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Father Robert Boxie of St. Joseph Parish in Largo, Md., delivered the homily at the Mass for Life at Capital One Arena in Washington Jan. 18 before the annual March for Life.
VATICAN CITY — The percentage of Catholics in the world has remained steady, while the number of priests has decreased for the first time in almost a decade, according to Vatican statistics.
Meanwhile, the numbers of bishops, permanent deacons, lay missionaries and catechists have all increased, it stated.
At the end of 2017, the worldwide Catholic population exceeded 1.3 billion, which continued to be about 17.7 percent of the world’s population, according to a statement published March 6 by the Vatican press office.
The statement reported a handful of the statistics in the Statistical Yearbook of the Church, which reported worldwide Church figures as of Dec. 31, 2017. The press office also announced the publication of the 2019 “Annuario Pontificio,” a volume containing information about every Vatican office, as well as every diocese and religious order in the world.
According to the statistical yearbook, the number of Catholics increased in every continent. But while that growth in Africa and the Americas kept pace with their respective region’s population growth, Asia showed a 1.5 percent increase in the number of Catholics while the region’s population grew less than 1 percent.
At the end of 2017, most of the world’s Catholics (48.5 percent) were living in the Americas, followed by Europe with 21.8 percent, Africa with 17.8 percent, 11.1 percent in Asia and 0.8 percent in Oceania.
The yearbook showed the number of bishops in the world continued its steady increase over the past six years, going from 5,133 in 2012 to 5,389 in 2017.
For the first time since 2010, according to the Vatican statement, the total number of priests — diocesan and religious order — around the world decreased, going from 414,969 in 2016 to 414,582 in 2017. Ordinations of diocesan priests continued to decline slowly from 6,577 in 2012 to 5,815 in 2017.
The number of brothers in religious orders continued a steady increase only in Africa, as Asia continued a recent downturn that began in 2016. The number of religious brothers worldwide was down to 51,535 in 2017 from 52,625 in 2016.
The number of women in religious orders showed an ongoing downward trend of about a 1.6 percent decrease each year worldwide since 2013, the yearbook showed. The slight increases in Africa and Asia weren’t enough to offset the reductions in Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Catholic women’s orders went from having more than 792,000 members in 2001 to just over 648,910 women at the end of 2017.
The number of candidates for the priesthood — both diocesan seminarians and members of religious orders — showed a continued slight decline worldwide, decreasing from 116,160 at the end of 2016 to 115,328 at the end of 2017.
The number of permanent deacons reported — 46,894 — was up 582 over the previous year. The vast majority — 97.3 percent — of the world’s permanent deacons live in the Americas and in Europe.
The number of lay missionaries worldwide increased by over 1,000 people to 355,800 and catechists were up by 34,000 people to 3.12 million by the end of 2017.
There were more than 15.6 million baptisms around the world in 2017 and more than 2.3 million Catholic weddings.


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The Cleveland Browns announced Wednesday that they’ve placed CB Howard Wilson on injured reserve with a knee injury.
The team announced that Wilson could be out for the season on Tuesday, so this shouldn’t come as a big surprise. Unfortunately, Wilson misses his second consecutive season, due to injury.
Howard, 22, is a former fourth-round pick of the Browns back in 2017. He’s in the second year of his four-year, $3 million contract and stands to make base salaries of $645,000 and $735,000 during the final two years of the agreement.
During his college career at Houston, Wilson recorded 107 tackles, 3.5 tackles for a loss, nine interceptions with one being returned for a touchdown, 15 pass defenses and two fumble recoveries over the course of three seasons and 27 total games.

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We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For:: "But the best part of the story is the identity of the doctor restoring HCR to life: Anthem Blue Cross! Who says insurance cos can’t fix healthcare?"
"But the best part of the story is the identity of the doctor restoring HCR to life: Anthem Blue Cross! Who says insurance cos can’t fix healthcare?"
Can right wing over-exuberance in the face of their Massachusetts victory have spurred the sudden and vibrant revival of healthcare reform? It has risen unexpectedly, like the miraculous victim of a head injury, from its seemingly permanent coma.
But the best part of the story is the identity of the doctor restoring HCR to life: Anthem Blue Cross! Who says insurance companies can’t fix healthcare?
On January 19, Scott Brown supposedly rode a wave of public disgust over the Dems’ proposed “Government Takeover of Health Care” (or so the story went) to hand Republicans a 2/5 majority in the Senate. As usual, the only evidence of Democratic huevos at the time was all over their faces. DNC chair Tim Kaine, who had not conducted an exit poll, was entirely unprepared to refute the latest gibberish spewed by the right wing lie machine. It looked as if we were on the verge of permanent capitulation. The railroad tracks of healthcare reform became mired in senatorial quicksand.
Fortunately for us, our friends at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) in collaboration with Kaine’s ousted but more effective predecessor, Howard Dean (and Democracy for America), conducted their own poll showing that Massachusetts’ Democratic voters stayed home because they were angry the Public Option had been dropped.
Meanwhile, a little over two weeks after the Massachusetts debacle, as Senator Brown was taking his seat, Anthem Blue Cross (aka Hedley Lamarr) celebrated by announcing a 39% rate hike in California. Their premature dance at the side of HCR’s deathbed brought the Public Option roaring back to life.
Shades of Blazing Saddles! A few important transitions occurred quietly behind the scenes. Obama brought David Plouffe, the ingenious captain of his Presidential campaign, back into the fray. Newly deputized HHS Secretary (and former Insurance Commissioner/Governor of Kansas), famous for facing down the industry bandits in her home state, rode forth on her white horse vowing to take on the ne’er-do-wells.
Next, the Black Guy strode through the saloon doors alone, and in front of the people of the town, challenged every single member of the Republican House Caucus to a verbal gunfight.
A Democratic source familiar with the details said the White House proposal would scale back the Senate bill’s tax on high-cost insurance plans. It would also strip out special Medicaid deals for certain states, while moving to close the Medicare prescription coverage gap, and making newly available coverage for working families more affordable. The changes would cost about $200 billion over 10 years. It’s unclear what the total price tag for the legislation would be; the Senate bill was originally under $900 billion.
Rightwing pundits are already struggling to contain the expected damage, labelling the “summit” a “trap.” Boehner and Cantor published and then recanted a list of demands that were widely ridiculed as a ransom note. Boehner later appeared on teevee to express his concern about walking into the Blair House without prior assurance he will not be verbally ambushed.
But Hedley (not Hedy) Lamarr’s nefarious crowd of Tea Party thugs had not finished overplaying their hand. Riding high on a wave of assumed victory, they televised both the Tea Party Convention and the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Apparently, the far right is so confident of a 2010 electoral sweep that they fear the future landslide may not be noticed. So to boost ratings, they have handed Dems a series of juicy soundbites for political ads.
All we’ve heard is we need a big tent. We need a big tent. Can we get a bigger tent? How can we get a big tent? What is this the circus? America is not a clown show. America is not a circus. America is an idea. America is an idea that sets people free.
While all this was happening an angry right-wing pilot scrawled a rambling suicide note about “watering the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots,” (the same phrase Ron Paul’s gun-toting supporters carried at Obama rallies) and flew his plane into a government building killing three people.
I digress. Though none of these antics are likely to appeal to Independent voters, they have nothing to do with Anthem’s revival of both the Public Option and Health Care Reform. While Teabaggers and CPAC-goers were streaming out of Hollywood wild, wild west facades and into the streets of DC, our friends at the PCCC were quietly circulating a petition and conducting polls. Specifically, they were asking Senators to sign a letter promising to support the passage of the Public Option through reconciliation. Dianne Feinstein (a conservative California Democrat normally a tad to the left of Liebermenace) signed the letter, enraged by Anthem’s rate hike in her home state. Left-leaning Barbara Boxer followed, as did Menendez in NJ. The letter now has 20 signatories in the Senate and 100 in the House.
Through polls, the PCCC learned that in Nevada, where Harry Reid’s popularity among his constituents is seriously flagging, he can still redeem himself through inclusion of a government-sponsored insurance plan. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Independents and forty-six percent (46%) of Democrats would be more likely to vote for Harry Reid if he passed a Public Option opposed to thirteen percent (13%) of Independents and seven percent (7%) of Democrats if he didn’t.
Shortly after the poll results were released, Reid announced his support for passage of the Public Option through reconciliation (a majority vote) if the White House and a majority of Senators so choose.
Of course, this doesn’t make passage of the Public Option a fait accompli by any means. Many Senators still fear that its reintroduction could kill HCR altogether despite its popularity with the American people.
Ezra Klein suggests pulling a bait and switch maneuver, substituting the Public Option with an early Medicare Buy-In which is more readily understood by voters and I tend to agree. It is not clear that the Public Option can be passed using reconciliation due to parliamentary restrictions, whereas Medicare expansion can. Clearly, the PCCC considered this option in the above linked poll because the first question, which also demonstrates tremendous support among Independents and Democrats, mentions Medicare rather than the Public Option.
So far, Bill O’Reilly is the only winger who appears to have recognized the dangers inherent to Republicans in telecasting the Tea Party Conference and CPAC. He issued several unheeded warnings to fellow pundits to refrain from criticizing Obama too heavily at the convention. Here he is on teevee chastising the leader of Oath Keepers, a CPAC sponsor, for encouraging individual troops to disobey orders from their Commander-In-Chief.

