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Check This Out: Ritual of the Lost Lamb
Posted on May 12, 2017 by L. Marie
Dark times are waiting for the champions in
RITUAL OF THE LOST LAMB!
Cover Art by Jason Pedersen
Death is a blessing that the Baron is not ready to bestow upon his new toy.
In the chaos surrounding the Spirit Well, Luke Callindor has disappeared and the only clue the psychic scream of agony that Dariana cannot ignore. Knowing that a journey to Shayd will result in their ultimate battle, the champions have devised another way to rescue their friend. With permission from the gods, Nyx has begun the Ritual of the Lost Lamb. It is a long and exhausting spell, which is made even more difficult by a new threat that is out to make all of the Baron's enemies suffer.
It is a race against time where every minute lost brings Luke Callindor one step closer to a fate worse than oblivion.
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Excerpt: Audience Granted
Having said her piece, Nyx gnaws on a hunk of jerky and sips at a waterskin while the others discuss her idea. She refuses to admit that she is having second thoughts about breaking a god seal even with permission. The last time she accomplished such a feat was by accident and resulted in her magic being sealed for days. Nyx shudders at the memory of feeling so many lives ending at her hands and takes a sloppy drink of leathery water to steady her nerves. The result is a full body convulsion of disgust and a hacking cough as the liquid goes down her windpipe. Flicking a green beetle off her shoulder, the channeler impatiently paces in a circle and wonders why the others are taking so long.
The hairs on the back of Nyx's neck rise and her arms become covered in goosebumps as a pulse of energy ripples through the clearing. She is about to ask her friends if they feel anything, but stops when she sees that they are frozen in time. The half-elf's heart pounds in her chest as she fears that the Baron is about to attack. More terror seeps into her mind when she expects to turn around and find Luke's tortured body dangling before her eyes. Not wanting to be caught by surprise, a flaming disc appears in her palm and hums as she searches for the source of the powerful spell. The snap of a twig to her left causes Nyx to hurl the fiery circle, which splits into a swarm of deadly copies that would destroy any normal enemy. Against the ebony platemail of Gabriel, the discs puff into balls of harmless smoke that remain hovering in place.
"Your friends have agreed to your idea," the Destiny God states, ignoring the mortal's amusing attack. He removes his black cape, which becomes a vague chair for the nervously bowing channeler. "Now, this is unique. In fact, it is quite unheard of, which is why I am granting you an audience. The Law of Influence says I cannot get involved, but nobody has ever asked for permission to do something like this. Needless to say, all of us are very curious to see how all of this plays out."
"I want to unseal the Ritual of the Lost Lamb," Nyx politely requests while she takes a seat on the cape. An enchanting warmth rises from the cloth and she nearly falls asleep from the blissful energy that infects her body. "This is the only way to save Luke without marching into the Baron's territory. We both know that is what he wants. With the forbidden ritual, I can gather my little brother's residual energy and bring him home. None of us will be at risk since it's a combination of a summoning and teleportation spell."
"Strange that you know about a spell designed by channelers. Especially since it has not been used since the ancient Race War," Gabriel says with a nod of his head. Urging voices in the back of his head causes the god to hum with his mouth closed, the spell jolting the sources of his rising irritation. "The Ritual of the Lost Lamb was taken from mortals before my time, but I understand the reason it made the gods worry. Such a thing could be the first step into summoning a deity against his or her will. Possibly even stealing immortality. Though I believe times have changed and we should reconsider the sealing."
"Time is also running out," the channeler replies, shying away when the powerful deity stares at her. A flickering realization that the Baron's power might be on the same level of Gabriel gives her the courage to meet the man's piercing eyes. "I apologize for sounding like I'm rushing you. Yet, it has been said that the gods and goddesses have no concept of time since you exist forever. That means I have to push even though I want to speak with respect."
"In other words, you want a decision now."
"That would be best, sir."
"Sadly, I cannot agree to your terms."
"I haven't made any terms."
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Charles Yallowitz was born and raised on Long Island, NY, but he has spent most of his life wandering his own imagination in a blissful haze. Occasionally, he would return from this world for the necessities such as food, showers, and Saturday morning cartoons. One day he returned from his imagination and decided he would share his stories with the world. After his wife decided that she was tired of hearing the same stories repeatedly, she convinced him that it would make more sense to follow his dream of being a fantasy author. So, locked within the house under orders to shut up and get to work, Charles brings you Legends of Windemere. He looks forward to sharing all of his stories with you, and his wife is happy he finally has someone else to play with.
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Check This Out: The Mercenary Prince
Posted on December 30, 2015 by L. Marie
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LEGENDS OF WINDEMERE:
Delvin Cunningham has left the champions.
Lost to his tribe in the Yagervan Plains, fear and shame have kept the former Mercenary Prince away from his homeland. With his confidence crumbling, he has decided to return and bring closure to his past. Reuniting with his old friends, Delvin's timing could not be worse as a deadly campaign is brewing within Yagervan's borders. Dawn Fangs are on the march and these powerful vampires are determined to turn the entire region into a graveyard.
To protect his family, friends, and two homelands, Delvin will have to push his doubt away and become the cunning Mercenary Prince once again.
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Excerpt from The Mercenary Prince
With the hint of a smirk, Selenia quickens her pace and unleashes a barrage of blows on her former student. Each strike and stab is deflected by the sweat-covered champion, his speed increasing to match her every time. At one point, the half-elf leaps forward and is struck in her stomach by his shield, which forces her to flip over his head. The headmistress lands in a crouch and whirls around to block the counterattack, the point of Delvin's sword gently running along the leather patch over her stomach. Realizing that he is still holding back, Selenia bats his next attack away and delivers a painful kick to his exposed side. The blow knocks him against the fountain and he comes dangerously close to falling into the water.
While rubbing his bruised side, Delvin circles the headmistress who turns to continue facing him. He makes a few feints that she refuses to acknowledge because they are clumsy and pathetically amateurish. The gathered students and teachers shout for more action, all of them believing the brown-haired warrior to be afraid of the legendary woman. None of them realize that his circles have been getting tighter and his fake attacks have caused Selenia to misjudge his distance. It is something she realizes when Delvin makes a quick swing for her hip and their weapons strike closer to their hilts than she expects. The moment the half-elf steps back to gain some space, her former student pushes forward with precise strikes that mirror the onslaught she previously unleashed. Without a shield, the headmistress finds it more difficult to block every attack and has to twist her body away from several attacks. The movements prevent her from throwing a kick or punch, which would probably hit the shield that he has yet to include in his advance.
Selenia eventually catches Delvin's blade and slides her weapon along its edge to step within his swinging range. The pair push against each other, their muscles straining to gain the upper hand. Every time one of them is about to gain ground, their opponent shifts enough to continue the frustrating stalemate. With a grunt of exertion, Delvin moves his shield in front of the headmistress's face and blocks her view. Knowing she is expecting him to push forward, the warrior falls onto his back and lets the surprised half-elf's momentum slam her face into the wooden disc. The back of his head bounces off the ground as he flicks his wrist to deliver an extra shot to Selenia's chin. She rolls away from him to recover her senses, but Delvin scrambles to keep her in reach and continue his attack as they stand.
"You actually hit me," Selenia states when she notices that her nose is bleeding. She ducks under her opponent's swing and aims her hilt for his stomach, the blow only grazing his shirt. "I think you've achieved two firsts for this academy, Delvin. Nobody has ever drawn my blood or made me dizzy during a match."
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Check This Out: The Merchant of Nevra Coil
Posted on September 10, 2015 by L. Marie
When the mischievous and random Goddess of Chaos gets angry, all of Windemere becomes her plaything.
It all starts with a collection of toys that have taken the populace by storm. People of all races flood the marketplaces to gather figurines of the champions whose adventures are starting to spread across the land. Stemming from the flying city of Nevra Coil, these toys bring with them a terrible curse: Fame. Every town becomes a mob of fans that hound their new idols and the delay is bringing the world closer to the hands of Baron Kernaghan. Perhaps worst of all, the creator of these toys forgot to include a certain exiled deity who is now out to earn herself a figurine.
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A screeching alarm goes off inside the vessel, signaling for everyone to pay attention to the pilot. Jo flicks a few switches above her head, amplifying her voice so everyone can clearly hear her. "We're coming to Nevra Coil. Get ready for docking at Inspiration Tower instead of one of the Ring Houses. If you want to see the city then come to the front, but you better not complain while I'm giving the tour. I'll be going too fast to repeat myself. We're starting with the bottom, so don't be scared. There hasn't been a crash in a month. Two months since a fatality."
The champions gather around Jo's chair and watch as the clouds part to reveal the underside of the flying city. The steel gray earth has several narrow tubes of yellow crystal spread along its gleaming surface, the enchanted objects creating a spiral that leads to a red, metal rod. An occasional spark falls from the central pole and dissipates into the clouds, giving the illusion of lightning. Jo has the vessel steadily rise to give everyone a clear view and she taps her ear to silently get her passengers to listen. Beneath the sounds of the ship's rotors, the champions hear a dull hum whenever they pass close to a crystal. Those with keen eyes can see a sapphire orb that flickers like a flame inside the yellow tube's core, but the strange object is definitely solid like a rock.
"The flight crystals are designed to push off and ride the waves of the ocean. The outer tube is the reflector and the ice gem is the controller," Jo explains as they flip around the far side of Nevra Coil. She scowls at the whimpering gypsy and begrudgingly slows the vessel down. "The central rod is what keeps us in a small area as we spin like a very slow top. Without that, we'd be floating all over Windemere's oceans. You'll feel the rotation at first, but the awkwardness will pass within a few hours. Before you ask, the system does nothing to the ocean below. We keep ourselves at a great height to prevent that and we turn off the crystals if we have to drop. That's only in case of severe damage, so they would probably be malfunctioning in such an event anyway. Our backup system is a small army of pedaling stone golems that we activate in the core of Nevra Coil. Let's get to the real event. Hey! Watch where you're going, you son of an oil slick!"
The vessel swerves out of the way of a small, windowless craft that is powered by a pedaling gnome. Once their heads stop spinning, the champions get their first look at the city of Nevra Coil. Glistening towers are everywhere with a vast collection of flying devices and beasts moving among them. Several structures are missing pieces, revealing metal beams and hardworking gnomes who are trying to finish the construction. The city is a beautiful creation of metal, stone, and glass with nothing on the earthy ground besides several colonies of orange slimes. The burbling creatures feast on the garbage that falls out of hatches, which are built into the lower floors of every tower. Compared to the enormous buildings, Jo's vessel feels like a rowboat as it weaves among the chaos. Several times they come close to hitting another ship, their skilled pilot meeting each encounter with a slew of insults and curses. They hover when a claxon goes off and the circular tower ahead opens one of its floors to reveal another ring-shaped ship.
"This is where we would normally dock, but you're wanted on the one-hundred and eighty-sixth and a half floor of Inspiration Tower," Jo says while waving to the other ship. She waits for them to leave before rising to the higher sky lanes where there is more space. "If you look to the right, you'll see the Lizard. It's used by those of us who don't have a flying device due to no interest, accidents, revoked license, or whatever else can go wrong. I'll swing by to give you a better look, but don't stare directly into the golem's eye. You never know if it's going to be friendly or . . . churlish."
Dipping toward a metallic rail, the ship comes alongside a green-scaled reptile with seats grown into its wide back. A throbbing bubble covers the sitting area, the oily membrane protecting riders from the elements until the transport comes to a stop. Gnomes are comfortably sitting in the chairs, most of them reading notes or sleeping. The creature's tail is merged with the track to prevent it from falling off while it pulls itself along using powerful front legs. A driver on its head opens a hatch in the top of its long nose to drop in a shovelful of screeching beetles. The Lizard slows down while everyone hears the insects getting crunched in the construct's mouth. When the strange transport hisses at the ship, Jo pulls away and heads for where a trio of metallic birds are sitting on a windowless tower.
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"Too Noble to Be Cool"?
Posted on July 27, 2015 by L. Marie
At first I planned to ditch this post, but changed my mind and finished it anyway. So here goes.
An Entertainment Weekly article on Charlie Hunnam, who stars as King Arthur in an upcoming film directed by Guy Ritchie, got my hackles up, especially with comments like this:
Arthur has a bit of a Superman problem: He's too noble to be cool or dangerous, and he's rarely conflicted. (Sullivan 23)
In order to make him "cool," the filmmakers decided to tweak Arthur's origin story to make him a "streetwise" orphan ala Oliver Twist. I can't help but notice how making someone "cool" usually involves putting that person in the theft/smuggling trade ala Han Solo, Aladdin, Flynn Rider in Disney's Tangled, or, come to think of it, Indiana Jones. He didn't just "borrow" those artifacts from those temples, y'know. (Yeah, yeah. Archaeology. Blah blah blah. But it really depends on your cultural viewpoint, doesn't it?)
For some, a character is interesting only if he's the bad boy or at least has an edge to him. In other words, if the character is an antihero. I call this the Han Solo Syndrome. Though I have a soft spot for Han Solo, Flynn Rider, Aladdin, and Indiana Jones, I'm wary of the proposed revised history for King Arthur. While the filmmakers have a right to do what they want with this film, an attempt to revamp the King Arthur story flopped in 2004, as the article pointed out. I don't fully know how Ritchie & Company will adjust Arthur's back story for this movie. Entertainment Weekly gave only a few hints (like the fact that the new Arthur will be raised by three prostitutes).
According to Hunnam,
You need to see a character grow, and you need conflict. . . . If somebody is walking around with noble aspirations and then they find out that they're King of England, wonderful, but it's all a bit boring. . . .
I agree with him about the need for growth and conflict. But the "boring" judgment call shows a sadly one-note view of "good" characters. I've written about this before.
Charlie Hunnam as King Arthur
"Too noble to be cool"? "Boring?" The issue seems to be with the notion of the heroic archetype. I've seen this archetype challenged more and more in our so-called "enlightened" age. When I was a kid, we used to call a virtuous person a "goody-goody" if we wanted to make fun of him or her. If we don't believe anyone can be that selfless and noble, we might say the same. But what's really needed is a better understanding of the strength and complexity of good.
Since the EW article focuses on a guy, I'll concentrate on guys. I know some really good guys—men and teens with faith and ideals. But not a single one of them constantly walks around humming and thinking "noble" thoughts about kissing babies and rescuing puppies. All of them struggle with temptation, fear, doubt—the usual stuff. None of them claims to be perfect. They make mistakes. Yet they strive to be good husbands, good dads, good friends—good people. Doesn't sound boring to me.
Would anybody call soldiers, fire fighters, police officers—people who rush into danger and protect others—"a bit boring"? Yet the people in these professions work toward what's good. Many have a strong sense of justice and a need to help others. Yes, there are some bad apples according to current events. But for the most part, you've got people who put themselves on the line for others. Many of us know people in these professions. We see their foibles as well as their bravery. Good fictional heroes can be like this. (I'm thinking of Spider-Man, Green Lantern, and Luke Callindor, Charles Yallowitz's hero in Beginning of a Hero.)
An author's job is to develop characters a reader will find compelling. I grew up loving the story of King Arthur and the knights of the round table. When I was a kid, I read T. H. White's book, The Once and Future King. I never found it boring nor did I find Arthur "too noble to be cool." He made mistakes and sometimes doubted his leadership; yet he strove to do the right thing. I find that compelling. But the filmmakers seem to think he's not macho enough, and hope that Hunnam and his hotness will make Arthur an action hero. (Okay, the photo on the magazine cover makes a convincing argument.)
The jury is out on whether or not I'll see the new King Arthur movie. I'm not sure when it's due out. The actors are still in the process of filming it. The only question I have for anyone adapting the story of an existing character is this: If you find that character to be boring or uncool, and have to make a whole bunch of changes to make him or her more interesting, why adapt the story in the first place?
Sullivan, Kevin. "The Sword and the Stone-Cold Fox." Entertainment Weekly 31 July 2015: 20-27. Print.
Charlie Hunnam from hypable.com and femalefirst.co.uk. Flynn Rider from tangled-wallpaper.blogspot.com. Harrison Ford as Han Solo from solidsmack.com. Once and Future King cover from Goodreads.
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No SC TRO vs. joint DOJ-Comelec panel
By Perfecto T. Raymundo Jr.
MANILA, Nov. 22 – Voting 10-4 on Tuesday, the Supreme Court (SC) en banc did not issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the creation of the joint Department of Justice-Commission on Elections (DOJ-Comelec-DOJ) committee that investigated the alleged fraud in the 2007 elections linked to former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Also in a 10-4 vote, the SC consolidated the two petitions filed by Mrs. Arroyo and her husband, Atty. Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo, and the third petition filed by former Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. questioning the legality of the DOJ-Comelec panel.
In a press conference, SC Spokesman and Court Administrator Atty. Jose Midas Marquez said that "the Court also voted 10-4 to take cognizance of the three consolidated petitions."
On Monday, former First Gentleman Atty. Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo filed a petition before the SC seeking the nullification of the creation of the joint DOJ-Comelec panel and with a prayer for a TRO.
The Arroyo camp also sought for the immediate issuance of a TRO that would stop Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 112 Judge Jesus Mupas from handling the criminal case of electoral sabotage against Mrs. Arroyo, former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr., and former Maguindanao provincial election supervisor Atty. Lintang Bedol.
Electoral sabotage is a non-bailable offense and carries a penalty of reclusion perpetua or life imprisonment which is equivalent to a 40-year jail term.
The SC en banc ordered both the DOJ and the Comelec to file their respective comments on the petitions filed by the Arroyos and the prayer for a TRO.
"The respondents DOJ and Comelec were given a 'non-extendible' period of five days from notice to file their respective comment on the petitions and the prayer for a TRO," Marquez said.
Marquez said that also voting 10-4, the SC en banc decided to hold the oral arguments on the consolidated three petitions on Nov. 29, 2011. (PNA)
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Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, said the possibility exists that Justice Department officials were aware of a memo from an ATF agent in Phoenix on Feb. 3 and still sent its erroneous denial letter Feb. 4. The latter was later disavowed. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Pat Meehan (second from left), Pennsylvania Republican, calls June 20, 2012, on Capitol Hill for the release of additional Justice Department documents as the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee considers whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. (Associated Press)
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., along with Deputy Attorney General James Cole (left), speaks to the media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, after meeting with Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to try to reach an agreement about Justice Department documents relating to the botched anti-gunrunning Fast and Furious operation. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaks to the media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, after meeting with Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to try to reach an agreement about Justice Department documents relating to the botched anti-gunrunning operation known as Fast and Furious. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat and ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, speaks to the media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, after Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and committee chairman, met with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to try to reach an agreement on obtaining documents from the Justice Department on the botched anti-gunrunning operation known as Fast and Furious. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, speaks to the media after meeting with Attorney General Eric H. Holder at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, to try to reach an agreement on obtaining documents from the Justice Department about the botched anti-gunrunning Fast and Furious operation. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Nicholas Katzenbach, here as attorney general in his office at the Department of Justice in 1965, held influential posts in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in the '60s and played a prominent role in federal desegregation efforts in the South. (Associated Press)
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On Monday 20th November 2017, the Hand Made With Love craft store opened in Cayman. Lots of crafts are on display from Guyana, the Cayman Islands as well as those produced by inmates of the prison in Cayman.
Chloe, Naomi and Asher with their Mom, Joannah and Dad, Peter, cut the ribbon dressed in old style Caymanian costumes.
There was an opening prayer after which Mrs. Supriya Singh-Bodden, founder of the Guyana Foundation, gave some background information on the project. Officials from the prison spoke about all of the exciting things that will come on stream next year to sell craft made by inmates in the store.
Many thanks to the Press and everyone else in attendance at this activity, and especially to all of our suppliers in Guyana. Everything which includes handbags, crochet beachwear, slippers, baskets, tibisiri mats, belts, wallets, wai wai jewellery, were highly complimented from everyone who attended the opening ceremony.
A section of the craft shop.
This visitor is very elated with these paintings.
Invitees at the opening of the craft store.


