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A challenge impacting many organizations today is how to best manage the high volume of email that must be archived for legal discovery purposes. Our client’s current process was to archive ALL emails using an external archiving vendor. The cost for this service was growing exponentially due to increased annual email volume. A project was initiated to reduce the volume of emails being archived and decrease the lengthy email archive search times.
Major Oak Consulting was hired to develop the project approach, manage the daily project activities including business solution definition, archiving rules, new business processes and the development of a custom VB.NET application. The project required cross department interaction and coordination between Legal, IT, Compliance, HR, Finance, Business Units and external storage vendors, each playing an integral part in the initiative.
During the project activities, Major Oak discovered that a large volume of emails were potentially being archived unnecessarily. After careful analysis and research, it was determined there were duplicate emails being created in the archiving procedure that did not need to be archived going forward. These duplicate emails accounted for 12 terabytes of storage annually.
Major Oak worked with all stakeholders to identify and document detailed rules to determine the emails to be archived based on business need, job roles and regulatory requirements. The rules were built into a custom application, which removed non‐required emails from the archive updates and generated a file that is sent to the external storage vendor. In addition to the cost savings ($3M+ annually) realized by reducing the email volume archived, our client improved its risk management by properly decreasing the amount of discoverable information available.
Major Oak successfully managed the full project lifecycle including creating and executing the project plan, maintaining issue and risk logs, driving the issue resolution and risk mitigation plans, and coordinating all cross–department activities, including application development, to ensure stakeholder goals were aligned. Major Oak’s involvement helped the project deliver results far greater than originally anticipated both from a cost reduction, performance improvement and risk management perspective.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Join Chef John Tesar of Knife, The Greene Family Foundation and NFL Hall of Famer Joe Greene at the Highland Hotel on June 29th for the 2nd Annual Nibble & Mingle Fundraiser benefiting the UNT Foundation’s Agnes Lucille Craft Greene Memorial Scholarship.
The event will feature culinary creations from James Beard Award nominee, Chef John Tesar of Knife, and local chefs from restaurants including Trompo, Nick and Sam’s, Common Table, Ten Ramen, Dot’s, Cattleack Barbeque, Dee Lincoln Prime, and more.
Special guests attending include host Joe Greene and fellow NFL Hall of Famers Earl Campbell, Randy White, Mel Blount, Terry Bradshaw, Tony Dorsett, Ken Houston, Charles Haley, Rayfield Wright, former Dallas Cowboy’s player Cliff Harris and former UNT and Baltimore Ravens player Zach Orr.
Prior to the event, Mean Joe Greene will host an intimate champagne reception sponsored by Steve’s Wine Bar, located in Denton, TX. The reception will take place at 6 p.m. and is available for $250, which includes tickets to the champagne reception and main event. Space is limited with 20 tickets available for the reception.
The Nibble & Mingle Fundraiser tickets are available for $125 per person or $1,000 for a table of 10, with tax not included. Please visit https://www.prekindle.com/event/36932-nibbleandmingle-dallas to get your tickets for a memorable night in support of the foundation and a chance to change a student’s life.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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Role of microRNA-155 at early stages of hepatocarcinogenesis induced by choline-deficient and amino acid-defined diet in C57BL/6 mice.
Fully human anti-interleukin 8 antibody inhibits tumor growth in orthotopic bladder cancer xenografts via down-regulation of matrix metalloproteases and nuclear factor-kappaB.
DNA polymerase beta conducts the gap-filling step in uracil-initiated base excision repair in a bovine testis nuclear extract.
Adipocyte-specific transcription factor ARF6 is a heterodimeric complex of two nuclear hormone receptors, PPAR gamma and RXR alpha.
DNA topoisomerase II mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: topoisomerase II is required for segregation of daughter molecules at the termination of DNA replication.

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(Red Deer Advocate, June 28, 2008.) Here’s a picture of some fashionable dude walking down a catwalk in Milan or some place like that. There is a time to subject a person to ridicule: when that person is being ridiculous. Odds are that this model will never read what he made possible for me to write. But should he stumble upon this article, very well. Then he might be inspired to ‘man-up,’ as they say. Should a man allow designers to make him look like a frankenstein on estrogen supplements? Is it not easy enough to appear freakish in this fallen world without fabricating more of it to put on?
It isn’t just the models who thoughtlessly plod through life being whatever they are told to be. At the mall I see the zombied boys being pulled along by their precocious girls. I see all the cars lined up in the left hand lane waiting for several lights’ time to get to that mall, about a dozen drivers in a row not thinking enough to turn left a couple of intersections back to avoid the traffic jam. Remember the year teenage girls wore soothers around their necks ‘just because’—just because some celebrity, no doubt, told them, by example, to do it? Look at all the boys, some above the age of twenty, going through contortions to keep their pants drooping down below their underwear without having them fall to the ground. Look at them waddle like ducks, and tell me this is normal! Tell me they’re not zombies, and chances are you are one yourself. And what about these men who go around saying, ‘Let me ask the boss’ for fear of doing something without the wife’s consent? These are the most pathetic zombies of all! They must act like the henpecked sissies they’ve become because they’re convinced that we must change with the times, no matter what that change involves, even if it means that men may no longer be men!
For those of us who no longer regard ‘the times’ as the determining factor for what we believe and how we think, speak, and act, we can cite instances of zombie-like behavior from our past. I recall being at my dad’s grave beside the shovels. Like a zombie marching the way I was programmed to march, I did not seriously deliberate about what I was craving with all my heart to do. And so the traditional gravedigger, a stranger probably, got to bury the father who should have been buried by his three sons.
Before we follow the herd or run with the pack, we should inquire about the wisdom of our age to find out what sort it is. Our herd mentality might be a sign that we are unthinking persons on the broad way that leads to destruction (Matthew 7.13.) When you become converted to truth, Jesus Christ, and reason, you begin to think for yourself and to question what you do and why you do it. Is it natural for a man to cower before a woman? To wear his pants down in public? These are signs, my friends, of a mentality that is twisted against nature, reason, decency, and God. Men must be woken up from their zombie sleep. Then they must separate themselves from the zombies that remain, take Jesus’ advice, and ‘let the dead bury their dead’ (Matthew 8.22.) The man who follows Jesus will be neither a sissy nor a brute. Like Jesus, he will rebuke his own mother when she’s out of place, and he’ll reach out to the lepers of society out of compassion. This man will not be afraid to overturn a tradition or spurn a fad that is contrary to righteousness. ‘By faith in his name’ it is possible to pick up the cross and follow Jesus and his iconoclastic, trend-breaking lifestyle. This is the narrow way that leads to life—everlasting life.

