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Nandini Rai was born as Neelam Gouhrani on 18 September 1988 (age 29) in Secunderabad, Telangana, India. She is a deadly combination of beauty with brains as she is not only a beauty pageant winner, but has also done MBA from London. Her first encounter with a superstar came up during her school days when late Soundarya came to her school for an event and selected Nandini out of so many girls to play the role of her daughter in a commercial.
She got bitten by the bug of modelling in the final year of her B.Com, after which she started participating in local beauty pageants. Her part-time modelling career took off when she won the title of Miss Andhra Pradesh in 2008, after which she got modelling offers from across the world. Though, she had done modelling for more than 80 national and international brands, she never thought of becoming an actress. But, her mother was a visionary and knew that after her daughter had done so much modelling, the next step had to be acting. So, Nandini's mother somehow convinced her to give various auditions to get roles in films. Luckily, Nandini developed an interest in acting during her auditions experience and discovered that she is meant to do acting. She has made her presence felt in the South Indian film industry with films like- Login (2012), Goodbye December (2013), Maaya (2014), and Khushi Khushiyagi (2015).
Nandini Rai in Goodbye December
She has every bit of glamour quotient in her personality as she is around 5′ 4″ tall, weighs around 60 kg and has a rectangle figure.
She is a fitness freak and has a habit of going to the gym daily to do her workout. She pushes her body beyond its limits for the demand of a role. For her role in the Malayalam film Goodbye December, she shed 5 kg of weight, and for Telugu film Hormones, she put on 12 kg of weight.
Family, Caste & Boyfriend
She hails from an upper-middle-class Sindhi-Hindu family with roots in Secunderabad, Telangana, India. Her father, Manoj Kumar Gouhrani, is a writer and her mother, Rekha Gouhrani, is a homemaker.
Nandini Rai with her family
Nandini Rai with her parents
She has an elder brother, Jeetu Gouhrani.
Nandini Rai with her brother
Nandini has always been a bright student and did her schooling from St. Albans High School, and Army Public School in Hyderabad. She did her graduation in B.Com in Hyderabad and did her post-graduation in MBA (Finance) from the prestigious University of London in London.
To become a financial manager, business analyst, credit analyst, or accounting manager, was probably her destined profession. But she had other ideas as her real love was modelling and she wanted to make a career out of it. Her family understood that modelling made her happy and fully supported her.
With the guidance of her mother, she later discovered that she is meant to do acting. In such a short span of her acting career, she has worked in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam films.
In June 2018, she entered the Bigg Boss Telugu 2 house as a wildcard entry that gave a huge boost to her acting career.
Nandini takes a lot of interest in cooking, travelling, dancing, swimming, gymming, doing nail art, ice skating, and painting.
She goes berserk eating Chicken Biryani and Continental Cuisines.
She is a follower of Shirdi Sai Baba.
Dogs melt her heart so much that she not only has so many pet dogs, but also tattoed dog footprints on her wrist.
Shah Rukh Khan, Prabhas, Mahesh Babu, Allu Arjun and Leonardo DiCaprio are among her favourite actors, and Deepika Padukone, Shraddha Kapoor, Tamannaah, Samantha Akkineni, and Anushka Shetty are among her favourite actresses.
She has a dream to work with prolific directors like- S. S. Rajamouli, A. R. Murugadoss, and Puri Jagannadh.
In her free time, she loves listening to Raghav Sachar, Eminem, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Nelly Furtado, and Nicole Scherzinger.
Her favourite holiday spot is Seychelles, an extensive group of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa.
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Amos ; What seeest Thou?
by MasterMason July 12, 2014
July 12, 2014 879 views
AMOS, WHAT SEEST THOU?
by Ray W. Burgess, Past Grand Master of Louisiana
In all the Lodges under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the State of Louisiana
(and many other Grand Jurisdictions) the VOSL is open at the Seventh Chapter of Amos
in the FC Degree.
Why do we do this? This practice is not universal,
but ours has the sanctity of long use and sacredness.
Also, since one of the working tools of a FC is the Plumb,
it is appropriate to open the Bible at the story about the plumb line of God.
What do we really know about this man, the prophet Amos?
Do we know why the God called him to deliver His message of judgment to His people of Israel?
Solomon received from his father, David, a powerful empire. During his latter years, however,
it began to fall apart.
Expensive building projects sapped the strength and loyalty of native Israelites.
As the adjoining nations saw the opportunity to assert their independence they did so
and Solomon was unable to prevent the disintegration of the empire.
Before Solomon's death the Aramaeans had severed themselves from his kingdom,
and shortly after the succesion by Rehoboam, a further split took place.
With this breakdown of the monarchy,
subject states declared their independence so that the territory once ruled by David
became divided into autonomous units.
That portion of Solomon's empire north of Mount Hermon, extending as far as the Euphrates,
revolted and formed the kingdom of Syria, with Damascus as its capital.
South of Syria was the kingdom of the ten tribes, known as Israel, or the Northern Kingdom,
with its capital at Shechem.
The Northern Kingdom included the larger portion of Palestine proper,
an area of about 9,400 square miles.
The kingdom of Judah included the tribe of that name, a portion of Benjamin, and Simeon,
which had been incorporated earlier into Judah. Kings of the Davidic line reigned over Judah
until the fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon (587 B.C.)
Solomon retained control over Moab; but his successor found the Moabites hard to keep in
subjection. Moab disappeared as a political power when Nebuchadnezzar conquered the country.
South of the Dead Sea was the kingdom of Edom which had been conquered by David
and remained tributary during the reign of Solomon.
The three kingdoms which developed from Solomon's kingdom in western Palestine—Syria,
Israel and Judah—strove for supremacy. Wars were constant between Israel and Judah.
With the threat to both Israel and Judah from the powerful Syrian state of Damascus,
there developed a need & desire for the two states to reconcile their differences.
During the reigns of Ussiah, king of Judah (783-742 B.C.),
and Jeroboam II, king of Israel (786-746 B.C.),
the sister states pushed their boundaries out to include the territories
which once belonged to Israel under David and Solomon.
Many of the smaller nations were required to pay tribute to Israel and Judah.
Both kingdoms collected tolls from the caravans that passed through theirlands.
In this period in both Israel and Judah there was a transition from an agricultural
to a commercial way of life. Industries and cities sprang up which gave rise to a class
of wealthy merchants and landholders.
This new wealthy class built winter and summer houses out of hewn stone elaborately
adorned and decorated.
They had couches inlaid with ivory, covered with the tiniest imported silk,
upon which they reclined while eating prime cuts of meat, drinking wine out of bowls,
and listening to strains of varied music.
But the presence of great wealth did not mean that there was no poverty in the land.
The extremely rich had obtained much of their wealth by their merciless
oppression of the poor, taking exactions of wheat from them.
The merchants used false weights and measures in their business transactions,
in addition to selling refuse wheat.
Because these unscrupulous men were able to bribe the judges,
no redress was left for the innocent.
The tragedy of all this was that Israel's social structure was completely disrupted.
Israel had originally been a very liberal community in which there was no class distinction.
All men were equal before the law, God, and one another.
Now all this had changed. Wealth, power, and affluence came to some but not to the majority.
But the affluent, rather than using their wealth to benefit all of God's people,
squandered it on luxuries and status symbols and used their newly-gained power to keep
their poor brothers in subjection.
One would think that, in the light of the conditions just described,
there would have been little interest in religion in those days.
Just the reverse was true. The people were very religious, especially the rich.
Religious services were well attended; tithes and offerings were freely and punctually given;
impressive festivals were held; and pilgrimages were made to the important religious centers.
They thought they were in the favor of God and under His protection.
However, just the opposite was true.
The Lord despised their feasts and would not accept their sacrifices.
Their worship was a profane travesty.
It was an act of men and women morally unclean and unwilling to submit themselves to the
searching discipline of God.
God had entered into a covenant with Israel.
God had chosen Israel out of all the families of the earth.
God had given her a land and had given her people special laws
to guide them in the way they should go.
It seems that Israel believed the covenant to be inviolable and that it gave her privileges
and a license that no other nation had.
But Israel broke her covenant.
She used her freedom from bondage to enslave a large segment of her own people.
The gift of the land she used for selfish purposes.
She rejected the law of God and walked after lies.
What was God going to do in the face of Israel's sin?
Would he ignore it?
Would he wink at it?
Or would he stop turning away the punishment from Israel?
The answer was "No," he would stop turning away the punishment from Israel.
The end had come upon Israel.
Was there no hope for Israel? Was there no way to escape the impending judgment of God?
There was only a slight possibility—only that possibility found in the sovereignty of God.
Here is where we begin the story about Amos.
Very little is known about the man Amos. He is never mentioned by any other biblical writer.
All the information we have about him comes from the little book which bears his name.
Amos' name probably means "burdened" or "burden-bearer."
Amos lived in Tekoa, a village in Judah about 11 miles south of Jerusalem and 18 miles west
of the Dead Sea. Tekoa was located in a barren rockbound region surrounded on three sides
by limestone hills and a breath-taking view of the Dead Sea.
Amos was a shepherd or herdsman and dresser of sycamore trees (wild figs).
He was probably a very poor man since his sympathies were with the poor against their rich oppressors.
Although he was a shepherd and one who performed menial tasks, he was by no means uneducated.
His formal training might have been nil, but he was a keen observer of the ways of God and men.
Awareness and sensitivity characterized the man. His literary style was free and pure.
Amos lived in the time of the earthquake, just as the Northern Kingdom of Israel was coming to a close.
Seemingly before anyone else in his generation, Amos heard the lion's roar of God's wrath.
He is generally recognized as the first of the writing prophets in Israel.
He introduced a new element into Old Testament prophecy.
He was the first to preach a message of judgment that meant the end of the kingdom of Israel.
At about 760 B.C. God called Amos to deliver His message of judgment to the people of Israel.
In spite of his humble background, he was the one God chose to preach his message.
That message was of repentance and warning to a rebellious nation.
Amos possessed a sense of unquestioned obedience and a clear proclamation of God's message.
He was committed to the Lord and His principles of holiness and righteousness.
Amos began his ministry with biting words of judgment against the six nations
surrounding the land of Judah and Israel.
Next he announced God's judgment against Judah, but Amos was only warming up to his main objective:
a vivid description of God's judgment against the nation of Israel.
Amos condemned the people of Israel for their oppression of the poor; worship of idols;
rejection of God's salvation; and defilement of the Lord's holy name.
Twice Amos saw the judgment of God coming and interceded for Israel, and God turned away his judgment.
But with the third vision of the plumb line, we come to the title of this dissertation.
"Thus He showed me: and behold
the Lord stood upon a wall made by
a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
"And The Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, a plumb-line.
And said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel:
"I will not again pass by them any more. ' ' Amos 7:7-8
The prophet Amos was the prophet of righteousness and he saw the Lord God as judging Israel
by means of the plumb line, signifying the unchanging standards of that righteousness.
Let us look further at this plumb line!!!!
What is a plumb line? It is a simple tool made of a cord with a weight attached to one end.
It is used by brick masons and other builders to test the verticality of a wall or other structures.
If a wall or a foundation leans, it is out-of-plumb.
Why did God say, "I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel?"
Because the plumb admonishes us to walk uprightly in our several stations before God and man.
The people of Israel had sinned and in spite of the warnings of Amos, they had not reentered the fold.
God made it very plain that each man must try himself by the unerring standard of the plumb line.
The plumb line is the symbol of uprightness of character, of integrity, of honest and fair dealings
among persons. To plumb one's life and actions is to test them by the eternal laws to God.
In all these tests, the people of Israel had failed. That's why He said,
"I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel."
So it is with Freemasonry.
The real worth of a Mason can never be measured in the opinion of his fellows
or in the Masonic honors he has attained.
The standard by which a Mason must be judged is by his own evaluation of his conduct
and by the principles which he knows to be the unerring and unchanging ones.
What can a Freemason expect to get from Freemasonry?
The rewards of Freemasonry and the wages of Masons are endless,
so long as a man is willing to strive for them.
If he is content to be a "button Mason," paying his dues merely for the privilege of wearing a pin,
this is just what he will get out of Masonry.
If he is content to be a "knife-and-fork Mason," showing up at his lodge
only when there is some type of banquet, he will receive only this from Masonry.
If, however, he measures himself by the plumb, and sets his standards accordingly,
he will benefit from Masonic education, Masonic philosophy
and from the association with the finest men in his community.
The standard by which a man judges himself as a Mason is the same unerring principle
by which he judges himself as a family man, as a business-man, and as a citizen.
He will learn to walk uprightly in all his endeavors,
learning from the plumb the lesson of rectitude of conduct.
Each man must stand by the plumb line which is set in the midst of God's people.
I have heard this piece of Ritual many many times and wondered why the wording was so weird. At first I thought it meant that the Israelites were the chosen people, however, that still did not explain the wording. This paper quite correctly points out that the opposite was the case & they were to be held to account for their actions. Very well written & explained.
Have a wonderful day & God Bless Norm
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Hymns by Johnny Cash è il quinto album del cantante country Johnny Cash, ed è il suo secondo album pubblicato dalla Columbia Records.

