Apr. 15, 2019 8:00 a.m.
For anyone who loves to take in cinematic wonders on the big screen, doing so on Wednesday, April 17, at the Hope Theatre will not only support the theatre, but filmmaking across the country.
For the fourth year in a row, the Hope Film Club (HFC) is celebrating National Canadian Film Day (NCFD) by moving the club's regular schedule ahead about two weeks so they can participate with nearly 900 other theatres and venues across the country in screening a Canadian-made film.
Created in the spring of 2013, the Hope Film Club meets on the last Thursday of the month to view a variety of films from around the world. Your first visit to the Club is $10—$2 pays for annual membership—and after that, each visit is $8, which goes directly towards paying for the local theatre's digital upgrade.
"Several years ago, all theatres transitioned from film to digital," explained Jonathon Polishak, HFC co-founder. "Per every screen, it was something like a $55,000 upgrade, so … quite a bit (was invested) into the theatre" in terms of renovations, and upgrading the seats, decor, and digital upgrades of screen and sound.
To help offset those costs, Polishak and Kelly Pearce established the Hope Film Club. To date, Polishak says the Club has raised about $35,000.
"Generally, we're raising about $500 per event," said Polishak, who teaches English and drama at Hope Secondary. "We average about 60 to 65 people, but there's always hope for that size or more, (as it's) always more fun (to screen movies) with bigger crowds.
"It tends to be a really fun night," Polishak continued. "We do door prizes at all our events, (and there will be) extra door prizes for the first 15 people who" attend the NCFD event.
This year, the Club put out a survey to its members to determine which of Canada's cinematic marvels to screen at the NCFD event: One Week, starring Joshua Jackson, was the clear winner.
More than "80 per cent of all voters placed it in their top three, and nearly half of respondents had it as their number one choice," he added.
"It's also a special anniversary for a famous NFB (National Film Board) short that will play before the show that will definitely be a crowd-pleaser.
Polishak also notes an interesting geographical cameo in this year's film selection.
As for the support of Canadian film, Polishak says it's essential to support homegrown arts, and those in the business of spreading the arts—such as theatres.
"Canadian film, like lots of other things culturally, (can be) undervalued or underappreciated … but there are lots of famous Canadian actors. Since the '90s, (I feel) there's been a renaissance in Canadian music, (and now) cinema is moving in that direction as well.
Following the screening of One Week on National Canadian Film Day, Polishak says Club members can expect a summer full of cinematic, family fun. "We'll have everything from Robin Hood to Jaws," he said with a smile.
For more information on The Hope Film Club, please visit their Facebook page, or email them at HopeCinePals@gmail.com.


Updated Tuesday April 19, 2016 by Kent Wannamaker.
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Andy gifted me both his family's season tickets for Cardiff City's visit to Arsenal this week so I took the Burglar along.
He called me this morning to tell me the glad tidings that he appeared in Match of the Day's coverage of the game last night. I didn't apparently even though I was in the adjacent seat.
During the game there was a Tannoy announcement that Caledonian Road tube station (through which we had passed on the journey) was closed due to a "Police incident".
This turned out to be the stabbing to death of a teenage boy. A BBC report on the murder (here) also said "elsewhere in the capital on Tuesday, a woman was found with stab injuries in Baring Road, Bromley". Grove Park, the train station Paul uses to get into town is in Baring Road.
Having passed so near (in both distance and time) to two stabbings in one journey, he joked that both the assassins I had sent after him that day had failed, but it is still horrifying that he could saunter through such carnage.


