The #Energy from #KungFuPanda3 # #Kate Hudson and #Lucy Liu and more!
It was one snowy day right after the storm hit the city. The weather was freezing cold and sunny and the road was extremely messy. I had to get up from the bed at 8 am and dressed up for Kung Fu Panda 3 screening event with Kate Hudson and Lucy Liu, by www.themoms.com but that was not what excited me; the only reason to why I had the enthusiasm to get up and dress early in the morning in a freezing weather was the opportunity to learn from Cherie Corso. Cherie is an innovative founder of G2 Organics www.g2organics.com, blogger www.cheriecorso.com, mom, and of course my boss! G2 Organics? Are you sure they are true organics? Yes my dear, I can assure you they all are organics, odorless, and colorless. You know what I love about odorless products? First, they are not too confident that we would accept their choice of scent. Second, we can add our scent to the product. For example, you can spray your favorite perfume on the spot where you apply the Hickey Stick. Your perfume will last longer and get much stronger because the Hickey Stick traps the molecules so they do not evaporate as much as they would without the Hickey Stick.
The movie, besides telling impossible stories of animals doing Kung Fu 3, also teaches us about the power that comes from within. Our exclusive nail polisher that comes with Rikei Charge exhales positive energy. Well, of course, not colorful energy like the one you will see on the movie. It is that positive aura that you feel when you play around with the bottle. How do I explain something colorless, odorless, and can't be seen? There is no one definitive way to describe Rikei aura that comes out from the bottle, that is why you should get a bottle to feel it yourself, and I am sure you all will understand what I mean by then.
Till my next post fashion bunnies!
MOM's Spring Clean YOURSELF! When you feel good YOU look good!
MOM's Spring Clean YOURSELF! When you feel good YOU look good!
We all know about auras, but one other important thing to note about the energy surrounding you is that auras are like magnets. They are always picking up vibrational energies that are floating around, and they do so everywhere we go. That's why it's super essential to cleanse our auras freeing them of foreign vibrations and negative energies, especially if you are a particularly empathetic, intuitive person who picks up on other people's energies. Luckily, it's quite a simple process, and there are many ways to do it.
Go sit in a quiet, distraction-free zone in your house. Stay seated comfortably in a position you can relax in for about 15 minutes doing some de-stressing breathing exercises. Be conscious of what you're doing, and be aware of your inhale and exhale movements. You can even meditate for a bit. Once you find yourself beginning to totally relax, form a white light in your mind and have it surround you. Allow it to flow throughout you, from the tips of your toes to the top of your head, and visualize it moving up and down your back near your spine. If you get distracted or thrown off, you can get yourself back on track by revisualizing the white light and controlling your breathing.
We've all been around a downer person. You know, a person who is completely negative, always has something bad to say about any given topic, and generally has a big frowns face on more than a smiley one. This person affects more than just themselves, though; she's distributing negative energy to you whenever you're around her. Thus, your aura will get dimmer. One way to protect yourself is to make sure you surround yourself with more positive people than negative ones. Cut out the ones that are negative, once you figure it out. Find positive people who think like you, who always have a smile to offer, and who have kind souls. These are the people that can help offset the negativity collecting in your aura.
Still have negative energy wafting around? You might have to look inwardly make sure you are't the poop in your life! Start paying attention to your thoughts. Are there a lot of negative ones? Take a look at them. Are they untrue, delusional, or paranoid? All the more reason to chuck them out. Focus on the bright side of things; it really does help! If you are having a really bad day, it's okay to express your bad feelings, but don't wallow in that place. Make your day a good one by treating yourself to your favorite tea. Play your favorite song of the moment. Find a friend to hang out with. If you notice that a negative thought is trying to creep in, confront it with a positive one. If you keep practicing this, you will be able to conquer the effects of negative thinking.
This is the most commonly practiced ways of protecting the aura. Practitioners praise it as a beautiful way to connect them to the Divine, and when it's done in the mornings, it's a defining positive note for the start of their days.
Here's how you do it. Imagine white light coming down from the Divine, God, the Universe, whatever your higher power is. Connect this light to the crown of your head, and then let it spill out over you and down under your feet. You are now surrounded by a white light bubble. White is pure and thus, highly protective. It is also full of love from our Divine. Now that your bubble is around you, you are protected from any negative energy coming inside your bubble.
You can now change the color if you'd like to change the protection and power. You can also add mirrors to reflect away any negative energy if you are going somewhere you know will have negative energy or if it will have a large group of people.
Sometimes you need to get your energies realigned, and an energy healing will clear any blockages you might have. Healers can also check for negative entities or emotional cords that may need to be cut. Don't underestimate the power of these energy checkups, and they can impact your energy tremendously! You might find your mood swings, imbalanced emotions, or connections you can't seem to get rid of are all fixed once your energy is realigned, and thus help you be at your best to protect your energy. I do energy clearing and have helped many people feel better. MOM's Spring Clean YOURSELF! When you feel good YOU look good!
Smudging is a Native American practice using white sage to cleanse any negative energy. It's similar to the house cleaning ritual we showed you in regards to Feng Shui. You can cleanse your house, people, and things. We recommend doing it after you've had a lot of people in your home, or after you've had a lot of energy drained.
Why do we list so many methods? Because it can get boring doing the same thing every day, and everyone's auras are different. Depending on the color and size of yours, you may respond differently to different methods, so try them all, mix them up, and figure out what works the best for you. Make sure you stay consistent though; bad energies do creep up on us at nearly every moment, so push them out and seize the day! Life is short be happy!
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July 12, 2014 TONIGHT is a #supermoon, how to use the energy to make your intentions come true!
For of those of you who have never worked with the energy of the Full Moon, may be wondering how does one draw upon its energies? Well, I have a simple method I use which involves visualization and intention. I will also give you alternative method for drawing Full Moon energies to you that involve being outdoors and writing down your intentions.
Take a few deep breaths to help clear your mind and open your heart and spirit. Visualize a huge bright Full Moon hanging above you in the sky. It is shining so bright, so beautiful. On a piece of paper write your intentions, whatever it is that you want "and more". THINK and FEEL,Full Moon is shining all around you, all over you, and within you. Allow yourself to look at the moon, admire the beauty, feel the light and energy. Feel its positive energies, feel positive thoughts. Once you have taken all the energy you need from the Full Moon, start to think about your intention. Think about the true desire of your heart in this moment or at this point in your life. For some it might be finding love, job success, happiness for your children, whatever the positive intention is its all good. Focus on your desires. Begin to send the Full Moon's energy from within you to your desire.
This meditation helps to recharge your spiritual battery because it reminds you of your own inner power and inner strength to draw towards you the desires of your heart and to heal yourself. You can tweak this meditation to fit any need you may have at the time. And this is a good way to draw upon the energy of the Full Moon at any time during the month, not just when there's a Full Moon outside. Think about what you desire, send the message to the universe.
I like to write it down on a piece of paper, you can everything and anything that you want. Always remember the old saying " becarful what you wish for you might get it". Don't be afraid to go for it and visualize and be grateful for all that you have and all that you hope to achieve. full moon, is a good time to perform positive energy , work with increases, good luck, growth, love, sexual desire, and wealth; it is a time of inflation. This is the best time to bring things to you and increase your fortune.
This is a fun way to use the energy of the moon!
1. Write down your intention, what you want!
3 .Burn the paper with your intentions(in a empty flower pot, firepit, whatever you have) take the ashes and put it out the universe!
Okay, some might think this is crazy, but it can't hurt and might even help you get to the next level. Look around, at what going on in the world, I feel is we all send out positive thoughts, help each other, the vibration of good with help us all. Blessings and may all your dreams come true, and more!
So, the next time you're feeling out of balance, a little drained, or in need of extra spiritual strength, draw upon the energy of the SUPER Moon realizing you are one with all things in the Universe and the energy shared is from the One who energizes all of us.
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Christina Aguilera lost weight by Reiki sessions! Its TRUE!
Im a Reiki master, I love hands on healing and helping people. When working on some people they always want the quick fix and think that one Reiki session can heal, it can help get the energy moving and put you in a new frame of mind Most people need more then one session (Christina has 3 sessions a week) . Reiki can help you feel calmer,make better choices in life and food choices,sleep better, raise your frequency, and get the energy moving throughout your body. When your body feels good, you feel better, and promote positive energy, attracting positive energy! I loved this article, because people know Christina Aguilers and have seen the transformation.
Christina Aguilera's weight loss is down to Reiki sessions.
The 'Fighter' singer has recently unveiled a new, much slimmer figure after losing 30lbs and credits her new body to practicing the spiritual healing technique.
A source told the National Enquirer: "It's a Japanese method for healing the body, emotions, mind and spirit. Christina also credits a low-carb diet and yoga workouts for her new look, but Reiki puts her mind in a good place and gives her the discipline to eat healthy and maintain weight loss. She sees a Reiki mater for private sessions three times a week."
'The Voice' USA judge, 32, has previously said she feels "refreshed" by her weight loss because she's been able to spend more time with her five-year-old son Max.
She said: "I got to have, finally, a break and spend some time with my son … being able to breathe and have time away outside of the camera and get to the nitty-gritty of all things real and personal [allowed me to come] back refreshed."
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7 ways to shift the energy, you can start NOW! Changes begin immediately!
Its never to late to shift the energy, to have a new outlook.
Be open to new opportunities, mentally and physically. Small changes can lead to big changes in the way you feel.
Get Healthier, start today just make one change in your daily routine.
Pick up the phone. Ring a old friend just to say "hello", that is just what they might need is to hear from you, so it will be a mutual exchange of good energy. In todays world of always feeling the time crunch, its kind nice to hear a friendly voice of a old friend on the phone.
Try a new vegetable. Eat in season, this can be easily done and is fun. Its so easy to pull fun recipes up and make them like these organic, "yummy" muffins by Le Pain Quotidien.
Eat high vibration foods.Get your Chakras in line, its never to late to continue on a new path of happiness and being aware.We are all in this life together and the energy we put out is what we get back and attract,so think positive, be healthy and create the life you want .
I always tell the ladies its NEVER TO LATE, to repackage and reinvent yourself! It might start with just a new outlook, at a familiar situation.
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REKI-CHARGED NAIL POLISH REMOVER say WHAT?
THINK: An effective, gentle, non-polluting, nail polish remover enhanced with the power of crystals. Make a small change for the better….one drop at a time.
WHAT IT IS: G2 Organics Nail Polish Remover is a non-toxic, odorless, gentle and effective nail polish remover with a bonus; it is Reiki-charged. A genuine quartz crystal helps to amplify the Reki energy and represents overall well being. Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that promotes healing, and a sense of well being. G2 Nail Polish Remover is good for your body, spirit, and the environment. The G2 Organics Nail Polish Remover comes in two styles: Brown Label 4 fl. Oz ($9.95) in an unbreakable, plastic bottle, and the Luxury Glass Bottle 4 fl. Oz ($15.95) in a clear, glass display bottle with genuine, quartz crystals. The Luxury Glass Bottle is meant to be displayed, as a reminder that every day, there is a positive purpose in everything you do.
WHAT'S IN IT? The product is all natural, non-toxic, and 95.% organic. It has a non-acetone formula that's kind to skin and nails, free of harsh chemicals, artificial fragrances, and colors. The ingredients are simple: aloe vera extract and Vitamin E, butyl diglycol (derived from corn), an embittering agent, and ethyl alcohol (derived from grain). That's it!
THE BENEFITS: G2 Organics is not just a nail polish remover. It's a lifestyle product with definite benefits: No Odor: Most nail polish removers have harsh chemicals and unpleasant odors. You, and everyone around you, breathes in those noxious, unpleasant, unhealthy vapors. They also waft up into the air, polluting the environment. G2 Organics nail Polish remover is non-toxic and completely odorless. Use it anywhere, any time: at home, the office, even when you travel, because there's no telltale odor or pollutants.
Kind to Skin: G2 Organics Nail Polish Remover is gentle on your skin, your body, your surroundings, and the environment. The product is effective, even though it is gentle. It effectively wipes away nail polish, without rubbing, scrubbing, or hassle.
A "Feel Good" Product: Reiki-charged G2 Organics Nail Polish Remover is spiritually enhanced to make you feel good and send positive energy into your life. Make a small change for the better, one drop at a time. It's a little thing you can do to make life easier and more satisfying.
G-2 Organics, Your Choice is "crystal" If you care about the environment, if you are sensitive to chemicals, if you're pregnant or have health issues, if you're concerned about the health of your children, or if you just don't like the smell of chemicals, G2 Organics is the obvious choice, a crystal clear choice.


