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KARLI BUTLER
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Location: Chicago, USA
Date Of Injury: 2006
When it comes to adversity, some people are just unyielding. Karli Butler has faced some serious trials, but in each step, remains unbreakable. Turning her trauma into triumph, she's a survivor who by sharing her story and using it for good, does more than just show the world her strength.
In March 2006, she was the target of a vicious attack made in retaliation against her then boyfriend. The violent beating escalated to kidnapping, but Karli was able to escape from the trunk of her car while it was in motion. In May, another attack occurred—same motive, but different attackers— and this attack left much different scarring. Karli's attackers poured acid over her body and she spent the next six and half weeks in the Intensive Care Burn Unit. She endured over a dozen surgeries, but the emotional effects of her attacks ran much deeper than the external scarring. Due to a lack of sufficient evidence, only one of her five attackers was ever brought to justice, leaving Karli with a totally different wound.
Instead of letting trials defeat her, Karli made an important decision—to speak up. And as an expert in the art of communication, she is well equipped to do so. Karli is a proud alumna of DePaul University and she holds not only a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, but also a Master of Arts in Organizational and Multicultural Communication, incorporating that acumen when speaking to her different audiences. In addition to her academic degrees, she is a certified peer supporter of the University of Chicago Hospital's Survivors Offering Assistance in Recovery program and a trained circle keeper (or facilitator) with Restorative Justice Evanston and the Evanston Police Department.
Since making that extremely brave decision, she's delivered over 50 speeches and presentations for groups and organizations such as Valparaiso University, Loyola University Medical Center, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, and even her alma mater, DePaul University. These discussion-based lectures pertain to self-esteem, self- respect, forgiveness, and being a survivor of violence. She provides tips on overcoming trauma and life's obstacles, but most importantly, she demonstrates how self-esteem comes from within and it's ability to empower and heal the body and mind.
Karli's reach doesn't end with only those she physically meets and encourages. To prevent others from enduring similar trials, she worked to change legislation that could help a countless number of people in her home state and played a key role in the passing of Illinois House Bill 2193—a bill that requires anyone buying commercial-grade hydrochloric or sulfuric acid to show photo identification and have their data entered into a state database.
Karli currently lives in Evanston, IL and when she's not running around at parks with her adorable son Zailen, you can find her eating Hoosier Mama pie, or having drinks with her favorite gal pals….or ironing her superwoman cape.


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Psychopompos (afgeleid van het Oudgriekse: , psuchopompos, wat 'geleider van zielen' betekent) is een benaming voor wezens zoals goden, engelen of demonen, die volgens verschillende mythologieën en religies de pas overleden mensen begeleiden naar het hiernamaals. Dergelijke wezens komen in vrijwel elke religie voor, en worden daarin vaak geassocieerd met paarden, raven, honden, kraaien, spreeuwen, mannelijke herten en dolfijnen.

Achtergrond
In het oude Griekenland kreeg de god Hermes de titel psychagoog en psychopompos, en dit betekent 'geleider van zielen' naar de onderwereld, zoals in de mysteriën. In welke vorm de oude wijsheid in vervlogen tijden ook werd uiteengezet, steeds blijkt dat de planeet Hermes, of Mercurius, nauw is verbonden met de mysterieleringen die zich met het leven na de dood bezighouden. In India heette Hermes Boedha, niet te verwarren met Boeddha, en men noemde hem de zoon van Soma, de maan.

In Homerus' Odyssee kan men bijvoorbeeld lezen hoe Hermes de zielen van de overleden minnaars 'krijsend als vleermuizen', naar de 'weiden met affodillen' (boek 24) leidt.

Voorbeelden
 Azteekse mythologie
Xolotl
 Cahuilla-mythologie
Muut
 Keltische mythologie
Belatu-Cadros (in het bijzonder in Wales)
Epona
Ogmios
Ankou
 Christelijke mythologie
Michaël
Petrus
 Egyptische mythologie
Anubis
Neith
Horus
Seth
Thoth
 Engelse mythologie
Waetla
 Etruskische mythologie
Vanth
Charun
 Griekse mythologie
Artemis
Charon
Hermes
Thanatos
Hypnos
Morpheus
 Hindoeïstische mythologie
Agni
Pushan
Yama
 Inuitmythologie
Anguta
Pinga
 Islamitische mythologie
Azrael
Nakir en Munkar
 Japanse mythologie
Shinigami
 Jodendom
Gabriel
Sandalphon
 Mayamythologie
Ixtab
 Noordse mythologie
Baldr
Odin
Walkure
Hel
 Perzische mythologie
Mithra
 Polynesische mythologie
Aumakua
 Romeinse mythologie
Mercurius
 Slavische mythologie
Volos
 Voodoo
Guédé
 Zoroastrisme
Daena
Vohu Mano

Griekse onderwereld
Mythologie

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Given the opportunity to be engaged in a project with high social concerns, the C Spot comes as a reflex of a sustainable mission where the developer contributes to reduce levels of illiteracy by awarding the communities where they build roads, and viaducts, and bridges with a Spot, which is more than a school, but actually a space that foments social elevations through education.
Acting as community centers and people gatherers', the C Spots are supposed to be placed in sites with neither water nor electricity and with poor and uncharacterized urban tissues.
They are therefore designed to be portable, since assembled in main construction yards and then transported into their final site, cheap, with a maximum budget of 25.000USD and with no running costs, easy to build and self sustained.
The objective is to mark Angola's map with spots with 40 or 50 units to be built within the next 5 years.
The main aim is to invert the concept of (enclosed) space, where the object and the actions taking place within it project themselves towards the horizon, calling the population towards it.
The object is composed by a structure (steel profiles, common material within the Angolan market) and a core (actions within corporized in the blue wood and cement agglomerate panels), that refers both to the developer's logo as well as to the deepest routes of African learning (tree, bench table and the horizon), where the structure is what makes the core happen.
The cantilevered object, in which the roof acts as a big funnel collecting the rainwater into the tank enclosed within the opaque centre of the plan, is divided into an open shaded area where the learning and community meetings take place, and an enclosed side which holds the toilets and teacher's room.
The rainwater tank actually makes the threshold between the open and enclosed sides acting as a structural stabilizer.
After being transported to site, the white steel profiles elegantly settle on the ground contrasting with the bright red colors of Angolan soils. The link between the ground and the Spot is made by the use of portable and expandable steps held by the main structure. A secondary structure comes out to perform the tables and benches.
The deep blue wood and cement agglomerate panels then clad and close the needed areas, without touching neither the roof nor the pavement, in order to naturally ventilate the whole object. The roof is designed to hold filled water bottles to enhance natural lighting through the deep blue until dawn.
Totally sustainable, where the only element built on site is the treatment plant for water re-use, the C Spot is design to be resistant, long lasting and to allow flexible uses, as well as acting as a people gatherer and as an urban magnet.
On the whole, the C Spot is a reflex of who makes it all possible, in Angola for Angola, fomenting learning and social elevation through education, in a space that blurs boundaries and that projects itself though the vast African horizon.
January 30, 2010 in Africa.


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African All Stars
Dino Ndlovu's highly-anticipated return ends in defeat against Chelsea
Shina Oludare
Qarabağ v Chelsea
The South African was on for 85 minutes as Qarabag's aspiration to earn a Europa League ticket suffered a setback
Dino Ndlovu returned to Qarabag squad as the Horsemen bowed 4-0 to Chelsea on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old missed out of his side's 1-1 draw at Atletico Madrid following his dismissal when they hosted the Spaniards in Baku.
A win could have boosted their chances of reaching the Europa League after a failed expedition in the Champions League – but defeat to Antonio Conte's men with goals from Eden Hazard, Cesc Fabregas and a double from Willian mean they will wait till the last day to learn their fate.
Coming into this game, Ndlovu was on target as Qarabag silenced Sumqayit 2-0 in an Azerbaijan Premier League.
Against the English champions, he was stopped by Antonio Ruediger, Cesar Azpilicueta and David Luiz before he was replaced by Dani Quintana.
The former Cape Town City player has featured 10 times in this season's Champions League with four goals to his credit.
Qarabag rock the base of Group C with four points from five matches. They face AS Roma in their last game of the competition on December 5.
Ndlovu: I slept in a toilet to go pro, now I face Chelsea

