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Visionary Marija: What Today's World is Missing Most is Humility and Obedience
Talk by Medjugorje Visionary Marija, November 1, 2010
Marija, wife, mother of four, and one of six visionaries chosen out of the entire world to see the Mother of God. And of the six visionaries, the only one chosen to receive the monthly message to the world, a message foretold in the book of Revelation, in the last chapter, at the very end of the Bible:
"Then the angel showed me the river of life-giving water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of its street. On either side of the river grew the tree of life that produces fruit twelve times a year, once each month; the leaves of the trees serve as medicine for the nations." Revelation 22:1-2
What a privileged grace to be able to see, listen and/or read the words of Our Lady's visionaries, their testimony and their expression of who they understand the Mother of God to be. One hundred years from now, people will look back on this time and be envious of us who lived in this time. Do we, ourselves, understand the grace granted to us?
All of you know that I married an Italian man, and many years ago, I went to live in Italy. Upon my arrival, I thought that all Italians were saints. So many saints come from Italy. In a special way, I am committed to St. Joseph Cupertino. I was always praying to him for his intercession in my success in school. Our Lady always encouraged us to learn from the lives of the saints. Traveling through Italy, every town in Italy has a saint they respect. But not only one saint, there are so many saints in each town, in each city. It doesn't matter what city you go to: Rome, Milan… And all of these saints touched my life so deeply. In a special way, I am recalling St. Catherine of Bologna, who is an example of holiness and obedience. In a special way I am emphasizing her, because I believe that in today's modern world, what we are missing the most is humility and obedience. St. Catherine of Bologna was an example of holiness, holiness which was reached with complete obedience. When they opened her grave after a couple of years, they found out that her body was incorrupt. The sisters from the convent of St. Catherine were not able to change the clothes which were on her. While they were burning the candles by her grave, they even burned the clothes that were on her. St. Catherine was known as a saint who was even obedient in her death because the Mother Superior of that convent said, "You who were so obedient during your life, sit up." And even the dead body of St. Catherine sat, so that they were able to change her clothes. These virtues of humility and obedience have great value, especially in today's world because all of us are placing ourselves before others and always say, "I, I, I."
From the 24th of June, 1981, since the apparitions started, all of us children who were chosen by Our Lady, we started walking on this path of holiness, the path which places God in the very first place. When Our Lady appeared, all of us were shocked. It was the time of communism. We were living in a small village and our lives were very simple. We were working very hard in the fields. But the faith was always in the first place. In a special way, we really tried to live authentically the Christian faith. I can recall well, when we were little we were not allowed to start eating before saying our prayers. Mother used to stick us with a wooden spoon if we did not say the grace. She used to tell us, "You know, you are not cows to start just eating. You need to say grace and to thank God." Even though this Christian life was giving us the living faith, I have to say, according to our opinion, we thought we were living here on earth and that God was always in Heaven. None of us had heard anything about other apparition sites. We did not know that the apparitions were possible. We can recall when we saw Our Lady, for instance, Vicka took off her sandals so that she could run away faster.
As time went by, we started falling in love with Our Lady. We started getting closer to Her. We started praying together with Her. I know that one of the first questions we asked Our Lady was, "Is there life on another planet?" And Our Lady answered to us, She smiled back to us, and She said, "Dear children, this is not the moment to ask this question, the moment is for prayer." Then we started praying together with Her. We had faith in Her. We started living with our hearts every message, everything She asked from us. In simpleness, we started changing our lives. Our Lady was praying together with us. The first prayer we prayed together with Our Lady was the prayer of the Creed, and then the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be seven times. So every evening, after the evening Mass, we pray this little rosary, kneeling, in order to give thanks to God and to Our Lady for everything She has done to us. We have started living patiently everything that Our Lady asks us to do. We were little children. We fell in love with Her so much that She was the only food we had. It was the sort of love which was coming from Her presence, which we felt getting closer to Her on a daily basis.
The Rosary – we use to pray with our Grannies. Our Lady invited us to pray the Rosary constantly. But when we pray the Hail Mary, Our Lady listens to us. She never prays this with us, but when we pray the Our Father and Glory Be, then She prays together with us. We started praying every day, more and more, so the prayer was not only during the day, but it was during the night as well. We were giving up our rest, our sleeping, in order to pray more. The more time we dedicated to prayer, we were falling in love, deeper and deeper with Our Lady. And She was pleased with us. Her pleasure, Her satisfaction, was giving us great joy. As time went by, Our Lady started stepping to the side, and She started teaching us that the only thing that She desires is to take us to Her Son – that we fall in love with Her Son Jesus. How? With prayer. When the apparitions started, we were just children. We knew how to say the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be, but to be sincere with you, to say the Creed – it wasn't easy. But when the apparitions started, we started learning more and more prayers.
Our Lady told us to place the Holy Bible in a visible place in our homes. But we did not possess Bibles. When Our Lady told us to have the Bibles in a visible place in our homes, that is what we started doing. We started reading the Holy Bible every day. As a family, we started gathering at our homes and we started praying together, praying as a family. Our Lady told us that the first prayer group we should form should be our family. Then She started asking more. She asked us to form prayer groups in our community, in our parishes. So many different prayer groups were formed: the prayer group of youth, the prayer group of married couples, the prayer group of elders. All of us wanted more and more to get to know God better. We started opening ourselves more and more.
I can recall this day very well – when Our Lady told us one day that She was going to appear the second time in the same day. All of us informed others all around us. We told them to come again for the second apparition. That day we told them that it was important, that probably Our Lady had something else to tell us, something more. Then Our Lady appeared and we were praying a lot for Her intentions. Our Lady gave permission that everybody that was there was allowed to get closer to Her and to touch Her. We were so shocked, and we asked Our Lady how it was possible for them to touch Her because they are not able to see Her. This reminds me to tell you that at the very beginning we thought that everybody was able to see Her, but as time went by, we realized that we were the only ones who were able to see Her. When Our Lady said that every one was allowed to touch Her, we asked Her how was this possible because nobody was able to see Her but us. Then Our Lady said to raise the hands of those people and bring them close to Her. We said to everybody that Our Lady told them to touch Her and that is the way it was. Everybody who was there touched Our Lady. All of them felt something. Some of them felt heat. Some of them felt cold. Some of them felt electricity. But the most important thing is that all of them deeply believed that Our Lady was standing before them. All of them became witnesses. But while the people were touching Her, we visionaries were able to see that every time somebody touched Her, dirt was left on Her dress. Then we started crying and we asked Our Lady, "Why is your dress so dirty?" She answered that the dirt on Her dress were our sins. At that moment, Our Lady told us how important Confession is. She also invited all of us to go to Confession, to chose a spiritual director who is going to teach us how to differ what is wrong and what is right. The next morning all of us did the same thing. We prepared the food all day for all the animals that we had. And together, with all our family members together, we went to church where all of us had the desire and the need to go to Confession, because, in the depths of our hearts, all of us knew that none of us wanted to make Our Lady's dress dirty again. Then we started living the sacrament of Reconciliation. We started living together with Jesus in truth. This is the way we started the way of conversion. This is the way Our Lady wants all of us. Our Lady tells us it doesn't matter who we are, where we come from, but all of us are invited to holiness.
What does holiness mean? Some people, unfortunately, think that nobly they think they should leave their families and go to Africa to work as missionaries. No, this is not what Our Lady wants from us. Our Lady wants us even more that our Africa becomes our own family. The society in which we live is sick and lives without God. And in Europe, until almost yesterday, was Catholic, and that Christian/Catholic culture is visible in our architecture, in our monuments, in every corner of the streets we see. How many artists were inspired throughout history to make the sculptors, the paintings of Our Lady, the paintings of the Holy Family. That is why Our Lady invites us, because She knows that we are going through a difficult period in our life, and She teaches us to create a culture. She invites us to create culture with God. She invites us to participate together with Her to create a new culture where God is going to be in the very first place in our lives. Unfortunately, today's culture is the culture which only uses and throws away everything. Just imagine one million people are dying today. How many children are dying today of starvation, and the earth is so big that we have everything to feed everybody on earth. Open your closets in your houses and notice how many clothes you have. Why have our hearts become so cold that we are not able to feel the suffering of other people who have much less possessions than we do? Our refrigerators are full of food which we are throwing away. There are advertisements for need machines, for us just to buy everything that they offer to us.
Our Lady invites us without any fear, invites us to pray. She invites us to go to Confession, but She also invites us to fast. In Holy Scripture it says that even you can cast away evil spirits only with prayer and with fasting. Is there any of you here who is capable of saying "I am perfect." I am not talking about children, they are perfect. I am talking about adults. Is there anyone able to say "I am perfect?" Many people say that they would like to lose weight, a couple of kilos. Or sometimes some people say to others, "I lost 20 kilos. I am dieting and I lost 20 kilos." Then there is the other side, we have so many diseases: anorexia, bulimia. Our Lady, you see, is telling us to awake, to be awakened towards these things as well. At the very beginning of Her apparitions, Our Lady invited us to fast. Our Lady told us with prayer and fasting, we can even stop wars all over the world. I am repeating the words from Sacred Scriptures: with prayer and fasting you can cast away evil spirits. Some evil spirits can be cast away only with prayer and fasting. Remember that.
