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The Year of Living Disney
Chris & Minnie & Amy
When I first came to Los Angeles three years ago and moved in with Amy, we briefly discussed going to Disneyland. We didn't do anything about it because Disneyland is a pricey venture, even then edging up to $100 a person for a day of trying to cram in as many rides as you could tolerate without damage to your musculoskeletal structure. I had been once before, when I was 16, and had found it slightly disappointing, in part because (I'm really giving away my age here) I had been to the New York World's Fair the previous two years running and, as man-made high-tech spectacles went, it had blown away any amusement park on earth. (I had also seen several Disneyland attractions there, like the talking Abe Lincoln and the Carousel of Progress, before they even made it to Anaheim.) And long before I arrived at Amy's house, Disneyland had been eclipsed by Disney World, the sprawling amusement park mega-complex in Orlando that Anaheim lacked the space to support.
But for all that, my dream of going to Disneyland and genuinely exploring it, as if it were a different continent and I was a tourist with a Eurorail pass, had been with me since childhood. One of my earliest memories is of watching the then-black-and-white television show Disneyland on ABC devote an entire episode to a virtual tour of (or half hour advertisement for) the newly opened park and I knew then, before I was old enough to read or write, that it was the main place on earth I wanted to be. Unfortunately, I wasn't even on the same coast of North America at the time. More than being a different continent, it might as well have been on a different planet.
Last year, for her birthday, I gave Amy (and myself) annual passes to Disneyland Resort, the current name for the entertainment and hotel complex that includes Disneyland Park, Disney's California Adventure and Downtown Disney. The annual passes, only available to Southern Californians, cost about as much as two visits to the resort without a pass. We activated the passes on August 25, 2011, and during the following year visited the park approximately 16 times, consciously trying to see every one of the attractions, scrambling madly to be present at special events like fireworks, parades and the uber-spectacles like Fantasmic and my favorite of all, The World of Color.
This is really part one of this post because I can't describe our entire year in a single blog entry. Disneyland is compact compared to Disney World, but it still contains multitudes. It's been packed so cleverly into its limited space that at first it seemed like we were exploring a fourth dimensional pretzel, which looped back on itself in a way that at first seems baffling but then becomes almost intuitively navigable. Over our Year of Living Disney we grew to know it so intimately that we could probably walk through it blindfolded. I'll be back to write more about it later. Here are some of the things that I could devote entire posts to.
The Animation Academy, a tiny building where you can talk to Crush the surfer-dude Turtle (from Finding Nemo), watch a spinning Zoetrope machine that animates statues of the characters from Toy Story using a strobe light (I may link to video of this later), and learn to draw pictures of Disney characters like Pluto the dog:
Pluto as drawn by Amy
Or you can simply sit in the Academy's lobby and watch scenes and storyboards from Disney animated features projected on a 360-degree circuit of screens:
Disneyland at Christmas. I may have mentioned elsewhere that I'm a Christmas freak. Visiting Disneyland during the Christmas season is, for me, like having ice cream on top of cake on top of ice cream with fudge and peanut butter on top. It makes the child inside me (and the larger one on the outside) do virtual somersaults of happiness (and by "virtual" I really do mean virtual, since I'm not up to real ones any more). Here's Sleeping Beauty's Castle during the transformation they do several times a night during December:
It's a Small World. Possibly the most ridiculed ride at Disneyland, largely because of that simple and incessant theme song, It's a Small World is an epic showcase for the 1960s designs of Disney artist Mary Blair and its facade is an intricate exercise in neo-Rococo excess, especially at Christmas:
In fact, It's a Small World goes through more Christmas transformations than any other part of Disneyland:
Club 33. Club 33 is a private dining establishment commissioned by Walt Disney shortly before he died, intended as a place where he could entertain important guests, and was to be the only place in Disneyland that would serve alcohol. (Walt was a teetotaler.) Now you can get alcoholic beverages in both California Adventure and Downtown Disney, but never mind. What's important about Club 33 is that it's hidden away behind an unmarked door in New Orleans Square and you and I can't get in. It's for people who are very important to Disneyland or people who know somebody who's very important to Disneyland. We knew somebody who knew somebody who was very important to Disneyland and made it in by the skin of our Mickey Mouse ears. Here's the main dining room, with the top of our friend's head (Hi, George!) visible in the foreground:
Club 33 is expensive, elegant and historic. I blew nearly a month's grocery budget on one meal. I don't regret it. I don't think I'll ever go there again, but I'm ecstatic that I had the chance to go there once.
