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sentences. Jot down the ideas for guest posts. When I find an interesting topic, I mark the section with letter A and I draw a circle around the letter. This reminds me, that I should take action on the concept some way (for instance by writing a guest post about it). 3. Extract key concepts, combine them. Make a list of the key concepts of a book while reading it. And don't stop there, find ways to connect the concepts together. Some of the key concepts in that book were habit loops and keystone habits. While you can learn more about the habit loops from Steve's post, the keystone habit is an important habit, which can reflect changes to other parts of one's life too (for example, when you lose weight, you also decide to start exercising, become an early riser, become more social, etc. ...) I just took these two concepts and wrote a guest post about it . After doing that, I learned them on much a deeper level than just by reading about them. 4. Outline, write and submit your post. Now that you have extracted the concepts, write the post. I'm using Danny's method to do this, but you can naturally follow your own system if you want to. After editing and proofreading the post, find a suitable blog and submit the post there. Make sure that you have a compelling bio box at the end, so that people will get back to your blog or | OP | OP AV | 3,154,222 |
Making better GoPro videos (sharper, better colors etc..) Hey, I bought new GoPro HD hero 2 camera three weeks ago. I was surprised how "dead" all the colors are in untreated video. I'm not very good in movie editing but ready to learn. I have been thinking how it is even possible to make gopro videos look like this: The HD HERO2: 2x as Powerful in Every Way - YouTube I'm trying to search some guides how to make better videos but I haven't got any good answers. Any one know how to make gopro videos sharper? I know color correction is all about trying it and I have found some really good tutorials. Here is my first try color correction: mittiiasd - YouTube (Using sony vegas pro 11, rendering 'internet HD 720p' camera settings: 720p @ 60fps) As you have posted in this section I presume you have Sony Vegas. Professionally colour grading is a separate craft to editing but at our level we have to do both. I think you did a reasonable job with your video. I do think you crushed the blacks a bit for my taste. This is an important point, not my taste but the fact that colour grading is often down to personal preference. There are ways to use colour grading to help with the narrative of a video. Cold colours would be used for one mood and warm colours for another. It's even become popular to have very desaturated colours. I think | ID | ID DF | 3,143,680 |
of carbon entering the atmosphere combines with oxygen to form nearly four pounds of carbon dioxide, America's contribution to greenhouse gas build-up is even more striking. Taking a shower each morning produces 550 pounds of CO2 in a year. Using a computer 40 hours a week produces 600 pounds of CO2. Lighting an average house for a year emits 2,000 pounds. Lighting an large office building not surprisingly produces much more, 2.5 million pounds of CO2. And about one third of all American greenhouse emissions come from automobiles. JONATHAN G. KOOMEY: People drive, on average, about 12,000 miles per year, and a typical new car gets roughly 28 miles per gallon. That means that you will use about 430 gallons per year. And so over the course of a year, the person driving this new car will emit roughly 2,200 pounds of carbon per year. That's roughly the weight of the car itself. Now, if you have an SUV, which only gets 14 miles per gallon, you're emitting 4,400 pounds per year, essentially the same as having two cars on the road instead of one. NARRATOR: Apart from the energy we use to live, enormous amounts of power are required to manufacture all the things we buy. Grede Foundries in Minnesota needs as much electricity as a small town. And it needs this power on demand. WILLIAM NESTEL, Grede Foundries: Grede makes all steel and iron parts. We make the rear end for the Dodge pickup trucks, and we make | SP | SP IT TA | 233,775 |
cordials and whatnot out of them. That's pretty good. PRUE ADAMS: The Renmark High plot has for four years steadily supplied mostly Cutcherer and Marsdenia. But the program has never been formally opened to the public, until recently. The Quarmbys travelled 500 kilometres to be front and centre and Rotary Australia flagged its rather unique involvement. We in Rotary were looking for a project that we could develop in the - with the Indigenous community's support to try to assist these communities to improve their health and nutrition, lifestyle outcomes, and it was very much an opportunity working with Mike to develop a sustainable program that really fitted all the requirements that Rotary had in mind. PRUE ADAMS: The community service group usually funds programs overseas in less fortunate countries. But, in a strange twist, Rotarians in India and in California have stumped up thousands of dollars to help with expanding the school farm. DAVID ALEXANDER, ROTARY: We've certainly put Renmark and Renmark High School on the map now in Calcutta and in the suburbs of Los Angeles, so we're rather pleased with that. PRUE ADAMS: It's probably important to point out here that the students are not being used as cheap labour. IAN HOWARD: They might pick for 20 minutes or so, so that they get a deep understanding of the plants, how the fruit is actually connected to the plant and what's going on with flowering and that sort of stuff, but we try to steer away as | SP | SP IT | 472,438 |
front wing and tail of this animal probably looked like," Habib said. These predictions about the fossil record could also have interesting side implications for biological systems that are increasingly modeled for understanding engineered systems such as bio-inspired robotics. Hall paid tribute to USC Dornsife's strong focus on an interdisciplinary approach to research, which allowed him and other researchers to develop a close collaboration with The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Hall's co-advisers on the study were Jill McNitt-Grey, professor of biological sciences and biomedical engineering in USC Dornsife, and Luis Chiappe, curator and director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum, who was a co-author of the study. Digital model of the crow-like four-winged dinosaur Microraptor gui showing its glossy black plumage. Model and photograph by David Krentz. "We are excited to be at the forefront of this interdisciplinary approach by pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in a close, working collaboration between a university and a museum," Hall said. "It has enabled us to bring people together from different perspectives. Mike [Habib] and I come from the anatomical and mechanical viewpoints, while Luis [Chiappe] brings an expertise on fossil birds and how they relate to each other. We also had an opportunity to develop an international collaboration by working on some of the Chinese specimens." The SVP annual meeting was well attended by many of the most prestigious publications in the field including Science, New Scientist, The National Geographic, Scientific American and | IN | IN | 3,170,834 |
What I tend to do is study what's coming out and then I'll decide what to see at my local cinema instead. Are there any films recently which have got you excited? I'll tell you one thing, I am not one of those people who bemoan the fact that they don't make films the way they used to. I think that is bullshit. I think that the best films today are as good as, and technically better, than anything made before. I also think that the worst films made today are much crapper than those from years back, and sometimes even worse. An awful lot of money is spent on rather rubbish-y blockbusters aimed at 15 to 18 year-olds. Those are the kinds of films that, even back in the so-called golden age of Hollywood, would simply not have been made because they're such rubbish. Nevertheless, I do firmly believe that the best films are getting better, and that's what keeps me going back to the cinema. I refuse to be stuck back in a nostalgic era of thinking that everything was better in the old days, because it wasn't. What do you think of modern film criticism? Do you read much online? I do read online opinions but I don't take much notice of them simply because I don't know these people. I prefer to follow the critics whose work I'm familiar with, and I know how their minds work because I've read their stuff throughout the years, and | SP | SP IT | 3,027,207 |
formal education. One day when Natalie du Toit was riding home from swim practice on a scooter, she got hit by a car and ended up losing her leg. Determined not to let the injury stop her through commitment she went on and won 4 gold medals at the 2004 Paralympic games. Knowing she could do even more Natalie qualified to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and became the first female amputee swimmer ever to qualify for the Olympics where she placed 16th in a field of 24 in the 10,000m swim. Helen Keller needs no narrative. The following all have dyslexia, Ozzie Osbourne, Charles Schwab, Henry Winkler, Ingvar Kamprad (founder of IKEA). Amazing activist Sojourner Truth was born a slave. Babe Ruth was an orphan. He learned to play baseball growing up in orphanages. Bo Diddley's parents were too poor to care for him. He was adopted. Malcolm X's father died when Malcolm was still a boy. His mom had a breakdown and was institutionalized. He was put in an orphanage. Sarah Reinertsen is an amputee and an Ironman athlete. The list goes on and on just as the circumstances and challenges do. The point is, it isn't the circumstances, it is the attitude that matters. | OP | OP AV OB | 3,211,810 |
up another drink, burboun's hittin' me hard like a freight train, with my back against the wall or on my knees, when worst of your memory gets the best, the best of me Baby, there ain't nothin' like a memory, when its comin' on strong like a hurricane, how could love like that just up and walk away, killin' me baby, its got me pourin' up another drink, burboun's hittin' me hard like a freight train, with my back against the wall or on my knees, when worst of your memory gets the best, the best of me | LY | LY SL | 1,405,769 |
life. ... " ... one of the cops pulled out his gun and fired at us. "I heard a couple of shots; the first one he fired was at the fuel tank, which only just missed otherwise we would've all been blown up. "Then the next one was directly into the middle of the car that struck me in the leg as I was sitting behind the driver in the back seat. ... "" - Related News Green Left: Racism the issue, not youth ttp://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50856 29 Apr 12: "In the early hours of April 22, police officers risked the lives of hundreds in Kings Cross by opening fire on the unarmed occupants of a stolen car, shooting the 14-year-old driver twice and a 17-year-old passenger in the neck. ... Days of racist mainstream media followed while hundreds of people protested throughout the country against government and police racism and economic enslavement of Aboriginal people. Brisbane's Aboriginal community held a rally on April 24 outside Queensland parliament to coincide with rallies in Sydney." By Robert Leech & Jacob Ball 28 Apr 12: "By National Indigenous Times Editor Stephen Hagan Indigenous leaders have called for a full independent inquiry into the conduct of the police officers involved in the shooting of Dempsey Clevens in Brisbane on Easter Sunday. More than 100 people gathered outside Brisbane's Parliament House on Tuesday to voice their anger and frustration at the police action." National Indigenous Times: Community outraged by police brutality of youth 28 Apr 12: | IN | IN IB | 3,308,677 |
D (stop) A(stop) There is a reason for it all. Well, there's the song. Any questions, send to msxp21d@prodigy.com David Killion http://pages.prodigy.com/country The Unofficial Country Music Homepage | LY | LY | 252,571 |
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well there's no use in worry as I told you, life's as easy as pie say tara to your looks, maybe read a few books and then die tax and death and bellyache, such things to savour priceless breath, oh for lucks sake, do me a favour woke up one morning and found for my sins the sun posing round in the sky scraped up my doubts and then made for the bin the trash pulled the sleep from my eye well there's no use in worry as I told you, life's as easy as pie say tara to your looks, maybe read a few books and then die when I awoke, my politeness delayed my thoughts rolling round in the dirt the rose in my button hole warned it would fade laid next to the heart of a flirt well there's no use in worry as I told you, life's as easy as pie say tara to your looks, maybe read a few books and then die god willing I'll come back from this hell that I'm at now where my wealth is measured in bluff bring me down to earth and broken feet be gone bring on the morning arched back and sober brow on a losing streak there's not much call for shepherds in Birmingham the angels leave their waste well wrapped but unhidden (god bless 'em) ey mickey, let me have three grand to one the two dog let the hole in the base of my | LY | LY SL | 276,708 |
with two syllables: /FOR-TAY/. The French word, an adjective meaning "strength" or "strong point," is pronounced with one syllable: /FORT/. British English dictionaries allow both pronunciations in the second instance, and 'FOR-TAY is by far the more common pronunciation here. 22. Halloween -- The word for the holiday Americans celebrate with such enthusiasm on October 31 derives from "Hallowed Evening," meaning "evening that has been made holy." The word "hallow" comes from Old English halig, meaning "holy." Notice the a in the first syllable and say /HAL-O-WEEN/, not /hol-lo-ween/. Agreed. And it is as often spelt 'Hallowe'en' here in Britain. 23. height -- The word ends in a /T/ sound, not a /TH/ sound. Say /HITE/, not /hith/. Again this reflects non-standard dialect (both in America and Britain) rather than error. 24. heinous -- People unfamiliar with the TV show Law and Order: S.V.U. may not know that heinous has two syllables. (The show begins with this sentence: "In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous.") Say /HAY-NUS/, not /heen-i-us/. 'HAY-NUS' is regarded as an error here in Britain. 'HEE-NUS' is normal. 31. library -- Notice where the R comes in the word. Say /LI-BRAR-Y/, not /li-ber-ry/. Much the same problem as with February! 32. medieval -- The word has four syllables. The first E may be pronounced either short [med] or long [meed]. Say /MED-EE-EEVAL/ or /MEE-DEE-EEVAL/, not /meed-eval/. This must be predominantly an American problem. And here in Britain MEEDI- is not an option. | OP | OP AV | 504,110 |
