Luxe™ by Mr. Bubble's latest retro-tastic introductions include two Luxe by Mr. Bubble Shower Bombs that turn your standard quick rinse into a spa-like experience.
The sister of the ever-popular bath bomb, these shower bombs come packaged as a pair and in two fun fragrances intended to transport you to the land of relaxation: Fa la la la Lady in Original Bubble fragrance and Merry & Clean in Sweet & Clean fragrance. Get them early before they sell out. Retailing for $4.99, they are available starting Nov. 4 at Target and online at Target.com.


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package org.kuali.continuity.plan.service;

import java.util.List;

import org.kuali.continuity.DomainObjectTest;
import org.kuali.continuity.PlanTestData;
import org.kuali.continuity.domain.DocumentType;
import org.kuali.continuity.plan.domain.ContinuityPlan;
import org.kuali.continuity.plan.domain.KeyDocument;

public class KeyDocumentServiceTest extends DomainObjectTest {

	private DocumentServiceFactory documentServiceFactory;
	private DocumentService service;

	protected void onSetUp() {
		try {
			super.onSetUp();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		if (this.documentServiceFactory == null) return;
		this.service = this.documentServiceFactory.getDocumentService(KeyDocument.class);
	}

	public void setDocumentServiceFactory(DocumentServiceFactory documentServiceFactory) {
		this.documentServiceFactory = documentServiceFactory;
	}

	public void testInjection() throws Exception {
		String message = "Service is: " + this.documentServiceFactory.toString();
		System.out.println(message);
		assertNotNull(this.documentServiceFactory);
	}

	public void testCRUD() throws Exception {
		doTestCreateDocument();
		doTestReadDocument();
		doTestUpdateDocument();
		doTestDeleteDocument();
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	private void doTestCreateDocument() throws Exception {
		// get list
		List<KeyDocument> dObjs = (List<KeyDocument>)
			this.service.getDocumentListByOwnerId(PlanTestData.known_plan);
		int size = (dObjs == null ? 0 : dObjs.size());

		// construct
		String test = this.getRandomTestString();
		ContinuityPlan plan = new ContinuityPlan(PlanTestData.known_plan);
		KeyDocument dObj = new KeyDocument();
		dObj.setPlan(plan);
		dObj.setName(test);
		dObj.setDescription(test);
		dObj.setOwnerDepartment(test);
		dObj.setFileName(test);
		dObj.setLocationKept(test);
		dObj.setComment(test);
		dObj.setBackupMeasures(test);
		dObj.setPrincipalContact(test);
		dObj.setDocumentType(new DocumentType("1"));

		// create
		this.service.createDocument(dObj);

		// assert
		dObjs = (List<KeyDocument>)
			this.service.getDocumentListByOwnerId(PlanTestData.known_plan);
		this.doTestList(dObjs);
		assertEquals(++size, dObjs.size());
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	private void doTestReadDocument() throws Exception {
		// get list
		List<KeyDocument> dObjs = (List<KeyDocument>)
			this.service.getDocumentListByOwnerId(PlanTestData.known_plan);
		this.doTestList(dObjs);

		// test
		KeyDocument dObj = dObjs.get(dObjs.size()-1);
		int id = dObj.getId();
		String name = dObj.getName();

		// get
		dObj = (KeyDocument) this.service.getDocument(id);
		assertNotNull(dObj);
		assertEquals((Integer)id, dObj.getId());
		assertEquals(name, dObj.getName());
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	private void doTestUpdateDocument() throws Exception {
		// get list
		List<KeyDocument> dObjs = (List<KeyDocument>)
			this.service.getDocumentListByOwnerId(PlanTestData.known_plan);
		this.doTestList(dObjs);

		// set attributes
		KeyDocument dObj = dObjs.get(dObjs.size()-1);
		int id = dObj.getId();
		String test = this.getRandomTestString();
		dObj.setName(test);

		// update
		this.service.updateDocument(dObj);

		// assert
		dObj = (KeyDocument) this.service.getDocument(id);
		assertNotNull(dObj);
		assertEquals((Integer)id, dObj.getId());
		assertEquals(test, dObj.getName());
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	private void doTestDeleteDocument() throws Exception {
		// get test plan
		List<KeyDocument> dObjs = (List<KeyDocument>)
			this.service.getDocumentListByOwnerId(PlanTestData.known_plan);
		this.doTestList(dObjs);

		// delete
		KeyDocument dObj = dObjs.get(dObjs.size()-1);
		int id = dObj.getId();
		this.service.deleteDocument(dObj.getId());