World of Color. I've saved the best for last. The World of Color, in the Paradise Pier section of Disney's California Adventure, is presented at least once a night, usually twice. It's the most spectacular manmade thing I've ever seen that existed in the same portion of physical reality as I did rather than just being a picture. It's a water show, which is like saying that Moby Dick is a fish story. It involves colored, dancing fountains choreographed to music from Disney films and used as projection screens for scenes from those same films. (There are also occasional towers of fire.) It is, in other words, indescribable and what I just said only vaguely approximated it. I could spend the rest of my evenings there watching the World of Color and count it a life well spent. It evokes our common cultural memories of Disney cartoons while transmuting them into a brand new art form, one that could only exist in a place where people with excessive talent are given excessive amounts of money to design things that are excessively entertaining. I deeply love it. Here's a glimpse of it:
There's more, like the cleverly revamped 3D Star Wars-based attraction Star Tours and Minnie Mouse's dishwasher, where you can see real-life cartoon dishes soaking in bubbling real-life water. I'll probably talk about those eventually too. I remember a time when it was hip to deride Disney and use the term "Mickey Mouse" as an all-purpose word to suggest cheap gimcrackery. Disneyland fell on hard times for a few years when the management tried to run on it on a budget, but now that the brilliant John Lasseter of Pixar has become the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering and revived — nay, improved — the parks, those days are pretty much past. Our annual passes have expired now so we're going to take some time off from Disneyland, but I don't think we can stay away forever. Now that we've seen everything at least once, I think we'd like to concentrate on revisiting the things we loved, like Pirates of the Caribbean and Toy Story Midway Mania.
In the meantime, I'll talk about the year that just ended. You're welcome to stick around and listen.
Chris & Mickey & Amy
By Christopher Lampton • Posted in amusement parks, christmas, Club 33, disney, Disneyland, It's a Small World, movies, The Animation Academy, Walt Disney, World of Color	• Tagged amusement parks, Animation Academy, christmas, Club 33, disney, disneyland, It's a Small World, movies, Walt Disney, World of Color
Closing the Loop, Spoiler Free
I walked into the new science fiction movie Looper knowing only two pieces of plot information: The first was that it was about time travel. The second is one that I wouldn't dream of telling you because, though it is technically a relatively minor part of the plot, it is still more information than you should know before the film begins. Looper is a movie that throws off startling nuggets of exposition and action like a downed electric wire throws off sparks and the fewer of those sparks you see coming at you in advance, the more shocking, powerful and emotionally affecting they will be when they hit you in the theater. If you haven't seen a trailer for the film yet, count yourself lucky and avoid any that may be available to you. If you haven't read a review, don't. You only need to know that it gets an 84 on Metacritic, which is extraordinarily high for a science fiction film. And if someone tries to tell you anything about it, tell them to shut up. If they don't cooperate, strike them. Forcibly.
I had the good fortune to see Looper nearly cold, with only those two aforementioned pieces of information. (You'll learn the second one about a third of the way into the film.) Amy, who I talked into seeing it with me even though she's fundamentally allergic to both science fiction movies and action-oriented films, knew even less. Both of us watched the movie with our mouths agape as it executed one of the most sophisticated and successfully deployed science fiction premises I've ever seen outside the pages of a Hugo- or Nebula-winning novel. Here, with no spoilers whatsoever, are the things I loved about it:
The usual stuff: brilliant casting, skilled directing, gorgeous cinematography, perfectly timed editing.
The trust that the film puts in its audience's ability to understand a premise so complex and steeped in the possibilities and paradoxes of time travel that it would normally only be found in written sf.
Its willingness to use this premise to generate almost continuous movement throughout the film that never feels like action for the sake of action but always feels like action for the sake of plot and character.
Its willingness to follow that premise to a conclusion that is ingenious, moving and structurally, self-referentially perfect.
Looper is that rare action film that will leave tears in your eyes at the end without making you feel the slightest bit manipulated. The tears will come both from your feelings about the characters and from the sheer aesthetic joy of seeing a movie where every decision made by writer/director Rian Johnson feels right on the deepest level. And, if you're like me, the tears will also come from the odd but dependable thrill of seeing a drama in which two characters are in conflict and yet you feel compassion for both of them, not because they are necessarily good people (though they are not bad people) but because you understand why each is attempting to do the thing they feel they need to do. It's a situation with no obvious satisfactory resolution and yet Johnson finds one that in retrospect feels inevitable. Essentially, Johnson ends the movie by closing the loop. That phrase will mean nothing to you until you see the film, and then it will mean everything.
Amy, the non-sf, non-action-movie fan, loved it as much as I did. You will too. Go see it. Before anybody tells you anything about it.