In the world, there are more and more people practicing witchcraft. And the people are celebrating Halloween these days, but we Christians must remember that we are invited to glorify holiness and that we live holiness. Our Lady invites us all to walk on the path of holiness. She says that all of us are capable of doing this. Fasting is going to help us on our way towards holiness. The best fasting, Our Lady said, is the fasting on bread and water. We tried this. I can recall the first times when we started fasting, and the first time we fasted, we fasted 40 days on bread and water. All of us wanted to do this. We were so much carried away with that love towards Our Lady that we always wanted to do more and more. If you ever saw the pictures of the visionaries in the very beginning of Medjugorje, you can remember how thin we looked in those pictures. My mom was so worried that I was going to die that she was always trying to make me stop my fasting on bread and water during those 40 days. But among us in our prayer group, there was this girl who was a little bit chubby. She decided to fast on bread and water because she was hoping in her heart that she was even going to lose some weight. And you see, she succeeded in her intentions of fasting on bread and water for 40 days. Her mother witnessed to us that her daughter wasn't eating anything else but the bread and water and she was also worried that her daughter was going to die. But you see, after 40 days of eating bread and water, you know she gained weight. All of you who have fear of fasting, that maybe you are going to die, this is proof not to be afraid of fasting. Our Lady has never said how much bread we are supposed to eat and how much water to drink. We have to start this new culture, the culture of fasting. There are so many different ways of fasting. I can recall the meeting of American pilgrims who asked me if they could drink Coca Cola. They drink Coca Cola so much, maybe they could give up Coca Cola, knowing that will be their way of fasting. You can fast from TV, video games. You can fast from speaking too much. Each one of us has to make the personal decision. What I am telling you is the best fasting, Our Lady said, is on bread and water. Don't try to find excuses, but, of course, there are different ways of fasting. The fasting can be very often to love the husband or wife a little bit more, to find the time for family members, to find the time for children and to play with them. There are so many other things. Everything to which we are hooked, we can give up all these things: TV, video games, shopping, all of these things. We can give them up and fast this way. And this is what our grannies used to say. These little sacrifices we are doing are the little flowers we are presenting to God.
Our Lady invited us to start walking on the way of holiness with the little steps. So the first step in the prayer was to say the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be seven times. You see, we were taking little steps. Then Our Lady asked us to do more – to pray the Rosary. Then She asked us to spend every day, three hours in prayer. I can recall all these years, when people started coming to our homes and walking through our homes, we always said with all these people, one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be, just one, but we said so many prayers during the day. All day long we prayed with pilgrims, and then in the evening we climbed the mountains here in Medjugorje. We would conclude our days with prayer at 1:00 a.m. in the morning. Then the days, we would start with prayers at 5:00 a.m. in the morning.
Our Lady called us to find a spiritual director. The spiritual director I chose was Fr. Slavko. I feel so sorry for some of you who came here for the first time, who were not able to meet this great priest who was a psychologist, who came as an expert to find out what was going on in Medjugorje. He also came to study us visionaries, what was going on with us before, during and after the apparition time. I can recall really well, when I asked him to become my spiritual director and to become my confessor, he told me does it suit you at 5:00 in the morning. And to be honest with you, I really love to sleep. I was thinking at that time, what a great gift I had to see Our Lady and when I started this serious and great way of conversion, I realized that I have an even great gift and that greater gift was my life which was given to me by my parents. My parents not only gave me life here on earth, but they also guaranteed me eternal life because they asked for my Baptism. Baptism is the greatest gift. I am telling you this because there are so many people in the world who are ashamed of their Baptism. As Our Lady says, more and more man is creating the world and the future without God. We have to be aware of this movement, which is a pagan movement among all of us. Our Lady came to us to invite us to come back, to come back and to find peace in Her Immaculate Heart and the Merciful Heart of Jesus, because without them, we have no future. We do not have eternal life without them because there is good and evil in our hearts. God gave us freedom and each one of us is asked to choose between good and evil.
How many people have we met in our life, people who have never met God? People who were pagans and who told us that they felt need in their hearts, the need to find God? We were created after the image of God, and that longing was placed by God into our hearts. That longing we have in our hearts, which was left in our hearts by God, is something which we cannot buy. It is priceless. We can discover this only through prayer. That is why Our Lady repeats. She repeats and never gets tired. Place God in the very first place in your lives, and then you will be able to see that nothing else will be important. Our Lady invites us constantly. In this way, not only us, but our families, our society, and the entire world will change. If we do not start changing, if we do not place God in the first place in our lives, the world has no future. We do not have a future. We are aware of self-destruction which exists all around us, and our society has become tired, has become old. Our youth are not pleased with anything. We are trying to give all material things to the young people – to give them cars, houses. But despite all these things they have, all they possess, they are not happy. They are not happy because we did not give them God. We see when youth come here to Medjugorje, how joyful they become when they discover God. They become joyful witnesses of God. Then it seems that all of us become singers, all of us become poet writers because we are united in that glorifying of God, because we start feeling in our hearts the closeness of God. We start feeling the closeness of Our Lady. Through Her presence we get closer to God.
I am sure that all of you know that Our Lady appears always in this grayish dress, white veil, that She has 12 stars, that She has blue eyes, long black hair. I can tell you only this, that Her beauty is something that I cannot describe, because She is the most beautiful. There are no paintings, no sculptors which can even get close to describing Her beauty. We asked Her once, "How come you are so beautiful that we cannot describe your beauty to others?" Our Lady answered to us, "I am beautiful because I love." Our society and our mankind have a need for love. If we love God, we know how to love our neighbor. Because, you see, from Jesus we can learn how to love, because He gave His life for us. Just recall the words He said on the Cross when He said to St. John, "Here is your mother." He said, "Son, here is your mother." He gave Mother to all of us. Our Lady came here as the Queen of Peace, and She desires to give us Her peace. She wants to lead us all on the way that leads to Her Son who is King of Peace. Our Lady desires that we fall in love with Her Son, Jesus. I also say, I desire that all of you fall in love with Mary and to be in love with Her messages, in this way you will be able to fall in love with Her Son.
That is why I am inviting all of you with all of my heart, on behalf of Our Lady Queen of Peace, to use the time you are staying here. There are so many of you and there is room for everybody, for some many people. I desire for all of you to fall in love with Jesus. There are so many places for prayer. Go to pray on Apparition Mountain, on the Cross Mountain. Do not forget to enter into the Adoration Chapel. Go regularly to church so that this time in Medjugorje becomes the time of prayer. May this time become the time of prayer for each one of you. You see, all of us can talk and talk and talk, but if you do not pray, if you do not have your own experience with God, my talk brings nothing. When you have your personal experience with God, when you experience that meeting with God, then nobody is able to take Him away from you.
Who could have ever imagined that when the six visionaries of Medjugorje began seeing Our Lady that She would remain so long with them, that they would grow from children, to young adults, to getting married and now some of the visionaries have children as old as they were when they first began seeing Our Lady. Many of us have "grown up" with the apparitions, as well. Many have died waiting for the sign on Apparition Mountain. Babies born today are still being born in the "time of grace", even though this special time of visitation began almost 30 years ago. Hour after hour, day after day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade. And still, Our Lady continues to come everyday.
You see, we were ready to die for Our Lady at the very beginning of the apparitions, because a new love, a new path was shown to us. Remember, it was the time of communism. It was the great persecution of us visionaries, of the local people. We were persecuted in school. The system of education was under atheism. Every day the schools were proclaiming Church as manipulators. The people who were working for the Church were proclaimed as manipulators. Just imagine what kind of life we had. We were really tortured in school. Then, on the other side, Our Lady appeared to us. She was the one to whom we gave our hugs. She was the one that we accepted. We saw Her crying, and we saw Her laughing, as well. We decided with all our hearts that we wanted to become Her joy. Then with joy, with the joy of children, and today, with the joy of adults, we want to thank Her for everything She did for us. We are accepting Her as our Mother. As St. Paul said, when I was little I was taking things I needed as a child. But now as a grown up, I desire for all of you to become the best, the best who are going to glorify the glory of God. May this time become the meeting of God, and then Our Lady is going to provide us and encourage us on this way of grace. With joy, witness to other people about God with your lives. May it be that way in your lives. May God bless you all.
Tonight, when Our Lady comes to me – Vicka, Ivan and I have daily apparitions. Very often I say, to receive grace, you need to be in grace. If you need the grace of healing, you have to be in a state of grace in order to receive that healing. During the apparition time, every day, Our Lady appears to the three of us on a daily basis (Vicka, Ivan, and Marija). We recommend all our people to Our Lady. All people we meet during the day, every day we pray for you. Tomorrow Our Lady is going to appear to Mirjana, and these apparitions are for those who haven't felt God's love yet. Our Lady says to pray for grace from God, and as children of God, we can ask Him anything. So during the apparition time, we visionaries always intercede for all of you. Our Lady intercedes for all of us before Her Son. That is why I desire to spend this time, the time in prayer and to be in the mercy and grace of God. Now the priests are going to bless all of us. Thank you for your attention and thank you for your willingness to hear the messages of Our Lady. Have a nice evening.