Fu originariamente pubblicato nel maggio 1959 e poi ripubblicato nel 2002 con la versione mono di It Was Jesus, tratta da un EP e priva delle armonie vocali presenti, invece, nella versione dell'album. Questa pubblicazione rappresenta il progetto di album country-gospel che Sam Phillips negò a Cash quando si trovava alla Sun Records.

Tracce

 It Was Jesus - 2:08 - (Johnny Cash)
 I Saw a Man - 2:36 - (Arthur Smith)
 Are All the Children In - 1:58 - (Craig Starret)
 The Old Account - 2:29 - (Traditional arr. da Johnny Cash)
 Lead Me Gently Home - 2:04 - (Will L. Thompson)
 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - 1:56 - (Traditional arr. da Johnny Cash)
 Snow in His Hair - 2:24 - (Marshall Pack)
 Lead Me Father - 2:31 - (Johnny Cash)
 I Call Him - 1:50 - (Johnny Cash, Roy Cash)
 These Things Shall Pass - 2:20 - (Stuart Hamblen)
 He'll Be a Friend - 2:00 - (Johnny Cash)
 God Will - 2:24 - (John D. Loudermilk/Marijohn Wilkin)

Bonus Tracks

 It Was Jesus - 2:04 - (Johnny Cash)

Musicisti
 Johnny Cash - Arrangiatore, Chitarra, Voce
 Al Casey - Chitarra
 Luther Perkins - Chitarra
 Don Helms - Steel Guitar
 Marshall Grant - Basso
 Marvin Hughes - Piano
 Buddy Harman - Percussioni

Altri Collaboratori

 Don Law - Produttore
 Al Quaglieri - Produttore per la Riedizione
 Seth Foster - Lavorazione del Master
 Mark Wilder - Lavorazione del Master, Mixaggio
 Hal Adams - Fotografia
 Don Hunstein - Fotografia
 Stacey Boyle - Ricerca Nastri
 Matt Kelly - Ricerca Nastri
 Kay Smith - Ricerca Nastri
 Steven Berkowitz - A&R
 Darren Salmieri - A&R
 Patti Matheny - A&R
 Howard Fritzson - Direzione Artistica
 Randall Martin - Design
 Nick Shaffran - Consulente
 Johnny Whiteside - Note

Collegamenti esterni

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"In a series of black and white images of the German landscape made between 1987 and 1997, Michael Schmidt has forged a new pictorial language to deconstruct the world he observes. Concerned with light and form, Schmidt's images contain a wealth of silver tones, a spectrum of rich greys which evolve from light to dark in mystical, imperceptible gradients. But the black and white filter is also a tool that allows Schmidt to neutralise the world, impeding the subjective perception of his viewer.
It is through his editorial process, a process of montage, that Schmidt constructs an interior dialect, fashioning a self-contained world within the linear sequence of the book."
Michael Schmidt was a German photographer (1945-2014) who's work revolved mainly around the city of Berlin and German identity. He was part of the Düsseldorf School of Photography.