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· Published May 24, 2017
Lakers hire personal trainer of Kim Kardashian to be strength coach
By Rachel Wold
The Los Angeles Lakers are already working towards bettering themselves for the upcoming season. On Wednesday, the team announced the hiring of Gunnar Peterson, who will serve as the Director of Strength and Endurance Training.
The Lakers issued a statement on the hire.
"From his time in college at Duke University until now, Gunnar has pursued excellence in training and fitness," said General Manager Rob Pelinka, per the team's official website. "Gunnar is a true pioneer and visionary at his craft, and will bring a new mentality to our weight room which we are all very excited about. Since Magic and I have worked with Gunnar in the past, we have a strong relationship with him, which makes working together now feel seamless."
Worth noting is Peterson is also Kim and Khloe Kardashian's personal trainer. The Kardashian sisters are famous for their voluptuous lower halves and buns of steel. We can imagine the Lakers players are in for quite the lunging and crunching sessions in the coming months.
Peterson has also worked with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, quarterback Russell Wilson, his wife Ciara and wide receiver Antonio Brown, according to a report by TMZ Sports.
There is not a one among this crowd of names who is not in tip-top, excellent physical shape.
Peterson is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.

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Italy's Forwards: Who SOARed the highest?
June 1, 2010 by Ryan Popilchak
It's a topic we all love discussing, and we all have different opinions about. Some of us would rather see a pure poacher in the lineup while others believe that target men are the most effective and still more believe that a striker who plays well with the ball at his feet is essential.
We can debate the merits of Antonio Di Natale or Fabrizio Miccoli until we're blue in the face. Well, I've decided to add some fuel to the fire with the Sports Opinionated Attack Rating (SOAR). If you'd like an explanation of how it's created, here is a full one.
In short, I've used some basic attacking stats like goals, assists, shots on goal and times fouled to estimate the attacking impact of every forward in Serie A as if they played 90 minutes every game to equalize for playing time.
Now given that I'm the same guy who once wrote that Ronaldinho has lost it, and also have had some great debate on the merits of Eto'o for Inter, I thought I would answer some key striker-related questions from around Italy using SOAR.
Which forwards are the most important to Inter?
This was a hotly debated topic going into the CL final, and there still seem to be many who would love to continue the debate. In order to stir the pot a little more, take a look at this table.
Keep in mind that SOAR only shows the offensive impact a player has had, so it won't account for the amount of tracking back and defensive work that Pandev and Eto'o performed so well on the season.
The most obvious thing that jumps out, is how effective Super Mario Balotelli was when he was on the pitch. In fact, he had the highest SOAR rating in all of Serie A. What makes Balotelli so effective is that he's so versatile. He gets a high number of balls on the net, is adept at finding others for an easy goal and has an amazing ability to draw fouls when the ball is at his feet, as we discussed on the Pink Shirt Wise Guys podcast.
The interesting notion to me, as well was that while Pandev and Eto'o essentially performed the same role, it was Pandev that was much more effective offensively. The main concern seems to be Eto'o's ability to hit the net. He was only on target 34% of the time, which was lower than any other Inter forward and well below the league average of 44.6%.
Should Milan really try to buy another striker this summer?
This is my own personal "scratch my eyeballs out with a chopstick" topic. It continues to infuriate me that the AC Milan brain trust seem to be shopping for a striker while there are massive holes in midfield and the back line. Assuming that their new coach continues to deploy a system where Ronaldinho and Pato are wingers or support strikers, does Milan need a new player up front?
At first glance, I may have to eat my words in many ways. For starters, Ronaldinho was highly effective over large minutes, which is much harder to do than be highly effective over limited minutes.
Apparently my incessant moaning for Huntelaar to get more playing time has been unfounded.
The Expected SOAR (eSOAR) is calculated just using a players SOG, not their actual goals. It's a measure of the player's ability to get in dangerous positions, while the SOAR was the measure of what they did in those positions. In this case, both Huntelaar and Borriello did very little to put themselves in good positions, but made the most of those positions, either through great finishing, a bit of luck or a combination of both.
Most of the top strikers have a rating in the range of 0.850 to 1.100, so it's actually feasible that Milan could get good value out of a top notch finisher. I will now staple my mouth shut.
Which strikers should start for Italy in the World Cup?
Given that I write about sports, obviously my favorite hobby is criticizing coaches. In this case, I'm not going to debate the merits of who Marcello Lippi selected, but I would like to evaluate the players he has at his disposal.
As you can see, and most people already believed, Gianpaolo Pazzini is clearly Italy's most effective strike option. Not only did he score, but he drew an immense amount of fouls from opposing defenders.
The question will be whether Lippi decides to play a trident or a strike partnership.
With Iaquinta's back injury, he may not be available, and probably isn't a good partner for Pazzini anyway given their similar styles. That said, he should be the first choice substitution if he's healthy.
Di Natale seems to be an automatic starter, whether on the left side or floating behind Pazzini. He scored at an amazing rate and added 6 assists as well. He's a given.
Marco Borriello needs to be the next cut from this team. While his SOAR is decent, his eSOAR tells me he doesn't create dangerous opportunities. Having watched him all year, this seems absolutely correct. I would much rather see both Giuseppe Rossi and Fabio Quagliarella in the squad.
Which starter had the best season in Serie A?
By "starter", I'm going to assume a cutoff of 2250 minutes which represents two-thirds of the minutes available to a player in Serie A. As I stated above, it is much harder to play at a high level over a multitude of games, than to do it for the last 30 minutes of every game. This filter eliminates the likes of Pato, Totti and Balotelli, who are all immensely talented but weren't durable or couldn't hold their temper enough to stay on the pitch.
Below are the top 10 in Serie A this year.
The top 6 players shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who watched much Serie A this season. All of these players were the headline grabbers throughout the year and their SOAR seems to confirm what we see with our own eyes.
Players 7 through 10, however, sure jumped out at me. I wasn't surprised to see Vucinic in the hunt as he's had a phenomenal season, but the other 3 wouldn't be the players I believe most Serie A fans would list off the top of their head.
Neither Lavezzi or Sanchez were very prolific in the scoring department, but they consistently drew fouls from opposing defenses, meaning they had the better of their defenders on a regular basis.
Massimo Maccarone on the other hand, had a phenomenal season for Sienna and would be a great player for the likes of Sampdoria to pick up to provide depth now that they're in the Champions League next season.
Which small-club player is due to break out or move to a bigger club?
I eliminated all the European-bound teams and also Lazio, Udinese and Fiorentina as these clubs achieve a lot of exposure nationally. I left both Parma in the mix, purely because they weren't the subject of as many headlines as the rest.