By Christopher Lampton • Posted in action, Bruce Willis, drama, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Looper, movie review, movies, review, Rian Johnson, science fiction, Uncategorized	• Tagged action, Bruce Willis, drama, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Looper, movie review, movies, review, Rian Johnson, science fiction


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Heathrow Airport's $50 Million Bad Weather Investment Pays Off
Christopher Jasper, Bloomberg
- Mar 01, 2018 1:00 pm
A light dusting of snow is usually enough to bring the UK to a total standstill. In that sense, keeping Heathrow open is a pretty good achievement, even if it did cost the airport $50 million.
— Patrick Whyte
As the worst snowfall in years blocks roads and shuts down much of Britain's rail network, there is at least one bright spot for travelers — London's once notoriously weather-sensitive Heathrow airport has managed to keep its runways open and flights operating.
Europe's busiest hub, which closed for four days in 2010 after just 90 minutes of snow, has so far ridden out the worst of the weather system dubbed "The Beast from the East" with only a handful of flight cancellations to other airports closed Thursday by the blizzard.
Key to Heathrow's improved resilience is 37 million pounds ($50 million) of investment in snow-clearing and de-icing equipment purchased after clients including British Airways criticized management over shutdowns when other airports were coping. Heathrow said it's optimistic that the harshest of this week's weather may have passed, in southeast England at least.
"There's more wintry weather forecast for today but our operation is much more able to cope than in 2010, when people were stuck in the airport for days," spokesman Weston Macklem said.
Gatwick Cancellations
Heathrow worked with airlines to consolidate a few hundred flights on short-haul routes in order to build slack into the schedule should the weather quickly deteriorate. The hub normally has about 1,300 services a day.
London Gatwick airport, Britain's second-busiest, canceled about 57 of 352 scheduled departures, again mainly due to closures elsewhere. The airport has also invested heavily in anti-icing gear.
Stansted, north of London and the biggest base for Ryanair Holdings Plc, was "fully open," though is bracing for heavier falls on Friday, when managers have been called in to assist operations staff. It closed briefly Wednesday so that snow could be cleared, but delays were minimal.
London City Airport, favored by business travelers to London's financial district, cleared its runways overnight and was also open Thursday. Terminals in northern Britain — where up to 31 centimeters (12 inches) of snow fell — were harder hit. Glasgow airport, serving Scotland's largest city, will be closed until at least 3 p.m. and Edinburgh was also shut, saying road conditions meant it lacked the "critical mass of staff" to operate securely.
With costly snow-removal gear needed only every five years or so thanks to Britain's maritime climate, Heathrow had held off from major investment in anti-icing gear until the 2010 shutdown, which stranded thousands before Christmas, cost British Airways 50 million pounds ($69 million) in lost earnings and led then Chief Executive Officer Colin Matthews to forgo his annual bonus.
Following further disruption in January 2013, when 400 flights, or a third of the daily schedule were canceled, Heathrow changed tack and embarked on a major spending program. The airport lacks flexibility because it only has two runways.
A fleet of 130 vehicles bought at a cost of 11 million pounds includes 40 tractors and gators with front-mounted plows, 15 runway sweepers, nine taxiway de-icers and three snow blowers. The airport also spent 10 million pounds on de-icer storage facilities.
One blot for travelers using Heathrow: the Heathrow Express surface-rail
service, advertised as the fastest way to reach the hub, was forced to close
Thursday morning amid safety concerns due to snow at its Paddington Station terminus. The Tube subway link was still running to the airport, according to Transport for London.
This article was written by Christopher Jasper from Bloomberg and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to legal@newscred.com.
Tags: airline innovation, airports, flight delays, heathrow, snow
Photo Credit: A plough clears snow from Heathrow Airport in January, 2013. The airport spent $50 million on snow-clearing and de-icing equipment. Associated Press
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Drs. Keith Wright and Gerardo Carcamo with South Texas Surgeons have been instrumental in the application of new technology for minimally invasive surgical procedures, ensuring hospitals provide the best available equipment for patient care. In bariatric surgery, stapling devices are critical to ensure that the stomach and intestines are divided and reconnected safely without complications such as leaking or bleeding. Drs. Wright and Carcamo adopted the use of the Covidien (now Medtronic) iDrive powered stapler at the Nix Hospital in 2015. Impressed with the quality of the staple line, they have performed over 1,000 procedures without staple line reinforcements, and with complication rates lower than what is frequently reported nationally.
"This limits the amount of foreign material implanted and lowers the cost of the procedure, which can be passed on to the patient," says Dr. Wright. Other hospital systems in San Antonio have since made the device available.
Again, at the Nix Hospital, Drs. Wright and Carcamo are the first surgeons in San Antonio to utilize the latest generation of stapling devices, Medtronic's Signia stapling system. This system employs Adaptive Firing technology that measures the required firing force based on tissue thickness, and adjusts the stapling speed accordingly. This provides real-time feedback to the surgeon while freeing up the opposite hand, without distracting from the operative field.
