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Hoping I find that solution to the wobble. Ugg. And then there's the giant, vintage shadow box. I think I'm on the fourth or fifth coat of some kinds of paint/wax/distress combo. Seems most of my projects 'sit' in between 'ideas' of how to complete them! I love this desk -- glad you didn't give up on it because it is so darn cute!!\nYou really did this little desk justice... it looks great! I seem to stay \"stuck\" on most of my projects, which is why I will only do one at a time. The commitment issues make it difficult to accept a project as 'finished.'\nCarol\nantiquetexan.blogspot.com\nTHE DESK TURNED OUT BEAUTIFUL! love it\nI love it! I am stumped myself right now on a dresser:) where will you put your new pretty desk?\nFinally, I am inspired! I stumbled upon a great find at a yard sale - $3.00 for a vintage cabinet with shelves inside! Loved it but didn't love it's 5 (or more) layers of paint! I stripped the paint (still have a bit more to do) and have been mulling over what to do next. Thanks to your post, I think I now know! One day, I'll link it up here and maybe you'll see what you inspired!\nlove it--great job! and i love how you styled it too. I would love it if you shared this at my linky party starting Wednesday.\nWhat a great job!!! I'm leaving totally inspired! Thank you for sharing! :)\nWhat an adorable DIY project! Thank you so much for sharing.\nHappy Monday!\nThis looks great-so it must have been worth getting stuck on it!!\nlooks great! starting and finishing 5 months later is better than not starting at all. I have tons of projects in my head that I just don't do :(\nI'm hopping over from Creative Bloggers Part&Hop. This desk turned out great! The distressing looks beautiful... I always have a hard time knowing how much to do. Thank you for sharing!\nI love this desk it turned out so good, and you can't beat free.\nShe's a beauty. Desks are lots of work. 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And yes, I have 2 projects sitting in the garage that I am completely stuck on! Not for lack of inspiration...but for lack of know-how! One adorable table, I counted 10 layers of paint on! I have spent hours trying to strip it, and am still struggling!\nCongrats on finishing your project! It turned out beautifully!\nBest Wishes and Blessings,\nAmanda\nSandi @ Making It Homey said...Oh have I ever been stuck on a project before. Your's turned out so beautiful, you did such a good job of distressing.\nWell, for being stumped, it turned out awesome! I am painting a desk at the moment with similar pulls and wondering what they would like painted in oil rubbed bronze... yours look great, so I think I will go ahead and paint mine as well!\nYour desk turned out beautiful! I love it!\nLove the desk, it turned out fabulous!!\nGreat job, Nicole! I do believe that it was well worth the wait! lol! :)\nxoxo laurie\nfrom oh no to oh yeah...love the redo...thanks for linking it up to fridays unfolded!\nalison\nGorgeous! I love this and I have to try the oil rubbed bronze color you mention as it is the color of all the hardware in my house. What an awesome project! Sorry to hear you got snagged on this one but it happens. And your snag turned out amazing!\nOoooh, what beautiful pictures - love the paper in the drawers - such a lovely touch!\nIt turned out so beautiful! I have many projects waiting for me as well...I need to feel inspired and this helped:) LOVE it.\nawesome transformation! love free stuff! thanks for linking up. we featured you today! please come back and grab a button!\nAmy\nThe desk looks great! Even though it sat for weeks, you did her justice. Love how it turned out.\nIt turned very nice indeed!\nI just posted about a pine desk that I painted black. Spray painted with a can no less... I took the lazy way out and it came out looking GREAT! I was so surprised. (I also linked up to this party)\nI'm hosting my first party next week and you are invited! Hope to see you :)\nxoxo Bunny Jean\nlove this! i love taking yard sale items and bringing them back to life. I have a sewing desk that i did the same thing.\nNice job! I love it!\nSo I have a question...I have a desk that has been sitting in our garage for ohhh about a year now...I noticed that you said nothing about sanding it...you just sprayed primer on it, really that would be awesome cuz that is what has me stuck, the sanding of the entire desk...ugh...\nHilary\nHilary...I do not sand, I only prime! :) I would only sand if there is loose paint!\nI've had TOO MANY projects I've been stuck on! I feel your pain ;-) Your finished product is gorgeous, though!\nNicole, this is beautiful :-) A Very classy and elegant makeover. Well done!\nI came over via MMS and am your newest follower :-) I'd love for you to visit my blog when you get a moment.\nEmily\nemilysummers-designer.blogpsot.com\nThanks Nicole for answering my question! I am excited to try and prime without sanding! Can't wait to finally get into my house and use it!\nHilary\nThis turned out gorgeous. I wish this was my work at home desk :) The burlap book covers are too cute too. Thanks for sharing! I am your newest follower and I think your blog is cute. I would appreciate it if you came to my blog and followed me too!\nIt did come out beautiful! I love it. I think the time it took you was worth it.\nTracy\nTandy Artisan Jewelry Blog\nI love the liner idea. It looks beautiful!!\nI am new to your blog, but I have a question. I am redoing this little nightstand slash vanity and it seems to have the same handles as your little desk. Do your unscrew from inside the drawer or do you take the handle off and then unscrew from the front? Mine have no screws inside. I finally figured out I have to take out the handle. But it only worked for one. I tried and tried and they just won't come off. Any tips?\nI have the same desk! Very vintage\nI have the same desk! Very vintage"}
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{"text": "Computer Science team from Warsaw University won CERC 2018\nA group of students from Computer Science faculty at Warsaw University (MIMUW) just won Central European programming contest.\nPrague, 10 December 2018\nA group of students (Jakub Boguta, Konrad Paluszek, and Mateusz Radecki) from Computer Science faculty at Warsaw University (MIMUW) just won Central European programming contest, CERC 2018.\n25th time in a row\nWarsaw Uni team won the programming contest in competition with 74 other teams from Central European countries.\nThe result is not a surprise. The winners will represent Warsaw University for the 25th time in a row in the finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Porto in 2019."}
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{"text": "The prolific Maurice Gee is a major figure of late-20th-century New Zealand fiction, and his work has found an international readership. This poster, produced by the New Zealand Book Council in 2005, charts Gee's writing career and includes quotes from some of his works.\nUsing this item\nAlexander Turnbull Library\nReference: Eph-D-LITERATURE-2005-01\nPermission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.\nCourtesy of New Zealand Book Council - Te Kaunihera Pukapuka o Aotearoa\nAdd new comment"}
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{"text": "Dec. 10, 2004\nSEATTLE - The 15th-seeded UCLA women's volleyball team ousted the Big Ten Champion Penn State Nittany Lions on Friday night, winning the match with game scores of 30-24, 22-30, 30-25, 30-28. The Nittany Lions were the No. 2 seed in this year's NCAA Division I Tournament and finish their season with a 29-3 record. The Bruins were led in kills by Nana Meriwether and Nancy Barba with 16 apiece, and improve to 21-10 on the season.\nThe Bruins will face either 10th-seeded Saint Mary's or seventh seed Washington on Saturday night at 7 pm. The match will be televised live by CSTV and will be the last of four consecutive Regional Finals to air on the network tomorrow night.\nThe Bruins hit .341 in the opening game of the match to take the opening game 30-24. The Bruins took an early 10-6 lead, but the Nittany Lions stormed back to take the lead at 11-10 with a five-point run. It was back and forth from there before UCLA broke a 16-16 tie and never relinquished the lead. In that opening game, Nana Meriwether hit .750 for the Bruins, recording six kills on eight error-free attacks while adding three block assists.\nUCLA took an early lead again in game two, pulling out to a 9-6 lead before another five-point run by the Nittany Lions gave Penn State an 11-9 advantage. Penn State would never relinquish that lead as they took the game 30-22. The Bruins had their lowest hitting percentage of the night in that game, checking in at .150 as a team to Penn State's .343.\nAfter the 10-minute break between games two and three, the Bruins started quickly, going out to a 5-2 lead. Penn State came back to tie the score at seven and eight before taking a 9-8 lead on a UCLA service error, but a Brittany Ringel kill re-tied the score and started a six-point run by the Bruins behind the service of Meriwether. UCLA built a 28-18 lead from there, before the Nittany Lions put together a six-point run and scored seven of the final nine points of the game, but it was not enough as UCLA took the game 30-25.\nThe teams traded points early in a very sloppy fourth game. Penn State would creep out to an 18-13 lead before the Bruins scored six straight to take a 19-18 lead. UCLA would extend to a 21-19 lead and hold that margin until a three-point Penn State run on a Cassy Salyer ace and an Ashley Pederson kill tied the score at 28-28, but UCLA put the game and the match away on consecutive kills by Meriwether and Ringle to win the match 3-1.\nSaturday night's match will mark UCLA's fifth NCAA Regional Final appearance in a six-year span. The Bruins have advanced to the Regional Final and lost in 1999 (lost to Penn State in State College, Pa.), 2000 (lost to Wisconsin in Madison, Wis.), 2001 (lost to Long Beach State in Long Beach, Calif.) and 2003 (lost to USC in Lincoln, Neb.). UCLA will look to advance to its first National Semifinal since 1994 when the Bruins face either Saint Mary's or host school Washington on Saturday at 7 pm at Bank of America Arena in Seattle.\nThe game will be broadcast live on television on CSTV, as well as with an audio broadcast on."}
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{"text": "Newsletter August 12, 2007\nInvestorsFriend Inc. Newsletter August 12, 2007\nMarket Direction?\nWill the market continue to go down? Should investors pull their money out of the market now?\nIts impossible to know if the markets will continue to go down. Some experts say yes, others say that the economy and profits are strong and the market will recover.\nI think there is certainly a good possibility perhaps even probability that the broader stock market will go down another 5 or 10%. And there is a smaller chance it could go down more than that.\nBut profits are good, economies are strong and the market valuation in terms of the price to earnings ratio is not very high (The P/E is higher than historic averages but is no where close to the bubble levels of 2000). This should protect against any very large market plunge.\nBut the sub-prime mortgage situation and the drying up of certain credit sources is very serious and the problem could spread. Credit has truly been the wonderful lubricant of the world economy. Over the past 60 years or more it has become ever easier for consumers and businesses to borrow. Can you imagine how much smaller the economy would be if all consumer purchasing was done in cash? (Even for cars and homes).\nSome people get into great trouble through excessive borrowing. But overall, credit has been a huge driver in growing economies and creating much higher standards of living.\nIf credit sources dry up in a widespread fashion, that would be a huge problem. Interest rates would soar. House and stock prices would plummet. Central banks will do everything they can to limit the spread of the sub-prime situation and insure that credit markets do not fry up. But so far, I think the ripples are still spreading. Things could easily get worse before they get better.\nBut no matter what happens, economies tend to grow in the long-run. Stock markets are almost certain to be higher in five years and ten years from where they are now.\nAny decision to pull money of of the market is a very individual decision.\nIf we knew with certainty that the markets will decline and we knew where the bottom was, then almost everyone might want to get out now and get back in at the bottom (The exception might be cases where getting out would trigger big taxable gains). But we don’t know these things. Investors who get out may avoid a dip but then when the market turns back up they may miss the bottom and then feel paralyzed and never get back in. In the long run that would be a mistake.\nYounger investors with years of savings ahead of them will benefit from any market decline and in most cases should simply stay the course. Investors with short time horizons and a need for the funds should probably consider reducing their equity exposure, if it is too high now.\nIn part the decision to pull money out of the market depends on the consequences of a major market decline. For some the consequences are merely regret at lost opportunity. For others the consequences would be a reduced life-style in the short term. The decision is very much dependent on each persons circumstances.\nAs we think about the risk of a market decline we should put it in context. We have had almost five years of strong market increases. No one is suggesting we are going to be giving up all those gains. The risk is probably that we retrace several more months to perhaps at most a couple of years of gains. In the long run those in the market will come out far ahead of those who remain always afraid to be in the stock market.\nlulu (ludicrous) Lemon?\nIn our previous newsletter, I argued that lululemon was extremely over-valued at $29.72 Canadian or about U.S. $28. I’ll use U.S. dollars to discuss this stock since it trades mostly on NASDAQ and reports in U.S. dollars.\nI also thought that the IPO price of $18 was far too high. The stock opened for trading just a couple weeks ago at $28. It then soared as high as $38 and closed Friday at $36.\nSo, was I wrong? or is the market simply having a continuing fit of insanity here? Let’s look at the numbers again.\nThe whole company has a market value of $2.44 billion. It’s hard to have a feel for numbers in the billions, so lets look at things on a per store basis. (But you might get some feel for the numbers by considering that highly profitable Tim Hortons with about 3000 franchised stores and a cult-like following is worth $6.3 billion.)\nLululemon has 59 stores so that is a market value of $41 million per store. But in fairness much of the value represents future stores. The prospectus (at page 84) indicates that they plan to have 50 to 60 additional stores by the end of 2008. So that is a maximum of 119 stores by the end of 2008. So the market value is $20.5 million per end-of-2008 store (and half those stores do not exist yet).\nBut what should one store be worth? They report that a typical store is 2900 square feet and sells $1400 per square foot per year (see prospectus, page 86). So that’s sales of $4.06 million annually per store. In the most recent quarter the net profit margin was 8%. But as they gain scale they could perhaps optimistically get to say 15% net profit. At 15% that would be $610,000 profit per store. Even with a high P/E ratio like 25, that would be worth $15 million per store. But getting to my value of $15 million per store is really a case of torturing the numbers until they confess that the stores are worth millions. It only happens by assuming a big increase in the net profit ratio and by assuming a high P/E ratio should apply.\nMathematically, investors in lululemon are paying up in advance for a big increase in profitability to maybe 15% which I think is almost unheard of for a clothing retailer. (100% mark-ups lead to 50% gross margins and it’s difficult to have even 10% left for net profit after paying all expenses and taxes). Investors are also paying up also in advance for a large increase in the store count.\nWhen you buy a stock you typically hope that the stock price go up as the company grows and becomes more profitable. But here, investors seem to be paying in advance for the continuation of very brisk sales at each store, for a huge increase in the store count, and for perhaps a doubling in the profit ratio. Having paid for a huge amount of growth and success in advance, it’s hard to imagine that there would be much further growth to cause the share price to rise.\nIt seems clear, lululemon is trading purely on hype, speculation and momentum. Yahoo is not showing any analyst recommendations for this stock. Reasonable forecasts of growth and profitability cannot support this stock price. I predict it will fall. But I do not recommend shorting the stock. Shorting is exceedingly risky and also the market may continue to price this stock in an irrational manner for months or even years to come.\nThe point is, sometimes the market does insane things. It might be tempting to jump into a momentum stock. But stocks that are not supported by fundamentals can fall hard and fast. Most investors will be better served by investing in stocks with much more reasonable valuations. Why pay up in full today for growth that may not fully materialize?\nThe Ultimate long-term arbitrage\nOne way to think about the reasonableness of a stock price is to think about what it would be worth in cash flows if you “simply” held it “forever”.\nFor example, imagine you hold a stock that pays a $1.00 dividend that is expected to grow at 5% per year. Discounted at a required return of 10% per year, this stock is worth $20 ($1/(.10-.05)). By holding it “forever” you can expect to collect future dividends with a present value of $20. If the stock trades in the market at $12, investors can buy it and even if the stock stays under valued they can “simply” keep it forever and expect to realize the full $20 in value.\nThis is the concept that Warren Buffett talks about when he says he wants to hold stocks where it would not bother him if the stock market closed for ten years. By buying a stock at or below its long-term intrinsic value, Buffett then does not have to rely on selling the stock to realize value. He simply keeps it forever and collects the dividend.\nThis works much better for Buffett when he buys the whole company. In that case he controls the dividend and can make sure the company flows all excess cash to him.\nIn Canada, Income Trusts were a sort of substitute for buying the whole company. (In a way they let little investors do what Buffett did in buying the whole company.) Income Trusts pay out as much cash as possible and therefore it was easier to adopt the long-term hedge strategies. Investors in Income Trusts would not let the Trust prices fall too far since they had the opportunity to “simply” hold “forever” and collect that cash distribution. With the new taxation of Trusts in Canada their values naturally fall. But after the price adjusts to the lower level, the Trusts are still suitable for the long term arbitrage if their prices fall below the value of the (now lower) expected cash flows.\nNow consider lululemon. Is there any hope that an investor who bought the whole company for $2.44 billion could ever collect back enough profit to make that worthwhile? Consider that 2006 sales were $150 million and profits were about $8 million. Sales would need to increase a lot and be highly profitable to ever generate enough cash profit to justify the $2.44 billion market value of the company. Clearly lululemon is not a long-term play. Rather it’s a game of pass the hot potato before it inevitably cools.\nForeign Exchange Rates and Implications\nComing to America – Price increases on imports\nThe U.S. dollar has fallen against the Euro from about 1.05 euro in 2002 to 0.85 euro at the end of 2005 to 0.73 today.\nI suspect there has been a delayed reaction, the lower purchasing power of the U.S. dollar in Europe has not yet been fully reflected in prices for European imports. So, Americans can expect price increases on European imports. The price of European cars should be rising. However because European cars face stiff competition with domestic U.S. cars and cars imported from other countries, the price increases on European cars has likely been delayed and will likely never match the full currency change. Still, U.S. citizens in the market for a European made car might want to buy now.\nThe U.S. dollar has fallen substantially against the Canadian dollar from about CAD $1.55 in 2002 to CAD $1.05 today. This is important to Americans since Canada is (I believe still) the largest source of imports to the U.S. This has already driven up energy prices for Americans as those tend to be passed along quickly to consumers.\nThe U.S. dollar remains strong against the Japanese currency. It had fallen about 20% from 2002 to the end of 2005 but has since recovered. Therefore Americans should not expect price increases on Japanese imports.\nThe U.S. dollar also remains relatively strong against the Chinese currency which is pegged to the U.S. dollar and which has been strengthened against the U.S. dollar by only about 8% since 2002. Therefore Americans should not expect to see any significant price increases on Chinese imports caused by exchange rate changes (unless China raises the value of its currency, which it may do).\nThe extent of the price increases in the U.S. will be mitigated by the substantial competition from domestic suppliers and other countries. When the U.S. currency drops against some countries and not others, rather than price increases we may see those exporters having to “absorb” the currency impact or we may see consumers simply shift their buying to domestic suppleness and to those countries (like China and Japan) where the U.S. dollar is still strong.\nAmericans are affected by changing exchange rates. But not as dramatically as are other countries. That’s because the U.S. compared to most countries is more of a self-sustained country. Imports and exports do not account for a huge percent of its GDP. (For example Canada’s trade with the U.S. represents roughly 33% of Canada’s GDP and close to 3% of the U.S. GDP.\nThe average American consumer (who is not shopping for a BMW) does not have to be concerned about currency exchange rates.\nComing to Canada – Price decreases on imports\nThe Canadian dollar is now worth about 95 cents U.S. In 2005 the Canadian dollar was worth only 80 to 85 cents. And five years ago it was worth about 65 cents. So the Canadian dollar now buys a lot more in the U.S. than it used to.\nIn terms of the European dollar, the Canadian dollar had risen from about 0.62 euros in 2004 to 0.72 euros at the start of 2006, but then fell back to 0.65 early this year and is now at 0.69 euros. So there has been volatility but not really a dramatic change over that period.\nIn terms of the Japanese currency, the Canadian dollar has strengthened substantially from 80 yen in much of 2004 and 2005 to 111 yen today. Therefore the Canadian dollar buys a lot more in Japan than it used to.\nIn terms of the Chinese currency, the Canadian dollar has strengthened by about 39% since 2002.\nTherefore, in theory, Canadians should expect to see or have seen price reductions on everything that is imported from the U.S., Japan and China.\nTo some extent this has definitely been happening. When you look at the low prices for items like tools and even “Quads” and small motorcycles at Canadian Tire, the higher Canadian dollar is responsible for some of those price drops. Prices for consumer electronics are also down likely partly because of the currency.\nBut some prices do not seem to have dropped. A classic example is book and magazine prices stamped with high Canadian and low U.S. prices. Prices for clothing do not seem to have declined. And prices for cars in particular do not seem to have responded.\nCanadians should expect and demand lower prices on Japanese cars. I believe there is a huge opportunity at this time to buy a new or used car in the U.S. at much lower prices and bring it back into Canada. I pity the Canadian auto worker because the competitive position of building a car in Canada has substantially weakened compared to building the same car in the U.S.\nI believe Canadians should and will take up cross-border shopping with a vengeance. If prices on imports are not reduced then it makes sense for Canadians to start shopping a lot more in the U.S.\nIn addition with our dollar near 30-year highs, I believe many Canadians would be wise to move more of their cash and investments into U.S. dollars. If the Canadian dollar continues to rise then there will be even better opportunities to do that ahead. But I would start now rather than waiting and hoping the Canadian dollar goes even higher.\nChinese exchange rate\nThe Chinese essentially peg their currency to the U.S. dollar. Over the past five years they have adjusted their currency upward by about 8.5%. America wants the Chinese to move their currency a LOT higher. China is essentially accused of keeping its currency artificially low thereby flooding the U.S. with cheap imports from China. Clearly this hurts U.S. manufacturers. But U.S. consumers benefit greatly from the lower prices (except of course those who lose their manufacturing job). China also receives less for its products than it could get. It’s a bit odd to “accuse” a country of selling you stuff too cheap. If someone wants to sell me something “too cheap” I don’t complain.\nEND\nShawn Allen, CFA, CMA, MBA, P.Eng.\nPresident\nInvestorsFriend Inc.\nTo see older editions of this newsletter, or to get off of this email list, click here."}
