Kanchenjunga Trek, Kanchanjunga Trekking in nepal, Nepal Trekking, Trekking, Nepal Trek, Trek Nepal, Nepal Trekking & Tour, Of all the world's great peaks, Kanchenjunga is perhaps the least known; the third highest in the world at 8,598m. It sits astride the Nepal / Sikkim border only a few miles from Tibet. This route was opened to the trekkers in 1988, though people have trekked in the area in connection with mountaineering expedition since the turn of the century. Kanchenjunga is along way from Kathmandu and the nearest road and airports are along way from the mountains.
Our long trek here climbs from the intensively cultivated hillsides of the Nepal Midlands, populated by the Rai and Limbu tribes, towards the peaks of Jannu and Khabru and the great wall of Kumbakarna, Kanchenjunga and Rathong, passing on the way through some of the finest high mountain scenery anywhere. Until very recently this was a restricted area, so this is an ideal trek for those who already know Nepal and want to get away from the better known areas and visit a remoter part where few foreigners have penetrated.
We fly from Kathmandu to Biratnagar and transfer to Basantapur on the same day. The treks begins with our first camp at Chauki then trek through Gyabla, and ascend to the higher camp at Pang Pema (5120m) and camp at Lhonak. The trek concludes at Suketar via the descent from Omje Khola, from where we fly back to Kathmandu.
We fly to Biratnagar, an industrial city in the lowlands of Eastern Nepal. From here we drive to Hille, a Tibetan settlement where we pitch our first camp.
We take the trail to Buranse Danda, towards the Tamur River along a ridge. At the top of this ridge we arrive at Shidua, where we camp for the night.
We trek through a forest rich in wildlife to chitre. The views of Makalu 8476m and Chamlang are today's highlights. We continue through rhododendron forests to the hamlet of Door Pani 2780m for overnight camp.
After gentle climb through more rhododendron forests to a mountain ridge, we drop down to the village of Tongise Phedi and continue through grassy fields with Mt. Makalu in a constant view. Soon the Kanchenjunga range appears and we come to Mongol Bharai pass, lined with mani stones. We descend to a lake,Gupta Pokhari, for our camp.
Today we cross a pass at 3025m, descend through a dense forest towards Gurja Gaon and Nesum (1615m) with Mt. Jannu and Mt. Kanchenjunga behind us. Overnight camp in Nesum.
Today we visit the central hub of this region, Taplejung. We descend to Doban through paddy fields and start the trek up to the Tamur River to Taplejung.
Coninuing up the Timur River in a valley populated by the Limbus peoples, the descendants of the Kirati warriors who ruled Nepal at the dawn of Nepalese history, we camp near Chirwa, a pleasant bazaar with a few tea houses and shops.
We continue up th Tamur past Tapethok and cross the simbuwa khola, a river formed by the Yalung Glacier. We climb over another ridge to join the Ghunsa Khola valley and camp by the banks of the river at Sakathum.
We follow a steep and narrow trail up river. From the high spots there are wonderful views of the Ghunsa Khola below. The path decends steeply and we arrive at the mountainside village of Amjilassa for our overnight stay.
We shall be doing some climbing during the next 5 days! We climb steeply to Kyapart,, perched in the middle of terraced hills anout 350m up from the Ghunsa Khola.
We descend form Kyapar and make an easy climb up the right bank of the Ghunsa Khola. Aftr the village of Phere, we enter rhododendron forests and climb a gentle hill before descending back down to the Ghunsa Khola and crossing a bridge to the village of Ghunsa overnight camp there.
We glimpse the Jannu Glacier, later on we get a view of Jannu (7710m) we descend the mountainside to our camp at Khambachand and overnight staying there.
Acclimatization at Khambachan: This is a rest day to acclimatize to the higher altitude. So deserve a rest today to collect our thoughts on how wild and wonderful everything has been so far.
The Passes - We select to cross either of the 2 passes today depending on the weather conditions: Lapsang la, the higher pass at 5180m or the Mirgin La at 4500m.
We shall again rest today to recover from the efforts of the previous days.
We take a day trip to the Yalung glacier for a magnificent view of the Kanchenjunga south face from a chorten at about 4500m. We descent later to Tseram for our over night camp.
We are starting to descend from today. We steadly descend through forests of rhododendron to Torontam at 3000m.
We descend from Yamphuudin to the Kabel Khola and climb to Ponphe 1680m.
From Ponphe we climb to a ridge then descend fthough as series of side valleys past Phun village to Kesawa. The trail continues to ascend to a Gurung settlement at Bhanjyang (pass) from here the trail traverses a ridge and descends to th Limbu village of Khunjari. We camp below on the banks of Pha Khola.


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Water and Electricity
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Water is a vital element of life and Amani's role from 2000 to 2005 was almost exclusively in sinking wells to provide a permanent supply of clean water in villages where there were none.
Historically all water was untreated. It came from waterholes, creeks and rivers and cholera and typhoid were prevalent. Women spent hours each day walking to distant sources of water. In a dry season, carrying barely enough water for their family's basic daily needs, their journey could continue well into the night.
Through the generosity of our donors, Hearts for Africa has funded the sinking of many deep wells with associated windmills, water storage and supply systems that provide permanent clean water for up to ten local villages with a total population of between thirty and fifty thousand people. In some villages there is a sufficient supply of well-water for use in irrigation as well as for drinking. Amani continues to sink on average between one and two new wells each year as its work expands to new parts of the community.
Electricity supply
Until recently there has been no local access to the government electricity network and Amani used a combination of generators, solar power and windmills to supply its basic power needs.
Amani's goal is to connect to the newly extended grid over the next three years. This will present a major cost but the benefits to the community will be enormous.
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As the title suggests, it's Saturday and by coincidence, it's July 2nd. The city where I live is holding its July 4th (Independence Day) celebration today instead of on the proper day. It has something to do with paying workers overtime on Sunday to set-up. I've heard that it's a $75K savings to the city treasury. While I'd normally say what the f&%k?, part of me agrees. AND we can celebrate independence twice. Any excuse for a second party is a great excuse.
So in keeping with the fact that it is Saturday and there will be fireworks at the park, two blocks away, and there will be a family/friends gathering at the mansion. If you're showing up bring something.
If we lived further out in the country there would be more home-made pyrotechnics as I explored my ammocentric proclivities publicly. However, being in the city and because there will be local off duty city and county police types here at the house, I will restrain myself. However I've found that off-duty police officers are often even more ammocentric than I am, and that's saying quite a bit.
When I explore my ammocentric nature, I feel more unburdened, as if the social yoke has been lifted from my shoulders - as if I'm really being ME. And let me share that taking an (insert California-legal firearm here) to the desert with a lot of ammo can help me shed stress in ways that most progs would call 'indecent'. Targets are annihilated.
I wonder if ammocentric people will become a protected class in America? It's every bit as legit as black guns matter.
Shooting is how ammocentric people express themselves and pursue happiness. Progs want people to be recognized and to feel special about pursuing happiness. When Planned Parenthood wants to slaughter the unborn at a pace that would make an Aztec priest blush, it's all chalked up to the pursuit of happiness.
Historical Discrimination for the Ammocentric!
The ammocentric clearly weren't recognized as a protected class by the British Government on April 19, 1775 when a skirmish line of minutemen stood up to the vanguard of about 700 British Army soldiers who had begun their march before dawn to seize weapons owned lawfully by Americans at Concord, Massachusetts.
