Interesting…Planned Parenthood claims that only 3% of their business is for abortions – but when Texas stood firm, Cecile nearly choked on her own vomit. I suppose it's tough being an anti-prophet in your own hometown? You'll get that later.
'Undue burden' keeps abortion facilities open. Undue burden kills unborn children; undue burden costs tax payers millions without apology. But then HB2 happened, and the sea of hijacked burnt orange just got a little quieter.
"Planned Parenthood's political arm is embarking on the most aggressive campaign it has ever waged in Texas, with plans to spend $3 million to turn out voters for Democratic candidates including Sens. Wendy Davis for governor and Leticia Van de Putte for lieutenant governor." Read the rest here.
A blog who claims 'our core audience is the progressive, Democratic base in Texas' wrongly said, "As a result, nearly one million Texans now face a minimum of 300-mile round-trip journeys to access their constitutionally protected health care." Actually, it's a blatant lie. First, abortion is NOT healthcare. Second, what should have been said was that 'women who are in childbearing age that MAY abort could face a longer travel time to sacrifice their unborn child to the abortion czars'. Typical proabort lies and scare tactics.
Undue burden test is defined as a "constitutional test to decide the constitutionality of particular law. State regulations affecting undue burdens are regulated by the courts under the test." Who has to prove undue burden and how can it be proven? How can anyone know that answer? You can't, it's all an assumption based on probability. THAT keeps abortion facilities open.
A recent article noted that since the closing of the El Paso abortion facility, it put an undue burden for women to travel over 500 miles to the nearest abortion facility. What that liberal biased article failed to note is that women in El Paso can travel LESS than half that distance to a New Mexico facility, and one is about to open [praying to God it does NOT] in near Las Cruces.
So, where is the undue burden? It would seem that the undue burden has been placed on the abortion czars of Texas to stay open, to implement all the improvements to keep women safe. After all, isn't that the true war on women? How much more do women have to suffer to keep bad law on the books? Click here to read more on the hazards of 'safe, legal and rare'.
But then there's last desperate attempt to continue to violate women and unborn children….
"The motion [to the SCOTUS], which had been expected, is a final attempt by providers to save about 13 clinics that closed last Friday, the day after the ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…..That court, one of the most conservative appellate courts in the country, found it was in the public interest to greenlight enforcement of the regulations, which require abortion facilities to meet the standards of hospital-style surgical centers and abortion doctors to obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital." Read the rest here.
To think that serving women through better law is an undue burden…the nerve. Proabots can wrestle with the law all they want, but the true undue burden is on the unborn child. A baby within the womb has NO rights, NO liberties, NO protection within the Constitution.
Unborn children bear the burden and die for a person that was supposed to love and protect them for their entire life.
Next postNPR: You get the liberal bias you pay for.


Today we live in an age when it seems like everyone has access to every kind of music ever produced. It has never been easier to experience and consume music of all different types. But it is becoming increasing rare for people to actually sing. Church is one of the only places left where we are create our own musical experience. Singing has been part of the human experience for thousands of years and we continue that experience at Trinity on Sunday mornings.
Music is part of who we are and so music is part of how we worship God. We sing hymns that span centuries. We could sing a hymn whose text written before 400AD and a few minutes later, we could sing a hymn written in our lifetime. Every time we sing it is a new thing, a unique expression of our love and our gratitude for the gifts that God gives us. These hymns may have been written long ago and they may reflect different musical styles, but every time we sing them, they become our song.
At Trinity, we give thanks that some people have been given greater gifts of music, and through our choirs we provide a way for those gifts to flourish. The choir helps lead our singing, and the choir helps lead our worship by ornamenting and bringing greater beauty to our services. Our choir also leads us in special events such as our annual Fauré Requiem Eucharist on the first Sunday of November and occasional choral evensong throughout the year.


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Market prices continue to decline, the north and the Southern China part of the linear down 50-100 yuan / ton. Although linear futures opened higher volatility, but some petrochemical businesses continue to sale, lack of confidence in the market outlook, accompanying with the fall. Downstream demand changed little, just need to deal primarily.
On Wednesday, the international crude oil futures prices were slightly higher, on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) August WTI light sweet crude oil futures settlement price rose 29 cents, to $44.94, or 0.6 percent. London Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) September Brent crude oil futures settlement price rose 51 cents to $47.17 a barrel, or 1.1%.
On Wednesday (July 20) Asian ethylene market prices fell in part, CFR Northeast Asia prices steady closed at $1134.5-1136.5 / ton; CFR prices in Southeast Asia fell $15 closed at 1069.5-1071.5 U.S. dollars / ton.
Market quotation large steady small move. Continue to demand flat, firm turnover in a single talk.
Shunde market PE prices continue to weaken. Linear futures opened higher concussion, although Petrochemical continuation down some of the ex factory price, contusion in market trading atmosphere, trader a small profit sharing shipments. End customer follow up weakness, deal with focus on negotiation.
Chengdu PE price of the majority of the market finishing. Linear futures opened higher volatility, the business mentality flat, market trading atmosphere, trader market shipments. Downstream end customer follow-up weakness, a single deal.
Changzhou market PE price decline. Linear morning futures opened higher volatility, but the down part of petrochemical factory prices, traders market shipments. The terminal customer pick enthusiasm is not high, a single transaction protocol.
PetroChina North China LLDPE listing price stability, 7042n (Lanzhou Petrochemical) newspaper 8900 yuan / ton, 7042 (Daqing Petrochemical) reported 8800 yuan / tons. 0209AA (Dushanzi) reported 8900 yuan / tons.
PetroChina South China LLDPE listing price down, 7042 (Fushun Petrochemical) fell 100 yuan reported 9100 yuan / ton, 7042 (Dushanzi) fell 100 yuan reported 9100 yuan / ton, 7042n (Lanzhou Petrochemical) fell 150 yuan reported 9050 yuan / ton.
CNPC East China LLDPE price stability, 7042 (Jilin Petrochemical) newspaper 9000 yuan / ton, 7042 (Dushanzi) reported 8950 yuan / ton, 7042 (Sichuan) report of 8950 yuan / ton.
As of 15, in the LLDPE individual grade plastic stock price rose 100 yuan / ton, LL0220KJ/ Shanghai SECCO minimum 9700 yuan / ton.
Upstream to the weak trend, petrochemical prices continue to decline, making market pessimism have filled the air, and upstream and downstream plant operation situation is not ideal, weak demand situation is difficult to significantly improve, traders mentality of instability and offer to fall, to expect to stimulate demand, but the actual effect is not clear. Expected, the recent market is likely to fall sideways.


