text:
This week's research review focuses on Vasopressin; and Spirulina and anemia.
Vasopressin: a review of therapeutic applications
(Holt and Haspel 2010)
The effects of Spirulina on anemia and immune function in senior citizens
(Selmi, Leung et al. 2010)
(Holt and Haspel 2010) Download
(Selmi, Leung et al. 2010) Download
Anemia and immunological dysfunction (i.e. immunosenescence) are commonly found in older subjects and nutritional approaches are sought to counteract these phenomena. Spirulina is a filamentous and multicellular bule-green alga capable of reducing inflammation and also manifesting antioxidant effects. We hypothesized that Spirulina may ameliorate anemia and immunosenescence in senior citizens with a history of anemia. We enrolled 40 volunteers of both sexes with an age of 50 years or older who had no history of major chronic diseases. Participants took a Spirulina supplementation for 12 weeks and were administered comprehensive dietary questionnaires to determine their nutritional regimen during the study. Complete cell count (CCC) and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) enzyme activity, as a sign of immune function, were determined at baseline and weeks 6 and 12 of supplementation. Thirty study participants completed the entire study and the data obtained were analyzed. Over the 12-week study period, there was a steady increase in average values of mean corpuscular hemoglobin in subjects of both sexes. In addition, mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration also increased in male participants. Older women appeared to benefit more rapidly from Spirulina supplements. Similarly, the majority of subjects manifested increased IDO activity and white blood cell count at 6 and 12 weeks of Spirulina supplementation. Spirulina may ameliorate anemia and immunosenescence in older subjects. We encourage large human studies to determine whether this safe supplement could prove beneficial in randomized clinical trials.Cellular & Molecular Immunology advance online publication, 31 January 2011; doi:10.1038/cmi.2010.76.
Holt, N. F. and K. L. Haspel (2010). "Vasopressin: a review of therapeutic applications." J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 24(2): 330-47.
Selmi, C., P. S. Leung, et al. (2010). "The effects of Spirulina on anemia and immune function in senior citizens." Cell Mol Immunol.


text:
Q: JSON stringify values of array I'm trying to stringify an object but don't know why it is not working as expected:
function request(url) {
  this.url = url;
  this.head = [];
}

var r = new request("http://test.com");
r.head["cookie"] = "version=1; skin=new";
r.head["agent"] = "Browser 1.0";
document.write(JSON.stringify(r));

I hope this object can be stringified as:
{"url":"http://test.com","head":["cookie":"version=1; skin=new", "agent":"Browser 1.0"]}

But I only get:
{"url":"http://test.com","head":[]}

How to fix it?

A: You want the hear property of r to be an associative array I think (like in PHP). They don't exist in JavaScript. Array's have values that are indexed by a number.
Since r.head is an object (array is object in JS) you can add properties to it with r.head["whatever property name"]="value" but these properties don't seem to be serialized to JSON when you use JSON.stringify because r.head is defined as an array and it'll only serialize the numbered index values.
To fix this you can define r.head as an object so JSON.stringify will serialize all properties.
function request(url) {
  this.url = url;
  this.head = {};
}

var r = new request("http://test.com");
r.head["cookie"] = "version=1; skin=new";
r.head["agent"] = "Browser 1.0";
document.write(JSON.stringify(r));

If you run the following code in your cosole (press F12 in your browser) you'd see that arrays are not serialized in the same way as objects are:
var b = [];
b.something=22
console.log(b.something);
console.log(JSON.stringify(b));//=[]
console.log(b.hasOwnProperty("something"))//=true

b = {};
b.something=22
console.log(b.something);
console.log(JSON.stringify(b));//={"something":22}
console.log(b.hasOwnProperty("something"))//=true

A: It would be impossible to serialize it the way you are hoping to.
With this object:
function request(url) {
  this.url = url;
  this.head = [];
}

This variation:
var r = new request("http://test.com");
r.head.push({"cookie": "version=1; skin=new"});
r.head.push({"agent": "Browser 1.0"});

document.write(JSON.stringify(r));

would give you:
{"url":"http://test.com","head":[{"cookie":"version=1; skin=new"},{"agent":"Browser 1.0"}]}

If you were to change the object to:
function request(url) {
  this.url = url;
  this.head = {};
}

var r = new request("http://test.com");
r.head["cookie"] = "version=1; skin=new";
r.head["agent"] = "Browser 1.0";

document.write(JSON.stringify(r));

would give you:
{"url":"http://test.com","head":{"cookie":"version=1; skin=new","agent":"Browser 1.0"}}

The first variation is guaranteed to give you the head values in order when you iterate it.  It also has the advantage in that you can later insert things in specific order if that is of interest.
The second version, by convention, will give you the items back in the order they were inserted as long as there are no number based keys, but that ordering is not guaranteed by the ecma spec.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


With the rising popularity of lattice-based cryptography, the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem has emerged as a fundamental core of numerous encryption and key exchange schemes. Many LWE-based schemes have in common that they require sampling from a discrete Gaussian distribution which comes with a number of challenges for the practical instantiation of those schemes. One of these is the inclusion of countermeasures against a physical side-channel adversary. While several works discuss the protection of samplers against timing leaks, only few publications explore resistance against other side-channels, e.g., power. The most recent example of a protected binomial sampler (as used in key encapsulation mechanisms to sufficiently approximate Gaussian distributions) from CHES 2018 is restricted to a first-order adversary and cannot be easily extended to higher protection orders. In this work, we present the first protected binomial sampler which provides provable security against a side-channel adversary at arbitrary orders. Our construction relies on a new conversion between Boolean and arithmetic (B2A) masking schemes for prime moduli which outperforms previous algorithms significantly for the relevant parameters, and is paired with a new masked bitsliced sampler allowing secure and efficient sampling even at larger protection orders. Since our proposed solution supports arbitrary moduli, it can be utilized in a large variety of lattice-based constructions, like NewHope, LIMA, Saber, Kyber, HILA5, or Ding Key Exchange.


Please join the Department of Classics in welcoming Dr. Paul Hay, who will be joining the department this fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
Dr. Hay holds a B.A. in classics and English from Case Western Reserve University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in classics from the University of Texas at Austin. His scholarly interests include Roman intellectual history, Latin literature of the first century BCE, and ancient sexuality. He is currently working on a monograph, adapted from his dissertation, on the idea of the saeculum in the first century BCE Rome. He is also interested in the reception of classical antiquity in antebellum American poetry. Dr. Hay is a native of Youngstown, OH.
Growth and development of the Roman state from the unification of Italy in the early third century B.C. to the establishment of the oriental despotism under Diocletian and Constantine. The growth of empire in the Punic Wars, the uncertain steps toward an eastern hegemony, the crisis in the Republic from the Gracchi to Caesar, the new regime of Augustus, the transformation of the leadership class in the early Empire, and the increasing dominance of the military over the civil structure. (Cross-listed as HSTY 304). Fulfills Global and Cultural Diversity Requirement.


Want to impress your family and wedding party with a truly delicious rehearsal dinner before your wedding? Chauncey has the perfect location for it! From the Brodsky Gallery and Pool Patio to the Garden Pavilion, Chauncey can provide an indoor or outdoor location to host the rehearsal dinner of your dreams.
"I want to thank you and your staff for helping to make my daughter's bridal shower so memorable. The tables were set beautifully, the food was delicious, and your staff was so attentive. My only regret is that I didn't know about the Chauncey sooner. Regards, Nita"
Now is the perfect time to plan your holiday party!


text:
Sittard steht für:
 Sittard, Stadt in den Niederlanden
 Sittard, Stadtteil von Viersen in Nordrhein-Westfalen, siehe Sittard (Viersen)
 Sittard, Ortsteil des Mönchengladbacher Stadtteils Rheindahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen, siehe Sittard (Mönchengladbach)

Sittard ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Alfred Sittard (1878–1942), deutscher Kantor und Organist
 Josef Sittard (1846–1903), deutscher Musikpädagoge und Musikwissenschaftler
 Matthias von Sittard (auch Zittardus, Citardus, Citharius; 1522–1566), dominikanischer Theologe, Schriftsteller und kaiserlicher Hofprediger
 Godefridus Sittartz (1650–1718), Superior der Jesuitenniederlassung in Arnsberg

Siehe auch:
 Sittart

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Each year in Canada, over 1600 preterm babies contract Necrotizing Enterocolitis, or NEC, a serious neonatal gastrointestinal disease where portions of the bowel undergo necrosis, or tissue death. This devastating disease has a 10-50% mortality rate, depending on severity. Of those babies who survive, 25% develop long-term sequelae.
Human milk, whether from mother or donation, has been shown to reduce the risk of NEC by 79%. However, because necrotizing enterocolitis primarily affects babies born prematurely, some mothers' milk has not come in yet, or is limited in supply. Therefore, an important strategy to reduce the risk of NEC, and save babies' lives, is to promote donations to your community breast milk bank.
The BC Provincial Milk Bank at Women's Hospital is the community milk bank for ALL British Columbians. Unfortunately, many don't know it exists and as a result, the milk bank is constantly short of funds, as it operates entirely on donations.


Asking for donations instead of flowers at your funeral is another way in which you can support Age Connects Morgannwg. We guarantee that your gift will bring long lasting benefit to older people in Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.
If you would like your friends and family to remember you with donations to us instead of flowers at your funeral you should express your wishes to them or include this instruction in your Will or to your Executor.