The force, under LTC Francis Smith fired the first shots just as the sun was rising at Lexington Green. The militia were outnumbered, fell back, and the British Army regulars proceeded on to Concord, where they broke apart into companies to search for arms and ammunition. At the North Bridge in Concord, approximately 400 militiamen engaged 100 regulars from three companies of the King's troops at about 11:00 am, resulting in casualties on both sides. The outnumbered regulars fell back from the bridge and rejoined the main body of British forces in Concord.
The British forces began their return march to Boston after completing their search for military supplies, and more militiamen continued to arrive from neighboring towns. All of those patriots were shamelessly ammocentric.
Gunfire erupted again between the two sides and continued throughout the day as the regulars marched back towards Boston. Upon returning to Lexington, Lt. Col. Smith's expedition was rescued by reinforcements as they made a tactical withdrawal under heavy fire to Boston.
Progs would have you forget that. They would much rather that you honor communist community agitators like Barack or Al Sharpton today (and every day).


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The Horse You Rode In On (A Halo: The Master Chief Collection Story) – IGN First
It's good to be back.
byBrian Albert
Posted Oct. 7, 2014, 11:23 p.m.
Halo fans: You can cheat time.
Replaying classic games – and yes, Halo now counts – can be both a wonderful reminder and a disappointing eye-opener. Most of the great stuff is still great, but technical seams can worsen with age. With the new updates to Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4 in The Master Chief Collection (let's shorten that to MCC), you get nostalgia with none of the side effects. You can have the Halo experience you had two consoles ago, without the wrinkles.
Once More, With Feeling
The earliest levels of Halo were brilliantly deceptive. The Pillar of Autumn, a massive human vessel, is under attack from overwhelming Covenant forces. You're woken up to evacuate a precious AI before she falls into enemy hands. There's a huge ring floating outside in space, and nobody knows what the heck it is. Once you grab a gun (you'll have to find ammo as you go), Pillar of Autumn becomes, essentially, a bunch of hallways that connect larger combat "arenas." It feels like a corridor shooter with a better premise and shooting mechanics than most. You evacuate the doomed ship with your package. It's sincerely very fun. Well done. Time for level two.
Oh man, level two. "Halo."
Halo is surreal. There's enough of both the foreign and the familiar to keep you on edge. You see grass and trees. A waterfall hisses in the distance. Admire the sights enough and you'll catch a glimpse of the impossible horizon. The world's surface curves skyward, so you follow it up, around, and back down, tracing it with your weapon's reticle. How big is this thing? How does gravity work here? An unfamiliar hum steals your attention, and you see something flying toward you. It looks vaguely like a tuning fork. You don't know what it is; you do know that you need to run and hide.
It's one of the most excellent, purposefully disorienting moments in games. The environment asks you questions you genuine can't answer, and just as you're getting your bearings, you're snapped back to attention with a visceral threat. It captivated my 13-year-old mind.
I'll never have that exact moment again, but people playing Halo for the first time with MCC's improved look can. The same goes for finding Jenkins' helmet, or any of the other countless excellent Halo moments.
That signature Halo "feel" went mostly untouched. If anything, the frame rate bump (up to 60fps) makes it a bit easier to line up headshots or take out flying enemies, like Banshees or Drones. Encounters feel like miniature sandboxes with plenty of options. Hanging back is okay. Running in is okay. Finding a vantage point is okay. The sacred Halo trinity of guns, grenades, and melee attacks, all accessible with one button, worked in the early 2000s, and it still works now.
At any time in Halo or Halo 2's campaigns, you can hit a button and revert back to the original game's graphics. 2011's Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary had a similar feature, but it took a few seconds. The switch on Xbox One is instantaneous. If you played the original, the swap button becomes the oh-wow-I-can't-believe-this-is-how-Halo-used-to-look button. If you haven't played the original, it becomes a portal to a stranger, blockier world you never knew and don't need to know to enjoy the game. MCC makes plenty of room for all of us.
Halo 2, Round Two
Do you remember that first big Halo 2 trailer? The one where Chief leaps out of a ship to give the Covenant their bomb back? When we visited 343 for IGN First, the first things we saw were some of the brand new cut scenes Blur created – including snippets of that famous trailer. What's old was new again, and I had goosebumps like it was the first time.
It's strange seeing cutscenes from 2004 outclass most modern cinematics, but that's what Blur does (fun fact: they also did the cutscenes for Halo Wars and Halo 4). Sergeant Johnson bellows out orders and tough love with incredible fidelity. Watching the Chief take down a Scarab tank and stroll out of the wreckage is as epic as ever. Arbiter's mandibles twist and twitch. With around one hour of redone cutscenes, I'm tempted to jump into Halo 2 immediately just to see them in their entirety.
All four campaigns have received some work, but Halo 2 is the marquee title in MCC. It looks great, feels better than ever at 1080p and 60 FPS, and the iconic soundtrack was re-recorded with the San Francisco symphony, a 40-person opera choir, and a 28-person boys choir. It's madness to imagine improving Marty O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori's original score, but it may be about to happen. Swapping back and forth between the new and old versions doesn't just swap graphics, it leaps between soundtracks, too. Halo 2 Anniversary's choir is louder and more punctual, complementing the orchestra at just the right beats.
Et tu, Xbox 360?
Halo 4 was the biggest surprise of MCC. As the newest game, it makes sense that it would look the best by default. Through some technical wizardry (and maybe black magic), the game looks like it was developed for the Xbox One all along.
Even in 2012, Halo 4's environments and enemies looked more synthetic than they did in past Halo games. And by synthetic I don't mean false or poorly crafted, I mean everything glows.
Enemies pulse, dotted with lights. Liquid stuff in the cracks on the ground glows. When Chief picks up a Promethean weapon, it shifts and constructs itself as if from a blueprint, lighting up as it comes alive. Pulling the trigger lets loose a lance of bright energy. The horsepower of the Xbox One takes Halo 4's fireworks show and pushes it over the top. Prometheans in particular look better than ever.
And yes, their brutal AI is still fully intact. They'll dodge shots, teleport into your face, and lob plasma grenades back at you. Halo 4 is not easy.
Halo 3 is the oddball of the collection. Yes, it looks better than it did in 2007, particularly the lighting. But compared to the other three games, the improvements aren't as noticeable. Grinding down Tsavo Highway on a Brute Chopper is still great, and the story, of course, is as well-told as it ever was, but it clearly hasn't been given the modernizing touches that the other games have.
The differences might be more noticeable if you could swap between the old and new versions of Halo 3, but that feature doesn't apply to the pair of Halos that started on the Xbox 360.
Thought I'€™d Try Shooting My Way Out...Mix Things Up a Little
MCC's multiplayer reads like a Halo fan's wish list. Every map from Halo 1-4, including the obscure PC levels? Check. Halo 2's 1-50 ranked matchmaking system? Check. Smooth action at 1080p and 60 FPS? Check. Dedicated servers? You'd better believe it (P.S. See ya, standby modem cheaters!).
That Old, Familiar Feeling
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is Halo. I can think of no better way to describe it. It sounds so obvious, but preserving, and yet contributing to, the magic of one of the most beloved and successful game series of all time cannot be easy. From what we've seen, 343 nailed it.
There's a sentiment that Halo is too old-timey to hang with modern shooters. That its floaty, "slow" combat is outclassed by today's fastest twitch shooters.
First, there's no need to pick sides. Second, there will always be a place for great shooters with immersive worlds, and respect for the power of intrigue and mystery in storytelling. There's a place for Halo.
What's that great quote from the Halo novel? Oh yeah.
"Didn't you know? Spartans never die."
