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Blog Tour: Plantation Nation by @Mercedes_King_ #giveaway
Sixteen year old Emma Cartwright runs away from her family's South Carolina rice plantation after a slave is beaten to death. Determined to join the fight against slavery, Emma enlists in the Union Army disguised as a young man. Nothing could prepare her for the sacrifices needed—and for falling in love for the first time.
Mercedes King takes us back to a time we have only read about in History books. I liked the way that she managed to make Emma so compelling. I felt like I really understood her and what she was going through. There is a lot packed into this story and it really shows that Mercedes Kind did her research and understands the time she has written about. The ending was a little abrupt and I'm hoping we get another novel to tie things up.
Mercedes King is an Ohio native and founding member of Sisters in Crime Columbus, Ohio (affectionately dubbed SiCCO). With a degree in Criminology from Capital University and a passion for writing, she crafted O! Jackie, a novel focusing on the private life of Jackie Kennedy. She has also written The Kennedy Chronicles, a series of short stories featuring JFK and Jackie before they were married and before 'Camelot'. Mercedes writes in a variety of genres, including historical and mystery / suspense. In fact, she's working on creating a new genre, 'modern historical'.
Her newest release, Plantation Nation, follows the journey of Emma Cartwright, a 16 year old Southern girl who disguises herself as a young man and joins the Union Army.
Visit her sites, OJackiebook.com or Mercedesking.com . Contact her at Mercedes 'at' ojackiebook 'dot' com. You can also connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Twitter: @Mercedes_King_
Instagram: mercedes_king_author
Labels: Blog Tour, Book Review, Giveaway, Historical, Literary Fiction
Blog Tour: A Prescription for Delirium by @velveteclipse
Date Published: December 1, 2012
Demons, werewolves, possessed bikers, madness spreading like a virus, and a revenge that has waited for over 500 years. What more could Gabby look for in a vacation spot?
Ninety years ago, Gabriella di Luca promised to protect the family of her dying lover. She failed to keep that promise. She was too far away to stop the devil that murdered the eldest Van Helsing son. Years later, Gabby learns the devil has resurfaced. She arrives in Hampton, TX, determined to stop the devil before it can lay a bloody hand on the remaining three brothers.
However, madness is spreading through Hampton. She suspects the devil is using this madness to test a drug which has a side effect of demonic possession. Gabby rushes to end the source of the madness only to fall victim to it. For a woman cursed with eternal life, dying is no threat. However, Gabby must stop the devil's plot or risk losing her most precious possession: her mind.
What a vivid new world Noree Cosper has brought us into! I like the fact that she takes something that most people are familiar with and twists it into something new and exciting.
I found her story telling to be compelling and the plot to be fast paced, it kept me on the edge of my seat.
A Prescription for Delirium is a part of Pandora: A bestselling box set of wicked paranormal reads.
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Noree Cosper loves writing about magic in the modern world. While growing up in Texas she constantly searched for mystical elements in the mundane. She buried her nose in both fiction and books about Wicca, Religion, and Mythology. Everyday became an adventure as she joined a group of role-players, acting out her fantasies of vampires, demons, and monsters living in the world.
She embraced her nerdom wholeheartedly.
Noree grew, but never left her love for fantasy and horror. Her dreams pushed her and her hand itched to write the visions she saw. So, with her fingers on the keys, she did what her heart had been telling her to do since childhood. She wrote.
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Labels: Blog Tour, Book Review, Urban Fantasy
PROMO: Strangers on a Bus by @RobManary #excerpt & #giveaway
PROMO Blitz – Strangers on a Bus
Romantic Comedy / Memoir
If you liked When Harry Met Sally, you'll fall in love with Robb and Gertrude from Strangers on a Bus...
Robb is crushed by a failed relationship with the love of his life and finds himself unexpectedly on a long bus trip from his adopted home in the U.S. back to his native Canada.
At the first stop in NYC, a girl gets on and so begins a contemplation of life, love, and strange events that will bring tears of laughter and heartache streaming down your face.
Is this girl Robb's real true love or just a rebound? How far can they get on a bus ride anyway?
This is a true story.
Things To Do in A Bus Stop Bathroom?
The sun started to come up as we crossed into Canada, and Gertrude told me we wouldn't be making out once it was daylight. Lip dancing on a brightly lit bus was too "tacky" for her, and besides her lessons were having a not entirely unpleasant side effect on her.
I find it best to try not to understand women at all. But, there is one phenomenon that causes me more confusion than any of the other baffling behavior women indulge in.
When you tell a woman something and she doesn't believe you, so you tell her the opposite, and she doesn't believe that either, I like that.
So, you tell her the first thing you said was, indeed, the truth, and she doesn't want to believe that one either.
Confused?
So am I. Here is the latest incarnation of this occurrence.
Gertrude: "All this kissing isn't bothering you? You've got more restraint than any guy I've ever met. I thought you would have been trying to feel me up hours ago."
Me: "Would it have worked?"
Gertrude: "Maybe, probably not. I think it's nice. You're a gentleman."
Me: "Not really. Every time we stop I take care of that in the bathroom."
Gertrude: "You're such a pig! You washed your hands right! You're so gross! You didn't! Did you?"
Me: "I thought I was a gentleman! I lie! I lie! I lie! Of course I didn't."
Gertrude: "You're such a pig! You did! Didn't you? You're so gross!"
Me: "Stop laughing at me if I'm so gross! I didn't! I didn't!"
Gertrude: "You did so! You're such a pig!"
Me: "Okay. Fine. I did."
Gertrude: "No you didn't! You're not that big a pig. Close. But no. You didn't."
Me: "I tell you I didn't and you say I did. I tell you I did, and you say I didn't. You're such a weirdo."
And then I kissed her, because the sun was rising quick, and because I couldn't see another way to end that conversation. It is possible that debate could have gone on indefinitely, and there was no way I could prove conclusively what I had or had not done in a bus stop bathroom.
After what might be our last extended lip dancing lesson Gertrude whispered in my ear, "I was horny and wanted Dicky-bird…that is fun to say, so in the bathroom… I did."
About the Author - Rob Manary
Robert Manary is an international playboy and man of mystery, with the charm and sophistication of James Bond shaken not stirred with a couple ounces of Cyrano de Bergerac, a dash of Rasputin, and garnished with the rapier wit of Thurston Howell the Third.
That's how he sees himself, anyway.
The truth is Robert Manary is a construct created to protect the dubious reputation of his Clark Kent like mild mannered writer/puppeteer/the man pulling the levers and breathing life into the Great and Powerful Oz (don't look too closely behind the curtain).
Robert Manary's alter ego dropped out of Radio Broadcasting College to pursue a lucrative career bartending at a seedy gentlemen's club, played around stocking shelves at a small grocery store until he screwed up badly enough to be given a promotion, and finally left the glamorous life of fighting with Parmalat representatives over the quantity of soy milk required for a small Northern Ontario town to function adequately, for the bright lights of New York.
Wow that was one long sentence!
Manary is also a master of the run-on sentence, an abuser of commas, and has no idea how to properly use this bit of punctuation: ";"
He also thinks he is much "cleverer" than he probably is.
Manary is an award winning blogger, an erotic romance novel writer, the author of a pretty decent romantic comedy, and for a brief period in the early nineties served as dictator of a small South American country.
Most of that is true.
New York, New York, if you can make it there you can make it anywhere. Manary couldn't make it there, and with only a little prompting from law enforcement agents returned to Canada, and chronicled the journey in that pretty decent romantic comedy mentioned in a paragraph above.
Manary is also an experimental artist who has no clue how to write an Author's Bio, and definitely no idea how to end one.
He has only been in love once, and that didn't work out so well, but he dreams and dreams of that girl he's loved all along. Can a taste of love be so wrong?
P.S. He is also a shameless plunderer of pop culture.
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Labels: Comdey, Excerpt, Giveaway, Memoir, PROMO, Romance
New Release: Deep in Death by @ColleenHelme - #giveaway & #excerpt
Deep in Death – Release Blitz
A Shelby Nichols Adventure – Volume 6
Paranormal Mystery
Date Published: July 22, 2014
Running "errands" for her mob-boss employer, Joey "The Knife" Manetto, often ends with Shelby in trouble, making her cautious about continuing her association with him. Instead, she focuses on a new client who hires Shelby to find her missing mother. What seems like a routine case turns into something more sinister and deadly than she ever imagined. In the meantime, Uncle Joey has summoned Shelby to his office, where she runs into her former nemesis. Shelby inadvertently hears something that makes her fear for the lives of Uncle Joey and his hit-man, Ramos. This time, Uncle Joey is not sure he wants to involve Shelby in something he knows could get her killed. Keeping Shelby's involvement to a minimum has disastrous results, sending Shelby on a dangerous path. As her investigation unfolds, Shelby finds death at every turn, and soon realizes she is in over her head. Can she escape from danger in time? Or will she find herself deep in death?
A twinge of pain burned through my arm, and I gently rubbed the spot where I'd been shot nearly three weeks ago. Getting a shot in the arm may sound like a simple thing for most people, but when it's done by a bullet, it's a whole different story. At least it was healing nicely, and the scar wasn't too big, but every once in a while my arm ached like it had happened yesterday, probably because I was overdoing it again. After a few seconds the pain subsided, and I finished pulling on my shirt and got dressed.
Today was my first day back at work since the shooting, and I was ready to take on a new project. This time the job was a client from my consulting agency, which suited me just fine. My last job for Uncle Joey, the local mob-boss, had gotten me both arrested for murder and shot by a bullet in the arm, so I was a little nervous about doing anything for him again.