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Madhya Pradesh Government has proposed to improve basic infrastructure relating to water supply and sewerage network services besides storm water drainage, urban transport and parks and green services in 32 cities and towns under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) during the current financial year i.e 2015-16 at a cost of Rs.1,656 cr. The state government has submitted State Annual Action Plan (SAAP) in this regard to the Ministry of Urban Development.
SAAP has been formulated based on Service Level Improvement Plans for each of the 32 mission cities. Atal Mission accords priority for ensuring universal coverage of all urban households with basic infrastructure relating to water supply, sewerage and septage management, storm water drains, urban transport and open spaces in that order.
City level service improvement plans are prepared further to identification of gaps between available and required infrastructure. In the annual plan for state furnished to the UD Ministry, Madhya Pradesh government informed that 51% of all urban households in the state are having water supply connections and water supply at present is 88 litres per capita per day as against the norm of 135 lpcd. Only 11% of urban households are having sewerage network services.
Coverage of households with water supply connections in 32 mission cities ranged from 21% in Pithampur to 74% in Gwalior and Dewas. Coverage is below 50% in Bhopal, Satna, Morena, Singrauli, Burhanpur, Shivpuri, vidisha, Chattarpur, Damoh, Hoshangabad, Sehore,Datia and Nagda.
Water connections are available to the extent of 50% to 73% in Jabalpur, Ujjain, Sagar, Ratlam, Rewa, Katni, Chindwara, Khandwa, Bhind, Guna, Mandsaur, Khargone, Neemuch, Betual and Seoni.
No sewerage networks are available in 11 of the 27 mission cities and towns in which sewerage projects are proposed to be undertaken. Only Indore and Gwalior have coverage of sewerage networks to the extent of 62% and 60% respectively. In other cities and towns, the coverage ranged from 3% to 25%.
Under Action Plan for 2015-16, the state government proposed investment of Rs.1,656 cr of which central assistance will be Rs.672 cr while the state government will contribute Rs.756 cr and the rest of Rs.228 cr will be met from the resources of respective urban local bodies.
Of this, cost of water supply projects is Rs.582 cr, sewerage projects-Rs.926 cr, storm water drains-Rs.36 cr, urban transport-Rs.70 cr and provision of parks and green spaces-Rs.41 cr.
During the five year mission period of AMRUT, the state government has proposed to take up a total of 101 project with a total investment of Rs.8,279 cr including Rs.2,912 cr on water supply projects, Rs.4,628 cr on sewerage projects, storm water drains-Rs.180 cr, urban transport –Rs.351 cr and Rs.207 cr on provision of parks and green spaces.
Under Atal Mission, central government will bear 50% of project costs in cities with a population of up to ten lakhs each and one third of project costs in mission cities with population of above ten lakhs each.
The state government has informed the Ministry of Urban Development that urban local bodies with a population of over ten lakhs will bear 16.67% of project costs and those with a population of less than ten lakhs will bear 10% of project cost. The rest will be borne by the state government.

industry_corpus2: Water Resources & Marine


text: Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Rhabdos". "The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon". . 1999.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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(Cambridge, UK and Boston, USA- 18 March 2014) Linguamatics’ sales showed strong growth and exceeded ten million dollars in 2013, it was announced today - outperforming the company’s targeted growth and expected sales figures. The increased sales came from a boost in new customers and increased software licenses to existing customers in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. This included 130 per cent growth in healthcare sales plus increased sales in professional services.
Access to the right knowledge at the right time is crucial for knowledge driven organizations such as those in healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Linguamatics software platform, I2E, uses natural language processing (NLP) to go beyond conventional search methods and understand the meaning of text.
I2E identifies and extracts facts, assertions and relationships from unstructured text such as scientific literature, patents, clinical trials data, electronic health records (EHR), news feeds, social media and proprietary content in real-time and puts them into a structured format for further analysis to support key decision-making.
I2E delivers dramatically improved speed to actionable insight, using computer algorithms to automatically mine, analyze and connect relevant knowledge buried in vast amounts of textual data and generate higher quality, targeted results.
Linguamatics' customers include 16 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), leading US hospitals, cancer institutes and academic research centers.


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As seen on the cover of Stationery Trends Magazine!
We all have at least one superwoman in our lives, and every amazing lady deserves to know how inspiring she is to you. The female powerhouses in your life are the true heroes, so treat them to some recognition—they don’t get it enough.


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Accessibility: A business should be easily accessed across various platforms, including; social media, listing directories, search engines, etc.
Contractor Webmasters offers marketing and advertising services to contractors across the United States. We specialize in marketing designed specifically for contractors. Our range within that industry is vast. We have worked with plumbers, roofers, HVAC companies, locksmiths, landscapers, moving companies, general contractors, and many more. Call 800-775-1250 for contractor marketing and advertising from Contractor Webmasters.
Advertising is a form of marketing, while the opposite is not true. Since marketing is understood on a macro-level, advertising falls within a subset of the over-arching process. In contrast, advertising exists on a micro-level. It is objectively definable. That is an advertisement (a web banner on the top of a popular website), and that is not (the concept that storm-ridden areas more regularly require emergency roofing services). To discuss marketing and advertising, and how each can help your company generate leads, give us a call at 800-775-1250.
Convenience: How are your services, and the way they are being marketed, convenient for the prospective customer?
Necessity: Is your potential customer searching for something they want, or something they need? What are their alternatives?
Building an audience profile can help you humanize the marketing process. After all, marketing is ultimately about appealing to customers. So whenever you run an advertising campaign, you should ask yourself the who, what, and why of your advertisement. Contractor Webmasters offers a diverse range of techniques that can help contractors attract new marketing leads. From PPC advertising, to retargeting ads, Contractor Webmasters is here to maximize your earning potential. That’s why our marketing and advertising services require no upfront cost. You pay only for lead generation.
Because the number of mobile searches now exceeds those of desktop, mobile advertising has become increasingly relevant to marketers. Adjusting from large scale banner ads, optimized for desktop display, marketing firms have advanced to crafting mobile-friendly advertisements, designed to appeal to the modern mobile user. With a premium now placed on instant engagement, and interactivity, ads on mobile must go above and beyond the traditional calling card. Contractor Webmasters uses mobile ads as part of our marketing and advertising services.
Our services require no upfront cost. We believe that the goal of our clients should align with the marketing agreement in which we offer. That’s why we specialize in pay per lead marketing which eliminates all risk for our customers. If our services fail to generate any leads for your company, you incur no cost. That’s right, you pay only for actual leads, so that ROI, or lack thereof, is never a concern. Call 800-775-1250 for marketing and advertising from Contractor Webmasters.
Updated on October 4, 2017 at 7:53 pm by Author.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


text: Harney & Sons introducing their finest quality brisk black iced tea in an unsweetened version. It's simply delicious. Harney & Sons Organic Supreme Black Unsweetened Tea.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


text: Rhema Soul will be featured on a compilation album being released by Goon Trax (Japan). The album is slated for an October release in Japan. The name of the track is "I Been" featuring Nicole Amina and produced by Soulutions from the Netherlands. Look for more news and info on this soon!

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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For several years now, people have been predicting that print-based marketing will be forced to stand aside, allowing digital alternatives to take the throne as the key tool in a corporate marketing strategy.
Although the meteoric rise of smart phones and portable tablets has completely changed our habits on how we digest everyday news, this doesn’t necessarily mean print marketing will follow suit.
We believe that the need for print is as strong as ever.
As a prime example, Thomson Holidays wants to arrive early to the digital party and has announced its intention to phase out printed holiday brochures over the next four years. By 2020, the entire experience of searching for, choosing and booking a Thomson holiday will be done via an app and online.
Whilst this has many financial positives for the corporation, the declaration by the budget holiday’s Managing Director, Nick Longman, means the end of an era for the familiar experience of holiday shopping. Adults and children alike will surely have fond memories of being in a high-street holiday agent, flicking through brochure after brochure imagining themselves on each beach, bed and deckchair as they turn every page.
It makes sense for Thomson. They print 4.7 million brochures per year but footfall in their stores is massively down. While this change in direction for Thomson Holidays may just work, it’s important to remember that the holiday industry per se has transformed over the last 10-15 years with holiday-goers opting to browse the web for cheap package deals instead. As they say: if you can’t beat them – join them.
However, from our experience at HROC and working on accounts from a diverse range of sectors including construction, agriculture, garden paving and bathroom solutions, physical brochures and other collateral is frequently exactly what dealers and end users want – and prefer – when weighing up their options.
In a crowded market place, online marketing can often get lost – with a digital brochure, for instance, it’s arguably a case of ‘out of sight (or even site), out of mind’. Whereas a brochure always has a physical presence. Whether it’s on a desk, in a drawer, on a shelf, on a table, it’s always there. And wherever it is, your brand’s there, too.
When YouTube launched in 2005 and then again with the emergence of Netflix streaming in 2007, many believed it sounded the death knell for TV. Yet here we are now in a golden age of television and viewing figures remain strong. Likewise, there is strong anecdotal opinion that print will continue to hold its own, even if there are turbulent times ahead for the format.
There will always be a place in marketing for both print and digital. Printed brochures, DMs, flyers, banners, point of sale – they all serve a purpose; and taking these designs online can create a whole new user experience.
Whilst some agencies have pressed the panic button and decided to go ‘digital-only’, others are looking at ways the two can combine to create an engaging and successful integrated marketing campaign.
As a fully integrated marketing agency, HROC offers creative and design, digital, PR, media and video services all under one roof and we pride ourselves on running seamless integrated campaigns across the entire communications mix for our clients. If this is of interest to you and your company, call us on 0121 454 9707.


