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The First World War ended in 1918 with an Armistice and Cobourg will be commemorating this with many events this Fall in the several weeks up to November 11. Director of Recreation and Culture Dean Hustwick, said that Cobourg’s commemoration will be the largest in Canada! At the Council meeting on February 26, historian, playwright and organizer Hugh Brewster gave some of the history of Canada’s and Cobourg’s involvement in the War and listed all the planned events. Canadian General Arthur Currie, who played a major role in the success of the Canadian army, was accused by the Port Hope Evening Guide of pursuing a last minute effort to capture Mons for his own glory. He sued them for libel and the trial was held in Cobourg’s Old Bailey Courtroom. The Centrepiece event will be a re-enactment play staged in the same venue.
The Northumberland Players assisted with finding all the required actors and others in Cobourg assisted in getting it organized and staged. The official opening on September 29 and 30 will feature Peter Mansbridge and his wife actress Cynthia Dale – Hugh said that invitations will also be extended to the Prime Minister, the Governor General and the Minister of Veterans Affairs, Seamus O’Regan.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is expected to attend Cobourg’s traditional November 11 ceremony and in between will be 3 plays, 3 featured speakers, a musical event, exhibitions of Art and Photos and possibly public art, films and a documentary created of the whole program.
LAST DAY, LAST HOUR: Canada’s Great War On Trial, a new play by Hugh Brewster, recreates the charged atmosphere of this epic trial. Presented in the historic courtroom in which it all took place, the play is directed by Michael Khashmanian of the Beech Street Theatre and produced by the Northumberland Players.
World War I drama Mary’s Weddingby Stephen Massicotte with the Northumberland Players – highlights the last great cavalry charge of the war – in the Firehall Theatre.
A reading of a new play about Canadian nurses in World War 1. The Stars on Her Shoulders by Stephen Massicotte.
ARMISTICE: The Coming of Peace in 1918 Remembered in Words, Images and Song, a commemorative concert created by historian Hugh Brewster, features the celebrated Elora Singers conducted by Noel Edison, along with actor narrators, Hugh Brewster and Cynthia Dale, musicians and a multi-media screen show. This will be the gala opening event of Armistice’18. In Trinity United Church.
A series of talks by leading Canadian historians will be held on October Sunday afternoons at 2:00 at the Cobourg Public Library, 200 Ontario St.
October 14: Jack Granatstein is acclaimed as the dean of Canada’s war historians. And the author of over 60 books and a former head of Canada’s War Museum.
October 21: Tim Cook is a historian at Canada’s War Museum and the author of many authoritative yet highly readable accounts of Canadians under fire.
October 28: Charlotte Gray has been hailed as Canada’s best-loved historical writer.
TBC (no date/venue yet): Paul Gross is the well-known Canadian actor, director and producer and writer who achieved fame in the TV series Due South and went on to create the acclaimed war films Passchendaele and Hyena Road.
TBC (no date/venue yet): Passchendaele and Hyena Road, two films by Paul Gross about Canadians in war, will be presented prior to his talk in Cobourg.
The Northumberland Art Gallery will feature a WW1 painting exhibition about WW1 by contemporary Canadian artist Charles Pachter.
An exhibition on WWI will be on display in Victoria Hall’s Concert Hall, including The Great War in Colour photographs, an exhibition, book and documentary sponsored by the Vimy Foundation.
Plans are underway for a public art installation to run for the duration of the Armistice ’18 commemoration (under development). Banners will highlight the stories of local World War 1 veterans.
Production of a TV documentary about the remarkable story of the Currie trial is in the planning stage.
For the closing weekend of November 10 – 11, Her Honour Elizabeth Dowdeswell, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (TBC) and other dignitaries will be in Cobourg for the Town’s renowned Remembrance Day Parade and Service, followed by lunch, a viewing of the exhibitions and a final performance of LAST DAY, LAST HOUR on the afternoon of November 11th.
Cobourg Blog News will post on any news about updates to this program. Stay tuned.
Calendar of Cobourg Entertainment events including Armistice’18 Events.
Congratulations and many thanks for all the hard work in putting this event on the calendar. I wish we could get this kind of enthusiasm from all including the photo -op politicians when it comes to bringing new manufacturing business to Cobourg. We need new jobs for our young people…new vitality for Cobourg.
Hi John, I don’t believe your article id’s the champion for this effort. Kudo’s to them and whom ever organized it.
I believe this was a joint effort between Hugh Brewster, Dean Hustwick and Jack Boyagian although probably others were also involved.
Thanks. Good work, good purpose. Congrats to all.
Great idea for WWI Remembrance.!
In the meantime ,let’s remember WWII as well, how about the HMCS Cobourg ship’s bell,its White Ensign being removed ffrom the mayor’s office as well as the photograph and other memorabilia which have apparently disappeared, being reinstalled in their original rightful place for public display in the town hall foyer.
That memorabilia was removed from the display case supposedly temporarily when renovation /painting was done.
That memorabilia display belongs to the people and should be displayed publicly in the foyer as was originally and not mounted in the mayor’s office out of sight of the general public.
Let’’s not forget Cobourg’s part in WWII as well .
I believe that Ted Amsden has completed his term as Poet Laureate and I don’t recall any replacement being appointed.
He resides in Brighton now. His term expires during the upcoming municipal election. No calls for nomination have gone out yet. The appointment is made by the incoming council. Until then, Ted is Poet Laureate, then he becomes Cobourg Poet Laureate Emeritus.

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GALLIPOLIS — A Bidwell man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to the fifth-degree felony crime of abuse of a corpse and the third-degree felony crime of tampering with evidence in the Gallia Court of Common Pleas in connection with the remains of Terry Rothgeb, 55, of Gallipolis.
Ralph Young, Jr., 39, of Bidwell, was one of three charged with tampering with Rothgeb’s body after his death.
According to a previous story published by the Tribune, Deputies discovered the body of Rothgeb in Gallia County’s Springfield Township Feb. 12 at 2 a.m. after having received a missing person report the same day.
Investigators believed Rothgeb did not die where he was found in Springfield Township and that his body was moved. Gallia Sheriff’s Office investigators were able to develop suspects and through them learned the whereabouts of the body. Law enforcement officials would come upon Rothgeb’s form and believe his death to be due to drug overdose. Investigators returned to where they believe Rothgeb originally died at a residence in the Rodney area, according to previous conversations with Gallia Sheriff Matt Champlin.
At the time the body was discovered and the investigation underway, the sheriff said the scene had been cleaned and evidence removed.
As part of court proceedings, Young reportedly said he and his colleagues attempted to revive Rothgeb with Narcan, an opioid overdose revival drug, and CPR on the deceased’s form.
The Gallia Sheriff’s Office encourage any with knowledge of Lacey Young’s whereabouts to contact them at their crime tip line, 740-446-6555.

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This carpool sing-a-long between a father with dementia and his son went viral. $50,000 in donations poured into the Alzheimer's Society. Enjoy their great music. Singalong if you can!
A dashcam video shared by Simon McDermott, 40, shows him driving his father, Ted, 80, in his car, while singing old time hit Quando, Quando, Quando. The 80-year-old was diagnosed with dementia.
What a wonderful video. What joy and wonderful memories he is giving to his son and what a wonderful gift the son is giving back to his dad. It makes me smile.

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2018 Mazda CX-3 for sale in Tyler, TX JM1DKDC76J1324478 - Patterson Tyler.
I'd like to possibly purchase this 2018 Mazda CX-3.
Is this 2018 Mazda CX-3 still available?

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We have been using the OWL Carousel for several different web-projects and we are very happy with the simple integration and the features it provides. Together with Advanced Custom Fields and the Gallery Add-on it does not take a lot of time to create a slider and the styling is pretty simple as well.
You can use this tutorial without WordPress and ACF as well, but then you have to set up the list-structure of the slider manually.
If you would like to show some text like the image title you have to render it inside the list-element (see line 8-10).
We have been using some settings like the interval and the slide speed to control the behaviour of the slider. You can find all available settings here.

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This tree trunk is a fine work of art, and fine art.
I left work a little late today. After running errands I arrived home in the gloaming that comes just before nightfall. Some folks may be unhappy about how early night falls now and will fall for the next several months.
I prefer to not descend into unhappiness about something I cannot control. Rather to accept and appreciate what I cannot change. A time to reflect and give thanks for on the years’ gifts and blessings, to ponder The Great Mystery of the next year.
A brilliant, clear morning sky is most welcome after a lengthy series of overcast, sometimes gloomy mornings.


