Your group will need to evaluate both projects and processes if you wish to improve your effectiveness and stay on track. Unfortunately, many grassroots groups rarely evaluate either.
Avoid evaluating and criticizing when trying to generate ideas. If you are facilitating a meeting, prohibit criticism when the group is brainstorming.
Make a habit of asking what worked and what could be better for both actions, and projects. Consider a round to evaluate group process at the end of meetings.
If you don't ask for honest feedback, you won't get it. Unhappy people will simply drop out. To get the most honest feedback, make responses anonymous, and obtain responses from people outside your immediate group.
At the end of actions, ask participants about benefits. Did you learn anything? Did you have too little or too much to do? Did you have any fun? Did you feel part of the group?
Is there a gap between what is happening and what you want to happen? If there is a persistent gap, you might consider getting help from a professional organizer. Another way of dealing with a persistent gap is to revise your objectives.


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Obama Bequeaths a More Dangerous World
Any fair judgment about Barack Obama's presidency must start with the recognition that he inherited a dismal situation from George W. Bush: the U.S. economy was in free-fall and U.S. troops were bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan. Clearly, these intertwined economic and foreign policy crises colored how Obama viewed his options, realizing that one false step could tip the world into the abyss.
President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, attends a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Dec. 12, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
It's also true that his Republican rivals behaved as if they had no responsibility for the messes that Obama had to clean up. From the start, they set out to trip him up rather than lend a hand. Plus, the mainstream media blamed Obama for this failure of bipartisanship, rewarding the Republicans for their nihilistic obstructionism.
That said, however, it is also true that Obama – an inexperienced manager – made huge mistakes from the outset and failed to rectify them in a timely fashion. For instance, he bought into the romantic notion of a "Team of Rivals" with his White House trumpeting the comparisons to Abraham Lincoln (although some of Lincoln's inclusion of rivals actually resulted from deals made at the 1860 Republican convention in Chicago to gain Lincoln the nomination).
In the real world of modern Washington, Obama's choice of hawkish Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State and Republican apparatchik Robert Gates to remain as Secretary of Defense – along with keeping Bush's high command, including neocon favorite Gen. David Petraeus – guaranteed that he would achieve little real foreign policy change.
Indeed, in 2009, this triumvirate collaborated to lock Obama into a futile counterinsurgency escalation in Afghanistan that did little more than get another 1,000 or so U.S. soldiers killed along with many more Afghans. In his memoir Duty, Gates said he and Clinton could push their joint views – favoring more militaristic strategies – in the face of White House opposition because "we were both seen as 'un-fireable.'"
Seasoned Operatives
So, Obama's rookie management mistake of surrounding himself with seasoned Washington operatives with a hawkish agenda doomed his early presidency to maneuvering at the edges of change rather than engineering a major – and necessary – overhaul of how the United States deals with the world.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on May 1, 2011, watching developments in the Special Forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Neither played a particularly prominent role in the operation. (White House photo by Pete Souza)
Obama may have thought he could persuade these experienced players with his intellect and charm but that is not how power works. At moments when Obama was inclined to move in a less warlike direction, Clinton, Gates and Petraeus could easily leak damaging comments about his "weakness" to friendly journalists at mainstream publications. Obama found himself consistently under pressure and he lacked the backbone to prove Gates wrong by firing Gates and Clinton.
Thus, Obama was frequently outmaneuvered. Besides the ill-fated counterinsurgency surge in Afghanistan, there was his attempt in 2009-10 to get Brazil and Turkey to broker a deal with Iran in which it would surrender much of its enriched uranium. But Israel and the neocons wanted a "regime change" bombing strategy against Iran, leading Secretary Clinton to personally torpedo the Brazil-Turkey initiative (with the strong support of The New York Times' editorial page) as Obama silently acquiesced to her insubordination.
In 2011, Obama also gave in to pressure from Clinton and one of his key advisers, "humanitarian" warmonger Samantha Power, to support another "regime change" in Libya. That U.S.-facilitated air war devastated the Libyan military and ended with Islamic militants sodomizing Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi with a knife and then murdering him, a grisly outcome that Clinton celebrated with a chirpy rephrase of Julius Caesar's famous boast about a conquest, as she said: "We came, we saw, he died."
Clinton was less upbeat a year later when Islamic militants in Benghazi, Libya, killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. personnel, launching a scandal that led to the exposure of her private email server and reverberated through to the final days of her failed presidential campaign in 2016.
Second-Term Indecision
Even after Clinton, Gates and Petraeus were gone by the start of Obama's second term, he continued to acquiesce to most of the demands of the neocons and liberal interventionists. Rather than act as a decisive U.S. president, Obama often behaved more like the sullen teen-ager complaining from the backseat about not wanting to go on a family trip. Obama grumbled about some of the neocon/liberal-hawk policies but he mostly went along, albeit half-heartedly at times.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House on Nov. 9, 2015. (Photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
For instance, although he recognized that the idea of "moderate" Syrian rebels being successful in ousting President Bashar al-Assad was a "fantasy," he nevertheless approved covert shipments of weapons, which often ended up in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked terrorists and their allies). But he balked at a full-scale U.S. military intervention.
Obama's mixed-signal Syrian strategy not only violated international law – by committing aggression against a sovereign state – but also contributed to the horrific bloodshed that ripped apart Syria and created a massive flow of refugees into Turkey and Europe. By the end of his presidency, the United States found itself largely sidelined as Russia and regional powers, Turkey and Iran, took the lead in trying to resolve the conflict.
But one of the apparent reasons for Obama's susceptibility to such fruitless undertakings was that he seemed terrified of Israel and its pugnacious Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who made clear his disdain for Obama by essentially endorsing Obama's 2012 Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.
Although Obama may have bristled at Netanyahu's arrogance – displayed even during meetings in the Oval Office – the President always sought to mollify the tempestuous Prime Minister. At the peak of Obama's power – after he vanquished Romney despite Netanyahu's electoral interference – Obama chose to grovel before Netanyahu with an obsequious three-day visit to Israel.
Despite that trip, Netanyahu treated Obama with disdain, setting a new standard for chutzpah by accepting a Republican invitation to appear before a joint session of Congress in 2015 and urge U.S. senators and representatives to side with Israel against their own president over Obama's negotiated agreement to constrain Iran's nuclear program. Netanyahu and the neocons wanted to bomb-bomb-bomb Iran.
However, the Iran nuclear deal, which Netanyahu failed to derail, may have been Obama's most significant diplomatic achievement. Obama also defied Washington's hardliners when he moved to normalize relations with Cuba, although – by 2016 – the passionate feelings about the Caribbean island had faded as a geopolitical issue, making the Cuban sanctions more a relic of the old Cold War than a hot-button issue.
Obama's Dubious Legacy
Yet, Obama's fear of standing up consistently to Official Washington's neocons and cowering before the Israeli-Saudi tandem in the Middle East did much to define his foreign policy legacy. While Obama did drag his heels on some of their more extreme demands by resisting their calls to bomb the Syrian government in 2013 and by choosing diplomacy over war with Iran in 2014, Obama repeatedly circled back to ingratiating himself to the neocons and America's demanding Israeli-Saudi "allies."
King Salman greets the President and First Lady during a state visit to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 27, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Instead of getting tough with Israel over its continued abuse of the Palestinians, Obama gave Netanyahu's regime the most sophisticated weapons from the U.S. arsenal. Instead of calling out the Saudis as the principal state sponsor of terrorism – for their support for Al Qaeda and the Islamic State – Obama continued the fiction that Iran was the lead villain on terrorism and cooperated when the Saudis launched a brutal air war against their impoverished neighbors in Yemen.
Obama personally acknowledged authorizing military strikes in seven countries, mostly through his aggressive use of drones, an approach toward push-button warfare that has spread animosity against the United States to the seven corners of the earth.
However, perhaps Obama's most dangerous legacy is the New Cold War with Russia, which began in earnest when Washington's neocons struck back against Moscow for its cooperation with Obama in getting Syria to surrender its chemical weapons (which short-circuited neocon hopes to bomb the Syrian military) and in persuading Iran to accept tight limits on its nuclear program (another obstacle to a neocon bombing plan).
In both cases, the neocons were bent on "regime change," or at least a destructive bombing operation in line with Israeli and Saudi hostility toward Syria and Iran. But the biggest challenge to these schemes was the positive relationship that had developed between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. So, that relationship had to be shattered and the wedge that the neocons found handy was Ukraine.
By September 2013, Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-government-funded National Endowment for Democracy, had identified Ukraine as "the biggest prize" and a steppingstone toward the ultimate goal of ousting Putin. By late fall 2013 and winter 2014, neocons inside the U.S. government, including Sen. John McCain and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, were actively agitating for a "regime change" in Ukraine, a putsch against elected President Viktor Yanukovych that was carried out on Feb. 22, 2014.
This operation on Russia's border provoked an immediate reaction from the Kremlin, which then supported ethnic-Russian Ukrainians who had voted heavily for Yanukovych and who objected to the coup regime in Kiev. The neocon-dominated U.S. mainstream media, of course, portrayed the Ukrainian conflict as a simple case of "Russian aggression," and Obama fell in line with this propaganda narrative.