text: Founded in 2008, First Universal Enterprises Limited (otherwise known as FUEL), was set up by Colin Bernard, David Dean and Frank Kweku to engage and support young people that were not in education, employment or training (NEET). His idea was to support and guide the harder to reach pupils of Nottingham schools and give them an education that they would engage with and gain qualifications from. Helped out by the Future Jobs Fund and other grants, the company got off to a big start and FUEL became a provision known by many within the first year.


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Tullamore's Gráinne Walsh will be in action this Saturday night as she bids to retain her National Elite boxing title in the 69kg (welterweight) division.
The Liffey Crane National Elite Championships are taking place in Dublin's National Stadium.
All of the bouts will be screened live on YouTube and Gráinne's contest is also expected to be shown live on TG4, which is broadcasting the finals from 8.45pm until 11pm.
Representing the Spartacus club, Gráinne will be facing a tough opponent, the former European Elite bronze medalist Christina Desmond from Cork club Fr Horgans.
Injury ruled Desmond out of last year's national championships, where Gráinne defeated Ciara Ginty in the welterweight final. She she also picked up the 'Jimmy Magee Best Female Boxer' award for her performance on the night.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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I was born and raised in Turkey in a secular family. Growing up as the middle child of the family I never understood my parents love and care for us. My aunt, known as one of the "funniest" members of the family joked with me over the years asking, what special reason I had to be loved by my parents. Since my sister was the first born, and my brother was the "baby" and "the son", nothing was left for me. She did not understand the deep impact of her jokes on me and I never understood why I wasn't loved. Nobody knew that I needed the truth explained to me; that I needed to know that my parents loved me just because I was their daughter. For years I felt rejected and unloved. As time went on, the only purpose of my life became trying to earn my parents' love.
When I was five years old my parents couldn't find a nanny to take care of me while they were at work. My mother, who was an elementary school teacher, started to take me to the school where she taught leaving me in one of the first grade classes. After this my days were pretty routine. I was in class during the day, and at home I played with my books. I didn't know how to read yet, but I would look at the letters and make up stories based on how they were shaped. One day when I was looking at my books, all of a sudden the letters made words rather than pictures, the words made sentences, and I no longer needed to make up stories - I could read them. My parents rejoiced when they discovered that I learned to read "all by myself".
Near the end of the school year my mom's school was going through the yearly teachers' evaluation. One day the principal of the school came to my class with an Evaluator. I was the only one in the class who could answer their questions. When my parents heard about this they were surprised and quite pleased with me. So, along with everything else I learned in first grade, I learned that the easiest way to earn my parents' "love" was to be successful at school.
This discovery changed my life dramatically. From that day I became very competitive, doing better was my only desire - better than my classmates, better than my siblings, and even better than myself. As a result, I became one of the best students in my school. My dad loved science and planted that love in me at a very early age. He seemed to accept me regardless of my performance, but I felt like my mom's love was dependent on my achievements. Thus, my father became a good friend but I isolated myself from my mother.
When I was getting ready for the college entrance exams, my big dream was to get into a biology department. I found I was fascinated with nature, and this, together with the love of science that I had learned from my father, fueled my desire to study biology. When the results of the exam were posted, I found out that I was qualified to be in the Biology department, my third choice. Upon my father's request my first two choices had been the top medical schools of Turkey. I was so excited and happy. I could hardly wait to give the good news to my parents.
However a big disappointment was in store for me. The idea of having a daughter in medical school was so appealing to them that the news that I had "only" qualified for biology was a letdown. Their disappointment showed me that I had failed, first in my studies, and then in not being able to earn their "love". I had worked so hard for such a bitter ending. So when I started college my heart felt sour within me.
But when I began college things within me started to change. I was spending the majority of my time immersed in my biology books, and was awed by the complexities and perfection of life on a biological scale. I realized that I loved learning purely for learning's sake and not in order to gain my parents' approval. I was growing up! So my bitter feelings shortly were crowded out by overwhelming enthusiasm.
Another change that started to occur in me was regarding religious belief. I had grown up in a secular household. Although my family was not religious, we observed all the usual traditions. However, we did not observe the prayer rituals, nor did we fast. During summer vacations my friends went to the mosque to learn Namaz, the Islamic prayer ritual, and to learn to recite the Qur'an. But in our home, we didn't even mention these things. Growing up, I had believed that the universe was formed as a result of the "Big-Bang" and that life was formed through a series of random events. What I believed about God was quite different from my friends' beliefs, too. For me God was created by men. Evolutionary speaking, in all primate societies there had been a need for a strong, unquestioned leader. However, as humans developed the abilities to live outside social groupings, the need for an unquestioned leader disappeared. Because the instinct to believe and obey something unquestionable is still strong, man created God. I was very content with this belief. In truth, I was even proud of my unusual beliefs.
However, my first year in college, I felt that everything I believed was disintegrating in my hands. When I started to take classes like Zoology, Botany, Molecular Biology, Chemistry, and Cytology, I started to realize that life was too perfect to be the product of random events. One day I remember looking through a microscope and watching this little cell with awe, thinking there must be a God, the Creator of this life!
I became very confused. I didn't know what to do. One day - a little embarrassed - I went to talk to my father and told him what I thought. He listened to me carefully, without interrupting, as was his habit, and then answered me with a smile; "I don't want you to be ashamed of your thoughts. If you believe there is a God, go search, and you shall find". Two years of studying and practicing Islam started at this time period.
My interest in Islam pleased my mother's mother the most. She immediately got a Qur'an and books on Islam for me. She brought some Zamzam water, had me drink it, repent of my sins, make a promise to stay away from sin, and recite the Shahada.
Initially, I didn't care much about what Islam and Qur'an was all about. All I wanted to know was God. I learned the basics: memorized suras, learned wudu and prayer, read the Qur'an every Thursday night, fasted during Ramadan.
I studied hard, practiced hard, but only thing that happened in my life was following a different set of rules now. I did not know God anymore than I did the day I told my dad I thought there was a God. I might have become a nicer person at the time, but it was all in my power and initiative. Deep inside me I knew I was no different. On the top of these what I learned from my Islamic books and mentors did not help either. At the end of two years I was quite disappointed - even hurt - by my findings and experiences. After days and nights of struggling with myself, and feeling ashamed that I was wrong, I went to my father and told him that I was not able to find my God. I was heart broken.
The summer of that year, I started to work as a reader at the School for the Blind. There, I met with a lady who was associated with a Hindu group. I was quite excited to hear about this group, and I started to go to their meetings with her. All summer long, I studied with them the essentials of Hinduism - as well as of Buddhism. Because Islam had failed me, I was a lot more reserved about taking a step of faith in either of these. One of the members of this group was also interested in the old Turkic religions, and he helped me to understand the basics of those religions. At the end of the summer, the conclusion of my search was quite clear. All these religions were created by men to bring regulation to society. There was no God. I was stuck with Atheism.
Then followed a time of confusion and bewilderment. All joy and peace left my heart. I had lost hope - hope for the future, hope for finding God, or that there was anything greater than human existence. So, I went back to doing what I knew best, being an excellent student. I thought that I could find satisfaction in myself.
But it didn't work. The inner restlessness that I had grew stronger every day, and I couldn't live with myself anymore. So, I tried other things. You know what a party animal is, right? Well, that was me. Drinking, smoking, rebelling - everything you can imagine! Yet, these things didn't satisfy me. More and more, I knew that I had no peace in my heart. I longed to change--but I didn't know how.
