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All great journalists immediately put you at ease. Clark Boyd, someone I’ve been extremely fortunate to have spoken to on a number of occasions, is one of them. Interviews feel more like chats over cups of coffee in the dentists waiting room than recorded interviews set to go out over the airways in the US (and beyond).
Clark recently got in touch and asked if I’d be interested in giving a little careers advice – not to him but to people interested in mobile, technology, Africa and so on. Never one to turn down the opportunity, we recently sat down for coffee at my village dentist and chatted over coffee. Since these are the kinds of questions I regularly get asked by students and others interested in my work, it seemed sensible to re-post it. So, here you go. Apologies for Clark’s choice of picture. The original post is here.
I have to say, this Wide Angle assignment was a tough one. In my nearly 6 years of covering technology now, I have to say I’ve come across quite a few people who have very, very cool jobs. But few people with those cool jobs have the drive, energy and determination that the man at right does. This is Ken Banks, and his online home is kiwanja.net. The tagline for the site says it all: “where technology meets anthropology, conservation and the development.” Ken is as close to a true “renaissance man” that I’ve come across in my forays into technology across the globe. His interests seem as wide and varied as his abilities. And the fact that he’s managed to somehow combine those interests and abilities into a career is, even to this jaded journalist, inspiring.
I’ve done stories on a number of Ken’s efforts in the past few years. The one that really grabbed my attention is a project Ken’s been working on called FrontlineSMS. So, for this Wide Angle Podcast, I begin by asking Ken to describe FrontlineSMS in his own words.

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Mexican vegan street-food specialist Club Mexicana have found a permanent home at Netil Market, London Fields, joining a selection of renowned street food shacks, crafts wares and curated articles stores.
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Lemmon Avenue Plastic Surgery & Laser Center is a luxury medical grade esthetic facility that combines every aspect of the cosmetic process to yield the best results for every patient. The comprehensive care of your body and its cosmetic goals is our first priority. Our highly trained team of plastic surgeons and specialists are dedicated to providing you with optimal results, best for your body and face. Patient safety is key, and all of our treatments, procedures, and products have been expert tested and approved with the highest grade of specialty. Our team includes registered nurses, plastic surgeons, highly-trained laser specialists, and MORE to cater to your individual, customized needs and results.
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Lemmon Avenue Plastic Surgery & Laser Center is a luxury medical grade aesthetic facility that combines every aspect of the cosmetic process to yield the best results for every patient. The comprehensive care of your body and its cosmetic goals is our first priority. Our highly trained team of plastic surgeons and specialists are dedicated to providing you with optimal results, best for your body and face. Patient safety is key, and all of our treatments, procedures, and products have been expert tested and approved with the highest grade of specialty. Our team includes registered nurses, plastic surgeons, highly-trained laser specialists, and MORE to cater to your individual, customized needs and results.

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This is a remarkable tourist submarine to be used in a marine tourism business or for private pleasure.
This SC-30 tourist submarines have the capacity to transport up to 28 passengers (and 2 crew) or 42 persons to a diving location, dive to a depth of up to 30 meters, explore the undersea world, surface, and return to port - all that under its own diesel or electric power. The SC-30 submersible is approximately 18 meters long, 6 meters wide, and weighs 47 tons. It is propelled by two diesel engines when on the surface, and by six electrical thrusters when submerged.
It is classified by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) as +A1 Passenger Craft, Submersible, Restricted Service +AMS. Its construction was supervised by ABS surveyors.
The SC30 sub is easy to pilot both on the surface and undersea. The submarine pilot needs to have a captain's license for a surface ship of similar tonnage, and an endorsement for operating this type of craft.
This SC-30 T-sub has certain significant advantages over other civilian submarine designs. Its dual diesel-electric propulsion gives it speed, range, and autonomy and is unique in its class. This eliminates the need for a second crew and boat to ferry the passengers to the diving location and also the need for a mid-sea boat- to-boat transfer. Its draft is only 1.5 meters (5 feet) and thus can use most marinas for docking. The presence of the SC-30 submarine in the marina between tours is a tourist attraction itself and helps to bring in passenger traffic. The large entry hatch on the aft- end of the cabin allows for any tourist, young or old, to be able to sign-up for the tour.
The annual gross earnings potential of this submarine is well over two million USD per year (based on a 270 day season, 7 dives per day schedule, with a 65% seat-occupancy factor). Additional sales of tourist items to the same customer base can increase this income by 10 to 15%. The before-tax profit potential is over one million USD per year.
You can own this SC-30 or SC-42 tourist submarine at a very attractive price. Included in the sale is a 20-foot support systems container that holds the battery charger, the fresh-air compressor, assorted tools and spares, and documentation. It is in excellent condition and its ABS class is current.

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What is depression? The main thing to remember is that sadness isn’t depression. People can be sad and not be depressed. They can be depressed without thinking they are sad. There are a lot of symptoms that must be present for at least two weeks before you can define it as depression and treat it as depression. That’s why you want to pay close attention to your moods and the time the moods are lasting to determine if it’s really depression.
Irritable – Many people who get depressed lash out at others and are very moody and irritable. If you’re lashing out and acting out and feeling moody, this can be a serious sign of depression.
Loss of Pleasure – If you’re not enjoying doing the things you normally do and cannot find anything to do that brings you joy as it used to, consider that depression may be the cause.
Weight or Appetite Changes – It’s not unusual for depressed people to see significant weight changes either up or down due to poor dietary habits.
Sleep Disturbances – Because many depressed people also experience anxiety, they can end up suffering from lack of sleep. But many depressed people also sleep too much, especially during times when they need to be doing something else.
Feeling Restless – Due to having anxiety in addition to depression, which is very common, many depressed people feel restless and they cannot figure out why or calm themselves.
Moving Very Slowly – Some depressed people act like they’re in a trance and not in a hurry to accomplish anything, from going to work, school, or even to that concert they really wanted to attend three months ago.
Sluggish Feelings – Often a depressed person will feel as if they cannot fully wake up, so they feel sluggish and as if they’re watching themselves in a movie do everything each day without getting any joy from it.
Very Low Energy – Even when the depressed person is doing things that should be fun and active, they don’t do it with any zest for life.
Feeling Worthless – As the depression gets worse, they often feel worthless because they’re not accomplishing their goals.
Having a Lot of Guilt – The low energy, worthlessness, and other feelings all lead to one of the most destructive emotions you can experience, which is guilt.
Inability to Focus and Concentrate – Everything going on in your head can prevent you from being able to concentrate on anything or remember the things you need to be doing.
Thoughts of Dying – Some depressed persons often think about dying and different ways they might die, from house fires to car wrecks or cancer.
Suicidal Thoughts – When someone is majorly depressed, the thoughts of dying will turn to thoughts of ending it all themselves. This is a time where a suicide hotline needs to be called.
If you are suffering from sadness instead of depression, often there is an event that led to it such as the death of a loved one. Having said that, a death can send you into depression too. Any life-changing event (even those that are normally happy) can lead to depression, which is why it takes a strong person to look honestly at their symptoms and wellbeing and decide to get help.
If you or a loved one is experiencing the severity described in the symptoms above, please consider getting professional assistance so that you can get well faster. Sometimes an imbalance in nutrition and vitamins in your blood can lead to serious problems. Other times there doesn’t seem to be any physical cause. It’s best for a professional to analyze the situation to help you determine the course to take.
While you’re waiting to see the professional, try getting outside and back to nature more. Don’t isolate yourself from others. Try to spend more time with people who make you feel good about yourself. Don’t set any large goals or make any major life changes until you feel back to normal.
So to answer the question “What is depression?” we need to look at many things. And if you ever feel as if you’re suicidal or homicidal, please call a hotline to get help. Hotlines are listed in the phone book, as well as online. Just look up your area suicide hotline, and you’ll find trained people to talk to that can lead you to support in your area.


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A week can be a long time for your kids to be away from home. Here are some fun ways to stay connected while your child is here at camp!
All mail will be delivered during lunch each day. Camp tradition says that any camper that receives 3 or more letters at a time gets to sing us a song! But don’t worry, no one has to sing alone! Please send your letter early enough in the week to ensure it arrives before your camper’s last day at camp. Because of the large quantity of camper mail received during the summer, any letters that arrive after a child has left camp will not be forwarded.
All camper emails will be printed and delivered during lunch. This is a great way to pass on any non-urgent messages to your camper. (Campers are not given access to computers to email you back. If they’d like to write a response it will come via physical mail).
Camp tradition says that any camper receiving a package gets to sing us a song! But don’t worry, no one has to sing alone.
If you intend to make a quick visit to your camper when you drop off your package, please call ahead and plan to comply with our visitor policy.
We do allow camper visits at Big Sky Bible Camp. For some children, seeing a loved one can help them get through the week away from home, but for others it can be a big distraction or cause severe homesickness. Therefore, we ask that you carefully consider whether a visit will help or hinder your campers experience at camp. If you do decide to make a visit, we simply ask that you follow a few simple steps and guidelines for the safety and well being of all of our campers.
Call ahead to schedule your visit. All visitations must take place between 12pm and 4pm. This is the most flexible part of your camper’s schedule, and ensures that a staff member will be available to meet you and bring your camper to the office.
When you arrive, check in at the camp office. Any visitors under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
A camp counselor will be informed of the visit and will bring your camper to the office for the visit.
Because we cannot complete background checks on every visitor, visitors must stay at the office location for the duration of the visit. This also helps avoid increased homesickness, which is oftentimes made worse when a camper sees another parent visit.
Although cell phones are not allowed at camp, you can get in touch with your camper by calling the camp office. We can either pass on a message to them, or arrange a time for them to come to the office and give you a call.