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{"text": "Extension \"Small hall\" in the darmstadtium\nDarmstadt | 2013–2014\nClient: Stadt Darmstadt\nArea: 5.300 m²\nThe small hall represents a separate utilization unit in the congress center, which was already opened in 2007.\nIn addition to the actual hall extension, sanitary and storage areas as well as a separate foyer area were created. By forming a secondary room core within the large room height, it was possible to realize an additional lounge area as an open gallery with a connection to the foyer areas of the large hall.\nThe total hall area of 600 m² is divided by a fixed partition wall into a congress hall of approx. 435 m² with fixed tiered seating, a foyer area of approx. 95 m² connected via portals and the ancillary room core of approx. 70 m² on the same level, as well as an additional 95 m² on the higher level.\nIn addition to the complex geometry of the space (sloping exterior walls, sloping roof and floor coverings), a particular challenge during the fit-out was the optimal technical supply. Since the sculptural appearance was to be maintained both inside and outside the hall body, the self-sufficient air-conditioning units were planned on an intermediate level below the roof with all necessary measures of sound insulation.\n"}
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{"text": "Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has reported a strong rise in half-year profit off the back of soaring prices for the commodity.\nThe Perth-based company announced that net profit for the six months to the end of December 2016 increased to $US1.22 billion ($1.59 billion). Revenues during the period were 34 per cent higher at $US4.49 billion.\nFortescue chief executive officer Nev Power said the company was continuing an unwavering focus on delivering against safety, productivity and cost reduction targets.\n“We achieved further improvement in our operating costs to $US13.06 per wet metric tonne and shipped 86.1 million tonnes for the half year, slightly ahead of our targets.” Power said.\n“Our successful operational performance combined with positive market conditions produced strong cash flows facilitating further debt repayments of $US1.7 billion.\n“With ongoing improvements in productivity and efficiency driving consistent cash returns from our world class assets, the board has declared a 20 cents per share fully franked interim dividend.”\nFortescue shipped 86.1 million tonnes (Mt) of iron ore during the six months and has maintained a guidance of between 165-170Mt for the 2017 financial year."}
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{"text": "It's the big moment that all #Braniel fans have been waiting for: Brie Bella and Bryan Danielson (WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan) are married!\nThe couple exchanged vows in a beautiful spring wedding at L'Auberge Resort and Spa surrounded by their closest friends, family members, fellow WWE Divas and Superstars, including John Cena, Tyson Kidd, Cesaro and Jimmy Uso.\nBrie stunned in a Katie May wedding dress and Yves Saint Laurent heels—a gift from twin sister Nikki Bella, who served as maid of honor. \"Nikki won't allow me to wear TOMS with my dress so she got me YSL heels,\" Brie admitted. \"Even though I have always wanted to get married barefooted.\""}
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{"text": "Saul McLeodupdated There are various approaches in contemporary psychology. An approach is a perspective i.\nObservation Deduction The objective of the basic pattern of ethnographic approach to audience research is to unearth certain traits and behavioral aspects of the chosen sample size. Traditionally, in media research, ethnographic groups were used to assess the behavioral aspects of existing and potential audiences, belonging to a separate society.\nHowever, over the years, ethnographic approach has been applied to reveal certain aspects of the subcultures that are formed within a larger society, which is otherwise familiar to the researchers as a whole Pink Thus, ethnographic research is used as a tool to study an alien society as well as to delve deeper with an otherwise familiar society and community and unearth the traits of a subculture formed within it.\nEthnographic studies, conducted on short notice, may involve group discussions, based on certain questions directed at identifying the traits of a particular group.\nIn this case, the group is not informed about the purpose of the research and hypothesis is formed on the basis of the collected data. However, ethnographic approach is traditionally conducted by interaction with the chosen samples in real life environments.\nThese informal interactions often reveal certain useful behavioral traits. Comparison of methodologies Some of the other prominent forms of media research methodologies are: Media Diary method Q Method Media Diary method is used to maximize the scopes of expression of the participants in the research.\nThe participants are asked to maintain diaries, wherein they can maintain records of various aspects that include hours spent on a particular form of media, usage patterns and particular experiences or perceptions related to viewing or listening of certain forms of media.\nOne of the main characteristics of this method is that the participants are assured of greater levels of privacy, as compared to some of the other forms of media researches. This is because, the respondents the opinions and feedbacks of the respondents will be accessible only to the person conducting the research.\nEthnographic approach is used as a tool to reveal the current behavioral aspects of the respondents in terms of media uses. Media diaries are used to obtain information regarding audience tastes and preferences that are expected to remain constant in the long run Jensen, These preferences are likely to stay unchanged in the near future.\nQ factor methodology is used to sort multiple and distinct viewpoints of the selected respondents. In this type of study, the respondents are asked to rank or arrange a number of pre identified factors or elements. A correlation is formed among the choices or preferences associated by a respondent to the various factors.\nEthnography is often used to study the cultural traits displayed by a particular society or community. It involves grouping or classifying groups based on certain traits.\nQ factor methodology involves forming holistic idea on an individual basis. The individual data are subsequently linked to correlate the perceptions of a group.\nAssessment of ethnography approach Like the other prominent media research methods, ethnographic approach has certain strengths and weaknesses.\nThe strengths of this approach are as follows: It is conducted by interacting with the respondents in a real life scenario. This minimizes scopes of errors that might have occurred if a respondent was asked to remember an experience in a prearranged research environment Brennen There is no rigid hypothesis for conducting the researches.\nRather the hypothesis is unbiased and can be formed or discarded based on the observations and deductions. This approach can be used to reveal finer traits that could not be exposed by other media research methods. The weaknesses of this approach are as follows: Small sample sizes may be considered as representative of a larger group of potential or existing audiences, leading to generalization Anderson Qualitative and Quantitative methodologies, Routledge, UK.Theorists argued that the tests assess verbal, mathematical, and spatial capabilities, but they do not directly examine other abilities that seem to be inherent parts of intelligence: creativity, social understanding, knowledge of one’s own strengths and weaknesses and so on.\nGardner argues that there is both a biological and cultural basis for the multiple intelligences.\nNeurobiological research indicates that learning is an outcome of the modifications in the synaptic connections between cells. This means that each child will have his own unique set of intellectual strengths and weaknesses.\nIntegrating. Welcome to ‘CE Corner' \"CE Corner\" is a quarterly continuing education article offered by the APA Office of CE in ashio-midori.com feature will provide you with updates on critical developments in psychology, drawn from peer-reviewed literature and written by leading psychology experts.\nEvaluating means talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the study as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the level of analysis as a whole with reference to the question (e.g. reductionist explanation of genetics in some behaviour).\nDatabase of FREE Psychology essays - We have thousands of free essays across a wide range of subject areas. Sample Psychology essays! This is when making an outline can be very helpful and time saving. The topic outline only uses short phrases throughout the outline.\nSWOT analysis template word or strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats is a framework of analysis used for evaluation of a company’s competitive status or lack thereof. It is a business strategy or tool identifying four important aspects of the business which are easily strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Sociology is the study of human social life. Sociology has many sub-sections of study, ranging from the analysis of conversations to the development of theories to try to understand how the entire world works. Read the job description carefully and write down the skills/abilities/traits for the position you are applying for. If those skills are not detailed enough, you can always list the must-have known ones for your area/industry. Read hereunder. Weaknesses and Strengths Interview Questions and Answers;.\nIt only uses one or two words. The other type of outline is sentence outline, in which you strengths and weaknesses, hybrids currently represent the best option for drivers today."}
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{"text": "What Could Be Wrong When Your Home Is Not Getting Warm\nPosted on: 30 March 2015. If there is a problem with your ductwork, a significant amount of warm air could be escaping before it ever makes it out of the vents. On average, 20-30% of air in a home is lost through damaged ductwork, but if you have a big problem, all the warm air could be going between the walls.\nA professional can inspect your ductwork, and find where the air is leaking. If the ductwork causing the problem is behind a wall, it will require some careful demolition to repair the problem.\nA Clogged Air Filter\nYour furnace's air filter is what stops dust from traveling through your home, but it can also be what is stopping the warm air as well. Your furnace's air filter needs to be changed regularly, and if you let it go a long time without being changed, that dust can form a barrier that makes it difficult for air to pass through.\nIf you keep up with replacing your filter regularly, this will never be a problem.\nA Broken Thermostat\nYour thermostat has a sensor in it that regulates the temperature in your home. If the sensor is damaged, it can make the furnace in your home run inefficiently or not run at all. Replacing your thermostat will help ensure that the temperature is set exactly how you want it.\nWhen you are replacing your thermostat, consider going with a programmable model that has customized settings for both weekdays and weekends. It will avoid heating your home when you are not around, and help reduce your heating bills.\nA Draft\nThere may be a possibility that warm air is escaping your home through a draft. A thermal camera can be used to find the exact spot where a draft is occurring. It could be from a window that is not sealing properly, or simply having poor insulation.\nBy identifying the potential problem, you will get your furnace heating your home properly again. Contact McLaughlin Air Conditioning Co Inc. for more information.Share"}
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{"text": "Double Glazing Funding - UK Funding for Home Improvements\nHomeowners could be entitled to Funding or Grants for Double Glazing\nHome » Double Glazing Kettlester\nAre you looking to better your home in Kettles bow, doors, casement, bay, composite doors. No matter where in the UK your home happens to be, double glazing funding will aid you with the finest window fitter in Kettlester.\nRead our ultimate guide to double glazing for homeowners\nDouble glazing funding has a number of double glazing installers in Kettlester, Shetland\nWhen Choosing a window installer to install your double glazing it is critical that you make sure they retain the appropriate certifications to execute your doors installation. Double Glazing Funding take the difficulty out of Choosing honest installers to carry out the installation of your new windows & doors. Unfortunately, allocation scheme in Kettlester. It’s very immediate to enquire, and you can find out within minutes if you have qualified for funding.\nIt is not always appropriate to go with the cheapest option when choosing double glazing in Kettles.\nKettlester, Shetland, Scotland is a Locality that lies in the Scotland region it has a local government of Shetland Islands and the local postcode sector is ZE2 9.\nJune 12, 2019\nDouble Glazing"}
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{"text": "Operation Protective Edge - Q&A\nhague\n64\ndd.MM.yyyy\nTurn on more accessible mode\nTurn off more accessible mode\nDutch\n|\n|\nעברית\nISRAËLISCH DIPLOMATIEK NETWERK\nIsraëlische ambassade in Nederland\nNaar de pagina gaan\nDen Haag\nOver de ambassade\nConsulaire diensten\nAlgemene informatie\nContact en openingstijden\nReisdocumenten\nRegistratie Formulieren\nVolksregister\nStaatsburgerschap\nMilitaire Dienst\nVerklaring Omtrent het Gedrag\nVisainformatie\nPrijzen Consulaire Diensten\nVisavereisten\nAfdelingen\nPolitieke zaken\nPers en voorlichting\nPublieksdiplomatie en Cultuur\nEconomische Zaken\nDepartement Internationaal Recht\nDefensie\nNieuws\nCurrently selected\nOver Israël\nFeiten over Israël\nJoodse feestdagen\nGeschiedenis\nHet staatsbestel\nMensen\nEconomie\nOnderwijs\nBilaterale betrekkingen\nStuderen in Israël\nPartnersteden\nIsraeli Missions Around The World\nDen Haag\nNieuws\nOperation Protective Edge - Q&A\nNieuws\nNieuws\nAgenda\nTools & Informatie\nOverige ambassades\nOperation Protective Edge - Q&A\n7/14/2014\nGovXShortDescription\nThe main objective of Operation Protective Edge is to re-establish stability and quiet for the citizens of Israel once and for all. Israel cannot accept a reality in which millions of its citizens are subject to the whims of radical Islamic terrorist organizations\n.\nThe aftermath of a rocket attack on Ashkelon, July 13, 2014\n: GPO/Kobi Gideon\nmfa_RichImage2\nGovXContentSection of.\nWere it not for the effective deployment of Iron Dome and the shelters, the number of Israeli civilian casualties in this conflict would be very high.\nWhy have civilians in Gaza been hurt?\nThe civilian casualties in Gaza are a direct result of Hamas' tactic of\nusing the Palestinian civilian population as human shields for its terrorist activities\n. Hamas is committing a\ndouble war crime\nby deliberately targeting Israeli civilians while at the same time embedding its weapons, leaders, operatives and infrastructures in the midst of uninvolved Palestinian civilians. Hamas bears full responsibility for the civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip.\nMoreover, Hamas is also investing all of its resources in acquiring and producing weapons and rockets for attacking Israel, instead of caring for the welfare of the population of Gaza.\nIn a show of utter disregard for the safety of its own civilian population,\nHamas' Ministry of the Interior in Gaza has instructed residents not to heed Israel's warnings about impending attacks\n. Hamas also urges residents to actively form human shields, thus deliberately exposing them to grave danger. from the truth since there is no symmetry between Israel and Hamas.\nIsrael left the Gaza Strip completely in 2005 and has no claims on the territory besides the wish to see it develop as a peaceful and prosperous neighbor. If Hamas and the other terrorist organizations disarmed and stopped their attacks, Israel would have no reason to respond.\nYet instead of developing the Gaza Strip, Hamas violently seized control of the territory, turned it into a terror base and established a terrorist dictatorship whose declared goal is the destruction of Israel.\nPrinterversie\nmfaFooter"}