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Would you like to write for Stop Shooting Auto? | Stop Shooting Auto!
Would you like to write for Stop Shooting Auto?
Do you enjoy Stop Shooting Auto? Is there a subject that you’d like to see discussed here? Would you like to write about it? If so, SSA! would love to hear from you.
I’m looking for a couple of guest bloggers to contribute occasional articles to the site. Articles should fit with the general theme of the site, which is tutorials and lessons to help novice dSLR shooters use their cameras more effectively. There’s no minimum requirement– you can write one article or several.
You should be able to write clear, engaging articles that can be easily understood by and are relevant to beginning dSLR owners– think clear, simple explanations wtih very little technical jargon. You should be able to use WordPress well enough to create and publish your articles, though I can help with that if necessary. If your articles require sample photos or illustrations, you should also be able to provide these. It goes without saying that you should own the rights to any content you contribute.
Legalish details: you will retain ownership of any material you contribute to the site, and will grant SSA a non-exclusive license to publish it in the blog.
SSA! is largely a labor of love on my part, and the tiny revenue stream that it generates doesn’t even cover expenses. I can’t afford to pay for contributions, but I can offer the glory of seeing your name in pixels and the satisfaction of helping people become better photographers. Hey, it’s not much but it’s what I have to offer.
If you’re interested, drop me email telling me a little bit about yourself and what you’d like to write about. My email address is pattib (at) pattib (dot) org.


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Bruce Cleveland is a Founding Partner at Wildcat where he focuses on early stage software startups that enable digital transformation across business, government, and education markets. Bruce enjoys working with companies that use technology and data to increase revenue and decrease costs.
An avid adventurer and sailor, Bruce enjoys the challenge of creating new companies and navigating new markets. He is interested in growing entrepreneurial hubs outside of Silicon Valley, with a particular focus on the Pacific Northwest. Bruce also is committed to sharing his knowledge and experience through the Traction Gap Framework®, which helps entrepreneurs navigate the critical go-to-market period between initial product release (IPR) and reaching minimal viable traction (MVT).
As a son of school teachers, Bruce supports continued education. He founded GreenFig to offer applied business science training to higher-ed students and individuals in job transition such as women returning to the workforce after child rearing and veterans returning from active duty to civilian roles.
Bruce held senior executive roles in engineering, product management and product marketing with companies, such as Apple, AT&T, Oracle and Siebel Systems. Bruce’s last operational role was as a member of the founding executive team of Siebel Systems, where he served as senior vice president and general manager of Marketing and Products. In this role, Forbes and IDC credited him with creating the most effective B2B alliance program in the software industry. Bruce began his venture capital career at InterWest Partners, where he was the first investor and a former board member of Marketo, which held an IPO in 2013 and was acquired by Adobe in 2018 for $4.75 billion.
Bruce is also the author of the best seller, Traversing the Traction Gap and lectures on the Traction Gap Framework at various universities and industry events.
Bruce attended the United States Military Academy, West Point, and received a B.S. in business administration from CSU, Sacramento.
Read Bruce’s blog on LinkedIn.
Bruce’s current investments include Amplero, C3, GreenFig, Obo and Vlocity.
His prior investments include, CubeTree (acquired by SAP in 2012), Get Satisfaction (acquired by Sprinklr in 2015), Marketo (IPO 2013, acquired by Vista Equity in 2016), Signal Demand (acquired by PROS in 2013), Stellar Loyalty (acquired by Cheetah Digital in 2018) and Workday (IPO 2012, WDAY), along with private companies — Doximity, Engagio, and Opal Labs.
"I have had the good fortune to have worked with three early stage, private enterprise software start-ups that became industry leaders: Oracle, Siebel and Marketo. All capitalized upon technology and business transformations that led to rapid industry change. These were invaluable experiences that taught me how to think about building winning companies. Today, enterprises continue to experience technology disruptions such as IoT and mobility applications that are driving a whole new class of enterprise software. I enjoy working with entrepreneurs who see these opportunities and helping them to build market leading companies."


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There are roller coaster lives–the downward rush, the upward crawl–as energy and inertia swirl present into past. Life-changing events slow the roller coaster, sometimes to a stop. These are the moments of sifting through the life experience.
Of late, I have been in such a pause, taking a long sit in my past. I decided I do not want to repeat the familiar upward crawl or the rush to a bottom I know too well. I want off the roller coaster. To do so, I return to the moment I decided to ride.
It is a warm, August night in Colorado at Red Rocks, 1976. The naturally occurring amphitheatre provides perfect acoustics. At over 6,400 feet, the stars seem close enough to touch.
On stage, Judy Collins is singing the Ian Tyson ballad, “Someday Soon.” It is a song of a doomed relationship: a young girl loves a cowboy who loves the rodeo more. She is “going with him,” anyway.
I am 24, and what I hear in “Someday Soon” has nothing to do with loving cowboys or rodeos. Someday soon means the risk is worth it, no matter the odds.
I was euphoric, confident in the new life I was about to begin. I am not sure just when I reached for the stars. I only know they were in my eyes.
What felt like endless possibility, however, was only one moment at the top of the roller coaster. It is not always easy to recognize the ride is downward. Not in the early years of chronic illness. It is easier to believe in someday soon.
I ride the roller coaster for nearly 40 years, until 2015. In July, I weary of chasing someday soon. I develop myelopathy—quadriplegia is a possibility–in addition to autoimmune disease.
Successful surgery sweeps me up in the energy and inertia of the ride. So much seems possible as the cervical fusion actually begins to take. As unexpected as that is, there is more good news. The inflammation from autoimmune disease is helping my vertebrae heal.
Inflammation is vital to healing bones. It is the body’s way of dealing with intrusions although my immune system is so exuberant it attacks itself.
I hold the memory close for it is a night when a lifetime began. After nearly four decades of roller coaster days, each high and low is invaluable. They are the experiences that make me who I am now.
And that is where I begin, not starry-eyed but focused on the middle ground, accepting what is: framing the pain of autoimmune disease within a healing mindset that includes medication.
There are no good choices but some are less toxic than others. Immune suppressing drugs will affect—maybe even stop—the healing in my neck. Same is true for steroids. In fact, my healing is possible because I am not—nor ever have been—on immune suppressants. Rarely, have I taken a course of steroids.
So, I decide on the drug, Gabapentin. No odds given or promises made but there were none with my spinal cord surgery, either. There is the comfort of impermanence–nothing and no one stays the same.
Oh, I still look to the stars with wonder but I have no desire to reach for them. I am content to explore impermanence. I aim for even.
I will post as regularly as I am able. Everything is taking a bit longer these days but then, I am making a lot of changes. Some I will share here. And the medication seems to cloud my thought process. Writing just takes a lot longer.
As always, I read your comments—I enjoy our exchange—I will respond. And I have missed reading blogs. That, too, will resume. Thank you for reading this blog.
It is time for me to explore the latest results of impermanence–physically and emotionally–so there will be a pause in posts. It really is an expedition, of sorts, this exploration of my mind and body as one.
The two are a single continent now, although once I saw them as separate countries, accessible only at certain times and tides.
Without a fight, there is no blame. This basic truth can be found in the Tao te Ching—no fight: no blame—as well as in the major texts of many spiritual traditions. Blame seems that integral to the human experience.
In last week’s post I chose the phrase aflame with blame as a reference to its incendiary nature. It is quick to flame, this blame, although it is not a trait with any substance.
Whatever person or event we blame is not what causes us to suffer (Byron Katie). Blame is a distraction, and it is easy to get caught up in its mindset.
We suffer when we hold onto a mindset; in a blind stance, we dig in for a last stand. Mindset is a misguided attempt to avoid the inevitable.
It would be hard, maybe impossible, to provide an example of a life experience that does not teach us for in every moment there is something to be learned. At a certain point in life, each of us becomes aware that what breaks us open is what we need to make us whole again.
It is how we learn. It is hard to accept, at least for me.
But time and again, I have realized this one lesson: when I open myself to learning rather than blaming and struggling against, I find the highest good in any situation. The flames of blame and the smoke of striving fade away.
Often, I turn to the teachings of the Tao (in translation) for I treasure its basic truths. Such reflections soothe and instruct every time I return. I am refreshed.
And like water, the highest good is life-giving, “flowing in places men reject and so is like the Tao” (Verse 8). All we need to remember is that water will flow—even through rock–rather than reject the route.
The highest good never rejects us, either, even when we do our best to shape what will not be shaped. There is no blame, no fight, no mindset.
Chronic illness is my greatest teacher, as I have mentioned many times. Even in my more difficult moments, I am more aligned with learning than striving, which is not to say I do not have some fiery moments of blame throwing. They are not as frequent.
I find it easier to recognize and to dismantle a mindset, and to do it with self-care and love. After all, a mindset deflates quickly for it is only made of air. And once I breathe it in, I can breathe it out.
Mindset is only a thought no matter how often it may appear. In my experience, mindsets return for they have unimaginable power IF they are allowed to attach and become unassailable belief.
We can learn from observing a mindset if we let it go for what it is. That is the way to keep learning rather than to continue struggling. I find hope in impermanence no matter how many times I meet similar situations. It makes the highest good in any situation seem not only possible but realistic.
We are more like water, wanting life for all and strife for no one. It is ours to flow, like water through rock if we must, open to the ten thousand things and like the Tao rejecting none.
Lately, I have been writing about transformation, in particular the changes I am experiencing with my health. And this week, there is even better news. For the first time, my acupuncture physician felt all of my pulse points. For me, that is huge—to say it is remarkable is not an exaggeration.
It indicates more movement than stagnation. It is as if a way of life, a mindset, is dissolving, breaking up. There is still some stagnation but the decline is being reversed as my cell structure changes in my body’s attempt to balance itself.
Transformation offers what has never been. If not a new body, literally, then a body and a being “falling in love with life, again” as reader Val Boyko so generously offered in the comments on last week’s post.
That more life is pulsing through me accounts for my increased energy level; also, it seems accurate to say—now–that my pain level is also in decline, albeit a slow one.
Transformation occurs in its own time—patience is essential–but the benefits are life-changing, literally. I find I am more present in each moment. I do not want to miss any of the unfolding of any day so I am less likely to pay attention to mindset. There is so much new to explore.
Still, the mind prefers calling up the tried and true of old, a series of steps followed again and again until they are, well, set, as if in concrete. Mindsets are the known, limited in effect and thus, predictable, perhaps even stagnant.
Yet, I do not believe that a mindset is without its worth. Not at all. Rather, it is our own bank of experience. Mindset makes us who we are.
Mindset is what we bring to the moment we meet transformation. Then, we have a choice: same-old, same-old secure or the unknown of transformation.
“Patience, grasshopper” is a line I have met many times these last months yet sit I did and do still. My impatience is less for I found that in being patient, one finds forgiveness, the ability to let go of the debt that accrues from all regret. It is the way to open one’s heart to all.
Not surprisingly, I returned to a favorite quote. Forgiveness is the “fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” Though often attributed to Mark Twain (since the 1970s), it seems its present form is a compilation of phrases from centuries past.
No doubt the thought stays with us for forgiveness is such a struggle for humans.
There is a firm delicacy in a violet petal forgiving the heel that crushes the life out of it. Soon, the fragrance dissipates but it lingers just longer than life. That is forgiving the debt.
The fragrance reminds that in forgiveness we are transformed–a mindset shattered for what is yet to come with no regret of what has been.
Transformation requires we accept every step we have ever taken; it requires we acknowledge every action or decision, given or received. None can be undone. All steps are ours to own, to accept, and to release.
As always, forgiveness—a journey deep and often dark—begins within us. We cannot offer to others what we do not give to ourselves. In the moment we accept all that we have been, we release the fragrance of forgiveness.
We focus not on what crushes us but on what releases us.
My first post for 2014 considered aim for even as a way to live. I saw it something like this: in every experience I give what I am able to give, mindful that no two occurrences are the same no matter how similar they seem.
Remembering that uniqueness is not easy but is key to maintaining my balance. If I offer more than I am able to give or if I give less than is possible, I miss my mark.
In 2014, I aimed high and low aplenty but by year’s end I found myself more and more in the middle—in balance, even—as I let go of a mind-set that skewed my aim.
Letting go meant giving up tried and true ways that comforted—at times even protected me—from the chronic pain inherent in my life. The subconscious is not easily dissuaded for it has had a lifetime to fine tune what comforts in order to cope. It’s its own infinite loop.
It would take me most of 2014 to break out of this mind-set. I wrote about it—a lot—on this blog.
In “The Winds of Change,” I believed I was slowly but surely losing my ability to walk. My response was I would adapt, like always. After all, I have an active online life and a great picture window with a view of the woods.
By September, “Some Awareness My Way Came” in the form of spinal and cognitive issues. Yet, I would need another warning from my body that old ways would no longer serve. My kidneys sent a short but clear message.
“Only in Expanding My Cone of Habit” did I begin to dismantle the mind-set that had comforted me for decades. I turned to traditional Chinese medicine believing I had nothing left to lose. As I would discover, I had a lot to lose.
Transformation leaves behind habits of a life lived. There is no “getting my life back.” Life anew is an accumulation of every misstep, every revelation I experience. The stuff of transformation is recognizing that the great teachers in one’s life have always been there.
One of mine is chronic pain. Our relationship has changed completely. I no longer need to cope because I no longer fear pain, emotional or physical. I no longer fear pain spiraling out of control. Rather, I sit with my emotions as my body sends sensations.
My transformation is far from complete but the changes I am experiencing I cannot explain other than through my new relationship with pain. I walk–slowly–without any limp and am just beginning to take short—really short—walks.
Every day, and I mean EVERY day, I have a level of energy, something I lost decades ago. On the same day, I can complete errands, do some housework, and write–if necessary. Nine months ago, I thought I would live from my adjustable bed.
The pain is not gone but the mind-set is. There is no seeking comfort to mask the pain. Rather, there is the slow movement of yoga and the stillness of meditation, the balance of acupuncture. And there is food that fuels the biological changes taking place in my body rather than inflaming it.
Every day, I aim for even.
As I was writing this post, I kept trying to find ways to impart what aim for even might look like separate from chronic illness. August McLaughlin seemed to read my mind when she posted this graphic in her wonderful blog post.
She captures aim for even beautifully. In giving what we are able to give, no more and no less, we resolve to live life as the ebb and flow that it is. We keep ourselves afloat.