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Bible. Epistles of John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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The high Christology and unique pneumatology of John’s gospel has often eclipsed the apostle’s teaching on the relationship of the believer to Christ and the Father through the Spirit in Johannine studies. This dissertation seeks to fill this gap by providing an exegetically-focused treatment of sonship in the Johannine corpus that gives special attention to the role of the Spirit in bringing God’s children to participate in the life of the Son and his relationship with the Father. The central thesis is that John, in a manner distinct from Paul’s metaphor of adoption, presents the sonship of believer’s as the result of the Spirit’s work of regeneration out of which flows faith and participation in Christ’s life as Son. At the heart of this study are eight Johannine passages––John 1:12–13; 3:3–8; 14:16–23; 20:17; 1 John 3:1–3, 24; 4:13; and Revelation 21:7––that provide the exegetical lens to view the Spirit of Sonship in John. Although the exegesis of chapter 3 forms the foundation of study, chapter 2 considers the eight Johannine passages through the eyes of John Calvin and John Gill––both instrumental in advancing the theology of the Spirit and providing an exegetical foundation for their theology. Chapter 4 identifies three primary themes––obedience, love, and life––drawn from the eight passages and briefly synthesizes and correlates these themes with other key texts in the Johannine corpus. A brief survey of literature on sonship is reviewed in chapter 1, setting the landscape to which this dissertation seeks to contribute. By focusing on the role of the Spirit the persons of the Father and Son are not diminished, but brought into clearer focus, which is consistent with the Spirit’s ministry to glorify the Son (John 16:14). The Father is the divine initiator, the Son the divine accomplisher, and the Spirit the divine mediator of every spiritual reality that is in and through the Son to the believer. At the center of the Spirit of sonship is the glory of the Son who reveals the glory of the Father in the hearts of the children.