In this sorry state, I finished university. On graduation day, as I was walking downtown, I started to think about my future. I knew that I had a long life ahead of me, but I didn't know what I would do with it. Frustrated, I walked into a store and stood in front of a mirror. As I looked at myself, I realized that I didn't like what I saw. Tears welled up as I considered who I was. This was a turning point for me. I decided that I was going to change my life and be a different person - have a good job, a good career, a good family, and a good income. I looked around at all the ordinary people in the world, reflecting that their lives were no different than mine but that they seemed happy. I decided to try being an ordinary person. So, I quit smoking, drinking, and hanging around those of my "friends" who had that kind of lifestyle. I got my first job, a very good-paying job, in fact. At the same time, I went back to school and earned my Master's degree, and then started to work on my Ph.D. But even all these things didn't satisfy me. In my heart, I fought with myself day and night. In Jeremiah 2:13, God says, "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water". My heart was a broken cistern, and I tried to fill it myself. As Islam had failed me, I was failing myself.
In September 1992, I was nearing the end of my Ph.D. program when one of my professors in the department told me about a scholarship to go overseas to study for a different Ph.D. First, I thought, "No, I'm about to finish one; why bother starting all over again?" But it took me only half an hour to decide, "Yes, I would like to try". I got the scholarship and quit my Ph.D. program. Leaving everything behind, I packed my whole life into two suitcases and came to the United States to start all over again. I had a feeling that it was going to be different there.
It was different in the U.S., and I didn't like it. Honestly, I hated it with a passion. I didn't know any English, I didn't know the culture, and I didn't know anybody there. Everything was so strange to me. I asked myself again and again, "I had everything I needed back home, so why did I come here?" Of course, I didn't know the answer, and I didn't even know if there was an answer. But I didn't go home. I studied English, tried to understand American culture, and made some friends in the dormitory. It so happens they were all born-again Christians who talked about their faith with me. They were all very nice, helpful, smart, religious ... and very brainwashed! I didn't believe that one could be smart and religious at the same time. Since they had helped me to adjust to my new life in the U.S., I decided I could help them to see that they were all deluded.
If you are going to fight against something, you need to know it well, so I asked them to give me a Bible. Knowing that I would find contradictions and inconsistencies, I started to read it. However - and there's really no other way to describe it - a miracle happened! Each day, the words brought more and more peace to my heart and hope for my life. Also, Christianity deeply impressed me because of its differences from the other religions that I had studied. It was unique in a lot of ways, but four of them were particularly important to me.
First, Jesus was the only one who claimed to be the only way to God. What confidence that gave me! This was no vague instruction on how to reach God. This was a certain path. Jesus says, "No one comes to the Father except through me".
Second, people's sins could be forgiven without the need for good deeds to cancel them out. In every other religion, one has to be punished for the sins one has committed, but in Christianity one's sins can be forgiven. Having lived in sin as long as I had, I knew that I could never finish paying the penalty for them. I needed forgiveness. Human beings, in their weakness, don't know the real meaning of forgiveness, I think. This generous forgiveness can only come from God.
Third, one doesn't have to work for one's salvation. Salvation is by the grace of God. My whole life, I had tried to earn the peace and hope that I longed for but saw that I didn't have. Therefore, it was very meaningful to see that God was reaching out to me instead of my trying to reach Him.
Fourth and last, God loved me as I was. I didn't have to do anything to earn His love. This was quite new to me. I discovered that I was important to God just because I existed. It seemed to me that this truth was different from other religions.
I became convinced that Christianity was not a man-made religion. So, I continued to study the Bible, more and more enthusiastically. On February 6, 1993 while I was reading my Bible, a verse greatly impressed me: You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit - fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name... " (John 15:16). Then, I realized that I found the answer to my question. I had come to the U.S. because God had chosen me and had brought me there so that I could come to know Him. That day, I prayed and accepted Jesus as my personal Savior.
That night, as I prayed and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I was very restless. I tried to sleep, but questions kept bothering me all night long. "Was I being culturally assimilated?" "Was my conversion a result of cultural shock?" I got up in the morning and decided that I might be going crazy, but I couldn't do anything about it other than wait and see. A few months later, God answered my questions again. He showed me that even as long ago as when I was 12, He had chosen me and had been preparing me for His kingdom. At that time, I had a dream in which I was swimming. It was very dark, without any stars in the sky. After swimming for a while, I stopped and looked up at the sky. Suddenly, I saw a star shining. I closed my eyes and made a wish. I said, "Morning Star, teach me the secret of life". When I woke up, I was deeply affected by my dream. I told my family and my friends about it, but nobody seemed to care. Because I took the dream so seriously, I was even mocked about it. A few days later, however, I forgot about the dream.
But the dream did not forget me. About a month later, I had it again. Although I thought it was strange, I didn't really think about it much. But then, a few months later, the same dream came again. I kept having this dream for years almost every other month and this pattern continued until a few months after my conversion, when I read Rev. 22:16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star". After reading this verse, I realized that God had been working in my heart for years and that He is a living God. He had brought me to this point to teach me the secret of life - eternal life. That very day, I decided that I would dedicate my whole life to God and follow Him wherever He might lead me. Now, my deepest desire is to follow my Lord as long as I live. In case you're wondering. I've never had the dream again - when the sun rises, one blows the candle out.
After I became a believer in Jesus, my life changed significantly. In the beginning, my family rejected me, but over the years, they observed the positive changes that happened in my life. A couple of years after my conversion, my mother told me that when I first told her that I had decided to follow Jesus, she thought that she had lost her daughter, but now, she knows that she has received back a better one. She tells me now that she believes this has been the best thing that ever happened to me. For years, I didn't believe that my mother loved me, and I hadn't forgiven her for that. But with God, all things are possible. Now, my mom and I are best friends, and she has a desire to know more about God and Christianity.
After my conversion, my family was greatly distressed. They thought that I had brought shame on our family. They thought that we were born as Muslims and destined to die as Muslims. Not only my family, but also many of my friends rejected me. Sometimes, the things I went through lay so heavily on me that many times a day when I thought about my situation, I felt weak and helpless, but I also felt that God was in control. Since the day of my conversion, I have learned what it means to trust God with my life. This takes a lot of faith, but I have learned to live on God's provision "day by day". Exodus 16 talks about how God provided for the Israelites day by day when they were in the desert. In the past, I used to think that the Israelites were being ungrateful for God's provision, but as I learned to live on God's provision day-by-day, I understood that, physically and emotionally, this is a difficult place to be. Yet, through it all, I have been thoroughly blessed spiritually.
A lot of people ask me if becoming a Christian has been worth it. I have asked myself the very same question many times. I love traveling, and I travel a lot. One day while driving alone to give an academic presentation at a national conference, I was trying to practice my talk. But my mind was focused on problems I was facing as a result of my conversion. Suddenly, my disappointments and my fatigue overwhelmed me. Then, I remembered a game (that helped me cope with difficulties) that I used to play a long time ago, a game based on 'dreaming'. When I was five, I was in my grandma's home for summer vacation. One morning, I woke up and found bubble gum all over my bed and on my face. I was pretty sure that my sister had done it. As a little girl, I used to think that my sister was responsible for all of the bad things in the entire universe. I called my aunt and started to complain about my sister. But she didn't listen to me. I think that she knew that my sister was not responsible for all of the bad things that happened in this universe, especially the ones related to me. She took me to the sink and started to clean me up. Angry with me, she spanked me a few times, saying that I wasn't supposed to go to bed with bubble gum. I kept telling her that I didn't chew gum, which was true. But she wasn't listening. It was obvious that we had a communication problem. Then, I stopped listening to her and started to try to make myself believe this was not real, that I was only dreaming. I wanted to wake up and find everything fine. But I didn't wake up. Years later, when my father died, I thought of this incident. As before, I tried to make myself believe that this was not real. In the morning, I was going to wake up, and Dad was going to be with us, and everything was going to be fine. But once again, I didn't wake up. So, that day when I was traveling to the academic conference, I thought, "Yep, this is a dream. I will wake up, the problems will be gone, and everything will be fine". Then, immediately, I realized that if I woke up, my faith would be gone too. I would lose my relationship with God. Suddenly I knew that it was worth going through all the problems I have. I would even be willing to endure a lot more in order to have my relationship with God through Christ.
My prayer for you is that you can experience the fullness of eternal life in Christ Jesus in your personal life.