The African Union will mull a divisive bid by Morocco to rejoin the bloc at a summit next week where stagnating South Sudan peace efforts will also top the agenda.
The AU's 54 member states will gather in Addis Ababa on Monday for a packed two-day meeting in which they will also have to elect a new chairperson — after failing to do so at a summit six months ago, reports BSS.
Analysts say the election is likely to be complicated by fractures over key issues such as membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and whether Morocco should be allowed back in the club.
Morocco quit the bloc 33 years ago in protest at its decision to accept Western Sahara as a member, but announced its intention to rejoin last July. King Mohammed VI has since been criss-crossing the continent lobbying for support.
"Morocco's economic expansion on the continent is important for it… the AU has become more and more relevant so Morocco realises it cannot drive an agenda on the continent without being in the AU," said Liesl Louw-Vaudran, a consultant with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Addis Ababa.
The membership of affluent Morocco could also be a boon for the AU, which lost a key financer in late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi and has long sought financial independence. Currently foreign donors account for some 70 percent of its budget, according to the ISS.
However, Louw-Vaudran highlights that "it is still not a done deal", with heavyweights such as Algeria and South Africa lobbying hard against the move.
Both have long supported the fight for self-determination by Western Sahara's Polisario independence movement. Morocco maintains that the former Spanish colony which it annexed in 1975, is an integral part of the kingdom.
"The question now is whether Morocco's reintegration means Western Sahara will now be excluded. This is where there are very clear divisions in the AU," said Senegal-based political analyst Gilles Yabi.
Another issue which has divided leaders on the continent is growing anger with the ICC. Burundi, South Africa and The Gambia decided late last year to pull out of the court, claiming it unfairly targets African nations. Others such as Kenya have threatened to follow suit while Botswana and Senegal have argued in favour of the court.
Fragmented regional interests are likely to make it harder for one of five candidates from Kenya, Senegal, Chad, Botswana and Equatorial Guinea to win a two-thirds majority and be elected chairperson of the AU Commission.
Half the bloc abstained from a vote in July last year with many claiming the candidates suffered from a "lack of stature".
Kenya's foreign minister Amina Mohamed, Chad's former prime minister Moussa Faki Mahamat and Senegal's veteran diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily are the newcomers and frontrunners in the race.
They are vying to replace South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who is credited with advancing women's issues, but is seen to have dropped the ball on peace and security.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has been tasked with overhauling a lumbering bloc weighed down by bureaucracy, and is set to present his first report on suggested reforms during the summit.
As usual several crises on the continent will be on the summit agenda, such as turmoil in Libya, radical Islamism in Mali, Somalia and Nigeria and ongoing political tensions in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
One of the most pressing is the conflict in South Sudan, where ethnic violence continues with no solution in sight. Tens of thousands have died since war broke out in 2013 and more than 3.1 million have been displaced.
A 4,000-strong regional protection force mooted at the last AU summit has been mired in delays and disputes as South Sudan's government insists the force is no longer needed.
"There hasn't been a sense of urgency to save lives and get this force up and running. I think it is just South Sudan fatigue, they are out of any ideas of how to solve this," said Louw-Vaudran.
The summit comes after several shake-ups on the international stage: the election of US President Donald Trump and a new head of the UN, Antonio Guterres, who will be at the summit.
Louw-Vaudran said even though it wasn't an official agenda item, the Trump presidency — whose vow to put America first has raised fears of how it will approach its relationship with Africa — will be a hot topic at the summit.
The US is one of the main contributors to the fight against Shabaab in Somalia, and the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has already been hit by funding cuts from the EU.


Not as dead as you might think.
And back to regular service.
It was an extended break, but it will be over soon.
Come and visit ol' eevee sometime k?
YaraelPoof is taking a break from Smogon. Best wishes.
Yes, it is Eevee. Surprised?
If the end justifies the means, What justifies the end?


People who know their biological parents and grandparents typically take the information for granted. Some have a difficult time empathizing with the passionate genealogical quests of adoptees and, increasingly, products of anonymous sperm banks and other new technologies where one or both genetic contributors are unknown. In recent years, new legislation has enabled people to search for information about genetic progenitors—even in cases where there had been a signed agreement of nondisclosure. The laserlike focus of that search can be as relentless as Ahab's hunt for the white whale.
Mystery of lineage is the stuff of great literature. Mark Twain made use of it for biting social commentary in his Pudd'nhead Wilson, a story about the mix-up of babies born to a slave and a free person. Sophocles, Shakespeare, Molière, and Dickens built grand tragedy and enduring comedy on the theme. In England in 2002, a white Englishwoman gave birth to mixed-race twins after a mix-up at an in vitro fertilization clinic. Imagine what Shakespeare would have done with that!
If one person's passions can be so riled by such a puzzle, imagine the emotions involved when the uncertainty applies to a whole group - say, of 12 million people. The middle passage did just that to Americans of recent African descent. Names were obliterated from record books, and slaves were typically anointed with a new single first name. Sometimes no names were recorded, just the slaves' numbers, ages, and genders. Some African-Americans have deliberately and actively participated in the erasure, showing no desire to pursue a genealogical trail. For others, fragments of oral history generate a fierce longing to do the detective work.
That is the case among the prominent subjects featured in "African American Lives," a two-night, four-part PBS series scheduled for February 1 and 8. The host and executive co-producer is Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of the department of African and African-American studies at Harvard. Gates has assembled eight notably successful African-Americans, among them the media entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey, the legendary music producer Quincy Jones, and the film star Whoopi Goldberg. Each participant, along with Gates, is the subject of some serious professional family-tree tracing. There are surprises for each of them, and the series has undeniable human-interest appeal.
But there are other reasons why it is likely to be a staple for courses on history, family and kinship, and African-American studies for years to come. Who knew that before the Emancipation Proclamation, more than 250,000 free blacks lived below the Mason-Dixon line? We learn that the kinds of fears that preoccupied them in their daily lives were partially mitigated when they bonded in one place, permitting them to vouch for each other's long-term community standing if a white person came and tried to claim them as slaves.
The first three segments are very much driven by traditional genealogical research, the hard work of ferreting through archival materials, birth and death certificates, deeds, trusts, estates and wills, church records, and, inevitably, the sale of slaves. One of the patterns discernible at the outset is the speed of some tales of rags to riches and meteoric ascendancy from modest circumstance to extraordinary accomplishment. The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson, who performed pioneering work in separating twins joined at the head, is the son of a domestic. Winfrey's story is fairly well known - as a child, she was sexually abused and shuttled between homes until finally becoming more settled as a late teenager.
Gates deserves special praise for the way in which he weaves biographies into the larger social and historical context. Reconstruction comes to life in the form of Winfrey's grandfather, Constantine Winfrey, who was illiterate as slavery ended. He taught himself how to read and write, then sponsored a new school, all the while raising a family and tilling the soil. The comedian Chris Tucker's great-grandfather was a beneficent church minister who purchased a large plot of land upon which the sanctuary was built. To keep his congregation together, he sold small plots to members. The Harvard sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot's ancestors left New England to start a trade school in the South to help the newly freed slaves find employment.
None of the participants knew the rich details of these histories, and the "only in America" element is compelling.
At another level, however, the series performs a disturbing sleight of hand. Conventional wisdom has it that we can choose our friends, but that our families are a given. But with long-term genealogical work, there is a sense in which this can be inverted. We each have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, etc. As Gates points out in the fourth segment, current technology permits us to link via DNA analysis to only two specific lines. On the Y chromosome, one's father's father's DNA, going back as far as we can locate the genetic material, can be determined with a high degree of certainty. (That is how Thomas Jefferson - or one of his brothers - was definitively linked to Sally Hemmings's offspring.) On the female side, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) can link one's mother's mother's mother going back as far as we can garner the DNA. So, while we have 64 great-great-great-great-grandparents, the technology allows us to locate only two of those 64, if we're going back six generations, as our real legacy and genetic link to the past. But what of the other 62? Those links are equal contributors to our genetic makeup, and we ignore them only because we do not have access to them.
What an arbitrary "choice" of a branch on the family tree!
At one point, upon learning that 50 percent of his ancestry has been traced by DNA analysis to Europe, and that both his maternal and paternal lines are also "European," Gates jokingly asks if he still qualifies to be chairman of African-American studies at Harvard.
But for many, that is no laughing matter. The Black Seminoles are struggling with this very question - whether to use DNA analysis to "authenticate" their relationship to the Seminoles. The reason is straightforward and serious: money. The federal government, pursuant to a land-settlement claim, made an award to Seminole Indians in 1976 and is poised to distribute upward of $60-million.
In 2000 the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma amended its constitution so that members needed to show "one-eighth Seminole blood." The Black Seminoles could use either Y-chromosome analysis or mitochondrial DNA to link themselves through very thin chains back on two edges of the genealogical axis (mother's mother's mother, etc.; or father's father's father, etc.), but that would miss all other grandparents (14 of 16, 30 of 32, 62 of 64).
One attempt to fill in the blanks is the use of a technology called admixture mapping through ancestry-informative markers, or AIM's. Unlike Y DNA or mtDNA tests, this technology examines groups' relative sharedness of genetic markers found on the autosomes - the nonsex chromosomes inherited from both parents.
In the last segment of the series, each of the nine subjects, including Gates, is given information using molecular genetics and computer-assisted analysis of all three kinds of DNA markers. Each of the subjects accepts the ostensibly scientific news of his or her percentage ancestry, deduced by AIM's - that is, African or European or Native American - as if it were of the same certainty as a clerk's entry of a birth date on a certificate. Oprah is crestfallen when she is told that she is not Zulu.
Gates has no match to Africa at all using the conventional tests ? so he deploys Mark D. Shriver, a Pennsylvania State University geneticist at the forefront of admixture mapping, to conduct a special test for him. Gates's autosomes are compared to the small set of African samples Shriver has in his database, from no more than six West African regions. When compared against those few, Gates is closest to the Mende people of Sierra Leone.
Shriver himself seems wary of these results. He surely knows the clusters of DNA are at best crude approximations completely contingent on available samples. Africa has over 700 million inhabitants, and among them it has the greatest amount of human genetic variation found on any of the seven continents. Depending on methods, some regions will be completely missed, while others will be oversampled. The scientists who do the analysis will freely admit that when pressed, but the seekers' eagerness to know spurs a willingness to accept as definitive these artifacts of sampling contingencies.
Ancestry-informative markers (with one exception) are shared across all human groups. It is therefore not their presence or absence, but their rate of incidence, or frequency, that is being analyzed. When taken together, these markers appear to yield certain patterns in people and populations tested. A specific pattern of alleles - corresponding genes on each of a set of chromosomes - that have a high frequency in the "Native Americans" sampled then become established as a "Native American" ancestry result. The problem is that millions of people around the globe will have a similar pattern ? that is, they'll share similar base-pair changes at the genomic points under scrutiny. This means that someone from Hungary whose ancestors go back to the 15th century could map as partly "Native American," although no direct ancestry is responsible for the shared genetic material. AIM's, however, arbitrarily reduce all such possibilities of shared genotypes to "inherited direct ancestry." In so doing, the process relies excessively on the idea of 100-percent purity, a condition that could never have existed in human populations.
To make claims about how a test subject's patterns of genetic variation map to continents of origin and to populations where particular genetic variants arose, the researchers need reference populations. The public needs to understand that these reference populations comprise relatively small groups of contemporary people. Moreover, researchers must make many untested assumptions in using these contemporary groups to stand in for populations from centuries ago representing a continent or an ethnic or tribal group. To construct tractable mathematical models and computer programs, researchers make many assumptions about ancient migrations, reproductive practices, and the demographic effects of historical events such as plagues and famines. Furthermore, in many cases, genetic variants cannot distinguish among tribes or national groups because the groups are too similar, so geneticists are on thin ice telling people that they do or don't have ancestors from a particular people.
Instead of asserting that someone has no Native American ancestry, the most truthful statement would be: "It is possible that while the Native American groups we sampled did not share your pattern of markers, others might since these markers do not exclusively belong to any one group of our existing racial, ethnic, linguistic, or tribal typologies." But computer-generated data provide an appearance of precision that is dangerously seductive.
There is a yet more ominous and troubling element of the reliance upon DNA analysis to determine who we are in terms of lineage, identity, and identification. The very technology that tells us what proportion of our ancestry can be linked, proportionately, to sub-Saharan Africa (ancestry-informative markers) is the same being offered to police stations around the country to "predict" or "estimate" whether the DNA left at a crime scene belongs to a white or black person. This "ethnic estimation" using DNA relies on a social definition of the phenotype. That is, in order to say that someone is 85 percent African, we must know who is 100 percent African. Any molecular, population, or behavioral geneticist is obliged to disclose that this "purity" is a statistical artifact that begins not with the DNA, but with a researcher's adopting the folk categories of race and ethnicity. With the demonstrable skew of the incarcerated population over the last few decades along social categories of race, African-Americans need to be particularly sensitive to the use of phenotype as the starting point for understanding genotype.
The fourth part of "African American Lives" would have benefited from a lot more scientific humility about just how much we can know about our "percentage ancestry." Oprah may have some Zulu (among the "other 62") in her lineage that current technology can neither tap nor exclude. And since nothing in the current state of scientific knowledge can rule that out, we should be so informed by an otherwise enlightening series. The Bantu migration entailed massive movements of people across the African continent. So it is possible that as a "West African," Oprah could indeed have a Bantu link somewhere in the ancestral pedigree. That this possible link might not be called Zulu is more a function of social definition and historical effect.
So, since the jury is still out, don't resign your post, Professor Gates. And nervous jokes aside, let's all recognize that scientific imprecision on matters of identity and identification have implications far graver than the undermining of a TV program's entertainment value.