You may have to perform a reset and/or clean boot if your Acer beTouch E130 fails to respond when buttons are pressed or the screen is tapped.
press and hold the power until you feel your smartphone vibrate and/or you see the Acer logo screen.
Press and hold the Volume up and Volume down buttons. Use the Volume down button to select Clean boot: Yes.


The Cambodian members of UKKNOI practice Theravada Buddhism. This page will help readers to understand what the Theravada Buddhism is.
Buddhism is not just purely a religion for Cambodian, but it is also part of the culture of Cambodian. In most of ceremonies, the Cambodian always invite Buddhist monks to conduct religious services, such as: New Year Celebration, Weddings, Funerals, Open Houses, Blessings, etc. Therefore, wherever there is a Cambodian community, there is a Cambodian temple.
When the Khmer (from Cambodia) and Khmer-Krom (from Kampuchea-Krom which is currently known as Mekong Delta in South Vietnam) left their country after the war to settle abroad, they started forming their Cambodian community along with their Buddhist temple. Some places, there are many Cambodian, so they can afford to build a temple like in Cambodia or in Kampuchea-Krom. In some places, there are few Cambodian but they still try to form a community having a place for Buddhist monks to stay, a worship place that has Buddha statue, and provide religious services to the members. The Cambodian still call those monk residents as temples to respect to the place that has Buddha statue and Buddhist monks.
The Cambodian abroad is facing seriously about not having enough Buddhist monks to conduct religious services. In some important events, such as: Kathina, it requires at least 4 Buddhist monks to conduct the service. In Some communities, the Cambodian have to invite the Buddhist monks from Laotian, Sri Lanka, and Thai temple to have enough Buddhist monks to conduct the services. Sometime, there are not enough Buddhist monks to conduct the services for members if the members organize the events at the same time.
Besides providing religious services to the community members, in some places, the Buddhist monks also carry on an important role as teacher to teach Cambodian language for the Cambodian youths to keep their language alive.
Most of the Cambodian Buddhist monks are ordained when they were teenager. Traditionally and culturally, the Cambodian boys must ordain to be Buddhist monks to learn about Theravada Buddhism, the Discipline and Morality, before they get married. Becoming a Buddhist monk is an honor for a Cambodian boy and also to pay respect to their parents and make their parents proud.
The Cambodian Buddhist monks practice Theravada Buddhism. Thus, they are allowed to eat meat and only allowed to eat from the morning (when the sun rises) until Noon. They are not allowed to eat anything after lunch, but water or soft drink.
In Cambodia or Kampuchea-Krom, the Buddhist monks go for almsing to receive foods donated by the Buddhist followers. Most of the temple abroad, the Cambodian people bring foods to the temple to serve the Buddhist monks every day. The Cambodian people believe that when they serve foods for the Buddhist monks, those foods would be conveyed to their passed-away family members.
The woman is not allowed to touch the Buddhist monks. Some of the women westerners wonder why the Cambodian Buddhist monks don't shake-hand with them.
The Buddhist monks strictly follow the Theravada Buddhism's principles. They are not allowed to work for salary or having affair with the woman during their monkshood. The Cambodian Buddhist monks are allowed to leave their monkshood if they want to continue to live the rest of their lives as a normal person.