BONUS: Interesting Facts About Master Chief Collection
- We asked and are awaiting confirmation on whether or not Master Chief Collection will support digital pre-ordering/pre-loading.
- Halo 3 and Halo 4 make use of the Xbox One controller's impulse triggers out of the box (we experienced it!), and Halo: CE and Halo 2 may have that functionality added in via a game update shortly after release.
- The Scorpion tank still lives in the Coagulation Anniversary remake, but you have to turn it on in Forge (more on all of that later this month).
- In classic Halo 2 multiplayer, the Ghost's fuel tank could be shot, causing the Ghost to explode. This is one little detail that didn't carry over to the Halo 2-emulating Xbox
- One engine that runs the six Anniversary maps.
- It took a lot of work to make Halo 2 feel right. In fact, "We had to get Havok to recreate aspects of the original physics code used for Halo 2," 343 told us.
- Halo: CE Anniversary's Kinect features are not supported in MCC.
- Halo: CE's version of Blood Gulch is the original Xbox version, not the Halo PC version that included the Banshee by default.
- For those of you who like to start message board wars over such things, let's get this out of the way: Halo 2's campaign isn't quiiiiiiite 1080p. Due to running the original graphics engine and the Xbox One-ified Anniversary graphics engine simultaneously and the original Halo 2 audio engine and remastered Anniversary audio engine simultaneously, Halo 2's campaign does run at 60fps but, resolution-wise, clocks in at 1328x1080. Here's an explanation from 343 executive producer Dan Ayoub: "During development we were really pleased with the way the engine and buffer allowed us to switch instantly between classic and Anniversary engines that are running simultaneously – however that, as you might expect, put a hit on resolution.
The campaign of Halo 2: Anniversary looked fantastic at 720p with the level of detail and clarity it gave us, but like every other aspect of the game and tech, we wanted to push it further. So in the last weeks of development, our teams were able to meet a stretch goal and the campaign of Halo 2: Anniversary now runs 60 fps at a crisp resolution of 1328x1080, which is a significant and meaningful boost in image quality we think fans are really going to appreciate. All of the other games across the entire package of The Master Chief Collection run 60 fps at 1920x1080 native."
All month long, IGN First is diving deep into Halo: The Master Chief Collection. We've got map reveals, interviews, features, and plenty more on the way, so check back daily for more!


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A Personal Debunking of Popular Mechanics
Adam Syed Tue, 01/23/2007 - 8:27pm
I wrote this review for Amazon on December 19, and it did not get posted for a whole month!
Anyone who has done serious research into 9/11 will come to the inescapable conclusion that rogue elements of the government orchestrated the attacks as a false flag operation to arouse patriotism so the nation would support a war of global domination.
However, there is a very strong contingent of Americans who react emotionally, rather than rationally, to any argument suggesting government complicity on any level, let alone outright orchestration. These are the ones, who for decades, have believed America is the best thing for humanity since sliced bread. They believe our government would never murder its own people (even though they have NO trouble believing OTHER govts would kill THEIR own people), and anyone who thinks as such must be paranoid and even anti-American. Indeed, most of the positive Amazon reviews seem to be of this mentality. Such Americans, comfortable in their established paradigm of reality, will find comfort with this book.
When James Meigs, editor of PM, appears on media outlets such as the O'Reilly Factor, he reassures FOX's mainstream audience that PM is not a political organization, or an organization seeking a specific conclusion, et cetera. However, the book's foreword was written by none other than GOP darling John McCain, in which he states unequivocally: "Blaming some conspiracy within our government mars the memories of the victims... To blame not a gang of terrorists but some conspiracy for September 11 insults the police officers and firefighters who raced into the burning towers; the men and women who left for dangerous, distant lands to fight our enemies; and those who have fought in all the wars of our history." In other words, there is a political bias to this book: Questioning the true identity of the 9/11 perpetrators is tantamount to treason. All of Popular Mechanics' "evidence" defends this forgone conclusion.
Another hole in McCain's rhetoric: "To blame not a gang of terrorists but some conspiracy for September 11..." Well, first of all, REGARDLESS of WHO pulled off 9/11, they are TERRORISTS! What the victims of 9/11 experienced was terror. The terrorists might wear suits and ties, and their skin might be white, but if they are responsible for 9/11, they are terrorists. Second of all, a "conspiracy" is when two or more people agree in secret to do something illegal and/or immoral. So UNLESS ONE AND ONLY ONE PERSON pulled off 9/11... it was a "conspiracy." What's deeply sad here is the subtle racism: When McCain says "terrorists" he means "those brown guys that wear those funny turbans and bandanas." Little wonder then, that in the Iraq run-up, most of America couldn't see the difference between "Osama" and "Saddam."
As far as the book itself is concerned, the only instances in which it does correctly expose erroneous 9/11 Truth arguments are when the original arguments were "straw men." In this instance, a "straw man" is when a true conclusion (9/11 was an inside job) is supported by bogus or unsubstantiated evidence. Once the particular erroneous argument is debunked, some will conclude that ALL arguments in the Truth Movement have been debunked, or can be debunked just as easily. In other words, the "straw man" ends up smearing the whole movement in the minds of many Truth Seekers. The most classic example is the "pod theory," which asserts that a missile pod was attached to the underbelly of the plane the hit the second tower, and that based on frame-by-frame analysis of the impact, a "flash" can be seen a millisecond before contact. This argument was popularized in the first major 9/11 conspiracy video "In Plane Site," a film which was a breakthrough in 2004 but is now considered old hat, especially as portions of it have been discredited.
However, PM is much less convincing, and much more transparent as a private-sector front for a government propaganda report, when it tries to explain how fire brought down the WTC buildings. The editors flat-out lie when they say that WTC7 was massively damaged when the damage was only minimal, especially in contrast to WTCs 3, 4, 5, and 6. What's funny is that even the govt's own report, the NIST report, admits that the "fire theory" was especially unlikely for WTC7. However, PM attempts to convince the reader that debris from the Twin Towers created an internal fire in WTC7, which ignited several fuel tanks in the basement, causing the steel structure to collapse. If the reader chooses to believe this (because s/he doesn't want to believe that the govt caused 9/11), well, that proves that ultimately it's all about what a person is willing to believe. However, to watch a video of the collapse of WTC7 and not realize it's controlled demolition, well, you are wearing blinders of denial.
Popular Mechanics, in attempting to cover up the WTC towers' collapse, purports that gravity caused the buildings to weaken and fall. However, they do not account for not only the very rapid collapses (if they weren't EXACTLY free-fall speed, they were close enough), but more importantly, the fact that most all the concrete was pulverized into a very fine dust, coating all of Lower Manhattan in a nuclear winter.
Here's another good example of a straw man, in which PM distorts what truth seekers say: PM says (I'm paraphrasing here), "The conspiracy theorists claim that the towers fell into their own footprint like a demolition. This is not true. Look at the South Tower. The top clearly falls over sideways." This distortion is a classic example of PM's "debunking." First: yes, the top of the South Tower did break off and fall sideways. This, however, raises a major problem for defenders of the official collapse theory: If the collapse was a progressive, gravity-induced collapse, and if the top of a tower broke off and fell sideways, where is the massive weight to supposedly pulverize the rest of the building, evenly and symmetrically, from the top down, into nothingness?
