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10 / 6 Fifth Avenue, Burleigh Heads, Queensland 4220

  • 2 Bedrooms
  • 2 Bathrooms
  • 2 Carspaces
  • Swimming Pool

Listing ID: 1945

Modern 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment in a beach complex in Burleigh Heads

Motivated seller wants to settle before end of financial year.

A unique opportunity to buy the best apartment in the complex! A quiet, modern, ground-floor apartment in immaculate condition with privacy, huge land area, entertainment areas, close to the famous Burleigh beach, shops, restaurants and transport. Unbeatable value at this price so view now to avoid missing this opportunity!

Immediate vacant possession with settlement in 30 days or less.

Suit owner-occupier, first-time buyer or investor.

Contact the on-site manager and real estate agent to inspect at any time!

Only 70 metres from the famous Burleigh Heads beach, surf and esplanade park, central to all the Gold Coast attractions, a quiet complex with full beach resort facilties.

* huge courtyard on three sides for entertainment and enjoyment of cool sea breezes
* gourmet kitchen with granite-top surface
* kitchen pantry cupboard
* lots of kitchen cupboards
* air-conditioning in the living area
* ceiling fans in the bedrooms
* dishwasher
* electric oven
* electric hob
* washing machine and dryer
* refrigerator
* microwave
* built-in mirrored wardrobes
* storage cupboards
* master bedroom with space for a queen-sized bed
* ensuite bathroom with shower and toilet
* second bedroom with space for a queen-sized bed or two single beds
* main bathroom with bath, shower and toilet
* secure under-cover side-by-side parking for two cars
* 85 sq metres living area and huge 85 sq metres surrounding courtyard on three sides

Details on the sustainability declaration for this property can be obtained by contacting the agent.

Saks on 5th Ave has the following beach resort features and facilities:

* 50m to Burleigh Heads patrolled surf beach and esplanade park
* close to North Burleigh Surf Club, Coles supermarket, 7-11 convenience store, McDonalds, vegetarian restaurant, pizza & pasta restaurant, Miami Tavern and Burleigh Heads Hotel
* quiet complex
* swimming pool
* heated spa with air jets
* gym
* two BBQ's
* visitors under-cover car park with 8 parking bays
* unmetered parking outside the complex
* no pets allowed
* modern (only 6 years old)

Bus stop next to the complex to:

* all the major shopping centres (Robina, Pacific Fair, Australia Fair and Harbour Town)
* Coolangatta Gold Coast airport arrivals/departure area
* all the theme parks (Sea World, Movie World, Wet 'n Wild, Dream World, White Water World) by express buses
* Robina and Varsity Lakes train stations for commuting to Brisbane

SAKS ON 5TH AVE is located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and the Gold Coast Hwy in north Burleigh Heads:

6 Fifth Avenue Burleigh Heads QLD 4220

Contact the on-site manager and real estate agent to inspect at any time!

Apartment Features

General Features

  • Bedroom: 2
  • Bathrooms: 2 (Ensuites: 1)
  • Garaging: 2 secure parking & remote access
  • Land Size: 170 m2
  • Fully Fenced

External Features

  • Courtyard
  • Outdoor Entertaining Area

Internal Features

  • Air Conditioning
  • Reverse Cycle Airconditioning
  • Built In Robes
  • Dishwasher
  • Hot Water System: gas
  • Intercom
  • Pay TV

Pool / Spa

  • Outside Spa
  • Inground Pool

Specialty Rooms

  • Gym
  • Living Areas: 2

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The Daily Practice of Confession

Every time in my life that God has brought me back to one of the foundational principles of my salvation, it has been utterly transformational. This season has proved that all over again.

He laid it out simple. How to stop living under the burden of sin. How to kill the lies that seem to hide deep in my heart, manifesting themselves in all sorts of brokenness…all sorts of sin.

*“Killing the spider (lie I believe) is actually easy. It’s finding the spider that’s the hard part. Killing the spider is simply…

Confess. Repent. Replace.”* Carlos Whitaker

This little process, confess - repent - replace, has been life changing for me. Just a tiny tool to add to my tool belt of ways to combat my daily struggles with my own sin. But it’s that first word, that first step, that has really caught my attention recently.

I’ve been working myself into a new habit. The intent is to actually confess and repent to God daily, hourly, as often as needed, for my wrong attitudes, wrong thoughts, wrong actions. Oh how often it is needed.

And It feels a little odd. Like I imagine it would be going to confessional, although I am not Catholic.

But then I wonder, how in the world did regular repentance and confession become something that feels odd to me?

Isn’t that one of the very primary practices of our faith? Isn't it one of the first things every Christian was told to do at that pivotal moment of their salvation? Aren’t we commanded not only to confess our sins to God, but to eachother as well? (James 5:16)

And yet it feels odd to say, even in the most deeply Christian circles.

“I’m making a daily practice of confession.”

“God is teaching me about the importance of confessing my sin to Him daily.”

“I’m working on confessing and repenting over my sin to God every day.”

Yet it is true, and yet I persist. Because in this practice, I’ve found a deeper intimacy with God.

It’s harder to hide from God when I’m being honest about my sin.

It’s harder to hide from the nudge of the Spirit when I’m admitting how I really think and feel. When I am confessing to Him my wrong attitudes and the selfish or self-indulget actions that spring from them. It’s harder to hide from God. And from myself.

And I think I subconsciously run from confession and repentance for that very reason.

"Getting close to Jesus means we can no longer hide our inadequacies. His light illuminates everything that is wrong and ugly about our lives. Unconsciously, therefore, we may flee God's presence rather than pursue it.” Joanna Weaver: Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World

How much of my life have I spent in subconscious fleeing from God because I refuse to look my sin in the face long enough to bring it before His throne in repentance?

The thing I forget is… God’s throne is not a place of condemnation and punishment, but rather of grace and restoration.

And when I choose to hold myself back from that place of freedom God offers me, I’m not helping God or myself. I’m only causing more pain to us both through the unnecessary distance.

So I persist in this quest to lay my heart bare before my Savior each day in my pursuit of intimacy with God. To take the painful looks at my own heart and life and thoughts and motivations. To look long enough to see my heart in all its ugliness, and to see it washed again by the blood of the Lamb.

He never makes me regret it. Instead He forgives me, restores me, fills me…draws me close.

Confession - it is worth the pain. Always.

Be blessed

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Google Classroom Assignment Folder

One of my favorite features about Google Classroom is that it is Google Drive Management (GDM). When students submit work it is stored neatly in an assignment folder in Google Drive. Oftentimes I prefer to locate documents directly in Google Drive rather than opening from Google Classroom. On my phone, finding student work from the Google Drive app can be very convenient. Viewing the assignment folder in Google Classroom also allows me to use my Grade the Folder script.

Folder Icon

From the Stream, click on the assignment title to view the assignment grading page. A folder icon is located underneath the counts of students who are done or not done. This is above the student assignment tiles. Click on the folder to launch Google Drive.
Find Classroom Folder

Google Drive

What is nice about using Google Drive is I can see all student documents in a neat list and use the Google Drive features when convenient.

Above the document list are the breadcrumbs. Breadcrumbs show what folders the folders are nested in. Notice in the screenshot below that the breadcrumbs start at “My Drive.” In My Drive is the “Classroom” folder. In that folder is the “Math Class” folder. In that folder is the assignment folder “#059 Math Test.” You can click on any of these breadcrumbs to jump to that folder.
Google Drive for Google Classroom

Folder Options

Clicking on the assignment folder name in the breadcrumbs provides options for the folder. I use “Share” to share the folder with all the students in the class and then “Get link” to link to the folder in Google Classroom for peer evaluation.
Folder Options in Google Drive

Sorting Options

When giving feedback, I want to know where I left off. This can be challenging in Google Classroom but a snap from Google Drive. Click on the “AZ” icon in the toolbar and choose “Last opened by me.”
Last opened by me

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  • Brand new 1:18 scale diecast model of Ferrari California T (open top) Red die cast model car by Bburago.
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Research: Reflections of an Individual Practitioner

The debate on whether clinical medicine, academics and research are inclusive, mutually exclusive, or stand alone pillars in disparate corners has been going on since long with entrenched opinions on all sides.

Clinicians talk up the excitement of “taking care of people” while using information derived from research. Researchers talk up the excitement of “finding things new” while using information derived from clinical practice. Yet, they often sneer at each other. Ironic, isn’t it?

The focus on research, separate and not integrated with clinical practice, has led to a situation where research is now focused on the few and far between.

On a larger level, this is not healthy as research loses its representation and hence application across different levels of care. Research at tertiary care levels need not necessarily translate into action deliverable at a primary level. Such a situation has the potential to stagnate progress in healthcare and skew healthcare to one extreme with potential impact on delivery of care including access, availability, affordability and quality.

