier that people will recognize like "the brunette" or something like that.
Coming soon: The Girl King
Antonia walked out of her room and nearly jumped when she saw Godric lounging against the wall across from her door. He straightened the moment he saw her, but there was a stiffness to him that gave away that he didn't do it completely out of respect.
She couldn't let this catch her off guard. After all, this had been her plan. With the slightest nod in his direction, Antonia set out for the war room.
IridescentBlaze May 15, 2019, 4:56am #163
As someone who has no context, this paragraph interests me in a way that makes me want to read more, and understand the meaning behind the tension. I would have maybe liked a little more description, but your paragraph was very good otherwise.
Excerpt from a short piece I have been writing away from wattpad:
The flag waved as crimson as the blood that poured from the revolution.
The ravenous jaws of death tore at those on the barricade, the numerous bullet wounds like teeth marks in the simple bodies of the schoolboys. Down and splinters littered the cobblestones; remnants of the battle fought in vain.
Uniformed soldiers strewn across the concrete, slumped over their weapons and comrades, fallen from the war that they never wished to fight. The students who had given their lives for a lost cause lay mangled in the early days of June, the spark that they once possessed extinguished in the light drizzle. The people no longer sing their song of pride, but the tune of abhorrence and defeat.
The law still towered over the impoverished towns, laughing in the face of homelessness and turning a blind eye to starvation. No hope was left for those who survived, and any dream of another uprising seemed to be belittled.
Once again, those with any scrape of ambition had lost everything.
smallwinter May 16, 2019, 6:56am #164
7/10. i could sense the hopelessness and defeat of the 'good guys' but it just didn't pull me in.
IridescentBlaze:
this paragraph seems a bit irrelevant to me at least, it just seems repetitive. but i would keep the last line in to link it to the next paragraph and rephrase it to something like this:
<no longer could people sing their song of pride, only a tune of abhorrence and defeat left their lips.>
i would also take out this line. to me, it doesn't emphasise anything other than the obvious.
The door creaked open as I jiggled my keys out of the lock, a dark living room greeted me as I slipped off my shoes. The ceiling light flickered to life before I flopped onto the couch and my bag slid to the floor.
Question: what vibe do you get from reading this para?


"We'll have to bulldoze and start over", Linda Marquardt, of Mexico Beach, said of her mud-filled home.
Gulf Coast Regional Medical Centre in hard-hit Panama City, 32km northwest of Mexico Beach, was treating some of the injured.
At Jinks Middle School in Panama City, the storm peeled back part of the gym roof and tore off one wall, leaving the wooden floor covered in water.
The storm is now blamed for at least six deaths, including an 11-year-old girl in Georgia, and billions of dollars in damage.
Hurricane Michael made landfall close to the small town and according to authorities it bore the full brunt of the storm.
- Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency in Virginia on Thursday ahead of Tropical Storm Michael's arrival to the region.
Almost 850,000 homes and businesses were without power in Florida, Alabama, the Carolinas and Georgia on Thursday. Both were killed when trees crashed onto their homes.
Michael, a Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale when it came ashore, was causing flash flooding on Thursday in parts of North Carolina and Virginia, where some areas could get as much as 9 inches (23 cm) of rain, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
By 8 p.m. (0000 GMT) on Thursday, the storm was located about 5 miles (10 km) northwest of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles-per-hour (85 kph).
Dominion Energy also confirmed that 120 schools had lost power, many local.
Michael, one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the United States, left the East Coast early Friday morning.


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NK NEIGHBORS: Researching family trees like solving puzzles
Vogel — Oct 9th, 1996
* Join the local genealogical society and ask about classes, seminars, resource materials, and forms for recording and organizing your material.
* Gather facts about yourself and your parents, then start branching out.
* Talk to others about what computer software they use for organizing and for going on-line.
nTalk to your relatives about their lives and memories, and audio-tape or videotape them.
* Gather copies of photos, certificates, diaries, scrapbooks, and other records.
The Puget Sound Genealogical Society meets monthly on the fourth Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Givens Community Center in Port Orchard. The group's library, in the same location, is open on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call Jane McAuliffe at 692-1464 or Bill Richardson at 377-5881.
By Ann Vogel
Special to The Sun
Amateur sleuths from around Kitsap meet monthly to piece together very personal puzzles: their family trees. These members of the Puget Sound Genealogical Society dig for roots that run deep into their ancestry and spread throughout the U.S. and the world.
One of the country's fastest growing hobbies, genealogy can be addictive.
Genealogy is a perfect hobby for anyone who likes books, puzzles or history, say those who are involved in it.
The hobby is also popular with adoptees and others who may want to give a heritage to their children or who are uncertain about their genetic ancestors. In the past decade, more sources have become available for researching non-European ancestries, as well.
"It's very exciting to discover a new grandparent or a new fact. It makes you want to look for more," said Jane McAuliffe of Silverdale.
McAuliffe has traced her husband's family back to 1665 when they were in New Amsterdam, New York, and her own family to the 1840s, when many Irish potato farmers immigrated to the U.S.
"I wish they could talk from the grave to tell us what it was like," said McAuliffe. "Times change so quickly — what we take for granted now could be so unusual to future generations."
However, participants warn: Genealogy is not a hobby for anyone who is easily discouraged. "It's a tremendous outlet, especially for people getting along in years who have time and who want a hobby without a lot of physical activity," said Bill Richardson of Bremerton, president of the local genealogical society.
"Later in life, you become more philosophic, and genealogy gives you a feeling of belonging to the world community."
Richardson has traced his family ancestry to the 1200s in Switzerland.
Local genealogists use traditional and unique research methods including combing through census records, certificates of birth, baptism, marriage, and death, military records, ship passenger lists, courthouse and church records, wills, oral histories from relatives, journals, genealogy libraries, telephone books, records from the Mormon Church records.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) has the world's largest genealogy center at its headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Locally, The Mormon Church has two local family history centers, one on Perry Avenue in Bremerton and the other on Nels Nelson road in Silverdale. Both are open to anyone interested in doing genealogy research.
Genealogy enthusiasts can also use computers to "chat" about their research with others worldwide, to query genealogical societies throughout the world, put notes on bulletin boards, and to organize on-line family reunions.
For example, the McAuliffe family could invite all other McAuliffes to join them for a "reunion" over an on-line meeting room.
"Even your vacations can become ancestor-oriented," said Richardson. "You want to visit old churches, graveyards, courthouses, and even land your family once owned."
Genealogy makes history and geography come alive, say fans of the hobby.
"It's like a big mystery. Once you get started, you discover you're at the apex of a huge genealogical pyramid. You become a different person," he added. "And you always find a skeleton or two in the family closet.
Beginning genealogy class set in Jefferson
The Jefferson County Genealogical Society is sponsoring a class for beginners interested in researching family history from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Mondays, Oct. 6 to Nov. 3, at the Tri-Area Community Center. Eileen Martin and Beverly Brice will share tips on how to start your research, ... [Read More...]
SK NEIGHBORS: Add branches to your family tree
By Ann Vogel Special to The Sun Amateur sleuths from South Kitsap meet monthly to piece together very personal puzzles: their family trees. These members of the Puget Sound Genealogical Society dig for roots that run deep into their ancestry and spread throughout ... [Read More...]
Genealogical research could take many paths
Gathering family history could be as easy as pushing a button on your computer, but more than likely it will be a lot of legwork, tracking down records, recording stories from living relatives and traveling to the places your ancestors settled. Lawrence Harden, ... [Read More...]
Climbing a family tree
* Many local people are dedicated to finding themselves by finding their past through the serious study of genealogy. They're a furtive band of hobbyists, the members of the Puget Sound Genealogical Society. While many of us might prefer a Maui beach in January, ... [Read More...]
Society to discuss genealogy research
The Puget Sound Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m. July 22 at the Washington Mutual Bank at Fifth Street and Pacific Avenue in Bremerton. Paulette Waggoner will speak about researching on the east coast. To honor family members who served in the military, ... [Read More...]