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With the passage of H.R. 1, the federal “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” Congress last December approved a new program of tax incentives to spur private investment in designated low-income community census tracts which will be known as Opportunity Zones. This new federal program allows taxpayers to defer and reduce otherwise taxable capital gains if such funds are reinvested in qualified businesses or property located in such zones.
This $7.7 billion program seeks to aid communities that have missed their share of economic growth over the past decade. The legislation authorizes the creation of Qualified Opportunity Funds which must invest 90% of their assets in qualified business or property in Qualified Opportunity Zones. Each state’s governor may designate up to 25% of its census tracts that are part of or contiguous to “low-income communities” as eligible opportunity zones. Governors must submit their lists of designated census tracts to the U.S. Treasury Department by March 21st (with a possible 30-day extension). Treasury will decide and finalize nominated designations by April 30th (or 30 days thereafter). Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin already has asked Governor Dannel Malloy to declare 37 of 40 census tracts in Hartford as opportunity zones. And last week, New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart discussed this new federal program with President Trump.
The benefits for taxpayers to reinvest in Qualified Opportunity Funds flow from the deferral, reduction and potential exclusion of taxes owed on capital gains. This new program allows investors to invest the proceeds from the sale or exchange of an asset to an unrelated party into a Qualified Opportunity Fund. Under the provisions of the program, the taxpayer does not have to pay capital gains tax until the date the taxpayer sells his or her interest in the Quality Opportunity Fund or December 31, 2026, whichever comes first. If the taxpayer holds its interest in the fund for 5 years, 10% of the deferred capital gain is eliminated. If the taxpayer holds interests for 7 years, there is an additional 5% deferred capital gain elimination. Further, taxpayers who hold their interests in such funds for 10 years will not have to pay any tax on the appreciation in value of the investment of the fund following the date of the initial investment. The original capital gain tax used as the initial investment, minus any reductions, however, will be subject to capital gains tax once the interest in the fund is terminated.
Since more than $2 trillion in unrealized capital gains are sitting on the sidelines, the opportunity for private investors to support the rejuvenation of communities with pockets of poverty by investing in Qualified Opportunity Funds is significant while at the same time minimizing their individual tax burdens through the preferential tax treatment of capital gains.
The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development is expected to send municipalities applications in the next two weeks seeking nominations for eligible census tracts by rank order. Governor Dannel Malloy will review and make a determination on these nominations prior to forwarding the state’s list to the U.S. Treasury Department.

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For over 13 years, PT. Adibuana Surya Perkasa has been taking a role in providing general contracting services with uncompromised commitment to Quality, Health, Safety and Environment.
We cover whole range of contruction requirements in civil, mechanical, pipiline and electrical works; including machine / robot installation and steel pallet fabrication.

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King Kullen and Long Island Cares are partnering this month to host a “Step into Spring” Food Drive, where we host “Stuff a Truck” events at several of our locations. Please bring non-perishable food items to help feed Long Island’s hungry.
King Kullen Grocery Co., Inc., 185 Central Avenue, Bethpage, NY 11714.
King Kullen | Offering Long Island (NY) families top quality groceries for over 85 years!