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Amazon protesters in Manhattan say e-retailer must stop profiting from hateful products
By Sarina Trangle and Grace Moon
A Prime Day protest outside the Javits Center, where Amazon Web Services was hosting a summit, in Manhattan on Tuesday saw the company's logo turned into a frown. Photo Credit: Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures
As people walked into an Amazon summit at the Javits Center Tuesday, some stopped to watch protesters clustered behind cardboard boxes with the e-retailer's logo contorted into a frown.
The boxes propped up images of products offered on the platform, including a fidget spinner decorated with a swastika and a noose-themed costume.
The roughly 50 protesters said they decided to act during Amazon's annual Prime Day sales event because the e-retailer had not taken decisive steps to stop selling and spreading hateful material. A report published earlier this month detailed dozens of products and publications on Amazon that contain symbols or ideas deemed hateful or problematic by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which studies American hate groups and extremists.
Advocacy groups and a retail union demanded that Amazon destroy these items and better police publications. Attendees argued the government should not be subsidizing the company, and local leaders should not be so eager to attract its second headquarters.
The more than hourlong protest culminated with Maritza Silva-Farrell, executive director of the Alliance for a Greater New York, handing a security officer a petition signed by more than 40,000 and a letter addressed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
"We are here outside Javits Center to take action on Prime Day along with activists in cities from across the country to show that people must always come before profit," said Malika Conner, lead organizer at the alliance, a group focused on creating a more just and sustainable city. "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wants taxpayer dollars and community resources to bring HQ (headquarters) to here. But we are here to say no — we will not subsidize hate, and we will not stand idly by while a company that enables and profits from hate does business in our city."
Conner and others said Amazon should have announced changes after the Action Center on Race & the Economy and the Partnership for Working Families released a 30-page report on July 6, which chronicled concerning items available on its platforms.
Currently, customers can purchase Lego figures dressed as Nazi soldiers, a "noosed costume," and Confederate flag insignia on different products, the report said. People can also read books on Amazon's Kindle and CreateSpace self-publishing platform with titles such as, "Truth, Justice, and a Nice White Country" or "White Apocalypse," according to the report.
Amazon also streams hate music and hosts websites for groups like ACT for America, the largest Islamophobic organization in the country, according to Mariah Montgomery, a campaign director at the Partnership for Working Families.
Amazon did not respond to questions about how it ensures its platforms are free from hateful material or how much of its staff is assigned to do that sort of work.
When asked about the protest, a company spokesman sent a statement, saying, "Third party sellers who use our Marketplace service must follow our guidelines and those who don't are subject to swift action including potential removal of their account."
The e-retailer has been expanding its New York City footprint, opening bookstores and other outposts in recent years. Its New York City facilities, which are collectively eligible to receive up to $45 million in state tax benefits, include a photo and video hub in Brooklyn, a forthcoming fulfillment center in Staten Island and administrative offices in Manhattan.
The city landed on Amazon's short list of locations for its second headquarters, dubbed HQ2, in January. The company has said it will spend up to $5 billion on HQ2, where it could base up to 50,000 employees earning an average salary of more than $100,000. If the city succeeds in landing the deal, Amazon would become the largest private employer in the five boroughs, according to the city's Economic Development Corporation.
Amazon has helped Bezos amass a net worth of more than $150 billion, making him the richest person in modern history, according to Bloomberg News. Bezos is not fulfilling the responsibilities involved with operating such a prominent and prosperous platform, according to Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
"Amazon needs to stop delivering hate now," Appelbaum said. "Companies that deliver hate to people's doorsteps must be stopped, and we will stand in its path until it ends the shocking practice."
Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James joined the crowd, which periodically broke into chants of, "Amazon is not OK; don't support the KKK."
When asked if the problematic products should prompt the government to re-examine Amazon's subsidies or withdraw its bid for HQ2, Stringer said those are steps that may later need to be considered.
"If Amazon is not willing to engage, then we have to start looking at the way we're going to approach this," Stringer said. "So I think everything is open. Right now, we are demanding that they get this hate speech off the website."
James, who is running for state attorney general, also said the subsidies may become relevant, saying, "Every avenue should be looked at when it comes to Amazon."
When asked whether the state tax benefits had provisions limiting the dissemination of allegedly hateful material, the state's economic development arm said firms participating in its programs must abide by several labor, tax and environmental regulations.
"New York State strongly condemns hate speech and the sale of hateful materials of any kind. Bigotry has no place in our society, our economy, and our discourse," said Amy Varghese, a spokeswoman for Empire State Development.
The city's Economic Development Corporation said Amazon has not applied for any discretionary perks. Due to tax privacy policies, the city Department of Finance said it cannot detail whether Amazon is benefiting from any non-discretionary incentives, which any qualified company can receive.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration declined to comment.
Regardless of tax benefits, Amazon's lack of action may make it a prime target among progressive shoppers, according to Kenia Perez, 22, a RWDSU intern.
"I personally have no business doing business with Amazon until they get better practices," Perez said.