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Originaltitel: When Angels Intervene to Save the Children
Filmtitel: To Save the Children (Bombenalarm in der Schule - Eltern zittern um ihre Kinder)
Cokeville, Wyoming was the perfect slice of American Pie--a rural community surrounded by ranches and built by committed families with strong religious convictions; certainly not the typical terrorist target--precisely why David Young chose it as the place to seize his hostages.
Shortly after lunch, Young and his wife charged the Cokeville Elementary School toting a small arsenal of weapons and pushing a cart carrying a deadly bomb. One hundred fifty-siz children and teachers were herded into a single classroom and the terror began.
But something was different. This was home-grown terrorism with a different motivation. David Young's twisted and deranged intent was to blow up the school creating a mass murder-suicide that would plunge them all into a "Brave New World" where he would rule over the children.
"When Angels Intervene to Save the Children" is a basis for the CBS movie "To Save the Children". The real story of this incident unfolded during interviews with school therapists and parents. The children's accounts attributed their survival to angels dressed in white who instructed and protected them and told them to stay calm. Fact by fact, the authors described every hour of the terrifying ordeal and recount piece by piece the children's stories of the miraculous escape.
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PADUCAH, KY – Photography Art Paducah 2017/2018… this is a small collection of photographs taken in historic downtown Paducah, KY.
The colorful streaks area created with car lights. I got this effect by setting my exposure times around 2 to 6 seconds, my ISO at 50 and my aperture at F3.5. The editing software used was Photoshop.
You can get this effect on phones if it allows you to set exposure times. But you will need a tripod or something that can keep your phone perfectly still.
Phones will need to use the same settings as hand-held cameras as well. These settings are a good baseline to start with: Exp 2-6 sec, ISO 50-200, F3.5 or lower.
The photos below were created with normal shots, long exposures and HDR bracketing.
PADUCAH, KY – Just Hamburgers serves the biggest-bang-for-your-buck burgers in Kentucky located on Jackson Street in the City of Paducah.
There were cars lined up all the way to the street for the drive thru at the time, so we decided to park and go inside. I have read so many good things about this place online I had to see it for myself and document this trip for others to see.
I ordered the Weekly Hamburger Special which was called The Black Hole Sun! It was a huge double burger with provolone cheese topped with an onion ring, smothered in sweet & spicy bbq sauce with some jalapenos and bacon added as well. The burger was the best I have ever had and It came with fries and a large pop for only $5.99.
The service provided by the staff had a personal touch to boot, something you don't see very often – if at all. Customers were actually greeted by their first names as they walked inside.
Owner Robert and Jennifer Waller are at the helm of this old-style eatery that carries an impeccable rating of 4.8 on Google and an even more impressive 4.9 on its Facebook page.
What makes Just Hamburgers far exceed other hamburger joints? They greet their customers by name making them feel like they belong. They serve high end burgers at a price that's literally unbeatable. Also worth mentioning is the owner and staff are the coolest guys ever.
I will definitely be back to get another weekly special at this little Gem very soon. Please try this locally-owned eatery and take part in keeping small businesses alive and well in the Paducah area.


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Description of the monument-sculpture "Motherland is calling" in Volgograd
The sculptural monument "Motherland is calling" is the central figure of the Mamaev Kurgan in the hero city. The height of this structure is 52 meters. The hill on which the monument is located is of the bulk type, the height of the hill is 14 meters. Given the length of the sword, the monument "Motherland Calls" refers to the highest sculptural structures.
Roads lead to the monument on this mound. One of the roads departs from the Square of Sorrow. There are gravestones along the paths leading to the monument. The names of those who died in the battle of Stalingrad are written on them. 34 and a half thousand people were buried in the mound under the monument. All of them became heroes who won freedom for their country.
The author of the monument is sculptor E. Vuchetich. One of the waitresses of the Volgograd restaurant became the prototype of the woman depicted in the sculpture.
Interestingly, the initial design of this sculpture was to appear in a different way. It was assumed that the monument will have male and female figures. Moreover, the soldier should bow to the woman on her knees. In the hand, the woman should have had a flag in her hands. However, the author of the sculpture did not consider these details as necessary, and we see the sculpture exactly as it is today.
This monument is the image of a mother heroine who convenes heroes to fight the enemies of the motherland. Everything in her is courageous, characteristic of a woman doing a heroic act: sharp lines of the figure, open mouth and eyes, outstretched hand. Such details create a sense of strength and courage, as well as an atmosphere of anxiety hanging over the country. Sculpture is also a reminder of the most difficult times that were destined to survive the inhabitants of a huge country.
From the very foot of the monument, the viewer has a beautiful view of the hero city of Volgograd, as well as the Volga River.
Barge Haulers on the Volga Repin
Watch the video: Volgograd. Mamayev Kurgan - The Honor Guard of Eternal Flame 4K (February 2023).
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Q: Why does my application enter break mode when I bind to a collection? I am currently trying to bind the ItemSource of my ItemsControl but for some reason it's throwing an issue saying that the application has entered break mode and I have no idea what the cause is, I really want to understand why it's entering breakmode, I tried debugging but it didn't really get me very far.
The goal was to create a custom UserControl and then being able to add them to a ObservableCollectionwith a button click. So creating a new one when the button has been clicked, unfortunatly I didn't get that far because this started happening.
So my question is, Why is it throwing that issue, is it something where it doesnt like the binding?
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding UserViewModel.Users}">
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And I've setup the DataContext like so
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        this.DataContext = new BaseViewModel();
    }
}

And for the BaseViewModel, it looks like this
public class BaseViewModel : ObservableObject
{
    public UserViewModel UserViewModel { get; set; } = new UserViewModel();
}

And the UserViewModel looks like this
public class UserViewModel : ObservableObject
{
    public ObservableCollection<User> Users { get; set; } = new ObservableCollection<User>();

    public UserViewModel()
    {

    }
}

With an ObservableObject like so
public class ObservableObject : INotifyPropertyChanged
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    [NotifyPropertyChangedInvocator]
    protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged([CallerMemberName] string propertyName = null)
    {
        PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
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A: The UserCard control goes in the ItemTemplate of the ItemsControl:
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding UserViewModel.Users}">
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A Choreography of Living Texts: Selections from the ARST Oral History Project
Kenny Walker, Jennifer Malkowski, Damien Smith Pfister
Oral history projects about rhetorical studies contribute to transdisciplinary histories by creating living texts that reflect the dynamism of scholarly cultures. Through interviews conducted at the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology (ARST), we chart the organizational and intellectual history of a field, its contributions to science studies, and its potential future directions. These digitized, archived oral histories serve as an articulation point for transdisciplinary reflection, but they also represent an important strand of digital humanities work that creates living texts and keeps them open for future articulations.
Rhetoric Review
Rhetoric of Science
Walker, K., Malkowski, J., & Pfister, D. S. (2014). A Choreography of Living Texts: Selections from the ARST Oral History Project. Rhetoric Review, 33(3), 262-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2014.917515
A Choreography of Living Texts : Selections from the ARST Oral History Project. / Walker, Kenny; Malkowski, Jennifer; Pfister, Damien Smith.
In: Rhetoric Review, Vol. 33, No. 3, 07.2014, p. 262-280.
Walker, K, Malkowski, J & Pfister, DS 2014, 'A Choreography of Living Texts: Selections from the ARST Oral History Project', Rhetoric Review, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 262-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2014.917515
Walker K, Malkowski J, Pfister DS. A Choreography of Living Texts: Selections from the ARST Oral History Project. Rhetoric Review. 2014 Jul;33(3):262-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2014.917515
Walker, Kenny ; Malkowski, Jennifer ; Pfister, Damien Smith. / A Choreography of Living Texts : Selections from the ARST Oral History Project. In: Rhetoric Review. 2014 ; Vol. 33, No. 3. pp. 262-280.
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Does anyone know who started World War One? Why the Brooklyn Dodgers fled New York? (The sunny weather in LA seems sufficient). Why no one in the Bush White House was jailed for outing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent? Why Mel Kiper's wife puts up with his hair?
There are reasons for everything. Reasons and justifications, too. And when you want to push the proverbial envelope along this path, you arrive at blame. When it comes to our dog acquisition project (DAP, which should not be confused with the Dog Acquisition Budget or DAB), my finger swivels and finds the cell numbers of MW's friends Barb and Lisa.
Each had a hand to play in the turning of the screws. Barb enlisted first. She's a crafter who makes terrifically wonderful plushies (the kind whose heads are removed by willful puppies). While manning her stall last September at a Newport, CA arts and craft fair, a fellow exhibitor affiliated with a local dog rescue association introduced her to Duke. Barb immediately introduced MW to Duke via jpegs and a brief YouTube clip. Duke, a 4-year old black great dane foundling, was malnourished and hungry for some nutrition and a home.
It's hard to describe the effect. MW went a little nutty, immediately coveting a dog she'd never seen. It was like watching a 1980s Wall Street raider seize upon an aging Pennsylvania steel mill. From repeat views of Barb's videos to quickly deciding that we'd transform Duke into a Scottish laird by giving him a name like Malcolm or Hamish, our home office become a hive of emailing and sessions around the monitor. Only after MW completed a lengthy application form did we learn that we were one of 40 applicants seeking Duke's slobbering kisses. Our chances looked statistically poor.
En plus, the rescue organization wanted an in-home visit. I drew the line at flying a representative up to visit us. MW pleaded from afar (without actually begging) that we were a good and thoughtful home. (I'm not sure that she might have displayed a bit too much neediness at this moment). We made the short list of four. Two more solicitous emails and…………Duke joined a family……………… in Orange County.
Depending on your perspective, we'd either dodged a bullet or were terribly unlucky. If you're thinking of the rescue route, here is my take: OD is six years away from college applications but I doubt she'll take more care in answering the application than MW did. Be aware that rescue organizations ask very serious questions; if you roll your own cigarettes, you're probably not making the cut.
Was I sad? Duke will probably vote Republican from now on because OC is the biggest concentration of white, upper middle-class dog owners who golf in the entire state. And he may never get the opportunity to wear a Black Watch tartan bandanna at Christmas. Yes, it is definitely sad for him.
Probably the most amazing thing, though, is that this entire "We need Duke" frenzy covered just one week. Thanks to YouTube and SKYPE, email and cell phone technology, our family was on the cusp of welcoming a dog and becoming Dog People again for real. I call it my Blind Side experience. Just never saw it coming.
Who'd have thought that life can change so quickly due to an arts and craft show 400 miles away. In future, I'll never doubt that a hummingbird can start a hurricane two oceans away.


