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Check out PaperDolls NYC, the brainchild of XNIKKIX and Lukas Longoria. I bought this little number in green gingham, and it laces up the back. The boys say, "that's the kind-of picnic I wanna go to." Available at The Dressing Room.


Cute and fable-like, Chocolat is an almost infuriatingly likeable film featuring sunny performances from a fine cast, lovely scenery and a sweet story about releasing inhibitions and enjoying life. Vianne (Binoche) roams the French countryside with her daughter (Thivisol), running off whenever things get tough, as they usually do. Their latest "home" is the picture-perfect village of Lansquenet, where Vianne's decadent chocolaterie causes outrage among the conservative, deeply religious villagers--most notably the mayor (Molina) and the young widow Caroline (Moss), who believe that selling chocolate during lent is a mortal sin. But a few people warm to Vianne and her wares, including Caroline's estranged mother (Dench), a woman (Olin) trying to escape her abusive husband (Stormare), and a wandering river-rat (Depp). So we have two camps facing off for battle.
But don't worry. Serious themes like spouse abuse, religious/racial intolerance and political corruption are merely comic themes around which the story floats lightly. And the film is extremely smile-inducing, as every scene drips with charm. The performances are all undemanding and perfectly adequate. Binoche glows as warmly as ever, while Dench, of course, steals the show with her gruff-but-loveable old broad act (virtually the same performance that won her an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, but with grubbier costumes). And Hallstrom keeps things looking magical and exquisite, including his cast members. Dark edges are merely hinted at, then discounted in favour of a bit of quaint schtick or simplistic moralising (young priest O'Conor's Easter sermon is astonishingly PC for 1950s France!). This makes the film deeply entertaining and mindless ... but it kind of undermines all the serious points it's pretending to make.


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ShoCard Named Top Blockchain Company by OWI
One World Identity recognizes ShoCard among top solution providers, highlighting its immediately deployable enterprise solution
CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ShoCard, the leader in blockchain-based identity management, has been named a top vendor in the One World Identity (OWI) report, "Blockchain and Identity in 2018: A Year of Promise and Pilots," released today. The new whitepaper from OWI, an independent advisory firm focused on trust and the data economy, provides a comprehensive review of the state of blockchain for identity as of the second quarter of 2018. The paper highlights 18 companies and organizations — 13 featured companies and five up-and-coming companies to watch — at the forefront of the blockchain identity landscape.
"As a company operating in the space since 2015, ShoCard is well-established compared to many of our peers. In this time, we've developed patented technology that uses mobile devices and blockchain to upend the username-password paradigm, eliminating the need for them altogether," said Armin Ebrahimi, CEO and founder of ShoCard. "We're honored to have our enterprise solution, ShoBadge, featured in OWI's whitepaper, validating our continued disruption of the identity management industry."
Among the report's findings are the following observations:
Investment in blockchain-based projects has already surpassed 2017 totals, but the hysteria has subsided.
Expect 2019 to be a year of retrenchment as enterprises get smarter about their needs, regulators catch up, and the bad ideas start to peter out.
Investment levels in blockchain-centric companies and organizations have remained high, and more educated investors and customers have begun to differentiate cryptocurrencies from the wider applicability of distributed ledger technologies.
Included in the solution providers section of the report, ShoCard uses the immutable ledger of the blockchain to allow users and service-providers to verify identity using a cryptographically secure method. With ShoCard's patented technology, users are freed from the need to maintain separate user IDs and passwords for each service used. Instead, an individual's identity stays with them on their mobile device, locked under a private key, making the process of sharing and authenticating identity more efficient, private and secure. This method of authentication eliminates the utility of centralized databases full of personally identifiable information (PII) that can be hacked and used against individuals and enterprises.
"In the past year we've seen the market start to grapple with exactly the kinds of questions we see as critical to blockchain development in the identity space," said Travis Jarae, CEO of OWI. "Solutions are beginning to coalesce around a more defined set of identity use cases, with governance structures designed with targeted functionalities and regulatory concerns in mind."
For more information, download the full report here. For more information on ShoCard, please visit http://www.shocard.com.
About OWI
OWI is an independent trust and data economy research and strategy company focused on cybersecurity, digital commerce, and risk management. We help businesses, investors, and governments stay ahead of market trends so they can build sustainable, forward-looking identity-enabled products and strategies. We accomplish this by building community and facilitating dialogue through our events, the KNOW Identity Conference, as well as servicing the community with our educational content, news, media, independent research, and consulting.
Visit OWI at www.oneworldidentity.com for the latest in identity news, events, opinion and research.
About ShoCard
ShoCard, Inc., based in Cupertino, Calif., is a mobile-identity platform built using blockchain technology that provides a simple and intuitive mobile application for definitive authentication while protecting users' privacy. This allows for a variety of use cases, such as repeat authentication, true-digital signature with non-perishable audit-trail, transaction authorization to prevent fraud, frictionless login services without username/passwords, and user authentication in financial transactions, travel, health, government and industries where digital identity matters.
Amber Richards
Uproar PR on behalf of ShoCard
arichards@uproarpr.com

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Breaking up with someone you truly loved is one of the hardest things to do. To actively break up things, like dividing up furniture, pets, photos – and even friends – keeps the excruciating pain out of reaching distance for a while. But after the sorting out is done and the fights are over, the wounds heal only very slowly. The feeling of despair and tragedy smothers your life like a grey, wet blanket for a very long time. The ballad "When Love Falls Apart" grew out of exactly these feelings of deep melancholy.
For me, it is still a very emotional song to sing because every time it brings up all of these old and painful memories and emotions. Ironically, however, the song marks both an end and a beginning: "When Love Falls Apart" was the very first song Greg Porée –a versatile guitarist and jazz composer– and I wrote together. I had almost completed the lyrics and had a hooky and suitable melody for the chorus but the verses were still incomplete. We took it from there: Greg came up with some lovely additional chords, the rest of the melody just wrote itself and suddenly we finished the song fairly quickly.
Handwritten charts are something very personal and are frequently of sentimental value for the writer/s. Here's a lovely visual collection of other composer's music scores. The Morgan Library & Museum in New York houses one of the finest collections of music manuscripts in the United States. In addition to a large collection of musicians' letters and first editions of scores and librettos, its collection of manuscripts (by classical composers like Mahler, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Schubert, and Richard Strauss) spans six centuries and many countries.
I recorded the track as a demo but not as a professional recording for release until playing an unplugged show at the famous singer-songwriter music venue Genghis Cohen in Los Angeles: Accompanying me on classical guitar was my co-writer and that evening, we played the ballad for the first time live. The way the song came to life and people connected to it, motivated me to record it as a single to just "get it out there". Although I was already working on songs for my album it just felt right to release that version as a single – just with voice and classical guitar.
Designing the cover was inspired by a very tender and touching quote by Virginia Woolf. Melancholy is one theme that runs rampant through her writing. Her image of a singing bird amidst a moonscape depicts so well this pensive emotion into which both sorrow and joy, profoundness and beauty are woven.
Please support the arts! You can purchase my music and spoken word – which I hope you will. If you find joy and inspiration in my words and would like to provide additional support, please be lovely and consider a donation of your choosing – from anywhere between a coffee and a nice dinner. It will be deeply appreciated.


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Birmingham pair fined by police after travelling 45 minutes 'without excuse' in lockdown
Burton is 30 miles from Birmingham - around 45 minutes in a car
Two men from Birmingham have been fined by police after travelling to Staffordshire.
The pair were fined by cops from Staffordshire Police as officers discovered they failed to have a "reasonable excuse".
Burton is 30 miles from Birmingham - around 45 minutes in a car.
The duo were spotted by police who stopped them and issued with with fined on the morning of Monday, January 18.
A spokesman for Staffordshire Police Response said : "Three men have been fined for breaching Covid-19 lockdown this morning.
"All three were travelling in a vehicle around Burton.
"Two of the men were from the Birmingham area and had no reasonable excuse to be in the Staffordshire."
It comes as Priti Patel said people must realise that "actions have consequences" if they break coronavirus rules.
The Home Secretary told the PA news agency: "The numbers (of cases) are still far too high and my message to the public still is 'please stay at home', the public should stay at home, follow the rules and if you don't follow the rules the police will enforce the coronavirus regulations and you will get a fine.
"Actions have consequences. We want to get the R value down, we want fewer people in hospital, we want less pressure on the NHS.
"We have got heroes in the NHS right now working very hard to save people's lives and we have got heroes in frontline policing working hard to keep people out of hospital, stopping the spread of this virus."