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We've often heard this saying: "Behind every successful man is a good woman." The expression also holds true for successful women.
In fact, people with supportive spouses are "more likely to give themselves the chance to succeed," according to a study published by Carnegie Mellon University.
Researchers studied 163 married couples and discovered that people with supportive spouses were more likely to take on potentially rewarding challenges. Those who accepted challenges experienced more personal growth, happiness and psychological well-being just a few months later.
"We found support for the idea that the choices people make at these specific decision points, such as pursuing a work opportunity…matter a lot for their long-term well-being," Brooke Feeney, lead author of the study and professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon, says in a statement.
Many successful people have discussed the importance of having their spouse by their side. Former president Barack Obama attributes his political success to his wife.
"Obviously I couldn't have done anything that I've done without Michelle," Obama tells Oprah Winfrey in 2011. "You were asking earlier what keeps me sane, what keeps me balanced, what allows me to deal with the pressure. It is this young lady right here… Not only has she been a great first lady, she is just my rock. I count on her in so many ways every single day."
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted the vital role his wife Priscilla Chan plays in his life in a 2017 Harvard commencement speech. The tech guru says Chan inspired him to volunteer his time and take on social work.
"Priscilla's the most important person in my life so you can say, it's the most important thing I built in my time here," he says in the speech.
Of course, it's not just women supporting their husbands. In a 2013 interview with Winfrey, Beyoncé says that her husband, rapper and mogul Jay-Z, is extremely supportive and helps her "on so many levels."
"I would not be the woman I am if I did not go home to that man," says the Grammy winning artist. "It just gives me such a foundation."
Beyonce and Jay Z perform during 'The Formation World Tour' at MetLife Stadium on October 7, 2016 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
So what can one do to push their spouse to embrace new work opportunities? Express enthusiasm about an opportunity, reassure your partner and discuss the benefits of taking on a new role or challenge, says the study.
"Significant others can help you thrive through embracing life opportunities," says Feeney. "Or they can hinder your ability to thrive by making it less likely that you'll pursue opportunities for growth."
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Our school community has started a new initiative with implementing whole school wide Daily Physical Activity. Every Tuesday morning we are participating in physical activity in the forms of stretching, exercise and dance within all classrooms. Our Intermediate mentors are visiting the younger grade classes and modelling the activity. It has been a great initiative thus far and the student are having a blast getting in some activity with their friends with movement and fun!
Monday Oct 22 is Election Day and St. Dominic's is a Polling Station. Please be aware that we will have many visitors in the school exercising their right to vote on Monday. There will be more traffic in the parking lots and around the school. Use caution when dropping your children off and picking up on Monday.
The way kids think is very important. Negative thinking about the self is a huge problem for many people of all ages. This thinking often starts in childhood. Children are getting constant messages that they may not be good enough. Many children get "stuck" in thinking this way from hearing negative messages about themselves and then repeating them over and over in their thoughts. Repetitive negative thinking about the self, others and the world can lead to future mental health struggles.
Notice your child's language and comments about him or herself and others. If your child says negative things repeatedly, it is a problem. It usually means they aren't feeling good about themselves and need support to problem-solve and change that type of thinking. When kids practice negative self-talk, it leads to lower self esteem and can contribute to low mood and worry. It can leave them more vulnerable to being bullied as well. Bullying is dangerous to self esteem especially if children already believe they are not good enough. Look out for your child's inner bully. Negative thinking is dangerous to mental health because it builds on itself. It becomes automatic to think painful and self damaging thoughts, much like learning an instrument or a sport, but with a negative result rather than a positive one.