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The lower house of the British parliament voted late on 2 December to extend the country’s air war to Syria. The United Kingdom will thus become the fourth western state to be involved along with France and Australia, though the United States remains the dominant force in the whole operation. British aircraft will bring a little bit extra to the raids but the political significance of their deployment is much greater than the military one. Now that Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and the UAE have all stopped their own airstrikes on Syria, the anti-ISIS campaign has become almost entirely a western war.
Overall, this is an element largely missed by the western media. But it will be used relentlessly by ISIS propagandists as they portray this as a “crusader war” against Islam.
That depiction includes Russia’s increasing role. Until recently, Russian forces were operating airstrikes from a single airbase near Latakia on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, together with two smaller forward operating bases (FOBs) dependent partly on helicopter supply. Russia is now in the process of a rapid expansion that will come close to doubling its involvement, including an enlarged airbase at Shayrat airport near Homs, and two more FOBs.
Moscow also seeks to ensure protection for its planes in light of Turkey’s destruction of one of its jets. It has begun to install the long-range S-400 ground-launched anti-aircraft missile in Latakia, and there may well be deployments to Shayrat as well. Most of this military activity is directed at supporting Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and its planes and helicopters hardly face any threat from what remains of the Syria airforce. Thus the new missile placement must be seen as a signal to states such as Turkey and Israel not to threaten Russian forces. The risk of miscalculation on all sides is a recipe for increased tension.
This is the complex and disorganised theatre of war that the UK is now moving into. But it is also a war that is accelerating in other directions. All the indications from Washington are that the administration is intent on expanding the air war in both Syria and Iraq. Stars and Stripes, the newspaper of the United States military, says the US “will adjust its tactics and risk more civilian casualties when launching air strikes against high-value targets in Syria and Iraq as part of an effort to increase pressure on Islamic State militants.” More civilians will be killed but, as the chair of the US joint chiefs of staff, General Joseph Dunford, put it so plainly this week: “Our threshold for collateral damage increases with the value of the target”.
A clear element of “mission creep” is revealed by the fact that US special forces will operate in greater numbers and at higher levels both in Syria and Iraq, engaging particularly in search-and-destroy operations against ISIS leadership elements. Almost certainly, this reflects the Pentagon’s determination that – in the absence of progress elsewhere – it is time to relearnthe lessons of the JSOC’s activities in Iraq a decade ago, when Task Force 145 took the war to Al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI). The group was then directed by its Jordanian leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
This history is worth remembering, since so many of the paramilitary survivors of that bitter, brutal and largely unreported war have gone on to make up significant parts of the hard-core, middle-ranking ISIS paramilitaries that are ensuring the survival of the movement.
There are two further developments to consider in a war that, it is often said, is going badly for ISIS. The first is that ISIS in Syria, let alone Iraq, is proving far more robust and able to organise the towns and cities it now controls. It is aided by an apparently unending supply of technocrats from the Iraqi Ba’athist era who are able to handle the details.
The ISIS-run areas are responsible for managing all routine matters such as water supplies, policing, sewage disposal, transport, schools, taxation, control of roads, street cleaning and commercial permits. This is little reported in the west, yet though the ultimate rule may be brutal, routine living conditions can actually be safer in and around Raqqa than in chaotic and violent districts nearby that ISIS does not control. So much so that there are actually some refugee flows into ISIS-controlled area since they are seen as safer than much of the rest of Syria.
The second, and again almost entirely missed, feature of ISIS behaviour is the considerable attention it is now paying to establishing a second proto-caliphate in the Libyan port city of Sirte. There, it has a city and many miles of coast under its control, and is reported to be gaining access to oil resources as well. A new United Nations report says that ISIS has moved 2,000-3,000 paramilitary fighters to join the existing ISIS-linked elements in Sirte. This opens the possibility of direct links to the north across the Mediterranean towards Italy, and south across the Sahara towards countries in the Sahel such as Mali and Niger.
In short, ISIS may be under serious pressure, but it shows no signs of facing defeat in Syria and Iraq and is actually expanding in Libya. The UK parliament’s decision to join the bombing of ISIS in Syria may have considerable political meaning in Britain, but in the wider scheme of things it is not much more than a sideshow.
Even so, it is likely to become progressively more controversial within the UK, an element that may well be highlighted by the nature of the very first attacks carried out within hours of the end of the parliamentary debate. Four RAF Tornados flew from Akrotiri in Cyprus and attacked six targets in an oilfield in eastern Syria with Paveway IV bombs, an attack that was intended to damage ISIS oil production.
Yet it is highly unlikely that the people actually operating that oilfield would have been dedicated ISIS paramilitaries and far more likely that they would have been ordinary workers. Two days ago the Pentagon announced that US warplanes had destroyed over a hundred oil tankers, but who was driving them? Most likely they were ordinary contract drivers for transport companies, albeit under ISIS control.
In short, trying to destroy ISIS from the air will inevitably mean many civilian casualties, but the UK, French, US and other governments will hardly want to focus on that: as General Tommy Franks of the US army said early in the Iraq war, “we don’t do body counts”.
No indeed, “we” don’t, but “they” do. Indeed it is certain that ISIS propagandists will already be at work publicising the backgrounds of people who got killed by the RAF attacks, probably with photos of their families and plenty of other personal details. That is the nature of the war that the House of Commons has approved.
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According to the Sunday Times Rich List, published each year in April, the richest 1,000 Britons who constitute just 0.003% of the population have increased their wealth in the last year alone by £35bn, and by a stunning £190bn over the 4 years since the crash. Within the top 2% of the population HMRC records that there were 4,000 persons paid more than £1 million a year in 1999, but this became 10,000 by 2010 and then a huge rise to 18,000 by 2013.
By contrast the latest figures show that average wages in Britain have fallen after the crash in real terms (i.e. taking account of inflation) by 9% and are still falling. If current trends continue, and that is what Osborne intends, then by 2018 the average family will be £6,660 worse off than it was in mid 2007 just before the bankers brought the system down. Even more disturbing, the Resolution Foundation has estimated that the economic downturn in the UK has pushed another 1.4 million employees below the living wage (£8.45 an hour in London and £7.55 elsewhere in the country) widely regarded as necessary for a basic standard of living in Britain. Altogether the study ‘Low Pay Britain 2013′ found that no less than a fifth of all employees – 4.8 million Britons – now earn below this living wage. So far from falling since the height of the recession in 2009, this number paid below this minimum has actually grown by this year by over 40%.
As Michael Meacher says the US, which is the most unequal country in the Western world, is now becoming even more so… but a similar pattern is emerging in the UK. The richest 400 Americans have a collective fortune which is greater than the collective wealth of the bottom 50% of ordinary Americans; a collective fortune slightly bigger than the Russian economy and valued at £1.4 trillion. Note that is just 400 individuals!
In an attempt to break the now ubiquitous narrative that “its all about income tax rates”, and to challenge the ridiculous new support for QEternity; ‘The Bears’ that brought you ‘The Bernank’ are back. In this cartoon, they explain how the bailouts made people like Warren Buffett far wealthier than they should be and exposes who actually benefits from all this QE. The Bears, The Buff-ate, and The Bernank – simply perfect.