After his relationship with Putin had deteriorated over the ensuring two-plus years, Obama chose to escalate the New Cold War in his final weeks in office by having U.S. intelligence agencies leak unsubstantiated claims that Putin interfered in the U.S. presidential election by hacking and publicizing Democratic emails that helped Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton.
Smearing Trump
The CIA also put in play salacious rumors about the Kremlin blackmailing Trump over a supposed video of him cavorting with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel. And, according to The Wall Street Journal, U.S. counterintelligence agents investigated communications between retired Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump's national security advisor, and Russian officials. In the New McCarthyism that now surrounds the New Cold War, any conversation with Russians apparently puts an American under suspicion for treason.
President Barack Obama meets with President Vladimir Putin of Russia on the sidelines of the G20 Summit at Regnum Carya Resort in Antalya, Turkey, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice listens at left. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
The anti-Russian frenzy also pulled in The New York Times, The Washington Post and virtually the entire mainstream media, which now treat any dissent from the official U.S. narratives condemning Moscow as prima facie evidence that you are part of a Russian propaganda apparatus. Even some "progressive" publications have joined this stampede because they so despise Trump that they will tout any accusation to damage his presidency.
Besides raising serious concerns about civil liberties and freedom of association, Obama's end-of-term anti-Russian hysteria may be leading the Democratic Party into supplanting the Republicans as America's leading pro-war party allied with neocons, liberal hawks, the CIA and the Military-Industrial Complex – in opposition to President Trump's less belligerent approach toward Russia.
This "trading places" moment over which party is the bigger warmonger could be another profound part of Obama's legacy, presenting a crisis for pro-peace Democrats as the Trump presidency unfolds.
The Real Obama
Yet, one of the mysteries of Obama is whether he was always a closet hawk who just let his true colors show over the course of his eight years in office or whether he was a weak executive who desperately wanted to belong to the Washington establishment and underwent a gradual submission to achieve that acceptance.
I know some Obama watchers favor the first answer, that he simply bamboozled people into thinking that he was an agent for foreign policy change when he was always a stealth warmonger. But I tend to take the second position. To me, Obama was a person who – despite his intelligence, eloquence and accomplishments – was never accepted by America's predominantly white establishment.
Because he was a black male raised in a white family and in a white-dominated society, Obama understood that he never really belonged. But Obama desperately wanted to be part of that power structure of well-dressed, well-schooled and well-connected elites who moved with such confidence within the economic-political system.
An instructive moment came in 2014 when Obama was under sustained criticism for his refusal to bomb the Syrian military after a sarin gas attack outside Damascus that was initially blamed on the government though later evidence suggested that it was a provocation committed by Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate.
Despite the uncertainty about who was responsible, the neocons and liberal hawks deemed Obama "weak" for not ordering the bombing strike to enforce his "red line" against chemical weapons use.
In a 2016 article in The Atlantic, Obama cited his sarin decision as a moment when he resisted the Washington "playbook" that usually favors a military response. The article also reported that Obama had been informed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that there was no "slam dunk" evidence pinning the attack on the Syrian military. Yet, still Obama came under intense pressure to strike.
A leader of this pressure campaign was neocon ideologue Robert Kagan, an architect of the Iraq War and the husband of Assistant Secretary of State Nuland. Kagan penned a long essay in The New Republic entitled "Superpowers Don't Get to Retire." A subsequent New York Times article observed that Kagan "depicted President Obama as presiding over an inward turn by the United States that threatened the global order and broke with more than 70 years of American presidents and precedence."
Prominent neocon intellectual Robert Kagan. (Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl)
Kagan "called for Mr. Obama to resist a popular pull toward making the United States a nation without larger responsibilities, and to reassume the more muscular approach to the world out of vogue in Washington since the war in Iraq drained the country of its appetite for intervention," the Times article read.
Obama was so sensitive to this criticism that he modified his speech to the West Point graduation and "even invited Mr. Kagan to lunch to compare world views," the Times reported. A source familiar with that conversation described it to me as a "meeting of equals."
So, Obama's subservience to the neocons and liberal hawks may have begun as a case of an inexperienced president getting outmaneuvered by rivals whom he had foolishly empowered. But Obama's descent into a full-scale New Cold Warrior by the end of his second term suggests that he was no longer an overpowered naïf but someone who had become a committed convert.
How Obama reached that point may be less significant than the fact that he did. Thus, the world that President Obama bequeaths to President Trump may not have all the same dangers that Bush left to Obama but the post-Obama world has hazards that Obama did more to create than to resolve — and some of the new risks may be even scarier.
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About five months ago, I wrote to you asking you to pray for me because I was under serious financial pressure. You replied that you had prayed for me.
Since you prayed for me, my tithe increased every month. Sometimes up to about four times what I usually paid. What it means is that, my finances have appreciated up to about four times of my usual earning.
Thank you so much for always interceding for us.
I am grateful to God and I give Him all the glory!
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It may seem strange writing about something of a potential death knell tolling over a normally prosperous seaside town, but due to a sudden visitor drop in the peak holiday season, it does seem to me that is the position Weymouth could be facing at the moment.
I did write as early as January 2011 and several times since then of potential problems with the then forthcoming Olympics likely to deter holiday makers from making Weymouth their holiday venue of choice. In the 18 months since then. It does seem that the increasing number of official announcements about what was going to happen to the town during the Olympics was also increasing the deterrent effect to holiday makers during this period. It was not through any mystical crystal ball gazing on my part making it possible to forecast the future but plain common sense. Common sense to understand what the locals were saying. Common sense to understand what would deter holiday makers from coming.
Some hoteliers did not help the situation by apparently refusing to take holiday bookings during the of the Olympic period in the expectation of getting more lucrative corporate bookings. The bookings never materialised and hotel rooms in the peak holiday season now stand as empty as the shameful swathe of empty seats already witnessed at Olympic venues. Some hoteliers have suddenly started offering hotel rooms at greatly reduced rates in an attempt to attract holiday makers but it is likely to prove a forlorn hope as holiday destinations tend to be booked well in advance.
For people travelling any distance there are only two effective methods of getting to Weymouth, either by car or by train. The advice being given to people visiting the Olympic sailing venue was to come by train and I think everyone was flabbergasted when only one week before the Olympics started, the train operators stated on national television that due to technical reasons, they would not be able to cope with greatly increased numbers of visitors and that people should come by car instead.
Some car parking spaces within a normally busy Weymouth have been reduced with alternative park and ride sites being set up. Charges for car parking at these sites was also set at £10 per day with additional fees for reserving a space. Not only is all this a potential deterrent to both holiday makers and casual visitors alike, but it also led to claims by numbers of people who travelled into Weymouth by car to work that they were facing substantial additional travel costs just to go to work. In what appears to be a desperate attempt to gain back lost holiday makers, the £10 per day fee has suddenly been dropped on certain days but I fear this will prove be too little, to late.
I visited Weymouth the day before the new restrictions came into effect. The beach was crowded and multitudes of people swarmed through the town. By contrast from what I now see on television, apart from the Nothe Park which has large numbers of Olympic spectators, local businesses report a dearth of visitors. News photographs show that even the sea has been screened of from view on parts of the Esplanade by a fence of horrible blue plastic sheeting. Weymouth must be the only seaside town where when strolling along part of the seafront, viewing the sea and vista beyond appears to be forbidden. How on earth anyone hopes to attract visitors who will have seen the same scenes on television is beyond me.
It is true that Central London has also experienced a large drop in visitor numbers coupled with people working from home, giving Central London a ghost town appearance, but unlike Weymouth, London is a vibrant 24 hour city with excellent transport links well able to recover from temporary setbacks. I would have thought Weymouth's economy is much more delicately balanced with bucket and spade holiday makers making a significant contribution to the local economy. Weymouth's big challenged will now be how to attract those regular holiday makers back next year and that could prove a difficult problem once people have tasted elsewhere. Failure to do so particularly during a recession could lead to serious decline in the town.
Personally I hope the belated campaign to attract visitors works although I must confess to having doubts as to whether this will have more than a minimal effect. As a seaside town I have something of a soft spot for Weymouth. It is a fantastic holiday town for families with a wide clean gently sloping sandy beach. Being part of the renown Jurassic Coast it is also a good location to start adventure trips from or fascinating just to stroll around the harbour. Weymouth has quite a good shopping centre too ranging from some wide traffic free streets lined with a mixture of large well known stores and local shops, to a labyrinth of small alleys all crammed full of curiosity type shops just begging to be explored. Dining, whatever ones taste is well catered for with a multitude of food outlets and restaurants.
I suspect once all the razzamatazz of the Olympics has passed it is inevitable the blame game will begin. I would not at all be surprised if the death knell of a few political careers is sounded or even if the political composition of the town drastically changes at the next election.