Buying a car is an all day event, even if you know what you want. So it???s important to have a good working relationship your sales person. We did. We came in to look at vans and Jade Premo helped us. We specifically came to Hertz because of the selection and mileage of their vehicles (rental inventory) and we didn???t want to pay new vehicle retail especially on Minivans. We test drove a Dodge Caravan but weren???t convinced it was the best choice for our needs. The nice thing about Hertz is they carry a lot of makes and models and Jade showed us several other options in the SUV line and a Toyota van. He went through the features and offered to let us test drive every one of them. Ultimately we determined the Dodge Caravan we looked at first was in fact the best choice for our needs. We then went to negotiate the sale. If your looking to haggle you should go to another dealer because this dealership doesn???t budge much and if you check their pricing against the NADA guide and CarGurus you will understand why. However they give you a few perks that make it worthwhile to buy from them. The finance manager is a nice guy who makes the sale personable and didn???t have to since we came in with financing already in place. Where the dealership really shines is their commitment to customer service. We were at the dealership all day and after taking possession of the vehicle and driving home, it wasn???t until the next day that we discovered the windshield had a crack in it. We notified our salesman Jade about the windshield damage by email because Hertz sales is closed on Sunday. He called us even though he was off and said he was going to talk to his sales manager on Monday when he came in. On Monday he called us and said their service department would be calling. After a couple of calls from Jessica in their service department she determined the windshield would need to be replaced and she was going to talk to the sales department to see how to proceed. She called back and said they are going to replace the windshield at their expense and told us not to worry about driving two cars up on the day of the repair because she would put us in a loaner!!! (We live over 100 miles away). A LOT of dealerships would have told the customer that once the vehicle drives off the lot (more often on used car purchases) anything not in writing to be repaired or replaced is the buyers problem. THUMBS UP  to these guys. Standup business with a great staff and customer service attitude. If your looking for a quality used vehicle and a company that wants your business and won???t sacrifice their reputation on customer service for a buck then you NEED to go to this dealership Overland West Hertz Car Sales in Billings Montana!! And if you want to work with a great salesman then see Jade Premo.
When I knew that I would be looking for a used truck, I was really hoping that we would find something at Hertz because of our past experience with them. We really trust their work and word.
Very helpful staff. Parking for customers vehicles, once they get busy, is difficult to find. Need more room to stage and return vehicles to customers during their busy times, during the workday.


text:
January-February 2016 Newsletter
Happy new year to our students, their families, our staff and associates!
Have a happy, creative and successful 2016!
To kick off the current newsletter and the new year, a heads-up from actors Jack Nicholson and Gary Oldman
Advice from two of the greats. Gary Oldman hits the nail on the head regarding the space between the words being as equally important as the words themselves. While Susan Sarandon's thumbnail-picture quote on the newsletter header says it all about the lifelong benefits of learning how to act.
And on that note, the staff and I are looking forward to commencing classes again from Australia Day, January 26.
Please Note: The 26th is a public holiday but we don't observe holidays during term and the Junior class commences on that date.
A busy and exciting year lays ahead!
Happy Halloween Post-Production Update
I'm halfway through editing the November master class film Happy Halloween and the film is looking good. The talented and experienced cast of Meredith Cox, Robyn Millar, Jess Reid, Sam Picello, Sophie Richardson and Keltan O'Shea made the most of their respective roles and delivered strong, naturalistic performances.
Cover photo for Happy Halloween DVD slick
The film is now unfortunately stalled halfway through post-production due to the editor VTR requiring new video heads. The machine is currently with the school's video tech awaiting a new set of heads from Japan. As soon as the editor VTR is up and running again then I will complete the film.
It was disappointing to have the machine go down as the story is up to the part where the cast enter the castle – and the fun really begins!
Children's Film Acting Workshop
The children's film acting workshop (held from Monday January 11 to Thursday January 14) was a fun four days spent working with a keen cast of young students.
The kids learned a great deal about the filmmaking process and after recording the final setup, I quizzed them on the important things we covered during the course. They answered every question correctly and with great enthusiasm.
The workshop produced the short film Witches Castle, which (no pun intended) like Happy Halloween, will be a lot of fun to edit.
It was a fun and productive four days working with these happy and creative little rascals.
2015 was a very successful year for Screen Actors Workshop students and alumni – and 2016 looks like being another big one for the school and our students.
Many of our students found ongoing success last year, and for the most committed students their success is continuing into the new year.
Jemma Eggins (stage name Jemma Jane) found fame in New York playing the lead of Olive Neal in Woody Allen's musical Bullets Over Broadway. After a highly successful and critically lauded sold-out season in the Big Apple, Bullets is now on the road and touring all major cities across the USA. After touring the East Coast the show has now opened in L.A. to rave reviews.
On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, BJ O'Neill received rave reviews in London for the play he wrote and directed, Torn Apart (Dissolution.)
On the home front, Alli Peters and Mona Bagherpour both scored roles in award-winning short films, and producer Sam Smith's short film Banana Boy, was selected for the Screen NSW Emerging Filmmakers Fund.
Sisters Katerine-Ann and Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee performed the roles of Sarah and Mandy in the popular Peter Andrikidis directed film Alex and Eve.
Tom Danger's first feature film Lead Me Astray, starring alumni Logan Webster as the antagonist Alpha premiered to a large supportive audience at the Cremorne Orpheum Theatre in October; and Logan is currently directing his first feature, an as yet unnamed comedy-horror film.
I even got into the act myself, playing the bad guy Josefa the Intoner in director Greg Perano's second feature film Prufrock & Co – along with fifteen of my top students playing roles as varied as my three generals and other assorted male and female warriors from Josefa and Prufrock's armies
Josefa addressing his younger inexperienced warriors prior to their first battle with Prufrock's army
The above selection is representative of the quality and the diversity of work undertaken by our students in 2015 and I'm proud to have contributed toward each individual's success.
Here's to ongoing success in 2016 for all those who worked diligently last year to overcome the odds and obstacles to achieve their dreams.
And for those striving to achieve success, the best advice I can give is to study and work hard and take advantage of any opportunity that comes your way.
TV Series on DVD
Entourage (USA: 2004 – 2011) Creator and showrunner Doug Ellin. Starring Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven, Debi Mazar.
Entourage is a comedy-drama series that ran for eight seasons on American network HBO from 2004 to 2011. The series chronicles the acting career of Vincent Chase (Grenier), a young A-list movie star, and his childhood friends from Queens, New York City, as they navigate the unfamiliar terrain of Los Angeles.
Mark Wahlberg is one of the shows two executive producers and the shows premise is loosely based on Wahlberg's experiences as an up-and-coming film star.
The series deals with themes of male friendships and real-life situations in modern day Hollywood. The show is also know for its array of famous guests, featuring actors, directors, athletes and other celebrities in guest star and cameo roles, often playing fictionalized versions of themselves. Wahlberg himself makes numerous appearances.
The fact that the series was recorded over a seven year period allows for in-depth development of character and story arcs as Vince and his entourage grow from young lads into grown men under the guidance of Hollywood super agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven.) Piven's energetic and manic portrayal of Gold is an acting master class in itself and a joy to behold.
Entourage is definitely worth your time.
Class Scene DVDs
If you would like an edited copy of your past terms scenes, or previous term's scenes on DVD, then see me in class or drop me an email and I will organize it for you once the edit suite is up and running again.
Class scene DVDs are $50-00 per term's on-camera scenes and are a highly beneficial means of improving your work via further home study.
To wrap up the current newsletter, I'd like to welcome back our ongoing students for another ten week term of on-camera workshops and to extend a warm welcome to the new students commencing classes with us this term.
2016 is going to be another big year for the school and I'm looking forward to the commencement of classes from January 26.
Alan Nurthen Director