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Good Natured, Fun Loving, Aussie Racism
Our casual racism is something we need to work on.
Posted By Tom Wolff 5 years ago
Anyone who has played the ludicrously inappropriate yet admittedly hilarious game Cards Against Humanity may recognise the title of this article. It is one of the answer cards in the Australian edition of the game, which I was playing with friends at a pub the other day. That very phrase, in its simplicity, got me thinking about how casual racism is in Australia.
The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as:
"Behaviour or language based on this kind of belief in relation to a person or persons of a particular race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin, either demonstrating an inherent prejudice without specific hostile intent or, alternatively, intended to offend, insult, humiliate, or intimidate."
The phrase that grabs me from that definition is the part about "inherent prejudice without specific hostile intent". If someone were to ask me how I defined racism, this aspect of the concept probably wouldn't have crossed my mind. But it is an inherently important component of how we think about racism and racist actions. It's the good natured, fun loving, Aussie racism that many of us so frequently overlook as normal and morally sound. The odd comment here, the "light-hearted" joke there. I reckon more often than not we fail to acknowledge the harm that these normalised, everyday actions have on certain people or groups of people.
Who's heard the phrase "I'm not racist but..." before? I sure have. Every time that phrase enters my ears, a switch flicks in my head which says, "Alright then, this person is more than likely to say something racist." Prefacing a statement with those four words is effectively telling everyone who'll listen that you're about to make a severe generalisation about a person, or group of people, that is most likely to their detriment.
I would say that most racist actions, words and thoughts are caused by lack of knowledge or understanding. There is simply too much information in the world and in order to categorise and make sense of all this information so our heads don't suddenly spontaneously combust, we make generalisations and stereotypes about people. It makes sense. We can't know everything about every culture in every country in the world - it's simply impossible. In saying that, how we view people, and groups of people, is heavily influenced by mass media. Mass media sometimes creates and frequently perpetuates these oversimplifications to the degree that many of us take it for reality, without a second thought. Australia is a highly literate country (96% literacy rate last time I checked) so the argument that we aren't educated enough to challenge racism doesn't fly. The issue is how we are educated. For many years the Australian government has promoted the idea of multiculturalism, yet this was never genuinely taught in any of my school education? While we are certainly incredibly culturally diverse, the interaction between the myriad of cultures is not nearly as apparent. I believe what this country is severely lacking are platforms for promoting interracial (or intercultural) dialogue.
When intercultural dialogue does occur it is incredibly effective in breaking down cultural barriers, promoting tolerance of our inherent differences, and basically just coming to terms with the fact that we're all humans and we've all gotta try and co-exist on a big blue ball spinning through space. (Not to mention the fact that this coexistence is arguably even more crucial considering the current state of the climate and environment). We are not born racist. We are not born with prejudices. They are instilled in us from our family, our friends, our teachers, our politicians and our media. They are based on generalisations that, while potentially may convey some form of truth in certain areas - are certainly not defining characteristics of people of a specific race, belief, nationality or other.
It's not all doom and gloom though. People have been promoting intercultural dialogue, both formally and informally, for thousands of years. Community groups such as Sixty Thousand Years, adopt the simple aim of "Recognising, celebrating and creating conversations around Australia's history" with the wider aim of "changing the conversation". These community-based projects that aim to promote cultural diversity, understanding and dialogue are crucial, but the scale and reach of these programs is relatively small. These programs shouldn't exist in isolation, but promote cooperation with governments and those in power to deliver a strong message to all Australians - that racism is not OK. Admittedly, it's hard to foster change when News Corp is persuading vast swathes of the Australian public that every Muslim is a terrorist and all asylum seekers are only here to steal our jobs, our homes and our husbands or wives.
Racism never has been, and never will be, a useful tool for any society. It achieves only feelings of fear and hatred. It promotes actions of violence and suffering. Maybe we've romanticised this "good natured, fun loving, Aussie racism" as an inherent part of our convict ancestry in a contemporary culture dominated by white society. Racist views were probably used to justify dispossession of an entire Indigenous population of their land, views which still rear their ugly head in current day Australia. Racist views are now adopted to ostracise peaceful Australian Muslims, in actions such as the Reclaim Australia rallies we witnessed earlier this year. They have been effective in fear mongering by current and previous Australian governments in order to demonise and dehumanise asylum seekers. If we are to see genuine changes to this discourse, we need to take steps to achieve progress.
In the world of online activism, we have a tendency to think too much and complex. Dispelling racism can translate to taking to the streets to oppose Reclaim Australia rallies or to call the government out for ultra-racist policies regarding the closure of remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia. But I would argue that, in this case, progress is much more wholesome in its simplicity. Instead of reading the paper, go and talk to a member of your local community that may be of a different race or have a different cultural background to you. Ask them what they believe and let them justify that, whether you agree with it or not. Better yet, just have a beer and a yarn and leave the cultural differences aside altogether. Genuine human interaction promotes understanding - we're social beings, and we like to get along with each other wherever possible.
Australia, we're in denial about racism. Racism in its extremes, but also in its acceptance in moderate circles. Getting past the denial stage is the first step to changing our ways, and our views. Nobody's perfect, and I often catch myself out by making assumptions or saying something that is blatantly racist. What's important is that we take the time to recognise that racism, in any form, is not good-natured nor is it fun loving. Once we do that we might all think twice before we make that light-hearted joke we used to think was funny.
It's Your "Lefty Lynch-Mob"Zaky Mallah and the next step in shutting down Australia's "Left Wing" media.
When President Barack Obama Met Sir David AttenboroughTwo kingpins discuss the marvels of nature and the future of the planet as we know it.
In 2019, why are we still not respecting female musicians on stage?
Time and time again, female musicians are being harassed by the people that have paid to see them - and it's not on.
By Hayden Davies
The Verdict: Murdoch Mass Media Is Not Our Friend
A few words for the Brisbane Courier Mail and the supposedly joyous news that the Great Barrier Reef is totally fine.
Full Stream Ahead
We talk the future of online music with some industry friends.
By Liam Apter
Australia's Music Festival Diversity Problem By The Numbers & Some Steps To Improve It
We look at the Australian 2017/2018 festival circuit, and chat to industry peeps on how to fix it.
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You've wandered through valleys and hills, savannas and frozen forests but now, it's time to explore our latest reserve in Patagonia, Parque Fernando.
This thriving park will let you hunt Pumas, Mule Deer, Blackbucks, Cinnamon Teals, Axis Deer, Water Buffalos and Red Deer.
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Parque Fernando measures a striking 25 square miles (64 square kilometer) and it allows you to follow a captivating new story, with 16 new narrative missions, and 39 side missions.
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Holy Eucharist/Communion
What is the Holy Eucharist?
[T]he Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me." In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. (1 Corinthians 11:23-26 RSVCE)
These are the words of St. Paul to his flock in Corinth and to all Christians. Just as St. Paul and the other apostles believed in Christ's Eucharistic presence, so Catholics to this day believe that at the words of Jesus Christ the bread and wine become His body and His blood. "So Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you; he who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day'." (John 6:53-54)
The Holy Eucharist/Communion is the source and summit of the Christian faith. This sacrament not only nourishes us spiritually, preparing us for heaven, but it also brings us into communion with one another and, above all, increases our communion with our Lord who gives us His life.
Who may receive Holy Communion?
Catholics and only those Catholics who have made their first Holy Communion, are in the state of grace (free from all grave sins) can come forward to receive Holy Communion.
What do I, or my child(ren), need to do to receive first Holy Communion?
If you are an adult, call the parish office and mention you would like to prepare to receive first Holy Communion: 701-572-6731. Additionally, please submit the form below.
Children normally receive their first Holy Communion at the end of the second grade during the Easter Season. They are required to attend classes on Wednesday evening during the school year, and they will make their first Confession before receiving Jesus in first Holy Communion. Call the parish office and ask that your child(ren) may attend these classes: 701-572-6731.
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Multis — EF18
Multis marks our entry into the blockchain arena. Our vision with Multis is simple, we want to build a cryptobank for companies. We are convinced that building an intuitive simple interface can enable companies to manage, send, and receive payments in cryptocurrency. The goal: replicate the neobanking experience, with cryptocurrency.
Visit multis.co
In 2008, Bitcoin became the first peer-to-peer electronic cash system allowing online payments without the need for an institution. The same way internet radically changed the way we exchanged data, the interchain and its blockchains will redesign the way we exchange value.
Soon, all transactions will be digitalized and every company will need to own cryptocurrencies to operate. The current tools are designed for individuals or developers and it remains quite difficult for companies to manage their crypto-currencies efficiently and securely.
That's why we're building Multis: by adding a layer of interface to render blockchain technology more accessible, we want to help companies manage cryptos and become the only product companies need to run a crypto activity. Just like a neobank, but for cryptos.
Meet the founders.
Theophile Villard and Thibaut Sahagian joined eFounders in 2018 to launch Multis. Leveraging the potential of blockchain technology, they built the first product of its kind in the crypto space.
Thibaut Sahaghian
A former entrepreneur and blockchain enthusiast, Thibaut joined the team to pioneer a gateway for companies to access the growing cryptoeconomy.
Theophile Villard
Combining industry expertise and technical ability, Theo wanted to build a product that would change the way people interact with and use blockchain technology.


