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Public policy shift over cannabis continues to reverberate in NFLD
November 15, 2018 |Written By donalee Moulton
Newfoundland Minister of Justice Andrew Parsons has acknowledged the legalization of cannabis will not put an end to the black market.
For Newfoundland and Labrador's minister of justice, the national legalization of recreational cannabis is much more than an economic issue, a health issue or a legal issue — it's a new way of governing and thinking about governing. This new landscape, Andrew Parsons recently told reporters, is "the hugest shift in public policy that we've seen of a social nature probably since Confederation."
Oct. 17 has come and gone, and the public debate over legal marijuana has died to an ember, at least for now, but the impact of that public policy shift continues to reverberate.
"The legalization of cannabis is a significant issue that impacts virtually every Newfoundlander and Labradorian, regardless of whether they intend to use the product," Parsons told Legal Feeds.
That impact includes time, effort and energy being expended by government officials to prepare for legalization, he notes. "Almost every department in the provincial government has been involved throughout this process. A cross-departmental steering committee has been meeting regularly since last year and working with federal, provincial and territorial colleagues to examine all aspects of legalization including distribution, regulation, public safety and potential economic benefits."
The road to legalization has also been paved with legislative upheaval, changes and controversy. The provincial Cannabis Control Act was passed, and amendments were made to the Smoke Free Environment Act, 2005, the Liquor Corporation Act and the Highway Traffic Act. According to the justice department, the purpose of the new and amended legislation is five-fold: to promote public health and safety, discourage use by youth, encourage responsible use by adults, keep profits from criminals and reduce the burden on the criminal justice system.
In October, the province cleared the final legislative hurdle in advance of legalized recreational cannabis with amendments to the Highway Traffic Regulations and the introduction of regulations in three key areas: control, licensing and operations. Issues addressed through these regulations include everything from store setup and location, employee conduct and the types of products that can be legally sold in cannabis stores to consumption in private residences to restricting access to minors.
While the laws are now on the books, Parsons has acknowledged that the legalization of cannabis will not put an end to the black market. He told reporters that buying cannabis from unlicensed dealers was illegal before Oct. 17 and it remains illegal. He says he hopes the new regulations will help negate the need for a black market. Pricing strategies are also intended to dampen the allure and the need for illegal weed. Indeed, at present, Newfoundland and Labrador has the lowest cannabis prices in the country: $5.87 a gram for a product called The Advocate. At that price, the government and law enforcement are hoping that going elsewhere for weed will be unnecessary and the black market will wither rather than blossom.
In an effort to balance legal issues with economic optimism with health concerns, the Newfoundland and Labrador government has reached out to the more than 400,000 adults that call the province home to engage and inform them. In September, it launched a major awareness campaign that included a mix of traditional and online spots on radio, in transit shelters, on popular websites and even in hockey arenas across the province.
The goal, Parsons says, was to drive people to the Cannabis NL website, a division of the Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporation. Last year, the government authorized the NLC to regulate the possession, sale and delivery of non-medical cannabis. Included in these new responsibilities was the authority to list products, set pricing and to be the exclusive online retailer of non-medical cannabis in the province.
The awareness campaign and ongoing efforts to educate coincided with the efforts of organizations such as WorkplaceNL and the NLC itself, says Parsons. "We all realize that with such a significant policy shift, we all have a role to play in ensuring that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are as informed as possible about cannabis."
One key message Parsons is personally driving home: Don't get behind the wheel if you're high. "Impaired drivers have no place on our roads," he says. "We will work to ensure that those who drive while impaired are taken off the roads and punished in accordance with the law. Just as what happens today, our police agencies will enforce impaired driving laws, which currently prohibit driving while impaired by any drug."
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The brilliant analysts at ESPN talk about the national championship game.
Everything is big in Texas. Especially wins.
Everything's big in Texas.
You think they win big at Alabama? They win bigger at Texas.
The Crimson Tide has won 811 football games in its history. That ranks sixth on college football's all-time list.
The Longhorns have won 844 games. Only Michigan (876) has won more.
Alabama has won 72 percent of its games. That also ranks sixth in the nation.
Texas has won at a 72.7 percent rate. Only Michigan (74.4) and Notre Dame (74.2) have won more often.
We aren't going anywhere.
If Texas is a candidate to leave the Big 12 and join the Big Ten, it's news to men's athletic director DeLoss Dodds.
"We've not talked to anyone about it," Dodds said before Texas' 103-90 win over North Carolina at Cowboys Stadium. "We're a member of the Big 12. We helped put the Big 12 together. It [the Big Ten] is a long ways away."
Colt McCoy warned him...Mack Brown is a good salesman.
Colt McCoy warned his dad not to let Case go into Texas coach Mack Brown's office on a recruiting trip. He knows that hard sell better than anyone.
Sure enough, Case McCoy went into Brown's office. He didn't make it back out before reaching the seemingly insane conclusion that it would be a good idea to follow his brother to Texas.
"I was happy and I was elated because there's no place I'd rather him go," Brad McCoy said. "But I just really couldn't believe he did it right there. Colt was right. He said, 'I told you he couldn't do it. Too much pressure."'
Barking Carnival has an Advent Calendar: 18 Days to Bama.
"Texas just killed us on the backboards," Williams said, taking a shot at the hype
his team had received. "The so-called 'best front line in America' ...
Dexter Pittman sort of kicked our tail by himself."
The second-ranked Longhorns defeated No. 10 North Carolina 103-9 103-90.
James, the 6-foot-7 senior, produced 25 points, 15 rebounds and four steals.
Pittman, a 6-10 senior, had 23 points and 15 rebounds — 12 on offense — and two blocks.
Thanks to those two, Texas outrebounded the Tar Heels 60-41 and outscored them 27-11 on second-chance points.
"We have a great front line," James said after the Longhorns improved to 10-0. "I think it's the best in the country."
What a game. But Rick Barnes wasn't happy.
"We can do better," he said.
"We've got a lot of growth," he added.
It was typical, generic coach-speak in an effort to temper the expectations.
But this Texas team is pretty darn good right now.
Rick Barnes and Roy Williams had a different opinions of Texas' defense.
Texas coach Rick Barnes was upset with his team's defense after North Carolina shot 58.8 percent in the second half.
But Tar Heels coach Roy Williams credited Texas with playing the best man-to-man defense of any team he's seen this season.
All the Horns are flying under the radar.
Point guard J'Covan Brown, guard Avery Bradley and small forward Jordan Hamilton haven't received the national buzz of, say, Kentucky's John Wall or Kansas' Xavier Henry.
But then, for a second-ranked team, neither have the undefeated Longhorns (8-0).
And no one really knows why.
Asked why he thought people have undervalued his Texas team, James shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know," he said. "You'd have to ask them but I do wonder, what do they think of us now? I know how good we are and I think maybe we even deserve to be …"
Gary Parrish has noticed the Horns.
It's possible to show you're capable of being in the national championship game, possible to show you're good enough to win it all. And that's exactly what the Longhorns showed Saturday during their 103-90 victory over North Carolina that drew 38,052 fans, among them former President George W. Bush, who after all these years finally found those weapons of mass destruction.
Turns out, they belong to Rick Barnes.
They were used to destroy North Carolina.
"I think we showed we're a great team," said Texas point guard Dogus Balbay. "And we're going to continue to show that."
Rick Barnes can't help Dexter Pittman now.
Pittman, the Longhorns' 290-pound center, will corner Barnes in the locker room or pull him aside on the practice court and ask for tips on how to improve his game.
"Coach," Pittman has said countless times, "how can I get better?"
Barnes was always ready with an answer – until last week, when the normally poised coach unexpectedly snapped.
Barnes pushed Pittman until he found the inner toughness that seemed to have been lacking all those times when he asked for a substitute late in games or missed foul shots because of fatigue.
"You've got to flip the switch," Barnes said. "You've got to flip the switch. Until you learn to do that, I can't help you any more."
Oh, so close. The Texas Volleybal team lost the national title to Penn State.
Texas outside hitter Destinee Hooker couldn't sit down, she wouldn't.
Having been so close to another national championship, sitting down would represent an ending. Her teammates were already sitting, slumped over and exhausted from their hard-fought loss. But Hooker stood.
It was almost as if she couldn't believe one of the most brilliant careers from a Texas Longhorn could end like this. But it did.
Minutes after Texas' loss to Penn State — 22-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-21, 15-13 — the two-time All-American shook her head and stood statuesque, staring at the Nittany Lions' celebration.
The Crimson Tide
The Tuscaloosa News and Roll Bama Roll look back at the 1982 Cotton Bowl.
Team Speed Kills just loves Nick Saban.
Alabama's players show solidarity. Or just stupidity.
Most teams headed to a postseason game break for a few days, then reconvene at the bowl site for final practices and pre-game festivities. Subsequently, the NCAA offers a set dollar amount for players who travel individually, and they're allowed to pocket the difference between that number and the actual cost of the trip.
This time around, though, 'Bama captains weighed the break and the cash against the cost of splitting up the team and burdening players with the logistics of connecting flights, delays and other holiday travel hang-ups in the middle of preparations for the BCS Championship game on Jan. 7, and decided they'd rather stick together than get paid.
Mike Sherman talks about the Independence Bowl.
Should A&M's quick tempo offense be a concern for a fast SEC team?
"We hear that the tempo is even faster than what Auburn is doing," Richt explained. "When you watch film and you'll see a play where the defense is scrambling to get line up and the ball is snapped, you know they're going fast. Most defenses can get lined up on a pretty good pace, but they're doing some things where they are going so fast that defenses are having a very difficult time to get lined up quickly."
Sooner defensive tackle Gerald McCoy will enter the NFL draft.
McCoy told the Tulsa World in November that he already had made up his mind to leave because he recently ran a degree check and discovered he would finish the fall semester six hours short of a degree in human relations.
"Graduation was my main goal," McCoy said Friday in an OU press release, "and once I knew I had that accomplished, I wanted to look at playing in the NFL."
A bowl game in Oklahoma?
Is the Big 12 headed for a Heisman slump?
The Big 12 has carved an enviable niche in Heisman Trophy balloting in its short history.
With Colt McCoy's third-place finish and Ndamukong Suh's fourth-place finish last week, the Big 12 has had a top-five finisher in 11 of its 14 seasons of existence.
Included in that mark are winners like Ricky Williams in 1998, Eric Crouch in 2001, Jason White in 2003 and Sam Bradford last season. Additionally, the conference has had six players who finished second and two others who were third.
Despite that history, the early prognosis doesn't look good for duplication by the Big 12 in 2010.
The Kansas City Star has a great profile article on Turner Gill.
In the spirit of the season...
TCU transfer edge Ochaun Mathis could be the pass rusher Texas needs The Manor product could rejoin his former head coach in Austin.
BON Roundtable: Rick Barnes returns to Austin Plus, should we expect another deep run from Vic Schaefer and the Women's team?