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For example, God teaches us to be holy because He is holy. We'll talk more about His holiness in just a moment, but that attribute is an attribute that He actively empowers us to model. In fact, He also tells us that through faith in Jesus Christ, we become holy in His sight.
Scripture also teaches us that God is immanent and immutable. Those attributes can be appreciated, but they cannot be copied. We'll define what those terms mean momentarily, but God's immanence and immutability belong to Him alone. We do not possess those attributes, nor can we expect to develop them as our faith matures.
So, as we continue our look at who God is and what He's like, let's examine His holiness, immanence, and immutability.
Holiness is a valuable concept to understand, but it's often misunderstood and sometimes maligned. Scripture tells us that God is holy. This means He is "set apart" from His creation. In Him, there is no sin, nor is it possible for Him to sin. When the Lord judges sin, He isn't being hypocritical by doing so because He is the perfection of holiness and the standard by which right and wrong are measured.
God is praised throughout Scripture for His holiness.
Scripture also teaches us that God makes us holy when we come to faith in Jesus Christ. As Jesus atoned for our sin when He died in our place, we are sanctified or made holy when we trust in Him.
God has always called His children to live "set apart". We are called to be obedient children who can now see things like He sees them. We've been empowered to no longer live in ignorance like we once did, but to conduct ourselves with a set-apart mindset and lifestyle that reflects the presence and heart of God within us. During the Old Covenant era, the Lord repeatedly encouraged the people of Israel to live distinct and set apart from the beliefs and practices of the pagan nations that neighbored them. During the New Covenant era we currently live in, the Church is encouraged to be careful not to welcome the ungodly beliefs and practices of this fallen world into our lives.
In my own experiences, and through the experiences of others, I have often seen attempts to emulate the holiness of God criticized by those who felt a sense of conviction because of their unwillingness to live in holiness. When I became a serious follower of Christ during my high school years, I was regularly maligned by some people I was close to. I also remember hearing about the criticism two elderly sisters that I am friends with received because of their desire to follow Christ and live a "set apart" life. One of their neighbors in particular used to malign them for attending worship services and offering rides to those who wanted to go with them. He would disparagingly call them "the church ladies" and would criticize their faith.
Our adversary, the devil, makes it his goal to tempt us to embrace worldliness and not live a life that honors Christ, practices holiness, or lives set apart from the sinful priorities of the era we live in. Satan seeks to damage and devour people, Christians included. His goal is for us to minimize or devalue God's holiness, and to forget the fact that we are seen as holy in God's eyes, so that living in holiness might become a foreign concept to us.
Have you ever praised God for His holiness? Have you ever asked Him for the grace to reflect His holiness in your life?
The immanence of God is an attribute of God that we can and should appreciate, but we cannot copy. It is an attribute that belongs to God alone. When we speak of God's immanence, we're talking about the fact that God's sovereign control over His creation extends everywhere at once. He is distinct from His creation, yet He is present in His creation, upholding it by His powerful word.
Both the Apostle Paul and the writer of Hebrews speak of this attribute and they make a point to express the fact that God the Son, Jesus Christ, displays this perfection of God by holding all things together and upholding the universe by the word of His power.
This is an attribute of God that I don't typically hear as much about as I do His other attributes, but when I dwell on the practical implications of this perfection of God, my heart experiences a greater sense of peace and contentment.
From the time I was young, I have often tried to juggle many tasks at once. I must like doing it because it's a repeated pattern in my life. I readily accept multiple responsibilities and I try to work hard to do the best job I can to fulfill them. But inevitably, I eventually come to a point when I realize I have either taken on too much or I'm trying to sustain too many things. In those moments, the healthiest thing I can do is remind myself of the truth of the gospel all over again. I don't have to sustain everything in my power. That's a task that only Christ can accomplish. He's the one who upholds the universe and I can praise Him for His ability to do so perfectly.
Praising the Lord for His immanence can help remind us that we don't have to be everywhere at once, upholding and sustaining all things in our strength. We can step back, take a breath, and find rest in Christ who joyfully accomplishes this task for His glory and for our benefit.
The word of God also teaches us that God is immutable. This means that God does not change. He is unchangeable because in all ways, He is already perfect. There is nothing He needs to learn because He already knows all things. There is nothing about Himself that needs to improve. He has been, is, and always will be the essence of absolute perfection.
I imagine that in some ways, the immutability of God takes us a little while to appreciate because it's completely different from what we're used to in regard to our own development. Biologically speaking, we spend our lives observing our bodies growing or changing. At each season of life, we typically possess characteristics that are commonly present for that season. We grow taller and stronger, then grayer and weaker. And if we're humble and teachable, our knowledge and wisdom can grow as well. But such is not the case with God. He has no need to change, nor could it be said that He was perfect if He still had room to grow in any area.
The immutability of God can also seem like a foreign concept to us because of the relational changes we're used to experiencing among one another. Just consider how your relationships with others have changed during the course of your life. Who did you interact with on a daily basis when you were 10? How often do you see them now? Who did you once trust, but now you find it difficult to do so because they either abandoned you or betrayed you? Who did you once spend time with, but now you find it difficult to be together because of geographical distances that have forced you to live further apart?
Mankind changes, but God does not change. He has and always will be perfectly omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, eternal, good, gracious, holy, loving, and immanent. There will never be a day when God's perfect nature will mutate into something else. Even though all sorts of things are changing within us and around us, and even though our relationships with others may change, we can take great comfort in the constancy and immutability of God. God never changes.
Personally speaking, I have to say I'm also encouraged by the fact that this means that God's future plans will likewise never change. The ultimate outcome for what He has brought into existence will be perfectly fulfilled. Those who trust in Him will live in His presence forever. Sin, grief, sorrow, and shame will all be eradicated. Hearts will never be broken again. Relationships will never again be severed. Loved ones will never be missed. The unchanging joy of the Lord will forever prevail.
I'm also encouraged by the fact that the love of God for His children never changes. If you have faith in Jesus Christ, you have been adopted forever into the family of God. His love for you is a fatherly love that isn't conditional in nature. If you are part of His family, there will never be a day when He will regret welcoming you in or giving you His name. Even if you go through a low stretch in your life or a difficult season due to a regretful choice, God's love for you will not change. He will not stop loving you on your worst day, nor is it possible for Him to love you more on your best day. Scripture tells us that just as God the Father loves God the Son, so too does He love all who are "in Christ" by faith.
Because God is immutable or unchanging, His love for those He has made His children will not be altered, tarnished or rescinded. This fact should bring great comfort to our hearts in the midst of this changing world because it contrasts with every other relationship we've ever experienced.
God's perfect holiness, immanence, and immutability are fascinating to ponder. What a privilege it is to reflect on who He is, and how He chooses to transform us while also assuring us that He will never change.