		// assert
		dObj = (KeyDocument) this.service.getDocument(id);
		assertNull(dObj);
	}

}

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Mazzolini G, Prieto J, Melero I.
IL-12 has demonstrated remarkable antitumor activity when used directly as a recombinant protein or when different viral or non-viral vectors transfer its genes. At enhancing tumor immunity, IL-12 acts as a bridge between innate and adaptive immune responses due to its ability to induce proliferation and activation of NK, NKT, and T cells. In addition, IL-12 inhibits tumor angiogenesis mainly through IFN gamma-dependent production of the chemokine IP10. As a result, IL-12 can eliminate several types of tumors developed in rodents.
Pre-clinical experience forecasted a quick and successful clinical translation, but the encouraging results observed in animals were not reproduced in patients. Moreover, unacceptable toxicity resulting from IFN gamma overproduction was observed in 2 renal carcinoma patients included in a phase II clinical trial that consisted in systemic administration of rIL-12. As a consequence, development of IL-12 as an antitumor agent was temporarily halted while the high expectations raised among clinicians faded away. Gene transfer methods are designed to confine IL-12 production in the tumor environment preventing systemic toxicity. Tumor cells, dendritic cells, or autologous fibroblasts have been transfected with recombinant adenoviruses or retroviruses to secrete IL-12 locally, showing good efficacy and safety profiles. IL-12 combination with other immunotherapy approaches synergizes to achieve even better results. Encouraging pilot clinical results have been recently obtained from the first phase I trial studying adenovirus mediated in vivo gene transfer of IL-12 into lesions of advanced cancer patients.
Further improvements will follow from: i) increases in the efficacy of gene transduction; ii) development of tumor specific promoters; iii) development of regulatable and long-term expression vectors and iv) combination with other immunological and non-immunological anticancer therapies.


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Yes! Jesus Loves Me (subtitled Guitar Hymns) is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1980. It was Fahey's poorest selling release.

Reception

Music critic Mark Allan praised the album, noting that "Fahey weaves a spell with his precise picking and odd tunings... if you unplug the phone, turn off the TV and give it the chance, this music might briefly remove you from your everyday existence."

From his review for the UK-based Record Collector, critic Jason Draper gave the album 4 stars, stating "... it's a concise, stately piece of work, Fahey tapping into blues, classical and even bordering on ragtime guitar... it transcends time and spans agee... grand and full enough to fill the deepest chamber and the grandest dining room, yet intimate enough for a fireside sherry when the kids have gone to bed. If you can't be touched by this, you can't be touched by anything."

Reissues
 Yes! Jesus Loves Me was released combined with Gospel Nights by Maria Muldaur.
 Yes! Jesus Loves Me was reissued on CD in 2007 by Ace Records.

Track listing
 "Yes, Jesus Loves Me" (Anna B. Warner) – 1:46
 "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus" – 1:12
 "Lord of All Hopefullness/All Through the Night" – 3:40
 "Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel" (John Mason Neale) – 2:37
 "Two American Folk Hymns" – 2:20
 "For All the Beauty of the Earth" – 1:37
 "St. Patrick's" – 1:51
 "Holy, Holy, Holy" – 1:58
 "Come Labor On" – 1:39
 "St. Clement's" – 1:51
 "For All the Saints" – 1:33
 "At the Name of Jesus" – 1:23
 "Come Thou Almighty King/Wild Western Hero" – 1:43
 "Praise to the Lord" – 1:43
 "Lord, I Want to Be a Christian in My Heart" – 1:52
 "Faith of Our Fathers" (Frederick William Faber) – 1:16
 "Just as I Am" (Charlotte Elliott) – 1:22
 "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" – 3:31
 "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" – 2:58
 "Yes, Jesus Loves Me (Reprise)" – 0:40

Personnel
John Fahey – guitar

References

1980 albums
John Fahey (musician) albums
Takoma Records albums
Albums produced by John Fahey (musician)

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Тар'єй Бо (, 29 липня 1988) — норвезький біатлоніст, олімпійський чемпіон, десятиразовий чемпіон світу. Брат біатлоніста Йоганнеса Бо.

Золоту олімпійську медаль і звання олімпійського чемпіона Тар'єй Бо виборов у Ванкувері разом із товаришами зі збірної Норвегії в естафеті. Рішення тренерів збірної Норвегії виставити на олімпійську естафетну гонку молодого спортсмена без особливих заслуг замість одного із випробуваних бійців було несподіваним. Однак, Бо виправдав довіру стабільно проведеним етапом. В сезоні 2010—2011 виграв Кубок світу.

