There seem to be several ways to spell this traditional Mexican stew, and even more ways to cook it. My Mom makes it often but without any specific recipe, and I don't cook it regularly enough to ever remember what I put in it the last time — so this post is for the specific purpose of being able to recreate my posole next Christmas without searching the internet. Posole is traditionally made with a base of onion, peppers (poblano, chipotle, and bell peppers), garlic, tomatillos, tomatoes, and hominy. The hominy is what makes it special, in my opinion. I like to add shrimp at the end, but chicken or beef would work too. Make a huge batch, bake some cornbread, and you are ready to feed a crowd.
Heat the oil over medium in a large dutch oven. Add the onion, peppers, and tomatillos and cook 5-10 minutes, until softened. Add the garlic, seasonings, and chipotles in adobo sauce and cook another minute, then add canned tomatoes, broth, and hominy. Bring to a boil and then cover and reduce to a simmer, allowing to cook for at least 20 minutes, but up to a couple of hours if you have the time. Add the black beans and cook another 5 minutes. Right before serving, add the shrimp, cooking just 1-2 minutes until the shrimp turn pink. Garnish with avocado and cilantro (sour cream is good too).
I've been on the Greek yogurt bandwagon for a while (Fage is my absolute favorite) and recently went from buying the kind with the sweetened fruit to getting the plain versions and mixing in my own cereal, fruit, etc.. I'm always hearing that Greek yogurt is the perfect substitute for sour cream and can be used in many savory ways, but I had yet to find a good use until seeing C&J Nutrition's recipe for Cucumber Salad in Self Magazine.
To 1/2 cup of plain Greek yogurt, add 1/2 cup diced cucumber, 1/2 cup diced tomatoes, 1/4 chopped avocado, and salt & pepper. That's it. It tastes amazing and is a nice change from my normal sugary yogurt snack.
Best. Salad. Ever. This Sushi Salad from Clean Eating Magazine is essentially a deconstructed crab and avocado roll with all the authentic sushi flavors — right down to the wasabi-soy dressing. Both my husband and I loved it. I did make one fairly significant change (we'll call it an upgrade) — cutting the rice in half and doubling the lump crab. If you like sushi rolls, you must try making this salad (oh, and it's quick and easy to put together).
In a small bowl, whisk together the wasabi, soy sauce, vinegar, and honey. Set aside. In a large bowl, combine the rice, cucumber, nori, and carrot. Drizzle in dressing and stir to combine. Gently fold in crab. Divide spinach into 4 bowls and top with crab mixture and avocado. Serves 4.
The first thing I ever learned to cook was spaghetti with meat sauce — in home ec class, no less. I can remember asking my Mom if I could use my newfound skills to cook dinner for her and my Dad, and I put a little shake of everything I could find in the spice cabinet into that sauce. The bad news: my Mom has always had a very well-stocked spice cabinet. She looked up from her plate and asked, "is this dill I taste?". That was my first lesson on how not to make spaghetti sauce. But as a teenager there were a lot of spaghetti nights with friends, and in those settings we tended to revert back to just throwing in whatever we could find, and it was always a ton of fun.
My girls love spaghetti too, but they are not big on tomato sauce. I need to keep working on that one. In the meantime, I thought I would try Angela Liddon's quick creamy avocado pasta with basil, lemon, garlic, and olive oil. I stayed true to the recipe at the beginning, although I opted for just one clove of garlic (I wanted the kids to like this). Once everything was blended in the mini-chopper, it seemed thick and very lemony, so I added some extra olive oil, a few tablespoons of water, and a good handful of shredded parmesan. And suddenly, it tasted just like summer with all that fresh basil and olive oil. After mixing the sauce with the spaghetti I added about 1/3 cup of the starchy pasta water and topped it off with more parmesan. There was a lot of sauce — the recipe says it is for 2 servings of pasta; I made 3 servings of pasta and there was still sauce leftover.
The verdict? Amazing! And so easy to make. Lauren was clearly thrown off by the green color, but she was fine after a few bites. Samantha loved this dish. But she also commented, "I wish it was bucatini instead of spaghetti!". That's my girl.


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The best mods for Napoleon: Total War
Some of the most popular mods that enhance realism or change the game entirely.
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The Total War franchise has been around since 2000 as a significant player in RTS gaming. One of the biggest draws for this franchise is the more in-depth tactics and the "big-picture" strategy not found in other RTS games. The Napoleon entry in the franchise does backtrack on some of the more broad sweeping strategic features, but it is still hailed as one of the best games in the franchise. Because of the focus on a specific leader, the game doesn't allow players to alter the policies of their empire but does put a more substantial focus on resource management. The game has turned 10 years old this year and, as expected, has numerous mods and an active modding community like most of the other Total War games. Here are some the best mods to use in Napoleon: Total War
DarthMod Napoleon
If you have been into modding the Total War franchise for a while, you have probably heard of the modder Darth Vader. Some of Vader's best work is the improvement of Total War's AI. The Napoleon version of this mod improves enemy AI, blood and smoke effects, and creates for new formations to be used in-game. The mod also includes new factions and an improved soundtrack. What is most impressive about this mod is that it also includes over 200 new units in the game. These units are pulled from several other mods that are integrated into DarthMod Napoleon. The mod also includes more realistic battle mechanics and new campaigns. This mod makes Napoleon feel like a new game while staying true to its base concepts.
The Great War Mod changes the game's setting to the 20th century with a focus on World War 1. The game starts in 1914, and players get to choose from any of the available allied or central powers of the time that took part in WW1. The map stays mostly the same as in the standard game, which restricts some of the factions available. Factions outside of the map of Europe used in the base game like the US and Australia are not included. The mod's developer does give the nod to these countries in some way or another through unit recruitment and other forms of gameplay. The base gameplay is the same, but aspects like the tech tree have been completely changed to match the setting. In combat, the units have been changed to reflect the time period, including an increased rate of fire and pseudo-trench warfare. The biggest drawback to this mod is that the game's base AI hasn't been altered, still acting like the standard AI from the base game without compensating for the new setting and technology. Despite this, it is still a fun mod to play.
Napoleonic Total War 3
This mod gives a huge overhaul to the game making it more immersive and more challenging. There are new factions, new units, and new gameplay mechanics, among other things. This mod includes several new maps and campaigns to play through along with commanders for each faction with unique stats and effects on the player's units. There have also been a lot of tweaks to gameplay like column formation moving faster and artillery being extremely slow when moving through wooded areas. All of the new units and the units from the vanilla game have had their appearances updated to be more historically accurate. Heavy cavalry plays a much bigger role in combat thanks to this mod and light cavalry take a bit of a back seat. The other mods on this list fundamentally change gameplay while this one drastically improves it by trying to make it more historically accurate. Unit stats and tactics have been altered to make them more true to history and force players to take much greater care in planning and tactics. The downside to this mod is that battles are now ridiculously long.
Additional Units Mod
The Additional Units Mod does what you would expect, adding 48 new units to the game. Three new ships were also added for the UK to use in naval combat. Aside from the new units, the mod unlocks vanilla units and buildings for the various factions to use that would not be available normally. The developer of the mod carefully balanced all of the new units for gameplay. Many of the new units are only available in certain regions and under certain government types. Finally, the mod also makes some slight changes to special abilities like the artillery accuracy boost. There is a version of this mod available that is compatible with DarthMod making them a great combination for anyone wanting to enhance Napoleon's gameplay.
Masters of Europe
Masters of Europe is a collaboration between two modders, Steph and l'Aigle. This mod merges Steph's Vive l'Empreur and l'Aigle's Imperial Eagle mods into a single mod. This mod makes some significant changes to the game. Like a lot of the mods on this list, it balances gameplay to make the Napoleon more immersive and historically accurate. There are a handful of aesthetic changes to a handful of the units to make them true to the period. Cavalry and naval combat is more realistic, and a lot of new naval effects have been added. The biggest draw to this mod is that once installed; players have access to 39 unique playable factions. Each faction has been carefully balanced within the game and has unique stats and tactical approaches.