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Will NATO's "Operation Atlantic Resolve" Be The Trigger For WW3 With Russia?
TOPICS:Brandon TurbevilleNATORussia
By Brandon Turbeville
As concern over the last week of Obama's tenure as President continues to mount and as tensions with Russia edge upwards more and more by the day, the United States and NATO are doing everything they can to signal that they are ready and willing for World War Three. After months of falsely accusing the Russian government of "war crimes," "crimes against humanity," and empire expansion simply for killing Western-backed terrorists in Syria, the U.S. government and corporate media followed up with months more of claims of "Russian hacking" even insinuating that the Russians "hacked the U.S. elections." This was, of course, after over a year of claiming Russia shot down civilian airliners, invaded Ukraine, imprisons gays, and has no rights for women.
Over the course of the crisis in Ukraine, the U.S. has repeatedly moved troops into threatening positions close to the Russian border. Now, however, one of the biggest pushes yet has materialized in Eastern Europe, right on Russia's doorstep in Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Dubbed, Operation Atlantic Resolve, the massive NATO troop deployment is an obvious act of troop placement in order to prepare for an actual ground assault on Russia itself. At best, it is an incredibly foolish act of bullying and intimidation. At worst, it is preparation for a nuclear holocaust.
As the International Business Times summarizes
US tanks and armoured vehicles along with over 3,000 US soldiers begin arriving in Poland on Thursday, (12 January). The deployment, which falls under Operation Atlantic Resolve, is the largest exercise of US troops in Europe in decades.
Hundreds of armoured vehicles and over 80 main battle tanks have already arrived in Germany and are reportedly being moved by road and rail to Eastern Europe.
Operation Atlantic Resolve is a mission to show Moscow that Washington is committed to protecting its allies in Eastern Europe. It was launched in the aftermath of Russia annexing Crimea, which triggered fears that Moscow could move to make a similar land grab in Eastern Europe.
The US Armoured Brigade will also reportedly conduct military exercises in the Baltics. The exercise is a part of President Barack Obama's plan to ease tensions among Nato allies who are concerned about Russian aggression. According to reports, the forces will rotate every nine months.
Tanks and other materials will eventually be stationed in Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Hungary.
The Duran also describes the massive troop deployments in the following way:
Self-propelled Howitzers and hundreds of other armored fighting vehicles were landing on the shores of northern Germany. To those who had at least one eye on the news, it was like watching the US invasion at Normandy all over again. Over the last few days, some 2,800 pieces of military hardware and 4,000 troops have arrived at the port in Bremerhaven.
The delivery of US Abrams tanks, Paladin artillery, and Bradley fighting vehicles marks a new phase of America's continuous presence in Europe, which will now be based on a nine-month rotation.
Operation Atlantic Resolve – as it is being called – is the newest phase in adding and keeping a US armored brigade on the European NATO front and will operate on a nine-month rotational basis. With its headquarters based in Germany, the brigade will first enter Poland and then disperse throughout seven countries from Estonia to Bulgaria; a military front much closer to the Kremlin in Moscow than was setup during the Cold War with the former USSR.
Since the announcement, Putin has had no choice but to counter the military move along Russia's borders.
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Great Britain will also be joining the military surge – sending fighter jets to the Black Sea and a battalion of troops, tanks and light armor to Estonia later in the spring. Those troops with be supported by French and Danish troops while Germany will be bolstering troops and sending tanks into Lithuania.
Other counties participating in the "Enhanced Forward Presence" are Canada, Romania, the Netherlands, Albania, Croatia, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia and Luxembourg. The US will also be relocating its Stryker Unit from Germany to Poland to join the vastly expanded military presence.
It should be clear enough by now that the U.S. is by no means acting defensively in Ukraine, Syria, Europe or anywhere else. The U.S. government is playing a very dangerous game that could very well end the lives of the overwhelming majority of the planet. Thankfully, Putin has proven to be a cooler head than any leader in the NATO infrastructure and his calm responses are most likely the only reason the world has not been incinerated by now. The American people had better start paying attention to the aggressive posturing of their government and begin speaking out before it is too late.
Brandon Turbeville – article archive here – is the author of seven books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, and The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President. Turbeville has published over 850 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville's radio show Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. His website is BrandonTurbeville.com He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.
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8 Comments on "Will NATO's "Operation Atlantic Resolve" Be The Trigger For WW3 With Russia?"
Archie1954 | January 17, 2017 at 12:07 pm | Reply
Unfortunately the great majority of Americans' ignorance is only exceeded by their lack of intelligence! They couldn't care less that they are marching to oblivion.