At what age can you tell if your JRT is going to be a smooth coat or wirehair?
Smooth Coat or Wire Hair?
I picked up my Jack at 6 weeks and there was no doubt, out of the litter, he was a rough coat. The ones who were smooth were also obvious. I would say, surely at 6 weeks if not sooner, you can tell what their coat will be like!


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Report: Google to return to China with Android app store, Android Wear software
by Mike Dano |
Sep 4, 2015 12:20pm
According to a new report in The Information, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is poised to return to China with a new version of its Android smartphone app store as well as Android Wear software for wearable devices there. The move would represent a major step for Google, which has been absent from the Chinese market -- the world's largest smartphone market -- since 2010.
Citing unnamed sources, The Information reported that Google hopes to get Chinese government approval to distribute a custom Chinese version of its Google Play mobile app store for Android smartphones in the country. The publication also reported Google would offer a version of its Android Wear platform there too.
Google exited the Chinese market in 2010 over security concerns. Since then, Google's Android has grown into a major operating system in China -- but largely without carrying Google's services like searching and mapping. Last year research firm CCS Insight predicted that by this year fully 30 percent of Android phones globally wouldn't access Google services, and would instead access services by Chinese search, mapping and email vendors.
The situation has impacted Google's ability to derive advertising revenues from the country. Article
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Without further ado, Dodge Poet and one of the poets reading as a part of Open Doors 2013 on Thursday, October 17 at WBGO in Newark, Catherine Doty.
When did you first discover poetry? What poets made you want to write poetry?
As a kid, I had a precocious love of words. Even words whose meanings I didn't yet know resonated with me texturally or rhythmically. Some mild synesthesia lent certain words flavor, color or weight as well. When words began to line up and make sense, I was drawn to drama, mystery, and anything incantatory or playful. My mother, who had always read poetry to me, allowed me to paw through her big British-and-American anthology searching for pieces that gave me goosebumps. Yeats was my favorite. I loved and imitated him, as I did Gerard Manley Hopkins and (different book) Dr. Seuss.
I find that doctors' waiting rooms and Superbowl parties are excellent reading spots, but a secluded, well-upholstered, over-pillowed couch is best, especially if it is dog-or-catted.
My mother once declared me useless after 9 PM, and whether this declaration was a helpful insight or a flat-out curse, it remains true to this day. I write best at dawn, which, somehow, is when I am clearest, kindest, happiest and most insightful. Sadly, few people are eager to interview, date or make coffee for anyone before 5 AM.
What are your favorite writing tools? Paper or computer? Are there special brands, papers, pens, etc. that are important to you?
I've always loved a black Bic pen and a yellow legal pad for the first few drafts of a poem. When the draft develops a discernible heartbeat, I move to the computer and play with line break. I also like starting new pieces on scrap paper or the backs of old quizzes for the pentimento effect.
"Me, too" is my favorite response to "I write poems." I usually reserve "I'm a poet" for situations in which prose writers are being directed to one table and poem writers to another…I'm not sure why.
nothing at all to be met with shame or fear.
another small poem the last word of which is oh.
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some of the many reasons that "Cat" inspires me. Thank you, quiet whirlwind.
What a trove of lightly-worn brilliance and deep fun! And the poem!
Apart from Grandma Luminata, I was especially jealous of "when the draft develops a discernible heartbeat" and quickly saw how even I might compose at a Superbowl party.
Love Cat! Her sense of humor makes my smile spread into a grin and on to a hearty belly laugh! Kudos to Cat!
I had the absolute pleasure of getting to know Cat over the course of years of attending the Dodge Poetry workshops for teachers. It turned out, as fate would have it, that she is also the aunt of a good friend and colleague (allowing me the inside scoop on the background of many a poem). She is not only a wonderful poet but a beautiful human being, full of laughter, wisdom, and encouragement.
I am privileged to teach middle school with Cat. She is by far the most creative, inspirational and effective language arts teacher I have known in my thirty years as an educator. She is also my dear friend. Mwah!
Throughout my entire life, Cat Doty is the person that is immediately summoned to mind when I'm asked who influenced me. She was a teacher and mentor when I was in HS (along with Mr. Carnevale, above). When I think of her, I think of motion, energy, creativity and being boundless. What great news to see this and to read about the NEA fellowship. I hope you read this, Cat. I feel so fortunate to have been a student in a time and place where poetry and arts were honored in our public schools.