Betty parked her Austin Healey convertible in the parking lot and walked into the modest-sized Pentecostal church in National City, California. She was doing quite well for a single girl in the business world in the late 1950's.Betty Picklesimer looked professional in her classy dark suit. She was, after all, an Officer at the local Bank. She knew very little about Pentecost, only what her brother had told her. She had seen wonderful changes in him and wanted to visit his church.
She sat near the back on the right side as she entered the revival service. The church was full. Her brother, Alan Picklesimer was already a member there. He was 21 and the Sunday School teacher for teenage boys. I was 14 and in his class.
My father, Carl Ballestero was the nightly evangelist. Betty came down to the altar when he finished preaching and the invitation was given.
She repented and cried for a long time. When she finished praying, she asked to be baptized. The church rejoiced and shouted when she received the Holy Ghost and began speaking in tongues while still in the water.
The next night, Betty was back in service again. She was praising God and rejoicing in her newfound relationship with the Lord.
During the altar service that night, Betty began praying with new seekers in the altar. My father became curious about what this new convert was saying to them.
Betty began praying with a woman from Tijuana, Mexico. Here she was, a well-dressed professional businesswoman, praying with a very poor and uneducated woman. Dad moved closer so as to overhear her words. Betty shouted words of encouragement into the little lady's ears.
The Mexican lady immediately received the Holy Ghost!
Are you ready to tell God that you're stupid?
That you don't know anything?
The Holy Ghost comes easily to hungry hearts that are willing to humble themselves!
The Holy Ghost, Without Tongues, Isn't!
It Isn't THE Holy Ghost!
There Is Only One Kind Of Holy Ghost.
Everywhere in the Scriptures where the Holy Ghost was poured out or given unto men, there was a noise associated with its appearance. The use of the definite article, 'the' (meaning only one) is connected with the words Holy Ghost, 89 times.
There is no such thing a quiet-kind of Holy Ghost, or a non-speaking-in-tongues Holy Ghost. No one receives the Holy just by praying the sinner's prayer and saying they believe Jesus is the Son of God.
1) Speaking In Tongues Was Prophesied In Isaiah.
Speaking in tongues always accompanies the Gift of the Holy Ghost.
2) The Speaking In Tongues Was Prophesied By Jesus.
3) When The Holy Ghost Was First Given On The Day Of Pentecost, They All Spoke In Tongues.
The evidence that they had received the Holy Ghost was that they spoke in tongues.
4) Peter Said That The Holy Ghost Experience Was For Everyone, Just Not Those In The Upper Room Or For Those Present.
5) The Proof That Cornelius And His Household Actually Received The Holy Ghost, Was That They All Spoke In Tongues Just Like Those In The Upper Room.
When the Gentiles spoke in Tongues, Peter was convinced that they had received the same experience he had.
6) Just Because You Are A Believer Doesn't Mean You Have Received The Holy Ghost.
7) Do NOT Confuse The Gift Of The Holy Ghost, With The Gift Of Tongues.
The Gift of the Holy Ghost is necessary for Salvation.
The Gift of Tongues is given to some who already have received the Gift of The Holy Ghost.
8) The Holy Ghost Is Jesus Christ In You.
9) The Lord Will Not Claim You As His Child Unless You Have Received The Holy Ghost.
10) Everyone Must Be Born Again Of The Water And Of The Spirit To Be Saved.
Don't Stop Praying And Seeking God Until You Have Received All That He Has For You!
If it is From God.


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237+ Million Medication Errors Made Every Year in England – Costing Over £98 Million and 1700+ Lives
TOPICS:BMJPublic Health
By BMJ June 11, 2020
Avoidable consequences cost NHS upwards of £98 million and 1700+ lives every year.
More than 237 million medication errors are made every year in England, the avoidable consequences of which cost the NHS upwards of £98 million and more than 1700 lives every year, indicate national estimates, published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety.
The harms caused by medication errors have been recognised as a global issue, amid increasingly complex healthcare needs and the introduction of many new medicines.
And the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to halve the level of severe avoidable harm associated with medication error at any point in the process—prescribing, dispensing, administration, and monitoring–between 2017 and 2022.
To obtain up to date estimates of the number of medication errors, and their potential financial and human impact on the NHS in England, the researchers pooled prevalence estimates from the available evidence and studies measuring the harms caused, published up to October 2018.
And they calculated the number of opportunities for medication error by stage and setting–primary care; care homes; hospitals and at the point of discharge (transition)–using published statistics on the annual number of medicines dispensed and used, bed occupancy data, and numbers of care home residents, for the whole of England for one calendar year.
Based on all this information, they estimated that more than 237 million medication errors are made every year in England.
Errors are made at every stage of the process, with over half (54%) made at the point of administration and around 1 in 5 made during prescribing (21%). Dispensing accounts for 16% of the total.
Error rates are lowest in primary care, but because of the sector's size, these account for nearly 4 out of every 10 (38%). Error rates are highest in care homes (42%), despite covering fewer patients than the other sectors. Around 1 in 5 medication errors are made in hospitals.
The researchers estimated that nearly 3 out of 4 medication errors (72%) are minor, while around 1 in 4 (just under 26%) have the potential to cause moderate harm; just 2% could potentially result in serious harm.
Around a third (34%) of potentially harmful medication errors are made during prescribing in primary care.
The researchers calculated that "definitely avoidable" medication errors cost the NHS nearly £98.5 million every year and 1708 lives.
For the worst case scenario, which assumes a hospital stay of 14 days for each incident and the need for a broad range of NHS services, the estimates come in at £1.6 billion and 22,303 lives, respectively, each year.
The researchers point out that there were simply no UK medication error data available for certain stages of the medication process or for any stage of the process in care homes.
And their calculations didn't include medication errors made by patients or their caregivers, and relied on certain assumptions about the extent of direct harms caused.
But the estimated error rates are similar to those reported for the USA and European Union countries. And their findings have informed the Department of Health and Social Care's decision to commission a new system to monitor and prevent medication errors.
The available evidence shows that the medicines most often implicated in hospital admissions attributable to medication errors are non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs); clot busters (anti-platelet drugs); drugs to treat epilepsy and low blood glucose; water tablets (diuretics); inhaled corticosteroids; and certain types of heart drugs (cardiac glycosides and beta blockers), say the researchers.
Most (80%) of the resulting deaths are caused by gastrointestinal bleeds from NSAIDs, aspirin, or the blood thinner warfarin.
"Ubiquitous medicines use in health care leads, unsurprisingly, to high numbers of medication errors, although most are not clinically important," they write.
"Effective targeting of finite healthcare resources to reduce medication errors requires understanding of where errors cause the most burden. Data linkage between errors and patient outcomes is essential to progress understanding in this area," they conclude.
Reference: "Economic analysis of the prevalence and clinical and economic burden of medication error in England" by Rachel Ann Elliott, Elizabeth Camacho, Dina Jankovic, Mark J Sculpher and Rita Faria, 12 June 2020, BMJ Quality & Safety.
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2019-010206
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Bonnie Davis | June 22, 2020 at 8:50 am | Reply
I was a nurse before and after Medicare came into the US. Before Medicare we were given medicine tests with a calculation portion every month of our lives. Our supervisors tracked us down on any shift or caught us at the clock out or locker room moment. That was over. If we had qualified as an RN we were apparently forever competent.
We had to hire virtually anyone who applied for a job. This attitude resulted in barely literate help. Then we had to start schools for folks who were illiterate, provide them with glasses, certify them literate and then return them to their jobs on the mop buckets.
Eventually we got CNAs instead of our on the job certified because it was better for them to spend a year and a thousand bucks to become certified rather than be trained for the job at hand. While being paid.
Bureaucrats ruin everything. I know of no law ever passed that wasn't turned over to bureaucrats to formalize into rules and regulations that bear no relation to logic and reason and bear a great deal of self interest in their formatting.
And then the people suffer. And amazingly are surprised at this. So they make more laws and the bureaucrats laugh all the way to the bank because they can't be fired.
I have been retired for a dozen years but I assure you that you do not want single payer insurance. The errors will increase ten fold.
And that is all before you get to lawyers. Which ARE a necessary evil considering how incompetent many "care facilities" are at performing appropriate care.
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Despite advance technology,chemical enriched fast process and fast pace life,people are likely to inclined towards basics and organic stuff. People are now more conscious about their eating habits and lifestyle and its trending rapidly.
Bare Burger an american chain claims to offer organic, fresh and quality ingredients. I got a chance to try out this place at DFC. Rustic interiors and walls adorned with funky frames of animal faces on human body,depicts the respect and love for the animals. They have played their part being eco-friendly by using recycled materials and non-plastic stuff.We preferred to sit on the basement level of this two level restaurant.
We were given menu to select our order and I was happy to see it was not like a book rather a contemporary style card menu.Menu gives you many options of burgers and salads. You can even customized according to your taste.
Macho Fries: Potatoes in every form allures me like anything and when I read macho fries I had to try them and I didn't regret at all infact I loved every bite of it. It was a melody of fries,pickled jalapeno,buttermilk ranch and gucamole .
Pickle Fried Chicken,Wiki Wiki and El Matador: One is chicken and other is a beef version. Pickle fried had cripsy buttermilk patty sandwich between fresh veggie and horseradish remoulade sauce in fresh brioche bun. Where as Wiki Wiki is a bit spicy version of burger, had grilled lemon chicken with duck bacon,fried onion, grilled pineapple in fresh bun. El Matador one of the best sellers here with imported prime beef, aged chedder, green veggies and gucamole. It was heavy and a bit messy to eat so make sure to ask them to cut in half before serving.
Camel Sliders: Small portion of sliders came on our table it was of camel meat,frankly speaking I didnt like the taste although small portions always excite me.
Guapo Chop: They have a good variety of salads too, healthy and all organic. I tried guapo chop which I could eat all day long. Amazingly fresh.
In Dessert we got to try Bakla-Wow and it had that wow factor from presentation to taste.It was creamy,sweet not overly sweet and if you like baklawa then this is the dessert to try. Did I mention it was finished in no time on our table.
I am not a big fan of burger joints but #bareburger won my heart with its hearty meal,quality ingredients and relief of being organic. I would def recommend this place even if you are not a burger lover.


