Reaction to the Bush administration's proposed overhaul of financial regulations — said to be the most sweeping since 1929 and the Great Depression — ranged Monday from wait-and-see among banking and mortgage groups to too little, too late from a central Illinois group that works with low-income homeowners.
The credit crunch of 2008 is not 1933, but reforms are overdue, said Kirschner, 92.
"Some of this was brought on by the Federal Reserve. They begged people to borrow money with 'no-doc' (no documentation) loans. You didn't have to have an appraisal, you didn't have to have a credit report. You signed your name, and you were in business.
"It stimulated the economy, but look what it brought us," said Kirschner, who still works once or twice a week at Town and Country Bank in Springfield.
"It does nothing to keep people in their homes. There's no interest-rate freeze, no moratorium on foreclosures. We're still getting calls every day," said Dawn Dannenbring of the Central Illinois Organizing Project.
The faith-based group, which has regional offices in Springfield and Bloomington, has backed a variety of reforms of Illinois predatory-lending laws.
Dannenbring said predatory lenders already are finding ways around the tougher Illinois laws, and she doubts reforms proposed Monday by the Bush administration will do much to end the practices.
"About 70 percent of the subprime loans were through the unregulated arms of big lending institutions," she said.
The president of the Illinois Association of Mortgage Professionals, which has about 800 company and individual members, said he generally favors national regulation of mortgage brokers and originators.
"What you have now is 50 states going in 50 different directions," said Paul Lueken.
After Illinois began requiring a licensing exam, background checks and fingerprinting of applicants four years ago, he said, the number of mortgage originators in the state, then estimated at 29,000, was cut by more than half.
Illinois Bankers Association president and CEO Linda Koch said in a statement traditional bank lending already is heavily regulated, but the association favors national regulation of mortgage brokers.
"The need for similar strict and uniform national standards for non-financial institutions now is self-evident," she said.
Fortunately for Kirschner, whose banking career did not bring him to Springfield until the 1950s, the Stockyard Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., where he started in the business, reopened in a matter of days in 1933. He also recalled creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and $2,000 worth of insurance per account that same year as an example of what can be accomplished if elected officials are committed to reform.
"The FDIC was a big deal. People started putting their money back in the bank instead of putting it under their mattress," he said.


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Combine the walnuts and oats in a food processor and blitz until fine. Add this to the breadcrumbs with the lemon zest and salt and pepper to taste.
Mix together the salmon, mashed potato, one egg and two of the tbsp. of dill and form mixture into 6-8 patties.
Place the flour in one large shallow bowl, combine the egg in another and the oat breadcrumb mix in one last bowl.
Toss a salmon patty in the flour, then the egg then press each side into the breadcrumbs. Place on a tray and repeat with remaining patties. Cover with plastic wrap and let firm up in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
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It's not unusual to ache for more and not know what the more is.
Except we do know what the more is.
It repeatedly arises within us, and we repeatedly shut the cabinet door upon it.
We know we want to reach out to that old friend and apologize for errant words or thoughtless neglect, but we shut the door on it. We see a tender feeling about our lover traverse our hearts, and we want to reach out and put it into words, but we shut the door on it. We have a book we want to write or a painting to paint or a business to start or a charity to join or a job we want to apply for or a social injustice we want to stand up against, and we shut the door on it. We have places in the world that have been calling out to us for as long as we can remember—the green hills of Ireland or the Black Hills of South Dakota or a beach where we're reminded who we are or a wooded path we once walked as a child and it makes no sense but something inside of us is telling us that we need to walk it again. And we shut the door on them.
We glimpse—out of the corner of our mind's eye—what will heal us or elevate us or send us, and we get in the habit of telling ourselves we'll do something about it someday. And then five years slip by and we're aching for more but we've forgotten what it is. The answer to our ache is as simple as listening to our hearts again.
Instead of shutting the door on them.
When I was in the first grade, my family moved to a different state. Upon arriving, I made a best friend so quickly I can't remember living there without him. I recall a lot of uncertainty and fear, and I recall he and his family, like a lighthouse during a time I was lost at sea. After three years, my family returned to my hometown, and I never spoke to him again. Over the years, I thought about him often, wondering where he was, what he was doing, and wishing I could reconnect with him. And then about five years ago, it occurred to me, evolving technology would now make it easy to find him.
Over the next five years, I shut the door on the urge every time it arose.
A heaviness had been lifted from my heart. The nine-year-old kid inside of me who just missed his friend wasn't missing him anymore. My heart had known what it needed and, after five years, I stopped shutting the door on it and finally listened.
Sometimes, joy is simply sorrow redeemed. Or undone things finally lived.
We need to keep the door of our hearts open, so we can listen to our urges and our wants. Many of them are trying to lead us into joy. Yet, when we've been shutting the door on them for so long, it can be hard to break the habit and keep it ajar. Maybe our grade school teachers were on to something when they taught us the "Five Ws" of information gathering: who, what, where, when, and why.
When will you let yourself listen?
This post hits a raw nerve with me. 25 years ago, I was a scared, 16-year old girl who chose an adoptive family for her son. I have gone on to finish college, start a career, marry, and have more kids. But I have never forgotten my first.
Close friends assume the adoption was successful since I'm not a hot mess, but I feel like I can't declare it "successful" until I hear his side of the story.
Someday, i need to hug him again and tell him how much his first mother loved him…then and now. But the risk just feels like too much.
What courage you have to open the door on this desire. You brought tears to my eyes. I trust that if you continue to listen to your heart and seek good counsel, you will find wisdom about how to handle such a delicate situation. My best to you as you do.
It's hard to find a professional who is knowledgeable about the adoption process enough to feel safe opening up.
In any case, it felt risky to post this, and I am grateful I didn't get slammed with judgement.
I'm grateful you didn't get slammed, too. Most of the time, I find this blog is a really safe and supportive place to comment, and I'm glad you discovered that, too. Your situation is so complicated, it's hard to imagine judging any of it one way or the other, because your love for your son is drawing you toward opposite actions. Keeping working it through!
This post reminds me of how we know we have personal "stuff" to deal with but keep putting it off because of other priorities. Then one day something happens and it becomes a landslide.
I remember the day my spouse told me that she had enough of my unhealthy hurtful behavior and if I didn't go for help she didn't know how she could survive let alone the relationship continue.
Making the decision to do something about the mess I was in was one of the hardest and best decisions I have made in my life. Through a very long and painful process I began the much needed journey of inner healing from some very deep wounds in my childhood.
Today, many years later I oversee a program called Freedom Session http://freedomsession.org/ in our community which helps people who like myself years ago, come to the point where they can no longer suppress that gnawing feeling that was eating away at them and those who love them.
Thanks Kelly for these thoughtful words from you.
Thank you for sharing this. I love the way you have redeemed the sorrow of that time in your life by reaching out to help others. I hope you have found joy in it!
Beautiful, beautiful words to live by! Love all your posts, but this one really resonated with me. Passing on now to my grown children, who I hope will take to heart while still in their twenties!
Thank you, Kim! I hope this resonates with your kids the way it did with you!
Thank you for this, I needed to read this to help the heavy heart I have had.
You're welcome, Tommi. Listen to that heavy heart; it will tell you what you need.
Thanks for writing on this topic. I always say that I don't want to wake up 30 years down the road with regret, yet I find myself using the someday clause quite a bit. What are we really waiting for? Sometimes it really is as simple as typing a name into a search engine or getting in the car and just driving. I always look forward to your next post. They carry a little bit of healing in each one.
It can become such a habit to pull out that someday clause, as you call it. The solution is usually simple, but not easy.
The truth of your words strikes home again…it is absolutely human, the way that the universe talks to us, our guides whisper in our ears – and yet we ignore it. These days I listen more and more, because I don't enjoy the feeling of not listening. Sometimes I wonder, but eventually I follow the yearning, and I've never been wrong yet.
I like that, Sara. When you've become accustomed to listening, the not listening begins to feel uncomfortable. I think that's true. Good stuff.
Thank you for the reminder to live authentically from the heart Dr. Flanagan. Your gift of telling a story while imparting precious gems of wisdom, reminds me to keep telling mine with the voice of a poetess and the heart of an artist.. Monica Macha.
Yes, Monica, keep telling your story!
Very powerful reminders and inSpirational encouragement. Really well done. Passing along to the moms I support. Thanks!