That dilutes their own dollars, esp. since they can't make more! And so on. There are rules for the money supply. Also, Mosler seems not to get the difference between "can in technical principle" and "may do so based on rules." As for no big deal, leave our kids in debt since we can all buy the stuff that's made. -- Heh, REM that money allocates *relative* buying power. And if borrowing is legitimate, the lenders want a cut back (and that is not diluted too much by increase in money supply.) So what happens is redistribution of wealth, as money must be scrounged up to pay lenders (or, we "make more" in Mosler's glib way which dilutes the buying power and will be soon disdained by lenders as a trick.) Treasury banks at the Fed just like everyone else. If you buy a Treasury, you book it as asset, Treasury holds it at liability. In order to repay bonds at maturity, yes Treasury account must have money in it (as per current rules -- if it is allowed to run overdraft like banks then this is not neccessary and it would be trivial change). Of course, when bonds were bought Treasury account was credited by that amount, so repaying bonds is just reversing operation. But Treasury cannot sell bond unless Govt first run deficit. There is no other way private sector can have money to buy them. You can see why it is better to just do away with | IP | IP DS | 266,529 |
to throw the towel in. "I think the MoD has sent it to Turkey because they know people don't want to see her cut in half on a beach somewhere." Ark Royal is the fifth vessel to carry the name of the flagship which saw off the Spanish Armada in 1588. Known as the Mighty Ark, the light aircraft carrier saw action in the Adriatic during the Bosnian War in 1993 before being sent to lead the British fleet during the invasion of Iraq a decade later. Following the Defence and Security Review's decision to scupper the vessel and ground the Navy's Harrier jump jet fleet 18 months ago, the Royal Ark has been awaiting its fate in Portsmouth harbour. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,726,857 |
caught up in the disturbances sweeping London. The Splash festival had passed off without any major problems and and as several thousand revellers began to disperse the atmosphere remained overwhelmingly friendly and calm. But that changed rapidly a few hours later when a couple of hundred young people -- some with masks or scarves, others with hoods pulled down over their faces -- gathered and began pelting the police with stones and bottles. The situation and atmosphere changed very quickly and there were reports from some witnesses that the group had arrived together on buses and in cars, but I can not confirm this. Police appeared unprepared for the clashes and over the next three hours shops along the High Street were smashed and looted. Men, women and teenagers helped themselves to goods and cash from H&M, Vodafone, McDonalds and T-Mobile, while a major fire took hold in Footlocker. People were carrying armfuls of clothes and shoes and passing them to friends in cars, carrying them away balanced precariously on the back of scooters or on foot. Although the police had gathered in a nearby side street they did not intervene for more than an hour. At about 12.30, as it began to rain heavily, the police started to push people back up the High Street. But by that stage the majority of the crowd had made its way to a large branch of Currys half a mile out of the centre of Brixton. Over the next few hours the | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 544,859 |
in the Petraeus adultery scandal a few months ago, when he received an email later traced to Ms. Broadwell, the official familiar with his thinking said. Ms. Broadwell, whose extramarital affair with Mr. Petraeus had ended by then, believed that Ms. Kelley may have been a romantic rival, according to this official. Besides the emails sent directly to Ms. Kelley, she also sent a flurry of emails from a pseudonymous account to senior military officials, denigrating Ms. Kelley, the official said. In the email received by Gen. Allen, Ms. Broadwell -- writing under the pseudonym KelleyPatrol -- described Ms. Kelley as a "seductress" and warned the general about being entangled in a relationship with her . . . Gen. Allen was concerned by that email and forwarded it to Ms. Kelley . . . Comments ttp://wizbangblog.com/ Adjoran We stand far better chances of getting these questions answered if they are posed to Petraeus by Lindsey Graham than if we rely on Chuck Todd's obsequious boot-licking tough questioning of Barack Obama. ttp://boogieforward.us/ K-Bob I know exactly why a top US general had such a torrid correspondence with a Florida "socialite." I strongly suspect that the Hammer is not engaged in idle speculation, no matter how logical. He has sources in DC, especially in the national security apparatus. I suspect he is shrouding actual reporting in the sheer gauze of conjecture. He may even have heard this from someone close to the General himself. EsausMessage As for the unseriousness among our national | OP | OP OB | 31,344 |
undignified and intolerable'. Before the stroke Mr Nicklinson was a 'very active and outgoing man'. He describes having no 'privacy or dignity left' and says that what he objects to is having his right to choose taken away from him. Mr Nicklinson cannot be present for the hearing, but speaking before the proceedings began, his wife Jane, 56, said: 'We are just really happy that the time has come for Tony to get heard in court and we're just hoping for a good outcome.' She acknowledged: 'Whatever happens, there's no happy endings in this one.' Response: Strangers from around the world have contacted Tony Nicklinson with pro-life messages The Nicklinsons' daughter Lauren, 24, said: 'I think for us, because we knew the person that dad was before this, it makes it easier to accept. I know that if me and (sister) Beth were in that position, he'd be fighting for us the same way that we are fighting for him.' Asked about the landmark nature of the outcome of the case, Miss Nicklinson said: 'For us, it's about dad. We appreciate we'll have impacts on other people - hopefully, we're going to give other people in dad's situation their similar rights as well - but for us three, it's about dad.' Her sister Beth, 23, said: 'We always knew he'd feel like this so it didn't come as a shock that this is the point that it's come to.' In a letter to the BBC , written using computer software | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 668,124 |
can't we get a complete game package anymore these days (btw i aint speaking for every game out there but majority) He'd be an idiot if he didn't want to raise his profits. Are all of you so stupid that you don't know about capitalism? Take your heads out of your arses and look around. I'm pretty sure that most here understand capitalism - but, it really doesn't work like that. There are plenty of reasons why a lower-priced title will sell better. A good example is Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Guitar Hero: Metallica. When GH: Metallica was released, they dropped the price of GH: Aerosmith - this price-drop caused the older title to outsell the newer one considerably (I've heard it was a factor of 3:1, but I can't confirm that). At the end of the day, if you can sell a product for 10 to a million people, it's better than selling the same product for 20 to 250,000. I know I'm not the only one that buys most games when there is a considerable price reduction available, even if that means waiting. That's nothing to do with being 'cheap', that's just about value for money - and most games are not value for money. EDIT: Also, if I am to wait to pick up a game at a lower price - surely that makes it more likely that I will pick up a pre-owned copy?...therefore, the publisher gets nothing. +1 310 255 2000 is the phone number | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 647,187 |
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disclosure to you until a long time after that discussion occurred. If you cannot read your own notes, they will be useless to you and to your organization. If you do not take the notes during the disclosure meeting, you should reduce the information obtained and conveyed during the discussion as soon as possible after. The longer you take to write the notes the more hazy your memory will be and the more questions can be raised subsequently as to how accurate the notes are. In other words, your notes may not be worth the paper they are written on if you significantly delay in preparing your notes. In one of the cases I investigated this year, the manager did not take any notes at the time he met with the complainant about her initial concerns. He met with her varying times over the course of a number of months before the complainant decided to proceed with a formal written complaint. It was only just prior to the complainant filing her formal complaint that the manager took the time to write out the history of his conversations with the complainant. But, this was months down the road, leaving me to question just how accurate those notes were and how serious he took the complainant's concerns in the first place. Remember, you want these notes to aid in your ability to defend actions your organization took in response to an internal human rights/personal harassment complaint. The more detailed and contemporaneous those | IN | IN IB | 3,343,228 |
written by sufferers of depression (many who've made it out of the dark) and also those who live along side them. I'm finding it to be a relief, much like this forum. I'm not alone. And it also helps to explain the effects of depression on the mind. I'm hearing it from others, not just from my husband. After all there are only so many "I don't know how I feel" or "I don't know if I love you" that I can take. Once again, I wish I had a way of giving you an email address. I would love to be in contact with others but without the forum. I wish I could help. You are not alone. We are all here - all of us in our own little worlds of pain, all at differing levels, and with differing points of view. Thanks A Girl... have decided to stay for now. He's started really opening up to me today about his drug use and how he feels - a first for him and I think it freaked him out a bit, letting someone else into his dark little world... I'm sure the difficult times are not over, but as you say, so long as the lines of communication stay open and things are not frightening, unbearable and sapping the life out of me, then it is all worth it. Strangely, living with him has taught me to be a stronger and better person. I've learned a lot about | ID | ID DF | 59,608 |
my roommate in the Miss USA pageant. She was living in Memphis. And she and I went to the theater and were introduced to him properly. Larry King: Just hello, this is... Linda Thompson: Hello, this is Miss Tennessee. Hello, honey, where have you been all my life. Larry King: Did he come on like that? Linda Thompson: Oh, yes. Well, in the beginning, you know, he was a little smitten, you know, physically. Larry King: Was he married at the time? Linda Thompson: No, he wasn't. I met him July 6, 1972 and he had been separated since January. But I didn't know. It hadn't been released to the press. So I was pretty standoffish, because, you know, I was a good Southern Baptist girl. Larry King: I know, but would you consider that a first date? Linda Thompson: I would consider that our first date, yes, because that's when we... Larry King: You sat next to him? Linda Thompson: He sat next to me. He came and sat next to me during -- he just got up during the film and came back and plopped down next to me. Linda Thompson and Elvis Presley. Larry King: You were sitting next to Miss Rhode Island? Linda Thompson: I was. Larry King: What did she say to you? Linda Thompson: She bruised my ribs. She kept poking me in the ribs with her elbow. And Elvis pulled the old yawn and stretched the arm over the back of the seat | SP | SP IT | 238,964 |
amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, because new trees are not allowed to replace those removed. The most important way in which we add to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is by burning fossil fuels . Another important contributor is the manufacture of cement . Climate scientists say that overall we have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by around 35 per cent since the beginning of the Industrial Age. The Carbon/CO2 on earth is part of a natural cycle which balances the CO2 in the atmosphere with the carbon locked in the rocks as limestone, and hydrocarbons. In general over the totality of geologic time the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has fallen as a result of biological processes. In recent times human activity has been responsible for releasing a large quantity of fossil Carbon (oil, gas and coal) as CO2 into the atmosphere. While much of this has been buffered by the CO2 dissolving in the oceans, there has also been a marked increase in CO2 percentage in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. The burning of fossil fuels is a primary source of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. Motor vehicle exhaust and the burning of fuel oil in ships and factories or power plants puts lots of CO 2 into the air. We also burn a lot of coal worldwide, and this also ups CO 2 output by people. Additionally, the burning of wild lands (either by accident or on | ID | ID QA | 578,296 |
prevent looting? NEW YORK, NY: The Barclay's Center at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Sports are important to communities. They can be symbolic and inspirational, and bring some sense of normalcy during a disruptive time. New Yorkers of several generations know this well -- at least those who recall the weightiness of Mike Piazza's game-winning homerun for the New York Mets at Shea Stadium ten days after the September 11 attacks. When athletes or coaches suffer the loss of a family member, they often suit-up for the next game because they feel it is the best way to honor the deceased. When conditions make travel to an event impossible, such as the much-anticipated opening night NBA game between the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets at the new Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, the event gets postponed. When a game is going to be played in a large stadium -- like the upcoming NFL game between the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers at the Meadowlands -- in the middle of gas shortages, traffic jams, sparse train service, and neighborhoods drowning in fetid sewage, then it probably ought to be rescheduled. Maybe a case can still be made for playing football. After all, people conserving gas by not driving to the game won't snarl the roadways; they might also still be able to watch it on TV. And aside from the possibility of the | IP | IP ED | 451,534 |
drive up food prices, but the EPA says the "ethanol mandate" isn't at fault. The week after Election Day is full of surprises, with news of scandal enveloping top Gens. David Petraeus and John Allen. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney reflects on his loss and what he calls Obama's "gifts" to the electorate, while the president pledges not to overreach in his second term. Privacy groups and tech companies have been pushing for more protection for emails and other online personal information for years. They hope the FBI investigation into Gen. David Petreaus' email correspondence with Paula Broadwell will give their efforts new momentum. When you give to WAMU, your tax-deductible membership gift helps make possible award-winning programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, The Diane Rehm Show, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, and other favorites. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 169,010 |