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Join us at the new Quarry Park Amphitheater in Rocklin for the final show of our six part concert season, and spend, "An Evening with Molly Ringwald." Joining the iconic performer will be her father, Bob Ringwald, with a special opening by The Peter Petty Revue!
Molly Ringwald acts, writes books, and sings jazz. As an actress of stage and screen, Ringwald earned a Golden Globe nomination at age thirteen, and went on to star in numerous films, including the iconic films Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink. As a Jazz singer she tours a crowd pleasing concert act "An Evening with Molly Ringwald" with her quartet to venues Worldwide. Since her debut Jazz album on Concord Records was released in April 2013, Ringwald and her band have performed over 200 concerts in seven countries.
Bob Ringwald, former Placer County resident and co-founder of the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, has long been a staple artist in the California Jazz scene for over 40 years. This rare appearance with his daughter makes this show a "must see" event.
Dynamic front-man, Peter Petty has recorded with Elektra recording artists Papa's Culture and Columbia Records' Cake. Peter sang with the Sacramento Opera through 8 seasons, and as a bandleader has performed for the Sacramento French Film Festival, the Sacramento Ballet, the Crocker Art Museum, the Mondavi Center, and the Sacramento Music Festival & Jazz Jubilee. He is the singing, swinging bandleader of his own 13 piece Swing band.