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California Votes to Stiffen Further Its Data-Privacy Rules
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc.
One of the not-so-ballyhooed election results earlier this month is one that could affect marketers for years to come.
That decision was passage of Proposition 24, or the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which will stiffen even further requirements that businesses must meet to protect citizens' data privacy. Approved by 56% of the state's voters, the tougher data privacy law would take effect in January 2023 to give companies and marketers time to comply.
CPRA comes on the heels of the California Consumer Privacy Act, which the state already adopted two years ago and with which businesses had to comply beginning this year.
Similar to Europe's privacy act, California's existing law already gives online users the right to know what information companies are collecting about them, why the companies are collecting that data and with whom the data is shared. Californians also can tell companies to delete their information or not sell or share their data.
When it takes effect in January 2023, the newer CPRA would establish a tougher set of data privacy rules for businesses, give consumers more rights on how their data can be used and create a separate oversight panel, the California Privacy Protection Agency, for rule-making and enforcement.
Specifically, the new law would, according to the experts at eMarketer:
• Create a broad category of "sensitive" personal data — including a person's race or ethnicity, their genetic data, their sexual orientation, and data about their health, among other information — which consumers can limit to approved uses;
• Require businesses to create a link on their homepages where consumers can opt out of having their data sold, shared or used;
• Give consumers the right to correct information businesses have on them;
• Strengthen opt-in requirements for data on children, and increase penalties for the forbidden use or sharing of such data;
• Set limits on how long businesses can keep data;
• Provide an opt-out for "cross-context behavioral advertising," defined in CPRA as targeted advertising based on users' personal information that was collected across a variety of digital touchpoints, such as websites, apps and services.
What the California Law Means for Marketers
"For marketers already struggling to meet compliance deadlines for CCPA, CPRA represents another legal hurdle, and one that will be lot more onerous than what they currently face," warns Yoram Wurmser, an eMarketer principal analyst.
Affected mostly by the new law would be larger marketers who have data on more than 100,000 households — as opposed to the 50,000 threshold under the current privacy law.
"If the act goes into effect in 2023, most personalized advertising will no longer be possible in California, and many parts of the data ecosystem will struggle to adapt," Wormser says.
Will a Federal Data Privacy Law Emerge From All of This?
Wormser and others are hailing the long lead time until the newer California data privacy act takes effect, because it will give businesses and marketers more time to adapt. They say the act may put additional pressure on the federal government to come up with a national data privacy law that could supersede the California model.
"I think that CPRA's most impactful provision is when it takes effect: January 2023," said Caitlin Fennessy, research director at the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
"CPRA would create the impetus and provide the time frame for adoption of federal privacy legislation. And I think that was intentional on the part of the ballot initiatives' proponents."
Congress has debated whether there should be a federal privacy law for the past couple of years, but it didn't make much headway this past year, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as those 2020 elections.
As for whether there might be a federal privacy law in the not-so-distant future under a new administration and Congress, Wurmser, the eMarketer principal analyst, predicted this on election eve earlier this month:
"The odds for new regulations on tech rise with a Democrat-run Congress and a Biden presidency, particularly in the areas of consumer data privacy, antitrust enforcement, and algorithmic bias and transparency."
However, he continued, "Although Democrats are more eager than Republicans for tougher consumer privacy laws, a variety of viewpoints hold even within the Democratic caucus. Given the scale of economic, health and racial equity issues facing the new Congress, it's likely that it will take a while for lawmakers to reconcile these differences, even with full Democratic control."
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I previously fangirled about Marginal #4's teaser of their latest single LOVE★SAVIOR. And today someone was kind enough to upload the single, dl here.
Marginal #4 is a 4 person musical unit comprised of seiyuus: Masuda Toshiki (増田俊樹), Takahashi Naozumi (高橋直純), KENN and Suzuki Yuto (鈴木裕斗).


The One to One Future, co-authored by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers and published in 1996 was ahead of its time. It foretold the end of mass marketing using generic messages and the rise of messages specific to individuals. Customers would be gained one at a time. That wasn't a change….it was a revolution. At the time the internet was in its infancy as a marketing tool and most phones were still plugged into the wall. Many marketers couldn't connect the dots.
Well, the future is now. Smart marketers know that their customers and prospects are not faceless pages of statistics. They are living, breathing human beings that use technology to take charge of the marketing process. Embracing this change in crafting your message and selecting where those messages are placed will allow you to create more effective marketing campaigns.
The greatest challenge is to know your customers and prospects so intimately that you can speak to each individually. Both demographic (age, income, gender, race, education, marital status, etc.) and behavioral (social interests, purchasing habits, lifestyle preferences, media use, etc.) data must be obtained and thoroughly understood. When that happens personas can be created for customers and prospects. Instead of numbers, a descriptive narrative is written that humanizes the people with whom you most want to engage.
Your persona tells you your best customer and most likely prospect loves rap music, professional football and video games. Create advertising messages that frame the product/service with these interests in mind. After all, any individual is more likely to engage in a message that speaks directly to their interests. You're talking to them one to one!
The persona also tells you what social networks, web sites, online services and traditional media are most frequently used. So now you can take your rap-related message and advertise on hiphopdx.com. While your football-related message appears on espn.com.
In 1996 the technology to do these things were not readily available to marketers. In 2017 the "one to one future" has become the present. Being able to speak to your customers and prospects as individuals and engaging them in a relationship is no longer just a theory. It's a requirement for success.