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The effect of compounds produced during biomass pretreatment on cellulolytic enzyme was investigated. Liquid prehydrolyzates were prepared by pretreating switchgrass using 24 combinations of temperature, time, and sulfuric acid concentration based on a full factorial design. Temperature was varied from 140°C to 180°C; time ranged from 10 to 40 min; and the sulfuric acid concentrations were 0.5% or 1% (v/v). Identified products in the prehydrolyzates included xylose, glucose, hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), furfural, acetic acid, formic acid, and phenolic compounds at concentration ranging from 0 to 21.4 g/L. Pretreatment conditions significantly affected the concentrations of compounds detected in prehydrolyzates. When assayed in the presence of switchgrass prehydrolyzates against model substrates, activities of cellulase, betaglucosidase, and exoglucanase, were significantly reduced by at least 16%, 31.8%, and 57.8%, respectively, as compared to the control. A strong positive correlation between inhibition of betaglucosidase and concentration of glucose, acetic acid, and furans in prehydrolyzate was established. Exoglucanase inhibition correlated with the presence of phenolic compounds and acetic acid. The prehydrolyzate, prepared at 160°C, 30 min, and 1% acid, was fractionated by centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC) into six fractions; the inhibition effect of these fractions on betaglucosidase and exoglucanase was determined. The initial hydrolysis rate of cellobiose by betaglucosidase was significantly reduced by the CPC sugar-rich fraction; however, exoglucanase was deactivated by the CPC phenolic-rich fraction. Finally, biological activities of water-extracted compounds from sweetgum bark and their effect on cellulase was investigated. It was determined that 12% of solid content of the bark extract could be accounted by phenolic compounds with gallic acid identified as the most concentrated phytochemical. Sweetgum bark extract inhibited Staphylococcus aureus growth and copper-induced peroxidation of human low-density lipoprotein, confirming antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the extract. On the other hand, bark extract inhibited cellulase cocktail activity by reducing cellulose hydrolysis by 82.32% after 48 h of incubation. Overall, phenolic compounds generated from biomass fractionation are important players in cellulolytic enzyme inhibition; removal of biomass extractives prior to pretreatment could reduce inhibitory compounds in prehydrolyzate while generating phytochemicals with societal benefits.
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HomePolitics and GovernanceUNHRC member states alarmed over drug war killings under Duterte administration
UNHRC member states alarmed over drug war killings under Duterte administration
The international community seems to believe that the country is some sort of a lesser version of "North Korea", rather than one who has a vibrant and healthy democratic way of life.
Several member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council is calling out the Philippine government to promptly take action on the reported widespread" and "systematic" drug war killings in the country.
The reaction was brought about by the findings of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) about the country's human rights council.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet
However the Philippines has rejected these allegations that there is impunity in the country's current judicial system or a "lack of accountability" for human rights violations.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in her speech in the UNHRC's 44th regular session in Geneva, Switzerland said President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's war on drugs has been "widespread and systematic."
She adds that such drug war are being enforced "without due regard for the rule of law."
The said report has been delivered already by Bachelet to the Philippies.
The comprehensive report which was released last June 4 was mandated by the Iceland-initiated resolution , which was eventually adopted by the UNHCR in July 2019.
"The findings of the report are very serious…The report finds that the killings have been widespread and systematic and they are ongoing. The report also finds that serious human rights violations including extrajudicial killings have resulted from key policies driving the so-called war on drugs and incitement to violence from the highest levels of government," she told the UNHRC.
"The campaign against illegal drugs is being carried out without due regard for the rule of law, due process and the human rights of people who may be using or selling drugs. The report finds that the killings have been widespread and systematic and they are ongoing," she added.
The report found "near-total impunity" in the Duterte administration's drug war, she notes that "unwillingness by the state to hold to account perpetrators of extrajudicial killings."
"Families of the victims, understandably, feel powerless, with the odds firmly stacked against justice. Moreover, by senior government officials' own admission, the draconian campaign has been ineffective in reducing the supply of illicit drugs," she told the council.
"While the Philippines have made some progress in the advancement of economic and social rights, indigenous peoples and farmers continue to be caught in a tug of war between powerful businesses, and political interest," she added.
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Roxanna Ng fonds available at the U of T Archives
The University of Toronto Archives is pleased to announce that the Roxana Ng fonds is now available to researchers. Professor Roxana Ng (1951-2013) was a Professor at OISE whose research and activism focused on issues facing immigrant women and garment workers, especially in the Canadian context. The first woman of colour to hold a tenure track position at OISE, Professor Ng was also a key researcher in critical pedagogy, decolonizing pedagogy, and embodied learning.
Professor Ng was a true activist-scholar, and worked closely with countless organizations to support and fight for the rights of immigrant women and homeworkers across Canada. In particular, Professor Ng was a key member of the Homeworkers Association (HWA), who organized training, support, and social events for homeworkers, particularly those in the garment industry.
At more than 50 boxes, Professor Ng's archive documents the work and life of an inspiring scholar and community member. The papers include articles, research notes, subject files, meeting minutes, public education material, and photographs.
The finding aid for the Roxana Ng fonds can be found here: https://utarms.library.utoronto.ca/roxana-ng-fonds


Amongst the enormous amount of Doctor Who television stories there is on offer, very few of them actually really changed the dynamic of the show. For me, An Unearthly Child, The Tenth Planet and Survival are stories that examples of how the show developed and kept surviving. Genesis of the Daleks is another of those stories but not just because it gives the origins of the Doctor's arch nemesis' but it was more important because of the introduction of the insane creator of the Daleks, Davros. And through Davros, the Daleks were finally given a face.
That was always the main problem with the Daleks. Despite their popularity, design and iconic status as the first monsters from the series, it was hard to make effective characters out of the creatures that had been purposely designed to have little in the way of individuality. And although they aren't robots, it is easy enough to make that distinction since they all look alike. And they all had the same hostile and aggressive personality which they could only express through shouting and shooting things. They didn't even have names. And the whole point of a Dalek is that they are fascist, conformist bullies that need to eliminate anything that isn't a Dalek. It is the Nazi ideology taken to its extreme.
It makes perfect sense that Terry Nation, the man who created the Daleks in 1963, was asked to show their birth, leaned heavily on that very concept. Placing the Dalek spawning grounds in a militaristic society ruled through fear and terror by it's SS-like secret police and in Davros, it creates its own Hitler, a ranting, domineering madman with dark dreams of glory. While the newly devised Dalek mythology doesn't quite match up with what had already been established from the previous serials featuring the metal meannies, as the Daleks had been shown to be motivated at least as much by their self loathing and terror of other people as by their own aggression and arrogance. And while Genesis doesn't make a crystal clear connection to the first story to feature the characters called The Daleks, then it manages to make it up by hitting the emotional target dead on target. The war-torn planet of Skaro feels like the only place the Daleks could have come from, corrupt, ruined, poisonous and grim.
But in this story, it isn't only the Daleks and Davros who get the chance to be really interesting, the Doctor's part of the story is more interesting because, in a more subtle way, it is just as earth shaking as what the Daleks are up to. We get a nice twist on what the Third Doctor used to do, a mysterious Time Lord goes and gives the Doctor another mission, following on from the plot thread that every now and again, they ask him to do a specific job to allow him to keep travelling. In this instance, they send him and his companions, Sarah and Harry to the war torn planet of Skaro to alter the Daleks' creation or even halt their development. So they are either never going to be born or they will be less dangerous.