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The author describes his personal experience with, reactions to, and reflections on the Avatar program, founded in 1986 by Harry Palmer.
I was first introduced to Avatar at an evening workshop at a metaphysical bookstore in Bangor, Maine in the summer of 1997. Avatar, founded in 1986, is Harry Palmerï¿½s New Age spiritual, philosophical, and psychological organization. There were only three people (including myself) attending this event, and one of the people described what he heard as the ï¿½new est,ï¿½ Werner Erhardï¿½s popular New Age, large-group experiential organization prominent in the 1970s that merged Western psychology with Eastern spirituality.
Harry Palmerï¿½known to all Avatar students as simply Harryï¿½is a psychologist, ex-hippie, and ex-Scientologist. He professes to not be a guru, but Iï¿½m afraid that I do not entirely agree with him on this point, for Palmerï¿½s impact upon his followers is quite similar to that which Erhard had upon his followers in est.
And Palmer is an exceptional businessman who has made a fortune with Avatar. The costs of doing Avatar are quite high: The cost of my tuition for the 1997 course was $2,300, not including costs for traveling approximately 1,000 miles in my car over the nine days. The workshop leaders are called Avatar Masters, who all spend an additional $3,000 (not including the extra travel, motel costs, etc.) for an advanced Mastersï¿½ workshop. The Avatar Professional course is $2,500 plus extras. And for the supreme experience to be with the ï¿½most enlightened beings on the planet,ï¿½ the Avatar Wizardsï¿½ course costs $7,500 plus extras. Approximately 100,000 people have taken the Avatar training, and it is being offered in more than 60 countries all over the world. So, as you can see, Harry Palmer is quite the businessman.
Palmer has not written very much, and his writing style is quite terseï¿½but it is also quite high impact. His books have been translated into a number of different languages. His primary book is Living Deliberately, and his follow-up book is Resurfacing, which describes the first section of the three-section Avatar nine-day training course.  A few years ago he wrote The Mastersï¿½ Handbook,  which is presently available only to Avatar graduates (I am considered to be one of these enlightened beings). The Mastersï¿½ Handbook is chock full of excellent business advice on successfully selling and becoming a professional Avatar Master.
Palmerï¿½s marketing and salesmanship abilities remind me of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology (in my opinion a cultish organization, which I experienced for two years in the 1970s ). Hubbard and Palmer share many philosophical, spiritual, and psychological similarities, as well.
In July 1999, two years after I had done the nine-day Avatar training (without quite completing it) in the summer of 1997, I did a review and completion of the Avatar course. Avatar graduates commonly do a review of the training, and the review costs are reasonableï¿½in the neighborhood of $200.
Both my original Avatar course and my review course were quite meaningful to me. In particular, I like the way the Avatar masters encourage, support, and train you to not give up on your dreams. They call these your ï¿½primaries,ï¿½ and if the course goes well, you end up feeling as if you are capable of attaining your lifeï¿½s deepest goals, dreams, and desires.  The emphasis in these courses is very much upon going into your deepest spiritual self, referred to in Avatar as going into ï¿½source.ï¿½ This concept is not very different from the notion of empty mind, or Buddha consciousness, achieved thru meditation. The Avatar techniques to achieve this state of mind are actually quite simple and pleasant, having to do with feeling and noticing what is in your environment through a series of exercises called ï¿½feel its.ï¿½ Once you achieve this state of calm and relaxation, it is time to learn how to put total intention into overcoming the barriers to attaining your cherished goals. These barriers are called ï¿½secondaries.ï¿½ So the Avatar process can be described as going into source to eliminate your secondaries, in order to attain your primaries.
The bottom line of Avatar is that you decide how you feel and what you experience. In other words, you have the capability to control what you experience in life by coming from a place of source and visualizing what you want. This basic Avatar technique has remarkable philosophical similarities to the essential beliefs in both Neale Donald Walschï¿½s Conversations with God philosophy (see my essay ï¿½On Conversations with Godï¿½ in ICSAï¿½s E-Newsletter) and Helen Schumanï¿½s Course in Miracles.  But the nine-day training ground of Avatar is tremendously powerful and high impact, and extremely intensive.
I must also give credit to Avatar for not interfering in what a person decides his or her ï¿½primaryï¿½ to be. As for me, at the time of my training, I was in the midst of wanting to believe that the new relationship I was involved in was going to be the beautiful life-long relationship I so much wanted to experience. The Avatar masters at first tried gently to convey to me that the lack of communication in this relationship was a very poor sign for attaining my primaryï¿½in this particular relationship. But I was so stubborn and persistent that I refused to be open to what they were seeing, obviously more clearly than I was. However, true to Avatar form, they let me continue to work on making this goal my dominant primary and finding ways to attain it, though they did convince me to leave a little room for openness, in case this relationship turned out not to be the one for which I had been praying for such a long time. When the relationship did finally endï¿½about six months laterï¿½for many of the reasons my Avatar masters saw in advance, I felt a strong appreciation for Avatar for allowing me to experience the relationshipï¿½i.e., ï¿½chooseï¿½ to experience it, in Avatar languageï¿½in the way I apparently wanted to.
But what happens after the nine-day Avatar training ends? Well, there are the regular mailings of the Avatar journal every two months or so; the journal is full of inspirational writings by Harry Palmer and various Avatar graduates, Masters, and Wizards. And there are new books and tapes put out by Harry Palmer. But the real emphasis is on the Avatar graduate taking the next step: to do the Avatar Mastersï¿½ course and become an Avatar Master himself/herself.
Aside from the extreme expense involved in the Mastersï¿½ course, my basic feeling after having completed the Avatar review course was that I already had what I wanted to get out of Avatar. There are some valuable tools in the Avatar trainingï¿½make no mistake about this. But the follow-up courses in Avatar are financially exorbitant, and I could see the dangers of becoming addicted to Avatar if I were to succumb to these temptations. However, it was also true that I had gotten a jolt from Avatar that I had not experienced from anywhere else in quite the same way. This high-impact jolt, coupled with a smooth sales pitch from one of the Starsï¿½ Edge trainers (the elite of Avatar) at a vulnerable time in my life, persuaded me to go to California in May 2001 to do the Avatar Mastersï¿½ course.
The Avatar Mastersï¿½ course was held in a luxurious hotel in the plush surroundings of the island of Coronado, outside of San Diego. I spent approximately $5,000, including hotel and transportation, and maxed out my credit cards to take this training. Why did I do it? I suppose I was ready to take a plunge into something uplifting and self-supporting after having gone through an extremely upsetting personal experience in a romantic relationship that involved losing important aspects of my self. And it was most certainly a plunge: 200 people, many of these Avatar masters reviewing the course, from all over the world. Six Starsï¿½ Edge trainers and three assistant Starsï¿½ Edge trainersï¿½the elite of Avatarï¿½were running the course. And we even got a surprise visit from none other than Harry Palmer himself and his quite-intense wife, Avra.
I ended up completing the course with only an Assistant Avatar Mastersï¿½ license, however, which meant that I could not teach Avatar to others. I would have had to do a review of the Mastersï¿½ course to upgrade my status, which would have meant a few thousand more dollars for hotel and transportation, even though the review course itself would be free.
What actually happened on this course? Well, I got myself into a great deal of trouble with the Starsï¿½ Edge trainer who appeared to have the most power and influence over who was given the privileged status of becoming an Avatar Master and allowed to teach Avatar. I was quite outspoken in my concern over the expense of Avatar and the emphasis on selling Avatar to find my own students, and I freely questioned the Starsï¿½ Edge trainers about how much money they were making for delivering the Mastersï¿½ course. The particular Starsï¿½ Edge trainer with whom I had my difficulties took offense at my brazenness and became suspicious that I was taking the course for fraudulent purposes. He even asked me if I was a reporter for The New York Times. He gave me various ï¿½self-repairï¿½ processes to work on, but I have no doubt that, in the end, he was not willing to trust me to deliver Avatar to others.
In fact, I was being open to becoming a truthful and bona fide Avatar Master, and I had even formulated a plan to co-deliver Avatar with a woman who was a professional sales/marketing director from Cincinnati. She was going to do the sales/marketing part and I was going to lead the actual teaching. We had planned to do the Section 1/Resurfacing part of the course in Cincinnati on a weekend in August 2001.
But all of this fell by the wayside once the course trainers gave me my Assistant Master status. It is true, as they tried to explain to me, that my status could have been lower: Some students got no license at all. The only benefit of my status compared to having no license was that I was allowed to ï¿½assistï¿½ a Qualified Master (official status with many Avatar requirements) on an Avatar course, which I would need to pay for unless I brought my own students. I was one of the first ones to finish the actual course (which, in terms of content, was little more than the original Avatar training course). I received many compliments on how I was working with other Avatar students and masters, and many people who were not completing the course as quickly as I were given the higher licensing status of Intern Master, which enabled them to teach the Section 1/Resurfacing weekend.
I felt extremely hurt, embarrassed, and dejected when the leaders told me my status, and my efforts to persuade them to reconsider fell upon deaf ears. But deep down I knew that there was a good, higher reason for this, and it was a signal to me that I was not supposed to be taking the easy way out and become a bona-fide Avatar Master, feeling the comforts and camaraderie of being part of a New Age spiritual organization, learning how to be a successful New Age businessman, selling Avatar to the world, and so on. I had chosen to be myself at the Avatar Mastersï¿½ course, and I got what I got. I had chosen to not sell the ideas of Harry Palmer to the world because I had so many problems with the financial ethics, and I also felt uncomfortable with some of the philosophical beliefs and practices.
I think back to my essays on Scientology, described in my book Modern Religions: An Experiential Analysis And Exposï¿½, in which I discuss the problems with the 100% mentalityï¿½that is, in the case of Scientology, following 100% the ideas and techniques of the person in charge, L. Ron Hubbard. And I realize that Avatar is essentially no different from Scientology in this regard. Harry Palmer has come up with some significant and effective ideas and techniques to help people actualize their dreams. But the procedures are to be repeated verbatim according to Palmerï¿½s instructions, from Source List, to the Creative Handling Procedure, to the Initiation Session. This verbatim repetition most certainly reminds me of the Dianetics Auditing sessions of Scientology, and I have no doubt that it is far more than a mere coincidence that these similarities of procedure exist between Scientology and Avatar, given that Palmer himself is an ex-Scientologist.
So the viewpoint I choose to adopt (in Avatar language) is that my low status of Assistant Avatar Master enabled me to make a narrow escape from yet another New Age spiritual organization. I had spent roughly $8,000 on Avatar, and there was an intensive sales pitch at the Avatar Mastersï¿½ course to sign up for the next Avatar Wizardï¿½s course, the 13-day training in Florida that costs $7,500 plus all the extras.
But I have learned so muchï¿½both about Avatar and about the dangers of New Age spirituality in the 2000s. To paraphrase the first statement on the Avatar Source List: I am happy to be who I am. And this ï¿½Iï¿½ has been telling me that it is time to go back into actionï¿½not do any more course work on Avatar, and not teach Avatar officially to others. Instead, it is time to offer to others what I have learned about Avatar and all my other New Age spirituality studies, and to facilitate heartfelt dialogue and discussion concerning the search for authentic spiritual truth.
 See For example Adelaide Bry, ï¿½Est: 60 Hours That Transform Your Lifeï¿½ (New York: Avon Books, 1976), Steven Pressman, ï¿½Outrageous Betrayal: The Real Story Of Werner Erhard, From est To Exileï¿½ (Emeryville, CA: St. Martins Press, 1993), and my est essays in Elliot Benjamin, ï¿½Modern Religions: An Experiential Analysis And Exposï¿½ï¿½ (Swanville, Maine: Natural Dimension Publications, 2005).
 See Harry Palmer, ï¿½Living Deliberatelyï¿½ (Altamonte Springs, Florida: Starsï¿½ Edge International, 1994) and Harry Palmer, ï¿½Resurfacingï¿½ (Altamonte Springs, Florida: Starsï¿½ Edge International, 1994).
 See Harry Palmer, ï¿½The Avatar Mastersï¿½ Handbookï¿½ (Altamonte Springs, Florida: Starsï¿½ Edge International, 1997).
 See for example L. Ron Hubbard, ï¿½The Modern Science Of Mental Healthï¿½ (Los Angeles: The American Saint Hill Organization, 1950, 1975), Joe Atack, ï¿½A Piece Of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics, and L. Ron Hubbard Exposedï¿½ (New York: Lyle Stuart, 1990), and my Scientology essays in ï¿½Modern Religionsï¿½ (book information in endnote 1).
 For more personal information about my experiences with Avatar see my Avatar essays in ï¿½Modern Religionsï¿½ ï¿½ endnote 1.
 See Foundation For Inner Peace, ï¿½A Course In Miraclesï¿½ (New York: Penguin Books, 1975, 1996), Neale Donald Walsch, ï¿½Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue: Book 1ï¿½ (New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1993), ï¿½Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue: Book 2ï¿½ (Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co, 1997, and Book 3, 1998), Elliot Benjamin, ï¿½On Conversations With Godï¿½ (ICSA E-Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004 at http://csj.org/infoserv_articles/benjamin_elliot__conversationswithgod.htm, and my Course In Miracles and Conversations With God essays in ï¿½Modern Religionsï¿½ ï¿½ see endnote 1.
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The Georgienne loafers are simplicity at it's best!Available in a variety of leather uppers.Closure: slip onEasy slip-on wear.Pointed toe.Man-made lining.Lightly-padded footbed. Man-made sole and outsole. Imported. Measurements: Weight: 4 oz Product measurements were taken using size 37.5 (US Women's 7.5), width B - Medium. Please note that measurements may vary by size.Weight of footwear is based on a single item, not a pair.
The Georgienne loafers are simplicity at it's best! Available in a variety of leather uppers.Easy slip-on wear.Pointed toe.Man-made lining.Lightly-padded footbed. Man-made sole and outsole. Imported. Measurements: Weight: 4 oz Product measurements were taken using size 37.5 (US Women's 7.5), width B - Medium. Please note that measurements may vary by size.Weight of footwear is based on a single item, not a pair.


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Earlier this month, SDI, in partnership with Penn State’s Center for Supply Chain Research, The Hackett Group, Dryden and Ascend Performance Materials hosted this year’s first quarterly Innovation Symposium. The theme this quarter was Tail Spend: The eProcurement Perspective.
Over 50 Procurement professionals from manufacturing, education and industrial supply came together at SDI headquarters in Bristol, Pennsylvania to dive into the different approaches to managing tail spend.
From a research perspective, Kurt Albertson, Principal in The Hackett Group’s North American Procurement advisory talked about tactical sourcing, self-service in respect to the digital transformation and how driving self-service spend to eCatalogs will drive more value. He outlined a multitude of different approaches to start getting tail spend under control.
Lauren Bechtel, Program Director from Penn State’s Center for Supply Chain Research outlined the 45 different activities that inform the 7 pillars of MRO best practice and talked about how leaders are prioritizing master data management, total cost of ownership evaluation and KPI reporting.
Carole Wendt, CPO from specialty chemical manufacturer, Ascend Performance Materials, brought it home by sharing how she brought 5 disparate manufacturing plants across the country into a single program to manage their tail spend, focusing on service agreements to drive speed to value.
Finally, Brian McDevitt, Principal from The Dryden Group, talked about focusing on process and the supply base to find value. He outlined how the challenges in indirect spend and tail spend can lead to margin creep and talked about measurable pricing methodologies to help avoid nebulous terms and creep.
Watch the full presentations on SDI’s YouTube channel.