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Last night's call on the dollar was timely. Check out the candle on the daily chart — the completion of both a Bat and Butterfly pattern.
EURUSD also seems to have put in a bottom, though as mentioned earlier it's going to take ein Akt des Bundestages (literally) to save the euro now.
Back on April 30, I held my nose and plunged head-long into the dollar, also shorting the euro. I'm pretty sure I invoked that age-old expression of confidence: "here goes nothing." Hopefully, lots of pebblewriter members went along for the ride.
I didn't look at the chart for a few days, but knew things were going my way. I just didn't realize how well things were going my way… Here's the same exact chart two weeks later.
It deserves a close up…if only to show how spooky a forecast it turned out to be.
Meanwhile, the EURUSD shows signs of finally breaking down. Both the pair and the RSI action show a rising wedge that's bumping up against a well-established channel.
Note Point D — the completion of a Bat pattern — sitting down there all by its lonesome.
Yikes! Harmonics don't always work as well as they have this past month. But, when they do, man is it fun!
As far as the road ahead, EURUSD crossed a incredibly important fan line today. It's either fallen off a cliff, or it's doing that roadrunner-running-in-mid-air thing. On the other hand, it has completed a Bat pattern (as has DX) that should mean a reversal. The next 24 hours are critical.
If I had to guess, the RSI leads me to believe we're going to see a big bounce. But, I'm taking my profits and sitting this one out. If it plunges below the fan line, there's plenty more downside where that came from.
If it doesn't, it'll be because Merkel and Hollande are caught on video, breathlessly moaning "long live the troika" while mending post-election relations.
Seriously, though, a stick save would almost certainly entail a commitment to all things Greek, Portugese, Spanish, Italian, etc. and more LTRO — lots and lots more LTRO.
If this blog is helpful to you, jump on the introductory prices while they last. I've extended the 10% off discount for all new members through this Friday, the 18th.
Agreee 100% Pebble on the currency stuff–and yes, I've been in EUO and short the markets. BUT, I've taken most of the profits off the table on EUO and have a small runner position (1/4 original) remaining waiting for a reversal to take me out…I'll tighten up the stops on that. It has been a nice trade. Thanks for all your insights.
Nibbled into a long position on the SPX today based upon the BB violation, extremely low slow stochs readings on the daily, daily and shorter time frames of the RSI at, below, or near 30, plus Euro and DX completing these patterns/hitting resistance.
Been buying the bottom and selling the top of this 10 point channel we've been sliding down. Definitely favoring the short side, but taking great scalps at the bottom of the channel and selling at the top. Let's see if the DX reverses in here and the SPX has a bigger bounce than the 10 pointers I've been enjoying.
I like that strategy! SPX getting a nice bounce this morning, but my gut is it's just relieving the oversold for a last push down. Maybe stocks and currency out of sync for a day or two? That's a heck of a candle on the daily DX.
Thanks. Got stopped out on the SSO try. bought at $52.45 and stopped at $52.65. A swing and a foul tip. No harm, no foul.
I'm watching an IH&S on the SPX right now. right shoulder forming possibly. Looking for an entry again, but I'll be cautious since the RSI, etc… aren't in oversold conditions and the likely direction is down from here. I just hate to reshort this low on the chart.
I'd be cautious adding longs unless we're able to break out of the channel on the 60-min chart — at the very least.


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    using System;
    using System.IO;
    using System.Reflection;
    using System.Runtime.Serialization;
    using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;

    /// <summary>
    /// Serializer for configuration classes.
    /// </summary>
    public static class ConfigSerializer
    {
        // methods

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the serializer instance.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="type">The type</param>
        /// <returns>A data contract serializer</returns>
        public static XmlObjectSerializer GetSerializer(Type type)
        {
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            {
                UseSimpleDictionaryFormat = true,
                SerializeReadOnlyTypes = false
            };
            */

            return new DataContractJsonSerializer(type);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Deserializes a configuration from the stream.
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        /// <param name="resetFirst">if set to <c>true</c> [reset first]</param>
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        public static void Reset(IConfig configObject)
        {
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            foreach (PropertyInfo property in type.GetProperties())
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                if (attributes.Length > 0)
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In Sweet Reckoning, the time has come for Anna, daughter of a guardian angel and a fallen one, to accept her fate as the chosen one. She is destined to rid the earth of demons once and for all. But as Anna and her Nephilim allies prepare for the evil brewing, the powerful Dukes use Anna's love for bad boy Kaidan Rowe against her, and her strength is put to the ultimate test. How far will the two of them go to keep each other alive? Will love conquer all in the final battle between good and evil?
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Q: Best means to parse TNSNAMES.ORA using awk I have a function I built to parse Tnsnames.ora files. My question is there a better awk statement / query that will give me the results I want.
this is the statement I want to refine so I'll have a shorter code segment:
 awk "BEGIN{found=0}/${entry}/{found=1} {if (found) print }")
I'd like to get rid of the for loop and use AWK to search and find the individual TNSNAME.  Currently I'm counting thru the results of the awk command until I reach the last ) for the passed name.
findTnsname()
{
#!/bin/ksh
#inputs:
# $1: stanza title
# $2: Fully qualified input filename
#$3 set to yes will echo how many were found
tnsnames=$(cat $2)
entries=$(echo "$tnsnames"| grep -i "$1.*="| awk '{print $1}')
eNames=$(echo "$entries" | sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\n/,/g')
ecount=$(echo "$entries" | wc -l | awk '{print $1}')
if [ "$3" = "yes" ] ; then
  echo "# found ${ecount} entries -  ${eNames} "
fi
for entry in $entries
{
  #echo "#searching for ${entry}"
  tt=$(echo "$tnsnames" | awk "BEGIN{found=0}/${entry}/{found=1} {if (found) print }")
  t=0     # t for target, means the stanza has been found
  open_parens=0
  close_parens=0
  if [[ -n $tt ]] ; then
    echo "$tt" | while read -r i; do
            if(( t == 1 )); then
                    echo "$i"
                    newline_ck=$(echo "$i" | egrep "^$" | wc -l | awk '{print $1}')
                    if(( newline_ck > 0 )); then
                            t=0
                            break
                    elif(( open_parens == close_parens && open_parens != 0 )); then
                            t=0

                    else
                            (( open_parens += $(echo "$i" | awk -F"(" '{print NF-1}') ))
                            (( close_parens += $(echo "$i" | awk -F")" '{print NF-1}') ))
                            #echo "# open ${open_parens} close ${close_parens} t ${t}"
                    fi
            else
                    t=$(echo "$i" | egrep -i "^$entry" | wc | awk '{print $1}')
                    if(( t == 1 )); then
                            echo "$i"
                    fi
            fi
    done
   else
     echo "$entry does not exist in $2"
   fi
 }
}