But this Doctor is given a longer leash to do what he likes and even gets the ability to refuse the mission. But the Time Lords are so sure he will do it, they have dumped on Skaro already. They have asked him to change history, something he would have once disagreed with. But like all secret spy missions, there is the faint whiff that something is off. It isn't quite as noble as it first appears. Ultimately the Doctor is sent to commit genocide against the Daleks. This is of course, when all is said and done, an act of war. It is only justifiable if you accept the idea that the Daleks deserve to be wiped out because they are trying to do the same thing to other species.
But that is the problem with this story, Nation treats the Daleks like they are a potential virus and with Davros removing all their conscious', he turns them into psychopathic murders. This only gives us, the viewers, the chance to see them as evil incarnate rather than giving them some slight redeeming qualities. When the Doctor gives us the whole, "Do I Have The Right," speech, it is harder to take his side than it is supposed to be. By making the Daleks nothing more than twisted computers, they aren't treated like a race of their own. And because they aren't treated like a new species then there is no genocide in exterminating the lot of them. And if they are a virus, there is no harm in giving them a cure. And the Doctor is a catastrophic secret agent. From just trying to stop the Daleks, his very presence is what makes them stronger and more desperate to exterminate all life in the galaxy!


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Mestska Knihovna v Praze, Czech Republic
Translated from the original Norwegian by Don Bartlett
The thrilling follow-up to Jo Nesbø 's #1 bestseller The Leopard
The Murder has been solved. But has justice been done?
Harry Hole is back in Oslo. He's been away for some time, but his ghosts have a way of catching up with him. The case that brings him back is already closed. There is no room for doubt: the young junkie was shot dead by a fellow addict.
The police don't want him back…
Denied permission to reopen the investigation, Harry strikes out on his own. Beneath the city's eerie tranquillity, he discovers a trail of violence and mysterious disappearances seemingly unnoticed by the police. At every turn Harry is faced with a conspiracy of silence.
The criminals don't want him back…
Harry is not the only one who is interested in the case. From the moment he steps off the plane, someone is watching his every move and tracing his every call.
Someone wants him silenced.
Jo Nesbø played football for Norway's premier league team Modle, but his dream of playing professionally for Spurs was dashed when he tore crucial ligaments in his knee at the age of eighteen. After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di derre (Them There). Their second album topped the charts in Norway, but he continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat. He is regarded as one of Europe's leading crime writers, with both The Leopard and Phantom topping the UK bestseller charts, and his novels are published in 40 countries.
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Actian Vectorwise Helps ManageEngine Analyze More Bandwidth Traffic
By Business Wire
Actian Corp. ("Actian"), a next-generation leader in big data management, today announced that ManageEngine has embedded Vectorwise analytic database to power its HighPerf Reporting Engine add-on for NetFlow Analyzer, one of the world's most popular bandwidth and traffic analytics tools.
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management software division of Zoho Corporation, is used by three out of every five Fortune 500 companies. The NetFlow Analyzer is an analytical tool that collects streaming data from thousands of network collection points or devices that are updated into a central storage analysis hub every few minutes. With Vectorwise as the embedded database, the HighPerf Reporting Engine can now capture, store and analyze six months of large amounts of raw, streaming network data – rather than relying on aggregated data – which accelerates report generation time and facilitates better bandwidth management, capacity planning, infrastructure decisions and resource optimization.
"Vectorwise allows NetFlow Analyzer to store and analyze massive amounts of raw data for much longer periods of time and still get answers instantly," said Rajkumar Vijayarangakannan, Product Manager at ManageEngine. "ManageEngine can now more effectively isolate and contain threats like worms and virus attacks, monitor bandwidth consumption and plan for peaks, enabling top global companies to effectively plan and provision bandwidth for critical network applications. With Vectorwise's powerful query engine, network issues can be solved much faster – keeping businesses running and profitable. And, because it works on commodity hardware for both Windows and Linux, our clients can store more data within their existing infrastructure and save disk space, money and time."
"Thousands of the world's biggest companies, including Actian, use ManageEngine's NetFlow Analyzer. With Vectorwise as the foundation for the HighPerf Reporting Engine, organizations can monitor and manage their network bandwidth performance more quickly and accurately," said Fred Gallagher, GM of Vectorwise at Actian.
"Network traffic data volumes continue to increase exponentially. Our clients need the ability to store and analyze ever-expanding amounts of raw data for longer periods of time in order improve accuracy of traffic analytics," continued Vijayarangakannan.
Vivek Bhatnagar, Indian Country Manager for Actian, added, "NetFlow Analyzer has always been a fantastic tool for getting real-time insight on masses of continuously streaming network data. Now with Vectorwise, IT administrators can drill deeper into the root cause of network sluggishness, report on larger timeframes through raw data and provide better insights to network traffic patterns."
ManageEngine's HighPerf Reporting Engine is available today as both a single bundle and separate installation. A 30-day trial can be downloaded at http://www.manageengine.com/products/netflow/highperf-reporting-engine-intro.html.
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Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, connect, analyze and act on data. Actian helps 10,000+ customers worldwide take action on their big data with Vectorwise analytics database, RushAnalytics Hadoop accelerator, DataCloud platform for cloud and on-premises data integration, Action Apps lightweight, consumer-style applications that automate business actions, as well as Ingres, Versant and PSQL transactional mission-critical databases. Actian is headquartered in California with offices in Austin, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, New Delhi and Melbourne. Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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ManageEngine delivers the real-time IT management tools that empower an IT team to meet an organization's need for real-time services and support. Worldwide, more than 72,000 established and emerging enterprises - including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500 — rely on ManageEngine products to ensure the optimal performance of their critical IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, desktops and more. ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corp. with offices worldwide, including the United States, India, Japan and China. For more information, please visit http://www.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.
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Intel Capital One of the most maddening aspects of live sports may not just disappear in the next two years but may actually become, well, awesome.
Unless you are lucky enough to have season tickets for your favorite team, thanks to the mosaic of contracts and agreements that exist around live footage, it can often be hours or days before you get to see that mind-blowing, game-winning goal for yourself from the angle you want.
But thanks to new technology being installed in stadiums in both the US and UK, and the expiration of existing content contracts in 2021, it is possible that not only will you be able to instantly re-watch a 40-yard successful shot on goal or 80-yard touchdown pass but decide which angle you want to watch it from. On your phone. Instantly.
That's the vision outlined by Intel at the annual conference of its investment arm in Arizona, USA, this week.
What the hell has sports got to do with Intel? Well, the chip giant has made live sports a key part of its strategy for the simple reason that sports in one of the few markets where there is the willingness - and the money – to invest in cutting-edge technology as it relates to image capture.
Intel has has installed the camera system in the last two Superbowl stadiums in the US and has now announced it'll be going into three UK premiership club stadiums: Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City (also, and not coincidentally, the top three in the league right now).
If you have watched the Superbowl recently, you may recall an occasional Matrix-like spin around key plays where you can see what happened in frozen motion, or the view from the quarterback's perspective just before he threw the ball. You can see examples in this video.
It's Intel system that makes that happen. And it isn't simple, and it isn't cheap but it may be the future of live sports.
To make it work, 38 cameras are installed around the edges of the stadium – either on a balcony or the roof – and live feeds from each of them, producing terabytes of data every minute, are fed (with fiber optic cables) into a server farm where they are processed and used to create a 3D map of the action.
Intel creates that map and then charts a course of a virtual floating camera through it to capture the action – which can then be output as a video.
The system is getting better. The man in charge, general manager of Intel Sports James Carwana, told El Reg that a few years ago it took 90 seconds from the time the action took place until the system was able to process it all and provide a virtual camera video. That is now down to 20 seconds – which means that video producers doing events like the Superbowl are able to use it to greater effect.
The goal is to get the time down further to a tenth of a second – at which point you will be able live stream events. And that's when things will really explode. Commentators and video producers and even you at home will be able to watch the game in whatever way you want.