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The canton of La Ciotat is a canton located within the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France.

Composition
Since the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the communes of the canton of La Ciotat are:
Carnoux-en-Provence
Cassis
Ceyreste
La Ciotat
Cuges-les-Pins
Gémenos
Roquefort-la-Bédoule

See also
 Cantons of the Bouches-du-Rhône department
 Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department

References

External links
 Website of the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône

Ciotat

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A Bare Bodkin, Or: One Lunch, Naked, To Go
By: Kurt Luchs
Posted on December 17, 2003 by Kurt Luchs
Once in a millennium, it is an editor's sacred privilege to play midwife to a writer of earthshaking significance and eye-rolling originality. Unfortunately, that hasn't happened to us yet, but until it does we are honored to introduce our readers to Richard Bodkin, or "the San Francisco Earthquake," as he is known to intimates. Mr. Bodkin, our readers; readers, Mr. Bodkin.
For years, Mr. Bodkin has been jotting down odd thoughts at odd moments, using dinner napkins and playing cards for stationery, and then stuffing the scraps into his hatband and losing the hat. Such retiring habits are no boon in the rough-and-tumble arena of literary backslapping and backbiting. Bodkin has never sought after eminence; nor, up to now, has it shown any interest in him.
We hope to change all that. Below are printed, for the first time anywhere, the collected works of Richard Bodkin. Spanning the years 1944 to 1990 ("the prolific period"), they readily demonstrate why Robinson Jeffers referred to Bodkin as "that fat, slobbering stinkbug," and why T.S. Eliot, upon meeting Bodkin for the first time, felt it was an act of simple Christian charity to smother him with a pillow. Luckily for Bodkin, Edna St. Vincent Millay was in the room at the time. After an impassioned argument, she convinced Eliot to give her the pillow, and was attempting to smother Bodkin herself when the police raided the joint.
The Scum Also Rises (an excerpt)
Brad sat in the only café in the little Spanish town and drank a bottle of the local wine. He did this by pouring the wine into a soiled piece of gauze and wringing out the bandage over his face, catching the drops with his tongue as they fell. The gauze had been with him in the War. It was all he had left. That and some chewing tobacco.
"This is a good café," he said in English to the waiter, "and good wine, and I am a very good boy." The waiter smiled that childlike Spanish smile and emptied a pot of coffee into Brad's lap. Brad laughed bitterly at the man's quiet courage. He had been brave once. Now he was a coward. Worse than a coward. A fool. Worse than a fool. In love.
Lady Bitcherly walked in and took the waiter in her arms and kissed him and gave him her room number, saying it loudly and slowly in Spanish. The waiter began to smile that smile again but was interrupted by Brad's wine bottle breaking over his head.
"Good bottle, that," said Lady Bitcherly.
"Good waiter," said Brad. "Why the hell don't we take him up to your room and give him what for?"
"Why the hell not?" she said. He knocked her out and began to drag them both upstairs. This is what war is like, he thought.
Bodkin's first and only novel, of course, went unpublished during his lifetime, like all of his work. Still, he had the admiration of the critics. Edmund Wilson called this manuscript "the sort of thing a carnival pinhead might produce after drinking a gallon of rotgut and spending a weekend on a tilt-a-whirl." It was praise like this that kept Bodkin writing until he was struck down several years ago by a trolley car going uphill. He wasn't killed immediately, although the conductor went back over him several times to make sure. He was taken to a trauma center by a squad car, and pronounced dead on arrival by the doctor.
"No, I'm not," he said weakly.
"We'll soon take care of that," replied the doctor, at heart a kind man who couldn't stand the sight of suffering. He administered a dose of strychnine to Bodkin and waited for the results. Bodkin asked for a sheet of paper and a pencil, and in a few moments had composed his only known book of poetry, To Hell in a Handbasket.
A thing as lovely as me.
This somewhat stilted poem was Bodkin's first attempt at verse, and as such is understandably traditional in its rhyme scheme. In his later poems (about three minutes later) Bodkin abandoned rhyme for a verse structure so free as to be promiscuous. As Robert Frost once said of Bodkin's prose works, "If Bodkin's blood could but be spilled/And his mewling forever stilled!" This heartfelt comment applies equally to Bodkin's verse output.
Another Poem
Ha ha! Fooled you, didn't I?
Bodkin rarely showed his sense of humor, and the above poem reveals why. In it, Bodkin anticipated the Beatnik writers, but in typical fashion he was 35 years too late. Because of this literary historians seldom class him with the Beats, and he is most often classed with the nematodes (in the words of Daniel Webster, "any of a class or phylum of elongated cylindrical worms parasitic in animals or plants or free-living in soil or water").
Yet Another Poem
This time I'm going to write one if it kills m–
Of this last of Bodkin's works, what can be said? Sic transit gloria mundi.
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A graduate in Fine Art from the University of Barcelona, she specialized in illustration at the Escola Massana and completed her training at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistichede Urbino in Italy. She won the Second Apila Primera Impresión Prize in 2014, received a mention in the VII International Compostela Prize for Picture Books in 2014, and has been selected in the V Iberoamerican Catalogue of Illustration 2014. She has also participated in several exhibitions in Catalonia, Rome, Mexico and China.