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I just picked up your magazine for the first time. I enjoyed your publication greatly. However, two of your articles in "Reclaiming the Streets" (March/April) seemed to need another side of the story.
The first was about Union Square being made into a "pedestrian paradise." At first, this sounds like a great idea. As a frequent shopper of the greenmarket who walks by there every day on my way to work, I feel strongly about the presence of pedestrians and the greenmarket. However, since the MTA narrowed the street west of Union Square to make room for both the greenmarket and free untaxed parking for the police, the traffic going south from above the park is a mess. Most of it is diverted around the park to the east, while a few buses and private cars travel down the small section to the west. I feel that by further clogging up this area and closing it off to buses, which I take faithfully when the weather is too cold to walk, this would put greenmarket shoppers and others at risk of more pollution from traffic jams. Please consider all the factors when campaigning for this new area.
Secondly, you mention the use of traffic circles in Seattle and how this has reduced collisions by 91 percent. You advocate their introduction to New York City. I offer another opinion. I have never been to Seattle so I don't know how the traffic is there, but you did mention "neighborhoods." Perhaps this is the distinction. Outside of Chicago there is a famous traffic circle that is in my experience ten times more dangerous than a regular intersection. It's known simply as "Suicide Circle."
At Union Square there are two lanes of traffic on Broadway above the park and two lanes below. The city DOT believes that traffic between these can be handled on 17th Street and Union Square East. The current configuration was expected and will diminish as drivers get used to the changes-now that DOT has put up the direction signs they promised. Buses might need to be re-routed (buses used to run through Washington Square, too!), but the final design could allow for buses and local traffic deliveries.
As for traffic circles: the word "neighborhood" is indeed key. The circles we're talking about are small and used on local streets (only one lane of traffic and a sharp radius), not the behemoth traffic movers most people are familiar with. -Eds.
Thanks for all that you do to promote a more livable city for walkers and bicyclists. In this chaotic city, where the car is god, your voice of sanity, calm, and common sense is vital to all New Yorkers.
I joined T.A. because a car-free Central Park is my passion, but what you've been doing in the area of traffic calming in neighborhoods is of great interest to me. Every time I cross Amsterdam and Broadway between 73rd and 75th Streets I see huge freight trucks barreling through the lights, disregarding the speed limit. Cars are big offenders as well, but I've never seen a police car pull over any vehicle for speeding. Is there a Neighborhood Streets Network established in this part of the Upper West Side? Are traffic-calming efforts underway?
We're working to get more NYPD speed enforcement, and we'll do a speed count at the location you mentioned. As of now, there are no NSN members on the Upper West Side, but we're working on that, too. One big problem is your community board, CB 7. Earlier this year, they actually voted to rip up pedestrian safety devices at Columbus Avenue and 97th Street! -Eds.
The following letter was sent to new NYC DOT Commissioner Christopher Lynn, who spoke recently on the benefits of efficiency.
Efficiency is a wonderful thing. I am glad you are for it. One blind spot I find with all New York City politicians is that they refuse to acknowledge the enormous efficiency of the bicycle in densely populated cities such as New York. I urge you to aggressively establish a proactive bicycle policy to increase bicycle ridership as a serious and substantial component of New York City's transportation mix.
Despite all the impediments New York City puts forth, I ride my bicycle to work every day because it is the fastest commute available. Likewise, I think you and the Mayor should set examples of efficiency and ride bicycles. You should also get your employees out of those inefficient cars and into environmentally sound, cost-efficient bicycles.


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Home » Let Us Keep Working Together to Fulfil The Dreams Swami Vivekananda Had For Our Nation: PM Narendra Modi
Swami Vivekananda Birth Anniversary: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid wealthy tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his delivery anniversary immediately on January 12. PM Modi took to Twitter and posted: "I pay tributes to the great Swami Vivekananda on his Jayanti. His was a life devoted to national regeneration. He has motivated many youngsters to work towards nation building. Let us keep working together to fulfil the dreams he had for our nation."
I pay tributes to the nice Swami Vivekananda on his Jayanti. His was a life dedicated to nationwide regeneration. He has motivated many children to work in direction of nation constructing. Let us maintain working collectively to fulfil the desires he had for our nation.— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 12, 2022
Later within the day, PM Modi will inaugurate and handle the 25th National Youth Festival. PM has requested youth throughout the nation to share options and progressive concepts for his speech on the event. The options shared can be integrated in PM's speech. He had earlier requested youth for options for his speech when PM visited IIT Kanpur for convocation. An analogous technique has been adopted for the National Youth Festival speech.
Also learn: National Youth Day 2022: Date, History, and Why is Rashtriya Yuva Diwas Celebrated on Swami Vivekananda Birth Anniversary?
The youth pageant is attended by youth representatives from each district of India. "National Youth Festival goals to impress, ignite, unite and activate the younger citizenry in direction of nation-building, to unleash the true potential of our demographic dividend," in accordance with a authorities discover.
One of the best patriots, Swami Vivekananda was additionally credited for introducing Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the western world. (Image: Shutterstock)
REMEMBERING SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Swami Vivekananda was born Narendranath Datta on January 12, 1863, in Kolkata, West Bengal. He was all the time inclined in direction of spirituality. He practised meditation from a really early age and in addition joined the Brahmo Samaj motion for a sure interval. One of the best patriots, he was additionally credited for introducing Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the western world.
Also learn: National Youth Day 2022: Images, Wishes, and Quotes by Swami Vivekananda That Continue to Inspire us Even Today!
Although he was devastated by the demise of his father, Shri Ramakrishna, he launched into an extended journey to discover and uncover each a part of India.
A real Karma Yogi, he had full religion within the youth of this nation. He had a really robust perception that youth can rework the destiny of India by way of their laborious work, dedication and religious energy.
His message to the youth was, "What I would like is muscle mass of iron and nerves of metal, inside which dwells a thoughts of the identical materials as that of which the thunderbolt is made." Through messages like this, he wished to instil primary values into the youth.
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synthesise understandings about professional practice to apply and demonstrate knowledge and skills for effective learning and teaching; and the creation and maintenance of positive learning environments that support the diverse needs of children aged three to five years.
EDE322 is an anti-requisite to EDE310. If you have completed EDE322 you do not need to enrol into this subject.
PlacementDetails - This subject includes a 3-week professional experience placement in a school. placements are undertaken on a full-time basis in a continuous block. Please note that all relevant, valid working with children checks and clearances must be provided as requested prior to commencement of the placement.
This is the third in the suite of professional experience subjects and includes both a theory and a practical component (a placement in a Kindergarten or Pre-primary setting). With a focus on children aged three to five years old, approaches to creating emotionally supportive, equitable, healthy, safe and effective learning environments are critically examined. The design of supportive environments is contextualised within approaches to constructing collaborative partnerships and positive reciprocal relationships with children, families, and communities. The subject emphasises the application of learning, teaching and assessment approaches to meet the diverse needs of children in this age group. The examination of data relevant to early childhood education and the implications for learning and teaching are explored. The professional experience practical assessment is a four (4) week full-time block placement in a Kindergarten or Pre-primary setting intended to enable practical application of knowledge and skills covered in the theory, along with providing further insights into the complexity of the teacher's role. All required clearances to work with children must be obtained and valid, and all other professional experience requirements met. Both theory and practical components must be passed in order to pass the subject.