Andrew Pate | January 18, 2017 at 9:56 pm | Reply
Unfortunately they have been told so many times before that they are exceptional and most of them believe it. And the Polly's love to warm up the war drums to stir the heart.
Vietnam should have taught them a lesson but the exceptional ones still like to kill in someone else's country but next time if WW3 gets going that wont happen.
djklek | January 17, 2017 at 1:57 pm | Reply
When one gets involved in business in Georgia, one enters the sphere naturally controlled by Russia! So it's aggressive. Putin has never shown any intention towards the European or American space! He only claims to control the sphere around him. It's not aggressive! It is normal for Russia to defend itself.
Russia is a country-martyr since the Mongols and the invasions of the Poles, Napoleon, and the Germans and Charles the III. She never assaulted anyone! But she has always been assaulted! It is normal for Russian society to develop a will to guarantee its security and create this glacis around its territory! I maintain that Russia is a victim-country!" They will at all costs, all costs defend themselves and the Mother Land …
Zaphod Braden | January 17, 2017 at 3:58 pm | Reply
NATO wants to take on RUSSIA?! (and maybe China)
NATO cannot beat ISIS-AlQueda-Taliban-AlNusra
NATO families will be raped & murdered as NATO Troops fight far from home.
NATO installations will be sabotaged by Refujihadi Invaders.
NATO Troops should turn their weapons on their ENEMIES that are betraying them.
NATO defeated itself by being invaded and overrun by the REFUJIHADIS from the wars NATO started but can't FINISH …………. THAT has to be a FIRST in all history.
lizzie dw | January 17, 2017 at 4:46 pm | Reply
Not gonna happen, unless the US neocons have a huge death wish. Russia will target Washington D.C. first, I think. All this deployment is just a bunch of hoo-wah. Trump can just send another ship to Bremerhaven and load all those tanks back on the ship and return them to the US. "Pull out, men", as they say in the old war movies. That will be that.
Ray | January 18, 2017 at 8:04 am | Reply
It seems that somebody has been told to create a major crisis for Trump to walk into. Think about how it's being seriously ramped up galore, just before he takes office. Hopefully, he has feelers out to Putin, to make sure that nothing kicks off before that time. And you're right Herbert, NATO (or is that an anagram for ATON?) the whole damn organisation should've been taken down after the USSR collapsed. It was there as a mirror of The Warsaw Pact union, so how come it's still going and even operating outside of Europe, slaughtering people and putting nations into mayhem? Odd that, eh? (not).
Herbert Dorsey | January 17, 2017 at 8:48 pm | Reply
The reason for all this military posturing by NATO is to make people think they are necessary. NATO should have been disbanded after the collapse of the USSR. NATO has caused nothing but trouble ever since that time – in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Libya. It would be good if Trump disbands it entirely.
Botswana Jones | January 18, 2017 at 10:56 pm | Reply
Nobody's going to be speaking out. There's to many good shows streaming on Netflix and HBO. Besides speaking out is only going to get you put on the no fly list or shipped off to an internment camp. Don't worry Trump will fix it!
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We thought the pinnacle of new roofing technology had been reached with Elon Musk's new solar panels. However another recent development has still managed to surprise us.
DPR have years of experience in repairing and installing roofs in on both commercial and domestic properties. When we carry out a survey and give an estimate, thanks to our experience, it is always a very accurate estimate and we rarely deviate from it.
However, other firms do not have our experience, and have found a very novel way of working around this. There are two firms across the pond who are now using satellite imagery to give potential customers estimates of cost for having a new roof installed.
The two companies, Roofr, based in Toronto Canada, and Viirt in Portland Oregon, uses google maps, coupled with a very clever algorithm, to give very accurate estimates for a new roof installation.
The customer finds their home using google maps on each company's websites, they then draw an outline around their home and input whether it is shallow, medium or steep pitched. Some very clever things happen and then an estimate is presented. This estimate can then be floated to a few contractors, if they wish to proceed with the job.
The process is quite accurate, with contractor's bids usually coming in within 5% of the estimate amount, however it is far from perfect. If trees are obscuring the view, or if the roof in a particularly odd shape then the software can have trouble processing it.
It is a very interesting way of doing things, and Viirt has attracted $900,000 worth of investments from venture capitalists. However here at DPR we know that nothing beats our experience. All our roofing engineers have years of experience and are fully qualified. Something extremely surprising has to happen for us to revise our estimates.
If you would like to learn more about any of our estimates then just give us a call on 0113 335 0043.


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Surry Announces Honors Lists for Spring 2021
Surry Community College proudly announces the Spring Semester 2021 President's List and Dean's List.
Students qualifying for the President's List must be enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours of college level coursework and maintain a 3.8 grade point average for the semester with no final grade lower than a "C." Students on the President's List receive a congratulatory letter.
