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Week #8 – Fall Anime 2016
November 27, 2016 ·	by CSRadical ·	in Anime	· 1 Comment
Week #8 has arrived with this Fall anime season. What's in store this week?!
As always I'm live reacting (though typing it out to be posted later) to each episode I watch and going over what happens in each episode with the occasional quip and joke here and there. So for those trying to avoid spoilers, this entire article is full of them!
Bubuki Buranki: Hoshi no Kyojin (Ep.8)
It appears Laetitia's Buranki got an upgrade, able to fly so high she can reach outer space. Meanwhile, Kaoruko's been fighting her and defeats her pretty easily. The four limbs seek to protect her, while Kogane's Righty-chan goes full-power, but she hates it cause it's cuteness goes away. Justin reveals to the four that he knows exactly what Guy's doing and doesn't mind, as he plans to stab him in the back when the end comes (aka he's gonna die soon). One of his members try and ignore the fight, but Guy's research has allowed him the ability to control the limbs himself. Shuusaku and company save the kids before it's too late and they retreat. Back with Kaoruko, the limbs keep on fighting, seeing that all four of them were bought by Laetitia's father to be her limbs. It also seems Laetitia's initial reasons for fighting were good, but Guy and her desire for immortality have changed her completely. Kaoruko eventually retreats and the four limbs are suddenly surrounded by Demokratian soldiers. Epizo and his crew are with Guy who asks him about Laetitia and reveals he's removing her and her team from their Buranki. He then tells them to defeat two Burankis, including Oubu and he also wants him to kill Azuma. He finally reveals that only Reoko can truly have immortality, they've proven that no one else will be able to replicate this. Back with the main crew, Justin's still on the attack, so Oubu comes into play. However, the limbs manage to break free and take the heart from him, causing them to separate and fall from the sky. Justin tells them that they will be killed like Maxim's team but they will fight until the end. Back on the ship, the plan is to return to Japan and regroup until they're ready to fight Guy for real. But they're mostly concerned with Shuusaku being a father, especially Zetsubi for him nailing someone down before her. At the end, it appears Migiwa is visiting Guy, or at least that's who I think it is.
Kaoruko continuing to get better
Kogane and especially Shizuru are so good at stealing scenes
Guy was a really hate-able villain in the early episodes this season, now he's just becoming more of a nuisance, again showing that killing the Russian squad was so pointless as the drama of it has pretty much passed now
Episode Score: 3.5/5
Bungo Stray Dogs (Ep.20)
Kyouka saves Atsushi and runs off with him. She's been hiding in the slums ever since that day. Atsushi wishes she stayed out of the fight, but the Agency is her home now and she wants to protect it, even if it means having to kill again. When the police shows up, freaking out about being captured so she nearly kills a policeman, before Atsushi runs off with her. However, the Guild is in waiting and MARK TWAIN IS A SNIPER!!! Oh! AND MOBY DICK IS AN AIRSHIP!!! They capture Atsushi and leave her behind, telling her she's not cut out for helping and that she knows exactly what she's good for. She breaks down, not wanting to be shown the light again. Meanwhile, Q wants to fight Lovecraft, who clearly breaks out full Cthulhu. Margaret (who I missed Akutagawa beating the shit out of in that one episode) is in critical condition and may never wake up and the pastor guy claims he'll avenge this himself, which sets Francis off, demanding the emergency plan be activated, regardless of the damage it'll cause. Q is captured while John is now torturing him. In Guild capture, we see Lucy again now working as a maid, since her ability is useless now that the Agency figured out how to counter it. Francis tells Atsushi he's keeping him here to protect him while he destroys the entire city, noting they've already dealt with the Organization, the one that Ango belongs to and that the Mafia and Agency are left to go. The plan is to have John connect every tree with Q's ability, so that if he uses the curse, everyone will go mad and kill each other, essentially burning the city to the ground. Atsushi surrenders, claiming that the Agency will aid them, but Francis enacts the plan anyway. Lucy visits him in prison now to make fun of him. She's been abused quite a bit, like Atsushi was. Back in Lucy's playroom, suddenly, she tells him it's too late, but if Osamu touches Q's doll, the power will be nullified. She realizes Atsushi is willing to sacrifice himself for this, so she gives him a parachute that she kept for herself. He knows she's fucked now, so it appears she's going to lock herself in her playroom forever now, but tells him to save her when he can as well. He sees from the sky that even the Mafia are trying to save everyone, knowing they have nowhere to rule if the city is gone. Mark destroys his parachute and he falls from the sky. However, something awakens within Atsushi and he's somehow survives. The city is already in a terrible state of affairs and Mark continues to fire on him. But Osamu arrives and takes the doll, not to mention creates a smokescreen to jam Mark's anti-air cannons. He realizes Osamu actually knew this would happen the whole time. Atsushi also has an idea now on how they can stop this, but knows no one will like it: an alliance with the Mafia.
Kyouka and Lucy in a single episode?! My heart's a'flutterin'!
The true villains are at full display now
I kinda miss crazy eyed Lucy…
Episode Score: 4/5
Drifters (Ep.8)
Yoichi admits he nearly died in that battle and that's when Lord Yoshitsune talks to him and freaks him out. Oda again asks about Octobrists and again we see the same answer, though it appears Oda knows who he is now, but Toyohisa has no idea who he is. Haruakira says he was also brought into the world like the rest of them, so he is a Drifter himself. They're upset when Toyohisa reveals he never killed Joan, because taking the head of a woman is immoral to him. He says he won't allow that man who brought them there use him as a pawn, he is still human in the end. We learn that along the way, they lost Scipio and since then Hannibal has not been the same. Now with Scipio is walking around and ends up finding the crashed fighter jet and the pilot, who has become a god to a race of wolf people. When he hears Scipio say Rome, he fights him due to the betrayal of Italy as a part of the Axis. Meanwhile, Oda now becomes best friends with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid because of their guns. However, they cannot replicate it the guns, so it becomes obvious once more to go see the Dwarves. More members of Octobrist show up as well, bringing sulfur with them, as Oda asked Olminu to gather some. His plan is to destroy the Orte empire and have each race self-govern with Toyohisa in charge of the entire military. He also admits he doesn't have what it takes to lead from the top, hence why Toyohisa is getting that role. Speaking of which, of all people, he's the one who approaches the crazy Hannibal. He attacks Hannibal and discovers that while he's still crazy, his instincts are still very much alive. Even with the constant hostility, Shara agrees to help him free the Dwarves noting that either of them could've helped each other when Orte ensalved them. This time around, they'll be the ones to cancel out generations of fighting between the two races. Before leaving to go back to headquarters, one of the guys toss Oda a pistol.
We're getting nearly everyone together now
I'm convinced there's at least a second season now with how much time is left this season and I'm so happy about that!
As much as I still enjoyed the episode, it was just a ton of talking and plot set up
Flip Flappers (Ep.8)
It's pool time at school and somehow during this, they fall into a portal IN THE POOL!!! It's a very futuristic world and they're soon attacked by a muscular…bird…thing. Yayaka and the others show up as well. Then some creepy evil scientist looking guy shows up as well to help, calling himself the Great White Creator and Almighty Ruler–but Papika just calls him Pops. He claims to be the one who built the entire city and these bird things arrived and started destroying it. Wait…where the girls giant in this world the whole time?! They're like…twice as big as Pops. An alarm sounds and it seems something big is heading their way. This thing is Megazord sized. It's way too tough, even for the Yayaka's crew. So Pops brings them all together and Cocona apparently is over her fear of Pure Illusion and wants to take the giant on. So he puts them in a box and sends them into a tank and fighter jet. They still can't do anything, but Pops tell them they might be able to "awaken" it, which through Flip Flapping THEY TURN INTO A GIANT FUCKING MECH!!! But they still can't destroy it. Yayaka convinces Pops to give her another robot and she becomes a mech of her own. So being forced to, she Flip Flapping-s as well with the other two and they become the ultimate mech, which just looks like a skyscraper apparently. Yayaka's teammates try to take the fragment, but Pops grabs it, claiming it's for the the other girls. It looks like a fight's imminent, but Yayaka calls them off.
MECHS!!!