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Skyrim Composer Be ‘Wary’ of Upcoming Concert. Skyrim’s musician Jeremy Soule isn’t an acquaintance of the approaching concert for the sport.
To celebrate the Oct launch of Skyrim Special Edition for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, Bethesda proclaimed a live musical group Skyrim concert to be performed in London’s atomic number 46 theater. Tickets persist sale on Oct four. But, Soule took to Facebook to reveal he wasn’t alert to the concert, and advises potential attendees to be “wary” of it.

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Slate is a very fine grained metamorphic stone, that is comprised of a fine-grained, fossilized, sedimentary rock. Slate is a versatile natural stone found in slabs, which are split to make sheets. The sheets are then cut down to make tiles and the surface is usually left uneven after splitting which gives it its characteristic uneven, or ruptured surface.Slate tiles are extremely durable and their strength makes them attractive for high foot-traffic areas. Resistant to moisture and stains, slate tile is a natural choice for every surface. Slate comes in a range of colors, which is part of the appeal of slate tile. It can be gray, bluish, green, red, orange, or brown, often with veins of color running through the tile. Many people use it to add a more natural look to a room or roof, since no tile is identical. Slate tile can also be arranged in patterns which showcase the color variations, and various shapes can be cut to create ornate tile designs. Resistant to moisture and stains, slate tile is a natural choice for every surface and suitable for your Toronto, Vaughan, Concord, Woodbridge, North York, Thornhill, Richmondhill , All over Canada and North America houses.
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Thousands of foreign tourists visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum on May 19-20 on the 128th birthday anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh (May 19).
Many came to pay their tribute to the late President while others visited the landscape because they wanted to see how locals admire the late leader.
Mancelline Serce, a French tourist, has been travelling in Vietnam for two months. He wanted to visit the mausoleum on the special day.
“I know the story of Ho Chi Minh and I like this man,” Mancelline said.
Tom, from the Netherlands, wanted to spend the first day in Hanoi to see the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and enjoy the respectful atmosphere in the landscape.
“We are glad to be here on his birthday,” he said.
Coming from Denmark, Emil said “I see so many happy people who really care about Ho Chi Minh. I want to experience with Vietnamese people”.
“It’s an honour to be allowed to see him and enjoy the birthday with local people,” she said.
Meanwhile, Edith from the Netherlands said the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum a must-see place in Hanoi.
“It’s incredible to see how many people come here to show respect to Ho Chi Minh. He was the great man… We definitely will visit him again”.
“I will recommend people from the Netherlands and all over the world to visit the place”, she said.
According to the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Management Board, more than 30,000 people visited the landscape on May 19-20, including nearly 3,000 foreigners.
The figure exceeded 92,000 and nearly 11,000 from May 12-20.
The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is an important landmark of Hanoi capital city.
After his death on September 2, 1969, President Ho Chi Minh was preserved and laid to rest in this granite mausoleum.
The mausoleum looks similar to V. Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow. It was built from 1973 to 1975.
Construction materials, plants and bonsais were donated by people from all over the country.


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The Houston chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), a global, peer-to-peer network of more than 12,000+ influential business owners with 160 chapters in 50 countries, contacted Coterie Spark to host their annual regional conference.
The April 2016 conference was at the Houston Four Seasons hotel and brought together approximately 250 participants. The multi-day conference had the theme of bringing together entrepreneurs to be educated and to network from the regions that are part of the organization.
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Edna Cox Nuckolls from the Gold Hill community of Independence celebrated her 87th birthday March 18 in West Jefferson with her daughters Sandra Church and Dina Coffey and grandchildren Jonathan and wife Alisha Church, Amanda Church, Rachel and Ryan Coffey and great-grandson Eden Church. Her parents are the late T. Paul and Annie Anderson Cox of Gold Hill.
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This topic stepped to the front of the line to talk about because it’s been in the media lately, climate change, and California’s drought are taking their toll. I haven’t seen anything in the media about whether recent storms have reversed the last four years of drought at the Salton Sea, all the reportage has been about more dramatic events – floods, dam spillways over flowing, huge snow in the Sierras.
The sea has been alternately flooded, become saline, dried up many times over in tens of thousands of years.
‘Dry lake’ is kind of an oxymoron but try to wrap your head around it anyway!
What exists now was partially created by a monstrous blunder but came to be regarded as permanent until recently. It was hoped to be a resort destination to rival Vegas, and for a while it was.
Remnants of those days remain, stark reminders of the temporary dreams.
Here’s a good map, it shows what flows into the sea, but there is no outflow, what collects slowly evaporates, which makes the lake so saline.
“The most recent inflow of water from the now heavily controlled Colorado River was accidentally created by the engineers of the California Development Company in 1905. In an effort to increase water flow into the area for farming, irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado River into the valley. Due to fears of silt buildup, a cut was made in the bank of the Colorado River to further increase the water flow. The resulting outflow overwhelmed the engineered canal, and the river flowed into the Salton Basin for two years, filling the historic dry lake bed and creating the modern sea, before repairs were completed.
Robert Misrach made startling photographs of the place many years ago.
The sea’s future is in doubt, up for grabs, who knows what tomorrow may bring? Neither of us, No one.
Bombay Beach is the town where I took the most images, it’s a very quiet lonely place now, vacant lots for sale, roadrunners skittering across the street, dogs could nap in the middle of the streets, and live long lives. The couple of people i chatted with seemed to be castaways from society, come here to live on air, soc sec. or disability, maybe some veteran’s monthly check. A small one. They’ve checked out of society at large. Let’s hope we don’t end up here in our ‘golden years’. Or maybe not, maybe we’d like it. In one of the articles i read the current residents were quoted as saying they wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
A beautiful sky reflected off the glassy lake is reason enough to stay.
As for the rest of it? I dunno … only the hearty would want to stick around.
I had a lot of photo fun w/ the place.
As the Terminator most famously said “Ah’ll be back” – i second that emotion.