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Can We Inherit Trauma Genetically?
Are you looking for someone to blame for the stress and trauma in your life? What if we can inherit trauma genetically?
There's some pretty strong evidence that parental trauma, like extreme stress (we're looking right at you coronavirus) can alter how genes are passed down.
We are living in strange times, with much of the world under quarantine for the novel coronavirus—and that's precisely the kind of stress that may impact future offspring according to some scientists. A growing body of research suggests that trauma (like from extreme stress or starvation among many other things) can be passed from one generation to the next.
Related: Coronavirus Anxiety: 5 Things You Can Do To Beat It
Here's how: Trauma can leave a chemical mark on a person's genes, which can then be passed down to future generations. This mark doesn't cause a genetic mutation, but it does alter the mechanism by which the gene is expressed. This alteration is not genetic, but epigenetic.
We spoke with Dr. Chris Mason, Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, with appointments at the Tri-Institutional Program in Computational Biology and Medicine between Cornell, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University, and Director of the Mason Lab. He shared that "epigenetics, in simplified terms, is the study of the biological control mechanisms of DNA—the light switches that turn genes on or off.
In essence: epigenetics control how or why your genes are expressed."
What would have seemed preposterous 20 years ago has become a fast-emerging field of study. Today the idea that a person's experience could alter their biology, and behavior of their children and grandchildren has gained serious traction. Animal and some smaller human studies have shown that exposure to stressors like immense stress or cold can trigger metabolic changes in subsequent generations—and we may just be living in such a time as we grapple with the mounting COVID-19 crisis.
Related: How Toxic Family Dynamics Can Cause C-PTSD In Emotionally Intense Children
So, What Exactly Are These Epigenetic Studies?
Differences among groups who had gone through extreme physical and psychological stress, like Holocaust survivors, those who were born to parents who lived through "The Dutch Hunger Winter," and sons of Confederate prisoner-of-war soldiers in the American Civil War, all make the case the most clearly, but they're not the whole picture. There has also been a lot of work in the lab focused on this phenomenon, and that work really accelerated after The Human Genome Project (HGP) was completed in 2003. Here's a look at what scientists have learned from both case studies and experiments.
Related: PTSD: 4 Surprising Lessons From a Recent Research
How Extreme Situations Have Impacted Offspring
Mason shared that the field of epigenetics gained real traction about a decade ago, when scientists published seminal research on the Dutch Hunger Winter, an extended period of famine that took place towards the end of World War II when the Nazis blocked food supplies in October 1944, thrusting much of the Netherlands into famine. When the Dutch were liberated in May 1945, more than 20,000 had died of starvation. Pregnant women were particularly vulnerable; and the famine impacted the unborn children for the rest of their lives.
Scientists found that those who had been in utero during the famine were a few pounds heavier than average. (The thinking goes that the mothers, because they were starving, automatically quieted a gene in their unborn children involved in burning the body's fuel.) When the children reached middle age, they had higher LDL ("bad") cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
They also suffered higher rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and schizophrenia. When scientists looked into why, they found that these children carried a specific chemical mark—an epigenetic signature—on one of their genes.
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If you haven't already noticed, the Risk Management Driver's License Review System is new and improved! The new system allows you to designate drivers as "Required To Drive" or "Not Required to Drive". "Required To Drive" generally means that driving is listed in a person's job description, which means if the driver does not have authorization to drive for the University they cannot fully perform their essential job duties. Those who are "Not Required To Drive" are emailed a link to self-certify that they are compliant with the University Driving Policy. View the user manual with helpful tutorials or view the University Driving Policy.
According to How Stuff Works, experts recommend washing the outside of your vehicle every two weeks or so throughout the year. Depending on how much driving you do and if you keep it out of the elements, you can go longer between washes. People often think that washing their car is more of a summertime chore, but it should actually be done more in the winter because of the salt on the roads. Don't forget to clean the inside every once in a while as well! Even a quick clean can make a big difference. If you notice your department vehicle needs a little touch up, stop by our office to use our cleaning supplies. If you need a car wash, you can get a coupon once a month for a free one.
Deb's Safety Corner: Mixed Signals?
You probably can't guess what the vehicle in front of you is going to do next unless you're a mind reader and the same goes for the vehicle following you. Indicate your intentions by using your turn signals in advance of entering and exiting a roadway and always when making turns. Signals alert other drivers and pedestrians of your intentions.
Have you ever been driving and heard a weird noise in the vehicle and just decided to pretend you didn't hear it? Well according to AAA, there are eight vehicle noises that drivers should never ignore. If you hear "squealing, grinding, rattling, popping, hissing, clicking, roaring, or tapping," you may want to get it looked at. Watch this video to find out what may be causing each noise.
Remember to get your spring break reservations done as soon as possible. We already have 50 minivan and 12 SUV reservations. If you have student drivers, now is the time to get driver's license reviews and registration for driver training submitted.
We have recently added the WEX fuel card best practices list to our website. These practices include helpful tips to follow when using the fuel card and reminders for the card limits. It may be worthwhile to print these practices and circulate around your department. Also, keep them in your vehicle to look at when you aren't sure about something. View WEX Card Best Practices.
We will have normal business hours during the week of spring break, but we will be closed Saturday, March 10 and 17. If you need a vehicle during these weekends, please make the reservation for the Friday before with a pickup time after 4pm. Also, in the notes section include the time you will actually be using the vehicle. Our normal Saturday hours will resume March 24.
When it comes to road deaths caused by cell phone use, Texas is the worst state with 312 deaths each year according to a report from Expert Market. The other states ranking in the top five for most fatal crashes due to cell phones are: California, Florida, North Carolina and Georgia. The top three states with the fewest fatal crashes due to cell phone use are: District of Columbia, Rhode Island and Vermont. Iowa is ranked 33rd with 28.2 deaths/year. View the complete rankings.