It also required at least 1000 minutes of playing time to ensure that a few lucky goals our bounces didn't sway the data too much.
Davide Lanzafame had an absolutely stellar season for Parma. He scored in limited minutes, chipped in some assists and was fouled at an alarming rate. For 8th place Parma to move into European contention next year, they need to rely on him more next season.
The Cagliari trio of Jeda, Nene and Matri all were very effective. In this case, it's hard to tell whether they played in a particularly good offensive system, or if they really were that impressive. Either way, Cagliari is in good hands if they can hold onto at least two of the three, since Matri may get a chance at a bigger club.
While this may go against popular belief, I think Maxi Lopez may be a much more superior striker than the likes of Borriello. Their numbers may look similar in that they both seem to outperform their eSOAR, but Lopez hits the net at a much higher rate than Borriello, leading me to believe that he is a more accurate shooter.
Finally, Martins Adailton could be an interesting signing for a mid-level club like Bari who has a great defense and needs to add some firepower along with Barreto.
If there are scenarios you'd like me to compare using SOAR, let me know either in the comments or email me.
I would like to add crossing statistics to the mix, but at the moment it's very hard to find reliable data for Serie A so please pass on any sources you may have.
I will likely be adding in players from other leagues throughout the summer and normalizing for the goals scored per game in each league.
At some point I will also start using SOAR to show the attacking value of different midfielders and fullbacks but would like to have crossing stats first given that it's a much bigger part of their game.
Apologies for the resolution of the images above, due to limits they had to be resized.
Posted in Featured, Italian FootballTagged AC Milan, Diego Milito, Inter Milan, Italy, serie a, SOAR, World Cup
Ryan Popilchak
While I have a day job, what feels natural to me is to be fanatical about sports. I spend all my free time checking on injury reports, watching games, cursing lineups and predicting who will sign which players in the transfer period. I love to discuss sports, I'm fairly argumentative and I need a creative outlet. I hope you enjoy what you read, and feel inspired to passionately argue and debate your own points. I also write for my own blog http://sports-opinionated.com and publish an Italian Football podcast called Pink Shirt Wise Guys at http://sports-opinionated.com/podcasting/
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Home saudi arabia Al-Anad Drone Strike Puts The Saudi-led Camp In A State Of Confusion
Al-Anad Drone Strike Puts The Saudi-led Camp In A State Of Confusion
Ibrahim al-Wedaie
Information is trickling in about the outcome of a Yemeni drone strike that targeted a camp in Lahij where high-level US/Saudi-backed leaders were attending the launch of a new training year for the mercenaries' military units.
A military source told Al-Masirah that the attack struck a podium at the Al-Anad military base where senior Saudi-backed mercenary leaders attended the graduation ceremony of a new military batch that was being sent to fight against the Yemeni people.
He added that the attack took place at 9:30 am, at the beginning of the parade.
Meanwhile, the aggression-owned media revealed the identity of a number of senior military leaders who were killed and wounded, including the governor of Lahij Major General Ahmed Turki, appointed by the [Hadi] regime.
The aggression-owned media confirmed that high-level officials including the Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Bahri Abdullah Salem Al-Nakhi, the Deputy Chief of General Staff Maj. Gen. Saleh Qaed Al-Zindani, the Deputy Chief of General Staff for Technical Affairs Maj. Gen. Saif Saleh Mohsen al-Zindani, the head of the intelligence unit Maj. Gen. Mohammad Saleh Tammah, the army commander of the fourth military region and the second brigade Hazem Maj. Gen. Fadel Hassan Mohammad, the commander of al-Anad Military Axis and Infantry Brigade 131, Brig. Gen. Thabit Muthanna Jawas, the Director of the Armed Forces Moral Guidance Department Brigadier General Ali Mansour Al-Walidi and the spokesman for the fourth military region Mohammed al-Naqib were killed and wounded.
A large number of dead and injured were reportedly transferred to 6 hospitals in Aden. The hospitals appealed for blood donations, which coincided with a state of high alert on the streets of Aden.
The Aden Algahd News website quoted an eyewitness who said that the drone flew over the area and bombed the podium the moment the military leaders entered, which backs the claims by the Al-Masirah military source.
For its part, the Yafa News website quoted a photojournalist who was at the military ceremony. He said that the explosion was large and that he "saw the moment 15 people were targeted on the podium where the explosion occurred."
Without being intercepted, an unmanned aircraft was seen approaching the Al-Anad base podium where celebrations were taking place. It landed on the platform and caused a massive explosion.
From a strategic point of view, the Al-Anad strike comes in the context of enhancing the defensive stature of the Yemeni army and the popular committees. That's according to a regional military expert.
He pointed out that the strike on the base emphasizes three basic points. First, the agreement in Sweden was not the result of weakness on the part of the Sana'a government. The agreement was concluded in a way that preserves the army's military deterrent capabilities. The recent strike is one of these capabilities.
Second, the attempt to undermine the agreement and the hesitation for implementation by the aggression will be met by military force and in a way that the aggression understands that it is in its interest to implement the agreement and not to procrastinate.
Thirdly, the military action did not go beyond the framework of the agreement, which the army and the committees still respect.
Following the drone strike at the Al-Anad base, a state of panic and shock gripped the aggression camp. According to local media, Aden is witnessing a state of high alert.
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A former associate registrar has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of taking bribes in return for changing the tuition status of out of state students.
David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, stated that Crystal Martin, former Associate Registrar at a Delaware public university, made the plea in federal court to a charge of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.
Martin's sentencing is scheduled for July 1. Martin faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Media reports have identified Martin as working at Delaware State University. According to her LinkedIn profile, she was employed by DSU for 12 years and also served as an adjunct faculty member.
According to court documents and statements made in open court, between 2013 and 2017, Martin accepted bribes from an unnamed co-conspirator in exchange for her agreement to change the registration status of hundreds of out-of-state students, thereby allowing students from outside of Delaware to qualify for in-state tuition.
Martin was accused of using forged residency documents prepared by her co-conspirator to enable these students to pay reduced tuition, when in fact, she knew they should be paying the higher tuition rate for out-of-state residents.
Tuition for out-of-state students is over two times the rate for in-state students.
The out-of-state students paid either Martin or her co-conspirator, for this service, and Martin personally collected over $70,000 in bribe payments. The estimated cost to the University of reduced tuition payments during this four-year-period exceeded $3 million.
This case was investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Department of Education, and Delaware State Police, with assistance from the Delaware Department of Justice's Office of Civil Rights and Public Trust.