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, né Rinaldo Conti di Segni (Jenne, diocèse d'Anagni, vers 1199 – ), fut le  de l'Église catholique de 1254 à 1261.

Son pontificat est marqué par les efforts d'unification entre les églises orthodoxe et catholique, la protection des universités, les faveurs accordées aux ordres mendiants dans leur différends avec les séculiers et les tentatives d'organiser des croisades contre les Tartares.

Par sa mère, il fait partie de la famille du pape , dont il était le neveu, et de la famille du pape . Son oncle  le fait cardinal en 1227, puis cardinal-évêque d'Ostie en 1231.

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À la mort d', il est élu pape à Naples le .

Il est décrit comme un homme ferme, accueillant et bon mais sans être particulièrement brillant.

Il succède à  en tant que tuteur de Conradin, le dernier descendant des Hohenstaufen, lui promettant sa protection bienveillante. Mais il conspira aussitôt contre lui, puis s'opposa à son oncle Manfred.  menace en vain Manfred d'excommunication et d'interdit. Il ne réussit pas non plus à entraîner les rois d'Angleterre et de Norvège dans une croisade contre la dynastie des Hohenstaufen.

Rome devenant trop proche du parti gibelin, le pape s'établit à Viterbe en 1257, en raison de l'hostilité du peuple et de la bourgeoisie romaine, fomentée par le sénateur Brancaleone degli Andalò. Il fait rénover et agrandir le palais épiscopal de la ville pour en faire le palais des papes de Viterbe, où il meurt en 1261. Ses successeurs y demeureront jusqu'en 1281.

Bulles
(liste non exhaustive)
 1254 - confirme et complète la bulle d'Innocent IV en disant que les monastères de l'ordre de Cîteaux seront dispensés de payer aux évêques aucun droit de visite ou de procuration.
1255 (12 avril) - le pape octroie la licentia ubique docendi à l'université de Salamanque
 1255 - du , commettant l'abbé de l'abbaye Saint-Martin de Nevers, pour examiner un rescrit de Rome, obtenu par Girard de La Roche de Beauvoir, évêque d'Autun, touchant le privilège d'exemption, sans avoir déclaré qu'il y avait un litige entre les deux parties. Décision annulée par une bulle du , qui annule également toutes les lettres que l'évêque d'Autun a pu obtenir contre l'abbaye de Saint-Martin d'Autun. Un bref de 1256, commettant le cardinal de Saint-Laurent, puis, celui de Sainte-Sabine, pour accorder les parties.
 1255 - autorise les religieux et religieuses de l'ordre de Cîteaux à construire dans leurs granges et fermes des autels et des chapelles pour y célébrer le service divin.

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Notes et références

Cardinal italien du XIIIe siècle
Cardinal créé par Grégoire IX
Pape du XIIIe siècle

Date de naissance non renseignée (XIIe siècle)
Décès en 1261
Camerlingue de la Sainte Église romaine
Décès à Viterbe

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If you are in LARP to play solo-Nerdball, LARP is not the right hobby for you. If a player's pure and only enjoyment in a game comes out of the fact that they need the most points, stats, or mechanical advantages over other players, then LARP is not the gaming medium that person should be devoting their energy to playing. There are a dozen other types of games which are points driven and can clearly be won. From board games, to Warhammer 40K, Magic Tournaments, poker, or half a dozen crunch-driven MMOs out there, those games provide an experience to the points-winning minded player where they can have a clear win over other players. There are obvious accomplishment-based goal posts for winning and a direct reward for gaining the most stats in a given environment. When you examine your goals for playing a game, if your main goal is to get the most points and win, I do not think the genre of live action roleplaying for you. You will find far more reward in the type games listed above.
LARPing is an inherently narrative game playing medium that requires players willing to subvert the 'win' to 'the story' on, at LEAST, an occasional basis. If someone is not willing to do that, they are probably not healthy for your game. Be it boffer LARPs, more simulationist driven games, or fully narrative freeform LARPs, the collective player base of any LARP is there to tell a story at the end of the day. Some of these games are physical-win driven: Massive fights using various foam implements where the pleasure in victory comes from putting down the enemy. Some of these games even can be political-win driven: the Prince of the city and his clan often controls the direction of story and will be in the center spotlight in the coming months. However, even when there are clear 'win' conditions in your LARP, the game will suffer if those players aren't willing to do anything but win. To make those 'wins' the most powerful and interesting, they need to have defeats on the battlefield, lost party members, the drama of losing a battle so you can win a war, or ethical debates about the way warfare is conducted. All the various failures add up to make the win the best story. If a Prince and a prevailing clan hold a city too long, the game grows stagnant, other players lose drive, and the empowered faction itself loses drive. Without failure, there is no reason to grow.
To be fulfilled by a LARP, players must want narrative elements in their gaming. They have to acknowledge that they are part of telling a greater collective story and be willing to step back, fail, or be overpowered by other people on occasion. There are many shades of players between the constant victim/play to lose/drama monger (I definitely fall closer to this category) and the anger/bullying/power-gamer who will cheat their points just to have more power on the field, and these shades are where healthy game play comes into being.
Your players don't have to lose ALL the time. They do not have to subvert themselves entirely to the greater story. They DO, however, have to recognize that this is a story at its core. It's not a board game or a poker match. There is no ultimate win. All good stories have shades of winning and losing. No one picked up a book just to read the hero succeeding the whole way to the end.
If a player is unwilling to recognize this, it's important to sit down and have a long conversation with them. See if you can find their goals and motivations for gaming. See if they might get excited about surrendering spotlight or power in a certain manner. Often, I have found power-gaming style players really come around to good story when they realize they do still have power, but that power is strictly over their own story, not everyone else's as well. If you find what excites them in narratives, you can help sculpt them in that direction. If there is nothing to excite them other than the power of mechanics? Well… My opinion is that not every game is for every player, and most LARPs are not for them. There's some real-talk for the week.
Footnote: Many of you will say that LARPing is a competitive game. It's built for people to win against each other. And yes, I'll admit that there are games absolutely built in this style. There can be great drama and excitement in winning against other players. My theory here is not that you shouldn't win, but that the wins should not be constant or the ONLY reason for the game. In what other competitive sport do you have NPCs setting up drama and obstacles for some players and not others? Where there are side games and things that matter not at all to the basic battle? And for all those watching from the sidelines, if no one but a single team wins the entire time, does that not even get boring? There are competitive sports out there, and while LARP can be competitive, playing only for the win removes the basic element of what makes LARPing LARP — story.
I started my rpg days as a stat-driven power gamer and have come around to the error of my ways more recently. If it doesn't make sense to you how personal failure or tragedy could result in a wonderful experience for you, I'll try a different metaphor. Your most meaningful social connections are not because of your supreme charisma, soul-crushing good looks, or the intelligence of how you planned your slow build up to the perfect pickup line. (And if you have connections that fit this mold, it sounds a little… weird). Rather, your connections happened because who you are and who they are causes you both to resonate on a shared chord. So, next time you have a decision to make in game, recognize that the most memorable stories come from flawed characters and, if you must be touched by the power of a god, remember that Achilles died but his name is immortal.