been able to sleep, in fact the reason i got myself back outa bed at 2am was that, having been dealing with the effects of ten years of rape as a child i am now having some new and interesting (please read the tongue in cheek!) memories. Yeehah. On the very positive side, i was feeling a stirring of some wicked powerful anger and visioning brilliant ways to channel it. Interesting then to come across this phenomenon in this moment. I am disheartened to see that the fb response to an upcoming walk in my town already has more interest than our last Reclaim the Night (and it's 6 months away!). I'm disheartened cos there's a sick sick feeling in my gut telling me this event contributes to rather than eases the violations I've spent my life dealing with. As other writers have pointed out, it's so tricky to navigate for systemic change when public discourse is so swayed by little stings rather than nuance. I can see the "attraction" of this action but the thing is, I can see it as being attractive precisely in line with a deepening backlash against feminism and a further weakening of critical insight.... Hmmm, the idea of engaging in solidarity about the blaming (and pathologising and silencing and ...) of survivors resonates very strongly with me but the violated child and the sharp-eyed womn in me just can't get past my intuitive sense that slutwalk -- even the idea of it -- reinforces | IP | IP | 1,401,966 |
mission or the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals; it presumably dragged into consciousness an image of things said and done yesterday in the office, the highly significant fact that General Motors had dropped three points, a conference arranged for ten o'clock in the morning, a promise to play nine holes at four-thirty in the afternoon, and other historical events of similar import. Mr. Everyman knows more history than this, but at the moment of awakening this is sufficient: memory of things said and done, history functioning, at seven-thirty in the morning, in its very lowest terms, has effectively oriented Mr. Everyman in his little world of endeavor. Yet not quite effectively after all perhaps; for unaided memory is notoriously fickle; and it may happen that Mr. Everyman, as he drinks his coffee, is uneasily aware of something said or done that he fails now to recall. A common enough occurrence, as we all know to our sorrow -- this remembering, not the historical event, but only that there was an event which we ought to remember but can not. This is Mr. Everyman's difficulty, a bit of history lies dead and inert in the sources, unable to do any work for Mr. Everyman because his memory refuses to bring it alive in consciousness. What then does Mr. Everyman do? He does what any historian would do: he does a bit of historical research in the sources. From his little Private Record Office (I mean his vest pocket) he takes a book in MS., | SP | SP FS | 208,404 |
Antarctic Warming? Part 2 -- A letter from a meteorologist on the ground in Antarctica UPDATE 1/25: Mr. Hays has has provided a follow up letter, posted at the bottom of this article. -- Anthony This letter below, reprinted with permission, is from Ross Hays. Ross was a CNN meteorologist for many years. He works for NASA at the Columbia Balloon Facility . Ross Hays with Antarctica's Mount Erebus volcano in the background In that capacity he has spent much time in Antarctica. He obviously can't speak for his agency but can have an opinion which he shared with several people. It is printed below in entirety, exactly as he sent it to Eric Steig today, the lead author of the University of Washington paper highlighted in a press release yesterday that claims there is a warming in Antarctica. There were some of the pronouncements made in the media, particularly to the Associated Press by Dr. Michael Mann , that marry that paper with "global warming", even though no such claim was made in the press release about the scientific paper itself. I agree with Ross Hays. In my opinion, this press release and subsequent media interviews were done for media attention. The timing is suspicious, with the upcoming Al Gore's address to congress , he can now say: "We've now learned Antarctica is warming". A Google News search shows about 530 articles on the UW press release in various media. I ask my readers that share this opinion to | OP | OP OB | 3,220,052 |
Please note: the information on this website is of a general nature only and is not intended as personal or professional advice. Search this site: Teach your children at home! Welcome to the world of home education - learning without school! We officially began educating our three children in 1985, when our eldest was five years. In truth, we had helped them learn what they need to learn as they grew and explored and discovered this amazing world since the moment they were each born! I am a passionate advocate of allowing children to learn unhindered by unnecessary stress and competition, meeting developmental needs in ways that suit their individual learning styles and preferences. We are a homeschooling, unschooling and natural learning family! There are hundreds of articles on this site to help you build confidence as a home educating family. "Thank you... The information you supply is real and generous - fantastic reading. Your honesty is rare. Most books do not really explain 'how' as well as you do." Tracy Subscribe to Beverley's quarterly journal where she shares her 25 years insights and experiences as a home educator. Curriculum tips and links to online resources and articles in each issue! $18 printed (1 year) $12 ezine (1 year) Human intelligence is based, to a large extent, on our ability to make abstractions. Language is an abstraction. Math is an abstraction. Science is an abstraction. Philosophy is an abstraction. Obviously, the ability to make and understand abstractions is important. But | IP | IP DS | 527,460 |
be Doughty(remember him?) I wonder if Nashville is hoping on Weber getting signed to an offer sheet with 4 first round pick compensation. It just makes a lot of sense. They usually develop and trade off a lot of their players to further restock with young and developing talent. With the whole organization including Trotz praising and talking about how every offer will be matched on Weber, maybe it's telling teams to overpay? Personally, I'd have four first round picks rather then Weber. Chances are at least one turns out to be a great player, and the others could be used as trading chips. I wonder if Nashville is hoping on Weber getting signed to an offer sheet with 4 first round pick compensation. It just makes a lot of sense. They usually develop and trade off a lot of their players to further restock with young and developing talent. With the whole organization including Trotz praising and talking about how every offer will be matched on Weber, maybe it's telling teams to overpay? Personally, I'd have four first round picks rather then Weber. Chances are at least one turns out to be a great player, and the others could be used as trading chips. What if Weber signs an offer sheet from someone like Detroit or Pittsburgh? Four first rounders in the high twenties who probably won't be in the NHL for another 2-3 years and won't make an impact for 5-7 years for the best player who's suited | ID | ID DF | 521,956 |
all of life is like that race With ups and downs and all, And all you have to do to win, Is rise each time you fall. Click to get Posts as Emails Subscribe for News Reader Mental Health Warning It is an agreed policy among 'victims turned starfighters' that anybody who attacks either this site or its contributors, will be blocked without any warning. Slander is not tolerated. Anonymity is only acceptable by victims who are afraid of yet more victimisation. This site is meant to help victims and train rescuers such that they can become effective McKenzie Friends for Litigants in Person . | LY | LY PO | 3,705,404 |
analyze potential deal holistically and objectively. The last step of the business broker involvement is the assistance with the due diligence and exchange of relevant information after the conditional offer has been signed by both parties. Efficient information exchange is essential in assuring that deal momentum is maintained and parties are given the necessary next steps in relevant and coherent order. | IN | IN IB | 3,749,235 |
to pass on family history,even the bad sad stuff,not that Ive got any really to tell.I wish my children and grandchildren to know where the family came from, what the people did,where they lived,did they go to war.I do so wish I had asked more questions and written it down,for the next genaration. I have been interested in my family's history but only started to do it seriously recently. However for some reason I have been seen as the family archivist and when elderly members have died who had no children (and there were three or four) any papers, photos etc they had got passed to me and I have been amazed by what I have received, the apprenticeship document my grandfather signed in 1899 and the document my Great Grandfather received in 1880 when he became a Freeman of the City of London. He was a labourer with the Corporation and anyone who worked for them then at any level was expected to become a Freeman. I am scanning everything I have received onto the computer and I am building an online archive so that every member of the family can receive copies of everything, they are interested, even though the actual documents can only go to one of them. When I collected the census information I was reduced to tears to discover the poverty in which my maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather, both Irish, grew up in. Both made their way up in the world and hid the | ID | ID DF | 518,039 |
are not a current student. I believe that you are right in stating that the dining plan is one of the most unique -- and in some cases -- inviting aspects of the Middlebury experience. One of the things about Middlebury that sets it apart from other elite institutions is the structures set in place to ensure that economic divides among students are not emphasized through on campus activities. Two prime examples of this are the dining and residential life plans. Unlike most other colleges, Middlebury does not force students to chose where they will live or how they will eat based on the money that they have. Although the outright cost of a Middlebury education is certainly prohibitive for some, once on campus, all students have the freedom to eat together, live in suites together, and participate in activities together without regard to finances. It's hard to imagine a Middlebury where students are cooking ramen noodles in the dorms to try to save money or skipping meals because they skimped and signed up for the cheapest meal plan. The dining hall set up is THE reason that I chose Middlebury over other, fairly similar schools. All three of the reasons that you quoted to me are the reasons that I like it, but the primary one is that I am able to go as many times as I want for as much as I want. In my opinion is hugely important in maintaining not only my stomach but a | OP | OP OB | 516,622 |
second, whether it's feasible. This will involve searching the legal title to your property and examining the District Plan that applies to your property (see below). The subdivision process is lengthy and involved. However, the following is an overview of the likely steps: Complying with the District Plan An important part of determining whether subdivision is permitted in your case is examining the relevant District Plan. This will reveal: the zoning that applies to your land whether subdividing is a "prohibited activity" under the plan, and if not, then what type of activity it is (for the different categories of activity, see How to obtain a resource consent) what conditions apply what discretion the council can exercise specific restrictions on subdividing It's also likely that the District Plan will specify the minimum areas for the new subdivided lots. Often it will be necessary for you to consult a surveyor or planner on this question. Is subdividing worth the time and cost? If you're considering subdividing, you should give particular attention to the time and cost involved. It's almost certain that the standard process will be lengthened by delays caused by, for example: any hearing that is necessary the need to complete specific work so that you comply with conditions that are imposed the need to obtain consents from the council the preparation of legal documents Subdividing is also a costly exercise. The costs you will be likely to incur include fees charged by consultants, surveyors, the local council, LINZ, engineers | HI | HI HT | 1,757,148 |
for those of us in the territories who take seriously the importance of the rule of law - which, by the way, was the subject of a recent high level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. Implementation of the Decolonization Mandate CAR Does the U.N. review implementation? CGC Well, there have been a number of U.N. reports over the years on implementation of the decolonization mandate. These are essentially compilation documents derived from replies of some member states and some U.N. agencies on their respective activities in advancing the decolonization process. But these reports reflect the activities of only the countries or agencies which make such information available, while most do not report. So there is an incomplete picture. CAR How can this be improved? CGC Well, I have suggested in the past that a systematic examination of the specific actions called for in the resolutions is the best approach in determining the extent to which these actions have been carried out. Such mandates as the development of political education programs for the people of the territories, dissemination of information to the territories, mechanisms for the control of natural resources, among a number of areas would be assessed in a comprehensive fashion. CAR We understand that you conducted analyses of the implementation of the decolonization mandate on behalf of previous chairs of the Decolonization Committee. What became of these analyses? CGC First of all, the intention of these analyses was to conduct a systematic assessment of implementation of the specific | SP | SP IT | 3,197,685 |
and different religions. You may belong to different languages. But when it comes to certain causes, as communities, we need to come together. We must learn social responsibility and collective responsibility. I think we have been all to ourselves a lot. We do a lot of bhangra together, we may do garba together, we may do -- celebrate Diwali together, but when it comes to citizen responsibility, we also need to come together on certain issues. And anti-corruption, we must have a reason to come together, Indians in Australia together, Indians in America together. Even if there are lots of associations, when it comes to anti-corruption, they must come together. Non-resident Indians are already contributing to the strength of the Indian economy by repatriating a lot of valuable dollars, which pays all our petrol bills. I think it would add more for infrastructure. You started Navjyoti in 1986 and treating over 12,000 drug addicts. What has been your experience and how is the foundation going on now? I have two foundations: Navjyoti India Foundation and India Vision Foundation. Navjyoti India Foundation is today focusing on working with absolute underprivileged. It's been working for the underprivileged in slum schoolchildren education program, religious and woman empowerment, etc. Now, we are into a new program, Navjyoti, where people will be linked with business schools for the poor. It's like business schools for the underserved. You only hear of business school for the rich. Now, you will hear of this Navjyoti Business School for | SP | SP IT | 148,802 |