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Charles Thomas, Molasses Festival Parade Marshal
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Charles Thomas has been chosen as the 2018 Molasses Festival parade marshal.
He has been the principal at Arnoldsburg Elementary for three years. He came to the county in 1985 as a teacher of math to 4th-7th graders at Minnora Elementary. He was transferred to Arnoldsburg Elementary during the consolida-tion of the two schools. He has also taught first and third grades, and was the academic coach and program coordinator for Save the Children.
He is involved in the com-munity, and established West Fork Mountaineers 4-H Club and is Scoutmaster of Arnoldsburg Boy Scout Troop 430.
He was instrumental in developing the greenhouse project at Arnoldsburg Elementary and assisting the community liaison coordinator with the community gardens project. He is a member of Word of Faith Fel-lowship Church, Spencer.
He is the son of Joseph and Melanie Thomas of Bridgeport.
He resides at Chloe with his wife, Earlene Crawford Thomas, the daughter of the late Earl and Beulah Crawford, formerly of Grantsville. Together, they have five children, Emily Wagoner of Morgantown, Joseph Thomas of Fairmont, and Dana Ferrell, Bryan Jarvis and Travis Thomas, all of Chloe, and three grandchildren, Melanie Ferrell of Chloe and Lorelei and Paul Wagoner of Morgantown.
Obituaries – September 27, 2018
Calhoun County High School Homecoming Court


Here are two fragments of film footage of the legendary Ballets Russes dancer and choreographer, Mikhail Fokine (1880-1942). In the first clip, he is conducting a mixed dance class out-of-doors in the sunshine. With his training canes, the maestro seems a seriously no-nonsense kind of teacher. He conducts his class with great authority and as though he knows exactly what is is about. In the second clip, we see him walking in Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower on a frosty winter day in the late 1920s or early 1930s. He get a sense of him as elegant and dapper, with the confident assurance of a man of the world. Enjoy!


Green Tourmaline and Diamond Drop Pendant. Art Deco circa 1930. 18 carat white gold non marked. The figaro chain is platinum and measures approximately 40 cms in length.
Rub over millegrain set, a green tourmaline measuring approximately 2.5 carats. Three rub over and millegrain set graduated diamonds are suspended from a white gold bar. The diamonds measures approximately .30 carat. H colour, VS clarity.
The pendant is fastened with a bolt ring clasp. The drop from the chain to the bottom of the tourmaline measures 2.8 cm.
To the reverse diamonds are set into open backed settings to allow light to shine through.


We're delighted to announce that Sarah Goodes has been appointed MTC Associate Artistic Director.
After directing the nationally successful premiere production of Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith at both STC and MTC, Goodes joined the Company as Associate Director in 2017. Since then she has directed five productions for MTC, attracting an audience of over 80,000 and multiple awards and nominations. Her acclaimed work has included the Australian premiere productions of John by Annie Baker, A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath and the three-time Helpmann Award-winning production of The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, for which she took out the coveted Best Direction of a Play and Best Play awards in 2018.
As Associate Artistic Director, Goodes will increase her involvement in the artistic and business development of MTC, and continue to direct productions for Company's annual seasons.
Goodes is currently in rehearsals for the world premiere of Arbus & West, which opens on Thursday 28 February. Later this year she will direct Così and Golden Shield, the first play to be produced through MTC's NEXT STAGE program.
Sarah Goodes is an award-winning theatre director recognised for bringing over 14 new Australian works to the mainstage. She has worked with many of Australia's leading actors including Helen Morse, Pamela Rabe, Sarah Pierse, Jacqueline MacKenzie, Marta Dusseldorp, Mark Leonard Winter, John Gaden, William Zappa and Catherine McClements; and Australia's major theatre companies. She was Resident Director at Sydney Theatre Company from 2013 to 2016 and is currently Associate Artistic Director at Melbourne Theatre Company.
In 2018, Sarah won the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play for her work on Lucy Kirkwood's The Children which opened at Melbourne Theatre Company and transferred to Sydney Theatre Company. The Children won 3 Helpmann Awards – Best Direction of a Play, Best Play and Pamela Rabe won Best Female Actor. Sarah Pierse also received a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Female Actor for her performance in The Children.
Sarah directed the award-winning production of the world premiere of Joanna Murray Smith's Switzerland for Sydney Theatre Company which toured to Melbourne Theatre Company the following year. She received Best Director nominations for both the Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards for her work on Switzerland, a production which was nominated for 3 Helpmann Awards and 6 Sydney Theatre Awards. Her production of The Hanging was nominated for Best Mainstage Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards.
In addition to The Children, in 2018, Sarah directed the acclaimed world premiere of Alana Valentine's The Sugar House for Belvoir Theatre; the Australian premiere of Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 starring Marta Dusseldorp and Albert Beltz's Astroman for Melbourne Theatre Company.
Other productions Sarah has directed for Melbourne Theatre Company include the Helpmann Award nominated production of John by Annie Baker and the world premiere of Joanna Murray Smith's Three Little Words.
Sarah's productions for Sydney Theatre Company include: the Australian premiere of The Children by Lucy Kirkwood (with Melbourne Theatre Company); the world premiere of The Hanging by Angela Betzien; the Australian premiere of Disgraced by Ayad Aktar; Orlando by Sarah Ruhl starring Jacqueline MacKenzie; Battle of Waterloo by Kylie Coolwell; the Australian premiere of The Effect by Lucy Prebble (with Queensland Theatre); the world premiere of Switzerland by Joanna Murray Smith; Vere by John Doyle (with State Theatre Company of South Australia); the world premiere of The Splinter by Hilary Bell; and Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness by Anthony Neilson (with La Boite).
Other directing for theatre includes: for Belvoir, The Sweetest Thing by Verity Laughton, The Small Things by Enda Walsh, Black Milk by Vassily Sigarev, Elling by Axel Hellsteius and The Italian American Reconciliation by John Patrick Shanley; for the Old Fitz Theatre, The Schelling Point by Ron Elisha, Vertigo and the Virginia by Sven Svenson, Hilt by Jane Bodie, What Happened Was… by Tom Noonan; for Darlinghurst Theatre, The Unscrupulous Murderer Hasse Karlson Reveals the Gruesome Truth About the Woman Who Froze to Death on the Bridge by Henning Mankell; for NIDA, Scorched; and for Sydney Opera House, The Colour of Panic by Nicholas Hope.
Sarah is a graduate of both the University of New South Wales with majors in Literature and Theatre (final year at San Diego at UCSD where she performed with San Diego Rep) and the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) in Directing. Sarah has taught and directed at the Australian Theatre for Young People and the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
In 2019, for Melbourne Theatre Company, Sarah directs Arbus & West, Golden Shield, and Così (with Sydney Theatre Company).


