Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me (Isaiah 49:15-16).
The above verses talk about the love of God which is greater than that of any nursing mother. A mother can forget her child and abandon him/her but God will not.
Once I read a true story of a young lady. After birth her biological mother abandoned her, but a loving couple adopted her and raised her as their own daughter. She grew up in that home. But one day she came to know that the parents with whom she lived were not her real parents. It really shattered her little world. She then continually started thinking about her real parents what they would look like and so on. Then she started searching about the whereabouts of her real parents, hoping that she could one day meet them.
Days became months and months became years, but her search did not bring any result. One day all of a sudden she got the phone number of her biological mother from her foster home. With shaking hands she telephoned and one woman's voice responded. She told about herself and the purpose of her calling. There was silence at the other end and then the phone was hung up without a word. She could not understand why?
A few days later she tried to call her mother once again. This time the woman's stern voice spoke to her, "Do not call me again...." and the phone was hung up again. Her heart was completely broken. She felt rejection as she never felt in her whole life. For many days she thought about her mother's rude behavior and wondered why she spoke like that?
But later on she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior and a great peace and joy filled her heart. She writes further that, "though my real mother rejected me and did not accept me and show her love to me, but Jesus wiped away my tears. He did not reject me but accepted me and loved me more than my mother."
Today you may be in the same situation. Your parents, relatives and family members might have rejected you or abandoned you, but if you are a child of God, God will not forget you. That's what the love of Christ is. If you are not a child of God still you can become one. Being born in a Christian family does not make you a child of God. Going to church regularly also does not make you a Child of God. Doing all the rituals and good works does not make you a Child of God. But only when you are born again, only when you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior then only you are born of God as we read in John 1:12-13, "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."
Unless you are born again you cannot enjoy the love and care of motherhood and fatherhood of God. Unless you are in His family, you cannot enjoy the blessings and sonship or daughtership of the King of kings and Lord of lords. But when you are His child, He will take care of you, provide for you and bless you. He will not forget you because He has inscribed you in the Palms of His hand. He will not forget but all your walls are continually before Him.
In Mark 5:24-34 we read the story of Jesus healing a woman who had issue of blood for 12 years.
According to the Mosaic Law such a woman is supposed to be unclean or in other words untouchable (Lev 15:25). So she would have been rejected by the society and might have lived a very miserable life for 12 years.
Not only that, she tried everything she could. She went to see doctors and they all didn't have any capacity to help. Perhaps she might have gone from one doctor to another and then to another and then to another and kept on going. Perhaps they might have examined her and would have given her a huge bill to pay and would have said to her "Sorry we are not able to do anything. This sickness do not have any cure. We tried our best and there is nothing more we can do".
She might have heard the same thing over and over again. She might have thought, "is there not a single person who can give hope?"
In the process she spent all her money and it didn't help her. Instead her situation worsened even further. How many times do we think that we have money for this and for that and we have money in the bank account and that we have insurance and it is more than sufficient for the future. Perhaps before she got sick she might have thought in the same way. Obviously it looks as if she had good amount of money to visit many doctors. But her money could not help her.
For 12 long years she had suffered and still the agony and pain did not seem to go away. She tried every thing that she could and yet there was no solution at sight. She might have given up hope. Perhaps she might have gone to religious scholars and priests to ask them for prayer. I wonder what they would have told her? Perhaps they would have reacted as they did in John Chapter 9.
In John Chapter 9 we read that Jesus healed a blind man. This man was blind from birth. Jesus healed him and the Pharisees were interviewing him. Reason is they were not happy that this man was healed. For them the day of Sabbath was more important than this man getting healed. So they questioned him and didn't believe that he was blind in the first place and they called his parents to interview them. His parents testified that, 'yes he was blind and now see.' These great theologians were running out of reasons to refute that healing. So they came up with a new idea that Jesus is not from God.
It is very clear that they had absolutely no clue that God heals. They tried to refute the healing by different methods. So perhaps when this woman would have approached them for prayer for her sickness she might have been told that healing does not take place. Or she might have been warned that she should not go to Jesus for her healing. The very same people who should have led her to Jesus might have been blocking her from reaching to Jesus.
This woman heard that Jesus was coming and she ran to Jesus. She said, "If I may touch his cloths I shall be whole". Obviously she didn't hear about Jesus from theologians. Probably She didn't hear about Jesus from doctors either. It would have been the people who had told her about Jesus. It may be some of those people whom Jesus healed or it may be some of those people who saw the miracles happening right before their eyes. Hearing all that, faith might have arisen within her heart. And she believed that if she just touch the hem of Jesus' garment she would be healed.
As soon as she touched the hem of Jesus' garment she was completely healed.
And she heard the sweetest words she only dreamed of. "Daughter thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace and be whole of thy plague". So far she went to one doctor after another and every one had said that there was nothing that can be done. Here is the one who was rejected by the theologians and priests and He is saying that she is healed. It must have been the most wonderful words she ever heard in 12 long years.
Are you going through sickness today? Have doctors told you that there is no hope? Are you suffering with a sickness that you can't even share with people? Are you suffering with sickness like AIDS and are devastated because of it? Have doctors, friends and religious leaders put you down? Look to Jesus. He still heals today. Bible says that by His stripes we are healed.
Let me take this opportunity to pray with you. "Father in that name of Jesus I come before your thrown of grace. I bring these beloved people in your presence master. Please stretch forth your nail pierced hand and touch them and heal them master. They have suffered enough Lord. Please heal them and restore them to complete health. I ask this in Jesus Name. Amen".
Isa 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Don't get surprised with the title. Yes many do not know that on the one side Jesus died for our sins but on the other side He also suffered for our physical healing. Today many churches do not believe this fact. Recently I was visiting a Christian message board. I was surprised to read the articles presented by of this message board. One side they were talking about the great Salvation, which comes from Jesus but on the other side they were mocking and ridiculing the preachers who effectively preach the messages of Salvation and Healing. To my utter surprise this group believes in only less than 20% of the Bible. According to them rest of the things written in the Bible like healing, visions and dreams, laying hands and praying, Anointing of the Holy Spirit (tongues) ect. are useless and worthless. How can you believe in some portions of the Bible and disregard the rest of the things? I do not understand it.
Well, Bible speaks about Salvation and Healing simultaneously. Isa 53:5 speaks clearly that Jesus was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. One side He was wounded and bruised so that you and I can get salvation or get a place in heaven, and other side He was whipped, scourged, beaten for our healing. Verse 5 says, "And by His stripes we are healed." Yes one side Jesus died to save us but other side He received stripes on His back for our healing.
The question is why sicknesses come? There are many reasons for getting sick but today we are going to see how sicknesses come through Witchcraft or Sorcery. Yes this is one of the major factors for sicknesses. Satan is using many of his agents to work on this field. Today the whole world is under the sway of demons and these demons work through people who yield to the devil's tricks. The day God created Adam and Eve Satan woke up from his sleep. Eve was the first person to get into the trap of satan. This process is still continuing. Many are practicing witchcraft as agent of satan and working for him may be without their own knowledge. So sicknesses and various calamities come through witchcraft.
There are two ways how sicknesses come in the lives of people through witchcraft.
These are the people who practice witchcraft and send demons to other people to destroy them. You can get sick because somebody is doing witchcraft against you. Until three years back my dad was a healthy person. He was driving the car, doing all the shopping for our household. And everything was going good, but one day morning he suddenly got the attack of stroke and was partially paralyzed. We could not understand what was went wrong nor the doctors could. When doctors examined him they said, "it is quite strange we do not see any reason for stroke. His blood pressure is not that high and it was not the reason for stroke." They did MRI and other tests and later they said the same thing. They looked confused and perplexed because everything was very normal in his body. Next day as we were doing a family prayer in our home Lord said, "he is going to get healed and everything is going to be alright." So we knew that nothing is there to worry about it. Well mystery continued as when my dad was leaving hospital after 10 days the doctors again said the same thing that we do not have a clue why he got stroke. They said that he could take salt as normal because blood pressure is not that high.
Well we also had no clue why a healthy person could suddenly get into this horrible situation. Later my dad said that, "all these things happened after a dream." On the particular morning he woke up with a fearful dream. He saw a man in his dream who was known to him and he was saying some strange thing. Then as he woke up after this dream he knew that he got stroke. Well after some time one day God revealed that it happened because of witchcraft and that the culprit was none other than the man who showed up in his dream. Well I do not know why people try to destroy other people. But it is sure that satan is working in the lives of these people.