Results look like this:
findTnsname abc "$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora"
ABC_USR.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hosta.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = ABC_usr)
)
)

ABCT.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hostb.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = ABCt)
)
)

sample input
DEF_USR.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hosta.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = DEF_USR)
)
)

DEFT.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hostb.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = DEFT)
)
)

DEF_USR.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hostc.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = DEF_USR)
)
)

DEFT.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hostd.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = DEFT)
)
)
GHI_USR.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hoste.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = GHI_USR)
)
)

GHIT.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hostf.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = GHIT)
)
)
ABC_USR.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hosta.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = ABC_usr)
)
)

ABCT.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hostb.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = ABCt)
)
)

A: This might be what you're looking for, depending on the answers to the questions I asked in the comments under your question:
If your input records always have blank lines between them as you suggested in one comment then all you need is:
$ awk -v key='abc' -v RS= -v ORS='\n\n' 'tolower($0)~tolower(key)' file

otherwise if they sometimes don't as in your provided sample input:
$ cat tst.awk
!NF { next }
!/[()]/ { prt(); rec="" }
{ rec = rec $0 ORS }
END { prt() }
function prt() {
    if ( tolower(rec) ~ tolower(key) ) {
        print rec
    }
}

$ awk -v key='abc' -f tst.awk file
ABC_USR.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hosta.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = ABC_usr)
)
)

ABCT.some.company.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hostb.some.company.com)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = ABCt)
)
)

EDIT - something else to consider for more control over where to search in which fields and what to print:
$ cat tst.awk
BEGIN { FS=RS; RS=""; ORS="\n" }
{
    delete f

    f["NAME"] = $1
    sub(/[[:space:]]*=.*/,"",f["NAME"])

    for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {
        n = split($i,tmp,/[ =()]+/)
        for (j=n-2; j>1; j-=2) {
            f[tmp[j]] = tmp[j+1]
        }
    }

    prt()
}

function prt() {
    for (tag in f) {
        print tag "=<" f[tag] ">"
    }
    print "----"
}

.
$ awk -f tst.awk file
LOAD_BALANCE=<yes>
HOST=<hosta.some.company.com>
PROTOCOL=<TCP>
NAME=<DEF_USR.some.company.com>
SERVICE_NAME=<DEF_USR>
SERVER=<DEDICATED>
PORT=<1521>
----
LOAD_BALANCE=<yes>
HOST=<hostb.some.company.com>
PROTOCOL=<TCP>
NAME=<DEFT.some.company.com>
SERVICE_NAME=<DEFT>
SERVER=<DEDICATED>
PORT=<1521>
----
LOAD_BALANCE=<yes>
HOST=<hostc.some.company.com>
PROTOCOL=<TCP>
NAME=<DEF_USR.some.company.com>
SERVICE_NAME=<DEF_USR>
SERVER=<DEDICATED>
PORT=<1521>
----
LOAD_BALANCE=<yes>
HOST=<hostd.some.company.com>
PROTOCOL=<TCP>
NAME=<DEFT.some.company.com>
SERVICE_NAME=<DEFT>
SERVER=<DEDICATED>
PORT=<1521>
----
LOAD_BALANCE=<yes>
HOST=<hoste.some.company.com>
PROTOCOL=<TCP>
NAME=<GHI_USR.some.company.com>
SERVICE_NAME=<GHI_USR>
SERVER=<DEDICATED>
PORT=<1521>
----
LOAD_BALANCE=<yes>
HOST=<hostf.some.company.com>
PROTOCOL=<TCP>
NAME=<GHIT.some.company.com>
SERVICE_NAME=<GHIT>
SERVER=<DEDICATED>
PORT=<1521>
----
LOAD_BALANCE=<yes>
HOST=<hosta.some.company.com>
PROTOCOL=<TCP>
NAME=<ABC_USR.some.company.com>
SERVICE_NAME=<ABC_usr>
SERVER=<DEDICATED>
PORT=<1521>
----
LOAD_BALANCE=<yes>
HOST=<hostb.some.company.com>
PROTOCOL=<TCP>
NAME=<ABCT.some.company.com>
SERVICE_NAME=<ABCt>
SERVER=<DEDICATED>
PORT=<1521>
----

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We are excited to be working with up and coming Australian rock band [ME], who have recently been on tour supporting Kasabian & Evanescence and are currently on the road with Panic! At The Disco.
Julian House has designed the band's logo, live projections and website art. He also directed the official video for their first release 'Naked', which sees a performance from [ME] mixed with analogue news footage and animation.


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LAWRENCE, Kan. – Despite outshooting the visiting Buffaloes 20-7, including 14-2 in the second half, Kansas fell for the first time at home this season, 1-0 to Colorado Sunday on a chilly day at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex.
The Buffaloes stay in first place in the Big 12 Conference with a 5-2 record and an 8-7 mark overall, while Kansas falls to 1-4 in league play and 9-5-1 overall.
On Sunday, the Jayhawks edged the visitors in nearly every statistical category – except the score.
CU recorded the lone tally of the match in the 16th minute as Erin Bricker carried the ball through a host of defenders and beat the goalkeeper 1-v-1 with a shot to the far post at 15:38. It was Bricker's first goal of the season.
Following the goal, Kansas turned up the intensity, and outshot the Buffaloes 17-6 over the final 74 minutes of action. The Jayhawks had three golden opportunities to tie the match in the second half.
In the 50th minute, sophomore Emily Cressy chipped a shot towards the net from the far corner of the box that hit the crossbar. Later in the half, freshman Whitney Berry collected a pass from the near side of the box, made a move around a defender and fired a shot from 14 yards out, however CU goalkeeper Kara Linder made a sprawling save to keep the Jayhawks scoreless.
In the 81st minute, Berry again found space, however her shot from the top of the box also banged off the crossbar and back out.
Linder made four saves to record her fifth shutout of the season. She withstood 20 shots from the Jayhawks, however just four on net.
Berry led the Kansas attack with five shots, while Monica Dolinsky and Caitlin Noble each tallied three. Kansas also held a 5-1 edge in corner kicks.
KU will look to bounce back on Friday when it embarks on its final road trip of the regular season. The Jayhawks will face Oklahoma at 7 p.m., in Norman, Okla.