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Beautiful Poolside Property at the All-new Nemo Cay Resort!
Nemo Cay Resort D146 is in a secluded yet centrally located position on North Padre Island, giving you easy access to everything the Island has to offer. Nemo Cay Resort is the ideal complex for families looking to come down and enjoy the new Schlitterbahn water park as well as the many other area attractions, including beautiful beaches, great fishing, golf, surfing and so much more. Endless miles of windswept beaches are a just a mile away and several local restaurants are within walking distance and many more are within a 2 mile drive.
But there's also plenty to enjoy at the complex as well, including a deluxe community swimming pool, kids pool, spray fountains, cabanas, BBQ pits, and a playground with slides, a tire swing and more! Coming down in the winter? Then you'll really enjoy the heated pool! Throughout the entire complex you'll find coastal palm trees and lush tropical landscaping.
Stepping into this poolside property you'll find beautifully decorated interiors and comfortable furniture. The open living, kitchen and dining area looks out over the pool and is great for entertaining. The downstairs master bedroom and one upstairs bedroom come with king size beds, the other room comes with a full size bed and 2 twin bunk beds. All together there are enough beds to sleep ten comfortably. Linens for every bed and bath towels for every guest are provided.
This unit requires a minimum 2 night stay and it is available for monthly rentals during non-peak season, please contact us for more details.
The unit looks exactly like it did in the pictures. It was very clean and well stocked and we had the pool right off of our back door. We loved this place and will definitely stay again. "
Completely loved the property and location. Everything was exactly as stated. We have decided to make this an annual family event!!"
We love it at Nemo Cay!The location is great and close to beach access, the kids love the pool & playground area. Being close to pool is convenient. "
This place was amazing. It was decorated so cute and the beds were very comfortable. It was a perfect fit for two families. "
Rental was nice and not far from the beach. Really enjoyed the pool being right outside the back door, great location on the property. Only downside was the internet wasn't that great so the tv's upstairs didn't really didn't work without access to it. Overall nice clean property. "
This rental is in a good location; not too far from the beach. I like that it has a patio area and is right across from the pool. Everything was clean except for the coffee pot that was left uncleaned and already had mold in it. I'm guessing the cleaning crew never noticed it but we ended up just cleaning it out. Other than that, the condo is very roomy and the bunkbed room is very convenient. The beds were also comfortable."
Our stay was very relaxing. The kids enjoyed the pool and nearby beach. Place was nice and clean. Would definitely want to come back."
Excellent, the easyiness of booking, checking in and checking out. The unit was absolutely wonderful for a family with young kids. "
Very satisfied! This is our 4 time coming back"
"Ultimate Relaxation! Fun for the whole family!
Nemo Cay Resorts is beautiful! We were pool side, which was the ultimate experience! The salt water pool was perfect, like being at the beach without the sand! The kids loved the splash pad with the shallow pool around it to swim and play! The room was nicely decorated with awesome touches of home! Don't forget your sunblock though! I highly recommend this resort to everyone. Checking in and out was a breeze, plus no major chores! Which is always a plus! "
Rented 2 condos for 20 family members. "
Accomodations were great as usual"
We had a wonderful time at this resort! The accommodations were great and the kids as well as the adults enjoyed it being just steps away from the back door! Great location, didn't take us but a few minutes to get to the beach. If you are cooking for a big group I would suggest bringing some of your own pots and pans. Great place to stay! "
This townhome was everything we expected and more. All the comforts a home with the hint of a luxurious hotel room. Not to mention the family friendly pool just steps away from our back courtyard. My family and I can't wait to get back!"
Very nice place to stay. Very clean and comfortable. The pool was a little small for the # of people staying in the condos and parking for a place that sleeps 10 is not ideal. Overall, a very nice place to stay."
The facilities were as described, and communication from the Padre Escapes staff was very good. Our family and especially our grandchildren enjoyed the pool and the proximity to the beach and Padre/Corpus area. As a final note, my father accidently left a valuable item behind when we checked out, and the cleaning and office staff were refreshingly honest about the whole thing, going above and beyond to make sure everything was recovered. We were extremely pleased and would highly recommend Padre Escapes to anyone."
We had a great time despite the rain. The home we stayed in was poolside and very convenient for guests with many small children. The only problems we had were one of the chair legs we're almost broken. Also the hall light in the staircase was out. I contacted the office and they were supposed to replace it but never did. It was an issue because I had small children staying on the second floor. Other than that I was completely satisfied and plan on staying again in the future. "
The condo was very nice, we had three children and there was so much room for them. The pool and property were really great, we will definitely stay again. We had dinner at Black Sheep Bistro love the food there."
Everything that we needed was there from pots, dishes,pool, and games. It was clean and set up very nicely. The only thing that I didn't like is that your establishment did not have a hot tub. However I would consider staying there again."
House was in great shape, and the A/C ran cold. Only complaint was all the silverware was broken (the handles were falling off). That and you need more than 3 parking spaces for a rental that has 3 bedrooms."
The property was very clean and had everything we needed! A perfect place to stay for a large group! "
The rental was fabulous...decorated beautifully. The kids had a great time as the pool was at our backdoor. Everything was as described online. We will be back."
Great experience here. Property is brand new, some units are still being finished. Great place for kids, loved the pool. "
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Home > Royal Caribbean Cruise owns real estate in Falmouth, runs leasing portfolio
Published:Friday | June 7, 2019 | 12:26 AM
Shellion Rhoden, business manager of the Falmouth Jamaica Land Company Limited (FJLC), said Monday that occupancy continued to be high, with only six shops out of 60 available for lease at this time.
"We are reviewing applications, but we definitely are not taking any more souvenirs," she told the Financial Gleaner, explaining that the company was a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises Lines (RCCL), which operates commercial properties landside at the Falmouth Port.
The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) operates the adjacent port. "They do the access control and berthing control of the ships," Rhoden said, outlining that FLDC managed the commercial developments.
Royal Caribbean is an investor in Falmouth, partnering with the PAJ. Its ships, Harmony of the Seas, Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas, are three of the biggest ships in the RCCL fleet which routinely call at the port.
Rhoden did not share revenue from commercial operations, nor did she comment if RCCL ran similar enterprises in other ports. For 2018, RCCL reported net income of US$1.8 billion.
In the FJLC's Jamaican portfolio are all shops which are leased, as well as a three-storey building with apartment units.
The port includes restaurants, cafés, boutique shops, craft markets, offices and residences, citing historic attractions and points of interest within walking distance on its website.
The buildout, contracted by the PAJ, was done by E. Pihl & Son, an international contracting company based in Denmark. Pihl provided construction and project management, with financial arrangements made possible by the central bank of Denmark.
The FJLC properties, Rhoden said, was acquired and reconstructed from 2011 when the upgrade of port facilitates was done in the historic port.
With over 120,000 square feet of leasable retail space, the commercial operation includes a variety of retail and duty-free shops.
The PAJ, in its annual report for 2016-17, said Falmouth continued to be the island's most popular cruise port with 721,501 visitors, despite a decline in passenger arrivals of 5.2 per cent (39,315) relative to the fiscal year 2015-16.
The port was built at a cost of US$270 million. The town is undergoing further upgrades to enhance visitor experience and use of space.
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You can change the vegetable according to the season, but the method is always the same. The secret: Put the vegetables with the longest cooking time at the bottom of the tajine so they all cook evenly.
Slice the onion or leek into very thin slices. Put into a thick-bottomed casserole.
Slice the rest of the vegetables into long pieces that are more or less even.
Put the vegetables and spices in the casserole little by little, starting with the potatoes.
Add the olive oil and 2 Tbsp water.
Cover and place on medium-low heat until steam starts to come out from under the lid. Turn down the heat if necessary.
Continue cooking for about 30 minutes until the vegetables are starting to simmer in their own juices (of course the cooking time varies according to the vegetables and your taste- adjust accordingly).
Add the olives about 10 minutes before cooking is finished.