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Five Smooth Stones On Why I am A Christian ?
What Will Trigger Your Miracle ?
What Will You Do When There Is A Void Of Faith ?
What It Takes To Be An Anointed Teacher ?
What Will You Do When You Lost Your First Fruit Birthtright Inheritance ?
Are You Willing To Step Up Higher ?
How To Stay Out Of Trouble ?
Why Some Believers Are Not Blessed ?
What Does it Mean To Be Carnally Minded ?
Study Questions On Why We Baptize In Jesus Name ?
What The Bible Teaches ?
The Anointed Teaching Ministry of Elder James W. Parrott, Jr.,D.D.,Th.D.
What is Forgiveness of Sin ?
Where Does Wisdom Come From ?
What Pastors Should Be Teaching Their Church Members ?
How to Be A Success,Overcome Temptation, Have Miracles in Your Life ?
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SUNDAY-Day of Rest-Psa.121:1-"I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord".
TUESDAY-Back To The Old Routine-Acts 26:22-"Having therfore obtained help from God, I continued unto this day".
FRIDAY-Thank God Its Friday.11 Cor. 4:7-9-"But we have this treasure in earthern vessels, that the excellency may be of God and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not in distressed; we are perplexed but not in despair;Persecuted but not forsaken;Cast down, but not destroyed".
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The most recent trend in mobile gaming has been customization–making your experience your own by growing custom strategies and gameplay styles. Monster Legends capitalizes on this, and today, Appamatix has the best “Monster Legends hack” as well as secrets, and tips that will take you from newbie to “monster master” in no time at all. Millions of people have already hopped on the wagon with this addictive little game, and since we’ve designed our guide with new players in mind, there’s nothing stopping you from getting in on the action.
Do you remember Pokemon? I owned a Game Boy in the 90s, which means that for me and my friends, the craze was inescapable. It’s still going on, too, and that consistent popularity for monster battling games has led to the success of Monster Legends, a game where…you guessed it, you raise and battle monsters!
It’s not hard to see where Monster Legends’ inspirations come from, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Pokemon is a popular series across the world for a reason, but it’s only the progenitor of a genre. Since video games don’t exist in a vacuum, it can only be expected that other games in the monster battler genre are going to pick up on some of the same features, which is what Monster Legends has done.
In true monster battle fashion, you’ll be finding, raising, and breeding monsters based on their rarity and “elements,” thereby allowing you to unlock and discover new monsters. You can train them up with food and fighting, and eventually take them to the competitive player vs. player scene, where you’ll be able to pit your own customized team of monsters against other players from across the world.
It’s compelling stuff and a lot deeper gameplay than you might expect from a mobile game. Then again, mobile games have been showing us what they’re truly capable of more and more, each year.
Since it’s not quite as simple of a game as it might appear to be on the surface, there’s plenty of room to succeed and fail as you learn the ropes of the game. It’s definitely possible to breed or raise a “bad” monster, so it pays to heed some of the tips and tricks that we’re eager to share in this guide. If you want to breed monsters that will topple your opponents, you’re going to need a plan, and you’re going to need to know what you’re doing.
Monster battles have a lot to do with power, strength, and how much attention you’ve given to your beasties, but more than that, elemental affinities are going to determine the outcome of your melees. Monsters and their abilities possess certain elements, and each carries specific strengths and weaknesses that do not change!
Therefore, it’s important to know the elemental affinities of your monsters before pitting them against opponents. When you’re playing against other players, this is more difficult to do. When you’re battling against CPU-controlled monsters for currency and rewards, knowing your elements can almost ensure victory, with enough preparation.
Water is strong against fire but weak against thunder.
Fire is strong against nature but weak against water.
Nature is strong against magic but weak against fire.
Magic is strong against light but weak against nature.
Light is strong against dark but weak against magic.
Dark is strong against earth but weak against light.
Earth is strong against thunder but weak against dark.
Thunder is strong against water but weak against earth.
Got it? Good. These affinities can help you succeed more than any other knowledge in the game. Memorize these, and you already know more about “winning” in Monster Legends than the majority of other players.
Breeding monsters is the name of the game if you want to improve, but you have to do it intelligently or you’re not going to get anywhere!
There are four basic habitats in Monster Legends, and once you’ve unlocked them all, each can hold up to two monsters. Fire, nature, earth and water all support different types of monsters, and you’re going to see the best results when you breed monsters from different habitats. Crossing elemental affinities is the best way to get stronger monsters, whereas breeding monsters of the same elemental affinity should be reserved for those times that you only want to unlock new monsters–not necessarily when you want to get better ones.
This feature of Monster Legends will take a little bit of playing around with in order to get right, but customization and exploration are par for the course in monster battler games!
In the same way that elemental affinities matter, so too do team compositions! When you’re building a team of monsters to take into battle, keep in mind all of the different affinities that they have. Bringing three dark monsters is going to make your team extremely resilient to earth, but horrendously weak against light. If you bring a dark monster and magic monster, then you have that same resilience to earth, along with a strength against any light monsters that might try to attack your dark one.
Thinking about affinities in your teams of monsters can help you to create an intricate defense that other players will have difficulty overcoming.
It can be tempting to get caught up in the fun of breeding and raising monsters, without paying enough attention to the abilities that you’ve unlocked for each of them (or the abilities that you still haven’t unlocked!) Each monster has a different assortment of abilities, and if you want to succeed in battles–rather than just sitting around raising monsters all day–then you’ll need to know what they’re capable of!
Tap over to your monsters’ habitats, then select individual monsters. Here, you can see their skills (both available and locked) before you ever bring them into battle.
Happy monsters require food, and if you want them to grow (and grow stronger), you’re going to need to start raising food. The game allows you to build farms which where, in turn, you can plant a variety of crops. Allowing them to grow longer will increase their yield, and as your own level increases through more and more gameplay, you can upgrade your farms.
As is the case with most free-to-play games, gems are going to be the thing that always seems to hold you back, no matter how good you are at Monster Legends. Of course, you’ll accrue gems naturally as you play the game, but it will never be fast enough to play at the speed that the game encourages you to move at.
The answer (as the game proposes) is to use your own hard-earned money to buy some gems. If you can afford it, and you love Monster Legends, what’s stopping you? If you’re like me, though, you’re naturally resilient to the game’s attempt to weasel money out of you. Therefore, it’s important to plan your gem spending, and not give in to temptation.
Consecutive daily logins will help you to earn gems, as will completing the daily goals that you’re assigned (more on that, next!) Additionally, you’ll get gems as you slowly level up, but the key word here is slowly. You’re not going to get gems quickly unless you pay for them, so keep that in mind as you progress.
Of course, you’re going to need currency if you want to keep expanding your habitats and markets while also breeding more monsters. Every day, the game will give you a series of goals to complete that can net you the coins that you’ll need for proper upkeep. These are relatively easy, and just depend on your willingness to log in for a few minutes during your day and play the game!
Keep on top of your goals, and you’ll soon find yourself with plenty of just about everything except gems.
How does it always keep coming back to gems? Because it’s a free-to-play game; that’s why! Still, it bears mention that you can greatly increase your progress in Monster Legends by not using your gems to speed up your monsters’ hatching. It can be awfully tempting, I know. Sitting around, waiting for that egg to hatch is tedious, but you know what? Those gems are going to be a hell of a lot more useful later in the game when you encounter upgrades and items that require several of them.
Do yourself a favor, and let your monsters hatch at their normal speed. Make a sandwich. Bake some cookies. Go for a walk! Your experience later in the game will definitely thank you for it.
The monster breeding portions of the game can easily dominate your time and energy, but for most players, monster battling is where the real fun and rewards are at. It’s where you’re going to see the most payoff for your work, too. If you’ve spent a ton of time breeding great monsters, and you have a team with a great defense against many popular monster elements, then it’s time to throw down against other players.
You’ll have to have achieved a personal level of 10, but if you’re looking for a place to test out your beasts and also possibly gain rewards, this is the area of the game that you should be building towards. Be brave, knuckle down, and test your mettle!
Some say that you should start building your strategy as soon as you start playing the game, but I’m going to go right ahead and call foul on that! If you want to find yourself stuck in the middle of the road, with a strategy that seems half-assed and has proven itself ineffective, go ahead and start devising right off the bat. If you want to play it smart, wait to build your tried-and-true strategy until you’ve experienced every part of Monster Legends’ gameplay.
Breeding, building, arena battles and more are all important to experience if you want a solid strategy, and partaking in everything the game has to offer is the best way to learn which types of monsters are going to give you the greatest success!
Well, eager reader, what do you think? These top 10 tips and tricks (no “hacks” here) are designed to give every Monster Legends player a better chance of success, whether they’re newbies or veterans to the monster battler genre. They’re some of the best practices you can follow if you want to do well in the game, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t eager to hear yours! Post in the comments below with your own thoughts and tips!