It's safe to say Pete Davis was a child of networking technology long before the phrase "dot-com" became as ordinary as an area code. At eight years old, when most kids in his neighborhood were riding bikes, playing baseball, and skateboarding, Pete Davis was already managing a dial-up bulletin board system - many years before people used the Internet for anything other than official government business and connecting universities. Four years later, he was a self-taught system administrator, running a server of an Internet chat system for thousands of users.
At 13, while other kids preoccupied themselves with middle-school social status, Davis began an internship at WZLX, a Massachusetts radio station. He would later assist in the deployment of the station's Web site - marking the radio broadcast industry's first Internet presence. He eventually joined the staff at a small New England ISP, TIAC (The Internet Access Company) where he rapidly provided answers to customer questions while he was responsible for keeping the systems and network functioning 24x7. His extra time in the office was spent planning upgrades and evaluating new products for future offerings (including SOHO routers and eventually, early broadband technology). He quickly worked his way up to his position of senior systems and network engineer. All by the time he was 16.
Davis, now 23, remains passionate about the technology that fueled his childhood, but he is admittedly more driven by customer satisfaction when developing networking products. As a product manager for the Cisco Remote Access VPN solutions team (VPN and Security Services Business Unit - VSEC), he has already developed the industry's first true virtual private network (VPN) client appliance, a device that makes it easy and affordable for remote and branch office users to connect securely over the Internet. Davis credits the talent of the Cisco engineering team for the quality of the product.
"I said to myself, 'Put yourself in the shoes of the customer. What is wrong in the VPN industry that makes it so impossible to configure them and maintain and deploy them?' " "There was no product in the industry that made that [type of access] simple."
The Cisco VPN 3002 Hardware Client, which fits on a desktop PC, combines the best features of software clients - including scalability and ease of use - with the stability and independence of hardware platforms. The result is a truly cost-effective product that is ideal for franchises, chain stores, and other organizations where thousands of remote end users might want to securely access the corporate network from large numbers of geographically dispersed sites. It's ideal for connecting remote systems or users while limiting the burden on an IT department.
Customer successes are a driving force behind Davis' innovative spirit. "An innovator is someone who can really understand that it's OK to go talk to customers and jot down notes, but you also really need to listen to what they're not telling you," Davis said. "You sometimes have to think beyond what they're telling you, because a customer may not be ready to put in words what he/she really wants. You have to put yourself in their shoes and think, 'What would I need to be more productive? How would I be amazed by a product?' "
Davis attributes this focus on customer satisfaction and respect for people he meets in life to many experiences, but specifically to his experience while working at TIAC. At 15, frustrated with the service he received from the local ISP, he phoned the CEO and said, "Hi, I've never had a job in my life, but I feel like I know enough to make your company better," he said. "They eventually gave me the passwords, and I fixed many problems without getting paid. Within six months, I was a paid employee. Even though I wasn't making any money in the beginning, I answered customer e-mail all day and night, provided technical support, and learned a lot. We ended up growing the company from three employees and 60 customers to 250 employees and 65,000 customers. We were New England's largest ISP for about two and a half years. I was ultimately responsible for the network and routers, the UNIX machines that ran the servers, training [of the Engineering staff], and was the escalation resource for the team that we built."
But the job wasn't without intense frustration. Because Davis was so young, he was sometimes the recipient of expletives, insults and even a flying chair from an executive and admits that it took him some time to learn how to deal with such an environment.
"That job was an awesome learning experience. I learned how not to treat people in life," Davis said. "Starting off at my first real job-- at such a young age -- was very difficult, and I found that I was treated like a second-class citizen. I thought I did my best to act responsibly and in a professional, adult way, yet I was treated like a two-year-old. Since then, I've really grown as a person from all my different experiences. If I hadn't done my time, paid my dues, I'd be nowhere today. I have endless patience and respect for people I meet in life because of this experience and hold no grudges."


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We have reviewed the best tablets of all companies and here is the list of all best tablets. Nowadays if you are looking for a tablet so here is the list of best tablets below, have a look.
it is the best tablet. So here is finally a feature of pencil clips provided. It is having outrageous amount of power. But the software are limited compared to laptop. The pencil and keyboard are costly extras. It is like a laptop in design and performance. It is having amazing speakers and a new screen-to-body ratio. It is finely crafted hardware design. And it is amazingly cool.
If you just want to consume average amount so it will be best for you. Its weight is 496g. its RAM is 2GB and its storage is 32/128GB. Battery can last up to 10 hours. Its rear camera is 8MP and back camera is 1.2MP. it is affordable in price. It works with Apple Pencil. But its smart keyboard is not a good feature. It is having great media player it is a good choice if you don't need to use it for lots of work.
it is a big tablet and the ones who crave for larger screen, will definitely love it. Its weight is 677g. its screen size is 12.9-inch. Its resolution power is 2048 × 2732 pixels. Its RAM is 4GB. Its storage is 64GB/256GB/512GB. There is no any micro SD slot present in it. Its battery is 10,875MAH. Its rear camera is 12MP and front camera is 7MP. It is having great and large tablet screen. Its power is just amazing. It is a bit expensive for the ones who will replace it from laptop.
It is not too much good in performance comparing to its price. Its price is a bit high and its performance is not good a lot. Its weight is 482g. its screen size is 10.5-inch. Its RAM is 4GB. Its storage capability is 64GB/256GB. There is a micro SD slot for inserting SD card in it. Its battery power is 7300 MAH. Its rear camera is 13MP and front camera is 8MP.