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Usnea Dill. ex Adans. (brodaczka) – rodzaj grzybów z rodziny tarczownicowatych (Parmeliaceae). Ze względu na współżycie z glonami zaliczany do grupy porostów.

Systematyka i nazewnictwo
Pozycja w klasyfikacji według Index Fungorum: Parmeliaceae, Lecanorales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.

Nazwa polska według Krytycznej listy porostów i grzybów naporostowych Polski.

Synonimy naukowe: Alectoria Link, Eumitria Stirt., Neuropogon Nees & Flot., Usneomyces E.A. Thomas ex Cif. & Tomas:

Charakterystyka
Rosną na drzewach w lasach. Plecha zwisająca, krzaczkowata lub brodata. Cechuje je duża zmienność i są trudne do oznaczenia. Zanikają z powodu nawet nieznacznych zanieczyszczeń powietrza.

Gatunki występujące w Polsce
 Usnea barbata (L.) Weber ex F.H. Wigg. 1780 – brodaczka właściwa
 Usnea capillaris Motyka 1960 – brodaczka włosowata
 Usnea carpatica Motyka 1930 – brodaczka karpacka
 Usnea caucasica Vain. 1899 – brodaczka kaukaska
 Usnea cavernosa Tuck. 1850 – brodaczka jamkowata
 Usnea ceratina Ach. 1810 – brodaczka rogowata
 Usnea chaetophora Stirt. 1883 – brodaczka gładka
 Usnea cornuta Körb. 1859 – brodaczka szydłowata
 Usnea esthonica Räsänen – brodaczka estońska
 Usnea faginea Motyka 1935 – brodaczka buczynowa
 Usnea filipendula Stirt. 1881 – brodaczka zwyczajna
 Usnea florida (L.) Weber ex F.H. Wigg. 1780 – brodaczka nadobna
 Usnea foveata Vain. 1928 – brodaczka bruzdkowana
 Usnea fragilescens Hav. ex Lynge 1921 – brodaczka subtelna
 Usnea fulvoreagens (Räsänen) Räsänen 1935 – brodaczka rozpierzchła
 Usnea glabrata (Ach.) Vain. 1915 – brodaczka łysiejąca
 Usnea glabrescens (Nyl. ex Vain.) Vain. 1925 – brodaczka szczelinowata
 Usnea glauca Motyka 1930 – brodaczka sztywna
 Usnea hirta (L.) Weber ex F.H. Wigg. 1780 – brodaczka kępkowa
 Usnea lapponica Vain. 1925 – brodaczka sorediowa
 Usnea leucosticta Vain. 1933 – brodaczka wybielona
 Usnea neglecta Motyka 1936 – brodaczka zaniedbana
 Usnea perplexans Stirt. 1881 – brodaczka sitowa (Usnea perplectans)
 Usnea plicata (L.) Weber ex F.H. Wigg. 1780 – brodaczka spleciona
 Usnea prostrata Van. ex Räsänen 1921 – brodaczka wyprostowana
 Usnea silesiaca Motyka 1930 – brodaczka maderska
 Usnea scabrata Nyl. 1875 – brodaczka szorstka
 Usnea subfloridana Stirt. 1882 – brodaczka kędzierzawa
 Usnea wasmuthii Räsänen 1931 – brodaczka Wasmutha
Wykaz gatunków oraz nazwy polskie według W. Fałtynowicza. Nazwy naukowe na podstawie Index Fungorum.

Wszystkie gatunki w Polsce objęte są ochroną gatunkową.

W Polsce wymarły 22 gatunki za , m.in. Usnea longissima Ach. (wg nowych ujęć taksonomicznych Dolichousnea longissima (Ach.)  Articus) – brodaczka najdłuższa, która jeszcze w XX wieku występowała w Tatrach i Puszczy Białowieskiej za . Objęta ochroną gatunkową.

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Alan M. Dershowitz | Part 2
Snowden case reveals a program with few checks and little accountability
By Alan M. Dershowitz ,September 15, 2014, 12:00 a.m.
Edel Rodriguez for The Boston Globe
The recent disclosure by Edward Snowden of the US government's wide net of surveillance has stimulated an emotional debate about security, privacy, and secrecy. We have learned from Snowden that the National Security Agency engages in virtually unchecked monitoring of all sorts of communications that were thought to be private but that we now know are maintained in secret government databases.
Three fundamental issues are raised by these disclosures: Was it proper for the government to conduct such massive surveillance and to maintain such extensive files? Was it proper for the government to keep its surveillance program secret from the public? If not, did this governmental impropriety justify the unlawful disclosure of so much classified information by Snowden?
There are no simple or perfect answers to these questions. All governments, even those that respect the right to privacy, must engage in some surveillance. The nature and extent of permissible intrusion on privacy will always depend on the nature and extent of the threats posed and the value of the information sought in preventing these threats from materializing. A delicate balance must be always struck between security and privacy.
Consider, for example, video surveillance of public areas. Such surveillance helped authorities identify the alleged perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombings and probably also helps to deter street crime, store thefts, and other threats to the public. And it does so with some, but fairly minimal, intrusions on our privacy, since surveillance cameras capture only our external movements in public places, and not our words or deeds in the privacy of our homes. It is not surprising therefore that few citizens object to this limited sort of public monitoring of our movements.
Contrast such benign intrusions with the far more massive ones revealed by Snowden. We don't know precisely what sorts of information the NSA has gathered and from whom. (This lack of knowledge in itself is part of the problem.) But we know enough to be concerned that our phone calls, e-mails, and even oral conversations may be subject to governmental monitoring and collecting. The government denies that it is listening to or reading the content of private communications between ordinary citizens, claiming that the NSA collects only the "metadata," specifically the identifying features of the persons who are communicating; the times, durations, and locations of such communications; and other "externalities." The massiveness of such a collection process tells the government a great deal about the substance of terrorist plans. But it also tells the government a great deal about the substance of our private lives. That is why there is so much controversy about a program that gathers so much with so few checks and so little accountability.
The real question in a democracy is not whether a balance must be struck — of course it must — but who should get to strike that balance. Which brings up the secrecy issue. If the governmental programs of gathering information are kept secret from the public and from most of its elected officials, then the balance will be struck, if it is struck at all, by intelligence officials who have a far greater interest in security than in privacy.
There is an inherent relationship therefore between governmental intrusion and governmental secrecy.
Of course there are "necessary secrets," like the names of spies, the movement of troops, the contents of codes, the location of satellites, and the nature of secret weapons. But there are also unnecessary secrets, like old information that remains classified by bureaucratic inertia or current information that is kept secret to avoid embarrassing government officials. The most controversial genre are secrets whose disclosure would, in the reasonable views of the government, endanger national security, but whose disclosure, in the equally reasonable view of the press, might ultimately serve the national interest. The surveillance program conducted by the NSA falls into this category.
Surely the government is entitled to keep secret the technical aspects of our surveillance programs that give us a competitive advantage over our adversaries, and whose disclosure might provide terrorists with information useful to circumvent our legitimate efforts to keep track of their nefarious plans. But no democratic government should be empowered to conduct the kind of massive surveillance disclosed by Snowden without some check and balance against excesses, or misuses. And checks and balances cannot be effective without some disclosure.
The other difficult issue is not whether, but when to publish secrets. In a democracy, there should be no permanent secrets, since history and accountability are paramount. The public must ultimately know everything its government has done in its name. But it is sometimes necessary to postpone publication until an immediate danger has passed, since in the modern world, there is no way of disclosing secrets to friends without also disclosing them to foes.
In the end, there will always be some cases of real and intractable conflict between security and secrecy. Our Constitution purports to resolve doubts in favor of the right to know, but there are cases where even that presumption will not resolve the problem: where the authentic claims of national security will seem to outweigh the powerful presumption in favor of contemporaneous disclosure and accountability.
That is why Congress made it a crime for Snowden to take it upon himself to decide which secrets to reveal to our adversaries, including terrorists who are seeking to do us harm. Just as the intelligence community should not alone be empowered to strike the balance among security, privacy and secrecy, so too — in a democracy — no individual whistleblower should be allowed to decide by himself what to disclose.
Our Constitution, with its unique system of checks and balances, grants this power and responsibility to a combination of executive, legislative, and judicial authority — monitored by a free and independent press. It is an imperfect solution, but like democracy itself, it is better than its alternatives.
Alan M. Dershowitz is a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. His newest e-book, "Terror Tunnels: The Case For Israel's Just War Against Hamas,'' has just been published.