As an individual practitioner, I often find myself reflecting on the dichotomy between locally relevant results, guidelines and protocols, outcomes of care and learning.

I wonder, how do i contribute to changing the situation- after all, every voice matters!

Every problem is an opportunity for a solution. Can I bring solutions to the mix rather than being bogged down by the problems?

I am sharing a few of my thoughts with you hoping that we can have a dialogue.


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Josh Gordon rejoining Browns after absence

Josh Gordon is back.

The Cleveland Browns' receiver announced on Saturday he will return to the team.

Gordon revealed on July 23rd that he would not report to Browns training camp as he worked through some personal issues. Gordon has been suspended multiple times for violations of the NFL's substance-abuse policy. The 27-year-old missed the entire 2015 and 2016 seasons before returning last year.

The wideout's status throughout training camp has been a mystery, with the team unsure when the dynamic playmaker might return.

On Saturday that question was finally answered.

Browns general manager John Dorsey said the team would ease Gordon back into action.

"First off, we are pleased for Josh," Dorsey said in a statement. "His overall health and well-being is what is most important. We commend Josh for his hard work, commitment and focus on becoming the best version of himself. We are glad Josh has reached a point where he can return to our organization, be in our building and be around his teammates. As he assimilates back to our team, Josh will initially participate in meetings and conditioning and will gradually resume all football activities as deemed appropriate."

NFL Network's Tom Pelissero notes Gordon's return to the team is subject to certain conditions as he is still part of the NFL's substance abuse program. He can attend meetings and practices, but he cannot participate. Per Pelissero, no timetable has been set on the next steps in the process.

The Browns did placed Gordon on the active/non-football illness list.

Gordon's return is a big boon to a suddenly shallow Browns receiver corps. Following the trade of former first-round pick Corey Coleman, rookie Antonio Callaway had been taking first-team reps alongside Pro Bowler Jarvis Landry.

Gordon has played in just 10 NFL games since his breakout season in 2013. However, he displayed in his return last year that he still has the size and speed combination to be a dynamic wideout. If Gordon returns to form, he and Landry could become one of the best receiving duos in the NFL.

Gordon's return further complicates the Dez Bryant situation. The ex-Cowboys receiver visited Cleveland earlier this week but did not sign a contract. With Gordon back in town, the Browns could move on from Bryant.

Coach Hue Jackson said he didn't believe Gordon's return rules out the team pursuing Bryant.

"No, I think one has nothing to do with the other in my opinion," Jackson said Saturday on a conference call, per Mary Kay Cabot of The Plain Dealer. "Again, things will unfold as they will. The most important thing we know is that Josh is here, and again, we've had a good conversation with Dez and until he's a Cleveland Brown, I can only worry about the guys that are on this football team."


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Garoppolo agrees with coach's criticism of play

After playing one series and nine offensive snaps in the preseason opener two weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo saw more action last week s tilt against the Houston Texans.

Garoppolo played the entire first quarter Saturday and made the most of the extra time, completing 10 of 12 passes for 136 yards with a touchdown against an interception on 23 snaps.

The performance drew positive reviews from members of the media, including analyst Bucky Brooks, who gave Garoppolo an A- for the performance.

Head coach Kyle Shanahan, however, pumped the brakes on the praise during his postgame press conference, pointing out a need for consistency on reads and progressions.

"It's not always perfect," Shanahan told reporters Saturday night, via the 49ers' official website. "That's what we're trying to get him to do better and better each week. Sometimes he doesn't always go through it right and still makes some plays.

"We're hard on him about that stuff. By no means was it perfect, there was a number he could be better on. There was a couple of times he didn't do it perfect on, he made a play and kept us on the field also. You've got to take the good with the bad, and just continue to keep coaching."

Garoppolo had an opportunity Tuesday to address his head coach's concerns. The signal-caller said he wasn't surprised by Shanahan's critique and agreed with the evaluation.

"I felt similarly," Garoppolo told reporters. "There were just sloppy things at times. There were some good things that we took out of the game, but we hold ourselves to a high standard."

Despite a 106.9 passer rating and completing 83 percent of his passes against the Texans, Garoppolo told reporters there was "plenty of stuff" he considered sloppy against the Texans, including a high throw that resulted in an interception.

"We are trying to be perfect on everything and I think it's good to have that mindset," Garoppolo said.

The coming week of practice allows the quarterback to fine tune his game before the 49ers take on the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday.

San Francisco's first-team unit should also experience more action in the third preseason game, as Shanahan told reporters Tuesday he expects the starters to play less than the first half or into the third quarter, depending on the flow of the game.


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RFH International Organ Series: Renée Anne Louprette

Renée Anne Louprette, organ
Royal Festival Hall, 19 September 2018

JS Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G
Marin Marais: Suite from Alcyone (arr. Louprette)
Jehan Alain: Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin
Ad Wammes: Mytò
Nadia Boulanger: Improvisation from 3 Pièces
Duruflé: Suite, Op.5

The Royal Festival Hall’s ‘International Organ Series‘, most of which is made up of UK, rather than international organists, made up for that fact by replacing an indisposed UK performer with Renée Anne Louprette, an American organist who spent some of her student days in London. She has held posts in several important New York churches, alongside academic posts, and is now University Organist and Coordinator of the Organ Department at the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Jersey.

Her largely French programme opened with Bach’s flamboyant Prelude and Fugue in G (BWV 541), a distinctly non-French piece. From the very first few notes, it was clear that Renée Anne Louprette is an outstanding Bach interpreter. Her sense of touch, rhetoric and the way she sensitively articulated the opening flourish and the repeated notes in both Prelude and Fugue showed a real (and sadly rather rare) understanding of Baroque concepts such as the hierarchy of the bar. Her choice of registration was spot-on. Continue reading


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Friday, June 17, 2011

Cake, Ice Cream, and Ethics

Back in February, I ran across a tutorial for making the most adorable paper cakes and cupcakes on Tara Anderson’s blog, The Pink Couch. I printed it out, and put it in my “Must Do” pile (as if I have something as organized as that on my desk!). Tara has it listed under “For Kids,” which I guess says something about me!
I am trying very hard to eliminate that theoretical “Must Do” pile, in favor of lovely, completed projects, so this past week, I pulled out Tara’s tutorial, along with a big pile of paper scraps, and started making the most colorful, fun cakes and cupcakes based on her design.
There have been many, many blog posts recently regarding ethical issues surrounding the use of other people’s designs and ideas. For example, I have read the thoughts of Quinn at Quinn Creative and Chris at Parabolic Muse. Reading these posts, and completing this little cake and cupcake project has led me to pose the following multi-part question. I would really love to hear your thoughts!

My question:

Is it ethically allowable for me to:

A. Use these cakes and cupcakes (based on Tara’s tutorial) to make a card for my mother or create a gift tag for my daughter’s birthday package?

B. Use these cakes and cupcakes (based on Tara’s tutorial) to create a set of greeting cards to give to my mother as a birthday gift, so that she can send them out to HER friends and family?

C. Use these cakes and cupcakes (based on Tara’s tutorial) to create sets of greeting cards and gift tags to sell at a church craft sale?
Because I wasn’t sure if using the idea of cakes and cupcakes from Tara’s design to use for gifts or for sale was a breach of ethics, I thought I could safely take the idea of paper piecing (as it is a fairly universal technique, I think), and apply it to a different design. The idea I had in my head was of an ice cream cone.

But then I read a post by my “bloggy friend” Janet over at Just Me and My Art, and she had a lovely journal page on which she had created an ice cream cone, very similar to the idea I had in the wake of making paper cakes and cupcakes.

Uh-oh, I thought. Does this mean that ice cream cones are now off-limits, as well? For the sake of posing my question (and because I wanted to craft some cones!), I made these little projects:

My multi-part question is thus the same:

Is it ethically allowable for me to:

A. Use these ice cream cones (even though Janet had something similar in her journal) to make a card for my mother or create a gift tag for my daughter’s birthday package?

B. Use these ice cream cones (again, reflecting Janet’s journal page) to create a set of greeting cards to give to my mother as a birthday gift, so that she can send them out to HER friends and family?

C. Use these ice cream cones (similar to Janet’s journal page) to create sets of greeting cards and gift tags to sell at a church craft sale?
Because I wasn’t sure about whether ice cream cones would now present a breach of ethics, I sat down today and created a design out of my head that I have not yet seen anywhere (though it WAS inspired by the T-shirt a little girl was wearing in our music class yesterday morning)—a bright and fruity summertime drink, complete with fruit slice and straw.
However, I am starting to think there is nothing new under the sun, and it is entirely possible that a search of the Internet could turn up another artist/crafter who has worked with a similar design. Am I responsible for determining whether it’s been “done” before, before I can use these smoothie drinks as a gifts or for sale?