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


2015 64 ISUZU D-MAX 2.5 TD UTAH DOUBLE CAB 4 DOOR 164 BHP IN SILVER WITH ONLY 42000 MILES AND A TRUCKMAN REAR TOP IN IMMACULATE CONDITION.
APPROVED CARS ARE PLEASED TO OFFER THIS ISUZU D-MAX 2.5 TD UTAH DOUBLE CAB 4 DOOR 164 BHP IN SILVER WITH ONLY 42000 MILES IN IMMACULATE CONDITION THAT IS A ONE OWNER WITH A FULL ISUZU SERVICE HISTORY SERVICED AT 11K,23K,34K AND 42K (BY OURSELVES) WITH A GREAT SPEC INCLUDING PARKING SENSORS,ALLOYS,TRUCK MAN REAR BOX AND MUCH MORE A GREAT TRUCK THAT IS READY FOR WORK.
Start your search for a used Isuzu van right here at Approved Cars Ltd (Approved Cars Izusu). We're a leading supplier of quality, affordable commercial vehicles and no matter whether you're in the market for a rugged four-wheel drive or a versatile dropside truck, our team will be able to help you find the perfect match. Leading Japanese manufacturer Isuzu is responsible for a wide range of commercial vehicles and you'll regularly find competitively priced used Isuzu vans for sale in East Peckham here on our website. Feel free to get in contact with a member of the showroom team to discuss your options in more detail or simply pay a visit to our showroom to take a closer look at our current stock in person.


Another fantastic feature of WordPress Form Maker plugin is its Conditional Fields. This lets you show or hide fields of your form based on certain selections the submitter makes. Go to Section of your form, then click Conditional Fields tab to start the setup.
Press Add Condition button to configure the first condition of your form.
Show/Hide select box represents the action which will be completed if all or any of the condition statements are fulfilled. Use the second drop-down menu to select the field which will be shown or hidden.
Make sure to hit Update after setting up Conditional Fields.


I have some exciting news to share with you!!!! I have been asked to participate in a Blog Hop by Jen !!! My First!!!! and I hope it won't be my last. Yes, there will be Blog Candy and a new and exciting project so please save these dates December 30th & 31st. Can you tell I am excited about working with these gifted ladies? I also look forward to your participation. Come back and see what all the excitement is about.
Congrats!! I am so happy for you! :) I will be there!
Congratulations! We know you give us a great project!!!!


school ? we had this traditional games today.
from 11am all the way till 12.30 . it was like freaking hot .
parade square, where not much people saw . hahahaha !
thats all for school today .
cartoon . looks real though . i used to love the show .
watch it everyday when i was young . so yeah ..
when i was in p5 i went there with my pri school .
performed . hahahahs ! & we went back at 1am .
tiring but i miss that momment lahhs .
violence wont solve anything .
okay, why you may ask ? the story started yesterday .
it was dismissal . went to canteen with girlfies .
know, ilham ended it by pulling one of them, i think .
yesterday again . i editted the part on screams on my blog .
i asked khairiyah sayang to help me continue after the sanity part .
& she said "your face turned the red light, green" hahahahahs !
i was laughing my head off plus i was on the line with fandi .
Nazirah, tell me how it goes about the confession thing yeah !


text:
AIA Massachusetts Government Affairs Committee
March 21, 2017 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Add to Calendar
Knowledge Community
Carbon Pricing Demystified: How Proposed Legislation Can Happen Here
Michael Green, Executive Director of the Climate Action Business Association will give an overview of proposed carbon pricing legislation in Massachusetts.
Excerpted from the State House News Service:
More than a third of state lawmakers have signed onto legislation that would put a price on carbon emissions as a way to address global warming, a sign of growing support on Beacon Hill for a policy that Gov. Charlie Baker has seemed cool to in the past. Sixty-two lawmakers signed onto Senator Barrett's bill (SD 1021), which is similar to the one he proposed last session. The co-sponsors comprise 35 percent of the 40-member Senate, and 40 percent of the 160-member House.
To learn more about the AIA Massachusetts Government Affairs Committee, visit architects.org/committees/aia-massachusetts-government-affairs-committee
Click Register to attend.
Resources for Firms: COVID-19
BSA offices are currently open for business transactions every Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
View a collection of resources and assets related to the COVID-19 virus response.


I think a lot of us, at one time or another, were under the impression that there is a linear progression to life. We envision growing up and somehow arriving at a point where we can stand still for a while. A point where we are settled and officially grown up. As it turns out, that is an unrealistic expectation. We are never really officially grown up and life really doesn't allow us to stand still for very long. But I think there's a benefit to that. As we go through life, our experiences shape who we are and lead us to our next chapter. And the first step to coping with our expectations and the pressures we feel from ourselves and those around us is to try and let go of what we think things should look like.
When I was a kid I remember my parents asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. When I was eight I wanted to be a child psychologist. By the time I was 12 my parents thought I should be a lawyer because I always had something to say about everything. In the end I wound up getting a Bachelor of Science in Recreation Therapy working in mental health, then I went on to the field of fundraising, and then corporate communications, which inspired me to get my masters in communications. And now in creating Om Healing and Wellness, I'm combining the things I have avidly researched, practiced, and had a passion for – empowering people to find the tools to live the life they most want to live, to teach them to advocate for themselves, and to help them to improve their physical and emotional health through tools like mindfulness, yoga, meditation, and nutrition. On the surface all of these career paths may look unrelated, but when put in the context of the rest of my life, these transitions make sense. And in each of these professions, I have found the common thread of relationship building, communicating, advocacy, and helping others.
Particularly here in New York, we tend to view what we do as our identity. Transitioning through different points in our careers can be stressful, even if it's a change we want.
Particularly here in New York, we tend to view what we do as our identity. What we do somehow has a status associated with it and sends a message to ourselves and others, albeit stereotypical at times, about who we are. That can be tough when you are in between jobs, or you aren't happy in your job, or when you aren't sure what you want to do next. Transitioning through different points in our careers can be stressful, even if it is what we want. There can be a period of questioning ourselves and those moments can come and go, cropping up even when we think we are settled in the choices we've made. And then if we get busy and neglect the things that ground us, we can really get out of sync as we struggle to resist the pressure we put on ourselves to figure things out and live within the parameters of the linear path we think we should be striving for. Recently I had an experience where over the course of several weeks, I stopped doing as much yoga, I was sporadic about my meditation practice, and I was scheduling pretty much every minute of my days. It all came to a head for me when I was asked if I would present at a conference. I was honored and excited and said yes. Then, as is common practice, I received an email asking if I would forward my bio. I thought yes, absolutely. And then I went to send it. When I looked at the bios I had, none of them seemed to fit who I thought I was anymore, even the one I had written just a few short months before. Some bios were focused solely on my past career as a communications executive, some focused on my new life as a yoga therapist, and a mash-up of the two didn't seem to make sense. And then the identity crisis came. Who am I? What am I doing? Is there something else I should be doing. Have I made the right choices? And of course my monkey mind, you know, that part of your brain that is responsible for unrealistic self-judgment and feelings of doubt, answered with a resounding no you don't know what you're doing and your choices have been horrible.
Our stories are constantly evolving and we get to tell them but we won't be in a place to do that in a way that makes us feel good about our lives if we are neglecting the practices that keep us grounded and healthy along the way.
Because I had let my foundation of self-care slip and I wasn't doing the things that allow me to operate in a way that is best for me, one innocent question had sent my thoughts into a tailspin. There were things in my career that I was proud of, that I didn't want to let go of, that I saw as a part of my identity. What was driving my inability to let them go and to be at peace with where I am now? What made me think I had to choose and let go of any of it? Was there a way to tell my story that would integrate what I did then and what I was doing now? Lastly, and most importantly, I asked myself why I felt so shaken as I hadn't felt this way in a long while. I looked at my calendar and realized that I hadn't practiced yoga in nearly two weeks. How could I have let this happen when I have a pretty clear sense of what I need to take care of myself and I credit yoga and meditation with some of the most profound changes in my life including a better ability to cope, to be less reactive, to make better decisions, and to quiet my monkey mind, which was now going bananas. Ok I couldn't resist that one, but seriously, the answer, is life got in the way. And by that I mean I got in my own way. Now that I recognized what was going on, I decided to take action. The first thing I did was sit down with my calendar and plan out when I was going to practice yoga for the next week to get back on track. I put it in the calendar as if it were any other meeting or appointment and that made me feel a bit better right away. I like visuals and am comforted by lists. And then I got to work crafting a bio that would give people a sense of who I am now. I edited the paragraph over and over until it felt right. In the end it was a great exercise. It allowed me to reflect on things I had accomplished, to re-energize my focus on what I'm doing now, and to think about where I'd like to go.
Our stories are constantly evolving and we get to tell them but we won't be in a place to do that in a way that makes us feel good about our lives if we are neglecting the practices that keep us grounded and healthy along the way. We get to say this is where I've been, this is where I am now. All of it matters and it has brought me to where I am today. We all have the ability to look at life that way and that is a gift. I think we just need to remind ourselves of that sometimes.
« Change Freaks Us Out, Control is an Illusion, So What's a Person to Do?


text:
Evelyn Goldbrunner (* 4. Oktober 1975 in Landshut) ist eine deutsche Drehbuchautorin, Dramaturgin und Regisseurin.