BANGKOK -- Simmering tensions between Gen. Apirat Kongsompong, Thailand's powerful army chief, and leaders of pro-democracy parties hover over Sunday's elections. Seasoned observers fear the elections may be a prelude to Thailand's next coup, rather than a return to a semblance of democracy after nearly five years of military rule.
The anxiety stems from the possibility of election results not favoring Palang Pracharat, the junta's newly formed proxy party that has nominated incumbent Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha as its prime ministerial candidate.
The hawkish Apirat has put Thai voters on notice about who the military will support after Sunday. During an unprecedented oath-taking ceremony in early March, where he led over 700 senior officers in honoring a Thai king from the last century at the army's headquarters, Apirat said the military will only back a government loyal to the monarchy.
The words followed a previous salvo that politicians should not step out of line after the elections.
Not surprisingly, Apirat's warnings have been echoed by political allies of Palang Pracharat. Some of these backers have taken to social media or delivered campaign speeches goading voters to back Palang Pracharat or its allies to avoid another coup.
"I think if the bogus pro-democracy faction wins the election, eventually there will be another coup," said Benya Nandakwang, a leader of an ultraconservative party. "Wanna see it?"
Benya's comments came in an online post that reflected sentiments shared by a clutch of parties aligning themselves with Prayuth.
Suthep Thaugsuban, the leader of the same party, threatened to stage protests in an upmarket shopping district of Bangkok if the pro-junta party loses. Suthep led ultra conservatives in street protests against then Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's elected government in 2014, paving the way for the latest coup.
According to Sunai Phasuk, senior Thailand researcher for Human Rights Watch, the global rights watchdog, talk of another coup has grown in the two weeks ahead of the elections. "This is what is worrying," Sunai said, "given that there can be military intervention ... if the election outcome does not satisfy the junta and its political allies.
"It is a form of blackmail and [is] now becoming very obvious."
Apirat turned up the heat after some pro-democracy candidates began calling for military reform.
A recent report by the International Federation for Human Rights, a Paris-based watchdog, says 32 political parties, nearly 40% of all those contesting the elections, have been trying to woo voters by calling for the military's budget to be cut, military conscription to be ended and the military's command system to be restructured.
Thailand's defense budget reached 227 billion baht this year, up from 183 billion baht the year of Prayuth's putsch.
The money is going to a top-heavy military that has nearly 1,750 generals leading 350,000 troops. The U.S. military, by contrast, has 880 flag officers.
"Apirat could stage a coup after the election, ostensibly to quell demonstrators opposing the electoral outcome, but actually to preserve military privileges," said Paul Chambers, an expert on Thai national security at Naresuan University in northern Thailand. "A coup by Apirat would of course fell Prayuth from power, making Apirat the 'new' Prayuth."
Former police chief Seripisut Temiyawet, leader of Seri Ruam, another newly formed party, has led the charge to reform the military. "I want to move military bases out of Bangkok and also want to change the system of military service conscription," he said. "The military is the problem in this country, and we need huge reform."
Security in Bangkok comes under Thailand's First Army region, which has key divisions, battalions and regiments that have played the lead role in staging coups. Moving the bases out of Bangkok would make it more difficult -- though not impossible -- to launch coups.
Seripisut's call has resonated with Pheu Thai, which headed Thailand's government in 2014 and remains the country's largest political party; the Democrats, who make up the country's oldest party; and with the Future Forward Party, a newly formed bloc.
Pheu Thai is the latest party formed by telecommunications tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra and is thus part of a lineage that has not lost an election since 2001. Thaksin, Yingluck's brother, was deposed by a coup in 2006 and lives in self-imposed exile to avoid a jail term stemming from a corruption verdict.
Gregory Vincent Raymond, an Australian scholar, says Apirat may not be in the mood to discuss military reform. "At the moment, with the country so politically polarized, I do not think Apirat will be ready to listen to proposals about budget cuts," said Raymond, author of "Thai Military Power: A Culture of Strategic Accommodation."
"There is a deep distrust between the military and politicians," Raymond added, "and if there is a likelihood of Pheu Thai forming the next government, that will only grow, making military reform difficult."
The fate of the politically influential Thai military, however, may lie in the hands of the country's over 50 million registered voters. Leelavadee Vajropala, a candidate for Pheu Thai in Bangkok's Dusit district, which is home to many military bases, says a large voter turnout may indicate that the public mood has shifted against the junta and military.
"If there is 70-80% voter turnout and most support anti-junta parties," she said, "it will be hard for the military to ignore and launch a coup."
Sunai of Human Rights Watch says the writing is on the wall and points to the unprecedented turnout on March 17, when nearly 87% of the 2.6 million voters who registered to cast early ballots showed up. Sunai said this "indicates a resistance to the military's designs."


As a farm kid, I faced some pretty scary bullies, but I knew the secrets to keeping them at bay. On our farm at the edge of the Clearwater National Forest just outside Grangeville, I faced my bullies at chore time.
Every day I was in danger of getting hurt, but I never chickened out. I don't remember it ever crossing my mind to complain or find a way out of my chores.
Speaking of chickening out, when it was my job to collect the eggs, I had to face the rooster. No matter how quietly I cracked the door open to get a bearing on his location in the coop, his arrogant red-crested head was always cocked in such a way that one beady black eye dared me to enter. He'd strut a few steps, flash his spurs, and stir up a cloud of dust. I'd slip the handle of the egg bucket up to my elbow, grasp a baseball bat with one hand, and throw open the door with the other. Hens flew in every direction, but not that rooster. He stood his ground. I kept the bat bobbing between us while I scooted around the coop, grabbing eggs. Although he always closed in on me as I made for the door, he never actually got me.
Karen Sue Kight is the daughter of Ken and Kathy Carpenter, who are celebrating fifty years on their mountain homestead in Idaho County. Kathy rescued Karen from morning chores in the sixth grade so she could stop smelling like the billy goat when at school.