The one-piece swimsuit all episode thing was quite random and unnecessary
Izetta, The Last Witch (Ep.8)
Izetta's sick! But there will be a party the next day where the allies will decide how to act after Izetta's work. Ricelt lands in Eylstadt and starts playing the role of the lovable villain. After royally fucking up his first parachute jump and falling into a river not long after, he gets picked up by a lovely young lady and another girl, who…oh shit, it's Bianca and Lotte. He starts talking about himself, but it's unclear whether his history is a story or the truth, like how he was refused to be a full soldier because of an illness. We then learn that Sieg sent them out there, hearing about a spy in the old capital, aka where the old castle is. However, I assume this is referring to Ricelt's contact, not himself. Speaking of which, he pisses off Bianca real hard trying to get her to lead him into the castle. Even worse, he hears her scream when he goes to apologize and it's just because Lotte's bathing her. Oh dear, they're totally going to be a couple by the time this series is over, aren't they? He meets with his contact and they plan to strike tomorrow. Back at the party, the girls go outside as Izetta's embarrassed and OH SHIT BERCKMANN'S HERE! He's with a white-haired woman and Izetta is freaked out about the girl. She suddenly kisses Izetta, biting her and taking her blood and then passes out. Clearly she's what was hidden in the research lab, what she is we do not know. But they disappear and then we hear that the "Americans" will send troops soon. Meanwhile, Ricelt continues his plan, but notes to himself he never got to apologize to Bianca, which tells you that she'll be involved soon enough. I actually worry she might die this episode now. They kill a few soldiers along the way and find the tomb and apparently had blood of Izetta with them to activate the door. And they find the ley lines map. However, the blood continues to activate something else, a fragment of some sort that falls from the wall. Sure enough, Bianca arrives to find them and give chase. We see Ricelt was shot during the initial scuffle and gives the contact the fragment and camera with the ley lines photographed, planning to lead Bianca away. They now have a standoff and Ricelt is killed rather than Bianca and the contact is also killed by a sniper. However, another man arrives to grab the gear before they reach the body.
I cannot believe I'm about to do this, but after a number of poorly written episodes, I have to. This show is going on notice due to the pure frustrations I'm having with the show's writing as of the second half of this season. The first few episodes especially were fantastic, the midway point was still good, but I started raising red flags at a few things. Now at Episode 8, I'm absolutely furious with the poor writing, missing of several great plot opportunities and quite frankly, the progression of this show has come down to downright lazy reasoning and plot twists. I'm sorry, but the adorable female cast might not be able to save this show if the writing keeps up with this bullshit
This was a cute little episode that ended in a tragic death which I'm not a fan of here
What was the point of the cute relationship forming between Ricelt and Bianca if it was going to end five minutes later? This was a huge missed opportunity here to not have both alive for a couple more episodes, forming a relationship and then one of them (let's assume Ricelt) dying. War is full of death, but this one could've been saved a little longer.
Would it not have been wise to keep eyes on the body until they retrieved it?
Episode Score: 3/5 ***ON NOTICE***
Keijo!!!!!!!! (Ep.8)
Nozomi and Usagi are finally having their match. She's facing her first opponent that's much faster than her and also her smaller frame allows her to move faster, and become harder to hit. But Nozomi eventually wins by knocking Usagi off her feet. She's crushed by this loss, but at the same time now has a second girl she wants to sleep with (maybe). But she still wants Rio to herself. The camp is over and a month later it's time for the East-West War, so we now know that unless there's a second season coming, the last four or five episodes will be devoted to this tournament. The Suruga school has better facilities, coaches, sponsors supplying everything, basically they're the rich girl school. They also overhear some woman talking shit, about how the West (Nozomi's side) has never won a tournament. Nozomi gets involved and one of the East's players gets in front of her as well. She knocks Nozomi back without even moving her hips, but in the process, Nozomi also attacked and rips part of the girl's jacket. Rio creates a sandstorm and a pair of twins counter it, now Usagi's double jealous. The teachers pull them back, scolding them for talking smack with them, instead of beating the shit out of them when they fight them in a race. The war will be four-member teams, so obviously the twins will become a problem. It seems obvious, the four girls will be a team, but they're not! Team one is Rio, Mari (who we've never seen before), Kotone and Sayaka of all people. Team to is Atsuko, Usagi, Kazane and Non. Which means Nozomi will be with Rin, Saya (new girl) and Hanabi. So it seems there are three matches. Apparently as we hear from those reporters from Episode 1, the East aren't even playing their #1. The first race has a jungle gym looking land. The twins, a muscle girl and a girl they call the "Ass-Eater" are their opponents. A shame that Non's not facing this girl. But she's interested in Sayaka. But Rio freaks her out with her desire to scissor this girl as well. Naturally, the episode ends as Sayaka lifts up her bikini top to do something.
We're finally done with one-pieces!
Okay okay okay, what's Sayaka going to gain by lifting up her top after she has a secret ability through giving herself a wedgie?
Not gonna lie, I hate the teams, why you're not pairing Nozomi, Sayaka, Kazane and Non together is ridiculous!
My Wife is the Student Council President: Season 2 (Ep.8)
Ui takes advantage of a heavy sleeping Hayato to say wifey things to him without consequence and loses her shit over it, happily of course. She's made him breakfast this morning which worries him and for good reason. But apparently it isn't bad, it's passable this time, lucky Hayato. They eat again later, something Rin brought over last night which annoys Ui again. Hayato assumes she's spying on them because of their "indecent" relationship, but Ui knows it's for an alternate reason, which further annoys her that Hayato can't figure this out. Then when things get all hot and bothery, Rin just barges into the house and reveals she's officially moved in with Kei.
Standard episode, couple laughs, couple sexy moments
Now with Rin in the complex full time, she'll be around every episode in full force, which does make the show better
I know it's an innuendo for oral sex, but I don't care for the finger sucking this show loves to do, it's not sexy at all, at least to me
Nanbaka (Ep.8)
Okay, are we doing it this week? It looks like it. Jyugo has gone so crazy they're actually evacuating the inmates from the stadium. So Momoko actually tells the guards to apprehend them, but that's not really helping much either. The other three know he's in trouble and will be given a much harsher sentence, likely taken from them too. Kiji and Samon join the guards and handle the situation pretty well, three on Musashi, only Hajime with Jyugo. Musashi is done, but Jyugo's putting up a better fight. The other three inmates rush to grab Jyugo and stop him before he does anything else. He strikes down Nico and Rock and looks to straight up slice Uno in half, but Hajime with one hand catches the blade. He then punches Jyugo so hard he coughs up blood all over Hajime's face and then punches the shit out of him until Momoko tells him to stop. A few days later, the guards are scolding Hajime for the "little beating" he gave him, aka Jyugo's still unconscious and in critical condition. He returns to the building and Uno is pissed about everything, but Hajime does concede that he went overboard and wasn't intending to nearly kill Jyugo. Afterwards, Uno even admits that he nearly liked a prison guard, but Hajime's "betrayal" has changed his mind once more. The announcer guy shows up with a letter from the Warden to Hajime, suspending him for three days. Hajime's super bummed out and Momoko is crying because she had to punish him.
The fighting in this episode was top-notch!
Hajime continuing to be the badass of the show
Nothing really to report this week
Poco's Udon World (Ep.7)
Back on the train heading home, Souta and Poco are back in Kagawa, now I'm curious what you do for another six episodes. Back at home, Poco goes alone to visit the old woman next door. She returns with Poco and a watermelon and teaches him how to machine gun spit watermelon seeds. He gets a call from Mai, the girl he had a crush on and asks if they want to join them tomorrow for a Gaogao show. She leaves Nozomi with him as she's got the little one scheduled for a checkup. The three look around before the show, including freaking out at a bunch of fish. At the show he gets asked again about the restaurant and he ought to just re-open it already before even I get sick of people asking him about it. Afterwards, Souta notes how quickly Nozomi's growing up, the spoiled brat completely gone from her, now a more mature little girl. Back home, he finds an old drawing on the wall he made as a kid, more memories from his childhood and more regret from not talking with his father more. As the episode ends, he gets a call from his now old boss, but we've yet to learn what it is, likely a meeting with that nearby place Souta might start working at. OR! My other theory is that the company shut down and Souta now has to find work again, obviously re-opening the restaurant.