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Save 33% On Your Energy Bill With A Programmable Thermostat… I Did!
Looking to save a couple hundred dollars this year in about 30 minutes?
Install an EnergyStar certified programmable thermostat.
About a year ago I decided to experiment with a programmable thermostat in my home. The result, after 1 year: big savings.
My energy company (and your’s probably will too) gives me a side-by-side comparison of how many kWh of electricity I used in the current month and to the current month one year ago.
The best part is that I’ve noticed a trend. My energy bills are significantly less each month this year than they were in the same month last year — especially as the temperature starts to rise.
What Makes Programmable Thermostats So Great?
Programmable thermostats give you the ability to designate pre-programmed temperature changes in your home.
Won’t your home be sweltering if you even increase its temperature during the day by a measly 2 degrees in the summer?
Well, yes… or no. It won’t matter if you work a regular 9-to-5 job and no one is home during the day, but what if you have an irregular schedule due to working from home, having a swing shift, being a stay at home mom, etc? More on that later.
7 Day Schedule – This allows you this most flexibility in your settings. With this feature (instead of the 5+2 or 5+1+1 schedule options) you can set all weekdays together with different weekend setting OR you can set each day to it’s own program (works well if you have an irregular schedule and work from home, like I do).
Temporary AND Vacation Hold – Temporary hold allows you to override the pre-programmed setting for a short period of time. The “hold” will be canceled at the next pre-set cycle. Vacation hold allows you to suspend your current settings and implement a different, more efficient temperature setting while you’re away for a few days. Best of all, your home will be back to normal on the day you return. Sweet huh?
Backup Battery Power – It’s a good idea to have this feature so that in the event of a power failure, you will not have to reprogram your thermostat.
For my home and specific HVAC system, I chose the Hunter 7-day programmable thermostat.
It has all the above mentioned features plus some other handy features. Perhaps one of my favorite additional features it has is an air filter monitor that reminds me when it’s time to change the filter. This is vitally important to efficient heating and cooling!
Two of the most prominent manufacturers of programmable thermostats are Honeywell and Hunter.
Don’t make the mistake that I made and cost yourself more time and money.
Before installing your new programmable thermostat, shut off the power to your unit by flipping the breaker at BOTH your fuse box and indoor portion of your HVAC unit.
If you do that, you can install your new programmable thermostat in about 30 minutes.
Have you ever had a programmable thermostat in your home? If so, how did you like it?

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What Good are Flying Robots?
There are many conceivable uses for small, flying robots. The most significant would be to assist in areas or situations that are dangerous to humans. For example, they are perfect for viewing disaster areas, but they can do more than just provide visuals. Robots can carry detection systems to test for hazardous chemicals, radioactive isotopes, or biological agents, and transmit that information or store the data and bring it back with them. They can also be used to create a temporary, secure communication system with a relay antenna.
So why insect bots, rather than bird bots? They can be quickly and inexpensively mass-produced with the pop-up method, and the same lightness that makes insect bots unstable in-flight is also what gives them their characteristic agility. The primary questions of development are now just matters of controlling the bot’s flight and prolonging mission time by figuring out a way to perch and take off.
Researchers have tried many different approaches to perching, from gripping mechanisms, directional adhesives, lever systems, chemical adhesives, magnets, needles, and microspines, but these tests have been done with the larger bird-sized bots.1 Many of these methods have issues with irreversibility or applicability with insect bots.
The researchers behind this paper realized that, since the insect bot is so light, using electrostatics to adhere the insect bot to a perch is a perfect fit. This method would not be feasible for the larger bird-sized robots. The electrostatic adhesion is based on the attraction of like charges and repulsion of opposite charges. The principle behind the method is similar to how a balloon adheres to a surface after you rub it against your hair. Rubbing the balloon against your hair adds electrons (negative charge) to the balloon from your hair that stay put on the balloon because of the insulating material it is made of. When you bring the balloon near a surface, it pushes the electrons near the surface away (polarizes it) because like charges repel and electrons can be moved somewhat easily, whereas the positive protons in the nucleus of an atom in a solid don’t move significantly through the solid. The negatively charged balloon then feels an attraction to the surface that is more positively charged (opposite charges attract). Linked below is a PhET simulator you can test out and “see” this electrostatic property in action4. Notice that the “pull” between two objects depends on both the amount of charge AND the distance between charges.
To get a feel for this yourself, you can experiment with electrostatics using this flash simulator from UC Boulder's PhET project!
For the insect bot, a circular electrode patch with interlaced electrodes was used. It looks similar to the diagram shown below. The copper color in the diagram represents conducting copper wire. By maintaining a constant voltage across the two terminals, charges are built up on the electrodes. There are regions of both positive and negative charges. When the electrode, covered with a thin film, is brought near a surface, the positive charges attract negative electrons in the surface and pull them toward it. The negative charges push the electrons in the surface back, resulting in an opposing oppositely charged surface that the electrode is attracted to.
A diagram of an interdigitated circular copper electrode which is used to create a static charge, allowing it to cling to just about any surface.
To “unstick” the robot, all that is necessary is to turn off the voltage across the circular electrodes, allowing the charge to redistribute.
This works surprisingly well for adhering the insect bot to just about any surface. The researchers tried plywood, leaves, glass, and metal of various roughness. However there are some issues that affect how well this works. One issue is humidity. A balloon electrostatically held to a wall can not stay there too long on a humid day, because water molecules in the air can easily attract and carry away an electron charge. This occurs with the insect bot as well, and ends up decreasing the energy supply at a faster rate. Another issue is roughness of the surface the robot is trying to adhere to—if the surface is very rough, then the distance between the charged electrode and the low points of the rough surface can significantly reduce the electrostatic pull.
By far, the biggest difficulty that arises with perching is how the bot is affected when it nears a perching surface. Imagine an upward moving elevator nearing the desired floor. It should slow down and stop, but what if the upward force suddenly increased? An increase in the upward force would make the elevator go faster in the upward direction rather than slower. This is what the researchers found to happen with their insect bot. The researchers note more than a 40% increase in the lift force as the insect bot approaches a perching surface!1 They studied bees landing to a perched position and noted that bees seem to come in with a speed that decreases linearly with the distance to the perching surface.
To handle the increase in force and avoid crashing into a perching surface, the researchers mounted a light, springy, tube-shaped, polyurethane foam “bumper” on the robot, and then mounted the electrode to the foam.
A photograph of the robot showing the yellow "bumper" under the electrode.
They also realized by studying bees, that the insect bot should hover under the surface, stabilizing its flight, before trying to perch and just after take off. The video that the researchers included in their report shows footage of the insect bot perching and taking off of various materials.1 The materials in the video include plywood, glass, and a leaf. The video is shown in real time and then at one-eighth the speed. The quarter is there just to give an idea of the size.
The researchers note that there are many challenges for insect-like robots due to their size, which also means a reduced size of detectors, power supply, and the difficulty of controlled flight, but they note that there are many advantages to overcoming these difficulties.1; The researchers also point out that electrostatic adhesion may be useful for crawling insect robots to climb on vertical or inverted surfaces.
4. PhET Simulator. University of Colorado at Boulder.