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The Fragsburg
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Merano Restaurant
The fine art of true pleasure in PREZIOSO Restaurant
"Nourish the body well so that the soul will want to reside there" is a saying apocryphally attributed to Winston Churchill. He would have truly loved it here, as we cook nourishing and refined gourmet cuisine in the finest sense of the word. A defiant fusion of hearty Alpine fair and Mediterranean opulence.
In PREZIOSO gourmet restaurant at Castel Fragsburg 5 Star Hotel Merano, we love to amaze and astonish our guests. No matter how many times we step out onto our glass loggia and look out over the parapet of the panorama terrace at the stunning, cinematic views of Merano, we always find something new to marvel at in the ravishingly beautiful natural surroundings.
There couldn't be a more ideal setting for the exquisite dishes prepared by our head chef. A culinary virtuoso, he fuses the many facets of regional cuisine with the opulence of the Mediterranean cuisine. This place in South Tyrol, this luxury hotel in Dolomites and our fine restaurant is ideal to spend a Gourmet Holidays in Italy.
Whether it's an agreeable lunch you partake of, a sumptuous gourmet dinner or our Best breakfast in Italy, you will invariably have a sense of savoring life to the full. And besides we have Gourmet Deals. The sublime cuisine is of course rounded off by impeccable yet affectionate service and the excellent advice of our sommelier when choosing from the fine wines in our cellar due to we offer also a wine tasting service.
A world of exquisite Alpine-Mediterranean cuisine
Strong culinary art against an incredible backdrop
The perfection of simplicity
Our South Tyrolean chef, Egon Heiss, says 'The highest form of art is to ignore the insignificant.' Over the course of his long career as a Michelin stared chef, he's cooked delicious food all over the world for politicians, Formula 1 stars, royalty and billionaires. Egon is convinced that 'if you've seen and experienced everything there is to see and do, you return to the perfection of the simple things in life.'
In this vein, the 'tinkerer and magician' from Val Sarentino – a moniker given to him by cooking critics of the Gault Millau guide who wax lyrical when praising his creations as 'very astutely staged works of art' – has been in pursuit of the perfect "Knödel", for years and years. And although his personal library is packed with cooking books, more than 3,000 to be precise, he's focused his research on recipes handed down from one generation to the next by speaking to the elderly who still have the knowledge of those recipes. The father of three, who never wanted to be anything other than a chef, tells us lovingly how 'my grandparents explain me how they grab a 'pinch' of this and a 'dash' of that. That's what cooking from the gut means. They also know how draughts and the weather can play a key role when cooking dumplings.' His childhood dream of becoming a chef was never about collecting stars and toques but to 'cook and eat together.' Which is why the bread expert and dumpling lover delivers passionate, private cooking classes which you can book here with us.
For centuries, the Fragsburg is strongly anchored in stone and rock and has always given the impression of swaying gently above the tree tops; similarly, our cooking concept is deeply rooted in the South Tyrolean tradition yet enriched with Italian sensuality and openness to the world's flavours.
Royale breakfast
Breakfast like a king
So goes the old saying, and it's one we've taken to heart. Our royal buffet is our pride and joy. It goes without saying that all our specialities are fresh and homemade. We offer everything you could wish for: mouth-watering bread, croissants fresh from the oven and South Tyrolean pastries, served with fruit jams and chutneys, creamy nut spread or delicacies from the cheese counter with antipasti – or would you prefer muesli, nuts and fruit from the fresh fruit bar?
It's all accompanied by freshly pressed juices and teas made with herbs and flowers from our garden. And there's also prosecco for anyone who would like to get the day off to a sparkling start. A selection of three warm dishes can also be ordered from the gourmet menu.
Our award-winning restaurant isn't just for our guests.
Opening Hours from Tuesday to Saturday
Breakfast from 07.30 Uhr until 11.00 Uhr
Dinner from 19.00 until 21.00 Uhr
However, since there are only a limited number of tables available, please make a reservation in advance.
Reservations daily from 07.30 a.m. to 11 p.m.
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Stan Brakhage filming Eyes, Pittsburgh, 1971.
Stan Brakhage is an influential figure in the world of experimental cinema. A director who has crafted a body of work showcasing his extreme versatility, Brakhage often calls upon old-fashioned techniques and plays with the absence of sound and color. His works range from three-minute shorts to four-and-a-half-hour filmic experiences. Brakhage's films have been noted to be extremely personal and autobiographical, from Anticipation of the Night (1958) to Dog Star Man (1961–64) and Mothlight (1963). In conjunction with the Dialogue series, the Walker Art Center presents the world premiere of The Earth Song of the Cricket (1999) and U.S. premiere of Birds of Paradise (1999). Brakhage is joined by Bruce Jenkins for an evening of retrospection on the filmmaker's astounding output. Jenkins is currently the dean of undergraduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was curator of the Walker's film/video department from 1984 to 1999. Recorded in 1999.
Stan Brakhage Dialogue with Bruce Jenkins 1999 | 1:30:55
Director Stan Brakhage and Bruce Jenkins join for an evening of retrospection on the filmmaker's astounding output of work. Jenkins is currently the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was curator of the Walker's Film/Video department from 1984-1999.
Reflections on Black
Stan Brakhage emerged mid-century and almost single-handedly shifted the experimental cinema away from its reliance on literature and surrealist psychodrama and toward a more purely personal, visceral, and visionary form. This he achieved in a series of extraordinary films he made in the late 1950s and early 1960s that used aspects of his daily life to focus on existential anxiety, the dynamics of love and sexuality, and the "fallenness" of the world. What emerged from his series of autobiographical portraits—from the existential Anticipation of the Night (1958) to the mythopoetic Dog Star Man (1961-1964) and abstract studies such as the camera-less Mothlight (1963)—was an understanding of the image no longer simply as a conveyer of representational content and narrative meaning, but rather as the record of an intensive act of seeing. The films, with their gestural camera movements and hand-crafted, manipulated surfaces, became (to invoke the title of Brakhage's major treatise on film) "metaphors on vision."
Despite the rather private nature of many of his concerns—ironic for an artist working in such an ostensibly public medium—and despite his self imposed exile in the mountains of Colorado, where he and his wife and artistic collaborator, Jane, raised a family while creating their impressive body of work (jointly signed as "Brakhage" by the early 1960s), Brakhage exerted an enormous influence on subsequent generations of filmmakers as he injected new content and explored new formal approaches to the medium. In legitimizing the distinctly nonprofessional production site of amateur filmmaking—the home ("I studied home movies as diligently as I studied the aesthetics of Sergei Eisenstein…")—he also prefigured much of the discourse of avant-garde film practice in the following decade, from the formal strategies of the personal cinema to the emergence of the counter-cultural form of the "underground movie."
Brakhage's figure has cast a large shadow across the independent and experimental cinemas of the past four decades and represents an exemplary practice that continues to this day to develop and refine itself. While new forms of moving-image practice proliferate among visual artist, digital practitioners, and filmmakers, Stan Brakhage continues to make his highly personal films. Resonating with an undiminished visual intensity and a potent engagement with the fundamental questions of life, each new work bears witness to Brakhage's prolific achievements and his continuing role as one of the modern masters of the medium.
─Bruce Jenkins, 1999
Bruce Jenkins is the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was previously the curator of the Walker Art Center's Film/Video department and the Harvard Film Archive.
This program is made possible by generous support from Regis Foundation.


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National Helm
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One Year Of APC's Administration, No Project To Commission Except PDP's Railway. Press Release
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC) for appropriating the Abuja – Kaduna Standard Gauge Rail Line Project which was conceptualized, awarded and constructed by the PDP's administrations.
The Party in a Statement by its Chief Spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 said, the Rail Project was conceptualized by the Obasanjo Administration and successive PDP administrations of President Umaru Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, commenced work and built the Project to 99% completion saying that the only work done by President Muhammadu Buhari on the project was yesterday's Commissioning. The Party said the usual rhetoric of the APC had always been that the 16 years of PDP's rule were years of waste asking if the Railway Project was also a waste? "The truth which history will bear out is that the PDP in its 16 years of rule successfully completed numerous projects that substantively changed the infrastructural landscape of Nigeria. Everyone of those 16 years were years of great productivity with remarkable landmark achievements. This is very much unlike the APC which has already wasted one full year without even scratching one square meter of ground anywhere in the Country". Prince Adeyeye said. The PDP Spokesman concluded that 'if morning truly shows the day, then we can say that Nigeria is now really in the era of waste and stagnation'. Signed: Prince Dayo Adeyeye Member,
PDP National Caretaker Committee For: Publicity
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An order of the *Chlorophyceae containing motile unicellular (e.g. Chlamydomonas), colonial (e.g. Gonium), and coenobial (e.g. Volvox) algae. Members of the Volvocales have one chloroplast in each cell, often containing an eye spot. Usually asexual reproduction is by zoospores while sexual reproduction varies from isogamy to oogamy. In some classifications the unicellular forms are placed in a separate order, the Chlamydomonadafes.