Станом на травень 2010 року Бо має у своєму доробку ще три медалі етапів Кубка світу — усі три в естафетних гонках.

Виступи на міжнародних змаганнях

Олімпійські ігри

Чемпіонати світу

Подіуми на етапах кубків світу

Галерея

Примітки

Посилання
 Досьє на сайті IBU
 Досьє на сайті Федерації біатлону України

Норвезькі біатлоністи
Норвезькі олімпійські чемпіони
Олімпійські чемпіони з біатлону
Чемпіони зимових Олімпійських ігор 2010
Чемпіони зимових Олімпійських ігор 2022
Норвезькі чемпіони світу
Чемпіони світу з біатлону
Біатлоністи на зимових Олімпійських іграх 2010
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Q: How to get list of installed applications using Ruby in Windows? I know that using wmi query WIN32_product one can read the list of installed applications but the list is different from add/remove program list under control panel.
Another approach would be to read Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall in windows registry?
I am using the following few lines of ruby code to do that but it is not working
For this example I am looking for a software by the name of Branding (it shows when I go thru regedit in my windows 7 PC)
Win32::Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.open('Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Branding') do |reg|
  reg_typ, reg_val = reg.read('')
  return reg_val
end

Error Message after running this piece of code
win32/registry.rb:528:in `open': The system cannot find
the file specified. (Win32::Registry::Error)
        from win32/registry.rb:608:in `open'

What is wrong with this piece of code?

A: Win32::Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.open(
  'Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall'
) do |reg|
  reg.each_key do |key|
    k = reg.open(key)

    puts key
    puts k["DisplayName"]    rescue "?"
    puts k["DisplayVersion"] rescue "?"
    puts k["Publisher"]      rescue "?"
    puts k["URLInfoAbout"]   rescue "?"
    puts
  end
end

Though beware of: 'Software\Wow6432Node\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall'

A: key = 'Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall'
reg_type = Win32::Registry::Constants::KEY_READ | Windows::Registry::KEY_WOW64_64KEY

Win32::Registry.open(Win32::Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,key,reg_type) do |reg|
 reg.each_key do |key|
     k = reg.open(key)

     puts key
     puts k["DisplayName"]    rescue "?"
     puts k["DisplayVersion"] rescue "?"
     puts k["Publisher"]      rescue "?"
     puts k["URLInfoAbout"]   rescue "?"
     puts
   end
 end

Check out this link for an explanation of how the registry works on 64 bit platforms