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The Southern Area Group of Astronomical Societies was set up over 30 years ago as a loose federation of all groups in the South-East region, to get together and discuss their news and views and share problems and advice at a committee level.
A new Working Group was created in 2007 to drive SAGAS forward and to formalise the group.
Finally, on the 16th October 2010 HantsAstro was accepted unanimously by their committee as a member of SAGAS. The HantsAstro CoreTeam look forward to attending future meetings whereby we can learn and collaborate with the regional astro-community, and share our experiences too.


Because of the steep terrain in the South Island, high waterfalls are relatively common. But many are intermittent and only flow down gullies after heavy rain. A good example is this fall near Haast Pass.


Quite simply, people who are highly accomplished are paragons of perseverance with an enduring passion. They are resilient, hardworking and have direction. She developed the Grit Scale to predict performance. Interestingly, grit is a better indicator of ultimate success than natural aptitude.
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Yesterday, Avnet announced the Ultra96-V2 as a replacement for the Ultra96 which is going EOL.
While Ultra96-V2 has the same Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC device, same 96Boards CE form factor, and the same basic features, there are several key differences which I thought would be useful to explain.
We will continue to support Ultra96 from a technical perspective into the future as well.


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Paddlefish licenses set to go on sale
December 14, 2016 By Dar Danielson
Licenses go on sale Thursday for one of the more unique species you can fish for in Iowa.
DNR fisheries biologist, Ryan Hupfeld says the licenses for the Missouri and Big Sioux River paddlefish seasons go on sale December 15th.
"Each angler can receive one paddlefish license and tag. There's 950 resident tags available and 50 nonresidents available," Hupfeld days.
The season opens March 1st and runs through April 15th. The paddlefish season was closed in 1986 after the numbers got to low, but was reopened in 2015 when surveys found the fish population had increased. Hupfeld says they have size limits that help protect the population.
He says the 35 to 45 inch limit protects the primary breeding fish, so he says the season does not have a negative impact on the population. You can't just put a worm on a hook and drop it in to catch a paddlefish.
"They feed on plankton…so you have to use a snagging hook to do that. So, it can be more difficult, " Hupfeld says. "If the water temperature is colder they may be stacked in these overwintering holes, so you may be able to target them in those areas and have more success." He says most of the people who get Iowa licenses to snag the paddlefish come from Iowa and Nebraska, with some from the Dakotas. They usually eat their catch.
"They're a very good fish to eat, very healthy, it's a white flesh," Hupfeld. He says one thing you need to do to prepare the fish is remove the red meat from their along their skin that is there to help them migrate. "If you remove that red meat it kind of removes the fishy or pungent taste. So, be sure to remove the red meat and they are very good to eat." Hupfeld expects good conditions when the season opens.
He says the river system is fairly low right now and the Corps may release some more water, but that would only raise the levels to near normal. Hupfeld is in his first year of managing the paddlefish and is excited by the opportunity.
"It's a very unusual looking fish — a prehistoric fish — it's a very neat fish to study and work on and to catch as an angler," Hupfeld says. The paddlefish have a long flat paddle on their front. You can get a license for paddlefishing through the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
The licenses will be sold from December 15th through January 31st.
DNR photo.
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The birth of lean startup as a systematic approach to creating, developing, and managing business and products has emerged as a significant force in business innovation and product development.
As a new and epic approach to product development, the lean method covers everything that is needed to grow from being able to grow a business with a maximum acceleration – how to handle the ins and outs of the operations, when to do some iteration on your model, and when to push through. By using the lean startup tools, the possibility of failure is diminished even in the early stage.
What sets lean startups or simply the lean method apart from traditional method of embarking into a new business venture is that it employs experimentation more than elaborate planning, gives premium to feedback more than instinct, favors flexible and emergent designs over the traditional big design up fronts. Compared to large companies, lean startups enable to look for the appropriate business model instead of merely executing one.
The lean method's guiding principle is that "we are never smarter than the collective intelligence of customers"; thus, the need to go more than executing a plan. There is a need to get outside and learn from customers outside the office because no one would if a product or a business plan is right or wrong until the customers' feedback is taken.
The lean startup method involves three components – business model design, customer development, and agile engineering. These mechanisms make startups extremely effective, as they lessen the amount of time to build products and launch them.
Use the business model canvas promulgated by Alexander Osterwalder, a 9-box scheme to guide entrepreneurs to create hypotheses in their current business setup. The factors included in the model canvass are the following: who are the customers, what is your value proposition for these customers, what are the demands for this value, what channel should you use to reach these customers, who could be tapped as partners, what activities should you undertake, what are the resources you need, what are the costs, and how to generate profits.
Prepare this model canvas and use it as a framework and a scorecard to test your hypotheses.
As soon as everything is set up, it is an imperative to get out of the office and test the business' key ideas and key features. This is based on the premise that what you really have on day one is a string of unproven hypotheses. Rather than sticking to the big business plan, recognize that there is a need to get the product out there as quickly and rapidly as possible and test all the hypotheses.
Customer development is the component of lean method where you turn all the hypotheses into facts. To do this, you must design an experiment, run it, and get consumers' insight.
Experimentation and gathering feedback from customers could be done by showing customers clay models, prototypes, samples, or even mockups of your product.
The data gathered should be used to make adjustments. Don't forget that most plans do not survive initial contact with clients. Either there is a need for substantive change in one or more of your business model components or it may be necessary to make minor changes. Either way, the process allows entrepreneurs to quickly iterate and develop the product at certain stages. Experimentation must be done incrementally in order to make sure that the business is on the right track.
Another component of the lean method is called agile engineering. This component recognizes the fact that if a project is built all at once before the full implementation, chances are most of its features are unnecessary and not what the customers really wanted.
Agile engineering refers to developing the product incrementally and iteratively using customer feedback.
These three components of lean method are tools to search and create a product or a business model that is most appropriate for your new business venture. The components enable entrepreneurs to find out quickly if there's a need to iterate or pivot. While these do not guarantee success (nothing can guarantee that), these could decrease market risks and the failure rate.
The lean method, more importantly could elude the requisite for large aggregates of the usual preliminary development funding and costly product launches and losses from failures.


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Q: Mostrar fotos SD android Studio Buenas tardes, tengo un problema con el codigo que expongo acontinuacion, el codigo funciona perfectamente en level api 19 de mi celular y level api 26 desde el emulador, el inconveniente como tal es que en api level 22 y 24 que son otros celulares que he probado el codigo no funciona
final String[] columns = {MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA, MediaStore.Images.Media._ID};
final String orderBy = MediaStore.Images.Media._ID;
Cursor imagecursor = getContentResolver().query(
        MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, columns, null,
        null, orderBy);
int image_column_index = imagecursor != null ? imagecursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media._ID) : 0;

for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
    imagecursor.moveToPosition(i);
    int id = imagecursor.getInt(image_column_index);
    int dataColumnIndex = imagecursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
    thumbnails.add(MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.getThumbnail(
            getApplicationContext().getContentResolver(), id,
            MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MINI_KIND, null));
    arrPath.add(imagecursor.getString(dataColumnIndex));
    thumbnailsselection.add(false);
}
assert imagecursor != null;
imagecursor.close();

imagegrid.setAdapter(imageAdapter);

funciona excelente level api 19 que es mi celular y 26 en el emulador, pero en otros celulares que lo he probado level api 22 y 24 no funciona

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So true! All my wrinkles are from laughter! Well earned I say!
I love a good belly laugh from little ones.
Laughter really is the best medicine. Our niece who was in the hospital after a nasty accident asked DT to share her really bad jokes so we could all laugh. It was much needed fun after a very stressful end of the week.