If in doubt, a good bottle of red to go with the Easter Sunday lamb will go down a treat. Laithwaites have been picking out the best Bordeauxs for half a century, they'll deliver quick smart, too.
We love: Their short-list of 'top 10 reds' range from under a tenner to vintage magnums. A tipple for any budget.
Nothing says 'spring has sprung' like fresh, seasonal blooms and these direct to your door from the wilds of West Cornwall are just the thing. There's free delivery on fantastically priced blooms, all seasonally grown on their family run farm. You can even add Cornish fudge to your order for extra brownie points.
We love: A 40 stem 'Posy of Cheerfulness' – no garish blooms here, just a mega bunch of the palest double-headed narcissus that will fill your home with spring scents.
Yorkshire institution Betty's celebrate their centenary this year – their luxury hampers are a delight for any occasion with plenty of regional and traditional foodie treats to delight this Easter.
We love: Betty's, Apostle Simnel Fruit cake, £27.50 – hand-made to an original recipe in Yorkshire, you can't get more traditional than that.
If you're looking for non-foodie gifts, Anthropologie has a whole 'Easter' gifting section without a crème egg in site - from jewellery to candles, soaps and bunny-related trinkets.
We love: Anthropologie, jewelled flower necklace, £40 - these bejewelled initial necklaces would make the ultimate prize for any grown-up Easter egg hunt.
If you're looking for last-minute children's gifts that won't deliver a visit from the Tooth Fairy, Scandiborn is brimming with beautiful, Scandi-inspired toys and gifts, and dress-up ideas from the likes of Meri Meri.
We love: Scandiborn, Olli Ella Piki basket, £24.95 – these pastel wicket baskets are the perfect accessory for their chocolate haul.
Trust Selfridges to come up trumps - shop for extravagant Easter hampers and confectionery or luxury smellies, all online – let them do the hard work and take your pick from their carefully edited Easter category – then have it delivered, beautifully wrapped with zero legwork.
We love: Jo Malone London, White Lilac and Rhubarb candle, £47 – just as delicious as it sounds, pairing two of springs most heavenly scents.
M&S have got all the Easter catering essentials covered with an extensive range of foodie gifts and hampers, all delivered right up until the last minute.
We love: Marks & Spencer, Easter Family Hamper, £50 – this really does have every Easter whim covered, from hot cross buns to Simnel cake, Easter biscuits and lots of chocolate goodies, obviously.
Baby's 1st Easter? M&CO have got a gorgeous spring range of outfits in their collaboration with Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit. From print dresses to smart rompers – what could be more Easter-y than that?
We love: M&CO, Peter Rabbit romper, from £16 – this smart jersey bib short set would be the perfect gift for any Easter new arrivals.
Glorious spring prints – choose a vase for their blooms or a cheery plate for their hot-cross buns – from bird-twitchers to dog lovers and green-fingered gardeners there is sure to be a fitting design for your loved one.
We love: Emma Bridgewater, Daffodil range from £10 – spring personified, this cheery yellow print will be hauled out year after year to herald the return of spring.
There are more than 600 products in NOTH's Easter Gift category available for express next day delivery – whether you need decorations for the Easter table, egg hunt supplies or personalised gifts.
We love: The Letter Room, enamel bucket, £9.95 - This personalised enamel egg collection bucket – ensuring no squabbling as to whose chocolate haul is whose.
Delivery: next-day delivery available on a range of products, last order before Wednesday 17 April.


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Q: How to reduce decimals in tkinter the code is working successfully but my problem is decimals length is very long, i need to reduce decimals in tkinter. i hope you will help..
my problem is

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry('850x450')

var1 = tk.StringVar()
t1 = tk.Entry(root, textvariable=var1).grid(row=1,column=1)
var2 = tk.StringVar()
t2 = tk.Entry(root, textvariable=var2).grid(row=1,column=2)
result = tk.StringVar()
l = tk.Label(root, textvariable=result).grid(row=1,column=3)

def set_label(name, index, mode):
    if var1.get() == '' or var2.get() == '':
        pass
    else:
        result.set(float(var1.get()) * float(var2.get()))

var1.trace('w', set_label)
var2.trace('w', set_label)

root.mainloop()

A: Decimals and rounding is done with the '{number:.{digits}f}' syntax.
N = 3 # number of decimals that you want
def set_label(name, index, mode):
    if var1.get() == '' or var2.get() == '':
        pass
    else:
        res = float(var1.get()) * float(var2.get())
        result.set('{number:.{digits}f}'.format(number=res, digits=N))

A: you can use round() like so:
>>> round(1.123456789, 2)
1.12
>>> round(1.123456789, 4)
1.1234

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Betsy Jane "Pie" Smith Spencer
BETSY JANE SMITH SPENCER peacefully returned to her rightful place in Heaven on Sunday, March 3, 2019, at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Maryland, with her family by her side. The world was blessed when Randolph Smith and Parthenia Brown Smith gave birth to Betsy, most lovingly known as "Pie", on January 30, 1946, in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. She was the youngest of their seven children: Geraldine, Dorothy, Rosetta, Geneva, Sylvia, and William.
Betsy was raised in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and received her formal education in the public schools of Halifax County. She later relocated to Washington, DC, expanded her family, and pursued a career in nursing. She became employed as a nurse at the Washington, DC, Veteran Affairs Medical Center where she provided health care services to military veterans for twenty-two years before retiring in 2009.
Betsy was well-known for her warm heart and for making those around her smile. She loved to fellowship with family and friends, most often through her love of music, which created countless memories of fun times and laughter. Her loving and vibrant spirit provided uplifting and comfort to all the lives she touched. For such an amazing woman, it is only natural that we pass her wonderful qualities and zest for life to those left to carry on her legacy.
In addition to her parents, God's Heavenly plans have allowed Betsy to be greeted in Heaven by those who preceded her in death: her granddaughter, D'Chanta; her daughter, Kim; her sisters, Geraldine, Dorothy, Rosetta, and Sylvia; and her brother, William. We are so fortunate that Betsy continued to hold on to God's unchanging hand so this reunion could take place, and His plan is also that she welcomes all of us at the gate!
Those left to cherish her precious memories, carry her torch, and sing the praises of her love are her children, Bonita Washington of Falls Church, VA, Michelle Washington of Fort Washington, MD, Gilbert Washington (Cliffie) of District Heights, MD, and Ollie Spencer, Jr. of Capital Heights, MD; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; her sister, Geneva Abington of Roanoke Rapids, NC, and we couldn't begin to name the many extraordinary family members and loyal friends.
A viewing will be held at 11:00 A.M. with the funeral services to follow at 12:00 Noon on Saturday, March 9, 2019, in the chapel of the funeral home. Pastor Gerry L. Smith will officiate, and burial will follow in the Brown Family Cemetery, William R. Davie School Road, Roanoke Rapids, NC. The family will receive friends at William R. Davie School immediately following the committal and benediction ceremony.
← Mary Maggielene Coppedge Hockaday
Eunice Ree Perkins →


School's out for summer…but that doesn't mean the learning should stop.
During the summer months, students risk losing 2-3 months of math and reading skills if they aren't engaged in learning. This is called "summer slide." Without books and computers in the home and the ability to afford high-quality summer camps, low-income income youth are at a greater risk for the summer slide than their peers. According to the National Summer Learning Association, summer learning loss in the elementary school years alone accounts for at least half of the ninth-grade reading achievement gap.
But there's hope. The good news is that when high-quality summer learning programs are made available and when children have access to books, we can not only curb summer learning loss, we can even help boost student achievement. When children continue to learn during the summer, they are healthier, safer and smarter, and their schools and communities are more successful.
Reading is reading. Don't be too picky about the type of reading material. Books, magazines, or comics are all legitimate options.
Don't worry too much about the book being appropriately challenging. Summer is a perfect time to foster a lifelong love of reading and learning which might mean going back and re-reading old favorites or picking up a book to read just for fun.
Model the behavior you want to see. If you want your child to read in his or her leisure time, read in your leisure time.
Ask questions. Try to foster both comprehension (e.g. Who is the main character?) and critical thinking (e.g. What do you think will happen next? Why?).
Show that it is okay to struggle. Illustrate what it is like to struggle with a challenging reading passage and how to overcome those challenges. Do you use context clues? Talk through your thinking. Do you look up a word? Show how to use the dictionary. It is important for children to know that reading, just like playing a sport, requires practice and learning.
There are tons of reading programs and events taking place in Lubbock this summer. Check out our Summer Reading Calendar to find opportunities for your children.