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Ryan Weber // January 22, 2020
Introducing the new Greater Minnesota focused Startup School Initiative
UPDATE: Signup here for St. Cloud or Red Wing locations! Or View Course Information.
Greater Minnesota has been underperforming in its formation of new startups. When we founded Great North Labs, we recognized this need, and committed to changing it before the region could fall further behind. We founded a Startup School to provide the educational components that we saw local entrepreneurs were missing. By partnering with Red Wing Ignite and ILT Studios, we will greatly expand our reach, capacity, and educational offering. This co-created, yet-to-be-named, Greater MN Startup School initiative will reach across the state to cultivate founders and startups in areas ready for the impact of entrepreneurial innovation.
The Necessity of Startup Entrepreneurship
From 2000-2017, 52% of companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired, or ceased to exist. Digital disruption is the primary catalyst of change. Adaptability is key to success. A key to any community, or organization, strengthening its adaptive intelligence is for it to master a disciplined approach to startup entrepreneurship. Disciplined startup entrepreneurship isn't new but techniques have emerged the past 15 years that emphasize a more agile process for startup entrepreneurship that is needed in an environment with such accelerating changes.
One measure of the strength of startup entrepreneurship in a community is the number of first venture financings that it produces. The Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) now have 1% of the countries first venture financings, but Greater Minnesota (generalized as non-urban MN, or specifically as all of Minnesota outside of the Twin Cities region) has lagged behind. Comparing the efficiency –the number of first venture financings per population– of the Twin Cities to the next largest markets in Minnesota is revealing. St. Cloud, Duluth, and Mankato have 50% or lower startup efficiency. Rochester (home of the Mayo Clinic) is a standout, and outperformed with a 200%+ startup efficiency compared to the Twin Cities.
The Need for Startup Education
My twin brother and Great North Labs Partner, Rob Weber, and I have previously angel invested in 25 startups from 2006 to 2017 while scaling our own startup with offices in Silicon Valley and Minnesota. I served for 10+ years as Chief Product Officer, and noticed an inefficiency in the startup teams resulting from a lack of disciplined startup entrepreneurship practices compared to Silicon Valley. I struggled finding Minnesota-based product managers trained in the more adaptive style of product management made popular by lean startups so we invested in developing a common process and trained our team on it.
As investors, too often we'd hear from a founder that they just need $300K to prove out their latest thesis. We'd meet teams that burned through $500K in angel funding that still couldn't present evidence validating their thesis. This evidence we'd expect a product manager to answer at our company in their first two months of leading a new product idea with nothing more than qualitative research.
For most of the funded startup teams, they were immersed in the market and sought to solve a problem they thought they understood well. However, they usually struggled to identify the problem that's the most impactful to solve, the minimal viable solution that solves that problems needs, and an offer that communicates the value proposition clearly and for a price the buyer will accept.
The Great North Labs Startup School
Great North Labs was formed in the fall of 2017. In addition to our early-stage venture fund, we started an initiative called the Startup School to invest in strengthening our disciplined startup education in the region. We led a group of practitioners who ran workshops on Digital Transformation, Lean Startups (most frequent), and Agile Development. The free or low-cost workshops attracted over 200 participants through the end of 2019. The workshop materials were also shared with many others and we gave lectures at a number of universities and conferences in cities across the Upper Midwest.
For the Lean Startup Workshop, we found that participants were engaged with low attrition rates and heard from them after the fact as they reported on their progress. We had the Executive Director of a significant non-profit mention using the process to discover a new innovation they were pursuing to commercialize, several tech founders launching their MVPs after researching, and many staying in touch to assist and support each-other but also in some cases joining forces on a startup.
We saw a greater gap in the smaller markets across Minnesota and throughout the Upper Midwest. However, one bright spot was in Iowa. There, the state had invested in programming similar to ours, and had expanded across the state with their Venture School initiative.
The Greater MN Startup School Initiative
We are taking the experience and lessons learned along the way from our initial Startup School, from Iowa's Venture School, and from other startup education programs to expand our program to our new Greater MN Startup School initiative. This new Startup School will make the skills and training necessary for disciplined startup entrepreneurship more accessible to Minnesota entrepreneurs than ever before. It will also open up networks and possibilities for people across the state that were previously unavailable. Across the state, we hope to see this cultivation of startups drive innovation, economic activity, and value creation.
Read more about our startup education and sign up for courses
Who: Great North Labs, ILT Studios, Redwing Ignite and Partners.
What: A new set of workshops designed to strengthen the skills in disciplined startup entrepreneurship and provide an applied learning environment that allows founders, and their supporters, to work from idea conception to commercialization.
Participants will learn innovation techniques for identifying, defining, sizing, validating, and commercializing venture scalable startups. There will be new online and in-class programming to help you learn with hands-on practical activities, mentorship, insights, and opportunities to network to help you build confidence in your startup thesis and master the art of gathering feedback, directly from your future customers.
When: The first class for Customer Driven Innovation will run from March-April. The first class for Business Model Foundation will follow in early summer. The first class for The Lean Startup will run from mid to late summer. Web-site registration will be open in February for the classes and we will follow up with additional details.
Where: Red Wing and St. Cloud will offer the same classes in parallel but on different days
Why: To teach participants about design innovation, the Lean Startup process and how to identify, develop, define, validate, finance and commercialize their ideas so they are more successful in developing their own startup as a new company or inside of an existing one.
Earn a certificate for completing each of the programs and strengthen your credentials for a career as a Startup Founder or Product Manager. Initially, three workshops will be offered and each will feature a program certificate for those that successful complete:
Program 1: Customer Driven Innovation – Gain fresh perspective that will expand your thinking and push you to bold new ideas through practice and discussion within the class and interactions with the instructors and classmates. You'll come up with a number of potential ideas and pick one to develop as a concept pitch.
Program 2: Business Model Foundation – This program builds on the Customer Driven Innovation course to help you form a strong business thesis. Learn to document your initial business plan and quickly analyze it's potential, advanced customer discovery interview methods, and skills needed to help gather better feedback and ensure you are solving the right problem.
Program 3: The Lean Startup Certificate– This program builds on the Customer Driven Innovation and the Business Model Foundation courses to leverage the creativity and collaboration within a startup team to develop and execute experiments that test your business thesis, synthesis key learnings, and to explore alternative thesis based on those learnings until you find a business thesis that meets your success criteria. This program will culminate with an idea pitch event where an investor panel will award cash prizes to the top pitches.
Building up the Region
The Twin Cities has emerged as a strong startup community in the Upper Midwest. There are parallels between Silicon Valley and the Twin Cities that we can learn from and try to replicate in Greater MN, and potentially the entire Upper Midwest region.
Silicon Valley benefited from an emphasis on experimenting with practical skills in emerging fields, a network of VCs, links with Economic Development Departments, local universities, and local LPs. Our vision is to partner with all the aforementioned entities to serve the entrepreneurs of Greater MN.
While this is our pilot year, we already have interest from a variety of organizations. There is strong demand from around the state. If your community is interested in our program, please contact us, and we can stay connected and help with preparations as we make plans for expansion.
As far as involved organizations go, we'd like to take a moment to thank LaunchMN in particular, for their financial and operational support. This new MN DEED initiative led by Neela Mollgaard has helped make this new Startup School initiative possible.
We have an opportunity now to transform our rural markets into strong startup communities, and improve their resiliency in a world that increasingly requires adaptive intelligence and innovation skills to succeed.