James Marsters let the news slip this weekend — Hulu has renewed Marvel's Runaways for a third season. Here is more information.
Season 3 of the series, from showrunners/writers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, Marvel TV and ABC Signature, will consist of 10 episodes, down from the 13-episode second season and on par with the episode count in Season 1. That has been a trend for streaming series across the board as 10 has proven optimal for binging.
Additionally, I hear that, staying true to its title, Runaways plans to focus on the kids, so the actors playing parents who were series regulars are being reduced from all shows produced to factual series regulars – 7 out of 10.
Marvel's Runaways is one of three series on Fake Empire's slate, along with Dynasty, which was has been renewed for a third season by the CW, and the upcoming Hulu limited series Looking For Alaska. Additionally, Schwartz and Savage's company also has the CW Untitled Nancy Drew pilot.
Watch the video above for the renewal announcement.


We are welcoming you with great respect and love for this residential retreat in the breathtaking wild West of Ireland, only 1 and 1 /2 hours from the airport of Cork. We would love to welcome you whether you are a first timer or if you have already experienced a Shakti Tribe retreat. This is an all-inclusive retreat, open to all genders, singles, couples, LGBT. All cultures and faiths are welcomed with great respect and love.
This Shakti Tribe retreat is a great opportunity for you to come back home to the fullness of yourself and to experience the nectar of life. For 4 days you will immerse yourself in deep Soul work that leads you to experience expansion, freedom and inspiration.
All practices shared by Chinnamasta and Saraswati Bella are grounded in the wisdom teachings of Tantra, Yoga and Ayurveda and are a transformative offering for the body, mind and heart.
This retreat is a wonderful way to get to know Chinnamasta in depth and to prepare you for the 9-day Trilogy Healing Program which will be offered from July 7-15 at the Devi Yoga Studio in Ballydehob, Ireland.
This retreat will be sold out quickly and registrations will be confirmed on the basis of first come first served. Your spot is confirmed once you have made your payment in full.
A donation for the Kirtan band is appreciated.
3 Ayurvedic organic vegetarian/vegan meals a day with fresh local vegetables.
We start the retreat on Thursday at 5 pm with chai, a welcome circle, a dinner and a yoga Nidra until 8 pm.
Friday we start at 8.30 a.m. with breakfast followed by practice in and outside around the Devi Yoga Studio. We have snack and drink time around 11.30 a.m. and lunch at 1 p.m.. We take a break until 3 p.m. and continue with the afternoon program until 6.30 pm. We have dinner outside if the whether allows until 7.30 p.m.
Saturday we meet again at 8.30 a.m. for breakfast and have a similar program to Friday, with the add-on of an Irish Live Kirtan band after dinner until 9.30 p.m.
Sunday we meet for breakfast at 8.30 am and we close the morning teaching with a ritual around 1 p.m.
Our final lunch celebratiion from 1-2 p.m. and the final send-off is at 2.30 p.m.


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Beautiful 7 bed 5 bath floorplan in Championsgate Retreat Resort. The 7 bedroom floorplans feature 3 ensuites when compared to the 8 bedroom floorplans that only feature 2 ensuites. This is the better floorplan.
This home is equipped with so much fun, starting with the pool area. The pool area is private and does not have a rear neighbor overlooking your pool while you relax in the sun. The pool receives sun most of the day! Also on the patio you will find a serene rock wall that features a few waterfalls. Plenty of seating for all and there is even a BBQ free of charge with your rental. To top off this area is the 55 inch cable tv so you can watch tv outside.
Next we have a fully air conditioned home theater with reclining power seats on a 100 inch screen and a billiards table.
Upstairs you will find lots of themes for teens and kids starting with the starwars room, this room features cable tv and an xbox 360. The Pink room features 2 full size beds and cable tv. These 2 rooms share a bathroom.
The bunkhouse sleeps up to 8 little ones in the double size bunks. The loft area is themed with mickey mouse and a loft bed that can hold 2 more. A toddler table for little ones to color or hang out and a 60 inch tv with an xbox one video game system.
Adults will find themselves with 1 king ensuite and 2 queen ensuites all with cable tv.
The Championsgate Safari is packed with fun and comfort at much better pricing then the others.
Great first experience with a vacation home rental!
Overall a great experience and we are already planning to come back again. We were impressed at how much was available to use and the layout was spacious. Great for the kids to run around and not get in the way. One note, it says it sleeps 20, but most of the beds are for kids, not adults. Also, the house overall needs a little bit of TLC in some areas, like a few chairs in the theater. Nothing that prevented us from enjoying the experience.