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Apple-A-Day Care Center is our September Agency of the Month! We spoke with Bibi Nager, Director of Apple-A-Day Care Center, to talk about her childcare agency. Apple-A-Day is centrally located in the downtown Worcester area and offers a warm, home like setting for children.
We offer a Creative Curriculum to the children in our care and we work together with the parents and/or guardians to provide a full and fair opportunity for each child. We take seriously the answers to one of the questions on the “Development History and Background Information” form which asks parents/guardians to say what they would like their child to gain from their experiences at our agency. Based on the answers given, we provide experiences and opportunities to enrich and enhance each child’s cognitive, social/emotional, physical and creative development.
Besides being centrally located to the downtown Worcester area, Apple-A-Day Care Center has the appeal of “A Home Away from Home” because it is in a building which looks like a home. It lacks the sterile look and feel of some other centers and one can immediately feel the love, warmth, and security within its walls. We put our children and their families first, and strive to build strong and supportive relationships with them.
Our caring flexible and knowledgeable staff has worked and continues to work with children with some special needs. However, our building lacks structural requirements, which limits us to some extent.
Our educational philosophy is based on teaching our children through play and through the use of the creative curriculum. Our program is designed to meet the developmental needs of each child without discrimination and by providing a daily schedule filled with opportunities to create, explore, make choices, develop problem solving and social, personal interaction skills. Develop self help skills and work on concepts through first hand experiences.
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Known as the joker in the bunch JOE LEWIS talks catching his childhood heros, The Wiggles, smoking, The Daria theme song and playing Blink 182 on the piano.
MITCHELL DOCKER, professional rider with Orica Scott, talks 80s classics, losing his dad's trumpet and never being without a pair of emergency headphones.
JOHN is the mind behind brilliant website The Radavist, which has brought the cycling 'experience' to a massive audience and is leading a burgeoning new cycling scene.


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Emma Whisperer’s journey continues in this sequel to the Extinction series.
Happy Monday, humans! As you can see, I visited Miss Ashley for a grooming session this past weekend. I really like the blue feather she put in my hair.
With a job as a camp counselor, sixteen-year-old Nina heads to the wilderness for summer break.
Good morning humans and furbabies! I think it's been two weeks since my last post and things have been topsy-turvy for Mommy and me.