The reality, Carwana tell us, is that no one expects fans to continually act as their own game editor – they will follow the video feed created by the pros at the stadium and then "lean in" and select their own view when something interesting happens.
But from there of course, the possibilities explode: people putting together their own videos of their favourite players or goals or teams from different angles. Suddenly the replay function that has become so popular in gaming – Fornite being perhaps the best example (and here's just one) – can apply to live sports. Match of the Day will never be the same. And in a good way.
But, of course, there is the tricky issue of rights and rights holders. Intel's Carwana is diplomatic when it comes to the madness that is live sports rights but he does point out that most sports rights are up for renewal in 2021 and 2022.
That means that if Intel can keep improving its technology and make the case for its next-gen 3D virtual cam system, we may see a fundamental shift in how live sports content works: from highly restrictive to anything goes.
Even if the current status quo continues on and exclusive contracts are drawn up with single companies, the tech should still mean a new level of immersiveness and creativity. And the 2021 contract renewal, combined with the slowing improving tech that will soon be in three Premiership stadiums, means it could all be with us as soon as the season after next.
It is of course worth noting that Formula 1's effort to offer a similar approach through its own streaming service has not been a huge success. Currently it charges $80 a year or $10 a month in the US for access to live race streams (with strangely varying prices and services for other counties – no doubt thanks to the web of content contracts) which sounds like a good deal for F1 fans but hasn't set the world on fire.
But football (both American and soccer) – and basketball and baseball and cricket and so on - are different animals in that the pitch is fixed and the people move within it, which makes image capture simpler and the virtual camera possible.


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Harwood Heights, Illinois
Village of Harwood Heights
The Mont Clare at Harlem Avenue, formerly known as Parkway Towers
Motto(s):
A small town of big opportunities
Location of Harwood Heights in Cook County, Illinois.
Location of Illinois in the United States
Coordinates: 41°57′58″N 87°48′20″W / 41.96611°N 87.80556°W / 41.96611; -87.80556Coordinates: 41°57′58″N 87°48′20″W / 41.96611°N 87.80556°W / 41.96611; -87.80556
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UTC-6 (CST)
www.harwoodheights.org
Harwood Heights is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 8,612 at the 2010 census.[3] Harwood Heights and its neighbor Norridge form an enclave surrounded by the City of Chicago.[4]
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5 Local culture and media
6.1 Public schools
6.2 Colleges and universities
7 Sister cities
Harwood Heights is located at 41°57′58″N 87°48′20″W / 41.96611°N 87.80556°W / 41.96611; -87.80556 (41.966172, -87.805576).[4]
According to the 2010 census, Harwood Heights has a total area of 0.82 square miles (2.12 km2), all land.[5]
Harwood Heights and Norridge are surrounded by Chicago.[4]
1970 9,060 59.3%
1980 8,228 −9.2%
2000 8,297 8.0%
2019 (est.) 8,333 [2] −3.2%
U.S. Decennial Census[6]
As of the census[7] of 2000, there were 8,297 people, 3,505 households, and 2,183 families residing in the village. The population density was 10,094.4 people per square mile (3,906.7/km2). There were 3,606 housing units at an average density of 4,387.2 per square mile (1,697.9/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 92.13% White, 0.31% African American, 0.24% Native American, 4.42% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.54% from other races, and 1.33% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.83% of the population.
Based on United States Census data, Harwood Heights is listed as an Illinois community with a significant number of Polish Americans, at 32.5%.[8] Among communities in the United States with populations of 500 or more, Harwood Heights has the second highest percentage of residents born in Poland (18.8%).[9] It also has the seventh highest percentage of residents born in Italy among communities in the United States (4.9%).[10]
There were 3,505 households, out of which 23.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.3% were married couples living together, 10.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.7% were non-families. 33.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 3.06.
In the village, the population was spread out, with 18.5% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 20.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.6 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $43,288, and the median income for a family was $52,169. Males had a median income of $40,329 versus $29,552 for females. The per capita income for the village was $22,558. About 4.0% of families and 4.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.1% of those under age 18 and 10.9% of those age 65 or over.
As of 2019[update], the mayor is Arlene Jezierny. She is the second woman to serve as mayor in Harwood Heights, the first being Margaret Fuller.[11]
As of the 2019 election, the current elected officials of the village of Harwood Heights were:[12]
Arlene Jezierny - President (since 2009)
Marcia Pollowy - Village Clerk (since 2009)
Therese Schuepfer - Trustee (since 2007)
Lawrence Steiner - Trustee (since 2009)
Annette Brzezniak-Volpe - Trustee (since 2013)
Anna Brzozowski-Wegrecki - Trustee (since 2016)
Giuseppe Zerillo - Trustee (since 2017)[13]
Zbigniew Lewandowski - Trustee (since 2018)
Harwood Heights is located in the Eisenhower Public Library District, Triton Community College District 504, Ridgewood High School School District 234, School Districts 86, 79, and 80, and the Norwood Park Fire Protection District.[14]
Harwood Heights is located in Illinois's 5th congressional district which is represented in the 117th United States Congress by Mike Quigley (D–Chicago). In the Illinois General Assembly, Harwood Heights is located in the 10th Legislative District, 19th House District, and 20th House District. In the 101st General Assembly, Harwood Heights is represented by Robert Martwick (D–Chicago) in the Illinois Senate and represented by Lindsey LaPointe (D–Chicago) and Bradley Stephens (R–Rosemont) in the Illinois House of Representatives.[14]
For the purposes of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Harwood Heights is in the 9th district represented by Peter Silvestri (R-Elmwood Park). It is located in the 10th and 11th Judicial Subcircuits of the Cook County Circuit Clerk.[14]
For the purposes of elections, Harwood Heights is split into five precincts ; Norwood Park 1, Norwood Park 5, Norwood Park 12, Norwood Park 15, and Norwood Park 17.[14] In the 2020 presidential election, Harwood Heights cast 1,878 votes for Donald Trump and 1,692 votes for Joe Biden. Forty-six (46) voters chose third party candidates and forty-two (42) voters pulled a ballot, but abstained from voting for any candidate for President.[15]
Mayors of Harwood Heights
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Herbert Huening 1947–1957
Theodore Schwegel 1957–1961
Joseph Zizzo 1961–1965
Patrick Arbor 1965-1967
Harold Majeski 1967-1973
Ray Willas 1973-2001
Norb Pabich 2001-2005
Margaret "Peggy" Fuller 2005-2009
Arlene Jezierny 2009–present
Local culture and media
Ridgewood High School Multimedia Clubs, which claim to be "the only media outlet in Norridge and Harwood Heights", and has 4 stations: The radio club produces "Jack FM 89.7 WRHS-FM Norridge" and "Theatre of the Ears on Smooth 88.1 WRWX-FM Harwood Heights/Jack Frost 88.1 WXMS Harwood Heights"; the television department runs in-house station "WRWX Television 4"; and the television club runs "WRHS Television 19".[16]
Ridgemoor Country Club is located on Gunnison Avenue and is one of the oldest Chicago area golf clubs originating in 1905.[citation needed] In 1942 the U.S. Open Golf Tournament was cancelled because of World War II and as a replacement the Chicago District Golf Association and the PGA sponsored a tournament called The Hale America National Open Golf Tournament. The tournament was won by Ben Hogan and raised over $20,000 for the Navy Relief Society and the U.S.O.
Three elementary school districts serve Harwood Heights:
Pennoyer Elementary School District 79[17]
Norridge School District 80[18][page needed]
Union Ridge School District 86[19][page needed]
Two high school districts serve Harwood Heights:
Maine Township High School District 207 (Maine South High School)[citation needed]
Ridgewood High School[citation needed]
Triton Junior College serves Harwood Heights.[20][page needed]
Eisenhower Public Library District serves Harwood Heights and Norridge.[21]
Harwood Heights is twinned with two cities: Rocchetta a Volturno, Italy,[22] and Dzierżoniów, Poland.[23]
^ "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
^ a b "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". United States Census Bureau. May 24, 2020. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
^ "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Harwood Heights village, Illinois". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Archived from the original on February 10, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
^ a b c "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
^ "G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Census Summary File 1". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2015-08-03.