Staff and pupils spent a most enjoyable day busy learning what it is like to be a Hindu and to celebrate Diwali day. We shared the Diwali story and activities included cooking, dancing, listening to music and lots of make and do such as moulding and decorating clay divas, creating model fireworks and drawing mendhi and rangoli patterns.
All of the staff borrowed and wore beautiful saris for the day and the children took turns trying on costumes and role playing as part of the festival.
We ended the day with a sharing assembly to talk about what we had learned and to watch the children perform the dances they had created during the day!
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By: Shawn Snow 6 days ago
New Marines run under the iconic "We Make Marines" sign during a motivational run at Parris Island, South Carolina, April 14, 2016. (Lance Cpl. Aaron Bolser/Marine Corps)
A Marine first sergeant was sentenced by a military court to two years of confinement for his part in a scheme to steal nearly $1.5 million in razor blades, according to Marine officials.
First Sergeant Lascelles Chambers conspired with three other Department of Defense employees to steal Gillette razor blades and other goods from the Parris Island, South Carolina, recruit depot store and warehouse from January 2017 to June 2018.
3 civilian workers plead guilty in $1.5M razor blade theft ring at Parris Island
They face up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines when they're sentenced.
Chambers was convicted in a court-martial held aboard Parris Island and later sentenced on June 16 to two years of confinement, reduction to private and a bad conduct discharge, according to 2nd Lt. Alec J. Reddy, a Marine spokesman.
The Marine first sergeant was convicted of larceny, conspiracy and the interstate transportation of stolen goods, Reddy said.
His three other accused cohorts, Orlando Byson, Tommie Harrison Jr. and Sarah Brutus, all pleaded guilty in January at the U.S. District Court in Charleston to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
The three face up to five years in prison and potentially $250,000 in fines.
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Marine Corps Times has reached out to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina for an update on their sentencing and has yet to receive a response.
The Parris Island store aboard the South Carolina depot sells razor blades and other items to recruits at a discount price.
According to court documents, Chambers worked with three other defense employees to steal high-end razor blades and other items.
The stolen goods were then sold and the proceeds were split up by Chambers using his Navy Federal Credit Union account.
Harrison and Byson allegedly were able to steal the razor blades at the warehouse and avoid detection by disabling security cameras, according to court documents.
Chambers served as the company first sergeant for Headquarters and Service Battalion at the recruit depot from August 2016 to March 2018.
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Berlin takes a tough line on European cuts
"It was Europe that toppled her". That's the conventional wisdom, repeated endlessly in recent days, on the subject of how Margaret Thatcher lost her grip on power.
It's perfectly true, of course, as the record shows, that back in November 1990, many of the then Prime Minister's own MPs voted to oust her from No.10, embarrassed as they were by her high-handed treatment of Britain's "European partners". For them, Michael Heseltine's "consensual" approach seemed wiser and less troublesome. To tolerate and indulge Brussels' vision of "ever greater union", as numerous Tory bien pensants insisted, was to be somehow less chauvinistic.
The record also shows, though, whatever Prime Minister Thatcher's critics said then, and whatever the late Baroness Thatcher's critics continue to say today, that she was right about Europe. Britain's entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism, against her express wishes, was an unalloyed disaster. By shackling sterling to the German mark, then desperately hiking interest rates to defend ERM membership in the face of all economic logic, the Tories committed a profound policy error.
The 1990-92 recession, as a result, was far worse that it otherwise would have been, with the home-owning dreams of countless ordinary British families cruelly upended. ERM membership saw the Conservatives' reputation for economic competence take a hit from which, twenty years on, it has yet to fully recover.
When it comes to the single currency, also, the former Prime Minister's deeply-felt concerns about the internal contradictions of "economic and monetary union", the commercial damage it would cause, the political and cultural divisions it would sow, were also bang on the money. It is only recently, though, during the last few years of her life that the fatal design flaws of Emu have leapt from the history books and come sharply into focus.
Even over the last week, as the UK and much of the world has focused on the death of Britain's most important peace-time leader, the fundamental contradictions at the heart of the single currency, the inherent unsustainability of monetary union between independent elected governments, have again burst into the open for all to see.
Last week we learnt that Cyprus is to be forced to shoulder an extra €5.5bn of the cost of its bail-out. That takes the total sum this tiny island nation must find in tax rises, spending cuts and asset sales to €13bn – which is almost one-and-a-half times' its annual GDP. Just a few weeks ago, the EU and International Monetary Fund agreed to provide €10bn of support if Cyprus came up with €6bn. Yet as German Chancellor Angela Merkel quakes before her own increasingly outspoken electorate, with Parliamentary opposition rising and Federal elections looming in September, the screws are now being turned on Cyprus even more.
How much can this Mediterranean mini-state take? Even before this latest cash demand, the Cypriot economy was officially forecast to shrink by an eye-watering 12pc over the next two years. Those with savings above €100,000 at the dominant Bank of Cyprus – including numerous local businesses, educational institutions and charities – are already in line to lose around two-thirds of their deposits. With growth now likely to be even more negative, that horrendous asset-grab will be more draconian, with large savers at Laiki bank, the second biggest in Cyprus, likely to get nothing at all.
At the risk of repeating myself, deposits are not investments. If you buy an equity or bond, exposing yourself to risk but also the prospect of a commercial return, then you stand to lose your money. Fair enough. If you put money in a bank, though, in a modern society that deposit should be guaranteed. To willfully demonstrate otherwise is to incite deep social unrest, while undermining the very fabric of capitalism and wealth creation itself.
The current twisted geometry of German politics may require an even greater squeeze on profligate "periphery" countries. But is it really right, having already forced Cyprus to suck-up lorry-loads of hopeless Greek bonds, for the European machine now to move the goalposts again, just weeks after agreeing a deal?
"The contribution from international creditors will not change," the German government insisted last week. Maybe it won't. But in the end, if pushed too far, the Cypriot people will take matters into their own hands and decide – whatever the chaos, whatever the scale of the lawsuits linked to "hard default" – that life outside the euro is preferable to endless subjugation.
I don't want that to happen, not least as a "disorderly euro exit" could spark systemic fears across global markets, with investors then worrying a bigger Eurozone economy could follow suit. But such an event could now come to pass. In the end, human beings will only take so much.
With attention on Baroness Thatcher's passing, other Eurozone dramas have also been happening somewhat below the news radar. Portugal is embroiled in another political crisis, after its constitutional court blocked austerity measures linked to continued EU-IMF funding. Mario Soares, the respected elder statesman, who guided Portugal from dictatorship to democracy in the late-1970s, is now openly calling on fellow citizens to "bring down the government" and insist on "open-default" on debts owed to other Eurozone members.
Were this to happen, Berlin would be forced to take an extremely hard line, pushing Portugal out of the euro. How could it not? German public opinion would accept nothing less. And if Portugal got away with open defiance, other Eurozone profligates could thumb their noses at their northern creditors and do precisely what they want.
In the end, voters sick of austerity imposed from abroad will elect leaders who openly advocate Eurozone exit. That is their democratic right. There are signs of this happening not only in Cyprus and Portugal, but also Italy – the region's third-largest economy. Eight weeks after an election, Italy has yet to form a government. Beppo Grillo, the ex-comedian whose Five Star movement took more than a quarter of votes cast, has Italy's political future in the palm of his hand – and he wants the eighth-biggest economy on earth to quit the euro. That's the on-the-ground reality.
These days it is generally only those in denial – their salaries paid by Brussels, or by banks now dependent on European Union largesse, or those too stubborn to admit they were wrong – who maintain the single currency has been a success, that the benefits out-weigh the drawbacks.
Meanwhile, the Eurozone economy remains extremely weak, with even solvent economies suffering from the pall over investor sentiment caused by endless systemic uncertainties. Industrial production in January and February was down across the region, even in Germany. Purchasing Manager Index survey data indicates that in March the Eurozone slipped back into recession. That will do nothing to ease the policy conflicts, and deeper political tensions, between the various members.
Prime Minister Thatcher was right to sign the Single European Act in 1986, so encouraging free trade across Western Europe. She was right, also, to push for "enlargement", bringing Eastern Europe into the democratic fold. When she raised the dangers of Emu, though, she was ridiculed by a sniffy European elite, not least those in the UK who were contemptuous of her passionate advocacy and lower middle class origins. It may have been Europe that toppled her. But Europe could yet prove Baroness Thatcher's most powerful insight.