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Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich is pleased to announce two simultaneous solo shows by Ugo Rondinone and Doug Aitken. Both Rondinone's "Twelve sunsets, twenty nine dawns, all in one" and Aitken's "99¢ dreams" will run until August 2, 2008. While one artist creates sculptures and one photographs, there is a common thread between the two. Each artist touches upon the simplicity of day-to-day life, infusing a sense of longing or yearning for something.
The larger-than-life sculptures of The Scholar Rocks are the center of Rondinone's exhibition. In traditional China, Scholar Rocks are collected and admired for their naturally derived texture of holes, the results of erosion. The stones are used as decoration in gardens and in studies to provide contemplative focus. Rondinone's Scholar Rocks are casts of the real objects, taken from China's Tai Lake region, enlarged and covered in cement. They represent a condensed temporality and a yearning for spirituality.
Rondinone carries the theme of a days work through his two other series- one being "Diary of Clouds" and the other his paintings. "Diary of Clouds" is another set of sculptures. These are first worked in clay and then cast to present allusions to the figures in the sky, but not any concrete objects. In his paintings, which stretch horizontally throughout the three spaces, he depicts uneventful moments. On the backside of each painting is a page from the New York Times of the day that it was painted. As with his series of clouds, the paintings are titled with the date of production.
Doug Aitken, known for his video installations and projections, has created his solo show for Galerie Eva Presenhuber from only still images. His two hundred plus – mostly unpublished – pictures are arranged on the four walls of the gallery from darkness and artificial light to gradual bright daylight. This shift in light keeps the viewer moving through these moody images pulled from everyday life. They are scenes that anyone can find anywhere. They range from an airport to a pregnant belly, a children's playground to an escalator. They make for believable yet unmemorable moments that we can simultaneously believe to be Aitken's story and our own.
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Christmas at The Carlyle
By Spencer Morgan • 12/17/08 12:28am
Spend a weekend at the Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue and East 76th Street. You have to listen closely.
Bop, bop bop. Bop, bop bop. Around 8:30, Friday night at the Café Carlyle, home of the legendary late lounge singer Bobby Short, the five-piece band was getting the ball rolling for the room's new star, Steve Tyrell. He waited for the right moment, then eased the mike from its cradle.
"The look of love is in your eyes," he sang in a gruff Southern accent. Mr. Tyrell had the look of someone who might have been stout before slimming down. He wore a velvet blazer, starched white shirt and a white polka dot silk scarf. His hair, silvery white, stood up on its own. Two backup singers loomed, a bodacious Asian woman and a lanky black guy with a gray ponytail and an earring.
"Ooooh," sang the lady.
"Woahhh," sang the man.
"Say a little prayer for you!" sang Mr. Tyrell.
A decidedly New York woman at the bar snapped her fingers. Her wrists were adorned with bracelets made of silver balls. More silver balls hung about her neck, and a ball on each ear lobe.
"I'm gonna send this out to my friends Les and Julie, I think you guys are out there somewhere," said Mr. Tyrell, and then worked his way through "This Guy's in Love With You." Next was "Walk on By."
"I haven't heard this in forever," said the silver-ball lady.
>>READ Meredith Bryan on the Fashionable Flock's Quieter Approach to Christmas
The room was dominated by men in suits and ties. A shortish fellow with a thick mustache and coarse, swept-back hair that resembled a shoe brush tapped his gimlet glass with a plastic stir stick. The room looked clean, fancy; $150 for a seat.
"I'm going to sing a song I sung in a movie called Father of the Bride, and it changed my life," said Mr. Tyrell. He said he was going to sing it for Julie Chen, "the most beautiful woman on television. Kim Novak had nothing on you."
"Hey, would you stop flirting with my wife?" joked CBS president Les Moonves.
Later Mr. Tyrell dropped by the table.
"It's a Friday night in December," said Mr. Moonves, "where the economy's bad and restaurants are half-empty—and this room, which is not an inexpensive room, is still packed. I think it's terrific for New York, I think it's terrific for the country, I think it's terrific for the entertainment business."
But as Loston Harris, the pianist and singer at the hotel's Bemelmans Bar, likes to say, the Café is the show but Bemelmans is where it's happening. Before I could get there, I was struck by a fur hat. Renee Karrat, 32, who works at Ralph Lauren, was in the lobby. She had dropped by the bar after dinner to continue celebrating her brother's birthday, but it was too packed. They headed off to drink Champagne at a friend's room at the Hotel at Rivington.
Over at Bemelmans, an elegant old string bean in a tailored blue blazer was huddling with Mr. Harris, speaking in hushed tones. I gathered from Mr. Harris' eyes that the man might have been speaking gibberish.
Scrunched around a two-top were Chris Singerman, 28, a banker with SwedBank, and a couple of friends. The bank had actually just made a few hires. Mr. Singerman had been talking about spending New Year's Eve at Bemelmans, "'cause there's nothing else going on."
"It's between this and seeing My Morning Jacket at Madison Square Garden," said Mr. Singerman, who was swimming in a Carlyle blazer provided at the door. As was his friend Samit Mody, who works in commercial real estate: "You're either treading water, or you're not." They had come on a whim: After a Christmas party at Bilboquet on East 63rd Street, Cate Candler, 32, an executive at Cole Haan, had suggested they continue the merriment at the Carlyle, a Candler family favorite.
There was hardly any standing room around the bar. A slick-looking fellow and a Botoxed blonde were nuzzling among the camel hair and tweed. Ms. Candler said the holiday spirit appeared to be intact at the Carlyle. But, she cautioned, "people take comfort in going out during the holidays because it feels comfortable."
Was there an added dash of hope in the air?
"I'm hopeful," said Mr. Singerman. "I have hope."
Filed Under: Home, Lifestyle, The Observatory, Woody Allen, Les Moonves, Elaine Stritch, Carlyle Hotel, Steve Tyrell, Loston Harris
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Today I spotted an unknown trig, here in Tasmania.
I cannot find this in either active or archived trigs. Does anyone know anything about this? Off Cove Hill Road, Honeywood.
That would be Survey Mark ST27 'Cove Hill' which is on the Private Freehold of 234 BRIGGS RD HONEYWOOD TAS 7017 so not publicly accessible.


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Rentrer en Soi (リエントール アン ソイ, rentooru an soi) var ett Japanskt visual kei-band, aktivt mellan år 2001 och 2008. Sångaren Satsuki har efter splittringen startat ett soloprojekt. Trummisen Mika startade även han ett nytt musikprojekt "forbidden days rhapsody".