I know it SEEMS like the ethics surrounding others' art and crafts should be simple and straightforward, but I am finding that I still have some questions. I hope, hope, hope that if you take the time to read this post, you will leave a comment to share your thoughts on the specific questions I have posed.

Thank you for helping me sort out cake, ice cream, and ethics!

laurie said...

very good questions you pose... i'm not sure what ethics would dictate. i think you can use others' designs or inspirations if you give credit and don't make a profit (for yourself) but i'm not in the craft business. i'm interested to see what others say. but i love all the colorful, summer things you have created!

Janet said...

I personally don't have a problem with you making ice cream cone designs. Just because you saw them on my blog doesn't mean I'm the first person to ever think of doing that. If you copied one of my drawings exactly like I did it, and then used it to make something to sell then I would have a problem. All the ethical discussions even have me thinking about using magazine pictures in my own art journal even though it's purely for my own personal use.

Parabolic Muse said...

Oh, Andria!!

I fear now that my blog post did not say what I meant it to say. This is v. sad for me. Because I did not in any way suggest that following a tutorial or learning a process from a class and then doing the same thing is in any way unethical. NO! I don't find that unethical at all.

I mean, outright copying and pasting of an image or a written procedural about a craft, and putting it on your blog and not giving proper credit. I mean, putting someone's piece of work on top of a cigar box you've altered and then selling it. I'm not talking about making a craft based upon someone's freely offered tutorial or a class project! That's not stealing at all.

I think I may have to write a clarification on my post.

I really like what you've done, and I also think that your completely original design inspired by the teeshirt is the cutest of all.

You rock ON!

Andria said...

So far, so interesting hearing from everyone, here, on Facebook, and via email. I hope more folks will join in the discussion! It sounds like most people have a vague feeling about what SHOULD be okay and a lot of questions about what really IS.

Thanks, Laurie! (These were the papercrafting projects on my desk that I alluded to in my Wednesday post!)

Janet, I'm with you...I'm pretty sure other people have put together ice cream cones, and probably smoothies, too, like ours. I'm sure every animal in the zoo has been done, too! I am working on an art journal now that is almost exclusively magazine images, and I'm wondering as I post the pages on Flickr if it's a problem. I can't imagine that anyone thinks I'M taking all these professional photos! I would hate to give up catalogs and magazines as a source of images for my journals.

Chris, this post is definitely NOT a direct reaction to your post, so don't worry about how it was worded. And I agree, the no-brainer would be to put the tutorial up on my blog as though it were my idea. And I'm glad you like my smoothies! :-)

Michele Laverty said...

As a professional interior designer, it was brought to my attention again and again that designs can't be patented. I've yet to see anything truly original in art. We need each other to grow.
As an educator, I would say if someone posted a tutorial, they are inviting your interpretations.
In the situations you presented, it doesn't sound like you're trying to benefit from knocking off someone's work. Gifts from the heart (and hand) are above ethical controversy. And, in my eyes, sales at a church bazaar barely offer a chance to cover material costs... You're not stealing.

lee said...

oh its all so confusing,i just wanted to say I like everything you made

Andria said...

Thank you for your perspective, Michele; I appreciate you commenting! And, Lee, it IS terribly confusing, isn't it? Thanks for the compliment! :-) said...

My goodness... now that my head has stopped spinning, I could answer the question :] (heheeeheeee)
What is ethical here, to recreate an art project you see on a website, blog, or magazine, is fine. Notice the word "recreate" as oppose to "coping" the art;directly copying the artist's artwork and claiming it as your own... BIG NO NO!(you know that already) Recreating artwork you see, an e-course, or from a free tutorial is okay, but you should give credit to the artist who inspired you. Selling the artwork, this is a sensitive subject here... but can be answered. I would say, do not directly "copy" another artist's work; paste it onto something you wish to sell. Free tutorials on how to create a craft, see a piece of artwork on a blog, website, magazine, and wish to recreate it and put it up for sell is not stealing, but give credit where credit is due. :]

Joyfulploys said...

Hi Andria...I agree with Janet and also Muse. Outright copying would be wrong. I sometimes worry about using magazine images too...I almost always try and change them in some way. Good post...and btw, great cakes and ice cream :)

Anne said...

After reading all the responses it would appear that it's VERY ethical to create any number of cones, smoothies, and cupcakes for my mean your Mom's birthday. Go for it Sweets, I''ll love all of them.

Andria said...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your sense of guidelines, April. Thanks for commenting, Mary! Hmmm, Mom....somehow I knew you would say that! :-)

Regina said...

I love all the little cupcakes, cones and drinks that you may. As a tutorial writer, I would say that AB are totally okay. It would be, I hope, what the creator of the tutorial had intended. As for the drinks (and probably the cones) and would say it is probably safe to sell at a church craft sale. The lines do get incredibly blurry and definitely confusing, but asking the original creating is always a safe bet.

Regina said...

sorry about all the typos (someone is tired). I meant "made" and "original creator". geesh!

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Chatter coming out of South Korea suggests we may see Samsung unveil the Galaxy S 5 a bit ahead of when it was originally expected. Samsung has kept to a fairly regular announcement pattern for their Galaxy S series, with announcements having come in April, May and June. The talk has Samsung unveiling the Galaxy S 5 in early next year, possibly as soon as January.

Keeping in mind we have yet to hear any confirmation from Samsung, these report cite the reason for the bumped up timeframe as being poor sales of the Galaxy S 4. To this point, Business Insider recently mentioned that Samsung had been missing internal sales targets for the Galaxy S 4. Reuters has also backed up this theory with a previous mention about how Galaxy S 4 sales been decreasing due to market saturation.

And to further add to the theory about how poorly the Galaxy S 4 has been selling. A report from back in July touched on how handset sales was causing a “crisis” at Samsung. That bit came from an unnamed employee. On the flip side, it was also back in July when we heard Galaxy S 4 shipments had topped 20 million. Simply put, there appears to be evidence supporting both sides of this argument.

With that having been said, given the potential of an announcement coming sooner, we suspect we may begin seeing more leaks and rumors dealing with the Galaxy S 5. Of course, those have already begun. There has already been chatter about the Galaxy S 5 camera. It is said to be coming as a 16 megapixel with optical image stabilization. While we hope that will be the case, we do have to remember the Galaxy Note 3 was also expected to have OIS.

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Does Religion Matter?

Not long ago I read an interview with a writer who insisted he’s given up reading reviews of his work. He said, (and I paraphrase): The bad ones kill me, and the good ones are never good enough. At first blush, a funny line. But now that my own novel is garnering reviews, I go back to that quote with a sympathetic nod, the thousand-mile stare. I trace the outline of those words on newsprint and softly whisper, “I know what you mean.”

The fact is: I’ve mostly been delighted by the reviews Dancing With Gravity has received. Reviewers—whether in print or the blogosphere—take their work seriously. I’ve been surprised and gratified by the time and effort they’ve put into their work. And I am grateful for the recommendations they share with their many followers.

My own reactions to reading what others think of my work have been varied. Whether I bloom under a reviewer’s praise, or head straight to the Pecan Sandies (a truly delightful shortbread cookie) to quell my feelings of being misunderstood, I must admit: there is really nothing I can do. My novel is written. These reviewers are not fellow-writers sitting across from me at the seminar table—each harboring good wishes or secret agendas. I will not listen to (or ignore) their comments, then revise my work. My novel is written. It’s all reaction from this point on.

Aside from the rude realization of my own helplessness, I’ve had another surprise: some reviewers have labeled my work as “Christian fiction.” Even “Christian fiction with a message.”

By way of disclosure: I’m a convert to Catholicism. My relationship with my faith…and the Catholic Church…is complex, layered, and beside the point. Because this is about my work—which must be judged by its own merits.  The central character in Dancing With Gravity is a Catholic priest. In the course of the novel, he performs priestly duties, thinks about his faith, and discusses it with others. He even bristles against its restrictions. But take it from me—the author—I didn’t see this as a Christian (or Catholic) novel when I was writing it. And that’s the mystery of writing for the writer: you find out what you think after you write it.

John Steinbeck once wrote a letter to a friend about an English major at some university who contacted him about the symbolism in one of his novels. He told his friend that the English major might well be correct, but he was leaving interpretation to her—his concern was with the story.

And that’s my camp, too. Father Whiting is a Catholic priest. And his vocation certainly shapes much of his life. I respect his faith and I trust that I treated it with dignity. But he is a man whose suffering is as unique as yours or mine. His vocation informs his life, but it does not define every reaction, nor does it erase his history. Those are still his to address as the man he is…and will become.