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Escaping wrongful imprisonment wasn't something Connor had in mind, but being put into stasis aboard Earth's first interstellar colony ship was something he couldn't have prepared for.
For 300,000 colonists, the new colony brings the promise of a fresh start...a second chance. Connor might be the wrong man for the colony, but he's the right man to see that it survives what's coming.
If you loved Old Man's War and Ender's Game, you'll love Genesis from First Colony, a new military science fiction series.
didnt finish it. knew the end within minutes. Seemed more about flirtations between unrealistic and obnoxious characters and not much else. not for me.
I very much enjoyed this audiobook, it has a good story. and a good ending.
I've read the first three books, so this reflects the initial trilogy as a whole. From these books I can deduce this: the author must be a Michael Bay fan. It's a story that sets up some flashy scenes, but you really need to pour on the suspension of disbelief to get through weaker parts.
It leans heavily on military culture, which in some parts does quite well. However it starts to fall apart as it increases in scope. I would bet that the author had been through boot camp, but then quickly exited service without ever seeing combat.
The storytelling is... not as grounded. A lot is borrowed from classic tropes and half formed story elements. Like a Michael Bay movie, they're presented in a way that you can still enjoy it, if you don't think about it so much.
It wants to be a mature sci-fi story, but it's not. But if you don't think of it as such and take it for an easy listen, you can get some enjoyment out of it.
Excellent read and excellent listen..
This is my first try at a book about actually going to another planet and setting up housekeeping, by 3000,000 earthlings. AND I really enjoyed it. But I probably enjoyed it so much because the narrator was awesome. I absolutely loved Connor’s voice and all his snarky, rude, sarcastic and sweet words. I liked Diaz too. He had a perfect Spanish accent. And the girl, (damn I forgot her name) sounded kind of German, and when a young man, Sean, spoke he did sound young.
Connor was a black ops team leader and when a mission went horrible wrong a friend of Connor’s father had Connor drugged and put in stasis for a trip to another galaxy because Will knew that Connor and his team were going to be blamed for millions of people dying on the space station where the battle took place with the Syndicate. So, Connor was in stasis for 200 years and 8 months. Needless to say, Connor had a really hard time believing it when he woke up.
Actually, all the battles were thrilling, especially the one the creatures they called Ryklars, who had like 4 arms and 2 legs and could run 130 miles an hour, all day long. There were other creatures and the description of them all was incredible.
It wasn’t a cliffhanger but it left it open for other books, which I will probably read. I mean, a fleet of “something” is heading their way and I have to know what it is. The fleet could be there in ten months or in ten years, nobody knows.
No romance of any kind and the F-bomb was used 1 time.
As to the narration: Scott Aiello was simply wonderful.
This is a pretty good story over all. The main character is heroic but human, and is surrounded by a cast of interesting, and distinct, supporting characters. I found the story line interesting enough that it kept me involved, and the author introduced several intriguing mysteries about the new world that could end up being central to the plot of future books, but either way, I hope he finds time to address. The gigantic threat looming over the colony, foreshadowed throughout the book, but not revealed until near the end, really sets this series up for a massive, and interesting "David versus Goliath" kind of finale.
The reader was great, had ten or more very distinct voices, including a couple different accents and several pretty decent female voices. He definitely enhanced the experience for me.
There are a few choices the author made with the story line that I thought were questionable (such as when an elite, nanobot enhanced, special forces commando is punched in the stomach by a middle aged female doctor, and it doubles him over in pain . . . as a lifelong martial artist who has been punched in the stomach thousands of times, and has decades of first hand knowledge about how little the average untrained person actually knows about throwing punches, that just didn't ring true to me), but mostly they are mild enough to let pass.
One decision the author made, however, has the potential to ruin the whole book for some readers, so it needs to be mentioned here. About 1/3 of the way into the story, the author decides to use the main character to give voice to his own personal feelings about religion and faith. The scene has nothing to do with the story, literally plays no role in the plot whatsoever, and serves no purpose other than to alienate half his readership.
A word of advice to new authors: if you're writing a story in which the characters are being oppressed by some evil religious leader, then a rant about the evils of religion would be appropriate to your story. If you're writing a story in which a future earth has been devastated by out of control weather, then a rant about global warming would be appropriate to your story. If you're writing a story about oppressed lesbians or transgenders, then a rant about LGBTQ rights would be appropriate in your story. But when you insert a sermon about religion, politics, sexuality, social justice or some other hot button topic of the day into a story and it doesn't have anything to do with the plot line, nor does it forward the story line in any way, all you are going to accomplish is to annoy half your potential readers. And even more to the point, you will likely convince some people, who were thinking about giving you some of their hard earned money for a few hours of entertainment, to spend their money elsewhere. It's a rookie mistake that experienced, popular authors don't make.
Overall, I wasn't annoyed enough to let it overshadow an intriguing and entertaining story, and I will likely continue with the series, but there are a lot of people out there who are tired of having their faith bashed by unbelievers, and might make a different choice.
Great start to a series! I will be getting the rest of this one. This is also the first time I have heard this narrator and he is really good. He does a great job of differentiating between the different characters.
it absolutely infuriates me when an author doesn't write a book they write an introduction to a book then they put a jacket on it and sell it as a book.
I read a lot of series. I don't mind a good series. I absolutely do mind when an author and publisher team up to defraud me by selling me an incomplete book and then Doling out the ending as a series.
I don't have any idea if this would have been a good book or not because it's not a book it's an advertisement for the series.
do not read this book if you are looking for an ending because you're going to have to pay a lot and wait a long time before you get that.
Best book for a nine year-old!
If you like to listen to narrators say things like: “Connor said,” “Ashley said,” “Shawn said,” “Grizzly said,” “Noah said,” “Juan said,” “Diez said,” and so on, this is the book for you. In fact, if you removed these combinations of words from this story, I estimate the audio book would be about 3 hours shorter. So there’s plenty of that kind of stuff to love in this one.
If you also like apparently uninformed, stereotypical, and unrealistic descriptions of military-like activities this is, again, a great source for you.
Finally, if you prefer your sci-fi to be heavy on fiction and very low on the science part, this book will not disappoint on that account either.
This is a great Sci-Fi story and I enjoyed it thoughrly. The narrator did a good job on the main characters but the secondary voices were so silly it became a distraction.
This book was a pinch slow to start, that aside it was a great book. With less the 20 min left in the audio book I purchased the next 2 in the series. I have no doubts they will be well worth it.
It was a plot that started bad and never got interesting. Could not finish it.
narrator lilts and emphasises at random, I couldnt even finish. I've listened to dozens of audiobooks on audible and this is really the first time the narrator completely ruined a book for me.
Dude seems to think random spots are very dramatic and other words are suddenly "overpronounced" so you can almost "hear" by his "random" reading that he doesnt understand the story. Or maybe its just sci fi. he tends to overenthusiastically pronounce anything fururistic.

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We work closely with schools on the cultural aspects of their international programs. The purpose of these seminars is to provide understanding of cultural differences so that faculty and staff can help Chinese students succeed.
In addition, these seminars provide an overview to American culture addressing such topics as family values and religion, the media and sports and recreation.


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To celebrate Payday’s third year anniversary, Overkill Software are holding Crimefest: an event with multiple reward milestones dictated by the amount of members from the Payday 2 Steam group. Today Overkill announced that they just hit over 1,050,000 members, and in doing so will be giving away the original Payday for free on October 18th.
The announcement came from the Payday 2 Steam group, which you’ll want to join if you want some free in-game loot.
The original game, Payday: The Heist, will be free to download and keep forever on October 18th, which is when Overkill’s Crimefest begins. There’s also a bunch more stretch goals to reach as the group grows such as DLC heists, day/night modes and new weapons.
If you’ve not picked up the game already, will you be grabbing it during Crimefest?


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HERMANN: A cow must observe, and a cow must speak. The cow will commit to that which the cow feels necessary. Years ago, I saved this very cow as a calf. Yes, he was once my own lower leg. We had to depart one another, torn ligaments and flesh do not always have the will to reconnect, though we sent flowers and chocolate with fake names and false sentiment. Unfortunately, a sharp blade is stronger than any attempt to patch up a broken body.
Hermann delicately draws back his kimono to reveal a prosthetic leg with the control of someone who has examined the controller on the children’s television series Thomas the Tank Engine. He has waited for this moment and his research has proven enough.
We had grown together and I couldn’t bear to see him go, I have never liked anything bear related even from childhood. I took my severed calf to the water, the local pool, and he began to swim. I fell asleep by the lapping waves of the children’s pool (I could not test my own leg with dangerous depths) and was shaken awake by pool attendants angered by my streaming blood. I was angered by my blood also, no semblance of control or cleanliness. They escorted me from the vicinity after I had collected as much blood as I could hold, which was very little, and I sat on a curb side mourning the loss of so much which was once a part of me. As I wept into a dirty handkerchief, a pool attendant called to me asking if I had lost a calf in the water. I nodded overwhelmed by all I had endured, and they led out a black cow with amethyst eyes. I was not sure whether my own calf had transformed, stronger than even apart from me or if this was simply a cow enthused by public swimming places. I took him by the lead in an effort to acquire something and we embraced, though the calf struggled without arms. My calf and I lived together but felt the distance that only different bodies can cause. What we lacked in closeness we salvaged in speech. The calf could not seem to grasp the English language so I become fluent in cow. As a child, he spoke in short haiku, and limerick. I discouraged the latter as I found them tiresome and simple. Perhaps I was too harsh on him in his younger years, there was a lyricism, a sense of beauty I did not understand back then. He was like a young leaf and I, an old tree. Never knowing that the leaf could one day be more than a leaf. Though most leaves do fall to the ground and shrivel in the dirt, so I was making informed decisions. I’ve never been one for basing outcomes on slight chances. I wonder now, if I have stopped my own calf from something bigger than subjective taste.
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Fashion for Paws Fundraising Events and Raffle Winners!
As many of you know on April 14th, at the National Building Museum, I will be modeling in the Fashion for Paws® (F4P) Annual Spring Runway Show benefiting the Washington Humane Society (WHS) with my rescue dog, Jake. Each model is required to raise a minimum of $5,000. Last week Jake and I had a very busy and successful week of fundraising at our two fundraising events: a happy hour at Sushi Rock and Spring Accessories for a Cause…Paws shopping event. We raised a total of $1,525, reaching our goal and helping to save animals one donation at a time.
If you have one of these numbers please contact Tuyen at tuyen@decorbydenise.com to claim your prize! Congratulations to all our winners. Also, thank you to everyone who has supported us. I look forward to seeing some of you at the show April 14th. Fashion for Paws has only raised 79% of their $625K goal. If you haven’t bought a ticket or made a donation, but still want to help save animals, go to our website today and show your support: http://support.washhumane.org/goto/DeniseWillard.
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Thanks Mom! Wish you were closer so that you could join us!!!