not a native English word but rather a French loanword used in a specialized and exclusively culinary sense? "Fillet" (with the double L) means something rather different, being that it's a carpentry term! People are pronouncing it correctly! And I will honestly take an attempt to pronounce a loanword similarly to the original, over butchery like "kamakazzi" (from the Japanese "kamikaze", which is pronounced more like ka-mi-ka-zeh for the record). Don't even get me started on the horrid action-movie-originated mistranslation/mispronunciation "mano-ay-mano, man-to-man", what is that I don't even. "If I'm having a bad day, or a good day -- make that any kind of day -- I do not want people in shops whom I've never met to swaddle me with their sticky, earnest, exaggerated niceness. In America, actual humans say things like "Ma'am, you have been an awesome customer today," just because I bought a box of tampons from their store." That "sticky, earnest, exaggerated niceness"? That there is FORCED on us. Retail workers in America -- especially in major chains! -- have a horrifying rate of "job stress" and depression, in part due to crappy wages, sure, but really because we get crappy wages and then have to fake cheer our way through the day, no matter how we actually feel, and no matter how poorly we're treated by jerk customers or unpleasant management, etc. Oh, and we have set scripts we have to follow! At my work, I'm literally supposed to react cheerfully and super-helpfully to EVERY | OP | OP OB | 660,523 |
to where we were before on that. There apparently was no tune printed for "Fanny" in NEGRO SINGER'S. And I would add that as near as I can tell, there were no tunes notated for any of the 230 or so songs in Frank's book. Apparently the whalemen didn't write down music. Frank does provide tunes for each of the songs, but they come from other sources, such as later chanty collections, printed music, etc. Interestingly enough, the tune he provides for "Fanny" is "Fine Time O' Day" from Trelawney Wentworth's THE WEST INDIA SKETCH BOOK! Smith only copied the title of "Fanny" in his journal, not the lyrics or the tune. I agree with you that this leaves open the question of whether he actually ever sang the song, or whether the song was ever actually used as a hoisting chanty on board a whaler. Once again, we don't have the info on any of this. Frank says, "Most of Fred Smith's known song and tune collecting was been (sic) done during his first four voyages, when he was a cabin boy, seaman, boatsteerer, and deck officer in three whaleships and before he ascended to the responsibilities and distractions of marriage and command. He kept journals of all four voyages in a single volume, which also became his reference library and study guide in matters of seamanship and celestial navigation." (p. 358). He goes on to say, "It would undoubtedly delight folklorists and performers today had Fred Smith or | ID | ID DF | 3,037,219 |
I told her I'd never done it before, but would be thrilled to. After a week with Frontpage, I had designed my first website. I'd also strung together Blogger.com blogs as my first portfolio. Over the years, I've taught myself with a huge thanks to the internet. Do You Think There is a Lack of Female Web Designers? Yes. Not that there aren't many - there are. But they're probably not doing the right things to put their work out there. The men, as always are better at taking chances / risks when it comes to stuff like career & work. Have You Ever Experienced Any Negativity or Sexism Being in This Industry? Oh yes. From a very overt married-with-kids venture capitalist making his move to a client who told me I'd get the job only if I attended a 'meeting' with him at a hotel for two days and even clients who routinely look to the door expecting a senior 'man' to follow right in my footsteps. On the flip side, it's awesome working with other women and I've had great male clients too. Do You Think Female Designers Have Advantages Over Their Male Counterparts? Sure, if they choose to be slutty, they'd land every damn job. But that would be risky. See my reply above. Otherwise I think there are loads of men designers who are uber talented. Male/female shouldn't be the criteria to decide who produces better designers. Women tend to mull more than required - think | SP | SP IT | 3,259,252 |
Here are the resources you need for this Sunday. Please feel free to choose what is suitable for your congregation's needs. You will notice that the orders of service are available in different formats: choose the "pdf" format if you want something that is ready to print and photocopy, the "doc" or "rtf" format if you wish to change the formatting yourself or the "ppt" format if you use PowerPoint. Sermons: Lay-readers please note: the linked sermons have not been edited for general use. As part of your preparations, keep in mind that they have been written for specific people in a specific context, and for this reason the issues they address or the examples they use may not be entirely suitable for people in your congregation. If you feel this is the case, you may need to make minor adjustments or find another sermon Based on Daniel reading: edited for lay reading sermon -- daniel 7 9-10 13-14 -- year b -- last of church year Based on John 5 reading: Pr Heath Pukallus Based on second reading: Pr Roger Atze Prayer of the Day (Collect) : Choose one of the following Traditional Lord God, heavenly Father: Grant that your dear Son, Jesus Christ, may come quickly and take to himself his bride, the church, so that together with all the redeemed we may enter into your glory; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and | LY | LY PR | 3,738,081 |
you can put at least one of your prejudices on a shelf and actually read the article before making I'll-informed comments? Erick's uncle, Erick says: 09:21am | 14/09/11 B, lotsa critters quack like ducks that ain't ducks. In fact, humans have been known to quack like ducks on occasion. Truth be told, even I've quacked like a duck a couple of times. I'll leave it to others to judge if I'm a duck or not, but I'm quite certain that if a human quacks like a duck, that human cannot automatically be said to be a duck. In answer to your question; "how dumb do you think Australian's are???", I'd say some of them are very dumb. Very dumb indeed. Must waddle off, now. Quack, quack. Hang on, what if I really AM Erick? says: 09:38am | 14/09/11 B says "How dumb do you think Australian's (sic) are?" Well B, based on your grammar, pretty bloody stupid actually. And based on the comments on Mal's fairly sensible story, really, really dumb. I mean, you read The Punch and it's like half the nation woke up and took dumb pills. At least this one's on carbon pricing, so it's not like I have to wade through the usual racist sewage that passes for commentary on any asylum seeker story. Rose says: 09:42am | 14/09/11 Actually jf, my husband already passes on the costs of speeding fines or any other expense to his customers. As a contractor he just builds it into | OP | OP OB | 124,816 |
you controlling them. Some contend that accepting this slavery is itself happiness. But how can a slave be free? Freedom involves independence. That 'any dependence, however glorified it sounds, is bondage' is the true teaching of Vedanta. Freedom or liberation or mokSha cannot be gaining something, or going somewhere since anything that one gains, one can also loose and any thing that has beginning has an end. The state of limitless alone is freedom from all limitations; it should be space-wise limitation (non-finite), time-wise limitation (eternal) and object-wise limitation (unqualifiable or undefinable). Let us examine how Vedanta approaches this problem. After examining all human pursuits throughout their lives, all over the world, at all times, it concluded that they all originated from three fundamentally erroneous conclusions. A human being is not only a conscious entity but a self-conscious entity. He is not only conscious of the world, consisting of things and beings around him, but also conscious of himself too. Because he is self-conscious, he examines himself and comes to a conclusion about himself or makes judgments about himself. He makes three fundamental conclusions about himself: 1. He is mortal or his life span is limited, 2. He is unhappy and 3. He is ignorant. He is not comfortable with these conclusions since he has an inherent longing to be an eternal, happy and knowledgeable being. All his pursuits in life are essentially trying to establish himself as eternal, happy and knowledgeable. Fear of death is fundamental for all human | IN | IN RA | 683,740 |
was not sufficient for me to get cash from the bank, fill out forms, provide identification, and pay a $111 fee (to send $1,200 U.S). I needed to also return a phone call to Western Union, wait a half hour, then identify the transaction number, my driver license number, and the recipient's name. Then, incredibly, I had to identify HOW the recipient would SPEND ALL the funds, HOW I am SURE of the... Western Union has the worst system I've ever encountered, you actually went in to my credit report for the transfer of a lousy $200, I was asked questions about who I pay my mortgage to and who I took credit from to purchase my car. To put the icing on the cake, you denied my transfer of $200 for my desperate brother and the agent had the audacity to offer a 50% discount hahahaha what a joke you people are, I rudely stated to him that I wanted nothing from Western Union and rather stick to... Last month, my boyfriend and I were sending money to California from New York to my boyfriend's brother in order to put down a deposit on an apartment that we really wanted to get. We decided to use Western Union and we called the 1-800 number and asked the customer service representative if they deducted the money from the credit card and if it was sent to the destination. The rep "assured" us that the money was there and the transaction | OP | OP RV | 1,473,305 |
Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War . He volunteered for an intelligence -gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and executed. He is probably best remembered for his purported last words before being hanged: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." [ 1 ] Hale has long been considered an American hero and, in 1985, he was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut. [ 2 ] Commission of Nathan Hale captain in nineteenth regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Charles Webb. Signed by John Hancock . 1 January 1776 Nathan Hale was born in Coventry, Connecticut , in 1755 to Richard Hale and Elizabeth Strong. In 1768, when he was fourteen years old, he was sent with his brother Enoch, who was sixteen, to Yale College . Nathan was a classmate of fellow patriot spy Benjamin Tallmadge . [ 3 ] The Hale brothers belonged to the Yale literary fraternity, Linonia , which debated topics in astronomy, mathematics, literature, and the ethics of slavery. Graduating with first-class honors in 1773 at age 18, Nathan became a teacher, first in East Haddam and later in New London . [ citation needed ] After the Revolutionary War began in 1775, he joined a Connecticut militia and was elected first lieutenant . When his militia unit participated in the Siege of Boston , Hale remained | IN | IN EN | 9,995,082 |
destruction and even civil unrest unless help arrives. Haitians travel a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy October 25, 2012 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AFP Photo/Thony Belizaire) A Haitian woman walks through flooded makeshift housing after rains from Hurricane Sandy flooded much of the area in Port-au-Prince October 26, 2012. (Reuters/Swoan Parker) A woman gets groceries delivered by a man in her yard flooded after Hurricane Sandy passed through the village of Hoyo Colorado in central Cuba, around 170 kilometres, (100 miles) east of Havana October 29, 2012. (Reuters/Desmond Boylan) A man salvages bricks from rubble on a street after hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba October 27, 2012. (Reuters/Desmond Boylan) People stand at the entrance of their home beside a flooded street after Hurricane Sandy past through the village of Sagua La Grande in central Cuba, around 240 km (149 miles) east of Havana October 29, 2012. (Reuters/Desmond Boylan) Cubans observe a tree knocked down by Hurricane Sandy in Bayamo city, 760 km east of Havana, Cuba on October 25, 2012. (AFP Photo/Str) Iran's decision to produce fuel rods from a third of its medium-enriched uranium stockpile delayed its alleged nuclear weapon program, says the Israeli defense minister. But Tel Aviv continues to advocate a military solution to halting it. UK's Supreme Court have ruled against a charity seeking the return of a Pakistani national who was handed to America by Britain to be held in prison without trial. The UK government earlier said it cannot get him | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,204,117 |
you to tell me whatever you want about this new album. Alright, I'll give you something this time. Just 'cause you're the homie. I can't say anything about guests. What I can say is the album is in-depth but it's not over-drawn. Not long. It's snappy. If I had to say something about this album and Section.80 , it'd be that it's more tight-knit than the last one, as far as what I'm talking about. And that's all you're going to give us? Yep. That's it. C an you talk about some albums that influenced how you're putting together good kid, m.A.A.d. City ? I'm looking for the aggression of [2Pac's] Makaveli , the type of content that Ice Cube had on Death Certificate , the melodies that Snoop had on Doggystyle , and the originality and creativity of [Andre 3000's] The Love Below . So you hear songs like "Swimming Pools" and "Cartoons & Cereal." "Cartoons & Cereal" is an aggressive joint but that shit is moody and melodic at the same time. Not to brag and shit but that's one of the most original joints out. I'm not saying that because it's my song either. I really like "Cartoons & Cereal." You must be hearing some buzz about yourself. You're heading into your debut album and people are already starting to bring up your name in the "greatest rapper" discussion. What are your thoughts on that? It lets me know where I need to challenge myself next. These | SP | SP IT | 3,363,682 |