In the mid-19th century, the story goes, the demoiselles Tatin were left penniless when their father died. Luckily they lived just opposite the new railroad station at Lamotte Beuvron, a small town south of Orléans. So they took in travelers and baked the crusty dark apple tart their father had loved so much. Fortune smiled; the Hotel Tatin is there to this day, still serving a remarkable tart topped with chunks of slightly singed caramelized apple baked in a wood fired oven.
The apples for Tarte Tatin must be firm and hold their shape during long cooking. I'd suggest Pink Lady or Golden Delicious, but there are many other suitable varieties. To ensure the all-important dark caramel, my Tatin is cooked first on top of the stove, patiently, so apple halves get thoroughly drenched in the buttery caramel. Once the apples are tender and mahogany-colored, I cover them with a simple Pâte Brisée and finish the tart in the oven. The tart is best turned out and served when it's tepid, and it's hard to beat the classic accompaniment of crème fraîche, though a scoop of vanilla ice cream also does nicely.
There is even a special pan for baking Tarte Tatin, a resplendent round of solid copper lined with tin, the sides sloping and high enough to contain the abundant juices the apples release as they simmer in the caramel. You'll find a Tatin pan easily enough in a kitchen equipment store—at a price. Be reassured that a deep frying pan, preferably nonstick, with a heat-proof handle, will perform just as well. A cast iron skillet, ideal in shape and thickness for Tatin, tends to react with acid fruits, so the tart must be turned out immediately after baking.
To make the pâte brisée, sift the flour onto a work surface and make a well in the center. Put egg yolk, salt, and water in the well with flavorings such as sugar. Pound the butter with a rolling pin to soften it, add it to the well, and work the ingredients in the well with the fingers of one hand until thoroughly mixed. Using a pastry scraper, gradually draw in the flour from the sides of the well and continue working with both hands until coarse crumbs form. If the crumbs seem dry, sprinkle with another tablespoon of water; the crumbs should be soft but not sticky. Press the dough gently together into a ball; it will be uneven and unblended at this point.
To blend (fraiser) the dough, sprinkle the counter with flour and put the dough on it. With the heel of your hand, push the dough away from you, flattening it against the counter. Gather it up, press it into a rough ball, and flatten it again. This flattening motion evenly blends the butter with the other ingredients without overworking the dough. Work quickly so the butter doesn't get too warm. Continue until the dough is as pliable as putty and pulls away from the counter in one piece, 1 to 2 minutes. Shape it into a ball, wrap, and chill until firm, 15 to 30 minutes.
Peel and halve the apples; scoop out the cores with a melon baller. Melt the butter in the mold, sprinkle in the sugar and cook over medium heat without stirring until it starts to brown and caramelize. Stir gently, then continue cooking until the caramel is deep golden brown, 6 to 8 minutes total. Let it cool in the pan for 3 to 5 minutes—the butter will separate but this does not matter.
Arrange the apples in the mold in concentric circles with the cut sides standing vertical—the caramel will help to anchor them. Pack them as tightly as possible as they will shrink during cooking. Cook the apples over medium heat until the juice starts to run, about 8 minutes, then raise the heat and cook them as fast as possible until the underside is caramelized to deep golden and most of the juice has evaporated, l5 to 25 minutes. With a two-pronged fork, turn the apples one by one so the upper sides are now down in the caramel. Continue cooking until this second side is brown also and almost all the juice has evaporated, l0 to 20 minutes more. The time will vary very much with the variety and ripeness of the apples, and can take up to an hour in total. Let them cool to tepid while heating the oven to 400°F/200°C/Gas 6.
Roll the pastry dough to a round just larger than the mold. Wrap the dough around the rolling pin and transfer it to cover the apples. Tuck the edges down around the apples, working quickly so their warmth does not melt the dough. Poke a hole in the center to allow steam to escape. Bake the tart until the pastry is firm and lightly browned, 20 to 25 minutes. Take the tart from the oven and let it cool for at least l0 minutes, or until tepid. Tarte Tatin can be made up to 12 hours ahead and kept in the mold in the refrigerator (if using a skillet, the tart must be turned out immediately).
To finish, if necessary, warm the tart in the mold on the stove or in the oven before you turn it out: this softens the caramel and loosens the apples. Select a flat platter with a lip to catch any juices; set the platter on top of the tart pan and flip the tart onto the platter. Be careful because you can be splashed with hot juice. Cut into wedges to serve.


Electric cars are regarded by many as the future as they are considered to be a lot more eco-friendly than their gas-burning alternatives. To some extent that's true but only if you take a number of factors into account, such as the impact their production process makes on the environment and how the electricity that goes in them is made. Those are just two examples but there are institutions out there specialized in measuring such things and they publish a ranking every year, including the BMW i3.
The i3 came in second overall in a ranking made by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE). They keep tabs on the industry and rank about 1,200 vehicles every year on their Green Scores, which are meant to show just how eco-friendly each car is. Basically, the Green Score reflects a car's cost to human health from air pollution due to certain factors and that's called the Environmental Damage Index or EDX. A theoretical EDX of zero would warrant a Green Score of 100.
Therefore, the i3 was basically born to enter such rankings, with all its tech and next level production process. However, this year, it came out second, with an EDX of 0.74 and a Green Score of 65. That's for the EV, get the range extended vehicle and that score drops to 63. The i3 lost to the Hyundai Ioniq Electric with an EDX of 0.68 and a Green Score of 67 but placed better than the Nissan Leaf, Kia Soul EV or even the Hyundai Kona Electric everyone's talking about, and its 258-mile range.
We should point out that the Tesla Model 3 wasn't included in the 2019 rankings as the recent federal government shutdown kept the EPA from providing a few models with the proper certification for 2019, including the American model. That also meant that the ACEEE couldn't evaluate it but the council plans on doing so as soon as possible and update its findings.