According to Bible, sorcery or witchcraft is a grave sin and this sin has its own consequences. If you are doing witchcraft and fail to repent before you leave this world you could lose heaven too. Bible says in Gal 5:19-21 those who are practicing such things will not inherit heaven.
Here Bible speaks about Manasseh who did evil in the sight of God. He was a good sorcerer and he provoked God to anger through his witchcraft and evil deeds.
2 Chr 33:6 Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
Witchcraft could return back to the man/woman who is practicing it and could cause sickness. There are many cases when witch-doctor himself/herself become the victim of their own tricks. Once I heard a true story, which happened in the life of a rich man. His father was a very rich man in his city. He had 14-15 children and he had many properties. One day he divided his property and gave it to each of his children. Some got 2-3 houses along with money. But there was a wicked brother among them. Let's call him Johnny. Johnny was a very evil man he used to practice witchcraft. He did not like that his father divided property among all his brothers and sisters but he wanted all the property for himself. So he started his sorcery/witchcraft against his own brothers and sisters. Can you imagine how mean this man was? Love of money and greed has so much overtaken his life that he even tried to kill his own immediate family members. The result was that some of his brothers become mentally ill, some died early and many miserable things happened in this family.
After some time some of the immediate family members got saved and started praying against his tricks. Now the situation turned in the reverse direction. The witchcraft attack which Johnny used to send started bouncing back to him. Yes you cannot play tricks all the time and get success. You cannot play the game of satan and think that all is well. No, satan is the real devil don't you ever forget it. He will use you as a puppet for a while and when his work is done he will put you in misery and pain. If you continually play as a slave of the devil some day he will pull you into hell fire. So Johnny and his family started sinking in horrible misery. First he got into poverty, slowly all his property was gone. His wife caught a dreaded and incurable sickness, his two-three children become demon possessed/mentally ill and various miserable things happened in this family. Finally what happened? His immediate family members who were saved came out of their troubles because Jesus was their protection. They became well off in their life. But what happened to Johnny? Poor Johnny never could recover from his misery. Remember playing the games of devil do not work forever.
Witchcraft is a grave sin. Are you practicing it? Are you trying to destroy others? How many lives you have been destroying? Think about it. You might have destroyed many but one day misery will find you and then may be it would be too late. You might be thinking now that everything is over. I have gone too far in sin and there is no return of it. But yes, there is a way out. You can still come out of it and find Christ in your life. Yes Jesus came and died so that you may not lose heaven. Do you not want to give Him a chance? He is a good God He will not despise you nor forsake you. If you come to Jesus and say, "Lord I am so sorry please forgive me of my sins, now on I want to lead a holy life." I am sure He will never reject you, He will never say no to you. Give Him a chance and make yourself free from satan's trap. Do not lead a life like a fool and die in sin.
Are you a victim of witchcraft? Are you going through sicknesses all the time? Do you say, "Oh, I am all the time sick. In my family somebody is all the time sick." It could be that somebody is sending demons against you and your home. If you are a saved person there is a defense for it. Recently I heard in a Christian program that curses and witchcraft power could attack in two places. Either it is you (against whom witchcraft is done) or witch-crafter (who practices witchcraft). So best deal is that every time when something bad looks happening to you, send it back to the person from where it came. Say I will not take this curse or demon in my home, I will not allow this sickness to stay in my home. Let the sender (witch-crafter) pay for it.
Alright what is the defense for a believer?
Send the demons back by saying, "in the name of Jesus I rebuke this sickness, this problem, this financial crisis, this…, this… and send it back to the person from whom it came." Some times it does not go so quickly so you may need to keep sending it back. If it is through witchcraft you can see immediate results in your life. Another defense is to cover yourself and your children with precious blood of Jesus every day and night. Before you send your children out for school or where ever, apply the blood of Jesus upon them and they will be safe. It will protect you and your family from demons and witchcraft.
And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." So she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die (1 Ki 17:11-12)."
In the book of 1st Kings chapter 17 we read about a widow who lived in a place called Zarephath in Israel. The whole land was under severe famine and draught. This famine had lasted for three years and six months. Elijah the prophet was sent to this widow by God. She was gathering sticks to prepare the last meal for her and for her son. The food she had was exhausted except for a handful of flour and a little oil. She was at the end of her life. Even she was not ashamed to share her desperation to a stranger when she was asked for a morsel of bread. She says, "I have nothing but we are going to take the last meal we have and we are going to eat that and die." Because there was no hope for her that she could get any help from anywhere. If she had money still markets were empty because there was no produce in the land.
She might have pleaded with God for sending help but oh, well, now she had reached to the point where she had only the last meal left. It might have seemed to her as if God was nowhere in the scene or that God was not caring about her a bit. No wonder she lost all her hope and she was certain that now nothing can be done in her situation. A completely hopeless and helpless situation where if she would have tried all the possible known ways to get help still there was no hope for her. She desperately needed a miracle. Otherwise death was certain for her. And it was not an accident that Elijah showed up in her town at the most crucial hour of her life and when she was in drastic need of help.
Many a times we go through similar very difficult circumstances and we feel very desperate. But I have good news for you. The same God who did not forget the widow of Zarephath will not forget you. He will send you help in the very hour you need it. He always comes at the right time, never late, never early. Hold on to Him and He will never let you down. Once I read a quote that, "Many believers quit at the time when they are at the brink of a miracle. Many quit when they are only one or two steps away from coming out of their problems." Do not quit but hold on to Him.
Further we read in 1 Ki 17:13-16, 'And Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. For thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the LORD sends rain on the earth.'" So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke by Elijah."
The woman who was about to eat her last meal and thinking of dying, lived longer because God did a miracle in her life. The same God can do a miracle in your finances and will give you to eat.
There is another type of starving and lack of food that is called spiritual starving. Many Christians are starving today and many have experienced spiritual death because they do not have enough to eat. Jesus called Himself to be Bread of Life and the giver of Living water. But there are many churchgoers who are not being fed properly with His word. In Song 2:4 we read that, "He brought me to the banqueting house." I have never seen anyone sitting in a banqueting house and sleeping. Who can sleep when delightful, delicious food is being served before you? But unfortunately today many of our churchgoers have lost the taste of the delicacy of His word. Most of the time it was served as tasteless food. That is the reason why many come to church but sleep on their seats.
Many feel very bored and empty after leaving the church. Why? The reason is very simple. Because many preach from their mind instead of listening from God. Unless you hear from God and speak the word, it cannot satisfy the hungry, dying and starving souls. Unless your messages are anointed by Holy Ghost, you cannot satisfy those hopeless and helpless souls. A person who hears from God and speak, a person who speaks the word with the power of Holy Spirit can only satisfy the starving souls and revive them for life.
Today you may be starving spiritually and may be dying but His word is the most delicious word. Those life giving words can revive your life and satisfy your soul and can bring you out of the drought like condition in which you are. Look to Him and ask Him for help.
and over spending, let him be very close to the church and let Holy Spirit be upon him. Please help me to find a (07.00am-02.00pm - half day)job in a hospital or school as I want to help my husband in his finances and for the future of my daughter. please pray that the Lord may continue to deliver me from the fear of being sick. Also fulfill my dream of starting a prayer group for all those who are broken hearted and do not know about Jesus.
New Achen came in CSI Christ Church of Chicago. Rev. Ben Gladstone arrived on 8th July in Chicago. There was a reception for him on 10th July. Achen officially took charge of CSI Christ Church of Chicago that day from the hands of Rev. Itty Mathews Achen.
Special thanks to Rev. Itty Mathews Achen for his services.
Please Keep Ben achen in your prayers as he ministers in this church. Specially pray that as a church all could come closer to the Lord Jesus Christ and be able to walk according to His will. Also keep achen's family in your prayers as his wife and daughters are in Trivandrum.
congregation of more than 1700 families.
Church listing has been updated and also added CSI Congregation of Florida in the following pages.
Three days revival meetings will be held in Christ Church of S. India, Connecticut.
We as a church are delighted to invite you for three evenings of prayerful messages and music. Bring your family and friends. Come, pray and be blessed.
One day retreat organized by CSI Congregation of Hudson Valley and CSI Christ Church Rockland Youth Fellowships. The retreat will be held at the White Plains Prebyterian Church 39 North Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601 on Saturday, July 31st from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM.
Guest Speaker would be REV. MILIND SOJWAL, Rector of All Angels' Church. At the time of the retreat, there will also be a clothing drive - collecting donations to benefit the Salvation Army of Westchester.