Musings on Technical Communications, Social Media and Content I just found this sitting in my drafts folder. The company name has changed (we are now Kana Software) but the premise is the same. Interestingly, the parallels between our thoughts on customer service and the thoughts in tech comms of better integration within a support system (providing information as part of call deflection) are striking. I'm going to try and pull these together in a future post. I was asked to write an article for Credit Control Journal on behalf of the company I work for, and for the sake of historical archiving (and so I know I have it somewhere), here is that article. Reap the Rewards of a Single Customer View Author: Gordon McLean, Graham Technology Like many people, I have a couple of products from the same financial company, specifically a credit card and house insurance. I recently moved house, so I phoned the customer-service department to update it with my new details. Unsure of which department deals with basic account details, I selected the first option in the menu and was put through to the home insurance department. After confirming my details, I spoke to a very helpful contact-centre agent who confirmed that my new address details had been added to the system. A couple of weeks later, I realized I still hadn't received my credit card bill, so I phoned the customer-service department once more and was informed, by an equally helpful contact-centre agent, that my | OP | OP OB | 3,111,047 |
Upon receipt of your custom ATM card you will be allowed to withdraw $10,000 per day by default and you are given the option to transfer funds from your ATM card to your bank account. 2. Certified Cashier's Check or Bank Draft: In this case you will be sent a certified bank draft or check signed in your favor which you will deposit in any bank for it to be cleared within 3 to 5 working days at most depending on your bank. 3. Online Banking (Bank To Bank Transfer) to enable you process this operation, R3,720 is Required for opening for an online banking operation, that will enable you get access to your account Online. You are advised to select one out of the three options on how you wish to receive your $2,000,000.00, Your Online Banking Acess or ATM card or Check/Bank Draft will be shipped via Courier Shipping Company and would get to you within 2 working days at most. For international shipping as stated by our company We had to sign contract with Courier for bulk shipping which makes the fees reduce from the actual R2,200 to R2,100 nothing more and no hidden fees of any sort. You are advised to contact the Department's Officer responsible for the shipping of your Check or ATM card with the following information for shipping of your payment Check or ATM card. Department's Officer: Ms Brevard Wood E-mail: brevardwood wss-id.org E-mail; brevardwood superposta.com Tel:0734181346 Fax:0866616551 The Department's Officer Ms Brevard | IN | IN IB | 1,748,370 |
carbon price will start at $23.00 per tonne in 2012-13 and will be $24.15 in 2013-14 and $25.40 in 2014-15. The prices in the second and third year reflect a 2.5 per cent rise in real terms allowing for 2.5 per cent inflation per year (the midpoint of the Reserve Bank of Australia's target range). Fixed price permits Liable entities will be able to purchase permits from the Government at the fixed price, up to the number of their emissions for the compliance year. Any permits purchased at the fixed price will be automatically surrendered and cannot be traded or banked for future use. Permits freely allocated may be either surrendered or traded until the true-up date for the compliance year in which they were issued. They cannot be banked for use in a future compliance year. Buy-back of freely allocated permits The holders of freely allocated permits will be able to sell them to the Government from 1 September of the compliance year in which they were issued until 1 February of the following compliance year. The price paid by the Government will be equal to the price of the fixed price permits for that year, discounted to 15 June of the compliance year by the latest available Reserve Bank of Australia index of the BBB corporate bond rate, so that the buy-back price reflects the present market value of the permit. From 15 June onwards, the price paid will be equal to the fixed-price permits for that vintage. | IN | IN DT | 622,932 |
us! Maybe this CAN BE a good offer but just how exclusive is it? I've worked my butt off to pay my bills and get my credit score up (It is 718 now) but when I tried to click on the link I get shuttled off to other offers. Pretty much I feel as if the site is telling me, " You aren't worthy of a mortgage even if it would be cheaper than your current rent .... but here are some crumb offers so you'll feel like someone cares". Appreciate the self-esteem boost!! This is a great company to work with, and had a great experience with them. I live in Massachusetts, and was kept informed throughout the process, understood the numbers before the actual closing, and the final paperwork said exactly what I was told on the phone. Comment On This Offer Credit Score Approval Data Ideal for those with Credit: N/A AVERAGE Credit Score Approved for this Card N/A LOWEST Credit Score Approved for this Card + Credit Karma members have received approvals with these TransUnion New Account credit scores. Please note that because other factors such as income and employment status can affect credit card approval , these are only guidelines and approval is not guaranteed. | ID | ID DF | 766,790 |
can still throw about 90. So I can back up 60 feet and throw BP versus having to soft toss to him. And I can throw breaking balls and changeups and that kind of stuff. "Now, don't get me wrong, I've coached him since he was in coach-pitch and if he goes 3-for-4, I'm like, 'That fourth at-bat there you threw that thing away.' That guy laid one across, there. He said, 'You know, I'm not going to be perfect, can you cut me some slack?' And that's kind of been the difference. As far as me calling him on Friday and saying, 'Hey, you know what your weight's not over the plate,' the technical stuff like that -- that's never been me. Don't get me wrong, you've read the newspapers and that's what they all made it out to be. But I was never that type of batting instructor for him; I'm just a good BP arm." Where did all of that talk about interference come from? "I'm not going to say it to make it back to St. Louis in the newspapers. I was just a BP guy and the thing is, I throw pretty good BP, if I want to throw outside edge BP, I can throw it, if I want to bust you in, so we would go through scenarios, no balls, no strikes, this guy's throwing today, he throws a lot of first-pitch fastballs, that's how we do. "One June two years ago, I spent | SP | SP IT | 725,009 |
in a guilty pleasure viewing of PASSENGER 57 on TNT. Meanwhile the othhhcaaar DVDs collect dust behind you on a shelf with all your unread New Yorkers. War of the Worlds is a devastating movie, even with the mildly uplifting ending (which, like MarkJ says, comes straight from the source). The film is about the mass extinction of our race. This isn't a children's film. The 9/11-esque imagery is also impossible to shake, and The Beard's use of CGI has rarely been better. And I'm with Gaydos -- The Grey is a masterpiece, and deserves nods for Picture, Actor, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, and Score. Not like this will ever happen...but it should. Poetic, brutal, and down-beat, with an ending that pisses off Joe Popcorn to boot! Eloi Wrath says ... I am already dreading Jeff's John Williams obituary whenever that will be. Probably start with a token nod to all his career achievements before descending into some "enabler" rant about Spielberg or somesuch. Posted by Eloi Wrath at October 3, 2012 5:10 AM comment #16 JLC says ... RE: War of the Worlds. I agree that Jeffrey's Spielberg hate takes a backseat to no one. But with respect to this particular point, I don't think he's talking about the "miracle" demise of the Martians due to Earth pathogens. I think he's referring to the "entire family - including the son who ran straight onto a battlefield - surviving in the one remaining brownstone on the block" ending. And yes, | OP | OP RV | 1,389,614 |
can see it clearly from the air. The Hatian side has all been logged off and the soil eroded, while the Dominican side is still forested." We're also one species with many diverse attributes. Like "birds of the same feather", the ones that don't seem to resemble seem to be taken for a ride for the collective good of the "birds of the same feather". So, sorry... we're not "one", really. There will be differences and, I say this with cynicism, humans will never stand up above their animal nature. Exploitation will go on and that means, a distorted view of reality, will always persist. So some will be blamed for, some will be used as scape goats and some ignorant masses will be taken for a ride with false promises. Deceit, Suffering and Death - inevitable outcome of life. This question of the need for (or, more descriptively, the likelihood of) authoritarian responses to the predictable unworkability of present economic and industrial arrangements is one that begs for analysis rather than mere expressions of aversion. As for the suggested alternatives, none of the three seem to directly address the problem, say, of resettling a large fragment of the population from places that are hardly viable without the availability of cheap energy on a massive scale. Furthermore, how, under what circumstances, and in what time frames, are the three proposals envisioned as coming about? By means of representative democracy? Wasn't Ben Franklin who said, "Democracy is two wolves and a | ID | ID DF | 3,274,218 |
recollects incidents from the disaster in such a striking way that it will blow your mind. Photo Credit: Kyodonews The combination of photographs in the exhibit weave together loss, grief, anger and fear with happiness, relief, joy, and hope to create an exhilarating exhibit that will touch each of your nerves and senses in the rarest form. The sensations that you will feel looking at the photographs is one that I find is hard to come by today. We are all so absorbed in our lives that we rarely stop to think about how much we have, in comparison to others. The photographs will not only make you appreciative of the life that you have, but they will also make you want to do something to help those in the photographs who have had their lives washed away and thrown into turmoil. The United Nations Headquarters The exhibit as a whole will take you through an emotional excursion. The photographs are raw, unsparingly natural and above all are real. They show us just how much change we can enact if we join together for a cause and that even when we are faced with adversity, we can be compassionate and united and change the world for the better. WHEN: Monday March 5 th , 2012 -- Wednesday March 28 th , 2012 WHERE: Children and the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami The United Nations Headquarters, Visitors Lobby, Main Gallery. 3 United Nations Plaza New York, New York, 10017 Ph. 212-963-8687 | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 354,071 |
Villeneuve: The drive of his life Gilles Villeneuve was one of the greatest natural drivers in Formula One. Thirty years on, Top Gear celebrates his genius... Motor racing has punished its heroes more than most, though it's vastly safer now than it once was. Thirty years ago, things could still go savagely wrong, and on 8 May 1982, during the final minutes of qualifying at Zolder in Belgium, they did for Gilles Villeneuve. Clipping Jochen Mass's March, Villeneuve's Ferrari was launched into the air, sending him hopelessly into the catch fencing, and breaking his neck. He was 32. He also went to his grave in turmoil, after his teammate Didier Pironi had apparently stitched him up and stolen victory at the previous race, the San Marino Grand Prix, held at Imola. Close friends said Gilles's judgement had been impaired by anger and disbelief. "Gilles was a pure soul," Enzo Ferrari's son Piero remembers. "He didn't think anyone would put him in a position where he would be jeopardised. Unfortunately, unpredictable things happen. What happened at Imola was a tragic story, and there's still a lack of clarity about exactly what happened." Words : Jason Barlow This feature was originally published in the June 2012 issue of Top Gear magazine | IN | IN DP | 1,483,289 |
Big Picture Note: the more interesting/important points are made in the comments linking to some earlier Mebane Faber articles which suggest that this is not a point to worry about at this stage of the US market I wouldn't mind finding some other asset classes that show positive real returns but its hard. A 9% increase in bonding holding is not significant by any means. A 60/40 (equity/fixed income) is considered moderate. Our equity exposure is currently under 40% based on risk tolerance and financial goal. The current or projected political or financial climate does not play a significant role in our current asset allocation. __________________ May we live in peace and harmony and be free from all human sufferings. I must be a premature member of the dirty old man club, because I tend to think along the lines of Ha: watch valuation more than anything. The junk bond (and pretty much all bond) market is getting over-valued, but I don't as of yet see it in the equity market. Quote: Originally Posted by samclem Even if stock prices stayed flat or dipped, wouldn't your dividend yield in equities come pretty close to matching your bond yields? A dip in stock prices is just that--you'll be even again when they go up. I just can't see a great case for bonds right now. I'm with these guys. I also suspect that as a result of time alone the overall economy will improve in the next administration (no matter who | ID | ID DF | 3,237,188 |
"closed electromagnetic wave" looping back on itself with the E field mostly radial and reinforcing as the source of electron "charge"; they then set out to calculate the anomalous magnetic moment according to this alternate model and found remarkable agreement with existing experimental results. Alas I don't recall their names or any references... However, he also said that they were planning to look at hadrons from this perspective, at which point it seemed to me that there was at the very least a superficial connection with string theory (he disagreed) - perhaps the topology of the compactified dimensions constrained the possible closed threading of a wave I thought. [Then some vague hand-waving thought about the muon and tauon being excited states of the fundamental electron extending into an adjacent sub-space... aaah!... perhaps the "three families" tells us something about the sub-spaces and conectedness of our Calabi-Yau space? Ooh - I like this make-it-up-as-you-go-along approach :) However, seriously - does anyone recall anything about the original idea as I've "summarised" it (not yours truly's waffle)? One more sufficiently interesting conclusion of essay "The theory of time": any potential energy is the latent form of the kinetic energy. This conclusion reduces number of forms of energies to one form - the kinetic energy. Thus, energy also as time is inseparably connected with the motion. The central idea "The gravidynamic effect" in presented essay has no analogues in the physics. It's interesting, isn't it? That has hung people up ever since the time | ID | ID DF | 444,213 |