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Her most recent book is Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, awarded the 2008 Nautilus Gold/“Best in Small Press” award. In June 2008, that book and Diet for a Small Planet were designated in The New York Times Review of Books as must-reads for the next U.S. president by Barbara Kingsolver and Michael Pollan, respectively. Other recent books include Hope’s Edge, written with Anna Lappé, about democratic social movements worldwide, as well as You Have the Power and Democracy’s Edge.
In 2008, Gourmet Magazine named Lappé among twenty-five people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair, and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America eats. The same year Women’s National Book Association selected Diet for a Small Planet as one of 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World.
Lappé has received seventeen honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan and was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-2001. She received the 2008 James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award for her lifelong impact on the way people all over the world think about food, nutrition, and agriculture. See the JBF’s video introduction to Frances and her work here.
Articles by or about Frances have appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine, Harper’s, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, The Nation, People, and more. She has most recently been featured in The Boston Globe, Sojourners, The Progressive, and on WSJ.com, The Huffington Post, Fox News, MSNBC’s Hardball, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with David Frost, NPR, and the BBC.
Since 2002, Lappé and her daughter Anna Lappé have led the Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life. With her daughter, she is also co-founder of the Small Planet Fund, channeling resources to democratic social movements worldwide.
In 2006 she was chosen as a founding councilor of the Hamburg-based World Future Council. She is also a member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture and the National Advisory Council of the Union of Concerned Scientists. She serves on the board of David Korten’s People-Centered Development Forum. Lappé is a contributing editor to Yes! Magazine.
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We have over 130 years of history in manufacturing and supplying thermometers, from general purpose to disposable thermometers, hydrometers, hygrometers, flowmeters and pressure gauges/recorders to medical, scientific, industrial and research institutions.

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This mini tent is the perfect place for your child’s stuffed animals or your small cat or dog to take refuge from the elements.
Small enough to take with you when traveling and it also works well for storing small toys.
The drop down door allows the door to be left open and still allows a little privacy and easy access for the small animal or your child’s toys.
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This sponsored charity walk takes us another step closer to fulfilling Srila Prabhupada’s vision for Bhaktivedanta Manor.
The Haveli project is the culmination of decades of struggle and sacrifices made by the community to secure their right to worship Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda.
Come walk Krishna’s talk; raise some funds to support this unique project.
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With Barack Obama gracing the halls of Naypyidaw this week, the world has quite rightly been calling loudly for the President of the United States of America to raise concerns regarding the backslide in human rights and democracy in Myanmar, not least of which being the institutionalized persecution and ethnic cleansing of the country’s Rohingya minority.
The New York Times Editorial Board on Monday 10 November wrote in no uncertain terms that President Obama had a duty to be clear about the message he was taking to President Thein Sein regarding the lifting of sanctions and other positive measures in support of Myanmar’s transition to democracy.
At the same time, United to End Genocide launched the powerful “Just Say Their Name” campaign, seeking to ensure President Obama stands up for the Rohingya, and their basic human rights in a country where the government refuses to acknowledge their existence as a people, seeking to wipe out their historical and ethnic identity.
This week, we also saw a powerfully written and timely opinion piece by veteran Burmese human rights campaigner Khin Ohmar in The Irrawaddy. In it, she highlighted the many issues facing her country under the current military-led government, and the need for Obama to take a stand for human rights and democracy if his administration wishes to count its support for an opening Burma as a genuine “foreign policy success”.
“This is President Obama’s chance to acknowledge that the situation in Burma has regressed since his last visit and to tell the people of Burma that the US will stand with them for human rights and democracy with concrete actions that reflect the challenges facing Burma’s reform process,” Khin Ohmar wrote.
While this is indeed an important message, and Obama’s influence on the generals and former generals that continue to rule Myanmar is arguably greater than any other individual’s in the democratic world, it is our enduring shame as a region that there has been barely a whimper of a voice regarding ASEAN’s own responsibility to halt the tide of genocide rising within our borders. We have a responsibility under international law to protect all human beings from genocide – a responsibility each and every ASEAN leader is failing to live up to.
Why has there been no call for action from ASEAN leaders on the Rohingya? Perhaps that is because our “association” of nations is seen as ineffectual and centered around power and wealth only – void of any genuine ability or desire to progress human rights in our region.
It hasn’t been that long since we last saw people slaughtered in the hundreds of thousands in our region. Less than 40 years ago, just one generation back, at least 1.7 million people – nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population – were killed by execution, disease, starvation and overwork under the Khmer Rouge's brutal rule from 1975 to 1979.
We must make sure something like this can never happens again. But a quote from a Thai police officer in a Reuters article this week sums up the failures of the ASEAN project and how far we have to go before we become anything close to a “community.” A Thai district police chief was quoted as saying that hundreds of boat people that had turned up in Thai waters after fleeing persecution in Myanmar were not Thailand’s responsibility.
“They are Muslims from Myanmar … They are illegal migrants,” Police Colonel Sanya Prakobphol, head of Kapoe district police told Reuters.
But they are Thailand’s responsibility, Thailand’s “problem". Protecting their dignity and rights as human beings is the responsibility of all of us, under international human rights law, the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, and our own moral imperative.
The Rohingya are facing a situation of deep despair – persecuted and hounded from their homes in Myanmar where they are denied all basic rights, including to education, work, marriage and travel. Desperate, they flee into boats and the hands of unscrupulous human traffickers, to be traded as commodities – slaves.
Even if they reach Malaysia, they face a harsh existence, and difficulty in being recognised as the refugees and asylum seekers that they are.
For more than two years now ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights has been seeking to generate the political will for ASEAN leaders to step up and act as a community to protect the Rohingya from persecution and intolerable human rights violations – and prevent another genocide.
The failure of legislators, political leaders and of our citizens to make a demand on their leaders to take action to heal the pain of the Rohingya and avoid much, much more says a great deal about the expectations people have of their governments, and of ASEAN institutions.
The concept of the ASEAN community remains nothing more than a convenient myth, used only by the powerful to further their own limited agendas. Certainly for the Rohingya there is no such community.
But if not us to step up and end this tragedy, who? It may be President Obama’s moral duty to make a stand, but it is our shame for having to rely on him to do so.
Charles Santiago is a Member of Parliament for Klang Constituency in Malaysia and President of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), an organization made up of legislators from across Southeast Asia working to promote justice and human rights in the region.

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How to add bulk exchange rates? The template available at “Batch Create” is all blank.
When performing any batch functions in Manager, you should have at least one entry prior to any export. Otherwise, the export will not show you the required structure.
Thanks Tut, I have tried various formats to upload rates but none is working. Do you have any screenshot or guide in this regard?
Have you tried creating an exchange rate in Manager, then exporting it.
When you import it into a spreadsheet programme, you should then see a template of the required data format.
Yes I have tried downloading, however i see there is no option of uploading TSV file, instead system required to paste data in the box.
Is this feature working? I am trying to use Batch Create to upload exchange rates and everything seems to be working fine, but no exchange rates appear in the list.
That seems to be a bug.
@lubos, as there are no longer any batch operations possible for exchange rates, it does not seem logical to keep this topic in Bugs. Do you agree, or are there changes in the works that suggest keeping it in that category?
I’m working on making it easier to update exchange rates in bulk operation so let’s leave this in bugs category until the solution is delivered.
The problem with Batch Create not having column headings has been resolved. There is a problem with Batch Update, though. I will start a new topic for that.


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Ghostbusters Confirms Theatrical Return in October!
The 1984 classic starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Sigourney Weaver will hit theaters on three consecutive Thursdays starting October 13.
The 1984 classic starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis is apparently set to hit the big screen for the first time in 25 years.
Ghostbusters Coming to Blu-Ray in October?
A new, yet unconfirmed, story hits the web.

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eLibrarian 3 is a third party application that people choose to install and uninstall on the computer, but some unknown or troublesome problems just come up when people tend to remove it, nothing can do with the program removal on your computer? Check this post now and learn how to uninstall eLibrarian 3 smoothly on your PC.
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Swansea City chairman Huw Jenkins has urged the club to move on from Michael Laudrup's exit, and denied claims of a rift with the Dane.
Laudrup's tenure as manager of the Welsh outfit was ended on Tuesday, after a run of just one victory in 10 Premier League fixtures that left the club in 12th and just two points above the relegation zone.
Reports had suggested a falling-out with Jenkins as one of the primary reasons for the 49-year-old's exit, but Jenkins has refuted those suggestions, describing Laudrup as "genuine and honest".
A statement from Jenkins on the club's official website read: "Everyone needs to move on; get behind us and focus on Saturday's game.
"The fact is, Michael's time with us has come to an end. But I have found some of the things being said about him today hard to stomach.
"Much of it has been extremely unsavoury and unnecessary. Too many people have been trying to play the blame game and unearth disrespectful reasons behind his departure.
"We were quite open and honest in our official statement, because that's the way we are as a club.
"Since then we have tried to keep our own counsel on the matter because we have nothing bad to say about Michael.
"He deserves respect for what he has done in the game and you couldn't meet a more genuine and honest person. It's time to move on."
Laudrup moved to the Liberty Stadium in June 2012 and won the League Cup in his first season at the club, qualifying for the UEFA Europa League as a result.
Garry Monk has been placed in temporary charge, with his first game coming at home to fierce rivals Cardiff City on Saturday.