You did tell us that the check in time was 3pm and in fact it is 4pm. But the main problem was that we had no hot water until we got up on the final morning. This made things difficult.
This modern-style lodge is tucked away on the Barnsdale Lodge Hotel estate, boasting a wonderful location, within reach of the beautiful Rutland Water Nature Reserve.
The master bedroom in this lodge benefits a lavish en-suite, while the other bedrooms boast a smart and tasteful finish, each sharing a family bathroom.
Reflect on the day's events while enjoying a refreshing drink or two on the Indian York stone patio, complete with a BBQ for a summertime feast.
A perfectly relaxing retreat set within landscaped grounds planted with wild shrubs and trees, indigenous to the area.
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Exton offers a typical English village setting, with its traditional, stone buildings crowded around the green, in the East Midlands county of Rutland.
The Fox and Hounds public house overlooks the tree-planted green, a former 17th century coaching inn, oozing with character, offering cosy winter evenings around the fireplace and lazy summer days out in the beer garden.
To the south of the village are Barnsdale Gardens, created by Geoff Hamilton for the BBC's Gardeners' World, and the Barnsdale Hall Hotel and Country Club.
Oakham is the nearest town, boasting a combination of stone and thatched buildings, a range of shops, as well as pubs, bars and eateries to choose from.
There is also a local history museum, a 12th century castle and a 14th century church.
The Rutland Water Nature Reserve offers watersports, a small water adventure park, birdwatching, a sailing club and fishing opportunities, with the Rutland Water Golf Course overlooking the lake.
The train station provides access to the cities of Nottingham and Leicester with shops to browse and architecture to admire.
The market town of Stamford is a mere stone's throw away, with its attractive Georgian-style buildings used in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film, independent shops, cosy pubs and a range of restaurants.
Melton Mowbray is further afield, with more amenities to explore.
Home to the famous pork pie, this town also offers The Regal Cinema, Melton Theatre and the Melton Carnegie Museum.
The village of Exton offers a warm and friendly atmosphere for the perfect holiday exploring the East Midlands.


Mary Pecci, author of At Last! A Reading Method for EVERY Child!, has created a companion spelling program, based on the same simplified phonics principle. "Teach only the reliable facts." Pecci illustrates her approach with a stairstep hierarchy of language skills beginning with listening, then moving up through speaking, reading, and spelling, ending with written language. Thus, she stresses the need for children to learn to read before learning to spell, although she is not demanding total reading mastery before spelling begins. (Spelling begins one month after reading instruction.) A good example of how this works is that rather than having first graders do any creative or independent writing, Pecci has them copy or follow closely along with teacher instructions, receiving step-by-step guidelines as they learn how to produce correct sentences. This approach contrasts with whole language theory that would have children writing anything for the sake of learning to express themselves without regard to conventions.
Another unique feature of this spelling book is a focus on high-frequency words (e.g., dog, the, run, can, big) rather than lists consisting of rhyming words (e.g., cat, sat, hat, rat) or topical words (e.g., colors: red, yellow, blue). This enables children to write intelligible sentences using familiar words.
She uses fewer rules, treating words that don't follow the rules as "study words." Pecci uses her own very simple system of marking digraphs and "study" words. Rather than simply memorizing the spelling of words that don't follow rules, students learn to analyze them in ways that will help them remember their correct spelling.
Daily lessons help students to master weekly spelling lists, beginning with five words each week, but increasing to ten per week by the end of the year. Lessons are directed by the teacher with daily lesson plans provided in the book. There is no student workbook. Students begin writing isolated words in their daily practice, but increase to complete dictated sentences. Sentences include only words that students have already mastered. Periodic reviews are built into the course.
As they learn to write sentences, students learn the four types of sentences and basic punctuation. Lessons include weekly additional practice activity such as filling in the missing spelling word, unscrambling, and adding punctuation to sentences, beginning after lesson 3.
Little to no lesson preparation time is required, but parents must work with children each day. Super Spelling should be good for the child (and, perhaps, the parent) who is easily overwhelmed by numerous rules. While it can be used alongside most other phonics programs, it will work best with those using Pecci's reading program.


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from base import *
from PySide import QtGui, QtCore
from urlparse import urlparse
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from datetime import datetime, date, timedelta
import random
import subprocess
import re

# -- Query to create log table
# create table PAPELEX_LOG_LIGACOES (
#   NOME_GUERRA VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
#   DATAHORA TIMESTAMP,
#   TELEFONE VARCHAR(30),
#   CODCLI NUMBER(10),
#   CLIENTE VARCHAR(100)
# );

AREA_CODE_SIZE = 3

class Routine9814(WinthorRoutine):
    def __init__(self, *args):
        print(args)
        super(Routine9814, self).__init__(args[4] or 9814, u'Alertas de Telefonia', *args)
        self.initUI()
        self.initWorkers()
        self.loadCallHistory()

    def initUI(self):
        super(Routine9814, self).initUI()
        self.searchClientNameLineEdit = QtGui.QLineEdit()
        self.searchClientNameLabel = QtGui.QLabel("Nome Cliente:")
        self.searchClientNameLineEdit.returnPressed.connect(self.search)
        self.searchClientIDLineEdit = QtGui.QLineEdit()
        self.searchClientIDLabel = QtGui.QLabel(u"Cód. Cliente:")
        self.searchClientIDLineEdit.returnPressed.connect(self.search)
        self.searchClientPhoneLineEdit = QtGui.QLineEdit()
        self.searchClientPhoneLabel = QtGui.QLabel("Telefone:")
        self.searchClientPhoneLineEdit.returnPressed.connect(self.search)
        self.searchSubmitButton = QtGui.QPushButton('Pesquisar', self)
        self.searchSubmitButton.clicked.connect(self.search)
        self.searchLayout = QtGui.QGridLayout()
        self.searchLayout.addWidget(self.searchClientNameLabel, 0, 0)
        self.searchLayout.addWidget(self.searchClientNameLineEdit, 0, 1, 1, 4)
        self.searchLayout.addWidget(self.searchClientPhoneLabel, 1, 0)
        self.searchLayout.addWidget(self.searchClientPhoneLineEdit, 1, 1)
        self.searchLayout.addWidget(self.searchClientIDLabel, 1, 2)
        self.searchLayout.addWidget(self.searchClientIDLineEdit, 1, 3, 1, 2)
        self.searchLayout.addWidget(self.searchSubmitButton, 2, 4)
        self.searchGroupBox = QtGui.QGroupBox("Busca")
        self.searchGroupBox.setLayout(self.searchLayout)
        self.mainwindow.addWidget(self.searchGroupBox)
        self.callLogsTreeView = MyTreeView()
        self.callLogsTreeView.setRootIsDecorated(False)
        self.callLogsTreeView.setAlternatingRowColors(True)
        self.callLogsTreeView.setSortingEnabled(True)
        self.callLogsTreeView.setEditTriggers(QtGui.QAbstractItemView.NoEditTriggers)
        self.callLogsTreeView.doubleClicked.connect(self.openCustomer)
        self.callLogsTreeView.onPressEnter.connect(self.openCustomer)
        self.callLogsProxyModel = CustomSortFilterProxyModel()
        self.callLogsProxyModel.setDynamicSortFilter(True)
        self.callLogsProxyModel.addFilterFunction(
            lambda row, filterStrings: not not re.search(filterStrings[0].lower().replace('%', '.*'), row[1].lower()) if len(filterStrings) > 0 and len(row) > 1 else True)
        self.callLogsProxyModel.addFilterFunction(
            lambda row, filterStrings: not not re.search(filterStrings[1].lower().replace('%', '.*'), row[2].lower()) if len(filterStrings) > 1 and len(row) > 2 else True)
        self.callLogsProxyModel.addFilterFunction(
            lambda row, filterStrings: not not re.search(filterStrings[2].lower().replace('%', '.*'), row[3].lower()) if len(filterStrings) > 2 and len(row) > 3 else True)
        self.mainwindow.addWidget(self.callLogsTreeView)
        self.dataModel = QtGui.QStandardItemModel(0, 4, self.mainwindow)
        self.dataModel.setHeaderData(0, QtCore.Qt.Horizontal, u"Data/Hora")
        self.dataModel.setHeaderData(1, QtCore.Qt.Horizontal, u"Cód. Cliente")
        self.dataModel.setHeaderData(2, QtCore.Qt.Horizontal, u"Telefone")
        self.dataModel.setHeaderData(3, QtCore.Qt.Horizontal, u"Cliente")
        self.callLogsProxyModel.setSourceModel(self.dataModel)
        self.callLogsTreeView.setModel(self.callLogsProxyModel)
        self.callLogsTreeView.sortByColumn(0, QtCore.Qt.DescendingOrder)