Another outright lie concerns the thoroughness of our air defense system. PM claims that only one airplane (Payne Stewart's ill-fated private jet) was intercepted in the decade prior to 9/11. Not true. Sixty-seven of them occurred in just the one year before 9/11 alone. The 'one intercept' lie serves to back another one of PM's lies: that the Airforce was previously only trained to handle foreign attacks, coming from beyond our borders, and that the U.S. continental mainland was a defenseless donut-hole. Blatant falsehood.
To conclude, not much can be said that wasn't already at the top of my review. This book is for those grasping at straws, desparate to cling to anything that defends the official, commonly accepted account of 9/11. True researchers see it as such.
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Joke Popular Mechanics almost not worth debunking
"These are the ones, who for decades, have believed America is the best thing for humanity since sliced bread. They believe our government would never murder its own people (even though they have NO trouble believing OTHER govts would kill THEIR own people), and anyone who thinks as such must be paranoid and even anti-American."
Believing America is the best thing for humanity since sliced bread is what is referred to as "exceptionalism." This way of thinking for people these days is regarded as part and parcel of the government's total domination foreign policy and how it instills this false "patriotism" mindset into the sheeple it wants to support its PNAC total spectrum (global) dominance neocon foregin policy. Paul Craig Roberts (conservative) as well as Howard Zinn (liberal) both decry this exceptionalism.
But I think it is important to say that America WAS (not IS) the greatest thing since sliced bread for the majority of its existence as a sovereign nation. People differ on date setting as to when the USA started headed downward to where it is now, now being almost an empty shell of a free and Constittutional republic, but I would say the slide started in around the 1840's. America has had darkside operatives machinating for the way this country is to go since the early 1600s, but we WERE the beacon of freedom for all peoples of all the world for a very long time. I just think that needs to be said.
Most leftwing commentators (and the phony left/ right paradigm is ALMOST nonexistent at present) contantly beat the drum that America is bad, bad, bad, and that is why we MUST be part of the one world death and slavery system which I identify as the United Nations (for now anyway). The idea of individual sovereign nations has been slated for obliteration for about 2500 years.
John McCain sounds like he uses exactly the same script writers as The Smirk. Nuff said.
Popular Mechanics is just another entity that has become taken over as a government /CIA front. Some woman took over ownership of the magazine rougly about a year and a half ago. She threw out all or most of the long-time writers and staff and put in the "new writers", the ones that write the bildge that you the poster now debunk. This woman also put in Benjamin Chertoff who is the counsin of Homeland Security's chief Michael Chertoff, though Mike can't seem to remember if Benjamin is related to him or not. Mike hold's dual citizenship with either Israel or Russia. (Will have to look that up.) Pretty outrageous that the top banana of US Homeland (vaterland) Security (polezei) is not even a full American citizen.
Just my two-cents worth.
Blessings from Dachsie in Austin.
Dachsie on Wed, 01/24/2007 - 9:01am.
"But I think it is important
"But I think it is important to say that America WAS (not IS) the greatest thing since sliced bread for the majority of its existence as a sovereign nation. People differ on date setting as to when the USA started headed downward to where it is now, now being almost an empty shell of a free and Constittutional republic, but I would say the slide started in around the 1840's. America has had darkside operatives machinating for the way this country is to go since the early 1600s, but we WERE the beacon of freedom for all peoples of all the world for a very long time. I just think that needs to be said."
i dont think im alone here in thinking that america has always been a corrupted nation long before the 1840s. I find a high percentage of blind patriotism for what america used to be on this msg board and other 9/11 truth forums.
id agree that america was a beacon of freedom for white people, but not so much for the black slaves we forced over here.
Robbie Martin on Wed, 01/24/2007 - 11:00am.
White Men the culprits ? Think more deeply...
"id agree that america was a beacon of freedom for white people, but not so much for the black slaves we forced over here."
"WE ? forced over here? I think you will find the primary slavers were turban-wearing African Muslims and the leaders of conquering African tribes over other African tribes.. The countries that accepted slaves were the USA as well as South America and many Caribean countries as well as France and other European countries. There was also plenty of slavery in Africa with African slavemaster "owners."
Slavery has been around since the dawn of man. Man is fallen and will sin to not only survive but also to gain money and power.
I know that American "white men" are thought of as the chief slave purchasers, but white men have also been enslaved throughout history, for example, the Israelites by the Egyptians and Babylonians.
Man tends to be corrupt. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrups absolutely." Man also tends to war and emperialism - or taking over your neighbors and their land by force.
The number of slaves in the USA at the height of the slave trade was like half a million people.
Darker skinned people groups have been discriminated against in a thousand ways for a long time, but I think that has more to do with the Satanic eugenics/evolution ideas originating in Europe and adopted arround the world, especially by the world leadership groups such as the United Nations. AIDS and fluoride in our water are man's actions and ideas, and both of those have a predisposition to brown and black skinned peoples. Fluoride in water and food causes 6 times as much blood/liver/lead toxicity in brown skinned peoples and 10 times as much in black skinned peoples. That is by design, and the characteristics of those elites one world designers has far less to do with their skin color and much more to do with the shape of their souls which they have sold to Satan and it is Satan/Lucifer that they worship.
I think it is ironic that our "savior one world government folks" who promise a world of peace and freedom for all and who have all these laws of their's outlawing slavery and human trafficking are the all-time worst offenders. Everywhere the blue helmeted United Nations "peace-keeping" forces occupy, there you will find a sharp spike in child and woman sex and regular slavery. Also the elites of the world, especially like in France and Belgium, are big in to pedophilia (and worse) or humans they have captured and "caged."
I still say there were a group of mostly Christian people who started the once great USA and their ideas brought forth the most amount of freedom for people (people of all people groups) in modern times. Why do you think so many people, people of all people groups flock here, and flock here legally and illegally?
It is all gone now. All of us of all people groups have failed in our God-given duties to preserve and protect what was started here.
Dachsie on Wed, 01/24/2007 - 1:29pm.


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Q: Link error in VS 2010 Qt add-in Im havin some problem with Qt in Visual Studio 2010.
I have downloaded the qt binaries from this site, version Qt-4.7.3-dev-msvc2010-rdh.
This code copiles without any problem.
class Widget : public QWidget
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protected:
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When I add this line:
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This error happens
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1>Build started 25/09/2012 21:04:40.
1>InitializeBuildStatus:
1>  Creating "Release\lol.unsuccessfulbuild" because "AlwaysCreate" was specified.
1>CustomBuild:
1>  Moc'ing lol.h...
1>ClCompile:
1>  All outputs are up-to-date.
1>  moc_lol.cpp
1>  lol.cpp
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1>lol.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "protected: virtual void __thiscall lol::mousePressEvent(class QMouseEvent *)" (?mousePressEvent@lol@@MAEXPAVQMouseEvent@@@Z)
1>C:\Users\VTM\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\TC\Win32\Release\\lol.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
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A: It seems that the linker is not able to find keyPressEvent implementation.
Have you implemented keyPressEvent() in your Widget class? You will have to do that since your are declaring that in your class definition. Add the following code just to forward the event to baseclass.
void Widget::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent *e){ QWidget::keyPressEvent(e);}

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Access Mgmt. Grp., L.P. v. Hanham, A17A1752
Document Cited authorities 8 Cited in 5 Precedent Map Related
Court United States Court of Appeals (Georgia)
Writing for the Court Bethel, Judge.
Citation 812 S.E.2d 509
Docket Number A17A1752
Parties ACCESS MANAGEMENT GROUP, L.P. v. HANHAM et al.
345 Ga.App. 130
812 S.E.2d 509
ACCESS MANAGEMENT GROUP, L.P.
HANHAM et al.