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Bellevue, by David Oshinsky (Doubleday). This taut, masterly portrait of Bellevue Hospital operates much as that fabled institution has since its founding, in 1736: the entire history of New York seems to pass through. The hospital was on the front line of numerous battles that defined both the city and modern medicine: the waves of immigration in the nineteenth century; the fight against Tammany Hall for stricter public-health standards; the AIDS epidemic; the homeless crisis of the nineteen-eighties. Bellevue, often overwhelmed and underfunded, never failed to accept a challenge. But perhaps its biggest fight is one that continues today: navigating a health-care landscape in which commitment to public care isn’t secure.
Naming Thy Name, by Elaine Scarry (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). This study of Shakespeare’s sonnets suggests that the beautiful young man addressed in the first hundred and twenty-six of them may have been a poet named Henry Constable. Scarry unfolds intertextual references in the two men’s works and notes that the letters of Constable’s name are sometimes embedded in Shakespeare’s lines (as in Sonnet 18: “So LONg as mEn CAn BReaTHe, or EYes caN see”). But she doesn’t insist strenuously on her thesis: the book is less a work of scholarly debate-resolving than a tantalizing exercise in literary puzzle-making. The sonnets, likely written around 1600, weren’t published until 1609—when Constable was in prison, and needed cheering up.
The Strays, by Emily Bitto (Twelve). This début novel revolves around a sprawling, bohemian household in Melbourne during the nineteen-thirties. Three sisters live in semi-neglect with their elegant mother, a father who is a famous painter with a penchant for defecating in the garden, and a trio of up-and-coming artists who are his acolytes. The narrator, Lily, forms an intense friendship with one of the daughters, Eva, and, in middle age, recalls the unravelling of this quasi-commune. There’s a sense of foreboding that never quite seems justified, even after we learn what happened, but the book is full of lush, mesmerizing detail and keen insight into the easy intimacy between young girls which disappears with adulthood.
This article appears in the print edition of the January 23, 2017, issue.


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The Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual (MARSSIM) was developed as a multi-agency framework for supporting radioactive site closure in the United States. MARSSIM provides a coherent, technically defensible process for establishing that exposed surfaces (soil or structure) satisfy site cleanup requirements. Site cleanup requirements are assumed to be dose or risk-derived. Unfortunately, many sites have complications that challenge a direct application of MARSSIM. Example complications include decision documents requirements that are not MARSSIM-friendly, the potential for subsurface contamination, and incomplete characterization information. These types of complications are typically the rule, rather than the exception, for sites undergoing radiologically-driven remediation and closure. This paper discusses approaches used to circumvent MARSSIM-related closure issues, while still providing a technically defensible closure protocol that is consistent with the spirit of MARSSIM and acceptable to the regulatory and broader stakeholder community.
Johnson RL, Durham LA, Miller DS. Approaches for Addressing MARSSIM Complications. ASME. International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, 9th ASME International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 ():85-88. doi:10.1115/ICEM2003-4646.
The Phytoremediation of Radioactively Contaminated Land: A Feasible Approach or Just Bananas?

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Actually, this is exactly like forum topic email notification. We discovered a hidden queue of incoming linkback links waiting for moderation, and those are being processed. Some of our threads have many incoming links. As a result, each approved linkback to threads to which you are subscribed will generate a notification email. I do not subscribe to threads, and have received no email notifications. I have requested that the admins look into the possibility of inhibiting notification, but that may not be possible. In any event, once we work through the backlog, the number of notifications you might receive will be much smaller.
In the interim, you may want to manage your subscriptions, and unsubscribe from threads in which you do not have a particular interest.
One way to look at this, though, is that a lot of other sites look to Dogforum.net and its members for reliable information, and you all contribute to our reputation!
That would explain why i recieved loads of them!!! But it's the first time I have recieved any Link back Notiifications in all the time I have been a member of this forum. If Admin comes back and doesn't fix the problem, could Admin introduce some toggle On/Off maybe in the CP so members can choose wether they want Linkback Notifications On/Off while they might be similar to Email Notifications they aren't as in a Email Notification you do have a reply that some one has just posted!


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The Lottery – the Bette Midler film IN FULL, with `the making of` too.
Back to Neverland from Martins Videos on Vimeo.
Back to Neverland – the Walter Cronkite and Robin Williams film IN FULL from the original animation tour.