Flannery O’Connor once wrote: “The writer, without softening his vision, is obligated to capture or conjure readers. And this means any kind of reader. It means whatever is there. I used to think that it should be possible to write for some supposed elite, for the people who attend the universities and sometimes know how to read, but I have since found that, though you may publish your stories in the Yale Review, if they are any good at all you are eventually going to get a letter from some old lady in California, or some inmate of the Federal penitentiary, or the state insane asylum, or the local poorhouse, telling you where you have failed to meet his needs. And his need of course is to be lifted up. There is something in us as story-tellers, and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance of restoration. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but he has forgotten the cost of it. His sense of evil is deluded or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. He has forgotten the cost of truth, even in fiction.” (The Catholic Novelist in the South)

O’Connor was a Catholic writer living in Georgia. Her stories stand among my favorites. But Hazel Motes, founder of the Holy Church of Christ Without Christ (Wise Blood) and the Bible salesman who steals Hulga’s leg (Good Country People) are two examples of important characters whose stories transcend religion. O’Connor was not writing Christian fiction so much as literature about who we are. What we do to ourselves … and to one another. And this is the great preoccupation of our species. Faith? Religion? Certainly they’re part of the story. But that’s just the beginning.

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  1. Elizabeth says:

    I think where it matters, or is at least noticeable and annoying (to me), is when a book goes beyond just having facets to it that happen to be religious – as I would describe yours – to being a book that comes across in a heavy-handed way as “promoting” or taking a stance on the religion. DANCING WITH GRAVITY, to me, featured a man who just happened to be a Catholic priest, but whose struggles were, in a larger sense, universal. His being a priest was his job, just as if he had been a mechanic or stock broker or physician. It was there, but not what the book revolves around per se.

  2. Mark says:

    Your friend from Global here. I finally got around to looking at your blog, and next will read your novel. But we can discuss that in Bali after we divide our lottery winnings…

    This post can’t help but force me to recall my Lit Theory class as an undergrad, and my somehow sensing, without doing any research (and still having done almost no “true” research into the subject, aside from reading select Barthes and Fish about 5 years ago), that it truly was the way most (all?) people read novels. The words on the page, the authors intentions, the thousands of decisions that go into selecting a particular word in a particular line on a particular page, mean so very little to the reader. In the end, I think we, as respective readers, are almost intrinsically unable to remove ourselves from ourselves (damn that sounds trite) as an active agent in the process of discerning “meaning” (as nebulous a term as that may be). I cannot imagine how frustrating that mast be for you, as the author, to hear definitions given to your work that you had no idea existed.

    In the end, I suppose it’s the way a parent views their child versus how the world views that child. The parent knows exactly what work went into shaping that child into the human it is today; I, as the clerk at the grocery store, am limited by my experience by what I see before me, and how that child (as a human) and I interact. Therefore, we have intrinsically different perspectives on this being before us. I guess all you, as the author, can do is hope that you gave enough shape to this work that it is able to stand on its own, without constant attention from the parent. This metaphor is becoming strained, so I’ll simply stop.

    I’ve enjoyed my cursory reading of this blog, and very much look forward to reading the novel.

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Naemorhedus goralgoral

Geographic Range

Himalayan gorals range throughout the Himalayas from Bhutan to Pakistan. ("Caprinae", 2003; Matthews, 1971)

Naemorhedus goral occupies the forests and scrub-covered slopes of the of the Himalayas. Himalayan gorals can be found at elevations from 1000 m to 4000 m. ("Caprinae", 2003; Duckworth and MacKinnon, 2008; Matthews, 1971)

  • Range elevation
    1000 to 4000 m
    3280.84 to 13123.36 ft

Physical Description

Himalayan gorals are medium sized herbivores and are the smallest of the goat-antelopes (subfamily Caprinae). They range in body length from 81 to 130 cm and stand 56 to 80 cm tall. Himalayan gorals weigh from 25 to 30 kg. They are stout animals; a strong and stocky build is probably advantageous for maneuvering the craggy terrain of the Himalayas. Male and females are similar in size and both genders have short, sharp horns that curve posteriorly. Horns are rarely longer than 15 cm. Himalayan gorals are dark grey or brown with a darker colored dorsal stripe and a lighter patch of hair on the throat. The hair is short and coarse and males have manes from their necks to their chests. Himalayan gorals lack a pre-orbital gland, which is present in closely related serows. ("Caprinae", 2003; "Naemorhedus Goral", 1987; Morris, 1965)

  • Range mass
    25 to 30 kg
    55.07 to 66.08 lb
  • Range length
    81 to 130 cm
    31.89 to 51.18 in

Himalayan gorals are polygynous. Dominant males have mating rights to all females in their ranges during the breeding season. This dominance is established through threatening displays and combat with other males. When Himalayan gorals fight, they attempt to wound the flank of their opponent with their small, dagger-like horns instead of engaging in head-to-head butting. Males court females with low stretches, lip curling, spraying of urine, and tail raising. ("Caprinae", 2003; Duckworth and MacKinnon, 2008; Morris, 1965)

Himalayan gorals mate in November and December so that young are born in spring and early summer when vegetation is abundant. Females give birth to one young per breeding season. Gestation lasts roughly 6 months, after which the female gives birth in isolation. After several days of hiding, the young begins to follow the mother. Juvenile gorals are weaned 4 to 5 months after birth. They are sexually mature at 2 to 3 years of age. ("Caprinae", 2003; Duckworth and MacKinnon, 2008; Morris, 1965)

  • Breeding interval
    Himalayan gorals breed once yearly.
  • Breeding season
    Himalayan gorals breed in November and December.
  • Range number of offspring
    1 to 1
  • Range gestation period
    5 to 7 months
  • Range weaning age
    4 to 5 months
  • Range age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
    2 to 3 years
  • Range age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
    2 to 3 years

Female Himalayan gorals raise their young with no help from the males, as males only associate with herds during the breeding season. Young Himalayan gorals follow their mother until weaned and remain with the group to which their mother belongs after reaching sexual maturity. ("Caprinae", 2003)

  • Parental Investment
  • precocial
  • female parental care
  • pre-fertilization
    • provisioning
    • protecting
      • female
  • pre-hatching/birth
    • provisioning
      • female
    • protecting
      • female
  • pre-weaning/fledging
    • provisioning
      • female
    • protecting
      • female
  • pre-independence
    • provisioning
      • female
    • protecting
      • female
  • post-independence association with parents

The expected lifespan of Himalayan gorals, once they have survived to maturity, is 15 years. (Duckworth and MacKinnon, 2008)

  • Average lifespan
    Status: wild
    15 years

Himalayan gorals are diurnal but most active during the early morning and evening (crepuscular). After grazing in the early morning, the animals spend the day relaxing in caves or on cliffs. Himalayan gorals are very agile and can easily traverse the arduous landscape of the Himalayas. They make small altitudinal migrations seasonally; in the colder months they move to lower altitudes to graze, returning to higher altitudes during warmer months. When snow blankets all available food sources, Himalayan gorals push the snow away with their snouts instead of digging or scratching with their hooves.

Himalayan gorals are gregarious, but adult males live in solitude until the breeding season. Females and juveniles graze in herds of four to twelve individuals ("Caprinae", 2003; "Naemorhedus Goral", 1987; Duckworth and MacKinnon, 2008; Geist, 1971; Matthews, 1971)

  • Range territory size
    220000 to 400000 m^2

Home Range

Herds of females and juveniles occupy a range of 40 hectares. Solitary males occupy a 22 to 25 hectare territory. ("Caprinae", 2003; Duckworth and MacKinnon, 2008)

Communication and Perception

Himalayan gorals rely on their vision and hearing to sense their surroundings. Their acute sense of sight allows them to see predators while they rest or graze. These animals use a series of snorts, whistles, and sneezes to indicate alarm to other gorals. Like most other mammals, it is likely that olfaction is an important sense as well. ("Caprinae", 2003)

Food Habits

Himalayan gorals are herbivores and eat a wide range of vegetation including herbs, shoots, roots, twigs, lichen, fungi, leaves, and grasses. ("Caprinae", 2003; Fukhar-i-Abbas, et al., 2008)

  • Plant Foods
  • leaves
  • roots and tubers
  • wood, bark, or stems
  • seeds, grains, and nuts
  • flowers
  • bryophytes
  • lichens
  • Other Foods
  • fungus

Snow leopards, Eurasian lynx, wolves, wild dogs, and humans all prey on Himalayan gorals. The dark grey pelage of Himalayan gorals and their relatively sedentary behavior during the day allow them to blend in with the surrounding mountainside. Their agility in rough terrain also helps them to avoid less sure-footed predators. (Thomas, 2001)

  • Anti-predator Adaptations
  • cryptic

Ecosystem Roles

Himalayan gorals are grazers, impacting vegetation communities in their mountain habitats. They also provide valuable source of nutrition for several predators that inhabit the unforgiving crags of the Himalayas. (Thomas, 2001)

Economic Importance for Humans: Positive

Humans hunt Himalayan gorals for meat, wool, and hides. Goral blood is also used medicinally in some Asian cultures, although its efficacy is not proven. ("Caprinae", 2003)

  • Positive Impacts
  • food
  • body parts are source of valuable material

Economic Importance for Humans: Negative

There are no known adverse affects of Naemorhedus goral on humans.