Another cute, easy sit down episode
Nothing really to complain about
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Dakota Uplander: 2017 Season Wrap
Posted by dakotaedgeoutdoors on January 4, 2018 January 17, 2018
Upland numbers and hunter success generally reflected what was predicted by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department (NDG&F) in its summer surveys. With the season wrapping up this weekend only the hardiest upland hunters will be in the field pursuing pheasants, grouse and partridge one last time, as wardens, officials and avid hunters reported lower opportunities – and some areas of surprising success – throughout the state's primary upland range in the 2017 season.
Hard hit by the drought, the southwestern corner of the state, including prime annual destinations for resident and non-resident hunters such as Dickinson, Mott and Hettinger, saw a significant decline in both pheasants and visiting sportsmen in comparison to previous years.
"We had people who were booked for their annual seven-day trip that were canceling after day two," related Bowman District Game Warden Arthur Cox, "there were pockets of birds, but they were all older ones," he concluded.
Cox added that sharptailed grouse hunters found some success, but it was early in the season, and results were still below average as upland sportsmen's numbers in his district tailed off drastically a couple weeks after pheasant opener.
Around Dickinson, Pheasants Forever State Coordinator Rachel Bush talked of a season that required a good deal of work to put birds in the air.
Bird in the Hand. Every rooster was a trophy this upland season. (Simonson Photo)
"In the areas that I hunted regularly from Dickinson to Belfield, we saw fewer birds, shot fewer birds, and flushed fewer birds, though that was mostly on public land and PLOTS," she explained, "people reported having to walk a lot farther this year to find pheasants; they're here, you just had to put more miles on," she finished.
In the area around Williston, District Game Warden Keenan Snyder's upland observations echoed the pre-season reports by the NDG&F, with lower numbers, mature birds and a good hatch that seemed to fade into the dust of the summer's dry conditions.
"We had a great first hatch, they just didn't make it with the drought and having nothing to eat," Snyder said.
In south central North Dakota, District Game Warden Courtney Sprenger of Elgin reported a mixed bag, with areas of habitat with water sources along late-standing corn and sunflowers providing the best bet for upland success.
"There were places that were decent, but it was pretty clear that the numbers were down," Sprenger stated, "some guys were able to find birds with a good dog in good habitat, while other guys really struggled throughout the season," she concluded.
District Game Warden Gregory Hastings out of Jamestown also tied hunter success to habitat, despite lower pheasant numbers in his area.
"It wasn't like everywhere you went there were birds, but there was success," Hastings recapped, "around Jamestown hunters could find some birds, but it was not as good as in years past when there was all that CRP," he added.
According to Hastings, harvest rates generally increased as hunters traveled south and east of Jamestown. The key remained finding grassy areas, but a noted decline in CRP made finding suitable hunting difficult in and near his district.
"If there's habitat there are birds, and there's a lot of areas where there aren't birds," Hastings concluded.
Go Deep. Hunters who explored larger stands of habitat typically encountered more pheasants. (Simonson Photo)
Avid uplander and conservationist Dick Monson of Valley City reported good outings in southern Barnes and Ransom counties, by targeting less-pressured and habitat-rich areas such as WPAs with solid stands of cattails and thicker cover.
"I thought it was pretty good considering the conditions, I didn't get out as often as I wanted to, but I was surprised at the number of birds; I've bagged thirty pheasants on the year and half a dozen grouse," Monson said headed into the final weekend, "what I didn't see were a lot of hunters, I'm guessing a lot of guys saw the forecast this year and said 'the heck with it,'" he added.
R.J. Gross, Upland Game Biologist also suggested the southeastern corner of the state fared better than the rest of the N.D. pheasant range, and offered a few other bright spots where pheasant hunts exceeded expectations.
"On the south shore of Lake Sakakawea it seemed like there were better pheasant numbers, especially on public land; they had some added moisture, so that helped," he offered, adding that the stretch around Beulah and Hazen produced well for pheasant hunters, while Foster and Wells county kicked out early – and by Gross' account, unexpected – success for sharptailed grouse hunters in September. On the other side of the coin, reports to Gross' office from hunters in the southwest corner of the state alleged much worse numbers than what was reported.
"I know birds were down, but the hunters in the southwest let me know that it was down by more than 60 percent – based on their estimates," he said with a chuckle.
Recalling the previous winter conditions which impacted mortality rates, Gross hoped for limited further cold snaps like the one the region has recently experienced, and snowfall staying at a minimal level to help with winter survival, especially in light of the lack of quality thermal habitat on the landscape.
"I'm still concerned about moisture," Gross said when looking ahead to spring, "a little snow is good, we'll need a spring green up and a wet April and early May will be required for a good nesting season," he related, adding that more habitat would help.
"Our PLOTS section has all kinds of programs for landowners, including a new one focusing on buffers around streams, along with tree plantings," he concluded, with interested landowners seeking conservation options for their acres able to contact the NDG&F Private Lands Section at 701-328-6371 for more information.
The upland seasons for pheasants, grouse and partridge conclude Jan. 7. The tentative 2018 season opener for grouse and partridge is Sept. 8, and for pheasants, Oct. 6.
(Featured Photo: Upland hunters found a challenging season in 2017, as predicted by NDG&F brood surveys. Simonson Photo)
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No matter who you may be, you want to make sure that you have a calendar at all times. The reason as to why you'll need one is because you need to be able to keep track of important dates that hold great significance towards your personal or work life. You may also see Microsoft calendar templates.
So, let's say that you have a bunch of obligations that you have to make sure you're able to meet within a weeks time. This will mean that you'll need a calendar that will help you keep track of everything that you need to do within the week; thus being the reason why you'll have to create a sample weekly calendar and this article will teach you how to create your own.
Why is Creating Weekly Calendars Important?
When you think about creating a calendar, then the main point of having one is so that you'll be able to keep track of the current, previous, and future dates. By keeping track of these dates, you can make sure that you'll be able to remember all the appointments you'll have to attend, activities you have to conduct, bills you have to pay, etc. This is very useful for remembering these things means, you'll be able to take care of all of your obligations, giving you that sense of satisfaction knowing that you didn't miss out on anything important. You may also like blank weekly calendar templates.
Let's say that you have upcoming bills that you have to pay this week and you are yet to gather the amount of money in order to pay them all off. By knowing when you have to pay these bills, you'll be given the opportunity to prepare all the money you need before you make the necessary payments. Having a simple weekly calendar isn't just limited to you remembering to pay your bills, but it can also be very useful for helping you prepare for obligations such as that test you need to study for or the fitness exercises that you need to do.
Considering that you have a ton of things to do within a week's time, there may be some obligations that are more important than the rest. Having a weekly calendar can help make sure that you finish these certain obligations first by putting them in a spot within the week where you can take care of them first; thus ensuring that you won't have to worry about them any longer which will then allow you to take care of your other responsibilities. You may also like printable weekly calendar templates.
While calendars are the most helpful tools in the world when it comes to keeping track of the different dates within the year, the problem is that some people don't know how to create them.
So, here are the steps that you'll need to follow in order for you to create your very own weekly calendar.
The first thing that you will need to do is to download a spreadsheet program. The best one that you could possibly use is Microsoft Excel as this contains all the options one needs to be able to make a proper weekly calendar. Once you've managed to download and install Microsoft Excel, the next step is to click on "File" and then select "New" to start creating your weekly calendar.
Once you've clicked on "New" you will then see a search field where you can input text. What you want to do is type down the word "Calendar" into the search field which will then provide you with numerous results of all the different calendar templates that you can choose from. While you'll see numerous options pop right in front of you, you should focus on finding the weekly calendar templates as those are the ones you want to make.
Once you've selected the type of weekly calendar template that you want to use, you should see a table on your right that consists of the calendar week, year, and the days of the week. The only thing that's left for your you is to go through every single row and column and customize it to whatever appointments, errands or any kind of obligations you have to do within that particular week. After you're finished, the only thing that you need to do is to save the file in a destination within your computer that you can easily access at any given point in time. It's also best that you have an application on your phone which will allow you to access the file whenever as you'll never know when you might need it.
Now that you know how you should go about in creating your weekly calendar with Microsoft Excel, you should learn about the different types of weekly calendars that you can make.
If you're the type of person who wants to stay physically fit or if you're required to participate in physical activities due to certain conditions, then having a weekly fitness calendar will definitely help. It can guarantee that you'll be able to keep track of all the different types of fitness activities you'll need to perform within a week's time, as well as ensuring that you're able to do all of these activities. This is especially useful for those who frequent the gym or any fitness establishment as the calendar will prevent people from doing the same routine over and over again.