A few months ago I had to tell Uncle Joey my secret that I could read minds so he wouldn't kill me. We'd worked out a compromise, and over the course of our association, we'd even become close. Crazy as it sounded, I'd started to think of him as my real uncle, even though he wasn't. Since most of his errands seemed to get me into trouble, he'd also saved my life a few times. Well, to be honest, it was his hit-man, Ramos, doing most of the saving. But it was Uncle Joey who'd told him to watch out for me.
I sighed every time I thought of Ramos. He had a troubled past which only I knew about, and I'd helped him come to terms with it. Besides saving my life several times, there was also a physical attraction that I only dared admit out loud to my best friend, Holly. Of course after seeing him, she had a crush on him too, and since we were both happily married, I had to think it was all right. But with all of that going on, I had to wonder about myself. I mean, Uncle Joey was a big, bad mob-boss who had threatened to do me bodily harm, and Ramos was his hit-man. They were the bad guys and I had a soft spot in my heart for them. Was something wrong with me?
My husband, Chris, had no qualms about severing all ties with Uncle Joey, and it put me in a hard spot trying to please them both. But since the last job, things had changed. After I got shot, Chris had a long talk with Uncle Joey, and I hadn't heard from him in three weeks. In some ways it was a relief, but in others, I kind of missed him…and Ramos…well…mostly Ramos. Still, I wasn't about to call and offer my services. Not considering what had happened last time. Nope. I wasn't ready to get shot again. In fact, I would be pretty happy if I never saw another gun in my life.
I took a deep cleansing breath and checked the time. I had an appointment with my client at ten this morning, and it was time to go. Her name was Tiffany and this was her senior year of college. Since I didn't have a real office, I'd told her we could meet at the campus library in-between her classes, and with her busy schedule, meeting on campus worked out great for both of us.
I drove through town with my windows down and breathed in the crisp fall air. It was the first part of October and the sky was the perfect color of blue. The trees were just beginning to change into brilliant autumn colors, and framed against the blue sky, the pure beauty and serenity lifted my spirits. With everything I'd gone through lately, I knew I was lucky to be alive.
I parked at the visitor parking meters near the library and headed toward the front of the building. It had been several years since I'd been there last, and a wave of nostalgia washed over me. I'd only been to one year of college before I'd talked Chris into marrying me. It was love at first sight for me, but it had taken some gentle persuading on my part to help Chris see how perfect we were together. Right after our marriage, we'd gone off to law school in another state. Josh had been born exactly nine months later followed by Savannah two years after that. There were times when I regretted not finishing college back then, but I wouldn't trade the life I had now for anything.
I loved my family and, as it turned out, I had a pretty good career without a degree, and I was proud of what I'd accomplished. Of course, if I hadn't gotten shot in the head during a bank robbery, which left me with the ability to read minds, it might be a different story.
It was still hard for me to believe how my life had turned upside down simply because I'd stopped at the grocery store for some carrots. Who would have thought? Now I had my own consulting agency where I could get paid for helping people, and most of the time, all I had to do was read their minds. Not that it was always that easy, but after getting shot, I'd take some simple cases for a while.
A young woman sat on a bench near the fountain where we'd planned to meet. Her gaze caught mine and her eyes widened slightly before she recognized me. As I approached, she smiled and gave me a quick wave. She had long blond hair and a sweet face, but her somber eyes seemed out of place for someone her age, like she'd gone through some hard times.
Since she was a college student, I was a little nervous that she couldn't afford my one-hundred-and-fifty-dollar-an-hour fee. But we'd talked about that before I agreed to meet her, and she'd seemed fine with it then. She stood to greet me.
"Shelby Nichols? Hi. I'm Tiffany Shaw. Thanks for meeting me."
"Hi Tiffany, nice to meet you in person," I answered.
"I know this is kind of informal, but it's such a beautiful day. Do you mind staying out here in the sunshine?"
"I think that's a great idea."
"Good." She resumed her seat on the bench and I sat beside her. She was thinking that she wasn't sure how to start. What she needed might not even be possible, but she'd read about me in the paper and figured if anyone could help her, it was me. She'd been saving up for years to hire a private investigator and wanted the best. After a little digging, she'd heard rumors that I had premonitions. It didn't faze her in the least. In fact, after all this time, she thought it might be the only thing that would solve the case. She just had to make sure her dad didn't find out, since he was the over-protective sort. He'd tell her she was throwing away her money, and probably accuse me of taking advantage of her.
That certainly put a lot of pressure on me, and my stomach tightened with dread that her father would disapprove. But since she was thinking about not telling him, maybe he'd never need to find out. Considering her age and circumstances, I had hoped she'd hired me for something easy, like finding out if her roommate was after her boyfriend. But no, she was thinking about her mother, and that she was probably dead, and I knew nothing was ever as easy as I wished.
"I'd like to hire you to find my mother." Her lips tightened and pain flashed through her eyes. "You see…I'm getting married in a few weeks and I really want her to be there." She didn't add 'if she's still alive' like she was thinking.
She'd always imagined her mother would be at her wedding, and now that it was actually happening, she couldn't stop wondering where her mom was and what had happened to her. The day her mother had gone missing was the worst day of her life, and thinking about it brought all the horror back, but she knew she would never move on unless she had some answers.
"Tell me what happened," I said gently.
She took a deep breath. "It's been nearly six years, and I know that's a long time, but just hear me out before you decide if you can take the job or not."
"Okay." I encouraged her with a smile. "Go on."
"Like I said…it will be six years on the twenty-eighth of October since she went missing. That night, she drove to the office where she worked to drop something off and never came back. They found her car parked in the parking structure with the keys in the ignition. Her purse was on the passenger seat. Nothing was taken, and there was no sign of a struggle. It was like she just disappeared off the face of the earth."
"What did the police tell you?"
"Well…they dusted for prints, checked her office, put out a missing person's report, questioned her colleagues at work, and brought my father in for questioning." She hated that they had suspected him. He was innocent. He had nothing to do with it. He loved her mom. It still made her angry. It was part of what had made the day so bad. She not only lost her mother, but her father was never the same after that.
"What happened to your father? Did they charge him with anything?"
Tiffany shook her head. "No. They had no evidence that he was involved, but the police always suspect the husband first. So it was bad enough that my mom disappeared, but the fact that they thought my dad had something to do with it made it ten times worse."
She sighed, wondering for the thousandth time what kind of person she would be right now if she still had her mom. She'd probably be a lot happier, that was for sure. "My dad's doing better now. He even got married a couple of months ago."
"That's good," I said.
"Yeah." She was glad he had finally moved on, and wished it was something she could do. But the ache just wouldn't go away, especially with her upcoming wedding. This was the most important day of her life, and her mother should be there. So where was she? What had happened? Who had taken her? Why hadn't she come home?
In her heart, she knew her mother never would have left unless she was forced into it. Speculation from the police and others of affairs, with her mom running off with another man, only deepened the wound, and she wouldn't believe any of it. That's why a small part of her had to believe her mom was dead, but what if she wasn't? What if someone was holding her captive? It could happen, and she just couldn't give up until she knew for sure.
"What did the police decide about the case?" I asked.
"Officially, she's missing and presumed dead. At least that's what they declared so my dad could re-marry. I don't know what happened to the case files. But I'm hoping you can dig them up and maybe find something that got passed over. I know it's a long shot, but I've never had the resources to hire a private investigator until now. Do you think you could look into it for me?"
I bit my bottom lip. The chances of finding out what happened at this point were pretty slim. My mind-reading ability wouldn't be of much use, although I could still question her dad. Even though she didn't think it was him, I'd learned that some people were really good at keeping secrets, and I wasn't about to rule him out. I could probably get my hands on the police file and talk to the detectives who handled the case, but beyond that, I didn't have much hope.
About The Author - Colleen Helme
As the author of the Shelby Nichols Adventure Series, Colleen is often asked if Shelby Nichols is her alter-ego. "Definitely," she says. "Shelby is the epitome of everything I wish I dared to be." Known for her laugh since she was a kid, Colleen has always tried to find the humor in every situation and continues to enjoy writing about Shelby's adventures. "I love getting Shelby into trouble…I just don't always know how to get her out of it!" Colleen lives in the Rocky Mountains with her family. Besides writing, she loves a good book, biking, hiking, and playing board and card games with family and friends. She loves to connect with readers and admits that fans of the series keep her writing.
Labels: Excerpt, Giveaway, Mystery, Paranormal, PROMO
PROMO: For Her Protection by @amberabardan #giveaway
For Her Protection - PROMO Blitz
By Amber A Bardan
You shouldn't mix business with pleasure.
Yet pleasure seems to be the one and only thing on Charlize's mind the moment Connor steamrolls into her life. Desperate to save her family company, prove she's more than a pretty face and worthy of being CEO, pleasure is a distraction she can't afford.
She doesn't want a bodyguard, especially not one whose caveman heroics kick her libido into hyperdrive. But surrounded by enemies and an attacker on the loose, there's only one man she can trust with her life.
Connor knows better than to get personal with clients. Yet there couldn't be anything more personal about his feelings for Charlize. From the moment he clapped eyes on her he wanted nothing more than to throw her over his shoulder and really give her something to scream about. He'll get his uptight she-cat to unwind, preferably one orgasm at a time.