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Winter of discontent looms as museum strike dates announced
Walkouts planned at SMG, Bradford museums and MoL
Geraldine Kendall Adams @Gkendall
A series of strikes will be taking place at museums across England in the coming months over low pay and funding cuts.
Workers at Bradford City Council's museums and libraries service are planning 14 days of strike action this autumn, starting with a two-day walkout on 21-22 October. Further strikes are scheduled next month, and a week-long walkout is planned the run-up to Christmas.
Members of the union Unite are protesting against the council's plans to cut its museums and libraries budget by 65%, which they warn will make the service unsustainable, as well as resulting in redundancies, pay cuts and the erosion of employment conditions for staff.
Relations between union members and the council appear to have deteriorated, with the union saying the council has not engaged in meaningful consultation with them over the plans. Further tensions have arisen in recent weeks over fears that the council may employ casual workers to cover striking employees.
Unite's convenor for Bradford Council, Patrick Kelly, told Museums Journal: "Unite expects all its members to take part in industrial action and expects colleagues not to cross a picket line. Unite have been informed that the council are contacting casual workers to provide cover for striking members. A Labour council actively engaging non-employees to break a legitimate industrial dispute is unacceptable."
A spokesman for Bradford Council said these rumours were not true. He said: "The council will not bring in new temporary resources to cover the strike. We're well aware of the legislation and requirements surrounding strike action.
"As ever, the door remains open for Unite to talk with us."
Kelly also said the council had not been transparent about the costings of its plans. "It is Unite's view that the proposals tabled for museums and libraries are not sustainable," he said, adding that the union had serious concerns over the future of three of the service's four museums, which comprise Bradford Industrial Museum, Cartwright Hall, Cliffe Castle and Bolling Hall.
Pay row
Meanwhile, Science Museum Group (SMG) workers are planning a further day of strike action on 23 October, after staging their first walkout in August this year.
The industrial action was prompted by a below-inflation 1.5% pay increase offered to most staff this year, as well as the SMG's failure to offer its lowest paid staff the Real Living Wage.
Since the first strike there has been some movement by the institution's management on the issue. SMG managing director Jonathan Newby said: "Following discussions with Prospect union, we have communicated two important commitments to all of our colleagues. The first was to reach the Real Living Wage/London Living Wage from 1 April 2020, which will involve a further significant pay rise on top of last year's increase of 6.9% for colleagues on the lowest salaries.
"We also offered to begin meaningful discussions about next year's wider pay settlement with Prospect from November and confirmed that pay will be a priority in next year's budgeting decisions."
But in a statement, Prospect said this offer fell short of its demands because the SMG had "failed to make a long-term commitment to cost-of-living pay, and offered no improvement on this year's pay".
The union added: "Workers earning below the Real Living Wage will continue to do so until the conclusion of the next pay round – this is not sustainable."
Plans for a half-day strike have also been announced by workers at the Museum of London, after they voted to reject a 1.5% below-inflation pay rise. The walkout is due to take place on 24 October.
News analysis: Museums starting to pay a heavy price for low wages
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Jonno designs a single storey mechanically movable house for Lorna who is relocating to Zimbabwe.
I am hoping that you are able to help me with a house plan. We – my husband and three daughters – have to relocate to a farm in Zimbabwe, which we do not own. We are looking to build a safe, economical, single-storey home. We always have family visiting to help out on the farm, so we would like to have a spare room, which should be slightly private from the rest of the house.
In addition, the house should be built so that when the economy improves in Zimbabwe, we are able to extend it with an entertainment area or a second floor. Can you please help us with some ideas?
Here is a request that might have universal appeal and where titled property is not the order of the day. In the UK and USA, some people have their complete house mechanically relocated to another site. The home I've designed can also be moved: it is built in movable modules that can be loaded onto a normal flatbed truck. The sketch alongside depicts seven sections of the house that will be independently constructed and then bolted, one to the other (see the different-coloured sections).
The roof is a segmented mono-pitched assembly. This is designed so that it is not too high, allowing the building to be transported on the flatbed safely through any bridge underpasses. These structures normally have a maximum height limitation of 4,6m. The floors will consist of a concrete slab, which can be left behind when moving – a small expense.
The fourth bedroom can be added by relocating the bathroom and using it as a passageway to an additional bedroom or two, on that side of the house. The construction is that of 'stud' walling, clad externally with fibre-cement horizontal boards and internally with wood composition boarding, or something similar. The roof is of metal cladding, all very lightweight for purposes of cartage by truck.
Author John Smith, better known as Jonno, can be contacted at Hillbilly Homes, PO Box 255, Estcourt 3310, tel 036 352 3178, fax 088 036 352 3178, cell 082 412 4459 or email [email protected]. Please provide details of the proposed development and any building material you have access to.


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Nickelodeon has revealed the nominees and categories for its inaugural Kids' Choice Sports 2014 live awards show where kids in the US vote for their favorite athletes across 15 kid-focused categories including "Sickest Moves" and "King and Queen of Swag."
Beginning June 12, kids can cast their votes at www.nick.com/sports/ before the event's live telecast which will be hosted and executive produced by NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan on Thursday, July 17 (8 p.m. ET/PT) from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.
The nominees were determined by rankings from kids and insight from the Kids' Choice Sports Council of popular sports figures including Cal Ripken Jr., Deion Sanders, Misty May-Treanor, and Ken Griffey Jr.
In cross-platform support, Nickelodeoon is launching exclusive short-form sports video content online at www.nick.com/sports/ and via the Nick App beginning June 5 featuring Nick shows, athlete photo galleries and brand new games.
A full list of the nominees and categories can be found here.


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Q: Output IDs from playGetIDs to a Vector in R Here's a set of x and y pairs:
x = c( 3, 1,  2, 10,  9,  8,  6,  7,  5,  4)
y = c(15, 5, 10, 50, 45, 40, 30, 35, 25, 20)

I would like to be able to interactively identify the indices of this data, and store the indices of the identified points in the order they were identified.
Even though identify() says that it will do this with pos = FALSE, I couldn't get that to work.
I would prefer to use playwith if possible - it is really easy to zoom in to areas with high densities of points, select the points, zoom out, and then keep selecting points.
Here's a good start, borrowed from "copeg":
 playwith(xyplot(y ~ x, main = "Select Points to Delete, then close"),
    width = 4, height = 3.5, show.toolbars = FALSE,
    on.close = confirmClose, modal = FALSE,
    click.mode = "Brush")

After the plot loads, select points, then
 index <- playGetIDs()

I've tried all kinds of alternatives to the playGetIDs() line, but I can't get it to populate index with the IDs in the order they were selected.

A: If you use a non-modal window, the playwith function will return immediately, returning a playState object.
ps = playwith(xyplot(y ~ x, main = "Select Points to Delete, then close"),
    width = 4, height = 3.5, show.toolbars = FALSE,
    click.mode = "Brush")

You can then select the points in the plot, and when finished get the IDs from the playState object.
selectedIDs = playGetIDs(ps);

Alternative, the zoom package has a zm() function to zoom a plot, and can be used together with identify, although the calls must be independent:
library(zoom)
plot(x,y)
zm()
#use mouse or keys to navigate and zoom, then exit
chosen = identify(x,y)
zm()
#zoom to another location if needed
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The Power of Everyday Missionaries
The What and How of Sharing the Gospel
By Clayton M. Christensen
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Written by Clayton M. Christensen
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"Uncomfortable." "Intimidating." That's how many people describe member missionary work. Clayton Christensen admits that he and his wife, Christine, felt that way in the past too. But they also recognized the tremendous blessings associated with the work, and they wanted to learn how to share the gospel in ways that would be natural and rewarding.
Clayton's expertise as an innovator kicked in, and he set out with friends and family members to find a more effective approach to member missionary work. Their refreshing perspectives are presented in this book, which includes inspiring, unusual stories that demonstrate the effectiveness of the ideas. Chances are, you'll discover you're already doing a lot of the things mentioned, and with just a little tweak here and there, you'll be sharing the gospel naturally as part of your everyday interactions. Along the way, you'll feel the deep joy that comes from helping others discover the most precious blessing in the world: the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Also Suggested For You
The Missionary's Little Quote Book
Jesus the Christ Study Guide
Return and Continue With Honor
Early Homecoming
Tri-Fold Priesthood Ordinance Card
The Missionary's Little Book of Teaching Tools
Becoming the Bold Missionary
The Highly Effective Missionary
Overall Customer Rating of 5 Reviews:
By Nan on 6/5/2019
Extremely helpful for learning how to share the gospel with others.
By Beth Delaney on 9/4/2017
This book has changed the way I speak about the Gospel. I now use the Mormon words in my everyday conversations which has lead to many extended conversations. I am relaxed when I speak of my faith which leads the other person to also be relaxed. My Ward has used this book to increase the missionary work to proceed faster in our small part of His vineyard. I would encourage anyone who wishes to be more comfortable in their effort to become an everyday Missionary.
Book for missionaries
By Tls8213 on 4/6/2017
I bought this book, and 3 others, for my son who is the Missionary leader in our Ward. He loves anything pertaining to missionary work!
Being an Everyday Missionary
By robbielu on 3/15/2017
Dr. Christiansen lays out a pretty simplistic means of explaining to each of us as members of the Church that it is so uncomplicated for each of us to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others who are in our daily lives.
Power of Everyday Missionaries
Dr Christianson lays out a very straightforward way for each of us to share the Gospel with others and to recognize the values of our own testimonies in ways the make so much sense to me. He has shown me what my testimony of the Gospel is worth to myself and to others.