It should be pretty obvious that those who tend to benefit from this type of weekly calendar would have to be students. For those who decide to create and use weekly study calendars, they'll be able to know what subjects within the week they'll have to take, as well as knowing what kind of subjects they'll need to study as well as the amount of time that they have to dedicate towards a particular subject. It's not just helpful for knowing what needs to be studied, but it can also be used to determine if there's a test or activity that the student has to prepare for, so having this type of weekly calendar is really useful (assuming that you're still in school).
Every person has bills to pay, but the problem is that most people don't know how to keep track whatever payments that need to be made; which then leads to financial problems that could ruin them and their simple business. This is why you'll need to create weekly bills calendar so that you'll be able to know what bills you have to pay and when you have to pay them; allowing you to avoid any unpaid debts and preventing you from getting into serious financial trouble. If you can, make use of an automated calendar that will notify you of your upcoming bill payments, ensuring that you don't forget to pay them.
As a part of the working community, there's no doubt that you'll be having several appointments that you'll be obligated to participate in. But there's always that problem where you might miss these appointments as you may end up forgetting about them entirely. To prevent that from happening, you'll need to create your very own weekly appointment calendars. This will help guarantee that you remember all the appointments you've made within the week, as well as ensuring that you're able to attend every single one of them or at least give you the chance to cancel any of these appointments well ahead of time if the need arises.
If you're part of the management team within a company, then you know just how important it is to learn about your employees and their different shifts. You want to make sure which of your employees should be coming to work, the time they're coming at and the employees who have their time off. This is why you'll need the help of weekly shift or work calendars as it will give you all of the information you need regarding which employees are taking part in a shift and who isn't. Also, this is a very useful tool in the event that your employees have to miss work. By knowing their shifts ahead of time, they can give you reasons as to why they cannot participate in a shift, as well as giving you a good amount of time to find a proper replacement.
If you would like to learn more about how to create weekly calendars or how you should go about in creating other types of calendars, then all you have to do is go through our site, find the articles you need, and utilize the information you've been able to gather to help you with whatever you require.


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Dose and delivery method impact cognitive outcome of Ethinyl Estradiol administration in the surgically menopausal rat
Ethinyl estradiol, (EE) a synthetic, orally bio-available estrogen, is the most commonly prescribed form of estrogen in oral contraceptives (Shively, C., 1998), and is found in at least 30 different contraceptive formulations currently prescribed to women (Curtis et al., 2005).…
Ethinyl estradiol, (EE) a synthetic, orally bio-available estrogen, is the most commonly prescribed form of estrogen in oral contraceptives (Shively, C., 1998), and is found in at least 30 different contraceptive formulations currently prescribed to women (Curtis et al., 2005). EE is also used in hormone therapies prescribed to menopausal women, such as FemhrtTM (Simon et al., 2003). Thus, EE is prescribed clinically to women at ages ranging from puberty through reproductive senescence. Here, in two separate studies, the cognitive effects of cyclic or tonic EE administration following ovariectomy (Ovx) were evaluated in young, female rats. Study I assessed the cognitive effects of low and high doses of EE, delivered tonically via a subcutaneous osmotic pump. Study II evaluated the cognitive effects of low, medium, and high doses of EE administered via a daily subcutaneous injection. For these studies, the low and medium doses correspond to the range of doses currently used in clinical formulations, and the high dose corresponds to the range of doses prescribed to a generation of women between 1960 and 1970, when oral contraceptives first became available. For each study, cognition was evaluated with a battery of maze tasks tapping several domains of spatial learning and memory. At the highest dose, EE treatment impaired multiple domains of spatial memory relative to vehicle treatment, regardless of administration method. When given cyclically at the low and medium doses, EE did not impact working memory, but transiently impaired reference memory during the learning phase of testing. Of the doses and regimens tested here, only EE at the highest dose impaired several domains of memory; this was seen for both cyclic and tonic regimens. Cyclic and tonic delivery of low EE, a dose that corresponds to doses used in the clinic today, resulted in transient and null impairments, respectively, on cognition.
Mennenga, Sarah E (Author)
Bimonte-Nelson, Heather A. (Thesis advisor)
Baxter, Leslie C. (Committee member)
Olive, Michael F. (Committee member)
Arizona State University (Publisher)
Mu-opioid receptor: pAKT signaling in the ventral tegmental area is critical for the behavioral and cellular consequences of social stress
Intermittent social defeat stress produces vulnerability to drugs of abuse, a phenomena known as cross-sensitization, which is proceeded by a corresponding upregulation of ventral tegmental area (VTA) mu-opioid receptors (MORs). Since VTA MORs are implicated in the expression of psychostimulant…
Intermittent social defeat stress produces vulnerability to drugs of abuse, a phenomena known as cross-sensitization, which is proceeded by a corresponding upregulation of ventral tegmental area (VTA) mu-opioid receptors (MORs). Since VTA MORs are implicated in the expression of psychostimulant sensitization, they may also mediate social stress-induced vulnerability to drugs of abuse. Social stress and drugs of abuse increase mesolimbic brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling with its receptor, tropomyosin-related kinase B (TrkB). These studies examined whether VTA MOR signaling is important for the behavioral and cellular consequences of social stress. First, the function of VTA MORs in the behavioral consequences of intermittent social defeat stress was investigated. Lentivirus-mediated knockdown of VTA MORs prevented social stress-induced cross-sensitization, as well as stress-induced social avoidance and weight gain deficits. Next it was examined whether VTA MOR expression is critical for stress-induced alterations in the mesocorticolimbic circuit. At the time cross-sensitization was known to occur, lentivirus-mediated knockdown of VTA MORs prevented stress-induced increases in VTA BDNF and its receptor, TrkB in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), and attenuated NAc expression of delta FosB. There was no effect of either stress or virus on BDNF expression in the prefrontal cortex. Since social stress-induced upregulation of VTA MORs is necessary for consequences of social stress, next activity dependent changes in AKT, a downstream target of MOR stimulation associated with sensitization to psychostimulant drugs, were investigated. Using fluorescent immunohistochemical double labeling for the active form of AKT (pAKT) and markers of either GABA or dopamine neurons in the VTA, it was determined that social stress significantly increased the expression of pAKT in GABA, but not dopamine neurons, and that this effect was dependent on VTA MOR expression. Moreover, intra-VTA inhibition of pAKT during stress prevented stress-induced weight gain deficits, while acute inhibition of VTA pAKT blocked the expression of cross-sensitization in subjects that had previously exhibited sensitized locomotor activity. Together these results suggest that social stress upregulates MORs on VTA GABA neurons, resulting in AKT phosphorylation, and that increased VTA MOR-pAKT signaling may represent a novel therapeutic target for the intervention of substance abuse disorders.
Johnston, Caitlin (Author)
Hammer, Ronald P. (Thesis advisor)
Nikulina, Ella M. (Thesis advisor)
Neisewander, Janet L. (Committee member)
Wu, Jie (Committee member)
Perturbations in The Arrow of Time: Computational and Procedural Dissociations of Timing and Non-Timing Processes
Timing performance is sensitive to fluctuations in time and motivation, thus interval timing and motivation are either inseparable or conflated processes. A behavioral systems model (e.g., Timberlake, 2000) of timing performance (Chapter 1) suggests that timing performance in externally-initiated (EI)…
Timing performance is sensitive to fluctuations in time and motivation, thus interval timing and motivation are either inseparable or conflated processes. A behavioral systems model (e.g., Timberlake, 2000) of timing performance (Chapter 1) suggests that timing performance in externally-initiated (EI) procedures conflates behavioral modes differentially sensitive to motivation, but that response-initiated (RI) procedures potentially dissociate these behavioral modes. That is, timing performance in RI procedures is expected to not conflate these behavioral modes. According to the discriminative RI hypothesis, as initiating-responses become progressively discriminable from target responses, initiating-responses increasingly dissociate interval timing and motivation. Rats were trained in timing procedures in which a switch from a Short to a Long interval indexes timing performance (a latency-to-switch, LTS), and were then challenged with pre-feeding and extinction probes. In experiments 1 (Chapter 2) and 2 (Chapter 3), discriminability of initiating-responses was varied as a function of time, location, and form for rats trained in a switch-timing procedure. In experiment 3 (Chapter 4), the generalizability of the discriminative RI hypothesis was evaluated in rats trained in a temporal bisection procedure. In experiment 3, but not 1 and 2, RI enhanced temporal control of LTSs relative to EI. In experiments 1 and 2, the robustness of LTS medians to pre-feeding but not extinction increased with the discriminability of initiating-responses from target responses. In experiment 3, the mean LTS was robust to pre-feeding in EI and RI. In all three experiments, pre-feeding increased LTS variability in EI and RI. These results provide moderate support for the discriminative RI hypothesis, indicating that initiating-responses selectively and partially dissociate interval timing and motivation processes. Implications for the study of cognition and motivation processes are discussed (Chapter 5).