    def initWorkers(self):
        self.serverWorker = ServerWorker()
        self.serverWorker.logToScreen.connect(self.appendToServerLog)
        self.serverWorker.start()
        self.openSalesRoutineThreads = []

    def loadCallHistory(self):
        try:
            logs = self.db.query('''
                select DATAHORA, CODCLI, TELEFONE, CLIENTE
                from PAPELEX_LOG_LIGACOES
                where DATAHORA > trunc(sysdate) - 7 and NOME_GUERRA = :routineuser
            ''', routineuser=self.username)
            for index, log in enumerate(logs):
                self.dataModel.insertRow(index)
                self.dataModel.setData(self.dataModel.index(index, 0), log['datahora'].strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
                self.dataModel.setData(self.dataModel.index(index, 1), log['codcli'])
                self.dataModel.setData(self.dataModel.index(index, 2), self.formatPhoneNumber(log['telefone']))
                self.dataModel.setData(self.dataModel.index(index, 3), log['cliente'])
        except Exception as e:
            ErrorMessage("Erro!", u"Erro ao conectar no banco de dados para buscar informações.")

    def closeEvent(self, event):
        super(Routine9814, self).closeEvent(event)
        self.serverWorker.terminate()
        for openSalethread in self.openSalesRoutineThreads:
            openSalethread.terminate()
        event.accept()

    def search(self):
        self.callLogsProxyModel.setFilterStrings(
            self.searchClientIDLineEdit.text(),
            self.searchClientPhoneLineEdit.text(),
            self.searchClientNameLineEdit.text())

    def formatPhoneNumber(self, phone):
        if len(phone) <= 4:
            return phone
        return '(%s) %s-%s' % (phone[:AREA_CODE_SIZE], phone[AREA_CODE_SIZE:-4], phone[-4:])

    def appendToServerLog(self, completePhoneNumber):
        try:
            if len(completePhoneNumber) <= 4:
                phoneNumber = completePhoneNumber
                clients = self.db.query('''
                    select '' CODCLI, NOME CLIENTE
                    from PCEMPR
                    where regexp_replace(FONE, '[^0-9]', '') = :tel
                    union all
                    select null, null from dual
                    order by CODCLI desc, CLIENTE desc
                ''', tel=completePhoneNumber)
            else:
                phoneNumber = completePhoneNumber[AREA_CODE_SIZE:]
                clients = self.db.query('''
                    select
                      CODCLI, CLIENTE
                    from PCCLIENT
                    where
                      regexp_replace(TELCONJUGE, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel or
                      regexp_replace(TELEMPR, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel or
                      regexp_replace(TELCOM, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel or
                      regexp_replace(TELENT1, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel or
                      regexp_replace(TELENT, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel or
                      regexp_replace(TELCOB, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel or
                      regexp_replace(TELCELENT, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel
                    union all
                    select
                      CODCLI, CLIENTE
                    from PCCLIENTFV
                    where
                      regexp_replace(TELENT1, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel or
                      regexp_replace(TELCOM, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel or
                      regexp_replace(TELCOB, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel or
                      regexp_replace(TELENT, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel
                    union all
                    select
                      PCCLIENT.CODCLI, PCCLIENT.CLIENTE
                    from PCCONTATO
                    left join PCCLIENT on PCCLIENT.CODCLI = PCCONTATO.CODCLI
                    where regexp_replace(TELEFONE, '[^0-9]', '') like '%' || :tel
                    union all
                    select null, null from dual
                    order by CODCLI desc, CLIENTE desc
                ''', tel=phoneNumber)
            index = min(len(clients)-1, 1)
            self.dataModel.insertRow(0)
            self.dataModel.setData(self.dataModel.index(0, 0), datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
            self.dataModel.setData(self.dataModel.index(0, 1), clients[index]['codcli'])
            self.dataModel.setData(self.dataModel.index(0, 2), self.formatPhoneNumber(completePhoneNumber))
            self.dataModel.setData(self.dataModel.index(0, 3), clients[index]['cliente'])
            self.toast(
                self.formatPhoneNumber(completePhoneNumber),
                u'%s%s%s' % (clients[index]['codcli'] or '',' - ' if clients[index]['codcli'] else '', clients[index]['cliente']) if clients[index]['cliente'] else u'Número desconhecido')
        except Exception as e:
            print e
            ErrorMessage("Erro!",
                u"Ligação recebida de %s.\nErro ao conectar no banco de dados para buscar informações." % self.formatPhoneNumber(completePhoneNumber))
        try:
            self.db.execute('''
                insert into PAPELEX_LOG_LIGACOES (NOME_GUERRA, DATAHORA, TELEFONE, CODCLI, CLIENTE)
                values (:routineuser, sysdate, :tel, :clientid, :clientname)
            ''', routineuser=self.username, tel=completePhoneNumber, clientid=clients[index]['codcli'], clientname=clients[index]['cliente'])
        except Exception as e:
            print e
            ErrorMessage("Erro!",
                u"Ligação recebida de %s.\nErro ao conectar no banco de dados para salvar informações." % self.formatPhoneNumber(completePhoneNumber))

    def openCustomer(self):
        model = self.callLogsTreeView.model().sourceModel()
        filteredIndex = self.callLogsTreeView.selectedIndexes()[0]
        row_num = self.callLogsProxyModel.mapToSource(filteredIndex).row()
        selectedId = model.item(row_num,1).text() if model.item(row_num,1) is not None else ''
        print 'Opening sales routine for client #%s.' % selectedId
        if not selectedId or selectedId == '':
            return
        worker = OpenSalesRoutineWorker(
            selectedId, self.username, self.db_pass, self.db_alias, self.db_user)
        worker.reportError.connect(self.reportSalesRoutineError)
        worker.start()
        self.openSalesRoutineThreads.append(worker)
        cb = QtGui.QApplication.clipboard()
        cb.clear(mode=cb.Clipboard)
        cb.setText(selectedId, mode=cb.Clipboard)

    def reportSalesRoutineError(self):
        ErrorMessage('Erro!', u"Não foi possível abrir a rotina 1906.\n"+
            u"Verifique se o Drive W:/ está mapeado em seu computador.")