Edible landscaping serves the dual purpose of landscaping and fresh edible plants. In this article, get some ideas about how you can have your own one.
Edible landscaping is a very convenient and quite rewarding idea that will serve you a dual purpose. You can transform your landscape with some beautiful wild edible plants that will give you a wide range of fresh fruits and vegetables that you can pluck out and use whenever they are ripe and ready. In addition to this, your landscape will look attractive with the various green plants punctuated with colorful edible wild berries here and there. In this Gardenerdy article, you can check out some landscaping ideas that may suit your 'taste' as well as your landscape.
An edible garden is nothing but a garden, outdoor or indoor, that instead of having just the usual flowering or ornamental plants, has plants which bear fruits and vegetables. One peculiar feature about edible landscaping is that it includes plants that are generally short in stature. So you will not really find tall fruit trees. Instead, you'll have shrubs, bushes and vines which bear berries or edible herbs. Given below are some ideas that you can apply to transform a landscaping plan that you have into a gorgeous edible one.
This is a good idea if you want to add some color to your garden. You can have a section within your garden dedicated for the edible part. Border it with some smooth and polished rocks, and divide it into sections. In each section, plant a small shrub of a berry. It can be strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, or any other small berry bush that you can think of. At the borders, have tall sticks firmly stuck into the ground, and a mesh of bamboo connecting all the sticks. Have your own trellis of grapes growing on this mesh. It will look good and taste good too!
Have you ever grumbled about how you can never seem to find fresh mushrooms and how you always have to opt for the frozen ones? Well, how about growing your own wild edible mushrooms in your garden? Instead of a pumpkin patch, develop a mushroom patch, so you have a fresh batch of mushrooms ready when you want them. You can have a herb garden growing side by side with it. Coriander, thyme, mint, curry leaves, you have so many options of herbs that are used in almost everyday cooking.
This is also a good idea. You can have small bushes of vegetables like tomatoes, lemons, gooseberry, etc. inside your garden. You can have creepers which bear big vegetables like pumpkins, cucumber, gourds, okra, etc. bordering them. Overall, you'll get an impression of the big vegetables guarding the little ones. You can also make use of many vegetable bushes, which have a thick foliage, as privacy hedges. A thick vegetable garden bordering your home can also be a nice idea.
Another combination that you can try out is roots and spices. You can plant roots and tubers like potatoes, carrots, radishes, beetroot, ginger, etc. along with spices like mustard, cumin, chillies, etc. The spice plants look great when they are in full bloom, and the roots will give a lovely coat of green to the garden. You can have them surrounding a garden bench if you wish. The aroma of the fresh spices will be hard to resist.
Apart from these ideas, you can try out various different combinations and patterns of cultivating plants which will provide you with fresh ingredients for your kitchen. They may be small, but they will enhance your landscape effectively. In addition to that, you'll have the mental satisfaction of having used ingredients from your own private garden for whipping up a healthy meal for your family!