Leben
Goldbrunner wuchs in Bayern auf und absolvierte von 1995 bis 2001 an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ein Lehramtstudium und war nebenbei als freie Journalistin tätig. In dieser Zeit lernte sie Joachim Dollhopf kennen. 2002 ging sie nach Brandenburg und begann an der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" (jetzt Filmuniversität Babelsberg) ein Drehbuch-/Dramaturgie-Studium. Hier arbeitete sie bevorzugt mit dem befreundeten Dollhopf zusammen, mit dem sie seither mehrere Filme drehte.

Der siebenminütige Kurzfilm I don't feel like dancing, bei dem 2007 auch Robby Dannenberg am Drehbuch mitschrieb, gehört zum "Next Generation 2009"-Programm von german films. Der mehrfach ausgezeichnete Film wurde auf zahlreichen Filmfestivals in rund 40 Staaten aufgeführt und 2011 auf arte gezeigt. 2009 drehten Dollhopf und Goldbrunner mit WAGs ihren Abschlussfilm an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg, mit dem das Duo den First Steps Award in der Kategorie "Mittellanger Spielfilm" gewann. Der Film hatte seine Weltpremiere auf den Hofer Filmtagen 2009 und wurde auf der Berlinale 2010 in der Perspektive deutsches Kino gezeigt.

2010 gründete sie mit Dollhopf die DramaQueen GmbH in Gosen-Neu Zittau. Hier ist sie als Geschäftsführerin für inhaltliche und konzeptionelle Entwicklung der Stoffentwicklungs-Software DramaQueen, mit deren Hilfe Film- und Serien-Dramaturgie ins digitale Zeitalter überführt werden.

Mit Auf Augenhöhe kam im September 2016 der erste Spielfilm des Duos in die Kinos. Der Film feierte seine Weltpremiere auf dem Kinder-Film&Fernsehfestival "Goldener Spatz" und erhielt zahlreiche Preise auf nationalen und internationalen Festivals. Beim Deutschen Filmpreis 2017 wurde er als Bester Kinderfilm ausgezeichnet.

2016 übernahm sie eine Vertretungsprofessur an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg.

Sie ist Mitglied im Verband für Film- und Fernsehdramaturgie (VeDRA) und lebt in Potsdam. Mit Joachim Dollhopf hat sie eine gemeinsame Tochter.

Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)
Für I don't feel like dancing:
 2007: Cinema for Peace Talent Award
 2008: "Best Short Fiction", goEast Wiesbaden
 2009: Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis
 2009: "Best Direction Award" in der Kategorie "Mondo Corto", Film Festival Internazionale Cortometraggio "Salento Finibus Terrae", San Vito dei Normanni, Italien
 2012: "Best short film on human rights", International Rights Film Festival "Steps", Charkiw, Ukraine
 2012: Gewinner "International Category", Golden Halo Awards, "Script" International Short Film Festival, Kerala, Indien

Für WAGs:
 2009: First Steps Award in der Kategorie "Mittellanger Spielfilm"

Für Auf Augenhöhe:
 2016: Publikumspreis, Kinderfilmfest München auf dem 34. Filmfest München
 2016: Jugend- und Kinderfilmpreis des Goethe-Instituts, 21. Internationales Filmfestival Schlingel
 2016: Silver Gateway Award, 18th Mumbai Film Festival
 2016: Special Mention, Marburger Kinder- und Jugendfestival FINAL CUT
 2016: Seminci Joven Award, 61st Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
 2016: Special Jury Award, 32rd Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad"
 2016: Best Film in Section "I have Rights", International Film Festival for Children and Young People Armenia
 2016: Grand Prix, Okinawa Children's Film Festival
 2016: Kinder- und Jugendfilmpreis "Rakete", 27. Kinofest Lünen
 2016: Schülerfilmpreis 10+, 27. Kinofest Lünen
 2016: "Most Uplifting Film", International Disability Film Festival Breaking Down Barriers Moscow
 2016: "Arthouse Cinemas Network Award", 34th ALE KINO! International Young Audience Film Festival Poznan
 2016: Special Mention, KINOdiseea International Children's Film Festival Bucharest
 2016: "Best Story", SMILE International Film Festival New Delhi
 2017: Youth 4 German Cinema Award, 21st Berlin & Beyond Film Festival San Francisco
 2017: "Best of Festival", PTFF "Picture this... film Festival" Calgary
 2017: "Best Drama Over 30 Minutes", PTFF "Picture this... film Festival" Calgary
 2017: Best Feature Film, International Children's Film Festival Bangladesh
 2017: Bester Kinderfilm, Preis der deutschen Filmkritik
 2017: Kids Jury Award 2017, Luxembourg Film Festival
 2017: Prix spécial, 20th Montreal International Children's Film Festival
 2017: Golden Wings Jury Feature Film Award – Runner Up, 18th Leeds Young Film Festival
 2017: Auszeichnung "Rauch-frei-Siegel" durch das Aktionsbündnis Nichtrauchen (ABNR) und die Stiftung Deutsche Krebshilfe
 2017: Bester Kinderfilm, Deutscher Filmpreis 2017
 2017: Main Prize – Best Feature film, KINOLUB International Children's and Youth Film Festival Poland
 2017: 2nd Best Feature (International Live Action), 20th International Children's Film Festival India GOLDEN ELEPHANT (ICFFI)
 2017: Kindertiger Drehbuchpreis (vergeben von Vision Kino und KiKA)
 2017: Castello D'Argento Award, Castellinaria – 30° Festival internazionale del cinema giovane Bellinzona
 2017: UNICEF Award, Castellinaria – 30° Festival internazionale del cinema giovane Bellinzona
 2017: Best International Feature Film, Torrecinos Film Festival (Tofifes) Panama
 2017: Mohaq Best Feature Film Award, Ajyal Youth Film Festival Doha
 2018: Award for Best Film, KinoKino International Film Festival for Children Zagreb
2018: Audience Award, KinoKino International Film Festival for Children Zagreb
2018: Audience Award, 28th Europees Jeugdfilmfestival Vlaanderen Belgium
2018: CINI Award for Best Film, CINI International Children's Film Festival Lima
2018: Best Film Award, WONDERFEST Bucharest
2018: Grand Prix – Children Jury Award, WONDERFEST Bucharest

Filmografie
 2001: Trocken (Kurzfilm; Drehbuch und Regie zusammen mit Dollhopf)
 2002: Durst (Kurzfilm; Drehbuch und Regie zusammen mit Dollhopf)
 2005: Majella (Kurzfilm; Drehbuch und Regie zusammen mit Dollhopf)
 2007: I don't feel like dancing (Kurzfilm; Drehbuch und Regie zusammen mit Dollhopf; Mitarbeit am Drehbuch: Robby Dannenberg)
 2009: WAGs (TV-Spielfilm; Drehbuch und Regie zusammen mit Dollhopf)
 2016: Auf Augenhöhe (Kinofilm; Drehbuch und Regie zusammen mit Dollhopf)

Schriften
 zusammen mit anderen: Das antike Drama – Politik auf der Bühne bei Aischylos, Euripides, Sophokles und Aristophanes. Aus der Reihe Science Factory, GRIN Verlag, München 2014. ISBN 978-3-95687-126-9 (online)

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Filmregisseur
Drehbuchautor
Dramaturg
Person (Medien, Potsdam)
Darstellender Künstler (Potsdam)
Autor
Deutscher
Geboren 1975
Frau


text:
Nature Cultural Tours
Village Cultural Tours
Local Tour
Tribal Tours
Birding Tours
Rafting,Paragliding & Angling
Samthar Experiences – Overview
India's leading Tour Operater
Created in 1972, Meghalaya ( The abode of clouds) is the home of the Khasi, Jantia and Garo tribes. Khasi and Jantia tribes are closely related and are thought to have originally emigrated from South-East Asia. The Garo came from Tibet.
Warring chiefs ruled the area before the arrival of the British, who established control in 1820 by exploiting inter tribe rivalries.
Meghalaya is a land of rolling lush green hills, at an average altitude of 1500 meters. Pine forested hills, terraced fields, serene river vales, lovely waterfalls, and incredible range of flora, exotic plants, and a warm and friendly people makes Meghalaya a wonderful holiday destination. This "land of the rain clouds" has the wettest place on earth. The climate is pleasant all year around with cold winters in Dec – Jan.
The Khasi, Garo, and Jaintia tribes of Meghalaya were animists, who practiced human sacrifice. British missionaries converted them to Christianity; which is now the dominant religion of the three tribes. An interesting feature is that the society is matrilineal, and is believed to have originated from the mythological "mother of the root". Women therefore dominate the society. Children take the mother's name. The high lights are:-
The main highlights of a visit to Arunachal Pradesh
SHILLONGCHERRAPUNJEESMIT, NOGKHNRIH AND MAWLYNNNONG
Shillong the capital city of Meghalaya is surrounded by lovely mountain scenery, exotic flora, waterfalls and caves. It is an ideal base for exploring nature and the lifestyles of the tribal people. Interesting sights are: –
"Tir": Shillong's unique institution – the archery stakes it the form of tribal archers shooting repeatedly a set amount of arrows, in four-minute bursts, at a cylindrical bamboo target. The gamblers set their stakes, to predicting, the last two digest of the number of arrows that stick to the target – this being a matter of luck.
Waterfalls & gardens: Elephant Falls, set amidst fern covered rocks, Crinoline falls, which holds bonsai and orchids and Lady Hydari Park modeled an Japanese garden, with a forestry museum and a mini zoo on the premises.
Shillong peak, for a good view.
The sacred groove of Mawphlang: a part of Khasi tribal legend has rare orchids, plants and monoliths, untouched through centuries.
"Iewduh": The quaint market place, where only ladies conduct all business.
Uniam Lake: is a water sports complex.
The Don Bosco Centre. is arguably Asia's largest Museum of Indigenous Cultures. It provides an overvierw of the North East region. The display is a feast of knowledge spread over seven stories with 17 galleries.
Cherrapunjee is located 56 kms from Shillong, it was at one time, the wettest place on earth (the tittle is now held by Mawsynram, just 12 Kms away as the crow flies). 104 cms rainfall was recorded here in a 24-hour spell in 1876. The local market is famous for its honey and tribal jewelry.
The Nahkalilkai and the Mesmai water falls and caves are worth exploring. Trekking excursion to Living root bridges and nature pools can be an add-on to a visit to Cherrapunjee.
Visit to the countryside includes Smit – the traditional seat of power of the Kingdom of Khyrim, the village of Nogkhnrih dedicated to preserving workshops in the art of making traditional bows and arrows, and Mawlynnnong- is a model village with a community home stay in a traditional tribal house. The close by living root suspension bridge, over an idyllic stream is indeed a unique sight.
Shillong is reached via Guwahati by a 3 hrs hill journey A helicopter service also operates between Guwahati and Shillong.
Why Gurudongma Tours
Our guest love this
Tribal Tour
Birding Tour
Mountain Biking Tour
Nature and Culture Tour
Rafting, Paragliding & Angling
Awards of Excellence - 2017
© 2017 Gurudongma Tours
Website Developed by webtids.com
India Offers An Astonishing Array of Experiences