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Whether a prospective employee, current employee, or retiree, we have many resources available for you. We are here to help!
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It’s easy to get wrapped up in holiday spending (pun intended), so planning your budget in advance is essential to surviving the season without going broke. Start planning early, write down your budget, and stick to it. Remember to include all the little extras that come with the holidays, like extra gas for travel, holiday cards, and postage.
Once your budget is complete, look for areas where you can cut costs. For example, using The Funnies to wrap gifts is a cheap and simple alternative to wrapping paper, or carpooling with family to holiday parties can help avoid high gas prices.
In addition to your budget, you should also make a list of every person you plan on purchasing a gift for (from your children to your hairdresser) along with the amount you plan on spending. Consider this amount a ceiling and not a quota; that way, you focus more on the emotional value of a gift and not the price tag.
Don’t bust your budget purchasing extravagant presents. Giving a personalized gift, like a framed photo of a special memory you shared or a handmade ornament, instead of something expensive can mean so much more to your loved ones. Also, if you know how to bake, you could make a few of your favorite holiday desserts and package them into goodie bags to give out to more distant friends and relatives.
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Iâ€™m looking for the best quality precision tools on a limited budget (i.e. I don't want to pay $300 for one mic). I plan on building the occasional small- & big-block Chevy (more than one, less than 1000). Names that come up on the limited results Iâ€™ve found on the web include Starrett, Browne & Sharpe, Fowler, Mitutoyo. I was hoping for some feedback on both tools to consider as well as what brand youâ€™d buy or what youâ€™d stay away from.
I was thinking about a good set of snap gauges in lieu of an expensive dial bore gauge?
An assortment of micrometers 0-6â€, Iâ€™ve heard that carbide tips are a necessity. Iâ€™ve also read, & seen the higher prices for, micâ€™s that are coolant resistant?
A 0-6â€ dial caliper? Thinking about a digital?
A good magnetic base w/a 1â€ dial indicator for degreeing cams. Curious if anyone can explain why a 16â€ â€œProfessional degree wheelâ€ is so darn expensive at $180+?
Has anyone bought any of the stuff from Powerhouse?
first ID suggest that while its always nice to have super accurate precision tools its generally NOT critical in a basic engine rebuild to have the best or even close too the best measuring tools available.
For measuring equipment Mitutoyo is tough to beat. The better stuff from Starrett is good as ,is the better quality tools from a few other sources.
from a practical stand point, getting clearances in an engine down into less that a 1/4 of 1 thousandth (.00025 ) or less on the most critical components) and most down to (.0005 ) is usually sufficient, and on many even a full thousandth variation is not critical., example, a difference in rod side clearance, ring end gap or quench distance is far less critical than a thousandth difference in main bearing clearance, or piston to bore clearance.
now IM not suggesting the more expensive tools are not slightly better, but IM surprised at the level of accuracy the cheaper tools exhibit.
Ive found that a decent set of snap gauges and mics and a decent digital caliper will allow you to get bye quite nicely when used with some other checking tools, like plasti-gauge. repeatability and consistency are important.
I've got an itch for a 572 w/afrs w/a mech roller on a dart block for my chevelle. hoping for around 700hp. Mike Lewis on team chevelle has inspired me. I know this sounds insane but I want to take a crack at it.
I was amazed at what Amazon had available to be honest. I'd found some stuff on their earlier as well. Guess it's not just a book store anymore.
buying higher quality matched and ballanced rotating assembly components,from a single source goes a long way too reducing problems, durring engine assembly. and dealing with a quality machineshop on the block and head machine work removes several other potential problem areas.
Most people think of an outside micrometer when they hear the term "micrometer." An "outside micrometer" is one that measures the outside of something such as diameter, length, thickness.
There are other types of micrometers, including depth micrometers and inside micrometers. As the names imply, they measure depth and the inside diameters, respectively. Often other tools (such as bore gauges) are used with micrometers to determine sizes so knowing how to read the micrometer is absolutely necessary.
A micrometer is a measuring gauge operated by a screw with 40 threads per inch. This means that one complete revolution of the screw advances one thread or one-fortieth of an inch. 1/40Ë equals 25 thousandths of an inch or 0.025Ë (40 x .025Ë = 1Ë). The beveled edge of the thimble is divided into 25 equal parts. Each line of the micrometer's thimbles equals 1/25 of .025â€ or .001Ë (one thousandth of an inch). One complete revolution of the thimble therefore equals .025Ë or one line on the barrel scale. With that in mind, here's a quick quiz: What is the reading shown in Figure 1?
How do you think you did? Did you come up with .385Ë? If not, look at the drawing again. Each of the lines on the barrel represents .025 of an inch. Each of the longer lines (the ones with the numbers above them) equals .1Ë (4 x .025â€). So, weâ€™re showing 3 full lines (.300) and 3 of the small lines (.075). Weâ€™re up to .375Ë. The last .010 is indicated by the reading on the thimble. Add that to the .375Ë and you have a reading of .385Ë. Sounds a little confusing I know, but trust me, youâ€™ll get the hang of it the more you do it. Heck, even my wife can read a micrometer now and I still can't boil water.
If you need more precise measurements, which is quite common in machining, you can achieve readings in ten-thousandths of an inch by using a Vernier scale (optional on some micrometers). The vernier scale, marked on the barrel, has ten divisions, each equaling 1/10 of 1/10,000â€. The difference between a thimble division and a vernier division is 1/10,000 of an inch. Therefore, when the zero lines of the vernier exactly coincide with thimble lines (Figure 2), the number on the vernier lines is the difference between the vernier line and the next thimble line in ten-thousandths of an inch. Thus when the fifth line on the vernier coincides with a thimble line, the thimble has moved 5/10,000 of an inch.
First determine the number of thousandths, as with an ordinary micrometer. Then find a line on the vernier that exactly coincides with a thimble line. By adding the vernier reading to the thousandths reading the actual reading in ten-thousandths of an inch is obtained. The reading shown in Figure 2 is .260Ë plus .0005Ë or .2605Ë.
Hopefully, you havenâ€™t run screaming after all of that. It sounds confusing, but take your time and keep at it. It will make sense.
Jim Tapp is Tech Services Manager for Goodson Tools and an ASE-Certified Master Machinist.
Let me preface by saying this... I was a Tool & Diemaker for 20 years and have worked in gage calibration for the past 16 years. I have been part owner of an A2LA accredited gage lab for the past 9 years.
With any gaging... mics, calipers etc... You get what you pay for. IMHO, the Chinese Harbor Fright stuff is pretty much crap for any serious work. Believe me.. I've had literally thousands of different micrometers in my hands and there is a difference.
That said, there are a lot of people using them and saying they work well.
An alternative I always suggest is to look on Craigslist or Ebay for used Starrett, Brown and Sharpe, or Mitutoyo tools (to name a few) rather then buy the cheap stuff.
and a cheap duplicate set from northern tool mics along with half a dozen different digital calipers and so far they all are consistent enough that theres not been any effective difference. now I fully agree theres a very noticeable difference in quality , that's not debatable, but if your just measuring something like a piston ring thickness, or crank journal diam. they all work well enough.
if youve used a quality assembly lube it should require NO MORE than 40 ft lbs of force to start an engine to turn and under 20 ft lbs to keep it spinning, and thats with new rings in a newly honed bore, that effort required should drop rapidly to the point that less than 20 ft lbs are required to spin a short block after its been well oiled and rotated dozens of times.
I was over at Franks house today and he was in the process of tying to find the correct pilot bushing or bearing to instal in a crank he purchased and I was amazed that his first thought was to try to look up the correct part on the internet?
to me that was absurd without knowing the inside diameter of the recess in the rear of the crank, its depth and the diameter of the tip of the transmission shaft it was to support that was to slide inside it.
Something I learned from experienced machinists Grumpy is the fact you don't want to hold a Micrometer in your hand longer than 30-seconds at a time.
Your body heat transferred is enough to cause the Mictometer frame to grow & expand.
It matters if your trying to measure down to .0001"-.0002" / 1-2 Ten Thousanths accuracy.
floridas hardly the ideal climate for keeping tools rust free so i generally take my set of micrometers out of the storage case and open and close them and spray them down with a light oil like WD 40 and place them back in the box then place the whole box in a 2 gallon zip lock bag in a shallow tupper ware type air tight storage box that is just the size to fit inside one of your tool chest drawers too protect the precision measuring tools , feeler gauges and plasti-gauge youll need to measure clearances correctly.when not in use along with the dial calipers.
when he opened the very impressive looking brass and mahogany box the micrometer, inside was a solid rusted mass, I soaked it in marvel mystery oil and acetone mix for 30 minutes then gradually worked it loose and polished it up with 1500 grit wet/dry sand paper figuring no loss at this point and was amazed that after about 30 minutes of constant cleaning it not only looked fairly decent it seemed to read accurately on a test gauge so I think it was mostly ugly surface rust, but it sure looked horrible, and to someone who appreciates good tools,that was depressing.