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KACOU 67 : GOD IS VISITING AFRICA
(Preached on Sunday morning, December 23, 2007, in Adjamé, Abidjan - Ivory Coast)
1 Now I wish that, every month, out of the four Sundays, a preacher from another assembly to come and preach here and that must be applied absolutely to each assembly. At least one Sunday out of the four is reserved to the preacher who is to come from another assembly. And a pastor must go and take part in a service elsewhere to learn and help.
2 Similarly, I wish donations to be made to the preachers and pastors who have consecrated their lives for our Salvation so that their hearts may be delighted. I wish this to be the concern of every single of us. You see?
3 If someone thinks that one of the ministers of Ephesians 4:11 can all alone maintain the faith of an assembly, even over three months, this is false. You will be there shouting and exulting but you are in the wrong. You are as sick and dead as a Baptist. The preachings of your pastor will only give calcium to your soul and you will be dead although you are alive.
4 God planned four ministries of the Word and each elect must benefit from these four ministries. That is why I said that one or two Sundays out of the four will be reserved to different preachers from other assemblies.
5 And in the sense of infallibility, know that, as soon as the prophet-messenger has consecrated somebody as a pastor, you can report his errors but the prophet-messenger is the only one entitled to dismiss him, except if he gives mandate to somebody to do it. But if somebody, believing in the Message with his assembly, says: "I don't deserve to be a pastor, I want to be deposed" and that he sits just like a mere believer, and that afterward the prophet reappoints him as a pastor or preacher, nobody can dismiss him even if he commits errors in relation to the understanding of the Message. But those who were already some pastors and who have continued can be dismissed by the Apostles on account of the elders. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!] [Kc.69v10]
6 I have been given a huge poster of the eclipse of March 29, 2006. The mystics in Ghana think that God did that for some reason... Ghana and Ethiopia, as I showed it in Kc. 63 "Moses and the Ethiopian woman", are two remarkable countries.
7 From first African empire of the Middle Ages that it was, Ghana became again on March 6, 1957, at midnight, the first country of Black Africa to attain the independence. And on March 7, 1957, the red - yellow - green flag struck with a star in its centre could float on Ghana. That day, the leading personalities of our planet were gathered on this land of Ghana, even Richard Nixon and Martin Luther King were there.
8 And the first verse of Ghana's national anthem is: [Ed: the prophet reads the English version]. That is to say, "God bless our homeland ". And the last verse is: [Ed: the prophet reads the English version]. That is to say, "Under God march on for evermore". It is the perfect image of Ethiopia. What is the flag of Ethiopia? Red - yellow - green struck with a star in its centre. Isn't it wonderful? And is not Ethiopia the second most ancient Christian nation in the world after Israel? [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!]
9 Now let's come back to another point... I also spoke about the DNA test and for some time now, God has put the file on the desk of doctors and you will see that they will go deeper. A child will have much more affinity with somebody who is not his father than with his own father and germs of violence will be found in the blood of their priests, reverends and pastors. It is toward it that they are going little by little.
10 Had it not been the curse and the hybridization of the blood of the paternal relatives of Cain with that of the original snakes, a blood transfusion with the blood of a boa or python would be possible with a Catholic, Protestant, evangelical or Branhamist priest or pastor who denies this Message. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!]
11 And I have been given again, last week, a document of several pages against the midnight Cry. And the author ended with this: "I am going to stop there but let me tell you that it's over midnight now... Notice that I do not say that Kacou Philippe is not a messenger of God ". But if I am a man sent from God, what have you done of my Message? And how can we be over midnight while I'm still speaking? This is simply the manifestation of the sons of the devil.
12 And many of them are expecting my death to start their ministry. Well, do start your ministry! If it is from God, I shall decrease and you shall increase! You see? And three months ago, they exulted over the rumour of my death without trying to check it. And even some pastors and prophets announced it with joy in their churches! … I do not understand how one can be delighted at the death of someone while it is written: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"! You see?
13 I know that they will exult one day but the Message Itself is eternal! Isaiah, Amos, Jeremiah and the prophets are dead but their Messages are alive up to this day and to the ages of ages! [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
14 And what I have achieved in five years, they will never achieve it during their whole life. Neither them, nor their children; because I did not act by myself. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
15 Recently again, I saw in a dream that I was setting things and above me, approximately three meters above the ground, was that same Cloud and that cloud was influencing me into setting these things in a certain way and it was my Spirit that was in the Cloud. My body did not obey the will of the Cloud as my arm obeys me but as a slave would obey his master. [Kc.68v9]
16 Well! I would also like to say, after the preaching: "refusing to progress ", that the progress of the world did not help Christians. You see? Because of the progress of printing for example, the scrolls of the Old and the New Testament have been gathered in a single book called Bible. So "Bible" means: "the books". Thus the Bible is not THE Holy book but the assembling of the Holy books. You see?
17 Gathering big scrolls of several kilograms in a small book, the idea was good and anybody would have applauded that discovery without knowing that the devil was going to exploit it. You see?
18 If the sixty-six books were not gathered in only one book, one would not say today: "For me, it is the Bible! I believe in nothing else except the Bible!"
19 If there was a scroll or book of Isaiah separately, a book of Jeremiah separately, a book of Moses separately... I tell you that that would help mankind! You see? Yet at the judgment, there will be no book gathering all the books but every generation will be there with its book or scroll. The generation of Noah with Noah's book to be judged! The generation of Jeremiah with Jeremiah's book or scroll! The generation of Martin Luther with Martin Luther's scroll! The generation of Branham with William Branham's scroll to be judged.
20 But only, the same way the Lord Jesus Christ held the seven stars for the nations, so He held the seven thunders, the book of the books of the seven stars. And when the seven stars were appearing, each one with his generation for the judgment, it was not the book of the seven stars but each generation with the Book that God gave to his angel for it! Amen! You see?
21 When He appears in his divinity, it is with the seven stars and their seven Messages both in the Old and New Testament. But when these ones were appearing on the earth as before the throne of the judgment, it is each one with the book and the faith of the generation rests upon what is written in the scroll of the prophet God sent to him. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!]. The preaching on the final judgement explains it. You see? An inhabitant of Pergamos could not say: "I believe in the letter sent to the angel of the church of Ephesus ".
22 Well, before starting the preaching, I would also like to say that, when God gives a vision, He provides with the provisions for the fulfillment of this vision.
23 When God used Asia, the Asians made the Gospel reach the ends of the earth! It has been like for each of the four continents. And recently, in the evening time, when we received kilograms of brochures coming from Switzerland and the United States, they are worthy sons of the people God was visiting who bled themselves dry by sacrificing their pleasures because of us and because of the Kingdom of Heavens.
24 And if today God is visiting Africa, they are not Europeans or Americans who will do it instead of us. And when in 2 Kings 5 Naaman came, Elisha did not care about his money. Gehazi and his posterity can say that the dollar and euro are much more valuable than the currencies of Africa and that it is them who have to give us some but the Bible does not tell us so.
25 If it pleased God to arouse an African, it is with our African currency that God will fulfill Matthew 25:6 and Elisha and his sons and the sons of the prophets will rise to fulfill the vision. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!]. Whatever they have, the children of God will be anxious about doing for God an action above everything they have done on the earth. That is why a mere sister gave money to cover all the expenses of the second edition of this book. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
26 Now I come to the preaching: God is visiting Africa. In the beginning, there was Africa and Eden was there covering Ethiopia, Egypt... including Israel.
27 And historians have always said that Africa was the cradle of mankind. And in the beginning, we also know that Egypt was for a long time the first world power as we see it in Genesis.
28 And in the time of Abraham, when there was famine, God asked him to go down to Egypt. And on this side, William Branham, a type of Abraham, went down to Egypt and fraternised with the devil. And while William Branham went down to Egypt under God's order and fraternised with the Pentecostal churches and evangelical churches, in Genesis 26, God says to Isaac: Go not down to Egypt! [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!]. For Isaac had a greater mission and of him would come out two seeds, a foolish one and a wise one who will wrestle with the Angel of April 24, 1993. No matter how rude the Message might be, they will not let Him go until the cock-crow and Jacob so said in Genesis 32: " …and now I am become two troops ". [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