It is a common scenario for dental practices, medical centres, and businesses with a receptionist / front desk.
A customer arrives, registers at the front desk, and then sits, waiting to be called in.
Or maybe calls in instead, warning he will be 10 minutes late.
How can the receptionist notify the doctor/dentist/therapist of the event? And when the customer finishes the treatment, how can the doctor inform the receptionist that the appointment is completed? Or that the customer must reschedule a new appointment?
By popular demand, we've now made this very easy from within Bookeo.
You can now enable the tracking of the booking status, in the Settings / Booking preferences page, under the 'Booking status' tab.
You can define the statuses that you want to track (every business is different!), and associate a unique color to it.
Now, any user in your business that has access to the scheduling interface can change the status of a booking by simply clicking on the small square in the top right section of the booking.
And the most useful feature is that the change will propagate immediately to the screen of every other person in the office that is logged in to their account. So for example a doctor can simply keep his calendar open all day, and without touching a button he can monitor the status of his appointments as they update in real-time!


Plug & Play in-line solution allows the use of any 3.5" Serial ATA hard drive to be used in your iMac while maintaining proper system fan speed control via Apple's built-in SMC with no software hacks. Fully compatible with Apple diagnostic testing.
With the OWC Internal HDD DIY Kit, you can replace the original hard drive in your iMac with a hard drive up to 4.0TB (sold separately) for up to 8x more storage capacity!
This kit does not include the tools required for performing this upgrade. If you need an upgrade kit with tools, you can purchase the OWC Internal HDD DIY Kit. Unlike some other drive upgrade options for 2011 iMac models, this OWC DIY kit is certified to successfully pass the Apple Hardware Test. This means the newly installed hard drive will work with Apple's built-in diagnostic process, preserving proper system fan speed control.


Created by award-winning director, producer, and writer Brian Henson and actor, director, and improvisational guru Patrick Bristow (Ellen, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Whose Line Is It Anyway?), Puppet Up! – Uncensored is a wild romp in which the skilled art of puppetry and spontaneous comedy collide. Unpredictable and irreverent, Puppet Up!- Uncensored is never the same show twice. Expert puppeteers create twisted scenes and songs on the fly, as suggestions from the audience prompt the improvised story lines unfolding on stage. The production delivers-two-shows-in-one of improvised Henson puppetry. The hilarious puppet action is projected live on large screens flanking the stage, while the puppeteers race around below displaying their skills in full view of the audience. With live musical accompaniment and Patrick Bristow as host, Puppet Up! – Uncensored boasts a cast of six world-class puppeteers in an uninhibited live puppet performance, as never seen before. After just the first few moments of watching or rather interacting with the puppets of Puppet Up! – Uncensored, you'll realize this is no ordinary puppet show. Of course, purists in the audience can still watch the traditional puppet show on a large screen in between blurting out suggestions that become sketches. This 'psychotic puppet party' also features a few recreations of classic pieces originally created by Jim Henson, Jane Henson, and Frank Oz that haven't been seen by live audiences in decades. For adults only.


Attached below is a document outlining how to pause LPR camera trigger actions.
An issue could arise from a gate having two LPR cameras for number plate recognition triggering for the same car.
To solve this problem, the document describes how to pause an LPR triggering action for a certain period, for example 10 seconds. This is to avoid triggering the gate twice for detecting the same car.


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Tag: European Commission
The European Commission vs. the People
Published by demetriodor on December 6, 2012
Note: re-post from the sister-blog The Commission has recently published its vision about the future of European integration. The report is more than ambitious calling for full banking, economic, budgetary and political integration, including 'dedicated fiscal capacity for the euro area' which I believe means taxation powers for the EU. Here is the assessment of the Commission about the present state of EU's legitimacy: The Lisbon Treaty has perfected the EU's unique model of supranational democracy, and in principle set an appropriate level of democratic legitimacy in regard of today's EU competences. ..it would be inaccurate to suggest that insurmountable accountability problems exist. (p.35) Wow, wait a minute! P e r f e c t e d the model of supranational democracy?! Appropriate level of democratic legitimacy?! Are the Commissioners living on the same planet as the rest of us? According to data from autumn 2012, fewer than 1 in 3 Europeans said they trust the EU. 60% don't trust the EU. For only 31% of European citizens the EU 'conjures' [sic] a positive image, while for 28% it 'conjures' a negative one. In late 2011 only 45% of European expressed satisfaction with the way democracy works in the EU. 43% were not satisfied with the 'perfected model of supranational democracy'. And what about the impact of the Lisbon Treaty? Here is a graph of the trust Europeans have in the different EU institutions. By the way, the Commission currently stands at 36% (click to enlarge the graph). The trend is quite clear from a…
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Why EU Commissioners Are Poor Politicians
Published by demetriodor on November 23, 2012
Note: a highly-opinionated piece re-posted from the EU blog I contribute to EU Commissioners might be seasoned bureaucrats but make for lousy politicians. Viviane Reding, currently responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, and Commissioner since 1999 (!) is surely a masterful mandarin, but doesn't play the politics game very well. And by politics, I don't mean the internal bickering between the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament: I am sure she is a world champion at that – I mean politics as the art of pleasing the public while getting things done. Perhaps after so many years in the Brussels bubble Commissioner Reding has forgotten altogether that pleasing the public is part of the politics game as all. But when public support for the EU is hitting a new low, I can't help but think that the feelings of the public should be high on the Commissioner's mind. In September this year Viviane Reding announced that the Commission is coming up with a proposal to set a compulsory 40-% quota for women on boards of public companies. Immediately, nine countries (including the Netherlands and Britain) and a few fellow Commissioners (including several women) expressed very strong disagreement. This, however, was not enough to put the brakes – on 14 November, the Commission approved a watered-down version which 'sets an objective of a 40% presence of the under-represented sex among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges', a "flexi quota" and a statement that 'given equal qualification, priority…
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Co-decision and decision-making speed in the EU
Published by demetriodor on May 15, 2012
Our paper (with Anne Rasmussen) on the influence of early agreements (trilogues) on the speed of decision making in the EU has just been published by the European Integration Online Papers (EIoP). The abstract is below. Anne blogged about the findings here. Abstract: The increased use of early agreements in the EU co-decision procedure raises the concern that intra and inter-institutional political debate is sacrificed for the sake of efficiency. We investigate the effect of early agreements (trilogues) on the time it takes for legislation to be negotiated during the first reading of co-decision. We find that the first reading negotiations of trilogues on salient legislation take longer than first readings of similar files reconciled at second and third reading. First readings of early agreements also appear to last longer when considering all co-decision files submitted to the 5th and 6th European Parliaments, but the effect is masked by a general increase in first reading duration after 2004. We conclude that even if early agreements restrict access of certain actors to decision making, they allow for more time for substantive debate at the first reading stage than similar files reconciled later in the legislative process. By the way, let me use the occasion to congratulate EIoP for being one of the very few free and rigorously peer-reviewed, SSCI-indexed, journals. All articles are available online without a subscription and without a registration. While many people talk against the gated and hugely expensive academic journals, very few authors actually support the free…
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Q: How to switch off English International Keyboard in Windows 10 I have Win10 Home on my laptop in English (United States). Personally I need only two keyboard layouts: English (US) and Russian. But for some reason there appears a third one: English (INTL), which for example uses quotes etc to make symbols outside of standard English alphabet. This keyboard is not listed among those in Settings (I only see Russian and English US there). How do I removed it. Permanently. I never want for it to come back. Please.

A: Try the following ways:

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*Right-click on your keyboard icon, and then left-click on Settings.