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Today Saul and I each took a car to Guatemala City and picked up another group of people from the buss station. This group came all the way from Panama. They have been doing mission outreaches in various countries for several months now. For the next week the men will be helping out with putting windows and porches on several of the homes that we have built, while the women will be spending most of their time at the orphanage.
This evening we once again had our own orphanage here. I lost number of the amount of kids that were here for supper but it had to be over a dozen.
A great church service today, followed by lunch out with the 7 kids that came along plus 4 adults that flew in from the states last night. At lunch the kids spotted one of the professional soccer players that are on Guatemala’s national soccer teem. Even though they were disturbing his lunch he was very patient with them and autographed one item of clothing that each of the kids was wearing. Some of them had to dig a bit deep to find an item of clothing that was light colored enough to autograph but since this man is himself from Guatemala he did not seem to get too embarrassed. I can’t say that about a group of American tourists that were sitting a few tables away though. After lunch I showed them and a few others around the orphanage while my kids played with the orphanage kids.
The kids all came to my house after the party so I am going to keep this short and spend some time with them.
For several years I have been praying that more volunteers would come to the orphanage. Today I was wondering if perhaps I had prayed a bit to hard. In my 8 years of coming to Hermano Pedro I don’t think that I have ever seen this many volunteers. I guess it is good but it gets a bit crazy at times especially considerate that this is the week that they are celebrating Hermano Pedro’s anniversary. Any way the kids are getting a lot of attention and that is good even if it is temporary. One of the groups that is there this week is a group of therapist and therapy students, several of whom I spent time traveling to different orphanages with last year. I am glad that they are here because several of them are experienced in seating children in wheelchairs so it looks like they will be able to whittle down on an ever-growing list of kids that need to have their wheelchairs refitted or replaced. Today I felt like a bit of a cop out because after showing them what the needs were I, for the most part, deserted them. I had promised 2 married couples from the USA that I would spend some time with them so the 5 of us took 4 of the kids to lunch.
During the summer months so many teems come in that a person can some times get so involved in spending time scheduling things for them to do that I have to stand back and focus on wither my mane focus is on the teem that is here or on the Guatemalans that I came here to work with. I think that both can be done and those that come her to serve for a week or 2 get more out of it if we keep our true focus and they are allowed to join in on the things that we normally do. I pray that I do not cross over from being a servant to becoming a tour guide.
After lunch I brought my 4 friends over to the warehouse in Antigua where Hope Haven is starting a wheelchair factory. Tomorrow they plan on spending the day there doing some dry walling and building some work benches. From there I returned to the orphanage to see how things were going there. The group of therapy people that are there were making good progress on the list of kids that needed things done to their wheelchairs.
Tonight several of my neighbors had a birthday party to go to on the other side of town so I brought a car load of them over there but did not stay myself. When I returned home my house quickly filled up with kids that had not been invited to the party. They soon had a soccer game going and more or less had a party of their own. I am so thankful that even though my yard is small I at least have one. So many of the homes in my neighborhood have no yards and front doors that open up directly onto the alley. The kids some time play in the alley but lately with all of the rain that we have been having the alley has been so muddy that you can scarcely even drive a car down it. I guess that is why so many kids end up at my place. It isn’t Disney Land but any other choices are few.
Well all those that are going home are gone for the night so I think that I will head off to bed.
It was another full day today. After feeding breakfast to the kids that didn’t leave last night I headed over to the wheelchairs shop and picked up a list of supplies that the group that is working on wheelchairs at the orphanage gave me. From there I quickly headed to Antigua where I picked up the 4 Americans that were going to work at the warehouse today. After dropping them off I went to Hermano Pedro were I gave the wheelchair supplies to the therapy people from the USA. I then worked on Byron’s broken power chair for about a half hour but got a phone call before finishing up on it. The phone call was from six of the 12 people that I had picked up at Guatemala City on Saturday. The young men from that group are helping us put up some prefabricated houses this week, while the young ladies were here to get signed up as volunteers in the orphanage. I showed them around and also introduced them to the lady that registers all of the volunteers. When I got to her office I discovered that there were all kinds of Americans there. I don’t know what is going on but it seems like this week half of the USA is in Antigua and ¾ of them are wanting to volunteer at Hermano Pedro. Most of them want to be with the littler kids though and these girls said that they would help out in the section that has the teen girls that are about their age in it. The teens will be delighted because the seldom have any one that spends time with them.
After getting this group settled in I went back over to the kid’s section of the orphanage to see how the therapists were doing. They were doing well but had one extremely difficult case. Hugo, a little boy who has been in Hermano Pedro for a few years now is getting more and more deformed. His poor little back is so crooked that there is almost no way that he can sit up. The therapy students had set up a great little chair for him but it still needed a carved backrest in it. Some times it takes me hours to get one carved out to where it fits the child properly but today things went smoothly and with in an hour Hugo was sitting straight and tall.
Chris and Donna had invited Fidel to their house for his birthday so after quickly finishing up on once again getting Byron’s power chair running I checked Fidel out of the orphanage, loaded him and his power wheelchair into my car, and we were on our way. Every time I drive the extremely bumpy dirt road in to Chris and Donna’s house I wonder why any one would want to live way back there, but every time I get out of my car and see the peaceful country setting that they live in I wish that I lived there. 9 years ago I would have told you that you were crazy if you said that I would be living where I now live but God has a way of changing us and I could not be happier. I must admit though, every now and then, especially on weeks like this when things are going 90 miles an hour it is nice to get out into the country. Thank you Chris and Donna for having us over. Not only was it relaxing for me but seeing how happy Fidel was made it even more special. It is not often that he gets the opportunity to race around on some ones yard with his power wheelchair, or to pet a horse, or to have a family birthday party. Cool thing was he didn’t even mind that the lunch greatly resembled a meal that I would make for my kids. I didn’t mind either, when you are with friends hot dogs taste better than steak.
Speaking of junk food, 4:00 rolled around all to soon. I had promised the orphanage that I would get Fidel back by no later than 4:30. Besides that I was suppose to pick up 12 people from the group of therapists so that they could come to my house and have Pizza with my kids. Most nights I love having people over for dinner, especially when they are the ones providing the dinner but tonight I just could not get into it. Perhaps it was because I had left the house in a mess. The fact that a thunderstorm had moved in didn’t help things out either. I kept wondering how I was going to fit over a dozen adults and up to 30 kids in my house since there was no way that we could be out side. Besides that I had fears that I would not be able to get the Americans back to Antigua after the party because Fidel and I were already driving through over a half foot of water on our way back to Antigua. I kept wondering if I should call the place where these people were staying and see if we could hold off until we had an evening with no rain. About 2 blocks from Hermano Pedro I got my answer. As I was driving through one of the heaviest rains that I have ever seen the windshield wipers of my car broke. Not only was I not going to be able to pick up my friends and take them to my house for pizza but I now had to figure out a way to get myself home. Steve Osborn had been in Antigua today and since he had not yet gone home he took me home. It was perhaps for he best that our pizza night had been put off for a few days because it was raining so hard that only a hand full of kids showed up at my house for supper. They were disappointed that we did not have Pizza but did not complain when we made a large pot of spaghetti. If things work out we will try to move the pizza thing to Friday night.
Tomorrow and Thursday I plan on being on the road doing some visiting and delivering food, medicine and wheelchairs to a number of people. I don’t like pulling the kids out of school but since Calin and Fernando have no school on Thursday, (??) I figured that missing one day would not hurt them. The 2 Married couples that are here from the states are also joining us. It was actually Abner’s turn to come along with me this time but he does not like going anywhere if there is the possibility of there being any work involved and I had told the kids that I was going to use them as interpreters so he decided to let Calin go in his place.
Well we have a lot of things planned for tomorrow so I am going to head off to bed.
Chris came by with the Kea Van at around 8:00 and picked us up. He then road along with us to Antigua and took my car back home. We had decided that it would be better to take the Kea because it had more room and that way I did not have to wait around for the windshield wipers on my Toyota to be repaired.
After picking up our 4 friends that were going along with us today we headed off for the Esquentlia area. About a half hour out we stopped off for some breakfast and then went to a store where we bought groceries for 2 of the families that we would be visiting. Our next stop was at the home of a family that Chris and I had just visited last week. This was where Carlos, his 2 sisters, and his mother lived. Carlos is the little boy who’s mother saw no way out other than to put him into an orphanage because she could not afford to buy him the medicine that prevented him from having frequent seizures. She was also having a difficult time carrying her 9 year old son around because she did not dare to use that old adult wheelchair that she owned since Carlos had fallen out of it several times. Wouldn’t you know it? Just by CHANCE, the 4 people that came along with us today had taken 3 wheelchairs along with when they came from the USA a few days ago and it just so HAPPENED that a kids specialty wheelchair that they had brought along HAPPENED to be the perfect chair for Carlos. It’s funny how things just seem to WORK OUT that way. I guess we were really LUCKY to have a COINCIDENCE like this happen. Then again I wonder if it could have been one of those GODINCIDENCE things? I doubt it though because most people that I talk to tell me that if there is a God he certainly no longer does miracles. It’s sure strange how these things keep HAPPENING to us though. Another STROKE OF LUCK was that just the day before yesterday a friend from the States wrote me and said that she wanted to take care of paying for Carlos’s medicines for the next year. Boy, were we LUCKY or what? After seating Carlos in his new wheelchair and sharing the good news that his mother was now going to be able to get her wish keep her family together we had prayer with Carlos’s family. His mother wanted that because she is uneducated and a bit old fashioned and actually thought that all of this GOOD FORTUNE had come from God. I guess that we should have been a bit mad that God got the glory instead of us but looking at this grateful family still made it worthwhile.
Seriously though if any of you that are reading this do not think that God is very much alive and well, I challenge you to come and travel with us for a week. You may just get LUCKY and see some of the GODINCIDENCES that we have been seeing.
Our next stop was at the home of Ronny and his family. Now that sugar cane harvest is over they and many other families in this area are finding it difficult to put enough food on the table so we gave them some beans, rice, and other staples. Most of the family is doing well but Ronny’s 4 year old sister has been running a fever for a few days and Ronny’s mother had nothing to give her for it. I told Ronny’s mom that I would take her to the nearest drug store after we had visited Ronny’s uncle and his family. This is the family of 8 that live in a ramshackle tin structure just a short distance from where Ronny’s family lives. We gave this family some groceries and talked more about the prefabricated house that we hope to put up for them within the next few months.
Next we headed west to Mazatenango. About an hour before arriving at our hotel it started to rain. The boys were a bit disappointed because they were hoping to swim in the hotel pool but there was no way that I would let them swim in a thunder storm. When we arrived at the hotel we were all hungry so we decided to have supper before even getting cleaned up. The rain had let up by the time that we finished supper and there was no longer any thunder and lighting so most of us went swimming. Being the oldest in the group has its advantages because after about an hour of playing catch with the kids I excused myself and went to my room. Playing catch with Fernando is not all that tiring but trying to lift Calin over your head and throwing him to some one is rather exhausting. The kids did not mind too much when I went to my room because Bill, who is one of the men that is with us, was still tossing the kids around when I went to my room. All 4 of the people that are with us are really enjoying the boys.
The kids are now back into the room and are watching TV. My eye lids are getting heavy so I am going to head off to bed. This is one of my favorite hotels to stay at but I still can’t figure out why they decided to make all of the beds out of cement.
Calin woke me up at 5:30 and asked if he and Fernando could go swimming. I said that it was OK with me but I was not going to join them. It was not until we were at breakfast that Bill and Kathy told me that the boys had come to their door to ask if Bill would come out and swim with them. Bill politely declined.
After breakfast we went to Donya Marie’s house and picked her up. She took us to visit 2 old ladies who were sisters. They were both in need of wheelchairs. We had taken an extra folding wheelchair along with us and since they were both the same size and seldom go any where the son of one of the ladies told us that only one wheelchair would be fine. After dropping Donya Marie off at a place where she could catch a buss back home, we headed to Xela. It was on our way there that Kathy started feeling sick. It started off with a stiff neck but soon her stomach was bothering her as well. When we reached the orphanage in Xela she decided to stay in the van and rest while the rest of us went inside. Even though I had not visited there in over 6 months the kids were excided to see me. They quickly made friends with Cindy, John, Bill, Calin, and Fernando. We did not stay for long but while we were there I got a list of wheelchairs that need repair and promised the mother superior that runs the orphanage that we would return as soon as possible with all of the parts necessary to repair the wheelchairs.
Before leaving Xela we stopped off and got some lunch. Kathy was still feeling sick so she once again stayed in the car. After lunch we drove up to San Francisco (Guatemala) to see Erica. Kathy was not feeling any better but I had to get the medicine in to Erica. Her husband Bill, and Calin decided to stay with her while Cindy, John, Fernando, and I hiked in. It was raining hard but fortunately John and Cindy had brought along rain parkas and Fernando and I each had an umbrella. About half way up the trail we met Erica’s mom and younger brother. They were on their way to San Francisco but told us that they could go later, so they turned around and hiked back to their house with us. Erica was happy to see us and even though her skin still has thick scales in places she and her Family are delighted with the results of the medicine. Her mom reminded us that before using it she could scarcely walk. Every time I see her I find it hard to believe that this outgoing happy young lady is the same girl that only a few years ago hid a corner and cried because she was so ashamed of the way that she looked and so frightened of strangers. Erica’s mom served us some coffee and bread and we visited for a while but then we excused ourselves because we wanted to get back to the car and see how Kathy was doing.
The rain had let up so our walk back to the car was not as bad as the hike in. Kathy was not feeling any better so I asked if she wanted us to go back into Xela and stay for the night but she said that she rather get back to Antigua so we headed for home. The drive back was not to bad because there was no construction going on due to all of the heavy rains. I had to keep a sharp eye out for unmarked detours and numerous small landslides though. We also had to make a number of unscheduled stop so that Kathy could throw up.
As we neared Chimaltenango it became apparent that the had gotten heavy wind and even more rain than we had encountered. Quite a few trees had blown over and I was later told that some houses had been destroyed by land slides. I am not yet sure of the extent of the damage because my Internet is out but we did drive by a few places where it looked like they had rescue crews working.
After getting Kathy, Bill, Cindy, and John back to Antigua and having some supper the boys and I headed for home. There was no wind damage at my house but I wish that I had closed my windows before I left because my floor and some of my furniture were soaked with water. Evidently the winds were high enough to drive the rain into the house even though I have a large overhang on my roof.
All of the kids have left after claiming their rewards for each good grade that they got on their report cards. Each grade over an 80 gives that kid the opportunity to pick a gift out of a suitcase that is filled with things that fiends from the USA have brought in. Tonight the match box cars were a big hit and Calin had top honers walking away with 9 of them.
This morning I met with a medical team that is here from the USA. They have been spending most of there time at a clinic that is located a few hours from here but had agreed to meet with me so that I could take a few of them to see the man in Antigua that Father Bernardo introduced me to a few months ago. I wanted a second opinion on weather or not they thought that his leg could be saved. A doctor, nurse, and an interpreter came along with me. First the doctor looked at the brother of the man that has the leg that may have to be amputated. The circulation in both of his legs is poor as well and the doctor told him that with out proper treatment he can easily end up like his brother in a few years. The doctor gave him some pressure socks that should help and also showed him several things that he can do to improve circulation. We then went into the room where the other man was. How he still manages to walk on this leg and why gangrene has not set in is a mystery. Both of his legs are bad so the doctor treated the better of the 2 first. He used a medicated bandage that is called a uniboot. The doctor explained that both men have good circulation going to their legs but the blood pools up there because the return flow is bad. The uniboot is similar to a tight fitting medicated bandage or cast that helps push the blood back up to the hart. Every 7 days it has to be cut off and replaced. The doctor then went to work on the mans other leg. It was a slow process removing dead flesh from a leg that appeared to be more dead than alive. I watched closely because this the doctor was leaving for the states later today and from here on out the responsibility of treating this mans leg would be mine. I have worked on a lot of bed sores but none of those people had any feeling from the waist down so they did not feel what I was doing. This man felt everything that was being done to him. Even though it hurt him a lot he told the doctor to continue, knowing that it was the only way that his leg could possibly be saved. About an hour later the uniboot was applied to the leg that had been cleared of most of the dead tissue. It is still very uncertain weather or not this leg can be saved but the doctor thinks that it is worth a try. I will stay in close contact with him and send him pictures so that he can decide if the leg can be saved. I think that I will refrain from posting the pictures on my web site though, because I don’t want to lose all of my readers. Before we left we had prayer with each of these men. As we started to leave one of the younger children ran over to me and gave me a big hug. Her sisters and brothers quickly followed and did the same. As hard as it was for them to watch what we were doing not even the youngest child had left the room. I think that they were so grateful that someone cared enough to do something that they were not bothered by what we were doing. Fact is they were all so grateful that I am looking forward to next Friday when I go back and work on this man’s leg.
After bringing the doctor, his nurse, and our interpreter back to where the rest of their team was, I went and spent a bit of time at Hermano Pedro. I feel like I really neglected the therapy team that was there this week but they showed me what they had accomplished and they have done a great job. For the first time in a long time I feel like we are getting caught up with most of the kids at Hermano Pedro that needed to have their wheelchairs readjusted or replaced. Thanks team for a job well done.
I left the orphanage at around 2 PM because a man had been waiting for me all day, at the wheelchair shop. He was having some problems with his wheelchair that I knew could be taken care of in less than an hour but I simply could not get to him before 3. He had been very patient though and told me not to worry when I apologized for making him hang around all day. After finishing up on his wheelchair I went around town paying my water, electric, and telephone bills. It is now 6:40 and time to head for home. I am here at the shop using their Internet. Mine should be back on by tomorrow. Next month I will try to pay my bills a few days earlier.
It is Saturday today so I went to a park that is located about 10 miles from Antigua and spend a good part of the day relaxing. I think that the only thing I could have done differently to make it more relaxing would have been to not invite 3 of my neighborhood kids, 2 orphanage kids, and 2 volunteers, along with me but then I would likely have gotten board. Actual as it turned out only 7 of us ended up going because Moises had a stomach ache and could not come along with us. The 2 girls who are here from the States went for a walk with Byron and myself while Abner, Alex, and Elder swam in a wading pool that is at the park. After that we hung around the pool for a while and even though we had the kids along it was still a relaxing day. I was hoping to have a quiet evening at home, finishing up on this weeks journal but my internet is still out, so I am either going to have to go over to the shop or go to Camperos and have a 5 hour cup of coffee while I post this along with all of the pictures. I sure wish that I had paid that phone bill on time but I am never sent one and when ever I drop in at the phone company to see what I owe they tell me that I am up to date on my payments only to discover that my phone gets turned off later that day.
I think that I will go and take a hot shower before heading to town. Any way I hope that it is hot but who knows they have perhaps shut off my electricity as well. Then again perhaps instead of the electricity being off I may find that they have once again shut off my water and removed the meter. The last time that happened to me, it was less then a week after I had paid my water bill. I am not bellyaching but I do sometimes get a headache trying to figure out Guatemalan logic.
Just a quick prayer request.
A few days ago this picture of Alex and me was taken. Only a day later he came down with pneumonia. He was put in the hospital for a few days but now is back at Hermano Pedro. He is doing some what better but is still on Oxygen. Please pray for his recovery.
I am not sure weather or not I already mentioned this but Jefferson, who had been back whit his family ever since Christmas. His parents returned him to the the orphanage a few weeks ago. He seemed to be OK, but a few days ago he passed away in his sleep.