29 The wise virgins will act because of God and before God and not because of men and before men. Everything they will do, they will do it because of God and from the bottom of their heart, there will be nothing hidden. Those ones are the true children of God and the eternal life is for them. And it is because of them that God sent the Angel of April 24, 1993. His Message was going to purify, make white and refine this wise virgin in the desert of Revelation 12:14 until the cock-crow away from Canaanite churches and was going to change Jacob into incorruptibility and the same Message will work again in the morning with Asia and the Arab nations as we saw it represented in the vision of April 24, 1993 by the visitation of the two doves and it is said that in the Morning, as the sun rose up, Jacob passed over Peniel. You see? [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
30 So God did not allow Isaac, the son promised to Branham to fraternise with anybody. That is why we will never pray with a Catholic, Protestant, evangelical or Branhamist or even call them brethren in Christ. They are our fellow in relation to earthly things and we love them because God said: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But as for spiritual things, as for faith, a catholic, protestant, evangelical or Branhamist is not our fellow. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!]. [Kc.20v4] [Kc.20v7]
31 Well! It is therefore in Egypt, in Africa that was constituted and grew up a Jewish people who went towards the land of Canaan. And even in Israel in the time of Herod, it was in Africa that Joseph and Mary came to protect the life of the Lord Jesus. And at the beginning of Christianity during the persecution, Africa was an important reference point. Tertullian, Origen and Cyprian are Africans. Without forgetting Simon of Cyrene who carried the cross of Jesus. We have the impression that Africa has a role of assistance.
32 But that Africa was put aside, as rejected or forgotten because what has been entrusted to her before the foundation of the world, it is the revelation of the unknown tongue. And the whole world must humble itself before that. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
33 First Africa herself has to accept that God can, from her bosom, arouse a prophet like Martin Luther, John Wesley, William Branham and those of the Bible.
34 It is true that our past has always been the same... You see? The slave trade in which our fathers were sold at auction just as we sell an object that we do not use any longer. Our fathers were transported here and there in exchange for simple mirrors and petty things. And they were piled up naked in boats for America …
35 And after that it was colonisation during which again, Africans were often treated as animals before God who created them as well. But God is free to do and to allow that! He is sovereign! He is free to do what he wants and everything he does, it is in his kindness that he does it. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
36 And many Africans therefore died under the weight of forced labour. It is said that a white man could break a coconut on the head of a black and it was too bad if your head was not solid. You see?
37 And telling this black that he will be the master of white people or his son would be the master of white people, it's as if one were asked to believe that the sea would dry up one day. Certainly he will never believe.
38 And if this white man was told that one day the African will be something, he would never believe! Because the power of independence and freedom of these blacks depended on him. If he does not say to an African country: you are independent, how can this country be independent? If he does not say to the slave: you are free, how can he be free? And at the spiritual level it was the same! You see?
39 But today God is asking the humanity to accept an African. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!]. But first, Africa must accept that God can speak through an African, through his black fellow who is beside him. You see!
40 When people say that Kacou Philippe is a prophet, people agree but when we go further to tell them that he is a prophet just as important as Moses, Jeremiah or Isaiah of the Bible, they are shocked. The Europeans, Americans and even Africans themselves are shocked. They say: An African? Ha!!! They are cold. They would have liked it to be a white man or at least a black American like Joseph Coleman.
41 But an African who must baptise and consecrate some white people so that God may recognize them... that's too much for them. Every man on the earth would have liked it to be a white man. You see? And the reason, it is because the human kind has accepted that there are superior races and lower races and they want God to accept it as well.
42 But all the white children of God whether rich or poor will overcome that. And our prayer is that God keeps all these people in the same Spirit like us. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
43 And forty years ago, some white people did not believe that Africans had souls like them. It was not because they were wicked but they thought sincerely that an African was no human at all! For them, Africans are an evolution of chimpanzees.
44 In South Africa, when William Branham wanted blacks also to come to his services, the white people said to him: " no, brother Branham! They have no soul! They are only animals ..." And William Branham said to them: "they are not animals because an animal cannot give you its blood but these African men can give you of their blood!"
45 And if William Branham said to a white man: " Thus saith the Lord: one day, it is by the black African that you will be saved!" this white man would say in his heart: "I see that you are a false prophet come to deride the dignity of white people ". You see?
46 And the mystery is that every race has accepted the position that the other gives to it. The White man says to the Black: "you are unworthy!" And the black answers the white man: "yes, I'm unworthy forever! May God always speak to me through you! ". Even if the white told the black: "God says that you are the chief, sit upon the throne and I upon the stool ", the black would say: "I am the chief but I feel better upon the stool. You the white, sit always upon the throne". That is exactly it. And you will not know whether it is fear or humility.
47 At the time of the racial segregation in America, a White man could said: " I would not wish the people we bought as slaves and who served in our fields of sugar cane to have the same civil rights like us!"
48 And when the blacks themselves think of the slave trade, the sharing of Africa, the colonisation, slavery, the apartheid, the racial segregation, the underdevelopment… they say to themselves that God called them to serve! So much that they want to resemble white people by all means. Some look for skin lightening cosmetic products for skin bleaching, but Daniel 12:10 says that it is a prophetic product that will do that. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
49 They do not think that God can arouse a black one day for the greatest ministry as that of John the Baptist. You see? [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
50 Africa must know that it is God Himself who has put racism on the heart of white men for a while but this time is now past. The time of the slave trade is past, the colonial time is past. The slavery, apartheid and racial segregation are old history! You see? The apartheid and racial segregation were institutions from God because blacks should not have any portion with William Branham just as the Samaritans and the people of the nations should not have any portion with the Lord Jesus Christ. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
51 God sees all men equal. And every son of God, whatever his race, says Amen to that because he knows that all the races of the earth are equal before God! You see? And the same God who did that will make the sons of Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley and William Branham recognize and accept it in spite of their skin colour.
52 Some white men from Asia, from Europe, from America and from Africa will come here for the baptism and the consecration and it will be said: "you have heard that Salvation comes from the Jews but now Salvation comes from Africa ", that is why the trajectory of the eclipse of March 29 formed this big "S" of Salvation! [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
53 The whole Bible testifies the midnight Cry. And as I said it, it is the lack of revelation that will make you not see the midnight Cry in all the verses of the Bible. [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
54 And to close, I now wish to read another passage in Ruth 1:6. You see? At the time of Martin Luther, the whole Bible had taken the colour of his Message! At the time of John Wesley, the whole Bible had taken the colour of his Message! At the time of William Branham, the whole Bible had taken the colour of his Message! And today, similarly, all the books of the Bible have taken the colour of the midnight Cry! [Ed: the congregation Amen!].
55 Let us read now Ruth 1:6: "And [Naomi] arose, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the fields of Moab; for she had heard in the fields of Moab how that Jehovah had visited his people to give them bread."
56 Well. First, Naomi is the Church of the time of the Apostles. And when God turned away from Israel and when there was a famine of the Word there, the husband of Naomi who is the type of the Apostles died among nations. But their children, their spiritual posterity who are the messengers maintained the faith of the old woman Naomi, and aroused two virgins from her within the nations! A first called Orpah was carnal. It is the type of the foolish virgins. And a second called Ruth was spiritual. It is the type of the wise virgins. [Kc.33v5]
57 Every verse of Ruth's book is an element of the midnight Cry! [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
58 But it is verse 6 that calls our attention this morning. Verse 6 says that when the midnight Cry sounded, when Naomi heard that God had visited her people and that God had given the bread of the Word to her people, she returned! Amen! No matter the time she had spent there in those catholic, protestant, evangelical and Branhamist churches! No matter her age, her connections, her responsibilities… nothing could hold her back! And if you are a Chosen one, that's what you will be led to do without knowing because something in you urges you to do so. You see? [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
59 It is not a matter of understanding or intelligence but of seed! Everything depends on what you were before the foundation of the world when God created you!
60 When the weather is fine somewhere, all the birds and butterflies go there until that time passes. And when God is visiting one people, all the elect, whatever their country, have their eyes turned toward the country where God is fulfilling his Word! ... [Ed: The congregation says, Amen!].
61 And this is the depth of the elect! And God bless you, let us stand up for the prayer! ...
Similar chapters: Kc.6, Kc.54 and Kc.76.