With Connor in her office, her home, driving her to sweet, merciless distraction, there's only so long Charlize can resist his sexy, dominant brand of protection
They made use of her mostly empty living room for training, standing barefoot in the middle of the room. Charlize glanced at the hardwood floor.
"Wouldn't this be safer on the rug?"
"We won't be doing throws today," he said and circled her, walked around her three times.
She refused to turn her head and follow him.
"Here's how it's going to work. I'm going to show you a dozen simple techniques. At the end I'm going to test you."
She frowned. "Like a quiz?"
"No, like a challenge. We see what you've remembered. Get you to think on your feet, force you to think quickly and react fast." He stopped in front of her. "If you pass the challenge, you win—and trust me, you want to win."
Charlize folded her arms and tried not to look as if she caught the suggestion in his tone. "We've played this game before. If you want to prove you're bigger, stronger and better at this Karate crap than I am, then I concede—you're better."
He grinned a devilish smile that reminded her just how quickly he could make her heart race. "This is a new game. All you have to do is prove you were paying attention. It's not a contest, it's a challenge—and the stakes are higher."
She uncrossed her arms. "How high?"
"At the end of this I'm going to fuck you." He slinked closer in his prowling-panther way of moving. "How I do that is up to you. Either you get to fight me off, put up your best resistance, or I own you and you do exactly as I say. If you win, you get to choose how it happens."
Charlize took a breath then reminded herself to breathe out. Told her hands not to shake at her sides.
"But if you fail, I'll take you how I want."
How he wants? Her body rushed with adrenaline. Part of her wanted to lose just to see which option turned him on. She wanted him rough. As impolite as that might be, as much as it fell outside what she'd done before, she acknowledged the desire—but this was different. This was saying it out loud. This was conscious choice, deliberate. This was agreeing to some kind of kinky role-play. None of which she could bring herself to accept.
"How the fuck is there a win for me in that?"
He closed the distance, made her look up at him, made her breathe in the scent of his clean body. "Because it's what you want, kitten. But you've got to admit it."
Her tongue fumbled in her mouth, which had apparently found new saliva glands. The idea of fighting him off sounded hot all right, but she couldn't do that. Not with memories of the parking lot so raw.
But if he wanted to challenge her, then he could be challenged too. With something equally as hot. "Instead of the fighting, the other option is you do as I say."
"You want to bargain for that? Sounds less fun to me." He stepped back and positioned himself two feet in front of her. "Let's get started." He ran her through exercise after exercise. Showed her the vulnerable places on the body to target, how to sneak a hit to the throat before an attacker saw it coming. How to break every kind of hold, but more importantly he showed her how to look around. How to stop the world from closing in and see the things around her, things she could use to protect herself.
Her muscles ached by the end but she knew she had this.
"You been paying attention, kitten?" Connor asked.
"Does it look as if I've fallen asleep?"
He grasped her wrists. "You mean like you did last night? You're going to pay for that you know. I'm still aching."
"Only if I fail," she whispered and twisted her arms free. "So was that score one for me?"
He chuckled and laugh lines dimpled his cheeks. "Sure. Are you ready for the next one?"
She nodded and stepped from foot to foot. He had her ducking, twisting and even landing a hit to his "vulnerable" place. Not that he reacted—the bastard. She was ready to savor the sweetness of victory when he caught her from behind, twisted his fist in her hair.
Breath evaporated from her chest. Fear streaked through her limbs. The imagined smell of tobacco tingled in her nose.
"Breathe, baby," he whispered and air rushed back into her lungs.
Charlize slammed her heel into his foot, her elbow into his stomach and twisted—breaking the grip on her hair. She dropped to the floor and rolled out of reach.
Connor pursued with his slow, confident swagger. "Congratulations, you did well. So what is it, baby? Am I yours to command?" He tucked up the legs of his sweatpants and crouched in front of her. "Or are you mine?"
About the Author: Amber A Bardan
After spending years imagining fictional adventures, Amber finally found a way to turn daydreaming into a productive habit. She now spends her days as a graphic designer but her nights writing gritty, raw, erotic romance with heart.
She lives with her husband and children in semi-rural Australia, where if she peers outside at the right moment she might just see a kangaroo bounce by.
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Prizes include a $100 Amazon Gift Card, Romantic Swag, and 3 eBook copies of For Her Protection
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Luxury Robe & Thong, Kinky Tape, Polka Eye-mask, Massager, Bath-time Rose Petals, Silver Plated Book Charm, Amber A Bardan Magnets, Amber A Bardan Bookmarks, Amber A Bardan Pen
Labels: Erotic, Excerpt, Giveaway, PROMO, Romance
PROMO: Time of Possession by @jamidavenport
Time of Possession - Week Blitz
By Jami Davenport
Seattle Lumberjacks #5
Supposedly undersized for the NFL, Brett Gunnels went off to do a stint in the US Army right out of high school. Returning damaged yet stronger and more determined than ever to prove himself, he was picked last in the draft. Mr. Irrelevant, they called him. The last few years as a backup quarterback have given him no opportunity to compete for the starting job. That's why he has a chip on his shoulder the size of Puget Sound.
Estelle Harris is engaged to a man she doesn't love, working a job she hates, and fooling everyone including herself in the process. Her love of animals is the only thing that gives her purpose—a love she shares the Lumberjacks' reclusive quarterback. And then their mutual friendship turns a hot, dark, forbidden corner and there's no going back.
True love is like football. It's not always how long you have the ball. It's what you do when you get it.
About the Author: Jami Davenport
An advocate of happy endings, Jami Davenport writes sexy romantic comedy, sports hero romances, and equestrian fiction. Jami lives on a small farm near Puget Sound with her Green Beret-turned-plumber husband, a Newfoundland cross with a tennis ball fetish, a prince disguised as an orange tabby cat, and an opinionated Hanoverian mare.
Jami works in IT for her day job and is a former high school business teacher and dressage rider. In her spare time, she maintains her small farm and socializes whenever the opportunity presents itself. An avid boater, Jami has spent countless hours in the San Juan Islands, a common setting in her books. In her opinion, it is the most beautiful place on earth.
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Labels: Contemporary, PROMO, Romance
Blog Tour: Birds of the Nile by @NEDavidAuthor
Date Published: September 27, 2013
British ex-diplomat MICHAEL BLAKE has been blinded and is confined to his flat in Cairo. Every few days a visitor comes to read to him. It's a year since he took early retirement and booked a long–awaited birding trip on the Nile.
Half way through the voyage he meets LEE YONG and finds himself falling for her. But she's falling for REDA, their tour guide. He isn't all he seems either and when the Egyptian revolution kicks off, BLAKE finds himself embroiled in a tangled web of love and intrigue. When REDA is captured and thrown into jail, BLAKE will be forced to decide – to help LEE YONG and join the revolution or stand aside and risk losing everything.
Set against the background of the events of January 2011, BIRDS OF THE NILE is a powerful story of loss and self discovery as three disparate characters, each with their own agenda, seek to come to terms with change. Part political thriller, part love story, BIRDS OF THE NILE reminds us of the complex nature of global cultural interaction and how, as individuals, we try to deal with it
This was one of those reads that really made me feel a deeper connection than I was expecting. It really is a novel with a lot of heart and will make you think. Michael Blake's journey is a powerful one.
The characters, plot, and pacing were all spot on and really helped to elevate the novel. A superb literary novel.
N.E.David is the pen name of York author Nick David. Nick tried his hand at writing at the age of 21 but like so many things in life, it did not work out first time round. Following the death of his father in 2005, he took it up again and has been successful in having a series of short novellas published both in print and online.
Nick maintains he has no personal or political message to convey but that his objective is merely to entertain the reader and he hopes this is reflected in his writing. Besides being a regular contributor to Literary Festivals and open mics in the North East Region, Nick is also a founder member of York Authors and co-presenter of Book Talk on BBC Radio York.
His debut novel, Birds of the Nile, is published by Roundfire.
Twitter: @NEDavidAuthor
Labels: Blog Tour, Book Review, Literary Fiction
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This activity will promote social skills in a simulated shopping activity. Children can work from a script and talk to each other as if purchasing things from a store. As the leader, you can either work 1 on 1 with the children or go around and help them interact with each other. Children can take turns in the different roles to work on the different dialogue.
Children will work to decorate and create their own cereal boxes. From there, children will work on back and forth conversations with a "cashier". An example of a social script is provided with PECs, but depending on your situation and the skills of the group a written script may not be needed. Simply make sure they take turns speaking without interrupting each other as they have a back and forth conversation. Again, children don't have to stick to repeating the script verbatim as they should feel make the interactions feel natural.
Make sure there are clean and empty cereal boxes or cardboard containers.
Draw and decorate construction paper to look like your own cereal box.
Cut out the cardboard or paper to decorate the box.
Glue the decorated sheets to the cereal box.
Write or determine how much your cereal is worth using the coins you have.
Have a conversation back and forth to buy or sell the cereal.
Instead of empty cereal boxes, empty toilet paper rolls can be used to create candy containers.
You can also create your own script to use with for the specific children you are working with.
What colors is your cereal going to be?
What do you want to call your cereal?
What do you say to someone when you want to buy something at the store?
Are there any stores you like to go shopping at?