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Your thyroid gland is located in the neck area, and it plays an important role in controlling the speed at which your body uses energy.
The thyroid also controls your sensitivity to various hormones, and is responsible for making proteins.
Your thyroid has a direct effect on your heart, so it’s vital that it functions effectively. The thyroid is responsible for the production of hormones T3 (triiodothyronine), T4 (thyroxine), and calcitonin. It’s these hormones that assist organs such as the liver, spleen and kidneys.
Thyroid hormones T3 and T4 are particularly critical to the healthy development of the fetus, and the brain is also a major target. In addition, the thyroid aids in the growth and development of children and plays a role in calcium levels in the blood.
Hyperthyroidism, which is defined as an over-active thyroid gland.
Traditional treatments such as beta blockers to reduce symptoms are used and anti thyroid drugs that block thyroid hormones are sometimes recommended.
In most cases, these drugs need to be taken frequently (such as one pill every eight hours) so some patients look for other treatments (surgery is used in difficult cases).
Hypothyroidism is often treated with hormone replacement therapy. In many cases, it takes a few weeks for drugs to become effective.
If you would like to have more information or to set up a consultation and see how we can help you (or someone you know) reduce the effects of hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism, give us a call at 561-752-4646 to schedule an appointment.
If you’d like to learn more about thyroid disorder, take some time to watch the video below of a Thyroid Workshop given by Dr. Zuckerman at Chronic Conditions Center.


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“Sake Bomb for Two” is on the menu.
The delight is in the details at Sweetfish.
Getting to the restaurant a touch early, I set up my camera and chose a table for our interview. Scott Bowman of The Bowman Restaurant Group stood at the center bar with his GM and chef.
They went over feedback recently received on menu items. He pointed out lightbulbs that weren’t quite right that needed to be changed “asap,” and they talked about another change to a divider at the bar that might distract from the visual pleasure of guests bellied-up there.
I instantly noticed (err, eavesdropped on) the serious attention to detail.
Sometimes I am guilty of the move “Barbara Waltering” people.
I love to get in there, dig around and dig deep. If my interviewee sheds a single tear about their Grandmimi while sharing a plate of pasta with me, I’ve done my job. I’ve done it WELL.
But with Bowman it was a bit different. More than he is a business man, he is a curator of guest experiences and I get that same vibe from his entire staff.
His polish and emanating sparkle, even after so much time “in the biz,” (an undeniably tough biz), had me intrigued right away in what he’d have to say.
To me, the menu at Sweetfish reads like we’ve jetted in to California. A melting pot of cuisine influence showing the versatility of seafood; it’s also creative, fun and customizable. Higher-end dining, yes, but with an approachable feel and many casual options.
It’s separated into Fish, Grill, Sushi, House Rolls, Starters & Salads, and each section is well-rounded.
There’s a “choose your own adventure” vibe to the Fish section of the menu where you select a fish, then select a preparation. From the “Southern” choice with Gouda grits, bourbon BBQ, and fried leeks, to a Pan-Asian preparation, Cal-Italian, or Mediterranean option; they’ve covered many bases here.
The House Rolls are not your standard sushi-house fare; most depart from strictly Japanese flavor profiles.
Brandishing lovely names of famous females, the rolls are as creative and pretty as they are delicious. One of my favorites was the Ann Roll. Perfectly pale salmon tataki draped over a rice-out roll stuffed with avocado, cream cheese and pine nuts, and finished with sweet soy and toasted sunflower seeds. This “not-that-in-to-salmon lady” felt it was absolutely dreamy.
And I’ll definitely send my raw fish-phobic friends in for the Raquel. Basically BLT in sushi form – this roll includes seared filet and bacon and is finished with a tomato relish and horseradish cream. If there was an Office For the Acceptance of Sushi in Arkansas, this roll would serve as an ambassador there.
For the purists, be sure to ask about off-menu offerings, and get the sashimi board. The delicate slices come dressed with simple accompaniments that absolutely add a little something thoughtful, unique and special to each. Which then begs the question: Which Sake will you choose to go with it all?
With a choice of ten, I suggest… several.
Beyond sushi and fish-focused fare are dishes with a broad range.
Gorgeous Grilled Octopus featuring fingerlings and chorizo has a delicious Spanish vibe. The Lump Crab-Stuffed Avocado is a major favorite on the lighter side, or a Surf & Turf with grilled filet & shrimp over lobster ravioli in champagne cream sauce is, of course, delightfully indulgent.
As Bowman continues to talk “big picture” about business, I listen, intrigued, at all the ways they perfect the guest experience in the moment on the restaurant level at the same time.
I agree with him, that one has everything to do with the other.
Thoughtfully curating guest experiences from arrival and warm glowing first impression, to cocktails, and courses, to gracious full-bellied goodbyes.
How sweet it is, at Sweetfish.


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Although callers to a recent Orlando Sentinel poll were ready to send Mr. Toad packing, the Internet is buzzing with online efforts to save the Magic Kingdom ride.
A "Save Mr. Toad's Wild Ride!" Web site went up on Oct. 23, the day after the Sentinel reported that Disney officials are considering replacing the scary, dark ride with a more kid-friendly adventure based on the wildly popular Winnie the Pooh.
The site -- at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/7073 --- includes the history and storyline of the ride, offers a place for the outraged to post their comments and encourages people to get involved with a list of top Disney executives and their addresses.