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Jonathan "Jony" Ive (født 27. februar 1967 i London), er en engelsk verdenskendt industriel designer. Han er tidligere designer hos Apple Inc., og bor til dagligt i San Francisco, USA. Han blev verdensberømt i 2001, da Apple Inc. lancerede deres første mp3-afspiller iPod.

Tidlige liv
Jonathan Ive blev født i Chingford, London. Han blev opfostret af sin far som var lærer på Chingford Foundation School, han gik på Walton High School Stafford, Staffordshine, og derefter studerede industrielt design på Northumbria University (Newcastle Polytechnic førhen).

Karriere
Efter en kort tid i London designbureauet Tangerine, flyttede Jonathan Ive til USA i 1992 for at forfølge sin karriere hos Apple Inc.. Han fik sin nuværende job titel på tilbagelevering af Steve Jobs i 1997, og siden da har han stået i spidsen for det Industrielle Designteam, som er ansvarlige for størstedelen af selskabets betydelige hardware-produkter.

Personlige liv
Jonathan Ive er gift med en historiker ved navn Heather og er far til tvillinger. Familien bor i Twin Peaks området i San Francisco. Ive kører i en Bentley Brooklands. Han er en elev af Northumbria University har studeret Design Industri programmet og blev tildelt en æresdoktor-grad fra universitetet i 2000.

Inspiration
Det der kendetegner hans design er hans ekstreme simple og minimalistiske udtryk, som er kraftigt inspireret af den tyske designer Dieter Rams, som 1960'erne arbejde for det tyske firma Braun.

Designværker

En liste over hans mest kendte designerværker.
 iMac
 Mac Pro
 Mac Mini
 MacBook
 iPod
 iPad
 iPhone

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

 Jonathan Ive BBC News
 Jonathan IveBusinessweek

Designere fra England
Personer med tilknytning til Apple Inc.
Industrielle designere

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Dozens dead after cyclone hits Somalia
Hundreds missing and thousands displaced as government declares state of emergency and appeals for international aid.
The death toll from a tropical cyclone that hit Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region over the weekend has risen to 140.
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Q: Gimp file recovery I need to recover some gimp files (*.xcf) from a damaged partition. I've tried testdisk to no avail. I have been able to recover files with scalpel. The process for doing this is by uncommenting the right lines in the scalpel configuration file, /etc/scalpel/scalpel.conf
Here is an excerpt from the file. I have it set to only look for JPEG files below,
# AOL ART files
#  art   y  150000   \x4a\x47\x04\x0e  \xcf\xc7\xcb
#  art   y  150000   \x4a\x47\x03\x0e  \xd0\xcb\x00\x00
#
# GIF and JPG files (very common)
#  gif   y  5000000     \x47\x49\x46\x38\x37\x61   \x00\x3b
#  gif   y  5000000     \x47\x49\x46\x38\x39\x61   \x00\x3b
   jpg   y  200000000   \xff\xd8\xff\xe0\x00\x10   \xff\xd9

In order to recover gimp files (*.xcf), I need to know what the header and footers are for gimp files. Using ghex2 to view the binary information, I was able to look at jpeg files and confirm that "ff d8 ff e0 00 10" appears near the beginning, and "ff d9" appears near the end of every JPEG file. Trying this approach, I have not been able to locate the header or footer of gimp files. They don't seem to have any consistency from file to file.
I need to know whether gimp files are recoverable by file carving. Thanks.