Takumi och Mika är numera aktiva medlemmar i bandet Sukekiyo

Bandmedlemmar:

 Satsuki (砂月) - sång
 Takumi (匠) - gitarr
 Shun (瞬) - gitarr
 Ryo (遼) - bas
 Mika (未架) - trummor

Före detta medlemmar:

 Ao (蒼) – gitarr

Japanska musikgrupper
WP:Projekt Japan


The Eastern horizon is stamped with thick pink color, awaiting a star. It is that beautifully quiet transient period between light and dark. Soon a burning circle peeks above the land, and in an instant, it transforms the low sky into a shimmering wave. Walking the grassy levee above the canal, we have views of endless farmlands. Giant plumes arise from distant sugar cane-field fires.
For miles and miles, we hike under the sun as it climbs to its zenith, beating mercilessly onto the backs of our naked under-sunscreened legs. We see all manner of water birds, alligators, and cooters along the way. Cows stare at us. Their mouths are frozen mid-chew, giving them a hopelessly stupid appearance. Eventually, we settle near the canal just south of John Stretch Park. All night we hear fishermen putting in along the water. Mysterious sounds come from the waters that surround us: splashes, croaks, and chirps.
Just before the sun rises, the sky is filled with a brilliant orange. We pass quietly along dirt roads heading towards "America's Sweetest Town": Clewiston, FL. The only sounds are the clacking of our trek poles and the crunch of rocks underfoot. We climb the steep levee to walk along the behemoth Lake Okeechobee, Florida's "Inland Sea". We're content to watch Osprey fly and boaters cruise along the canal that encircles the lake.
One restful day in Clewiston later, we're faced with a daunting reroute along Florida roads up to the city of Lakeport. We begin this task with our fellow thru-hiker Chickee Charlie, now known as "Nonsense". The levees are constantly under construction, making the loop trail around Okeechobee decidedly unlooped. Upon arriving in Moore Haven, we stay at the seedy canal-side Rice Motel. It was that or camp along a busy road within proximity of a prison and a dump.
We reconvene with the Florida Trail the following day at Lakeport, taking in views of canal-side retirement communities. Fancy RVs with patios and screened-in porches line the gator-ridden waters. Snowbirds wave to us as airboats filled with tourists roar through the water. We pass over locks. The operators inside come out to speak with us. The boatmen passing through speak to us. We camp on the billowy grass beneath the palms, watching the sunset in baby-duck yellows. All the while, we're telling stories and sharing reconstituted meals with thru-hikers: Damfino and Plod.
The town of Okeechobee offers two amazing things: McDonald's and Golden Corral. We partake of both with gusto before beginning the brutal road walk west of town- another reroute. Coming face to face with speeding semi trucks, while walking on a crooked, vegetated shoulder covered with litter, is dangerous and disgusting. We're relieved to retreat back into the woods of the South Florida Water Management District.
Greeted with our first glimpse of unparalleled grace and beauty. We pass into an Oak and Palm Hammock. Immediately, you have the sense that you've crash-landed in a jungle. Palms tower above us. Majestic oaks draped in moss stretch their branches out like tentacles in all directions. Cow patties dot the trail and feral-hog digs make the path uneven in many places. This is a trail full of the unexpected -where a dingy road walk leads to a tropical forest spotted with wild citrus trees. We pick the low-hanging fruit and pucker our lips at the sour orange.
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So the stunning and super talented Ruby O'Donnell of Hollyoaks fame came to our boutique recently to star in our prom photo shoot. We have known Ruby for years and have watched and followed her career with much excitement. We were thrilled she agreed to come and be our muse. Photos were taken by April McBurney Farnworth @imaprilfools, make up by Jessica @jessicac.artistry and hair by Chloe at @style.meltd.
The dresses featured vary in price from £299 and come in other sizes and colours.