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Paper.io 2 is the new polished PvP survival game by Voodoo. The aim of the game is simple, spread your zone to as much of the board as possible without getting killed. Sounds easy right? However, there are a few tips and tricks we can share with you to avoid having your go cut short.
Play your cards right. No, I don't mean load up a CGG or dust off a deck of playing cards. What I mean is there are only a few moves you can do, so it's all about when you use them. The aim of the game is to gain as much space as physically possible, but this doesn't mean you need to expand immediately. Take your time building your small zone, you don't need to risk massive expansion as soon as you drop in.
Know your enemy. Everyone in the game is your enemy, whether they are already in the game from when you join, or whether they join ages after you. All these individuals are going to try and either steal your zone or kill you. So expect danger from everyone on screen, no matter how small.
Know your environment. Every map is the same, a big white open canvas with rounded edges. So take note of where you spawn on this canvas. If you spawn in the middle you'll have players coming at you from every angle, so spawning near the edges has a distinct advantage.
Patience is key. When you see someone expanding don't mindlessly charge at them, stay in your zone and try and lure them out. It's hard to kill someone when they are in their home, wait for them to expose their trail and strike. Remember, that attacking someone will expose your trail too, so don't go for kills that are far away from your home.
Dodge, dip, duck, dive and dodge. This tip is simply referring to how you can manoeuvre to avoid death, you should do so at all costs. That last act of desperation could save your life. For example, you see someone is gunning for your trail, so you gun for them. Just before they make contact with your trail, you manage to hit them. As long as you are the one charging into him, that should be good enough for the kill. This hasn't worked for me 100% of the time, but remember its kill or be killed.
Defence is your best offence. Creating a territory that is easy to defend is your best way of survival, plus it lures others into your territory that you can easily pick off. Don't just expand in one single direction, this will make defending very difficult as you're going to have to patrol your entire zone to ward off competition. Instead, try and expand equally in all directions, a little here and a little over there will keep you on top of invaders. Once again, being near the edge will help with this as its one less direction to worry about.
It takes time to master. This applies to the controls. If you aren't used to them it won't take much time before you get used to your limitations and can start being a bit more aggressive. This means playing the game passively at first, by killing individuals who branch out too far is a cheap kill that puts a smile on your face. Once you've got some confidence you can try to take on some big fishes by stealing parts of their territory, this will aggravate them into attacking you. After you steal some territory, they will try and take it back, which means you can attack while they try and take their stuff back. I wouldn't expect to execute this plan perfectly every time, adapt to what they do. They might not try and take back their territory as they are trying to lure you in. So if one plan doesn't work move onto the next one.


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El Partido Nacional Democrático de Tíbet (Tibetano: བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མང་གཙོ་ཚོགས་པ།) es uno de los principales partidos políticos formado en el exilio tibetano.
El partido se formó en 1994 por parte de estudiantes tibetanos que se organizaron después del Congreso de la Juventud Tibetana de 1990. El grupo busca la independencia de Tíbet respecto a China, lo cual contraviene la posición oficial del Dalái Lama y el gobierno tibetano en el exilio quienes oficialmente se adhieren a la política del "punto medio" (autonomía para Tíbet aun siendo parte de China, de forma similar a Hong Kong). Realiza talleres sobre democracia y derechos humanos entre las comunidades y asentamientos tibetanos en el exterior. El grupo organizó varias de las protestas contra China en los juegos olímpicos de Pekín 2008.