The bench pin is a metalsmith's best friend and its design can be very personal. So many people use pins as they come, but they can be real workhorses if you customize yours for your work style and the things that you make over and over. Grab your saw, a drill and a wood file and go to it.
Tip 1. I definitely like a pin with a v-groove in it for safety while sawing. Sometimes the type without the v-groove is cheaper, thicker or closer-to-hand. Either use a band saw or a coping saw (your jeweler's saw will do the job, but plan on working on it awhile) to cut a v-groove into the bench pin, and then keep your fingers behind the groove when sawing through ring shanks and other small items. They don't look like much, but jeweler's sawblades are sharp!


Drawing to music exhilarates, relaxes, provokes thought, provides a meditative state, gives you a work out, challenges you to let go of your preconceived notions, and invites you to …... How to Draw an & (Ampersand). The &, ampersand or 'and sign' is quite difficult to draw. Here are some tips. Draw a inverted line pointing towards the upper left side.
Notes in music are the little "signs" on a bar graph. They tell you which notes to play, how fast to play them, and in which order to play them.
A rest is an interval of silence in a piece of music, marked by a symbol indicating the length of the pause. Each rest symbol and name corresponds with a particular note value for length, indicating how long the silence should last.


RADFORD, VA – VT BOLT, Virginia Tech University's entry to the 2012 all-electric TTXGPis a 100 percent electric racing motorcycledriven bya low voltage Kollmorgen AKM™ 74 AC permanent magnet motor and a Kollmorgen ACS80XL 80V Gen6 drive. The results have been impressive, with the AKM motor and ACS drive enabling VT BOLT to achieve top speeds in excess of 100 mph with consistently high-performance throughout the duration of each approximately 20 mile race using a 7.5 kilowatt hour battery pack. VT BOLT was a recent first place winner of all three of its TTX75-cup races including Portland International Raceway, Laguna Seca Raceway and Miller Raceway, solidifying VT BOLT as the 2012 North American TTX75 Cup winner.
Kollmorgen worked with the team at Virginia Tech to identify the optimum drive/motor/gearing system that would enable VT BOLT to leverage the available power of the battery pack to deliver the best performance in terms of consumption and speed, ultimately specifying a Kollmorgen AKM motor and ACS drive. According to Monday, the AKM74 motor was 75 percent standard and 25 percent modified to accommodate the unique needs of a high performance racing vehicle. Modifications included a modified shaft to accept a motorcycle sprocket, a custom drive side bearing to enable the motor to withstand the radial loads exerted on the shaft by the chain, and a modified motor winding to operate at the low voltage required by the 7.5 kWh battery pack.
Virginia Tech's BOLT Electric Motorcycle will be on display at Kollmorgen booth 7566 at PACK EXPO 2012 from October 28 – 31, 2012, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. Kollmorgen will also be exhibiting its family of high-performance motion systems, components and services. The Kollmorgen booth will feature numerous live demos, including interactive hands-on opportunities for visitors, to illustrate the performance capabilities of the latest motion and automation technology in action.


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Kim Hollis: Taken 3 (It Ends Here!) opened with $39.2 million. What do you think of this result?
Jason Barney: The unlikely Liam Neeson action movie streak continues. This opening is fantastic considering there are some factors working against any sort breakout potential. First, even with some fairly solid numbers during the holiday season, no one can deny box office was down for 2014. With January not exactly being a safe realm for blockbusters, Taken 3's opening right around $40 million is awesome. Franchise fatigue could have set in, but people still bought tickets. Considering the budget was a fairly modest $48 million, this flick will be making money even beyond the marketing costs pretty quickly. For a film to exceed its budget before it reaches its second weekend in theaters is the dream of most studios.
I think there is a larger story at play here, and it's that Neeson's career is doing just fine. The movies he has made over the last couple of years have not hurt him one bit. Even efforts like A Walk Among the Tombstones and A Million Ways to Die in the West appear to have at least broken even. Non-Stop was a glorified success considering it was made for $50 million and brought in well over $200 million worldwide. 2012's Taken 2 isn't that far in the rearview mirror. That installment was made for $45 million and it brought in a ridiculous $375 million worldwide. Battleship sunk right after leaving the docks, and Wrath of the Titans was not as successful as many had hoped, but even going back four years he was able to propel a film like Unknown to a pretty impressive profit.
The basic idea is this: some of his most recent work may not be the best quality of his career, but Neeson is an actor a lot of people are willing to see. The third installment in a franchise opening in mid January getting this sort of reception? Yeah, I think his career is doing just fine.


The BBC Foundation was established to raise funds to directly benefit every BBC boy. The BBC Foundation is dedicated solely to meeting the needs of BBC and supporting our College as an outstanding learning environment. We invest in our boys as the next generation of leaders, innovators and change makers. The only way we are able to do this is through being part of a committed community, which has fostered a culture of connection and philanthropy spanning more than 100 years.
To raise and manage funds for the benefit of all BBC boys.
To provide financial support for educational purposes.
To create opportunities to attract and retain support from alumni, current and past parents, current and past staff and the wider College community.
To raise funds for acquisition, construction or maintenance of land and buildings for BBC boys' use.
To attract and encourage donations and Gifts in Wills.
To act as trustee of College trusts and funds.
To ensure compliance with PMSA policies, FIA and ACNC fundraising regulation codes and ethical practices.
We exist to financially support College projects beyond budget affordability, as well as offering financial assistance to students in need through donor-funded bursaries. The Foundation Board is committed to ensuring activities of the Foundation are managed ethically and adhere to best practice corporate governance standards. Each Director is passionate about making a difference to the education experience for every boy at BBC.
Our desire is to be trusted and supported by the entire BBC community, fostering a culture where supporting the Foundation is engrained in the fabric of the College and giving back to BBC is "just the way it is done". Short term, the Foundation aims for increased financial support for fundraising endeavours and programs from within our BBC community. Long term, the Foundation aims to maintain funds under investment, empowering BBC to plan with confidence.
The BBC Foundation Ltd is registered as a Company Limited by guarantee and is managed by a Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board is Mr Sandy Grant, an Old Collegian ('77) and parent of two boys who have graduated from BBC in 2009 and 2015. The Headmaster, representatives from the PMSA, the Old Collegians' Association (OCA) and the Parents and Friends' Association are also on the board. There is a mixture of current parents and Old Boys as elected directors.
*The BBC Foundation is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC).


A military pilot who ejected from a crippled fighter over a San Diego neighborhood "screamed in horror" when he saw the jet had crashed into a home, according to documents released on Tuesday.
A statement by the pilot submitted to investigators describes how Lt Dan Neubauer struggled to control the malfunctioning F/A-18D Hornet in the minutes before the December 8 crash that hit the home of a Korean family, killing four people.
Neubauer was on a training flight from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln when he was forced to shut down one engine because of mechanical trouble. The hobbled jet was told to bypass a coastal Navy base that offered an approach over water and to instead fly inland over San Diego to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. As the plane's second engine failed short of the base, he cursed, then attempted to direct the doomed jet away from homes, he wrote. "I knew I had to get out. I pulled the nose up a little bit and then reached down between my legs for the ejection handle," Neubauer wrote.
Safely ejected and dangling below his parachute, he looked down to trace the jet's plunge.
"It had gone right into a house. I screamed in horror when I realized what had just happened," Neubauer wrote. The statement, released to The Associated Press under federal open-records law, represents the pilot's first public comment on what happened that afternoon.
The military disciplined 13 members of the Marines and Navy after the crash, which was blamed on mechanical problems and a string of bad decisions that led Neubauer to bypass a potentially safe landing at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado.
Four members of a Korean family were killed in their home _ Young Mi Yoon, 36; her daughters Grace, 15 months, and Rachel, 2 months; and her mother Suk Im Kim, 60. Kim was visiting from South Korea to help her daughter move across town and adjust to the arrival of her second child.