I chase it And replace it with the elephant in the room with a facelift Into another rapper's shoes using new laces Selling CD's from my rucksack aiming for the papers Selling CD's from my rucksack aiming for majors Nationwide tour with Just Jack, still had to get the bus back Clean-cut kid without a razor for the moustache I hit back when the pen hurts me, I'm still a choir boy in a Fenchurch tee I'm still the same as a year ago but more people hear me though According to the MySpace and YouTube videos I'm always doing shows if I'm not I'm in the studio Truly broke, never growing up call me Rufio Melody music maker, reading all the papers They say I'm up-and-coming like I'm fucking in an elevator Kiss me like you wanna be loved, you wanna be loved, you wanna be loved This feels like falling in love, falling in love, falling in love Settle down with me and I'll be your safety, you'll be my lady I was made to keep your body warm but I'm cold as the wind blows So hold me in your arms My heart's against your chest, your lips pressed to my neck I'm falling for your eyes but they don't know me yet And with this feeling I'll forget, I'm in love now Kiss me like you wanna be loved, you wanna be loved, you wanna be loved This feels like falling in love, falling in love, | LY | LY SL | 83,871 |
the double bond. We'll look at that problem in a moment. Here is one of the isomers of but-2-ene: The CH 3 group has the higher priority because its carbon atom has an atomic number of 6 compared with an atomic number of 1 for the hydrogen also attached to the carbon-carbon double bond. The isomer drawn above has the two higher priority groups on opposite sides of the double bond. The compound is (E)-but-2-ene. A minor addition to the rule to allow for isotopes of, for example, hydrogen Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen having a relative atomic mass of 2. It still has only 1 proton, and so still has an atomic number of 1. However, it isn't the same as an atom of "ordinary" hydrogen, and so these two compounds are geometric isomers: The hydrogen and deuterium have the same atomic number - so on that basis, they would have the same priority. In a case like that, the one with the higher relative atomic mass has the higher priority. So in these isomers, the deuterium and chlorine are the higher priority groups on each end of the double bond. That means that the left-hand isomer in the last diagram is the (E)- form, and the right-hand one the (Z)-. Extending the rules to more complicated molecules If you are reading this because you are doing a course for 16 - 18 year olds such as UK A level, you may well not need to know much | IN | IN IB | 523,763 |
desired on my plate. Dig in! This is also a great recipe if you need to sneak a few vegetables into picky kids. It's green and slimy so I tell my nieces it's Alien Spagetti. They stare at me with wide eyes and clear their plates like good little astronauts. OMG that looks so yummy ! Can I hire you as my personal chef? Or I can always come over to pick up a yummy dish ;) I can't believe I have a stove and its only use is to fry eggs and sausages on weekends ! Looks really yummy. I like cooking but I also like it to be fast and simple with a few good ingredients. It's so true, instead of using heavy creams, why not some healthy avocado! Thank you for the tip. I am going to wow my family with it soon and hopefully convert my dad into a pasta man (as he doesn't like pasta -who doesn't like pasta?! Seriously ;) Thanks xx Avocados AND spaghetti? Two of my favourite things combined? Oh my! Thanks for this fabulous recipe, I think I may actually try it out in the next few days, it truly does sound delicious. Avocados truly are a super fruit, I know so many people get put off by their fat content but it's the good fat! And it helps burn fat so it's even better. More fool them I guess! Aw this makes me sad... I made this once a while | HI | HI RE | 326,771 |
find the results. "Last autumn, British commanders tried to break out of excessive reliance on military force. They made a potentially precedent-setting deal with tribal leaders in the town of Musa Qala by agreeing to withdraw provided the Taliban did not move in. The deal was sabotaged by the Americans and, as on many earlier occasions, Tony Blair failed to stand up to the White House. He let the Musa Qala experiment fizzle out." Steele As the Taliban re-occupied the place the above comment would appear to be absolute nonsense. This "agreement" was surely borne of military weakness which derived from insufficient UK forces(only some hundreds of actual fighting troops for an area greater than Wales) and hopelessly inadequate logistics plus a truly absurd "strategy" of providing "ink-spots" of "security(ie deploying the troops in penny packets in isolated locations). This had the stamp of the "Lion of Sierre Leone" all over it. Anyway the Taliban breached the "agreement" and wandered back in, without any local resistance from the police Steele bizarrely sets so much store by. "Reports from residents in the town said that between 200 and 300 Taleban had descended on Musa Qala. Assadullah Waffa, the new governor of Helmand, said that the militants had first entered Musa Qala on Wednesday and had disarmed the Afghan police. They returned last night and destroyed part of the village compound housing used by the district governor and police. British and other Nato commanders responsible for Helmand province were holding emergency meetings | IP | IP ED | 92,523 |
told it wasn't a bomb and why wasn't the footage of the North Tower's moment of impact passed to the newsrooms until, as the guy points out in his video, midnight that evening? Wouldn't the authorities on the ground tasked with dealing with this major emergency have had at least some interest in looking at that footage, to confirm whether or not it seemed deliberate? I know 10 minutes or so later the task force leader viewing it would be getting something else to worry about than what he was actually seeing in the Naudet's film, but the Naudet's seem to have been very selfish with their scoop from where I'm sat, and didn't even give anyone that opportunity. Indeed, good points. Also, while on the subject of the naudets, why is their film of the 2nd 'hit' cut in 3 places ? Did they even get asked why, when they knew what they had recorded, they didn't ensure a copy got to those who needed it before they carried on filming their exciting new project? Do photo-journalists get a pass on withholding evidence when they get caught up in the heat of the moment? It's almost as if they wanted the world to get a good repeated viewing of the second tower attack before they released their own. That's what Holmgren mentioned - the power of suggestion. The first news casts about the first strike stated they didn't know what caused it, but after the second strike was shown | ID | ID DF | 1,804,082 |
a High Prevalence Area and owners of flocks can claim 0 credit points in Category A of the ABC score. Sheep Health Statements Flocks that have undergone testing (eg SheepMAP flocks), abattoir monitoring (Abattoir 150 or 500 status), or commenced vaccinating against OJD will have a higher ABC score, and can claim credit points towards the Always ask for a Sheep Health Statement (SHS) when purchasing sheep. A SHS requires the vendor to disclose the ABC score of his or her flock. The use of these statements is voluntary, but highly recommended, for all sheep movements within Victoria. However, most states require sheep from interstate to be accompanied by a SHS. Persons making false or misleading statements on a SHS may be liable under Fair Trading legislation and the Stock (Seller Liability and Declarations) Act 1993.ABC score in Categories B (testing), C (vaccination) and/or D (certified low risk). Avoid introducing OJD by other means OJD-causing bacteria can also be introduced into a flock in other ways: Boundary fencing and strays Owners should make every effort to maintain boundary fencing and gateways in order to minimise the risk of straying sheep. Collect stray sheep and work with neighbours -- don't just put sheep back over a fence. Check mobs and fencing frequently. Movement of manure Run-off from neighbouring properties may carry OJD-causing bacteria into previously uncontaminated paddocks. Diversion drains, double-fenced tree lines, or running cattle in these paddocks may assist in preventing infection in a flock. Boots and equipment carrying manure | IN | IN IB | 461,010 |
recoding it and coming out with ?somebody?s gonna kill me.? NELL SCHOFIELD: I was worried about what was going to happen to her, I was worried about what she might do to someone else, including myself. She did focus in on me. There were very threatening messages on my answer machine. And I?d got to the point where I was scared. I got to the point where I went to the police. I said look I just want you to listen to this so that if anything happens to me (breaks down). It?s really sad. BRUCE BERESFORD, FILM DIRECTOR: From time to time I used to get odd letters from her. And one time a big box turned up, oh that high (indicates height of box to be just over shoulder height), from Jad. And I thought ?what can this be?? And it had Jad?s name on the side to me and it was full of confetti. MILES MUECKE, SON OF JAD CAPELJA: When I was about 10, my dad was granted custody of me. Dad was trying hard to get her treatment, and he always wanted to see her better. Obviously he loved her.. RICHARD MUECKE, JAD CAPELJA?S EX-HUSBAND: We thought she was getting better, she was finally on a treatment program. Then two years ago, out of the blue I got a call from Miles. He just said mum?s committed suicide. He burst into tears and hung up. And I was driving a campervan and I lost it | SP | SP TA | 443,123 |
Highlights Celebrate the second annual international Cabernet Sauvignon Day! St. Jerome has become known as "the winemaker's winemaker". Its legendary Matuka, the Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot, is considered to be one of New Zealand's most spectacular reds. In fact, in a blind tasting, a panel of local wine experts rated St. Jerome Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot '89 equal to Chateau Lafite-Rothschild '88 and ahead of other top French reds. The Anselmi Realda Cabernet Sauvignon Veneto IGT 2003 is an Italian beauty, that was produced in Verona. Description Today marks the second annual international Cabernet Sauvignon day and we plan to celebrate with these three stunning Cabernet Sauvignon! Today's GrabOne Bottle deal includes two bottles of the St Jerome Cabernet Sauvignon 2003, two bottles of the Cottle Bay Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 and two bottles of the Anselmi Realda Cabernet Sauvignon Veneto IGT 2003. The St Jerome Cabernet Sauvignon 2003 is a big, rich, full-bodied wine, full of flavour, powerful and intensely concentrated but showing elegance. Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Wine Critic and Author (Cuisine Wine Annual 2001) agrees saying, "I had the good fortune to taste eight vintages of the St Jerome Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot back to 1988.... I can say that St Jerome Cabernet / Merlot has a remarkable ability to age gracefully. Even the oldest wine (the 1988) was in fine form.. Very impressive." Cottle Bay Wines reflect the bright fruit flavours that are the hallmark of Australia's sunny climate regions. A rich deep crimson colour, this wine has | IP | IP DS | 1,754,995 |
significant factor in the disease, the aquisition and course of the disease is much more a function of the host?s immune function than it is of HIV. Thus a cure is impossible when therapy simply focuses on killing HIV, because such an approach fails to address the real reason for the disease, which is a constellation of factors resulting in immune system dysfunction. Indeed, many anti-HIV therapies used today are actually known to further impair immune system function, and theoretically destroy all chances of a cure. HIV is not the cause of AIDS, although it does appear to be a factor.? Letter to Virusmyth.net, January, 2003 ? Dr. Frank Shallenberger , MD, former professor, University of California School of Medicine at Davis and John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California; Secretary, Orthomolecular Medical Society; Medical Board of Directors, Huxley Institute for Biosocial Research; Founding Director of the International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation ?A campaign has been conducted to program us into believing that HIV is a deadly, infectious virus that inevitably results in AIDS and death. And we have been continually told that while no cure exists, antiviral drugs will slow down the progression of the disease. Despite evidence to the contrary, the general public continues to buy these ideas. They are the only ones reported. The fact is, there have always been people questioning or disagreeing with the official theory and treatment approach, but they have been silenced.? Penthouse, Nov, Dec, 1995 ?No one, I repeat, no one under ANY | OP | OP | 551,758 |
were to try to find next-door-neighbour Fred's auto repair shop's web site, you wouldn't search the word "car" and expect to find his site. You would probably use 3 or 4 specific words, possibly including the geographic location of Fred's shop, and hope to see his site pop up then. So, what is reasonable for George and his homegrown Fuji apple trees? Well, if his site is well constructed, he can reasonably expect to have good results for specific search phrases, such as "home-grown Fuji apple trees" or "organic Okanagan apple trees." 2. Include Relevant Copy on Your Page Now, I'm not going to go into all of the details of what I mean by a well constructed site, but one of the most important things is that the copy (i.e., the text on the web page) actually includes the words that you want to be found for. How else are the search engines supposed to know what your page is really about? You'd be surprised how often I've heard people complain about getting poor search results for a web page of theirs that doesn't even mention the word(s) they want it to be found under. 3. Get Linked Up Another key factor is to have relevant links to the page. Essentially, this is like a popularity contest where Google wants to see how many of the cool kids have your phone number in their little black books. The more links you can get to your site the better, but | IN | IN | 597,312 |
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just please make sure you serve some with a turkey dinner! And yes, please hold back on the onion -- a good cook doesn't have to smother everything in onion! I miss Aunt Donna too. She would have had such fun with our kids -- I can just see her laughing at how much they acted like their mothers!!! Jill Flory recently posted.. 7 Years I love dressing too! And I love it when you guys are here at Thanksgiving, because I'm the only one that really, really likes dressing and cranberry salad. So it seems silly to make these big ole recipes just for me! But you can't have Thanksgiving dinner without them! I think last year I made a smallish version of the cranberry salad. Aunt Donna would've enjoyed the kiddos. I can see her laughing too. She had a really great laugh! I think the kids are mostly like their fathers though. I like dressing. When it becomes filling and then stuffing, not so good! Aunt Donna! Still miss her. She was a very special person and the sunshine in our King family. Your crockpot dressing is delicious and I would love to be at your table to help eat it on Thanksgiving Day. I plan to stuff the turkey with the recipe I've used for along time. It's from Betty Crocker Cookbook and very yummy. I always thought it was stuffing if it was in the bird but dressing if served on the side? I like | HI | HI RE | 3,223,292 |