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{"text": "I university while I was still pregnant. I learned a lot in the class about how it all worked and what you’re supposed to do, but reality is a different story. On a side note, you know what’s not helpful in a breastfeeding class? Not talking about formula supplementation, even when asked. Being so sanctimommy that you refuse to talk about certain practicalities that can actually help people make informed decisions. Thanks, UNC Women’s Health.\nAs I was saying, reality. The little guy came 5 weeks early, and when you spend time in the NICU, you are beholden to their methods, and some of those things that babies become accustom to early on can be very difficult to unteach a newborn. Bottle feeding (pumped breastmilk) was a necessity, with a limited number of breastfeeding attempts per day for various reasons. Even with a lactation coach, establishing a breastfeeding regime with a premature baby takes weeks of work, and we only ever managed to have small bouts of breastfeeding throughout the day, with bottle feeding breastmilk making up the majority of his intake. This lasted for 3 months before he decided that he was done with the nipple entirely.\nThe first month was breastmilk only, but after that, I began to supplement with formula. Pumping all the time is incredibly taxing. It takes so much time to keep your milk supply up, and I wanted to be able to go out and have a few drinks every once and a while. I could never get my supply up high enough to stockpile before a night out, so formula and waiting for the alcohol to leave my system it would have to be.\nThis is all to say that not only have I been tied to a breast pump and breastmilk storage supplies for the past six months, I also have everything that goes with making formula as well. Now try traveling with all of this crap, plus everything else your baby needs. I realized just how annoying and borderline martyring myself it is to not just pick a method to make traveling and all of our lives easier. We have gone on two trips since having the baby, one to Florida (pictured above at the beach) and one to Colorado, and I just couldn’t even fathom flying with all of this stuff. Driving long distances with an infant is super fun (not even sure how sarcastic I mean this), but we did it anyway, with me pumping in the passenger seat of the car and storing milk in an ice chest. Don’t even get me started on my desperation to find hotels with dishwashers along the way. Residence Inn is my hero.\nWhy did I do it this way? I wanted to provide as much breastmilk as I could for 6 months, primarily for its immunological benefits. After 6 months, I gave myself permission to quit, although I haven’t yet. I also think that supplementation has benefits that do not get touted. When I was providing breastmilk only, the NICU wanted us to fortify milk with formula anyway and add vitamin D drops fortified with iron if the formula was not agreeing with him. Supplementing with formula, I don’t have to worry about adjusting the breastmilk, and he gets nutrients that he may not be getting from me. Breastmilk is the perfect liquid, blah, blah, blah, but it actually varies a bit more than commonly believed. I also don’t think variation is a bad thing in terms of giving formula as well. It makes him more adaptable, and while he has a clear preference for breastmilk, if I decided that I was done with it tomorrow, it would not be a struggle.\nWhile I chose the most labor- and equipment-intensive method for feeding, I had my reasons for doing so. One method does not fit all, and even for the same mom, different child, there is likely to be differences out of preference or necessity. What is important is that you are doing your best and you are only making compromises that you are comfortable with. No one else’s opinion matters if your baby is healthy and happy. I must say though, I’m looking forward to my breast pump retirement party.\nMaking Life More Complicated: Breastfeeding Edition\n29 thoughts on “Making Life More Complicated: Breastfeeding Edition”\nOh the breast-formula debate is a tricky one! It sounds like you’ve done an amazing job.\nI think there is no doubt that breastmilk is best (as you say the immunological benefits as well as a whole host of other things) and a lot of women give up too easily because it can take a LOOOONG time to establish breastfeeding and nobody warns you about that.\nHowever, if you need to give formula, then that’s what you need to do, and there’s no point in making anyone feel guilty about it. The baby needs feeding at the end of the day. #ABloggingGoodTime\nLucy At Home recently posted…Why Ignoring Quiet Alana Could Make You A Fool\nThank you! It’s so hard to make the decision guilt free, and it is so important that we all support each other! Thanks for commenting.\nEveryone has to choose what works best for them and their child, and like you say it can differ between children. I know my two were very different. I certainly don’t miss the breast pump, they’re like medieval torture devices!\n#ablogginggoodtime\nThey are! Some days I just dread it. Thanks for commenting!\nI totally understand why you are looking forward to the retirement party At the end of the day we all do what works best for us but sanctimonious people at courses are the worst! Thank you for linking up to #ablogginggoodtime\nSounds like a labour of love for you! I am about to have my third baby and having breastfed my other two for two years each I’m hoping to do the same again – I hate breast pumps too though! #ablogginggoodtime\nCrummy Mummy recently posted…How NOT to get a baby to sleep alone\nLove it, raising babies is not one size fits all. Great job finding what works best for your family to feed your Little. #DreamTeam\nHeather Keet recently posted…Coping when Utopia disappears…\nHear, hear! No mummy guilt. Everyone does what’s best for them and their baby. No apologies required. A great, honest piece. Alison x #DreamTeam\nThanks and thanks for commenting!\nBF is hard! And pumping takes a lot of commitment! I used to carry around my pump, 2 extra pumps and the whole thing that would clean & steam bottles ( i don’t even rem what it is called!) And to make sure I pump every 6 hours meant pumping in rest rooms, airplanes, back seat of cars. Once I even pumped in a hired jeep in front of a volcano in Indonesia!! haha.\nI was so relieved when I was done.\n#dreamteam\nYes, it’s just so much stuff! Having to sterilize in hotel rooms and pumping on the highway as truckers rode on by. Necessary if you ever want to leave the house. Pumping in front of a volcano is pretty badass! 🙂 Thanks for commenting!\nWhile I was pregnant we attented an NCT class were we learnt a lot about breast feeding. But actually putting it into practice was a very different story! I found it very unhelpful that there were no discussions about formula. It feels very much like you have to pick a side and stick to it! #DreamTeam\nBecky Clark recently posted…In January I read…Billy & Me By Giovanna Fletcher\nYeah, it is really not helpful. It’s like they feel like the only way to get you to persevere is to not give you any alternative by not providing information about supplementation. Breast milk is best, but people have different reasons behind how long they can continue breastfeeding and every family is going to have different needs. Interesting to see that the practice is widespread. Thanks for commenting!\nSo after four kids I think I have done it all- my first was mostly mostly\nSecond mostly breast\ntwins strictly pumped milk\nEach way certainly had its pros, cons and fair share of mom guilt.\n#dreamteam\nI’m always somewhat in awe of mothers who feed their babies pumped breastmilk. That is some epic commitment to the cause – I salute you Mama. I BF both my girls but was exhausted very quickly – at about three-four months. I say, when it comes to feeding babies, do what feels right. Enjoy your first hangover!\n#dreamteam\nHaha, thanks! I’m in awe of people who can last breastfeeding. It is really hard!\nI don’t miss my breast pump one little bit. We strive to do what is best for our babies and whilst we all know the benefits of breastmilk above formula, I strongly believe a happy mummy is more important x\n#DreamTeam\nHelen @Talking_Mums recently posted…Recipe: Chicken curry\nMy aunt was the breastfeeding educator for her hospital and so therefore anyone in our family who was about to have a baby, we got the 411. I appreciated that she had given us both sides so we knew all the options should we find ourselves realizing the breastfeeding was to difficult for whatever reason. I tried my best but couldn’t hold on as long as I wanted when I went back to work and to boot how my kid was not a good latcher. (which surprised her as she spent a whole day my first week home alone to try to help with feeding her. That whole new mom thing)\nanyway, i love what you wrote. As long as the baby is being fed and getting what they need should be the only concern =) #DreamTeam.\nThanks so much! I’m so glad that your aunt provides the whole picture. I think that is so important and helpful to help families make their own decisions based on what they need. Thanks for commenting!\nLoved this! Feeding your baby (whatever way) is a personal choice and not one taken lightly, definitely not a one size fits all method! You’re doing an amazing job. #StayClassyMama\nThank you and thanks for stopping by!\nI supplemented with formula in the early weeks too. It was a great decision and helped Peachy a lot. I resisted formula so much because of all the breast is best brainwashing. When I finally broke down and did it I wanted to kick myself for not doing it earlier. It helped Peachy immensly and we could have helped her so much earlier. #StayClassyMama\nAgreed. There is not only one option out there, so people need to stop acting like there is and giving all the information so that we can make the best decisions for our little ones.\nTotally agree. They should prepare you for any situation. What also annoys me, my hypnobirthing class didn’t talk about what ELSE could happen! As in, if I didn’t have a natural water birth with candle light and soft music what would happen. What would I need to be prepared for? I think in both instances they should really give you examples of all possible routes, even if they are “scary.” And then you just hope for the best! Thanks so much for sharing with #StayClassyMama!\nThe Mum Project recently posted…#StayClassyMama Link Party No. 48\nAgreed! It is always better to be more informed.\nI’ve never been to an NCT class but surely they should be teaching you about other ways to feed as well as it’s not always possible to breastfeed, even if you want to. No wonder mothers end up feeling like they’ve failed if they can’t. You just do what works best for you. #blogstravaganza\nYeah, that’s what I thought too. Only supportive if you do it their way.\nOne size definitely does not fit all. I think you have done amazingly well to breastfeed for so long! As the class, I can’t understand why they don’t cover all eventualities, it’s so important to be prepared! Thanks so much for sharing with #Blogstravaganza xx\nThe Tale of Mummyhood recently posted…#Blogstravaganza #18\nI know! I’m hearing that almost all of these classes are like that. It’s sad that they’re not being supportive however you choose."}
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{"text": "Saint Walker (real name Bro'Dee Walker) is a fictional character and superhero from DC comics, and is one of the supporting characters of the Green Lantern series.\nHe was a inhabitant of a planet ravaged by the Red Lantern Corps. He traveled to Mogo—who had promised Walker that if he sought him out, he'd retrieve him from his \"blackest night\"—and became a hermit, wandering the planet in search for the \"saviour\". Saint Walker traveled to the mountain tops of Mogo, where he was unveiled that the saviour was himself. He was bestowed with a Blue Lantern Power Ring and battery to accommodate his position as the first Blue Lantern, and would sometimes act as the corps' leader. After he had completed his journey, Saint Walker joined the Green Lantern Corps's pursuit in repressing the Red Lantern Corps, and became an ally of the corps and the Justice League.\nHe was created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, and first appeared in Green Lantern Vol 4 #25 in January of 2008.\nHistory\nBackground\nThe living saint of the Blue Lantern Corps, Walker of planet Astonia was the very first member inducted into the Corps by Ganthet and Sayd. His planet doomed by its dying sun, Walker and his family set out on a pilgrimage to a mountain summit where, it was prophesied, a messiah would appear. Due to a series of tragic accidents, all of Walker's family died, and when he finally reached the summit, Walker called out in anger that no Messiah was to be found. It was then that he looked into a reflective stone on the mountain summit and realized that he was the messiah. He returned to his distraught people and preached to them until they became peaceful in their final moments before a Blue Lantern Ring found him. Restoring his dying sun and saving his world, Saint Walker traveled to Odym to serve the Blue Lantern Corps.\nBiography\nEarly Life\nBro'Dee walker was born on the planet Astonia of Sector 1, and was a religious man whom later married a woman named Quanta, and they had two children together, Jat and Peesh. When their planet was at peril by their sun becoming unstable, Bro'Dee decided to go on a journey to find a messiah. His entire family perished during the journey, and when reaching to the mountain, found no messiah and became enraged. However, it started to rain after a bolt of lighting, and Bro'Dee realized that he was messiah, and returned to his planet. The sun turned blue, and Bro'Dee was gifted a blue ring, and was inducted into the Blue Lantern Corps by the Guardians of HOpe, Ganthet and Sayd. Bro'Dee became their first Blue Lantern, being the true embodiment of hope, and Walker then selected Brother Warth to become a Blue Lantern.\nBlue Lantern\nAs a Blue Lantern, Bro'Dee went by the name \"Saint Walker\" and assisted the Green Lantern Corps after they were ambushed by the Red Lantern Corps. When a majority of the Green Lanterns became infected by the Red Lantern's flames, Bro'Dee managed to wash over the rage with his hope. Saint Walker then saw Hal Jordan was still infected, and gave him a Blue Lantern ring, which turned Jordan into a Blue-Green Lantern hybrid. When the Black Lantern Corps was attacking the galaxy, Saint Walker was recruited into the New Guardians, which consisted of Jordan, Violet lantern Carol Ferris, and Yellow Lantern Sinestro. His teammates tasked him with stopping the Orange Lantern Larfleeze's hunger so they could recruit him to stop the Black Lanterns.\nSeeing that Earth needed a Blue Lantern while the others were arriving, Saint Walker gave The Flash (Barry Allen) a Blue Lantern ring for the meantime. The New Guardians managed to stop Nekron and the Black Lanterns' plot, and Saint Walker assisted Ferris in healing Mera. During the \"Brightest Day\" storyline, Saint Walker assisted the Justice League in stopping Eclipso, and later helped Hank Henshaw on trying to stop Doomsday. Walker then went to the New Guardians to Ryut to find the Emotional Entities, but were ambushed and captured by Lyssa Dark. Jordan was the only one who managed to escape and take his teammates' rings, and the Blue Lantern ring was passed onto Kyle Rayner.\nPortrayals\nTelevision\n- In Green Lantern: The Animated Series, he was voiced by Phil Morris.\n- In Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, he was voiced by Sam Riegel.\nGallery\nTrivia\n- He was the first recruit of the Blue Lantern Corps."}
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{"text": "Matana Roberts / Avant Negress\n.\nHow would you describe your art/music?\n“Avant negressian creative angst”, kidding. I get pushed under the jazz umbrella a lot because my roots come from there. It’s how I learned how to play but the art environment I came through in Chicago was more about considering experimentation first and presentation second. It is almost a nod to a certain kind of political freedom that art can give you when society won’t. So at this point I consider myself an Americana traditional hybrid, because I explore so many different things in my music work that can’t be relegated to just “jazz” and often now refer to myself as an experimentalist. Some people don’t like to hear that either so I’m kind of at a loss for words these days.\nHow did you begin playing the Sax and Clarinet?\nFree music lessons in public school. I was about 7 years old when I started. I grew up in a house where I was exposed to a lot of history and experimental art and music. My parents were community activists, scholars, and former black panthers.\nWho are your musical influences?\nSome of everybody. I mean a few of my musical mentors were the late great Chicago saxophone players, Fred Anderson and Von Freeman. But I also grew up in one of the best hip hop eras and also was heavily affected by late punk, new wave and riot girl. My influences are all over the map. Prince and Madonna were eye openers I remember as were groups like Wu Tang, TLC, Queen, Me’shell Ndegeocello, Grace Jones, Bad Brains, early new jack swing, Tupac and Biggie, Joan Armatrading, early Lil’ Kim, The Roots, and pretty much anything that came out of Philly between 1995 and 2003,and then a lot of experimental musicians like Sun Ra, Art Ensemble, Albert Ayler, Velvet Underground, classic jazz, and lots of roots Americana music. I am now getting back into the blues, the blues used to not speak to me, but they do now! Grown woman’s music!\nHow does being a black woman help or hinder your opportunities and experiences in Jazz?\nWell, I stay out of the jazz center because I just find the gender thing strange there, but it also has helped me. I have been brothered, fathered, uncled, through music and have met some amazing men that have made the questionable experiences softer. Also being a woman helps me to stand out sometimes in good ways. Music needs the feminine and masculine to really thrive and no matter your gender, we all have both sides.\nDoes the word Tomboy mean anything to you? What?\nAbsolutely. Because I was a tomboy, and still am sometimes, and my mother was a tomboy, it phils me with a little love to hear the word. “Tomboy” to me just means a certain kind of strength, swagger, and belief in one’s self that is powerful and life affirming.\nDo you describe yourself as a feminist? If so, how does that influence your fashion style? Music? If not,Why?\nYes and no. I think there are different versions of feminism and I have a mix. Partly because of growing up African American and female, and partly learning a very male appointed kind of music, my feminist leanings gives me the permission to do as I please in my work and confidence to know that I do not have to ask permission. But I also think certain strains of feminism can push women away from what’s spe- cial about the differences between men and women and so I try to find a balance that fits for me. Like I love Gloria Steinem, but I also love Mike Tyson, you know?\nHow would you describe your style? What inspires how you dress?\nI like to call it “ hobo chic.” I can’t afford fancy clothing but I have developed a decent eye for possibility and attention to details. It’s a little sloppy sometimes, but I feel like art life gives me a lot of leeway with that.\nI used to make some of my own performance wear by hand, and I still make little things every now and then by changing small details. I’ve learned it’s always about the details.\nDoes your upbringing have anything to do with your style? At what age did you start to create your fashion identity?\nMy grandparents would put on their Sun- day’s best just to go to the grocery store, but that was very important to them because of the racist environs they grew up in. My grandmother and her sisters were Memphis raised south side Chicago Francophiles (Chanel, Chanel, Chanel), and my father shopped in the men’s and women’s sections (for unisex type items), my mother loved African styles, my aunts and uncles and cousins were also very stylish…my parents were very young when they had me so they had a certain hip fashion sense that I see in photos of myself as a little person.\nLater I fell in with punk and anarchist stuff, but there’s a certain style and placement of things to that stuff too. So now I’m at point where I have a clear understanding that style isn’t about labels or trends, it’s really an attitude. And I can run around in a $2 skirt and still feel like a diamond. It’s about how you choose to place things and what you exude from the inside.\nDo you have a fashion motto that you live by?\nHow you feel on the inside, makes the outside shine, no matter the clothing.\nWe love your style! Do you think there is a mirroring of your visual style and your style of music?\nThank you! I’ve been following your blog for a while. Love the things I see there! Regarding mirroring: Probably. My art style is about combining a lot of different elements for the fun of contrast in sound and I think I approach fashion that way too without really thinking about it. I used to make some of my performance wear and jewelry.\nDo you have any style icons that you look to?\nGrace Jones, Stevie Nicks (circa Bella Donna years, she is probably why I like to wear layered skirts), Bette (rock star) Davis, Alexander McQueen, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, some of the old Hollywood glamour queens, more so for the attention to detail than anything else. Early Courtney Love before the plastic surgery. Basquiat, Patti Smith, Parisian gypsies and street musicians…the list is long.\nDo you have any power pieces or staple pieces. Things that make you feel invin- cible and magical or can’t live without?\nI go through phases. I’ve liked tiny neck scarves a lot the last few years and a few accessories. I wear a watch and locket around my neck. And glasses; I don’t have to wear them all the time but have had fun messing around with different styles.\nIf you could travel back in time and tell your 13 year–old self something, what would it be?\nIt gets better…waaaaaay better and boys are generally dummies. Don’t worry. :)\n"}
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{"text": "Portugal sees property prices rise\nAccording to the European Union’s statistics unit, property price rises in Portugal were the second highest in the EU at +10.5%.\nBetween October and December 2017, the property price index climbed 4.2% in the euro zone and 4.5% overall.\nAccording to Eurostat, among the Member States for which data is available, the highest increases in house prices in the fourth quarter of 2017 were recorded in Ireland (+11.8%), Portugal (+10.5%) and Slovenia (+10%). Prices in Italy, however, fell. (-0.3%).\nUpward pressure on Portugal property prices is currently driven by a lack of new-build housing in the Lisbon, Porto and Algarve areas, the flood of property investors entering Portugal since 2014-15 requalifying existing housing stock to buy or rent, the Golden Visa schemes for non-EU citizens and the NHR tax schemes for EU residents. Portugal’s popularity as a second home, retirement and holiday destination are also key factors following political and economic turbulence in North African markets."}
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{"text": ": Rumi\nBe Happy Now\nWhat is meant by being pure? According to Rumi it is being filled with lust and greed and other wantings. Here is an extract from one of his poems: No one is grown up except those free of desire.God says: “the world is a play, a children’s game and you are the children.” God speaks […]\nRumi on Arrogance\nI found this gem in Coleman Barks’ book on Rumi. A true man stares at his old shoesand sheepskin jacket. Every day he goes upto his attic to look at his work-shoes and worn-out coat.This is his wisdom, to remember the original clayAnd not get drunk on ego and arrogance. Sourced from Coleman Barks’ book […]\nRumi’s advice on attaining the Divine\nI am reading Rumi. Specifically the book I am reading is The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks. Link to browse the book at Amazon India is below: I have decided to write a few articles on what I have learned in my daily reading of the above book. Today is day 1, I have read […]\nWhy is Humility Desirable\nI would like to give my opinion on the trait of Humility. This quality has been overvalued in India as far as my experience goes. As far as I have been able to make out the reasons why humility is valued here are as under: India is a feudal society and is a land of […]\nThe Best Spiritual Path\nFrom all the available spiritual paths how do we choose the one that is best for us? I have no definite answer to that question. I can only give you some tips which might provide you with some food for thought. I have three points to make: I’ll start with a poem from Rumi. It […]\nOur Essential Purpose in Life\nI am reading a couple of books on Islam and its spiritual insights. One author who writes well and is insightful is Imam Jamal Rahman. He is entertaining and that is what I ask first from any book I read. He tells many stories that will give you food for thought. The following extract is […]\nWords to live by from Rumi\nI read this poem by the Persian poet Rumi and liked it so much that I had to share it with you. At times less is more and I will not spoil the effect by commentary – This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, […]"}