A: TestDisk is awesome but I think it uses a different method from file-carving to un-delete files. They mention something about it scanning the MFT in order to recover files. Have you tried PhotoRec? It's made by the same people and it lists .xcf files in the list of supported files. Photorec appears to use file carving techniques based on their description.
The Specification for the .xcf file type shows that xcf files always start with "gimp xcf"
268     The image structure always starts at offset 0 in the XCF file.
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270     byte[9] "gimp xcf " File type magic

I didn't see if it had a footer or something to specify the end of the file. It might just have a bunch of values throughout the file indicating how large the next block of data is. This seems to be indicated in the documentation by:
"The total length of the following payload"

A: For futures references here is a list with File Signatures: http://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html
For GIMP for example we add the lines:
# PAT GIMP files
   pat      y      20000000      \x47\x50\x41\x54

Where 20000000 is the maximum possible size from a potencial file, I really didn't know what size to write so i just copy the one from the png files '~'?

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Councilman Jumaane Williams, left, consults with a colleague, while Councilman Vincent Gentile looks through paperwork at the City Council hearing on the mayor's controversial rezoning.
NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's rezoning proposals were easily passed by two City Council committees Thursday — but not before some lawmakers expressed concerns that one of the plans will keep New York City one of the most segregated cities in the nation.
The City Council's Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee and its Committee on Land Use both overwhelmingly approved Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, a zoning change to require some new construction to include a certain amount of permanently affordable housing, and Zoning for Quality and Affordability, which increases building heights and lifts parking requirements to spur construction of affordable and senior housing.
The two proposals are part of the mayor's plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing by 2024.
The approvals come after the Council negotiated changes to both proposals with the mayor to deepen the level of affordability on MIH and modify some of the parking requirements based on the transit access in ZQA.
"We cannot please everyone but we are confident that the modifications we vote on today will improve the proposals," said Queens Councilman Donovan Richards, chair of the subcommittee.
But Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams and Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres raised concerns that the affordability requirements in MIH did not go far enough to end New York City's status as one of the most segregated cities in America.
A study from the University of Michigan found that the New York metropolitan region had the second highest rate of Black-White segregation and the third highest rate of Latino-White segregation.
Under MIH, the City Council member whose district a development is in chooses from several options, mandating different percentages of permanent affordable housing for people making anywhere from 40 percent of area median income, or AMI, to 115 percent.
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But Williams said a certain percentage of lower income housing should have been unequivocally mandated in each of the four options.
"I believe as we move forward we have to break up the segregated communities that are in this city and the only way to do that, I believe, is to mandate certain things," he said.
The lower income options are "for those elected officials and those communities who welcome low income units. It does not mandate those elected officials and communities that historically have not welcomed low income communities," he added.
One option proposed by de Blasio and left intact by the City Council allows developers to meet the requirement by making 30 percent of housing affordable for those who make 80 percent of AMI.
That amounts to a yearly income of $62,000 for a family of three and a monthly rent of $1,550 for a two-bedroom apartment.
"The notion that you could rezone a whole neighborhood without creating a single unit below 80 percent of AMI, the fact that that's even a theoretical possibility, is deeply alarming to me," said Torres. "I believe every neighborhood should have a broad mix of incomes."
Williams voted no on MIH, making him the only subcommittee member to come out against either plan.
At the committee level, the votes were 15-2-1 on both bills, with Williams again voting no on MIH, Bronx Councilman Andy Cohen voted no on ZQA, Brooklyn Councilwoman Inez Barron voting no on both, and Manhattan Councilwoman Rosie Mendez abstaining on both.
ZQA had been opposed by preservationists and community groups in neighborhoods with historic and contextual districts, where vocal locals secured specific height limits over the past few decades to keep new construction in line with the neighborhood's "character."
Richards said the mayor's plan "went too far in some areas" and the height increases were "not justified given their potential effects" on neighborhood character, and "not linked to policy goals."
That's why, he said, the Council killed the height increases for market-rate housing in the Manhattan Core — below 110th Street — and tweaked other changes to zoning particulars, like setbacks, rear yards and shallow lots.
"These changes protect neighborhood character and still provide light and air," while meeting affordable housing goals, he said.
But all Council members were emphatic about the importance of providing senior housing, and Richards made note in particular of the compromise in giving up parking for that housing.
Senior housing advocates say there are at least 200,000 seniors on wait lists for housing in New York City, and that most of the parking lots that were required to be built with new senior housing are empty.


NDP leader Thomas Mulcair became the first of the federal party leaders to host a Facebook question and answer period for voters in both English and French.
Mulcair went to Facebook headquarters in Toronto to answer questions voters have been burning to ask him. Many Canadians asked economy-related questions, but topics also ranged from childcare to women's rights.
Mulcair said he plans on giving tax breaks to small and medium sized businesses while giving tax credits for manufacturing and innovation in an attempt to stimulate the economy.
He also said he wants to launch an inquiry into the multitudes of missing and murdered aboriginal women within the first 100 days of forming a new government.
"The tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada has been ignored for far too long. It is a Canadian tragedy. The families who have lost mothers, daughters, sisters and aunties deserve justice and closure," he said.
Recently, a debate on women's issues was cancelled because both Mulcair and the Conservative's Stephen Harper pulled out – since Mulcair previously stated he would not participate in any debate that Harper pulls out from. In the Q&A he responded to criticism from a voter who asked whether or not he cares about women by saying he'll participate in an interview on women's rights.
"I'm very excited to be participating in the 'Up For Debate' interviews that are now being scheduled," Mulcair said.
Jackie Hansen with "Up For Debate" was previously critical of any party leader who would pull out of a debate on women's rights.
"We are more than half of the electorate, there are issues that impact women and men and people of different genders and we need to be having those discussions, so it's very disappointing to us that both the Conservatives and the NDP are not up for debating these issues in a nationally broadcasted debate," she told Vancity Buzz.
Mulcair said the NDP also plans on repealing Bill C-51 and instituting childcare that costs only $15 per day.