class OpenSalesRoutineWorker(QtCore.QThread):
    reportError = QtCore.Signal()

    def __init__(self, selectedId, username, db_pass, db_alias, db_user):
        self.selectedId = selectedId
        self.username = username
        self.db_pass = db_pass
        self.db_alias = db_alias
        self.db_user = db_user
        QtCore.QThread.__init__(self)

    def run(self):
        args = [
            'W:\PCPPL\PCPPL1906.exe',
            self.username,
            self.db_pass,
            self.db_alias,
            self.db_user, '1906']
        try:
            subprocess.call(args)
        except Exception as e:
            self.reportError.emit()

class MyTreeView(QtGui.QTreeView):
    onPressEnter = QtCore.Signal()

    def __init__(self):
        QtGui.QTreeView.__init__(self)

    def keyPressEvent(self, event):
        if event.key() == QtCore.Qt.Key_Enter or event.key() == QtCore.Qt.Key_Return:
            self.onPressEnter.emit()
        QtGui.QTreeView.keyPressEvent(self, event)

class ServerWorker(QtCore.QThread):
    logToScreen = QtCore.Signal(str)

    def __init__(self):
        QtCore.QThread.__init__(self)

    def makeCustomHandler(self, logCall):
        class CustomHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler, object):
            def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
                self.logCall = logCall
                super(CustomHandler, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

            def do_GET(self):
                self.logCall(self.path[1:])
                self.send_response(200)

            def do_POST(self):
                pass

            do_PUT = do_POST
            do_DELETE = do_GET
        return CustomHandler

    def run(self):
        ip = '127.0.0.1'
        port = 8001
        def logCall(x):
            if x not in ['favicon.ico']:
                self.logToScreen.emit(x)
        HandlerClass = self.makeCustomHandler(logCall)
        server = HTTPServer((ip, port), HandlerClass)
        server.serve_forever()

# Available at https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dbridges/4732790/raw/5ee0b3825435c8f98cc47519cc1ab8cc3db7d2a7/CustomSortFilterProxyModel.py
# Explanation at http://www.dayofthenewdan.com/2013/02/09/Qt_QSortFilterProxyModel.html
class CustomSortFilterProxyModel(QtGui.QSortFilterProxyModel):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(CustomSortFilterProxyModel, self).__init__(parent)
        self.filterStrings = []
        self.filterFunctions = []

    def setFilterStrings(self, *texts):
        self.filterStrings = texts
        self.invalidateFilter()

    def addFilterFunction(self, new_func):
        self.filterFunctions.append(new_func)
        self.invalidateFilter()

    def filterAcceptsRow(self, row_num, parent):
        model = self.sourceModel()
        row = [model.item(row_num,c).text() for c in xrange(model.columnCount()) if model.item(row_num,c) is not None]
        tests = [func(row, self.filterStrings)
                 for func in self.filterFunctions]
        return not False in tests

class ErrorMessage(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, title, message):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self)
        QtGui.QMessageBox.critical(self, title, message)
        self.close()

# Expected call: routine.exe USER DB_PASS DB_ALIAS DB_USER ROUTINE_NUMBER
def main(args):
    app = QtGui.QApplication([])
    if len(args) != 6:
        print('Erro! Número de parâmetros diferente do esperado.')
        print('Esperado: 6. Encontrado: %s' % len(args))
        ErrorMessage("Erro!", "Utilize a rotina a partir do menu.")
        return
    args = args[1:]
    ex = Routine9814(*args)
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(sys.argv)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


"I'm making a CD with 34 tracks and I got a chop with 34 stitiches, an inch from my neck, nuh muss angel a watch (over) me," dancehall deejay Munga says of his near-death experience last weekend..
A very thankful Munga says he was attacked by a "madman with a machete...who feel say my blood must run that day".
The dancehall deejay received 34 stitches after being chopped with a machete on his shoulder inches away from his neck. Munga explains to Music News that he was chopped by a man of unsound mind.
\"I'm making a CD with 34 tracks and I got a chop with 34 stitiches, an inch from my neck, nuh muss angel a watch (over) me,\" dancehall deejay Munga says of his near-death experience last weekend..
A very thankful Munga says he was attacked by a \"madman with a machete...who feel say my blood must run that day\".