Perkeo Unigel is a universal soft-solder flux in a gel format for soft-soldering of all plate rolled blank materials. Not for use on aluminum and special material as uginox. Brush is incorporated in the lid. Able to apply to standing areas without it running as conventional soft-solder flux does. Reduced flowability of Unigel soft-solder flux prevents the soldered environment from being contaminated by the flux's corrosive substances. Supplied in a container with a very large seat area which means the solder container will not tip over. Contains 320 ml.


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ND Secretary of State (ND SOS)
ND Secretary of State (ND SOS) address is 600 E Boulevard Avenue Dept 108, Bismarck, North Dakota 58505-0500. ND Secretary of State phone number is 701-328-2900. ND Secretary of State provide services, different forms, business forms, tax forms, and North Dakota Secretary of State Business Search (get the details, phone numbers, location, and website address below.
ND Secretary of State Phone Number
What is ND Secretary of State phone number?
ND Secretary of State phone number where you can speak with a ND SOS agent with regards to different matters, including business & corporation in the state of North Dakota is 701-328-2900
ND Secretary of State Forms
ND Secretary of State Tax Forms
North Dakota Secretary of State Business Search
ND Secretary of State Official Website
ND Secretary of State (ND SOS) Mailing Address
What is ND Secretary of State (ND SOS) mailing address?
ND Secretary of State (ND SOS) mailing address where you can send official mail, documents and forms is:
Address: 600 E Boulevard Avenue Dept 108
City: Bismarck
State: North Dakota
Zip Code: 58505-0500
ND Secretary of State (ND SOS) Fax Number
What is ND Secretary of State (ND SOS) fax number?
ND Secretary of State (ND SOS) fax number where you can send fax messages & documents is 701-328-2992.
ND Secretary of State Responsibilities
What are ND Secretary of State responsibilities?
ND Secretary of State has many essential responsibilities that most people aren't probably aware of including:
* Handling and oversees all business filings for North Dakota corporations and businesses.
* Manage the North Dakota state registries.
* Preserves North Dakota historical documents, maps, photos, etc'.
* Serving as North Dakota state's chief elections officer.
* Managing North Dakota state and federal elections including tracking financial expenditures for candidates.
Secretary-of-State-Directory.com is a leading free and professional website, providing the best and most up to date data and information for ND Secretary of State (ND SOS) and SOS in all states, business & corporations, and more.
As the information may change and new information published, our team is working around the clock to ensure we provide you the best ND Secretary of State details and information.
Found new information or updates for ND Secretary of State? We would appreciate that when you discover any new details or information for ND Secretary of State (ND SOS) or any secretary of state, you help us by sending us a quick message with the new information using the contact us page or the comments form below. We always verify the information and publish it promptly on the website for the benefits of all users.
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【出版情報】Cahiers d'Extreme-Asie 22 (2013), Kyoto, 2015, EFEO,650 p.
During the Heian period (794?1185), the sacred mountain Kinpusen, literally the "Peak of Gold," came to cultural prominence as a pilgrimage destination for the most powerful men in Japan—the Fujiwara regents and the retired emperors. Real and Imagined depicts their one-hundred-kilometer trek from the capital to the rocky summit as well as the imaginative landscape they navigated. Kinpusen was believed to be a realm of immortals, the domain of an unconventional bodhisattva, and the home of an indigenous pantheon of kami. These nominally private journeys to Kinpusen had political implications for both the pilgrims and the mountain. While members of the aristocracy and royalty used pilgrimage to legitimate themselves and compete with one another, their patronage fed rivalry among religious institutions. Thus, after flourishing under the Fujiwara regents, Kinpusen's cult and community were rent by violent altercations with the great Nara temple K?fukuji. The resulting institutional reconfigurations laid the groundwork for Shugend?, a new movement focused on religious mountain practice that emerged around 1300. Using archival sources, archaeological materials, noblemen's journals, sutras, official histories, and vernacular narratives, this original study sheds new light on Kinpusen, positioning it within the broader religious and political history of the Heian period.
Copyright (C) 2015 The Association for the Study of Japanese Mountain Religion.