Conservation Status

Himalayan gorals are listed as near threatened as of 2008 by the IUCN. They are also on Appendix I of CITES. Populations are declining due to habitat loss and hunting. As humans begin to construct roads that spread deeper into the mountains of the Himalayas, populations of Himalayan gorals increasingly lose habitats that suit their isolated nature. Additionally, advances in weapon technology allow hunters to kill gorals from farther distances. (Duckworth and MacKinnon, 2008)

One study found that Himalayan gorals graze primarily on several grasses that are endemic to the Himalayas. If Himalayan gorals become more seriously endangered, human cultivation of these grasses could provide surviving Himalayan gorals with a reliable and preferred food source. (Fukhar-i-Abbas, et al., 2008)

Other Comments

Himalayan gorals are also known as grey gorals. ("Caprinae", 2003)

Eric Cohen (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Phil Myers (editor, instructor), Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Tanya Dewey (editor), Animal Diversity Web.

living in the northern part of the Old World. In otherwords, Europe and Asia and northern Africa.

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uses sound to communicate

bilateral symmetry

having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.

Found in coastal areas between 30 and 40 degrees latitude, in areas with a Mediterranean climate. Vegetation is dominated by stands of dense, spiny shrubs with tough (hard or waxy) evergreen leaves. May be maintained by periodic fire. In South America it includes the scrub ecotone between forest and paramo.

uses smells or other chemicals to communicate

active at dawn and dusk

having markings, coloration, shapes, or other features that cause an animal to be camouflaged in its natural environment; being difficult to see or otherwise detect.

  1. active during the day, 2. lasting for one day.
dominance hierarchies

ranking system or pecking order among members of a long-term social group, where dominance status affects access to resources or mates

animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.

female parental care

parental care is carried out by females

union of egg and spermatozoan

an animal that mainly eats leaves.

A substance that provides both nutrients and energy to a living thing.

forest biomes are dominated by trees, otherwise forest biomes can vary widely in amount of precipitation and seasonality.

An animal that eats mainly plants or parts of plants.

offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).

makes seasonal movements between breeding and wintering grounds

having the capacity to move from one place to another.

This terrestrial biome includes summits of high mountains, either without vegetation or covered by low, tundra-like vegetation.

native range

the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.

found in the oriental region of the world. In other words, India and southeast Asia.

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chemicals released into air or water that are detected by and responded to by other animals of the same species

having more than one female as a mate at one time

scrub forest

scrub forests develop in areas that experience dry seasons.

seasonal breeding

breeding is confined to a particular season

remains in the same area

reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female

sexual ornamentation

one of the sexes (usually males) has special physical structures used in courting the other sex or fighting the same sex. For example: antlers, elongated tails, special spurs.

associates with others of its species; forms social groups.

lives alone

uses touch to communicate

that region of the Earth between 23.5 degrees North and 60 degrees North (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle) and between 23.5 degrees South and 60 degrees South (between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle).

Living on the ground.

defends an area within the home range, occupied by a single animals or group of animals of the same species and held through overt defense, display, or advertisement

uses sight to communicate

reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.

young precocial

young are relatively well-developed when born

2003. Caprinae. Pp. 87-98 in M Hutchins, ed. Grzinek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Vol. 16, 2 Edition. Detroit: Thomson-Gale Publishing.

1987. Naemorhedus Goral. D Macdonald, ed. The Encyclopedia of Mammals, Vol. 1, 1 Edition. New York, NY: Facts on File Publishing.

Duckworth, J., J. MacKinnon. 2008. "Naemorhedus Goral" (On-line). Red List of Endangered Species. Accessed April 05, 2009 at

Fukhar-i-Abbas, F., T. Akhtar, A. Mian. 2008. Food & Feeding Preferences of Himalayan Gray Goral in Pakistan and Arad Jammu and Kashmir. Zoo Biology, 27/5: 371-380.

Geist, V. 1971. Mountain Sheep: A Study in Behavior & Evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Matthews, L. 1971. Life of Mammals. New York: Universe Books.

Morris, D. 1965. The Mammals. New York: Harper & Row Publishing.

Thomas, W. 2001. Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World. Marshall Cavendish. Accessed April 10, 2009 at,M1.


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This anime season is lit! Attack On Titan is back, Boruto has arrived and My Hero Academia season 2 has blessed us as well. Gi staff member Blvck and I decided to sit down and watch the first two episodes of My Hero’s second season. The first episode was meh, but the 2nd episode eludes …

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Teachers’ Gratitude Card – Let the Summer BeGin

Let the summer beGin card

One of the favourite parts of choosing how to show the children’s teachers their gratitude is the creation of the card. We’ve created some fun ones over the years and this year was no exception. As gin seems to be the drink of the moment I decided we’d create a fun hamper, especially after seeing the slogan ‘Let the Summer BeGin’ which I think must especially welcomed by teachers.

Whilst I turned to Pinterest with the theme in mind, it wasn’t as easy to find a card to replicate. I had an idea in my mind and had to rely on it.

Fortunately for the most part my cupboard full of trusty materials was on form with supplies, and I only needed to order one item.

I sketched an idea in my Bullet Journal and set about creating it. First thing was to create a template. I used PicMonkey for the greeting text and tried to use a faded effect like that created by the sea.

I also noticed an umbrella image which I could rotate and alter the colour and fade. This replaced the ‘cocktail umbrella’ I was planning to use alongside the straw. And I much preferred this.

Originally I printed it on yellow card but I wasn’t convinced and went with blue.Teacher's Appreciation CardI then went in search of a way to create the glass. I remembered in a clear out of the office I had held onto acetate. I’ve no idea why.

You probably don’t remember acetate. ‘Back in the day’ (pre-Microsoft) you’d write your own presentations with a OHP pen. Then technology improved, and you’d print directly onto them. Revolutionary. And well worth hanging onto.

I found a glass printable, played around with the sizing on PicMonkey and printed onto paper. I stuck the paper onto the acetate and cut around to give me enough templates.

Usually my glitter only comes out once a year for creating starts for Messy Christmas. As this was a controlled craft I broke my own rules.

As we were making Raspberry & Mint Gin we used pink and blue glitter and added to the glasses using PVA glue.

In early attempts at the card I created a work surface for the glass to rest on. It looked a bit naff and Mr J suggested sand. This was the one thing I ordered from ebay (for about £1 and used about 10% of it). I decided beach sand would probably look grubby so ordered yellow coloured sand. And again we used PVA glue to create our beach on the card.

We then brought everything together using sticky dots. We created a bit of a 3D effect in adding the straw inside the glass and bringing the glass into a rounded shape to accommodate.

And I really like them.

I think they’d be good for any summer birthday or celebration.

And you could replace ‘summer’ with ‘party’… or anything really. Let the summer beGin card

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Also In report RCCLUKA2 logic works to create file, delete file, delete AUSP, KSSK tables data, insert data in AUSP, KSSK tables depends on the variable l_state shown in below screen shot.

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Amazonomachy frieze

Amazonomachy, Frieze. Goldwin Smith Hall Second floor. SSID 512928.

Introduction – the Database

Cornell University once owned a collection of plaster casts of sculptures, gemstones and inscriptions from different cultures and periods such as the ancient Near East, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome (the majority), the European Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the 19th century. In addition, architectural models and details of architectural sculpture from the above-mentioned periods formed part of the collection together with more abstract drawing models for art students. This collection must have comprised about 2000 pieces (ca. 1000 being reproductions of gemstones), only a part of which has survived, often in very bad condition and distributed all over campus.

The present database has several goals: curatorial, didactic, documentary and scholarly. First, it will give an idea of what has been preserved and is a step towards reuniting the remaining holdings, at least on a virtual basis. Moreover, the database can serve as the starting point for further possible restoration of the casts, since it allows for assembling the fragments of destroyed sculptures that sometimes are stored in different locations. Once complete, the database will help students and faculty alike to familiarize themselves with major monuments and artworks of the past.

The casts were used as “stand-ins” for their originals. In the meantime, we have come to understand this type of medium as dated or historical in itself. The database therefore tries to capture the various layers of the objects, including their production in the late 19th and 20th century or their current display.