The Dean's List honors those students who achieve significant academic status in their classes. Students qualifying for the Dean's List must be enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours of college level coursework and maintain a 3.5 grade point average for the semester with no final grade lower than a "C." Students on the Dean's List will also receive a congratulatory letter.
Click links below to see full lists.
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Hello, and welcome to our church! The La Porte New Church has a wonderful history here in northwest Indiana. We were one of the first churches built in town, established in 1859, and my family and I are blessed to be here. We love the families in our church home, and we love the beliefs and values our church honors and celebrates.
Ours is an open-minded, discerning and progressive way of life. The essence of genuine Christian faith, as Christ said it Himself, is to "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and greatest Commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two Commandments." (Mtt. 22:37-40) It is up to us to choose to consciously do this in our relationships, at work, and in our community.
Seeing God's Word in this deeper way reveals the truth that real wisdom and spiritual character come gradually inside of us over many years. As we grow through learning God's ways and Commandments (applying them in the midst of our spiritual battles), choosing to cooperate with the Lord in overcoming our own selfish tendencies and weaknesses, we discover trust in Divine power more than our own. The Bible story is a reflection of a lifetime of spiritual growth (or regeneration). The building of heavenly character in our partnership with the Lord is what lasting salvation is about, which reveals what real wisdom is–that is, we are not really wise until we have come to love doing what is right, even in the middle of spiritual struggles. This also gives us an ability to understand and sympathize with the good desires of other people.
I am also a student of psychology, by the way, and I find significant help for us in our journeys of learning, growth, healing and transformation by being open to truth in all its dimensions.
If you are hungering to continue your own spiritual journey within a safe, loving and Christian-centered community, then I encourage you to come and say hello. You are welcome to visit with me at your convenience, or stop by on a Sunday morning for worship at 10:00 AM. I know it's a process to discover one's spiritual home, and your journey is honored here. We also have an adult Bible study just prior to worship, which starts at 9:00 AM, if you're interested.
I look forward to meeting you some time soon. You can best reach me by a phone call, by texting, or by email (listed below).


— David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and underlying meaning of Everyday Words.
Twists are one of the most satisfying and cleansing ways to tackle your asana practice. Allow your body to both release and engage powerfully with this energizing sequence. Expect plenty of creative twisting in your surya namaskars, alongside traditional revolved standing poses and core work that leads up to headstand and side crow. On getting twisted, between what is known and what is not known.


Few of us can still recall the aroma of freshly baked bread with homemade jam and the bells of the flocks of sheep and goats returning from pasture. Isn't it enticing to have the opportunity for a summer vacation where amidst the slow pace of traditional rural life, we can gain new knowledge of archaeology and contemporary practice of relaxation and also some tips on how to make the typical Bulgarian chutney for example? How does a British couple turn their dream of a rustic idyll into reality and how come they chose for this a small village in north-eastern Bulgaria?
"We wanted a different life", explains Chris. "We were living in the UK, and we knew we wanted to have a small farm. Initially, we volunteered in organic farming in France and we kept meeting people who've been to Bulgaria or were from Bulgaria, and they were all telling us how some of the traditional skills of small scale farming were preserved. So we decided to go and see for ourselves. We took a camper van trip and organized several volunteer placements. The first place we went was this village and we didn't leave".
"When we initially came to Bulgaria, we thought we would travel around the country and work on projects in different areas but we came here and we loved the lifestyle, we loved that it's so traditional, and that the people, the old women especially, still have the skills to do everything themselves, that they are so self-sufficient. They just took us under their wing, treated us like their own children, and taught us everything that we know. We have Maria who cooks for the guests and we have Stefan who takes people to the forest. We work with local people closely and we feel very much part of the community."
This year alone, Chris and Clair have already had guests from Romania, France, Wales, England, Germany, Japan, Chile, and the summer season has only just started. Some people come for a week, others just for a weekend, all seeking a retreat from the big city into the serenity of life in the slow lane, as Chris and Claire describe it. The place is still not so popular with Bulgarian guests, yet those who come say it brings back memories of their cloudless childhood days spent in the countryside with their grannies. But what makes the Wild Thyme different from similar eco-retreats in Bulgaria? Here you can join a one-day or even one-week archaeological tour to sites in the area and there are not few at all.