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Summary and book reviews of Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru
Gods Without Men
by Hari Kunzru
Judy Krueger Buy This Book
Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, Gods Without Men is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe.
In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing... It is God without men.
- Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed - but not unchanged - the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them.
Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe.
In the time when the animals were men
In the time when the animals were men, Coyote was living in a certain place. "Haikya! I have gotten so tired of living here-aikya. I am going to go out into the desert and cook." With this, Coyote took an RV and drove into the desert to set up a lab. He took along ten loaves of Wonder bread and fifty packets of ramen noodles. He took whiskey and enough pot to keep him going. He searched for a long time and found a good place. "Here, I will set up-aikya! There is so much room! There is no one to bother me here!"
Coyote set to work. "Oh," he said, "haikya! I have so many tablets of pseudoephedrine! It took me so long to get! I have been driving around to those pharmacies for so long-aikya!" He crushed the pseudo until it was a fine powder. He filled a beaker with wood spirit and swirled around the powder. He poured the mixture through filter papers to get rid of the filler. Then he set it on the warmer to evaporate. But Coyote ...
Gods Without Men brings us into the consciousness of nine fictional characters, among them a hedge fund executive; a UFO cult leader; a dissolute British rock star; a homesick Iraqi teenage girl; one historical character, the eighteenth-century Spanish missionary Fray Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés; and one deity, Coyote, the trickster in many Native American traditional stories. Why does Hari Kunzru embrace such a wide and diverse cast of characters?
Do these characters from different historical eras and different echelons of society share any of the same aspirations? What draws them to the Pinnacle Rocks?
Which character or characters do you most identify with? Why?
Why do you think Kunzru set this novel in the ...
What could a UFO hippie cult, a British rock star, a Spanish Franciscan priest, the son of a Sikh and his autistic son have in common? The Mojave Desert, for one thing. A search for meaning that connects the earthbound physical plane with the spiritual, for another. In his fourth novel, Hari Kunzru confronts head-on the quandaries of modern life while walking a fine line between irony and authentic emotion, between seriousness and lightheartedness, without missing a step. (Reviewed by Judy Krueger).
The Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sometimes dizzying, sometimes puzzling, always enjoyable, Gods Without Men is one of the best novels of the year.
The literary skills of Hari Kunzru are evident throughout this complex and disturbing novel.
Compulsively readable, skillfully orchestrated, Kunzru's American odyssey brings a new note into his underlying preoccupation with human identity. Faced with the immanence of a big 'other' - alien, natural, druggy or godly - of what transformations, let alone lives, are humans capable?
A countercultural mind-expanding quest... As a virtuoso performance, changing gears and styles every 20 pages or so, encompassing 18th-century friars and Hoxton hipsters, it will appeal to fans of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas... Extraordinary.
Kunzru's lively fourth novel tackles its big themes without ever becoming ponderous or heavy-going... Involving, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining.
Starred Review. Kunzru's ear for colloquial speech creates a cacophony that overlays his affectionate descriptions of the desolate landscape, creating a powerful effect akin to the distant cry of urgent voices crackling up and down the dial on a lonely drive through an American wasteland.
Starred Review. Working a subject that might easily have invited a heavy hand, Kunzru instead delivers a lively and frequently thrilling version of the quest novel.
Starred Review. At first somewhat slow as the various stories are laid out, this extraordinary novel by the estimable Kunzru (My Revolutions) gathers momentum, power, and a fierce clarity to deliver a rich panorama while detailing our mutual antagonisms and deepest spiritual needs (met, perhaps, with "a vast emptiness, an absence"). Highly recommended.
Starred Review. Hopscotching across time, looking quizzically at space, Kunzru's marvelous novel uses diverse cultures (Native American, Catholic, Mormon, Wall Street, hippie UFO believers) to speculate on the nature of reality and religion, magic and mystery.
A Brief History of the Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert is located primarily in Southern California but extends into parts of Utah, Nevada and Arizona. It encompasses Death Valley, Joshua Tree National Park as well as communities such as Barstow and 29 Palms. Interstates 14 and 40 penetrate into and cross the desert.
Nearly 12,000 years ago, once the Pleistocene glaciers receded, Paleo Indians occupied what we now call the Mojave Desert. According to the US National Park Service, "The Chemehuevi lived on prickly pear, mesquite and roasted agave blooms and hunted deer and bighorn sheep." As the region became more arid, various native tribes such as Shoshone, Southern Paiute and Mojave moved in.
When Spanish explorers arrived in the late 16th Century in search of ...
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World Report| Volume 383, ISSUE 9930, P1707-1708, May 17, 2014
Uganda's struggle with schistosomiasis
Sam Loewenberg
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Efforts are underway to rid Uganda of the scourge of schistosomiasis but provision of clean water and good sanitation lags behind treatment efforts. Samuel Loewenberg reports from Uganda.
With its brick and mud huts, long wooden fishing boats, and children playing along the shores of Lake Victoria, from a distance the village of Bwondha seems idyllic. When one gets a little closer to the shore, though, it is important to step carefully: piles of human faeces are scattered amid the grass and rocks just metres from the water. The lake is the centre of life here: women do laundry, men lay out their catch of the day, and children, many with bloated bellies probably caused by infection, wash and play. Cows meander along the same stretch of lakeside where people fetch drinking water.
All of that mess is bad for human beings, but it is good for the embryonic blood flukes that nestle into their human hosts, causing the parasitic disease schistosomiasis, one of several neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that infects so many in Uganda. In Bwondha, the prevalence of schistosomiasis is 80%, with trachoma, elephantiasis, and malaria also present.
An effort is underway throughout Uganda to address the problem of NTDs, and particularly schistosomiasis, with community health workers going door-to-door to administer drugs. Since the programme started there is a noticeable improvement in the health of the village, said a Bwondha elder, Salongo Rashid. Still, he expressed his frustration: government officials come and promise they will provide safe water, but nothing happens.
Keeping children away from the water does not seem realistic. Nabirya Haddija, a mother of nine, lives on the shore of the lake. Four of her children are on medication, and they dislike the side-effects, which include vomiting. Still, Haddija is happy they are on the medication, and she says she tells her children to stay away from the water. But with Lake Victoria just a few metres away, she admits they probably go in when she is not looking.
"There is no doubt in my mind that schistosomiasis will only disappear from this planet when everyone has access to clean water and sanitation", said Alan Fenwick, a professor of tropical parasitology at Imperial College, London. Fenwick leads the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), an international charity that has been treating people in Uganda since 2003. The group's work is presently funded by both the British Government and from donations from the British and American public. SCI has operations in 16 countries and has helped governments deliver more than 100 million treatments throughout Africa.
No mean feat
Uganda presents some unique challenges. Lake Victoria is home to a large number of fishing communities, many of them on islands, and so people are constantly exposed to the parasites. "The problem is that we get treatment once a year but we go in the water every day", said Irumba Hakim, the Bwondha village chairman and a health team leader. He added that his 4-year-old daughter, Kaahwa, has schistosomiasis. SCI currently does not treat children younger than 5-years-old, but work is being done on a paediatric formulation.
Presently, SCI is trying to implement a strategy of elimination in communities with prevalence below 20%. The entire community is treated for 2 years, as the test for schistosomiasis is prohibitively expensive on such a large scale. The drug, praziquantel, is donated to WHO by Merck Serono, and additional drugs are purchased with funding from the UK and US Governments.
Previously, the goal of treatment was to lower the infections to 20% of the local population and then stop; the problem was that the infections reemerge. So now the focus is on eliminating the disease. WHO notes that this has been an effective strategy in Egypt and China, but Fenwick warns that those gains could be lost without continued control efforts.
More than 4 million people are estimated to be infected with schistosomiasis in Uganda, and about 55% of the population of 36 million are thought to be at risk. The infection rates vary widely, from 92% in some areas to as little as 2% in others. It is not just a rural problem, either. One study found 65% prevalence in a district of Kampala, Uganda's capital city.
Much of life revolves around the infected waters of Lake Victoria in Bwondha
Copyright © 2014 Sam Loewenberg
Wider effort
The efforts to combat schistosomiasis are part of an integrated approach supported by RTI International, a non-profit research and development organisation funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to tackle five NTDs, the others being trachoma, onchocerciasis, soil-transmitted helminths, and elephantiasis. Previously, these were vertical programmes, but were integrated in 2007 by the Ministry of Health.
Of Uganda's 112 districts, 41 have trachoma, 54 have elephantiasis, 37 have onchocerciasis, and 73 have schistosomiasis. SCI is currently working in 30 infected districts countrywide. So far, the programme has successfully lowered the prevalence to below 10% in four formerly endemic districts.
The existing government-administered health system does not extend all the way to the village level, so the mass treatments are given by volunteer community health workers. The government says it cannot afford to pay them, however. Hakim, the village leader, said volunteers in Bwondha complain about this situation. Distributing the medicines takes 7 days, which takes them away from paid employment, so many drop out, he says.
Poor sanitation
Even with all of the efforts to treat the diseases, Uganda's lack of toilets and sewage disposal remains a major roadblock, says Edridah Tukahebwa, the national coordinator for NTDs. "It's all about poor sanitation."
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease transmitted via human waste. After faeces or urine containing the eggs enters a body of fresh water, the eggs hatch, enter snails, reproduce asexually, and then reemerge to enter through unbroken human skin, where they then develop to adult worms in the liver.
An estimated 250 million people worldwide are infected with schistosomiasis, labelled by WHO as a disease of poverty, and some 700 million are at risk. The disease is spreading with its human hosts because of increased migration and urbanisation, warns WHO. The chronic infection can result in anaemia, stunted growth, and inhibited cognitive development. Treatment can reverse these impacts.
The urogenital form of the disease (Schistosoma haematobium) is linked to increased infection rates of HIV among girls. Fenwick estimates that urogenital schistosomiasis affects up to 50 million girls in Africa.
Three-quarters of Uganda's disease burden is related to sanitation and hygiene, and therefore preventable, says Julian Kyomuhangi, the Assistant Commissioner for Environmental Health at the Ministry of Health. Cholera and dysentery are also on the rise in the country.
A 2010 study in the International Journal of Epidemiology found estimated risk reductions for diarrhoea were 48% for hand washing with soap and 36% for excreta disposal. Presently, only 29% of Uganda's population wash their hands with soap after visiting the toilet. In schools, there is one toilet for every 70 students, although that is an improvement from 1997, when it was one for every 328.
Yet "sanitation has been marginalised" in the Ugandan Government, says Betty Bigombe, State Minister for Water Resources. The Ugandan Government devotes some US$2 million per year to sanitation, which is about $13 000 per district, "which is negligible", she says.
Latrine coverage is 35% according to WHO, although the Uganda Government says it is double that. Some foreign aid officials suggested the government was trying to pump up its numbers to show progress. Uganda ranks 140 out of 177 in Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index.
Sanitation has been a low priority for donors too. USAID, for instance, has spent about $300 million globally on water, sanitation, and hygiene per year, with only about 15% of that for sanitation.
Diseases without borders
Sanitation is not just a rural problem. In Kampala, only 5% of the city has sewage coverage—mostly wealthy residential and business districts. Much of the rest of the population has to rely on pit latrines. In the crowded housing and unpaved roads of the slums, trucks cannot get access, so the latrines fill up within a few years and are then not emptied. Not only do they then become unusable, they often overflow when it rains. So residents are forced to illegally empty their latrines into open gutters.
In the Kiswa Health Center, a public clinic in Kampala that serves more than 3300 patients, the effect of NTDs is overwhelming. The clinic receives about 120 cases of diarrhoeal disease a month, when it should be about ten, says a nurse who asked that her name not be used. Worm infestation is at 100 per month, about 20 times too high, since they have a deworming programme, she says. They receive about two severe cases of malnutrition a day, she says. They also had three new cases of tuberculosis in one day, and have seen two cases of multidrug resistant tuberculosis. HIV is also making a resurgence.
The wealthy sectors of Ugandan society, including corporations, need to take part in funding sanitation initiatives because local governments do not have enough funding, says Godfrey Kisekka, one of Kampala's town clerks. "We need to sensitise the rich that the health of the poor matters to them. Disease has no borders."
SL received funding to travel to Uganda from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting


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Acculturation and deculturation
Acculturation is one of several forms of culture contact, and has a couple of closely related terms, including assimilation and amalgamation. Although all three of these words refer to changes due to contact between different cultures, there are notable differences between them.
Historical approaches[ edit ] Although the word "acculturation" was coined by J. Powell in[2] the earliest record of acculturation can be found in Sumerian inscriptions from B.
These inscriptions laid out rules for commerce and interaction with foreigners designed to limit acculturation and protect traditional cultural practices. Accordingly, he proposed that no one should travel abroad until they are at least 40 years of age, and that travelers should be restricted to the ports of cities to minimize contact with native citizens.
One of the most notable forms of acculturation is imperialismthe most common predecessor of direct cultural change. Although these cultural changes may seem simple, the combined results are both robust and complex, impacting both groups and individuals from the original culture and the host culture.
The first psychological theory of acculturation was proposed in W. From studying Polish immigrants in Chicago, they illustrated three forms of acculturation corresponding to three personality types: Bohemian adopting the host culture and abandoning their culture of originPhilistine failing to adopt the host culture but preserving their culture of originand creative-type able to adapt to the host culture while preserving their culture of origin.
Those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups InMilton Gordon 's book Assimilation in American Life outlined seven stages of the assimilative process, setting the stage for literature on this topic.
Later, Young Yun Kim authored a reiteration of Gordon's work, but argued cross-cultural adaptation as a multi-staged process. Kim's theory focused on the unitary nature of psychological and social processes and the reciprocal functional personal environment interdependence.
In Kim's approach, assimilation is unilinear and the sojourner must conform to the majority group culture in order to be "communicatively competent. Thus, the term adaptation is used by Gudykunst and Kim to mean conformity to the coercive power pp.
According to this definition, any attempt to maintain one's original values, beliefs, ways of thinking, feelings, or behaviors constitutes mental illness or "maladaptation" p. This is further emphasized by Gudykunst and Kimstating that the way of "upward-forward" evolution toward functional fitness and psychological health is for the newcomer to willfully "unlearn" and "deculturize" themselves p.
Gudykunst and Kim proposed both psychotherapy and abandonment of all ethnic relations and associations with ethnic ties to help immigrants achieve "integrative" conformity Again, this is not integration but rather dissolution of the newcomer's original identity.
According to Gudykunst and Kimincreased disintegration is preferred, even if it leads to extreme distress for the immigrant.
Ironically, Gudykunst and Kim seemed to identify the concept of acculturative stress stating "even extreme mental illness [caused by "conformity pressure" p. No matter how unjust or cruel, Gudykunst and Kim argue that the host's way of thinking, feeling, and behaving constitutes the "higher level" of psychic evolution and any resistance to conform indicates that the immigrant is communicatively incompetent, immature, mentally ill pp.
Evolutionary progress for the individual requires the individual to "abandon identification with the cultural patterns that have constituted who one is and what one is" p. In contradistinction from Gudykunst and Kim's version of adaptive evolution, Eric M.
Kramer developed his theory of Cultural Fusion[8][9] a, [10] a, [9] [11] a, [10] [12][13] [14] maintaining clear, conceptual distinctions between assimilation, adaptation, and integration. According to Kramer, assimilation involves conformity to a pre-existing form.
Kramer's a, b, c, theory of Cultural Fusion, which is based on systems theory and hermeneuticsargues that it is impossible for a person to unlearn themselves and that by definition, "growth" is not a zero sum process that requires the disillusion of one form for another to come into being but rather a process of learning new languages and cultural repertoires ways of thinking, cooking, playing, working worshiping, and so forth.
In other words, Kramer argues that one need not unlearn a language in order to learn a new one, nor does one have to unlearn who one is in order to learn new ways of dancing, cooking, talking and so forth. Unlike Gudykunst and KimKramer argues that this blending of language and culture results in cognitive complexity, or the ability to switch between cultural repertoires.
To put Kramer's ideas simply, learning is growth rather than unlearning. Kramer[ edit ] Although numerous models of acculturation exist, the most complete models take into consideration the changes occurring at the group and individual levels of both interacting groups.
Two fundamental premises in Kramer's DAD theory are the concepts of hermeneutics and semiotics, which infer that identity, meaning, communication, and learning all depend on differences or variance.What is the difference between acculturation, assimilation, and amalgamation?.
Acculturation is one of several forms of culture contact, and has a couple of closely related terms, including assimilation and benjaminpohle.comgh all three of these words refer to changes due to contact between different cultures, there are notable differences between them.
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Among Bible scholars there is a school which is always inquiring into the genres or rhetorical forms of speech represented in any given passage of the Bible, and also the social settings which are supposed to be connected .
This article presents an expanded model of acculturation among international migrants and their immediate descendants. Acculturation is proposed as a multidimensional process consisting of the confluence among heritage-cultural and receiving-cultural practices, values, and identifications.
Acculturation is a process through which a person or group from one culture comes to adopt the practices and values of another culture, while still retaining their own distinct culture. This process is most commonly discussed regarding a minority culture adopting elements of majority culture, as is.
Enculturation vs Acculturation. Enculturation and acculturation are terms that are used in sociology and social anthropology, to explain different processes of absorption of cultural traits by the people.
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I came across your article while looking at reviews about the new Logitech M570 Trackball. I must have been as fortunate as you were to get two of the smoothest operating MTO's when they first came on the market. I still have and use them both – one for home, one at work. And also like you, I have wondered what I will do should the time come when either of them start having problems and/or quick working. I am very glad to have read your initial positive review of the Logitech M570 as well as the favorable update after 4 months of use. It is very encouraging to know that there is a viable option, should I decide to go ahead and make a change.
Hi – I have experienced both a rough and a smooth ball on the MTO. The rough ball was actually a former smooth ball, cleaned with some alcohol or other cleaning fluid. This degraded the upper plastic ever so slightly – very annoying in operating that trackball. I had to throw it out.
After many years (15? Surely, 10+), one of my MTOs started double-clicking and I just ordered an M570 (funny how it costs 10% of the wired Logitech Trackball on amazon), let's see if it's as good. I have both black and grayer MTOs and never had any issues with the ball on either. I'd bet on Maarten's theory of cleaner-induced deterioration. While balls never gave me trouble, I regularly have to clean the three small metal ball bearings from the gunk. Using fingernails works fine.
I have had both (As well as the last version of the wired Logitech trackballs not the newer corded Marble style!) and they have all been great I did break my first Logitech Trackball by dropping it!
It is smooth and fast I do miss my Microsoft Trackball Optical I do not know what happened to it it just disappeared one day replaced on the family computer with a mouse!
Gunk can build but on the pins that let the balls glide use a soft bristle tooth brush to clean it and if you must clean the ball I never have had too just use mineralized water if you must use a fluid and a fine microfiber cloth like a shamwow their are similar products out there I use it to clean the buttons on mine!
If you end up liking the Logitech Wireless Trackball/Trackman M570 buy at least one spare keep it in the box and place in a large zip-lock bag than a bigger box to help keep it in good nick I have two spare one brand new in box the other was new but I have used it a few times on other computers!
I too love my MTO mouse. I have version 1.0 and when I find one especially from a complaining client, I scoop it up trying to clean it and use it for myself.
I cannot find these and my latest one just gave up this morning.
I was cleaning it with a wipe and I thought I was careful but I must have squeezed water or something to short it OR it was just failing anyway. I noticed the little metal balls inside (3 of them) can get dirty so I cleaned them every so often and it worked. Also the plastic inside sometimes would get dirty so had to clean or vacuum that out.
Now I am searching for a new wired one. I cannot stand wireless as too many times the batteries will drain.
Anyone find the Microsoft Trackball again? It was the greatest technology I think also!
Even some of the high end gaming trackballs are similar but hard to find and find in stock.
I too have an MTO and loce it. I've had it for years and it's worked perfectly until I started using a Belkin switcher. I have two laptops and one monitor so wanted to try and make lufe easier for me. Unfortunately, I'm now finding that my MTO is malfunctioning (according to my laptop). I've checked the drivers, the pointers, I've tried it working directly into the laptop and it works for a time and then fails? Do anyone have any ideas, please?
I too have an MTO and love it. I've had it for years and it's worked perfectly until I started using a Belkin switcher. I have two laptops and one monitor so wanted to try and make life easier for me. Unfortunately, I'm now finding that my MTO is malfunctioning (according to my laptop). I've checked the drivers, the pointers, I've tried it working directly into the laptop and it works for a time and then fails? Do anyone have any ideas, please?
Try installing the drivers than reinstall them (I hope you have the CD or can find them on the net!) followed by a reboot is all I can offer if that does not work might be time to replace it with a Logitech Wireless M570 Trackball!
And if you end up getting a Logitech M570 and like it by a spare just in case before Logitech decides to go the same way as Microsoft!
BTW With the Logitech M570 you can use it with any Logitech keyboard and or mouse system that use the Unifying Receiver meaning you take up less USB ports!
I have 3 of the Trackball Optical 1.0 (PN X05-87475) and love them. As a US Navy Sailor, I find them to be invaluable when on ship, where space is at a premium. There have been times where the laptop takes up the entire desk space and I have the trackball attached by Velcro to a special support strapped on my leg.
I dread the day one stops working, although I have seen several adverts on eBay for repair services. I'm not sure I trust them though but with luck I'll not need to test the claims.
@Dave : "attached by Velcro to a support strapped on my leg".
That's awesome man. I was just working out the same kind of setup. Something similar to a pilot's kneeboard.
You can always switch to the Logitech Wireless Trackball/Trackman M570 which is very similar and you can use with other Logitech Wireless devices that use Unifying Receivers meaning you take up less USB ports and have less cables to deal with!
I've replaced by my own ball bearings on my MTO. This is quite simple (if you have some expirence with screwdriver). Just look on this films: https://youtu.be/NWuBHRRUJ5I and https://youtu.be/oK-x0ZKVYs4. I've bought silicone nitrade balls on eBay and after some days (when scratches dissapear from MTO ball after replace ball bearings) my trackball works extremally fine.
One comment more. If you have many scretches on MTO ball, you can always use weak polishing agent (f.e. regular tooth paste) and polish this with cloth for several minutes.
Love my MTO! I have had it for coming up to 10 – 12 years. Great for design work and application development as I glide from this to that.
I have heard some complain they are not much use for gaming on other sites but having been a professional gamer in my former life for several years I disagree.
Had a few issues a year or so ago and stripped it and cleaned everything up inside. Used a hot glue gun (sparingly) to insure nothing could be stretched or pulled to tightly inside. Ball is still nice and shiny and responsive.
I have looked up the costs of replacing it should it fail and was quite shocked at them. Probably the greatest mouse ever to be created in my opinion!
Friends can't believe I still use the same mouse I had all those years ago (they have had many mice over the years but my MTO has outlasted them all).
Hi, I use the MTO since 10+ years too. I started with a old logitech Trackman (also thumb driven) in 1993! The pricing of a new MTO now are horrible high (if they are really new!). The only what happen with my one is that the three balls of the Bearings now more and more flatten and the ball slips deeper in its (red transparent) cradle and touch it inside.
I already tried to get such cradle as spare part, but without real success. I bought some used MTOs but most of them had the same problem. If someone has a good idea to repair it, I would be happy about.
Gosh, I can't believe people are still talking about it. I have 5 IBM PS2 keyboards left and I think 6 Dell SK-8125 keyboards. I also have three Microsoft trackballs. When I see something great, I'm so scared they would stop making it so I buy a bunch. Two of my MTO are still in the box because the original one still works exceptionally after over 20 years. I love it when I'm on planes, it doesn't move around a lot, and the best part is nobody except me can use the mouse with ease.
This is absolutely madness!! How can a product with such strong following AND endorsement just simply disappear? I have five of these precious little devices that I absolutely hoard! I've had two refurbished via the GREATEST guy on ebay trackballs_r_us he repaired my older trackballs. I wish I knew if the patents around this device are for sale… I would BUY!!!
Like others, I too have several 'old' input devices like a Logitech trackman and IBM Model Ms that are just heavenly to use. And I just acquired a MTO and my, my Microsoft hit a home run with this product. It actually fits my hand better than my Logitech although it is suffering from a lack of glide and a chip in the ball. I found this place while searching for a way to improve the glide, but alas it seems to be a known issue without a really good known solution.
Adding my voice to the chorus… I simply ADORE this mouse! I had four of them but one died last year and I actually cried like a baby. Mine work flawlessly and smooth, only some little dust got into the ball socket once or twice and with cleaning out was good as new. So why did it have to go away? I wish I could find some more somewhere at reasonable prices I would buy them all! I am a gamer, 3D artist, and illustrator and it works beautifully for everything I need.
I also have 2 of these, plus 2 of the Logitech M570. I like the MTO, but when I lost one of mine a couple of years ago, and was setting up 2 computers at home last year, I went with the Logitech, for the same reasons as everyone else. I subsequently found the MTO in a box in storage, so I have a spare!
I still use mine, had it since the year they came out! I found that when the red track ball starts 'dragging' it means the three little metal balls/bearings that support it have worn and have a flat side. I've had success at using small needle nose pliers to rotate the three balls to a new spot that is not flat, then polish the red ball with a little plastic polish (find it in an automotive store), almost good as new!
I've read that you can get 2mm silicon nitrite balls from Amazon and carefully replace the worn out ones that support the red ball… I'll probably try that next.
I second this. I bought a second hand MTO, and put it in the drawer after thinking the dragging ball was normal.
After my Logitec TrackMan Marble Wheel failed today (excellent marble wheel by the way, I've had four), I was forced to use the mTO.
Looking at the three small balls with a x10 eyepiece, all three had a minute crater of worn through surface.
With a pair of sharp tweezers I was able press the tips into the crater, and pushing hard, rotate the ball in its socket so a new surface would now be in contact with marble wheel.
A polish of the marble with plastic polish, and now the MTO performs as well as my Logitec. I think the mTO could become my new favourite.
I've had my MTO since the year they came out. I love it for gaming. I feel I have a better response time with it than with my Razer Copperhead mouse (which sits collecting dust). My favorite part of the MTO (in gaming) is the placement of the Forward/Backward buttons, makes for a quick weapons change or melee strike.
I've even sent an email to Razer Inc. to look into making a gaming trackball similar to the MTO, but i received a courteous blow off letter.
I also enjoy using the MTO for video and photo editing. I just wish someone would listen to us Trackballers and build something like the MTO again.
Well, I'm another longtime MTO user with great luck up until recently, when it started showing the effects of about 20 years of heavy use. The trackball still works perfectly, but the buttons are getting a bit difficult to register & the wheel seems to slip a bit.
I bought a used MTO online & for the most part it is in good shape, however the trackball seemed to drag a bit & I was afraid that the ball bearings might be worn or scored. I swapped the ball from my original MTO into the replacement & it now performs as well & smoothly as the original used to.
While some may need to change the bearing seats, it definitely is the trackball itself in this case. I plan on trying to polish up that ball to see if I can improve its action.
Next step is to dismantle the original one & see if I can breath a little more life back into it.
I have a new Logitec M570 sitting here but I prefer the MSO!
I recently sent in my original MTO to a repair site, & I have to tell you, DO IT! After registering with the "Trackballs R Us website, I received an email telling me to ship it in with prepayment & it would be repaired shortly. That was a great understatement!
I shipped it Aug. 28th, & received it today, Sept. 7th. It is working like brand new. It wasn't too bad, but the buttons had gotten a bit sloppy, as well as the scroll wheel. The trackball still worked really well though.
He gave it an overall refreshing & if it continues to work like this, it was well worth it. I have a spare that still works pretty close to how the original did, &I tried buying "a like new" one which was worse than both of mine.
Dunno what it is with MS, but they jumped the track when they discontinued making this MSO.
PS: I gave the Logitec M570 to my grandson last week as he left for college.
Have had mine for an eternity, along with my Sony MDR-V6 headphones. These are two accidental finds that just work perfectly and do not stop. I'm typing on a Model M, but I confess that I bought it NIB a couple of years ago for north of a hundred dollars, along with the twenty dollar USB adapter that feeds more power than usual.
I'm very heppy to see you folks here sharing great info about this trackball. Mine stick horribly from time to time, but gets better after some TLC (fingernail picking the lint and t-shirt polishing the ball).
Thank you for the info. I'll buy new pins/balls if needed, and now I know there's a guy on e-nay who does good work fast for cheap!
I still use MTO daily for work.
Anyone know where to find a replacement ball? I've got an MTO in perfect condition, but no ball.