Select the Advanced Key Settings tab, and find the Change Key Sequence button. Then, select the not assigned option.
Click OK to save your settings.

*You may also change your settings through the Control Panel if you cannot locate the keyboard icon.

Head to your Control Panel and select Regional and Language.
Select the Keyboards and Languages tab, and click the button that says Change Keyboards.
You will be taken to the language settings options described above. Follow the directions to deactivate the foreign keyboards.


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4.20.005 Wrongful death—Application of terms.
4.20.010 Wrongful death—Right of action.
4.20.020 Wrongful death—Beneficiaries of action.
4.20.030 Workers' compensation act not affected.
4.20.050 Action not abated by death or disability if it survives—Substitution.
4.20.060 Action for personal injury survives to surviving spouse, state registered domestic partner, child, stepchildren, or heirs.
Action for injury or death of a child: RCW 4.24.010.
Actions by and against executors: Chapter 11.48 RCW.
Imputation of contributory fault of decedent in wrongful death actions: RCW 4.22.020.
Words in RCW 4.20.010, 4.20.020, and 4.20.030 denoting the singular shall be understood as belonging to a plurality of persons or things. The masculine shall apply also to the feminine, and the word person shall also apply to bodies politic and corporate.
When the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another his or her personal representative may maintain an action for damages against the person causing the death; and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount, in law, to a felony.
Every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, state registered domestic partner, child or children, including stepchildren, of the person whose death shall have been so caused. If there be no wife, husband, state registered domestic partner, or such child or children, such action may be maintained for the benefit of the parents, sisters, or brothers, who may be dependent upon the deceased person for support, and who are resident within the United States at the time of his or her death.
In every such action the jury may give such damages as, under all circumstances of the case, may to them seem just.
Workers' compensation act not affected.
RCW 4.20.005, 4.20.010, and 4.20.020 shall not repeal or supersede chapter 74 of the Laws of 1911 [Title 51 RCW] and acts amendatory thereof, or any part thereof.
(1) All causes of action by a person or persons against another person or persons shall survive to the personal representatives of the former and against the personal representatives of the latter, whether such actions arise on contract or otherwise, and whether or not such actions would have survived at the common law or prior to the date of enactment of this section: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the personal representative shall only be entitled to recover damages for pain and suffering, anxiety, emotional distress, or humiliation personal to and suffered by a deceased on behalf of those beneficiaries enumerated in RCW 4.20.020, and such damages are recoverable regardless of whether or not the death was occasioned by the injury that is the basis for the action. The liability of property of spouses or domestic partners held by them as community property to execution in satisfaction of a claim enforceable against such property so held shall not be affected by the death of either or both spouses or either or both domestic partners; and a cause of action shall remain an asset as though both claiming spouses or both claiming domestic partners continued to live despite the death of either or both claiming spouses or both claiming domestic partners.
(2) Where death or an injury to person or property, resulting from a wrongful act, neglect or default, occurs simultaneously with or after the death of a person who would have been liable therefor if his or her death had not occurred simultaneously with such death or injury or had not intervened between the wrongful act, neglect or default and the resulting death or injury, an action to recover damages for such death or injury may be maintained against the personal representative of such person.
Action not abated by death or disability if it survives—Substitution.
No action shall abate by the death, marriage, or other disability of the party, or by the transfer of any interest therein, if the cause of action survives or continues; but the court may at any time within one year thereafter, on motion, allow the action to be continued by or against his or her representatives or successors in interest.
Rules of court: Cf. RAP 3.2, 18.22.
Action for personal injury survives to surviving spouse, state registered domestic partner, child, stepchildren, or heirs.
No action for a personal injury to any person occasioning death shall abate, nor shall such right of action determine, by reason of such death, if such person has a surviving spouse, state registered domestic partner, or child living, including stepchildren, or leaving no surviving spouse, state registered domestic partner, or such children, if there is dependent upon the deceased for support and resident within the United States at the time of decedent's death, parents, sisters, or brothers; but such action may be prosecuted, or commenced and prosecuted, by the executor or administrator of the deceased, in favor of such surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner, or in favor of the surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner and such children, or if no surviving spouse or state registered domestic partner, in favor of such child or children, or if no surviving spouse, state registered domestic partner, or such child or children, then in favor of the decedent's parents, sisters, or brothers who may be dependent upon such person for support, and resident in the United States at the time of decedent's death.


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Q: Customer-Segmentation based on feature importance The problem:
We have asked customer-satisfaction for various shops (variable satisfaction ranging from 1 to 4).
In addition we have provided 30 shop features and our participants had to rate if the shop-feature fits the shop (1 yes it fits, 0 no it doesn't fit).
Now we want to find out which of the 30 shop features are most important for the overall satisfaction rating. Therefor we used a random forest.
But we think, that there might be different customer segments with different requirements (shop feature importances).
Now we are looking for this different segments.
here is an example of the dataset:

One possible way could be to cluster our customers in a first step and in a second step we calculate the importancies for each segment and compare them.
But in this case we might overlook some "better" segments that couldn't be clustered (because we are missing an important variable or something similar).
So we would like to calculate importancies and segments "at the same time". The segmentation should be based on the importancies.
My approach to this problem would be something like this:
I would add a segmentation variable more or less random to cluster the sample into groups. After that I would calculate the importancies and check if there are any major differences (I have no idea how to judge if a difference is major or not yet).
In a next step I would start permuting the segmentation variable and compare the newly formed groups and so on until every possible segmentation combination is done.
After that I would select the segmentation that brought the biggest differences (and check if these segments look reasonable in practice too).
There are a few problems with this aproach:

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*it might need a lot of computer power, because it has to be done a great number of random forests.

*Finding the best number of segments and as well finding the best number of customers per segment will increase the calculation effort again (lets say we have 20 customers. I could start looking for 2 segments with 5 customers in 1 segment and 15 in the other. After that i could look for 6 customers in 1 segment and 14 in the other and so on).

*I am not sure if this approach will be biased by random noise in the data.
I might end up having segments that are just the result of noise?
Do you think this is a good idea for the given problem?
Are there any alternative/better methods?

A: You can consider trying the following:

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*Cluster your customers first.

*Assess the cluster and rating at the same time via the interaction effect:
Satisfaction ~  D1 + D2 + ... + D30 + Customer_Type + Customer_Type:D1 + ... Customer_Type:D30