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Bill McElroy was just 19 when he took on a Corvette restoration project.
It was 1971, and McElroy picked up a weekly newspaper in Bensalem, Penn. There he found an ad for a 1966 Corvette Sting Ray coupe.
"I went to look at the car, and it was pretty raggedy," recalls McElroy, who owns Bill McElroy's Auto Body in Bensalem. It was dirty, had no hubcaps, and the paint needed buffing and polishing. But it was cheap. He paid $1,600 for the car; others were selling the same model for $2,600–$2,800, McElroy says.
He bought the car initially as transportation. So when he got it home, he stripped it down but left the bumpers on. "My girlfriend (now wife) didn't want to get into the car because of how it looked," he says. "It looked kind of derelict going down the road."
A year later, he was drafted into the Army transportation unit. He served for two years and came back to the area, and to his car that needed much attention. He began restoring it in 1975, the same year he signed a lease for his first body shop. He completely disassembled it and refurbished every part, but he didn't rebuild the engine. "The main focus was the body," he says.
After all the exterior pieces were unbolted, the vehicle got new seat covers and new carpet, and some of the glass was also replaced. The car got five-spoke chrome wheels, a 327-cubic-inch engine, and a four-speed Muncie transmission. It was painted black, with an old-school paint accent called cobwebbing, on the sides. The whole project took about six months.
After it was finished, "I drove the heck out of it," McElroy says. The vehicle had about 40,000 miles on it when he bought it, but he drove it nearly every day after he finished it. Today it has about 150,000 miles on it.
He's been through a lot with the Corvette. In 1976, he and his girlfriend were watching TV in the living room. He heard the distinctive sound of the side exhaust and the shifting of the four gears, and realized that it wasn't just his imagination. It was stolen. He called the police, and they found it about 25 miles away, in a neighborhood in inner Philadelphia, with a screwdriver in the ignition. Feeling violated and defeated, he mustered up gratitude that he at least got it back, and with minor damage.
The Corvette developed an engine problem, and McElroy became too busy to deal with it. So he let it sit.
He got close to selling the vehicle, but decided instead to restore it again. "Everybody around me said, 'Are you crazy?' At that point it was starting to become nostalgia," he says, recalling how his children used to look through the back window and stare at the stars.
"I owed it to it," he says of the Corvette's second restoration.
The second restoration cost about $15,000, and he put in time after work. It wasn't a frame-off restoration, but he did everything else. He redid the suspension and transmission. He installed new carpet, seats and interior. He re-polished the moldings, re-plated the bumpers, installed new tires and new wheels, and replaced the glass.
He also again stripped the paint. Then he painted it pewter with three-tone, straight-line graphics.
He doesn't take the car to shows, and unlike after the first restoration, he drives this car minimally. His everyday vehicle is a 2000 Silverado truck.
Also the longest continuous standing member of the Philadelphia Modifiers Car Club, McElroy says it's fun to see the attention it receives when he takes it out on occasion. And, he says jokingly, sometimes he thinks of restoring it again.
"It takes me back in time," he says.
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2012-13 Devan Dubnyk Game Worn Blue Retro Set 2 Sweater
Born on May 4, 1986 in Calgary, Alberta, this 6'5" behemoth of a goaltender was a stalwart between the pipes for the Kamloops Blazers of the WHL before being drafted 14th overall by the Edmonton Oilers in 2004. His name, Devan Dubnyk. Dubnyk worked his way up from the ECHL in 2006-07, to AHL backup, and then to AHL starter by 2008-09. The Oilers, with some mad goaltending woes, called Dubnyk up in 2009-10 and he made his NHL debut on November 28, 2009 versus Vancouver. After Jeff Drouin Deslauriers surrendered four goals in a mere nine minutes, Dubnyk was brought in to extinguish the metaphorical flames. In that debut he stopped 21 of 24 shots in the team's eventual 7-3 loss. That season, he appeared in 19 NHL games and recorded a 4-10-2 record. The next season, he was the full-time backup to Nikolai Khabibulin and by 2011-12, he had taken over the starting role on an otherwise poor Oilers team. In 2012-13, he posted a solid 0.920% save average in 38 games with the bottom feeding Oilers and after a weak start to 2013-14, he was traded to the Nashville Predators. After two poor games with the Preds, he was shipped off to Montreal where he was relegated to the minors. It seemed like the career of Dubnyk would end there, but something happened. In 2014-15, the Arizona Coyotes signed Dubnyk to be the back-up, however, he posted great numbers and it attracted the attention of the Minnesota Wild who acquired him in January 2015. After his acquisition, he appeared in 38 consecutive games for the club (39 total for the regular season), recording a 27-9-2 record with an unbelievable 1.78GAA, and a 0.936% save average. As a result of his epic career resurgence, he was the winner of the 2014-15 Bill Masterton Trophy. In 2015-16, he appeared in 67 more games with the Wild as their starter and led them to the playoffs for the second straight year. Where will he go from there? Who knows.
As a result of Dubnyk being still very much active in the league, career numbers will not be posted at this time.
The piece you are looking at right now is a 2012-13 Oilers Blue Retro Set 2 worn by Dubnyk in game action nine times, in which he recorded his sixth career shutout, and also his 50th career NHL win, a number he has since eclipsed by over 150 additional wins. Wear is tremendous (for the modern era of NHL), and consists of stitch breakdown, many black marks, burns, piling, and a small unrepaired hole. A stunning piece of an NHL starter.
Acquired from: Meigray Group
Dates of Game Use:
March 20, 2013 v San Jose (31-34, 4-3SOL)
March 28, 2013 v Columbus (9-9, 6-4W)
March 30, 2013 v Vancouver (23-23, 4-0W) *6th career shutout
April 1, 2013 v Calgary (33-34, 4-1W)
April 10, 2013 v Phoenix (29-32, 3-1L)
April 16, 2013 v Minnesota (25-30, 5-3L)
April 21, 2013 v Anaheim (27-30, 3-1L)
April 24, 2013 v Chicago (26-29, 4-1L)
April 27, 2013 v Vancouver (28-30, 7-2W) *50th career win