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When fourteen-year-old Hannah Salwen saw a homeless man at the same instant she spotted a man driving a glistening Mercedes, she said, "Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal." Acting on her urge to do something, Hannah's family made the extraordinary decision to sell their Atlanta mansion, buy a house half its size, and give half of the sale price to a worthy charity. Their plan eventually took them across the globe and well out of their comfort zone. In the end they learned that they had the power to change a little corner of the world. Warm, funny, and deeply moving, The Power of Half is the story of how one family grew closer as they discovered that half could be so much more.
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Kevin Salwen was a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal for more than eighteen years. He serves on the board of Habitat for Humanity and works with the U.S. Olympic Committee.
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shastad_2
This is a true story about a very persuasive teenage girl who convinces her family to do more to help people. The parents decide to sell their expensive house, and buy a smaller one which is half the price, and give the difference to charity. I'm not sure the book convinced me how they decided to make such a big change, but then again, and impulsive decisions are hard to explain, but the fact that they stuck with the decision is very admirable.They also decide to let their two teenage children to have a say in how the money will be used. Kevin, the father, writes the story, and Hannah, has written inserts on how we, the readers, can also help. I really enjoyed reading the story of how they decided what group of people to help, and how they went about helping. They had a hard time selling their house in the tough economy, so they actually gave other money instead of money from the sale of the house, so the premise is harder to explain.This is a great book for anyone giving money for charity, to understand how to give money so that it will do some good, instead of just giving a hand-out that winds up hurting more than helping. This book is also helpful in parent-child relations. I wish I had this kind of advice earlier about how to have family meetings, and how to share the decision-making power with the children. I also liked the journal keeping they did, through which they also shared their thoughts with each other.
nomadreader_1
The story is a fascinating one. This family decided to sell their house, buy a smaller one (at half the price) and give the difference to charity. The book tells the story of how this family came to this decision and how they chose where to give their money.It's not a touchy feely, over the top, inspiring book. It is inspiring, but it's inspiring in such an attainable way. The Salwens are quite honest about their finances. They were living in a $2 million home. They downsized their family of four into a $900,000 home in the same neighborhood. Sacrifice is a very personal thing. The Salwens recognize simultaneously how much and how little they did. It was a crazy idea, but they also talk about how easy it was to do (except for actually finding a buyer for their home).I enjoyed this book in different ways than I expteced to.First, as someone who lived in Atlanta for years, I enjoyed the local flavor of the Salwens' story a great deal. I appreciated the adaptation of their message. They recognize their choice is not one everyone could make, but they do encourage the power of half in some way. If your family watches four hours of television together each night, cut that in half and find some way to do something more interactive together or give back. It's an adaptable message, and it's beauty truly is in its simplicity. Lastly, I was surprised how much I learned from the way Kevin and Joan parent. My vision of familyhood and parenting is quite similar to what the Salwens have done, except, of course, our ideas are simply ideas, and they've found ways to enact them.The most interesting part of the book was the Salwens' journey deciding where and how to spend the money. We all have the desire to change the world (I still harbor illusions of this truth, even though it is admittedly buried more deeply in some than others), but no one wants to feel futile. The how is the hardest part. Kevin, the father, tells the story, but each chapter features two pages from Hannah, their oldest daughter. Hannah includes a children and teen friendly activity in each one.
mckait
I was curious about this book when I saw it as as option on Vine. I too, feel that too many have too much and give too little. I don'tmean Trump-like folks..I mean regular people like you and me. I cringe when I am out with someone who pulls out a tip calculator.This happens most often when I am with someone who makes considerable more money than I do. Make someones day by giving them a good tip.. more than theyexpect. That few dollars isn't going to make me a millionaire, but it might make their day. Someone panhandling? They might actually be hungry, or cold.. or something other than a drug addict. A few dollars might help. If it turns out they spend it on alcohol, my intention was good. Now mind you, I love in a small town where those whoask are few and far between, not in a city. So I guess you will say it is easy for me to say, and you would be right. This book is about a family who has taken this to a remarkably grand scale. The who familymade it a priority to help others. They did research, they gave moeny, they gave time. This is the sstory of how they got to the point that they sold a two million dollar home and gave half of the profits to people they had never met.Most of the book is written by Kevin, the dad. Interludes by Hanna are stunning in their simplicity and understanding of the world and the people we share it with. This young lady will be a force to be reckoned with someday soon.. more so than she is already. What wonderful and inspiring people they are. The adults both gave up high power jobs to help others, or be happier themselves. (95 of income gone in a flash because Joan decided she could help young women better by teaching than by being a high powered mentor. Kevin followed a dream. They became happier. The end of the book has this amazing family meeting some of the people they have helped. I can only imagine how that must feel. These people raised their children to know how to give and volunteer. It was a lesson that was taken to heart.Hanna, a fourteen year old was the catalyst for the change that allowed them to give so much to so many. This is a journey worth reading about. I dare you to do it without being inspired to give more yourself. So many of us think we do "our share". (Whatever that is ?) What would happen if we decided to do more.. start small or go grand, but start. This book will help you see how big a difference we really can make.