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As you probably know, I (Mark) am attending Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in Los Angeles, with the intention of serving in full-time ministry when I graduate in 2020 with a Master of Divinity. As Jenny and I have prayed about God's long-term call, we feel that He could be directing us to the mission field. A big question though is: where? Interestingly, we have been connected to some missionaries in France who do teaching, church planting, and outreach ministry in the Alsace region of eastern France. With that said, we are excited to announce that we will be going on a short-term mission trip to France this summer from July 9 to August 12. During this trip, we will see and participate in a wide range of ministries run by missionaries that operate through a mission organization called World Venture.
The need for short and long-term mission work in the Alsace region of France is significant. Although this area was one of the early centers of the protestant reformation, today it is almost entirely secular. Many people refer to this region, and France in general, as "post-Christian." That is in part because only 0.5% of the Alsatian people, and only 0.9% of the French people generally, are evangelical Christians. More specifically, the Alsace region's largest city, Strasbourg, has an evangelical church in only five of its 15 neighborhoods. As a result, Strasbourg provides a unique setting for mission work, not just because of the limited Christian presence, but also because of its incredibly diverse population. Strasbourg, one of the capitals of the European Union, is the seat of many European institutions, like the European Court of Human Rights and the Parliament of the European Union. Strasbourg is also home to the second largest university in France and maintains a total population that is about one-third Muslim, in large part due to the influx of refugees. The opportunities to share the gospel, plant churches, and do outreach in the community are limitless.
God has called our family—all five of us—to serve in France this summer as short-term missionaries. Because God calls all Christians to play a part in His mission (e.g., Matthew 28:19-20; Romans 10:14-15; Acts 1:8), we would like to give you an opportunity to participate in this work with us. There are two ways you can help. First, you can commit to praying for us and our trip. Specifically, you can pray that God (1) causes us to depend on His enabling power as we serve in France, (2) enables us to communicate with and serve the French people in a way that is culturally appropriate and God glorifying, and (3) helps us discern whether France is where He is calling us to serve on a long-term basis in the future. Second, you can support us financially by making a tax-deductible donation in our name to our mission organization, World Venture (by clicking on the "donate now" box located on the right side of the blog). Any financial contribution you make helps our mission trip become a reality. We would ask that you pray about supporting us in at least one of these two ways. We would so appreciate it! You can follow our journey here on the blog (www.ambitionformission.com). We look forward to seeing the ways God will work—both in our lives and in the lives of the people we minister to—during our time in France.
Love, Mark and Jenny Jackson
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Kathy Rain Review: An Unsettling Atmospheric Journey
May 16, 2016 Dennis Patrick
Kathy Rain left me hooked and wanting more.
Back in the 1990s, I didn't have the luxury of owning a computer thus I missed out on some of the pinnacle point-and-click adventure games. But when I had the opportunity to review Kathy Rain, a video game that oozed out the 1990s feel of my youth, I was instantly curious. Now after officially completing the game, I can easily say that Kathy Rain is by far my favorite adventure game to have released this year and it certainly left me impatiently waiting for Clifftop Games next video game announcement.
A Compelling Story
Kathy Rain is set in the mid-1990s and revolves around the tale of the eponymous university journalism student. Early into the game Kathy makes it clear that she's a rowdy girl with a sharp tongue, but she doesn't fall into the character simply for the sake of simply having our heroine with a tough tomboy attitude. Instead, throughout the story, we're slowly breaking down her barriers to discover her chilling and troubled youth–it wasn't all flowers and rainbows for Kathy. Instead, she lives a very rough life.
Without spoiling too much of the story, Kathy learns that her grandfather, Joseph Rain, recently passed away and after not seeing her family for nearly decades, she sets off to the funeral. It's after the rekindling with her grandmother that she learns that Joseph Rain was in an accident shortly after Kathy left–an accident that left him in a vegetative state. With guilt ever growing in her heart along with the journalistic nature being sparked up from her days at the university, Kathy sets off to pick up the pieces and learn just what had happened the night her grandfather had his incident. Unbeknownst to her, this journey she was about to endure would be one that would force her to face her inner demons.
If you were fans of the psychological thriller drama Twin Peaks then this is one game right up your alley. Kathy Rain is set in a small town with a cast of oddball characters, but within its story and relaxing to a downright unsettling soundtrack, you will find it tough to break off from this game.
Mature Themes
Going off on the story once again, it's clear that Kathy Rain doesn't cater for a younger audience. You'll quickly find taboo subjects that are not seen handled quite in the same matter Clifftop Games touches upon. While some may not find an issue with these matters, others may take issue with them. Furthermore, a younger audience may find some storyline points difficult to relate to purely because of the time period Kathy Rain is set in. This could go from having to leave one area to reach another in order to make a phone call to even the use of a Dictaphone.
As mentioned earlier, Kathy Rain is a point-and-click adventure. Throughout the game, players will be left to explore various items scattered about the room or even combine an item to correctly solve a puzzle. Speaking of puzzles, the game does an excellent job at tossing out just enough clues for players to correctly solve a puzzle before becoming too perplexed.
A Nice Challenge
These puzzles may present themselves with no means of completion until you obtain all the pieces. This usually means going back and forth to the oddball cast of characters in order to get just enough answers in order to progress. Admittedly, there were a few times that I simply could not figure out how to continue, and luckily the walkthrough supplied by the publisher got me right back on track. Oftentimes the answers were laid out before me, but I simply couldn't get my head around the answer. This wasn't a massive issue–instead, it added to the challenge and gave me a reason to retrace my steps or read something a bit more carefully than before.
Fantastic Voice Acting
Voice acting for the game, in my opinion, was spot-on. There were no issues making out just what everyone was saying and their tone or demeanor helped greatly in keeping the grim atmospheric tale rolling along.
My only complaint about Kathy Rain is the game is too short. Kathy Rain ends nicely, though there is certainly room to keep the story going. All in all, after the credits finished, I wasn't satisfied, I simply needed more as Kathy Rain as it easily hooked me into story.
By all means, if you are ever in the mood for a gripping tale and yearn for the days of the classic point-and-click genre then I highly recommend giving Kathy Rain a playthrough.
Kathy Rain is developed by Clifftop Games and published by Raw Fury. The game is available for $14.99 through Steam. A copy of the game was provided by the publisher.


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Country Thunder Arizona Postponed Indefinitely Amid Coronavirus Concerns
Fans hoping to see Luke Combs, Kane Brown and Eric Church at Country Thunder in Arizona next month are going to need to wait a little longer. The festival has been postponed indefinitely.
The announcement makes Country Thunder Arizona the latest to change course amid the coronavirus pandemic. It comes after Arizona Governor Doug Ducey banned gatherings of more than 50 people in six counties, including Pinal County where Country Thunder takes place, on Thursday (March 19). The Florence, Ariz., festival is the second Country Thunder to be affected by the virus. Country Thunder in Florida was postponed until Oct. earlier this month.
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It's not clear how new dates will affect the original Country Thunder lineup. Thus far festivals have managed to maintain their original lineups, with very few exceptions and no headliners being swapped in or out. Tickets for the original Country Thunder Arizona dates will be honored at the new festival, tentatively scheduled for the fall.
Initially, concerts and festivals slated for March were wiped out by the coronavirus, but now most scheduled for April are finding new dates, as are some scheduled for May. Tortuga, Stagecoach and SXSW are just three. All country tours have been postponed, with some still announcing as they've waited to secure new dates. One exception is the Zac Brown Band, who have canceled all of their remaining 2020 tour dates.
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I bought a Sandisk 32GB camera memory card specifically to record a special occasion. I should have realised that something was not right when it first went into the card, as the camera did not load up properly. However, I finally got the system to recognise the card, and thought that everything would be ok. I took the photographs for the special occasion, and I was the only one there with a digital camera, so the photographs are important not just to me, but to everyone in the group. There seemed to be no problem with the card until I went to download the pictures onto my laptop. I did this in the usual way, by putting the card into a digital memory card reader which connects to the computer through the USB port. The card would not read, and I have also not been able to get the card to work by using a camera-to-computer connection which has worked previously. These photographs are vitally important, and I really need to get them out of the card. I am not interested in the card itself.
I have a Transcend digital camera memory card which I have been using in a Canon camera to shoot videos. This seems to work well when I am using the camera, and I can see lots of different videos, all of which seem normal. Playing them on the camera doesn't seem to show up any problems, so the only trouble is when I come to download them on to the computer. This problem starts by the camera uploading the data onto the computer. I can see the files, and even open them. I get the first shot of the video, and then the blue swirling cursor takes over, and I can do nothing more. The computer doesn't say there is any problem, but the video won't progress any further than the first shot. If I go into Properties on each file, then it seems to show that there are several MBs of data on each video, but I still get nothing when I try to play them. I have used several different types of media player in the hopes that something will work, but it seems as though the data is just not available for the computer.


Back to school season means back to school lunches! Have you run out of new ideas? Use these healthy, easy lunch tips to add joy and variety to even the pickiest of little one's lunchbox this fall.
Frozen Fruit Smoothie Pops: Send yummy homemade smoothies to school with fun popsicle molds, which you can find at department stores, grocery stores, or online. Make your child's favorite smoothie recipe at your convenience, and fill the molds almost to the top with smoothie. Make sure to leave 1/4 in. for expansion, and freeze overnight. Your kids can enjoy it as a pop, or eat it with a spoon or straw!
Pita Pocket Pizza: Pack this on-the-go twist on a kids favorite! Fill half of a whole-wheat pita pocket with 2-3 tbsp. tomato sauce, 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, and add your child's favorite toppings. Include things like fresh veggies, grilled chicken, turkey pepperoni and more! Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 10 mins or until cheese is melted. These delicious pockets are simple to make, and can easily be reheated at school or eaten at room temperature.
Apple Ring Sandwiches: Make eating fruit more fun! Slice a cored apple into rings. Spread peanut butter or alternatives like sunflower butter or almond butter onto the apple rings. Top the peanut butter with raisins, almond slices, granola, or mini chocolate chips for a sweet, healthy treat!
Whole Wheat Pasta Salad: Try this healthy alternative to a traditional pasta-based lunch like mac & cheese. Cook whole wheat pasta following package directions (choose a fun shape your kids will love!). Drain pasta and chill in the refrigerator, or run it under cold water until completely cool. Toss pasta with a small amount of light Italian dressing, salt and pepper to taste. Add in your child's favorite diced veggies for a colorful and tasty lunch that's perfect for school!
Deli Roll-ups: Prepare this spin on a traditional sandwich! Take 1-2 pieces of thinly sliced deli meat of your choice. Spread 1 tbsp. mustard (a lower-calorie alternative to mayo) on the deli slices. Top with diced veggies and shredded cheese. Roll up deli slices, and secure with a toothpick to hold the roll together.
There you have it! Your child will love these yummy meals when lunchtime rolls around, and you'll be happy to have some new and simple recipes to add to your lunchbox routine!