text:
My newest adventure into the world of indie games
by Amethystic » Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:36 pm
Okay, so today I purchased and played through The Stanley Parable, an indie game by Galactic Cafe, and despite its fantastic reviews I'm still baffled as to how such a highly praised game could be so underwhelmingly dull and frustrating. It was supposed to be some ingenious, story-based game exploring the illusion of choice, but I felt like all that ever happened was the game kept putting me on an endless, repetitive narrative loop while the ambiguous (and not in a good way) Narrator spouted some quasi-philosophical nonsense every now and then. I kept waiting for the plot to advance, for some sort of progress or "Aha!" moment to show itself, but no, the premise of the game never gets any less vague--or more interesting--and all you get is the same few story loops again and again, with maybe a minor change in scenery here or there. Also, as someone playing the game on Steam, I'm going to say right now that the accomplishments suck. They're pretty much pointless, and there's hardly any of them. The only good thing about this game is that it has a great demo. Seriously, the game was a bore, but give the free demo a shot if you have the chance; it's the most interesting thing about this game.
Has anyone else played the game? If so, what did you think? Is there something that I'm missing here?
Random Rebel
Amethystic
Location: Somewhere between this world and the planet Xoltac.
E-mail Amethystic


text:
Kristy Kierulff
Resides Long Beach, CA
United States 25th $0
AVP 29th $0
BVA 25th $0
Overall 25th $0
Season Assoc Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points Rank 13th 17th 25th 29th 35th 41st 51st 57th
2000 BVA 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 9.0 85th 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
2001 AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 16.0 98th 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
2003 AVP 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 11.0 162nd 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
2004 AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 4.0 239th 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
(Rank) 6
(866th) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 40.0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
Total 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 40.0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
AVP Pro Beach Tour
Partner Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 17th 25th 29th 35th 41st 51st 57th
Jamie Ivers 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 16.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Tanya Gwinn 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 7.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Michelle Kyman 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Lindsay Phillips 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Total 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 31.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1
Beach Volleyball America
Brandy Kosty 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
Total 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
Location Assoc Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 17th 25th 29th 35th 41st 51st 57th
California: Hermosa Beach AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 16.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
California: Huntington Beach AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 7.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
California: Manhattan Beach AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
California: Pismo Beach BVA 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 8.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
California: San Diego AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
California: Seal Beach BVA 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
2000 Beach Volleyball America
7/7-9 Seal Beach Brandy Kosty Q24 41 1
Q1: l. Laura Higgins / Caron Janc (Q9) 5-15 (0:25)
Q4: l. Kirsten Niedung / Sabrina Pozzi (Q25) 9-15 (0:32)
8/11-13 Pismo Beach Brandy Kosty 25 8
Q1: d. Nikki Audette / Marlene Monteleone 15-9
Q2: l. Kaili Kimura / Sarah Schroeder (Q2,20) 15-17
Q6: d. Marlene McGrath / Sabrina Pozzi 15-13
Q7: l. Barb Birnbaum / Erin Galli (Q4,19) 4-15
2001 AVP Pro Beach Tour
6/8-10 Hermosa Beach Jamie Ivers Q14 29 16
6/13-15 San Diego Michelle Kyman Q40 51 4
Q1: l. Lauren Fendrick / Makalani Hovey (Q25) 15-21, 15-21 (0:40)
8/14-16 Huntington Beach Tanya Gwinn Q42 35 7
Ranking: 162nd
6/4-6 Manhattan Beach Lindsay Phillips Q41 57 4
Q1: l. Antoinette Cocco / Jennifer Lombardi (Q24) 18-21, 16-21 (0:48)


I bought attended underwear, fit right super briefs large and a generic brand of incontinence briefs. Overall, it was great because I only spent less than ten dollars on sixty dollars worth of supplies. Finding our my incontinence progressed over the past couple of months has been hard. Being self aware of people and I really don't like wearing products out in public. In reality, I will place my reviews on my incontinence supply review page. I find that going to thrift stores helps me find the products that I would like to try out or I find gems! Overall the products are amazing and can hold the urine effectively. There are quite a bit of ones I am only going to use around the house. Having this problem my whole life has taught me valuable lessons about what to look for and feel for when thrifting.
What I generally look for is thickness, if I want to try the brand out and the value of it. If it is marked down to two dollars for 20 briefs, I will always take a gamble on a lesser known brand. I don't mind the color as much either, so if they are hot pink, I am going to grab them. Products come in a lot of colors like off-white, peach, vanilla, blue, green and others. So if you don't like the color, wear them at home like I do with the blue ones. I have also found a few thrift stores I prefer over others. Beware some stores will mark items up without knowing. I usually google a product before buying it and compare the prices. If it is 80+% off I will buy one of the packages. Don't buy all them, unless you are sure of the product!


text:
__all__ = ['mean', 'standard_deviation']

import math

def mean(data):
	N = float(len(data))
	return sum(data) / N

def standard_deviation(data, mu):
	N = float(len(data))
	return math.sqrt(sum((x-mu)**2 for x in data) / N)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Table bed bedroom furniture patio furniture farmhouse style handmade wooden home furnishings including sofa desk table bed bedroom furniture farmhouse style handmade wooden home furnishings including sofa desk table bed bedroom furniture patio furniture farmhouse style handmade wooden home furnishings including sofa desk table bed bedroom furniture all custom made. Table bed bedroom furniture patio furniture farmhouse style handmade wooden home furnishings including sofa desk table bed bedroom furniture patio furniture patio furniture all custom made. Custom rustic log beds, furniture farmhouse style handmade wooden home furnishings including sofa desk table bed bedroom furniture all custom made. Home furnishings including sofa.
These are reader choosen ideas : custom rustic log beds .


"We used to call ourselves Bampton Summer Opera… But then we thought we might be had up under the Trade Descriptions Act," joked Jeremy Gray, welcoming the large audience gathered in St Mary's Church. Bampton's opera performances are ordinarily given in the natural open air stage of their beautiful Deanery Garden next door, but when English summer weather drives us under cover, it's a relief to find the back-up venue warm, comfortable and generally dry (even though the bar corner needed emergency indoor tenting, thieves having recently stripped the lead from the church roof).
Directed and designed by Jeremy Gray, The School of Jealousy flows smoothly from social crisis to emotional crisis before peace and fidelity are finally restored. Gray's strong young cast attacks the piece with commitment and enthusiasm, whether individually pouting at their spouses in marital discord, or evoking a group of people driven insane by jealousy, licking the prison bars of their asylum (the unlikely setting of the Count's first clandestine date with Ernestina) and gurning with mad brilliance. Sung in English, with Mazzolà's libretto wittily translated by Gilly French and Jeremy Gray (there's plenty of strong rhyme, and even a glorious Fake News joke), the pace and immediacy of this piece never flags.
The sudden change of venue necessarily affected this performance, halving the stage, excluding all but the simplest props, and placing the Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera, conducted by Anthony Kraus, at a punishing 90º angle for singers trying to connect with their conductor. It was the only feasible place for the orchestra in the space, and the singers coped well with the challenge, but timings could get blurry, especially at the culmination of Salieri's most complex musical phrases. Regency costumes set the tone of genteel misbehaviour. As the Count, tenor Alessandro Fisher was every inch the Georgette Heyer hero in a bravura performance, naturally commanding and fabulously insouciant, with lyrical tone and surprising philosophical depth behind his agenda of pleasure (in one stupendous aria, the Count gives Blasio a moral lesson on the evils of jealousy, illustrating his points by reference to his own priceless art collection). This Count is a fascinating forerunner to Don Giovanni; he actively discusses his own insatiable desire for women of all kinds, rather than leaving explanations to a lackey. Then, like the Count in The Marriage of Figaro, he finally rekindles true love within his marriage.
As Fisher's Countess, a poised Rhiannon Llewellyn radiated tense anxiety here, sassy authority there; Llewellyn's slightly breathy delivery could occasionally diminish her verbal clarity, but the notes her voice can leap up to reach are simply stunning. Generally exhibiting impressive vocal control, Llewellyn was able to deal with momentary problems (sometimes caused by a passing tightness, sometimes by the awkward placing of the orchestra) in her stride. Llewellyn and Fisher made a supremely matched pair in duets, their voices truly complimenting one another in tone and colour.
Kate Howden's exceptionally clear and luxuriant mezzo, combined with natural and expressive acting, made us wish the servant-girl Carlotta had a larger role. As Lumaca, Carlotta's fellow servant, Samuel Pantcheff's liquid baritone and faultless delivery made merry with quickfire passages Rossini might have envied, his sleepy-eyed delivery and comic instinct equally pleasing. Nathalie Chalkley made a composed, articulate Ernestina who gradually slid into the uncontrolled rage of frustrated passion as her husband Blasio pretended to court an imaginary mistress to fire her jealousy; Chalkley's performance was nicely modulated through her sprightly, smooth soprano and deft control of gesture. Matthew Sprange's handwringing, furious merchant Blasio was an essay in the Angry Husband which grew in dramatic conviction through the night. With the lightest tenor on stage, Thomas Herford sometimes struggled to give the Lieutenant as much colour as the rest of the cast, despite his innate stage presence. However, the ensemble moments are extraordinary, as Salieri and Mazzolà weave intriguing quintets of sudden pique, pretended disdain and compulsive desire.