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We are all living in a time of great upheaval and change right now. We have known that this change was coming and that it is necessary to move us to the next level, but that does not make it easy. Many of our institutions and structures are falling apart and many of us feel uncertain where to turn for serenity in these uncertain time. I suggest you turn to Ontario.
Now that the dark ages have become visible through the 45th President (Elect) of the USA many opportunities are now available so that we can transform the world into a place were peace and justice may prevail for all. To begin its important that we work on being present and noticing our breath, evoke feeling, compassion and love for our selves and all others (people, animals, trees, water, and Earth...) Sign petitions, mobilizing and organizing.
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These are pictures of our TM at Unicoi Springs outside of Helen, GA. Very nice campground.
It is a very nice campground. We were there in the winter and received a nice dusting of snow all weekend. My son, grandson and I went exploring on all the mountain roads through "Swallow Creek" WMA while the girls went shopping in Helen. We had close to a foot of snow at the top.
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We actually liked it so much that we are considering moving to that area. We are getting tired of living with all of the crime in Savannah, as well as the heat, humidity and threat of hurricanes. It would be nice to live in an area where they actually have changes of season. Here we have two seasons...hot and not as hot.
Here are two pics from February this year. The camp is not as pretty in the winter but it is almost EMPTY up there! The only five RV's in our area were in our group! The Swallow Creek sign pic was taken only hours after the camp pic. The camp area only received a "dusting" so it shows what a difference elevation can make; both locations are not even 7 miles apart!
Wow....that is a big difference. I lived in Vermont for a couple of years and know what a big difference elevation can make. That picture wasn't taken in Unicoi Springs, was it? Were were actually supposed to be on site #17 initially. They moved us to #36 during check-in.
That entire section of Georgia is just such a beautiful area. My family and friends have been primitive camping in that vicinity for almost 40 years either in the WMA's or National Forest areas and now in the RV parks since we bought our TM in December! (Our first RV) We try go camping (in one form or another) every 4-5 weeks.


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Bill Boushka: Was the racist rant, at OU, protected by the First Amendment when posted? Was the expulsion of the students constitutional?
Was the racist rant, at OU, protected by the First Amendment when posted? Was the expulsion of the students constitutional?
Matt Pearce writes, "probably" in the Los Angeles Times, here. There are similar pieces in Time, Kfor, and the Washington Post (column by Eugene Volokh here ).
First, the speech was not protected if it made a direct threat, or was part of a conspiracy to commit and illegal act. The reference to hanging or lynching might be perceived as crossing that line. There is a documentary film, "American Lynching", by the late Gode Davis, which is not completed. If it were available, I wonder if it would affect the debate. I have a Wordpress posting on the progress of this film, Feb. 6, 2014 here. Of course, however, one could also say that if the students' chant actually conveyed a threat online, they could be prosecuted (or the poster could).
Second, is the issue of conflating speech with "conduct". Where did we see this done before? We saw it in the early days of the debate over gays in the military, after President Clinton took office in 1993, leading to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. In my first book ("Do Ask Do Tell I") I had even supported the idea that speech in closed spaces could need more regulation (the whole "White House Letter" from 1993).
Even though OU is a public university it has to deal with the fact that it has a somewhat "closed" environment where it needs to restrain some conduct in order to protect a learning environment. O its face, that sounds reasonable, up to a point.
There is also a question that the offense came from private postings on private social media accounts (or it could have happened with shared or sole web hosting). Yet, the whole point of many postings is to go public, so the speaker has to take some responsibility for the likelihood that the contents will be known and active in that space (the campus). This has led to an area I have called "conflict of interest" in other discussions. For example, persons who have authority over others in the workplace or classroom have to be accountable for the idea that their public speech could create a hostile environment. But that might not apply to undergraduate college students.
In at least two major episodes of my life, there were significant consequences for my speech. In 1961, I was "expelled" from William and Mary after telling the Dean of Men, in a closed meeting, that I viewed myself as a "latent homosexual". That should have been protected speech, by modern standards.
In 2005, I was removed from a substitute teaching assignment (with the confluence of a lot of coincidences and complications) after a fictitious screenplay I had posted, about a sub, resembling me, allowing himself to be "seduced" by a student, came to the attention of a school. (It's covered here July 27, 2007). Since this was a public school system, was that protected speech? If it could be construed to have the "purpose" of goading students into actually trying it (since it didn't have another apparent commercial purpose), that could be an issue, and a dangerous one, but that's a stretch. Was it "offensive" to teachers? Possibly in that it suggested also that any teacher could get set up (like in the 2003 Lifetime film "Student Seduction"), but maybe that is something that should be said. Did I have the proper "standing" to post this, or did it create some kind of conflict of interest? I wasn't in a position to grade students, so that gets into the "implicit content" problem.
As far as closing the fraternity, the University's case seems much stronger. It is under some obligations under a Civil Rights Act not to provide a discriminatory environment. But the idea that individual undergraduate students played a leadership role in creating a hostile environment legally seems like a stretch, when it comes to expulsion. But the University may be right in acting quickly and then offering a willingness to answer questions later.
So there is a lot going on here, legally speaking. I wonder what the Legal Guys will say on CNN Saturday. But any students publicly involved, expelled or not, will have to live with their "online reputations" for a long time. And I helped contribute to that circumstance years ago.