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Most of the time, Dyspnea (trouble breathing or shortness of breath) is a symptom of an underlying cardiac condition, such as heart disease or asthma. If you experience shortness of breath please see NYC cardiologist, Dr. Ghalchi of Manhattan Cardiovascular Associates in New York a heart doctor immediately. Do not dismiss it as something you ate or just because you climbed the stairs. Our diagnostic cardiology NYC center is equipped with latest technologies to produce the most accurate diagnosis.
Dyspnea is the clinical name for shortness of breath or labored breathing. When you have trouble breathing, it typically stems from either heart or lung issues. It can be painful as you struggle to catch your breath.
If your dyspnea or shortness of breath is severe, seek medical attention from cardiovascular doctor or heart specialist in NYC immediately.
When the trouble, difficulty breathing started, were you at rest, exercising, or doing some other activity?
Did the difficulty breathing come on gradually or start abruptly?
Your answers may hint toward specific causes. Based on your symptoms, your heart doctor can then focus on either cardiac or non-cardiac causes as the possible reason for your dyspnea.
Tying your shortness of breath to a heart-related cause is just the first step. Next, your NYC cardiologist has to narrow it down to a specific diagnosis so Dyspnea treatment can begin.
Arrhythmia, simply put, is an irregular heartbeat. While not everyone experiences symptoms when they have an arrhythmia, trouble breathing or shortness of breath can be one indicator of this heart condition.
Valvular heart disease cardiovascular doctors refer as damaged or defective heart valves as a result you can experience a heavy breathing.
Pericardial disease is an inflammation of the pericardium, which is the sac or outer membrane of the heart.
Cardiac tamponade means that there’s fluid between the pericardium and the heart, causing constriction.
Heart failure, or congestive heart failure (CHF) means your heart is having a hard time keeping up with the demands of your body and is not pumping efficiently. You might experience labored or heavy breathing.
Heart attack is a serious cardiac event whose symptoms can include shortness of breath. If you think you have labored or trouble breathing or might be having a heart attack, seek cardiovascular doctor attention and cardiology treatment immediately.
Coronary artery disease is defined as a narrowing of the arteries leading to the heart, usually from a buildup of plaque on the artery wall, which also contributes to the arteries hardening and difficulty breathing problems.
Shortness of breath is not always related to the heart. The list of non-cardiac causes is extensive. This is why it’s important to see a cardiovascular doctor or cardiologist NYC when you have trouble breathing. Do not dismiss it as something you ate or just because you climbed the stairs.
Pulmonary disease is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases associated with the lungs. The most common is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, also known as COPD.
Ears, nose and throat (ENT) issues can also cause trouble breathing. The most common ENT cause of dyspnea (difficulty breathing) is airborne allergies.
Surprisingly, gastrointestinal issues can cause of shortness of breath. Symptoms associated with GERD include chest pain, coughing and shortness of breath in severe cases.
Asthma is characterized by not being able to get enough air into your lungs – difficulty breathing.
Pneumothorax translates to a collapsed lung, a very serious medical condition that impairs your ability to breathe.
Pneumonia, when the illness is far enough along, can leave you feeling short of breath.
Your NYC cardiologist at Manhattan Cardiovascular Associates first works to discern if your dyspnea is due to a heart condition. If not, the cardiologist NYC can then perform further evaluations or refer you to another NYC specialist to determine the cause of your difficulty breathing symptoms.
Electrocardiogram, often referred to as an EKG or ECG. This non-invasive test monitors the electrical pulses of the heart for abnormalities.
Echocardiogram, or Echo, another non-invasive test. This test uses sound waves to reveal real-time images of the heart so the cardiovascular doctor can see the chambers, the size and the shape of the heart.
Heart stress test, which involve putting your body through intense activity, such as walking fast or running on a treadmill. The heart specialist monitors the heart’s reaction and functioning through use of electrodes.
Pulmonary function tests comprise a group of non-invasive tests to determine how well your lungs are functioning. These tests measure capacity, the exchange of gases and the like.
Most of the time, trouble breathing is a symptom of an underlying condition, such as heart disease or asthma, that the cardiology specialist treats. Do not ignore even small signs. Make an appointment with a leading Dyspnea treatment specialist in NYC, cardiologist Dr. Ghalchi for proper diagnosis and cardiac treatment.
Quite smoking cigarettes. Once you quit smoking, every day your body makes improvements. In as few as twenty-four hours, your risk of coronary artery disease and heart attack are already on the decline. In just three weeks, you should be able to exercise without breathing heavily. Quitting cigarettes is one of the most beneficial things you can do to improve your breathing.
Lose the excess weight. If your cardiologist in NYC or heart specialist has classified you as overweight, it’s in your best interest to shed pounds and lighten the load placed on your heart.
Stay away from noxious fumes and pollutants, which can irritate and even harm your lungs. Toxins in the air can cause you to have difficulty breathing.
Use common sense. Take care of any underlying medical issues, follow all of your heart doctor’s instructions, make sure any equipment you use to help you breath is in good working order and have a plan in place that you’ve worked out with your heart specialist in case your symptoms suddenly get worse.
When you come into Manhattan Cardiovascular Associates of New York City, you get state-of-the-art diagnosis and personal attention. Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing can have many different underlying causes, so it’s important to see a NYC heart doctor or cardiologist at Manhattan Cardiovascular Associates of New York as soon as you can if you’re experiencing dyspnea.
Talk to your New York City Cardiologist if you are at greater risk for Dyspnea and their accompanying symptoms such as shortness of breath.
Do you have questions about Dyspnea or shortness of breath? Would you like to schedule an appointment with the best rated cardiologist in NYC, Dr. Michael Ghalchi, please contact our Midtown Manhattan office. For more tips and techniques for preventing shortness of breath or Dyspnea treatment make an appointment at NYC Cardiology, Manhattan Cardiovascular Associates of New York.
Dr. Michael Ghalchi is a leading NYC's heart doctor, board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, nuclear cardiology, and is the founder of Manhattan Cardiovascular Associates located in Midtown, NYC.


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On November 5-6, 2018, Ankara hosted the 7th Turkish Wind Energy Congress TWEC 2018, organized by the Turkish Wind Energy Association - TUREB.
About 2000 participants including representatives from Ministers of the Republic of Turkey, state and international institutions, wind manufacturers and wind energy companies were engaged in knowledge exchange, thought-leadership and debate in order to further the Turkish wind industry’s success. The agenda of the two-day congress included a wide range of issues and challenges facing the sector, from development plans for the next 5-10 years, further support for the national wind energy industry to holding auctions and financing.
Over the past 12 years, Turkish wind energy sector has achieved significant success - from 50 MW of wind power capacity in 2006 to over 7 GW - by mid of 2018. About 3 GW are now under construction. The plans for further wind development in Turkey, adopted by the government are quite ambitions - to reach at least 16 GW by 2027, with annual additions of 1 GW .
There is a growing interest among Turkish wind market stake-holders in the Ukrainian wind market. For the third consecutive year, Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association, participated in the Turkish Wind Energy Congress. His this year presentation at TWEC 2018 was mostly devoted to the investment attractiveness of the wind energy market of Ukraine, with focus on the national wind market opportunities for Turkish investors.


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It’s been a while since I did any of these, but this post has been sitting in my drafts for more than a month, so it’s About Time, don’t you think?
I picked this up on Kindle Unlimited and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s got zombies, vampires, inexplicable magic and an old grudge in a teeny tiny midwestern town.
I didn’t really love the romance at the center of this story, but otherwise I really liked it. Matthews did a great job keeping me on the edge of my seat.
I read a short story in this universe in The Underwater Ballroom Society anthology and loved it, so I grabbed Snowspelled the next time it went on sale! I was not disappointed and I’m looking forward to the next novel in the series, which is already out and waiting on my kindle!
I particularly can’t wait for the larger roles of several queer side characters, and to see all these ladies take over the world.
I think I would have enjoyed this more if I hadn’t already watched the series. This basically retells the first season of Carmilla without adding anything to it, which was a little disappointing for me. I think it will be for fans of the series as well. I also don’t remember LaFontaine being misgendered quite so often in the show as they were in this novel version, which bothered me a lot.
Disclaimer: All links to Indiebound, The Book Depository and Amazon are affiliate links. If you buy through those links, I will make a small amount of money off of the sale.

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Quiz: How well do you know the names of downtown Minneapolis buildings?
2. Now known as SPS Tower, this handsome 1987 structure was supposed to be one of two identical towers. The second was never built. What was its name?
3. Capella Tower is part of a complex that includes the Star Tribune Building. What was it called when it opened in 1992?
7. The Northwestern National Life Building, an elegant modern version of an ancient Roman temple, was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, architect of the original World Trade Center. What is it called now?

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Springfield Medical Care Systems welcomes Gerald A. Drabyn, MD, FACS. Dr. Drabyn is a board-certified plastic surgeon with more than 35 years of experience in hand, skin, burn and other cosmetic surgeries.
Drabyn works with children as well as adults, and specializes in cleft lip and palate surgery, cosmetic surgery and breast augmentation, reduction and reconstruction. He will offer plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgery services at Springfield Hospital.
Drabyn holds a Doctor of Medicine from Indiana University Medical School, Indianapolis, Ind. He completed his general surgery residency at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, and his plastic surgery residency at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.
Drabyn is now scheduling appointments at his office at the Ellsworth Memorial Health Center, 55 VT 11, Main St., in Chester. To schedule an appointment, call 802-886-8940.