Unfortunately, nothing is known for sure of the early history of our ancestor Electious Reynolds. Many theories have been proposed; that he was related to Henry Reynolds of Salem MA, or Dr. John Reynolds of Isle of Shoals NH, or William Reynolds of Cape Porpoise ME, or Robert Reynolds of Boston. He was perhaps French or French-Canadian or Huguenot. He may have been Gaelic, from Wales or Ireland or Scotland, or from England. I think we all have our favorite. But, sadly, the truth is that to this time, no one has been able to provide any shred of evidence for any one of these guesses.
So, if we can't know his history, we can at least look at what we do know of his life. There are many documents that tell us something of the man that Electious was, and of the relationships he had with his family and neighbors.
The first record of Electious is perhaps that in Manchester MA where "Elodius Reynolds" appears on a list of early residents in 1674 in that town. If this is indeed Electious, he would have been just 21 years old, based on other records we have. He fought in King Philip's War, being mustered in December 1675 "on what was called Dedham Plain to march against the Narragansett Fort."
The next records of Electious are in Salem MA. In 1678 he took the Oath of Allegiance there, being recorded as Alexis Renolds. That same year he was a court witness to a boundary dispute at Salem Village, Alexius Reinolds, age 25 years. On 18 April 1682 Eleckieas (also Alexius) Ronalls, aged about 25 years, gave a sworn statement in a case in Salem Quarterly Court. He made a deposition in 1683 (Alexius Reynolds; Alixious Reenolds). On 19 Sep 1683 Elec Renalds was abated 12 shillings. In 1683 Allextius Rennalds appeared on a tax list, county rate 1s.8d. On 12 Dec 1684 Eleck Ranals, abated, mony 1.8...pay 0.04 6. The name Elisha Reynolds appears on a resident list for Manchester in 1684, and it seems likely that this is the same person as Elodius in 1674 and probably our Electious.
There are no records of any deeds for Electious in Salem during this time period. He was, however, paying taxes. It is interesting that the clerk(s) had such a difficult time with his given name. These are all obvious attempts at a phonetic spelling. Some theories propose that his name was actually Alexander. However, since Alexander was a relatively common English name, it is unlikely that clerks would have tried to make it into something more difficult. It seems more likely that faced with something that sounded like "Alexius," clerks may have felt that Alexander was the easier way out, or the more acceptable Anglicized version.
On 16 July 1686 Electious married Mary Pease in Salem, recorded there. His marriage record gives his name as Allexander Renalds. The birth of their oldest child, James, was recorded in Manchester 15 Jan 1687 (probably old style), to Eleksha Renals and Mary. No other children are recorded in Manchester, and none were recorded in Salem.
In 1691 the name Electius Ranals appeared on a list of "Persons gon out of Towne since October, 1689." It has often been proposed that Electious moved his young family away from the Salem area because of the witch trials. Both of Mary's parents were arrested and imprisoned for practicing witchcraft, but they were later released. There is no record of where Electious and Mary may have gone after they left the Salem area.
It is interesting to note that one of the early settlers of Middleboro was John Haskell, ancestor of the Middleboro Haskells. John was born in Beverly MA, but left the Salem area before 1680. John's brother was known as "Witchcraft Mark." Family tradition is that Mark Haskell was drawn for jury duty to try the so-called witches. He wanted nothing to do with the proceedings, and the night before the trial he packed up and rode away. He supposedly travelled as far as possible without stopping, finally camping on the shores of Lake Assawampsett in Middleboro. He went to his brother who was already living there, and finally settled in Rochester. There is no indication that Electious had any close relations with the Haskell family in Salem, but some acquaintance may have been one reason that Electious chose to move his family to the southeastern Massachusetts area.
There are no records of the births of Isaac and Charles. Perhaps they were born in Manchester or Salem. The first child to have a birth recorded in Middleboro was Mary who was born 20 Sep 1699. Her brother Benjamin's birthdate of 4 Aug 1693 was recorded immediately following hers. It does not indicate whether he was born in Middleboro or not. The births of Hannah on 13 Oct 1702, Ephraim on 14 Feb 1704/5 and Electious on 21 Feb 1706/7 were also recorded in Middleboro, in appropriate chronological order. These births in Middleboro state only that the child was "of Electious Renolds," with no mention of the mother's name, but Electious' name was spelled the same way in each of the five records. There is no record in Middleboro of any other children, e.g. the Jacob and Timothy that are sometimes placed in this family.
Electious lived in the part of Middleboro that later became Lakeville in 1853. Mary is never mentioned in any of the Middleboro records, and she did not sign any of the deeds with Electious, although she was apparently still living 1 Apr 1730. There is no record of the fate of either James or Benjamin. It has always been thought that they had died young, but there are no records to support this. In fact, new research has brought to light the fact that James was alive at age 33, when he appeared to acknowledge a deed in Middlesex County MA.
In 1703 Electious of Middleboro bought a parcel of meadow from Greenfield Hannaver of Taunton. In March 1711/12 he bought 80 acres, the eighth and ninth lots in the first division of the Sixteen Shilling Purchase in Middleboro from Ephraim Little of Marshfield. In July 1712 he sold half of the land purchased from Ephraim Little to Thomas Palmer, "together with the house now standing where my son Isaac now liveth." In April 1713 Electious sold Thomas Palmer the remainder of the land he had bought of Ephraim Little, "being the two lots on which I now dwell."
After selling his property to Palmer, Electious removed from Middleboro to Littleton MA, where his eldest son James was apparently already living. On 18 May 1713, "Elixious Renolds of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth" bought two parcels of land in Nashoba [Littleton] for thirty pounds each, one parcel from Isaac Powers and one from Walter Powers, both of Concord MA. On 1 March 1716 "Elixius Reynolds of Littleton, husbandman" sold a fifty acre tract of Upland Swamp to Samuel Dudley for thirty pounds. This deed was signed by both Electious and Mary. On 24 Sep 1719 Electious, still of Littleton, sold for ten pounds to Jonathan Prescott a two acre parcel of meadow which "lyeth in a meadow... a little distant from my house where I now live," bounded by "my own meadow."
It appears at this time that Electious moved back to Middleboro. His son James remained living on the land in Littleton until it was sold on 2 Nov 1719. In a deed dated December 1719, Electious "of Littleton" bought from John Jones Junr. of Marshfield, all of Jones' right and title to a parcel of land in Middleboro in the Sixteen Shilling Purchase.
On 12 Oct 1725 the Congregational Church in the West Precinct of Middleboro was formed. The list of the first members contains the names of twelve men, including that of Electious Reynolds.
There are no other deeds recorded in Plymouth County until 1 April 1730 when land was deeded by Electious for love and affection to his son Ephraim "for that he hath by bond obliged himself to support me & my wife comfortably & honorably during our natural lives..." In this deed Electious gives Ephraim two lots of land in Middleboro in the Sixteen Shilling Purchase which were laid out to John Jones, the 22nd and 54th lots, the land bought of Jones in 1719. The 22nd lot was at a place called Mad Mare's Neck.
Also on the same day Electious gave his son Electious for love and affection, one tract of land in the Sixteen Shilling Purchase and one half of his right to the undivided land in the Purchase.
On 13 Feb 1730/31 Electious sold to Jacob Green, the third l ot in the third allotment in the Sixteen Shilling Purchase. On 25 Feb 1731 Electious bought from Lemuel Bosworth of Hull, all of the 76th lot of land in the third allotment of the Sixteen Shilling Purchase. This lot was later sold by Electious Jr. in 1779. It was located between the western shore of Long Pond and the County road on the east.
In 1734 the lands owed to the soldiers having fought in King Philip's war were granted in Narragansett Township, Greenwich MA. The list for Middleboro includes "Ellexander Reynolds (Rynge), (?) alive." This is a rather cryptic entry, but its intent is lost at this point.
On 21 Apr 1735 Electious executed a deed on behalf of his son Charles. Charles had sold land that his father had given him in the 25th lot in the third allotment in the Sixteen Shilling Purchase to James Reed. In 1735 Reed was deceased, and, the original deed having been lost and never recorded, Electious executed a deed giving the land to heirs of Reed. This land was originally laid out in the right of John Jones, who had sold all rights to Electious in the deed in 1719.
The deeds signed by Electious are signed with his mark, a stylized upper case "R". This mark consistently appears in the recorded deeds. In all of the deeds Electious is called either a yeoman or husbandman.
Electious died 19 June 1738 in his 85th year, his death being recorded in Middleboro records. He was probably buried on the property near Long Pond where Electious Jr. lived at the time. There is no probate recorded in Plymouth County for Electious; any records that might have existed were probably lost. There is no record of Mary's death.
One final note is of a deed dated 26 Feb 1752. Isaac and Charles Reynolds both of Middleboro, quit their full right and claim of the third share in the fourth lot in the Assonet Cedar Swamp to Ephraim and Electious Reynolds... "which right originally belonged to John Jones and which our honoured father Electius Reynolds gave to his four sons, Isaac Reynolds, Charles Reynolds, Ephraim Reynolds and Electious Reynolds..."