Car crashes unfortunately present opportunities for innumerable types of injuries. One of the most severe injuries is damage to the spinal cord. Depending on the type and location, spinal injury can lead to lifelong, permanent, and total paralysis. If you've been in a bad accident and suffer from spinal cord damage, contact a personal injury lawyer today to discuss your case and options.
The human spine is a vital conduit between the brain and the rest of the body. The spine is comprised of nerves, bones, joints, tendons, ligaments, and muscles. It must remain strong and flexible to support a full range of motion and activity. The spinal cord runs much of the length of the spine, from the base of your brain through the thoracic spine. It does not run through the lower back. This collection of nerves allows your brain and the rest of your body to communicate. Through the spinal cord, your brain sends signals to your body about how and when to move, and receives sensory information back through the same mechanism.
Car accidents are the leading cause of spinal cord injury, accounting for 35% of new injuries every year. Spine injuries can range from minor to life threatening. Damage to the spine could mean injury to the vertebrae, discs, ligaments, or the spinal cord. Damage to the actual spinal cord is the most severe type of spinal injury, but even more minor injuries can seriously impact your life.
Injury to the spine can lead to chronic pain and limited mobility. Because strength and flexibility of the back muscles is so vital to normal functionality, even the most seemingly minor limitation on range of motion has the potential to change the way you live your life forever. Financial consequences can often be insurmountable for spinal injuries. Many require numerous doctor visits, hospital stays, and even surgical intervention. Injury to the spinal cord could lead to severe and lifelong disability, meaning sufferers could require round the clock care in addition to a number of assistive devices. If you are in a bad accident, you could spend weeks or months in the hospital, and return home in a wheelchair. Most homes are not handicap accessible, and many spinal injuries require a residence to undergo extensive modifications in order to accommodate new disabilities and limitations.
An injury to your spine could cost you untold thousands of dollars, and your life as you knew it. If you've suffered a spinal injury due to an accident, contact an Atlanta lawyer to discuss your case. You don't have to suffer alone, We are ready to fight for the compensation you deserve. Call our office to schedule a consultation.


I drifted through the murky, dark water and rose slowly to the surface as the dive drew to a close. A colossal shadow suddenly loomed large above me. It was the unmistakable shadow of a Whale Shark, and as I reached for my GoPro, all thoughts of the ascent went out the window as I gazed in awe at the behemoth that was circling our small group of divers.
Within moments, the Whale Shark was gone, disappearing into the blue again. A few seconds later, a smaller, younger Whale Shark appeared from the same direction. Gliding gracefully overhead, the young calf had soon followed the parent into the abyss.
This had been my last dive in Donsol, the Philippines, and the last chance for me to see Whale Sharks in a natural setting. The Bay of Donsol, due to the enormous quantities of algae and plankton in the water, attracts large populations of Whale Shark throughout the year. But of course, the bay is big, the water is deep, and there is never any guarantee of seeing these magnificent fish.
After three days of boat rides and diving, on my last day out on the water, the Whale Sharks had made their appearance. The boat captains knew that the 'Butanding,' as the world's largest fish is known to the local Filipinos, would feed out in a submerged crater known as Manta Bowl.
The Manta Bowl is deep, and the dive would take me down to 30 meters. The current is strong, and there is little to do but drift across the bottom of the bowl and hope the Whale Sharks turned up for the show.
After the first two dives of the day, there were no sightings, but on the third and final dive, running low on air and rising to safety stops, the Whale Sharks appeared out of the gloom, ever so briefly.
It had been a fleeting visit, but an encounter with a Whale Shark is always humbling, no matter how quickly they disappear again.
Whale Sharks in the Philippines.
Until recently, Donsol was just a small, sleepy fishing village; today, it's just a small, sleepy fishing village with a few hotels and a Whale Shark Interaction Centre. Donsol is located on the southern end of Luzon, and the easiest way to get here is to fly into the city of Legazpi.
There are regular flights – almost hourly – to Manila and Cebu, from where you can connect internationally or to anywhere else in the Philippines. From the airport in Legazpi, a short tricycle ride will bring you to the large minibus terminal – opposite the SM City Mall – where you can catch a transfer direct to Donsol. The buses leave when they are full and generally take around 60-90 minutes.
The minibusses drop passengers in the center of Donsol, but most of the accommodation, the dive shops, and the Whale Shark Interaction Centre are all located along the coast, around five kilometers away. You can easily grab a tricycle to your final destination though.
The main reason to visit Donsol is for the Whale Sharks. The rich waters of the bay attract these beautiful creatures for certain periods of the year, and Donsol has created a tourism initiative that – unlike the infamous operations at Oslob, in Cebu – keeps the Whale Sharks wild.
At the Whale Shark Interaction Centre, you sign up for a boat trip across the bay. This three-hour tour will allow you to swim with the Whale Sharks if they are spotted, but there are no guarantees you'll see them. The Whale Shark tours are led by trained Whale Shark Interaction Officers, and there are stringent rules you'll be required to follow that help keep things here sustainable.
Although diving is not allowed in much of the bay, just outside of Donsol Bay, in the strait between Luzon and Ticao Island, there are some spectacular dive sites. Manta Bowl is the best, where Whale Sharks are often found feeding, but also where you are likely to spot Sea Snakes and Manta Rays.
There are some great dive sites along the coast of Ticao Island too, which are easily reachable by boat from Donsol.
When the sun sets over Donsol, the river comes alive with the noise and light of fireflies as they fill the trees and the mangroves every evening. The unusual phenomenon can be experienced by taking a small boat cruise along the river in the darkness, led by a local guide who will explain precisely what brings the fireflies here.
In the surrounding forest are some lovely waterfalls, but to find them, you will need a tricycle driver to show the whereabouts. You can take time off from Whale Shark watching to explore the local area, discover waterfalls, or simply relax on the beaches found along the coast.
Almost all the hotels are found along the coastal road leading out from the center of Donsol. It's a nice, quiet area, but to get to town, you'll need to jump on a tricycle. Most of the hotels have restaurants and bars though and are reasonably self-contained.
Budget options are limited, but most of the 'resorts' aren't too expensive. Accommodation can be basic; Donsol is still developing its infrastructure, and you can't expect to have hot water all the time or fast wifi. Most hotels overlook the beach and the bay though and are great places to relax.
During high season and public holidays, accommodation can get booked out in Donsol, as the available options can be far less than the demand.
Eating options can be limited in Donsol. In the town itself, you have lots of local market stalls and local eateries serving up cheap Filipino dishes. The hotels mostly serve food and drinks, but the menus, while they may look extensive from the outset, are fairly limited, as most of the items may not be available! You can expect lots of rice, Filipino meats, and just a few vegetables.
Timing can be everything when it comes to spotting Whale Sharks in Donsol. The official season runs from November through to May; however, at the start and end of the season, few Whale Sharks can be spotted in the bay. February through to April, which is the Filipino summer, is when the highest numbers are recorded.
Storms can throw off your chance of seeing these creatures, as they retreat from the bay. So if there has been heavy rain before your trip, you may want to reconsider. Ultimately though, a bit of luck is always involved; you can increase your chances of spotting a Whale Shark by spending more days in Donsol itself.
Donsol is a safe destination to visit. The local economy now relies on tourism, so you can rest assured that you will be looked after.
Of course, the activities you'll be doing here may present dangers in themselves, so if you are diving, make sure you are comfortable with the company and with the dive sites you are visiting, and that they suit your level of experience.
Be careful of the strong sun when you are out on the boats, and take plenty of water to stay hydrated.
Donsol is an incredibly inexpensive place to experience Whale Sharks in their natural habitat, particularly in comparison to other parts of the world.
Transport from Legazpi City to Donsol costs just 98 Pesos (2 USD), tricycles in Donsol cost anywhere from 20 to 40 PHP for a trip around town.
The Whale Shark tours organized by the Interaction Centre cost 3500 PHP per boat, but this is split between a maximum of six tourists. Each tourist also pays an additional 300 PHP conservation fee.
Diving is very cheap here; three dives, including lunch, water, and all your equipment will cost around 100 USD in total.
Accommodation varies in price, but you can find basic lodgings for around 10 USD per night, and nicer private rooms with a swimming pool for 30 USD.
Donsol is all about responsible tourism; it's a destination that has thrown everything into sustainable travel, rather than the Oslob approach of feeding the wild animals to bring them to the bay. There are strict rules that must be enforced. If you ignore these rules, your boat captain has the power to turn the boat back to land.
You can't touch the whale sharks, time in the water is limited, and you must keep a certain distance at all times. Boat numbers are limited, as are the number of tourists per boat. Scuba Diving is not allowed in the main bay, but it is allowed out in the strait. Equally, if you see your boat captain not following the rules, tourists are asked to report them to the Interaction Centre.
Donsol, despite its focus on sustainable tourism, is still an emerging tourist destination. The rules of Whale Shark Interaction and knowledge of the fish themselves is an ever-developing process as the town learns from mistakes. Accidents do sometimes happen, and there can be collisions with the Whale Sharks, but for the most part, the rules enforced here keep incidents to a minimum. You are not guaranteed to see whale sharks, but this is the best place in the Philippines to do it as ethically as is possible.