The single objects have been photographed, measured, briefly described and, if possible, identified. This process is ongoing; so far, ca. 800 pieces, including fragments, have been catalogued. The total number of the surviving plaster casts is still unknown.

The single entries show the casts in their current condition, i.e. often broken and in need of restoration. If two different pieces share the same identification number, they are part of the same sculpture. Several fragments have only been recognized as adhering to the same figure during the process of cataloguing. In this case, they have different identification numbers, but the description usually indicates the numbers of the other belonging pieces.

Specific emphasis is on the various layers of the sculptures. Several casts are 19th or early 20th century reproductions of ancient Roman originals (mostly dating from the 1st century BCE to the 2nd century CE), which are themselves supposed to copy older Greek (bronze?) sculptures (primarily from the 5th and 4th centuries BCE) that have not survived.


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Arbor Day in Cambodia Date in the current year: July 9, 2018

Arbor Day in Cambodia Annually King of Cambodia plants at least one tree. This event takes place on July 9, that is Arbor Day in Cambodia. Celebration of this event encourages tree planting, protection of forests and raises public awareness of multiple issues of nature preservation in Cambodia.

The first celebration of Arbor Day took place in Cambodia in 1990. Since then His Majesty the King of Cambodia presides the ceremony of trees planting. The ceremony of tree planting is held every year in different provinces, thus the problem of environment protection is covered across all regions of Cambodia. The ceremony is attended by senior officials, who also plant trees (only after King finishes) and representatives of non-governmental organizations, students and local residents.

King Norodom Sihamoni is not the only person who plants trees in Cambodia on Arbor Day. The seedlings are distributed among numerous nature care organizations and schools. Many people participate in celebration of this event and annually over 20,000 trees are planted in all regions of Cambodia.

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Day of Friendship and Unity of the Slavs Date in the current year: June 25, 2018

Day of Friendship and Unity of the Slavs Day of Friendship and Unity of the Slavs is annually observed on June 25. Although this holiday is aimed to unite people from different Slavic countries, it's mainly observed in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

The total quantity of the Slavs is about 300-350 million people, they inhabit Eastern and Central Europe and Eastern Asia, but major diaspora also exists in the countries of Western Europe, Transcaucasia, Central Asia and America.

The Slavs make up a large part of the population of many countries: Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Belarus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia, Montenegro, and Transnistria (has the status of an unrecognized state).

Day of Friendship and Unity of the Slavs originated in the 1990s after collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Establishment of new independent states resulted in need of development of friendly relations between the Slavs. Celebration of this holiday is aimed to remind the Slavic peoples about their common historic and cultural roots and encourage preservation of their centuries-old ties with each other.

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Apereo CAS - Extending Webflows

The blog is managed and hosted on GitHub. If you wish to update the contents of this post or if you have found an inaccuracy and wish to make corrections, we recommend that you please submit a pull request to this repository.

Unlike previous versions, CAS 5 attempts to automate all required Spring Webflow changes on a per-module basis. In this new model, all one should have to do is to declare the appropriate module in the build script…and viola! CAS will take care of the rest.

If you wish to learn how that is done internally and furthermore, how you may take advantage of the same approach to extend CAS webflows and introduce your own, this is the right post for you.

This tutorial specifically requires and focuses on:

This post might equally apply to CAS 5.2.x. YMMV. To learn the same answers with CAS 5.0.x, please see this post.

Webflow Configurers

Every CAS module that needs to dynamically augment the Spring Webflow routes simply takes on the following form:

package com.example.cas;

public class SomethingWebflowConfigurer extends AbstractCasWebflowConfigurer {

    public SomethingWebflowConfigurer(final FlowBuilderServices flowBuilderServices,
                                    final FlowDefinitionRegistry loginFlowDefinitionRegistry,
                                    final ApplicationContext applicationContext,
                                    final CasConfigurationProperties casProperties) {
        super(flowBuilderServices, loginFlowDefinitionRegistry, applicationContext, casProperties);

    protected void doInitialize() throws Exception {
        final Flow flow = super.getLoginFlow();
        // Magic happens; Call 'super' to see what you have access to...

CAS modules register their WebflowConfigurer instances in @Configuration classes:

package com.example.cas;

public class SomethingConfiguration implements CasWebflowExecutionPlanConfigurer  {

    private FlowDefinitionRegistry loginFlowDefinitionRegistry;

    private FlowBuilderServices flowBuilderServices;

    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;

    private CasConfigurationProperties casProperties;

    @ConditionalOnMissingBean(name = "somethingWebflowConfigurer")
    public CasWebflowConfigurer somethingWebflowConfigurer() {
        return new SomethingWebflowConfigurer(flowBuilderServices, loginFlowDefinitionRegistry,
            applicationContext, casProperties);
    public void configureWebflowExecutionPlan(final CasWebflowExecutionPlan plan) {

Note that each CasWebflowConfigurer implementation may be assigned a specific order which is a numeric weight that determines its execution position once webflow auto-configuration kicks into action.

If you are looking for XML flow definitions to extend CAS, you are simply holding it wrong. While you may be creative enough to find a solution and make that approach work, it is pretty much guaranteed that your design will break quite quickly in the next upgrade.

Next, we just need to ensure that CAS is able to pick up our special configuration. To do so, create a src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories file and reference the configuration class in it as such:

…and that should be it.

CAS itself handles Spring Webflow changes related to its first-class features by default automatically. That strategy equally applies, should you need to write your own configurers if you absolutely need to. Be sure to take extra as accidents may happen. What if you have two WebflowConfigurers who all decide to inject actions and state into the same Spring Webflow areas? What if multiple WebflowConfigurers are competing to set themselves up as starting points of the CAS webflow? Who wins, who mourns?

Indeed, these are questions you ought to be thinking about as a developer. With power comes responsibility.

  • Changes are all scoped to one technology, that is Java.
  • You have the full power of Java to dynamically augment the Spring Webflow as you see fit.
  • Your changes are all self-contained.
  • Unlike XML, your changes are now part of the CAS APIs. If you upgrade and something breaks, you will be notified immediately at build time.

That’s all.

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CAS distributed SAML2 metadata management using MongoDB, where you learn how to store metadata documents inside MongoDB for CAS as a SAML2 identity provider and all other registered SAML2 service providers.

Apereo CAS - Slurp Configuration with Groovy

Learn how CAS configuration may be consumed via Groovy to simplify and consolidate settings for multiple deployment environments and profiles.

Apereo CAS - Configuration Management with MongoDb

CAS distributed configuration management using MongoDb, where you learn how to store and secure CAS configuration settings and properties inside MongoDb.

Apereo CAS - Integration with HashiCorp Vault

CAS distributed configuration management using HashCorp Vault, where you learn how to store and secure CAS configuration settings and properties inside Vault.

CAS 6.0.0 RC3 Feature Release

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Differences Between Pediatrics and Adults

I am making a comprehensive list of excuses perfectly good reasons for why I, a senior pediatric resident (fearless leader of interns! attending in the making! resident of the month x 3! winner of a multitude of teaching awards given by med students!) – make a terrible adult neurology intern.

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1: Adults with normal potasasium.. need more potassium. In peds, we are pretty much cool with anything over 3.2, and super scared of any number that starts with 5.

So in adult medicine this year, it wasn’t until the 3rd time I got a sign-out of “His K was 3.6, so we repleted IV” and reacted incredulously and indignantly before I finally accepted the truth of the new world order of adult medicine that I now must live by: K under 4.0 is unacceptable. Cardiac arrhythmias and whatnot. Asymptomatic PVCs.

Be a man. Replete that shit.

2: Adults can sign-out AMA. My first AMA, I paged psychiatry to ask whether they thought the patient had capacity. I think the psych resident showed up more for moral support and genuine concern for me than anything else. Especially since I explained over the phone that I am from pediatrics and am scared to death to discharge a patient who needs more treatment.

They patiently explained that I am a doctor and can decide these things for myself. In turn, I patiently explained to them that I am basically dumb.

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3: Adult attendings are so hands-off you don’t even have to staff all in-house consults with them. You don’t even have to staff ADMISSIONS with them. In pediatrics, we don’t even page the resident first for consults – you page the attending, and they page the pediatric resident to say “Hey, go see this consult for me and then we’ll discuss it.” And at my program, even a 4am admision is paged to the attending first.

But in adult neurology subspecialties, it’s more like: Neurosurgery or the ED pages me out of concern for status epilepticus, I load the patient with whatever AED I want, I admit them if I want, and as long as the first thing I do works the attending doesn’t need to hear about it until rounds in the morning.

Discovering this was… slow and painful. It involved an embarrassing number of incredulous conversations between me and an attending at 11pm.