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WhatsOn Comedy
DAVE JOHNS
Tickets: £14.00
Dave Johns has been a stand up comic for nearly 3 decades touring his one man shows worldwide. He is a multi award-winning film actor, accomplished stage actor and respected stand-up comic.
He is perhaps best known for playing the lead role in Ken Loach's feature film I, Daniel Blake for which he won the 2016 BIFA for Best Actor. He also won Best Actor at the Dublin Film Critics Circle and Best Newcomer at the EMPIRE Awards. Other nominations included Best Actor at the 2016 European Film Awards, Evening Standard British Film Awards and Critics' Circle Awards 2017.
I, Daniel Blake won the 2016 Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and also the award for Outstanding British Film at the 2017 BAFTAs.
'hilarious and emotional… one of the unlikeliest, most uplifting stories you will ever hear" The Guardian
His most recent films; Fisherman's Friends is in cinemas 15th March 2019 and The Keeper – Trautmann is due for initial release 6th April 2019.
Other notable credits include Walk Like a Panther and Two Graves. Stage credits include Shawshank Redemption and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Currently filming his new lead role '23 Walks' alongside Alison Steadman due to be released in 2020
'Science says that laugher releases millions of endorphins that produce a feeling of euphoria – laughing can also make you wee yourself. I can't wait to make you laugh and wee yourself on my new UK tour' Dave Johns


Been married for "X number of years" so when's the good news? If this question hasn't been thrown at you time and again and you said you live in India, I would be gobsmacked. The age to marry, to procreate, then procreate again so that your child has a sibling, everything seems to be decided by society here, isn't it.
"good news" question before anyone, I sometimes do take the liberty with good friends.
One such colleague whom I knew well since a couple of years, was married for close to 3 years and when I asked her casually about having babies, she promptly replied - neither she nor her spouse are very fond of kids so they are not thinking of having one. On thinking about this- I wondered but how can one not love kids? How can a couple not think of having kids? It baffled me.
Today when I am a mother of a 10 month old, I have truly understood what it takes to be a parent, the cuteness factor apart, one gets much more than one has bargained for. It doesn't baffle me anymore. In fact I respect her decision and it seems perfectly ok. In case you had doubts, I love being a parent and love my Angel to the moon, it has changed my life in a big way but I do not have a shred of doubt about it being the right thing for me. I have always adored kids though I now truly realise what it is being a parent. One thing I was clear about though is having kids.
No conflict here, coming back to my colleague's case, what I respect her for is not having kids when she didn't intend to. I have seen lot of couples who though are personally not inclined to have kids end up having them due to societal pressure (to prove that they are not impotent, see we are one complete family now,Mummy Daddy Baby) or to please their parents (beta my Aakhri Icha -last wish) or because they believe that they need someone to take care of them in their old age. Have you heard of any lamer excuse? I would think having a baby when you are not ready or just don't want one- is the worse thing you can do to yourself and the baby. Have personally seen such people being unhappy and passing on the same unhappy spirit to the child as well. Then they hire an entourage of nannies, cooks, teachers to groom and raise the child, while they try to enjoy their life and live it the way they like, the kid craves for their attention, doesn't get it and one fine day he doesn't need it. So why do you want a baby then?
I read an interesting article which raised this issue- it said rather than society asking people to justify why they don't want a baby and trying to coax them to have one, the people who want to have a baby should be asked to justify why they want one? Very often people don't think twice, it's just the most natural thing to do right. So why do we need to justify it, blasphemous! The point I am making here is - are you asking yourself if you are ready to have a child?
Ready emotionally, physically, financially in all respects? Parenting is a full time job , are you ready in the true sense to be available 24*7 for someone, put them to sleep while you sacrifice your sleep, tend to an ailing child, put up with his tantrums,try feeding him a meal while he runs around and refuses to open his mouth, as he grows be responsible for his studies, help him with his project work , and did you say what about me? Well forget about me time, does that even exist once you are a parent? There's so much more to parenting and it's a job for a lifetime, so think and think well before you take the plunge. I can vouch for it that it's a beautiful journey, it's made me laugh, made me cry, brought out this new facet of writing in me that I never knew even existed and though it's a challenge to find time for myself, hubby -wife time, movie time, eating my meal in peace time .I could still not think of having it any other way.


In this study, we combine a network agency explanation (e.g. Baron and Tang 2009) with a relational explanation of role expectations (Montgomery 1998) to gain insight into the circumstances under which network agency matters for accessing emotional support. Two new insights are added to the limited literature focusing on the notion human agency in entrepreneurial networks. First, the notion of ability as a component of human network agency is extended by the idea that a motivation component reflecting individuals' impetus to interact purposefully with others also plays an important role in entrepreneurs accessing emotional support. Second, the notion of a universal influence of network agency is extended by the idea that network agency may be moderated by culturally defined expectations associated with role-relations (Biddle 1986; Montgomery 1998). That is, individuals arguably take on social-psychological roles (e.g., as a family member, friend, or businessperson) that moderate the effect of network ability and network motivation.
Klyver, Kim and Schenkel, Mark T. (2014) "ACCESSING EMOTIONAL SUPPORT: EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF NETWORK AGENCY AND ROLE-RELATIONS (INTERACTIVE PAPER)," Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: Vol. 34 : Iss. 7 , Article 9.


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World Turkish Election Board Rejects Recount Call in 31 Istanbul Districts
Turkish Election Board Rejects Recount Call in 31 Istanbul Districts
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 4:33 am | ד' ניסן תשע"ט
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Monday. (Cem Oksuz/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Handout via Reuters)
Turkey's High Election Board has rejected a request by President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party to recount all votes in 31 Istanbul districts, a Board member said on Tuesday, but the party vowed to challenge the decision.
Erdogan said on Monday the local elections were marred by "organized crime" at ballot boxes in Istanbul, raising the possibility of rerunning a March 31 vote in the city that handed a slim majority to the main opposition party.
Erdogan's comments, his strongest challenge yet to the election process in Turkey's largest city, briefly drove the lira down and also weighed on Turkish stocks. After the latest decision, the lira firmed to 5.6500 to the dollar.
The AKP's High Election Board (YSK) representative Recep Ozel told reporters the Board had only agreed to a recount of 51 ballot boxes, spread across 21 of the city's total 39 districts. A total of 350 voters are assigned to each ballot box.
AK Party Deputy Chairman Ali Ihsan Yavuz subsequently said his party would challenge the decision to reject a recount.
"It is unfathomable that such a decision should be made when there are so many irregularities. We will go once more to the YSK using the method of an extraordinary challenge," he wrote on Twitter.
The AK Party had also called for the annulment of the election in Istanbul's Buyukcekmece district, but the Board has not yet ruled on that request, Ozel said. Recounts were ongoing in the city's remaining districts.
Police in Istanbul were conducting checks on Tuesday morning on whether some voters registered at addresses in Buyukcekmece were actually resident there, a police spokesman said. He said there was no criminal investigation.
To justify its call for the election to be annulled in the district, the AK Party has said 11,186 people were improperly registered to vote in Buyukcekmece.
Erdogan's AK Party has already lost the mayoralty in the capital Ankara to the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), and has appealed several stages of the count in Istanbul, which showed a narrow CHP victory.
The Islamist-rooted AKP is reeling from the potential loss of both cities, which the party and its predecessors have governed for a quarter of a century. Erdogan himself rose to prominence as Istanbul mayor in the 1990s before emerging as national leader.
Erdogan said the scale of electoral irregularities his party had uncovered meant the margin of votes between Istanbul's top two candidates, currently at less than 15,000 in a city of 10 million voters, was too narrow for the opposition to claim victory.
The AKP had also sought recounts across Ankara, where initial results showed CHP candidate Mansur Yavas winning by four percentage points. But the YSK upheld the result and on Monday Yavas formally received his mandate as new mayor.
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DVV-Pokal 2021/2022 spelades mellan 23 oktober 2021 och 20 mars 2022 och var den 32:a upplagan av tävlingen. I turneringen deltog 20 lag och Allianz MTV Stuttgart vann för fjärde gången genom att besegra Dresdner SC i finalen.. Tävlingen spelades i cupformat där varje möte avgjordes genom en direkt avgörande match.