As Gir has the highest density of Lions in the wild in India it is one of the best places to document the life of this cat. Our team of Naturalists and managers specialize in programmes for professional wildlife photographers and filmmakers for over 15 years. We facilitate with permits to photograph / film within the Lion Reserve. We are happy to assist single traveling photographers or teams / groups and will tailor design their trip according to their interest and time frame.


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Great Achievements by Teenagers
Some of the great achievements throughout history in the fields of art, culture, science and technology have been made by teenagers. This may be because they are able to think in new and innovative ways, or their thinking is not hidebound by discredited nostrums. It may be due to the emergence of God-given talent at an early age, and the natural open-mindedness of young people before they may experience attempts to indoctrinate them towards certain worldviews. Biologically the rate of brain development, and according to some studies IQ, reportedly peak in smart individuals just prior to their teenage years.[1]
Achievements, listed by age at which they were made
12 - Mark, author of the Gospel of Mark, witnesses the arrest of Jesus and develops the first Gospel.[2]
12 - Blaise Pascal secretly worked out the first twenty-three propositions of Euclid by himself.
12 - Jesus analyzes Scriptures for the experts in the temple in Jerusalem.
12 - William "Willie" Johnson earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Seven Days Battle and on the Peninsula Campaign during the American Civil War. [5]
13 - Joan of Arc was inspired and led France five years later to victory over the English in the Hundred Years War; was martyred at age 19.[3]
13 - Anne Frank began writing her diary, later published as "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl."
13 - Bobby Fischer wins the "Game of the Century" in Chess, by sacrificing his Queen to gain advantage in position.[4]
14 - David slays Goliath.
14 - Ismail founded the Safavid dynasty and became its "shah" (military and spiritual ruler)
14 - Mozart wrote the opera, "Mitridate Rè di Ponto."
14 - Nadia Comaneci "achieved in her sport what no Olympian, male or female, ever had before: perfection."[5]
14 - St. Theresa of Lisieux rejected by Bishop Hugonin, pleads with Pope Leo XIII so she may enter the Carmelites. Became Carmelite nun at age 15.
14 - Bernadette Soubirous (St Bernadette of Lourdes) has a vision of the Virgin Mary
14 - The publication of Charles Schulz's first drawing of a dog, which became an inspiration for his cartoon strip Peanuts about a dog named Snoopy[6]
14 - Aaron Swartz develops RSS. Swartz would go on to contest the private ownership of data by trying to liberate millions of academic articles from a corporation.
15 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers what became the prime number theorem.
15 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini creates a sculpture of the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence in 1614.[7]
15 - Jack Andraka developed a new method to detect pancreatic cancer.[8]
15 - Louis Braille invented the Braille system.
15 - Christopher Paolini writes the first draft of his Eragon trilogy which is published when he is 19.
16 - Jean-François Champollion, can speak a dozen languages and delivers a paper on the Coptic language to the Grenoble Academy. By 20, he can speak another 13 languages and at 32 he deciphers the Rosetta Stone.
16 - Boy sailor Jack Cornwall, of HMS Chester, is awarded a posthumous VC for gallantry at the Battle of Jutland.
16 - Taylor Swift releases her first studio album, which peaks at #1 on the US Top Country Albums chart.
16 - the average age of 58 homeschooled teenagers who founded Conservapedia, so that the light of truth would continue to shine and darkness would not overcome it.
16 - Franz Schubert wrote his First Symphony; having already composed songs, chamber pieces etc.,
16 - Sun Myung Moon writes Crown of Glory.
17 - Cassie Bernall defended her faith in front of an atheistic gunman at the Columbine massacre, and was martyred for it[9]
17 - Georges Bizet wrote his Symphony in C of which is heard frequently today.
17* - Mary accepts God's will to conceive Jesus by the Holy Spirit, and gives birth nine months later.[10]
17 - Shawn Fanning develops the first large-scale peer-to-peer file sharing program, Napster
17 - Private 1st Class Jacklyn H. Lucas, United States Marine Corps, earned the Medal of Honor five days after his 17th birthday during the Iwo Jima battle in World War II; he was a Marine for three years. [6]
17 - Mendelssohn composed his Octet, widely considered the best of its genre. He had already written 12 string symphonies by age 14.
17 - Young Tom Morris won the 1868 Open Championship, and remains the youngest ever winner of a major golf championship. He went on to win again in 1869, 1870 and 1872; effectively four consecutive victories as the Open was not contested in 1871.[11][12][13]
17 - Pele scored six goals in four games in the 1958 World Cup, including perhaps the finest goal ever in the finals, leading Brazil to the championship.[14]
17 - Malala Yousafzai became the youngest ever recipient of a Nobel Prize in 2014. Her Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi. Malala was barely 11 years old when she began championing girls' education in Pakistan, writing a blog (Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl) which chronicled her hope to keep going to school and her fears for the future of the province of Swat. She was critically injured in a failed assassination attempt on Oct. 9, 2012, when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head.[15][16]
18 - Lila Rose, a UCLA student who had been homeschooled, goes undercover and does a stinging expose of an abortion clinic.[17]
18 - Shawn Goldsmith from Long Island has earned all 121 merit badges offered by the Boy Scouts.[18]
18 - Mary Shelley writes the famous novel Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus), later published when she was 21.
18 - Garry Kasparov, considered the greatest chess player ever, won the U.S.S.R. championship.
18 - Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Amateur Championship at the TPC at Sawgrass, becoming the youngest winner ever.[19]
18 - Herschel Walker gains an average of 5.9 yards per carry as running back for the Georgia Bulldogs, the only player to rank in the top 3 for the Heisman Trophy 3 times.[20]
19 - Captain Albert Ball, VC, MC, DSO & 2 bars, commences his career as a fighter pilot. By the time he is killed, aged 20, in 1917, he has become one of the First World War's greatest air aces, accounting for at least 44 German aircraft.
19 - was the average age of front-line US service personnel fighting to defend democracy in Indochina during the Vietnam War.
19 - Evariste Galois applies group theory to the insolvability of polynomial equations, before his death in a duel at age 20.
19 - Babe Ruth began playing for the Boston Red Sox, in what would become the greatest baseball career in history.
19 - Kirani James won the first Olympic gold medal for the small nation of Grenada, as the first non-American to run 400 meters in less than 44 seconds.
19 - John D. Rockefeller starts a new company, turning an enormous profit in its first year, and became the most influential businessman in history.[21]
19 - Steve Jobs begins collaborating in electronics with Steve Wozniak[22] in electronics, and developed the personal computer within two years.
19 - Mark Zuckerberg commercializes Facebook, which later became the leading social networking system on the internet.
19 - Jim Ryun broke the world record for running the mile.
19 - Bill Gates co-founds Microsoft.
19 - Pete Sampras wins his first of 14 Grand Slam titles, at the U.S. Open
19 - Ginny Thrasher wins the first gold medal for the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in a firearms competition.[23]
20 - Willis Carrier invents modern air conditioning.
20 - Trevor Bayne, who had been homeschooled, became the youngest driver to win a Daytona 500 race.
20 - Tim Tebow, who had been homeschooled, became the first sophomore and also the youngest person to win the Heisman Trophy.[24]
(add more, sorted by age and then alphabetically)
Gallery of American Heroes
Gallery of British Heroes
Top 10 Child Prodigies
↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2006/mar/30/science/sci-brain30
↑ Mark apparently referred to himself as "νεανίσκος" in Mark 14:51, which translates as "youth" or "young man" according to Strong's.
↑ http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/History/Joan_of_Arc.shtml
↑ https://www.chess.com/article/view/bobby-fischers-breakthrough-the-game-of-the-century
↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/events/1996/olympics/daily/july25/flashback.html
↑ http://www.ripleys.com/weird/daily-dose-of-weird-wtf-blog/unbelievable-but-true/charles-schults-snoopy-was-first-a-believe-it-or-not/
↑ Some estimate that the completion date was 1615 - [1]
↑ Two witnesses, Craig Scott and Joshua Lapp, confirmed a question-and-answer confrontation; others said Cassie was praying when murdered.[3]
↑ Mary's exact age is not known, but she was old enough to marry under Jewish law and was almost certainly a teenager.[4]
↑ http://golf.about.com/od/progolftours/qt/youngmajorm.htm
↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0006/
↑ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jul/18/young-tom-morris-open-golf
↑ https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6209210/pele-1958-world-cup-sweden/
↑ http://www.people.com/article/malala-yousafzai-wins-nobel-prize
↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24379018
↑ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2007/may/07051504
↑ Boy Scout Earns All 121 Merit Badges AP, December 30, 2008
↑ http://www.infoplease.com/spot/tigertime1.html
↑ https://athlonsports.com/college-football/college-football-all-time-rushing-leaders
↑ http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Rockefeller-John-D.html
↑ http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/jobs.htm
↑ https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/rio-2016/2016/08/06/teen-shooter-ginny-thrasher-wins-usa-first-gold-medal/88331356/
↑ Subsequently, in 2009, a 19-year-old won the trophy also.
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Italy bankrolls special coffee production in Mozambique
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January 28, 2019 to 16:18
APA-Maputo (Mozambique)
Italy has approved a €5.8 million donation to support the commercial development of specialty coffee on the island of Ibo in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado, APA can report on Monday.
The support will be channelled through the United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNIDO as part Italyºs three projects in Africa and the Middle East.
Under the Mozambique project, UNIDO will partner with Illycaffe and the Ernesto Illy Foundation to develop the Ibo specialty coffee.
According to UNIDO, similar efforts were already successfully undertaken in Ethiopia, also with Italian funding.
Giorgio Marrapodi of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said in a media statement to APA that "the decision was taken because of UNIDOs competence in analysing and upgrading agribusiness value chains which, he argued, is essential to improve the performance of developing countries, especially through public-private partnerships."
Ibo Island is in the Quirimbas archipelago and forms part of the Quirimbas National Park.
It is home to the coffea racemose loureiro plant whose beans produce a floral coffee noted for its low levels of caffeine.
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GREE Forum > Forums > Kingdom Age > General > Profitable Raid Buildings?
View Full Version : Profitable Raid Buildings?
1) Characters with >10k gold.
Anything else thats worthy of attacking? I don't see many high dollar buildings with >1 improvement values too often.
I was curious how that worked. So if you raid a lvl 4 or higher silo/tavern you get more gold even if they have their gold vaulted?
The best are the 24 hour + collection buildings.... Silo, leatherworker, and the massive 2-day one (can't remmeber name, it looks like a giant doughnut).
I would avoid attacking people directly. The best thing about raiding silos (for example) is that you only get (spend) 1 experience to raid it. Direct attacks on players can sometimes grant you 9 experience. People are sometimes happy pulling in 500g from a battle that gave 9 exp, when they shouldn't be. 55 gold per experience is terrible, considering level 3 silo raids are 174g/exp. Level 5 silo raids are ~370g/exp.
Also you gotta be a lot stronger to directly attack someone, because if you take a lot of their gold, they could swell their ally count and pick on you for a while. So you'd better be DARN strong - able to beat someone with double-allies (if you have a lot of unprotected gold yourself).
@Futon: Correct, the vault cannot protect the gold in silos (any building) from raids.
there is nothing worse than seeing someone with 10k gold, attacking them, gaining 9 exp, and finding out that they have it all vaulted cuz they camped super hard!
When their buildings are up for grabs, it means they haven't collected yet. So they cant vault if they didnt collect, so you raid!
Raiding is not taking money directly from a person, it is taking money from the building.
Guys this sounds like a lot of hard work. My experience is that most silos and buildings are well and truly raided most of the time, especially beyond level 20. You need to search through dozens upon dozens of rivals to find the good stuff.
Personally I prefer just to unload a full bar of energy on PvE, pickup cash and loot, and then go back and read the forums and watch the news. So much less stressful.
for the average punter, this is not going to be a reliable form of income, and just a bit of cream on top if you do accidently find a silo.
You are obviously free to do whatever you want, but you are picking up really low gains on the experience points you are aquiring if you do that.
Every point of EXP I gain I want to either get a loot (chance at loot), or get such an extraordinary gold/exp ratio that makes up for it. To me, 170g/exp is good enough at my level. I don't even attack level 2 silos, only level 3. If I don't spend my stamina, not a big deal to me. The last thing I want though is to spend stamina, gain 9 experience and maybe 300 gold. That is a pretty terrible way to "spend" your experience.
Of course I will do what I want dude - you don't need to tell me that haha. The post is for the benefit of others so that they know that picking up silos is hard work and you will have to go through endless rivals list to find that good stuff.
Well, I left my camping to do some pvp which was quite fun. At the end I got around 4000g. One player alone gave me over 2000g. I know that some players can try to attack me back but the gap between my stats and theirs were so big that I don't worry at all. I need to take advantage of doing pvp at the low levels because later on gets to hard to find good payouts.
Yeah PVP at low levels is profitable and good fun. Sometimes I will hit strong players once to test my strength and attack skill points. A lot of gem players hit me too, usually just once. Then we have a good laugh about it and end up allying with each other.
What level are you on MW Freekizh?
I am on 39. I don't play MW much anymore - I really liked it at the beginning racking up about 4000 PvP attacks, but now I just strictly do the events, cant do two games. Taking a different approach in KA - did lotsa PvP at beginning, very little in middle levels, and will do heavy PvP at level 45+ onwards. I agree with you that's very hard two play two games at the same time, unless you have the time which I don't. I'm level 91 at MW and I'm camping at the moment to build my defence before entering the shark zone. As I'm not playing there too much I m having more time to build my empire here.
It's true Freekizh! Many players are far ahead over there. Besides, there are so many gold players. Here, we can use the experience to have a good start and avoid the mistakes made over there.
Freekizh - how many skill points do you have in hero Strength? I think my skill points are too optimized for PvP - I don't 1 or even 2 hit many monsters except on the earliest maps.
I think we need our thread for OT. Let's bring back our "where we're you?".
Currently my Hero strength is 33. I have put points in both attack and defense.
The best monsters will be 2 or 3 hits. If you can get a 3 hit monster down to two, I think thats the best balance. Dont worry about it too much.
Its not a big difference as you think. Armor and weapons represent around 40-50% of your Hero attack. So if you were on my level, I may have only double your Hero attack.
Thats why I am recommending to upgrade your Hero armor and weapons promptly by mining later maps before continuing to quest.
Yeah HK has not been keeping up with her KA duties LOL it's because of most of social players are over there while most here are still learning how to play the game.
I couldn't agree with this more. I'm not into all the calculation aspects of the game like others, but your experience points/gold ratio will get significantly better if you up your hero's weapons. You'll get more gold prior to leveling up because you will be able to kill the monster with less hits. I prefer to attack these creatures until I get the hero weapon, then go back and do the quests.