Daniels, Carter W (Author)
Sanabria, Federico (Thesis advisor)
McClure, Samuel M. (Committee member)
Wynne, Clive D.L. (Committee member)
Theses and Dissertations 3
Neurosciences 3
AKT 1
Amphetamines 1
Animal behavior 1
Behavioral psychology 1
Drug abuse--Physiological aspects. 1
Endocrinology 1
Menopause 1
Molecular Biology 1
mu-opioid receptor 1
pre-feeding 1
response-initiated 1
self-paced 1
sensitization 1
switch-timing 1
temporal bisection 1
Masters Thesis 1


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Our Director Kathryn has been a part of our personal and caring Lawyers with Alexanders Lawyers since the beginning in 1998. She has many years of experience and started her career in Law as an outside clerk straight from school in 1975.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Kathryn worked as a Legal Secretary and Paralegal. She has a genuine interest in helping people in need and fully understands the stress clients suffer when dealing with matters relating to the law.
On a personal note, Kathryn is married with two adult children and four grandchildren. She enjoys spending time with her family and travelling.
An integral part of our operations, Kelly has been with us since 2006 and she's the first person you'll talk to when calling any one of our Perth, Balcatta or Leeming offices.
She's not only a very capable assistant, but also a very friendly and approachable person. Kelly will be happy to assist you with your enquiries or direct your call to Kathryn to discuss your enquiry further.


Evoke the grandeur of this remarkable island – if wellness is a trend, then take a walk on the wild side: discover Mother Nature and the natural beauty of the remarkably friendly atmosphere of Kumyali village. Off the main highway through winding village roads, Kumyali village is a village set by the sea, along the far easterly point of north Cyprus' stunning Mediterranean coastline. This cinematic post card image stars imagination from a bygone era, most definitely not forgotten.
This village eatery sees tourists from the USA, Europe and all over, journeying to discover it's gastronomic simplicity yet versatile menu. This magical little village restaurant is run by the vivacious Zelish. Not a stones throw from the centre, serves charcoal grills, divine hand-made cured sausage called Pastirma, freshest halloumi, with hand-made golden potato chips, and fresh farm grown salads. All local Village produce, boast their own hand reared lambs from the village. Spectacular Sunday Specials: Kleftico / Kub Kebab from a clay oven. Need I say more, surely if your passing this way, an unmissable stop off to lay claim to Mother Nature's wonders.


Music by the Dixie Dandies and fireworks courtesy of the various clubs and communities that line the Sound Shore were among the treats in store for the scores of residents that flocked to Larchmont Manor Park on July 4.
Larchmont resident Keith Lew was there with this camera to chronicle the sights.
For larger image, click on icon at far right of slide strip.
THANK YOU very much to all those who enabled the July 4th fireworks at Manor Park. It was a treat. I hope this will become a tradition.
Thanks to the Larchmont Yacht Club for fully financing the fireworks in Larchmont Harbor that you enjoyed.
The fireworks display over Larchmont Harbor was financed by a homeowner for his private party, not the Yacht Club.
Well that explains it. I couldn't understand how or why the LYC would do such a thing during this economic Recession. Most towns and cities in the surrounding area are cutting back or even cancelling fireworks – so I didn't think that LYC would add this type of unnecessary extravagance to their Club members expense account.
I knew it had to be private funds picking up the tab there.
The fireworks over Larchmont Harbor were MOSTLY funded by the Larchmont Yacht Club. A Portion of the display was donated by an individual member of the club. With a record breaking turn-out this year, we can all hopefully expect this to be an annual tradition, as it once was and should be!
MANY THANKS TO LARCHMONT YACHT CLUB for the wonderful display of fireworks for all to watch!!!
Yes, thank you LYC, a great show once again. Thanks for starting this tradition for all of Larchmont to enjoy.
I wanted to say thank you for the fabulous photos. It totally made my day to be able to sit in CA and enjoy these lovely pictures at Manor Park. Thank you so very much.
Joe Attendee, you are incorrect, the fireworks were paid for by the Larchmont Yacht Club. The first year, the fireworks were underwritten by several members of the Club and it was such a success, the club decided to continue to provide fireworks, despite the expense.
Hey, How's this: Will the real identity of the people/person behind picking up the tab for the 4th of July fireworks, please stand up!!
I would like some credit to Larchmont Yacht Club, those fireworks were paid for by the club and it's members. It's not the Shore Club and definetly not Horseshoe Harbor. Thank you very much.
Why would the Shore Club or Horeshore Harbor YC pay for fireworks in front of LYC? If the Shore Club were to pay for fireworks, I would hope that they would be set off in front of the club.
Where in the article does it say LSC or HHYC are taking credit for the fireworks??


Nigerian Singer, Aramide has opened up on why she no longer Respect legendary female Singer, Onyeka Onwenu.
Why speaking in a new interview, Aramide narrated her unpleasant encounter with the Veteran Singer that left her in total disappointment and shock.
According to Aramide, she opened an event for Onyeka Onwenu and after her performance, she attempted to relate with her and possibly take a picture but received unexpected and unfriendly gesture.
Aramide described the experience as the worst she has ever had in the course of her career.


Practice closed - required to pay employees?
For those practice owners who do not have an employee handbook or other policies and/or procedures detailing the practice's policies in the case of snow, flood or hurricane days (or inclement weather in general), then each individual practice owner will have to make their own decision on whether to count missed days towards vacation or personal days as opposed to paying. You are under no obligation, legally, to pay hourly workers so long as you are not acting contrary to the practice's policies. However, at minimum, if your staff took home patient names and telephone contact numbers and spent time reaching them, this constitutes work and must be remunerated. If your practice has, unfortunately, sustained catastrophic destruction and will not reopen by next Monday, staff members will be eligible to apply for unemployment insurance benefits. In the event that you reopen on a restricted schedule, they may also be entitled to benefits. Every owner must make a personal, ethical decision as to whether to pay staff in the absence of an employment agreement or practice manual which addresses this situation. Additionally, I recommend that you consult with your insurance agent as to the terms of your business interruption coverage (and, if you do not have such coverage, that you discuss this with the broker) in terms of the broader issues involved.
Hurricane Sandy has presented unprecedented challenges to New York and New Jersey. It does give medical professionals the perspective with which to consider a variety of issues to potentially better prepare for future, including:.
1. Do you have an emergency notification system to reach staff and patients in the event that the office is closed?
2. If your office does not regain power, do you have any standing plans with colleagues who may be more fortunate in terms of sharing facilities in the short run?
3. Do you have access to your medical records?
4. Do you have an emergency battery backup generator in your office to enable you to see patients?
5. Have you maintained one landline in your home so you can be reached even if you cannot recharge your cellphone?
I recommend using this unexpected free time productively to consider what worked and what didn't and to plan ahead.
For organizations accredited by the AAAASF or Joint Commission, remember that such planning is part of the accreditation process and you should note, in your monthly minutes, what steps you did take and any recommendations for improvement.


Financial Services ruled out of any future trade deal by EU.
EU Brexit negotiators have taken a tough line on financial services in any future trade deal, insisting that future arrangements should be based on existing "equivalence" rules for non-EU countries rather than a more ambitious deal. The European Commission has reportedly played down the risks of cutting off the City from EU businesses, claiming a smaller UK financial sector could benefit financial stability and the development of capital markets in the EU27.
Michel Barnier, the European Commission's chief negotiator, publicly ruled out a special deal for the City in December, stating that Theresa May's red lines on Brexit made the loss of the so-called "passporting rights" inevitable.