^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
^ "Polish Ancestry". epodunk.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-02. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
^ "Top 101 cities with the most residents born in Poland (population 500+)". city-data.com. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
^ "Top 101 cities with the most residents born in Italy (population 500+)". city-data.com. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
^ Village of Harwood Heights: Mayor Margaret Fuller Archived 2008-08-07 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Yarborugh, Karen, ed. (August 27, 2019). "Cook County Directory of Elected Officials September 2019" (PDF). Cook County Clerk. p. 45.
^ "Giuseppe S. Zerillo Bio". Village of Harwood Heights. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
^ a b c d Orr, David, ed. (2015). "Norwood Park Township" (PDF). Cook County Clerk. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
^ "November 03, 2020 Presidential General Election Norwood Park - U.S. Election Results". Cook County Clerk. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
^ "Ridgewood High School Multimedia Club". Norridge, Illinois: Ridgewood Community High School District 234. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
^ "Welcome to Pennoyer Elementary School School District 79". Norridge, Illinois: Pennoyer Elementary School School District 79. Retrieved 2019-03-04. educates children from parts of Norridge, Harwood Heights, & unincorporated Norwood Park Township
^ Norridge School
^ Union Ridge School
^ Triton Junior College
^ "About Us". Harwood Heights, Illinois: Eisenhower Public Library District. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
^ "Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Harwood Heights" (PDF). Village of Harwood Heights. July 22, 2010. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
^ "Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Harwood Heights" (PDF). Village of Harwood Heights. September 26, 2013. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
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Britney Spears conservatorship trial in LA court didn't progressed due to security reasons. Click to know the inside story.
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A security breach is a common sight these days. The human-friendly technology can turn out to be a foe sometimes. Recently one such incident is reported from the Los Angeles court where unwanted elements "zoombombed" a zoom video call which was conducting a trial for Britney Spear's conservatorship case.
Britney Spears is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress. She is often referred to as the "princes of pop" for her exceptional contribution to the field. Born in McComb, Mississippi, raised in Kentwood, Louisiana. Spear's first two studio album Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!. I did it. Again (2000) was a smash hit and made her the best-selling teenage artists of all time. Spears has achieved six solo number-one albums on the Billboard 200, making her the third best performing female artist on the chart.
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Conservatorship is basis basically a legal concept in the United States. A guardian or a protector is appointed by a judge to manage an individual's financial affairs or daily life due to their physical or mental retarded. This is different from guardianship.
In Britney's case, her father takes all her decision to be it about career, finance, personal, or professional. Britney has no control over her life since 2008.
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The beloved fans of Britney are now protesting against the singer's conservative life. Fans are demanding that Britney, like any other human, should live and control her life in her own way. They want Britney to come out of that life and live freely. The moment is getting pace as the days passed by. Fans are vigorously campaigning for the conservatorship to be lifted. Last year, Britney's father, who has her conservatorship's legal rights, said that his relations with Britney have always been strained.
According to the reports, Britney is fighting against her conservatorship since last year. Due to the global pandemic, the trial was scheduled to be conducted via Zoom face time.
A hearing scrutinizing her conservatorship status was unable to proceed this week because her undercover Zoom call was surveyed by people who had nothing to do with the trial. Every 3 months, a judge meets with the groups involved to consult Britney's conservatorship. The recent meeting regulated for this week didn't occur because people who are not lawfully involved in Britney's conservatorship dwelled on the Zoom call for two hours or so. This leads the judge to suspend the hearing until further notice. For now, Britney will remain in her conservatorship.
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Pallacanestro
Fu uno dei più affermati giocatori nei primi anni della storia della pallacanestro uruguaiana. Con l'Unión Atlética di Montevideo vinse da capitano il campionato nel 1925. Cinque anni più tardi con la maglia dell', e sempre da capitano, ha vinto la medaglia d'oro al Campionato sudamericano di pallacanestro 1930; successo che bissò nell'edizione del 1932. Nell'edizione 1935 vinse la medaglia di bronzo.

Sempre nel 1935 vinse ancora il titolo uruguaiano con il Club Nacional de Football, e l'anno seguente prese parte alle Olimpiadi del 1936, classificandosi al 6º posto.

Atletica leggera
Leandro Gómez Harley fu un eccellente atleta: il 19 maggio 1922 vinse il campionato uruguaiano nei 110 metri ostacoli con il tempo di 15"80, stabilendo il record nazionale e il record sudamericano dell'epoca.

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I can share with you a few pics from out Maubisse trip. It was at this OLD OLD place called the Poussada. It was a huge gorgeous manner when the Portugeuse controlled Timor. We stayed in the servants quarters as opposed to the main house and the kids had such a blast! I accidentally left my camera sitting on the couch so all of these were taken with our video camera in camera mode, they aren't all that bad.
then found out they were hallucinogenic if you touched them for too long, ooopps. We enjoyed wearing flannel and saying "I need some mittens it's so cold!"
"Um mom where are the seats?"
and heard a lot of this "this is the BEST day ever mom!" Now that is all I wanted to hear!
I love the pic with the hallucinogenic flower. Him closing his eyes and inhaling just makes the caption absolutely hilarious!!!! That place looks amazing!!
Oh my goodness, the first part of the trip sounds horrendous! Any thing that could have gone wrong really did. My prayers are with you that your day gets better and they find your luggage!
On the upside the pictures are gorgeous and at least the children had fun!
OMG, and I thought my last flight with my son was bad....girl, sadly you win. I'm so sorry that it has been so horrible. It's not whinning, it's venting, and after a day like that, you need it! Hope your suitcases reappear soon!
I'm so excited for the bib tute, as well as the other easy-peasy selections. :) Thanks!
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Spaceships and Small Governments
NOTE: Some spoilers appear in this report.
During its long life on syndication — following a short-lived network run — the original Star Trek became a massive cult phenomenon that used science fiction as a means to spread a multicultural, anti-capitalist, progressive gospel. With its post-money, post-war Earth and its valiant, UN-like Federation of Planets, it reflected the liberal passions of the 1960s. Now, nearly four decades later, another short-lived TV show, Joss Whedon's Firefly, has inspired similar cult adoration and made the leap to the big screen — only this time the politics are reversed. The result is Serenity, a scrappy, energetic science fiction/western hybrid that is as libertarian as Star Trek was liberal, reminding viewers why even well-intentioned government intervention is more a problem than a solution.
Whedon, the creator of beloved teen-horror TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, packs his narrative with familiar genre elements, but recombines them in clever, unexpected ways. In the far future, overpopulation has led to a new wave of frontiersmen, only this time they're exploring the edges of space. The central planets are run by a meddling unified government called The Alliance which recently suppressed an outer world revolt and now has designs on the outlaw crew aboard the spaceship Serenity.
That crew, and their effusively witty banter, is a significant part of what makes the film so enjoyable. Whedon's biggest strength is his ability to swiftly establish a wide cast of quirky characters with compelling balance of strengths and weaknesses. They're not exactly Randian supermen, but each is a plucky, strong-willed individualist, most notably Captain Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion).
Fillion plays Mal as a scowling, selfish ruffian who has no qualms about stealing, shooting, and generally causing mischief whenever it suits his interest. And yet he's not malicious or cruel; during a robbery he calmly informs an opponent, "I got no need to fight you. I just want to go my way." Later, when scolded for theft, Mal reminds his accuser that he's just taking the only option left after Alliance interference, saying, "I put this crew together with the promise of work, which the Alliance makes harder every year." Mal's goal is never to harm anyone else — he just wants to be allowed to look after himself.