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Giving our construction workers the tools to be OK
Hon. Roger Cook MLA
Minister for Mental Health
R U OK?Day, the McGowan Government will fly the MATES in Construction flag at Parliament House and provide $310,000 in funding to raise mental health awareness among construction and FIFO workers.
MATES in Construction, a charity established in 2008 to reduce the high level of suicide among Australian construction workers, will provide support and assistance to individuals and families affected by suicide in the construction industry, including FIFO sites across Western Australia.
A standby response co-ordinator will oversee industry-specific case management protocols and educate industry workers on mental health and wellbeing.
Research conducted by MATES in Construction revealed that each year, an average of 190 Australians working in the construction industry die from suicide, and workers are six times more likely to die from suicide than from an accident in the workplace.
R U OK?Day is a national day of action dedicated to reminding people to regularly check in with their loved ones, friends and work colleagues to talk about their mental health.
Checking in with someone includes asking R U OK?, listening to them, encouraging action and following up.
Mental Health Minister Roger Cook said:
"We are flying the flag today, because workers, their families, and the whole community need to hear the message that it's OK to look after your mental health and wellbeing and to talk to each other about it.
"This additional funding will allow MATES in Construction WA to continue their important work in addressing issues of mental health and suicide in the building and construction industry, and among FIFO workers."
For more information, visit https://www.ruokay.org.au and http://www.matesinconstruction.org.au
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British Travel Firm Thomas Cook Collapses
Published on Sep 24 2019 10:16 AM in General Industry tagged: Trending Posts / thomas cook
The world's oldest travel firm, Thomas Cook, has collapsed, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history....
The world's oldest travel firm, Thomas Cook, has collapsed, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.
British prime minister Boris Johnson pledged to get stranded British travellers home and revealed that the government had rejected a request from Thomas Cook for a bailout of approximately £150 million because doing so would have set up a "moral hazard".
"It is a very difficult situation and obviously our thoughts are very much with the customers of Thomas Cook, the holidaymakers who may now face difficulties getting home. We will do our level best to get them home," he told reporters on a plane as he headed to the UN General Assembly in New York.
The liquidation marks the end of one of Britain's oldest companies. Thomas Cook started life in 1841, running local rail excursions before it survived two world wars to pioneer package holidays and mass tourism.
The firm ran hotels, resorts and airlines for 19 million people a year in 16 countries. It currently has 600,000 people abroad, forcing governments and insurance companies to coordinate a huge rescue operation.
CEO Peter Fankhauser said that it was a matter of profound regret that the company had gone out of business after it failed to secure a rescue package from its lenders in frantic talks that went through the weekend.
The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said that Thomas Cook had ceased trading and that the regulator and government had a fleet of planes ready to start bringing home the more than 150,000 British customers over the next two weeks.
"I would like to apologise to our millions of customers and thousands of employees, suppliers and partners who have supported us for many years," Fankhauser said in a statement. "It is a matter of profound regret to me and the rest of the board that we were not successful."
Pictures posted on social media showed Thomas Cook planes being diverted away from the normal airport stands. Some were left deserted once passengers and staff had departed. Employees posted pictures of themselves walking from their last flights.
"Love my job so much, don't want it to end," Kia Dawn Hayward, a member of the company's cabin crew, said on Twitter.
The government and aviation regulator said that, due to the scale of the situation, some disruption was inevitable. All of the company's flights have been cancelled.
Customers were told not to travel to airports until they have been told via a special website - thomascook.caa.co.uk - that they were due on a return flight that was being organised by the government.
The British regulator is also contacting hotels hosting Thomas Cook customers to tell them that they will be paid by the government through an insurance scheme. That was after some were briefly held in a hotel in Tunisia when staff asked for additional payments to be made.
Gary Seale, a guest at the Orangers Hotel in Hammamet, Tunisia, posted on Facebook on Saturday September 21 that "security have refused to let us out of the hotel and barricaded us in". He later posted that he had reached the airport and flew home on Sunday September 22.
British transport minister Grant Shapps said that the government had managed to "acquire planes from across the world" to get people home, and call centres had been established to answer travellers' queries.
In Germany, a major customer market for Thomas Cook, insurance companies will coordinate the response.
Major Consequences
The corporate collapse has the potential to spark chaotic scenes around the world, with holidaymakers stuck in hotels that have not been paid in locations as far afield as Goa, Gambia and Greece.
In the longer term, it could also hit the tourism sectors in the company's biggest destinations, such as Spain and Turkey, leave fuel suppliers out of pocket and force the closure of its hundreds of travel agents across British high streets.
Thomas Cook has been brought low by a £1.7 billion debt pile, online competition, a changing travel market and geopolitical events that can upend its summer season. Last year's European heatwave also hit the company hard as customers put off last-minute bookings.
The group had seemed set for a rescue when it agreed the key terms of a £900 million recapitalisation plan in a deal with its biggest shareholder, China's Fosun, and the travel firm's banks in August.
But in finalising the terms of the deal, the company was hit with a demand for another facility of £200 million in underwritten funds by its banks.
Johnson said that Thomas Cook's collapse raises questions over whether directors of travel companies are "properly incentivised" to avoid bankruptcy.
"We need to look at ways in which tour operators, one way or another, can protect themselves from such bankruptcies in future, and clearly the systems that we have in place to make sure [they] don't in the end come to the taxpayer for help," he said.
Fosun said that it was disappointed by the company's failure to strike a deal with its banks and bondholders, and noted that it had remained supportive throughout.
The recapitalisation plan was "no longer applicable given the compulsory liquidation" of Thomas Cook, Fosun said in a statement.
With headlines swirling that Thomas Cook was in trouble, suppliers started calling in their debts and future customers went elsewhere, draining the company of the cash it needed to keep operating.
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Q: Reducing boilerplate in GitHub Actions step Recently, GitHub removed several C and C++ compilers installed by default on their runners.
Now I need to install these compilers as necessary in a build step. I use the following two steps, one for C and one for C++.
      - name: Install C Compiler
        if: ${{ startsWith(matrix.c_compiler, 'gcc-') || startsWith(matrix.c_compiler, 'clang-') }}
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y ${{ matrix.c_compiler }}
      - name: Install C++ Compiler
        if: ${{ startsWith(matrix.cpp_compiler, 'g++-') || startsWith(matrix.cpp_compiler, 'clang++-') }}
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y ${{ matrix.cpp_compiler }}

The if condition checks if we are actually using a versioned compiler, like gcc-8 rather than the default of gcc (which doesn't need to installed1).
I'd like to reduce this boilerplate. For example, both of the steps are almost identical, except in the variable they check matrix.c_compiler vs matrix.cpp_compiler, their name and the expected form of the compiler gcc- vs g++-.
Is there a way to avoid this duplication?

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«Історія вселенської церкви на Україні» (1953—1958 рр. написання) — це одна з нечисленних ґрунтовних праць про історію української церкви, автором якої є митрополит Йосиф Сліпий.

Передумови написання
Після смерті А. Шептицького у листопаді 1944 року, Й. Сліпий, як наступник на митрополичому престолі, бере на себе всю відповідальність за розвиток Церкви, стає митрополитом галицьким — останнім митрополитом УГКЦ перед її ліквідацією.

У квітні 1945 р. духовний провідник заарештований каральними органами радянської влади. Його майже рік допитували, домагаючись визнання"вини" та зречення «неіснуючої» церкви. Після відбуття «строку» його не було звільнено, а відправлено фактично як в'язня в будинок інвалідів Маклаково в селі Кузьминка Єнісейського району Красноярського краю, де він пробув п'ять років. Заарештований вдруге 19 червня 1958 р., Йосиф Сліпий був засуджений до 7 років виправно-трудових таборів . Звільнено його з ув'язнення 26 січня 1963 р. під тиском світової громадської думки і за клопотанням папи Іоана ХХІІІ. В підсумку це 18 років сибірської каторги!