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Q: Run two apache (httpd) servers on CentOS 6 I'm actually working on an old CentOS 6.5 server during my internship in a society that produces maps.
I worked last month on a CRM implementation that runs on an apache2 located in /usr/local/apache2/ and uses some ports.
My boss recently asked me to build a tiles server on the same machine, so
I used a fresh apache2 installation to do it that runs in /etc/httpd (where it's normally suppose to be).
Now, I would like to run all my work at the same time.
In fact, if my old/primary apache2 is already started when I try to start the second one I get:

(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

That is quite normal I guess...
I would like to be able to get an access to my tiles with some ports on my second apache2, something like:

myserveradress:someport/osm_tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

and be able to have an access to the ports 80, 8080 and some others on the first one...
Does someone have ideas ?

A: The best approach for this is to use virtual hosts.

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Telephone consultations offer a more limited service than face to face consultations. In other words, there are somethings that cannot be offered or organised during a telephone consultation and will require a face to face consultation.
Referrals cannot generally be organised during telephone consultations. Most referrals require a face to face consultation with a physical examination. This is particularly the case where patients have been discharged from a hospital clinic (eg after a non-attendance).
National guidelines do not support the prescribing of antibiotics after a telephone consultation. Although there are occasions when a telephone consultation will result in a prescription for antibiotics, Practitioners are generally not authorised to prescribe antibiotics after a telephone consultation.
Home visits cannot be requested or booked during a telephone consultation. Home visits should be requested via the reception team before 10AM. When all the Home Visits for the day have been allocated, no further Home Visits can be arranged for that day.
Practitioners running the telephone clinic will call back between 10AM and 4PM. We are unable to give any more precise time for the call back. The Surgery telephone number will come up as Unregistered Number. Practitioners will call the telephone twice and then the telephone consultation is forfeited. In this situation, patients should not call the Surgery as they will not be put through to the Practitioner.
Telephone time slots are limited to a maximum of 8 minutes due to the volumes of patients that need to be contacted. We ask that patients are mindful of the short time available and explain the concern succinctly.
UK registered telephone numbers can only be called by the Surgery. This includes UK registered landline and mobile telephone numbers. The Surgery cannot call international numbers.
Arguing (or use of foul language, shouting etc) with the Practitioner on the telephone is likely to lead to a behaviour warning sanction. Practitioners will try as best they can to offer the best help they can. After two behaviour warning sanctions, patients will be removed from the Practice list. Patients are responsible for advocates acting on their behalf – so by way of example, an elderly patient will receive a behaviour warning sanction (and risk of removal) if a family member is felt to be hostile to a Practitioner on the telephone.


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Jake Owen is one hellofa golfer
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Jake owned me on a course he's surely never played before. I wonder who would win a round of 18 between he and Darius Rucker?
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package org.ebayopensource.turmeric.tools.codegen.builders;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.ebayopensource.turmeric.runtime.common.impl.utils.LogManager;
import org.ebayopensource.turmeric.tools.codegen.CodeGenContext;
import org.ebayopensource.turmeric.tools.codegen.SourceGenerator;
import org.ebayopensource.turmeric.tools.codegen.exception.CodeGenFailedException;
import org.ebayopensource.turmeric.tools.codegen.util.CodeGenUtil;
import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class WSDLSingleSchemaGenerator extends BaseCodeGenerator implements SourceGenerator{
private static final String WSDL_GEN_DIR = "META-INF/soa/services/wsdl";

	private final String TARGET_NAMESPACE = "targetNamespace";

	private final String TYPES_TAG = "wsdl:types";

	private final String SCHEMA_TAG = "schema";

	private final String IMPORT_TAG = "import";

	private final String NAMESPACE = "namespace";

	private final String XMLnamespace = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";

	private static Logger s_logger = LogManager.getInstance(WSDLSingleSchemaGenerator.class);

	private static WSDLSingleSchemaGenerator s_wsdlGenerator = new WSDLSingleSchemaGenerator();

	private WSDLSingleSchemaGenerator() {}

	public static WSDLSingleSchemaGenerator getInstance() {
		return s_wsdlGenerator;
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
    private Logger getLogger() {
		return s_logger;
	}

	public boolean continueOnError() {
		return true;
	}

	public void generate(CodeGenContext codeGenCtx)
			throws CodeGenFailedException  {
//		String metaSrcdestLoc = codeGenCtx.getMetaSrcDestLocation();
//		String svcName = codeGenCtx.getServiceName();
//		String wsdlFilePath =  CodeGenUtil.toOSFilePath(destFolderPath(metaSrcdestLoc, svcName)) +
//		getWSDLFileName(codeGenCtx.getServiceName());
//		parseDocument(codeGenCtx.getInputOptions().getInputFile(), wsdlFilePath);
	}

	private void parseDocument(String srcFileName, String destFileName) throws CodeGenFailedException {

		// parse the wsdl

		Document wsdlDocument = null;
		DocumentBuilderFactory wsdlDocumentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
		try {
			DocumentBuilder wsdlDocumentBuilder = wsdlDocumentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
			wsdlDocument = wsdlDocumentBuilder.parse(new File(srcFileName));
		} catch (ParserConfigurationException parserConfigurationException) {
			String errMsg = "WSDL parsing failed!";
			s_logger.log(Level.SEVERE, errMsg, parserConfigurationException);
			throw new CodeGenFailedException(errMsg, parserConfigurationException);
		} catch (SAXException saxException) {
			String errMsg = "SAXException!";
			s_logger.log(Level.SEVERE, errMsg, saxException);
			throw new CodeGenFailedException(errMsg, saxException);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			String errMsg = "SAXException!";
			s_logger.log(Level.SEVERE, errMsg, e);
		}
		Element wsdlDefinition = null;
		String wsdlNamespace = null;
		NodeList wsdlTypes = null;
		NamedNodeMap namespacePrefixes = null;

		if(wsdlDocument != null){
			wsdlDefinition = wsdlDocument.getDocumentElement();
			wsdlNamespace = wsdlDefinition.getAttribute(TARGET_NAMESPACE);
			wsdlTypes = wsdlDefinition.getElementsByTagName(TYPES_TAG);
			namespacePrefixes = wsdlDefinition.getAttributes();
		}

		Node targetSingleSchema = null;
		List<Node> schemaNodes = new ArrayList<Node>();
 		List<Node> importNodes = new ArrayList<Node>();

 		//getting all the schemas available in the wsdl and populating them into a list

		NodeList schemaTypes = null;
		if(wsdlTypes != null && wsdlTypes.getLength() > 0)
			schemaTypes = wsdlTypes.item(0).getChildNodes();
		for (int j = 0; j < schemaTypes.getLength(); j++) {
			if(schemaTypes.item(j).getNodeName().contains(SCHEMA_TAG)){
				schemaNodes.add(schemaTypes.item(j));
			}
		}

		List<Node> namespaceNodes = new ArrayList<Node>();

		/*
		 * Adding the import tags in each schema into a list
		 */
		List<String> importNamespace = new ArrayList<String>();
		for (Node schemaNode : schemaNodes) {
			if(schemaNode.getAttributes() != null)
				if(schemaNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem(TARGET_NAMESPACE) != null)
					importNamespace.add(schemaNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem(TARGET_NAMESPACE).getNodeValue());

			NamedNodeMap xmlnsNamespace = schemaNode.getAttributes();
			for(int j=0; j < xmlnsNamespace.getLength() ; j++){
				Node currAttribute = xmlnsNamespace.item(j);
				String prefix = currAttribute.getNodeName();
				if(currAttribute.getNodeValue().equalsIgnoreCase(XMLnamespace) &&
						prefix != null && prefix.indexOf(":") != -1)
					namespaceNodes.add(currAttribute);
			}

			NodeList tempImportList = schemaNode.getChildNodes();
			for(int k = 0; k < tempImportList.getLength(); k++){
				if(tempImportList.item(k).getNodeName().contains(IMPORT_TAG)){
					importNodes.add(tempImportList.item(k));
				}
			}
		}

		/*
		 * Creating a map of namespace and their prefix, which is made use of while replacing the prefixes
		 */

		Map<String, String> nameSpacePrefixMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
		List<String> prefixList = new ArrayList<String>();

		for(int j=0; j < namespacePrefixes.getLength() ; j++){
			Node currAttribute = namespacePrefixes.item(j);
			nameSpacePrefixMap.put(currAttribute.getNodeValue(), currAttribute.getNodeName());
		}

		int numberOfImports = 0;
		if(importNodes != null)
			numberOfImports = importNodes.size();

		List<Node> requiredImportList = new ArrayList<Node>();