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Eddie Cooley & The Dimples (1)
Par dion1 le 1 April 2010 à 07:49
Eddie Cooley & The Dimples (1) (New York)
Eddie Cooley (Lead)
Beverly Coates
Carolyn Coates
Barbara Sanders
1956 - Priscillia / Got A Little Woman (Royal Roost 621)
1957 - A spark Met A Flame / Driftwood (Royal Roost 626)
1957 - Hey You / Pull, Mon Pull (Royal Roost 628)
1959 - Leona / Be My Steady (Clementine) (Triumph 609)
1960 - Priscillia / A spark Met A Flame (Roulette 4272)
Unreleased:
N/A - Juicy Fruit
N/A - The Wildest Time
N/A - Betty Lou
N/A - Let's Carve Our Names
N/A - Harry And Carry
N/A - Fever
N/A - Lay it on
Eddie Cooley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and later relocated to New York. His lasting claim to fame is that he wrote the smash hit (and subsequent standard) 'Fever' that has been successfully recorded by many artists including Little Willie John, The McCoys, Terry Dene, Elvis Presley and, of course, Peggy Lee. The song was co-written with the legendary composer and singer Otis Blackwell who, for this piece, adopted the nom de plume of John Davenport. This happened to be the real name of Blackwell's stepfather.
As Otis explained: "Eddie Cooley was a friend of mine from New York and he called me up and said "Man, I got an idea for a song called "Fever", but I can´t finish it. I had to write it under another name because, at that time, I was still under contract to Joe Davis." Eddie Cooley and Blackwell went on to write other songs for King Record artists such as The Lamplighters, The 5 Royales and Joe Tex. When Boyd Bennett of 'Seventeen' fame rejected the song 'Priscilla', a demo version was played to Teddy Reig, the A&R man for Royal Roost Records. The label was launched, initially as Roost Records, in 1950 in New York by Arthur & Bill Fadden along with Monty Kay and Ralph Watkins and was nominally owned by Jack Hooke, manager of Alan Freed.
However, in August 1958, Roulette Records bought out the company. Reig liked the demo by Cooley and arranged for Eddie to re-cut 'Priscilla' as a master. This time, it was with a trio of girls who were under the collective name of The Dimples. Otis Blackwell recalled: Well, Eddie was not really a singer, understand, so what I did was I found three girls that were living in the projects over there, and I put them together.
Cause at that time there was no girls backing up any singer, one particular singer. There were all girl groups, all boy groups, there were duets. But, there was no group where the lead was a male and the backup singers were girls. So that's how that got over. 'Priscilla' when released on Royal Roost 621 in mid-1956 became successful on the East Coast with the help of Alan Freed playing it on the radio and booking the outfit m on some of his shows. A reviewer in Billboard wrote : Here is yet another left-field hit.
Starting off with unusually good volume in Eastern cities like New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore, the disc has moved out now in almost every part of the country. Detroit and Pittsburgh are very keen on the disc, and it seems about ready to make a big surge to the national listings. On 24th November 1956, the song reached its highest chart position at # 20.
http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/eddie_cooley.htm
Pull Man Pull Driftwood Hey You
Fever The Wildest Time Be My Steady (Clementine)
Priscilla A Spark Met A Flame Leona
Got A Little Woman The Wildest Time


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One of the things Matthew Darling and I respect so much about Matt Chandler is his willingness to call out those of us living comfortably in Americanized Christianity. This short video is just a tenny tiny example of the work Matt Chandler does to speak real truth into the lives of both people who think they've got it all figured out and the people that well know they have nothing at all figured out.
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2017 Frankland Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Australia / Frankland River / Frankland Estate
Organically grown and made, 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. Wafts of dark chocolate, cedar and dried Italian mixed herbs are complemented by lifted red currants and mulberry. The palate is opulent yet focused. Ripe fruit abounds, balanced by mouth coating chalky tannin, which gives the wine texture and length. Ripe mulberry flavours intertwine with cacao and tobacco leaf. 2017 was an ideal vintage for Cabernet Sauvignon with a very long, slow ripening period which allowed for a long hang time. A wet spring provided good early vine growth followed by a cooler than average January and February. The summer cooled considerably in early March slowing ripening with the Cabernet harvest on 3rd May. Fruit was harvested in clean and ideal conditions.
Fruit for this wine was sourced from mature vines in the Isolation Ridge vineyard at Frankland Estate. The vineyard sits on an undulating northern and eastern facing slope on ancient duplex soils of gravel and loam over a clay sub-soil. It is farmed using organic viticultural practices and this is reflected in the depth and concentration of fruit flavours. The vines are trained on a Scott Henry trellis system to enhance sunlight penetration of the canopy and optimize ripening conditions.
This wine was fermented as long and slowly as possible, at temperatures not exceeding 26°C in open pot fermentation tanks that allowed the cap to be worked by plunging and an extended maceration period allowed optimal colour, flavour and tannin extraction. It was aged in 500 litre French oak puncheons, this contributing textural complexity without compromising the opulent natural fruit flavours of the wine.
A medium to full-bodied cabernet that speaks equally clearly of its place and its varietal birthright, which I believe to be the estate's Isolation Ridge Vineyard (the back label is silent on this matter). Blackcurrant is the dominant flavour, assisted by notes of black olive and bay leaf, the tannins firm but ripe, the oak merely a vehicle.
About Frankland Estate
In a 1955 study of potential grapegrowing sites, renowned Californian viticulturalist Dr Harold Olmo identified Frankland River as one of the most promising prospects in Australia. The wines of Frankland Estate prove he was right. They display finesse and balance and an incisive expression of cool-climate winegrowing. Founded by Judi Cullam and Barrie Smith, this is indisputably one of the nation's most important and consistent Riesling producers. For many years now the release of the single-vineyard Rieslings from this domain in far-flung Great Southern has commanded attention and respect, as attested to by Nick Stock's observation that Isolation Ridge Riesling "has now become so consistently great, it is a liquid tribute to the dedication of the Cullam family, to their vineyard and winemaking". The reds have likewise long been recognised as wines of pedigree with a strong sense of place. But things have gone up a level. Since 2010, second-generation winemaker Hunter Smith has been joined in the winery by brother-in-law Brian Kent. They've determinedly set about building on the tremendous progress made since Judi Cullam and Barrie Smith planted the first vines on Isolation Ridge 30-odd years ago. Hunter and Brian have focused on every detail of their technique, produce and – most important - organically farmed vineyard, with the ultimate aim of realising Frankland Estate's immense potential. Now we see how that hard work has eased into being a suite of brilliant wines, divided between the Estate range, the single vineyards and the flagships. All confirm Frankland Estate as a leading light among Australia's terroir-driven winegrowers.
Hunter Smith has a Bachelor of Business (Agricultural Management) degree from Marcus Oldham College in Victoria and became a full-time member of the Frankland Estate team in 1999. He is involved in every aspect of the winery operations including finance and marketing and is also responsible for managing the family's wool growing interests.
He shares winemaking duties with brother-in-law Brian Kent, who developed an interest in winemaking during a stint in London, where he worked at Majestic Wines. He went on to complete a postgraduate degree in Viticulture and Oenology from Lincoln University in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2003, after his first vintage in Frankland River, Brian worked vintage in Russian River, a sub-region of the Sonoma Valley in California. In 2005 he completed another harvest in Rías Baixas in northwest Spain. Then, after six years of making wine in Frankland River, he joined the family business at Frankland Estate.