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from django.utils.text import slugify

from ...product.models import Attribute, AttributeValue

def attributes_to_hstore(attribute_value_input, attributes_queryset):
    """Transform attributes to the HStore representation.

    Attributes configuration per product is stored in a HStore field as
    a dict of IDs. This function transforms the list of `AttributeValueInput`
    objects to this format.
    """
    attributes_map = {attr.slug: attr.id for attr in attributes_queryset}

    attributes_hstore = {}
    values_map = dict(
        AttributeValue.objects.values_list('slug', 'id'))

    for attribute in attribute_value_input:
        attr_slug = attribute.get('slug')
        if attr_slug not in attributes_map:
            raise ValueError(
                'Attribute %r doesn\'t belong to given product type.' % (
                    attr_slug,))

        value = attribute.get('value')
        if not value:
            continue

        attribute_id = attributes_map[attr_slug]
        value_id = values_map.get(value)

        if value_id is None:
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            # instance from the provided `value`.
            attr_instance = Attribute.objects.get(slug=attr_slug)
            obj = attr_instance.values.get_or_create(
                name=value, slug=slugify(value))[0]
            value_id = obj.pk

        attributes_hstore[str(attribute_id)] = str(value_id)

    return attributes_hstore

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English Lesson Planner | You just have to see it!
In this lesson, students learn and practice how to make recommendations in the context of movies/films. They are first tested on their previous knowledge, given some context in the form of listening and then tested again at the end, followed by some freer practice.
To provide clarification, review and practice of language used for suggestions in the context of movies/films.
To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of movies/films.
The teacher (T): "Do you like movies/films"? "What kind of movies do you like?" "How often do you go to the cinema?"(this can be OPTIONAL) "Have you seen these movies?"(pointing out the movie posters on the wall and on the board?" INSTRUCTIONS: T:"Look at that" (pointing the handout) "You can find the names of the movies(we can see the posters on the walls) and the sentences from the movies. "What are you going to do with these?" T tries to elicit the activity. "Match the movies with sentences" "Now, work in pairs please" "You have 1 minute." ICQs: -Are you working individually?No, in PW. -Are we going to match the sentences with the movie names? YES. FEEDBACK: T elicit answers from different Sts. The aim of the activity is to build interest and grab Sts' attention to the context and engage them.
INSTRUCTIONS: T: "How many people are there?" 2 People. "What are they doing?" Talking to each other. "What are those?" (Pointing the speech bubbles.) "Work in pairs." "Put in order the sentences so that it can be a conversation." "You have 2 minutes." ICQs: "Are we working in pairs?" YES. "Are we putting the sentences in order" YES. Questions can be varied according to the reaction of the class. Demonstration will be done if needed. FEEDBACK: As Sts share their sentence order with the class, T sticks the big bubles(some of them that includes suggestions and answers) on the WB.
T divides the board into 3 parts and puts the pictures showing "questions& suggestions, accepting&saying YES, refusing&saying NO" on top of the three parts of the WB. T: "Come to the WB and Put these sentences into the correct part of the WB." Is it a question, a yes or a no?" "You have 1 minute." ICQs:"Are you going to put the sentences on the WB?"YES. "Are you going to put them into the correct part of the WB?"YES. A demonstration will be done based on the reaction of the class. Then T gives the questions and answers(YES&NO) to the Sts. FEEDBACK: For the sentences that are put on the wrong part of the WB will be asked to the class if it is in the right place or not. Guided discovery: T helps students to find the answers of the questions . Drilling will be done here.
INSTRUCTIONS: T:"Listen to a conversation and fill in the blanks individually." ICQ: "Are you going to fill in the blanks?"YES. "Are you going to work in pairs?"NO. T :Now, check your answers with your partner! ICQ: "Are we going to check our answers with our partners?"YES. T: "Do you want to listen again?"YES/NO. Second listening will be done based on the needs. According to the time, some answers can be shared and the rest of the answers can be given to the Sts in the answer keys.
This is a role-playing activity. Instructions: "Find your partners"(Different partners) "Ask each other and plan about a movie night like the ones we listened and read" "You have 4 movies, 2 cafes, so use them in your conversation" ICQs:"Are you working in groups?"NO, in pairs. "Are you talking about your movie night?" YES. "Are you going to use these 4 movies and 2 cafes in your conversation?YES. Demonstrations are done with Meryem(T wants her to come to the WB.) During the activity, T notes down the points that needs to be corrected during and after the activity. FEEDBACK: 2 pairs are picked to show their role-play activity. Correction is done.