A17A1752
Court of Appeals of Georgia.
Lervette Jones Blair, Atlanta, Ian Robert Rapaport, for Appellant.
James Stuart Teague Jr., Keisha Leigh Martin Chambless, for Appellee.
Bethel, Judge.
Access Management Group, L.P. appeals the denial of its motion for a directed verdict and entry of final judgment against it. Access Management argues that the trial court erred in denying its motion for directed verdict on the claims for negligence and breach of contract, that the verdict form submitted to the jury was erroneous, and that the trial court permitted a double recovery against it. We disagree and affirm.
James and Mary Hanham filed suit against their neighbor, Marie Berthe-Narchet, her landscaper GreenMaster Landscaping Service, Inc., and Access Management regarding a landscaping project Narchet had performed on Narchet's property. Narchet had hired GreenMaster to build a retaining wall, plant trees, and assist with a drainage issue in her backyard. The Hanhams alleged that Narchet's landscaping project channeled a large amount of water onto their property and that trees planted by Narchet were obstructing their view of the golf course, which reduced the value of their home.
Access Management was hired as the community management agent for the St. Marlo's neighborhood. As the community management agent, Access Management was responsible for managing the homeowner application process for landscaping modifications submitted to St. Marlo's architectural committee. To that end, Access Management collected information, reviewed it for compliance with the architectural standards manual, and forwarded it to St. Marlo's architectural committee for review and approval of the request.
Narchet's application for architectural review was submitted to Access Management in July 2012. The evidence presented at trial showed that the application failed to comply with the architectural standards manual in several respects. The Hanhams contend that the project was approved by Access Management without actual approval from St. Marlo's architectural committee, and that Access Management did not respond to their complaints regarding Narchet's landscaping project for at least five months.
At trial, Access Management moved for a directed verdict on all of the Hanhams' claims. The trial court granted directed verdicts to Access Management on the claims for trespass and nuisance but denied the request with respect to the claims for negligence, breach of contract, and invasion of privacy.1
The jury awarded damages and the trial entered final judgment against the defendants totaling $96,500, allocated as follows: (1) $5,000 compensatory damages for nuisance and negligence associated with the water flow and (1) (a) $12,000 in related attorney fees; (2) $7,000 compensatory damages for negligence with respect to the view and (2) (a) $10,000 in related attorney fees; and (3) $40,000 compensatory damages for breach of contract and (3) (a) $22,500 in related attorney fees. Access Management filed an objection to the final judgment, arguing that it provided for a double recovery to the plaintiffs because it awarded both contract
and tort damages, and that the final judgment reflected an award for nuisance despite the trial court having entered a directed verdict on that claim. This appeal followed.
1. Access Management argues that the trial court erred in denying its motion for a directed verdict with respect to the claims for negligence and breach of contract. "Such motions should be granted only where there is no conflict in the evidence as to any material issue, and the evidence presented, together with all reasonable deductions therefrom, demands a verdict in favor of the movant." Preferred Risk Ins. Co. v. Boykin , 174 Ga. App. 269, 271 (2), 329 S.E.2d 900 (1985) (citations omitted). See also OCGA § 9-11-50 (a). "On appeal from the denial of a motion for a directed verdict ... we construe the evidence in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion, and the standard of review is whether there is any evidence to support the jury's verdict." Park v. Nichols , 307 Ga. App. 841, 845 (2), 706 S.E.2d 698 (2011) (citation omitted).
(a) Access Management argues that the trial court erred in denying Access Management's motion for directed verdict as to the Hanham's breach of contract claim. More specifically, Access Management argues that the Hanhams failed to present evidence that it breached the terms of the management agreement between it and St. Marlo's. We agree.
In denying the...
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In re Equifax, Inc., MDL DOCKET NO. 2800
United States District Courts. 11th Circuit. United States District Courts. 11th Circuit. Northern District of Georgia
...199 Ga. App. 138, 141, 404 S.E.2d 291 (1991) (internal quotations omitted).141 Access Mgmt. Grp., L.P. v. Hanham , 345 Ga. App. 130, 133, 812 S.E.2d 509 (2018) (internal quotations omitted).142 Id. (internal quotations omitted).143 Bradley Center, Inc. v. Wessner , 250 Ga. 199, 201, 296 S.E......
...199 Ga. App. 138, 141, 404 S.E.2d 291 (1991) (internal quotations omitted).79 Access Mgmt. Grp., L.P. v. Hanham , 345 Ga. App. 130, 133, 812 S.E.2d 509 (2018) (internal quotations omitted).80 Id. (internal quotations omitted).81 Bradley Center, Inc. v. Wessner , 250 Ga. 199, 201, 296 S.E.2d......
Hanham v. Access Mgmt. Grp. L.P., S18G1033
Supreme Court of Georgia
...The Court of Appeals agreed and reversed the jury's judgment as to that claim. See Access Mgmt. Grp., L.P. v. Hanham, 345 Ga. App. 130, 812 S.E.2d 509 (2018). Thereafter, we granted certiorari to decide whether the Court of Appeals erred in reversing the trial court's denial of Access Manag......
...The Court of Appeals agreed and reversed the jury's judgment as to that claim. See Access Mgmt. Grp., L.P. v. Hanham, 345 Ga. App. 130, 812 S.E.2d 509 (2018). Thereafter, we granted certiorari to decide whether the Court of Appeals erred in reversing the trial court's denial of Access Manag......


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By Joel Hruska on September 6, 2019 at 9:02 am
Earlier this week, reports surfaced that some Windows 10 users are having problems with Windows 10 1903. The latest cumulative update released for the OS, KB4512941, can cause CPU usage to surge to 30 percent or even as high as 100 percent. Separately from that, some users are also reporting that Windows Desktop Search is completely broken.
According to Microsoft, the broken search issue only affects systems which have disabled the "Search the web" functionality embedded in desktop search. I admit, this kind of acknowledgment always makes me a bit grumpy, mostly because I've never understood why anyone would want web-search functionality integrated into desktop search in the first place. If I'm searching my desktop, I'm definitionally not searching the World Wide Web. Cluttering my results with data from locations that aren't going to contain what I'm looking for isn't a value-add, it's an active detriment to the entire point of using a desktop search as opposed to a web search.
Separately from these issues, Windows 10 1903 is still grappling with a laundry list of problems. The company still doesn't recommend installing 1903 on Surface Book 2 models with a discrete GPU because the update can break discrete GPU functionality. Some Qualcomm and Realtek device driver versions aren't compatible with the update. Some users with an Intel Audio Driver have reported faster-than-expected battery drain, and the company hasn't fixed an issue causing problems with gamma ramps, color profiles, and night light settings. This one produced some spectacular (and puzzling) visual results while we were testing the 5700 and 5700 XT for AMD's Navi launch back in July.
In most of these cases, Microsoft has "mitigated" the problem by blocking affected products from updating to Windows 10 1903 automatically. The problem with that approach, however, is that it doesn't address the issues of people who updated to 1903 already and didn't discover it was the cause of their issues until the rollback window had already passed. It's easy to remove a single Windows Update, like the cumulative KB4512941 that's causing the new issues with CPU usage, but rolling back the entire 1903 installation is something you have to do within 30 days.
As for the broken desktop search functionality, that's an issue I've actually run into before with earlier Windows 10 updates. When I updated my desktop to Windows 10 1809, it broke desktop search. I rolled the update back as a result, even though I wasn't impacted by the data-deletion bug that affected some users.