Про сибірську каторгу митрополита Йосифа Сліпого і його наукову працю на засланні у 1953—1958 рр. стало відомо, як пише Мишанич, лише з початку 90-х рр.. ХХ ст. з секретних архівів КДБ. В них поряд із судовими справами 1945—1946 і 1958—1959 рр. вчені відкрили як «речові докази» дві основні наукові праці митрополита Йосифа Сліпого, написані в цей час, — «Погляд на догматичні і історичні основи греко-католицької церкви в Радянському Союзі» та «Історію вселенської церкви на Україні».

Історія створення та основний зміст
Перш ніж відправити Й. Сліпого на заслання до Сибіру весною 1953 р., його було запрошено до Москви, де він прожив три місяці, мав зустрічі і розмови з керівництвом Міністерства закордонних справ СРСР. Це був час після смерті Сталіна, коли, здавалося, настануть зміни у кадровій і міжнародній політиці СРСР. Йому запропонували написати розгорнуту історичну довідку про Українську греко-католицьку церкву, що він незабаром і виконав. Своє тримісячне перебування у Москві митрополит використав для роботи в московських бібліотеках. Сліпий мав можливість, хоч і під постійним наглядом, користуватися бібліотекою ім. В.Леніна. Учений з ентузіазмом узявся за роботу, зібрав багато фактичного матеріалу.

У Маклаково науковець почав писати «Історію вселенської церкви на Україні». Крім московських бібліотек, автор користувався бібліотеками Єнісейська, Красноярська, частково одержував потрібну літературу зі Львова і Польщі. Його висока освіта і попередня наукова робота засвідчують, що він був готовим до написання такої праці і в найсуворіших умовах. А коли йшлося про відновлення греко-католицької церкви в Україні, про обґрунтування її історичної традиції, то він мобілізував усі свої наукові і людські ресурси, щоб виконати покладену на нього місію. До літа 1958 р. вчений написав п'ять томів і розпочав роботу над шостим. Початок шостого тому вилучено у Й. Сліпого під час його арешту 19 червня 1958 р.. Митрополит не встиг належно опрацювати літературу, текст потребував уточнення, редагування. Його праця не готувалася до друку. Головною турботою автора на той час було одне: щоб вона не загубилася в хуртовині сибірського заслання і дійшла до Львова, бодай у рукописних копіях. Текст праці зберігся повністю — перші два томи у копіях, останні — рукописи. Всі п'ять томів і початок шостого тому вийшли друком у Римі у 90-х — на початку 2000-х років.

Книги містять розгляд історії церкви на теренах України від апостольських часів до Берестейської унії. В даній праці Йосиф Сліпий замислювався над місією церкви, яка перебувала поміж Сходом і Заходом, поміж Європою і Візантією, над її особливостями — і позитивними, і негативними. На його думку, вона розвивалась, органічно вбираючи культуру своєї землі, яку часто рятувала від занепаду. З позиції єдності він осмислював місце і роль греко-католицької церкви, розглядаючи її, як синтез східної і західної традиції.  Згідно з вченням Й. Сліпого, кожна нація мала зробити власний внесок у скарбницю світової культури, щоб вижити за будь-яких умов.

Література
 Мишанич О. Наукова діяльність Й. Сліпого на засланні. // Матеріали міжнародної наукової конференції / 20 вересня 2002 р., м. Київ / — Київ: Українська Видавнича Спілка, 2003, с. 54  — 58.
 Патріарх Йосиф. — Детройт, 1984. — с.23 — 29.
 Степовик Д. Кардинал // Історичний календар — К. 2002, с.83.

Християнська література
Історія Церкви


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It's a crumb-y giveaway!
Posted on February 26, 2014 by Becky Goldsmith
Welcome to my new blog home! If you have followed my blog before, and you want to still, please do click the 'Follow Piece O Cake Blog' button on the right, above my picture. (FYI: I switched to wordpress because it is easier to manage.)
So, about the crumbs in the post title… I subscribe to Ami Simms' newsletter and a little while ago she wrote about a student, Megan Null, who was making 'crumb quilts'. Megan let Ami film her, and her video says it all:
(Link to video here.)
I googled crumb quilts and, who knew! There are pages of crumb quilts! It looks to me like crumb quilts started with Bonnie Hunter and have now taken on a life of their own. I have been too busy writing the color book to have noticed crumb quilts. Sigh.
Anyway, back to Ami. She has issued a 2014 Crumb Quilt Challenge! I generated a lot of lovely, colorful scraps when I was sewing for the color book and for a few days I thought I would start my own crumb quilt(s). I looked at the pile lovingly… and then I admitted to myself that this is not something I am going to do. My pile of crumbs could become your very own crumb quilt!
Everything in the box is pre-washed cotton—except for one piece of a silky polyester that is obviously not cotton. I was going to throw it away but thought maybe the winner would love it. There are little pieces and bigger pieces, strips, triangles, and other shapes.
If you would like a chance to win, leave a comment. I will have my random number generator (my mom) pick a number Sunday. I think I'll be able to contact the winner from your comment but sometimes there isn't a way to do that, so check back on Monday, mid-morning. I'll post the winner. It could be you!
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176 thoughts on "It's a crumb-y giveaway!"
Linda Pawlak on March 2, 2014 at 2:29 PM said:
I just love anything scrappy! Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful giveaway!
rosa on March 2, 2014 at 2:59 PM said:
I love the scrap quilts.They are a beautiful rainbow.Thanks!
Terry on March 2, 2014 at 3:20 PM said:
what a fun giveaway…thanks for the chance 🙂
shirley tener on March 2, 2014 at 4:02 PM said:
Barb N on March 2, 2014 at 4:04 PM said:
Just found your give-away. Don't you know that one person's trash is another's treasure? Great idea to share. I'm making scrappy quilts this year and this would be fun to have some different additions. Fun, fun!
Marti Taylor on March 2, 2014 at 4:09 PM said:
What a fun giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win, I really want to try some improv quilting and this would be a great jumping off point.
dianne on March 2, 2014 at 4:27 PM said:
I love to string piece!
Nancy C on March 2, 2014 at 6:23 PM said:
What fun! Crumbs from Piece o' cake.
Debra Kay Neiman on March 2, 2014 at 11:34 PM said:
Scrappy loves my house…thank you. crystalbluern at onlineok dot com
minibea12 on March 3, 2014 at 5:00 AM said:
I love scraps and would love to win this prize!
Jennifer on March 3, 2014 at 6:05 AM said:
love the mystery of a scrap pack!! thanks for the giveaway!!
Cindy on March 3, 2014 at 8:24 PM said:
a mystery pack How neat is that.
Marge Byrne on March 4, 2014 at 3:15 AM said:
I love scraps and cannot bear to throw any away. So I would love to
have yours.
Ellie Wood on March 4, 2014 at 4:37 AM said:
What fun that would be to create with your crumbs!
toni thompson on March 5, 2014 at 7:52 PM said:
As a person with enough fabric to fill 1/3 or a 3 car garage I didn't need an excuse to use all of those itty bitty pieces of fabric I store in glass cookie jars….but I started a crumb quilt yesterday…making 12 inch blocks…too much fun…I am never going to finish that wall hanging quilt I started in the class with Becky in Las Vegas…It was next on my list of UFOs to finish…
Brenda Hulsey on March 6, 2014 at 5:56 PM said:
I make a lot of scrappy quilts and I always love to get someone else's leftovers!
Mary Krogmann on May 2, 2014 at 4:16 AM said:
I absolutely love scraps!! They're beautiful in themselves. I hope I win them.
Penny on October 25, 2014 at 8:37 PM said:
I love scraps and am always on the lookout for more
Suzanne Pritchard on February 22, 2015 at 2:06 PM said:
I would love to wintheser scraps and make a crumb quilt!
Julie on February 26, 2016 at 7:08 PM said:
I'm working on a number of scrap quilts right now and could definitely use the variety! Just came across your blog and sales page — where have you been!!!??? Love your work!
Pick me! Pick me!!! (I'm jumping up and down and flailing my arms wildly!)


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