The problem, from Mal's perspective (and the film's), is that The Alliance won't let the crew of Serenity or any other outer world settlers find their own way. The Alliance is populated by bureaucrats who are quick to pass the buck when accused of mistakes and quicker to impose their ideas of "civilization" on pesky frontier planets, trying to force a one-size-fits-all order on societies they'll never visit, much less live in.
Serenity shows the propensity for big, intrusive government to suppress individuality by demanding uniformity of thought. The film opens with a deft satirical jab at progressive education, in which Alliance school children are being taught how brutish and ugly the outer worlds and their inhabitants are. The teacher, with her soothing voice and appropriately mixed ethnicity, calmly tells children that The Alliance just wants to provide the frontier with "social and medical advancements." When one student protests that Alliance control amounts to telling people how to think, the teacher replies, without irony, "We're not telling people what to think — we're just trying to show them how."
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After nearly 5 years of development, developer Gearbox and publisher 2K Games have released Borderlands 3 worldwide for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. It's been seven years since the most popular title in the series, Borderlands 2 was released.
Borderlands 3 has already received praise from early critics such as IGN who awarded the game an impressive 9/10 whilst noting that "its arsenal of fun is unmatched." Destructoid described it as "a hallmark of excellence" whilst U.S. Gamer called it "an absolute blast".
So far, the Borderlands franchise has sold more than 40-million copies worldwide and Borderlands 2 still draws in more than 1 million unique monthly users despite its age. This is owed in part thanks to the fans who welcomed the game to the latest generation of consoles after originally being released on PS3 and Xbox 360.
Borderlands 3, takes what fans loved about the previous games and expands and improves many of the key features, whilst also introducing some new ones to please the fans.
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Welcome to our Root Letter: Last Answer review. Root Letter: Last Answer is a re-release of a Manga based visual novel released on the PlayStation 4 three years ago. This time the Manga theme has been replaced with a live-action setting instead. If you wish to play the game as it once was, you can […]
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2K has released the NBA 2K20 Google Stadia version to Stadia users in all fourteen countries the new Google-led service is available in. For the time being the game is available as part of a Black Friday deal in which all versions of the game are available. You can find the pricing information below. During […]
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THQ Nordic has today announced two special editions of its upcoming game, Destroy All Humans!, a remake of the 2005 hit. Buyers who are interested in one of these special editions will have a choice between the Crypto-137 edition or the DNA Collector's edition. These editions are available to pre-order now from selected retailers. Crypto-137 […]
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I found myself seeking to lose that same 15 pounds I've been working on for about 15 years. I lost all of it once and some of it many, many times. Yet, it always seems to creep back on. Funny thing is it's only 15 pounds. That got me thinking, why is it that my body would regulate itself just slightly higher than I would want? In fact, why do we seem to get certain things in our lives, yet often feel like we need a little bit more? The house is nice, but I wish it didn't have bricks. The Ford Explorer works, but that Escalade is bangin'! If you receive in life exactly what you have believed to receive, then why would our believing stop just short of what we really want? Or maybe, are we stopping short of what we really want or always wanting more and more? These are worthy questions for those serving 15 to life.
It was 1982 when I first took a class called, "Power for Abundant Living" where I learned that what a person believes in their heart is what they will manifest into their lives. I'm not referring to the reported "magic" outlined in "The Secret." Life wasn't designed for things to just appear out of nowhere, but instead the results we are pursuing show up naturally in direct accordance with our firm expectations! The Bible says, "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." And, "Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flows forth the issues of your life!" Thus your life, whether you like it or not, is a direct reflection of what you believe deep down in your heart. Similarly, the image that you carry of yourself is what you are. How have you been picturing yourself for the last year, five years, ten years? The image that you carry of yourself with clearness and concern is what you are. And the kicker? This law of believing works for positive and negative thinking alike!
A good friend complimented me yesterday on the back-splash I put up in the kitchen. I responded with thank you, then quickly pointed out that there were some flaws in the job and that I made some mistakes. Do you see where I'm going? Instead of just enjoying the positives, I felt the need to add in a "yes, but." Often, we limit ourselves in this life with our "yes, buts!" Somebody tricked us into believing that we have to take the good with the bad. Someone convinced us that we can't have it all. Something weaseled its way into our thinking and talked us into considering that we have to give darkness its place. Doubts, worries, fears, stressors and anxieties are the "yes, buts" in our lives. They represent a form of believing in the negative with just as powerful and specific results.
If you want to learn how to believe rightly; how to get positive results in your life, or how to get rid of the life sucking negatives, the question to ask yourself involves your subject of focus. What is your subject of focus? What do you see most consistently? Does your good always have some "bad" in it? Would your friends describe you as positive or negative? Those thoughts you rehearse most consistently eventually find their way into your heart, determining how your life proceeds. You don't live how you want to live because you don't believe that you can! You don't get what you want in life, you get what you are on the inside. In order to change the outside you have to change the inside. You can change every circumstance of your life if you are willing to invest a little time in changing your thinking. Develop and build a crystal clear image of something you need or someone you want to be, and hold fast to that image. Don't let anyone or anything change it! Keep your subject of focus.
At this point you may be wondering, "How does anyone know what is in their heart?" The answer is simple, what do you talk about the most? Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. What does your communication consist of? Are you quick to notice and point out the negatives? Are you critical of other people? Do you use words that associate themselves with lack and struggle? Is your favorite topic the things that aren't right in your body? (If so, I'm guessing you have lots and lots of things not right in your body) Or is your conversation pleasant, expectant, looking for the good in life? What you have been saying is what you have been believing and is exactly how you have been living! Good or bad, positive or negative, joyous or disastrous, are all your choice and within the realm of something you can control!
When it's all said and done, the reason I'm serving 15 to life is because my focus, the picture I carry of myself with clearness and concern, my expectation and believing has been completely centered on something I don't want rather than on something I do want. When I see myself in the mirror, I hone in on what isn't right rather than focusing in on everything that is right! And, you cannot do something for 15 years without being pretty damn consistent! The first place to make a change isn't addressed on the outside, but on the inside instead.
15 pounds doesn't rank very highly on the life importance scale, that's for sure. But 15 years certainly does. Any time spent living life stuck in a cycle of something not being right is too long, especially since you have the ability, by your belief, to change it. Don't settle for life's potluck or justifying your negatives by comparing them to other people's negatives. Choose the life you want to live leaving no caveat for negatives, evil or wrong. You deserve that much because God gave you the much! Believe rightly! Choose life!
None of us climb the hill to success without first making a decision. Before anything worthwhile can take place in your life; before any real overcoming; before any victory over the things that formerly held you down, of necessity comes a heartfelt, fully persuaded decision. Absent a decision, your life will continue to flounder around somewhere between distraction and mediocrity. Sure, you'll be very busy and have little time for extra activities, but you will end up missing the mark; the only mark that ever truly mattered. So, with all that is at stake, why don't we make the decision?
One slippery tentacle in the indecision trap is the old familiar "waiting for a feeling!" It seems in America, the land of feelings, we've all been mesmerized by the promise of strong passionate feelings clearly marking the way that we should go; some grand purpose that causes our eyes to well with tears. Some folks call it inspiration and while we all need to be inspired, we might be surprised to learn that feelings follow our decisions and not the other way around. The stronger your decision, the more powerful your emotions that accompany it. While you are so patiently waiting for your ship to come in, your ship is out at sea waiting for you to decide! Decisions don't need to be accompanied by feelings, they just need to be adamantly decided!