"My interest in Bulgarian archaeology started here", says Chris. "When I was working in England, my work was all based in British archaeology. But obviously since coming here we have both discovered the incredible archaeology that's here, particularly I think in this part of the country. Even though most of the tourist books we read focus on more famous sites like Kazanlak and Rhodopes, we did a lot of research as to what sites were close to us, within an hour's drive, and the most popular one is the Sveshtari Thracian tomb, a UNESCO world heritage site, but there's also a whole load of other Thracian remains there, and we go there quite often with people. Another one is the Madara Horseman. People coming from Britain also love to see the Roman archaeology because in Britain although it was part of the Roman Empire, the remains are nowhere near as well preserved as they are here. So we go to Nicopolis ad Istrum which is a well-preserved Roman town near Veliko Tarnovo, and also to Razgrad where there are good remains of the town of Abritus. People coming from the UK also love to see relics of the Communist monuments. The monument in Shumen is the most incredible monument I have ever seen, it is so huge and I like the fact that is it so near sites like Pliska and Veliki Preslav (the medieval capitals of Bulgaria), so we sometimes make a tour that combines both and talk about the relationship between the two."
"I've been playing with the village orchestra for a couple of years, particularly with accordion player Dimitar Todorov who lives in Popovo. And he just taught me by ear various songs as I didn't know any Bulgarian music. Yet there's a growing interest in Balkan music in the west and we thought it might be great for people probably from the USA, UK or Western Europe to come here with an instrument and spend a week here. Each week they can learn a couple of new tunes and at the end of the week play together as a group in public."
This is just one of the activities which guests at the Wild Thyme this summer can join. The workshop in Bulgarian folk music led by accordionist Dimitar Trifonov who has been teaching Bulgarian folk music for over thirty years begins in late July. Also you can join the regular reiki sessions with Claire who is a certified instructor, take lessons in traditional agriculture, cooking, enjoy horseback riding, trekking around the area, mushroom foraging and picking herbs and berries. And of course, it all starts in the morning with a heart-warming home-made breakfast. The season lasts until late October. All you need is the desire to dive into life in the slow lane in a bourgeoning Bulgarian village!
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Home 30 Days of Getting Results Day 12 – Productivity Personas – Are You a Starter or a Finisher?
Day 12 – Productivity Personas – Are You a Starter or a Finisher?
Some people are natural "starters." They live for the creative beginning of projects, but not the day-to-day execution or the detailed follow up and follow through.
Some people are natural "finishers." They like the day-to-day work and the routine execution.
When "starters" and "finishers" pair up, everybody wins.
Welcome to day 12 of 30 Days of Getting Results. In day 11, we learned how to reduce friction and create glide paths for your day.
Today, we learn how to figure out our strengths and weaknesses when it comes to productivity using Productivity personas.
The beauty is that you can Productivity personas to get a better lens on yourself, your situation, or people you work with.
With this lens, you can be more effective and get better results in any situation, whether it's a one-man band or part of a team.
One of my friends is great at starting things. Just don't expect him to finish. He would light a lot of fires in a lot of places and then he'd be on to his next big idea. Trust me, unless you want to just fade away, you want fire starters around. They light things up and create value and possibilities out of thin air.
Another one of my friends is great at finishing things. He is a master at knowing the details and being complete. Words that come to mind are "thorough," "attention to detail," "responsible," "sees things through," … you get the idea. What he lacks in getting things started, he makes up for in bringing things to close and going the last mile.
He is a "finisher" at heart.
Simply familiarize yourself with some of the various Productivity Personas so they can help you when you need to make sense of a productivity challenge or scenario, as well as to learn more about yourself.
The key is to be aware of the preferences, for yourself and others, and to choose more effective behaviors as well as to optimize yourself and others in any situation.


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Mavallipura landfills spew toxins: Study
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Mar 3, 2018, 04:00 IST
The new report says even the watertable has been affected by pollutants
Mavallipura, with its illegal landfills, drew the world's attention towards Bengaluru's burgeoning garbage crisis way back in 2010. Exhaustive investigation by a city-based Environment Support Group (ESG) resulted in the closure of landfills in 2012. What unfolded subsequently was a series of legal battles with High Court of Karnataka suggesting many measures to safeguard environment, besides overhauling laws pertaining to Solid Waste Management. But has everything in and around Bengaluru changed after seven years? An audit report by the ESG on various parameters said the toxic legacy of Bengaluru landfills has only intensified.
The impact, which was seen only in a couple of villages, has now engulfed many more villages. While it was only streams and open lakes that were polluted then, now even the underground table has also been intensely polluted. Along with lead, other pollutants likes chromium, cadmium have also been traced in water samples drawn from villages surrounding the landfill. The health condition of the local population is in fact slipped from bad to worst with birth defects and renal disorders.