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Don’t even think about not having videos on your website. It’s 2014 and if you want to be successful with your audience, videos must be a part of your marketing strategy.
The first thing a video on your website does is grab your visitor’s attention. It’s easier to watch a video than it is to read through a lot of text. Visitors are more likely to click on a video, than they are to read the text. This is why today it’s considered such an effective tool.
Another lesser known fact, is that by having a video on your website, makes it more likely to get your website ranked higher in search engines, than your competition. When you consider the effort website owners put, into getting their website ranked high in Google and other search engines, few understand that by adding videos to the mix, along with necessary SEO terms and keywords, will rocket them to the top more quickly than any other SEO marketing tactic.
YouTube is soon expected to become the most popular source for internet traffic search results in 2014. It’s currently the second largest search engine in the world; Google currently is in the number one spot. Consider the importance of YouTube having over 4 billion viewers of videos every single day. That works out to more than 800 million unique viewers going to YouTube on a monthly basis. Can you afford to lose that audience and the potential it could bring to your business? This is proof positive that people want to see videos, and shows you how powerful they are when incorporated into your website.
Website owners face a unique challenge when it comes to embedding a YouTube video into their website. Often, the default code which YouTube provides for embedding into your website does not look the way you need it to look. Below we look at ways to help you avoid this problem and show you easy ways to embed your videos into your website.
The simplest way to embed a YouTube video into your WordPress website, is to grab the embed code from YouTube, and paste it into a text widget, located on your post or page in WordPress. Before we show you how to do this, you’ll need to go to YouTube, load any video, and then you’ll be ready to proceed to the steps below.
Click on the share function.
Now you’re ready to go back to your website and paste the HTML code into your text widget in your post or page in WordPress.
NOTE: If you are in editing mode for a post or a page, make sure you paste it into the Text editor.
showinfo=0 – Will not show the video title at the top.
modestbranding=1 – This will reduce the size of the YouTube logo on the video.
theme=light – Use a light color theme instead of the default dark color theme.
Let me demonstrate how this would work.
Taking it a step further, I can add controls=0 which which will hide the control bar at the bottom of the video.
I hope you find this information useful and the task of embedding YouTube videos on your site less frustrating.

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Brian Flannery follows along with Daniel Wertheim's blog post about the NATS protocol.
One of the nice things about NATS.io (an open source messaging system for microservices, IoT, and Cloud Native messaging) is the simplicity of the protocol. As a developer, you can very quickly get NATS running and understand it; this is in contrast to traditional messaging systems, which can introduce complexity and operational complexity. This focus on simplicity makes it very well suited for modern distributed systems.
Daniel Wertheim is a community developer who has written several excellent posts on his blog about NATS.
Here is the 1st in his series of posts.
Just had a quick glance at NATS and its protocol and I said: "OMG, it's like so simple and therefore so tremendously beautiful. Why? I told you. It's simple. And I can read it. As in read it and understand it without having to read a boring specification about a binary fixed protocol format."
New relevant post: "Simple incoming OP parser for Nats in C#"
Simple, right? Which seems to be the characteristics of NATS. It's trying to be simple in the way that it doesn't try to support every use case found in an enterprise scenario. But, hey, I just started looking into it.


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Automatically unsubscribing from feeds? Blasphemy! Right?
Ratings: Each feed gets a rating from 0 to 5 *’s. This allows me to easily hit my aggregator and just view the important feeds. If I have more time to spare, I can view the lesser rated feeds. I’ve found this to be pretty valuable in managing my attention. I also set any new subscription to 5 *’s to start with, so it’s immediately in my face, and I can drop it down to a lower level if needed.
Polling Frequency: The other big feature I added was individual polling frequencies, so I can set how often a feed is polled. I’ve really only got a handful that are set to 60 minutes (1 hour is probably the minimum for hitting other people’s feeds.) This allows me to up the frequency for feeds I might be in control of, that exist on my server, from my applications. In this case, I’d hate to be limited by the 1 hour most clients use. More important than that is the higher setting. I’ve got a ton of feeds that get checked every 6 to 12 hours, every day, every week, etc. I do this either because I know the sites do not update that often, or they are not important enough for me to worry about on an hourly basis. This mean less requests from my aggregator, and less hits to the servers that host the feeds.
Long ago I started using Feed on Feeds, and I hacked the heck out of it do make it do just what I wanted, but of course as new versions of FoF came out, I never quite managed to upgrade an re-apply my hacks.
Dave does like to go on about the River of News, and he does once again. What’s a “River of News” you say?
…there’s another kind of reader, an aggregator, that works differently, and I think more efficiently for the human reader. Instead of having to hunt for new stories by clicking on the titles of feeds, you just view the page of new stuff and scroll through it. It’s like sitting on the bank of a river, watching the boats go by. If you miss one, no big deal.
I’ve used “river of news” aggregators in the past, and what I didn’t like about them was that they seem to take the approach that you’ve set aside a huge chunk of time for reading, or that if you miss something, that’s ok. In some cases it is ok to miss things, but there are some feeds I never want to miss an item from. Like the ones from friends of mine who publish less than once a month. I want to see the name of their site in bold text on the left side of my aggregator. As for the time factor, I also like the fact that I can use my aggregator to show all sites/feeds I rate as 5 stars, with how many new items they have, and selectively view a few if I have just a minimal amount of time to spare, like on a lunch break.


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A NASA study of a US astronaut who spent a year in space while his twin brother remained on Earth is providing valuable insights into the effects of extended spaceflight on the human body, a key to planning a future manned mission to Mars, researchers said on Thursday.
US astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station while his identical twin Mark Kelly, also a former NASA astronaut, stayed on the ground. The researchers who carried out the "NASA Twins Study" found that most of the changes to Scott's body during his time in space returned to normal within months of his return to Earth -- although not all of them.
Dr Steven Platts, deputy chief scientist of NASA's Human Research Program, said it will "guide future biomedical space research and allow us to have a safer journey to and from Mars." Using Mark as a baseline, 84 researchers at 12 universities documented the molecular, cognitive and physiological effects of Scott's year in space.
Scott, a 50-year-old veteran of two US Space Shuttle missions, spent 340 consecutive days on the ISS -- from March 27, 2015 to March 1, 2016. He was monitored pre-flight and post-flight and during his time on the ISS. Blood, urine and stool samples were sent back to Earth on resupply vessels.
She said there was a "very rapid decrease" in telomere length upon Scott's return to Earth and he also experienced some unexplained telomere loss. Bailey said her team has not come up with a reason for the telomere lengthening but was looking at whether the higher radiation exposure in space, inflammation or stress may be responsible.

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SF3021 Small Laser Engraving Machine can process non-metal materials such as acrylic, glass, paper, bamboo, stamp, rubber, leather, etc.
SF1390 laser cutting engraving machine adopts DSP digital controlling technology, self-design laser power supply, incorporate designed frame and structure to guarantee stable work.
The newest software is matched to AutoCAD, core IDRAW CAD and all other graphics processing software for outputting original graphics.
This series machines firstly use USB port data interface which supports hot-plugging and momentary data transmission to realize high efficiency without accounting computer resource. The LCD controlling panel brings friendly computer-human interface and easy operation.
It uses USB port data interface with the large mass storage device to provide high working speed and efficiency.
SF1390 laser cutting engraving machine can cut acrylic, plastic, paper, foam, fabric, leather, rubber, MDF, plywood, and engrave on acrylic, bamboo, plastic, leather, MDF, plywood, glass, stone, etc.
SF1390 laser cutting engraving machine is widely used in cutting acrylic, MDF, plywood, paper, foam, etc; engraving acrylic, glass, MDF, wood, double color board, bamboo, etc. It is equipped with co2 laser tube, working size 1300mm x 900mm, mainly cut rubber plastic, cloth toys, leather, computer embroidery cutting, mould, crafts, bamboo and wood, advertising and building decoration, packaging and printing, paper products.
SF1390E 80/100W Co2 Laser Engraver And Cutter is especially for cutting fabric, leather, paper, cloth and other nonmetal materials.
Application Industry: Garment, Shoes, Textile, Embroidery, Leather, Bag and cases, Outdoor Sports, Car seat, fabric, etc.
Application Material: Leather, artificial leather, Soft Leather, Decoration Leather, Packing Leather, Cotton, Silk, Chemical Fiber, Jeans, etc.


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I believe children live up to our expectations. Setting the bar high encourages them to "rise to the occasion." I have never had a student disappoint me! I teach at St. Joseph because there is no place I'd rather be. This school was the first and last place where I applied. It's my second family - from the teachers, to the students, to the parents, they're all very special to me!
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> Acknowledgements page in the docs.
> are particularly important to me.
> been beaten to death and it is time to move forward.
> marginally useful features and functions as happens all too often.
> entirely or move it to an implementation namespace.
> done with a blanket "any function may throw std::bad_alloc"
> seem to me to need to allow throwing thread_resource_error.
list of things to correct.
> * class thread_resource_error needs documentation.
> * class xtime needs documentation.
Both were supposed to be documented, and I failed on this one.
others can comment on the changes before the review is over.
> not as part of the library itself.
it as an example, because a queue isn't really a threading concept.
> and get them to contribute their implementations to Boost.
> looked at seems reasonable and meets our agreed upon guidelines.
> some other reviewer will go over the code with a fine-toothed comb.
Especially those with MT experience!