4: Adults get lidocaine before you stab them in the back with a 22gauge needle. In pediatrics, we gave topical lidocaine, for all the good (NONE) that it did the patients. But if you turn 18 and get admitted to the adult unit – then you get SQ lidocaine and are not tortured.

… unless you happen to get a pediatric neurology resident as your LP-er. Then you get someone who has never given SQ lidocaine before and is not even aware that it is important.

5: Pediatric neurology residents are terrible people. As evidenced by the fact that there are 6 more of them in my program, and not a single one warned me of any of the above facts.

I distinctly remember the guy above me saying, and I quote: “Why are you so worried? Calm down. It’s gonna be fine.”

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Listen up, Mr. PGY-4:

This post is for you.

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Also it help to aware customer about product demand & to choice right product.

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Though you can customize the display text using application admin. Even you can generate and set random number sold and in stock in bulk from app admin to display high demand and huge number of sold quantities.

In general, your customer will never know, how much quantity has been sold for a particular product, This app will help you to display total available as well as total sold quantities to customers.

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Charlie’s drug-filled, pre-rehab bender

Rehab is expensive — but if you’re Charlie Sheen, it’s a lot cheaper than living the wild life. TMZ has obtained what appears to be a $30,000 check made out to an adult-film star the actor partied with — prior to being rushed to the hospital, then checking himself into a treatment facility.

The “Two and a Half Men” star is said to have made the generous gesture Wednesday, during a 36-hour bender at his home. The paparazzi site also claims he had a “briefcase full of cocaine” delivered to the residence. (Charlie’s long-suffering rep told TMZ, “I can’t comment because I have no idea if it’s true. You choose to believe your source. I don’t.”)

Eventually, 911 was called to speed him to the ER with severe abdominal pains. One Sheen source explained the medical crisis by saying that the actor aggravated a hernia by laughing too hard at the TV. But a Radar Online source claims, “Charlie’s red blood cell count was low and his white blood cell count was high” when he arrived at the hospital.

Around the time news broke Friday that he had voluntarily entered rehab, Charlie texted a Radar Online editor, “I’m fine. People don’t seem to get it. ... Guy can’t have a great time and do his job also?”

Well, if that “great time” lands him in the hospital … then no.

Sunny Demi

And the revolving door of celebrity rehab continues … as Charlie checked in, Demi Lovato checked out. The smiling, healthy-looking “Sonny With a Chance” star was spotted strolling in Santa Monica on Friday.

The young actress had checked into a treatment facility in November to deal with emotional issues that culminated in her allegedly punching a dancer and being kicked off the Jonas Brothers tour.

The New York Post reports that the 18-year-old spent a month in a treatment facility followed by a month of outpatient care in Illinois.

“She didn’t come back to L.A. until her doctors told her they were absolutely satisfied with her recovery,” a source said. “She’s not in a rush to get back to work. Disney said they’ll wait until she is ready.”

Glad to hear they’re putting her needs first.

Grammy No-Show

Chris Brown’s camp insists the singer did not make a bid to have his restraining order against Rihanna lifted so he could go to the Grammy Awards.

Though the “Forever” singer has been nominated for three of the prestigious music trophies, he will not attend the ceremony. Chris famously missed the Grammys in 2009 after an argument that allegedly left then-girlfriend Rihanna bruised and bloodied.

Since the career-derailing incident, Chris has completed domestic-violence counseling and is working on his court-ordered community service obligation. A judge praised his progress at a hearing Friday, but was unable to grant his attorney’s request to allow him within 50 yards of RiRi — which would have made a Grammy appearance a lot more feasible. Since her lawyer could not be reached, the ruling was reportedly postponed.

But Chris’s rep tells TMZ the Grammys have nothing to do with the courtroom move: “This court date and the lifting of the restraining order is part of the planned ongoing legal proceedings. The date was scheduled months ago. Chris Brown is very thankful for his Grammy nominations, but due to scheduling conflicts, he will not be attending the Grammys.”

Perhaps that’s his best bet PR-wise, in any case. Showing up at the Grammys would just remind people to rehash the Rihanna incident — and stall his comeback, which is progressing nicely.

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High hopes for a high-toned voice

Years ago, when countertenors were so rare that people thought nothing of asking them: "Why do you sound like a girl?" the breed was insecure and not always able to explain its extra-high, feminine sound.

Now, when the sexiest man in opera, David Daniels, is a countertenor, even a grass-roots organization such as the San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship program boasts a countertenor star in the making — not only high-voiced and technically masterful, but a brilliant actor as well.

Gerald Thompson has played only three roles on the War Memorial stage since he became an Adler Fellow: Prince Go-Go in the sour modern satire "Le Grand Macabre," Unulfo, the brilliant comic foil in Handel’s "Rodelinda" and this season’s androgynous Prince Orlofsky in "Die Fledermaus." In each, he was cited as much for his acting as for his singing.

Born in Pochahontas, Ark., 30 years ago, Thompson started his career as a teacher and performer of musical theater after graduation from a small Arkansas college.

Like many young singers from the opera-starved Midwest and South, Thompson’s first role, as Hansel in "Hansel and Gretel," was in the first opera he ever "saw."

At that point he also discovered a new voice teacher who "kept having me go up and up until we realized I was really a countertenor."

He was struggling to make a career in New York when SFO offered to enroll him in the Merola and Adler Fellowships training programs. From here, he makes debuts next spring at the Metropolitan and New York City operas.

The prestigious fellowships, named after former SFO director Kurt Herbert Adler, require the fellows to live in San Francisco, study their craft at the Opera Center and appear in small roles on the main stage. They also give concerts such as Tuesday night’s: "The Future is Now: Adler Fellows Gala Concert."

Thompson’s most spectacular part at SFO was Unulfo, friend to beleagured leading man Bertriardo, in "Rodelinda." Daniels sang

this difficult part.

"I learned so much from David, just watching him onstage," Thompson said. "He’s such a complete artist."

Thompson has since gone on to sing Bertriardo as well, finding it fascinating to play both comic and heroic parts in the same opera.

Thompson said he believes the best way to deal with a countertenor is to treat it like any other operatic voice.

"There are no tricks involved," he said. "You need to stay healthy and flexible. I felt much more precarious as a tenor than I do in this

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Meditate with Mallika Chopra

Mallika Chopra, the daughter of author Deepak Chopra and founder of a motivational website,, will be in Union Square on Saturday helping host a group meditation session. The event runs from 12:30 to 2 p.m.

How do you feel about participating in this Saturday’s event?
I’m superexcited. I grew up meditating. I teach meditation and I really feel strongly about the power that it has. It keeps you centered, balanced and peaceful. So I think doing public meditation in the midst of a wonderful city like San Francisco is going to be really fun.

How did the opportunity to participate in this event come about? I have a company, it’s called, and basically you can think of it like Twitter with a purpose. People state their intents and support each other.

What is all about? Intent is a few years old, and it’s really a small organic company that has grown bigger and bigger. We talk about the power of stating your intents and creating the reality that you want for your life. But what’s even cooler is the community supports each other in achieving their intents.

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Voters angry, voters SMASH!

Here's a pretty startling poll result that I'd be very worried about if I were a congressional incumbent and doubly worried if I were a Democratic incumbent:

Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry.

Only ten percent of voters say they are "not angry at all" towards the federal government.

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Yellow fever mosquito detected in California

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A mosquito capable of carrying deadly yellow fever, dengue and other diseases has been detected in California as vector control agents scramble to control its spread.

The bugs first were detected in the Central Valley communities of Madera and Clovis in June, and were detected again this week in the city of Fresno and in San Mateo County in the Bay Area in August.

They bite during the day, prefer people to animals, and need only a teaspoon of water — less than in a saucer under a houseplant — to lay eggs to reproduce.

"If it gets away it will change the way we live in California. You may not be able to sit on your patio and enjoy a cup of coffee during the day without getting bit," said Tim Phillips of the Fresno Mosquito and Vector Control District.

So far none of the mosquitoes trapped within a 2-square-mile infected area of Clovis have carried diseases. But officials warn that if the mosquito called Aedes aegypti bites someone infected with dengue, problems could arise as they have across southern Florida, where dozens of residents have been infected.

The mosquito also has been detected in Texas and Arizona. Dengue is a virus that can cause headache and body pains and a rash similar to measles. Extreme cases can be deadly. Yellow fever is a virus that causes severe flu-like symptoms and sometimes jaundice. It also can kill.

"The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue," Phillips said.

California has had about 200 cases of dengue fever since 2010, all contracted out of the country, said Dr. Vickie Kramer, chief of the vector borne disease section at the California Department of Public Health. She said the chance of disease transmission is low, but the state has warned county health departments statewide to be on the lookout for potential cases, and has asked local agencies to step up trapping.