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It is after a good deal of self-assessment that I have decided to pursue undergraduate studies in the Industrial Distribution program at Texas A and M University. As a statement of purpose for admission into the school, I describe here, my areas of interest, why I chose Texas A and M, and my objectives and career goals.
Ever since elementary school, I have been a big fan of engineering. My inspiration came from the likes of Graham Bell and Albert Einstein with the invention of the telephone and the mass-energy equivalence equation, respectively. With the aim to join them in the wall of fame, I participated actively in my science and math classes, and clubs related to the field. As I grew older and had the fortunate chance of working at various retail stores, I began to develop an interest in business and how it worked. It was only a matter of time before this interest was strengthened and I began contemplating whether to major in engineering or business. This unfortunately left me indecisive in my choice of major for a while in college. But after a visit to a Texas A and M prospective student center, I was informed about the Industrial Distribution program and at that moment, I was certain of what I wanted to study.


Reunion: A Tribute to the 70's is a premier, multi-media musical show featuring note-for-note recreations of some of the most iconic pop and rock artists of all time.
With spot-on impersonations, Reunion captures the 70's biggest stars as they were in their heyday–icons like Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Tom Petty, Roberta Flack, Donna Summer, KC and the Sunshine Band and more.
Through the use of film and other multi-media elements, Reunion does more than meticulously portray the idols of the 70's. It takes the audience on an immersive and unforgettable musical journey!


Remember I am just a prayer away .
And fear not, for I am by your side .
So please remember when I say I'm with you always .
I'm with you always .
Run and not be faint .
And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.


Because the skiing is still good here, the little dog and I have returned to Mendenhall Lake. Last night a half-a-foot of snow fell. But thanks to the ski club groomers, we have a well-packed trail. Otherwise Aki'd be wallowing in soft snow.
A flat light dominates the lake and the mountains that surround it. I miss the sunshine and blue skies that we enjoyed during our last visit. But the new snow that clings to spruce trees and bare-branched alders provides its own bright beauty.
The rain forest sees more cloudy days than sunny ones. When a day breaks clear after a storm, the scenes enjoyed during the sunny hours that follow can seem as rich as a North Douglas Chocolate Cake. We ignore the shapes and sights that moved us on soft, gray days. This afternoon, I'm relieved that the recently sunny spell didn't rob me of the rain forest knack of recognizing beauty in the simplest things.
This entry was posted in Aki, alders, Cross Country Skiing, Dan Branch, Juneau, Nature, Poodle, Southeast Alaska on February 15, 2019 by Dan Branch.


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Q: Is their a way to execute column validators when cell values are modified using cell.setValue() function? It seems column validators are meant to be used only during user input. Is there way to apply them when the cell value is changed programmatically?
Thanks.

A: The cell setValue function is designed to force a value into the cell, Validators at present are only designed to be triggered by direct user interaction with the table.
Though this is an interesting idea, i will add it to the roadmap for consideration in a future release

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I have followed your work and school for quite a long time. I have one question about your school, is there online abilities? I am not able to move at this time.
It is my dream to learn to REALLY paint someday. My passion is oils. Right now I am a full time mom of four kids, an apartment manager and my husband is a full time student. I want so much to do art but I hardly have time for sleep these days. Your work inspires me so much, I absolutely love it!!


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'A Year Of Time 1:30' is the result of a year as 'Artist in Residence' at 53 Ridge Street North Sydney. For the last nine years, part of Bridget Kennedy's art practice has been placed within the gallery or public arena. 'Gallery as Practice' has provided an opportunity to observe participation and exchange between jewellery and objects, and the community. The experience of how people interact with the jewellery-object, the values placed on the works and the choices made, has increased a curiosity in exploring these ideas further.
This installation of small handheld woven basket-like objects was made over the calendar year of 2017; sometimes during shared public 'craft and coffee' events held at the gallery but also in private. 'A Year Of Time 1:30' is a physical manifestation of the observation of the passing of one calendar year, highlighting the labour of the handmade. A log of the minutes taken to stitch each object was kept, and a small silver disc with these details was stamped and attached to each object, every minute representing 30 minutes of time in a calendar year. Created from natural fibres and recycled plastic bags, primarily sourced from her home environment, the work is process driven, with each object evolving in relation to the previous one.
The installation explores notions of value and exchange and invites the viewer to 'purchase' an individual object by exchanging either the equivalent amount of time or in monetary currency, the number of minutes that the buyer considers that time is worth. The work was exhibited at Bridget Kennedy Project Space, December 2017.
Throughout 2018, the individual objects were then 'purchased' through negotiated exchanges and time shared. Any cash that was received was then woven into a 'currency basket'. The resulting exhibition 'rethinking value: the essence of time, exhibited at Bridget Kennedy Project Space in December, 2018, showcased the goods and services that were offered in exchange for the forms and the interactions that occurred around these exchanges. The total hard currency received, $670 AUD was woven into a 'currency basket'.


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package com.growthbeat.analytics.query.calculation;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.ObjectCodec;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
import com.growthbeat.utils.JsonUtils;

public class JsonCalculationQueryDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<CalculationQuery> {

	private Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());

	@Override
	public CalculationQuery deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {

		ObjectCodec objectCodec = jp.getCodec();
		Map<String, Object> map = objectCodec.readValue(jp, new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>() {
		});
		String json = JsonUtils.serialize(map);

		if (!map.containsKey("type") || map.get("type") == null)
			return null;

		CalculationQueryType type = null;
		try {
			type = CalculationQueryType.valueOf((String) map.get("type"));
		} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
			logger.warn("Invalid query type: " + e.getMessage());
			return null;
		}

		switch (type) {
		case count:
			return JsonUtils.deserialize(json, CountCalculationQuery.class);
		case unique:
			return JsonUtils.deserialize(json, UniqueCalculationQuery.class);
		case sum:
			return JsonUtils.deserialize(json, SumCalculationQuery.class);
		case max:
			return JsonUtils.deserialize(json, MaxCalculationQuery.class);
		case min:
			return JsonUtils.deserialize(json, MinCalculationQuery.class);
		default:
			logger.warn("Invalid query type: null");
			return null;
		}