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I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present. — Harold Prince
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price. — Hans Jonas
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. — Carlos Santana
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I guess I'm living in the present more than the past. — Clint Eastwood
Living, breathing, and being present is the practice that can lead us to having a full and authentic in-the-body experience. If we can shift our perspective from being separate to being part of it all, psychological hang-ups, insecurities, fears, and disorders dissolve. — Tara Stiles
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn. — Barry Unsworth
What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear – and we must learn how to overcome fear. — Brian Weiss
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future. — Paul Auster
There's something to be said about living in the present moment. In cooking, you're allowing your mind to just focus on the task at hand, and you're able to escape and put your mind at rest. That's why it becomes meditative. — Beth Behrs
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future – it is not necessarily having to focus on the present. — Bo Bennett
When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life. — Garrett Hedlund
I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store in London in 1979. That led on to me presenting a show in the early days of Channel 4 called 'Whatever You Want,' which had live music and sketches. — Keith Allen
Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better… next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. — Gore Vidal
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. — Mattie Stepanek
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints. — Bobby McFerrin
Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen. — Peter Eisenman
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. — Bruce Catton
It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present. — Jonathan Krisel
Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead. — Peter Abrahams
In order for President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden to be moderates, they just have to present themselves between the extremes of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's isolationism and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's hawkishness – the difference between living in a cave or conducting ourselves so that we're in need of one. — Donna Brazile
People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present – but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have. — James Salter
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I've never chased a dream. I believe in living in the present, so I see myself happy and cooking. That's all. — Ranveer Brar
Whatever my trouble had been at first, it developed into separation of the retina in both eyes. From the day on which I first consulted the oculist up to the present time, about twenty-four years, I have only been three times in 'The World' building. Most people think I'm dead or living in Europe in complete retirement. — Joseph Pulitzer
I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' – I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore. — Caity Lotz
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present. — David Cassidy
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live. — Gerard Depardieu
The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked. — Amy Smart
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there. — Douglas Rushkoff
I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do. — Shirley MacLaine
I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is. — Dhani Jones
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family. — Patricia Richardson
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it. — Sparky Anderson
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. — Alex Rodriguez
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past. — John Banville
I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected. — Lynn Nottage
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room. — Laura Wasser
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present – deja vu. — Philip K. Dick
I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.' — Katy Perry
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. — Azar Nafisi
Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front. — Henry Rollins
I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret. — Francesca Annis
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it. — Amor Towles
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present. — Naomi Judd
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THANK YOU very much…. Im off to get some fuel line and im giving this a nudge 😀 I just went to trim the edges and found the filter playing at the bottom of the fuel tank LoL…..
I wonder if when you put it back together if you switched the fuel lines around. Try switching them and see what happens.
Does anyone know if the feed and prime lines need to be the same diameter? I used a thinner diameter line for the prime line, because one of the holes in the tank was smaller than the other.
wasted to much time watching you try to get a line out. edit that next time, looks bad.
Replacing the plastic fuel line is something all owners of gas-powered tools should learn as they don't last long at all,especially if stored in unheated sheds/garages during the winter. (They used to be made of black rubber & lasted forever, which is probably why they switched to cheap plastic.) Replacement 2-cycle plastic fuel line's a 1-size -fits-all & is available at Home Depot, Lowe's & most hardware stores for about $5. For a complete kit incl. new fuel filter it's around $8. I save a lot of the fuss shown on the vid by measuring the length on the outside of the tank with either a flexible tape measure or piece of string, rather than fuss with pulling out & putting back the new fuel line.
I don't replace the air filter – it's washable & any decent brand of detergent & warm water cleans it up just fine. After washing, rinse in clear water. Squeeze out excess water then blot it on old T-shirts (best) or paper towels. DON'T use it until it's dry- or mostly so. I've also found cutting a piece of [paper] coffee filter & putting it over the mesh air filter keeps fine particles out of the engine but still lets plenty of air through. The air filter on my Weed Eater's the original…and it's 7 yrs old.
I do like his use of WD-40 – it's a bit more slippery than a touch of 2-cycle oil.& won't harm the engine. I also cut the end on an angle to make getting it started MUCH easier. I trim it even when I'm ready to attach the fuel filter. Fair warning to those thinking of enlarging the entry port instead of wiggling, pinching & squeezing and/or using assorted 4-letter words to force the line through: DON'T. You need that tight fit & it's really easy to enlarge the hose feed port too much – leading to bigger problems.
Wow thank you soo much I've learn through this video thank you for your post.


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A wedding ring with a rugged look that recalls the texture of antique woodcut prints. Crafted in sterling silver, with your love's fingerprint lasered onto the undulating exterior surface. Finished with a muted, tumbled sheen.
The 6mm width is traditional for a man's ring, but perfect for a woman seeking a wider wedding band.