plappen_1
This is the true story of one family's decision to actually do their bit to make the world a little better.The Salwen's live in suburban Atlanta, in a $1.5 million house, but they are veteran volunteers through the local Habitat for Humanity. One day, fourteen-year-old Hannah has a Eureka! moment. In the car with her father, she sees a shiny Mercedes car next to a homeless man. She realizes that if the Mercedes driver was driving a lesser car, the homeless man could have a meal. This leads to a decision by the family, not an easy decision, to downsize into a smaller house, and give half the proceeds to the poor.The first decision to be made was who they should help. There are many worthy charities and causes out there; the decision was made to focus on poverty in Africa. The next decision to be made was how they should help. Simply throwing money at the African continent will not help; in fact, it may just make things worse. The family was very methodical, researching a number of smaller charities, and meeting with representatives of their top 4 choices to hear their "sales pitch." The Salwen's eventually decided to assist a couple of villages in the country of Ghana, traveling there to see the results of their generosity, up close and personal. The only problem in their whole plan was that their house went up for sale right in the middle of the housing crisis, so it was on the market for a very long time.Along the way, the Salwen's learned, the hard way, that not everyone will "get it." Even friends and relatives interpreted their generosity as a comment on their lack of generosity (we're better than you are). Perhaps a bit of discretion is not a bad idea.Obviously, not everyone can downsize into a smaller house, and donate half the proceeds to the poor. Find something you can do. It can be as simple as halving your TV or computer game time each week, and spending that extra time volunteering at a food bank or soup kitchen. This is an inspiring story of how one family gave back to others, and it will inspire others to do likewise.
cyderry
I used to think that I was a generous person until I read this book. I mean, after all, I gave to different charities, helped those in need, volunteered a little, and I even gave a home to a homeless person we knew. But when I read this book, I felt that I was falling short and wasn't sure that I had it in me to be as generous as this family.This is the true life story of the Salwen family from Atlanta GA who sold their $2Million house so that they could take the proceeds and donate to a charity which helped fight hunger in Africa. They donated $800,000 to this effort because their 14 year old daughter felt that they weren't doing enough to assist those that were less fortunate. I truly admire this family because I don't think that I or my husband would be willing to make this kind of sacrifice. This book raised a lot of questions throughout especially from the journal of the young daughter, but the one that I don't know how to answer is…. How many lives would you be willing to save in exchange for the person that you love the most? I can't answer that, can you?
karieh_2
I truly admire the Salwen family for the journey they've taken. The journey from being the embodiment of the modern consumerist American Way to a family that has together decided to make a difference in the world. A family that worked together to make sure that what they did and what they gave would make a positive difference and not a negative one. A family in which the parents and children have equal voices and equal responsibility.I learned a great deal about charitable giving from this book. One assumes that writing the check to a charity is the hard part…and that money makes everything better for those in need. But, with the careful research done by the Salwens, this proves to be untrue."A Princeton University study showed that more than 1.6 million people go on mission trips in a typical year, spending an average of eight days. The total invested in these sojourns: $2.4 billion a year. But evidence is growing that the social impact can be a huge minus for the developing world. Critics deride the trips as "religious tourism" for "vacationaries". Often the activities undertaken by these groups are little more than make-work. The Washington Post noted that one Mexican church was painted six times by six different mission groups in a single summer."The Salwens learn that empowering the local people in an impoverished area is what makes the real difference, and that the way to empower them depends on the local customs and what the end goal is. "Willing hands certainly have a place when the organizational structure is correct, as a Habitat build alongside the homeowner. But projects must be carefully crafted, assuring that empowerment is front and center even when outsiders are involved. Generosity can't be a simple paint-by-numbers exercise."Although it goes against their nature, they learn that they need to stand back and support the people receiving their help, and not jump in and do the work for them.I hate to be critical of any part of this story, but I was very disappointed in one aspect of the storytelling. This is a story of one family's decision to sell their very nice house and give half of the proceeds ($800,000) to charity. That's huge and amazing and wonderful. That's what drew me to read this. But in the book it only takes 9 pages to go from Hannah's inspiring moment to this huge idea. And then 8 more pages after that, the decision is made by the family to go ahead with this huge life change.True, there is a great deal of discussion regarding the who, what, where kind of details…but I was shocked that such a small part of the book was given over to the discussion, introspection and soul searching that MUST have happened before these four people agreed to change the path of their lives in such a major way.Reaction to their choice was surprising. When they excitedly told friends and family what they'd decided to do – some were supportive, some were wary, and some…got defensive. Which made sense once I really started to think about it. Very few people could or would make this choice…and hearing someone you know say they are going to give up their home, move to a much smaller one and give half of the money away makes one really reflect on one's own giving.And in the end, the Salwens benefited from their giving almost as much as the African villages that received their donations."To put it in a literary context, we had come of age. We had coalesced as a family, brought together by a mission that really mattered. Maybe it was a bit premature to claim victory, but sitting there at the dinner table in Accra, Ghana, I believed we had found our family legend. We knew what we wanted to stand for."