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Canadian federal election results in Northwest Territories 2021
Lucie Jeudy,
While Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party and Erin O'Toole's Conservative Party came out neck and neck in the 2021 Canadian federal election at the national level, the gap between the scores of these two parties is much wider in the Northwest Territories. While the Liberals won over 38 percent of the vote, the Conservatives won 14.4 percent, compared to over 33 percent nationally. In addition, Jagmeet Singh's New Democratic Party came in second, with 32.3 percent of the vote.
Results of the vote in the federal election of Canada in Northwest Territories in 2021
Share of votes
The source adds the following information: "Voter Turnout: 14,122 of 30,182 registered electors (46.79 %) -- does not include electors who registered on election day."
Population of Northwest Territories 2021, by age and sex
Population estimates for Northwest Territories, Canada 2000-2021
GDP of Northwest Territories, Canada 2000-2020
Unemployment rate Northwest Territories, Canada 2001-2020
Lucie Jeudy
Research Expert covering consumer goods and retail
Statistics on "Northwest Territories"
Number of births in Northwest Territories, Canada 2001-2021
Number of deaths in Northwest Territories, Canada 2001-2021
Life expectancy at birth Northwest Territories 2005-2020
Net interprovincial migrants in Northwest Territories 2001-2021
Number of recent immigrants in Northwest Territories 2001-2021
GDP of Northwest Territories, Canada 2020, by industry
GDP distribution of Northwest Territories, Canada 2020, by industry
CPI in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada 2000-2020
Canadian business counts without employees, by province or territory 2020
Northwest Territories business counts with employees, by NAICS category 2020
Canada: labor productivity in Northwest Territories 2000-2020
Canada: labor productivity in Northwest Territories 2020, by industry
Number of employed people in Northwest Territories, Canada 2020, by industry
Number of jobs in Northwest Territories 2020, by NAICS category
Median total family income in Northwest Territories 2000-2019
Median employment income of tax filers in Northwest Territories 2000-2019
Weekly earnings of employees in Northwest Territories 2001-2020
Labor participation rate in Northwest Territories 2000-2019
Number of families on low income in Northwest Territories 2000-2019
Territorial government revenue and expenditure of Northwest Territories 2007-2020
Assets and liabilities Northwest Territories territorial government 2007-2019
Revenue of the Northwest Territories provincial government, by source 2019
Expenses of the Northwest Territories provincial government, by source 2019
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Liabilities of the Northwest Territories government, by type 2019
Results of Nevada Democratic caucus by share of votes U.S. 2020
Results of Florida Democratic primary by share of votes U.S. 2020
Results of New Hampshire Democratic primary by share of votes 2020
Results of South Carolina Democratic primary by share of votes U.S. 2020
Super Tuesday results, by state U.S. 2020
Canada election 2019: preliminary results for districts won by party
18th presidential election results in South Korea 2012
Canada election 2015: preliminary results for districts won, October, 22, 2015
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Canada election 2019: preliminary share of the popular vote per party by province
Congressional election voter turnout in South Korea 2000-2016
Canada election 2019: preliminary results for the popular vote, October, 22, 2019
Presidential election voter turnout in South Korea 1987-2017
Canada election 2015: preliminary results, October, 22, 2015
Mexico: chemical industry import volume share 2018, by origin
Industry revenue of "Chemical (except agricultural) and allied product merchant wholesalers" in Canada 2012-2024
Forecast: value of shipments bare printed circuit board manufacture US 2008-2020
Number of nightclubs in Mexico 2010-2020
Industry revenue of "Chemical (except agricultural) and allied product merchant wholesaler...
Canada Provinces and territories of Canada Unemployment in Canada
Elections Canada. (September 20, 2021). Results of the vote in the federal election of Canada in Northwest Territories in 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 29, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267777/federal-election-results-canada-northwest-territories/
Elections Canada. "Results of the vote in the federal election of Canada in Northwest Territories in 2021." Chart. September 20, 2021. Statista. Accessed January 29, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267777/federal-election-results-canada-northwest-territories/
Elections Canada. (2021). Results of the vote in the federal election of Canada in Northwest Territories in 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 29, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267777/federal-election-results-canada-northwest-territories/
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I crave a bit of sour pickles in the winter, whether it be kimchi, pickled daikon or some gingered carrots. Since we have a bit of a carrot theme going on this week, I thought I'd share my method for making pickled, or fermented, carrots.
Even though carrots will last all winter long in cold storage, I still like to preserve them in a sour gingered brine.
This recipe is from an old blog I used to maintain. I copied it down verbatim. I've been using this basic method to make pickled veggies for 7 years now!
Rinse (if dirty) firm carrots. Peel and rinse again. Chop off the tops and any bad spots. Slice into thin, even slices. I used my awesome 14-cup capacity food processor, but you may prefer thicker slices, which can be cut by hand. The thicker the slices, the longer the fermentation process will take.
Pack sliced carrots into jars, or a ceramic crock.
You may make plain carrots, or add seasonings. If you prefer, alternate the seasonings between layers of carrots, or just put them in at any point of the packing process. My two preferred seasonings are chopped ginger root, and garlic and dill. You can also try peppercorns, chili, or any other herb. I use a 2-inch piece of fresh ginger, chopped, per 1/2 gallon ball jar. I use 5 cloves of garlic and 3 sprigs of dill per 1/2-gallon ball jar.
After you have packed the carrots, make a salt water brine. I use 1-1/2 TBS of NON-IODIZED SEA SALT per QUART of water. Mix until the water is clear and pour over the carrots until they are covered. You may need more or less than a quart of brine depending on how may carrots you have and how big the slices are.
Place a weight on top of the carrots so the brine covers them completely. Place the jars or the crock of carrots in the corner of your kitchen in the winter, or in a cool place, such as a cellar, in the summer. Mold or yeast bloom might form on the top. If the brine covers the surface of the carrots, the carrots should be fine.
Check the carrots every few days. Scrape off any scum that has formed on the surface and taste the pickles. I usually let vegetables ferment for 5-10 days or so. They will develop a pleasant, sour-pickle flavor, but should also maintain some crispness. When they taste delicious to you, cap them off, if in jars, or ladle them into jars if using a crock and move them into the refrigerator. They will continue to ferment at a slower rate, so don't be alarmed if they soften after a month or so. Enjoy in moderation.


Ruth Ball works at East London Liquor Company, a London distillery. She is a chemist and former bartender, and was the founder of Alchemist Dreams, a company dedicated to making handmade liqueurs blended to order for high-profile creative events with The British Library, Starwood Hotels and The Science Museum Group. She is also the author of Rough Spirits and High Society: The Culture of Drink.


Another of Kaling's smart fans, Tory Burch, hosted a book party Tuesday evening for Kaling at the brand's new Madison Avenue store. The Upper East Side space, decorated to look like the inside of neighboring and enviable townhomes, served as a colorful backdrop for the eclectic crowd, including actress Michelle Trachtenberg, fellow funny girl Kristen Schaal and designer Rachel Roy.
We snagged a few moments with Kaling to chat about the book, meeting Tory on Twitter and gold lamé tights.


text:
2. Dear Geoff,
My son bought a couch from Ashley's 9 years ago. He was confident that it would be a FREE couch when the Tigers won. He went to every single post-season game that year including the last one. After reading your article this morning, he said "every time I sit on that couch I think about that game."
Carol M.
I couldn't agree with you more about parallels between Atlanta's Super Bowl loss and the Tigers' loss in the NCAA championship in 2008. At the Super Bowl party I attended last night, a number of us discussed the similarities between the two losses, such as the following:
Atlanta's 28-9 lead in the 4th quarter seemed proportionate to the Memphis 9-point lead with 2:12 to go
So many things ALL had to happen for NE to catch up, from boneheaded decisions that the Falcons made to terrific plays that the Patriots converted — just as it took not only Memphis missing so many free throws but Kansas also converting so many shots at the end. It's possible that if just ONE of those things doesn't happen, NE doesn't win, and the same with the Jayhawks.
My brother, who grew up in Memphis but has lived in Atlanta for more than 20 years, pointed out that Julio Jones' amazing sideline catch was eerily similar to Derrick Rose's improbable bank shot in 2008. Both were incredible plays that could have sewn it up for their respective teams (and would have gone down as the signature plays for the winners), but instead will be forgotten due to even crazier plays (Edelman's catch, Chalmers' shot).
The similarity between the Atlanta fans, who have only gotten one WS win for all of their teams' successes, with Memphis fans, who have never seen our teams win a championship.
I feel for the Atlanta fans today. To come so close and not win — WOW — we've all been there as Tiger fans. I remember a sense of mourning in 2008 after the Tigers' loss, and a realization that such a moment may not be re-created for a long time.
That said, unlike the 2008 Tigers, Atlanta gets Matt Ryan back next year, with, I assume, most of that team. So, theoretically, they will get other chances. Memphis' success in 2008 was based on a number of finite things, such as the the combination of Derrick Rose, CDR, Joey Dorsey, John Calipari, etc. In my opinion, a team like that — and a moment like that — is harder to create in the four-year college setting, and even harder in a "one-and-done" environment.
4. I'm not actually someone who believes that being a sports fan is all about championships. That would be unreasonable, right? The Memphis Grizzlies have had a vast impact on this city and they've never even made an NBA Finals. The Memphis Tigers have entertained the city for decades and have never won it all. But it's more agonizing when the championship is there for the taking when, indeed, it feels inevitable.
Tiger Basketball Podcast: Tubby facing challenges now and in future
5. So will the Tigers ever again be two minutes away from a title? Will the Grizzlies win a title in the next 40 years? Chances are, no, neither one of those things will happen. And that can be depressing to think about, I guess. But who knew that Villanova would win the title last year? Who knew the Dallas Mavericks would win the title in 2011? Stranger things have happened. Glorious things may yet be in store. Which is why Memphians continue to head down to FedExForum, with hopes high but hearts steeled.