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Q&A with MRAA Washington representative Larry Innis
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Larry Innis is no stranger to Capitol Hill. The legislative veteran has been testifying before Congress on issues ranging from the Coast Guard budget to the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund on behalf of the Marine Retailers Association of the Americas for a quarter of a century.
After spending 2-1/2 years on the staff of the Coast Guard subcommittee of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Innis was hired by the marine retailers' trade organization as a contractor to set up its first Washington, D.C., office in March 1989. He has been lobbying members of Congress on behalf of the boating industry ever since.
As the MRAA's Washington representative, Innis writes the Washington Watch newsletter, as well as calls to action for members. He played a leading role in the creation of the Marina Operators Association of America — which later became the Association of Marina Industries — and the Marine Environmental Education Foundation. Both organizations were established to better serve the interests of marine retailers who operate marinas and boatyards. Innis was chairman of National Clean Boating Week in the outreach campaign's first three years and he created the voluntary Clean Marina program.
He served a six-year term on the National Boating Safety Advisory Council (appointed by the secretary of transportation), which advises the Coast Guard on boating safety matters such as life jackets, prop guards, boating safety education and operator licensing.
He also has worked on state legislative issues in conjunction with regional marine trade associations, including boating safety issues and dealer bills in Alaska, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Maryland, Maine, Ohio and Michigan.
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Ahead of this year's May 5-7 American Boating Congress, Soundings Trade Only caught up with Innis to ask him about the evolving ABC and discuss the hot topics for this year's session.
Q: Can you talk about the American Boating Congress this year and what participants can expect?
A: I'm certainly excited. I think there are 36 co-hosts this year so far, and that's already more than there were last year. It's everybody in the industry — manufacturers, dealers, distributors, state associations, boatyards, marinas. It's a really great group of people.
It's really going to be a good event, and I encourage everybody to come — the more, the merrier, because we are faced with issues. If we're for an issue, there's always somebody against us. Just look at the ethanol issue, where the ethanol producers and manufacturers are having a conference and they bring in thousands of people on the Hill. They have a big conference, with entertainment such as Led Zeppelin as a draw. So we need everybody we can get to come.
Q: In my short time covering the event, I've seen some growth and traction. How have you seen ABC evolving through the years? How do you get the message out about the event and the issues?
A: We do it through our website and press releases, through the newsletters that I write. When I speak in front of marine trades associations I encourage them to participate. I think there is more marketing going on among the industry. I think that when the National Marine Manufacturers Association moved to co-hosting the event and encouraging co-hosts, that was a significant change. It went from being more or less a manufacturer-based event to being a whole cross-industry event, and I think we'll continue to see it grow.
Engine problems caused by ethanol in gasoline continue to be a major industry issue.
Every industry has a Washington event. I know people may not want to come to Washington — a lot of people don't like what's going on in Washington — but it's so important to meet with legislators and their staffs on issues that are important to their business.
Q: I'm sure you hear often that they don't like the way things are functioning, so they don't want to participate. How do you approach that head-in-the-sand mentality, and do you see more people becoming active, even if they do feel more frustrated?
A: I think people recognize that the events in Washington impact their business, sometimes for the good and sometimes not. I think there is a greater desire these days to participate and to be involved and influencing a member of Congress.
Whenever I speak before a group, usually I give people an assignment. I ask them to get to know the issues that affect their business and ask that they get to know their legislative member, local, county, state or federal, and to invite them to their business, give them a tour and introduce them to their employees. I ask them to contact them, talk with them and work with them on what it is that's important to them — their businesses, the local economies — as well as share how they can grow business, how they can grow jobs. I think more and more people are starting to recognize that is important to do.
Innis expects Congress to consider and perhaps approve some tax breaks this year.
Just look at boating. People buy a boat to get away from all that kind of stuff. They want to buy a boat and be free. I think people in our industry, to a great degree, are boaters. They have that attitude of wanting to be free, and government regulations and rules take that away from them, so they're getting involved more and more. They're seeing that excessive regulations and rules are taking that freedom away and they want to participate to change that.
Q: Sometimes when people are less involved, this process can be more daunting. How do you help people become comfortable speaking to the issues?
A: Washington certainly can be intimidating. It's difficult for many. I've been to many meetings with members or staff with people in our industry, and they want to present themselves professionally and well, and they're concerned with how that comes along. They want to know what they should say, how they should say it. I think as an association we need to educate and train our people, provide them with the information they need and background materials on the issues.
We should also give them information on how to write a member of Congress or communicate with them during a face-to-face meeting. We try to do that. NMMA and MRAA individually have sidebar meetings with participants. We put information on our website all about education and what to do, and how to communicate with Washington, D.C. I think it's part of our job to make members feel at ease.
The most confusing thing about Washington is just how big and complicated it is. There are so many different committees on the Hill doing this and that. It's difficult to put all that together for a lot of people. That's what we try to do for them.
Q: Do people have an easier time if they are used to dealing with their local governments? They seem to be more manageable in size.
A: They appear to be less formal, too, and quicker-moving. Washington sometimes moves very slowly, so it's frustrating to get something passed when it takes two and three and four years.
Q: I imagine that plays into some people's hesitance to participate.
A: I think so. I think as they feel more at ease, it helps, so we ask people — not just coming to ABC, but throughout the year — to contact a member of Congress as a way to get comfortable. They do it. We provide … some basic language, and more and more people are doing it. But I fear that Washington, D.C., is a little scary to a lot of small business people. Even if they contact their local members and know their local city council member or state representative, the idea of coming to Washington and walking around in that big Capitol building is sometimes intimidating. Sometimes it's hard to make the leap.
I think once you do it — contact an office and talk to a staff person — you realize they're just people and they're there to be educated and understand. They want to know what the impact of an idea or bill would be on their constituents. They're eager to learn. It becomes less intimidating than it once was. The key is to take that first step, and ABC is providing that opportunity. The MRAA and NMMA provide position tables and guidelines and as much guidance and education as we can to make the experience a good one.
Q: How productive do you think Congress will be in 2014?
A: This is an election year, and as we get closer and closer to elections, the leaders of both parties will be doing things without any intention of passing it, or of it becoming law, just for the politics. It's very difficult to weed through what is real and what is not real during an election year.
Congress this year is starting to work more together than in prior years. We have been hearing about bipartisanship kind of coming back and that they're working to come up with solutions. So this is a very interesting year because of the politics involved, and the perception may be out there that the American people want Congress to work more together because their approval rating is only 10 percent.
So we didn't have a problem over the debt limit recently, we didn't have a problem with the extension of unemployment benefits, we didn't have a problem with passing a budget in December or appropriation bills, as we have in the past, where they closed down government for two weeks.
Q: Do you think this election cycle is unusual because there has been such an impasse and people are so fed up, they [Congress] do need to find common ground on some issues so they can at least say they got something done? And might the boating industry benefit from that?
A: Ethanol is one they can work together on, and it's also interesting because the lead right now in a renewable fuel repeal is taking place in the Senate. The House is sitting kind of watching what the Senate is doing because they want to move on something that's more bipartisan.
My gut tells me there are probably enough votes in the House on the Republican side to pass an ethanol repeal or modification, but they're not bringing it up yet. They're waiting to see what happens in the Senate. So the Cardin bill, there's action on it. I feel optimistic that they're going to hammer out something in the Senate first, and I think the House is going to act on whatever happens in the Senate.
My feeling is they're going to try to hammer out something to repeal the E15 mandate. They may rescind that, they may make changes to the blend wall, but as of now I would guess there's going to be a decision to keep ethanol at E10 instead of totally repealing it.
I think it's going to be very important at ABC for the industry to reiterate the effects that higher levels of ethanol blends have on outboard motors and marine engines, the high cost of maintenance for boaters and the safety issues. When a boater breaks down, it's usually out on the water somewhere or in the hot sun, and they have a fear of what's going to happen to them. They have to wait for a tow or for help somewhere along the line to get them back.
If we go into Congress during ABC and emphasize this again, I think the timing is good. We need to emphasize the higher levels, like E15, and that the ethanol producers are wanting to push E35 and E85. It's mind-boggling what it would do to our industry. The timing is good to push that issue. There's a good chance it will pass at some level this year.
Funding for dredging projects is expected to be a congressional topic this year.
Q: That's an issue that five years ago people didn't know much about, but that has completely changed.
A: I think so. I remember walking on the Hill five years ago and talking about the problems with ethanol, and I remember getting one deaf ear after another. You could just see on the staff people's faces, they just didn't want to hear it. They wanted a clean environment.
Now they're starting to recognize that there is a problem, with millions of acres of wetlands being converted to farmland to grow more corn. They're starting to see this has an environmental impact that is negative and that is a direct result of, year after year, people in our industry and in other industries coming to Washington and talking about the effects of ethanol.
Even more environmental groups are getting on board because of dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay and the elimination of wetlands. I think some of the environmental groups are starting to understand that ethanol may not be the best oxygenator of gasoline. Maybe there's another product we could use. And the Department of Energy is doing research with boat manufacturers and others to try to find another product that would be a little bit better for the environment and protect our engines and the safety of users.
Q: What other issues are coming up for ABC, not necessarily just on the MRAA's radar, but also for the overall industry?
A: As far as the overall industry is concerned, ethanol is a big issue and invasive species is another big one. I think somewhere Asian carp is going to need some attention.
I think dredging and WRDA is going to be an issue this year. We passed the Water Resources Development Act for the first time in several years, and this provides money for Army Corps of Engineers dredging projects. I think there may be some attempt to start another WRDA authorization. They're supposed to do it every year, but they haven't been getting that done recently. But I think we're going to have dredging come up as an issue. A big issue probably within the Sportfish Restoration Trust Fund will be access to water. We have to continue to provide people access.
Some people are talking about the Marketplace Fairness Act. We'll have to figure out if that's an issue the industry should put on the burner. The act would allow for the collection of sales tax on Internet sales, but exempt small businesses that have less than $1 million in annual Internet sales. We like the fairness because our guys have been competing against catalog sales for years and years, and they don't pay taxes. For some states, it's getting up to 8.5 percent.
It's kind of been personal for some of our members because their customers talk to them about a product, but buy it on the Internet without paying sales tax. Then they ask the dealer or marina for advice on how to install it free. In the past we've supported it, so I'm not sure if it's going anywhere, so we'll have to watch that carefully so people aren't spending time on an issue that's dead.
We haven't touched on taxes. We didn't include that on any of our lists this year. I think Congress will pass the tax extenders bill, some of the Bush tax cuts that many people have passionate feelings for and against, but there's estate tax repeal that's been important to us for a long time. I think that's going to be passed, and I think they're going to pass it at the same level as what it was last year. So the exemption would be $5 million. That is good for many marinas because many are valued between $5 [million] and $10 million. That's going to help some people in our industry.
It is a tax on your death. It was one of the first taxes passed by Congress, and it was passed to fund the Spanish-American War. It was implemented before the income tax. When your estate is valued independently over a certain amount of money — it was $5 million as of Dec. 31, but it reverted back to something in the area of $3 million — so this exempts the first $5 million of an estate. So if a couple owns a marina valued at $10 million, one person dies, half of that would be owned by the surviving spouse, so they wouldn't have to pay taxes on the other half of the estate. And this affects family farms, and ranches, small businesses. We have been in favor for many years and watching that. I think it's going to pass.
Congressman Dave Camp from Michigan, chair of the Ways and Means Committee, has been floating around a draft tax rewrite bill, but I think they're just going to run out of time this year and there won't be enough legislative days left for it. They spend more and more time campaigning as you get closer to elections. So I don't think it's on the agenda for this year, but it is still an issue we're watching.
There will be a tax extender bill, maybe, but not a major rewrite to the tax bill where we have a flat tax or something like that. Second-home interest deductions are another topic. We want them to keep the deduction for boats. There's talk of eliminating it or reducing the amount you can take. Right now, it's $1 million.
The mortgages total cannot exceed $1 million, and they may cut that to $500,000. Most of the people who take this are not buying the kind of yachts that people think of. Most people who buy yachts can't use this because the value of their home is too high to qualify.
This is something that a truly middle-class person considers because they choose to have a boat for a weekend home, a getaway place. Some people who work in auto plants in Michigan will have a fishing cottage on the lake that they maybe built themselves. Other people maybe have a smaller boat they go down to, and it's worth $100,000 or $50,000, but they need the deduction in order to make it work for them financially. We support that.
Q: The recreational industry seems to be speaking with a more cohesive voice and speaking more to the economic impact of recreational boating. How do business owners play into the overall industry voice being heard in Washington? How important are those voices, and how do you convince dealers who don't want to participate how important it is?
A: It's so important and you know, it's important for a politician to have a whole group of different organizations like [those that] are coming to ABC and to hear all those different organizations united and supporting an issue. If one person comes up there, it's one voice, but if you have many, it's a movement. They recognize that, "wow, maybe I should listen to these guys."
When you have groups coming to ABC, the wide range of groups — from environmental groups to fishing groups to boating groups and all of the different groups within boating from manufacturers, dealers, representatives, distributors, marinas, boatyards, everybody coming and talking on the Hill — it's important for these guys to do that.
I hear it, too, from dealers who don't want to spend the money or time, or marinas are starting to put boats in the water and the yards are busy getting them cleaned up. It's a time when the boat shows are just completing and this is their big selling time of the year. They don't want to leave their businesses.
I understand all those things, but it's important that they get involved and come, and write letters or send an email, listen to what we have to say about how this stuff can affect their business, and they can be a voice. One voice may not be so loud, but many voices are heard.
This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue.