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WORK/TRADE DISCOUNTS (Age 15+) – MILES OF MUSIC OFFERS A DISCOUNTED RATE OF $575 TO CAMPERS IN EXCHANGE FOR CAMP JOBS. WORK/TRADE JOBS ARE AVAILABLE BY APPLICATION AND LOTTERY.
At Miles of Music we value accessibility, representation and diversity of ages, incomes, cultures, abilities and more. For this reason, we use a "tiered tuition system" that allows campers to pay what they can. The "Full Tuition" tier represents our actual cost per camper on the island ($1200). “Discount Tier 2” offers a more accessible price, and “Discount Tier 1” offers something in the middle.
We recognize that even the most affordable Tuition Tier is a stretch for many people, so we fundraise and organize the work flow at camp to offer Work/Trade Discounts and juried awards we call Merit & Community Discounts.
If you would like to make a direct, tax-deductible donation to Miles of Music Camp to support these discounts, please sign up for our email list, and we will email you when our next fund drive is announced.
Thanks for the many ways you all continue to give to our community – whether with your time, energy, talents, financial resources or all of the above. Good luck in the Lottery and we expect to see you all on the Island one day soon.
Feb 18, 2019 - Deadline for all applications (General Lottery, Work/Trade, Merit & Community Discounts).
If you’re offered a spot at camp, you’ll have two weeks from the date of the offer to pay the balance owed or request a full refund of your $100 deposit.
Anyone not offered a spot at camp will be put on a Waiting List. Offers will be extended on a rolling basis according to the type of spot that has opened up (adult, youth etc). We’ll keep your deposit as long as you choose to remain on the waiting list, or until May 17, 2019, when we will refund all deposits to all people not yet committed to a spot at camp. You may also request a refund on your deposit by removing yourself from the waiting list at any time.
Looking for more clarity on the application and lottery process? Read on.
Because Miles of Music Island Camp is awesome, it’s also very popular! We use a lottery system in order to offer campers an extended application period with an organized acceptance system in which every applicant gets an answer at the same time.
If you apply by the deadline, your name will be put into a hat and then drawn at random. We use two hats — one for “returning campers” and one for “new campers”, because we want a balance of both.
If you’ve applied as a group (with friends or family), we’ll name your group and enter that name as many times as there are people in your party. That means your fates are linked, and you’ll either all get in or all get on the waiting list together.
We’ve put your name on a waiting list.
If you’ve been placed on the waiting list, we’ll let you know on a rolling basis if a spot has opened up for you at camp.
The application fee is a refundable deposit of $100/person (see below for the various refund deadlines).
If you cancel within two weeks of your acceptance, we’ll refund your $100 deposit in full.
If you’ve paid in full and you cancel before April 1st, we’ll offer a refund minus your $100 deposit.
If you’ve paid in full and you cancel between April 2nd and May 1st, we’ll give you a 50% refund.
If you cancel between May 2nd and May 17th, we’ll give you a 25% refund.
If you cancel after May 17th, no refunds will be given.
Wow! You read this whole page. Nice work. Do you still have questions?
If so, consult this FAQ.
You can also click here to learn more about tuition assistance.
Thanks again for your consideration & your support.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