Deltagande lag

Turneringen

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Första omgången

Åttondelsfinaler

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Синглетное состояние или синглет — это система из двух частиц, суммарный спин которых равен 0. Комбинируя пару из частиц, каждая из которых обладает спином 1/2, мы можем получить три собственных состояния с суммарным спином 1 () и одно состояние с суммарным спином 0, которое называется синглет. В теоретической физике термином синглет обычно обозначают одномерное представление (например, частица с нулевым спином). Также этим термином могут обозначать две и более частицы, полученные в спутанном состоянии, с общим моментом импульса равным нулю. Синглет и подобные ему термины часто встречаются в атомной и ядерной физике для описания суммарного спина некоторого числа частиц.

Спин одиночного электрона равен 1/2. Такая система имеет суммарный спин равный 1/2 и называется дублет. Практически все случаи дублетов в природе возникают из вращательной симметрии: спин 1/2 относится к фундаментальным представлениям группы Ли SU(2) — группы, которая определяет симметрию вращения в трехмерном пространстве. Мы можем найти спин такой системы, используя оператор , и как результат всегда получим  (или спин 1/2), поскольку разнонаправленные спины являются собственными состояниями (собственными функциями) этого оператора с тем же самым собственным значением. Аналогичным образом для системы из двух электронов мы можем посчитать спин используя оператор , где  соответствует первому электрону, а  второму. Однако, поскольку два электрона возможно скомбинировать четырьмя возможными способами, то в этом случае мы можем получить два возможных спина, представляющих собой два возможных собственные значения полного оператора спина — 0 и 1. Каждое из этих собственных значений соответствует набору собственных состояний или собственных функций. Говоря в терминах квантовой механики, это спиновые функции для двухэлектронной системы, полученные линейной комбинацией спиновых функций электронов α=+1/2 и β=—1/2. Так, например, функция

— симметричная спиновая функция, тогда как функция

— антисимметрична.

Таким образом можно получить три симметричные функции с полным спиновым квантовым числом S=1 и одну антисимметричную функцию с S=0. Набор со спином равным 0 называется синглет, содержит одно собственное состояние (см. ниже), а спин равный 1, называемый триплет, содержит три возможных собственных состояния. В обозначениях Дирака эти собственные состояния записываются как:

Выражаясь более математическим языком, можно сказать, что тензорное произведение двух дублетных представлений может быть разложено в сумму присоединённого представления (триплет) и тривиальное представление (синглет).

Пара электронов, находящаяся в синглетном состоянии, обладает многими любопытными свойствами и играет фундаментальную роль в парадоксе Эйнштейна — Подольского — Розена и квантовой запутанности.