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Doctor Who: The Waters Of Mars (2009) Review
Posted on October 10, 2020 by thecoolkat1995
The RTD era of Doctor Who reaches its penultimate adventure with "The Waters Of Mars", and perhaps it says something about my taste in television, but I stand by what I've said several times before on this blog: a lot of Russell T. Davies' best episodes were the really morbid and depressing ones, because when the man wanted to write some really bleak Doctor Who, he could do it really well. "The Waters Of Mars" (a story Russell co-wrote with Phil Ford) is a pretty significant episode in the series. Arguably, the Tenth Doctor's entire character arc, ever since he made his debut in "The Christmas Invasion", has been building up to him having a horribly traumatic and humbling experience like the one that sets the stage for his finale in "The End Of Time", and to this day, "The Waters Of Mars" is remembered fondly for the direction it takes the Tenth Doctor's character in.
You'll notice that all of the Series 4 specials so far have followed a pretty familiar pattern for the series – "The Next Doctor" was a story set in the past, "Planet Of The Dead" was set in the present (albeit on an alien planet, halfway across the galaxy), and for "The Waters Of Mars", we take a trip into the not so different future, when humanity has just started to make progress with exploring outer space beyond the moon. The plot and the setting of this episode feels very reminiscent of previous Tenth Doctor adventures like "The Satan Pit", "42", "The Fires Of Pompeii" and "Midnight", but it doesn't feel like an outright rethread of those horror-based episodes, instead it feels more like the spiritual successor of them. You have the unnerving feeling of total isolation from "The Satan Pit", the old school slasher movie vibes from "42", the enigmatic villain from "Midnight", and the mediation on fixed points in time (and the consequences that come from breaking them) in "The Fires Of Pompeii".
Fixed points in time were officially established in "The Fires Of Pompeii" to give the Doctor limitations, to keep him from becoming too overpowered or invincible as the series' protagonist. The way time travel typically works in Doctor Who, foreknowledge is utterly damning. The Doctor and his friends almost always go into an adventure blind: they don't know what's going to happen, therefore anything can happen and they don't have to worry about accidentally causing a paradox by removing their whole reason for being there in the first place (which is what Rose did when she saved Pete's life in "Father's Day"). They especially try to avoid major events in human history where they can change the development of the entire human race for the worse. Whenever they do encounter a fixed point, they always have to tread lightly, because trying to change history's outcome will at best, be totally futile, and at worst, cause them to become a part of the events and make the disaster happen anyway (like "The Fires Of Pompeii's" incredibly dark ending).
In "The Waters Of Mars", the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) is quite rightly alarmed when he takes an unsuspecting trip to a space base on Mars, only to realize all the astronauts there are doomed to die in a horrible cataclysm later that day. Much like his previous approach to Mount Vesuvius (a day before the volcano was due to erupt), the Doctor has no desire to stick around and watch them all meet their gruesome deaths, and he's forbidden to interfere in the day's events because of the consequences that might ensue, so he immediately tries to get out of Dodge, but the humans keep preventing him from leaving. From there, the Doctor winds up getting involved with the unfolding catastrophe anyway, because he never could resist a good mystery nor his innate desire to help other people.
Throughout the bulk of this special – as he learns more about Adelaide and her crew, about the Flood and they danger they pose to every single human living on the Earth – Ten's better judgment as a time lord is fighting against his core nature as a person, and it's losing. As a result, the Doctor feels very guilt-ridden about the position he's stuck in, burdened by this terrible knowledge. One of the most depressing scenes in the entire show has to be the Doctor watching Adelaide and her crew running around the base, getting their hopes up about escaping back to Earth as they pack their bags to leave. He has a blank, dead-eyed stare on his face the whole time, knowing full-well that everything they're doing is doomed to fail, and he can already see the signs of their imminent demise on the horizon.
But despite every fiber of his gut insisting that he do something, that he step in and make some kind of difference as the humans are steadily overwhelmed by the Flood, he forces himself to walk away, to be cold and uncaring – and it tears him up inside. The Tenth Doctor has always felt conflicted about how much he should meddle with the natural order of things: he felt tempted to change the past and do away with all his past regrets about the time war in "School Reunion", he raged about how unfair it was that he couldn't save Astrid from her brutal death in "Voyage Of The Damned", not being able to save Pompeii is one of his greatest failures, and the horrors of the time war that he couldn't prevent have been weighing on him heavily throughout the RTD era. As Ten is forced to listen to the astronauts die cruelly and helplessly, one by one, something in him snaps.
As the last time lord in the universe, he officially decides to tear down the rules of time and space and matter and do whatever he likes. There's no one else around to stop him, and he's already done it before anyway, when he dispatched Harriet Jones. She was supposed to usher in Britain's golden age, but when the Doctor decided she was unfit for office, he changed the future on a whim: he created a brand new timeline without a thought as to what the consequences might be (and the consequences of that decision did come back to haunt him eventually, when the Master took up her old position). Normally, one of his friends would protest his actions in this episode and express their concerns about how far he's going, but he's been traveling alone for quite some time now, and he's got no one to answer to but himself.
The final ten minutes reveal an uglier side to his personality. Before now, it's seemed somewhat odd that the Doctor and the Master used to be friends, since they're so different from each other. But this episode's final act makes it very apparent that, deep down, the Doctor has the same time lord arrogance and hubris that the Master does, to the point where Ten's dialogue actually starts to echo his, and that makes him very corruptible. Eventually, Adelaide can see the warning signs of Ten becoming drunk with power if he goes around changing history carelessly, leaving devastation in his wake, especially since his motives are not entirely altruistic. According to Carmen, Ten's story is ending soon, and as the Moffat era will state multiple times, the Doctor doesn't like endings. In the final scene, Ten unwittingly drives someone to suicide out of fear of him and what he could do, and "The Waters Of Mars" becomes a Greek tragedy about a fool who thought he could cheat fate and lost. And if the Doctor couldn't change time for Adelaide's sake, he quickly realizes his own chances of avoiding the Grim Reaper aren't looking so good right now.
In a refreshing step up from "Planet Of The Dead", Russell once again crafts a likable and charismatic supporting cast with the astronauts in "The Waters Of Mars", which makes it all the more sad when almost all of them are killed off by the Flood. You've got Yuri, the gabby, practical jokester; Roman, the snarky, robot-loving nerd; Steffi, the one who keeps order; and Ed, the stern second-in-command who seems to have some unresolved issues with Captain Adelaide, from a past falling out that's curiously always left up to our imaginations. Naturally, the crew member of Bowie Base One who's given the most screen-time and character development is Captain Adelaide Brooke, who runs a tight ship.
The captain is very distrusting of the Doctor, since he's an intruder who arrives on her base on the same day at the same time everything goes wrong. She's also no fool: she can tell the Doctor's holding out on her about everything he knows – so they alternate between being at odds with each other and helping each other out throughout this special. Adelaide became a pioneer of space travel for the greater good of humanity, but also out of curiosity and wanderlust. She was changed by an encounter she had with the Daleks in her childhood – and it's implied that even the Daleks, as terrible as they are, fear the wrath of time to the point where they wouldn't dare alter a fixed point by killing her. That's a spooky thought that adds some real weight to the stakes of this story, and under ordinary circumstances, it would make a lot of sense. The Daleks may be evil, but they have a strong sense of self-preservation. However, it feels a bit at odds with "Journey's End", the episode that flashback is set in. In that story, the Daleks had gone completely insane and were trying to nuke everyone and everything in the multiverse: so what they did have to lose by breaking the laws of time at that point?
In any case, Adelaide spent years dreaming about what might lie out there in the universe, and like a lot of astronauts, she put in the hard work to satisfy her curiosity. In "The Waters Of Mars", she discovers that everything she's been striving towards, her destiny, her entire purpose in life, all along, has been to die – so the rest of humanity can fly. Imagine how much of a horrible, depressing revelation that would be. Like basically anyone would, Adelaide's first reaction is to reject it, to rebel against it – she refuses to believe the Doctor's assertion that they're all slaves to time. But at her core, Adelaide is a pragmatic woman who won't deny the truth of an ugly situation when it's right in front of her eyes – that's presumably the reason why she was appointed captain of her crew in the first place.
As their situation grows more and more hopeless, and the humans' chances of survival dwindle down to none, Adelaide accepts her fate and makes peace with it. And in a shocking change from the norm, it's the Doctor who tries to rage against it, almost breaking time to try to prove something to himself. Going off of what the Doctor told her, Adelaide can already foresee all the possible ways that the Doctor's attempts to help could backfire, and totally screw over humanity's future, but he refuses to hear any of it in a rather creepy conversation where we get a glimpse at the kind of person the Doctor could become if he completely tossed aside his inhibitions (we'll get an even longer glimpse of it in "Hell Bent", several seasons down the line). Adelaide's solution to defy the Doctor and fix everything gives us one last bit of unexpected darkness. When the Doctor turns his back to her, Adelaide slowly pulls out her gun, and for a moment, you think she's going to shoot the Doctor – but then she goes inside her house, and you realize, it's intended for her. It's one more morbid example of characters in the RTD era putting history back in place, by committing suicide.
The villains of this episode, the Flood, are utterly chilling. Like the Beast, the Weeping Angels, the Vashta Nerada and the creature from "Midnight", they embody a fear of the unknown, since we only ever learn the bare minimum about them. The Flood are parasites, a primal force imprisoned by the Ice Warriors, that spent thousands of years sleeping underneath the ice on Mars until they encountered humanity. The Flood are a plague, an infestation, that travels through water: they only need to touch someone with one drop to consume them and claim their body for their own (though they usually like to attack people with a full geyser, just to make sure they get the job done). The Flood primarily want human vessels so they can have hands and feet to advance their goals: after being isolated on a dead world for centuries, they want to make the Earth their new home, a planet that's covered in water for them to swim in and repopulate.
There's an ironic parallel drawn between the Flood and the astronauts on Bowie Base One: they both want to same thing, to travel off-world and create a new colony that's perfect for their species, except humanity won't survive the Flood's infestation. The Flood's zombies are implacable and unrelenting, and the scary thing is just how efficient they are. Water is very versatile: it can slip under doors and seep through cracks, and as the Doctor astutely points out, if you give it enough time, it can get in anywhere. It's made abundantly clear that the best thing the astronauts can do is slow them down, but they can't stop them, and the Flood will take them all, one-by-one. The sequence where they fall, like a line of dominoes, is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the RTD era – Roman's death, and Ed's death are especially tragic because of just how sudden they are.
"The Waters Of Mars" is the last episode Grahame Harper directed for the series (which really cements that this era of Doctor Who is coming to an end), and he certainly goes out with a bang during his last stint in the director's chair. The exterior shots of Mars's surface were filmed in Taff's Well Quarry in Cardiff, with the help of some CGI work from the Mill, we get some beautiful vistas of the lonely red planet in space throughout the episode. Inside Bowie Base One, a lot of filming was done inside the National Botanic Garden of Wales, to give the greenhouse scenes the space they required. Grahame Harper does his usual thing and gets creative with the perspective shots he uses to tell this story (including some of his signature extreme close-ups during moments of emotional intensity).
"The Waters Of Mars" is filmed a lot like an old school slasher flick, with several eerie, out-of-focus shots where the astronauts keel over abruptly and silently transform into zombies in the background, while their crewmates are completely unaware of the danger they're in – and the episode holds on these kind of shots just long enough to make the viewers feel deeply uncomfortable. The lighting department, and the crew members in charge of the episode's coloring grading, also deserve a mention: the biodome scenes have a very grey and washed-out look to them, reminiscent of several episodes from Series 1, that really helps to enhance the uneasy mood of this episode. Since "The Waters Of Mars" is a story with two main thorough-lines running through it in regards to its tone, Murray Gold's score (blending together a traditional orchestra, a choir and several synthesizers) frequently walks a line between being tensely horrific, and quietly stirring. "The Fate Of Little Adelaide", "Altering Lives", and "Vale" are the standout tracks of new material in the episode, with the last one in particular becoming the official theme for the Tenth Doctor's swansong and implied to be composed by the Ood in-universe.
As the set-up for the Tenth Doctor's regeneration story, and its own standalone horror episode, "The Waters Of Mars" is a rousing success at everything it sets out to do: giving the Tenth Doctor some proper character development, while also telling a tragedy about the cruel nature of time. And to be truthful, I actually like it quite a bit more than the two-parter that follows it.
Rating: 10/10.
Side-Notes:
* Believe it or not, "The Waters Of Mars" was originally concieved as a Christmas special, and signs of that can still be found in the finished episode (Adelaide mentions that it's almost Christmastime on the base, and it's snowing later back on Earth). This was already a pretty grim episode to air around Thanksgiving, and it would have made for a very morbid Christmas special.
* "If we could cut the chat, everyone" "Actually, chat's second on my list, the first being gun pointed at my head. Which then puts my head second and chat third, I think. Gun, head, chat, yeah. I hate lists".
* "I hate robots. Did I say?" "Yeah, and he's not too fond of you".
* "Are you the Doctor or the janitor?" "I don't know. Sounds like me. The maintenance man of the universe".
* Guys, why the hell would you decide to split up in the creepy, dark greenhouse when you suspect something bad has happened to the rest of the crew?
* "Earth is so much water" "Yeah. Just look at her. Forty million miles away" "It has so much beauty. We should like that world".
* Poor Roman is practically given a seizure when the Doctor decides to hijack his funny robot for quite escape, and Roman is still plugged into it.
* "We're safe. It's hermetically sealed. They can't get in!" "Water is patient, Adelaide. Water just waits. It wears down the clifftops, the mountains, the whole of the world. Water always wins".
* "The problem is, this thing is clever. It didn't infect the birds or the insects in the biodome, it chose the humans. You were chosen. And I told you, Adelaide, water can wait. Tarak changed straight away, but when Maggie was infected it stayed hidden inside her, no doubt so it could infiltrate the Central Dome. Which means-" "Any one of us could already be infected. We've all been drinking the same water" "And if you take that back to Earth, one drop. Just one drop".
* "Now, Doctor, get to your ship. I'm saving my people, you save yourself. I know what this moment is. It's the moment we escape. Now get out" Oh honey…
* "Imagine, imagine you knew something. Imagine you found yourself somewhere. I don't know, Pompeii. Imagine you were in Pompeii. And you tried to save them, but in doing so, you make it happen. Anything I do just makes it happen".
* "I can't. I'm sorry, but I can't, Adelaide. Sometimes I can, sometimes I do. Most times I can save someone, or anyone. But not you. You wondered all your life why that Dalek spared you. I think it knew. Your death is fixed in time forever. And that's right"
* "I hated it, Adelaide, this bloody job! You never gave me a chance, you never could forgive me. See you later".
* "But you said we die. For the future, for the human race" "Yes, because there are laws. There are laws of time. Once upon a time, there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? Me! It's taken me all these years to realize the laws of time are mine, and they will obey me!"
* "Not beaten! Not beaten! You've got spacesuits in the next section! We're not just fighting the Flood, we're fighting time itself. And I'm going to win!"
* "Adelaide, I've done this sort of thing before. In small ways, saved some little people, but never someone as important as you. Oh, I'm good. For a long time now, I thought I was just a survivor, but I'm not. I'm the winner. That's who I am. The Time Lord Victorious".
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The Ford Mustang has accumulated more racing wins in North America than any other Ford product. Created by Ford Racing, the Ford Mustang FR500GT and the Ford Mustang FR500C may soon be set to compete within the Federation Internationale De L''Automobile (FIA) GT competition, where Ford Racing hopes to continue its racing success in Europe. European teams are already taking notice of the new cars, and the cars are expected to be very competitive on some of Europes best tracks.