important jobs, and also we have some influence on IPv4 address exhaustion, which is the emergence of the IPv4 transfer. They are quite new things which we have not had in the past. That's the focal point of our strategic planning. The Indian NIR, there is a brief history. In-principle approval was granted in late 2009, and there are implementation plans pending. Planning is now under way and right now we are concerned about hosting the technical services from APNIC to the forthcoming National Internet Registry. We had a training program for three weeks for NIXI staff in Brisbane, which is hands-on training for them to understand the work and jobs in the Internet registries. We had a high-level visit from the NIXI executives to Brisbane in July, which I also participated in remotely from Tokyo. We still have some training for the Hostmaster, which is being planned. Overall, I can say that we are in the process of the NIR recognition and we expect that it will be completed in the near future. Member and stakeholder survey for the year 2011, this was already mentioned by the Director General. We have some findings from the survey, which will be itemized, like focused on improving rather than expanding, and the membership and the stakeholders want more training, more localized initiatives and more support for IPv6 deployment. These findings from the survey are included in the future planning for APNIC, our activities of the Executive Council. The next survey is to | SP | SP TA | 457,405 |
tried to hush it: but it would not be hushed. He began to rock it to and fro in his arms but its wailing cry grew keener. He rocked it faster while his eyes began to read the second stanza: Within this narrow cell reclines her clay, That clay where once... It was useless. He couldn't read. He couldn't do anything. The wailing of the child pierced the drum of his ear. It was useless, useless! He was a prisoner for life. His arms trembled with anger and suddenly bending to the child's face he shouted: "Stop!" The child stopped for an instant, had a spasm of fright and began to scream. He jumped up from his chair and walked hastily up and down the room with the child in his arms. It began to sob piteously, losing its breath for four or five seconds, and then bursting out anew. The thin walls of the room echoed the sound. He tried to soothe it but it sobbed more convulsively. He looked at the contracted and quivering face of the child and began to be alarmed. He counted seven sobs without a break between them and caught the child to his breast in fright. If it died!... The door was burst open and a young woman ran in, panting. "What is it? What is it?" she cried. The child, hearing its mother's voice, broke out into a paroxysm of sobbing. "It's nothing, Annie... it's nothing.... He began to cry..." She flung | IN | IN | 700,657 |
to the capitated managed care experiment that proved disastrous in the 1990s. In both instances, providers receive a set annual payment to cover the costs of all care, and get to keep whatever they don't spend on patients. The obvious winning strategy - from a business point of view - is to recruit relatively healthy patients, offering luxurious care for the healthy and minimally ill, and subtle cues that those with expensive illness would be better off elsewhere. Neither risk adjustment nor quality monitoring schemes are up to the task of blunting these incentives. An ACO can game risk adjustments by ferreting out additional diagnoses that may be clinically unimportant but would up its capitation payment, and make its outcomes look better as well. The Dartmouth group has already shown that more expensive providers label their patients with more diagnoses in this way. Quality monitoring efforts measure only a tiny slice of what's important in medicine. Overarching measures of quality like death rates and family/community well being are either too rare to measure in a statistically reliable manner, too subtle to capture with current or foreseeable measurement strategies, or too biased by differences in the baseline health of enrollees. Evidence from the UK shows that providers will improve on the aspects of care that are measured, but neglect those that are not, and it's far from clear that monitoring of quality measures has actually improved quality or can prevent abuses. In sum, the ACO strategy remains an untested theory for | HI | HI FH | 570,618 |
2 Answers Having a number x = 2 k 1 +2 k 2 +...+2 k m where k 1 <k 2 <...<k m it could be claimed that position of number x in lexicographically ordered sequence of all numbers with the same hamming weight is lex_order(x) = C(k 1 ,1)+C(k 2 ,2)+...+C(k m ,m) where C(n,m) = n!/m!/(n-m)! or 0 if m>n Would love to use this but, when m is 20 - 30, unfeasible to sort of calculate. -- ks6g10 Nov 25 at 22:32 @ks6g10 - All C(n,m) values for 1<n,m<32 should be calculated using recurrence relation C(n+1,m+1)=C(n,m)+C(n,m+1) and stored in an array prior to running the main function. It will cost you just about 1000 additions. Factorial calculation is not actually required. -- Egor Skriptunoff Nov 25 at 23:17 @EgorSkriptunoff Then it comes to that I can not really use arrays. -- ks6g10 Nov 25 at 23:44 @ks6g10 - What constraints are there on your program? Are input number values limited by some constant? What amount of ROM size, RAM size and CPU time do you have at your disposal? My solution can be enhanced to require only O(log(x)) memory and O(log^2(x)) time for calculating lex_order(x). -- Egor Skriptunoff Nov 26 at 3:33 | HI | HI HT | 3,686,508 |
All That You Can't Leave Behind songs Product Information All That You Can't Leave Behind album Product Description All That You Can't Leave Behind album by U2 was released Oct 31, 2000 on the Interscope (USA) label. "Beautiful Day" won the 2001 Grammy Awards for Record Of The Year, for Song Of The Year and for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. All That You Can't Leave Behind CD music contains a single disc with 11 songs. Seldom has an album title been as appropriate as ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND. Here, U2 returns to its pre-irony '80s glory days with a straightforward rock approach, leaving behind the electronics and intentional mock-decadence of POP and ZOOROPA. It quickly becomes clear however, that the band had to make those albums in order to get to the ego-free state from which this one emerges. ... See Full Description All That You Can't Leave Behind music CDs Customer Reviews A Great Underrated Treasure Shamed to admit that it actually took me close to 7 years to finally appreciate this album. And yes I do fully agree with Nick & the reviewer from Calgary, both say it all. Always kills me when supposed fans constantly chastise artists for stepping outside or sometime smashing the mold. By faust8577 (Lorraine, Que. Canada) Maybe not Joshua Tree, but still enrapturing This review is based solely on the music, not nicknames or expectations or commercial success. I'm reluctant to give out 5 stars | IP | IP DS | 666,351 |
You can tell I'm a huge fan! All the elements of this show click so well every week, the casting was just perfect. Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer work extremely well on camera together. You always worry when a show starts off with a kid in the cast, how will they handle it as he or she grows up? In this case, no worries! The character of Jake is still always good for a few punchlines. The true genius of the show is Jon Cryer. His neurotic yet manic depressive portrayal of Alan is just pure comedy gold. Just like how Brad Garrett's Robert Barone was the best part of Everybody Loves Raymond, here too the supporting character steals the scene almost every time. I can't wait to go back and revisit these great first season episodes! I am not a fan of sit-coms. Most of them I find silly or stupid. Maybe it is my age. But I find the humor to be forced and usually at the expense of one of the cast members. I really do not like humor based on someone's stupidity. So when I channel surf and come across something that is watchable, I check it out. I mentioned to my wife about this, so we decided, for our summer viewing, to get season one. We find it very funny. It is not based on anyone's stupidity, but on the differences between the characters. | IP | IP DS | 315,809 |
Point Of View lyrics Db Boulevard Point Of View lyrics I don't have a cent Will I pay my rent? And even my car doesn't work Me and my man? He's the one to die for... We have split up Can't you see life's easy If you consider things From another point of view Ah ah ah ah ah ah Ah ah In another way From another point of view Ye ye ye eheh Oh oh yeah In another way from Another point of view I see life and light All the colours of the world So beautiful Won't you come with me? I see birds and trees All the flowers of the world so beautiful Won't you come with me? Can't you see life's easy If you consider things From another point of view Ah ah ah ah ah ah Ah ah In another way From another point of view Ye ye ye eheh Oh oh yeah In another way from Another point of view | LY | LY SL | 586,811 |
your president and then we'll talk." Ah when was this written? We do have a socialist President already. Dillydill09 11. Creating this list ttp://www.facebook.com/mike.netty.ornce Mike Netty Ornce I agree with almost all of it.... except for the knickers and panties issue..... PLEASE!!!!! DON'T EVER SAY KNICKERS AGAIN! UNLESS YOU ARE OVER THE AGE OF 80 YEARS OLD....Trust me... panties are much better, and no dude in his right mind (unless he's into banging old chicks) would ever find a ckick saying knickers to be sexy. ?Could you imagine some hot chick sticking her knickers in your mouth during a lap dance???? gag, gag, gag..... how do my knickers taste there sonny? erson i liked number i cant stand when people do that erson number 9 mr.magic96 lol mr.magic96 you brits Andre Richards The "u" was intentionally removed from words like "color" and "neighbor" in the early days of the U.S. as part of a deliberate attempt to differentiate our version of the language in the U.S. from that of the Brits as well as to remove some unnecessary complexity in the language. So that's not a misspelling, nor are words like "center" and "theater." We spell them correctly. Sorry you're unable to break with your quaint traditions. I have to laugh because the Brits always tell us we're wrong no matter what. Polly No, you are wrong there. lol Anaughtybear Actually, you can look in the dictionary and see that Brits are incorrect in their spelling of a lot of | OP | OP OB | 660,523 |
Jacques Rogge solidified everything the IOC has been doing. He's been involved in absolutely outstanding games in Athens, much better than people anticipated, absolutely outstanding games in Beijing, and now absolutely outstanding games in London, the highest possible quality, good people running them good organization running them. Reedie on the bid trail for London in 2004. (ATR) Everyone talks about the Youth Games, they've clearly filled a hole in the Olympic marketplace that way, without that being marketed in money terms. Young people clearly enjoy going to a Youth Olympics. All of that is a pretty good report card. I think members will simply want to continue. I don't see people coming forward with revolutionary ideas. Personally I look forward to seeing the manifestos from the candidates when they eventually appear. We are very presidential in governance structure. We actually seek a huge range of talents from the person we appoint to be our president. I think in the current climate a different governance system might work with wider representation using different people, with different skills, to do different things rather than leaving all of it to one man or woman. It's a big job. ATR: You just have three cities running for 2020. What is your thought on how that race is shaping up? CR: It's a particularly different election this time because they offer entirely different things. Tokyo is a safe choice in the sense that they have run the Games before, their economy is sound and they | SP | SP IT | 68,402 |
I took my unit to Florida for a couple of reasons. I attempted to connect to comcast with a cable card. Had many problems. Three times I asked Tivo CSR reps if I had to be connected to their server and they told me no each time. It was only when we got the elevated CSR did we find out that we had to be connected. The main reason being that their server saw me as an antennae customer. When we rebooted I had internet access with tivo box the cable card worked after 90 minutes and two cable cards later from comcast. Actually the comcast installer was very good about the whole thing. Part of the original problem was that when comcast installed the cable service they also installed the internet at the same time,consequently the tivo box was not connected to their server prior to the installing of the cable card. Now using my tivo box as a cable box and pvr and will revert back to the antennae when I return back to Toronto. Works well but the cable card is not available in Canada to the best of my knowledge as it is not supported by the cable companies There are some smaller cablecos in Canada which use TiVO...presumably through the cable-card system. However, this forum and thread deals specifically with TiVo for OTA, so let's please keep it on topic. Thank you. | ID | ID DF | 83,515 |
often results in problems. Finally, they must reproduce. Reproduction can occur either sexually or asexually, but in one form or another, it has to occur. The ways that these problems are solved varies from organism to organism, and the sum of such "solutions" is unique to each organism. Those solutions define and describe the organisms, but more importantly for hobbyists, they provide a blueprint for the husbandry of those animals. The First Filters B y using " molecular clocks ," it has been possible to roughly deduce when the first organisms that we might call animals appeared in the evolutionary history of life on Earth. This rather momentous event probably occurred sometime between 800 and 1000 million years ago. These were small organisms, and left no fossils, so any discussion of their morphology is largely speculation. However, one thing is clear: they were unable to make their own food by photosynthesis. This lack of photosynthesis is the primary hallmark of being an animal. To obtain nutrition the first animals had to eat other organisms, such as bacteria, or to eat the byproducts of other organisms, such as sugars, mucus or their corpses. Other organisms predated animals, of course, and the most highly developed of these were likely the animal-like protozoans. Although the name "protozoa" conjures up images of primitive "animal" life, in fact, these organisms, such as amoebas , ciliates and flagellates , represent a diverse array of decidedly non-animal life. Presently, animals are defined as multicellular; that is to | IN | IN | 419,989 |