		/*
		 * Creating a list of required namespace that are to be imported
		 */

		for(int k = 0; k < numberOfImports; k++){
			Node parent = importNodes.get(0).getParentNode();
			if(importNamespace.contains(importNodes.get(0).getAttributes().getNamedItem(NAMESPACE).getNodeValue()))
				parent.removeChild(importNodes.remove(0));
			else{
				requiredImportList.add(importNodes.get(0).cloneNode(true));
				parent.removeChild(importNodes.remove(0));
			}
		}

		if (schemaNodes != null && schemaNodes.size() > 0) {

			/*
			 * Cloning the schema node which has the same targetnamespace as that of the wsdl
			 */

			for (Node schemaNode : schemaNodes) {
				String schemaNamespace = null;
				if(schemaNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem(TARGET_NAMESPACE) != null)
					schemaNamespace = schemaNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem(TARGET_NAMESPACE).getNodeValue();
				if(schemaNamespace != null && wsdlNamespace != null && wsdlNamespace.equalsIgnoreCase(schemaNamespace)){
					targetSingleSchema = schemaNode.cloneNode(true);
					wsdlTypes.item(0).removeChild(schemaNode);
					schemaNodes.remove(schemaNode);
					break;
				}
			}
			/*
			 * Adding the child nodes of each schema to the cloned schema and removing the current schema
			 */
			for (Node schemaNode : schemaNodes) {
				String currSchemaNS = schemaNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem(TARGET_NAMESPACE).getNodeValue();
				NodeList currLeftOverSchema = schemaNode.getChildNodes();
				String prefix = nameSpacePrefixMap.get(currSchemaNS);
				for (int j = 0; j < currLeftOverSchema.getLength(); j++) {
					Node newDescendants = currLeftOverSchema.item(j).cloneNode(true);
					targetSingleSchema.appendChild(newDescendants);
				}
				if(nameSpacePrefixMap.get(currSchemaNS)!= null && !(nameSpacePrefixMap.get(currSchemaNS).equals("xmlns")))
					if(prefix != null && prefix.indexOf(":") != -1)
						prefixList.add(prefix.substring(prefix.indexOf(":") + 1));
				wsdlTypes.item(0).removeChild(schemaNode);
			}
		}

		/*
		 * If each schema uses seperate prefix then that prefix must be added to the wsdl definition as an attribute.
		 */
		for (Node namespaceNode : namespaceNodes) {
			Attr attributeNode = wsdlDocument.createAttribute(namespaceNode.getNodeName());
			attributeNode.setNodeValue(namespaceNode.getNodeValue());
			if(wsdlDefinition != null)
				wsdlDefinition.setAttributeNode(attributeNode);
		}

		if(requiredImportList != null && requiredImportList.size() > 0)
			for (Node node : requiredImportList) {
				targetSingleSchema.insertBefore(node, targetSingleSchema.getFirstChild());
			}

		/*
		 * After all the schemas are removed, the cloned schema node is added to wsdl element
		 * and then the prefixes are modified in order not to get any issues and then written into another file
		 */
		if(wsdlTypes != null && wsdlTypes.getLength() > 0)
			wsdlTypes.item(0).appendChild(targetSingleSchema);
		writeToFile(wsdlDocument, destFileName);
		replacePrefix(prefixList, wsdlNamespace, nameSpacePrefixMap, destFileName);

	}

	/**
	 *
	 * @param document
	 * @param fileName
	 * @throws CodeGenFailedException
	 */
	private void writeToFile(Document document, String fileName) throws CodeGenFailedException{
		/*
		 * Commenting this method .Using restricted apis.
		 * Not being used currently anywhere else.
		 * Should not be used.
		 */
//		OutputFormat outputFormat = new OutputFormat();
//		outputFormat.setIndenting(true);
//
//		FileWriter fileWriter = null;
//		try {
//			 fileWriter = new FileWriter(fileName);
//			 DOMSerializer wsdlSerializer = new XMLSerializer(fileWriter, outputFormat);
//			 wsdlSerializer.serialize(document);
//		}catch (Exception exception) {
//			String errMsg = "Unknown Exception!";
//			s_logger.log(Level.SEVERE, errMsg, exception);
//			throw new CodeGenFailedException(errMsg, exception);
//		}finally{
// 			CodeGenUtil.closeQuietly(fileWriter);
//		}
	}

	/**
	 *
	 * @param prefixList
	 * @param wsdlNamespace
	 * @param nameSpacePrefixMap
	 * @param fileName
	 * @throws CodeGenFailedException
	 */
	private void replacePrefix(List<String> prefixList, String wsdlNamespace,
			Map<String, String> nameSpacePrefixMap, String fileName) throws CodeGenFailedException{
		BufferedReader fileReader = null;
		FileWriter fileWriter = null;
		StringBuilder wsdlString = new StringBuilder();
		String newPrefix = nameSpacePrefixMap.get(wsdlNamespace).substring(nameSpacePrefixMap.get(wsdlNamespace).indexOf(":") + 1)+":";
		try{
			fileReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
			String currLine;
			while((currLine = fileReader.readLine())!= null){
				for (String currPrefix : prefixList)
					currLine = currLine.replaceAll(currPrefix+":", newPrefix);
				wsdlString.append(currLine).append("\n");
				}
			fileWriter = new FileWriter(fileName);
			fileWriter.write(wsdlString.toString());
		}catch (IOException exception) {
			String errMsg = "IOException!";
			s_logger.log(Level.SEVERE, errMsg, exception);
			throw new CodeGenFailedException(errMsg, exception);
		}finally{
			CodeGenUtil.closeQuietly(fileReader);
			CodeGenUtil.closeQuietly(fileWriter);
		}
	}

	private String getWSDLFileName(String svcName) {
		return svcName + "SNS.wsdl";

	}

	private String destFolderPath(String destLoc, String serviceName)
			throws CodeGenFailedException {

		String destFolderPath = CodeGenUtil.genDestFolderPath(destLoc,
				serviceName, WSDL_GEN_DIR);

		try {
			CodeGenUtil.createDir(destFolderPath);
		} catch (IOException ioEx) {
			throw new CodeGenFailedException(ioEx.getMessage(), ioEx);
		}

		return destFolderPath;

	}

	public String getFilePath(String serviceAdminName, String interfaceName) {

		String filePath = CodeGenUtil.toOSFilePath(WSDL_GEN_DIR) + serviceAdminName + File.separatorChar +serviceAdminName + ".wsdl" ;
		return filePath;
	}
}


(1) Who built the ark? Noah.
(2) What Psalm includes the line "The Lord is my Shepherd"? Psalm 23.
(3) Name the three patriarchs (the three ancestors of the nation of Israel that are mentioned in Genesis). Abram/Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel.
(4) On what day did God rest in the Genesis creation account? The seventh.
(5) What book contains the following, "And Jesus came and said to them, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age'"? Matthew.
(6) Name three of the gospels. You need three of: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
(7) What book tells the history of the early church? Acts.
(8) Who was king during the building of the first temple in Israel? Solomon.
(9) Who was the first king of Israel? Saul.
(10) What apostle betrayed Jesus? Judas.
(11) On what road does the risen Jesus appear to Saul? The Damascus Road.
(1) What does Proverbs teach is the beginning of wisdom? The fear of the Lord.
(2) What book tells the story of a prophet marrying and being faithful to a prostitute? Hosea.
(3) What OT prophet says, "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant…I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more"? Jeremiah.
(4) What book says, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus?" Galatians.
(5) Name four different letters found in the New Testament (only one per author). You should have mentioned four of the following letters (categorized by author as you can only list one per author): (1) Paul: any of his letters: Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, or Philemon; (2) Anonymous: Hebrews; (3) James: James; (4) Peter: 1 Peter or 2 Peter; (5) John: 1 John, 2 John, or 3 John; (6) Jude: Jude.
(6) What book includes the line, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory"? Isaiah.
(7) In what two books do the Ten Commandments appear? Exodus and Deuteronomy.
(8) What Old Testament book includes the command, "Love your neighbor as yourself"? Leviticus.
(9) What Psalm is Jesus quoting when he says, "my God, my God, why have you forsaken me"? Psalm 22.
(10) What New Testament book says, "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy"? 1 Peter.
(1) Name the prophet that said: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore"? Isaiah or Micah.
(2) What biblical book mentions an event that gives rise to the phrase, "the writing is on the wall"? Daniel.
(3) Name ten of the Minor Prophets (the books that come after Daniel). You need ten of the following: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.