"In leaving the single market, they lose the financial services passport," he said in an interview with European newspapers at the time. German government officials have however behind the scenes suggested that the UK could retain passporting rights in exchange for continued contributions to the EU budget, according to reports that surfaced earlier this month.
Over 5,400 British firms rely on passporting rights to bring in £9bn in revenue every year to Britain. UK Finance has said the loss of passporting would be "disruptive, costly and time-consuming".
Brexit will have a significant impact on the UK's competition regime.
EBA launches tough new stress tests including potential Brexit effect.


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A Review of Rigoberto González's Unpeopled Eden
Bojan Louis
Unpeopled Eden
by Rigoberto González
New York: Four Way Books, 2013.
84 pages. $15.95 (paperback)
Borders are, or can be, symbols that actualize more than imagined lines for "Do Not Enter" and "our national pride begins and ends here." A border can separate life and death: can be a gateway, a portal to the underworld, or some salvation in the sky — the "sky" being, perhaps, opportunity and a better wage, not, as you might expect, eternal peace or surrender. For the Aztec, there lies a border between being alive and dead, a four-year interim journey one takes over mountains, rivers, and fields before becoming completely dead. That underworld is called Mictlán, and it is in this place that Rigoberto González opens Unpeopled Eden, his fourth collection of poetry.
González knows — and his poems exemplify — this concept of being on either side of a separation. Each of his previous three collections of poetry establishes, in its own way, a stance against a norm or popular ignorance. González's debut collection, So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks (1999), is a genesis — the ground from which the poet spins memories and tragedy, introducing readers to the sometimes stark, and more often beautiful, realities of migrant workers, immigrant families, and the complex realities of being a product of the México–US border. Other Fugitives and Other Strangers (2006), is tense, erotic, and dangerous — dangerous because it challenges us to play voyeur and to be participant. It asks us to hold the book and its bodies; to feel the various sensations of men who want both danger and one another; to take the hand of González and say, "Ok, you lead and I'll follow." Black Blossoms (2011), González's third collection (and the first published with Four Way Books), faces darkness — and challenges the abyss for an echo. Much like Roberto Bolaño's fourth section of 2666, "The Part About the Crimes," the poems of Black Blossoms are witness to the wilting of the female body, bodies that worked to survive, to love, to raise families, to not disappear from a population, underpaid and overworked, that employers and consumers neglect to acknowledge exists. It is from these places, from borders González has crossed and defined, that we enter Unpeopled Eden (2013). A region of the dead: the often nameless and the disposable ("disposable" because they journey from the south and seek of the north a new beginning — a paradise perhaps untrue, but held as a belief because it is a part of the myths and the stories that ground and drive us). For some, death may be the beginning.
At the center of González's fourth collection is the title poem, "Unpeopled Eden." The poem remembers the thirty-two people who died after a deportation plane's fuel pump ignited over Los Gatos Canyon, causing the flames to burn off a wing and the aircraft to spiral to the earth twenty miles outside of Coalinga, California, on January 29, 1948. In his notes, González recounts the forgotten and dismissed details of the event. Of the thirty-two who died in the crash, only four names were recorded: the pilot, co-pilot, stewardess, and guard. The remaining twenty-seven men and one woman, migrant farm workers, were dismissed simply as deportees and buried in a mass grave, which some considered racist, but which all should see as ignorant: a gesture of genocide, which is something deplorable that occurs today, though generally without (as far as we know) the mass graves. My home state — a state where González earned one of his graduate degrees — Arizona, seeks to militarize its border. ICE (formerly INS), the Maricopa Sheriff's Department, and governor Jan Brewer, among others, hold no regard for family, stability, opportunity, or simple things like empathy or humanity. It is because agencies, leaders, and people in positions of power like this exist that we need González's voice and perception. We need to know as readers, writers, and humans that American society is far from being any sort of paradise, though it may seem to offer opportunity, money, and money. We need to know that people who don't look, speak, or live like us matter, because all things matter — or should.
González writes, in the final section of "Unpeopled Eden," VI after the communal burial:
This is the place to forget
about labor and hardship and pain.
No house left to build, no kitchen
to clean, no chair on a porch, no
children to feed. No longing left
except a wish that will never come
true: Paint us back into the blank
sky's blue. Don't forget us
like we've forgotten all of you.
This stanza, with the internal rhymes and cadences that exemplify González's ability to write the collective voice of the grave, is a moment for reader and author to reflect on the Los Gatos Canyon plane crash and on the themes of borders and border-crossers that have saturated the book. "The Soldier of Mictlán" visually and poetically shows the reader, with its use of soldier to end every line, both the loneliness of journeying across a border and the heavy foot traffic of Mictlán.
González continues this exploration of departing one place for another — his poems seek borders in both "In the Village of Missing Fathers" and "In the Village of Missing Sons." Both begin with opposites and the idea of aging; while the titles suggest age or youth, each poem begins with an image of children or of the elderly, respectively:
From "In the Village of Missing Fathers":
Children run without shoes
because no bottles have been
broken there and no one knows how
to climb a tree or fly a kite.
From "In the Village of Missing Sons":
The old do not call themselves old,
they call themselves dead. They call
themselves forgotten and silent, the footprints
made by water that evaporate and erase,
leaving the ground thirsty for contact
all over again. They call themselves
banished, abandoned, invisible —
These poems show the reality of absence. The absence of family and joy, completeness and pride. Unpeopled Eden is a record of and for the forgotten, for the "border crossing soldiers" who risk all they have, which isn't nothing: if they have anything, they have their homelands, family, and countrymen — and they risk it all in order to starve, suffer, die. They are not only taken advantage of, but they are also confronted with policies and ideologies set to dehumanize them. Easy to gather and dispose of numbers, to wage "war" on nouns that reflect invasion and not persons. In González's collection, the land and its creatures know more than citizens and their media. A Gila Monster comments on his reward of being able to crawl on its belly in a paradise where trees drop fruit to his level. Where the dead have made their journey.
From "Gila":
Though there are ghosts here —
they strip down to wind
or slump against rock to evaporate.
Though González's poems concern themselves with death, the underworld, forgetting, and inhumanity, this is not a collection of apocalypse. Unpeopled Eden shows us ourselves because we all seek a border, we all seek betterment. But when it comes down to it, more often than not, we don't exactly have, inside of us, what we think we have:
In the end we are like the shark
that swims with a treasure chest
in its belly. Poachers slice us open,
extract a string of kidney stones, a license plate. ("Señorita Juárez")
Bojan Louis is a member of the Navajo Nation — Naakai Dine´é; Ashiihí; Ta'neezahnii; Bilgáana. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Platte Valley Review, Hinchas de Poesía, American Indian Research and Culture Journal, and Black Renaissance Noire; his fiction in Alaska Quarterly Review. He is the author of the nonfiction chapbook, Troubleshooting Silence in Arizona (Guillotine Series, 2012). He has been a resident at The MacDowell Colony. He earns his ends and writing time by working as an electrician, construction worker, and English Instructor at universities and community colleges in the Phoenix metropolitan area.


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How to find and edit your DNS files is a little different on each platform. In this walkthrough I'll show you how to find the files on cPanel, since it's a more widely used platform.
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CDNs make it look like setting up your site with their servers is as easy as 1-2-3. While that's a bit misleading, there's no reason even the least tech-savvy among us can't set up a CDN if they simply follow the instructions above.
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If you or a loved one wants to age in the comfort of your own home, home care in East Amherst, NY can offer personal assistance in a familiar setting. Whether an older adult needs more basic elderly home care services in East Amherst – like help with housekeeping, cooking, and transportation – or requires medical care, A Place for Mom can help.
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You may also consider nearby communities such as Williamsville.
Home Care Facilities near East Amherst, NY
Recent reviews of Home Care in East Amherst, NY
Review ofPeregrine Senior Living at Cheektowaga
It was a pleasure. My dad enjoyed being there. He was able to roam round, and do what he wanted to do, and eat when he wanted to eat. And that was good for him. I enjoyed the staff as well. It was expensive though, more than most of other assisted facilities we looked at.