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Estuaries and Coasts
July 2019 , Volume 42, Issue 5, pp 1265–1280 | Cite as
Quantifying Effluent Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (EDON) Uptake by Microbial Communities Along a Salinity Gradient in the York River
Xiaolong Yao
Rachel E. Sipler
Brianna C. Stanley
Quinn N. Roberts
Marta P. Sanderson
Charles B. Bott
Deborah A. Bronk
Effluent discharged from water reclamation facilities (WRFs) contains dissolved organic nitrogen, termed effluent dissolved organic nitrogen (EDON), that subsequently enters coastal waterways. It is still unclear at what rate EDON can be taken up by microbial communities relative to other nitrogen (N) substrates. Bench-scale sequencing batch reactors (SBRs), used to mimic WRFs, were supplied with 15N-labeled ammonium (15NH4+) to produce 15N-labeled EDON (EDO15N) that was subsequently used to measure uptake rates along a salinity gradient of the York River, Virginia, USA, in the spring and summer. Although NH4+ dominated influent N pools, only a small fraction (4.1%) of EDON was produced from NH4+ microbial assimilation in biological treatment processes. When added as a short-term (4-h) tracer, the EDO15N was taken up by estuarine microbes at rates 0.01–0.434 μmol N L−1 h−1, which are similar to rates of NH4+ and nitrate uptake. When added to 48-h bioassays, EDON stimulated phytoplankton growth more at the lower salinity (0–8‰) sites (8.5–13.8 μg Chl a L−1) than at the higher salinity (20‰) site (up to 0.4 μmol Chl a L−1). The microbes in the 0.7–5 μm size fraction had significantly higher EDO15N uptake rates than the larger size fraction (e.g., > 5 μm, p < 0.05). Taken together with urea and amino acids, DON plays a more important role in N nutrition for microbes during the summer months. This study provides the first EDO15N uptake rates using EDO15N produced from 15NH4+ in SBRs, and the results provide conclusive evidence that organic N in effluent is biologically available to estuarine microbes.
Effluent Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) Uptake Microbial communities York River
Communicated by Dennis Swaney
The online version of this article ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-019-00563-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
We are grateful to anonymous reviewers for their insightful suggestions. This paper is Contribution No. 3824 of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary.
This study was supported by The Water Environment Research Foundation grant no. U1R11 to DAB and RES. XY was supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) (No. 201704910658).
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ESM 1 Supporting Information Tables showing specific and absolute uptake rates of N substrates measured on the 0.3–0.7, 0.7–5, and > 5 μm size fractions at each site during the summer and difference values between 4 and 48 h of the spring and summer 48-h bioassays for the concentrations of nutrients, DOC, Chl a, and phaeopigments. Figures showing NH4+ regeneration rates at each site during the tracer studies, specific and absolute uptake rates of the 0.3–0.7, 0.7–5, and > 5 μm size fractions during the summer, and changes in the concentrations of nutrients, DOC, Chl a, and phaeopigments under each treatment during the 48-h bioassays (DOCX 2773 kb)
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1.Virginia Institute of Marine ScienceCollege of William & MaryGloucester PointUSA
2.State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and LimnologyChinese Academy of SciencesNanjingChina
3.University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
4.Department of Ocean SciencesMemorial University of NewfoundlandSt. John'sCanada
5.Hampton Roads Sanitation DistrictVirginia BeachUSA
6.Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean SciencesBoothbayUSA
Yao, X., Sipler, R.E., Stanley, B.C. et al. Estuaries and Coasts (2019) 42: 1265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-019-00563-9
Received 22 October 2018
Revised 31 March 2019
Accepted 08 April 2019
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-019-00563-9
Publisher Name Springer US
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SIKESTON -- The Charleston Lady Bluejays tennis team continued their good play of recent weeks Tuesday, sweeping the Sikeston Lady Bulldogs 9-0 Tuesday afternoon. "We didn't play very good today," said Sikeston coach Lynne DeWitt. "The girls seemed sluggish today."...
Boyd to sing tonight on 'Talent' (Local News ~ 09/17/08)
SIKESTON -- Neal E. Boyd, a tenor singer who is a Sikeston native and 1994 SHS graduate, will perform tonight as part of the Top Ten in "America's Got Talent," which begins at 7 p.m. on NBC. Last week, Boyd survived the cut from 20 contestants with the song "Mama" by the vocal trio Il Divo. It was the first time his mother, Esther, had been in the audience for a performance during Boyd's run on the show...
Workers spending hours to clean up (Local News ~ 09/17/08)
SIKESTON -- After the storm has passed, there's a lot of clean-up to be done. From downed power lines to broken trees and limbs, it will take days to clean up from the damage of Hurricane Ike, and no one knows that better than the workers who devote many hours to getting things back to normal...
Safety fair features child car seat inspections (Local News ~ 09/17/08)
NEW MADRID -- Just having a safety seat for a child isn't enough. Parents have to make sure it's the correct seat for the age and weight of the child, plus the seat needs to be installed correctly. "A lot of parents think that if their baby is in there and strapped down, they should be OK," said Tonya Carruth, executive director of the New Madrid County Resource Center. "But that isn't always the case...
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BENTON -- Holding federal detainees for Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be extra revenue for Scott County but will also mean a price hike for medical services. Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter presented county commissioners with two options for extending the health care contract for the county's jail inmates during the regular County Commission meeting Tuesday...


Community Home > Discuss > Technology > Wireless Access > Best FREE tools for site survey?
Ekahau HeatMapper - doesn't really work well. It says I have full signal outside, when clearly I don't.
Cain and Abel - RSSI updates every 5 seconds, which is nice - but in the long run I don't want to manually record all this.
NetSurveyor - What I'm currently using, nice reporting feature, beacon graphing is a little off on some APs.
Re: Best FREE tools for site survey?
This is another not quite free suggestion, but when doing site surveys with AP-65s we've had great luck using an external 5V pocket-size battery.
which ensures the AP broadcasts the SSID even when it can't talk to the controller.
For batteries we've had good luck with this battery: http://www.bixnet.com/5v7libapa.html, but I'm sure there are others out there that will work as well. Having the flexibility of moving the AP wherever you want and being able to leave it on as you move it around has really sped up our surveys. (It's also a lot lighter than 50 feet of RJ45 :)).
Honestly, we just use Airwave but the free Aruba planner is good as well (but not great). Airwave gets us really close to what we need, and honestly, if we're a little unsure of a coverage area, we purchase a few extra APs.
The cost (man hours and travel) of performing walkthroughs at our sites to get 100% accurate coverage picture would be far more than the cost of a few extra APs.
If you're concerned about containing your signal, forget it, 802.11n is going to thwart you anyway. Comply with 802.11i or WPA2 Enterprise and forget about your signal leakage. Easier said than done, I know.
I use the planner to start me off, then I just turn up at the site and walk round with the printout and pencil. I use an AP61 on a tripod and PoE battery pack. Its totally cordless and I use that to work out the best locations. After a while (around 30 sites!) I can pretty much guess where the APs will go!
, but I'm sure there are others out there that will work as well. Having the flexibility of moving the AP wherever you want and being able to leave it on as you move it around has really sped up our surveys. (It's also a lot lighter than 50 feet of RJ45 :)).
What tip did you use for the AP's with the battery pack? did you have to purchase a special tip or use one meant for another device?
On the topic of battery packs for AP operation.
I highly recommend the 3450 model from Tekkeon.
This device provides both +5V and +12V operation (at the same time if you want as well ;)) which means it is versatile to use with any Aruba AP. Keep in mind some Aruba APs take +5VDC and some take +12VDC.
Thanks for the heads-up. I will have to check that one out. Did the standard tips pack that came with it have the correct tip for the AP's you use?
What kind of time can you get of this; assuming powering an AP-105?
I have been able to get routinely around 4 hours of operation with a dual-radio AP (AP-105), and when using a single radio AP (RAP-5) can achieve almost 6 hours.
If you need more 'time' you can either buy two batteries (I have two) or Tekkeon makes a 'stacked' model to daisy chain two power packs together. Great to have on hand.


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Q: Python unorderable types: function() > dict() in simple max(d, lambda...) call? I have a dictionary d like so:
d = {
    (1, 3): False,
    (4, 0): False,
    (0, 7): True
}

Now I want to get the highest y coordinate from the dictionary's keys:
h = max(d, lambda p: p[1])

But this raises an error:
TypeError: unorderable types: function() > dict()

What am I doing wrong?