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Partidos políticos de Tíbet
Partidos políticos nacionalistas
Partidos independentistas
Partidos políticos fundados en 1994

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562-26. Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church at 716 Mississippi Street, view from Saint Vincent Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
Joseph Landry Tomb (1845) in Ascension Catholic Church Cemetery at Saint Vincent Street near Charles Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
A gothic tomb in Ascension Catholic Church Cemetery at Saint Vincent and Claiborne streets. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
Saint Peter s Methodist Church at Houmas Street, a corner of Claiborne Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
In a historic museum in old department store of B. Lemann and Brothers (c. 1877) at a corner of Railroad Avenue and Mississippi Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church at 1235 Louisiana Avenue at a corner of Chestnut Street in Touro neighborhood, view from the entrance. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 31, 2006
St. Vincent s Infant Asylum One (Saint Vincent Guest House) (1864) at 1507 Magazine Street in Lower Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, July 10, 2006
Interior of Saint Patrick s Catholic Church at 724 Camp Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2006
Entrance of Saint Patrick s Catholic Church at 724 Camp Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2006
Altar of Saint Patrick s Catholic Church at 724 Camp Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2006
Moller organ of Saint Patrick s Catholic Church at 724 Camp Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2006
Stained glass window of Saint Patrick s Catholic Church at 724 Camp Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2006
A cabin at 522 Houmas Street near Williams Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
A shotgun house at 112 Lessard Street near Williams Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
Stained glass half dome of Saint Patrick s Catholic Church at 724 Camp Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2006
Saint Mary Catholic Church at 1116 Chartres Street in French Quarter at evening. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 4, 2006
Rodrigue Residence (c. 1882) at 222 Lessard Street, a corner of Nicholls Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
Detailes of stained glass half dome of Saint Patrick s Catholic Church at 724 Camp Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 2006
Interior of Saint Augustine Catholic Church at 1210 Governor Nicholls Street in Treme. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 22, 2006
A tomb of a cemetery near Saint Patrick Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church at 1235 Louisiana Avenue at a corner of Chestnut Street in Touro neighborhood. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 11, 2006
Interior of Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church at 2327(?) Burgundy Street in Faubourg Marigny. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 9, 2006
Rectory of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church at 1307 Louisiana Avenue at a corner of Chestnut Street in Touro neighborhood. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 11, 2006
Giambrone "Row" houses at 606 - 622 Lessard Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
Mike s Restaurant on Lessard Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
Saint Stephen s Roman Catholic Church (built 1871-1888) at 1025 Napoleon Avenue, a corner of Camp Street in Touro neighborhood. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13, 2006
A house on Railroad Avenue near Albert Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
A ruin on Charles Street near Railroad Avenue. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
A statue of Saint Jude in the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 411 North Rampart Street, a corner of Conti Street (Mortuary Chapel, "the Church of the Dead"). New Orleans, Louisiana, December 9, 2006
Shrine of Saint Jude in the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 411 North Rampart Street, a corner of Conti Street (Mortuary Chapel, "the Church of the Dead"). New Orleans, Louisiana, December 21, 2006
Ascention Parish Courthouse (c. 1889) at 300 Houmas Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
A statue of a shouting saint in a niche of Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church at 1139 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard (formerly Dryades Street) in Central City. New Orleans, Louisiana, September 23, 2006
Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church near Old River Road. Edgard, Louisiana, December 15, 2006
Saint Vincent Cemetery at evening, view from Soniat Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1, 2005
Stairs of St. Joseph Chapel (1896) of Our Lady of the Golf catholic church on Dunbar Avenue in Bay Saint Louis. Mississippi, April 16, 2006
Bank of Donaldsonville (c. 1892) at 110 Railroad Avenue. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, December 23, 2006
Gate of Saint Patrick s Catholic Church at 724 Camp Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 15, 2005.
Tombs of Saint Vincent Cemetery at evening, view from Soniat Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1, 2005
International Stella Maris Maritime Center (former rectory of St. Henry s Roman Catholic Church and Society of Sisters of Christian Charity) at 4219 Constance Street in Touro neighborhood. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13, 2006
Wild garden on a foundation of St. Ann s Catholic Church on Bayou Caddy moved by floodwaters across Lower Bay Road (in background) west from Bay Saint Louis. Mississippi, November 23, 2006
Shrine of Saint Jude in the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 411 North Rampart Street, a corner of Conti Street (Mortuary Chapel, "the Church of the Dead"). New Orleans, Louisiana, August 5, 2006
A carcass of Saint John Catholic Church with a tent inside on Lower Bay Road near Lakeshore Cemetery Road in Waveland west from Bay Saint Louis. Mississippi, July 4, 2006
United Methodist Church and its detached steeple on Main Street in Bay Saint Louis. Mississippi, April 16, 2006
Saint Philomena Catholic Church in Labadieville, Assumption Parish. Louisiana, September 30, 2006
Saint Patrick Street near Opelousas Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, January 7, 2007
Saint Leo the Great Catholic Church at 2916 Paris Avenue. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 16, 2006
Ruins of Trinity United Methodist Church (rededicated in 1912), former Methodist Episcopal Church at 1028 Valence Street, near Chestnut Street in Uptown. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 7, 2006
A backyard of Saint Augustine Church, view from Treme Street in Treme. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 22, 2006
Robin Street Wharf and a ship "Mississippi Queen", view from cruise ship "Dream Princess". New Orleans, Louisiana, January 25, 2006
A bridge, Mississippi River, and Robin Street wharf with docked "Mississippi Queen" ship in fog from cruise ship "Dream Princess", at night. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 21, 2006
Robin Street Wharf and a ship "Mississippi Queen" at morning, view from cruise ship "Dream Princess". New Orleans, Louisiana, January 28, 2006
Ghostly view from Burnett Street in Bay Saint Louis. Mississippi, April 16, 2006
A bridge, Mississippi River, and Robin Street wharf with docked "Mississippi Queen" ship from cruise ship "Dream Princess", in dense fog at night. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 21, 2006
A ship "Mississippi Queen" and the city bridge in fog, view from a cruise ship "Dream Princess" docked at Orange Street Wharf. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 23, 2006
A shotgun house and Sun-light Baptist Church on Coliseum Street, near Valence Street in Uptown. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 30, 2006
Cabins on Claiborn Street, near Lessard Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, January 7, 2007
112 Lessard Street near Williams Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, January 7, 2007
William Street near Railroad Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, January 7, 2007
Bourbon Street near crossing with Saint Peter Street, view from Orleans Street, in French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 21, 2006
Saint Mary s Assumption (German) Church at 2030 Constance Street, corner of Josephine Street and Saint Alphonsus Community Center (bottom left) in Lower Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 23, 2006
Saint Mary s Assumption (German) Church at 2030 Constance Street, corner of Josephine Street and Saint Alphonsus Community Center (to the left) in Lower Garden District at sunset. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5, 2006
A carcass of Episcopal Church of the Redeemer at 610 Water Street near Beach Drive in Biloxi, with remains of Hurricane Camille Memorial behind it. Mississippi, April 9, 2006
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church without its bell tower at 620 Eliza Street, a corner of Oliver Street in Algiers Point. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 22, 2006
Saint Paul s Catholic Church on Nassau Street. Princeton, New Jersey, February 24, 2007
Saint Thomas the Apostle Cemetery and Saint Thomas Catholic Church at 17605 Hwy. 15 in Pointe a la Hache. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, July 22, 2006
Altar of Saint Paul s Catholic Church on Nassau Street. Princeton, New Jersey, February 24, 2007
Interior of Saint Paul s Catholic Church on Nassau Street. Princeton, New Jersey, February 24, 2007
A front statue of Saint Paul s Catholic Church on Nassau Street. Princeton, New Jersey, February 24, 2007
Felicity United Methodist Church at 1816 Chestnut Street (corner of Felicity Street) in Lower Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 16, 2006
1919 Chestnut Street near Saint Andrew Street in Lower Garden District at rain. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 21, 2006
A bronze lion at Boondock Saint cafe(?) at 731 Saint Peter Street near Bourbon Street in French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 9, 2006
Saint Mark s Methodist Church (of the Vieux Carre) at North Rampart Street. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 28, 2006
Islander Marina fishing village at Bayou Caddy in Lakeshore, view from Pleasure Street. Mississippi, July 4, 2006
Reflection of Saint Catherine Roman Catholic Church on a car on Nevsky Prospect, a central street of Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 4, 2002
Old Pathway Baptist Church on Alabo Street, corner of North Prieur Street in Lower Ninth Ward. A quotation from bible was replaced by mysterious spray-painted signs of rescue teams. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 29, 2006
A Robin Street wharf, Mississippi River and a bridge from cruise ship "Dream Princess", at morning. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 19, 2006
Coliseum Place Baptist Church (1854 - 2006) ruined by a fire at 1376 Camp Street in Lower Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 22, 2006
Saint Mark s Methodist Church of the Vieux Carre on North Rampart Street in French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 27, 2006
A bridge, Mississippi River, and Robin Street wharf from cruise ship "Dream Princess", in dense fog at night. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 21, 2006
A bridge, Mississippi River, and Robin Street wharf in mist from cruise ship "Dream Princess", at evening. New Orleans, Louisiana, January 20, 2006
Canal Street near Rampart Street in fog. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 12, 2006
A window on Dauphine Street near Clouet Street in Bywater. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 3, 2006
A house on Chestnut Street near Fourth Street at evening. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 29, 2006
General Laundry Cleaners and Dyers (1929), employees entrance at 2550 Saint Peter Street near North Rocheblave Street in Mid City neighborhood. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 16, 2006
Bell tower of Saint Mary s Assumption Church on Josephine Street in Lower Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 23, 2006
Saint Mark s Methodist Church of the Vieux Carre on North Rampart Street in French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana, August 26, 2006
Pulpit of Saint Mary s Assumption Church at 2030 Constance Street in Lower Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 29, 2006
Former Gonthier s Drug Store on Chippewa Street near First Street at evening. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 27, 2006
Closer view of Adams - Jones House at 2423 Prytania Street in Garden District in fog. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 15, 2006
A horse hitch on Royal Street near St. Peter Street in French Quarter in fog. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 13, 2006
A crumbling house on General Taylor Street near Freret Street at evening. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 26, 2006
"Cook Books" on Toulouse Street near Royal Street in French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 12, 2006
A ruin of Saint Luke Baptist Church at 5646 North Dorgenois Street in Lower Ninth Ward. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 22, 2006
Interior of Saint Mary s Assumption (German) Church at 2030 Constance Street, Lower Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 29, 2006
Altar of Saint Mary s Assumption (German) Church at 2030 Constance Street, Lower Garden District. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 29, 2006
A Creole cottage at 732 - 738 Toulouse Street near Bourbon Street in French Quarter at rain. New Orleans, Louisiana, December 21, 2006
Mike s Restaurant on Lessard Street. Donaldsonville, Louisiana, January 7, 2007