Posted by John Dewey in Chef, Code, Example, Rake.
wanted to run an individual recipe of a given cookbook. The following gist allows for this. Although, it may not be necessary, since cookbooks are generally idempotent. Seemed like a good idea earlier in the evening, meh.
Posted by John Dewey in Chef, Code, Deployment, Ohai.
I have found myself needing to know the operating system platform. Rather than explicitly checking for /etc/lsb-base or /etc/issue to determine if it's Ubuntu or Debian respectively. Let Ohai do the work for you.
This small gist prints the platform. You can access just about anything you want to know about your system via this method.
Posted by John Dewey in Apache, Automation, Chef, Code, Configuration.
I probably built a naive chef solo configuration. I also know I could have used one of the many "Ready Stack" solutions VPS providers are creating. However, I like my systems setup a particular way.
Take a peek the configuration is pretty cool. The code is on github.
Ideally chef would have built my system from the ground up, installing ruby, libs, etc… Since I do not control this piece, there are a few prerequisites to setting up chef.
Once complete, drop in your virtualhost, and deploy your code. This is not intended as zero-conf. Merely a standard base configuration for all of my hosts.


text:
Haley Barbour Assesses Romney's Chances
Published August 29, 2012 at 1:00 PM EDT
NEAL CONAN, HOST:
After the Republican convention put down a Ron Paul rebellion yesterday, the rest of the proceedings enrolled according to script. And with about nine weeks left to go, the freshly nominated ticket finds itself about even in the polls, with a good shot at majorities at both the House and the Senate. The convention provides an opportunity to define the message. And tomorrow night, Mitt Romney gets a chance to present himself to voters.
Joining us now from radio row at the Republican convention in Tampa, former Mississippi governor and former Republican Party chair Haley Barbour. And, Governor Barbour, nice to have you back on the program.
HALEY BARBOUR: Hey, Neal. Thank you very much for having me.
CONAN: And before we get to politics, I know you're concerned about Hurricane Isaac. You must have had some flashbacks from seven years ago today.
BARBOUR: Well, yeah. Katrina was seven years ago, but thank God this hurricane is nothing like Katrina. It's mostly a rain event. It's very large, Neal, but it's never been very powerful, hadn't had very high winds. We are blessed. I don't know about Louisiana. The storm came onshore there. The biggest risk for us is, if we really do get 12 to 20 inches of rain, that it ruins the crops.
I mean, we got a big soybean crop out in the field at 17-and-a-half dollars a bushel, plus a major cotton crop. Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, if you get 12-20 inches of rain through the agricultural areas, it'll be billions of dollars. That will be the big economic effect of this storm, at least for Mississippi. Like I said, I can't speak for Louisiana.
CONAN: Well, I hope everybody - you and yours are doing fine.
BARBOUR: Well, thank you very much. We are. Thank you.
CONAN: Well, now to politics. And if you had to say this election was about one thing, what would you say it's about?
BARBOUR: Well, first of all, like every re-election of a president, it's a referendum on the president's record. And that's Obama's big problem. The American people think his policies have failed. In fact, a lot of them think his polices have been counterproductive, that make it - that his policies make it harder to create jobs, harder to improve the state - the country's financial condition, harder to improve the economy.
Secondly, though, Mitt Romney should go beyond that and not just say vote Obama out because he hadn't done a good job. And Mitt Romney will, in my opinion, tomorrow say - tomorrow night, he'll say to the American people: Here's what I'm going to do. Here's why I'm going to do it, and here is how it's going to help turn our country around and get us back on the right track, give people something to vote for.
Mitt Romney trusts the American people enough to tell them the truth. And I thought last night's convention set a great tone for truth-telling, for being straightforward and factual and saying, this, you know, this isn't going be easy. This is - not everything is going to be popular. But the longer we let these problems go on, the harder they're going to be to solve, the worse the medicine's going to be. That's why we need to act now.
CONAN: Some would say that's not exactly the happy warrior, but these are different times, of course.
BARBOUR: Well, people want to know the truth. Like I said, they're tired of happy talk.
CONAN: As you look ahead, you can count, as well as anybody in the Republican Party. How do you see the path to election? Is this going to be decided in, what, seven, eight states?
BARBOUR: Well, the likelihood is it's going to be 12 or fewer states that'll be in play by the end of the day. There are number of states that are going to vote for Obama, like Massachusetts, and there are number of states who are going to vote for Romney, like Mississippi. And, however, there are at least a dozen states that could be won by somebody else. And, frankly, every one of them was won by Obama last time. I don't think there's a state McCain won that is at risk. One could say Arizona. I doubt it. One could say Missouri. I doubt it. But, yeah, a handful of states will decide this. You make the point, Neal, that presidential elections are not literally national elections. They are, in fact, 50 little elections.
CONAN: Fifty-one.
BARBOUR: Fifty-one little elections. I forgot...
CONAN: Got to throw D.C. in there. Yeah.
BARBOUR: You District of Columbia guys won't let me forget that.
CONAN: And...
BARBOUR: We'll spot you those three, Neal.
CONAN: OK. I think those are going blue. But as you look at it, where would you focus: Florida, Ohio, Nevada?
BARBOUR: Well, I would not go to the exclusion of any of that. This is a national campaign. It has to be national. But Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, those are the 12 states that I think most everybody agrees are in play or likely to be in play. And I wouldn't - I would contend for every single one of them.
CONAN: You mentioned the message, and it's fundamentally about the economy and jobs. How important is it to stay on message, and how much does it hurt when you get distractions like - the - Congressman Akin's remarks the other day on abortion?
BARBOUR: Well, of course, the whole Obama campaign has been a distraction, because they know that if the campaign is a referendum on Obama's record, he doesn't have a chance. He can't run on his record. So the Republicans need, every time they can, to get back on what is on the minds of the American people. The American people at the dinner table are talking about job losses, inability to find jobs, mortgages being foreclosed. They're talking about the way the economy has gone backwards.
A recent survey, Neal, said that by two-to-one or a larger margin, the American people thought the economy had gone in the wrong direction under Obama. The financial condition of the federal government had gone on the wrong direction under Obama. The standing of the United States in the world had gone in the wrong direction under Obama. And the ability of the government - United States government to solve problems had gone on the wrong direction under Obama. That's what people are talking about at home at night. And that's what - always, that's what elections ought to be about. And every time we let it get off on something else, then that's to our detriment.
CONAN: I hear you staying on message, and I suspect the campaign will do its best to stay on message, too. In these days of the superPACs, where the campaign is not the only entity that is creating commercials, how do you keep them on message?
BARBOUR: Some of them, you can't. Some of them you can. Something like Priorities USA, which is Obama's - run by a bunch of former Obama staff people. Look, they're going to be as on-message as anybody in the world. I'm not saying they're coordinating with Obama. I have no reason to believe they are. But they get it.
They know what Obama's trying to do, what he's trying to say, and they know how to help him say it. American Crossroads, on our side, it's the same way. You know, they're not coordinating with Romney, but they get it. They're professionals, and so they'll stay on message. What - you do give some special interest groups some time that'll get off run and down rabbit trails, and sometimes it can be detrimental to the effort.
CONAN: How united is the party? We saw some very upset Ron Paul supporters yesterday. They might be, what, 10 percent of the party?
BARBOUR: Well, in the recent polling, more than 90 percent of Republicans say they are voting for Romney. Interestingly - and this is very unusual in my experience - a higher percentage of Republicans say they are supporting Romney than Democrat percentage say they are supporting Obama. It's unusual that the incumbent doesn't have a higher degree of loyalty in his own party than the challenger. But that's the case. And look why: Because Barack Obama is the great uniter of Republicans and conservatives.
CONAN: Great uniter in opposition, is what you're saying.
BARBOUR: That's correct. And his record, his policies, his direction unites Republicans to make a change and get our country back on the right track.
CONAN: We're talking with former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, also former chairman of the Republican Governors Association and a founding planner of the BGR Group. He's with us from Radio Row at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News.
There are some other voices in the party, and we've heard people like Jeb Bush and Dan Quayle and Bob Dole talking about the need of the party to reach out to change the tone of its address to minorities, to African-Americans, to Latinos and to women.
BARBOUR: Well, when I ran for reelection in Mississippi, I got more than 20 percent of African-American vote. That's the second-highest that any Republican that I know of in Mississippi has ever gotten. Senator Thad Cochran, our senior United States senator, typically gets in the high 20s. And so I'm proud of that, but I will tell you, I get asked all the time how to do it. Well, I did it with exactly the same message that I have for everybody else in the state. And I thought one of the high points of my campaign, the largest black newspaper in the state wrote an editorial in which they wrote: I don't know why you're all complaining about him. He's just doing what he said he's going to do.
And that's what I try to do. I try to do what I said I was going to do, whether it's tort reform, controlling spending, balancing the budget without raising taxes, growing the economy, improved workforce training. And after Katrina, African-Americans in Mississippi saw everybody's going to get treated the same. Everybody's going to get treated fairly, that we were going to be a government for all our citizens. And that made me get very, very high percentages of the African-American community in the areas that were hit hard by Katrina, because they saw firsthand in their own lives that they were getting treated just the same way everybody else was getting treated.
CONAN: A lot of people say this is going to be a base election, that 46 percent of the country's already decided to vote for Barack Obama, 46 percent has already decided to vote for Mitt Romney. And those few people in the middle who are going to decide this election, those people in the middle tend to be more interested in people who will reach out across the aisle work with the other side, people who will compromise. The Republican Party, fairly or not, has an image more and more as a party that is inflexible and will refuse to work with the other side.
BARBOUR: It's interesting that you would say that. There are - those of us who deal with this a lot have a very different view. Barack Obama refuses to even try to work with the Republicans in Congress. He has never tried. When he had overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate the first two years, he totally ignored the Republicans. Then when he needed them, he's been unwilling to work to with them. And - what we need is a president like Ronald Reagan, who led. He had a Democratic majority in the House every day for his eight years, but he learned to work with them.
And he enjoyed working with them, even though they didn't agree on many things. Reagan compromised over and over and over. But Reagan got the Reagan economic plan passed, immigration reform passed, Simpson-Mazzoli, Social Security reform passed, the 1986 tax reform bill. That right - just that is just four gigantic pieces of bipartisan legislation. And it's not partisan when I say that. Bill Clinton led. When Bill Clinton lost the election in 1994 and you had Republican majorities in both Houses, he didn't quit. He didn't start carping. He didn't start blaming and complaining.
He went over and learned, even though he didn't really like him very much, perhaps. He went over and learned how to work with the Republicans, with Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole. And they passed welfare reform, the most consequential social legislation of a generation. They passed the first balanced budget in a generation, because Bill Clinton was willing to lead. We need a president that'll lead. And to blame that on Congress, Congress can't lead, Neal. I don't care if it's a Republican Congress or a Democrat Congress. Five hundred and thirty five people can't lead. The president has to lead, and we have not seen that leadership at all.
CONAN: Some would say the president thought he had a deal with the majority - the speaker of the House on a deal. And the speaker was undercut by some of his own constituents in Congress.
BARBOUR: Well, you can go through time and time and time again of Simpson-Bowles. Here's a president who wants a commission to make a recommendation. He makes a recommendation, and it's very clear that many, many Republicans are willing to accept Simpson-Bowles as a starting place. I mean, nobody on any side, I don't think, was willing to say, OK, I'll take every single thing in it. But it was clearly a starting place with bipartisan support. The president ignored it. It's his commission. He ignored it.
The president told the Hispanic community: I'm going to have an immigration bill in my first two years. Never saw the light of day. After the election in 2010, he proposed the DREAM Act in a lame-duck session. I mean, in a lame-duck session, the adage(ph) you're going to take up complex legislation when you're really there to try to get the budget patched up and get over to next year, it was unserious. And there's been no serious efforts. It's interesting. The only two presidents in my lifetime that have ever tried to pass serious immigration reform were Republicans: Ronald Reagan, who succeeded, and George Bush, who failed.
CONAN: Haley Barbour, thanks very much for your time.
BARBOUR: Thank you, Neal.
CONAN: Former RNC chairman Haley Barbour. Next week, we'll talk with former DNC chairman, Howard Dean. Join us for that. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