Affected users should try uninstalling KB4512941. Users who still can't install 1903 should wait to see if Microsoft will be able to resolve any of these issues before 1909 comes out. Microsoft has made significant changes to how it tests future Windows builds in the Windows Insider program. The result of these changes should be a longer overall test cycle and hopefully updates that will break less code moving forward, but 1903 was released before these changes had gone into effect. We may not see the impact of these changes until Windows releases its 2020 updates.
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Powerman 5000- Builders of the Future
In a way, you have to pity Spider One, Michael Cummings. His brother is definitely a genius. Michael is slightly more questionable as a genius, but his reach is further- Rock star, TV director, recording mogul, TV Host, graphic design- he's ambitious. But, he hasn't had half the success of his brother, Rob. On top of that, what he does do is easily misunderstood. He's not meaning to be a science fiction equivalent of his brother's horror theme. He means to be grounded in the here and now, and his over-arching metaphor is more about pop culture than imagined outcomes- if it reads as science fiction, it's because his actual targets are obsessed with science fiction metaphors- he's talking about the Americans trying to be Otaku . The music is meant to be a hybrid between EDM and Hard Rock, but can come across as Nu Metal Rap Rock because of his vocal style.
These problems are mostly of his own design, so I don't pity him. Instead, I look at it as an interesting proposal- he would be a social critic and rebel, instead he acts as a voice in a mob. He's got a brain, and he's creative, but, as his career has advanced he's had to modify his vision to maintain an audience. You dance with the Devil-Bros and sooner or later, they'll call the tune. His problem boils down to appealing to the wrong crowd.
So, those are a lot of caveats- but I still find enjoyment in this. It's football chants and frat boy songs, with a slightly subversive undercurrent. It's like the movie Fight Club- not a single idea was new, and virtually everything was dumbed down- but it made the intellectual and philosophical points more fun, and more palatable for the lumpen proles. So, much like Powerman 5000, it rightfully is a favorite with those who should know better.
There's no point in analyzing the songs- like I said, they're football chants- but some work better than others- I like "Invade Destroy Repeat" "How to be Human" and "I can't F***ing Hear You" but that's probably just me.
7 Seconds- Leave a Light On
I have long maintained that hardcore punk rock is essentially an exercise in formalism. I don't usually phrase it that way, but the thought is there- the tag "hardcore" implies a rigid adherence to something, right? As you might recall, part of the appeal of punk rock, in general, is in a deconstruction of pop song formats- the idea that anybody can play three chords. Now, the absolute best of hardcore defied that expectation, to be sure, bands like Articles of Faith, Die Kreuzen, and The Refused would be hard to pin down to any formula, but there is an exemplary in "playing to the rules", and I can think of none finer than 7 Seconds. Even when they tried to experiment, they experimented by playing yet more pop rock. This might seem like some kind of ironic slam on them, but I assure you, this is sincere praise. From Youth Brigade to Bullet Treatment, super tightly structured hardcore punk rock is one of my favorite things in life. It even informs my tastes in more "avant" musical genres- for example, I can't stand Noise rock that doesn't have precise structure at its core- I'm not a big fan of free form improvisation, nor do I like "ambient" music types- I do believe that music should at least partially be about imposing will, intellect and yes, structure over expression.
So, bringing it back to 7 Seconds, a difficulty in imposing strict formalism to relatively simple formats, like pop music ( or Punk rock, if you are offended by the term "pop") is that the discipline required to keep coming up with variations that sound fresh goes up exponentially upon each completed song.How do you keep from turning into a joke I heard about Kiss, then AC/DC then the Ramones ; "One great riff, seven great Albums"? I really think this degree of difficulty killed off many truly great bands- how often do you hear bands say "Well, we felt we'd said all we had to say"? What I hear in that statement is "We just ran out of ways to approach the problem of sticking to our self-imposed format"- and there's no shame in that. But, here's the phenomena of 7 Seconds- they're still going, sticking to that 120 BPM, guitar, drum, bass, voice, big chorus, short fast song format, and still coming up with new wrinkles. That degree of discipline, and creativity needs to celebrated. I cannot think of anyone else who proves so consistently the sturdiness of the Punk Rock Formula. On top of that, they add the additional rigor of keeping a positive lyrical stance- no blues allowed. Every song on here is honest, open, positive, and affirming. If you don't see the achievement in this, I would challenge you to re-examine your criteria. I know I couldn't do it. No way! I would have repeated myself, or gone cynical and bitter, or gone off the formula a long, long time ago. On top of that, I don't think Kevin has ever been in better voice. Seriously, even Peter Murphy is starting to lose his voice, but Kevin has an even purer, more sweet tenor going that when 7 Seconds started. Yes, they have slowed on a few tracks, but I don't count anything on here as below 120 BPM, which still places all these songs as "fast" in my book. Again, for guys in their 50's, that's incredible. I mean, Kevin and I bonded a few years back over mutual gallbladder problems- think about that- what could be more middle aged than that- yet, here 7 Seconds are, fresh as ever, playing loud, fast hardcore, like the 1990's and 2000's haven't come and gone- "Young until I Die" wasn't an idle boast. So, am I somehow ashamed, or ironic, or apologetic about still loving Hardcore Punk Rock, as played by 7 Seconds? Absolutely not. I'm here to tell you not to sleep on this, because we will not likely see their ilk again. I'm telling you, these guys should have a monument....
Peter Murphy Lion
Well, apart from drug busts, and nostalgia trips, what exactly is our man Peter Murphy good for, these days?
Well, for one, I use his name for comedy routines- I substitute "Peter Murphy" for "Charlie Murphy" and "Nick Cave" for "Rick James" to do riffs based upon Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood stories. But, that's not to say that I have no respect for him as an Artist, I just think his image is a bit too puffed up and melodramatic. So, believe it or not, his new LP is a fairly potent set of synth-infused post punk more in line with Killing Joke, than his somewhat fey mid 1990's solo work. The opening single, Hang Up, is minus only Geordie's apocalyptic guitar for being some kind of out-take from Killing Joke's Pandaemonium LP. Then, again, that makes sense, as Youth produced it. Yes, Murphy's voice has aged away from his baritone croon, but, much like Jaz, the weathering helps to convey passion. From there Tracks like "Eliza" and "I am my own Name" rock out in a Bowie-esque fashion, with tastes of fiery goth ( Sisters of Mercy style, with hints of industrial noise) and spooky experimentations (ghosts of the Walker Brothers and Roxy Music) float through more than one moment on the LP, as on "Loctaine", "Compression" and "The Ghost of Shokan Lake" . How's this- "Low Tar Stars" is a thumping EDM-esque song that wouldn't have been out of place on Bowie's "Earthling". Only "Rose" and "Lion" really give in to sub Bowie histrionics. For Peter Murphy, that's not bad. So, yes, it's actually a fairly vital LP.