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Expanding Bifunctional Molecules to Restore Function After SWI/SNF Loss
Courtney Hodges, PhD (Principal), Baylor College of Medicine and Nate Hathaway, PhD, University of North Carolina
Chromatin remodeling—the dynamic structural changes in proteins that regulate access to DNA for the control of replication, gene expression, and DNA repair—plays an important role in the function of the cell, and its dysregulation can lead to cancer. More than 20% of human cancers involve mutations in genes that encode components of the multi-subunit protein complexes that regulate chromatin remodeling. Inactivating mutations in chromatin remodeling genes can result in a loss of expression of downstream tumor suppressor genes. When the SWI/SNF complex is inactivated, for example, it fails to activate transcription of the STAT1 gene, which encodes a component of interferon signaling important for tumor suppression. Molecular biologist H. Courtney Hodges at Baylor College of Medicine and molecular pharmacologist Nathaniel Hathaway at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill are exploring a novel approach to artificially compensate for dysfunctional SWI/SNF complexes. They will use bifunctional small molecules to bring into close proximity proteins that can activate SWI/SNF-dependent transcriptional enhancers in the absence of SWI/SNF. The STAT1 gene locus will serve as the test case for this strategy. This study will demonstrate whether induced proximity by small molecules can be utilized to modulate epigenetic regulation and will lay the groundwork for future development of first-in-class molecules capable of restoring tumor-suppressive transcription factor networks in SWI/SNF-deficient cancers.


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The complete NASB Updated Edition with selected reference helps in a travel-along, easy to carry size.
I left a NASB Slimline NT with Psalms on a bus in France this spring and wanted to replace it only to find that the same Bible was no longer available. This print is much smaller in this Bible (since it is both OT and NT) but I am pleased with the quality. I'm satisifed with it but I do miss my other Bible.
This is an excellent Bible to always have handy. It is a great size to have in your bag and easy to read. Be sure to get the version with the thumb index as it is easy for finding the places in the Word that you want to get to quickly. The center column is a bit hard to read but the overall text is a good size.
I'm on my fourth copy in four years, because even though it is a great size and has the full references and margins, it is a little hard to keep from tearing away from its leather bindings with regular use. So treat the book gingerly! (I'm reviewing the "Genuine Leather" ISBN, 0529109638.
This review is about my opinion on the edition and helps, not the quality of the NASB itself.
I was looking for an edition of the NASB which was small, had both the OT and NT, and had references to OT quotations (the last two features are missing from my pocket-sized NT-only NASB (ISBN: 0-529-10772-4)). This edition has all of those features, plus: a center-column cross-reference list indexed by chapter and verse; a relatively concise concordance (pp. 951-1013); and 5 color maps (which look a little too much like neon lights -- the color choices are a bit "electric").
The font is _very_ small and there isn't much room in the margin for notes, but the combination of OT/NT and the cross-references/quotation references forced the sacrifice of these features.
I do wish that there were some extra blank pages at the end of the book for personal notes (there is only one side of a blank page between the concordance and the maps).
Overall, a good edition. It's a little larger than the NT edition (ISBN listed above): about 1/2 an inch taller and wider, but not much thicker (1/4"?). Considering that the OT is included, it's pretty amazing. I'd recommend this as a pocket edition, but don't expect much room for notes and don't get it if you have trouble reading small text.
I love this Bible. It's a great size and is handy for travel to and from work or on trips. My only beef with it is that there are no section headings. Sometimes it's hard for my adhd mind to remember what the current passage is relating to, especially in the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel where I'm not sure who judgment is raining down on.
But if you don't need section headings then this is a great Bible for you.
My last bible was a Broadman and Holman NAS(1977). It was the bible my sister gave me in high school, and that I have used for the past 2 years since I accepted Christ into my life. When the binding broke a few weeks ago, I had to find one just like it.
After searching, this was it: Blue bonded leather, updated NASB(1995), compact size, indexed(tabs) [even has one for the concordance], red letter, and has crossreferences. It arrived today, and I love it. This is a smaller bible, and the others are correct about the small print, but I love it.
The only thing it does not have is a bookmarking ribbon, but this bible is very much worth the cost.
Wow, I just put it with my journal and it is the EXACT same size.
I bought this Bible as a gift for my wife. I was looking specifically for a slim-line Bible in the NASB Version. I found that in this Bible. It also has the thumb index marking the beginning of each of the books. However, in the description, it never mentioned a cover for the pages. This is great for keeping the pages protected and keeping the Bible closed in a bookbag, purse, etc. However, the cover flap uses a snap which, when you are trying to snap it shut, indents the first few pages with the snap outline. That sort of wrinkles that spot on the pages, which is disappointing. If it had a magnetic or simple slip piece, it would have worked much better. Other than that, it is a great Bible. Please note, the text is small, but not difficult to read.