It is possible that Jones' company had sold business asset in the course of the trading in the year. The gains that are realized on such sales produce chargeable gains which are included in the calculation of the corporate tax. The chargeable gains that could have altered the calculated tax could also have been from replacement gains of some of the firm's machines within the operations of the year. A tax relief from capital gains may be granted on through deferral strategy for which taxpayers are permitted to submit their tax on a later date. This reduces the actual calculated tax amount that includes the income from capital gains (Rolfe, 2007).In order to have a better understanding on the issue of corporate taxation, I find it important to have description of terms that are frequently and commonly used in the preparation of payable tax.Allowance- this refers to a deduction which is usually prepared in the calculation of taxes. It's applied in the computation of income tax as well as corporate tax. The allowance amount is fixed in most cases but not always. This means the deductable amount from individual or company's taxable amount may vary from time to time depending on the terms of the taxpayer and applicable government policies put in place. The allowance variations are mainly caused by the changes in the personal assets or business expenses or both.Capital allowance- this is a kind of allowance which is established under the consideration of the capital asset depreciation value as approximated within their functional life time. It is usually granted to motivated manufacturers and producers to use plants and machines of modern technology which are environmental friendly. Thus, capital allowances are a reduction of the payable tax to the taxpayer as an appreciation of his/her efforts to use machinery that reduces environment pollution. It not involves machineries but certain buildings are also be classified as environmental friendly, meaning that particular models of premises would also qualify for capital allowance.Allowance balancing and charge- when company sales an asset(s) that were previous had been subjects to capital allowance in the process of taxation, certain adjustments are made. Furthermore, the assets may be destroyed and be compensated by the insurance organization. In case one of the two cases arises, the received amount affects the taxable amount. If there is a deficit of the received amount as compared with the depreciation value, a capital allowance is granted, but if the amount received exceeds the depreciation value, the excess amount is taxed (Carmichael and Lynford, 2007)..
Schedules- schedule in the financial reporting is used by different people to give different meanings. Sometimes it's used to refer to the additional tax forms that are used together with the main form code form 1040. The various schedules are give arbitrary alphabetical code with schedule code A being used for reporting itemized deductions, B- interest incomes and dividends, C- losses or profits of the business, D- losses and capital gains, E- loss and supplemental income and lastly SE- which is for self employment and social security. Schedule is also used to refer to the published scale for taxpayers with a certain range of taxable income.Accounting for VATVAT is an abbreviated form of the phrase value added tax. It refers to a type of tax which is imposed on the consumer goods, that is, it's an added tax on the consumer's expenditure. The taxation of the value added to a product or service in a business is the main cause of the payment of the VAT tax, which is arrived at through the computation of the difference of output and input taxes of the product. For VAT collection, organizations or businesses act as tax collectors based on the fact that it's charged on business sales which may it be sales of goods or services. The supplies of goods and services therefore counts toward VAT tax, however there is an exception of goods that are counted as capital assets which form special kind of sales in the time of their disposal. VAT tax is calculated using both zero and standard-rated goods or services.To put the VAT taxation and calculation in the right direction, there must be proper keeping of the financial records. Proper financial record keeping helps in the accounting for output tax. This is the VAT charged by a business when it sells its products. The output tax is not sufficient for the calculation of VAT; hence, the input VAT tax- (the tax paid by businesses on the purchase of standard-rated products) is very crucial in the computation of VAT payable. The VAT payable is computed by obtaining the differences of output taxes and input taxes of the various standard-rated supplies. For instance, supposing that standard-rated products are charged a VAT at the rate of 18%, and company A sells a certain product at 20 including a 2 pound VAT. Company A can determine the VAT payable to HMRC by subtracting 0.18 from 2 to remit 1.82 pound as VAT. The most important fact is that VAT is determined from the received payments. This implies that VAT is calculated from payments received either by Cheque, standing orders or debit cards as well as debit/credit cards. It entails the calculation of the tax on all payments or receipts of part payments on invoices. The cash book is the most important record in the keeping and computation of VAT. This is because it clearly shows at a glance the company's financial transactions of the payment receipts and those the company made besides having a column for VAT recording. The purchase accounts and the records of the sales invoices are significant for the purpose of cross-reference as a means of confirmation of the payments. (Kaplow, 2008).Record keeping requirements and HMRC powersThe HMRC body requires that proper VAT to be kept in all limited companies. The records should clearly indicate the sum of VAT due, the deductible VAT and the VAT payable. The proper computation of taxes and record keeping help the organizations to pay due taxes and receive its refunds or compensation in the right time in accordance to the set policies and regulations. Excess of the deductible VAT over the VAT due requires a refund to the taxpayer. In addition, taxpayer can have interest payment in case of VAT payment mistake was made or an income claim is deferred for more than six months. However, these circumstances are possible when documented records and the prepared tax returns attain the set HMRC standards. Documents and tax returns that do not show HMRC compliance bear errors which are categorized as either deliberate errors or errors from reasonable care (Cordes and Ebel, 1999).In case the HMRC detects any inconsistencies in the tax returns, the body can take several actions on the taxpayer on the magnitude of the mistake or fraud. If the HMRC unveils concealed deliberated errors, it imposes 100% penalty on the taxpayer of the due tax. Other actions that HMRC can legally take include real time tax inspection, request for statutory accounts, and inspection of business premises. However, the taxpayer can also bar HMRC from visiting the company's premise, but under conditions that there is no approval by First-tier Tribunal, otherwise a daily penalty is imposed.There are a number of things which may affect the net pay of the two employees entitled same annual salary and also participating in the PAYE scheme. First and foremost, the acting accountant should understand that employee's net pay will be affected by the imposed tax credits which are determined or rated on individual basis. Due to the cumulative tax model, and the practice of carrying forward of unused tax credits or standard rates cut-off points, this may further bring discrepancy on the net pay on employee's net pay. The abandonment of the used of the same cumulative system in the operation of the PAYE as result of the issuance of tax credit certificate may also be a contributing factor on such net pay differences. On this basis, the staff employees should know each employee may have different tax credits which reduces their gross taxes determined on the taxable income. A married employee will therefore be entitled for married tax credit whereas a unmarried employees doesn't qualify for such tax credit.The acting accountant should also explain to the staff employees that there other deductions which affects their net pay. These other deductions also vary depending on personal determined decisions. For instances charges on insurance covers widely varies from one type to another and also from one insurance company to another. Another factor which might contribute to the difference on the net pay of two staffs is the deduction rates on retirement payments. One of the employees may decide to pay higher amounts as pension as compared to the other (Salanie, 2003).A part from the above mentioned factors, the net pay differences may arise from special type of earning which boosts the total net pay earning. In most case, organizations may give awards and bonuses based on their performance. This brings changes on annual salaries entitled to an individual (Kaplow, 2008). They are some other cases whereby by additional tax are levied on the employee's income. Such special cases may include the use of company's facilities on which a tax is imposed on the employee's earnings. An employee benefiting from a company car may incur additional car tax.