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Biografia
Laureato in Lettere, insegnò dal 1889 al 1931 nel Ginnasio Liceo del Seminario vescovile di Treviso, istituto di cui fu anche preside. Affidò numerosi legati alla Biblioteca del Seminario di Treviso.

Appoggiò l'Opera dei Congressi e, nel 1904 fu eletto al Consiglio Provinciale di Treviso.

Opere
L'opera più importante del Marchesan è costituita sicuramente dai due volumi di storia trevigiana, tratta da documenti originali e inediti d'archivio, intitolata Treviso medievale, Istituzioni, usi, costumi, aneddoti, curiosità (edita per la prima volta a Treviso nel 1923, L. Gargan ha curato nel 1990 per Atesa, Bologna, la 3ª ristampa anastatica con presentazione e aggiornamento bibliografico).

Tra gli altri scritti di carattere storico si possono ricordare le biografie Pio X nella sua vita e nella sua parola (1904), Gaia da Camino, Della vita e delle Opere di L. Da Ponte (Treviso 1900), Dante a Treviso (Treviso 1900).

Membro dell'Accademia dell'Arcadia con il nome di Alberto d'Isseo, scrisse alcuni volumi di poesia: Goriz (Treviso 1894), Inda (Treviso 1897), Calando le vele e raccogliendo le sartie (Treviso 1910).

Bibliografia
 Roberto Binotto, Personaggi illustri della Marca Trevigiana. Dizionario bio-bibliografico dalle origini al 1996, Treviso, Fondazione Cassamarca, 1996.