text:
South African men are more disadvantaged than women - study
Men in South Africa are more disadvantaged than women, according to a new study.
The study looked at health indicators, basic education and life satisfaction to arrive at the "Basic Index of Gender Inequality", a numeric value from which they drew conclusions regarding gender inequality.
Researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of Essex carried out the study covering 134 countries.
South Africa diverges radically from most other African countries in that men significantly fall behind women in terms of education.
Also, men in South Africa are, according to the study, in far worse health than the country's women.
Income – the measure most often used to determine inequality - was not included in the study.
Click here for more information about this study or here for an analysis by freelance writer Ciaran Ryan.
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Beware 'dodgy' Nadal vs Federer ticket offers
The Roger Federer Foundation says no ticket platforms are yet in possession of, nor have guaranteed allocation of tickets.
[WATCH] Mzansi's Ndlovu Youth Choir headed for AGT's live shows!
The choir that is stealing America's hearts is headed to the next round of America's Got Talent.
How Christo Wiese became the richest in SA, and how it all came crashing down
The Money Show's Bruce Whitfield interviews TJ Strydom, author of "Christo Wiese - Risk And Riches".
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Residents living on the crime-ridden Cape Flats share their first-hand experiences of life in 'apartheid's dumping ground'.
Paying off your credit card every month to avoid interest? The banks are sneaky…
Consumer journalist Wendy Knowler warns prudent credit card holders to keep tabs on their banks. In this case, it's FNB.
[WATCH] Over 50 artists record special version of Johnny Clegg's "The Crossing"
For this week's #GoodNewsThursdays, we find out the inspiration behind the production.


In a world in which technology "things" keep getting smarter, you should know about the biggest tech trends that will impact the enterprise in 2018.
Creating systems that learn, adapt and potentially act autonomously will be a major battleground for tech vendors. 59% of organizations are still gathering information to build an AI strategy, but the rest have already made progress in piloting or adopting AI solutions.
Intelligent apps have the potential to transform the nature of work and the structure of the workplace. These apps include virtual customer assistants, worker performance assessments, sales/marketing analytics and security tools.
This refers to the programming of advanced behaviors and capabilities in physical things: autonomous cars, robots, drones and other machines that interact naturally with their surroundings and with people, such as IoT-connected systems.
Digital twins consolidate massive amounts of information on individual assets and groups of assets to create a digital representation of a real-world entity or system. For example, future digital twins of humans could include rich biometric and medical data.
Drawn from the concepts of mesh networking and distributed processing, cloud to the edge pushes information processing and content collection and delivery to the devices that generate data. It allows for disconnected or distributed process execution of aspects of the cloud service.
Thanks to virtual personal assistants (VPAs), "talking" to a machine has never been easier. By 2019, Gartner predicts that one-fifth of user interactions with smartphones will take place through VPAs.
Who needs to travel to Disney World when you can just "visit" the Magic Kingdom via a computer-generated 3D environment? The virtual reality and augmented reality market will grow to $2.16 billion this year.
As businesses seek to increase cash flow, lower transaction costs, reduce settlement times and make other financial-based improvements, they will turn to blockchain as a significant component of their overall digital transformation strategy.
By combining AI, the IoT, cloud computing and other innovations, the enterprise will be better positioned to "see" events such as purchase orders or customer experiences. In fact, by 2020, 80% of digital business solutions will require event-sourced, real-time situational awareness.
More cyber-security teams are adopting CARTA, an adaptive approach that involves real-time risk and trust-based decision making to better protect digital business flows in an ever-changing world of advanced, targeted attacks.
Artificial intelligence (AI), "smart" apps, analytics and the further decentralization of technology architectures will be the biggest IT trends for the next year, according to recent research from Gartner. The accompanying report, "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018," points out that we live in a very intelligent world. In fact, ongoing innovation that essentially amounts to making machines smarter accounts for the majority of trends on this list. As a result, companies should position themselves to better visualize events such as customer experiences and more effectively anticipate business-impacting changes. "Digital business blurs the physical and virtual worlds in a way that transforms business designs, industries, markets and organizations," according to the report. "The continuing digital business evolution exploits emerging and strategic technologies to integrate the physical and digital worlds, and create entirely new business models. The future will be defined by smart devices delivering increasingly insightful digital services everywhere. We call this mesh of interconnected people, devices, content and services the 'intelligent digital mesh.' It's enabled by digital business platforms delivering a rich intelligent set of services to support digital business. As a … technology innovation leader seeking to exploit the intelligent digital mesh, you must respond to the disruptive technology trends driving this future."


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Solomon Temple
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Constructed by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Solomon Temple is a spectacular landmark in the city of São Paulo and is a replica of the First Temple built by Solomon built in the 5th centry BC but with increased dimensions. Considered the largest religious building in Brazil, the mega-church seats 10,000 worshipers in its sanctuary and stands at 55 meters (180') tall, the height of an 18-story building.
With an area of approximately 100,000 square meters, the 11-story complex includes the main sanctuary, 36 classrooms, radio and television studios, a museum about the original temple, 84 apartments of differing sizes for bishops and pastors of the church, a helicopter landing pad and a garden.
Its rich design is detailed down to the use of very high technological means of communication, which are intended to be hidden from visitors' eyes. In order to to maintain that standard along with reproducing the gospel with faithfulness, clarity and intelligibility, the church engineering team's choice was unanimous: K-array.
In the sanctuary, the main PA consists of 42 Mugello-KH4 and 6 KO70 speakers installed 18 meters high in acoustic niches above the ceiling, hidden by perforated plates specially designed to not interfere with sound propagation. 24 Python-KP102 line arrays are used as sidefills at the altar.
Stage monitoring was covered with 22 Python-KP102, 6 KA40, 2 Mugello-KH4, 2 Thunder-KMT18 and 2 Thunder-KMT18P for the celebrant bishops and pastors.
The system used as the FOH reference monitor is 2 Kobra-KK50, 1 Rumble-KU36, 1 KA7-7 amp and a KF12MT.
The outdoor main entrance is equipped with 6 Python-KP102, personalized in the same color of the stones from Israel and installed within the wall. They are driven by a KA40 amp.
In the conference rooms, custom painted Turtle-KRM33P speakers have been positioned on the ceiling providing controlled horizontal dispersion and extended frequency response to broadcast the sermons around the building.
Solomon's Temple is the first Temple in Brazil to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification, an acknowledgement of the "green seal" enterprise. K-array's compact and lightweight speakers have contributed greatly to the energy efficient features.
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KF12MT
Turtle-KRM33P
Universal brought us a big challenge: to install a sound system in this huge area, using invisible, light and ecologically correct sound equipment. Large indoor places require a lot of caution and study, because they usually have big reverberation and acoustic reflections, making it difficult to understand the voice. We presented the architect and directors of the build a detailed study where our solution showed a high level of intelligibility and clarity, besides counting on a great SPL left.
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