In the small town of Astoria, Oregon, surrounded by deep forest and endless mountains, another world thrives . . . a menacing one where dark spirits dwell in soulless humans. Seventeen-year-old Paige Reed lives in this lush, picturesque setting. She's not your average teen, though she appears to be. Not only is she heartsick, but she's been receiving cryptic premonitions from a ghostly voice since the age of four. After she hears a haunting message about herself, supernatural occurrences begin to confuse her. Nathan Caswell seems to peer into Paige's soul, evoking a magnetic energy between them they cannot deny. They're connected. But he's no ordinary guy. He tracks dark spirits and becomes alarmed when they set their sights on Paige. When two power-hungry malevolent beings make demands on her, she realizes then the fate of mankind rest in her hands. Her world quickly turns inside out where the impossible becomes possible, and in the end she's faced with a life changing decision that will not only alter her existence but the world as she knows it. Can a deeply troubled teen overcome her own demons in order to fight those lurking about? With the past and present colliding, Paige must make the ultimate mortal choice. Will it be the right one?
Now immortal, Paige is emotionally and physically stronger than ever. She must find the location of the ancient incantations to prevent mass genocide. But the war against good and evil is spawning another war–a battle between the dark spirits themselves. Paige is saddled in the center of both growing revolutions and is ready to take on the dark forces. But Nathan's over protectiveness prevents her from taking action, and he's hiding things.
Paige's personal life gets more complicated when Brayden arrives back in town and offers the equal partnership she desperately craves from Nathan. Then there's Carrie and Tree, her two best friends and only family she has left. Unfortunate circumstances thrust them into Paige's dark world, giving her no choice but to allow Nathan to arm them with combat techniques in hope they'll be able to protect themselves. Meanwhile, Paige is having visions and discovering abilities she was unaware of. When Anwar comes to visit, his weird behavior alarms her. Could he be turning to the dark side? Time is running out. Paige not only needs to find the incantations but also to untangle the bands around her heart and make a decision that could leave her with a life worse than death–a life of betrayal from the ones she trusted most.
The Exciting Continuation Of The Beyond the Eyes Trilogy. If you could have the power to control evil, would you want it? In a rainy, misty town filled with moss-covered trees and dwarfed by wooded mountains, Astoria, Oregon, holds many secrets and eighteen-year-old Paige Reed is one of them. She's immortal, has magical abilities she's discovering, and harbors King Solomon's power inside her. With his incantations, she can control the dark spirits who lurk among societies in soulless humans. But her problems are mounting. Her best friend slips into a coma, and Paige must tap into her newfound powers—powers she's unsure of—to save her. Through this ordeal, Bael who once commanded a legion of black souls, forces Paige to make a pact with him, causing her to abandon the ones she loves. When she finds out where Solomon's spells are and tells Bael, she begins to have second thoughts about her agreement with him. Will she risk everything to claim the spells that hold the power to control the dark spirits so she can enslave him? Or will her one true love find her before she makes a horrible mistake that could damage her for life? And most importantly, what does the Devil's third mean and what is Bael really up to?
Publication Date & Length: October 11, 2014 & 221 pages.
After eighteen-year-old Carrie Jacobson discovers she was a witch in a previous life, she seeks to reawaken that part of her soul. With the help of an eccentric enchantress and a boy who is more than he seems, Carrie succeeds and is spellbound by the memories of her life in Europe during the 1600s as a powerful witch named Isadora. Carrie reverts to her bewitching, more volatile form and sets out to break a curse she cast long ago on her coven. Carrie's boyfriend Tree cannot help feeling uneasy about the changes he sees in the woman he loves. When Carrie's past clashes with the present and dark magic intoxicates her once again, Tree must take drastic matters into his own hands and attempt to save Carrie from herself. With Tree's help, will Carrie be able to resist the allure of her new powers? Or will she plunge into the deep end and give into them?