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DISPOROOM is an online room reservation and room administration system. Using DISPOROOM you can schedule meetings and conferences in your company, and manage your companies premises.
Using the organizer view helps you to find free timeslots in your meeting attendees calendar and easily create a room reservation with a view mouseklicks.
We offer the DISPOROOM online service in two flavors - as a Standard Edition and a Pro edition with extended functionality.
Rooms include a broad concept. You could of course also manage the courts of your club, or the multi-purpose hall of your school.
Exclude rooms for certain user groups or provide access only to certain user groups.
Publish occupancy of your rooms on your website.
Release your facilities publicly for booking.
Integrate DISPOROOM into your own website using the REST based API.
Whether you want to provide technical equipment or seating, all is at your discretion. As an administrator, you can configure your account and every room as you like. You find a description of the complete functionality in the service description manual.
To find out how DISPOROOM can help manage your rooms, try our demo account.
Create your own account on the registration. The assigned login name also corresponds to the user that manages your booking system later.
Your account is available after successful registration and confirmation of your email address. You can now use the user login .
Your first task as an administrator will be the creation of users and rooms. Do you need help? No problem, the online help gives you context-sensitive responses.
DISPOROOM can also be integrated into your companies infrastructure. It integrates with Microsoft exchange, Active Directory, Lotus Notes, LDAP based Linux systems and SAP. In-house installations offer, in addition to single sign-on, synchronization of user data with your systems, the ability to integrate into your cost allocation and subsequent billing.


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Many corporate groups are looking for the entertainment that will make this year’s Holiday Party a blast for their staff. There are so many fun things to bring to the party… dueling Pianos, Comedy Improv Troupes, Comedians, ventriloquists and even Jugglers.
Your guests will enjoy the fun and fascinating corporate Party entertainment that we bring.
It is fun to bring comedy magic to corporate parties and events across Minneosota.


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I've had a rather successful tenure with autogenerated documentation, both as a writer and a reader. So when Jacob Kaplan Moss's articles on writing “great documentation” resurfaced on Reddit and had some harsh words about auto-generated documentation, I sat back a moment and thought about why autogenerated documentation leave developers with a bad taste in their mouths.
It gave the illusion of having documentation (“...it lets maintainers fool themselves into thinking they have documentation”).
No doubt, gentle reader, you are lifting your eyebrow at me, thinking to yourself, “Of course you should remember your audience; that's what they always teach you in any writing class. You haven't told us anything useful!” So, let me elaborate.
Why do developers forget to “remember their audience”? A defining characteristic of autogenerated documentation is that the medium it is derived from is source code: lines of programming language and docblocks interleaved together. This has certain benefits: for one, keeping the comments close to the code they describe helps ward off documentation rot as code changes, additionally, source divers have easy access to documentation pertinent to a source file they are reading. But documentation is frequently oriented towards people who are not interested in reading the codebase, and thus the act of writing code and documentation at the same time puts the writer into the wrong mindset. Compare this with sitting down to a tutorial, the text flowing into an empty document unprejudiced by such petty concerns as code.
This is a shame, because in the case of end-user developer documentation (really the only appropriate time for autodocs), the person who originally wrote the code is most likely to have the relevant knowledge to share about the interface being documented.
What does it mean to “remember my audience”? Concisely, it's putting yourself into your end-user’s shoes and asking yourself, “If I wanted to find out information about this API, what would I be looking for?” This can be hard (and unfortunately, there are no secrets here), but the first step is to be thinking about it at all.
How can I remember to consider the audience when writing docblocks? While it would be nice if I could just snap my fingers and say, “I'm going to write docblocks with my audience in mind,” I know that I'm going to forget and write a snippy docblock because I was in a rush one day or omit the docblock entirely and forget about it. Writing documentation immediately after the code is written can be frustrating if five minutes later you decide that function did the wrong thing and needs to be axed.
It's OK not to write documentation immediately after writing code (better not yet than poorly).
Like many people working in high-level languages, I like using code to prototype API designs. I'll write something, try to use it, change it to fit my use-case, write some more, and eventually I'll have both working code and a working design. If I don't write documentation while I'm prototyping, that's fine, but when that's all over I need to write the documentation (hopefully before the code slips out of my active mindspace.) The act of writing the documentation at the end helps finalize the API, and can suggest finishing touches. I also use my toolchain to tell me when I've left code undocumented (with Sphinx, this is using the coverage plugin).
When writing documentation, constantly look at the output the end-user will see.
My autodocumentor produces verbose and unorganized output! I've generally found autogenerated documentation from Python or Haskell to be much more pleasant to read than that from Java or C++. The key difference between these languages is that Python and Haskell organize their modules into files; thus, programmers in those language find it easier to remember the module docblock!
The module docblock is one of great import. If your code is well-written and well-named, a competent source-diver can usually figure out what a particular function does in only a few times longer than it would take for them to read your docblock. The module is the first organizational unit above class and function, precisely where documentation starts becoming the most useful. It is the first form of “high-level documentation” that developers pine for.
So, in Python and Haskell, you write all of the functionality involved in a module in a file, and you can stick a docblock up top that says what the entire file does. Easy! But in Java and C++, each file is a class (frequently a small one), so you don't get a chance to do that. Java and recent C++ have namespaces, which can play a similar role, but where are you supposed to put the docblock for what in Java is effectively a directory?
There is also substantial verbosity pollution that comes from an autodocumenting tool attempting to generate documentation for classes and functions that were intended to not be used by the end-user. Haddock (Haskell autodocumentor) strongly enforces this by not generating documentation for any function that the module doesn't export. Sphinx (Python autodocumentor) will ignore by default functions prefixed with an underscore. People documenting Java, which tends to need a lot of classes, should think carefully about which classes they actually want people to use.
Final thoughts. The word “autogenerated documentation” is a misnomer: there is no automatic generation of documentation. Rather, the autodocumentor should be treated as a valuable documentation building tool that lets you get the benefits of cohesive code and comments, as well as formatting, interlinking and more.
> where are you supposed to put the docblock for what in Java is effectively a directory?
If you are referring to Java packages, you can use a special file named “package-info.java”, that is used only by javadoc. It should provide general information about the package, but it is the best place to describe general invariants and responsibilities in that place.
Etienne, I was not aware of that, but that is excellent! Easily forgotten, of course, but definitely the right thing to do.
Do you have a link to example autogenerated docs that you are happy with?
I would like to rely on autogenerated docs, for reasons I wrote about (6 years ago!) here, but the output is currently not nice enough.
Ah sorry, I meant this link instead: hither. They are related but not the same.
Hey Andy, I’m particularly pleased with the output that Sphinx in combination with autodoc produces; here is an example of such output.
I notice that your linked posts discuss documenting Scheme code; having hacked on Scheme a bit myself, I suppose I can’t be too surprised if toolchain support in the language is a bit immature.
Hi Edward, thanks for the pointer. However I am still a bit unconvinced; the arguments made by the GNU coding standards are strong.
GNU (where I come from) is pretty weak on web design, but they do seem to have a good grasp of text-wranging and story-telling.
I think GNU is talking about docstrings, which are quite different in character from docblocks. For example, docstrings are kept around during program and are intended to let you do things like help(function_name), which is an extremely specific use-case, and results in them needing to be standalone. I don’t really see any fundamental use-case that requires docblocks to work standalone.
I should also add, Python docstrings are indeed docstrings, but I never use them like that (i.e., use the help function).