This is the second part of the article on how to learn to "read" lighting in photography. If you haven't read the first part yet, please start here: How To "Read" Light In Photography - Part 1.
And for those of you who have been waiting for the second part, let's jump right back in and see what other cues we can use to breakdown lighting in other photographers' work.
5. The main light - placement and light modifier. I judge the placement of the main light and what type of light modifier was used on it by the combination of direction and length of the shadows on the model's face, their softness and size, the highlights on the nose, hair and body, and the placement, size and shape of the catchlights in the eyes. I've already talked about catchlights created by different light modifiers in Part 1, let's now look at the shadows.
I always start with assessing the shadows under the model's nose and chin. Because those are the most prominent facial features, the shadows will be the easiest to "read" there. I also look for additional cues, such as shadows from the hands, highlights and shadows in the accessories, etc. These details help me identify the direction and degree of diffusion of the main light, as well as to understand whether or not there was any fill light used to soften the shadows in the setup.
If the shadow is sitting right under the nose and is short – it means the light source is right in front of the model's face and is placed a little higher than the model's eye level.
If the shadows are long and going down on the model's face (the eyes may be even hidden in the shadows, creating the so-called "raccoon eyes") and the catchlights are missing – the light source is placed way above the model's eye level. This is something you can see in family pictures taken on a sunny afternoon (given there's no educated photographer to take pictures in the family). Side note: missing catchlights usually make the eyes look less "alive" and are not desirable in classic Portraits and Beauty images, while Fashion photography allows more creativity and rule-breaking.
If the shadows are going up – the light source was lower then the model's eye level. Side note: this type of lighting doesn't work well for Portraits and people photography in general, unless the idea is to create lighting, which is unpleasant to human eye.
If the shadows are too soft to identify their direction – it means the photo was shot with a lot of very diffused lighting around. For example on a cloudy day or in a bright room with a lot of light bouncing off of bright surfaces around the model. Side note: it greatly depends on the idea behind the image, but very diffused lighting in Portrait and Beauty photography is undesirable because it makes subjects appear rather flat in still images.
In the example above you can also see how the distance between the subject's face and the light source with a beauty dish on affects the size of the catchlights in the eyes.
You can also work backwards based on the list of helpful cues above: now you know what shadow patterns are created by particular light placements, so try avoiding positioning the main light lover or much higher than the model's eye level, as well as using too much of diffused light.
6. Tricky lighting techniques. There are many interesting and tricky lighting techniques out there and if you are not aware of what effects they create, you might not be able to easily and correctly breakdown the lighting setup or camera settings in such images.
A couple of such lighting techniques that come to mind off the top of my head are shooting with neutral density filters (ND filters) and shooting with mixed continuous and strobe lighting. Check out my recent post on shooting with mixed lighting to familiarize yourself with this technique.
And here are a couple of examples of photos shot with ND filters.
In photography and optics, a neutral density filter or ND filter is a filter that reduces or modifies intensity of all wavelengths or colors of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition. It can be a colorless (clear) or grey filter. The purpose of a standard photographic neutral density filter is to allow the photographer greater flexibility to change the aperture, exposure time and/or motion blur of subject in different situations and atmospheric conditions (source - Wikipedia). Read more about ND filters: The Must Have Tool for Strobe Users.
In other words, by placing an ND filter onto your lens, you "cut" a few stops of light from the scene, which allows you to either open up your aperture or prolong exposure time in a lighting situation where only an overexposed image could be produced otherwise.
As you can see in the example above, the light behavior remains the same, but the aperture setting maybe a little confusing here considering the amount of studio light. ND filter allowed me to open the aperture to f/2.8, which normally would cause an overexposed image because of the powerful strobe light.
Basically, it is not common to see very shallow depth of field in images photographed in studio with strobe lighting, so next time you see a similar image you'll know that an ND filter might have been used in it.
And here are a couple of images photographed outdoors on a bright sunny day with and without an ND filter on the lens.
You can see the significant difference in the overall exposure between the two images photographed with almost the same exposure settings.
Thanks to the neutral density filter, the photographer had the opportunity to use a strobe for clean controlled light on the subjects' faces (thus 1/100 - 1/125 shutter speed), open up the aperture to f/1.8 and still not overexpose the background on a bright sunny day (second image). The strobe was used in both scenes, only in the first image it acted more like fill light due to the lighting conditions and the exposure settings that were used.
But if you didn't see these two images side by side, it might not have been too easy to "read" the lighting and exposure settings in the second image photographed with ND filter. If you miss the fact that a strobe was used in this photo, you may very well mistakenly assume that the aperture was wide open while the shutter speed was fast enough to get the correct exposure.
The direction and length of the shadows on the faces suggest that the light source is on the side and slightly above the eye level of the couple, whereas sunlight on a summer day like this would be coming from much higher above. The shadows and highlights in the foliage behind the couple confirm that. You can also see the tiny catchlights in the bride's eyes, which confirm the main light's placement as well, and indirectly show that it wasn't the sun that was used as the main light. It is normally very difficult to get a human being comfortably pose with direct sunlight shining into their eyes on a summer afternoon.
The consistency and "cleanness" of the light on the faces and upper bodies suggest the use of controlled light.
The intensity of the sunlight spot on the dress shows that the sunlight is still more powerful than the controlled light used to illuminate the faces.
So, now that we are convinced a strobe was used in this photo, we know that the shutter speed should be somewhere around 1/125 - 1/250 (regular sync speed). With such slow shutter speed the aperture should be quite small on a sunny day like this to avoid overexposure, but the shallow depth of field in the image suggests that the aperture was, in fact, wide open (smaller F-numbers).
And the conclusion at the end of such a line of thought may very well be: the photographer might have used an ND filter.
Linus Peterson, the author of these examples, has also kindly shared this behind-the-scenes shot with us, so we can better understand the lighting setup in the images above.
Now, since you've learned a little bit about what ND filters are used for, you can put this knowledge into practice and shoot with them to get shallower depth of field in the light conditions where higher F-stop numbers would normally be used.
And before I sign off today, let's do one more little exercise together and then you can start practicing "reading" lighting and camera settings on your own.
The softness of the shadows on the model's face suggests slightly diffused light, most likely a reflector.
The directions of the shadows in the background suggest that the photo was taken in the late afternoon or early summer evening: the sunlight is not very intense and the reflected light is even weaker. So, the reflector must have been brought up closer to the face, just outside of the frame.
The catchlights in the eyes are pretty small, considering that the reflector was placed close to the face. So, a small reflector must have been used in this setup.
The orange color of the reflected light also suggests that it could have been a golden reflector, not silver.
The model's hands and legs are not lit as well as the face, which confirms our guess about the size of the reflector and the low intensity of the reflected sunlight.
I am showing you both the before and after pictures, so you can also see that the lighting in retouched images can be a little deceiving and harder to read correctly, so keep that in mind and rely on the more pronounced cues.
The rim light in this picture was created by the sunlight, and a small golden reflector was used to illuminate the model's face in this setup.
I hope you enjoyed this article and I also hope that it helped you to understand how you can learn and train yourself to dissect lighting and camera settings in other photographers' images.
From now on try paying attention to the mentioned above details in the photos you see in magazines, online and anywhere else you look for inspiration. The more you train your eyes and practice breaking down lighting in photos, the easier it will be for you to understand how to achieve the lighting you like or the lighting you are asked to create by your clients.
Check out more examples in my other article on the topic: 8 Tips On How To "Read" Light in Photography.
Should be titled "Awesomeness part 2". =) Glad you continued on such a great article.
Enjoyed the first installment and this is an excellent follow up. Regarding ND filters, sometimes they're used on strobes instead of over the lens. I sometimes do this in the studio because I can change lenses without moving filters (assuming you don't have an ND for each lens), and you can gel (ND) each head differently to further refine your exposure without backing it off (losing softness). It's also great when you're trying to balance strobe and low ambient and the strobes won't go low enough. But, the clues you suggest are the same and admittedly ND over the lens is probably more common.
Thank you Karl, that's a great point! I've never used those, but it would definitely help to have one ND filter for the light, so you don't have to have ND filters for each lens you shoot with!
I note you like to use colors though, so I assume you're using gels. A quick-and-dirty light ND is to stack opposite (complementary) gels like tungsten and 80A (blue). Cuts light without changing the color.
If the person knew what he was doing, it may have been a polarizer, plus one on the camera lens. You can eliminate (well, hugely reduce) glare from a strobe or hot light by doing this when you have to shoot through glass and can't angle the light to avoid the glare (due to space restrictions, wide lens on the camera, etc.). The downsides are that it doesn't work perfectly, and you lose at least two stops of light.
There is SO much photoshop in the last picture it's not really pretty.
Awesome tips none the less!
Yeah.. it is too much. One can pick a different model from the start instead. Also, I'm surprised by how nervous the bokeh is in the wedding photo.
Julia I just posted this same thing as a comment on another article but recently the quality of the articles on FStoppers has increased tremendously, your write-ups being a major contributor. Thanks heaps.
as good as the 1st part!! thanks a lot!
A year and 5 months later, I just read this article, and it STILL ROCKS!!!! Love it, I am eager to review your other articles..