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What is the correct way to spell Hawaii?
The state name, Hawaii, is not spelled with an 'okina between the two "i", because our Statehood Act of 1959 used the spelling "Hawaii". An act of Congress is required to "correct" the state name to Hawai'i. Thus, the name of the state is Hawaii, while the name of the island of the same name is Hawai'i.
How do you spell Honolulu?
a seaport and the capital of Hawaii, south of Oahu.
How do you spell Oahu?
Oahu (/oʊˈɑːhuː/) (Hawaiian: Oʻahu (pronounced [oˈʔɐhu])), also known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is home to around one million people, or about two-thirds of the population of the US state of Hawaii.
Why is Hawaii pronounced havai?
In the Hawaiian language, the 'okina is a letter equivalent to a glottal stop. The apostrophe ' represents a consonant – a glottal stop (essentially the catch in the voice when you say "uh oh!"). Hawai'ian has this consonant but English does not, and omitting it can change the meaning of the words.
How do locals pronounce Hawaii?
Hawaii is correctly spelled Hawai'i where the apostrophe indicates what is called a glottal stop. A glottal stop is a momentary pause in airflow, such as between syllables in the interjection uh-oh. The correct pronunciation is huh-WAH-ee with a glottal stop.
What does Lulu mean in Hawaiian?
Lulu. ▼ as a girl's name is pronounced LOO-loo. He is of Swahili, Tanzanian and Hawaiian descent, and the meaning of Lulu is "precious; pearl; calm, peaceful, protected".
What does Hawaii mean in Hawaiian?
The state of Hawaii derives its name from the name of its largest island, Hawaiʻi. The Hawaiian language word Hawaiʻi is very similar to Proto-Polynesian Sawaiki, with the reconstructed meaning "homeland".
What is the correct spelling of Hawaiian words?
Note: Correct Hawaiian spelling is used for all Hawaiian words on the Hawaiian-only language page. We recognize the proper use of the Hawaiian language, including 'okina [']a consonant and the kahakō [ō] or macron (e.g., in Hawaiian place names such as Lāna'i).
Is the Hawaiian diacritic a spelling change?
The state's "Hawaii Board on Geographic Names" is proposing a spelling change to officially include the Hawaiian diacritic mark. "Technically, it's not a name change. It's a spelling…
What is the official state language of Hawaii?
The state constitution is written in English (except for the motto statement) even though this constitution declares that English and Hawaiian are the official languages of the state "except that Hawaiian will be required for public acts and transactions only as provided by law."
Where can I find the equivalent of my Hawaiian name?
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Strongest magnetic field trapped in a superconductor is a world record
by University of Cambridge
A bulk superconductor levitated by a permanent magnet. Credit: University of Cambridge
A world record for a trapped field in a superconductor, was achieved in 2014 by a team of engineers led by Professor David Cardwell.
Harnessing the equivalent of three tonnes of force inside a golf ball-sized sample of material that is normally as brittle as fine china, the team beat a record that had stood for more than a decade and the record has now been officially recognised by the Guinness World Records.
The Guinness World Records website says "A world record for a trapped field in a superconductor, was achieved in 2014 by a team of engineers led by Professor David Cardwell. The strongest magnetic field trapped in a superconductor is 17.6 tesla, achieved by researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK), the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the Boeing Company (both USA), as published in Superconductor Science and Technology, on 25 June 2014.
"The team used gadolinium boron carbon oxide (GdBCO) which is typically very brittle, then doped the structure with silver, and 'shrink wrapped' steel around the thumb-sized object to increase its strength. Superconductors which trap strong magnetic fields have a wide variety of applications, from Maglev trains to electricity storage."
17.6 Tesla is roughly 100 times stronger than the field generated by a typical fridge magnet - beating the previous record by 0.4 Tesla.
The research demonstrates the potential of high-temperature superconductors for applications in a range of fields, including flywheels for energy storage, 'magnetic separators', which can be used in mineral refinement and pollution control, and in high-speed levitating monorail trains.
Cambridge team breaks superconductor world record
Journal information: Superconductor Science and Technology
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