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We have assisted international clients in finding the right properties in Barcelona and we now have extended our services to Madrid and Sevilla. If you are planning to invest in luxury real estate or thinking of finding your new home we will be pleased to accompany you in a successful process.
We offer astonishing private wine experiences available exclusively through us. We open doors to some of the best wineries and most singular winemakers throughout the country. We share our passion for wine and our extensive connections in the sector as former wine professionals. We organize à la carte wine tastings and customize exclusive, unforgettable wine itineraries in Spain.
We are working on the exclusive Wine Personal Concierge service to offer to our US travelers door-to-door delivery of all their wine purchases direct to home. Available soon.
Gastronomy is our leit motiv. From our offices we are a creative atelier, offering unique wine and culinary experiences which can only happen outside conventional travel norms. Would you like to take part in the story?
We open doors to singular and unique tables, introduce you to the authentic local scene, and show you out-of-the-way culinary hotspots known only to a select few.
We can take care of all your needs while in the destination, from access to prestigious sporting finals, front row theater tickets and private shopping tours.
We have in-depth knowledge of our own areas; in 40 years we have built up a portfolio of personal experiences and an unparalleled network of contacts.


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Welcome in this bright and quiet 3 bedroom, 2 bath renovation needed home located in the neighborhood of the grandiose Parliament, in the corner of Szalay Street.
The smart layout allows for separate one spacious living room with balcony and 3 sleeping area as well, for long term rental utilization as it’s perfect for a family as a quiet & elegant home. Let’s explore the unexploited potential of the apartment renovate it with Matthew & Daniel’s interior designer team to upgrade your investment’s yield and reach a higher rental income.
Blue(M3) and red (M2) subway lines, trams (2, 4) just step away and there is no shortage of transportation options in the area. Deák Ferenc Square is easily accessible as well by foot! The neighborhood is also surrounded by Liberty Square, Kossuth Lajos Square, Danube and Budapest Business School.


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Though our work is primarily with amphibians, we do work with several area nonprofits on some of thew issues that reptiles struggle with in an urban environment. One of the most charismatic species being the Eastern Box Turtle. The fact that Box Turtles are adorable is part of their curse in that people often take them from the wild (which, in Georgia, is illegal without a permit!) and keep them for a while, and then release them. Sounds harmless enough, right? Well, what most people are unaware of is that Box Turtles are extremely long-lived (as long as 125 years!). They also have very small home ranges (as small as one acre). These turtles live their long lives in a very small area, and are often significantly disoriented when relocated. Recent research indicates that some adult reptiles are unable to re-orient themselves when relocated, and as high as 74% perish due to the inability to adapt to a new environment and find food and shelter.
If you are like us, and get very concerned when you see an Eastern Box Turtle attempting to cross the road, keep in mind that that road is cutting through its small home range. If you are compelled to move it, then simply do your best to assess the direction it is heading in, and move it to that side of the road. The turtle will have gotten lucky that time.
In partnership with the Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Chattahoochee Nature Center and A.W.A.R.E, we have developed a Turtle Sanctuary for non-releasable turtles that have been rehabilitated by the passionate experts at our partner institutions. Our sanctuary, located right in front of the main building at BHNP houses these lovely, rehabilitated but non-releasable turtles year-round. These turtles will be available for symbolic adoption to help cover the expense of maintaining the turtles and sanctuary.
Those who support this program through symbolic adoption will have the right to name their turtle for the year.
Extremely shy. After 30 minutes, this was the furthest she would come out of her shell. Shhe is missing her left arm and has been rehabilitated by CNC.
Fun Fact: This turtle starred in the movie Shaft (told you they live a long time).
This bold male is missing his left hand and forearm. Nevertheless, hhe still gets around very well. He was rehabilitated by CNC.
Fun Fact: Even with three legs, this turtle once outraced a dog.
This poor guy was hit by a car. He is missing his left foot, and his carapace is severely and permanently damaged. He still carries on like a boss. This turtle was rehabilitated by CNC.
Fun Fact: This turtle is not even the least bit self-conscious about his dramatic shell cracks.
This turtle once saved a family from a burning building.
Adopted by Anthony Mandica and named 'Peggy' | EBT #AF180413.
This lovely lady was a long-term captive that suffered from severe malnutrition resulting in shell deformity. Unfortunately, this is common even with the most well-minded people.
Fun Fact: She once defended her previous owners from a would-be burglar.
This lovely lady was also a long-term captive that suffered from severe malnutrition resulting in shell deformity. Unfortunately, this is common even with the most well-minded people.
Fun Fact: When she thinks no one is listening, she can sing a few lines from Hamilton.

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Conducts site acquisitions for customer projects.
1. Conduct site acquisitions including site identification, analysis, and qualification through completion of zoning approval.
2. Coordinate with project management teams to ensure sites meet customer requirements.
3. Negotiate the leasing and/or purchasing of sites.
4. Obtain all necessary permitting/zoning approval from national and local agencies.
Bachelors Degree in a related discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, professional training, or work experience.
To apply, please email resume, including position title in the subject line, to pgh@us-TITAN.com or share this position with your friends and colleagues with the links below.


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and end the current background music in order to start the new background music (the new background music from level 2).
TheProblem: Upon presenting the new scene the background music of the 1. scene (level1) keeps playing and DOES not stop even when leaving the miniGame since the whole game consists of few mini games.
line stops only the transition but the music still continues.
to secure a pointer to the SKAction so I can access it beside using the "withKey" property since I initialized the SKAction in "initWithSize". Someone wrote that SKAction is a fire-and-forget object which I understood as without having stored a pointer to it accessing it later is not possible (directly). However, it didnt work/help me.
Is it possible to end an SKAction mid-action?
... Thoughts: It seems that the action is created with the creation of the SKScene object. It is "hooked" to it and finished after the audio duration. While I was using repeatForever it would never stop. However there is no way to pause or stop it. I also tried hooking the SKAction to SKSpriteNode. When the SKScene is loaded animals are loaded with it. So I tried hooking the SKAction on the SKSpriteNode and use removeAllActions and alike from the SKSpriteNode but it didnt work aswell.
I checked the documentation on SKAction,SKView,SKScene,SKSpriteNode but in the end it didnt help me much.
It looks like the object exists somewhere running its actions.
It is not simulator or device related error - I have tested it on both the simulator and device with the same result (error).
It is not a project related error - I have tested it in a separate project , much smaller and the with the same result (error).
This didnt help much since I wanted to change theBackgroundSong when level2 was loaded and I had huge problems accessing the property from a nested SKScene structure.
Any advice,clue,hint or idea would be of great help.
You can't stop audio from playing when run from SKAction. You will need another engine to run your background music.
When you need new music to play, put a new player into the property initialized with your new music piece.
Sorry, this is Swift. But it can be ported to Obj-C.
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Synopsis: Ten years after the events of The Phantom Menace, the galaxy has undergone significant change, and so have familiar heroes Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen). They are thrown together again for the first time since the Trade Federation invasion of Naboo, and Anakin has grown into the accomplished Jedi apprentice of Obi-Wan, who has transitioned from student to teacher. The two Jedi are assigned to protect Padmé, whose life is threatened by a faction of political separatists. As relationships form and powerful forces collide, these heroes face choices that will impact not only their own fates, but the destiny of the Republic.
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In the last few months we’ve been travelling all over the country, laden with books and filled with enthusiasm as we made appearances everywhere from Shropshire to Soho. It’s been wonderful, as always, to meet some of our readers, and now that we’ve packed away our travel cases we’re looking forward to seeing some of you in Bloomsbury at the Readers’ Day in November.
Until then, as the north winds begin to roll in and the last heat from the summer sun fades, it’s undoubtedly time to hunker down with a book, or three. This month we can recommend the first clutch of our Slightly Foxed Cubs: Ronald Welch’s Carey novels, which make for gripping armchair adventures.
There are offerings, too, from both V. S. Pritchett and Christabel Bielenberg, whose The Past Is Myself got a rather good review in The Times recently. And for those of you who are already looking ahead to – dare we mention it? ‒ Christmas, can we draw your attention to our handsome 10th anniversary wall calendar, with a selection of our favourite covers to brighten up the year ahead? There’s also the full spread of SF mugs, cards and tea towels for those in search of other present ideas – and for those who have everything, we’ve discovered a wonderful website full of bookish ideas. More details below. First, though, an outing with the Cubs . . .
Summer is now in full swing here at Slightly Foxed. The new issue of the quarterly has travelled far and wide to subscribers all over the globe, and whether you too are off to far-flung places this summer, or simply staying at home, we hope you’ll find it good company.
In this month’s newsletter we’re celebrating fathers and grandfathers with Denis Constanduros’s charming memoirs, My Grandfather and Father, Dear Father, published together for the first time as our 20th Slightly Foxed Edition. Do read on for an extract from this charming book, and a few suggestions for presents for this coming Father’s Day or, indeed, for any occasion.