Review ofThe Manor House Independent and Enriched Care
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Review ofBrompton Heights
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Homewatch CareGivers of Williamsville, NY
5500 Main Street, #222, Williamsville, NY 14221
Oasis Care Services
1967 Wehrle Dr #1, Williamsville, NY 14221
The prices are fair, and once we settled on the care givers they were fantastic. Give Oasis a chance because the managem...
B&C United Home Care
6400 Sheridan Drive, Suite 116, Williamsville, NY 14221
Healthy Living Transitions, INC.
356 Park Place, Grand Island, NY 14072
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GoodCare Home Health Services Inc
1330 Niagara Falls Blvd. Suite 202, Tonawanda, NY 14150
The Caregiver's Choice
4248 Ridge Lea Road Ste 18, Amherst, NY 14226
The CareGiver's Choice is a non-medical home care agency for the elderly. Our goal is to provide in-home, non-medical assistance to the elderly who wish to remain independent in their own homes.Our CareGivers provide assistance with errands, local transportation (doctor appointments, grocery...
Tender Loving Family Inc
4107 Lake Road, Brockport, NY 14420
Tender Loving Family Care, offers compassionate care at affordable rates. We understand everyone's desire to remain independent, and actively work with our clients to ensure they live a well dignified life in the comfort and surroundings of their own home.Tender Loving Family Care provides...
3075 Southwestern Boulevard Suite 206, Orchard Park, NY 14127
Home Helpers
670 Sara Court, Lewiston, NY 14092
113 Main Street Ste 206, Batavia, NY 14020
Good Samaritan Caregivers
5500 Main Street Suite 109, Williamsville, NY 14221
Good Samaritan CareGivers was founded to alleviate the major concerns of aging - running out of money and needing to move out of the home. We provide in-home, non-medical services so seniors may remain in their own home while maintaining their independence and diginity for as long as...
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24 Rhode Island St, Buffalo, NY 14213
Provides: Home Care, Nursing Homes
East Amherst, New York
Non-medical home care offers many services that can be administered in in a home setting In-home care offers multiple services including short-term nursing care, assistance using mobility/assistive devices, and housekeeping. This type of care can provide various medical services including assisting residents in drinking fluid to swallow medication, assistance in removing medication from container for those residents with a physical disability, and aid in self-administration of medication. A majority of home care providers screen potential seniors before entry. This screening might include health problems, weight/nutritional status, and medication use. Also, care services offered will involve rehabilitative services and companionship. Companion care may also afford your family member assistance going grocery shopping and with assistance managing tasks. Finally, senior home care can provide your loved one with health services such as assistance with ambulation and transfers from wheelchair to bed.
East Amherst has a population density of 657 people per square mile.
An overview of New York
The quality of life enjoyed by the average New York citizen is ranked 25th nation-wide. Additionally, New York is ranked 13th by standards of healthcare. There are 205 hospitals and 496 health centers that service a population of 19,493,819. Hospital For Special Surgery, Albany Memorial Hospital, and Northern Duchess Hospital are among the top three highest ranked hospitals in the state. The state of New York has a cost of living index of 135.7 where a score of 100 is the national average, and anything above 100 is considered more expensive than the average. The state has a grocery index rating of 114.8 and a housing index rating of 204.4. Based on natural beauty, New York ranks 24th in the nation.
Twenty-nine percent of New York residents regularly attend a religious service from one of the state's 14,110 different congregations. The top three non-Christian denominations in the state are Jewish-7%, Muslim-2%, and Buddhist-<1%, with the most common Christian denominations consisting of Evangelical Protestant-10%, Mainline Protestant-11%, and Historically Black Protestant-5%. In New York there are 72 masonic lodges. In New York, 30% of the population is over the age of 55. The median age in the state is 39. The state of New York ranks 5th in the country for diversity and the state is considered very LGBTQ friendly. In the most recent presidential election, 37% of New York residents voted Republican and 59% voted Democrat.
The average amount of precipitation peaks during the month of October at around 6.10 inches. On average, the state receives 3.54 inches of precipitation a month. During the summer, the average temperature in New York is around 68F. The average high summer temperature is around 86F in the month of July. In the summer, the average low temperature drops to around 48F during the month of June. During the winter, the average temperature in New York drops to around 25F. The average high winter temperature is around 25F in the month of December. The average low temperature during the winter drops to around 2F in the month of January. On average, New York has an air quality index rating of around 34.2 AQI. The average air quality index rating peaks in the month of May with a rating of around 44.5 AQI. The average humidity across the state is 71%. Humidity levels tend to reach their peak in the month of December at around 77%. While residents of New York mostly enjoy pleasant conditions, it's important to be aware of inclement weather as well, which in New York can include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes (moderate).
Wildlife to be found in New York
The state of New York has a diverse array of plant and animal life. Local plant life can consist of Canada anemone, northern blueflag, bluets, and smooth blue aster. While venturing throughout the state, you might see animals such as the Canada lynx, the Eurasian boar, the mink, or the black bear. The state animal of New York is the beaver.
What are the top rated home care agencies near East Amherst, New York?
Comfort Keepers, Tender Loving Family Inc and GoodCare Home Health Services Inc are the top rated home care agencies near East Amherst, New York. See full list of communities.
How many home care agencies are there near East Amherst, New York?
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The documents, words and revelations given by and through ancient prophets up through Joseph Smith are to be read, heeded and valued per God's own words. But, can anyone, including a modern prophet, church leader or president contradict and change what Joseph Smith said, taught and revealed?
Today, using the words and revelations of God, Denver reminds us how important it is to pay heed to what Joseph Smith gave the world.
QUESTION: Can the words of a modern or current Prophet or Church President supersede or contradict the words of a previous prophet, in particular Joseph Smith?
DENVER: Joseph's doctrines, teachings, revelations and council was supposed to be kept and hearkened to by the church. In the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants, section 41 [actually 14], it says "Ye have received a commandment for a law unto my church, through him whom I have appointed unto you, to receive commandments and revelations from my hand," [D&C 14:1, 1835 ed.] making it clear that when we get something from Joseph we, as a church, were directed by the Lord, to respect what it was that came through him.
In section 32:2 [actually 32:3, 1835 ed.] it says, "I have entrusted unto you, my servant Joseph, for a wise purpose in me, and it shall be made known unto future generations; but this generation shall have my word through you." Don't read the word "generation" in that context narrowly, because the word "generation" has sometimes varying meanings. And the safe meaning in that context of that statement to Joseph, includes all those who live after the day that Joseph came and Joseph bore testimony. Therefore, it would include you.
In section 46:1-3 [1835 ed.] it says, "Behold there shall be a record kept among you, and in it thou," (meaning Joseph), "thou shalt be called a seer, a translator, a prophet, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and elder of the church through the will of God the Father, and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ… [46:1] Wherefore, meaning the church, thou" (the church, you folks), "shall give heed unto all his" (singular, personal pronoun "his", meaning "Joseph") "words, and commandments, which he" (singular, personal pronoun) "shall give unto you, as he receiveth them, walking in all holiness before Him [me]: For his word ye shall receive, as if from mine own mouth, and all patience and faith; for by doing these things, the gates of hell shall not prevail against you" [46:2]. "Shall not prevail against you" provided you give heed to his words. Not mine, not another man's. The bastian established by the Lord that is the rock upon which the winds and the rains can beat without causing any harm to the foundation, is the rock of revelation given to us, in this generation, through the prophet Joseph Smith. Everything else turns to sand.
"For thus saith the Lord God, him" (singular, personal pronoun, referring to the individual man, the prophet Joseph Smith– "Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah," indeed– him) "have I inspired to move the cause of Zion in mighty power for good; And his diligence I know, and his prayers I have heard: yea, his weeping for Zion I have seen, and I will cause that he shall mourn for her no longer, for his days of rejoicing are come unto the remission of his sins, and the manifestations of my blessings upon his works" [46:2]. It doesn't promise Joseph Zion. It doesn't promise him anything of the sort. It promises him rejoicing because his sins are remitted. His sins, not ours. Because at this point– this is 1835. By 1832 the church was already under condemnation. But Joseph was not. His sins are remitted and that will cause Joseph to rejoice. "They shall believe on his words, which are given him through me, by the Comforter, which manifesteth that Jesus was crucified by sinful men for the sins of the world" [46:3].