A: You forgot the key keyword.
h = max(d, key=lambda p: p[1])

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The future of WOW Air looks bleak.
Icelandair, Iceland's flag carrier airline, has backed out of a deal to save the troubled WOW Air — for the second time.
Icelandair entered into discussions to acquire WOW in November 2018, but that didn't work out either.
Now, according to reports, its fleet of Airbus A321 planes is taking a hit. According to the International Network Flight blog, the airline sent rescue planes to Cuba and Montreal after two planes were repossessed.
WOW launched in 2011 as an ultra low-cost carrier that offered long-haul flights between the U.S. and Europe. The airline had over 400,000 passengers in 2013, and grew to 3.5 million by 2018, according to the airline. The airline is perhaps best known for the "WOW stopover," which gives travelers the option to spend time in Iceland while traveling Europe and North America.
More recently, the airline has started cuts to some of its transatlantic routes. Chicago O'Hare, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York JFK, Pittsburgh and San Francisco were all cut as the airline struggles to recover from "strategic mistakes," WOW's founder and CEO Skúli Mogensetold USA TODAY in January. The airline also axed service from Reykjavik to New Delhi in January.
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There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' .. She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids.) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most of course had been gassed.? Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
I am an ER nurse, (day in and day out!) and this is The best description of this event that I have ever heard.
"I had a completely unexpected heart attack at about 10 :30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional Trauma that one would suspect Might've brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & Warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my Lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent Me, and actually thinking,"A-A-h, this is the life, All cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my Feet propped up.
Thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to Hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was My initial sensation---the only trouble was that I Hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 P.M.
After that had seemed to subside, the next sensation Was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be Racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it Was probably my aorta spasming), gaining speed as They continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses Rhythmically when administering CPR). This Fascinating process continued on into my throat and Branched out into both jaws.
"AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was Happening--we all have read and/or heard about pain In the jaws being one of the signals of An MI happening, haven't we? I said aloud to Myself and the cat, "Dear God, I think I'm having a Heart attack!" I lowered the foot rest, dumping the Cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on The floor instead. I thought to myself "If this is A heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next Room where the phone is or anywhere else.......but, On the other hand, if I don't, Nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any Longer I may not be able to get up in moment."
"I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, Walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics... I told her I thought I was having a Heart attack due to the pressure building under the Sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel Hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She Said she was sending the Paramedics over Immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, And if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on The floor where they could see me When they came in.
Installed 2 side by side stents To hold open my right coronary artery.
the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my Arrival and the procedure) and installing the stents.
unpleasantly happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a "false alarm" visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER--you're a hazard to others on the road and so is your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead of the road.Do NOT call your doctor--he doesn't know where you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later.
know, the better chance we could survive.
Author's Note: This devotion is not written to endorse divorce, but to encourage those caught in the pain of it.
Blended families are everywhere, in every shape and size. Perhaps you belong to a blended family, either through your extended family or your immediate one. Statistics show that most people reading this are part of a blended family – facing the unique challenges and struggles blended families face. Is it possible for blended families to work through all of this and enjoy happiness?
This Christmas I received a framed photo from my mother-in-law. Because my husband's parents are divorced, I have two mothers-in-law. But this gift came from my husband's stepmother. It was a framed group photo of all of us from our beach trip this summer — our family, his dad and stepmom, her daughter and her family, and my husband's sister and her family. Eleven grandchildren dotted the beach as we all squeezed into the photo. As I studied the photo, I realized that it is a testimony to God's ability to somehow form a family against all odds.
When I first met my husband 18 years ago, his family was still navigating through the uncharted territory of bringing together three teens from two different families and learning to live in some sort of harmony. Though Curt had left for college, his sister and step-sister remained behind and had some turbulent years as these two girls fought and schemed and cried. I know that those years were difficult for his stepmother and father as well. They questioned their decisions and wondered if they would all live through it.
But they also did something else which I have had the privilege of watching through the years. They sought the Lord. They practiced grace and exercised forgiveness. They turned the other cheek when feelings got hurt. They kept promises that were painful to keep. They demonstrated a love they didn't always feel. They got stronger as a result of their struggles. They knew that God would work through their obedience, their prayers and their commitment. And, in looking at that photo, I know that He did.
I also grew up in a blended family - I am a stepchild. I know the struggle of having a parent in the home who was not your "real" parent. I know the resentments that can creep in, and have felt the pain of loss when broken relationships fragment families. And yet, I also know the joys and blessings that can occur from having extra family members thrown in the mix. My horizons have been broadened through relationships I have with my stepfather and his children. Their perspective and background has added a richness and depth to my life that I would have missed. I think a blended family can be a visual record of Romans 8:28 being worked out in our lives, "In all things (even the heartbreak of divorce), God works for the good of those who love him." I think that helping people somehow form a family brings a smile to the Father's face.
Dear Lord, help me do my part to bring peace to my family—even when You ask me to lay down my pride and be vulnerable. Help me to trust in Your ability to somehow form a family. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
The RMA - Houston summertime pool party was a hit! It was close to 100 degrees - perfect to jump in a cool pool for an afternoon of fun and fellowship. Cold salads and fresh veggies and cool drinks along with a cooking show entertained all of the ladies all afternoon!
Somewhere along the way, after the first six months or so, Mrs. A. must have decided that if she couldn't make us over, that she would break us instead. Physical punishment became the normal thing in the house, along with groundings for weeks and months at a time. This was at her discretion depending on how bad we were or if she thought we did things intentionally or not. I never really understood her reasonings at all. As far as she was concerned, you couldn't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, which was one of her favorite comparisions for us. The physical punishment progressed to beatings and slapping our faces. The beatings usually meant that we stripped down to nothing and she beat us with a leather belt. She tried hard at first to make sure the marks couldn't be seen when our clothes were on but when she started slapping our faces too, she was at the point where she just didn't care anymore who knew. In those days, people pretty much minded their own business about domestic violence and wouldn't interfere in what was considered family affairs. Violence in this household didn't happen to only my sister and I, Mr. and Mrs. A. were just as violent to one another. We could all sit down to the dinner table and suddenly food and fists would begin to fly between the two of them. After a while , my sister and I realized that when this happened, we needed to find cover and find it quickly, because when they finished with one another they ususally turned on us to finish their rage. Mr. A. use to joke that anytime Mrs. A. wanted new clothes or new furniture or whatever, she'd start a fight, and he could tell how much it was going to cost him to have peace and make up with her by the intensity of the fight. Well, it wasn't very funny to my sister and I.
But along the way, I realize now that God sent angels in the form of human beings who cared for us when they could. One such occurence was when Mr. and Mrs. A. were having an extremely violent fight and glasses and mirrors and windows and everything was getting broken all over the house. My sister and I decided to leave til it was all over, but where do we go?
Using all the childish judgement that we had, we discussed that there was an older couple who lived a few houses down the way. We passed them everyday when we walked to and from school. To this day, I still don't know their names, but they had a dog named Heidi. The dog was so nice and they were so good to that dog, we decided we would go there to their house. So we gathered our purses and put in our hairbrushes and toothbrushes and left our house in the middle of all the screaming and fighting and walked down to Heidi's house and rang the doorbell. When the old couple answered the door, we introduced ourselves and told them where we lived and what was going on at our house , though you could hear the noise from where we were. We told them that we liked their dog and thought maybe they would let us stay at their house for the night or until the fighting stopped. We told them we could just sleep on the floor right there in front of their fireplace with Heidi , if it was okay. Maybe they were just too shocked to say no , so they escorted us in, or maybe Mr. and Mrs. A.'s reputation preceded us. I don't know. But that night, we stayed there with Heidi til the wee hours of the morning when we woke up and walked home. All was quiet, but we could see two big piles of something in the front yard which turned out to be all of Mr. A.'s clothes. The doors were unlocked, so we went in and went to our bedroom. The next day, we got the feeling they never knew we were gone because neither one said anything to us. That night, this sweet old couple gave us refuge we needed so much.
I have to say that Mr. A. didn't beat on us like Mrs. A. did. No, he had other problems we had to watch out for. It didn't take long before we realized that he was always spying and snooping on us. We had to constantly make sure that our doors were locked when we bathed or changed clothes, and make sure the windows and curtains were pulled well closed so he couldn't peek in from the outside or barge in on us when we least expected it. His behavior got progressively worse and more perverted over the next few years as we grew up.
During the next three years or so, life settled into a pattern of sorts. We were never allowed to sleep til we just woke up, not even on weekends or summer vacation. Mrs. A. woke us up early with a list of things we had to do that day and do them right or else. As we learned to read better, she'd tape notes on mirrors and doors and walls in every room we went into.
In the bathroom on the mirror , "SCRUB THE SINK", or "SCRUB THE TUB" OR SCRUB THE FLOOR OR SCRUB THE TOILET. There were notes to vacuum or wash dishes, sprinkle clothes for ironing or just for ironing, sheets to change, clothes to hang out, on and on.