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The method that I use to allergy test patients is using a Vega Machine.
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If there is a particular product that you are unsure of as to whether you are reacting to it, this can be a skin, bath or household spray, liquid etc, please feel free to bring it along so that I can test it to see if it is upsetting your system.
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The Books Council of Wales's Distribution Centre provides a wholesale distribution service for the book trade in Wales. Its purpose-built Centre houses an extensive stock of Welsh-language books and Welsh books in English.
Upwards of 1,300 new Welsh-language and English-language titles of interest to Wales are published every year. The Distribution Centre aims to keep in stock every Welsh-interest title possible, where publishers are able to offer wholesale terms. Publishers with suitable titles to offer may contact the Head of the Sales and Marketing Department, Helena O'Sullivan.
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Terms and conditions for distributing are 55% of the retail price of every copy on a full sale or return basis, with an initial stock of 30 copies; invoices will be paid after 12 months only. If you accept these terms, please send a copy of your book, together with your contact details, to Helena O'Sullivan . The Department will then decide whether the Books Council of Wales will stock your book. Should a decision be made not to stock your book, it can still be listed on the www.gwales.com website as available from the publisher only.
The Books Council of Wales operates as a distributor only, and it is the responsibility of the author / publisher to promote and market the book.
Information about every title held in stock at the Distribution Centre can be found on the Council's information and ordering site, www.gwales.com.
Over 800 outlets have accounts at the Distribution Centre. A next-day delivery service is provided if orders are received before 12 noon. There is a delivery charge on orders to the value of less than £66.66 net. Booksellers may apply to open an account by contacting the address below.
The Distribution Centre distributes books on behalf of 350 publishers. For a select list of publishers in Wales, visit the Welsh Book Trade Information site
602,000 items were sold through the Books Council of Wales' Distribution Centre in 2012/13, amounting to £4.5 million (gross).
The Distribution Centre is self-supporting and receives no subsidy from public funds.
All enquiries should be addressed to:
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Health – Moderna seeks approval of RSV vaccine for the elderly – Health
January 18, 2023 by articlewagen
Cambridge/Munich (dpa) – The American company Moderna intends to apply for approval of an RSV vaccine for adults over the age of 60 in the first half of the year.
The vaccine called "mRNA-1345" has shown "promising results" in the phase 3 study required for approval, the company announced on Tuesday evening. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes respiratory diseases. The Robert Koch Institute counts among the patients at risk, for example, premature babies and children with a history of lung diseases as well as people who are immunocompromised or have a weakened immune system.
Reduced risk of serious illness
"We found that using the vaccine reduced the risk of confirmed severe RSV disease by nearly 84 percent," said Paul Burton, chief medical officer at Moderna, the German news agency. Vaccine efficacy against RSV-related lower respiratory tract disease with two or more symptoms was examined. The safety profile was also very good. According to the company, approximately 37,000 people aged 60 and over 22 countries participated in the study.
The so-called messenger RNA (messenger ribonucleic acid, mRNA) has become widely known through its use in corona vaccines. The mRNA from the vaccines provides some of the genetic information of the virus to human cells. Armed with this information, they produce a protein of the pathogen against which the body then develops defense reactions. Upon subsequent contact with the pathogen, the immune system recognizes the protein and can fight the virus faster and more specifically.
RSV especially dangerous for infants and young children
"In this vaccine, we encapsulate this messenger RNA in the same lipid that we use for the Covid vaccine, which is used in hundreds of millions of people around the world," Burton said.
The vaccine developed is initially intended for people aged 60 and over. However, RSV can also be particularly dangerous for infants and young children. Moderna is also researching this, Burton said. "We have five other programs underway for young children, pregnant women and a number of other populations. We will be releasing this data in the coming months."
RSV has placed a heavy burden on children's hospitals in Germany and other countries this season. The combination of numerous cases of influenza, corona and RSV has also posed challenges for the healthcare system. The goal is to combine different vaccines against respiratory viruses, such as corona and RSV, Burton said. However, such studies are more difficult to conduct and require more time. "I think over the next few years we should be able to develop these combination vaccines that would really provide very comprehensive public health protection."
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Home Tablets, Laptops and Chrome Acer Chromebook Spin 13 — First Impression
Tablets, Laptops and Chrome
Acer Chromebook Spin 13 — First Impression
Phil Tann
Chromebooks are an interesting platform; many users haven't engaged with them yet and can't see the pathway to full engagement. Personally I've used them since 2013 when I got my first Chromebook, the Acer C7. I'm fortunate enough to have the Acer Chromebook Spin 13 on the testbench. After having it setup and spending a couple of short sessions testing, I can honestly say they've come a very long way.
In the early stages, Chromebooks were low end hardware but that changed when the first generation of Pixelbook was launched. The shine I'm feeling towards this Chromebook Spin from Acer is very similar to that when I first laid eyes on a Pixelbook.
Without spoiling the review there's a lot about the hardware that has me very keen to keep on using it. Starting with the input, I love the keyboard. It's a great size and the touch response is very similar feel to my Macbook. The touchpad is very responsive, but has a slight "click" to it for single light touch which feels a little strange and somewhat out of place.
I'm a big fan of USB-C functionality and thankfully Acer have seen that this is the future. They've included USB-C for charging and output options, with two ports (one each side) and it makes the Chromebook Spin 13 relevant to current standards and somewhat future proof.
The look and feel
I really like the look of this Chromebook. Compared to some others I've used in the past, it's pretty hefty but honestly given the advancements of Chrome OS and Chromebooks as a platform, I'm ok with that — they're 98% of the way there to being a fully functional as a daily driver for a lot of users.
Given how well optimised ChromeOS is for Chromebooks these days, the performance is very good, provided you're not trying to play top flight games that require DirectX support. It's highly likely that this will not just meet your needs but also add to functions you've not got with a current laptop such as the touchscreen controls when in an A frame setup watching Netflix.
On the subject of the screen… Wow, this is lovely! It's a 3:2 ratio touchscreen that runs at a more-than sufficient resolution to please the vast majority of users. At 2256 x 1504 it's really easy to read and very easy on your eyes in high or low light situations with a huge amount of adjustability on the brightness.
The full review is in the works and we'll have that on the site fairly soon, until then let us know in the comments what you'd like to know about the Chromebook Spin 13.
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Phil is an Android enthusiast who spends most of his time reading up on U.S. Android news so he can get the low down on what could possibly hit Australian shores. Coming from a background in IT & T sales, he's in the perfect position to give an educated view on hardware and software.
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I've used my tablet significantly less since unpacking this. I've barely touched my MacBook. It's very good hardware, Chrome OS has come a long way – honestly for people that can take their tin foil hats off, make some minor workflow adjustments and live in the cloud – it's ready for daily use
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Thanks Phil. 🙂 That's what I couldn't figure out from this article.
I'll leave any detailed questions for the review itself.


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"Better Training for Safer Food" (BTSF) is a Commission initiative aimed at organising a Community (EU) training strategy in the areas of Food Law, Feed Law, Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Plant Health.
Ensure fair trade with third countries and in particular developing countries.
Animal Welfare at the time of killing in disease control situation (one training session).
Eligible participants were Public Veterinary Officers belonging to the National Competent Authorities of EU Countries, Candidate, EFTA and some selected Third Countries, involved in official controls on Animal Welfare aspects and concerned with the development of best practices to improve the application of European norms and/or international standards.
The courses allowed participants to improve their knowledge and/or practical skills on relevant EU legislation and international framework (as the OIE Guidelines), on the scientific basis for proper transport, housing, management and handling of the animals and on main stunning and killing techniques.


On Feb 16 2017, French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet shot this photo from the International Space Station.
Thomas' followers quickly spotted a shelterbelt or windbreak in South Russia, near Volgograd . Astronauts pictures are great to show the value of Earth observation from space. However for science applications, Thom_Astro cannot compete with Sentinel-2 satellites, which provide systematic, multispectral, coverage of the land surface, with a constant acquisition angle.
Below is a selection of four images taken by Sentinel-2A of the same site. On the autumn image, a thin layer of snow blown by the wind brings out the asperities of the surface. In the spring the melting snow reveals this fertile black soil or chernozem, which covers the great Russian steppes.
 "Fending Off the Wind on the Steppe" NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day.