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After a number of overcast, wintry days, yesterday dawned bright and sunny and no frost… Perfect for an adventure. Our neighbour loaned me his map of the Montgomery area showing various walks (yellow publications), and suggested a local walk that would take in a section of Offa’s Dyke; (Offa, the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from 757 until his death in July 796 – had a great dyke built between Wales and Mercia from sea to sea). This border between Wales and England was built to prevent the Welsh from infiltrating the country. Not sure why they thought it was a good idea, but on closer research it may well have been a defensive wall.
Kitted out with shoes and poles I set off with determination. To reach the section where I planned to walk was a fair trot from the village and my initial terrain was a good solid tarmac road. The route goes through Lymore Park and farmland. All went well, I passed the Lower Pond and a farm, crossing multiple cattle grids and eventually reached the border between Montgomeryshire and Shropshire where I encountered #4 cattle grid (urgh, they are horrible to walk across), and a field of dozy sheep. They are such silly creatures.
Starting off along the path, I was sceptical as to how good an idea this was going to be…the path was a slushy, muddy morass…mostly churned up by previous walkers and a few horses, and I considered retracing my steps and leaving it for another day. But my philosophy in life is: do it while you are here, it may be the only opportunity you have.
So with that in mind, I started walking along the path… Mud, mud not so glorious mud. Slushy, mushy, slimy, grimy mud. The first 3 sections were just bloody awful and I spent a lot of time trying to find stable spots to place my shoes without slipping or getting too dirty. Sloshing through craftily hidden pooled water, standing on tussocks that were not as stable as they looked, slipping and sliding as I attempted to get from one spot to another and accompanied with lots of laughter, cussing and wtf am I doing, I later forded a small rushing stream; a very tricky section that was a sheer, unadulterated quagmire. Creeping gingerly beneath overhanging branches, my poles planted firmly before advancing, I made it safely and relatively dry, albeit a tad more muddy, across the wee bridge, but after walking some distance further I realised /discovered I’d gone off course, so had to back-track and ford the stream once again. OMG!! Seriously.
I didn’t escape unscathed this time around. After crossing back over the bridge and stile, I surveyed the immediate terrain and spotted what looked like a stable spot. Alas it was not so…instead, as I trod down my foot sank ankle deep into mud that sucked at my shoe, reluctant to let it go 😱😱 After a bit of a tussle, hanging onto my walking poles for dear life trying to stay upright, I won….The mud finally released my shoe with a sucky slurk. However my shoe was now completely covered in thick mucky mud.
Onwards…. I found the track once again (thank you mapmywalk), and from thereon the terrain was fairly stable and a lot less muddy albeit still churned up in places..and those hidden pools. Sigh.
6.53 kms and 1.55 hours later and my shoes and walking pants were in the washing machine. 🤔🤔🤔🤔 That was a quite insane walk.
Well worth it though, the countryside here is astoundingly beautiful. As with most of the UK, Wales and the bordering English county of Shropshire are stunning. Much of the land here is given over to farming and raising sheep or horses. Dotted across green fields are huge trees, now bereft of their summer greenery, but nonetheless absolutely stunning. I actually prefer to see trees without their leaves; far more interesting.
And as weird and exhausting as it was, I felt it was good practice for any UK walks I have planned… It rains a lot in this country (duh!! who’d have guessed?) and there’s no way I’ll enjoy the kind of weather I had in Portugal and Spain in September 2017.
Offa’s Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa) is a large linear earthwork that roughly follows the current border between England and Wales. The structure is named after Offa, the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from AD 757 until 796, who is traditionally believed to have ordered its construction. Although its precise original purpose is debated, it delineated the border between Anglian Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys.
The Dyke, which was up to 65 feet (20 m) wide (including its flanking ditch) and 8 feet (2.4 m) high, traversed low ground, hills and rivers. Today the earthwork is protected as a scheduled monument. Some of its route is followed by the Offa’s Dyke Path; a 176-mile (283 km) long-distance footpath that runs between Liverpool Bay in the north and the Severn Estuary in the south.
A scheduled monument is a “nationally important” archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.


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This past Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve concluded its sixth scheduled Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) policy meeting for 2014. As is normal at the end of the meeting, the Committee released a statement which is used as a key tool in the Fed's "forward guidance," by which the Committee provides an indication to the markets and investors about the stance of monetary policy expected to prevail in the future. There are two more meetings scheduled for the year.
The most recent statement affirmed the Fed's stance to keep policy rates at the current near zero for "a considerable time" after the end of the asset buying program (often referred to as Quantitative Easing or Q.E.), which is likely to conclude next month. The Committee lowered the pace of Q.E. asset purchases by $10 billion per month for October, and will purchase $5 billion per month of agency mortgage-backed securities and $10 billion per month of longer-term Treasury securities. The existing policy of reinvesting principal payments and rolling over maturing securities will be maintained.
The Committee also outlined the steps that will likely be followed in the event that they decide to tighten in the future in a Policy Normalization statement. The federal funds rate will remain the primary interest rate target for the FOMC, and raising the rate to the target will be accomplished by a combination of paying interest on excess reserves (IOER) as well as draining liquidity via overnight reverse repo agreements. The FRB will also stop reinvesting the proceeds from maturing or repaid securities and will instead allow these to run-off its balance sheet. No sales of bonds are likely as part of this process.
The meeting also projected an increase in borrowing costs next year, raising the median forecast for the federal funds rate at the end of 2015 to 1.375% from June's estimate of 1.125%. The committee also released the first forecast for 2017, projecting a federal funds rate of 3.75% at the end of that year.
We believe that the Federal Reserve will continue to gradually remove the pace of accommodation, as is described in their forward guidance. Inflation pressures remain relatively low in our view, and without a major change in outlook, there may also be fewer reasons for policy readjustment. The normalization of rate conditions, however, is likely to lead to a period of increased interest rates, with higher volatility in the short and intermediate rates.
We retain a conviction that a mix of short to intermediate bond investments may be reasonable for the current environment, and that an emphasis on active management and credit vs. treasury exposure may add value. In our tactical portfolios we maintain a duration that is shorter than the Barclay's aggregate index, with a heavier allocation to credit and higher yielding investments.

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Re: Trump supporters; how far?
uh, scot... don't you see what's happened in Ukraine and Moldova, or Georgia? Russia is expanding, and putting puppet rulers in places where it does not want to rule directly, and I doubt the trend is gonna stop while Putin is in the Kremlin.
Russia has been singed by the Afghan crisis, but it's not about to give up trying to expand its imperium.
Dont think so Svarty. He wants stability and trade which is why America keeps on piling the sanctions. We could try the peaceful way for a change. A consensus world peace? Why not?
I was in the "OK let's try to tolerate the idiot for 4 years" camp, but I grossly underestimated just how much damage one idiot in the office of POTUS can do. The world has become surreal.
Oh it has not and you're just being silly. Huuuuge amount of smoke, tiny little fire. The only 'damage' he's done is to other politician's ego.
Oh look a troll/racist is supporting Trump, denying reality, and promulgating a false alternative.
I'm not a troll, believer in evolution yes. But what reality and false alternative am I really promulgating? What has Trump really done that doesn't involve 'hurt feelings'?
Started a trade war that will damage the US economy and US workers.
Sewn distrust, fear, and confusion between military allies.
He lied about everything at the NATO conference. NATO members are not going to pay any extra money all they did was to confirm the agreement they made last time. America does not pay 4% into NATO. The actual amount is unknown as that 4% almost includes the entire defence, CIA, NSA and other forces budgets.
Where is the expansion of Russia?
That's just your Anglo-Saxon adversarial pretend-democracy mindset at work, Jim.
Have seen that wish list personally Jim or was it provided by the White House?
Scot. Do some research and you'll soon understand that a low view of Putin and his policy objectives is not a secondhand opinion from the US. Political opponents having their assets seized and dying in prison, whistle blowers falling from 4th story windows, journalists being intimidated, beaten, or shot, shooting down aircraft over foreign soil, using chemical weapons abroad, these are not the actions of a state that's just misunderstood.
Of course Brian. America does not do these sort of things. Like cleaning up its back garden. Removing in its eyes enemies of the USA.
That other states behave badly has absolutely no bearing on an assessment of the Russian regime unless, that is, one is looking to excuse Russia's bad behaviour.
America is better at hiding bodies though, via embedded journalists who only see what the military allow, employing proxy forces and destabilising regimes via invisible bean-counters. No one can build a empire without a trail of corpses. Ask anyone who ever did build one via a smile and nice gesture? Not many contenders.
Putin stated a few years ago that the collapse of the USSR was one of history's greatest catastrophes. Can't remember where I read it, but it says a lot about what he is nostalgic for.
If one is looking for something or someone to blame about the present bad tempered relationship between Russia and the West one should, I think blame the West big time for not taking advantage of the situation when Russia was on its knees and its economy in tatters - not militarily but in inviting the country into the fold so to speak. There was a window back then when Russia could have just about been coaxed into becoming part of a greater Europe or at least not an adversary, which it certainly is today.
He would have to name a pro abortion judge to piss off conservatives.
I will agree with you here. I was always of the same opinion.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Uploading records to CoreData is quite simple. This function relies on the CoreDataConduit class in my last post for retrieving and saving the managed object context.
The dictionary of data you wish to insert is the first parameter - within the funciton you can then determine how this data is mapped to your Core Data object.
The second parameter of this function is the Entity name that you are inserting the record into.
Pre-requisites to this process is setting up your Data Model - if you are unsure of how to do this, there is a guide here.
This will insert the data from the csv into CoreData as it's being read. Alternatively you can also wait until the CSV is fully scanned and you have an array with all of the data (this is what I did in my last post about scanning a CSV). You then just need to loop through the array and use the updateObjectWithInfo function on each item.