Network operators have experienced massive growth in data, voice, and video traffic over the past few years. This growth has imposed new requirements for high bandwidth and secure, reliable connectivity in areas not previously covered. Heterogeneous networks of small cells are increasingly being deployed in traffic "hotspot" areas to address these increasing capacity demands. In addition, data "not spots" are being addressed in suburban and rural areas with lower capacity small cell deployments.
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Muncie Indiana has seen a Renaissance of arts and entertainment in recent years, with new galleries and nightlife spots continuing to burst onto the downtown scene.
The Muncie Gallery Guide features ten art galleries in the downtown district – more than any single arts district in Indianapolis. In addition, nearly all our pubs and eateries also exhibit local artwork. These exhibits are highlighted during downtown's First Thursday gallery walk each month.
Downtown is part of an arts and cultural district, recognized in 2009 by the City of Muncie. A committee of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council is currently seeking state designation for the district. The group is also pursuing the development of a Cultural Trail, similar to the one currently being developed in Indianapolis, that ties the districts together via the Cardinal Greenway.
Downtown Muncie is well represented on the Indiana Foodways Alliance I-69 Long Horizons Culinary Trail; and Muncie's glass heritage and artisans are included in the Indiana Glass Trail that stretches from Kokomo to Columbus. In 2009, Cornerstone Center for the Arts in downtown Muncie was host to the Indiana Governor's Arts Awards.