So, I saw "The Punk Singer"
I am just fine with being the bad guy. I have dealt with that for forever, so don't think I'm saying this for effect, but I don't really care for Bikini Kill. I think Kathleen Hanna has flashes of brilliance, but mostly her ignorance, and ego get in the way of her actually being brilliant. So, why I am watching a movie about her? Well, mostly for ancillary reasons- I like people who like her, and I dig a bunch of the aesthetics that people around her use. Is there a small amount of hate-watching? I suppose, but it's more a wish- I wish she'd confront herself, the way she confronts everything around her. I know so many people like her, and that's my frustration with them as well. I wish I could say that this movie fully does that- and the last third goes a long way towards that. It's something most of us learn much earlier on- that we can be wrong, that we can lie to ourselves, that our certainty can be misplaced. That she allowed the cameras to roll was brave, and probably more honest than she ever was in her bands. But, then, it all gets taken away- she goes off on a rant about how her truth gets taken away because she's a woman. So, we're right back to her selling that most American of commodities: Confidence. I wonder if she'll ever understand that she never had an idea that wasn't expressed better by someone else before her? Yeah, I know, but it's true- 90% of her thing was done by Alice Bag, and the other 10% by the Slits.. Before you say I'm sexist- consider that I said that all the way back in 1996, alongside the remark that Fugazi had done nothing that Gang of Four, the Pop Group, The Clash, and Killing Joke hadn't done already. But, see, ever since Ronald Reagan, that's what Americans seem to do, intellectually, and politically- recycle ideas, but dress them up in a bit more flash, and a whole lot more confidence. It sometimes frustrates me so much that I want to tell people " shut up and look pretty, because that's what you're best at". Of course, I respect folks more than that might imply, and there are people out there who trade in better ideas, and more realized Art, but I get so frustrated when an Ian Mackaye gets the kudos that really belong to Andy Gill, or Kathleen Hanna gets the praise that belongs to Alice Bag, or people tell me how Bad Religion invented pop punk, or how "revolutionary" Wilco was- when so much of this stuff is just recycled, with a layer of pretty shine.
So, is it a good documentary? Nope, it's a puff piece, that's little better than a People magazine article. Is it worth seeing? Maybe, if you turn the sound off, because most of these folks have great style- they all look totally cool- but if you really listen to what they have to say, you'll feel more stupid on the other end of it, for having listened.
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I was required to take a world language class in high school. So, like most of my friends, I begrudgingly enrolled in Spanish. At the time, I had mixed emotions about the language. I appreciated that it had a fixed structure; once you understood all of the rules, you could apply them uniformly across the language. But, man, was it hard to understand, and native speakers talk way too fast.
It was so different from the language I grew up speaking. Spanish required me to restructure my thoughts and communicate in a way that I never had before. It was one of my most challenging classes because it felt so unnatural and took a lot of work. I practiced over and over to form new mental patterns. Fortunately those patterns eventually became habits, and I passed the class.
Years later, I met a nice girl (ironically a Spanish major) at Indiana University, and we began to date seriously. I remember thinking that we communicated well with each other, but when we had our first real disagreement (I don't remember the specifics, but it was definitely my fault) I remember thinking that it felt like we were speaking different languages. I focused on communicating the intention behind my actions, while she focused more literally on what I said and did.
This disagreement marked the first time I stepped back and analyzed how differently my wife and I communicated. Through this difficult conversation we began to recognize the different relational and emotional needs we had. I believe there are three steps to loving well. They are simple as concepts but challenging to master.
Recognize the ways you and your partner are different from one another. You can't begin to change and grow together if you don't first acknowledge that you are different and have different wants and needs.
Learn your partner's preferred way to receive love. Every person expresses and accepts love differently.
My amazing grandparents gave my wife and I a wedding gift in the form of a book, The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. We read it together on our honeymoon, which may be one of the best decisions we've made in our marriage. As we read this book we discovered that even though we'd just committed to loving each other forever and had the best intentions, we did not have all of the tools we needed to love each other completely .
It's so important to learn your partner's love language.
As Chapman suggests, there are five love languages we use to give and receive love: words of affirmation, acts of service, gift giving, quality time, and physical touch. He explains that it is rare for both partners to have the exact same love language. And I strongly suggest every couple read The Five Love Languages and read it together, if possible. It will teach you to recognize the best way to communicate and show love to your partner. Check out his website and take the free love languages quiz here.
As I read this book I discovered that my wife felt the most loved when I expressed words of affirmation and when we spent quality time together. At the time, I was focusing on showing her love through my love languages, acts of service and physical touch (I am a guy after all). We realized that even though we were working hard to show love to one another, we weren't doing it in the ways that the other most needed. Thus, our efforts were less effective. There were times when we both felt that we needed more from each other.
Showing your partner the wrong type of love is kind of like giving an antibiotic to someone who has a viral infection.
Even though the antibiotic works for someone with a bacterial infection, it does not meet the needs of the sick person. Eventually the person might get better, but they would have gotten better quicker and more effectively with the right medicine. And I needed to give my wife the right medicine to keep her feeling loved well.
Act on what you've learned. Just like learning a foreign language, you need to develop new mental patterns and habits. It feels foreign and uncomfortable at first. But if your partner feels the most loved when you tell them they are beautiful (words of affirmation), you should make it a habit to speak variants of this sentiment on a regular basis. The first few times may feel forced and unnatural, but you'll get used to it and it will make your partner feel great.
The cool thing is that when they feel loved they will naturally seek out ways to love you better. It is a beautiful cycle that ultimately leads to greater love and a happier life.
What is your love language? How can you love better today?
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Not any owner of a house or construction project will be aware of the right industry that can recycle the trash in an powerful manner or have enough time to increase the risk for trash make it to the industrialist. Disposing the trash to the right location is just a click of your mouse away. You'll find number of Garbage Dumpster for Rent in Freeport, TX businesses available online to handle the task for you.
Dumpster rental can seem being a difficult thing to understand. However, if most of these simple steps are usually followed, it could be a very easy as well as rewarding approach.
Taking the identify of industrialization, western world like US consistently run important projects similar to construction, industrial cleanups, home renovation. Most of these projects generate huge a lot of trash that need to be cleared instantly, which in any other case would leave a lot of the counties inside US in risky conditions.
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It is possible to delivery charge? A lot of Garbage Dumpster for Rent in Freeport firms will charge a delivery charge on top of the rate they estimate you, therefore be sure to ask. Shipping and delivery fees can vary anywhere from $25 to help $50 or more.
They want to guarantee a total service and not a quick variety of your waste materials. Living in a rental complex will forever bring troubles where the waste materials management is concerned. Using a specialized company such as trash taxi cab, can guarantee that this waste is taken away from the developing on a regular basis.
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Household, office or get together trash, currently get it going in an eco-friendly means without hazards. Just rest, sit back and pay attention to the waste going away with no bothering your self much.
When you have gotten the legal muck of an foreclosure and the previous tenants have remaining the property, you need to turn the house around it to be inhabitable once again. Follow this process to make certain your property is prepared to be rented once again after an foreclosure occurs.
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The amount of spend generated from manufacturing or development work is commonly in a lot. A larger convenience container is often required in this as opposed to ones normal property hold convenience units. These waste can also be usually bulky in bodyweight and therefore involves an appropriate way of moving this waste from your disposal product with ease. The ideal solution of containing and managing such spend would be to rent the disposal product.
If you had a vanity area as part of your master bedroom, you will be throwing out that old cabinets along with updating them to give your bedroom a complete fresh new look.
No matter whether you own your house or you take presctiption the neighborhood panel there is something use a dumpster for. Neighborhood dumpsters work well to never have garbage just hanging out around the neighborhood. Creatures can get in and make environmental surroundings a mess, along with besides that it simply looks undesirable. Having a dumpster will keep your neighborhood and also safe.
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If you have garbage that needs removing, the first thing you could do is call ones friendly local community Garbage Dumpster for Rent in Freeport, TX company. It doesn't matter what your project is actually, they can offer you a place to get rid of your crap and then they can haul all this away at the same time. There's no need to not work your washing so as to certainly not overwhelm ones weekly garbage pickup; renting the dumpster lets you grab the trash out there when you want to help! Renting a dumpster makes it simple to remove this vast numbers of yard trash left by a storm. As opposed to most business trash removal companies have strict principles about backyard debris, Garbage Dumpster for Rent in Freeport, TX companies do not have such restrictions and can take what ever large braches or even sapling trunks your neighborhood needs removed. Along with several others who live nearby chipping in on the charge, it is also less than paying the fees that business trash removal companies charge to remove extreme yard detritus.