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Design for Botox Thermo Active, JadesHair.
Bengala, "May the 4th be whith you"


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DUNCAN JONES, the director of Moon, Source Code, Warcraft and Mute, has revealed what his next project will be. He’s going to direct a comic book movie – an adaptation of 2000AD’s Rogue Trooper.
Duncan Jones has already proven what a promising director he is. His debut film, Moon, was a triumph and quickly became a cult classic.
He’s found it rather difficult to replicate the success of Moon in his following movies.
Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, was solid, but then he lost his way slightly with Warcraft and Mute.
He was hoping that Warcraft would break the video game movie curse, alas, it did not and we’re still waiting for the first genuinely good video game movie.
However, he has shown directorial flair, and all his films are full of fascinating ideas and glorious visuals.
It looks like the British direct is now going to enter the realm of comic book movies.
He had teased a big comic book movie announcement last week via his Twitter feed, and the other day he gave us all a pretty obvious hint as to what his next movie will be.
He posted a video on Twitter in which he’s sitting in front of his computer monitors and he’s reciting a poem through a voiceover.
Jones ends his little poem by taking off his hat and revealing a blue mohawk.
This, added with what’s he’s saying in the poem, all points towards his next project being a movie adaptation of 2000AD’s Rogue Trooper.
Rogue Trooper is Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons’ sci-fi comic book about a blue-skinned super soldier called Rogue who lives on Nu-Earth which is mostly toxic now due to chemical and biological warfare.
There had been some chatter that he might join the DCEU or MCU, but Jones has decided to do one for himself, instead of joining the big comic book movie corporations.
There’s no word yet on when Rogue Trooper will come out, but it might take a while.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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maintains a small library of documents which arrive from the NIC.
community to people or services at his site, and vice versa.
seems to duplicate in large part the NIC's distribution system.
Therefore, I am making the following changes.
those on the current mailing list who are not at a site.


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Payday Loans & Personal Loans in Adamsville, AL.
The population of Adamsville, AL in 2019 counting up to 4,360 people. More than 15% of employed adults in Alabama apply at least onse a year for a Payday Loans from $100 to $1,000. And as the time shows, more than 327 people, even with bad FICO credit score get approved for small-dollar loan.
Personal Loans such as mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and rents are borrowed by 83% of adult (from 18 to 65 years of age) residents of the state - it's 1,809 lending service users.
We offer short-term Payday Loans up to $1,000 and long-term Personal Loans up to $15,000 in Adamsville, Alabama.


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AT&T* customers and FirstNet subscribers are getting a big boost in cellular coverage and capacity throughout the Atlanta area to prep for football’s Biggest Game.
In addition to being the first and only company to make standards-based mobile 5G available to Atlanta businesses and consumers, we’ve been working for more than a year to boost the AT&T network through a series of permanent and temporary upgrades throughout the city. All this is to ensure fans can share special moments on social media during the week-long pre-game festivities, back at their hotels and at the stadium during the Big Game—faster and easier than before.
And as one of the year’s biggest sporting events, the FirstNet team at AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) have been working hand-in-hand with dozens of public safety agencies to prepare. This prep-work helps ensure first responders have the coverage, capacity and capabilities – priority and preemption included – that they need to stay connected throughout the festivities, so they can keep fans safe.
In total, we’ve invested more than $43 million, so fans and first responders can have an all-around better mobile experience.
As a proud sponsor of Mercedes-Benz Stadium, we want our customers to enjoy the best possible game day experience while helping first responders keep them safe.
We’ve upgraded our portion of the in-stadium Distributed Antenna System (DAS) to provide over 300% more LTE capacity than what was available at the start of the football season. The DAS – a system of strategically-placed antennas that distribute and actively manage wireless network coverage throughout the stadium – features approximately 1,500 antennas and 1,550 remote amplifiers to help evenly distribute coverage for a better experience.
At Mercedes-Benz Stadium, we’re utilizing the most LTE capacitycurrently available on any AT&T DAS in the state of Georgia. This capacity boost helps ease heavy wireless traffic and gives fans and first responders strong wireless coverage throughout game day – from early tailgating to the final trophy presentation.
And it doesn’t stop there. The stadium is also home to The AT&T Perch, a special interactive area dedicated to the fans.
We expect crowds of more than 1 million people, but we’re ready with more than 3,000 new network improvements within the metro area. In addition to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, we’ve upgraded or installed a new DAS at 30 additional locations throughout the Atlanta area. Fans – and first responders on duty – will be able to better enjoy coverage in hotels, arenas, airports, convention centers, among other venues.
We have also launched hundreds of new small cell locations to existing structures like traffic signals, buildings, street lights and poles within the metro Atlanta area.
Furthermore, we’re deploying 5 Cell on Light Trucks (COLTs) to handle expected increased wireless network demands. They will improve reliability and data speeds during the week leading up to and during the Big Game.
The deployments will include a COLT at Atlantic Station to enhance coverage for all the fans headed to DIRECTV Super Saturday Night. Other locations include Peachtree Street to support high traffic venues, one supporting airport hotel traffic, one supporting hotel traffic in Downtown Atlanta, and one near the Galleria area to support pre-game parties.
These investments will allow Atlanta residents to celebrate the Big Game over the AT&T network at home, at work or on the go.
Public safety’s high-quality Band 14 spectrum has been deployed across the area to provide optimal coverage and capacity for first responders.
DAS have been installed at numerous local and federal public safety agency centers.
A FirstNet SatCOLT will be staged outside of the stadium for extra redundancy and will provide additional coverage to first responders if needed.
Plus, members of the FirstNet team will staff the Command Post for GEMA Homeland Security in the week leading up to and through the day of the Big Game. This will help ensure public safety’s communications needs are met.
FirstNet is the nationwide communications platform dedicated to America’s first responders and public safety community. It’s being built with AT&T in public-private partnership with the FirstNet Authority. And it’s bringing public safety a much-needed technology upgrade to help them connect to the critical information they need – especially when at large events like the Big Game.
In the future, mobile 5G will play a major role in sports and entertainment allowing fans to take their stadium experiences to the next level.
Bringing mobile 5G to parts of Atlanta ahead of this year’s Big Game was a priority for us, and we’re proud to be the only carrier to do so. We are the only carrier that has a standards-based mobile 5G network live in parts of a dozen cities in the U.S., and that includes Atlanta. We’ll keep our 5G momentum going with plans to introduce mobile 5G in parts of 7 additional cities early this year.
AT&T has invested nearly $5.3 billion in its Georgia wireless and wireline networks between 2015 and 2017.


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Home - Manotick Tree Movers Inc.
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Manotick Tree Movers Inc. is a retail tree sales and service company located in rural south Ottawa serving the residential and commercial community of Eastern Ontario and Gatineau. We offer a full selection of top quality ornamental, shade, and evergreen trees, grown locally at our Carsonby tree nursery location. Tree Delivery and planting services are available. If you have the trees, but in the wrong spot, we offer a full range of digging and relocation services. With our advanced tree spade equipment we are able to dig and move trees up to 225 mm (9″) caliper. We also offer complete tree pruning, tree removal services including tree stump removal and stump grinding. Estimates are free. Our certified Arborists are also available to offer Tree Evaluation and consulting services.
Do you have an overall vision for the finished look, or focal points of your landscape? Planning your tree selection and location involves a number of important considerations. The following list may help you decide which species to buy to avoid future complications. Is there enough space for the tree to grow to a mature size? This includes the crown above (utilities, buildings etc.) and root development below. Selection can vary from a large Oak or Maple, to a mid size Linden, or smaller Ivory Silk. Tree form or shape of the crown and proper spacing between trees are other important factors in this respect. Soil conditions including drainage and texture (heavy clay), nutrients, and compaction can affect the health of a tree. Most new subdivisions are completed with little consideration given for adequate planting conditions.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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There was some initial apprehension when James Synowiez began to consider the idea of coaching a second varsity team.
It only took one conversation before a resume was submitted.
Synowiez has been the boys lacrosse coach at Scarsdale for the past two seasons, and will be taking over as the ice hockey coach. The school board is expected to approve his appointment in the coming weeks.
The couple has been busy of late, celebrating the birth of their first child, Brooke, who arrived last week. They also just moved into a house in Rye Brook.
He was the lead candidate from the start.
John Felix, who played hockey and lacrosse at Scarsdale, will be the lead varsity assistant.
A second assistant is expected to be added soon.
Wright informed the district he would not be returning last February hours after the Raiders fell 5-1 to Suffern in a Section 1 quarterfinal.
Scarsdale finished the season 10-10-1.
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industry_corpus2: Sports