It never stopped, not until the day I left to be on my own. Work was never finished in this house. Mrs. A. would tell us that if we were sitting down when she walked into the room, she could find something for us to do. When I grew up and married, it took my husband years to break me of the habit of sitting on the edge of my chair, or when he would walk into the room, I would jump up and start cleaning or working on something. He hated it but knew that was how I lived all those years. So, he got to where he'd simply walk up to me and put his arm across my chest and gently pushed me to the back of my chair to relax. It worked. Soon , I let go of that habit of always being prepared to jump up and get busy.
During that time I also learned to cook and to sew, out of necessity. The clothes that Mrs. A. had made for us when we first came to live with them, were going to have to last us a long, long, time it seems. She absolutely hated buying any clothes or shoes or anything for my sister and I. We didn't understand why. She just did. So those dresses were remade over and over, into skirts or shorts or whatever we could make them into. Since she dressed us like twins, and I was smaller than my sister, my sister's hand me downs came to me. However, they looked just like the ones I had already been wearing. At least then, she had to buy my sister something to wear. It just didn't make any sense to us at all. We never asked for anything for fear of being punished but it was hard going to school every year. Young children can unintentionally be cruel to others kids. We were living in the middle of all Mr. and Mrs. A.'s wealth, but our socks were so worn that they had holes in them or were so stretched out that they slid down into our shoes. One dress in particular, I was reminded of lately. It was my dress of many colors.
When we first came to live in Galveston, this dress was made for me. It was the only one that I remember my sister didn't have a matching one for. It had so many beautiful pinks and yellows, and lavenders. I had never seen anything like it. But it was so memorable that the other kids remembered it well, no matter what I made it into. I remember that Mrs. A. said we were not allowed to come into her bedroom. It was off limits to my sister and I. Well, that was like waving a red flag in front of our faces. We didn't like surprises or secrets and in our minds, whatever she was hiding, we needed to know about. We decided we needed to find out what she was hiding in there. So one day when she was gone, we took off our shoes and went into forbidden territory. We went snooping. There's no nice way about it. We went snooping. And my goodness!! Here was one huge drawer chocked full of socks and hosiery, packages that had never been opened yet.
Row after row of new underthings. In her closet that went from one side of the room to the other , were some of the most beautiful clothes. New ones too, that we had never even seen her wear. Everything was lined up and coordinated . Under each dress sat the matching shoes to that outfit. On the shelf above, sat the matching hat and purse to that outfit. At one end of the closet were coats and furs with matching fur trimmed hats. We had never seen the like before in all our lives! Our own poverty, our own nothingness, seemed somehow more glaring in the middle of all that opulence. It really hurt us at that point I guess, that this woman could have so much when we had so little , and we understood that she really didn't care at all about us. As I got older , I often wondered if there was a good reason she never had children of her own. I began to think that either she was so mean because she couldn't have children or......well , maybe she couldn't have children because she was so mean. I know that's child's logic but God is in the answer to that somehow.
Another of Mrs. A.'s issues with us was food. She was determined that my sister and I would learn to eat something other than beans and potatoes and cornbread. Why? I don't know. It sounded good to me and my sister. Of course, we weren't really as limited as that to what we liked to eat, but she was the boss. So meals went like this. I liked sweetmilk and my sister liked buttermilk, so Mrs. A. would give me the buttermilk and my sister the sweetmilk. Mr. A. would help us out on this one. When it was really a bad situation, he would ask Mrs. A. for something that she'd have to go to the kitchen to get for him. While she was gone, I would drink my sister's milk and she would drink mine. Or, if it was certain foods that one or the other couldn't handle, I would eat hers' off of her plate or she would eat mine off of my plate. It sounds bad, but she intentionally did this to us, and there were some foods one or the other just couldn't keep down. For me the main one was okra. No matter how I tried, I couldn't get it down my throat. It would automatically come back up. It just so happened that one such time, we sat down to eat and my sister and I were arguing with one another privately about something, and Mrs. A. served okra at that meal. Naturally, being mad at me, my sister had no intention of helping me out on this one. Not this time. So I tried to eat the okra, and sure enough, I barely made it to the restroom before it came back up. My sister was right behind me and ran back and told Mrs. A. that I threw it up. Mrs. A. accused me of doing it on purpose and dragged me back to the table for a big bowl full of okra. Everyone else had left the table, so I just sat there. I was miserable, and I could hear my sister crying in the other room. She liked okra and knew that if she had just helped me like we had been helping each other all along, I would have been okay. It looked like a standoff. I sat there, she stared at me, I sat there and she stared at me , I stared at that HUGE bowl of okra, she stared at me. I just couldn't make myself try to eat it again. This was the second try and I just couldn't do it. No matter the consequences, I didn't want to throw up again. Finally, she grabbed me up and threw me out of the room and told me to go to my room. I thought it was over....until I came into the room with my sister the next morning, ready to leave and walk to school. There on the dining table sat the biggest bowl of okra I had ever seen, it seemed that way to me at the time. Mrs. A. sent my sister on to school while she made it clear to me that I wasn't going until I ate that bowl of okra, and I had better eat it quick, because if I was late for school, I would be punished for that too. So I held my nose and downed what I could in a matter of seconds, grabbed my books and ran for the door to get outside before I threw up again. I didn't look back. I stopped to throw up, and with my face swollen from being slapped and vomiting, I walked that long road to school that morning. My sister had waited along the way to help me and together , before long we were laughing and joking and singing. Do Lord oh do Lord, do remember me.....oh, do Lord oh do Lord, do remember me. This was one of our favorites that came to us again and again and again. This was also one of the things about my sister and I that Mr. and Mrs. A. disliked the most. They seemed to get madder and frustrated even more when after punishment or a beating, when they sent us to our room, it didn't take long before my sister and I could nurse our physical and emotional wounds for each other, and before long, they would hear us talking and laughing from behind closed doors. I guess my sister was tougher than I was. That was a big difference in our personalities and character. As for me, I hated it when they got in my face, screaming at me at the top of their lungs, just inches away from me. They seldom called us by our given names. Usually, they talked or screamed AT us, not addressing us by name. I was struggling with the fear . It seemed that they enjoyed seeing the fear in our faces. Then one day, I heard someone talking about fear. They said that when someone was trying to cause fear in you, that they loved getting a reaction from you, that they fed on that reaction. I never forgot that lesson. They said if you were the victim, and someone was in your face, to just pick one eye on that person, and stare straight into it. Don't blink, don't flinch. Take every emotions out of your face and they'll give up sooner than later. I was only nine years old, going on ten, so I couldn't do much to protect myself, but I could do this. I could learn this. And so I did. Mr. A. came to call this my indian face. He hated it. Mrs. A. hated it. I loved it. It was a small amount of power in my control, no matter what they did to me. I knew that they hated this, and didn't know how to react to it.
So we lived this way daily. Anger and violence was a regular thing. One incidence was a car chase over the causeway from Galveston to Houston. Mr. A. was having a night out with his secretary and Mrs. A. found out. Mr. A. had already left his office , so Mrs. A. threw my sister and I in the back of her pink Impala , loaded up her gun and off we went. We knew what a gun was and what it was for. My sister and I were no strangers to that either. It didn't take long before we were coming over the causeway and up ahead we saw Mr. A. 's black Cacillac with his red-headed secretary sitting close by his side. Believe me, Mrs. A . saw red alright!
Mr. A. must have spotted us in his rear view mirror and knew without a doubt that he had been found out and he was in big trouble, because he sped up and the chase was on. He later told us that he knew she was out to kill him. He knew her well. The chase went on and on through the back roads of LaMarque and Dickenson, Texas that night . Finally, Mr. A. got tired of running I guess, and stopped by a huge ditch in LaMarque. Everyone jumped out of the cars, including my sister and I. We weren't going to miss this one but we didn't want to be closed in the car in case we needed to get out of there quick. And there they were, the red-headed secretary screaming at the top of her lungs in fear, and Mr. and Mrs. A. fighting, rolling around in that big ditch. She was trying to get a shot at him with the gun in her hand and he was trying to stop her and take the gun from her at the same time. Mrs. A. was a tall, stately woman of five feet nine or ten inches, not fat , but raw boned and tough. Mr. A. did manage to knock the gun out of her hand, and it was over. Well......not quite. The gun had landed right at the feet of my sister and I who were standing in front of the cars by the ditch. All was quiet, the screaming had stopped. As I looked back on this incident, I found it almost funny , simply because when my sister reached down and picked up that gun, for that one moment, I wonder what they must have been thinking. There we stood. We had the gun. We had lots of bad memories of what these two had done to us. Hmmmmm.....Suddenly, Mr. A. was telling my sister, "Give the gun to me" and Mrs. A. was hollering " NO!, don't do it, give it back to me!"
By now, my sister and I were beginning to feel very unloved and unwanted and rejected over and over again. Author, Beth Moore , wrote in her book, "Praying God's Word", about what God's Word says about these feelings. She wrote: "God was pleased to make you His own. Pleased!! He didn't just feel sorry for you, He chose you because He delights in you! You were never meant to get through life by the skin of your teeth. You were meant to flourish in the love and acceptance of Almighty Jehovah. When He sings over you, dance!!!"
Lord God, in Your Word You pose the question, " Can a mother forget the baby at her breast?" You assure me that though SHE may forget, You will absolutely never forget me! You have engraved me on the palms of Your hands. Praise your wonderful name!!!!!
My sister and I were about to learn who we really belonged to . Praise the Lord!
tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
3. When the per son's immune system is strong, the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer, it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, change diet and include supplements which can strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract, etc., and can cause organ damage to the liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, etc.
7. Radiation--while destroying cancer cells--also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
9 When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation, the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar, it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc. are made with Aspartame which is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. A better substitute is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
D. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for build ing healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
E. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate which contain a lot of caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. The best water to drink is purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic; avoid it.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs, etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted or unneeded cells.
CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL……….
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.
This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastic releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cook ed in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.