It occurs to me that I've never posted the s_d-related icons I've made all together, instead of just in comments here and there. Most of them were created around the time of the LJ suspension, inspired by things s_d-ers said or things that were said about scans_daily.
Feel free to steal, no credit needed.
I am really having some trouble making my layout not look like crap, people.
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Eight? EIGHT? Too old! Go home, Grandma! Oh, I am so sorry, little girl. I must go to anger management class. Stupid, WORTHLESS, anger management class! I HATE IT SO MUCH! I spit on it!


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About The Cost
About Questions
About The Benefits
Weekly Accountability
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When I decided I wanted to get sober, I was one of the lucky ones—I got to go to inpatient treatment. So, when I had finally had enough of being sick, broke, and alone, I called up my parents, and they pulled some strings and got me into treatment. But when I got there, something weird happened. I kept getting told to do things—get out of bed, make my bed, show up to group. I also got called out when I misbehaved. It was all pretty crazy—I mean, how dare anyone question me or tell me what to do. After all, I had made a success of my life so far, flunking out of college, getting fired from jobs, lying, cheating, stealing, using drugs, and ending up in treatment. It was my first taste of accountability.
Learning the Truth
As it turns out, I didn't have things together as much as I would have liked to believe. Believe it or not, I was pretty much a mess of a person who was barely capable of surviving on his own. After years of dysfunction and drug addiction, it shouldn't have come as such a surprise. Being locked in a treatment center with a bunch other people in early recovery definitely forced me to get sober— but I had a long way to go when it came to fixing my other problems.
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I've always been an insecure person. In fact, it played a major role in my life before, during, and after addiction, but that's a story for another time. Whenever someone would hold me accountable for anything, it would bite right down to the core of my insecurity. It would make me feel like I wasn't good enough, or like the other person was out to get me. I couldn't handle it. I would either shut down or bite back. But in order to change, I would have to learn to take criticism, accept it, and make changes—and learn to give it to others as well.
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To be honest, there wasn't any big turning point or spiritual awakening for me. I didn't have a "flash of light" moment or anything like that. But the changes started to take hold, slowly, over time. I started listening to others and making changes where I could. One thing that really helped me was learning to accept that I didn't know everything—that maybe, just maybe, other people might know a thing or two and have something to offer me. And I believe that's when I truly began to recover.
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Evgeny Kandilarov is a Bulgarian historian and an associate professor at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Japanese Studies Department. He received a Sylff fellowship in 2003 as a PhD student at Sofia University. Main areas of interest include modern and contemporary Bulgarian and world political, economic, and cultural history, focusing on the Cold War period, the Cold War in East Asia, Bulgaria and East Asian countries during the Cold War, the Sino-Soviet split and changes in the Cold War paradigm, and Japanese postwar development. He is teaching courses on: Bulgaria and Japan (Political, Economic and Cultural Relations); Japanese Modern and Contemporary Diplomacy and International relations; Japanese Technological and Innovation Development; Japanese Culture. Evgeniy Kandilarov is author of the books: East Asia and Bulgaria. Sofia 2016, "East-West"Publishing House ; Japan – Economy, Technologies, Innovations and Management. Sofia 2012, "East-West"Publishing House (together with Prof. Nako Stefanov); Bulgaria and Japan. From The Cold War To the XXI Century. Sofia, 2009 "Damyan Yakov"Publishing House. In Sept 2015 Dr. Kandilarov received Certificate of Honor from the Ambassador of Japan in Bulgaria for contribution to introducing Japan in Bulgaria as an academic researcher, lecturer and author of books and papers.


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The Jamaica Tallawahs are unbeaten in the tournament up until now. They have dominated the first three games they have played thanks to some truly amazing individual performances and a team that has gained in confidence with each outing. It would have faced the Guyana Amazon Warriors just a few hours before this match against the Trinbago Knight Riders.
The last time these two teams met, the Trinbago Knight Riders seemed to have the game in the bag before Andre Russell engineered one of the greatest comebacks in T20 cricket. The Knight Riders now have the opportunity to return the favor in Lauderhill, Florida.
A confident victory against the St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots in the last game showed how much the Jamaica Tallawahs had improved since their first game. Runs from almost all their big guns have meant that the team does not have to depend on Andre Russell too much.
We fully expect the Jamaica Tallawahs to come out swinging in this match as well. They know that they are going up against one of the strongest batting sides in the tournament and that a par total may not be enough.
Kennar Lewis and Glenn Phillips at the top of the order form a very dangerous opening pair. Lewis has been sent with a clear mandate of swinging at every delivery while Phillips can take a little more time.
Andre McCarthy at 3 is also a very aggressive batsman while Taylor, Russell, and Powell form a breathtaking lower middle order. There is power from the very top till the last batsman in the side. Everyone is capable of clearing the sixes and this is why we believe that Ross Taylor's role is going to be crucial.
He could be the one batsman that keeps his head while the others around him are going ballistic. We are backing Rovman Powell to have a very big night in this tournament and he could choose Lauderhill to be the venue for such an inning.
The Jamaica Tallawahs have a very good bowling unit as well thanks to the emergence of Oshane Thomas. A genuinely quick bowler that is not afraid to go for wickets has added a lot to the bowling side. Alongside proven quality spinners like Adam Zampa and Imad Wasim, he could prove to a handful for the opposition.
Krishmar Santokie and Andre Russell are also very capable of winning matches with their bowling too.
K Lewis, GD Phillips, Ross Taylor, David Miller, SR Taylor, Rovman Powell, Andre Russell, SI Wasim, Krishmar Santokie, Adam Zampa, Oshane Thomas.
The pre-tournament favorites have received a bit of a wakeup call after losing two matches on the trot. They won their last game against the St. Lucia Stars by the skin of their teeth and come into this match with a lot on their minds.
Trinbago Knight Riders have struggled to get their bowlers firing at the same time. Ali Khan has done very well in terms of picking wickets but he also went for nearly fifty runs in the last match. Sunil Narine has had a quiet start to the tournament and Dwayne Bravo an absolutely horrible one.
The tactics being employed by Dwayne Bravo have also been a little strange. Scantlebury-Searles bowled his full quota of overs in the last game while Fawad Ahmed and Shannon Gabriel (both of whom who were having a better night) did not.
It took an unbelievable pair of innings from Darren Bravo and Brendon McCullum for the Kight Riders to chase down the total set by the Stars in the last match, and that is something they do not want to be banking on anytime soon again.
Thankfully, the batting is absolutely loaded with run scorers for the Trinbago Knight Riders. Chris Lynn has not gotten into the six-hitting fest up until now and it is only a matter of time before he does. Colin Munro is in excellent form, Brendon McCullum and Darren Bravo played the innings of their lives, and Denesh Ramdin has been very impressive in the chances he has got as well.
We think it would be much better for the Knight Riders to promote Denesh Ramdin up the order, maybe even open the batting in place of Sunil Narine.
The short boundaries at the Turf Ground in Lauderhill is going to ensure plenty of big hits and both sides will need every single run that they can get.
SP Narine, Chris Lynn, Colin Munro, Brendon McCullum, Darren Bravo, Denesh Ramdin, Dwayne Bravo, J Searles, Ali Khan, Fawad Ahmed, Khary Pierre.
The weather forecast in Lauderhill is pretty bad for match day. Scattered thunderstorms and showers throughout the day have been predicted. It would be a real shame for cricket fans in the US if these two top teams are prevented from showcasing their skills without the weather being a factor.
The pitch is expected to be flat, a little slow, but good for batting. A score of around 180 should be considered par.
The Jamaica Tallawahs have plenty of momentum going their way at the moment. They are going to be a tough side to beat, irrespective of the result that their match against the Guyana Amazon Warriors produces.
Back the Jamaica Tallawahs to win.