Collegamenti esterni

Accademici dell'Arcadia
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The future of photography does not lie in the cheapness but in the quality of a picture. If a photograph is beautiful, complete, and durable, it acquires an intrinsic value before which its price disappears entirely.
The popularity that daguerreotypes have obtained will soon be surpassed by that of photographs on paper, and their great number scattered among the masses, will form an artistic taste and education, while art itself will no longer be permitted to deviate from the only true path, that of nature. (1852)
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2014 International Derby winner Kallisto and Tammy Provost.
Antioch, IL – August 31, 2015 – Your ticket to a Day in the Country for the amazing Chicago Hunter Derby, presented by Canadian Pacific, guarantees you a memorable day in additional to helping three great charities. Mark your calendar and gather your friends for this VIP affair, Sunday, September 6, 2015 at the gorgeous Annali-Brookwood Farm in Antioch, IL.
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In-form Spartans giving Armstrong a headache
Despite Saturday's 2-1 win over Evo-Stik Premier League promotion rivals Stourbridge making it ten wins from ten games in 2017, Blyth Spartans manager Alun Armstrong isn't enjoying the selection headaches caused by his side's fine form.
Robert Dale's broke the deadlock with a near 30-yard free kick 24 minutes in, before Daniel Maguire found the net for the seventh consecutive game just before the break to give Spartans a commanding lead.
Stourbridge captain Tommy Tonks struck an unstoppable consolation in the last minute of the game, but Spartans held on to see their winning run reach double figures.
And while he obviously delighted with maximum points from Blyth's last ten games, Armstrong isn't enjoying having to leave players out of his winning side. However, he went on to add that each of his players still has a part to play from now until the end of the season.
When asked if he was finding management to be a breeze after ten consecutive wins in what is still his debut season, Armstrong replied:"It's great at the minute. It always is when you're winning.
"To be perfectly honest, the hardest part is trying to leave people out. You look at the lads even on our bench and they'd walk into anyone's team.
"That's not just me saying it, they would walk into anyone's team in this league – without a shadow of a doubt – and I've got to try and keep all of those lads happy. The best way to do that is to keep winning games.
"There's plenty of games still to go and there's a few Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday games coming up, so they'll all have their part to play heading towards the end of the season. Therefore, we've got to make sure everyone's singing from the same hymn sheet."
Saturday's game at the War Memorial Athletic Ground was billed as a massive game for both side's hopes of promotion this season, but Spartans were able to control long spells of the game and Armstrong was "delighted" with what he saw from his side.
The 41-year-old added: "I was delighted with the result, but I was delighted with the performance as well. It wasn't a vintage football performance, but you could see the other side of us; sheer graft, determination, willingness to win, willingness to work, win the ball back and nullify their threat.
"I thought we were in control of the game throughout. I'm disappointed that we conceded right at the end because, when you look at the whole game, it was never a 2-1 game – as we dominated them from start to finish.
"Their keeper made some great saves, so we could have had three or four and no one could have complained. That was with us only playing in second or third gear as well."
An entertaining first 20 minutes had fooled the 1376-strong crowd into thinking a classic back-and-forth contest would continue until the final whistle, but the Glassboys' heads began to drop when Dale smashed a low free kick through the wall and past Stourbridge stopper Matt Gould. And while it wasn't the best opening spell for the Spartans captain up until that point, Armstrong insisted that he backed Dale to find the back of the net.
Armstrong said: "You'll probably laugh and think I'm making this up, but – after what was a bit of a stinker of a first 20 minutes for Robbie – I said to Daz [assistant manager Darren Holloway] 'he'll score here' when he was stood over the free kick. He got it through and that's Robbie; everyone knows what he's like and he can win you a game just like that.
"I thought Jarrett [Rivers] – who was outstanding again – did well to get down the right and put in a great ball. It was a fantastic finish from 'Nipa' [Maguire] and the timing of the second goal right before the break virtually killed them off.
"We were comfortable second half as I say, but it was disappointing to concede right at the end. The great thing for me though, was that the lads were disappointed to let one in as well.
"The work ethic was second to none and we just have to make sure we carry this forward into the game on Wednesday. My most important focus is still Saturday though – and that's not meaning any disrespect to Blyth Town.
"I've said from the off that I'm not going to lose sleep over cup games, it's the league that's the most important thing to me."
Even though Armstrong appears to be prioritising the league over the Techflow Group Northumberland Senior Cup, he has decided to leave the result of Wednesday's semi-final in the hands of his players – as he might not be able to make it to the game, as it stands.
Armstrong said: "I'll make sure those lads that need games get their chance against Blyth Town. I'm also in at work as it stands at the moment, so it might be left to my assistant managers if I can't get the time off!
"I'm leaving it up to the lads really. If they want to win it, then they have to perform.
"Obviously, the final is at St James' Park and there's also the bragging rights in Blyth for the winner. The lads are probably more interested in those really.
"We've got to make sure we put in a good performance, look after ourselves, not pick up any niggles and see the game through."
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by Elizabeth | January 2, 2010 · 7:43 pm
[listen up]…ODT, retailers, spoilers
If rugby at the stadium isn't your thing…
### ODT Saturday 2 Jan 2010 (page 40)
In the twilight of our lives, we have discovered a new game. Mornings in bed, six days of the week, we have fun spending time searching for small snippets of news among the colourful advertisements in our Otago Daily Times. On Sundays, we actually are finding we are experiencing withdrawal symptoms, not being able to play this game.
Gaynor and Baden Gilchrist, Ranfurly
Available in print and digital editions of the Otago Daily Times.
If like Ross, you're waiting for "100% off our normal price for a new TV"…
### ODT Wednesday 30 Dec 2009 (page 16)
Shopping bargains
What is a good deal? The question has to be asked when day after day large retailers offer discounts ranging from 20% to 50%. What are these discounts off? In business, giving discounts all the time means that your retail price has a large markup, or you are going to go broke.
{continues}
Ross Davidson, Kew.
ODT Letter of the Week, to be published in full at ODT Online http://www.odt.co.nz/opinion
Post by Elizabeth Kerr
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Tagged as Home watching TV, Local rag, Normal prices NOT KNOWN, Poor consumers, Retailers with HUGE marketing budgets, What is NEWS
by Elizabeth | January 2, 2010 · 12:43 pm
Wellington issues
Thanks to James' twitter feed…
Wellington ratepayers bail out tourist attractions
By Dave Burgess and Emily Watt – The Dominion Post
Some of Wellington's key visitor attractions are in dire financial straits, and it is ratepayers who will be asked for a bailout.
Zealandia: The Karori Sanctuary Experience has received another $2.3 million in a secret deal sealed behind closed Wellington City Council doors – and it now wants more money to set up a cafe.
Council documents reveal funding issues for other organisations, including the St James Theatre, which is so broke that it tends to avoid risky shows, the cable car, which might have to ask the council for more money to pay for safety upgrades, and the Basin Reserve, which cannot afford to maintain its LED replay scoreboard.
The Wellington Regional Stadium Trust is not controlled by the council but is included in the briefing papers, which warn that it may be unable to repay a $15m council loan due to ground upgrades ahead of the Rugby World Cup. The trust has also yet to renew the contract for the NZI Sevens from 2012 and beyond.
Mayor Kerry Prendergast and council chief executive Garry Poole refused to answer questions.
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Tagged as Asset management, Bad business, Bailouts, Debt management, Infrastructure services, Ratepayers, Visitor attractions, Wellington City Council
Urban regeneration: knowing where potential lies
The past decade has created a flood of carbon copy useless 'new' city centres…
### guardian.co.uk Tuesday 29 December 2009 10.13 GMT
2000 to 2009: Reviews of the decade
Regeneration in the noughties
By Tom James
I moved to Sheffield in 2000. Back then, it was a pretty mad place: a post-Blade-Runner-city of soviet-style car parks, motorways through the city centre and pedestrians herded into underpasses. Knackered, empty and full of potential.
Regeneration seemed to offer an opportunity to change all that, to turn the city into something amazing. My friends and I dreamed of old factories full of art and music; of our brutalist heritage restored; of derelict cooling towers turned into Tate Moderns of the north. We realised pretty quickly that this was a little ambitious.
-Tom James is an urban activist and writer.
Follow the link above for more Guardian articles on Regeneration, including:
30.12.09 Public space in the noughties by Anna Minton, author of Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City, published by Penguin.
This should have been the decade of public space but, instead, areas are increasing becoming privately owned and controlled.
20.11.09 Politicians must acknowledge the value of volunteering
Don't pay us lip service, recognise the part we play in regenerating communities, says Brenda Grixti, Manager of Benchill Community Centre in Wythenshawe.
5.8.09 Legacy of the docks
It is time to rethink the London Docklands development as simply a struggle between powerless locals and 'yuppie' colonisers, says former resident Michael Collins.
### localknowledge.mercatus.org Friday, January 1, 2010
Caring Communities: The Role of Nonprofits in Rebuilding the Gulf Coast
By Peter J. Boettke
The idea of "social entrepreneurship"—innovation in the philanthropic sector to fill in the gaps left by both the market sector and the state sector—has become a hot topic in the last decade. People increasingly wonder how nonprofit enterprises and social entrepreneurs can effectively mimic the successes of the market economy in increasing human welfare, choice, and dignity without either the profit-loss system of markets or the democratic and constitutional checks of the public sector.
The face-to-face forces of reputation and community membership not only coordinate highly effective small-scale projects that support those in need, but they provide a sense of community and identity to us all.
This issue of Local Knowledge seeks to pay attention to and increase our understanding of the necessity and vitality of such associations and the work of social entrepreneurs in society, both in normal times and in those that are most trying.
-Peter J. Boettke is University Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Vice President of Research, Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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