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Bill Murray Sang Karaoke, a 45-minute Set at 'Caddyshack' Restaruant, & It Was Beautiful
By Emma Goddard
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Every other day it feels as if my news feed blows up with "Bill Murray casually hangs out with strangers at bar" or "Bill Murray wears PBR pants to a golf game," and every time I click on a link, it's like Pandora's box because I get sucked in for hours. Quite simply, Murray is that actor that we all wish we had the pleasure of knowing and would love to just talk to him about how awesome he is. Seriously, what kind of bars do I need to be going to in order to meet this guy? Recently, Murray took the opportunity to visit his Murray Bros. Caddyshack Restaurant in Florida where he was so kind as to provide the audience with a 45-minute Bill Murray karaoke set.
Murray, who grabbed hold of a tambourine for this purpose (because why not?!), took to the stage to sing numerous songs (in normal pants this time) where some of his fans were able to catch The Monuments Men star in his best moments. Well, every moment really seems like his best moment. Murray proved he could sing well amidst a bar full of people who were probably peeing their pants over having Murray sing to them, choosing The Animal's classic, House of the Rising Sun. There was even some momentary head banging that put Taylor Swift to shame.
He pretty much has shown us once again that he's that cute hippy grandpa that you'd find running around with his underwear during a family reunion, and that's okay, because it's Murray. Though not his first time to grace a Karaoke bar — even those that aren't his own — I can imagine that will certainly not be his last time at one either. Hey, Murray, we have one at my school.


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