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{"text": "Mixed Bonspiel a Success\n- Details\n- Published: Tuesday, 24 February 2015 09:42\n- Written by Staff\nThe Meaford Curling Club saw another annual event on Saturday, February 21 – The Local Mixed bonspiel. All the teams were keen to win, but at the end of the day the victors were the Brian Wiley team who took home the trophy."}
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{"text": "Learn how to manage projects effectively and efficiently with the knowledge and skills gained on this Foundation & Practitioner training course. You will also learn how to use Agile concepts to incorporate processes that will ensure requirements are met within the scope of a project.\nThis course would be beneficial for you if you're:\nThis particular course has been created to cover engineering, IT, and new product or service development. If any of these categories fit into your current situation, then it will be ideal. You will learn the core principles of the Agile framework and be shown how they are used in everyday projects to improve the outcome.\nFrom this Agile Project Management training course, you can expect to see the following benefits:\nWith your new skills, you’ll be ready to hit the job market and use everything learnt in a real working environment.\nHere are some roles that will become available to you from the Agile Project Management Foundation course covers:\nThe Agile Project Management Practitioner course covers:\nOnce you have completed the training, you will sit the AgilePM Foundation exam.\nExam format - Multiple-choice.\nNumber of questions - 50.\nDuration - 40-mins.\nOpen book - No.\nChoose any one from a HP Laptop, Fitbit Versa 2 or Apple Airpods*.*Special terms and conditions apply to certain courses. See product page for details. View Deals"}
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{"text": "HICAP: Medicare Choices and Changes 2018\nEvent Navigation\nA volunteer from Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) will be discussing the changes to Medicare 2018. Learn which Part D premiums and formularies are changing, understand Advantage Plan changes, and learn how to pay less for your medications.\nWisdom Counts members, FREE; Non-members, $5 day use fee applies."}
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{"text": "Spectrum\nClient Reference Code: 207310\nThis senior technical role, Spectrum Director, Advanced Marketing Analytics, delivers advanced CRM analytics that drive deeper customer engagement and enhance data driven marketing decisions relating to retention tactics and impact on customer survival. Also includes responsibility for managing one analyst and driving cross-functional collaboration. Work closely with research, pricing, revenue forecasting and Care teams to optimize impact from retention, promotion expiration and customer interaction analytics.\nKEY ACTIVITIES/DELIVERABLES\nResponsibilities to include:\n- Extract data using SQL and conduct advanced data mining and/or modeling including time series analytics, logistic regression, factor analysis, and clustering.\n- Develop an ongoing “customer lifecycle management” profile, tracking methodology and enhancing the plan to identify, grow and retain customers.\n- Identify drivers of churn and downgrade performance versus expectation\n- Build statistical models or other analysis of customer disconnects, and Non-Pay behavior\n- Isolate distinct drivers of increased or decreased promotional offer expiration churn by using statistical modeling techniques\n- Monitor CRM impacts such as product or package migration & average rate change /CLV including post offer enrollment or migration\n- Product packaging analysis including using viewership data to inform decisions about video tiers\n- Leverage expert knowledge of retention, packaging and segmentation analytics and deep familiarity with business trends to develop insightful and actionable ad hoc analyses.\n- Lead new and/or highly complex data analytics/processes and provide timely insights on emerging technologies and business threats.\nSkills/Abilities and Knowledge\n- Ability to lead teams and processes to efficiently manipulate and analyze large data\n- Experience with time series analytics, logistic regression, factor analysis, and clustering\n- Strong working knowledge of database / data manipulation, analysis tools and BI solutions\n- Ability to communicate technical specs and business findings in a clear and straightforward manner\n- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Oracle and Teradata SQL script editing, including the ability to extract large amounts of data and prepare the data for advanced analytics (e.g., dummy coding, transformations, etc.)\n- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of SAS with an emphasis on Base SAS, SAS JMP, SAS Enterprise Guide, or SAS Enterprise Miner\n- Ability to analyze and interpret data, including customer analysis/modeling for product use, satisfaction, adoption and risk of defection\n- Ability to identify analytical requirements for understanding shortfalls/excess to appropriate marketing plans, programs, initiatives and directives\nBachelor’s degree in Marketing, Statistics, Business, Management or related field\nRelated Work Experience\nTactical/operational marketing experience – 8- 10 years\nSegmentation, scoring, analysis and customer research experience – 5 years\nSQL/SAS experience – 5 years\nManagement experience – 3 years\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nEducation\nMaster’s or MBA strongly preferred in Marketing, Marketing Science, Business Analytics or Statistics, Marketing Communications or consumer behavior-related field\nAdditional training, certification (e.g. SAS Certificate) academia, research, etc.\nWORKING CONDITIONS\nOffice environment\n#LI-SM\nJob Code : TWCMRS710 Dir, Marketing Science Exempt\n207310BR\nTo apply for this job please visit the following URL: →"}
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{"text": "Today's Featured Artist: Michael Godard\nTransform your photos into one-of-a-kind, hand painted masterpieces!\nPick Me ..... They're Crazy is a painting by Ana Maria Edulescu which was uploaded on May 6th, 2012.\nMore from Ana Maria Edulescu\nAna, wonderful creation so alive. All the best my dear\nThank you very much, dear Dagmar.\nWonderful imagination and blues! L/F :))\nThank you very much, Stephen.\nThis is beautiful painting,Ana !! Te pup l/f\nTe pup si eu Valitza. :)\nLove the entire effect and feeling of this masterful and enchanting painting! fav\nThanks a lot, Dawn.\nLove the colors, texture, humor, and title of this painting, Ana Maria! L/F\nThank you very much, Hazel.\nAna, WOW, what a blue and what a fantastic scenery, georgeous Piece of art. LF - Dagmar\nThanks a lot, Dagmar.\ncool image Ana.....l/f/shared\nThanks very much, Chris.\nThat is so Kool Ana, The title and esp., the composition and palette.\nMany thanks, Brian.\nThis is great!\nThanks very much, Judith.\nI hear the haunting sounds of the ravens......amazing work!!!!\nThank you very much, Omar.\nThis has always been one of my favorites. Can't believe I had not commented on this. Awesome painting Ana!\nThanks very much, Ginette.\nYour choice of blues is fantastic Ana. It created a certain aura. Lovely painting. L/F.\nThanks very much, Usha.\nI'm so drawn to the blues in this and I love the hints of other colors...Beautiful and expressive work Ana! I am wishing you and yours a Happy New Year and successful, healthy and happy 2015 and beyond! L/F/ google+\nThanks a lot, Corey. Best wishes to you, too.\nFabulous! Oh, My! I can hear these wonderful noisy birds! I love the depth of the forest and the genius of your palette! LFP\nThanks very much, Peggy.\nAww, this is adorable, and the colors are so beautiful!! Love the textures, too!!! :)))fv\nThanks so much, Laurie. :)))\nThis is so cute Ana. Exactly what I would think that they are saying. L/F\nMany thanks, Phyllis.\nthe Title matches just perfectly I see the realistic positioning of these birds all clacking at each other what a sight for sore eyes! Great Piece\nMany thanks, Susan.\nNice colors and design Ana!\nThanks a lot, Charlie.\nCaptivating work, Ana, beautifully painted, as alwaysn !! L/F\nMany thanks, Helena.\nWonderful painting, congratulations on your sale Ana!!\nThanks so much, Christina.\nSo striking with blue colors and birds! L\nMany thanks, Jennie.\nA favorite subject , I love the animation of the birds.\nThanks a lot, E Dan.\nDelightful! Another vote for this fave of mine!\nThanks a lot, Lenore.\nOh, a sensational painting in every way! I love it, Ana Maria! These birds are captivating in a very fun way! LFP\nThanks you so much, M."}
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{"text": "Walgreens to Provide Blood Pressure Testing at No Cost Throughout February in Support of American Heart Month\nSupport of American Heart Association Encourages Customers to Know Their Numbers\nDEERFIELD, Ill., February 03, 2014 – In support of American Heart Month, Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) is offering free blood pressure testing at all of its pharmacies and Healthcare Clinic* at select Walgreens locations throughout the month of February.\nTests are available daily during pharmacy and clinic hours with no appointment necessary and administered by Walgreens pharmacists and Healthcare Clinic nurse practitioners and physician assistants. The free testing aims to encourage customers to know the two critical numbers that can inspire prevention or treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure), a disease that often presents no symptoms but increases the risk for heart disease and stroke.\nAccording to the American Heart Association, 76.4 million U.S. adults have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, and 1-in-5 adults live with the “silent killer” unknowingly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) encourages regular blood pressure tests for those with high risk factors1 including older Americans, African Americans and Americans with poor diets or living with diabetes. Walgreens is well-positioned to support anyone who wants to know their blood pressure numbers and can benefit from a wellness consultation.\n. “Our pharmacists and Healthcare Clinic nurse practitioners and physician assistants are an accessible community resource providing free blood pressure testing throughout the month as part of Walgreens commitment to help people get, stay and live well.”\nWalgreens encourages its customers to know their numbers and have their blood pressure checked regularly. Tests are not done for diagnostic or treatment purposes, and individuals are advised to share their test results with their primary care physician.\nSOURCE: Walgreens"}
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{"text": "This program was rescheduled for July 15. Register here!\n------\nMore and more museums are rethinking the museum experience and are finding ways to engage their audiences through immersive, participatory and interactive ways -- often using the art of storytelling. Humans by nature tell stories about the world around them, but how are museums using this natural tendency to shape the visitor experience?\nJoin Cultural Connections as we learn how a variety of professionals and institutions capture and create stories with their audiences. We will hear from museums that have utilized this tool in diverse ways to discover how storytelling can enrich and help develop exhibitions and programs.\nPanelists:\nBrad Larson has been developing interactive media for family audiences in museums for more than 20 years. He was the Technology Developer at The Children’s Museum in Boston for ten years, and received his EdM in the Interactive Technologies in Education program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Brad has contributed to the field with presentations at AAM, ASTC, and ACM Interactivity. Installations include projects for Smithsonian’s National Zoo,.\nPenny Jennings is the Oakland Museum of California's Associate Director of Experience Development. She has been working in the museum world since the 1980s, first as an American Studies student, then as an educator, project manager and exhibition developer for projects far and wide, mostly in science, history and children's museums, including the Exploratorium and the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Penny is also the President of the National Association for Museum Exhibition (NAME) having served on its Board since 2006.\nSarah Seiter is an exhibit developer and curator in Oakland, California. Her work is grounded in the belief that science can be a fulcrum for change and a way of empowering people. She is currently the Lead Content Developer for Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Permutter at U.C. Berkeley, where she creates materials for teaching scientific reasoning. Prior to that, she served as the Associate Curator of Natural Sciences at the Oakland Museum of California for nearly six years, where she created award-winning exhibitions about socially relevant science issues, such marijuana policy, urban agriculture, land use, and most recently, maps.\nDaren Ulmer is the founder and driving creative force at Mousetrappe, responsible for guiding the company’s projects from earliest concept through installation. As Principal and Creative Director, Daren manages both the creative and technical aspects of Mousetrappe’s projects and works to improve how media is implemented to advance story, enhance space, and create audience connection. Daren has been a key contributor to the experiential attractions and entertainment industry for over 25 years. Prior to founding Mousetrappe, he spent nearly a decade at The Walt Disney Company in creative development, management, and production for theme parks and special events worldwide, including It’s a Small World – Holiday (Disneyland), Mulan Parade (Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios) and Fantasmic! (Disney’s Hollywood Studios).\nFor more information: info@cultural-connections.org\nFor website issues: webmaster@cultural-connections.org"}
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{"text": "Homemade Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread is a fall favorite! Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread is packed with pumpkin flavor and chocolate chips! It will have you feeling all the fall feelings in no time!\nPumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread Recipe\nI swear, from the moment the first leaf turns slightly yellow and hits the ground I am instantly in fall baking mode! All things caramel and apple, but the absolute best, all things PUMPKIN! This easy pumpkin bread recipe is filled with pumpkin spice, cinnamon and enough pumpkin puree to make it super moist and flavorful. I could eat it everyday…and have!\nEven though pumpkin is traditionally a fall flavor, this quick pumpkin chocolate chip bread is so delicious and so versatile (HELLO pumpkin chocolate chip muffins!) You will want to make this recipe all year long!\nWhat Is In Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread?\n- Melted Butter\n- Granulated Sugar\n- Vanilla\n- Pumpkin Puree- I use canned, just because it makes this recipe super easy and quick. But if you want to use homemade puree, all the better.\n- Eggs\n- Milk\n- Flour- Using all purpose four will give you the right texture for this bread.\n- Baking Soda\n- Salt\n- Cinnamon\n- Pumpkin Pie Spice\n- Chocolate Chips- Pumpkin and chocolate are a match made in heaven in my opinion, but you can certainly leave out the chocolate if you prefer. Or you could substitute nuts instead.\nHow To Make Easy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread\nFirst, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. This bread doesn’t take much time to through together so make sure you get that oven preheating!\nWhile the oven is heating, thoroughly mix together the butter, sugar, vanilla and pumpkin, then add the eggs and milk and mix again.\nNext add the flour, baking soda, salt and spices. Stir to combine. Once the flour is added you DO NOT want to over mix the batter. Overmixing will lead to a tougher bread, which would be criminal in a bread as moist and tender and this should be!\nNow for the chocolate! Fold in the chocolate chips, again, being careful not to overmix. It should be a nice, soft batter. Spread the batter into an 8 inch bread pan. You can use a different size bread pan if that is what you have. Larger pans will cook longer, mini bread pans or muffins will cook for shorter periods of time.\nBake at 350 for 50-60 minutes, or until it passes the toothpick test. The hardest part of this recipe is waiting 15 minutes for it to cool before slicing and enjoying!\nCan I freeze Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread?\nAbsolutely!!! This bread freezes beautifully! Once the bread has completely cooled wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. Try to get it as air tight as possible. Then place it in a zip bag to freeze. To thaw it out, just place it on the counter top for a couple of hours.\nYou could also cut and freeze individual slices, that way you are just a few minutes away from delicious pumpkin bread any time of year!\nThere you have it, pumpkin chocolate chip bread that is SO EASY and SO DELICIOUS, it might just become your go to fall breakfast!\nIf you loved what you saw here, get more of it on Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest! I’d love to connect! Sign up for my weekly newsletter below to never miss a new recipe again!\n[et_bloom_inline optin_id=optin_2]\nPumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread\nIngredients\n- 1/2 cup butter melted\n- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar\n- 1 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract\n- 1 cup pumpkin puree\n- 2 eggs\n- 1 tbsp milk\n- 2 cups all purpose flour\n- 1 tsp baking soda\n- 1 tsp salt\n- 1 tsp cinnamon\n- 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice\n- 2 cups chocolate chips\nInstructions\n- Preheat oven to 350°.\n- Using a hand mixer, combine the melted butter, sugar, vanilla and pumpkin.\n- Mix in the eggs and milk.Add the flour, soda, salt, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice to the bowl and mix until combined. The batter will be soft.\n- Fold in the chocolate chips. Spread the batter into your loaf pan.\n- Bake at 350° for 50- 60 minutes, or until it passes the toothpick test.\n- Allow the bread to cool for 15 minutes before slicing.\nNutrition"}
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{"text": "People get touchy for all kind of reasons. In Internet discussions it is rampant.\nI’ve seen critics of Scientology go ape-shit as someone challenge their views. I have seen Scientologists go irrational as someone challenge their beliefs. It’s not very helpful or productive if the purpose is to gain new knowledge.\nIf your purpose is to evolve, to gain wisdom or enlightenment, it may be wise to simply disregard defensiveness and keep your focus on that purpose.\n“Invalidation” is an often used term in Scientology. It means:\n“refuting or degrading or discrediting or denying something someone else considers to be fact.”\nBut certainty enters the equation. You get more touchy and more easily invalidated the more uncertain you are in your views. You wouldn’t get especially touchy if some guy came along and challenged your belief in a spherical Earth. Even if he screamed from the top of his lungs “THE EARTH IS FLAT!”, it still wouldn’t upset you. But if someone challenges something you want to believe, a view you are really not that certain about, then you may get quite touchy.\nSo when someone gets defensive in a discussion or blows up, realize that you may have struck a point of uncertainty, where the other is struggling to maintain his resolve.\nThis may be a reason why the Church of Scientology is so litigious, why their press releases are so defensive and irrational. It may be a reason why you sometimes see heated discussions on this blog.\nI find it amusing when I myself get defensive. I try to use it to dig out my own uncertainties, and then dig deeper to see what exactly I am struggling with – and then go ahead and fix it. I enjoy that adventure 🙂\n89 thoughts on “Invalidation”\nCertainty has nothing to do with data. Nothing to do with views or thought. It is outside the realm of the mind and the “physical universe”. One IS certainty. It’s a quality of being and communication.\nNow, I am a little upset. Not much. Just a little bit. Just kiddin’ 😉\nDarn, I wanted to use that. Love that sign, lifts one brows a bit eh?\nPerfect post Gier, now I’ll just have to behave. Just kiddin’ 🙂\nGo for it! 😉\nYou’re not the only one 🙂\nGeir ……”I find it amusing when I myself get defensive. I try to use it to dig out my own uncertainties, and then dig deeper to see what exactly I am struggling with – and then go ahead and fix it. I enjoy that adventure “”\n+1 . I do the same… thanks… good post.\nI think this whole post is nothing but invalidation, designed to make us all upset by shaking our stable datums…\nhehe – good one 😀\nOkay. This is a nice meaty subject to dig into with gusto! Let us brandish our fiery swords of integrity and valiantly cut through the dread foes of reason and sanity until at last we stand back to back roaring the truth shall prevail! And the forces of darkness shall slink away into the deeps never to be seen again! I’ve got my armor and my shield and by God I shall never surrender!\nTheatrics aside, its etymology is fascinating, it literally means to make: in (not) + validus (strong, effective).\nAnd the root word of valid? Valiant. (now you know why I became shield-maiden)\nValiant: stalwart, brave, worthy, strong, well, powerful, able. From old Norse: valdr – ruler and numerous old European languages – ruler, having power, dominion.