A clothed, full body treatment without oil, this is a fluid, rhythmic massage incorporating facilitated stretching, Thai Yoga massage stretches and energy release techniques. Normally taking place on a mat on the floor, the therapist often stands or kneels on the table to use their bodyweight for pressure and stretches.
Extremely relaxing, the massage helps increase range of motion and relaxes tight muscles.
If you've not experienced any form of Thai massage before the best way I can describe it is like having yoga done TO you!


This year we are celebrating Advent and I am ecstatic.
I have never been so excited for Christmas as I am this year due to Advent! In the simplest form, Advent is taking the time to remember WHY and WHO we celebrate at Christmas. In the chaos of Christmas, I am really looking forward to having something that makes me slow down and refocus on God.
Naomi and I did a youtube video for you about ALL THE THINGS. In it we tell you what we are doing to celebrate Advent with our family, a little of the history of Advent as well as how we made Advent wreaths. (Did Naomi say she got a kit off of Amazon to make an Advent wreath??? She did.) I am telling you again, if you go down that rabbit hole of #Advent2018 on Instagram, you may never return.
The video was a little tricky as I didn't want the fridge in the frame but I did want the tree and the wreath. It's the little things. My phone is balanced on the stable of my manger scene. And we BOTH recorded in hopes one turned out. Also, I changed my pants just to be more festive in my fav red cords and then you basically can not see them this whole video. What's a girl to do?
Now forgive me, because I have brain fog today (it's not fun being sick) but I want to get as many links to the things we talked about as I can.
John Piper – The Dawning of Indestructible Joy. My plan is to read this every morning after the boys go to school. My next best guess was going to be to do Ann Voskamp's Advent book but my word is Joy and so this book was basically screaming my name.
All Creation Waits by Gayle Boss. This book has been recommended to me over and over and when I say I am going to read this with my boys, I mean my two youngest. The plan is to read this in the morning before school because our nights are CRAZY. I think I am going to have to be really flexible on this one, it's going to be difficult.
Someone ( I have a good guess who ) dropped off an Advent book for me I believe from her church and I will be using that one for family readings. If I happen to have the family together at dinner (it's not happening much lately) then I will read this to them.
I didn't want to do anything about getting a bunch of gifts or things for Advent every day. I wanted this to be as simple stripped down easy as can be. But I did get the youngest two a Lego Advent thingy and so I am excited to pull that out for them tomorrow.
And, because as if having a book of Advent hanging on my door wasn't gift enough, Magnolia Journal also has their Winter Magazine out now with a special section on Advent. You can usually pick this magazine up in a larger grocery store or any bookstore if you are not already subscribed.
It's like God is really making this Advent thing easy on me and SO MUCH FUN!
Naomi mentioned the Buck Denver books. You cannot find Everyday Emmanuel at the library but you can get it on Amazon.
Focus on the Family has a LOT of resources. When you go to their website, just search Advent. They'll ask for your name and email and once you put that in, you get an email packed full of FREE info.
Naomi showed off her Focus on the Family magazine as well as her boys's Clubhouse magazine. Both are available on the website.
They also have ADVENTures in Odyssey and thankfully my two youngest still listen and I KNOW Naomi's boys listen as well. I have to admit, even I enjoy them! You can get a CD disc set probably at your library (I did) but I have linked to the website of Advent episodes as well.
Naomi and I were guests on the Speaking 4 Him podcast and that is a 16ish minute conversation you can listen to HERE.
Naomi just sprung on me that we are going to be doing something EVERY DAY for Advent. So follow us on Instagram, I feel that is the place that most of that will happen.
We hope to do a quick video in the middle of Advent just to show you how our Advent season is going. And maybe at the end, just to wrap it up.
Won't you join us for this journey? I have had the most fun leading up to Advent just in talking with everyone about it and I can not wait to finally get to celebrate it all month long!
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