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Texaco Filling Station, Dublin Road, Cavan is a very busy filling station on the outskirts of Cavan town.
After seeing the benefits of the 11kw PV System which our team installed in Texaco on the other side of town Philip was keen to get an energy assessment done on the second filling station to achieve somewhat of the same savings which he was already seeing in Texaco on the Ballinagh Road.
On a 3 phase system the maximum amount of PV that they ESB will allow you to connect is 11kw without having to put on G10 relay.
An 11KW PV system with Van der Valk roof mounting kit along with Trina Solar was installed as it is a Tier 1 product on the roof of the filling station to offset emissions by generating on site.
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This PV installation will offset approximately 10,000 kwh of electricity per annum and will do this for at least 25 years with no maintenance.
The LED lighting has reduced Texaco lighting bills by 60% per annum.

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photo by Audrey Broomfield Jon Korin (left), president of Bicycle Advocates for Annapolis & Anne Arundel County, Mayor Gavin Buckley and Keli Hoyt-Rupert, whose company Pace brought the bikes to Annapolis.
Many drivers go right for Duke of Gloucester Street and the Noah Hillman Parking Garage.
The ambitious turn left on Green Street to head up one-way Main Street, where you can count yourself lucky if you land a spot.
To avoid using a car to get downtown, parking in an outlying garage and catching a bus or the free Circulator has been your main transit option besides walking.
On August 29, Annapolis kicked off a new way to move through the city.
Mayor Gavin Buckley heralded the arrival of new white-and-blue sharing bikes with a cruise down Duke of Gloucester. Pedaling alongside him were Anne Arundel County Executive Steve Schuh and Jon Korin, president of the nonprofit Bicycle Advocates for Annapolis & Anne Arundel County.
The bike share company is Pace, a dockless bike subsidiary of Zagster — which has bikes in more than 250 cities.
The three-year bike-sharing experiment places 50 bikes at nine different spots around Annapolis including county offices, the courthouse, Lowes Hotel and St. John’s College.
To use the bikes, you’ll need to download the free Pace app on your phone. After you create an account, you’ll be able to find a bike on the map. Unlock it and go. When you’re ready to get back on two feet, lock it at any public rack, or at one of the nine stocked Pace racks around the city. Once the bike is locked, your linked bankcard will be charged for the timed ride.
A 30-minute ride will cost you $1, but the bikes come to Annapolis with zero cost to the city or taxpayers.
Coca-Cola Consolidated, one of 68 U.S. franchises, is sponsoring the bike share program for three years. In return, “the rear wheel covers of the bikes will advertise our heath-conscious product, Dasani water,” says Eric Johnston for Coke Consolidated.
“This is a great example of private-public partnership,” said Mayor Buckley of the cost-free deal.
These 50 bikes are part of a bigger plan.
The ultimate goal is creating a bike network to mobilize the community by connecting all aspects of Annapolis.
On Friday, August 21, the city opened an experimental bike lane. The experiment will last 30 days, but — succeed or fail — it’s just the beginning of a much larger inter-jurisdictional plan in cooperation with Anne Arundel County.
With Anne Arundel County Executive Schuh, Buckley plans a bike network that will take riders from the historic district to neighborhoods all the way to Anne Arundel Medical Center. He’s further partnered with the state — the state owns West Street — to get bikers safely down West Street and beyond.
The bike network isn’t just for bikers. The paths will connect with Poplar Trail, and Buckley hopes people will use the infrastructure for walking or running.
The bike lane was first visible on Wednesday August 29, when parking spaces disappeared overnight from the south side of Main Street. In their place was a new bike lane separated from vehicular traffic by orange cones and painted lines.
The bike lane goes downhill toward City Dock. Pedaling against traffic was disconcerting I found, as I took one of the shiny new Pace bikes for a short ride. My panic grew when the lane curved inward near Gorman Street, leaving no room for even the slightest turn of my handlebars.
The lane ends before crossing Market Space and Green Street with no clear strategy for re-entering traffic. I ended my ride here rather than brave the circle to Compromise Street and beyond.
I found using the bike lane problematic, but unlocking and relocking the bike with Pace’s Bluetooth battery-powered lock was a breeze. That lock is one of Pace-Zagster’s strategies to solve problems that have beset dockless bike and scooter experiments in other cities. The concept took off three years ago in China and is spreading to cities throughout the United States. Washington, D.C., began its much-criticized bike share experiment in late 2017.
Pace’s retractible locking cord is long enough to allow the bike to be secured to any bike rack. Bikes — and, increasingly motorized scooters — placed by other companies like LimeBike, Ofo and Spin can be left anywhere. Those bikes are often tossed casually aside, and theft and vandalism is rampant.
“With bikes that can be left anywhere, people seem to be more disrespectful and bikes more vandalism-prone,” explained Pace’s area maintenance director Kevin Diamond.
Three wet weeks into the three-year experiment, bike sharing is getting a pass as the new experimental Main Street bike lane draws the wrath of local critics.
Many Annapolitans and Main Street business owners are displeased. Loss of business, lack of handicapped parking spots and pedestrian safety are some grievances Buckley heard at the City Council meeting on September 10.
Cynthia McBride, owner of McBride Gallery on Main Street, wrote a letter in the Capital Gazette imploring the mayor to stop the trial now.
Others are less cautious with their distaste for the lane. Some go as far as to say Buckley is single-handedly killing small business.
Even though the immediate uproar favors bringing back the left packing lane, some think Buckley has the right intentions.
“It’s a step in the right direction, maybe just the wrong execution,” says Rankin, the electric vehicle guru. He says Main Street should do away with cars altogether.

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What is the best host for a musician's website?
We are an unsigned band and would like to create a website, probably using Wordpress or a better platform fit for bands. Which host do you recommend that can handle all of the multimedia we would upload, as well as a store, and hopefully integration with sites like Soundcloud, Bandcamp, etc., and even better, a distribution deal to sell our music on iTunes and such?
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HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – For the seventh straight program Sunday at Gulfstream Park, the 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved to push the carryover jackpot to $197,569.67 for the return of live racing Wednesday, Dec. 12.
Post time for the 10-race program is 12:35 p.m.
A total of $133,857 was bet into the popular multi-race wager Sunday, which produced multiple winning tickets worth $3,028.28.
Wednesday’s Rainbow 6 sequence, which includes three races on Gulfstream’s newly refurbished turf course, will span Races 5-10 and drew a total of 68 entries or 11.3 horses per race.
There will also be a $1 Super Hi-5 carryover of $8,968.70 for Wednesday’s opener.
Who’s Hot: Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr., spending his first full winter in South Florida, won his first two races of the Championship Meet aboard Miss Harry ($6.20) in the third and Four K’s ($11.60) in the ninth.


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