\nAnd the rest of the Scientology definitions:\nINVALIDATION, 1. refuting or degrading or discrediting or denying something someone else considers to be fact. (HCOB 2 Jun 71 I) 2. any thought, emotion or effort, or counter-thought, counter-emotion or counter-effort which denies or smothers the thought, emotion or effort of the individual. (NOM, p. 56) 3 . invalidation by words is the symbolic level of being struck. (2ACC-19B, 5312CM09) 4 . basically, non-attention. Attention itself is quite important for attention is necessary before an effect can be created. (PAB 8) 5. invalidation is force applied. You apply enough force to anybody and you’ve invalidated him. How invalidated can he get? Dead!\nEn Garde!\nMy “favorite” Scientology definition of Invalidation:\n4 . basically, non-attention. Attention itself is quite important for attention is necessary before an effect can be created.\n.\n“Non-attention” games have been played on me for years so I KNOW how devastating this is. It is an evil game. I’ll write more on that important topic in a separate blog post one day.\nAnette\nThanks for this def. 4. I didn’t see that before. It can surely shatter the root of THE Serv.Fac. and THE Business case, also universal considerations, beliefs of THE MIND.\nI confronted it after you posted it. Quite a shift of perception after this!\nNon-attention can be both pure (heals) and manipulative ( “evil”). More about it later.\nMT… NONE ATTANTION can not be anything can not heal and cant be evil. since non-attantion is just that… non-attantion… not putting attention on anything… get your facst in order…\nMT….”“listen to thoughts”….by this I meant the other person voices, puts them into words and I understand it fully….so there is no “distance” remaining after that…just “affinity”.\nHujeseg…\nAnette: .\nChris: That’s a good get Anette. I’ve missed this before but will add it to my tool box.\nTo Anette, my favorite Viking Shield-Maiden and OT22!\nI agree that non-attention is a very insidious tool. Its maddening because you can’t your hands on anything to handle or deal with or even begin to address. I think it would be safe to say that it is the basic mechanism of disconnection.\nI really look forward to your blog post!\nMaria\n“It is the basic mechanism of disconnection”. Spot-on phrasing!\nIn “spiritual circles” of different kind earlier I heard the phrase ” You don’t see me” (love, understand) many times. The opposite, “to see” would mean One-ness. How? I can look at another’s body (every “particle”), listen to “thoughts” and totally get them (if it’s continuous com. it’s even better) and finally “get to” the “being”, the “invisible core” – and I see that as not separate from me. This process of “penetration” can be “instanteous”, I could call that “mutual” being and perceiving in present time…also, this is the basis of tantra…also, higher levels of co-being and sensing. Sorry, I could not put it into words better.\nMechanism: starts with attention, ends with non-attention (co-awareness, co-being). This is nonduality also (“true” connection).\nDisconnection: one cannot truely “see” (give genuine attention to) another as long as one has a “filter”. For shorter-longer periods the filter can “disappear”. When one is “seeing” another through thoughts, beliefs, that is non-attention. “Trashing” another is not intentional…it is too much “mind”, too much “energy” around (solidity).\nPure attention is healing…also pure non-attention….my experience.\nMT… ”In “spiritual circles” of different kind earlier I heard the phrase ”\nSo you belong to some ”spiritual circles”’ very interesting.. care to tell me more, if they are really interesting I would love to join!\nYou say you can read minds.. other persons thought, and I say prove that…since I think your statemant is a lie.\nElizabeth\nI didn’t say I “belong to” or I “belonged to” spiritual circles. There is no such thing as ” belonging”…it means that there are people who agree that they have similar experiences e.g.of yoga, meditation…I said “circle”, because they are based on a specific method. The method provides spiritual experiences. Also, these people are “connected” because they create some “affinity” line on which they comunicate their experiences. Like here. Scientology is a method. So, people, who have/had the experience of the method can talk about their experiences as an outcome of the method and can talk about the method itself.\nI don’t know why you say I can “read minds”. I heard about it but I have no experience of it.\nWhat I meant was that whatever another is saying, whatever the emotion is, the source that “I” percieve from and the source “another” is communicating from is the same…the same “theta”…the same “spiritual material”….also, any creation is that….my experience so far…\nEliz\n“listen to thoughts”….by this I meant the other person voices, puts them into words and I understand it fully….so there is no “distance” remaining after that…just “affinity”.\nMT… ”The opposite, “to see” would mean One-ness.”””\nPlease,,, reading that make all my hairs are standing up on the top of my head: your above sentence IS TOTAL nonsence!!! You have no idea what one-ness is…\nElizabeth\nCould be that I don’t have any “idea” of what One-ness is….also, I speak from experience…and my experiences are expanding.\nISENE IS A LIAR AS HE HAS CONTRADICTED HIMSELF AND NOTHING HE HAS EVER SAID HAS ANY VALUE, NOR WILL IT FROM THIS POINT ONWARDS.\nSo, in a test of inflammatory, invalidative and specious reasoning – not to mention the effectiveness of all caps – I profer the above statement with the reasoning that will apear in follow-up statements. Such is the methods that I have come to understand are accepable in this new world study of dialectic syllogism.\nTo those who have not already jumped on their keyboards to impart outrage at such a comment on the blogster, I say “Let’s put the isene theory to the test: If outrage is not a reaction you get from such invective as ISENE IS A LIAR, then you are sufficiently certain in your views that any such condemnation can be weathered without a hint of any necessity to inspect your own uncertainties for inconsistencies or make any retaliatory comment.”\nI should be able to say the truth, that ISENE IS A LIAR because he contradicted himself on at least one occassion:\nBy the same logic that led isene to say LRH was a liar because he posited and stated attributes of Clear that he could not later provide, ISENE IS A LIAR because he sold many paying customers the fallacious ideas he had about admin policy that he later found out not to work. LRH did not force him to do this. He did it for his own monetary reward and to suck unsuspecting people into the cruel vise grip of Scientology. Isene is therefore not to be trusted to evaluate any data and we shall have to carefully sift through all previous isene statements to find out if there was anything of value and attempt to salvage it.\nThat’s pretty much the logic equivalent and progression of statement of Isene and Alanzo on the subject of LRH and Scientology. The above was really just a test of shoe-fit and not how I would characterize either Geir or Alanzo. It is intended as a test of method of arriving at the truth – a method I don’t particularly have any use for, but one that certainly appears as a means of controversy.\nLike I said! En Garde!\nGood vector. You already know your declaration is “fallacious” (why oh why do I want to spell that with a “ph?”) but of course, your point is we are not reasoning well with respect to LRH lying. I get it, just don’t agree and too tired this evening to explore with you. Maybe manana?\nSomeone got touchy about his belief in Hubbard. We could now go ahead and probe 2ndxmr’s own uncertainty in Hubbard and Scientology and relieve him of his need to defend his guru.\nAnd the fallacy in the above reveal that 2ndxmr missed the obvious point of that other thread – in that LRH claimed he had already produced a Clear in all its glory – not that it wasn’t later attained.\nDid 2ndxmr feel invalidated by that other thread because he to a large degree identifies himself with Hubbard and Scientology? That is another question that can be probed.\nWho’s the touchy one? Hmmmm….\n@isene\nDid you actually read my entire post or did you stop at ISENE IS A LIAR. If you managed to read the whole thing then you should have recognized it as pot/kettle.\nOn the one hand you feel that saying Hubbard is a liar is fully justified as he never produced the result he claimed. On the other hand you feel that saying ISENE IS A LIAR (based on your own statements) is somehow indicative that I have personal feelings of invalidation rather than just annoyance at an argument method that is loaded from the get-go.\nYou claim your intent is to invite “discussion” and yet you start with a premise (Hubbard lied) that is a conclusion. What’s more, it is a conclusion based on after-the-fact evidence – with no consideration of any before-the-fact data that Hubbard’s claims were based upon.\nThe point I was trying to make was that if we only look at after-the-fact data, we can say with equal certainty that ISENE IS A LIAR, due to the fact of your failure to effectively apply that which you previously promoted.\nThe problem is, “Hubbard lied” and “ISENE IS A LIAR” are both generalizations which do not paint an accurate picture of the personalities or the circumstances at the time of the “lie”.\nFurthermore, putting it there in permanent pixels does nothing towards resolving the issue of the “lie”, but instead creates an issue: diminishment by direct and covert invalidation. That BECOMES an issue, so instead of a discussion ensuing you get exactly what is going on here – tit-for-tat invalidations. It is not a discussion method I care for. However, as invalidation is the subject of the OP (and you are someone who couldn’t possibly be invalidated [please note the 1.1]), you are a perfect target for the test of your own method. So now I ask, how is this “discussion” going so far? Personally I think it is a waste of my time and a waste of bandwidth.\nTo consider a different approach, Maria’s lists of the pluses and minuses of Scientology form an argument basis that invites true discussion – not only because of the balance but because of the relative objectivity of viewpoint from which each of the lists is made. Maybe that’s just too simple to work, too much obvious truth – so much that the need to discuss just as-ises with the post. Not much of a basis to perpetuate a blog, but I’d like to see it given a chance.\nLastly, I would say that a thread premised entirely on trashing LRH would be perfectly acceptable to me if it’s announced as such. No problem. Go for it. Vent. Slander. On those days I’ll stand back and watch, or just not bother to watch.\nI am not at all offended by your caps-test..\nBut your annoyance with the Going Clear thread does to me show a good example of this OP.\nGeir: .”\nSince 2ndxmr never responded, he apparently lost hope of you ever seeing that it isn’t a matter of apples and oranges at all. In fact, there is a very definite parallel.\nIn one of my earlier posts I pointed out that there are people who actually do have eidetic memory and have passed rigid tests proving it. So we know that the ability is possible and it is quite conceivable that LRH actually released this ability in one or more preclears and then prematurely concluded on that TOO-NARROW BASIS that he had produced a Book One Clear.\nIn your case, you no doubt did very much the same thing. I’m pretty sure you’re not now going to deny that you ever promoted, even once, in all those years that ADMIN TECH WORKS. Obviously, you did. And you must have had some BASIS for saying so, which you must now consider TOO NARROW, thus making the same mistake LRH made. And at some point later you changed your mind about admin tech – just as LRH later changed his and redefined what constituted a Clear. In other words – no difference whatsoever between what you did and what LRH did.\nYour conclusion that LRH was a liar was exactly what 2ndxmr stated: “…a conclusion based on after-the-fact evidence – with no consideration of any before-the-fact data that Hubbard’s claims were based upon.”\n1) I never claimed “The Admin Tech Works!”, so that is a false premise. I always cherry picked. And hence the rest of the argument fails.\n1) Okay, I see now that I somewhat altered what 2ndxmr actually said. It wasn’t as broad as I worded it, i.e. that you claimed “admin tech works”. His exact words were “fallacious ideas he [you] had about admin policy that he [you] later found out not to work. So with that in mind, can you truthfully and honestly claim that of all the things you cherry picked there was not a single one that you later found was not workable after all, as you had earlier claimed?\n2) Your response to 2ndxmr’s post was this:\n“Someone got touchy about his belief in Hubbard. We could now go ahead and probe 2ndxmr’s own uncertainty in Hubbard and Scientology and relieve him of his need to defend his guru.”\nWhy is it, then, that it was fine for you to reply to his post without it being a matter of “touchy about…”?\nAnd why is it that you do not now have the same reply to those who have written posts in response to mine, i.e. those who (quoting 2ndxmr again) “jumped on their keyboards to impart outrage at such a comment on the blogster”? A consistent response by you would have been to have posted something like this:\n“Someone got touchy about his belief in Geir Isene. We could now go ahead and probe this poster’s own uncertainty in Isene and his viewpoints and relieve him of his need to defend his guru.”\n3) You completely ignored my main point as regards your “…conclusion based on after-the-fact evidence – with NO CONSIDERATION [my caps] of any before-the-fact data that Hubbard’s claims were based upon” (quoting 2x again). You ignored the quite reasonable (usual definition) idea that there could have been data you are missing (such as the very plausible possibility I described) as to why LRH made the statement he did.\nTo sum it up, I’m still waiting for the day when in a discussion you concede a valid point and take back what you originally stated.\nLet’s see – this is only some of the points I have conceded so far:\nTo Alanzo (in several discussions) – that using the metaphor of LRH vs. the tech is the same as Newton vs. his scientific work. The parallel I used here was wrong.\nTo many people – having defended why the OT materials should be confidential… I was wrong and have conceded their point,\nLots of people on ESMB and elsewhere – that the tech is primarily placebo.\nTo many in several discussions pointing out that I am in a decompression after having left the church… I protested that, But they were right.\nI believe I could easily extend the list to at least ten major points. And then lots of places where I have been in smaller error.\nMarildi; Have you experienced any such major shifts in viewpoints during the discussions on this or other forums?\nGeir, I don’t recall having observed you concede any of those things DURING a discussion in which you were first contending the opposite – which was the actual point I have been making. My observation has been that you brought those topics up again at some later point in time, and that was when you “conceded”. I put “conceded” in quotes because in each and every one of the examples you gave, your “conceding” was actually giving further support to what appears to be your main focus – i.e. an interest in downgrading Scn and LRH.\nSecondly, and more to the point of this immediate discussion regarding whether LRH knowingly lied (as you proclaimed in the OP), in your reply above you evaded the question I asked in my last post, which was this:\n“…can you truthfully and honestly claim that of all the things you cherry picked there was not a single one that you later found was not workable after all, as you had earlier claimed?”\nYou’ve got this backward; I was very much PRO LRH and PRO Scientology when I came out. Conceding those points was definitely not along any purpose line I had. So you are wrong about this. As for the time it took me Io concede these points (and several more) was due to the fact that I needed the time to digest and realize Alanzo and several of the people over at ESMB was actually making valid points. The discussions have been going on for a while – they never really ended, and probably won’t for a while.\nMarildi; Have you had any such major shift in viewpoints?\nAs for your question; No, I never claimed to have myself proven workability of any piece of Admin Tech while at the same time knowing it didn’t work. The claims LRH made was at the time he must have known it wasn’t true. That is the lying. That a person later finds out he was wrong does not constitute lying.\nThat wasn’t the question. The question was whether or not there was any part of admin tech that you stated was workable, honestly believing at the time that it was (i.e. not lying), but which you later found out wasn’t. Please answer that question.\nAnd yes, of course I’ve had major shifts, but let’s stick to one subject at a time.\nI gave an honest try regarding the Org Board and the over-management with lots of policies, believing it should work. But I found that it worked worse than comparable methods. This was probably due to me not having much experience with other methods. What’s your point?\nMy point is this: How valid would it be for someone to now assume, “The claims Geir made was at the time he must have known it wasn’t true”, which is the assumption you made about LRH.?\nNo – because I was trying things out and did not claim bombastically that I had proof of some totally extraordinary and World Changing results when there was in fact no basis for such claims – at the time they were made. If you can’t see the difference here, then I don’t know what to say, Marildi.\nThe principle is the same, Geir. And you made another blatant assumption just now: “there was in fact no basis for such claims”. How bombastic is that claim?\nBut I see you have already worked out how to back out of the discussion, your last resort so as to not have to concede a point – which is the subtle Ad Hom of “if you can’t see the difference…”. I couldn’t find the internet reference I quoted before about that type of Ad Hom but I think you know the one I mean.\nMarildi:?\nChris: No. This fails on several levels. 1. Geir has not created a closed belief system and then actively sold it and promoted it and then lied over the top of knowing full well that the claims for it were false. 2. Order of magnitude. Geir’s “lies” because of being indoctrinated into a belief system and then influencing others with his good results within that belief system is not the same as creating and selling that belief system. 3. The ratio of Geir’s lying to LRH’s lying is orders of magnitude smaller. So no, it is not more rational to assume that Geir’s lying and LRH’s lying are comparable. In spite of Scientology, Geir’s tireless work was with the aim to help people and I just don’t believe that about LRH anymore. That LRH suffered from megalomania seems irrefutable, but Geir — not so much.\nThe last sentence should have ended with “true” – “…believed were true”.\nMarildi: And yes, of course I’ve had major shifts, but let’s stick to one subject at a time.\nChris: Ready when you are.\nIf I may say a word here. To USE any method in the NOW is an impossibility because the NOW is without any method. When a method enters into the picture, it is relying on past data, past experience. That reliance takes away a part of the now at least, works like a light filter. With its consequences.\nMarianne, I don’t quite understand how what you are saying in the last two posts relates to the comm cycle Geir and I were having, but I am always interested in your viewpoint. So If you are willing to say more, please do.\nIn any case, I adore you for your intention in the communication. 🙂\nI may say a stupid thing but I risk it. A method, a tech (used in case of human beings) is an\nis-ness. Any is-ness contains a lie. So, in this case the method, tech is the liar. One who uses the method is just an honest believer.\nI should add another Major difference between calling me a liar and Hubbard. I am perfectly fine with it. I never proclaimed to have all the answer or The One True Path, and I don’t erect an organization drilled to attack those who call me a liar, to hunt them down and wreck their lives.\nHubbard did. And still there are people eager to put him on a pedestal, clap in front of a statue of him, praise him and make sure that NO ONE dare to call him a liar.\nAnd that is one good reason why we should.\nMe? Who cares.\nThis is called Red Herring. And the fact that you immediately wrote a new blog post was further Red Herring, as well as rabbiting.\nMarildi: This is called Red Herring. And the fact that you immediately wrote a new blog post was further Red Herring, as well as rabbiting.\nChris: Is it? To accuse Geir of “rabbiting” (being scared and running away) doesn’t seem correct to me. To sum up a few of your own fallacies: 1. Hubbard is not a lier because he had good reasons to lie. 2. True Scientology gets workable results most of the time and the proof of whether True Scientology is being used is whether the expected result was achieved and conversely; 3. Bad results are proof of deviation from Standard Scientology; and the corrolary, 4. Bad results are evidence of poor auditor skills and of illegal PCs but never of unworkable Tech. 5. The Class 8 auditor course, the diamond at the tip of Scientology training, Hubbard’s coup de grace to nail down “Standard Tech” is for you not to be taken literally or as the letter of the law even though the course specifically directs you to do so. Rather, it should be applied in the “spirit of the law.” The problem with this view is that Hubbard specifically warns against. So in this way, your deviations from Standard Scientology are warranted; follow Hubbard’s wishes; and the judgement of when and how much to deviate comes from You. 6. Rather than discussing the Tech, ways to improve the Tech, where the Tech hits and where the Tech misses, or defending the Tech with evidence; you have argued for your own opinions about the Tech by using the Tech as evidence that your arguments are sound.\nChris, each one of your points 1-6 are Straw Man. Or, to be more blunt – the dub-in of me and what I’ve said continues.\nChris said to Marildi: you have argued for your own opinions about the Tech by using the Tech as evidence that your arguments are sound.\nYes, that is what I see too.\nTo Marildi:\nI am positive that if you had expressed even half of your opinions as you have on this blog while on the Class 8 course, you would have been thrown overboard, sec checked within an inch of your life and since you insist on holding your own opinion, you would have ended up on the RPF. No doubt about it.