Often indecision appears not because we cannot see the value of making a decision, but because we are stuck with too many different choices. We would like this and we would like that. This would make us happy and shoot, so would that! Remember when you were looking for a new job? Chances are you broadened your options to sort of increase your chances for success. You started enumerating things that "could work." At its core, this also is a trap, albeit a subtle one. The odds are hugely in favor of you getting what you want the VERY most! Otherwise, you scatter your forces on a giant dartboard hoping to stick somewhere with something that could work… And because you aren't God and don't know the future possibilities contained in different circumstances, you certainly make application broadly, but in your heart you hold fast to what would be the best for you. Minus all of the fear and doubt, you know what is the best, because you know you, don't you?
Now, there is one area in decision-making that encompasses all of the rest of the tentacles and maybe the mouth full of sharp teeth as well. At its root, indecision is always based on fear. Let's say you know you have something special just waiting to be capitalized. You know when it comes to such and such, you got it going on! Yet, you don't take action. You vacillate on making the decision. You rationalize with, maybe I won't be successful and it is far easier to just keep quasi-planning and dreaming and scheming without ever really making a choice. If you don't make a wholehearted decision, you can delay and delay and delay. Put it off. Maybe next year. Perhaps when I get this other thing worked out first. After I've finished such and such. One day when I have enough… (money, free time, energy, lack of stress, warm weather, ideal settings etc., etc.). This is the definition of indecision. It feels (there's that word again) so much more safe. It's like having one foot on the bridge and one foot in the water. It's hedging your bets. It is doubt, hesitation, wavering and vacillating. It feels painless but it guarantees you one thing and one thing only. You aint going to get what you really want to get! It's not going to happen! It aint in the cards! In order to win in your life, in your way, with your own results, you have to either get all the way in the water or all the way on the damn bridge. Don't you see it?
The good life isn't reserved for the lucky or the fortunate or the blessed. The good life is waiting for the people who make decisions and there's no limit on the choices you can make. Don't spend another day lost in indecision and fear of the future. Get busy designing your ideal life, then make some decisions about how it is going to turn out. Don't wait and see. Don't wait on God, God is waiting on you! Decide!
The vast majority of people are convinced that life just happens to them and that they are powerless to change it. They feel as if there's some big cosmic plan they're unaware of, which doles out in random fashion, good things and bad things at whim. In their troubles, they search their souls looking for causes inside themselves for the hardships they're experiencing. In high times, they call it luck and good fortune.
NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH! When we allow the circumstances of the world to move us to a negative space, we unknowingly begin to expect negative results. Tragedies, hardships, difficulties, or unresolved frustrations work first in our minds and then in our hearts to lower or even reverse our expectations for our lives. They jolt us or imperceptibly drag us into a doubtful position whereby we begin to question our views of how life truly works. They open the doors and our hearts to possibilities for difficulty we never contemplated before. And, each day honors our beliefs by presenting more information to corroborate those beliefs. Once the cycle starts, it's very hard to stop.
God, the author and designer of life, did not devise His creation by whim. He ordered it beautifully with breathtaking precision, replete with all conceivable love and goodness. He made his man, his precious man, to have full access to His instruction book on life! He's not a capricious God hidden away in the expanse doling out blessings and punishments by the same hand. He is only good, always, in every circumstance, every condition and all the time. He gave man complete control over his life by that which he (the man) chooses to believe. Absent the truth of God's Word, man is subject to the circumstances of life, never conceiving that he, the man, choosing and thus believing, is subconsciously working to bring about the circumstances he is experiencing. Your life, be it blessed or frightful, is the cumulative product of your own thoughts. When you find yourself in a rut, though difficult to get out of, the rut is the consequence of long persistence in negative thoughts unchecked. The shocks and jolts of unexpected tragedy, though not part of your own responsibility, serve not only to severely or mortally wound the sufferer, but also all those associated with that person. Difficulties and hardships, never from God no matter how nobly explained, are a temptation; tempting you to come to the dark side and stay awhile. And, the longer you remain in the darkness, the worse your life becomes.
In this way, your life isn't happening to you, you are happening to it! You're not a victim in a grand drama playing a part you never chose. You are the lead in a play that you are writing. For this reason, you can change your character's role whenever and however you see fit. I don't care who you are; what you've done or what circumstance you find yourself in, arduous and severe or simply irritating and annoying, God has already heard your prayer! He will help you when and only when you begin to change your mind. There's no negative circumstance you cannot escape, no situation that cannot be resolved or healed if you will change your mind. Dwelling on the darkness will not bring forth the light. The light comes as quickly as you turn on the switch! That is your one and only great power in this life; the power to choose what you will and will not believe.
Nothing about your life is happenstance. You are where you are that you may learn and that you may grow. The negatives and hardships you are experiencing are not the way it is. It's not just life. Instead it's life infected by darkness and like any virus, can be eradicated if the conditions are right. This isn't a simplistic view of life, it's the only true view of life. Truth is always simple. It's error that's complicated.
So how can you finally get out of the ruts in life? How can you escape from difficult and trying circumstances? How can you overcome and prevail against any challenge that comes your way? How can you live and realize your life's dreams and endless possibilities? How can you finally become the man or woman you always thought you could be? Change your mind! Change your thoughts from darkness to light. Stop confessing the negatives and confess the positives instead. Stop looking for and living in the trouble and walk out into the clear light of God's heavenly pastures where you will find your rest. This life is too big and too fraught with difficulties for you to go it alone. Just because something looks true and sounds true and has every indicator that it is true, doesn't make it true. What's true is what God says is true and you can bet your entire life on that!
Come out and join me in the sunshine where God has first place and see for yourself if your life isn't revolutionized in dramatic and delightful ways! Everything you ever wanted in your life resides in the light where God is! Won't you come and meet me there?
What if you found yourself sitting in your living room with God and He told you that you could have anything you ever wanted in your life. And then He casually offered, "What would you like?" Could you answer that question? What if the only restriction was that you could only choose one thing? Could you choose one, most important thing? Or would you quickly default to lots of money, the big house, fame and fortune?
It's sort of mind-boggling to think that us humans with all of our complicated hopes and dreams find ourselves unable to answer such a simple question. And, not being able to answer that question may explain why you are living the way you are. If you deeply contemplate your own life and if you are honest, you already know the things that are most important to you. You know what you want, but thus far haven't been able to see a way to bring it to pass. Why?
There's a world-wide delusion going around about God. The delusion is that God chooses the good things in your life. And similar to that is the erroneous logic that God has already decided ahead of time what exactly you can and cannot have. It's simply not true. The reality is that God already knows what good things you want as a "free-to-choose" human being and desperately wants to give it all to you. Second, God has not set a limitation on your life. You have (I have) by your failure to clearly answer that question and take the necessary action to make it a reality.
People spend an entire lifetime waiting for a sign or for their ship to finally come in, never realizing that their ship is their own thoughts and beliefs and that signs follow people who believe and not the other way around. There is no waiting required. If anything you're waiting because you have not yet decided! Deep down you know, but hey that cannot be. How will it happen? Where do I start? You perhaps haven't even considered that the how and the where aren't the starting point. The starting point is your decision. Once you finally choose, you will have answered the question, "What would you like?" Once you answer, it then becomes the responsibility of the One who asked you the question, to supply what you need!
When I think about my own life, it's rarely a question of what it is that I want. Instead it's an insidious belief that everything must be perfect before "it" can happen. And, waiting for the perfect timing or perfect idea is just another form of waiting in disguise. The reality or perhaps my hypothesis is that you should decide, then start and then modify and adjust and adjust. Starting is everything as the saying goes. Waiting is nothing as you already know!
Any belief that you have, true and untrue, is a byproduct of a decision you have already made. If you believe that God does not love you or worse, even know you, it is a decision you have made based on some faulty thinking or negative circumstances you have already encountered. Yet it's not true. But for you it is true because of your decision and that leads to more erroneous beliefs such as God not being in favor of you getting everything you ever wanted. Conversely, if you believe that God wants you to have everything you ever wanted, you will have no trouble making the decision that you can have those things and will wholeheartedly pursue them. People call that fanciful thinking, yet have no trouble deciding they aren't worth the things they want. But can't you see it? Both ways of thinking are choices and decisions, but only one side is actually supported by God's Word! So you decide huh?