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Do you have a tree which is in urgent need of crown thinning by an experienced tree surgeon in Colchester?
Whether you need major or minor work performing on your tree, our tradespeople are highly trained to cater for pollarding dying trees to stripping ivy from young trees.
You won't regret choosing from our time-served Colchester tree surgeons because we have worked hard to secure the best.


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It's so cold in Chicago that when my breath fogged up my glasses, that moisture condensation didn't eventually clear up, like it would in other temperatures, it froze on my lenses, blinding me! I had to take my glasses off and gently chisel the ice off so I could see again--!
WHAT???? I have NEVER heard of that happening! Hahaha. Wow. I hope you weren't driving!
Hah, neither have I! No, I wasn't driving, I was trying to clear the snow and ice off my car so I could start driving it. Don't get me started about the sheath of ice that I couldn't scrape off the car windows -- because it was inside--!


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Now I'm sitting at the top of the hill.
Since you been gone, gone away.
With a blackend eye, blackend eye.
Don't think you ever believe me when I said.
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This hybrid beardtongue forms a low clump of thick, glossy green foliage. Upright flower stems appear in mid-spring and carry spikes of bright red tubular flowers into early fall. Red Riding Hood is a good low-maintenance perennial, especially for hot, dry sites. Unlicensed propagation of this plant is prohibited as it has USPP (US Plant Patent) #18950.
There are over 200 species of penstemons, commonly called beard-tongues, that are native to North America. They display a wide variety of growth habits and flower colors and occupy a broad range of habitats from open desert to alpine zones and moist forests.
Since the early nineteenth century, plant breeders have created hundreds of penstemon hybrids. Red Riding Hood is one of seven colors in the Riding Hood series and was the first to be introduced in 2001 by Dutch plant breeders Molter BV. The other six colors were introduced in 2010 and are blue, delft blue, hot pink, lavender, marble-cream and purple. The goal of the Riding Hood series was to breed plants with excellent winter hardiness, a compact growth habit, a longer flowering season and numerous showy flowers.
Red Riding Hood forms a low clump of thick, glossy green foliage that, in time, grows to about 2-3' wide. In mid-spring, upright flower stems appear, each one topped with a spike of bright red tubular flowers that bloom all summer long and into early fall. In bloom, plants grow to around 2' tall.
Plant Red Riding Hood in a sunny spot where it'll get at least half a day of sun.
Red Riding Hood is tolerant of most soil types, including clay. It won't survive, though, in a soil that's completely waterlogged for prolonged periods of time.
On the coast and once it's established (one year), Red Riding Hood will survive without any supplemental water in the summer. However, try not to let the soil become bone dry as the leaves don't recover well once they've wilted. If there was below average rainfall in the winter, it will probably need some extra water. Not watering plants in the summer will shorten the blooming period and the foliage will start to shrivel. Even in cooler coastal climates, Red Riding Hood will definitely perform better with an occasional deep watering, if possible, in the summer.
In hotter inland areas, Red Riding Hood will benefit from an occasional deep watering in the summer.
Red Riding Hood doesn't usually suffer from any pests or diseases. If it's planted in too much shade, you might notice some powdery mildew on the foliage if the spring or summer weather's particularly humid.
Although not a California native, Red Riding Hood penstemon fits well in a garden planted predominantly with natives. It also works well in containers and makes a good cut flower.
Red Riding Hood looks good incorporated in large scale meadows to provide a splash of color.
Regular deadheading (cutting off spent blooms) will prolong the blooming season.


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For hookwire localisation prior to WLE right breast lesion. Screening detected architectural distortion.
Architectural distortion in the right upper breast in the MLO (12:30).
Patient recalled by the screening service for further workup - US showed a suspicious hypoechoic lesion at 12:30 5mm in size. This was biopsied under US guidance and histology confirm invasive carcinoma, NOS. The patient was referred for surgical management.
At 12 o'clock there is a deep poorly defined hypoechoic lesion measuring 6 x 8 mm.
A hook wire was advanced from the lateral aspect of the right breast through the deep hypoechoic lesion with the tip of the wire protruding 11.5mm beyond the edge of the lesion.
Mammogram confirms the hookwire through the lesion.
Mammogram confirms the targeted and wired lesion within the superomedial aspect of the specimen.
Ultrasound confirms targeted lesion within the specimen.
Standard hookwire within the entry needle.
Histology = Grade 2 Invasive carcinoma, no special type with involved margins; intermediate and high-grade DCIS; 0/7 lymph nodes, ER/PR+ve.


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Our sesshin will run from Sunday evening through Saturday morning, but partial participation of various kinds is possible for guests.
All are also welcome to the several "Intro to Zen Days" we've scheduled throughout the year. These are essentially short zazenkai and include sitting, chanting, and a dharma talk. A traditional lunch will be served. These events are appropriate also for beginners.
Aside from these events, of course, I'd welcome any forum members wishing to visit the monastery...just get in touch and we'll arrange a time to meet. Hoping to see some of you in Wisconsin!
Sesshin at Korinji in Wisconsin: April 15-21 (Sunday evening through Saturday morning). Partial attendance is possible. Email to info@korinji.org for info...all welcome.
Only about $300. for a roundtrip flight from LA, so that part is doable. No mention of Sesshin fees listed on the website.


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1. Dbox - Dbox is a client for Dropbox.
2. Light Direction - The application is developed to analyze the light direction. After that the user may use the data to point to the sun, different kinds of solar devices (such as solar panels).


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Known as a “City in the Country,” Abbotsford is endowed with British Columbia’s richest agricultural lands, “family first” values and exceptional urban amenities. It’s also a year-round destination packed with outdoor activities like hiking, mountain biking, fishing, and golf.
When highlighting Abbotsford, it’s impossible not to point out it’s incredible location and accessibility. Abbotsford sits in the heart of the Fraser Valley, in the flat rich delta of the Fraser River between the mighty Pacific Coast and the Cascade mountain ranges. It is approximately 70km east of Vancouver and just 5km from the small US town of Sumas WA. The location is ideal for day trips, visiting and commuting to Vancouver, as well as accessing the US whether it be for work or pleasure. All this to say that Abbotsford’s location is one of the best in all the lower mainland of BC. Hope you enjoyed!