\nDo you seriously think that you could have stood in front of the the living individual L. Ron Hubbard and told him to his face and to others in his organization the many things you have found incorrect or misunderstood or not understood or misapplied and gotten anywhere except out of the organization?\nNo. You would have been declared as a squirrel. Period. By LRH himself. And you would not have been the first to be so declared.\nI think you should write your own book, like Ruth Minschull did. By all means acknowledge and cite LRH as you wish, but the fact is that you part ways with LRH on a continual basis depending on the time period you are examining. For the record, I believe I would prefer your version of Scientology and I think others would too. And it IS your version, not LRHs version(s).\nI also think you should see about working with David St. Lawrence or someone like him. It would be far more fruitful for you than trying to sort through the incredible number of contradictions that you have personally found in the body of works of Scientology.\nMaria: “…the fact is that you part ways with LRH on a continual basis depending on the time period you are examining.”\nTo be accurate, I have many times stated that I am a proponent of Scientology in the form that LRH originally developed and NOT how he himself later violated his own original writings. The tech itself, however, continued to adhere to the original philosophy and intention as long as LRH was alive, from what I have been able to conclude thus far.\nYou probably saw this comment by Michael Priv on Marty’s current blog thread:\n“If I mat [may]?”\nAnd Graduated’s reply to Michael’s comment:\n.”\nNote too that a possible explanation for Michael’s observation that something occurred with LRH between the years 1958 and 1961 is what Phil Spickler (who was there all through those years) had to say in this video:\n+1 +1 To Chris and Maria\nMarildi: I hope you don´t mind my saying this but you were instrumental in convincing me ( and probably others, Geir included) that Scientology cannot be fixed from within.\nRafael, I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “Scientology cannot be fixed from within.” Could you please explain?\nRafael, I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “Scientology cannot be fixed from within.” Could you please explain?\nAn important part of Scientology is based on its followers beliefs. When you are inside you are in agreement and it is very real to you, it grows into a self sustaining system which becomes more and more real and it becomes very difficult to differentiate what you put into it from what independently exists there. It is like a different universe which is being co-created by the Scientologists and keeps growing as long as you mantain your agreement with it. But that universe becomes separated from the other people´s universe, instead of contributing with the evolution of it.\nIMO An impartial observation cannot be done from inside.\nRafael “…it becomes very difficult to differentiate what you put into it from what independently exists there.”\nYes, I agree, Rafael. However, I think it can be done – and could have been done in the CoS if it hadn’t gone off the rails of the original philosophy. And the reason for why I say this is I don’t believe it was all a matter of LRH being so ingeniously clever with words and schemes that he could deceive a lot of people, but rather because of this – a being can recognize truth. Simple as that. And not because LRH said so but because I know it for myself.\nRelated to this exchange, I have to say I really liked your post earlier today, where you said:\n“And what if he came up with this wonderful model not through scientific work, but by making up the most beautiful dream one could possibly dream and adding to it the promise of making it come true? …… And then standing in the shoulders of giants to back it up with the best theories and scientific models and a lot of brilliant people contributing to make it real?”\nIn a way, that’s not too much different from how I would express it, except that I don’t have that kind of cynical take on it (although I really do get why so many people do). I still feel, from the data I have up to now, as well as my own sense of truth, that LRH was sincere and on the up and up.\nAnd I liked the last part of that post of yours even more:\n“And to be honest I have to confess………..\n“I can swear to God I got a taste of that beautiful\n“Pie in the sky!!!\n“…… Maybe it is really out there……. what else could I do to get it?\n“……. Anything!!! ………. ANYYYYTHIIIIING!!!!!!!!”\nThat’s kind of my idea too, that there is at the least a “maybe” that “it is really out there” – in Scientology itself, or possibly “post Scientology”. Here’s a link to a comment I wrote on Marty’s blog today which gives more of my viewpoint, if you’re interested:\nAnd now I’m going to take this opportunity to tell you something I wanted you to know – that you have always been one of my favorite people, here or anywhere. (Just saying’ in case the world ends tomorrow, LOL :)) I came up with the following notion quite some time ago: You can know them by their posts. 😉\nRafael: An impartial observation cannot be done from inside.\nChris: True. An impartial observation is not needed from inside — only indoctrination is required. Because from inside, the subject is self-defined as consistent. It is utterly relevant from inside. And from outside, there may be no particular reason to analyze it. As you say, it is a closed system unto itself. The the further away from its boundaries we are, the less relevant it becomes.\nMarildi: Re the video of Phil Spickler…. he is saying LRH had a secondary which was the cause of his deterioration and the ulterior degradation of all Scientology……I just can´t make it fit coherently with what Scientology is supposed to be….. could you explain to me how can you?\nRafael, Otto Roos writes a long, detailed account of what occurred in Scn from the 50’s to the 80’s, and much of it includes his up-close observations and a lot of personal experience with LRH directly. I haven’t read the whole thing but what I have read is pretty illuminating. The bottom line of Otto’s story (written in 1984, before LRH died) and what he concludes is this:\n“Conclusion: “LRH has more Out Tech on his case than ten people combined. He gave us a technology towards Immortality, but he denied himself the only thing which could have saved him: Auditing.”\nI believe that explanation is perhaps the most creative use of the True Scotsman fallacy so far.\nThank you Marildi. One thing I enjoy very much from our exchanges is that, even though we have different opinions, your space is always clean and friendly, and communication flows freely. Thank you for being there 🙂\nLikewise, Rafael! 🙂\nSo, what happened to Ron?\nPhil Spickler: “Ron had a Secondary”\nThis explanation is not good enough?\nHow about this?:\nOtto Ross: “LRH has more Out Tech on his case than ten people combined. He gave us a technology towards Immortality, but he denied himself the only thing which could have saved him: Auditing.”\nOr this:\n“LRH had not True Scientology applied on him”\nThis is the problem I see with being a Scientologist (Or any kind of “ologist”) :\nYou start your reasoning from the premise that your “ology” is right.\nThe definition of a Scientologist becomes: Someone who makes Scientology right, because, unfortunately, when you stop making it right, it is no longer 100% “standard Scientology”.\nIn the objective world, we do not need to make Newton´s law right, but inside our minds what is right is what we make right, that is what Scientology ultimately demonstrated to me.\nSo, why do you have to be a Scientologist?\n“…inside our minds what is right is what we make right …”\nI agree, Rafael. It all comes down to considerations. However, that includes all the mutually-held considerations among thetans – such as the Axioms (which include basic things like the communication formula and how the mind works). LRH says the tech is based on those universally agreed-upon considerations and that this is the reason why it works. My personal experience on several flows has been that the tech of the earlier years does work quite well, and thus it makes sense to me that it in fact is based on commonly-held considerations.\nThat’s the simplicity of why I think Scientology is not just another “ology” – it’s a path to greater freedom and ability that anyone interested in doing so could walk since it is based on their own most basic considerations. Comprende, amigo? 🙂\nMarildi:\nI´ve shown my wife our exchange and she said: “what you (Marildi) believe in is what has worked for you, and what you (Rafael) believe is what has worked for you, and ultimately the purpose of Scientology is that it work for everyone, and each one is going to achieve it from their own trench” 🙂\nFrom my part I´m relaxed now, knowing you are at cause over it. Me explico amiga?\nRafael,\nYour wife said, “…each one is going to achieve it from their own trench.”\nI think she said it the best!\nYes, the purpose of Scientology is that it work for everyone, and what that means – what it HAS to mean and MUST mean – is that each of us is our own “source”.\nYou have explained it very well, mi amigo. And I’m very glad that you are relaxed about me now – and I appreciate that you cared! Thank you and your lovely wife for recognizing and acknowledging me 🙂 🙂 (a big smile for each of you).\nThe only urge I got from this was to laugh good.\nAre you drunk or something? My friend Geir IS NOT a liar. I contradicted myself many times in this life, but this can happen, it doesn’t mean that I’m a liar. The same with Geir. Back off, buddy…Take a nap!\nDragos: Are you drunk or something?\nChris: 2x was just reversing the vector to make a point. It failed because of ratio of lying to truth and overall intention of the two parties.\nOPf! OOPMFF!!!\nAlanzo: OPf! OOPMFF!!!\nChris: hahahaha!\nWhenever I think of the word Invalidate I also think of the word Evaluate because they both go hand in hand – in order for someone to Invalidate one must first Evaluate, of course when one Evaluates may find there is no reason to Invalidate.\nWhen someone feels invalidated what enters the equation is uncertainty, if you are uncertain about your beliefs you will be rattled up and will become defensive which is a normal reaction-is a “defensive mechanism”.\nFor the most part a person feels Invalidated when he/she feels is right or holds the truth about something.\nIn reference to the Church of Scn – Invalidation is a key operational procedure because they must first find that there is something wrong with a person (Evaluate/Invalidate) so they can then offer ways to improve their condition.\nOne very important thing to keep in mind is that one can Invalidate for some good reason, if someone is being destructive one can certainly Invalidate that someone and feel good about it.\nHear, hear!\nEn garde!\n.)\nMy name is Mr Truth.\nHow is you?\nTo dear rockmystar\nwe are all fine, thank you for asking, our pig Sally just had 8 babies, and our son made his first million and we are thrilled because he is finally moving out of here and we will have more room for my beloved cats…. I have 22 so far and I know there will be more, I collect strays, also man hehehe…:)\nIf you interested where I am on the bridge weeeell, when I walk on it! 🙂\nBut I know of O/W’s I read something about them but that could have been a fib?\nWe have granddads old dental chair in our parlor, we just call it big chair, I would love to strap you into it and get me my big plyer and pull all your lovely overts and see what is under the truth..\nfaithfully yours: the catlady…\nI just rocked your star hehehe.. 🙂 in fact it gotten moved 🙂\nLOL!\nPS.. we dont don’t stomach tolorate the truth-reality around here, we find that very disturbing and the last time some one spoken something like truth around here we locked him in the cold cellar we dont tolorate shit like that here!!!\nElizabeth: PS.. we dont don’t stomach tolorate the truth-reality around here, we find that very disturbing and the last time some one spoken something like truth around here we locked him in the cold cellar we dont tolorate shit like that here!!!\nChris: hahahahaha! What are you up to now?!?\nrockmystar ….\nall kidding aside: the only truth one has in his universe which are: the cognition-realization and they hold no pictures, the truth contain no energy-no mass, don’t contain thoughts, sensations, or agreements…. nothing..\nthe truth is when one has cognition and that is the truth.\nAnything outside of that example: thoughts, which are some form of reality agreement on some subject and sensations which are anchor points these all are some form of energy masses because of that those can be confronted in session and can be as-ised and they will as-is since lies can be as-ised but truth never will.\nIf one would have total truth in their universe, they would not have thoughts therefore they would not be humans.\nThe only truth existing in one’s universe is their own reality, but when one can as-is that reality what would be there than?\nI have the answer for that… some might call that bullshit.. that too is a viewpoint.. hehehe and can be as-ised…\nWhat is truth? I have worked on that and what can’t be as-ised those concepts no matter how one confronts them to me they are the truth.\nI have found some reality-viewpoints that they were so outlandish that I could not believe so I have had sessions on them and more but not one I could erase..\nI give you a new reality… MEST is not solid but you know that… spirituality, the reality that one is forever, that one is an entity without any mass can’t be erased.\nI have come to conclusion that the Spiritual universe IS the Solid universe and the MEST is just on illusion.\nNo matter how I wanted to as-is the ‘’spiritual universe’’ its existence I could not.\nMy reality has become solid 100% real that it exist..\nIn my reality what I have seen, and understand: the Tone Scale is totally wrong: death of the body is not the indicator that the being is no more the end has come for that being but in fact the being just has regained his freedom\nSo Death of the Body should be on top of the chart and Birth of the Body which holds the entity in prison should be the very bottom of the Tone Scale…\nBecause when has the body uses that as on anchor hell is broken lose and out that one only can escape when the body stops working..\nI’d like to validate Elizabeth’s viewpoint. 🙂 it makes sense to me and it gives insight and hope, imho.\nI agree. It is a viewpoint worth validation. Theta could as-is the mest universe. The universe could not as-is theta.\nthanks you guys, now my viewpoint has value.. Because it has collected agreement therefore it is on the way to become solid…. ugh… 🙂\nMy viewpoints have become solid [ if we talk in terms of concepts-wording here] about the spiritual universe, what is.. since I have experienced so many different realities in sessions that no matter how sceptical I was, my doubts, that it was not real gradually melted away..\nNow I simply know…\nDee…\nHell, my dear sister, I have conducted extensive search what is that, why it is call that, what is made up of, who believes in it, why they believe that it exist, what is its value, why one wants to belong there, who belong there, and I have long forgotten the other dozens of different questions I have asked and the answers I gotten.\nBecause of my research now I know there are millions and millions do have reality what is spirituality and what is Spiritual universe means but these beings are too entangle in conceptual reality which are energy-masses and these beings are stuck to these anchors therefore they can experience the spiritual freedom which is free floating not being connected to any of those anchoring energy-masses.\nTalking spirituality is just that talking and nothing more than discussing any other topic and that is not free-floating.. being free is not being stuck to, connected to.. where one do not holds onto MEST anchor of any kind.\nLOL! Hmmm…. Little bit of an inversion here eh?\nthe wind has turned!! 🙂\nRe: Elizabeth Hamre 2013-03-23 at 05:41\n+1"}
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{"text": "Krispy Kreme Debuts Ugly Christmas Sweater Doughnuts\nThe latest company to jump on the ugly Christmas sweater bandwagon may be unexpected--but their results look delicious. Food & Wine reports.\"\nKrispy Kreme's Latest Doughnut Is Inspired by Ugly Christmas Sweaters | Food & Wine"}
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{"text": "I will be attending a private LiveMeeting session tomorrow with Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP at Microsoft. Scott will probably discuss the new features in ASP.NET 4.0 and the future of ASP.NET Ajax. I am really excited and looking forward to this. ScottGu’s talks are always intriguing and interesting.\nI will try to blog about this session and what Scott discussed during the next few days. Meanwhile, do you have any interesting questions you want to ask him? No promises, but I will try my best to get these questions through to him, if I get any.\nThanks are in order to Rune Grothaug, Community Manager at Microsoft Norway and to my friend and colleague Thomas Hansen, owner/CEO at Ra-Software AS for helping out with this."}
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{"text": "Just a quick Itinerary for my friends to see.. if you are in any of these Cities or Countries shoot me an email maybe we can meet and have a Coffee or Tea…\nI have a last min plan in my head for something I want to do for some people along the way and I dont have time now but tomorrow I will write it up while Im on the flight to NYC and post it when I get there.\nTuesday Sept 28 leave for connecting flight in NYC to Switzerland to Pick up a bran new Pilatus Airplane.. (for my brothers new Air Charter Service) 🙂\nThen off we go….\nSept 29 to approx Oct 1 Stans, Switzerland\nApprox Oct 1 and 2 Berlin\nApprox Oct 2 and 3 Vienna\nApprox Oct4 and 5 Venice\nApprox Oct 6 thru 9 Rome\nApprox Oct 10 and 11 Monaco\nApprox Oct 12 to 17 Germany\nApprox Oct 18 , 19 Brussels\nApprox Oct 20 thru 26 UK (skipped to make more time for World Health Summit)\nApprox Oct 27 Bordeaux\nAprrox Oct 28 thru 30 Madrid\nApprox Oct 31 Casablanca\nApprox Nov 1 Tunis\nApprox Nov 2 Naples\nApprox Nov 3 thru 6 Greece\nApprox Nov 7 thru 9 Cairo\nApprox Nov 10 Riyad\nApprox Nov 11 thru 15 Dubai\nApprox Nov 16 thru 18 India\nApprox Nov 19 thru 22 Singapore ,Jakarta\nAprox Nov 23 thru 27 Darwin, Melbourne Canberra, Sydney\n……Stick the Pilatus Airplane on a ship in Sydney then,\nNov 28, Begin commercial flight back to Los Angeles via Honolulu\nPeace,\nDenise W. (Delinda)\nWARNING: (If you are a criminal hacker type who can figure out where I live based on my Ip stuff be warned…My home will be very well protected and if you try and break in you will be sorry and I will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law!)\nSeptember 27th, 2010 at 11:51 pm\nWOW! That looks like an amazing trip.\nNo Vermont though?\n🙂\nSeptember 28th, 2010 at 1:22 am\nNope no Vermont. Just New York and Hawaii for US stops.\nSeptember 28th, 2010 at 2:38 am\nwow!! omg, how wonderful! take pics and flickr them – i wanna vicariously be you! have fun! =)\nSeptember 30th, 2010 at 4:25 am\n[…] afk ..but not for long! got a second life? Skip to content Homeabout second life and how to contact meThe Influence Project ← Taking a little trip.. (of a lifetime) 🙂 […]"}
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{"text": "RENO, Nev (KOLO) Wood, pellet, and gas burning stoves are inviting AND pretty to look at, and they generate plenty of heat. They also put fewer particulates into the air than other stoves.\nTechnology and design make newer stoves more desirable on just about every level, says Washoe County's Health District. That is why it's offering vouchers for the newer stoves as part of the Wood Stove Change-Out Program.\n“So this program targets pre-1992 stoves. Those weren't designed with all the technology we see today. Those stoves from that generation were inefficient and create a lot of air pollution,” says Daniel Inouye with the Washoe County Health District.\nInouye is referring to our area’s winter weather air. Called an inversion layer, warm air traps cool air below in the Truckee Meadows during the winter months. Contained inside the trapped air are particulates from wood smoke and exhaust. It doesn't look good and is even worse for your lungs.\nThree years ago, the county began its Wood Stove Change-Out Program, in which homeowners can turn in their old wood burning stoves and receive vouchers to buy newer, more efficient wood burning, pellet, or gas burning stoves.\n“We subtract the rebate right off the top. And we go in, we have to replace it, the homeowner cannot do that. We remove the old stove. We have to dispose of the old stove. We also have to get the building permit to put the stove in. We do get the building permit. I don't believe anyone else in town does that,” says Randy Caudle with Home Energy Experts.\nThere are fewer than 40 vouchers left to Washoe County residents who live in the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area and can qualify for the program.\nNot all vouchers are for the same amount; there is only one pellet stove voucher left in the entire program. There are 7 qualified dealers who can help you through the process."}