text: Abstract Deeper winter snow is hypothesized to favor shrub growth and may partly explain the shrub expansion observed in many parts of the arctic during the last decades, potentially triggering biophysical feedbacks including regional warming and permafrost thawing.Weexperimentally tested the effects of winter snow depth on shrub growth and ecophysiology by measuring stem length and stem hydrogen (δ2H), carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N) and oxygen (δ18O) isotopic composition of the circumarctic evergreen dwarf shrub Cassiope tetragona growing in high-arctic Svalbard, Norway. Measurements were carried out on C. tetragona individuals sampled from three tundra sites, each representing a distinct moisture regime (dry heath, meadow, moist meadow). Individuals were sampled along gradients of experimentally manipulated winter snow depths in a six-year old snow fence experiment: in ambient (c. 20 cm), medium (c. 100 cm), and deep snow (c. 150 cm) plots. The deep-snow treatment consistently and significantly increased C. tetragona growth during the 2008–2011 manipulation period compared to growth in ambient-snow plots. Stem δ15Nand stemN concentration values were significantly higher in deep-snow individuals compared to individuals growing in ambient-snow plots during the course of the experiment, suggesting that soil N-availability was increased in deep-snow plots as a result of increased soil winterNmineralization. Although interannual growing season-precipitation δ2Hand stem δ2Hrecords closely matched, snow depth did not change stem δ2Hor δ18O, suggesting that water source usage by C. tetragona was unaltered. Instead, the deep insulating snowpack may have protected C. tetragona shrubs against frost damage, potentially compensating the detrimental effects of a shortened growing season and associated phenological delay on growth. Our findings suggest that an increase in winter precipitation in the High Arctic, as predicted by climate models, has the potential to alter the growth and ecophysiology of evergreen shrub C. tetragona through changes in plant mineral nutrition and frost damage protection.


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This plug-in lets you bind APEX page items to Interactive Grid columns and vice-versa.
I plan to release several IG plug-ins for my Kscope18 presentation Customizing the Interactive Grid with Plugins. This is the first and the most complex one. It was a lot of work to develop it, but very easy to use! The functionality is similar (but not equal) to the IG Cookbook example [Split Grid and Form Multi-edit] provided by John Snyders of the APEX team.
These are the settings for the demo. You don’t have to specify the PK columns because you set them in the IG attributes.
This means you can update the column in the grid and the page item value will change too. Also, updating an item value will update the column for the selected records. The plug-in keeps track of deleted rows so the items will become disabled.
You can select multiple rows in the grid and a change to the page item value will change the column value for all of the selected rows.
The item labels will show a delta icon indicating there are multiple rows selected.
This makes it easy for you to use it in a custom PL/SQL process and loop through the primary key values. Take a look at the APEX_STRING.SPLIT function for more information about the usage.
By default, the first row is selected in the interactive grid. Sometimes you want another row to be selected, especially in a master-detail situation. You can turn this feature on or off.
Useful when you want to display grid column values but maybe editing the IG is not enabled. You could choose to change the items to ‘Display only’ or disable this feature.
The errors after saving the grid are also displayed inline for the page items.
The plug-in has two events and can be used to show and hide regions. For a better user experience, we can hide the region with the page items if no rows are selected. Likewise, we want to show the region as soon as rows are selected.
The event also triggers on filtering the IG and the ‘no-data-found’ message is shown in the grid.
A detailed explanation can be found on the GitHub project page.


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Across rural Britain, from southern England to the west coast of Scotland, lie myriad giant concrete arrows left behind after the dark days of World War Two drew to a close. Military historians will likely be well acquainted with them, but for many hikers who stumble across the concrete oddities amid often barren moorland, their existence may come as an surprise. Find out more about these intriguing wartime relics in our 2017 feature: The Giant Concrete Directional Arrows of Wartime Britain.
The post Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Military Arrows appeared first on Urban Ghosts Media.


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Really excited to say that my first show of 2016 will be February 10 at Navy Pier!! I'm going to be featured in @rawartists winter showcase along with other up and coming Chicago creatives. I'm working on a few new things and would love to see you there.
P.S. When you buy your ticket, you can click my name as the artist you are supporting and it will help go toward covering my fees for the show! And I will send you a bunch of good vibes and hugs!


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I was late-night reading while my husband slept and when I saw this and I almost screamed!
I’ve known Heather Armstrong of dooce (virtually) for years, she even wrote the Foreword to my Kitty Wigs book. When my Subversive Cross Stitch Activity and Coloring book came out earlier this year, I just couldn’t bring myself to send one to her because I know she gets SCADS of books and I hate asking friends to promote my stuff. But then she started this series about all the books she receives and donates to the library in SLC. So, I thought, Well, I’ll just touch base and let her know what I’m up to, and if my four-letter-word-laced-book sneaks its way into a library in Utah, bonus!
I also thought it would be funny to say I sent it so her kids could start practicing their curse words, I think I included a note claiming that as my purpose.
Funny how life works out – read her post to hear about the morality shenanigans my book caused, it’s pretty dang funny.
Thanks so much, Heather, I’ll be smiling about this for weeks.
My friend & photographer Ben Britt took some more fun photos of the book. Not sure what I’ll do with them yet – future postcards? – but here’s a peek. He just set up a NSFW T-shirt shop featuring some of his photographs which include some pretty subversive onesies if you’re in the market. He photographs the Dallas burlesque scene and fantasy scenarios – not for the faint of heart!
I love seeing where the books end up and what you’re making! If you hashtag #subversivecrossstitch or #subversivecrossstitchbook, especially on Instagram, know that I’ll be looking, probably responding and sometimes reposting!
I thought I’d tell you a bit more about how this book came to be, after years of patience and waiting for just the right opportunity.
When my 2006 book went out of print, I got so many emails from people asking where they could find one. Sometimes there would be used copies on Amazon or eBay but the prices were usually ridiculous. Since many of the book patterns are not available on my site, I wanted to keep all of the original patterns and build on those. And since so many people tell me that they refer to my book over and over, I felt like I needed to deliver something bigger and better on top of all that.
The new book has redesigned charts and stitch counts added (thanks to your feedback via Facebook). My contractual deal was to add 10 completely new patterns, but I felt like I could do better so I threw in 7 more patterns that are new to the book. That way, the total number of patterns is FIFTY! Plus, I added a few new alphabets and rewrote/updated the rest. And a great photo of my mom, who is my biggest inspiration in life at a very sassy age 90. Finally, I stitched a new cover at the very last minute.
Our patience paid off and together, we’ve produced a book with more heft — a TOME with a heckuva lot of value — and I think it’s just gorgeous. I hope you do, too!
Beginning February 17, 2015, the book will be available at Amazon and all bookstores in the US and abroad, but if you want a signed copy you should order it right here from me (because I’m far too shy to do public book signings). I’ll probably stop selling the book on my site in March. Thanks so much to those of you who pre-ordered the book, you’ll see yours soon! And thanks so much for your feedback, interest, and enthusiasm all these years. You keep me going!
I am SO excited to finally get to tell you more about my second book of Subversive Cross Stitch! You can pre-order a copy here on our site and we can even send a special little gift card to the recipient before the holidays if it’s a gift.
Here’s the deal: the official release date is February 24, 2015, but I will have copies here to sign and ship in early February. So I thought I’d pre-sell in case you want to make it a holiday gift for someone (I mean, you can order one for yourself as well of course!). The cards are really cute–not here yet but I’ll post an image on the book page when they arrive.
This book includes all the patterns from my first book, which is out of print and I know some of you have been trying to find one. So I included everything from the first, plus added enough new patterns to make it a book of FIFTY total patterns. I redesigned all of the charts to make them easier to read and also added stitch counts for each chart. Plus, there are three alphabet charts, a DIY grid and a photo of my mom in space!
I’m really excited about it–I’ve waited four years to work with the publisher, powerHouse books, because they do beautiful work and I wanted to do a book with a company that doesn’t usually do craft books. They mostly do art and photography books.
I will have my copy in mid-December and you can bet I’ll share more images then. In the meantime, stay tuned for more details and pre-order on our site for earliest delivery. Thank you for your support and excitement, I really hope you love it!
I have a piece in the darling new book “The Sewists” from Josephine Perry. Here’s a sneak peek below, it’s available now on Amazon!

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


text: How to Shop for Cargile Panel 2 Piece Bedroom Set by Darby Home Co, top 10 Bedroom Furniture in 2018 on goodship.co, Online shopping can save you time, money, and a trip to the mall, but reckless online shopping can actually end up causing you problems. When you buy Cargile Panel 2 Piece Bedroom Set by Darby Home Co online, make sure you buy the Coffee Tables you need in the correct sizes. Shop around to find the best prices, and keep your guard up to avoid scams and disreputable sellers.


text: Too Much Info Disclaimer: My life is an open book. I like it that way. However, if you are a family member or a coworker, there may well be a side of me that I have obscured out of respect for your comfort level. If it is going to make you uncomfortable to stumble upon a post in which I swear like a sailor, or a frank discussion of my sexuality, please do not follow any of the links you find here. If you opt to view the content anyway, please remember that we are both adults, and you were warned.