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Bitcoin payment will change the bank
Biography of the writer and the Aspen Institute (Aspen Institute) CEO Walter Isaacson (Walter Isaacson) has said that the subversion of bitcoin technology in 2015 will reshape the field of payment.
Yesterday in an interview with Alley CNBC program Squawk AI Isaacson stressed that although payment in the field of innovation, such as the Apple Pay for consumers is a step forward, it is found that the very important technology, may disrupt the payment system of bank and credit card. "We can use the payment system more simple and convenient."
Mr Isaacson said:
Let me feel a bit disappointed that Apple Pay did not launch its financial system, but decided to use people's credit card.
AI founder Richard Branson Isaacson's point of view and the Virgin Group (Richard Branson), American Express company chairman and CEO Chenault (Kenneth Chenault) is similar, they all think bitcoin has destructive potential in the field of payment. However, President of the Matthew Driver bitcoin MasterCard Asia has been skeptical.
The potential of micro payment
Isaacson pointed out that in addition to speculative profits, he believes bitcoin has caught on, because of its potential in micro payment.
He said: "I can pay 25 cents, 50 cents or less."
At present, the traditional bank payment system is not allowed. However, digital currency "zero wallet allows people to easily to reward those songs, blogs, and even newspapers creator.
He said: "it will usher in a new economic space, people can order a little money to sell digital things, and I think it will revive the news and many other industries."
He published articles on the same topic in LinkedIn recently, he explained above, like ChangeTip, BitWall, Coinbase and other innovative companies will be given new content creators and consumers. And finally from the Alibaba, like Amazon, apple such international giants take part in business.
"这将颠覆我们目前不完善的金融体系,点燃破坏性创新的一个炸弹。"
Mr Isaacson cited mileage and loyalty rewards program as a digital currency micro payment in another case. He explained: "the reward will be transferred to your wallet, you spend it on the internet."
The digital economy
Although AI Isaacson also acknowledged that in some circles Ribet coins is controversial. Isaacson said: "young people have a great demand for virtual currency."
The regulatory issues facing the simple solution to bitcoin start-ups, he made a comparison of the banking institutions and the taxi company, he was the disruptive technology Uber (Chinese yuho, popular American app taxi convenience).
He did not Apple Pay like bitcoin has its own technology innovation and financial disappointment, has been widely used and change into the institutional needs of society. On the contrary, this is another form of the use of credit cards.
Isaacson proposed protocol is to allow micro payment, which is included in the web development plan in the early. This will allow users to micro payment, without the need to pay by credit card or PayPal or Apple Pay transaction fee and other expenses.
About the Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute, English "Aspen Institute", was established in 1950, headquartered in Washington, is a non-profit organization of international repute, is committed to improving the leadership, to promote leadership and good public policy for the purpose.
The Aspen Institute Center for business education (Aspen Institute Center for Business Education), and encourage enterprise leaders, through mutual exchanges and cooperation, make innovation across the field, so that both sides can make a profit; the organization provides MBA course, let people have a good achievement in the society, the further study of professional knowledge of business management so, the enterprise can have further development.
About Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson, a famous American biographer, born in New Orleans, he studied at Harvard University and University of Oxford. After graduation, became a reporter for the British "Sunday times", which began his occupation career. Served as president of the famous American magazine "time" magazine editor in chief and the global media giant CNN company. Who wrote "Steve Jobs" "Benjamin Franklin: an American life", "wise men: six friends and they created the world" (Ivan Thomas and co-author), "Einstein: Life" biography of best-selling book etc.. At present, Walter Isaacson and his wife and daughter live in washington.
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Is She Jewish? Does it Matter?
The National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference was held in Ann Arbor Nov. 2-4, but no JWPF members even knew about it until our friend Michael – from the Yom Kippur protest in Boulder, Colorado – informed this writer that he was planning to attend.
But alas, neither Michael nor this writer had any luck registering for this event. Code Pink member Sasha Gelzin informed me that this conference was open only to students. Is she Jewish? Does that matter? Well, yes, it matters. Jewish activists in the Palestine solidarity movement have quite the gatekeeping history, and it would be nice to know where the organizers stand on the issue of Israel's claimed "right" to exist as a Jewish state. Code Pink won't tell us and neither will conference-supporter Jewish Voice for Peace. Vigiler M points out that Ms. Gelzin is a frequent contributor to the Anti-Zionist Zionist (AZZ) Phil Weiss, whose gatekeeping prowess was exposed in our last report. Sasha runs her conference the way she sees fit: keeping those who might not share her political views out of the work sessions this conference provides.
An extensive interview with one of the attending students indicates how powerful this method of spoon-feeding select information is, without the "interference" of opposing points of view. This young man was able to recite chapter and verse the teachings of Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky, hardly reacting to the Jewish Zionist identity of these two individuals. "International consensus", "Strategic use of Israel by the United States", "US Imperial interests", "Two-state solution now, one-state later", "seeking realistic solutions". It was like having a conversation with Norman himself. Having read only the introduction to The Israel Lobby by Mearsheimer and Walt, this very likable student was able to denounce its conclusions. As a friend's father is fond of saying: "You never know", but the likelihood of NSJP ever shrugging off their Jewish manipulators, or actually mounting a legitimate boycott campaign, remains doubtful. Two vigil supporters carrying "Boycott Apartheid Boycott 'Israel'" signs into the open-to-the-public final session were summarily given the literal boot before they even set foot in the lecture room.
Ali Abunimah Wants (Almost All) Voices Heard
Electronic Intifada Director Ali Abunimah addressed the organization during closing ceremonies and called for the Palestinian story to be told on campuses. But he certainly wasn't about to identify Jews as the group of folks holding his Palestine under lock and key (and gun). One has to wonder what's really going on when Abunimah launches a full-scale dynamic silencing attack against our friend Gilad Atzmon for his nerve at examining Jewish identity politics. Jews may be the most highly-visible, well-connected, politically manipulative, wealthiest single group that supports the Jewish state, but outside of a peep of accusation from Noor Ali, who also addressed the small audience at closing, you wouldn't know it from this conference. See "Ali Abunimah & Gilad Atzmon at the OK Corral" for the full story.
As a four-year-old boy noticed in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, about 62 years ago: "Sump'n 'tinks in here."
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The Process of Meaning-Making | Zat Rana
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The 20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes once claimed: "Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians."
Finding Meaning
Sir Isaac Newton, was the famous English mathematician and physicist whose profound works on gravity, mechanics, optics and calculus, among other subjects have greatly shaped science in the coming centuries.
His contributions have altered and reshaped everything that Science had to offer.
The Meaning Of Meaning
The concept of meaning, points to objective and subjective modes.
Objective: The world or the universe as it exists.
Subjective: The 'I', the person that exists to experience the universe.
Isaac Newton gave visibility to this very fabric of reality, making meaning an action, a synthesis of objectivity and subjectivity, both of which are vital.
Vitality Of Life
The architect Christopher Alexander concludes that life is everywhere, in an interconnected way, by design. Nature, animals, plants, mountains, clouds, rivers, valleys, birds and insects just fit together in harmony. Nature's design is integrated and flawless.
Reality Of Matter
If there was no matter and no design, life would have been a blank dream, with no color or flavour.
Meaning is found when matter and objects collide with consciousness and subjectivity. The cycles of nature are prime examples of this, showing to us that meaning is the vitality and the action that we fill in matter.
Albert Einstein: Mastering Creativity | Design Luck
Labels are important
But they are also harmful if we use them incorrectly. When it comes to categories like science and art, we tend to presume mutual exclusivity.
Albert Einstein inspired ...
Don't wait for inspiration
Breakthroughs are seldom made through sudden inspiration. Insight is the result of action. Doing creative work is about setting a schedule and getting on with it. Eventually, the combination of your effort will energize the push towards a final result.
Albert Einstein worked at a Swiss patent office, a rather uninspiring place relative to his interest in physics. Between the hours he spent on the job, he also dedicated hours to scientific work. He was deliberate in his commitment to creation, which led to the formulation of the two fundamental theories in physics: general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Seeking connections between existing ideas
Creativity is not equivalent to originality. Creativity is just a new way of combining old ideas.
Albert Einstein saw invention as a product of "combinatory play." He would separate his existing ideas from language, so he could freely visualise and mix these known elements of information to arrive at some new logically connected concept.
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Getting the most out of everything
Productivity is about to get valued at a whole new level: people are slowly realizing that this is the ultimate key to a life of abundance and advance in technology.
Getting the mo...
Measuring productivity
The common way to tell the importance of our work is by how meaningful this is for us. Practically, it is about how well, how rewarded we feel after having done our shift.
When it comes to economics, productivity is what measures this meaningfulness. And it most often translates into the amount of money that has resulted from doing our work.
The three levels of individual productivity
There are three main elements that lead to a certain outcome when it comes to individual productivity: energy, information and creativity.
The first two go together very well, as we need energy in order to be physically able to work, while information is what guides us in regards to how to make better use of our energy and time, in order to reach a certain goal. Creativity, on the other hand, can be perceived as a unique feature, as it enables us to be more efficient while also discovering new ways to do things.
Why Don't Most People Reach Their Potential?
The two states of being: surviving and thriving
Surviving. It is looking after our basic need for food, shelter, and companionship.
Thriving. This state attempts to make something of ourselves b...
The gap between surviving and thriving
There is a gap between the state of surviving and thriving that needs to be closed before a thriving life can be embraced.
In the modern world, our senses are abused by artificial lights, sounds, and smells in the cities we live in. Our media devices fill us with more helpful and useless information that we can consume in multiple lifetimes. Our problem is not with the abundance, but that we don't know how to manage all of this.
What successful people have in common
When the most successful people were interviewed in the 1990s, they all shared one commonality: They were incredibly complex people. They were both differentiated and integrated.
They were differentiated because they took it on themselves to get exposed to the world. They were integrated because they learned to make sense of this diverse absorption.