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>> Hazel and Holly — Dark Decisions
Hazel and Holly — Dark Decisions
Previous: Finding Forgiveness
Hazel lay awake in bed as Holly slept next to her. The inn was booked up and hadn't had any extra rooms for Hazel and Hemlock, so they had to share with their siblings. Hazel stared at the shadowed silhouette of the bone as it rested on the end table near her head. It was dark in the room, but the bone looked darker still, as if light refused to touch it.
Hazel couldn't rest with that thing so close to her, nagging at the back of her mind of what she needed to do. She had told Holly they'd think of something and had felt a momentary pang of guilt for the lie, but she didn't know what else to do. It was the only way. Holly would never understand. She didn't want Holly to understand. Hazel wanted her sister to retain her naive optimism. Something the darkness couldn't touch.
Holding her breath, she slipped out of bed, found her dress that she had draped over the back of a chair and, in the darkness, put it on. She moved slowly, quietly, careful not to wake Holly. Hazel probaby didn't need to be so careful–Holly would sleep through crashing pots and pans and howling dogs. She'd likely remain asleep if the inn burned down to ash and embers around her. But Hazel didn't want to risk it. Not tonight.
Once dressed, Hazel went to the table and took the hard, cold bone and then, quietly, slipped out the door.
A single oil lamp burned on a narrow table in the hallway, illuminating the way to Hemlock's door. She gently knocked upon it and, after a few minutes, the door opened.
Hemlock blinked at her. "Hazel," he said, sounding surprised. He glanced behind him before stepping out into the hallway with her and closing the door. "You know Hawthorn's in there, right?"
Hazel shook her head. "I don't want to come in. I need you to come with me."
Hemlock grinned and stepped closer to her. "Oh? Where?"
Hazel fished the bone from her pocket and held it out.
Hemlock's face fell and he sucked in a breath. "What are you doing, Hazel?"
"Finding my father."
"Now? Tonight? Do you even know what you're doing?"
Hazel shook her head. "I have no idea. But I'm never going to know. Now's a good a time as any."
"And what does Holly think of this?"
"I don't want her involved."
"She's already involved. It's her father, too. She has a right to know."
Hazel nodded. "I know, but not with this. Not until it's done and over. I don't know what's going to happen. I don't even know what's out there in town after dark. It's why I need you to come with me. You'll be able to deal with what's out there a lot better than her–better than both of us." She took a breath. "I'm asking for your help, Hemlock."
Hemlock rubbed his forehead and nodded. "All right. Just… let me get dressed."
Hazel paced around the dim hallway until, after a while, Hemlock returned, smoothing the jacket of his rumpled black suit.
Hazel gave a feeble smile. "I'm afraid we both have the look of getting dressed in the dark."
Hemlock grinned, straightening his shoulders. "People might get the wrong idea."
"Let's hope that's the worst thing that happens tonight."
The walked down the hallway towards the stairs.
"I wouldn't mind, you know," Hemlock said, "if they got the wrong idea. Or… even the right idea…"
"Focus, Hemlock."
She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and bit her lip to keep herself from grinning like the fool she was. She also needed to focus.
They headed downstairs and to the door. The common room was empty, save for a man sleeping at a table, his face buried in his arms. Hazel hesitated by the door.
"What time is it? Do you know?"
Hemlock pulled out his pocket watch and flipped it open. "Half-past twelve."
"I was afraid of that."
"Maybe we should wait. Come out earlier on another night."
Hazel shook her head. "No, something tells me we'll need to be out at this hour regardless. There's never going to be a good time. Better if we just get it over with now."
Unable to meet Hemlock's gaze. Hazel opened the door and stepped outside. Not wanting to linger too long, she picked a direction and started walking. Hemlock followed.
"Do you know where to go?" he whispered
Hazel shook her head. "No, I… I figure we'll just walk and see what happens."
Hemlock remained silent.
The sound of their footfalls seemed to ring in the quiet night. Hazel strained her ears as she tried to step lightly. She scanned the shadows, looking for movement, waiting for the rasping breath of anyone that might be hiding there. But the shadows remained empty. When they came across a tiny orb of blue light weaving in and out between the iron bars of a fence, Hazel took a sharp turn and headed away from it. Hemlock slowed as he stopped to gaze at the orb, but Hazel tugged on his sleeve, and he snapped out of his reverie and quickened his step alongside her.
Where should they go? The longer they wandered the darkened streets, the more Hazel doubted her decision to come out this night. She wasn't a necromancer; she didn't want anything to do with necromancy. And yet there she was, slinking among shadows as if she were one of them.
She turned down a narrow alleyway, holding her breath as she went, though the low windows were shuttered and dark. When she passed an uncovered window, she glanced inside before hurrying on. Hazel's breath caught and she backed up and returned to the window. Inside, the room stood dark, yet she could still see the shadowed silhouettes of bookshelves lining the walls. A private library, nothing special. She should move on, but instead Hazel lingered there, her breath fogging the cold glass.
"Hazel?" Hemlock whispered.
But Hazel didn't answer. She didn't know what to say–how to explain this tension tugging on her mind, or the fluttering of her heart. Or maybe she was just too afraid to say the words, because then it would be real.
Next to the window was a low arched door. Hazel walked to it and pulled on the handle, and the door creaked open.
Hazel shook her head and, looking at Hemlock, said, "I need to go in there."
She shook her head again. "I don't know." Hazel ducked inside and walked down a pair of steps that took her into a darkened hallway. Hemlock followed, closing the door behind them.
"Who lives here?" he whispered. "Do you know?"
"No idea." She listened for any sound—footsteps, whispering voices, or the rasping kind of breath that came from sleeping bodies. But there was nothing. No clock ticking, no crackling of embers as they cooled in the night. Not even a scratching from rats in the walls—a sound which Hazel never thought she'd miss, but she missed it now. It was too quiet, and Hazel was too aware that they shouldn't be there, yet she couldn't bring herself to leave.
She walked down the dark hallway, running her hand along the wall as she found her way. Dust clung to her hand and floated into the air. Hazel sneezed.
Both she and Hemlock froze, but everything remained eerily silent.
Hemlock pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to her. "I think the house might be empty."
Hazel nodded, took the handkerchief, and wiped her nose. "I hope so. How anyone could live in all this dust is beyond me." But she remained tense. The amount of dust suggested no one had lived there in some time, yet the house was furnished. Shadowed portraits hung on the walls, and dusty carpets padded their steps. When Hemlock pulled out his pocket watch and conjured from it a fairy that gave off a brilliant white-gold light, Hazel could finally see the true state of the house.
Dust-laden cobwebs hung in the corners, fluttering in a draft that Hazel couldn't feel. Faded paper began to peel from the wall in places. Further down the hall was a narrow table with a porcelain vase containing an arrangement of dried red roses that almost looked black. Webs stretched between the drooping heads of the flowers and, when Hazel touched one, the petals fell apart and fluttered to the floor in a papery cascade.
The fairy continued to flit down the hallway, and the shadows shrank away as it approached. They followed it and opened a door to a bedroom—the covers on the bed flat and undisturbed, the color indistinguishable underneath the dust. A photograph portrait of a woman rested on the night table in a silver frame. Her face was blurred, as if she had refused to sit still. Hazel made her way back down the hall, to the door she believed led to the library. When Hemlock and his fairy came close enough to illuminate the cracked and peeling paint on the door, she nudged it open and stepped inside.
The smell of dust was thicker here, almost mouldering in its stench, and Hazel put the kerchief over her nose to keep from sneezing again. She stood there, looking at the stacks of books as she wondered what to do.
Hemlock followed her in, and the fairy carrying his pocket watch flitted among the shelves. Shadows danced across the walls as the fairy darted to and fro. The light seared across Hazel's vision, and she closed her eyes, leaving a ghostly winged after-image imprinted on her mind.
"Extinguish the light," she whispered.
"The light, put it out." She took a breath. "Please."
Hemlock remained silent. But after a moment he spoke his spell and the light went out. Hazel opened her eyes as Hemlock returned the watch to his pocket. She could see him studying her out of the corner of her eye, but Hazel kept her gaze fixed on the books.
Despite the lack of light, the shadows seemed lessened. She could even make out the some of the muted colors of the leather bound books. Dark green and maroon. Midnight blue, black, and chocolate brown. Some of the titles were visible on the spines, even underneath the dust that coated everything like powdered breath. Whispering Wights and Intelligent Sprites: How to Imbue Cognisance into your Summoned Spirits. The Misunderstood Virtues of Blindweed and Direction for its Proper Application. Silenced after Sunset: 50 Counterspells for the Mischievous Familar. Necromancer books. Hazel wished she could feel surprised, but that particular feeling seemed beyond her. She pulled a book from the shelf and cracked it open, wrinkling her nose as a waft of musty air hit her, smelling like stagnant water and decomposing leaves. She held her breath as she brought her face closer to the pages, trying to make out what was written. But the text was faded, and the paper was blotted with a rash of mold like liver spots on old, withered skin. She pulled out another book and opened it, but the pages were the same. Then another but it, too, was illegible.
Hazel stood there, her arms limp at her sides.
"Hazel," Hemlock said, his near-whispering voice carrying through the silence with surprising clarity. "Perhaps we should leave."
Hazel shook her head. "There's something here. I know there is."
"Yes," Hemlock said. "That's what worries me."
She made herself look at him. "I can't turn back. Not until this is done. I think you know that."
An expression passed over his face that Hazel couldn't quite read. He looked sad but also strangely defiant, his shoulders squared and back straight as he met her gaze.
Hazel reached into her pocket and pulled out the bloodied bone. She held Hemlock's gaze a moment longer. Then, looking away, she tossed it into the air.
The bone clattered onto the wooden floor, clearing a path through the dust before it rolled to a stop at the clawed foot of a dense cherrywood bookshelf. Hazel bent down to pick up the bone, and as she did, felt a draft of cool air coming from behind the shelf.
"There's something here," she murmured. She put her hands to the shelf and tried to pull it away, but it was too heavy. "Help me move it."
Hemlock walked to the other side of the bookshelf and, on a count of three, they edged the monstrous thing away from the wall as it groaned and screeched across the floor. In the wall where the shelf had stood was the outline of a door. There was no handle or knob, only a hole in the wood where a knob should have been. Hazel hooked her finger into it and pulled, and in a cloud of dust and a squeaking of rusty hinges, it opened, revealing a dark passage beyond.
Silence lingered as she and Hemlock peered into the blackness.
"Well, that doesn't look foreboding at all," he said.
Hazel smiled, but it was fleeting and faded as a cold fear settled over her.
Hemlock looked at her. "Do you want to go first or should I?"
She closed her eyes, thankful beyond words that he was there. "I'll go first, but we need some light. Maybe something less brilliant than the faerie, though?"
Hemlock shook his head. "This is a warlock's house. I'll need an object of mine for the magic, and the faerie is the only thing I can conjure from the watch." He gave her a pointed look. "You're under no such restrictions, though, unless a witch lived here as well." He looked around. "Which I doubt." Then he smiled. "Have you been practicing your Wyr pronunciation?"
"In the Grove, yes, but not since we came here."
"Try the moth spell I showed you."
Hazel nodded and spoke the words Hemlock had taught her, feeling both elated and relieved when a little white moth unfolded into being, its wings glowing with a pale gentleness of moonlight. It flitted into the passage, showing a narrow set of stairs that headed downwards.
Taking a deep breath to steady her nerves, Hazel followed it and descended into the darkness.
Next: Dark Deeds, Part One
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Sue Archer	- 3 years ago
I love all the details you've put in here, like the door without a knob. I can't wait to see what they find!
Sara C. Snider - 3 years ago
And I love that you notice the weird little things. 😀 Thanks, Sue!
Michelle Morrison - 3 years ago
Very intriguing. I love the spooky house. I am looking forward to finding out what is there.
Thanks, Michelle! I'm always a fan of spooky houses. 😉
Lori Wing - 3 years ago
Moldering dust; what a fantastic, tangible image! I love how brave Hazel is, even in the face of her uncertainty. I find myself believing in her. A true heroine!
Aww, yay! 🙂 Thanks, Lori!