The audit report of Mavalli pura landfills and its impact on surrounding areas was released on Friday by Justice N Kumar (Rtd).According to Leo Saldanha, coordinator of ESG, researchers monitored water quality in 13 places every year since 2006 besides testing samples from leachate tanks. "Almost all villages located downstream of Mavallipura reported contamination of both surface and ground water and rendered unfit for drinking or domestic use. Nearly, four lakes located downstream have been affected due to the pollution. Villagers recall that illness among them was very rare. But today almost every other person in these villagers is suffering from various ailments. In fact kids aged between 2 to 15-years have died due to water contamination," the report said.
Ailments are common in villages
The researchers discovered that there is not only high incidence off respiratory disorders, but also vector-borne diseases among locals living there. "Children were found with cough, bronchopneumonia, meningitis, skin infections. Many kids revealed developmental malformations. Women too reported headaches, skin infections and menstrual disorders. Diabetics was a near common phenomenon. A few of the villagers were diagnosed with lung cancer, kidney failure, and a rare fatty liver condition. It was common among men to see oesophagus cancer, renal failure, cardiac arrest," the report said.
Quarries pose risk
Picking up a lesson from Mavallipura and Mandur, even though the BBMP chose to fill up the abandoned stone quarries with garbage, the dumping is done without statutory clearances or officials failing to contain damage to the local area. "This has been evident in handling of Bellahalli quarry near Jakkur where mixed waste is currently dumped. In fact, this is threatening the safety of flight movement of IAF, civilian planes and training aircraft of Jakkur Civil Aviation Training Institute," Saldanha explained.
Plea to High Court
"The existing deplorable situation of municipal solid waste mismanagement should be communicated as a very detrimental problem. We appeal to the Karnataka High Court to ensure the civic administration complies with its directives and that governmental agencies take responsibility to empower citizenry (adults and children), ward committees and government departments to tackle the situation," Saldanha said.
Justice N Kumar said the solution lies in convincing people.
"We should not try to find fault with the people. Instead, we must try to correct them. What has been ordered in the recent past—segregation and processing of waste looks promising. If the plan succeeds, Bengaluru will definitely be a model for others," he said.
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De Beers committed to women, girls – Cormack
Executive Head of Human Resource, De Beers Group Ann Cormack said the W summit is a key part of their events calendar at De Beers Group under an important element within their overall commitment to standing with women and girls both within Botswana as well as across the region.
She said they know that to thrive in today's market place they need to evolve and reflect all those they serve as a business and they have started to see progress.
"If you were here last year you would have heard my colleague David Prager, the Vice President of Corporate Affairs, introduce our three-year partnership with UN Women. Through this partnership we have made three commitments: to achieve parity in the appointment of both men and women into senior leadership by 2020; to invest US$3 million to support women and girls in the countries in which we mine and thirdly; to ensure that De Beers brands promote gender equality through its marketing campaigns," she said, adding that one year on they have started to see progress.
She said through both top-down and bottom up approaches and the results of numerous programmes including new recruitment guidelines, mentoring programmes, revised policies including flexible working hours, unconscious bias training and support from locally-led steering groups and networks, they have seen an increase of appointments of women into senior positions and have reached parity. Cormack said De Beers vows to maintain this trend.
About Cormack
Cormack is currently the Executive Head of Human Resource, De Beers Group. She joined the group in October 2017. She has previously worked as Director – International at Rolls-Royce plc.
The first 20 years of her career were spent working for Shell International where she held various executive positions, including running Shell's global internal consultancy B2B team and the European Fleet Fuel Cards business.
More recently, she was Chief Executive of a biofuel joint venture, 50 per cent owned by BP before becoming the Managing Director for Energy at Xynteo.
Cormack also serves as a Non-Executive Director of the UK government's foreign & Commonwealth Office Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. She is also a Council Member of Chatham House, and a board member of the International Advisory Group of the Confederation of British Industry.
She holds an MA in modern languages from Edinburgh University and a post-graduate Diploma in Russian from Strathclyde University.
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Q: TaskContinuation.cs not found exception while accessing WebAPI Task I'm trying to fetch records from a db cursor from the Client app.
Debugging Web API shows that the Cursor returns records but when returning to the Client it throws mscorlib.pdb not loaded window and clicking on Load option it throws TaskContinuation.cs not found exception
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Is that something related to async operation? while debugging the API it confirms the Datatable with records . Any inputs are deeply appreciated.
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Q: Error The "path" argument must be of type string. Received type number I'm getting this error while trying to run an Alloy app using Appcelerator Studio on MacOS.
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A: I have installed node-v8.9.4 and used the following commands and it's working now:
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The Fair Entitlements Guarantee is an Australian legislative scheme under which employees may receive financial assistance to cover certain specified employment entitlements where an employee loses their job due to the bankruptcy or liquidation of their employer and their employer does not have sufficient cash or assets to cover the entitlements.

References

Unemployment in Australia
Welfare in Australia

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