"Unlike those mosquitoes that carry West Nile Virus and like to bite birds, these like to bite people and will enter homes very readily," Kramer said. "People need to be aware it's here and the medical community should be aware as well."

The yellow fever mosquito adds to problems in the battle against the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus. So far 275 cases have been reported this year.

Scientists at UC-Davis and at Yale University are performing genetic testing on the tropical yellow fever mosquitoes to determine their country of origin. Preliminary results show they could be from Central America.

The dark mosquitoes with white markings and banded legs prefer to live near and feed on humans. They lay eggs in small containers just above the waterline. Even after the eggs dry out they can hatch when the container is refilled.

Health officials think this outbreak could have originated from eggs on containers imported into the country.

The Fresno detection came after a resident saw a vector control display last week at the county fair and reported daytime attacks. Likewise in Clovis a resident complained about unusually aggressive mosquitoes.

The mosquitoes have been trapped at around 100 sites in Clovis, where vector control agents are going door-to-door warning residents to empty all standing water. Officials working along with the California Department of Public Health are spraying the insecticide promethean in and around thousands of infested homes.

"It's very difficult to control because of its biology," said Steve Mulligan, who is working on the Clovis outbreak. "They like humans and will come inside the house. We're trying hard to eliminate it."

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When the Quest for Beauty Becomes Dangerous

Sometimes We Overdo Things To Make Us Beautiful

How many beauty and personal care products do you use everyday? Quite a lot, probably and that is not surprising. However, you’ll have to be very careful about these products. Why so? You may be exposing yourself to heavy metals, dangerous chemicals, bacteria, and other harmful ingredients every time you apply your favorite beauty and personal care products. It has been found out by the FDA that many make-up, skin creams, and hair styling products are laden with these dangerous ingredients.

Mercury in Skin Care Products?

You’ll have to be careful in choosing beauty products these days as many of them can contain mercury. Exposure to mercury can result to serious health consequences. Mercury can damage your kidneys, as well as the nervous system. Pregnant women and mothers should be extra vigilant in making sure that their skin care and other beauty products or personal care products are free from mercury as mercury can interfere with the brain development of both unborn children and very young kids.

If someone in your household is using a skin care product with mercury in its ingredients, you can get affected as well. Anyone, most especially children can get mercury into their bodies from simply breathing in mercury vapors. Young children and infants are highly at risk of ingesting mercury when their parents use a skin care product with mercury as they often would touch their parents skin and are fond of putting their hands and fingers in their mouth.

Here are symptoms of mercury poisoning to watch out for:

  • Tremors
  • Memory problems
  • Irritability
  • Changes in hearing or vision

Avoid any skin care product with mercury listed in its ingredients. Mercury can also be listed as “calomel”, “mercurous chloride”, “mercuric” or “mercurio”. If you see any product without a list of its ingredients in the label, it is best to avoid this product. Read more about mercury poisoning linked in skin care products from this post from the FDA.

Lead in Your Favorite Lipstick Shade

Lead in lipstick used to be an urban legend. But after the FDA tested hundreds of lipsticks, we found out that this is no urband legend at all. It is surprising to learn that two consecutive FDA investigations found lead in all the lipsticks they tested. And the scarier part is the amounts of lead in these lipsticks are not small at all. Plus even more alarming is the fact that for a beauty product to be considered safe, its lead level should be zero. Although lead is a naturally occurring metal used in many things from construction materials to batteries, lead can have serious health effects. Lead is toxic and when it gets inside the body it acts as poison. This is why it is alarming that lead is now found in many products that allows this toxic substance to enter the body.

One of the best ways to protect yourself and your loved ones from exposure to lead is by avoiding skin care and other beauty products that have tested positive in lead tests.

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On a recent field visit to India’s southern city of Bengaluru, an unassuming looking woman stopped me on a street and asked: “What am I supposed to do with all the children?” Her searching, exhausted eyes had a serene authority that stopped me from walking away.

She was a Catholic sister named Mary Elise who recently played a central role in the rescue of 300 forced labourers – mostly children – in Bihar, northern India.

Three hundred children. That’s more than an average sized primary school.

As I found out later, she had won an award for it.  But she wasn’t interested in talking about her achievements. She wanted to tell me that her organisation couldn’t deal with the numbers. There weren’t enough beds, school places, or counsellors to help them.

There was something hypnotic about this sister’s sense of purpose. As we talked I learned more about the daily difficulties she faces: scraping around for money to keep her work going; punishingly long hours; seemingly limitless bureaucracy; and the perilous risks she had faced including death threats and intimidation.

It was clear to me that I was in the presence of someone who had given everything to this cause. A true abolitionist.

Sister Mary Elise walks in a long a noble tradition of abolitionist sisters. Some have even paid for their commitment with their lives. On 21 February 2004 someone broke into the house of sister Doraci Erdinger in northern Mozambique, attacked her viciously and indiscriminately with a hammer, and strangled her.

Sister Doraci had dedicated her life to fighting organ trafficking, loudly and courageously denouncing local gangs which had been abducting and mutilating children to supply genitals and other body parts for ritual ‘Muti’ medicine.

There are many others. In 2013, sister Marie Emmanuel Helesbeux was murdered after 42 years of charity work in Madagascar. Sisters Lucia Pulici, Olga Raschietti, and Bernadetta Boggian were murdered in Burundi in 2017. Sisters Anselm, Margherit, Reginette and sister Judith were murdered in Yemen in 2016, to name just a few. Some died working against modern-day slavery. All died serving vulnerable communities.

This list barely scratches the surface, and comes nowhere close to capturing the global contribution of sisters to human rights and development. Of course, most aren’t killed. But nearly all spend decades quietly serving those in need.

Here’s the strange thing. The work of these courageous sisters is still viewed with suspicion in the development community. It’s the same for all faith-based charity work. There is a stubborn assumption that people of faith will only serve people of the same religion. Or that they simply won’t be able to offer help without trying to convert or proselytise.

Anyone who has seen the frontline effort of sisters knows this to be plain wrong. Yet still so many struggle to look beyond their faith to their extraordinary work.

It’s a major blindspot. More than 80 percent of the world is religious, so it follows that faith communities could be powerful cultural forces for good. More and more reports have been published demonstrating the critical role of religion in international development.

But there’s no real evidence that the policy community is listening. In the overwhelmingly non-religious worlds of the UN and government aid departments, there is still far too much ignorance of religion. And this leads to an inherent bias against it. Faith-based charities are at the back of the queue when grants are being handed out. Some bodies even exclude faith-based work as a matter of policy.

The effect is that the largest frontline forces in the world are far from realising their potential, and rarely given a platform.

The Arise Foundation isn’t a faith-based charity, but we see the contribution of these sisters and others like them for what it is: potentially game-changing. Just on its own, the global network of sisters working against slavery spans 80 countries.

These are workforces of thousands of activists, embedded in local, hard-to-reach communities. Workforces offering life-saving services and loving accompaniment. Workforces whose commitment is vocational and lifelong; and willing to give everything, like sister Doraci and sister Mary-Elise.

Working with them is an absolute no-brainer. If we are serious about ending slavery, we need to get serious about faith.

This piece, written by Arise’s Director Luke de Pulford, was published on Thomson Reuters Foundation News.

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Help improve the ACF’s brand – take part in a quick online survey

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Are you an ACF adult volunteer, cadet or parent of a cadet?

The ACF national marketing and communications team is reviewing the Army Cadet Force brand messaging. The goal of the project is to differentiate the Army Cadets from its competitors, help to attract more top quality volunteers and cement the ACF’s reputation as a leading youth organisation.

Adult volunteers, cadets and parents of cadets are invited to provide their input to help to identify the right messages for the ACF.

Please follow the link to complete a short online questionnaire


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Arranmore Ferry App

We're very excited to announce our new app - it's available now on iOS, Android and Amazon's FireOS. Search for "Arranmore Ferry" on Apple's App Store, Google Play or Amazon and download the app now. Let us now what you think and help us spread the word too!
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Get all the latest times right on your phone!

  • Any time in blue will be a ferry departing Arranmore.
  • Orange times will always be ferries departing Burtonport.
  • All times are updated live by the Fast Ferry team, including extras and cancellations.
  • Works online and offline (latest update will need an internet connection).

All timetables available in Gaeilge and English

  • The whole app has been designed to work in Gaeilge and English.
  • You can view all of the ferry timetables from throughout the year.
  • Or you can view only the month you're going to Arranmore.
  • If you get stuck, you can call or email us right from the app!

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  • Doesn't matter where in the world you are, you'll always know when the next ferry is.
  • You can use the app to check the times for the day you're travelling.
  • This will always include the latest timetables from the Fast Ferry team.
  • You can even see the local time in Arranmore.

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  • Just download, choose your settings and you're off.
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