Rental property registration in Baltimore County, Maryland is a bit more complicated than it is in Baltimore City. Today, we're talking about the registration process for county properties.
Do You Need a License to Rent Out a House in Baltimore County?
You have to have a rental license to rent out property, and the license is good for three years. You will also need a third party home inspection. Your inspector will look for a number of different things, and check the mechanical systems of the property. In 2018, a new law is in place that requires properties to have an interconnected hardwired battery-backed-up smoke detector and CO2 detector. So, your inspector will check that the proper detector is in place. You'll also need to provide a tracking number and lead certificate number that's on file with the MDE if your property was built before 1978.
You'll need to hire a home inspector, and that will cost between $100 and $150. They perform their inspection and your lead inspector performs their inspection. Then, you can turn in your paperwork with a picture of the front and back of the property. You can file this with the county online or at their office, or you can mail it in. The registration fee is $50, and you'll need to pay that every three years.
It's important to maintain your registrations and keep them up. Otherwise, the county can fine you and even imprison you for 10 days. Also, if you don't have a registered rental property, you cannot start a court proceeding or an eviction against your tenant. So, it's an important thing to do.
If you have any questions about property registration or how to register rental property, please contact us at ManageBaltimore.com. We'd be happy to help you with any Baltimore, MD property management needs.


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The kit comes inside an oblong, clear plastic case. The case is quite well built and looks like a capsule. The kit comes with two shades of eyebrow powder, a small angled brush and three stencils with different shapes. The powders are placed in a clear, thin plastic tray which is inserted in the case. One has to pull out the tray fully in order to take the brush and powders out for application.
The brush provided in the kit is very small and the bristles are harsh too. But, according to me it's apt for thin brows and to fill in the sparse areas carefully. There is an instruction leaflet that also has the ingredients mentioned on it. Though, the packaging seems to be very handy and travel friendly, I won't call it super convenient. Also, the cap is quite loose; I mean it doesn't shuts tight with a click sound or something. The cap isn't very tight, but it won't come off by itself either.
The eyebrow powder is meant for brunettes or dark haired women. So, it's preferably suitable for every Indian woman too. Also, the lighter shade is suitable for blondes, so overall this kit is sufficient for all kind of skin tones. The first shade is a dark taupe color and the other one is a cool toned dark brown shade. The lighter shade can be used in the sparse areas of the brows, and the darker color is for the whole brows. The powders appear extremely natural, so if someone wants a bolder look, these powders will not work well for them. Darker skin tones can use the dark brown color and fair to medium skin tones can use the lighter color on the sparse areas.
The eyebrow powders have a very soft and smooth texture to them. They also blend very easily with the brows and give a more natural look. The powders are very decently pigmented; I get my eyebrows nicely filled with just one swipe of the dark brown color. But if you're using the small angled brush provided with the kit, you will need 2-3 swipes to completely fill in the brows. The dark color can be built up for more intensified and darker brows.
The powders are very long lasting and they don't smudge or fade out from the brows. It lasted easily on me for more than 8 hours and then I washed my face with cleanser and water. I haven't used any sort of wax or eyebrow sealer to make it stay longer. The powders can stay throughout the day, without the need of re-application. The powders get's washed off when they come in contact with water. But, the good part is that the powders don't drip down from the brows when you sweat or mildly splash water on your face.
• Apt shades for Indian skin tones.
• Both the shades are usable for any kind of skin tone.
• Includes stencils and a brush too.
• Bothe the powders are well pigmented.
• Works well in filling brows for a natural and fuller brow look.
• The powders are very blendable.
• The powder last on my brows for more than 8 hours, without any eyebrow sealer or wax.
• The powder may not stay on brows after washing with water.
• The packaging is not very handy to use, especially when one has to rush.
• Some may not like the harsh quality of the brush.
4.9/5 (Point deducted for slightly inconvenient packaging).
Would I Recommend Essence 01 Natural Brunette Style Eyebrow Stylist Set?
Yes, sure! This is such a nice kit for every age group and apt for all Indian skin tones. It comes in a handy packaging, with stencils and a brush too. This little kit is a must have for every girl.


I love Space Clearing. Every home tells a different story and I love connecting with each client, supporting them through their personal transformation simultaneously – of letting go of the past and making space for the new, and all that they are calling into their lives. Houses become cluttered with energetic webs of old stories from the past and previous occupiers, and I can detect and clear these frequencies. Occasionally there may also be spirit presences that are held in the building – often trapped there, due to fears of punishment after death, or attachment to the house – which may be motivated by love, materialsim or vengeance. Children and animals are usually most perceptive to these energies: they may feel nervous or uncomfortable in certain areas of the house. In my work, I detect spirits and find out their story so that I can help them to leave – so they become my 'clients' too – and it is beautiful to witness these soul's being set free at last – some have been 'in limbo' for a long time, and then its wonderful to hear feedback of how good the home now feels to the living! Clients can gauge the results by the behaviour of their children and/or pets, who are now feeling comfortable and at home.
If you would like me to Space Clear your home, I currently have space in my diary from January 23rd. If you would like to learn to Space Clear in this way, I am starting a training course next year.
Samantha Smith, Actress & Kid's drama facilitator, East london.


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Forcas de Garona (en francès Fourques-sur-Garonne) és un municipi francès, situat al departament d'Òlt i Garona i a la regió de la Nova Aquitània.

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Holistic dentistry, also known as biological dentistry, takes into account a patient's dental health considering their entire state of physical and emotional health. At Sterling Dental Clinic, we strive to use natural therapies (often in combination with conventional ones) to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases of the oral cavity.
It is estimated that 80% of the chronic degenerative disease originates in the mouth.
According to reports, dental amalgam fillings are the primary source of mercury exposure for the general population. In fact, mercury has been known to stay in the body for up to a year.
Dentists practicing holistically look at the complete wellbeing of the patient, not just the gums and teeth. At Sterling Dental Clinic, we do not use amalgam, nickel, or other metals to fill cavities. Instead, we use composite resin which is a much healthier material.
We take the utmost care while restoring teeth. There are several choices of non-toxic dental materials available. Composites (also known as bonding), porcelain and gold are all available. In Dr. Tarun's years of experience, he has narrowed his material choices to specific holistic materials. Thus, there are no known traces of either metals or other elements that might affect the patient's health. Dr. Tarun also takes the time to explain the patient's condition and give options (i.e. fillings verses inlays/onlays) to suit their finances and wants.
Holistic and integrative approaches are important in any area of medicine, and Dr. Tarun believes that dentistry is no exception. The patient can feel free to ask him questions such as the types of materials used in his clinic for dental procedures, whether they use digital X-rays, and how they dispose of medical waste. He also does not necessarily agree or conform to all traditional practices among holistic dentists. In particular, he believes that removing existing amalgam fillings is pointless, expensive and stressful to the patient. He advocates evaluating fillings and exchanging the amalgam for composite resin only when they break down and need to be redone.
At Sterling, the patient's wellbeing is our priority.


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Security doors Australia offers several features. It's a great idea to look at similar features while choosing steel security doors for your home.
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A good service provider will not only be able to offer these features, but they will also be able to provide high-quality, made-to-measure products to suit your specific needs. When looking for home security doors, ensure that you get all the features mentioned above.
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SCOTTVILLE — The Mason County Central Board of Education has expelled the student allegedly responsible for the Nov. 30 bomb threat at MCC middle school from all Michigan schools for at least 180 days.
The decision came unanimously from the MCC school board, which discussed disciplinary measures in closed session before voting on punishment at Monday's school board meeting.
For more on this story, read Tuesday's Ludington Daily News print and e-Edition.