Spacious sprawling ranch offers one level living without sacrificing any space! This home is tucked away on over 2 acres in a cul-de-sac neighborhood yet close to area amenities.. Adorned with wood floors and granite counter tops the kitchen is sure to please! The welcoming screened in porch offers serenity while overlooking the brand new stone patio and beautiful plantings. Loads of storage in the full sized walk out basement. Plus an attached 2 car garage and 1 car under! Improvements include Roofing, Heating, Central A\C, Generator, Wood & Tiled Floors and so much More!


NCOA members and their families now have access to a worldwide inventory of hotels rooms and rental cars at exclusive discounted rates.
Whether traveling for work or pleasure, individually or in a group, domestically or abroad, you can take advantage of savings that may exceed 50% and average 10-20% below best available rates. When planning your next trip, be sure to visit the NCOA Member Travel Discount Program to see how much you can save!
Call 800-892-2136 and reference NCOA.


Rich and long-wearing colors that dry with a matte, highly-pigmented finish. Nourishing ingredients including Vitamin E and Avocado Oil keep lips hydrated and smooth.
Endless Colour Liquid Matte Lipstick in Lady in Red is a vibrant deep red.
DIRECTIONS: Our matte liquid lipstick works very effectively when you apply a thin layer (not a thick layer). A little goes a long way! So start by removing any excess on the lip wand back into the tube, then apply a thin layer outlining your lips, rub your lips together and then let it set. That's all you need!


text:
WILLIAM (BILL) J. ALLEN
William (Bill) J. Allen, 94, died on May 23, 2020, at Baptist Health. He was the loving husband of Mary Alice (Pennington) Allen. He is survived by his two beloved daughters, Elizabeth Jane (Joe) Hudson of Lexington, KY, and Annette Elaine Allen of Brandenburg, KY. Also, surviving him are his cherished grandchildren, Stephanie (John) Crosier and Christian Sweet. Three surviving adored great-grandchildren are Will Crosier, Sumner Crosier, and Joseph Crosier, all of Brandenburg, KY. He is also survived by a special friend, Phyllis Davis.
Bill was born in Lebanon Junction, KY, to the Reverend M.D. Allen and Viola Jane, who preceded in him death. He was a "Preacher's Kid" who lived in many Kentucky communities where his father served as a Methodist minister. These communities included Beaver Dam, Brandenburg, Cadiz, Providence, Hawesville, Owensboro, and Mount Washington. Bill was attending high school in Mount Washington when he was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War ll. While in the military, Bill was trained as a gunner in the tank corps and served stateside. More recently, he was honored to be able to travel to Washington, D.C. on the Angel Flight to visit the World War ll Memorial. At the end of the war, Bill attended Union College in Barbourville, KY. While there, he met Mary Alice. The two were married 59 years until her death. During this time, Mary Alice and Bill enjoyed a full life together. She was his constant companion who also enjoyed many of his interests.
Bill's first teaching position was in a one-room schoolhouse in Grayson County, KY. Following that year, he was an educator for many years serving as principals in Meade County, KY and Posey County, IN. He served as principal at Picadome Elementary and opened Tates Creek Elementary in Fayette County
Where he was honored by having the gymnasium named after him. He was a graduate of Union College, the University of Louisville, and completed his Rank 1 at the University of Kentucky. He was active in professional organizations and published articles in educational journals. At the national level, he was president of the National Elementary School Principals' Association. He took great pride in his schools and faculty.
Bill was an avid sportsman. He loved to boat and to spend time on the water with his family and friends. He was an exceptional water skier who taught many others to share his love of skiing. As he grew older, Bill enjoyed taking boat trips on the Ohio River and boating on Lake Cumberland. One of his favorite trips was with Mary Alice to sail in the Virgin Islands. He was a former member of the Lexington Yacht Club, serving as a past Commodore. Fishing was one of his pastimes, too. His favorite fishing activity was to clean out his tackle box or to make a good trade for a "special" lure. Quail hunting with his pointer hunting dogs brought him years of pleasure as well. He loved to share stories about his dogs and his hunts with fellow hunters.
Bill knew much about American history, especially Kentucky history. Traveling on day trips with him was always an education. He could point out where a duel took place or locate an unusual land formation. Studying genealogy and tracking down missing ancestors was of great interest to him. Also, he had a wide range of activities that kept him busy after he retired from education: beekeeping, making the Saturday garage sale stops, reading, studying current events, fixing "things," and keeping up with politics. Bill loved to spend the winter near the beaches in Florida. He could also play a spirited version of "When the Saints Go Marching In" on his harmonica.
He was preceded in death by his five older siblings: Jessie (Lawrence) Reed, Mabel (Bill) Davies, Brack (Rachel) Allen, M.D. Allen, Jr., and Pauline (Ralph) Fontaine. He is survived by many loved nieces and nephews and one sister-in-law, Helen (Ken) Pennington. The family would like to thank the staff of Highgrove at Tates Creek for the attentive and compassionate care he received while living there. Private family graveside services will be held in Brandenburg at the Cap Anderson Cemetery at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the American Cancer Society at 1504 College Way, Lexington, KY 40502; to the Meade County Public Library at 996 Old Ekron Road, Brandenburg, KY 40108, or to a charity of your choosing.


How do I Totally Uninstall Adobe Shockwave Player?
"I want to uninstall shockwave player as it keeps crashing my laptop, help please." These programs display the video, animation, and graphics in many computer games. If you continue to have trouble after installing the latest video card driver or completing the suggested updates or settings adjustments, follow the steps below to make sure you have completely uninstall Adobe Shockwave Player from computer or laptop.
Before the instruction, there are two ways to uninstall Adobe Shockwave Player from computer, one is the manual way, while one is on the contrary, the automatic method to help completely get rid of it. All you need to do is to follow the instruction we offer below to remove it easily.
How to Uninstall Adobe Shockwave Player Manually?
Most people might know about the manual way in Windows to uninstall Adobe Shockwave Player, follow the removal guides here we provided to remove it step by step in accordance with which system you have.
Quit all running applications on your computer including your web browser.
Press Ctrl + Shift + ESC to open Task Manager, find any Adobe Shockwave Player process, click it, and select End Task.
Click UNINSTALL to proceed removal until it finish.
Open the Start menu and select Programs and Features.
In the 'Find a setting' bar, type "Programs and Features" then press the Enter key.
Hit Find Next, delete the target item when it shows up.
Click on Start < File Explorer and click on the "View" tab at the top.
Then click on "Options" on the right side of the screen and open it.
Click on "Apply" and "OK".
Then navigate to the hidden folder – C:\Users\username\AppData\ Adobe\Flash Player and remove it.
How to Uninstall Adobe Shockwave Player Automatically?
If you think this is disturbing and annoying to uninstall Adobe Shockwave Player by manual, then there is a better way to remove it with quite few clicks & steps. Try it now.
Download & register Bloatware Uninstaller on HERE.
Note: No matter you are owning a Windows XP , Windows Vista / Windows 7, Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, you can still use this tool, for it's compatible with any Windows system.
Step 3. Follow the uninstall direction to complete the auto process, click UNINSTALL to proceed and wait for a while until the Scan Leftovers button lights up, then click on it. Then, click on "Delete Leftovers" button to completely uninstall Adobe Flash Player.


The HIDA Educational Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) education and research organization dedicating to continuously improving the healthcare supply channel. HEF is affiliated with HIDA and is led by a separate volunteer Board of Directors.
For more information about participating on the HIDA Board, contact HIDA.