MEMBERS of Dunmow Town Council have said no to unhealthy eating by turning down a request to park a burger van outside a school. However, Town Mayor Clive Smith, backed the local business saying they should be given a trial period before a final decision.
MEMBERS of Dunmow Town Council have said no to unhealthy eating by turning down a request to park a burger van outside a school.
However, Town Mayor Clive Smith, backed the local business saying they should be given a trial period before a final decision.
Cllr Smith said: "If they see a gap in the market then who are we to say no? I say good luck to them and let us give them a few weeks on a trial basis."
The proposal from Dunmow entrepreneur Nina Sheppard who lives on the Maltings received criticism from the rest of the council's downs and commons committee for "promoting unhealthy eating". They also expressed concerns over the amount of litter it could create.
Chairman Cllr Trudi Hughes said: "I think a burger van would have a detrimental impact on school pupils' healthy eating, but not only that, it would inevitably create more litter in a residential area, and will no doubt have an impact on Dunmow's High Street."
Cllr David Beedle said he would be "horrified" to see a burger bar selling chips, sausages, eggs and bacon, crisps, cakes and soft drinks outside the Helen Romanes School on Parsonage Downs and at the Skate Park on The Causeway.
"It is something the council should never support," he said.
Mrs Sheppard had applied to locate a van at the skate park between 10am and 4pm at weekends and throughout the week during summer holidays and said she would also consider parking at the school during lunchtimes.
In a letter to the council she wrote: "I would make sure that when I close the van the litter would be picked up. I feel this would be an ideal situation as it would save the children walking to Dunmow High Street in order to buy their lunch.
"I go [to the skate park] regularly with my son and there are a lot of children using this facility, especially at weekends and during school holidays."
In a vote last Thursday night the councillors agreed to refuse to allow the burger van to park on the council owned land.


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Ariana Grande Drops 'Thank U, Next' Album: Listen
After dropping what seemed like a random string of songs following her breakup with her now ex-fiance, Pete Davidson, Ariana Grande put those pieces and more together to form the powerful thank u, next album release!
The 12-track full length features the title song and chart-topping "thank u, next" single as well as previously released titles "imagine" and "7 rings." Ari also includes "needy" on the album, which she's teased a number of times on social media. The overall vibe of the collection harkens back to the Grammy-nominated singer's Dangerous Woman days, but with an extra hip-hop twist that can be heard specifically on "bloodline" and "fake smile". And her inner savage comes out on the bold "break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored."
Embed from Getty ImagesThank u, next is the follow-up to Ariana's 2018 effort Sweetener, making it the second Republic Records LP release for the 25-year-old within 6 months. Dropping those large amounts of songs over that time period is a testament to Grande's creativity, especially given that the two albums have completely different messages. Check out Ariana Grande's most recent and highly-anticipated project below.
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The Assembly's stage 3 consideration of the Public Health (Wales) Bill is scheduled to take place in plenary on 8 March 2016.
Stage 2 was carried out in the Health and Social Care Committee on 28 January and 3 February 2016. A number of amendments were agreed at stage 2. In addition, the Minister for Health and Social Services, Mark Drakeford, indicated that the Welsh Government would bring forward, or consider, further amendments in a number of areas at stage 3.
In the Bill as introduced, the use of nicotine inhaling devices (NIDs) was placed under the same restriction in public places/workplaces as smoking tobacco cigarettes. The most significant change to this part of the Bill at stage 2 resulted from amendments which set out different approaches for tobacco and for NIDs in terms of restricting their use.
At stage 1, the Committee was unable to reach a consensus view on whether any restriction on the use of NIDs would contribute to the aim of improving and protecting public health. However, in response to concerns that treating tobacco and NIDs in the same way could send out a message that they are equally harmful, some Committee Members supported an alternative approach which would specify – on the face of the Bill – areas where the use of NIDs would be prohibited, rather than including NIDs under the same broad restriction as tobacco.
The Minister subsequently stated that, in line with such an approach, he would bring forward amendments at stages 2 and 3 to define the places where NID use would be restricted. Accordingly, Government amendments relating to public and school transport vehicles, childcare premises, schools and further education institutions, food establishments, public transport facilities, and hospitals were brought forward at stage 2 and were agreed. Hospitals are included as NID-free premises, but managers will be able to designate areas where NID use is permitted.
Other opposition amendments tabled at stage 2 would have provided for an independent review of how the provisions to restrict the use of NIDs had affected public health in Wales, and also included provision for the Assembly to repeal the restrictions. These amendments were not agreed at stage 2. The Minister was however supportive of the principle that the evidence should be kept under review, and indicated that he would consider a stage 3 amendment to that effect.
The current list of special procedures (acupuncture, body piercing, electrolysis, tattooing) on the face of the Bill remains unchanged. Opposition amendments to add branding, scarification, sub-dermal implantation and tongue splitting to the list were not agreed at Stage 2. The Minister stated that a greater exploration of the associated risks of harm was needed before considering adding them to the legislation.
Amendments were passed to add key licensing criteria on the face of the Bill. Applicants will be required to demonstrate knowledge of infection control and first aid in the context of the relevant special procedure. Applicants must also demonstrate knowledge of the duties imposed on them as a person authorised to perform a special procedure.
The tongue was added to the list of intimate body parts listed on the face of the Bill in relation to intimate piercing restrictions, due to the associated risk of harm. This means it will be an offence to perform, or make arrangements to perform, a tongue piercing on a person who is under the age of 16 years.
Additionally, the Bill was amended to require local authorities to prepare and publish interim progress statements (as recommended by the Health and Social Care Committee at stage 1). This is a new requirement, and is in addition to the duty on local authorities (in the Bill as introduced) to fully review their strategies no later than one year after the end of an electoral term.
During stage 2, the Welsh Government committed to bring forward a stage 3 amendment to include health impact assessment on the face of the Bill. This reflects the Health and Social Care Committee's recommendation at stage 1 to introduce a requirement to undertake mandatory health impact assessments when developing certain policies, plans or programmes. Opposition amendments in this area had been tabled at stage 2, but were not moved in light of the commitment given by the Minister.


Another view of the water tank at the former SP Perry station, between San Jose and Morgan Hill.
Shot with the Nikon D70s and the 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 zoom at 55mm, ISO 400, f/11, shutter 1/500 sec. Cropping, exposure, highlights, and monochrome adjustments in Aperture.


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