So as I read the edition of the Doctrine and Covenants in 1835, sections 14, 32, 46 of that volume, it becomes abundantly apparent that to the extent that the church was a true and living church, it was a true and living church because God owned the words that came through Joseph. And God vouched for the words that came through Joseph. And God cautioned them, and us, about ignoring the words that come through the prophet Joseph Smith.
Section 51:2 [1835 ed.], "No one shall be appointed to receive commandments and revelations in this church, excepting my servant Joseph Smith, jr. for he receiveth them as Moses; and thou shalt be obedient unto the things which I shall give unto him" [sic].
What is the definition of oracles? Is the definition of oracles a transient, changing with every whim program that can shift from day to day and person to person, or are the oracles the documents, the commandments, the revelations, the words that are contained in what Joseph Smith handed to us in the Book of Mormon, in the revelations given through him?
Be careful about how you interpret the scriptures. Be careful about how flexible you think an unchanging God will be. Be careful about that God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever being so whimsically different that on one day one thing can be asked of you and on another something altogether different can be asked of you. And to the extent that you detect a varying, shifting sand beneath your feet, ask yourself why that is so. And ask yourself, "Where might I go to find the rock upon which to establish my feet that the winds and the rains might not mow me down?" Because God vouched for Joseph Smith. And God vouched for those things committed to you, through him.
Would to God we all took that more seriously and recognize that if there is a prophet whose words we need to give heed to, it begins with the primacy of Joseph Smith, and that all other things, all other revelations, all of your attitudes, all of your notions– everything ought to be measured against what we receive through him. God vouched for his words. I vouch for his words. I know he was a prophet of God. The extent to which my knowledge of Joseph runs, allows me to say, I know that man has stood in the presence of God. And I know that God has and does vouch for him, still, today.
And if no one else will say it, I'll declare it to you. If you ignore Joseph's words, you ignore it at your peril. And if you allow any man, or men, if you allow any committee, any institution or organization to claim that they have the right to alter, neglect or discard the words of revelation given by God through the prophet Joseph Smith, they will damn you if you listen to them. And they will surely be damned for doing so, because no one has the right to do that.
God's work is the same yesterday, today and forever. And those who would like to throw you about by every whim of doctrine are teaching you merely the commandments of men as if they were doctrine. And they aren't.
When God speaks through Joseph and we forget him, then we have no right to expect, collectively, that he's going to move anything forward for us. The first order of repentance is to remember what God gave to us through Joseph. You do that and then you'll find God's perfectly willing to pick it up and move it forward. You don't do that, and God will simply wait for you to get around to discharge the duty that's devolving upon you.
God vouched for Joseph Smith. God spoke through him. And I don't have the right to move one of his words. But I do have the right to listen to him, to follow what came through him, and to lay hold upon the blessings that were promised as a consequence of remembering him. Because to remember the words of Joseph is to remember your Lord. Remember Him. And don't let anyone tell you that they hold some authority that allows them to neglect, change, discard, veto, forget, or contradict what God told you through the voice of a prophet.
Joseph declared, "Ordinances instituted in the heavens before the foundation of the world and the priesthood, for the salvation of men, are not to be altered or changed. All must be saved on the same principles" [TPJS, p. 308]. The first question this raises is whether Joseph contradicted himself by changing things. The only way to reconcile the many changes he instituted is to take note that he made only additive expansions, finishing and recovering the ordinances instituted in the heavens. He was transmitting what came from above to believers, and it came incrementally. Joseph's changes never took away from the ordinances, but frequently expanded on what was here before.
Joseph never did anything with the ordinances instituted in the heavens, like the LDS church has done. The elimination of the christian minister from the endowment in 1990, along with the abandonment of the penalties from the ceremony at the same time, were purely deductive. Joseph never did anything like that. Likewise, LDS washings and anointings were changed in 2011 to eliminate actual washing and actual anointing, replacing them with simply symbolic references. That was yet another deductive deviation from the ordinances instituted in the heavens. It violated Joseph's principle that they are not to be altered or changed. The original mormonism may have added, but it respected what was previously revealed.
"Behold, I am Alpha and Omega, even Jesus Christ. Wherefore, let all men beware how they take my name in their lips– for behold, verily I say, that many there be who are under this condemnation, who use the name of the Lord, and use it in vain, having not authority" [D&C 63: 60-62]. And how do you know if someone speaks with authority? How do you know that Joseph is writing a testimony that is authoritative? How do we know if anyone opens their mouth and they speak and God has approved the message that they are delivering?
Go back to that verse 20 of the Joseph Smith History, which happened in 1820, in which Joseph had been tutored. And he had been tutored by the Lord with "many other things did he say unto me at this time, which I cannot write." Joseph already knew, he had already seen, he had already been endowed with a certain understanding that reckons from the other side of the veil. As a consequence of which, Joseph knew a great deal more than what he was saying. But he had an assignment. And the assignment consisted of the obligation to translate the Book of Mormon. And Joseph was authorized to accomplish that work. Therefore, if Joseph stepped outside of the bounds of the assignment entrusted to him at the moment that he was doing this work, Joseph would be entertaining a pretense, because the errand given to him at the moment was confined to the Book of Mormon. Did he know more? Absolutely! Did he have more at his disposal that he could have entertained people with? Without any question. But he was asked to do a work, and in the fidelity of his heart, he confined himself to that work, until it was first accomplished. And to do more than that would have been a pretense.
So then we get to the answer to the question about how you know whether Joseph is telling us the truth. "Verily, I say unto you," (verse 5) "woe shall come unto the inhabitants of the earth if they will not hearken unto my words." This is Christ owning the words. It's not Joseph. "For hereafter you shall be ordained to go forth and deliver my words unto the children of men. Behold, if they will not believe my words, they would not believe you, my servant Joseph, if it were possible that you should show all these things which I have committed unto you" [D&C 5:5-7]. God owns the words. You wouldn't believe the rest of it if you won't believe what's authorized to be spoken. Joseph confined himself to delivering what Christ wanted delivered and it was up to those who heard to choose. And if they recognized the Master's voice then they received the message from Him.
This is also the letter from Liberty Jail. Section 122:2 "The pure in heart, and the wise, and the noble, and the virtuous, shall seek counsel, and authority, and blessings constantly from under thy hand." This is the Lord's word to Joseph Smith about those who are wise, those who are noble, those who are virtuous. Those are the ones who are going to seek council and authority and blessings under the hand of Joseph. And that is as true at this moment as it was then.
How, then, do we, today, receive blessings under the hand of Joseph? Well if you look at the use of the word "hand," almost invariably it is associated with the words we find in scriptures– the book of Abraham ("under the hand of Abraham"), the book of Mormon ("under the hand of Mormon"). The hand of Joseph is still the hand we ought to be looking at, if we want to know what God's word was for our generation.
The foregoing remarks are excerpts from Denver's 40 Years in Mormonism Series, Talk #1, entitled "Be of Good Cheer" given in Boise, ID on September 10, 2013; and Talk #3, entitled "Repentance" given in Logan, UT on September 29, 2013, and the presentation of Denver's paper entitled "Was There an Original", given at the Sunstone Symposium on July 29, 2016.


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Lucky in Love Lottery Winner
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Wins $50,000 Big Money Mega Play Scratch-off Prize
"Can I do the Cabbage Patch dance?" asked Donald Cole III, when Lottery officials confirmed that he had won $50,000. They gave him the go ahead and Donald got up from his seat and began to do his celebration boogie.
The delighted winner said that his winning day started with a trip to the ATM machine. He then went to the Olney Shell to purchase his Lottery tickets. Donald took his tickets home to scratch and had played a few before revealing his win on the Big Money Mega Play. "I must have looked at that ticket 2,500 times," said the 52-year-old. He then immediately called his "bride."
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Although, married for nine years and together for 16, Donald still affectionately refers to his wife this way. "I knew after three or four dates, that she was the one," he said. "I'm married to the most amazing woman on the planet." Donald then recounted how she had stood by him as he fought for his life back when he had a brain aneurism burst in 1999. After a miraculous full recovery, the two remain inseparable with this the latest of his lucky moments. "When I told her the news she was excited," said Donald. "She always tells me, 'you are the luckiest man.'"
As far as plans for his $50,000, Donald's response was quick and concise, "Buy something I don't need," he said. The winning ticket was purchased at Olney Shell, located at 18040 Georgia Ave. in Olney.
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