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{"text": "It was the probably the fall of 1977, and I was taking the second half of Western Civilization under Professor Henry Wood. He assigned us a reading, with a “free will” choice of either Freud by R. J. Rushdoony or Nietzsche by H. Van Riessen. Along with one other student, I chose the Nietzsche volume. It was a slim book of some 51 pages, but it was not fast or easy read. I think I must have read through it twice and underlined and marked it heavily. Alas, I cannot find that copy of my book. Mr. Wood quizzed me and the other fellow in a small goup discussion. It was an exhilerating educational experience and resembled what I think happens in English college settings.\nNietzsche was part of a series of books called “Modern Thinkers” which was part of a collection called “An International Library of Philosophy and Theology.” These books were published by the Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, which also published books under the label of Craig Press. I had already entered into that world that I have called Calvinia. I had read John Calvin: His Roots and Fruits and A Theological Interpretation of American History by C. Gregg Singer, This Independent Republic by R. J. Rushdoony, Christianity and the Problem of Origins by P. E. Hughes, and the two books that sealed my future, Studies in Theology and The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination by Loraine Boettner.\nAlthough my future studies in college would contain much that was good, true, and beautiful, I did not experience the consistency, rigor, and direction of a real Reformed, classical, or Christian education through the classes I was taking. In other words, I would take a fine college class, but have to study on my own to bring it into a perspective that was Biblical and Reformed. I truly envy those today who are getting far better exposure to the greatest books and ideas through their college experiences.\nJames Jordan wrote of the Calvinistic world of the 1970s in his outstanding essay titled “The Closing of the Calvinistic Mind.”\nI think my take-away on Jordan’s essay was different than his main intent. What it did was it reawakened my own mind–circa 2007–of the Calvinist thinkers that had impacted my life and imprinted their thinking on my mushy mind. I immediately went into a book buying and reading frenzy, gathering up every Presbyterian and Reformed title from those years and authors that Jordan mentioned. I gave a lecture series in Newport Newes, Virginia to a group that was titled “Calvinist Worldview Thinkers During the Wilderness Years,” another series in Alaska called “Dutch Thinkers,” and I wrote a number of essays, some published, on Dooyeweerd, Rushdoony, Singer, and others.\nI was continually amazed at that time at how Bryce Craig, encouraged by R. J. Rushdoony and others, had published book after book that had little or no chance of reaching a wide audience. And he published them with ugly covers and other less than appealing features. “Who was out there reading these books?” I wondered then and now. Most Calvinists I knew read books on theology, the Bible, preaching, church, etc., but not on worldview issues, philosophy, and culture.\nI am still bound and determined to acquire all of the books that are listed in the picture above. I wish I could go back in time and get them for those prices. Thankfully, P & R would send out sale sheets every month, so I did buy lots of them. I probably have about half of the books in that picture. That comes from the back inside cover of the Nietzsche volume.\nAll of that is prelude to this: Presbyterian and Reformed shortened its name to P&R Publishing, and it has had much better cover designers than in the past. P&R publishes lots of books with a much wider appeal than it did in those early days. This is helped by the fact that the Calvinist reading audience or broader Evangelical reading audience is greater.\nA few years back, P&R began a series called “Great Thinkers.” Like the older “Modern Thinkers” series, these books are relatively short (less than 150 pages) and are geared toward serious, though not necessarily expert, readers. And this is not another set of books about our favorite Christians, such as C. S. Lewis and company. Many of the books are about thinkers who are not Christian or not Reformed, evangelical theologians. If you impacted the greater culture and world of ideas, you might just be included.\nI only have two of the books in this series: Thomas Aquinas by K. Scott Oliphint and, as of this week, Francis Bacon by David C. Innes. As might be expected, I am in great distress and anxiety that will not cease until I have the whole series, including the forthcoming volumes.\nI use Francis Schaeffer’s book How Should We Then Live? as a teaching tool to introduce my students to a wide range of theologians, political leaders, philosophers, artists, and other influential people. To some degree, I am teaching them “just” a list of names, book titles, and movement. This is Trivial Pursuit, random bits of information, and for sure, oversimplifications. That is good. That is where we start: Names, titles, movements, bullet points.\nThen we move on. I am all for the students (starting in high school and continuing through college) diving into all or large portions of the greatest thinkers and books of all time. But even reading a couple of hundred pages of Calvin or Aquinas or Marx might not enable you to get the overall picture of their worldview. And books about thinkers are often longer, more technical, and more difficult than the author’s own writings themselves.\nHere is the beauty of these kinds of books: Short, scholarly, serious, and readable.\nFootnote: I bought the volume Francis Bacon simply because David C. Innes wrote it. His book Christ and the Kingdoms of Men is one of the best books I have read this year."}
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{"text": "Today my heart has been heavy and to be honest I just didn’t want to write a post on being thankful for anything!\nI've spent most the day on the verge of tears.\nThere has been a lot going on. Not just in my life, but those I love dearly.\nIt doesn’t help that my mind has been focused on self either. I hurt and don’t feel well. There are test to be done, they are an inconvenience. I don’t like them.\nI’ve been missing my momma too. I want to just sit and cry on her shoulder and have her tell me it will all be okay. I want to feel her comfort, her support, her encouragement. Not just know it’s there.\nDoes that make sense? Am I too old to even need a mother? To need a kind of mother I never had? Is it okay that some days I still can mourn that loss?\nThe lies that are shouting in my mind. It’s been hard to take them captive. It is so easy for the enemy to win when my focus is on me.\nWhen I am only thinking about me I don’t see the goodness God has given. When it’s all about me I can’t see God. I can’t see the hurt and sorrow of others.\nWhen it’s all about me I will never feel like being thankful.\nBut when I look at HIM I see goodness and my heart can rejoice and be thankful for all HE has done.\nSo regardless of how I feel or what I think I am going to choose to finish this day rejoicing in a God that offers me grace to face the daily challenges.\nI will choose to have a day that is other’s focused, not self focused. I will stand firm with a thankful heart, knowing that my God is sufficient in all things, He is sovereign, Good, Just, a Strong tower, and full of love, grace and mercy toward me.\nI will be thankful to a God who understands my sorrow, my hurts, my emotions and He never gives up on me. He will never think I have totally gone crazy, lost it or have fallen. He understands those moments of weakness and His Spirit strengthens me.\nHow long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? … I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, for he has been good to me. Ps 13:2,6\nSharon, what strength in the Lord you display with your words!\nIt is a battle for the mind, when we struggle to bring every thought captive.\nIt’s okay to miss our mothers. Do you ever write about the blessing she was to you?\nI did last November on her birthday. Sometimes the memories of love help soothe present grief."}
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{"text": "Outfit details\nAlala everyday cardigan\nAlala crossback bra (15% off: AA15)\nK-Deer Laura stripe capris\nShoes: Nike Metcon 2 (customized)\nBag: Mara Hoffman\nSunnies: Kate Spade “Dusty” (different color)\nPhotos: Kylie Pond Photography\nHappy Monday! I hope you’re feeling rejuvenated after the weekend and are ready to tackle a new week. It’s warming up outside, and that means I’m not going to the gym bundled up in 17 layers anymore.\nEven if you’re sweating buckets in the warmer weather, the idea of wearing a sports bra as your only top can be daunting. My CrossFit gym isn’t air-conditioned and it’s common practice for women to shed a layer on top. Likewise, in the summer time, hikes can get brutally hot. Still, I can’t help but feel a little self-conscious.\nOne helpful way I’ve found to ease yourself into it is by choosing a bra and bottom that cover a little bit more. This combo can help get you comfortable with the idea of wearing a sports bra alone while also helping you feel a little more modest. If you’re self-conscious about your belly, a high waist will keep you covered so you’re not distracted by how you look. Ultra-high waists like these K-Deers can help accentuate the natural waist, which is a nice bonus, too.\nThe sports bra is the second half of the equation. By wearing a sports bra with a little more coverage, you won’t feel like you’re letting it all hang out, which is especially helpful for those with more of a full bust. The advantage of this sports bra from Alala is that the perforated fabric means it’s still breathable–that’s really helpful since heat management is the main reason to go sans shirt in the first place.\nThe cherry on top is that this combo is all sorts of on-trend. No matter which way you look at it, it’s a killer combo if you ask me.\ni love the “more options” thingy at the bottom. fun and helpful!! I’m sure it was time consuming, so thank you :)\nYou’re welcome! Surprisingly took less time than I thought it would, which basically never happens, hah.\nI was looking at your “more options” and I am thinking about ordering a sports bra from Alala. I was wondering which Alala bra is your favorite? And what do you think about wearing the high-neck bra with a tank for workouts? Does it look ok or would it look odd?\nThanks! I love getting your opinion!\nHmmm… My favorites would have to be the snap bra and zip bra. The snap bra is actually from last season but it’s still on the site!\nAs for the higher neck with tanks, you can get away with it. I usually wear them with higher necks (like muscle tees), but it can work with a plain ol’ racerback tank. As an example, this is the snap bra with a lulu CRB: Hope that helps!!\nLove the stripes! Kdeer has some cute patterns in their newest collection that are calling my name.\nYes! I really like the new wildcard print.\nYou look fantastic in the photos! I get self conscious wearing only a sports bra because of my fair skin, not because of my body. I live in Florida, where being super tan is almost expected, so being very light, especially on the stomach, always draws a few insensitive comments from people. I would love to sport the sports bra and pants/shorts look, but I’m always so scared! I live in the perfect place for that combo, it’s super hot here like 10 months of the year!\nWow, people really say that?! That’s nuts. I’m fairly pale too but that’s definitely not something people seem to care about around here.\nLove this combo idea! I really love that bra but neither of the current colors are calling my name.\nThanks Jenn!! :)"}
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{"text": "- Join over 1.2 million students every month\n- Accelerate your learning by 29%\n- Unlimited access from just £6.99 per month\n- Level: AS and A Level\n- Subject: History\n- Word count: 1161\nDo you agree with the view that conscientious objectors were treated fairly by the authorities during the First World War\nExtracts from this document...\nIntroduction\nUse Sources 7, 8 and 9 and your own knowledge - Do you agree with the view that conscientious objectors were treated fairly by the authorities during the First World War? Whether or not conscientious objectors were treated fairly by the authorities during the First World War has been widely debated. Although the tribunals established to deal with conscientious objectors undoubtedly had good intentions, it is arguable that the outcomes reached were not always just, and reflective of the applicants true circumstances. With outcomes ranging from total exemption to imprisonment, there was a large spectrum of possible situations that objectors could find themselves facing. Furthermore, due to the varying reasons for individuals to seek exemption, tribunals often found difficulty in verifying or rejecting applicants. Thus whether or not conscientious objectors were treated fairly is largely open to interpretation, considering the difficult circumstances and ambiguity surround each applicants appeal. Source 7 implies that conscientious objectors were indeed treated fairly, with the odds of gaining at least a temporary exemption quoted at a ?high? 50%. ...read more.\nMiddle\nThe fact that tribunals were comprised of ?distinguished local citizens? is emphasised, once more amplifying the overwhelming prejudice that was placed on those appealing by the deeply patriotic locals. Additionally it is suggested that individuals demanded ?absolute exemption? from the war. In reality however, many objectors were simply against fighting in the war and often volunteered in the Non-Combatant Corps, where they were able to undertake more administrative duties, such as ambulance driving, stretcher bearing or merely cleaning. For instance the largest bloc of conscientious objectors were the christadelphians, who took a literal reading of the bible, and refused to fight, yet were prepared to do other kinds of war related work. Furthermore Source 8 highlights the distinct lack of understanding between the tribunals, and absolutists who sought to take no part in the war, directly or indirectly. Not only did they rarely grant unconditional exemption, they also often allocated absolutists to non-combatant duties that such individuals were strongly against. In fact the somewhat harsh treatment of absolutists has been widely documented. During the course of the war it is known that, forty-one absolutists were transferred to France, where they were considered to be on active service and could thus be sentenced to death for refusing orders. ...read more.\nConclusion\nIn fact, before obtaining a mere temporary objection, conscientious objectors had to first bypass the presence of an army-selected member, who attended every hearing with the right to cross-examine each applicant. These 'military representatives' seemed to have a common aim, in attempting to get as many men as possible into the army to fill the void left by the dead. At the time this view was considered appropriate, and with British Army losses standing at 528,227 by the end of 1915, such a position is understandable. However, to the objectors, the severe lacking of volunteers meant that they were often treated unjustly, not out of personal preference, but out of sheer necessity to maintain adequate numbers on the front line. In conclusion, whilst in some cases non-combatant corps and somewhat lenient, ?sympathetic? individuals in tribunals offered a compromise to conscientious objectors, in many cases it is undeniable that such objectors were treated unfairly. Particularly when seeking ?absolute exemption? it seems prejudice was shown towards conscientious objectors, mainly by patriotic locals or scrutinising war officials, aiming to refill the gaps left by dead servicemen on the front line. Thus to a considerable extent I disagree with the view that conscientious objectors were treated fairly throughout the First World"}
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{"text": "Reading mode: Light Dark\nForum indexOff TopicChange forum\nCanadian finds Knife blade in back 3 years after being stabbed.\nStarted Mar 22, 2013 | Discussions thread\nShop cameras & lenses ▾\nBrian D. Schneider • Forum Pro • Posts: 18,225\nSpeaking about not being very sharp...\nIn reply to Henry Schobin • Mar 22, 2013\n2\nHenry Schobin wrote:\nYou Canadian's aren't very sharp......but your knives seem to be.-- hide signature --\nRethink your last comment.\nORLAND PARK, Ill man shoots himself in the head with nailgun and doesn't know"}
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{"text": "Today, David Bowie Died…and so did my Car Battery. And I foolishly celebrated the latter by walking 3 miles in -9F temperature (possibly a personal record) to get to work instead of a more rational,\nsane option like a cab or calling a co worker.\nStubborn, that’s me.\nI listened to a lot of Bowie this evening while trying to recharge the car battery after it got jumped.\nBowie was early among the musical artists that my brother introduced me to. And so I will miss him."}
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{"text": "“Our teachers continue to do great work to personalize learning for students and this collaborative project will continue to build on that energy.” […]\nRead more\n“We are so appreciative of the ongoing support that FEPS provides for our students and teachers. This teacher driven project will continue to enhance and expand the opportunities for each Eden Prairie Elementary student to learn engineering principles “ […]\nRead more\n“Thank you so much for the FEPS Grant for the Makerspace and the 3D printer. We love it! We made a bookmark for you as a token of our appreciation! We hope to make lots of cool stuff with the printer.” […]\nRead more\nBe inspired monthly by Eden Prairie students, teachers, staff and community members!\nFoundation for Eden Prairie Schools\n8100 School Road, Eden Prairie, MN 55344\nPhone: 952-975-7205\nlsisinni@foundationforepschools.org"}
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{"text": "The C.C.A. Difference\nOne of the most important facets of our business model is how we present candidates to our clients. Along with the presentation of the candidate is not only a list of highlights discovered throughout the interview process, but a candid delivery, detailed and realistic snapshot of the candidate’s personality, and strengths as well as weaknesses. This helps our clients have a very strong picture of who our candidates are before bringing them in.\nWe recognize that our candidates’ needs evolve during the interview process. Candidates may be entertaining multiple opportunities, become inundated with information and pulled in several directions. It is during this delicate time our recruiters’ experiences and insights will keep their minds focused and on course. During this process, we also keep our clients abreast of all these changes as this evolution occurs, thereby eliminating any surprises during the interview process.\nWe have been known to pull candidates mid-process if something surfaces that just doesn’t sit right with us so your time is not wasted. We are interested in making a long-term fit versus a short-term fee. This accounts for our 98% retention rate with our clients."}
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{"text": "Movie ReviewsRating: 4 of 5 yaps\nLife As We Know It\nIf you were to look up formulaic romantic comedy, undoubtedly you would stumble across Warner Bros. Picture’s latest release “Life as We Know It.”Luckily for the director Greg Berlanti and screenwriters Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson, Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl come to the rescue.\nAfter a disastrous first meeting, Messer (Duhamel) and Holly (Heigl) find themselves thrown together, their lives changed forever when their best friends Peter (Hayes MacArthur) and Alison (Christina Hendricks) are killed in a car accident. Compounding their issues of grief is the fact the couple left guardianship of their child Sophie (played by a trio of tots) to Messer and Holly.\nMesser is the proverbial guy’s guy. He works for the Atlanta Hawks, beds a different lady every night, all the while breezing carefree through life. Holly owns a bakery and has been trying to connect with a handsome stranger Sam (Josh Lucas), who visits the shop daily. Now the duo must shack up in the same house to raise Sophie.\nAs they struggle to find the way to bring up a child, the two predictably begin to connect, but a job offer splits the twosome before anything can really get going. But now the once lady’s man Messer finds himself longing for the two ladies he never wanted in his life in the first place. Also, the strong-willed Holly finds she prefers the messy-haired Messer over Dr. Sam and races to tell him before he jets back to his new job in Phoenix.\nIt’s said that a screenplay should have something major happen in the first five to 10 pages, but Deitchman and Robinson must have missed that lesson somewhere along the line.\nBerlanti could have easily cut the first 10 minutes of the film and made a tighter film that lost one of the most out of place set-up scenes in recent memory. Instead of showing how the riff between Messer and Holly came about in a quick sequence, which he ends up doing anyway, the director sets up the action with a rambling opening that almost leaves the audience behind.\nThat being said, once the movie gets going, the charm of Heigl and especially Duhamel is enough to pull what could be a mediocre romcom from the ashes and give us something with a charisma that exceeds beyond all its limitations.\nHeigl and Duhamel make the most of their thinly written characters and give performances that are impressive. Heigl seems locked in to the same type of roles, but for the first time, I didn’t find her utterly annoying. It might sound harsh, but when you play the same role continuously, the act gets old really quick. In “Know It,” she is able to rise above and show some truly moving moments.\nDuhamel is the real deal in my book. It’s easy to overlook Duhamel as just another pretty-faced action hero, but his turns in “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton,” “Turistas” and “Ramona and Beezus” show the actor has range and should possibly be given the key to a franchise, maybe such as a certain superhero with blue tights, red cape and an yellow ‘S’ emblazoned on his chest. Just thinking out loud here.\nCharming turns from Duhamel and Heigl save what is a weak, formulaic script and sitcom quality directing and delivers a film with heart that should snare its share of its opening weekend box office.\n4 out of 5 Yaps\n[...] Life as We Know It [...]\nEven at 4 yaps I would not want to be dragged to a Katherine Heigl movie…\nFor my wife and I who are about to have our first child, it really hit home for us. Out of a dark and tragic beginning, grew a great little romantic comedy that will appeal to all families alike.\nI wasn’t going to see this movie, but this description may have talked me into it. Sometimes the cookie cutter romantic comedy is to \"sugarcoated\" for me, but this one seeems like it would worth seeing just for the fine performances Heigl and Duhamel.\nAs Gardner duly points out, there was no history for the rift between the characters in Life As We Know It. Regardless, I thought the film was delightful, funny, and entertaining. Duhamil is a \"hunk\" regardless of your age, as I am nearing 60 and my daughter, 16, were both \"smitten\". Perhaps a \"prequel\" is in order.\nI can’t wait to see the movie. I think the situation is sad but still a good story to tell about the unkown possibilities.\nGreat movie. Funny and touching. Love when he pushed the baby down.\nI didn’t really like this one. Just couldn’t get into it. I just don’t relate with the characters in this one very well. But put together good with very good acting.\nthis movie was a thumbs up cute and funny, my fav part was the case worker and brownies haha\nThis is a must see movie!!! Two plus thumbs up. The cast was awesome and look for awards to come there way. Also want to say a special thanks to Film Yap for free tickets for this movie! Rhanks, Robert Baumann\nSuch a cute and funny movie. I loved it when Holly was driving back from the airport and the caseworker is the one that was crying…\nThe movie was touching, humorous, and entertaining. I’m not a Katherine Heigl fan but I thought she did a good job. It was nice seeing Josh follow behind the baby in his boxers.\nI loved this film! Great love story movie, love the part when playboy Messer didn’t care nothing about Holly until he saw her going out on a date with Sam! Classic!\nI agree that the film was predictable and pretty much your standard chick flick, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The audience was laughing out loud several times during the screening I saw. Definitely worth seeing on DVD. Paying full price at the theater? Not so much.\nGreat Movie. There was some very funny parts in this movie.\nIt was cute, predictable and relatively wholesome with pretty people.\nI thought this movie was okay… but it just seem familiar it had that same feel as the \"Back-up Plan\" women going thru mid-life crises and want’s the man,kid and the white picket fence. I’m getting tried of Katherine Heigl playing the same old roles over and over again. She’s a talented actress, I think she can do better in other roles.\nLoved this film!\nI laughed and teared up even though this movie was somewhat predictable.\nThis is a good movie. It touched my heart to see two people come together to raise this little girl after her parents were killed in a car accident. It was a life changing event for them.\nI love Katherine Heigl and think that Josh Duhamel’s spontaneiousness adds a layer of fun that the script might have lacked. Perhaps this is what brought Katherine out of her shell and raised her acting above previous performances.\nThis was a great movie. It was very funny!! ****\nLoved this film!! Nice twist on a love story.\nThis movie was great! Not just a chick flick."}