Why are we waging a war on wheat? An increasing number of books, blogs and celebrities have fingered wheat as the cause of a variety of conditions, from obesity to heart disease, as well as a host of digestive issues. (iStock) As Canadians gather this weekend to celebrate Thanksgiving, there is a growing movement afoot to demonize one of the staples of the Canadian harvest: wheat. An increasing number of books, blogs and celebrities have fingered wheat as the cause of a variety of conditions, from obesity to heart disease, as well as a host of digestive problems. One of the most talked-about health books right now is Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health , a New York Times bestseller by U.S. cardiologist Dr. William Davis. 'I think people are willing to do anything to alleviate their digestive concerns and try anything to resolve their weight issues.' -- Susan Watson, registered dietitian Earlier this year, reality-TV star Kim Kardashian made headlines when she announced that she had cut wheat from her diet. "I think people are willing to do anything to alleviate their digestive concerns and try anything to resolve their weight issues," says Susan Watson, a registered dietitian in Winnipeg, about the growing anti-wheat movement... | OP | OP OB | 3,351,796 |
Where's @ at on foreign keyboards? Rick Maybury tells a user how to find the elusive @ symbol My family and I go on home swap holidays. On many of the keyboards in our swappers homes across Europe there is no key for the oft-used email @ 'at' symbol. Ewan Hastings, by email It's worth taking a closer look as it's often there, but not where you expect to find it. The US layout, where the @ symbol shares the 2 key is the most popular place; sometimes its Shift + 2 but if that doesn't work try Alt + Shift + 2 or Alt Gr + 2 (Alt Gr key is to the right of the spacebar). In France you will normally find it on the 0 key, whilst in the Czech Republic and Hungary it's on V. On Austrian and German keyboards it's on the Q key, and again you have to hold down the Alt Gr key to make it appear. Failing that there is a shortcut that works on virtually all Latin script keyboards and that's Alt + 64; press the Numlock key first, and enter the digits on the numeric keypad. | IN | IN | 1,479,643 |
cheated and ripped off as well. So I'm asking you, if you believe there is a moral justification for one, why not the other? Our collective morals have always supported fair, equal competition. They support two people going in a ring with gloves, equal weight, equal class and boxing it out. They don't support one hiding a razorblade in his fist, or one kicking the other in the junk. One business out competing another with a better original idea is the fundamental basis of fair market competition. It is completely morally acceptable to almost all. Taking my work, my innovation, and using it to make money for yourself without permission or a penny given back is not fair. It is parasitism and opportunism at its worse. No one expects business to be a fairytale for everyone. But they do expect all sides to play fair. And when they don't, it's the job of the government to play referee and intervene with things like antitrust tribunals, or in this case, anti-piracy law. Morality is always among the fundamental drivers of the law. The law cannot be written or enforced without first asking, "What is right and what is wrong?" That is a personal question everyone has to ask of themselves. To claim that morals have nothing to do with the law is to misunderstand the law. Morality has everything to do with legality. Whether you are a Marxist, libertarian, or liberal, you cannot separate morality from legality. Re: This site is | OP | OP OB | 138,539 |
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counterparts, the dissonance in the Bungle case is striking. No hideous clowns or trickster spirits appear in the RL version of the incident, no voodoo dolls or wizard guns, indeed no rape at all as any RL court of law has yet defined it. The actors in the drama were university students for the most part, and they sat rather undramatically before computer screens the entire time, their only actions a spidery flitting of fingers across standard QWERTY keyboards. No bodies touched. Whatever physical interaction occurred consisted of a mingling of electronic signals sent from sites spread out between New York City and Melbourne, Australia. Those signals met in LambdaMOO, certainly, just as the hideous clown and the living room party did, but what was LambdaMOO after all? Not an enchanted mansion or anything of the sort -- just a middlingly complex database, maintained for experimental purposes inside a Xerox Corporation research computer in Palo Alto and open to public access via the Internet. To be more precise about it, LambdaMOO was a MUD. Or to be yet more precise, it was a subspecies of MUD known as a MOO, which is short for "MUD, Object-Oriented." All of which means that it was a kind of database especially designed to give users the vivid impression of moving through a physical space that in reality exists only as words filed away on a hard drive. When users dial into LambdaMOO, for instance, the program immediately presents them with a brief textual | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 737,355 |
the previous episode, and arguing with Misato, Shinji runs away from home. Shinji is soon recaptured by Nerv, but he quits being a pilot. However, at the last minute Shinji does not board his train to leave Tokyo-3 and decides to stay. 05 "Rei I" "Rei, kokoro no mukō ni (Rei, Beyond her Heart)" (レイ、心のむこうに) Keiichi Sugiyama Hideaki Anno Akio Satsukawa November 1, 1995 Evangelion Unit 00 is finally repaired after it went berserk during the experiment it was in prior to the events of the first episode. Shinji tries to get to know the pilot of Unit 00, Rei Ayanami , better but finds that she is incredibly insular, has no friends, and all records of her past have been erased. A new and powerful Angel arrives: Ramiel , a floating monolithic metal diamond with a powerful particle beam blast which nearly kills Shinji in Unit 01. The Angel Ramiel is boring down through the upper layers of Tokyo-3 to reach NERV headquarters in the geofront below. Possessing a strong beam attack and the strongest AT field ever observed, a direct assault by an Evangelion would meet with failure. A plan ("Operation Yashima") is devised in which Shinji in Unit 01 will use an advanced prototype positron rifle to shoot Ramiel from outside its target zone, which must use the entire electrical output of Japan in order to operate, while Rei in Unit 00 shields Unit 01. (A national promotional campaign to conserve and redirect electricity in the wake | IN | IN EN | 9,994,442 |
More in AUX news News Top 5 Pop Tracks: August Each month, tons of new music from many taste-spanning genres is released into a fast-consuming, unforgiving market; it can be tough to get a handle on what's new before it's on to the next. In an attempt to highlight the standout releases, at the end of each month, AUX staff re-cap the month in Punk , Metal , Indie/Pop/Rock , Hip Hop , Electronic , and Pop with the top five releases in each. Consider it your cheat sheet for year-end lists. Top 5 Pop Tracks: August Taylor Swift -- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" To get her first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, all Taylor Swift needed to do was lean a little bit more towards pop than country. On "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," her signature acoustic guitar strums are tweaked by veteran pop architect Max Martin (Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson), and a massive electronic beat replaces the organic instrumentation that is typical of a Taylor Swift single. The end result is a break-up anthem that wouldn't be out of place on either a Kelly Clarkson or a Katy Perry album. The choice to skew pop paid off for Swift almost immediately, as she conquered the iTunes charts and soared to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in the single's second week. Taylor has always insisted her music is 100% autobiographical, so there's a lot of speculation as | OP | OP RV | 3,363,678 |
suffice. This, and Vancity Buzz, are the only Vancouver websites of any real use to you. Plan your trip at the start of your day and you will save yourself hours of cursing under your breath while you're getting lost, and soggy, in our city. Commuting via transit is trying in Vancouver and transit etiquette is useful in making the journey less so. Not only must you plan your booze ration for the weekend, plan how you will get home also. Skytrain closes around 1 a.m. (sigh), clubs and pubs close at 2 a.m. (scowl) and Vancouver has 9.4 taxis per 10,000 residents. Montreal has 27 and Toronto has 18. Vancouver's downtown core is the second most dense in North America behind Manhattan. If you find yourself downtown in the wee morning hours of a Saturday or Sunday, don't bother calling a cab. Drag your inebriated self to a busy corner, give yourself a mental pep rally and start chasing taxis. Once you've flagged one, get inside and declare your route of choice if you have not negotiated a price. If you do pre-pay, your ride home will be quick as though suddenly your cabbie is auditioning for Nascar. Every commercial holiday on the calendar is an excuse to drink. Actually, this is more en point with how to be a North American. Almost every holiday, we dress up our store windows, businesses, houses, bodies and pets and get merry. Why wouldn't you? Apparently we are a polite, but standoffish | HI | HI HT | 174,799 |
leg if you are left-handed. Remember, it is a weapon and should be naturally accessible to you. Be advised that modern legislation in some countries places a question mark over the wearing of such an 'offensive' weapon. 4. Footwear. The smartest footwear with evening dress is undoubtedly buckle brogues but since these are very hard to come by, any smart formal shoes will suffice or, what are known as ghillie brogues with the long laces that tie around the ankles. 5. The Kilt. The kilt comes next and is worn firmly by the straps and buckles at the waist. The hem should come to the crest of the kneecap thus showing the knee. 6. The Sporran strap. This should be put through the sporran loops at the back of the kilt and chains brought forward to attach them to the rings at the rear of the sporran. You then adjust the hang of the sporran by means of the rear strap and buckle. 7. The Sporran. It is most important that the sporran is worn high and not midway down the front apron. Your coatee and vest then finish the evening Highland dress outfit. Notes: Lace Jabots and ruffles are not suitable to wear with the coatee and vest (waistcoat). They are usually worn with the close-fitting high buttoned style of doublet. If medals are to be worn, they should be on the left breast. Medals should be miniatures. Waist belts with a silver buckle are not required when wearing | HI | HI HT | 1,477,642 |
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their gmail account years ago. Nor will they have a cell phone with a GPS that's constantly broadcasting their location like a little tracking device. Secondly, they'll probably run their own mail server, and have a nice long 20 char password, and some nice strict logging / banning policies. Thirdly, anything they send over the wire that's important will be encrypted. Any of the above would have been boring boilerplate we already knew, but it still would have been better advice to your readers than to hand your cell phone and/or personal details over to Google. Seriously, if having your gmail account compromised would cause you to lose control of your bank account, then your problems are not going to be solved by two-factor authentication. You need to rethink your approach to personal security entirely. However, can you explain to me why it's better than using a strong password? Let's say: - My password for my email is $p+p9Dv5"L][&Y#Oq>$E (hint: it's not, but it's _like_ that) - Each password I use is different and I store them in a secure password manager (it sounds like in your anecdote the person used the same insecure password everywhere, and hackers got it through some random forum hack or something) - I don't use password hints (one way to disable them would be to put massive random strings) - I don't give out my password over the net, or install malware etc Where is the danger? In terms of insecurity, I think the | OP | OP | 657,632 |
effective strategy with over 50% of domain holders still being billed directly, resulting in significant collection costs being incurred. Peter Mott of 2Day Internet says that this new pricing differential is unlikely to affect the choice of domain names for for most New Zealand businesses. "New Zealand customers prefer a .nz name" says Mott. According to Mott, one of the biggest problems with the .com domain is that it is now very congested and there's only a slim chance that most people's first choice of a name is still available. Mott adds "NSI [the US registration authority] does have a dispute policy which in some situations can disadvantage name holders, but we have not experienced any problems with domains held by NZ customers." O'Brien says "In our experience, service rather than price tends to be the real issue. There's a real misconception out there that New Zealand is an awfully expensive place for domain names." O'Brien went on record last year to say that the Domainz charges would be reviewed mid '98 but, like Mott, he believes that the changes to US pricing wont have any major bearing on user's decisions. Domainz plans to place more emphasis on creating an attractive discount structure for agents when it reviews its pricing as promised, later in the year. If you're thinking we're worse off here in New Zealand, have some sympathy for Australian companies looking to register a domain name under .com.au. This page explains the rather restrictive rules regarding the issuance | IN | IN DT | 1,714,610 |
is an affirmation. Therefore, your thoughts and words can be positive or negative, depending on the belief underlying them. Your thoughts and words can either help you or hinder you. They will either enable you to grow, or will disable you from trying. Wherever you learnt to think a certain way about yourself is in the past. In every moment you have the capability to notice your thoughts, stop the negative ones, and reframe them into more positive, truthful and productive thoughts that will serve you with love. Your attitude will begin to change, your mood will improve, and your emotions and behaviour will follow. Once you have a new affirmation, say it aloud. Affirm it to yourself every morning. Reaffirm it to yourself throughout the day: to the mirror, the fridge, the computer screen, the dashboard in your car... etc. Make it visible and say it to yourself mentally and aloud. Eventually this new belief will become true for you. No one can get into your mind and make you think a certain belief unless you allow them to. Empower yourself and choose your own thoughts. When you start changing your internal world, your outer world will respond in often surprising and pleasant ways... Disclaimer & Privacy Policy All information contained within this site is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any health problem -- nor is it intended to replace the advice of a qualified medical practitioner, dietician, or mental | HI | HI HT | 3,323,234 |
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