How sad it must be to end this journey one day with regrets about who you are and what you could have been. How heart wrenching must it be to die with your dreams still trapped within your heart. Why not decide right now, while you are still drawing breath to once and for all do "it", by God (literally), with no looking back; no hesitating or doubting, balls to the wall until it finally comes to pass. Why not?
There's no time limit on reaching your hopes and dreams, as long as you reach them. The real fun in life is always found in the journey, so just make sure you are traveling wisely. Even a small amount of faithful, dedicated time will one day add up to your grand finale. Just stop sitting there waiting for some mythical day when it all magically comes to pass. That great day only comes for those courageous souls who dared to act regardless of the naysayers or circumstances.
You CAN have everything you ever wanted in life if you will just muster up the courage to decide!


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Your lungs will know you're near Sucre well before you see its pretty streets.
At a mere 2,800 meters above sea level, arriving to Sucre from its dizzying neighbours (La Paz at 3,800m, Potosi at 4,000m or Uyuni at 3,600m) feels like you've rejuvenated 10 years overnight. Your lungs work freely, you walk uphill like a mountain goat and your appetite is back with alarming impetus.
Sucre was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1991. And one of Sucre's charm is its colonial past which translates to a stunning colonial architectural present.
The whitewashed buildings with tranquil patios are the main form of construction here and, without too much effort you can find yourself sleeping in one of them at the many small hotels in town. As Intrepid's South America Trip Manager I'm certain that the properties we use in Sucre are the most picturesque ones we stay at in all of Bolivia.
…and at dusk walk up to La Recoleta for stunning views over the city and the surrounding valleys and mountains. There is usually a musician around and you can enjoy a quiet wine at the strategically-located bar. A terrific setting.
Warning, though! It's a romantic setting so this place is better enjoyed by the side of a loved one. If no romantic partner is at hand, your travel mates might have to do!
If you're on an Intrepid trip, your leader will take you on a comprehensive tour of Mercado Central. If you're on your own, chances are you'll take a wrong turn at some stage and find yourself wondering lost along the market's corridors too. As with all self-respecting South American markets, colours, smells and spices abound so walking around the place is a feast for the senses.
To me though, the most memorable part of the visit to Mercado Central was meeting locals and hearing their stories. Granted, I was joined by Nadia, a very talented Intrepid leader, so her introductions to locals made these meetings much easier.
But, at the end of the day it comes down to how curious, polite and courteous one is. As per any market around the world, shop keepers are always up for a chat, so if you choose the right time, ask the right questions and are honestly interested in learning from them, they'll open up to you whole-heartedly.
And yes, speaking Spanish comes in handy if you're on your own.
Yep, I know what you're thinking! Here goes another man-made site featuring holes on the ground where dinosaur bones were extracted from years ago and today there is nothing but pretty signage. Well, you're wrong! This site is actually pretty amazing.
Cal Orco is a paleontological museum which claims to be the largest site of dinosaur tracks in the world. Now, I'm not a subject matter expert to confirm or deny this claim but I know that the 500-meter-long and 150-meter-high wall featuring hundreds of clearly-visible tracks from different types of dinosaurs is mind-blowing and certainly the only site of this kind I've seen in my life.
And for an entrance fee of under USD 5, it's a bargain too.
Unfortunately, I'll have to brag a little here since this trek is rather difficult to find by yourself, but our expert Intrepid local leaders know it like the back of their hands.
The trek is locally known as "Chataquila" and reaching its starting point takes a little over 1.5 hrs driving by van. The hike then meanders downhill (which makes it VERY easy on the legs!) for a few hours following a pre-Inca stone path.
The highlight of the day are the jaw-dropping mountain scenes and the opportunity to comfortably hike through Bolivian Andes before returning to Sucre for a well-deserved dinner.
Last but not least is this little gem some two hours away from Sucre. It's a very authentic indigenous market which takes place every Sunday. Though it's starting to become better known by tourists, this market remains strongly by and for locals.
Why you'll love it? The many mountain communities that gather here every Sunday are culturally different from one another and one of these differences is visible on the pattern of their attires. If you look closely, you'll distinguish different decoration patterns and different hats being worn by different communities.
Another highlight of this market is the quality of textiles available to purchase. Dyed and knitted by hand, these textiles can be true pieces of art. That said, prices are high too, which is only fair when you consider some of these pieces take months to make.
Ready to explore this captivating city? Check out Intrepid's range of small group tours in Bolivia.
Martin worked as a tour leader in South America before moving to Australia to join Intrepid Travel, where he has been crafting adventures to the Latin America region for over 10 years.


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A dance that never dies...
Your sister's invited you to attend the biggest performance of her life: she'll debut as Donatella di Fiore, every ballerina's dream role. She tells you to meet her after the dance but never shows up! What's happened to your sister on this fateful night? Get into the theater and find a cast of ghosts all trying to tell you something. Save your sister from a decades-old curse so this doesn't become her last encore!


iPods have been popular for quite some time, but there are some people who are just now feeling comfortable enough, or having the desire, to make the purchase. For those who are thinking about buying one, or who have recently purchased one but not yet opened it, the following tips will show you how easy it is to upload your tunes and enjoy your new device.
One: The first thing you want to do is charge the battery that came with the device, in full. You can charge it by attaching it to your computer or by attaching it to the portable charger that may have come with it. A light on the iPod will indicate when the charge is complete.
Two: What you can do while your battery is charging, is upload the software that came with the iPod to your computer. This is important to do because it will enable your device and computer to recognize one another in order for you to be able to transfer the music you want to hear from the computer to the iPod. The software is easy enough to install and it will walk you through the process with easy step-by-step instructions.
Three: The next step is to make sure the songs you want on your iPod are already on your computer. You can do this in one of several ways. First, you can upload music from Cds that you already own. This is great for playing songs you already own, and of course there is no charge to you. Two, you can download songs to your computer via the iTunes store, which is accessible through their website, details given via the instructions that came with the iPod. There is a minimal charge for each song you download. Third, you can transfer music that is already on your computer hard drive to the portable player.
Four: Now it is time to transfer the music from your computer to your device. If you are using iTunes, there should be a message on your computer that lets you opt to transfer songs automatically from your iTunes collection, to your device, when you plug the player into the computer. If so, the machines will do all of the work for you. If, however, you are choosing songs from your computer library (that were already on your computer or that you have uploaded from Cds), then you will have to click on each song individually to make the transfer. Again, it is a very easy process and self-explanatory as you go.
There will be times, as there are with any device that is computer-related, when you will receive an error message. There is a manual included with your iPod, or you can access the website for help, when these occurrences pop up. The most common error, however, occurs when you are trying to transfer music that is not in your iPod library. Fixing the challenge is easy enough by simply converting the song you would like to transfer to another format. Do not let the terminology scare you, once you have done it one time, you will realize how very easy it is to do. Simply click on the Advanced Menu tab in iTunes and it will walk you through the process.
Know too, that while you can transfer music from your computer to your iPod, you cannot transfer music from the iPod to the computer. At least not yet. I am fairly certain technology may advance to allow that function at some time in the near future.
As an extra note, there are many devices available today that further help you enjoy your iPod. If you do not like ear devices for listening, you can purchase a speaker adapter that allows you to place the device in the middle of two speakers and play it, very similar to a traditional stereo, and in many cases, with the same quality of sound. You can also purchase alarm clocks that allow you to place the iPod in them to wake you up to your favorite tunes.
iPods are really fun and convenient, and they hold a LOT of songs. All you need to do now, is sit back and enjoy your new purchase.