	}

}

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Reader Request: Technical Look at Apple on Multiple Timframes
A reader requested a look at the Apple (AAPL) chart.
The weekly chart is a thing of beauty, highlighting a series of higher lows and higher highs. In between uptrending periods are clearly defined horizontal channel consolidations. The stock price is reverting around its 50 day moving average, and above its 200 day average and an uptrend line drawn off the 2014 and 2015 lows. The only negative is volume, which has been declining for the last couple of years, as reflected by the 50 day moving average of volume. Positive money flow dropped off this year, as well, with Chaikin Money Flow moving below the 21 period average of the indicator that I use as a signal line, and continuing lower.
There is some interesting price action to note on the daily chart. Large dark candles formed at the March and April highs, which were followed by moderate pullbacks whose lows defined a three month support line. This week another large bearish engulfing candle formed, and it encompasses the prior and last week's total ranges. A bearish eveningstar candlestick pattern finished out the action this week. An eveningstar is a three day reversal pattern, that is made up of a large white candle, followed by a narrow opening and closing "doji" candle (in this case a gravestone doji with the opening and closing range near the upper end of the overall range), and completed by a large dark candle.
It represents a transition from bullishness to bearishness, and is often seen at important tops. If there is continued weakness it is likely the 50 day moving average is tested and potentially the support line. This could be a part of another healthy reversion, however if trend support is taken out, there may be talk of a triple top. It's a little early, however, to start making those predictions about a stock that could just as easily take out its February and April highs, effectively breaking out of the weekly consolidation range, and potentially powering on to new all time levels.
Category: Daily Charts Patterns and Formations Weekend Chart Requests Weekly Charts
Technical Analysis of the Major Indices on Multiple Timeframes
Let's take a look at the major indices on multiple timeframes starting with the monthly view. These charts are, for the most part, picture perfect examples of uptrending markets, with the 13 period moving averages tracking higher and above the 21 period averages. One small issue on the S&P 500 and DJIA charts is the high wick candles that formed in April and May. They represent an inability to hold the new highs. Looking back over time and putting this action in perspective, however, they don't appear that serious.
The weekly charts bring a little more detail to the technical picture. A rising triangle pattern may be forming on the S&P chart, as range contracts between converging support and resistance lines. These types of triangles usually resolve to the downside and in the case of the S&P index, the pattern projects a target in the 1950 area. The DOW bumped up against its March high last week and pulled back this week, and the NAZ which has lagged the previous two indices a bit recently, formed a doji star, or narrow opening and closing range candle this week, a sign of indecision. In 2014, the Russell consolidated below the 1212 area, then broke above that resistance in February of this year and continued higher into April. It pulled back to test resistance-turned-support last month and, so far, the bounce off that level has failed to advance past the 10 week (50 day moving average) moving average.
Focusing in on the daily S&P chart, a bearish eveningstar reversal pattern appeared over the last three sessions (I outlined the implications of the pattern yesterday), within the confines the more defined rising triangle. Any continued weakness likely penetrates the 50 day average and then could retest the pattern uptrend line. If, and this is getting ahead of the action, there was a serious breach of triangle support, the pattern projects through the 200 day average, back to this year's lows. On the other hand, a breakout projects to the 2188 area.
The long, intermediate and short term trends remain higher, but, as you can see, if you search hard enough there are small fissures in the bedrock. The beauty part is these minor fault lines define clear areas of support, and should alert us to any serious seismic disturbance.
Category: Daily Charts Indices Market Overview Weekly Charts
Bearish Eveningstar Pattern on the S&P 500 Chart
An eveningstar candlestick pattern has formed on the daily S&P 500 index chart. This is a three-day bearish reversal pattern that consists of a large white up day, followed by a narrow opening and closing range "doji" candle (in this case, a gravestone doji with the opening and closing range at the top of the overall range), and completed by a large dark down day. It represents a transition from bullishness to bearishness and is often seen at important tops.
Like any candle pattern it requires confirmation, but it is a caution flag.
Tranny Trouble
The transports are breaking below the base support line of a large triangle top pattern on the weekly chart, and the 10 week (50 day) moving average is crossing below the 40 week (200 day) average.
U.S. and Germany: A Symbiotic Relationship
The Germany iShares (EWG) fund has been unable to make a new closing high this month, and diverged from the S&P 500 in Friday's session, down more than a percent lower than the U.S. index. There has been a close correlation between the German and U.S. markets, a symbiotic relationship that requires the support of one for the other. The EWG has to recover and take out and close above the $30.62 level for the S&P to maintain its momentum.
Category: Daily Charts Indices
S&P 500: Simple Analysis
Let's keep the analysis simple: the breakout came on weak volume and it looks like the index will be retesting resistance-turned-support. So, watch 2120 as support but keep an eye on 2135 as resistance, and be skeptical until volume improves (and even then be skeptical).
General Electric Lighting It Up
General Electric (GE) shares have underperformed relative to the S&P 500 index for the last three years. Year-to-date, however, GE is lighting it up with a 10.5% return on investment compared to a 3.2% return in the index.
The long term chart shows the drop that followed the dot-com bubble, followed by a return to the 2007 high, which happened to be 62% Fibonacci retracement of the 2000 and 2003 range. The 2008 crash delivered a greater percentage loss that the previous decline but the stock climbed back off its 2009 low, and in 2013 broke above the downtrend line drawn off the 2000 and 2007 highs. Since then, however, it has been moving in a horizontal channel bordered by the 50% and 62% retracement levels of the 2001 and 2009 range. That is, until last month, when the stock gapped higher and broke above the channel top.
After punching through that resistance it pulled back and retested the $26.50 area, and in the process, formed a smaller secondary channel. Secondary channel resistance was penetrated this week. The 50 day moving average has crossed above the 200 day, and price and money flow momentum indicators are all trending higher and above their centerlines.
Well defined price action is healthy price action, and the stock looks like it wants to continue higher.
Category: Daily Charts
Sally Beauty Holdings: Attractive on Multiple Timeframes
On the weekly chart you can see the stock has recently tested a number of support lines and the 40 week (200 day) moving average, and is currently up against resistance that marked the 2013 and 2014 highs.
On the daily timeframe the price momentum and money flow indicators are all turning positive as this key resistance level is being tested. The RSI is attempting to cross above its centerline and the MacD is making a bullish crossover, as the Money Flow Index, a volume-weighted relative strength measure, has turned positive, and Chaikin Money Flow, a 20 day average of Accumulation/Distribution, is on track to cross above its centerline. SBH is a good risk/reward trade after a close near current levels, with an initial percentage trailing stop under the 200 day moving average.
China Stock Market Warning: "Go Away!"
"Go Away!" The warning from the China navy to the U.S. surveillance plane flying over a "fake" or man-made China island may good advice for investors in their, as some believe, "fake" or manipulated stock market. At least, "Take some profit!" is an appropriate admonition.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index ($SSEC) and the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index ($HSI) have had spectacular gains this year, up 37% and 17% respectively, but it might be prudent to take some profit at this point in time.
The chart of the Shanghai Composite shows the index breaking above a five year downtrend line in June last year, and then going parabolic. It is currently at a 62% retracement of its 2007 and 2009 range. Could it continue higher? Sure, and taking some profit early this year as it was consolidating around the 38% Fibonacci level would have made sense, too. It went higher…you could have bought back in or not.
The Hang Seng chart shows what could be the formation of a head and shoulders top. Watch the movement around the right shoulder. That is simple enough.
If you are skeptical about the fundamentals of the China stock market, monitor the technicals and the chart action carefully, they may be issuing a warning.
McDonalds Testing One Year Channel Resistance
This is a weekly chart but McDonalds (MCD) is up 2.7% today, taking the stock price above the top end of a large one year channel pattern. It remains to be seen if the weekly candle can hold and close above this level going into the end of the week, but considering all the talk about how the company has lost focus (the fries are still great), the move in the stock price this year has been surprising.
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Andrew specialises in commercial real estate transactions across a range of classes of property including the office, retail, leisure and industrial sectors for investors occupiers and funders and has over 30 years of experience operating in those sectors.
The management and leasing work for Thorntons Limited in Scotland.
In his leisure time, Andrew enjoys playing golf and is a member of his local club at Caudwell near Glasgow and also of The St Andrews Golf Club in St Andrews.