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Category: Film & TV
Why "The Library" Is Avatar: The Last Airbender's Crowning Episode
My first introduction to Avatar: The Last Airbender came this summer. I watched episode one sometime after midnight on May 27th, a few hours before my mom and I made an errand for my high school diploma. The show, a whip-smart and wide-eyed romp with unbeatable comic prowess, kept me going lo these long months––I nurtured my restraint and indulged in one episode a day (usually in the morning, though, as a recent graduate, my sense of 'morning' is rather nebulous). It took immense strength to close Netflix after every episode and not go further. I was persistently loathe to do so.
The middle chapter, a common enemy of us writer types, is one among many things the almost annoyingly superlative Avatar does extremely well. A great second act offers the viewer the chance to re-trod old ground and dredge up new treasures, from the surprising depths of familiar characters to revelations in theme. Of its three spirited, ambitious seasons, the second wins in my book: it challenges its characters to the utmost, it has an absolutely devastating finale, and it contains my favorite episode of them all, "The Library." (Though the particularly strong run of stories that scaffold it provide the title with plenty of strong contenders.)
What makes "The Library" so special is a winning trio of plot elements all in top form and miraculous unity: well-matched character feeds rich theme fuels immaculate structure. Each of these qualities alone makes for a thought-provoking and involved viewing experience, but together, they make for a fascinating examination of knowledge, its value, and the ethics of its use.
It all starts, by my estimation, with the decision to place Sokka at the helm. He's the brilliant/goofy side character to end all brilliant/goofy side characters, and though he spends a not-insignificant amount of time as comedic relief, the real substance of his character, as demonstrated in other episodes where he holds a key role, is knowledge. He progresses from being clever but inflexible to incorporating other perspectives and confronting obstacles adaptively––and where he progresses, he learns, both for the immediate benefit of an advantage, and for the benefit of learning itself.
Pragmatism, however, is what ultimately tips the needle on most of his decision-making, gifting us the subversive nerd, who doesn't delineate between knowledge for knowledge's sake and knowledge for the sake of practical gain. He's both insatiably curious and shrewd, a combination that can sometimes obscure his intellectual bent, but, in the case of "The Library," is precisely what allows it to shine.
These two seemingly disparate values are usually in harmony in our charming comedic figure: Sokka gets to figure out how things work for the fun of it and use his smarts to get the upper hand, but "The Library" does what all well-scaffolded stories do, and externalizes this potential intra-character contradiction, so that it isn't just a character fighting for a goal (for Sokka, that's intel on the Fire Nation), but opposing philosophies locked in struggle.
Though Sokka sees no problem with putting knowledge to use for human ends, Wan Shi Tong, the fearsome and imposing spirit guardian of a massive, supernatural library, very much does. Wan Shi Tong sort of embodies a noble academic impulse to preserve the sanctity of learning; to elevate it beyond the concerns of humans fighting to get the edge on one another. In fact, upon first encountering Sokka and co. as they make their way into the library, he raises objection to this explicitly, and only lets them in on the condition that they won't abuse the riches stored there.
This, of course, is entirely contrary to Sokka's plans, but the keen irony of this narrative is the fact that, in order to get access to the information he intends to use against Wan Shi Tong's wishes, he has to sacrifice some integrity already––that is, he has to lie. The story never goes so far as to actually vindicate Wan Shi Tong's pure, untouchable view of knowledge, but it does just enough to expose the fact that Sokka's philosophy does involve a sacrifice in principles, which peppers the usually very black-and-white quest against an antagonist with delicious complications––this is present in a lot of Avatar: The Last Airbender's most memorable episodes, but here it also runs parallel to a fascinating dichotomy that has its roots in one of literature's most interesting dualities.
As Friedrich Nietzsche describes in The Birth of Tragedy (a seemingly absurd reference for me to pull, but just trust me), the elements of Greek drama trend towards two extremes: the characters' mortal toils and fatal flaws are Dionysian, mired in the muck of reality and excess, but the chorus are Apollonian, representing rationality, harmony––in short, perfection. Avatar has no chorus and it in no way fully plumbs the depths of human misery, but the sharp contrast between these two sensibilities is very much present in Sokka and Wan Shi Tong.
It's this contrast that marks the ultimate tragedy of the episode––the library's destruction. Wan Shi Tong, upon discovering Sokka's intentions, ultimately decides to steal back the knowledge he provided to the humans who used it improperly, burying it under the sand for eternity. There's no direct analogue for this in the real world, but it does have a degree of resonance: if we only value (and, to be frank, fund) intellectual endeavors that demonstrate some immediate practical use, we sort of hollow out the meaning of inquiry, eschewing the gifts bestowed upon us by generations of study for something undeniably a bit more…greedy.
This is obviously not to say that Sokka's pursuit of intel represents this extreme––rather that careful attention to theme allows us to say about Wan Shi Tong the best thing that can possibly be said about an antagonist: the guy has a point.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is at its best when it incorporates this kind of complexity, playing with villains that aren't quite villains and heroes that aren't quite paragons, with fascinating implications and beautifully-rendered quandaries. Something to be savored, it rewards a good rewatch: I would know––I can't stop.
What are your thoughts on Avatar: The Last Airbender? Have a contender for best episode? Tell me below ☟
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The Mindful Comedy of Garry Shandling
by Rod Meade Sperry| March 24, 2021
On March 24, 2016, the entertainment world was shocked by the passing, at 66, of comedian Garry Shandling. Though truly beloved by fans and comedy peers alike, not many people knew that Shandling considered himself "a serious student of dharma" who felt a connection to Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh's tradition of Buddhist teaching and practice.
In this excerpt from his November 2013 Buddhism-and-comedy article, "Wise Fools," Lion's Roar's Rod Meade Sperry takes a look at Shandling's lesser-known spiritual side:
He's a comic's comic if ever there was one, but Garry Shandling is also a searcher — "a serious student of dharma," as he's put it — looking to find The Real Thing, and The Real Garry Shandling.
Maybe that's not a surprise, given how much of his work has played with ideas of self and ego: for example, the odd, long-running It's Garry Shandling's Show, which applied a meta spin to the classic sitcom format, with Shandling, as himself, frequently breaking the fourth wall. And then there's The Larry Sanders Show.
Larry, which ran through most of the nineties, was a send-up of late-night TV, tracking the life and death of a Tonight-style show and its neurotic but lovable host. Careful not to put forth a too-simple, too-cynical view of show business, Shandling made sure that authenticity reigned: Larry and his staff of producers, handlers, and lackeys thought, acted, and treated each other like real people do.
"It's like taking a Buddhist temple bell," Shandling has said, "an authentic, two-thousand-year-old Buddhist temple bell, and ringing it and going, 'Can you tell me why that rings so purely?' [It's] because it's the real thing. All these people in show business are human beings."
A longtime mindfulness practitioner in Thich Nhat Hanh's tradition, Shandling revealed his lesser-seen meditative side in bonus features shot for 2007's Not Just the Best of The Larry Sanders Show DVD set. Having started the show to, in his words, "discover more, Who am I?" we see him visiting with a Zen monk and with friends from the Larry era who help him weigh the Garry of those days against the Garry of the present. When Jeffrey Tambor (who stole scenes as Sanders' sidekick, Hank Kingsley) says, "The secret to everything [is,] don't think," it's not a big leap to infer that he's learned how to do this from his old boss and pal.
The otherwise-private Shandling does lament the camera's presence once or twice at these meetings, but we can see he's really trying to be open, to be willing to say and hear things about himself—no matter how intimate. He even allows us to see his previously secret dharma tattoo, an enso (Zen circle) meant to remind him of his work toward, as he says, "Ego-emptiness."
Is he a Buddhist? He resists the label. But as for finding The Real Garry Shandling, he seems to be getting warmer. Asked to contribute nuggets of experiential wisdom for Esquire's What I've Learned section, he included this among a clutch of one-liners:
"Impermanence. Impermanence. Impermanence."
Topics: Comedy & Humor, Garry Shandling, Shambhala Sun - Nov '13
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I do think a garden should be seductive. The strength of any garden is its ability to take you away.
— David L. Culp, in "3,000 Plants, and Then Some," The New York Times.
Unidentified garden in Pasadena, California, 1930, by Diggers Garden Club, via Archives of American Gardens, Garden Club of America, Smithsonian Institution Commons on flickr.
Simple, elegant, and a little mysterious. . .
The Diggers Garden Club was founded in 1924 and still exists today. It is a member of the Garden Club of America, which is celebrating its centennial this year.
At its 75th anniversary, the GCA donated 3,000 glass lantern slides (of which this is one) and over 30,000 film slides to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Gardens. Its members continue to contribute to the collection, which now has over 60,000 images.


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1) In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby exempts the central tax on inter-state supplies of goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapter as specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), as are given in corresponding entry in column (2), from so much tax as specified in Schedule IV of Notification No. 1/2017 - Integrated Tax (Rate), as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (4), of the said Table, on the value that represent margin of the supplier, on supply of such goods.
Chapter, Heading, Subheading or Tariff item
1. 8703 Old and used, petrol Liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) or compressed natural gas (CNG) driven motor vehicles of engine capacity of 1200 cc or more and of length of 4000 mm or more.
Explanation. - For the purposes of this entry, the specification of the motor vehicle shall be determined as per the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988) and the rules made there under.
2. 8703 Old and used, diesel driven motor vehicles of engine capacity of 1500 cc or more and of length of 4000 mm
3. 87 Old and used motor vehicles of engine capacity exceeding 1500 cc, popularly known as Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) including utility vehicles.
Explanation. - For the purposes of this entry, SUV includes a motor vehicle of length exceeding 4000 mm and having ground clearance of 170 mm. and above.
4. 87 All Old and used Vehicles other than those mentioned from S. No. 1 to S. No.3 12%
Explanation –For the purposes of this notification, -
(i) in case of a registered person who has claimed depreciation under section 32 of the Income-Tax Act,1961(43 of 1961) on the said goods, the value that represents the margin of the supplier shall be the difference between the consideration received for supply of such goods and the depreciated value of such goods on the date of supply, and where the margin of such supply is negative, it shall be ignored; and
(ii) in any other case, the value that represents the margin of supplier shall be, the difference between the selling price and the purchase price and where such margin is negative, it shall be ignored.
2) This notification shall not apply, if the supplier of such goods has availed input tax credit as defined in clause (63) of section 2 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, CENVAT as defined in CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 or the input tax credit of Value Added Tax or any other taxes paid, on such goods.