The Partiologist: May Day Monday!
Tomorrow is May Day and I want to know if you've made your May Baskets?
Well, lucky for you I made the cutest little May Basket and you can too!
I'm gonna tell you how. Even if you don't want to know.
The boxes came from the dollar store!
And everything was in my storage room!
Mine happens to be chocolate.
Cut out strips of paper (the size of the candy) to wrap around the chocolate.
So cute and easy unless you have to make 50, then I would recommend buying party cups and filling with nuts and mints and make a handle out of a pipe cleaner.
Did you make & deliver May Baskets as a child? Not only did I make and deliver May Baskets, I also danced around the May Pole, weaving ribbons in and out. Yes, we did those kinds of things on the prairie. Every year my little country school had a May Day Program (no kidding) complete with a May Queen and King. We always had a theme to our May Day programs and one year we dressed from different countries. I was a little Dutch girl. Complete with wooden shoes. I danced the May Pole while wearing wooden shoes. Maybe I should say I clogged the May Pole.
Anyway, I have wonderful memories of May Day. Helping my mom make the baskets, filling them with candy and delivering them. Just in case you've never experienced delivering a May Basket, this is how it works. You would leave a basket on someone's doorstep, ring the bell and run. I think they were supposed to catch you or something, (I don't remember, I might have been on a chocolate high from all the candy I ate while filling my baskets). I probably got caught a few times cuz I really couldn't run too fast (still can't). Then I would come home to see if someone left a May Basket on my door step. And Yes, they did!!
So, go create some memories and deliver May Baskets!!
Or Dance Clog The May Pole!
Thanks for the great idea...I won't have time to make it, but I sure wish I would have done something fun like that! Maybe next year! Thanks!
Love this!. and great idea! I have never heard of May Day baskets. Or May Parade. Where have I been? lol.. but dancing around a pole sounds fun and interesting!. LOL Thanks for sharing. and i learned something already this A. M.
I am full of information!! Thanks for the sweet comment!
Very pretty and seems simple enough for me! Happy May!
We don't do May boxes here, wish we did, these are adorable!
I can see you wearing wooden shoes dancing around the May pole. You are so precious!
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La estrella de mármol o estrella de perla (Fromia monilis) es una especie de estrella de mar de la familia Goniasteridae.

Morfología
De simetría pentaradial, su cuerpo aplanado está formado por un disco pentagonal con cinco brazos.

Sus colores van del rojo al naranja en distintas tonalidades. En sus brazos tienen una especie de "baldosas" de distinto tamaño y que son de color crema a blanquecino azulado, dependiendo del ejemplar. Disco rojo central con poros.

Tienen un esqueleto interno calcáreo y un sistema ambulacral, que les sirve para la locomoción, la captura de alimentos y la respiración. Este (hidroesqueleto) toma agua del medio externo por medio del madreporito, y la presión generada en el sistema interno de cavidades sirve para mover los pequeños "pies", que salen al exterior entre las placas esqueléticas. Estos pies móviles se denominan pies ambulacrales.

El aparato digestivo consta, principalmente, de una boca en posición ventral, un estómago que se puede evertir, haciendo que su superficie interior pase a ser exterior, y un intestino corto, recto, que acaba en un ano.

Su estómago está dividido en dos sectores: el cardíaco y el pilórico. El estómago cardíaco puede revertirse y expulsarse hacia el exterior, posibilitando la digestión externa. La estrella de mar revierte este sector del estómago, lo proyecta hacia el exterior y lo introduce en la presa a digerir (por ejemplo dentro de un mejillón o caracol). La digestión extraintestinal toma unas 10 horas, y durante todo ese tiempo esta porción del estómago permanece en el exterior de la estrella de mar y en el interior de su presa.

Alcanzan un tamaño de 7,5 a 10 cm, pudiendo llegar en ocasiones a 30 cm.

Hábitat y distribución
Entre 0 y 40 metros de profundidad. En fondos marinos arenosos y rocosos de lagunas protegidas de arrecifes.

Se distribuyen en el océano Indo-Pacífico, incluyendo la costa oriental de África y el mar Rojo.

Alimentación
Como la mayoría de especies de esta familia, se alimenta de microoganismos y de fitoplancton. Se dice que también son detritívoras, pero no está comprobado.

Reproducción
Aunque muchas de ellas son hermafroditas y pueden desovar tanto óvulos como espermatozoides, también pueden tener un curioso sistema de reproducción asexual. En este tipo de reproducción, la estrella de mar, se puede regenerar totalmente a partir de un solo brazo que por cualquier razón se haya escindido.

Mantenimiento
Sólo se recomienda su adquisición a expertos. Particularmente sensible a las variaciones de densidad del agua.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 (en inglés)
 (en inglés)
Gosliner, Beherens y Williams. Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific. Sea Challenger. (en inglés)
Debelius, Helmut. Guía de especies del arrecife Pacífico-Asiático. M&G Difusión. 2001. (en inglés)
Lieske,Ewald & Myers, Robert. Coral Reef Guide: Red Sea. HarperCollins Publisher. 2004. (en inglés)

Enlaces externos

 https://web.archive.org/web/20120715120232/http://aquanovel.com/fromia_nodosa.htm
 Cuallado.org

monilis
Equinodermos del océano Índico
Equinodermos del océano Pacífico
Equinodermos descritos en 1869
Taxones descritos por Edmond Perrier

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