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Orchestrating a Dream • Angela Tannehill and the Power of the Wandering Mind
Andrew Russell June 2nd, 2017
After Us | 2017 | 48" x 96" | mixed media on cradled board
Recall the first moments of waking, when, adrift in the mental flotsam left over from a night of vivid dreaming, you try and sort the pieces together. The half-remembered places and in-between entities that had charged through the landscape of your imagination with such jarring solidity now burn away like soap bubbles in the sunlight of logic. What allows us to weave these strange symbols and portents together so seamlessly in the sleeping hours? In our best efforts to reconstruct a dream, the results inevitably resemble a collage—fragments of wonder, alarm and mystery snatched from the subconscious.
For Angela Tannehill, the results are more seamless than most. In the two-odd years since she began working on her mixed media pieces—found cutouts layered and blended into textured background painting—she has honed a special knack for creating surrealist landscapes possessed of a storytelling power.
A few months back at ArtStreet, one could see small crowds engrossed in the story told by Tannehill's largest work to date, After Us. It depicts an edenic wilderness of lush growth and harmonious life: peacocks, wolves, hares and snakes frolicking among the littered remnants of human craftsmanship—an ornate chair, a vintage automobile—gracefully decaying in the new unpeopled paradigm. One of the standout works at the month-long event, it left an impression of depth and animacy, as if it might start moving once all eyes are off the canvas. Her back catalog offers the chance to go deeper into this peculiar realm: Manta rays and starlings fly together in the dawn sky, while polar bears and hummingbirds emerge from portals into space. Though architectural wreckage and a disembodied human presence can be found scattered throughout these constellational works, they are always in some way subsumed by the elements; nature has figured largest in her choice of subject, an enduring influence from a childhood in the countryside.
When she's not piecing together pipedream perspectives and hypnagogic hybrids, Tannehill harnesses her creative powers for community impact, a vocation she labels "design for do-gooders." This includes designing promotional material for nonprofits like Sutter Health, and creating around 50 book covers for the youth literacy outreach group 916 Ink, which helps young people tell and publish their stories. If the amount of effort expended in promoting creativity in others has a feedback effect, it has surely reverberated loudly in Tannehill's work, driving her to create more and amplify outward her normally introverted nature.
We recently caught up with Angela to find out about the ArtStreet experience, the value of community involvement and the virtue of the unexpected in her chosen artform.
Turbulence | 2015 | 22″ x 30″ | mixed media on canvas
How did you go about making your piece for ArtStreet, After Us?
It was a little different because they wanted to know what I was going to do ahead of time, and I had to put it together loosely as a digital sketch beforehand. I was really nervous, because it was so much bigger than anything I'd done before. I had to build the wooden canvas. Usually I sit back and filter through all these different magazines and books, and whatever elicits some sort of an emotional connection for me, I gravitate to it, put it down, and if it works, it works. With this one, it was harder to use my smaller scrapbook elements because everything was so large. There's a big tree in the corner, and since there's no magazine I have with a tree of that size, I printed out little pieces here and there online to make a composite of a tree. I just had to keep in mind what the theme was, which is being us [people] being taken over by nature. In my other pieces, the theme is pretty loose, and it may end up saying something completely different by the time I've finished it.
Would you say that nature is the dominant theme in your work? What pulls you toward it?
I just like how organic the textures are—the movement of water especially. And there's so much symbolism in nature, water in particular. Then there's the draw to my childhood, because there was so much nature in my childhood that I don't have quite as much of now. Our family lived in the country, surrounded by fields. When I was around 10 years old, I would take walks out into the field and go fishing by myself. We were always catching anything that moved. My belief is that we truly are connected with every living thing on the planet. And my fear is that right now, it's like this heartbreaking connection in a way, because the more we learn—the more we know we're connected, the more we know that we're ruining things, hurting the world with our presence and our negligence. We've lost our connection in some ways, even though it's unbreakable, but because we're ignoring it, we're ruining it. It's scary, but at the same time it's comforting, because nature has a way of righting itself. There's a counterbalance, and maybe it will make up for whatever we've lacked. Maybe we won't fare so well, but I feel like the Earth will right itself.
Sweet Heart | 2015 | 12″ x 12″ | mixed media on canvas
How did you begin working in collage?
I went to school for fine arts and I got my BFA, but I really didn't do anything with it for years and years. I went into graphic design, and I did a few things on the side, but what inspired me to get into collage in particular was the work of Jill Allyn Stafford. She was a board member at 916 Ink, where I do a lot of design work. So I saw that, and I had these little three-by-three wood samples I'd picked up at a thrift store, so I started layering things on them. I think the surrealism and the fantasy themes have always been in the back of my mind—the dream worlds.
I like collage better than painting. I can paint, but I could never do exactly what I want with it. Part of the fun of collage is not knowing where I'm going to be later in the work. It has the element of surprise. I won't know what a piece is going to mean until two elements suddenly come together. When you're making a collage, you're bringing with you the history of whatever piece you've just used to the other things on the palette, whereas painting is directing from one source—your mind.
Heady | 2016 | 12″ x 24″ | mixed media on cradled panel board
Do you have a method for hunting down your source material?
I have so many collection items right now that I might have to stop, but usually I have to make a trip. I really like getting pieces from the Time Life series, National Geographic of course, and textbooks are great. I have probably hundreds of magazines and books that I use, but lately, since ArtStreet, or a little bit before, I found Flickr commons, and I use that a lot because I can print to size. If you find the right thing and you want it aged, you can make it look aged. The crackle effects come from a paste, or sometimes it's layered tissue paper.
Do you have any mood music or media that helps your work along?
I watch bad television, but it has to be a specific kind of TV. Have you ever seen the show Supernatural? Cheesy sci-fi or comic book stuff. Something that would be perfect for the 14-year-old boy, that's what does it for me. It's light enough where it occupies only a part of my brain, so the other part can go into dreamland and be automatic. But it's interesting enough, and a lot of the time there's weird creatures in there, or something otherworldly. I've probably watched every episode twice, I just put it on repeat. The only thing I can't watch at all while working is comedy—it puts my brain into a completely different kind of rhythm, and everything comes out weird and awful. It's just something about where my brainwaves land, that puts me in a space where I can create without having to think too hard. When I was little, a big influence was Fantasy Island. That, and we also used to have this Saturday afternoon show that was nothing but dinosaurs, monsters and ghost stories. Anything that has mythology attached to it, or a creature feature of any kind, really drew me in. I guess that's why those types of shows put me in that right frame of mind, because it just takes me back to my youth. I guess I haven't changed much.
Lady Bird's Universe | 2017 | 8″ x 8″ | mixed media on cradled panel board
How would you describe the impact of 916 Ink?
Years ago when we started, everybody thought it was going to be a literacy program. And it kind of is, in that there's reading and writing involved, but what I felt from the beginning that it was going to be, and as it turns out it really is, is kids writing and telling their stories, getting positive feedback and encouragement. You can watch somebody grow, become able to take more chances, have a little more confidence. I swear, you even get a little smarter when you're allowed to open up, to take things in. You're not insecure and closed off as much. The kids, more than anything, find this sense of confidence that they didn't have, and they do better in school and in life. I just posted this the other day, it's a quote from Rainn Wilson, "If you can tell your story, you can heal yourself." That's what's going on there. I haven't gone to one of the readings without getting choked up. I'm still fairly new to making art, and I think the biggest thing that encouraged me to start was surrounding myself with people who were positive, encouraging and accepting. That didn't happen until I started working with 916 Ink. They were great cheerleaders, and they get you to come out of your shell.
Angela Tannehill will be part of the 62 Hues group show at 1810 Gallery, located at 1810 12th St. in Sacramento. The show opens Friday, June 2, 2017, from 6-10 p.m. Tannehill will also be the June guest artist at Studio 10 in Arthouse on R, located at 1021 R. St. in Sacramento. Receptions are first Friday from 6-9 p.m. and second Saturday from 5-9 p.m, with the gallery open on the third Sunday from noon-2 p.m. Find out more at Angelatannehill.com.
**This interview first appeared in print on pages 18 – 19 of issue #240 (May 22 – June 5, 2017)**
Andrew Russell
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