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Q: Named pipe (mkfifo) output format I am using a named pipe so a reader and a writer can communicate. The text I am moving is from an array of strings text[lines] and every lines consists of 4 words (or numbers) separated by a space.
The reader is:
string temptext1[lines];

int bufs = 1024;
char tempchar1[bufs];
for (int l = 0; l < lines; l++)
{
ssize_t chars1 = read(rfd1, tempchar1, bufs);
if (chars1 > 0)
    temptext1[l].assign(tempchar1, chars1);
tempchar1[0] = '\0';
}

And the writer:
wfd = open(fifoname.c_str(), O_WRONLY);
for (int p = 0; p < lines; p++)
{
    write(wfd, text[p].c_str(), text[p].length());
}
close(wfd);

However, the output of the writer is not always the same. Sometimes it omits changing line and so the outpus comes in blocks. Some are as they were supposed and others change line only if the buffer size is reached. Example:
1197332 Hunter Steven 62926191228732 Watkins Wanda 49260191248845 Raynor Martha 65254191251116 Chang Maurice 47853191265074 Cunningham Wesley 30632191273625 Vaughn Alicia 66399191277060 Doyle Kate 48450191289231 Patrick Eva 17533191291543 Hinson Sylvia 46649191311074 Fink Theodore 50564191321632 Stark Grace 64052191343213 Cooper Kristen 69265191357025 Bernstein Scott 22360191371284 Wall Erica 26280191372274 Knox Jill 44535191402568 Cox Claudia 27013191415579 Duke Gayle 39376191427406 Stein Evan 56028191442007 Barker Justin 15260191442433 Gross Robert 23075
191456852 McCall Nelson 3580
191471786 Lassiter Steven 13812
191475523 Hayes Warren 38732
191478103 Spencer Christine 46819
191516369 Skinner Lisa 51427
191522499 O'Connor Nicholas 66851

If i print the contents of the array in a file:
ofstream outofs("Taksinomimena3.txt", ios::app);
if (!outofs.is_open())
    return 1;
for (int p = 0; p < lines; p++)
    outofs << text[p] << "\n";
outofs.close();

everything is printed as it is supposed.


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by Ray Willington — Saturday, October 02, 2010, 10:22 AM EDT
Clearwire Loses Select Sprint Board Members
Here's a surprise: Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint, is no long on the board of directors for Clearwire, despite the fact that Sprint is the major pusher of Clearwire's 4G WiMAX services. Clearwire as a whole lost Daniel R. Hesse, Keith O. Cowan, and Steven L. Elfman, with all three resigning from the company's board of directors this week.
The reason why? "Clearwire was informed by Sprint that the decisions to resign were made out of an abundance of caution to address questions raised by Clearwire regarding new developments in antitrust law." In other words, nothing has gone wrong yet, but it may have been close. Clearwire's board structure allows for 13 members, seven of which Sprint has the right to appoint. The remaining four Sprint appointees to the Clearwire board are unchanged, and Sprint reserved the right to appoint new members to the Clearwire board at a later date.
It's unclear who will take their place just yet, nor what the real underlying reason was for their departure. We don't expect any of the shakeups to have any impact on Sprint or Clearwire services, and we fully expect Sprint to continue selling WiMAX from Clearwire. But it certainly raises questions about how close partners are allowed to be; recently, Apple, Intel, Adobe and other tech firms were forced to stop anti-competitive hiring practices in Silicon Valley.
Clearwire Announces Changes to Board of Directors
KIRKLAND, Wash., Sep 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR), a leading provider of wireless broadband services and operator of the largest 4G network in the country, today announced that Daniel R. Hesse, Keith O. Cowan, and Steven L. Elfman have resigned from the Clearwire board of directors. Hesse, Cowan and Elfman are all officers of Sprint Nextel Corporation and were nominated to the Clearwire board by Sprint.
Clearwire was informed by Sprint that the decisions to resign were made out of an abundance of caution to address questions raised by Clearwire regarding new developments in antitrust law. Clearwire's board structure allows for 13 members, seven of which Sprint has the right to appoint. The remaining four Sprint appointees to the Clearwire board are unchanged, and Sprint reserved the right to appoint new members to the Clearwire board at a later date.
About Clearwire
Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ:CLWR), through its operating subsidiaries, is a leading provider of wireless broadband services. Clearwire's 4G network is currently available in areas of the U.S. where approximately 66 million people live and the company plans to continue to expand its 4G coverage. Clearwire's open all-IP network, combined with significant spectrum holdings, provides an unprecedented combination of speed and mobility to deliver next generation broadband access. The company markets its 4G service through its own brand called CLEAR(R) as well as through its wholesale relationships with Sprint, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Strategic investors include Intel Capital, Comcast, Sprint, Google, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks. Clearwire is headquartered in Kirkland, Wash. Additional information is available at http://www.clearwire.com.
Tags: Sprint, WiMAX, Clearwire


Home » Message from His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd) on the passing of Lady Hannah Dadae.
Message from His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd) on the passing of Lady Hannah Dadae.
On behalf of the people of Australia, Lynne and I extend our deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to His Excellency the Hon Robert Dadae Governor-General of Papua New Guinea for the passing of his wife, Lady Hannah Dadae.
Lady Dadae was an inspirational leader in Papua New Guinea. I was honoured to meet with her in Port Moresby last year and in Queensland this year during the Commonwealth Games.
Our thoughts are with His Excellency and all Papua New Guineans at this time.


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Ectopic Pregnancy and Why Diagnosing It Is So Important
Michael Becker Mar 13, 2017
A missed period and a $15 home test kit can tell a woman she is expecting, making pregnancy one of the easiest conditions to diagnose. But sometimes things can go wrong even at this early stage. Normally, through an exquisitely delicate process, the fertilized egg makes its way from the fallopian tube and attaches itself to the wall of the uterus (womb) where it develops and grows during the course of the pregnancy. However, sometimes an error occurs, resulting in an ectopic pregnancy.
What is an ectopic pregnancy?
The word ectopic literally means "in an abnormal position." When a fertilized egg gets implanted in any place besides the uterus, it results in what is known as an ectopic pregnancy. This abnormal attachment most commonly occurs in the fallopian tube, which is why an ectopic pregnancy is commonly referred to as a tubal pregnancy. The fertilized egg may also get implanted at some other abnormal place such as the ovary, the cervix, or another organ in the abdomen. The fetus cannot develop or survive in an abnormal location outside of the uterus. An ectopic pregnancy requires emergency treatment.
The most common symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy are light vaginal bleeding, sharp abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and weakness. However, not every woman experiences these nonspecific symptoms. In fact, many women remain unaware that they are pregnant.
Why is the diagnosis of a tubal pregnancy so important?
If a physician suspects an ectopic pregnancy, they can confirm the diagnosis with a pregnancy test, a pelvic exam, and an ultrasound examination. Treatment for an ectopic pregnancy consists of either a drug called methotrexate or surgery.
Ectopic pregnancy requires immediate medical care. Early diagnosis is essential and can limit the damage. Surgery may be the only option if an ectopic pregnancy is diagnosed at a later stage. Delayed diagnosis of a tubal pregnancy is associated with:
Higher surgical risks
Increased likelihood of decreased fertility
Need to remove one or both fallopian tubes
How common is an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy?
A retrospective analysis at a teaching hospital found that 12 percent of women presented with an ectopic pregnancy, were initially sent home with an incorrect diagnosis, and subsequently required admission and treatment for a tubal pregnancy. The study also found that delayed diagnosis of tubal pregnancy was associated with a higher rate of salpingectomy (surgical removal of the fallopian tube). Unilateral (one-sided) salpingectomy reduces a woman's prospects for future pregnancies. Bilateral salpingectomy (removal of both fallopian tubes) renders a woman unable to conceive normally and makes it necessary for her to undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) in order to get pregnant.
What is medical negligence in diagnosing a tubal pregnancy particularly dangerous?
A fetus can survive for several weeks outside the uterus, but ultimately does not receive the blood supply and support necessary to develop normally. If a physician does not diagnose an ectopic pregnancy in time, the fallopian tube or other structure containing the fetus usually ruptures in 6 to 16 weeks. Although the fetus is not viable at this stage, a rupture is associated with severe bleeding can be life-threatening for the mother. The more advanced the ectopic pregnancy at the time of rupture, the worse is the blood loss and the higher is the risk of maternal death. It is, therefore, the treating physician's responsibility to diagnose ectopic pregnancy in a timely manner and limit the emotional devastation and physical damage to the mother's reproductive system.