Your overall health and that of ones own members might even be at danger. In Atl, such waste elements are correctly taken care of by means of various spend management companies. If you live in Atlanta, you may apply for a good quality Atlanta Roll off Pot. This can appear in form of a unique dumpster meant for removing all social manners of waste elements, including soiled trash along with garbage products. In most cases, this Atlanta Roll off Dumpsters are often stationed at strategic sites. People dwelling around can certainly make use of such containers to bring along up his or her waste products. A fortunate note about the Atl Roll down Dumpsters is that, you will find companies in charge of removing them from time to time. They just drop this dumpsters at ideal places; your neighbors can load them waste products coming from your approximativement. Then the corporation comes back to choose them. Through so performing, the environment is actually kept tip top clean.


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Q: Gradle can't find dependency in private nexus repo I'm having trouble getting gradle to find a dependency I put in my private nexus repo.  The dependency is in maven, but I can't seem to get it to find it there either.  I did get it into my nexus repo and the location is http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/repositories/emoji4j/
Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':business:compile'.
> Could not find com.kcthota:emoji4j:6.0.
  Searched in the following locations:
      http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/groups/public/com/kcthota/emoji4j/6.0/emoji4j-6.0.pom
      http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/groups/public/com/kcthota/emoji4j/6.0/emoji4j-6.0.jar
      file:/Users/chris/.m2/repository/com/kcthota/emoji4j/6.0/emoji4j-6.0.pom
      file:/Users/chris/.m2/repository/com/kcthota/emoji4j/6.0/emoji4j-6.0.jar
  Required by:

Build.gradle snipet
dependencies {
    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.kcthota/emoji4j
    compile group: 'com.kcthota', name: 'emoji4j', version: '6.0'
}

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url "http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/groups/public/"
        }
        maven { url "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/" }
        maven { url "http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/repositories/emoji4j/" }
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.jcraft:jsch:0.1.54'
    }
}

Anyone know how I can get gradle to look in both http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/groups/public/ and http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/repositories/emoji4j/ for all my dependencies?  I need the http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/groups/public/ location for other dependencies.  I tried adding it in there but I only have read access to that repo.
Another acceptable solution would be to get gradle to look in both http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/groups/public/ and maven central for it. Any help would be appreciated.

A: I think you may be confusing dependencies for your build script and application dependencies.
You've configured your build script repositories, but you'll need to also configure your application repositories as well:
// build.gradle

repositories {
    maven {
        url "http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/groups/public/"
    }
    maven { url "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/" }
    maven { url "http://nexus.hq.chris.com/content/repositories/emoji4j/" }
    mavenCentral()
}


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A night of glitz and glamour at Vienna Filmball 2013
Glamour and glitz were out in force at the weekend as stars from Austria and further afield flocked over the red carpet into the Vienna City Hall for a night of awards, dance and partying! The fourth annual Vienna Film Ball 2013 attracted stars such as the legendary Egyptian actor Omar Sharif – who starred […]
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Ex-tennis pro succumbs to cancer
Former tennis player Lance Lumsden has died of cancer. The Jamaican passed away aged 70 in his homeland at the weekend, Austrian sport newspapers reported today (Mon). Lumsden had a huge fan base in Austria as a player as well as after his career when he tried himself as an actor, singer and entertainer. He […]
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Gyllenhaal on his 'Moulin Rouge' trauma
"Donnie Darko" star Jake Gyllenhaal has revealed he was desperate for the leading role in acclaimed musical film "Moulin Rouge."The Hollywood actor told Austrian showbiz magazine Live today (Fri) he had been auditioning for the part – for which Ewan McGregor ("Trainspotting") was eventually cast – for months. Gyllenhaal said McGregor, Heath Ledger and himself […]
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Bardem on his 'No Country for Old Men' fears
Javier Bardem has revealed he did not feel up to the role in "No Country for Old Men" that got him a slew of awards including an Oscar.The Spanish actor told Austrian showbiz news mag Live today (Fri): "When the Coens (directors Joel and Ethan Coen) called and described the role (of ruthless hitman Anton […]
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Fake Gaddafi shocks refugees
An Austrian artist has terrified asylum seekers by posing as Muammar al-Gaddafi.Bernhard D., an award-winning theatre actor, donned a fake sand-coloured uniform, a black wig and large sunglasses to resemble the Libyan dictator when he marched through the streets of Lampedusa. Tens of thousands of people from North Africa have arrived on the Italian island […]
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Volkstheater reintroduces Nestroy classic
A comical play by celebrated dramatist Johann Nepomuk Nestroy has made a comeback on the playbill of the Volkstheater."Umsonst" was drawing the crowds at the theatre in Vienna-Neubau in the past season. Now director Michael Schottenberg decided to put the play back on.Popular stage comedian and TV actor Andreas Vitasek is playing a leading role […]
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Jeff Bridges shuns social networks
Actor Jeff Bridges has revealed he had to "draw the line" on his activities on the internet.The Oscar-winning Hollywood star told Austrian Madonna magazine: "My relationship to computers and smartphones is a love-hate thing. They are fascinating but also addictive, so I decided to draw the line. I don't tweet (on micro-blogging website Twitter) and […]
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Cher on gay hairdressers and Aguilera
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Roger Moore to visit Austria
Former "James Bond" star Roger Moore will visit Vienna this weekend, it has been announced.PR agents of the legendary actor announced today (Tues) that he will arrive at Vienna International Airport (VIA) on Friday.Moore, who will stay at Hotel Sacher, is due to attend the Christmas market in front of the capital's city hall on […]
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Hi, this is Wayne Mansfield. Welcome back to my 23 Steps to Conquer Social Media 2012.
We're up to Step 23, which I've called Putting it All Together.
We've discussed a large number of things over the last few days, if you've taken a few days to watch this or read it, which will allow you to really make sense of social media, and I believe to conquer it for your personal advantage or the advantage of your business. How do we keep track of this?
We use a web application called Mind42.com, so that's Mind Maps for  more than  two people or for two people or more. We create those and it allows us to log on in the morning, have a look at our Mind Map which I've got mine here, and then we just follow through in the 23 Steps.
So the 23 steps while you're looking at this, I'll go with Step 1 is TweetDeck. Step 2 is SocialOomph, and you get an idea from that is that if you follow them in that steady order, before too long your social media will start to have dramatic effect. The effects will show up in you listing high in search engines.
It will show up in the number of positive comments made to your Facebook page or to your Twitter account or to your LinkedIn. It will show up, and more importantly for businesses, in more business. It might be more people turning up to your restaurant. It might be more people recommending you to other people, and it will certainly mean more money in your bank account.
We use Mind42 putting it all together to record all that information, and it's really a powerful tool because it's across the net and because you can share it. You can allocate or in the modern words, you can outsource parts of your social media programs to other people and they can update on an ongoing basis what's happening.
That's my recommendation when you want to tie it all together, to use Mind42 and it does a fantastic job.
Now, if you've been with me through all of the 23 steps and if you follow them a little bit at a time, before too long you have learned how to conquer Social Media 2012 in 23 steps.
This is Wayne Mansfield saying, thanks for looking in and all the best for your social media applications.