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Realme 10s With MediaTek Dimensity 810 SoC, 50-Megapixel Camera Launched in China: Price, Specifications
Realme 10s, the next smartphone in the Realme 10 series, was launched in China on Friday. The Chinese manufacturer had teased a December 16 launch for its budget handset earlier this month. The Realme 10s is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 810 SoC. The device features a 6.6-inch FHD+ IPS LCD display panel, with a 90Hz refresh rate. The Realme 10s will run Android-12 based Realme UI 3.0 out-of-the-box. The smartphone is also available in Streamer Blue and Crystal Black colour variants.
The latest entrant in the Realme 10 series comes after the company had already launched the Realme 10 Pro Plus 5G, Realme 10 Pro 5G, Realme 10 5G, and the Realme 10 4G in various markets. Only the Realme 10 Pro series is available in India at the moment.
Realme 10s price, availability
Pricing for the Realme 10s starts at CNY 1,099 (roughly Rs 13,000) for the 8GB RAM + 128GB internal storage version, and CNY 1,299 (roughly Rs 15,400) for the 8GB RAM + 256 GB internal storage version. Both variants are available to buy on Realme's online store in China, in Streamer Blue and Crystal Black colour variants.
The Shenzhen-based phone manufacturer is yet to announce plans to release the smartphone in India and other markets. Currently, only the Realme 10 Pro 5G and the Realme 10 Pro Plus 5G are available for purchase in the country.
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The Realme 10s runs on Android 12-based Realme UI 3.0 and features a dual-SIM slot. The handset sports a 6.6-inch IPS LCD display, with 1,080×2,408 pixel resolution, with 90Hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch sampling rate. The smartphone is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 810 SoC, accompanied by 8GB of RAM.
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You have WordPress already and now you're done installing a design to give your blog/site the look you want. This means for most of us that we use a theme that we have bought or a free theme that we have found on the web. However, these don't have to be the only two choices you have to make.
Developers with some knowledge of HTML and HTML can readily build their own WordPress topics to give their website the opportunity to offer their users a truly memorable time. Join this step-by-step guide to help you design your own design. We have to get an understanding of how they work when it comes to WordPress before we can turn up our sleeve and begin to design a theme.
First, you need to realize that there is a distinction between topics and styles when it comes to WordPress. Your design will call up one or more code records in the form of the master data files. Subtemplates like side bar. phi, headers. phi, index. phi, etc. are invoked by the topic.
Topic is the compilation of templates, pictures, etc. that tell the visitor's web page what your page(s) will look like. Their design can be the following templates, but only the styles. bss and index. requires phone files: We will use a fairly simple lay-out for our theme, which consists of a headline, a bottom line, the body area and a sideline.
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The function of the kidneys is to filter the blood of toxins, control blood pressure, and excrete urine. They control the amount of water in the body by controlling the amount of sodium in the blood. They also produce a number of hormones, including erythropoietin, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells.
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"It'll be a different style of football here and I'm looking forward to raising my game to play at this level."
He added: "It was a hard decision to make because it's my first major move away from a club.
"But it was a decision I had to make and it was the right decision.
"It goes without saying that I will get the chance to play against a lot of big clubs and it will be an exciting time."
Lasley admitted the impressive facilities at Home Park played a large part in his decision to quit Scotland for the Pilgrims.
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This is the final Charlie's London post by Ayşe Behçet for Silent London. Charlie's London is now moving to its own site!
Welcome to the last edition of Charlie's London on Silent London. I had been thinking for a while about what would be the best goodbye post for a site I hold so very dear. Without Silent London, Charlie's London would not have an audience and I would not have had the platform to express my love for one of the greatest artists/comedians/directors/humanitarians the world has seen.
Chaplin means something different to everyone. To me he has somehow become part of my family history! From little William in that workhouse to seeing my very own godson fall in love with his films, I can honestly say Charlie never leaves me. Recently I was lucky enough to attend the Southbank showing of The Circus and as I sat in what really is Charlie's London I felt very honoured and emotional. It was not just because it was a Chaplin film, but because my grandmother and I had watched this film many times when I was a child. I clearly remember her singing "swing little girl" to me on more than one occasion; I wish she had been able to sit in one of those deckchairs with me and enjoy it for herself.
There has been so much written about Chaplin the film-maker, the genius of cinema. There has been even more on Chaplin the man. What has interested me throughout my time writing this blog is Charlie the Londoner. It is true that most of his london no longer exists, but his presence still lingers those streets, even if people do not realise it. Poverty is still a massive problem in inner-city areas around the world, and South London is no different. Chaplin saw all this. For him it was a different age, a different life, but not a different London. You can see this in every one of this films: Easy Street, The Kid, Modern Times and right up until Limelight, Chaplin never forgot his roots.
While writing this blog I have learned an awful lot about my own family history, and myself too. I have enjoyed many chats with my mother into the early hours that often resulted in tears of laughter. The stories of my great grandmother and her false teeth! My own Nanna listening to Chaplin's 1943 address to his Lambeth, my own rainy saturday afternoons with One AM and Kid Auto Races. Every street corner we turned in our Chaplin journey I would hear something about my own roots: my great grandmother being in a workhouse, my Uncle Fred living just off Methley Street and my mother remembering the bustle of East Lane Market.
In my Silent London blogposts I was able to cover all the major areas in London that still have that Chaplin feel. But there are so many more I would like to share with you all. Due to the popularity of the posts I have now branched out into the big wide world of blogging on my own! Charlie's London is now available at charlieslondon.blogspot.co.uk. You can also find us on Facebook and @Charlies_London on Twitter. I hope to see you all soon.
I would like to say the following thank-yous for making this all possible!
Pam: Without your encouragement and fantastic editing skills I do not think Charlie's London would even exist. Thank you for allowing me to monopolise some of your space and giving me the courage to write down my thoughts.
David Robinson: Without your books and incredible encouragement every time I ask to quote you or I email you strange questions I doubt I would know half as much about Charlie as I do. Thank you for reading my blog and being such a great influence on me.
Kate Guyonvarch: Thank you for allowing me permission to use the material I have for this blog. Thank you as well for always answering my emails, filling in the blanks when I have needed some help and always sending me in the right direction for future research.
Dr Lisa Stein Haven: Your fantastic book on Sydney Chaplin not only gave an extra dimension to Chaplin and the brothers' bond that I consider to be so important to Charlie's London, but also for giving a voice to a figure in Hollywood history I genuinely believe should have always been heard. A great businessman, a great comedian and actor and of course a great brother.
My dear Nanna, Mum, Kieran, my Dad and even my brother: You're not last and you will never be least! Without you all and our times together I would have nothing to fill my blogs with that wasn't simply Chaplin fact. You have all made this blog very personal, and thank you for travelling London taking pictures, trawling the streets looking for addresses, coming to screenings, and then reading it afterwards!
And of course i want to thank everyone who read the blog, tweeted me, sent messages of encouragement and make me feel Ihave (hopefully) now proved Charlie never really left London. He just went on holiday to make the world laugh. Bye bye everyone! Thank you for reading Charlie's London. Don't forget to bookmark the new site.