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{"text": "And don’t forget ‘buy one get one free’ discounts run until 23rd December\nThe PlayStation Store 12 Deals of Christmas promotion continues! A new deal will go live every 48 hours at midday – make sure you don’t miss\nPlayStation Plus Exclusive Discounts (until 23/12/16)\nNot only that, but if you’re a PS Plus member we have a host of exclusive discounts on PS4 titles just for you!\nDon’t miss discounts on titles such as Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Game of the Year Edition, Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide, Game of Thrones – Season Pass and more!\n- Amazing Spider-Man 2 Gold Edition\n- Back to the Future: The Game – 30th Anniversary Edition\n- Evolve\n- Evolve Digital Deluxe\n- Evolve Ultimate Edition\n- Game of Thrones – Season Pass\n- Ghostbusters™\n- Let’s Sing 8 – Versión Española\n- Let’s Sing 2016\n- Let’s Sing 2016 : Hits Français\n- Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ Legion Edition\n- Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™-Game of the Year Edition\n- Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Pass Deluxe\n- MXGP2 – Special Edition\n- MXGP2 – The Official Motocross Videogame\n- NOW That’s What I Call SING\n- PAYDAY 2 – CRIMEWAVE EDITION – THE BIG SCORE DLC Bundle!\n- PAYDAY 2 – CRIMEWAVE EDITION – CRIMEWAVE EDITION – THE BIG SCORE Game Bundle\n- Saints Row IV: Re-Elected\n- Saints Row Metro Double Pack\n- Saints Row: Gat out of Hell\n- SPACE HULK\n- SPACE HULK Ascension\n- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™: Mutants in Manhattan\n- The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season\n- The Wolf Among Us\n- Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide\n- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood\n*Some titles may not be available in your region\nBuy one get one free (until 23/12/16)\nIn addition to the 12 Deal of Christmas promotion, we also have an amazing offer on select PS4 tiles on PlayStation Store,!\n33 Comments\nWe don’t have GTA V in PlayStation Store in my country :( Why ?\nAbout £10 too much for me, think I’ll be leaving here with just one uncharted unless ff15 is decent\nI’m still seeing the FIFA 17 offer and not the GTA V one. When will I be able to buy GTA V?\nGTA V?? That’s a joke! The game has been on the PS4 for 2 years!!\nIf I remember correctly, then GTA V was one of the last years deals too, which is just dumb, and way to expenssive for such an old game even as a deal!\nIs this a joke?\nWas waiting on final fantasy too but Amazon had offer at 32.99, so bought it, couldn’t see psn store being cheaper but never know I suppose, but worth the extra time I’ve been playing already\nWhats hard about putting sales up before announcing there live. Still showing old deal\nI could be interested in picking it up if the price is right. Sadly, I can still see Fifa as the 12days discount so have no idea how much it is ….\n£29.99, no thanks. Needed to be £19.99 or lower for me to bite. It’s £25 in Argos. Presumably Watchdogs 2 and FF15 will be over £30. Can’t wait until this ends and they focus on a proper Christmas sale.\nIt’s showing as £25 for me ….\n£19.99 preowned at game\nMy bad, must have looked at the version with shark points. The basic version is still too much though.\nThe 12 deals of christmas discounts were removed from the PlayStation Store discount section on the store page and when I’m trying to click on the “12 deals” banner I got the following message:\nUnable to Find This Page It may be unavailable or the address may be incorrect. Select [Home] to continue browsing the PlayStation®Store.\nThank you Sony/PlayStation Store for this amazing #10 discount.\n£24.99 for the base game isn’t anything special (cheaper physical), but £34.99 for the game and a Megalodon shark card ($8,000,000 in-game dollars) is an excellent deal if you’re planning to spend a lot of time with the online side. That much cash would cost you £64.99 or a good 30+ hours of your life otherwise\nawful price\nShame, was hoping for something to rival Game’s £19.99 Will pick it up from there instead\nI’ll do the same! Oh wait, I’m european and not from the UK, that means that with conversion and shipping I would save… Nothing. :/\nI guess someone put the 12 Deals of Christmas price on the Black Friday price, that’s why it was corrected back then.\nAfter waiting for so many years, I’m willing to pay this price. I do not agree with the general pricing of this game, considering how old it is, but me and my fiancé cannot wait another few years for the price to go down.\nOn the good side, we can play online together for the price of one :)\nWhy is this game still full price? Also why does $59.99=69.99euro?\nI don’t understand this.\nIt’s called VAT.\nexcept the retail versions around here are usually 50-55e tops\nWhat a joke. Not even a good one. What’s next? Color Guardians and Stories, just to make the punchline perfect? How about Rocket League and No Man’s Sky. That would be funny. Or the first episodes of some Telltale series? Fifa 16 and Rugby Worldcup? Goat Simulator and The Last Tinker?\nBelieve it or not that’s actually 20€ cheaper than the special deal they had in stores round here.\nGood enough for a digital only deal. Some people don’t buy/use discs now, optical drives die and hard drives are faster.\nReally hoping they drop Diablo or MGSV (although both have been heavily discounted in the past year).\nit’s sad that none of the links work for me :(\nJOKE DEAL. 2 YEAR OLD GAME FOR HALF PRICE OF THE RELEASE PRICE. ????????????\nFor those in the UK, Tesco Direct are doing GTA V PS4 for £24.99 and you get £2.5m in spending money.\nsorry mate but GTAV is from ps3 era. I don’t give a damn about refurbished and polished cover, game core & mechanics are the same. Similar thing as with Skyrim:Enhanced\nIt’s a good game, but still to expensive, if it was 19,90€ I would go for it.\nSo far only Uncharted 4 was the only real Xmas deal.\nShame that a deal essentially means ‘matches physical prices’.\nWhat a joke for a game that has been out for 2 years and I originally had on ps3 couple years ago. And as for your “buy 1 get 1 free” were you actually paying for both games if you remember the older prices when those games were on special. Some Christmas special hey.."}
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{"text": "Bollywood,Reality TV and Indian secularism.\nThe prize is the hand in marriage of a top “Item Girl” (meaning guest appearance in a sleazy dance song) Ms. Rakhi Sawant.Ms. Sawant became a sensation in Bollywood thru her hard work and determination despite an obvious lack of education and family background.\nThe eligible bachelors are invariably unknown wannabe actors and small time professional,.\nLast night’s show opened the Pandora’s Box of social, cultural and religious debate, not just for one contestant but also for the whole society of secular India and that’s precisely why, I wanted to write about reality TV in secular India.\nThe contestant in question is an elementary level police officer in state of Jammu Kashmir, a shy and handsome Muslim “Bachelor” Mr. Ather Parvez, the show started with gossip on the taboo of possibility of a Muslim marrying a ‘Hindu’ girl whose only claim to fame is glamour dancing. The issue of Hindu-Muslim marriage, even in a supposedly secular India, is an explosive one. Hindu fundamentalist BJP’s Members of Parliament accused the state minister Mr. Nitin Raut of being complacent in the national conspiracy of Muslim boys converting the religion of Hindu girls after marry them for religious motives.\nKashmir is the only Muslim majority state in India and a disputed territory between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan. Since 1990s Kashmiris , and some outside Islamist groups, are involved in an armed struggle for independence from India. While the Kashmiri groups are predominantly secular, the population is approximately 70% Muslim and remaining 30% comprising of Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist. Prior to 1947 the Country of Kashmir was a British dominion ruled by a brutal family of Hindu Dogras, but essentially a multicultural and multi-religious society. Current troubles and interferences by fundamentalist Hindu and Islamic forces have resulted in a highly orthodox, fragmented and terrorized society.\nJammu Kashmir Police officer are considered brutal agents of Indian rule, notorious for rapes and other torture tactics. Mr. Parvez is not accused of any such crimes, but he had a “dark secret” to hide when he walked through the gates of Rajasthan fort (where the show was being filmed) and presented Ms. Sawant a small idol of Elephant god Ganesha, what a act of blasphemy by a Muslim . Despite his education, etiquettes and articulate language, Mr. Parvez failed to inform Ms. Sawant of his family background. What Mr. Parvez thought was a “minor” issue is a “major” misdemeanor for Hindu society.\nThe secret came out like a bomb shell in the recording of the show, when one of the female anchors asked Mr. Parvez some personal questions about his family life. Ms. Sawant and all the male contestants were shocked to hear that the soft spoken police office was already married with three kids. Polygamy is acceptable for Muslims society but not for the major civilized societies whether in Europe, Americas or the current jurisprudence of eastern societies of India, Korea, China or Japan.\nMr. Parvez naivety was evident when he was unable to comprehend the full gravity of the situation and tried to give an honest explanation that his current wife is happy for him to find “love of his life” in Ms. Sawant’s holy matrimony and that as per Islamic law Mr. Parvez is permitted to marry four wives at the same time and that he has duly obtained “permission” from his first wife and his parents. The Policeman left with tears in his eyes for the Love of his life.\nThe fiasco reminded me of one of the best known defenders of Human rights in Pakistan, Ms. Mukhtaran Mai, who was gang raped by village elders for the punishment of a crime that her teenager brother was accused of. Ms. Mai refused to accept the stigma of rape and campaigned for the rights of women in Pakistan. International fame, profile and funding for her school projects, gave a local policeman the opportunism to approach Ms. Mai for a marriage proposal. When Ms. Mai refused, the policeman blackmailed Mai with threats of suicide and divorcing his First Wife and a divorce for that lady would have meant that lady’s brothers would have divorced their wives in revenge for family honour. In the end Ms. Mai agreed to marry this two-timing police cheat, thus becoming a victim of the tribal system, she was fighting against, twice.\nIn Pakistan, a couple of days ago, a devout Muslim man killed his wife and their three daughters in the shame of not having son. The same night I saw; this lady British Judge and a convert to Islam Ms. Marilyn Mornington(visiting for course on ‘cultural diversity’)tell the interviewer from Pakistan TV, quote “Prophet Mohammed was The Biggest Feminist in the World” unquote."}
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{"text": "The second dish which Minoo made was Hawaiian Meatball. The sweet and sour meatballs are very appetizing and kids will love this dish. Try and make it for your family.\nMinoo served the Hawaiian Meatballs with steamed rice. A little more sauce will be perfect to go with the rice.\nThe Hawaiian Meatball is good for potluck too.\nIngredients\n- 1 1/2 lbs ground beef\n- 2/3 cup chopped onion, divided\n- 1/4 teaspoon grated ginger\n- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt\n- 1/4 cup milk\n- 1 egg\n- 2/3 cup cracker/bread crumbs\n- 1/2 cup brown sugar\n- 1/2 cup vinegar\n- 1 tablespoon soy sauce\n- 1 tablespoon corn starch\n- 12oz can pineapple, reserve the juice\n- 1 cup chopped red or green pepper\n- 1 teaspoon orange zest\n- mushroom, optional\nInstructions\nThis Post Has 0 Comments\nThat looks great ! Do you think they can be baked too (instead of pan fried) ?\nHi LotusRapper, you can surely bake the meat balls instead of pan frying them. Bake them at 350F for 20 to 30 minutes or until they’re brown.\nNew look for the new year!? Haven’t had meatball for ages and would need to try it one day…\nyum…I am making some bison meatballs later. Also, Meyer Lemon Mania and PEEP contest going on at my blog"}
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{"text": "Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center today unveiled a new pressroom for journalists with enhanced features such as embargoed content for registered users and “trending topics” – a continually updated listing of story ideas and available experts to comment on the latest health news headlines.\nIn addition to the new pressroom, Memorial Sloan Kettering also announced the availability of an on-site broadcast studio equipped with VideoLink’s ReadyCam® system, capable of transmitting high-quality HD video instantly to any news network around the world.\n“The rapid, 24/7 pace at which our current news is delivered requires not only immediate accessibility on breaking news, but having a readily available network of experts to provide thought leadership on a wide range of cancer-related topics,” said Christine Hickey, Director of Communications at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. “We are excited to have the capability to offer our expertise and analysis more quickly and to a wider audience.”\nLocated at Memorial Sloan Kettering’s main campus in Manhattan, the new broadcast studio will allow Memorial Sloan Kettering’s vast network of physicians and scientists to comment on the latest medical breakthroughs as well as share important institutional research.\nTo book the Memorial Sloan Kettering ReadyCam studio, contact Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Media Coordinators during regular business hours at 212-639-3573. After hours, contact the hospital's page operator at 212-639-7900 and ask for the Public Affairs representative on-call.\nTo register for access to Memorial Sloan Kettering’s new pressroom, please visit. Only credentialed journalists will be given access to embargoed content. Note that you do not have to be a registered user to access most features, such as press releases, story starters, and book/documentary request forms."}
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{"text": "Some blog followers might be interested in a discussion-list post “Re: Research on Active Learning in Higher Education” [Hake (2011)].\nThe abstract reads:\n***********************************************\nABSTRACT: Carolyn Hamblin of the POD list wrote (paraphrasing):\n“I'm looking for research on active learning in higher education. I've found a lot in secondary ed but not much in higher ed.”\nA Google search for [“higher education” “active learning”] (with the quotes but without the angle brackets) yielded 1.42 million hits on 28 July 2011 14:38-0700. After careful study of each of these hits ;-), I've selected the 20 best and referenced them in this post.\n***********************************************\nTo access the complete. . . . . We conclude that widespread promotion and adoption of the elements of scientific teaching by university science departments could have profound effects in promoting a scientifically literate society and a reinvigorated research enterprise.”\nRobert DeHaan (2005)\nREFERENCES [URL’s shortened by and accessed on 28 July 2011.]\nDeHaan, R.L. 2005. “The Impending Revolution in Undergraduate Science Education,” Journal of Science Education and Technology 14(2): 253-269; the abstract and first page are online at.\nHake, R.R. 2011. “Re: Research on Active Learning in Higher Education,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at. Post of 28 Jul 2011 17:04:29 -0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to various discussion lists.\nWood, W.B., & J.M. Gentile. 2003. “Teaching in a research context,” Science 302: 1510; 28 November; an abstract is online at\nThe new homework: reading\n1 hour ago"}
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{"text": "I for one am (and I’m sure I’m not the only one) getting sick and tired of reading the “allegation” that the “Planned Parenthood” videos have been “edited” – as if to imply that what the videos show is not really accurate.\nDid the interviewers put the words said by the “Planned Parenthood” representatives in their mouths? The simple fact is, every program on TV is “edited” for time and content purposes.\nLikewise, every article in this newspaper is “edited” for length and content – as is every advertisement. Would it be accurate, then, to say that nothing we read in the newspaper, or on television, is true because it has been “edited”?\nHowever, other than their oft repeated denials, to my knowledge “Planned Parenthood” has never felt it necessary to prove these “allegations” to be untrue”. Apparentl y, they don’t need to because the print and broadcast media has never felt it necessary to challenge “Planned Parenthood’s” lies."}
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{"text": "A real-time digital graffiti wall is projected on the 1st floor. Anyone can access the website online to post text, words, ideas, poetry, rants, etc. into the Museum space at anytime of day.\nUsers bodies are tracked with cameras mounted overhead. Their movements trigger various sounds, shapes and colors that are online. This is projected in front of them allowing interaction. People interact and move through the projected text and colors and are visable to the user online via webcam. Therefore users online can silently communicate to people in the Museum.\nWork metadata\n- Year Created: 2001\n- Submitted to ArtBase: Saturday May 18th, 2002\n- Original Url:\n- Work Credits:\n- Lew Baldwin,\nWant to see more?\nTake full advantage of the ArtBase by Becoming a Member\nTake full advantage of the ArtBase by Becoming a Member"}
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{"text": "On New Year's Eve, my family and I followed our time-honoured tradition of going out to the theatre.\nThis year we opted to go and see \"Wendy and Peter Pan\" at the RSC in Stratford. My husband and I used to go to the RSC regularly before the kids were born and we fancied a repeat visit, not least to see the newly-built theatre. We also fancied a change from the samey pantomimes that our home town has to offer.\nThe RSC didn't disappoint us. \"Wendy and Peter Pan\" was a truly fantastic experience. The acting was superb and the staging amazing. And the stage adaptation of J. M. Barrie's classic was given a really interesting feminist twist by writer Ella Hickson. Wendy and her mother were depicted as the ones taking responsibility for everyone and everything all the time, while Pan and 'the boys' constantly played and took no responsibility for anything whatsoever. The question of why the women never had time to have fun and relax with the boys arose throughout, and issues of women's suffrage and women in the workplace were touched upon.\nThe play comes highly recommended.\nOf course, Stratford is not only about the theatre. The town itself is wonderful to wander round too. There are so many timber-framed buildings in such a small space and history abounds. We also managed to fit in lunch at a lovely independent cafe--No.37 Cafe on Sheep Street. The food was freshly made and delicious and the service personal and extremely friendly. A great find to augment our theatre trip!"}
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{"text": "When comparing quantum meruit vs. unjust enrichment claims, it’s important to understand the differences in intent and elements. A quantum meruit claim is the recovery of the fair value or sum due for services provided without a price agreement. In contrast, an unjust enrichment claim focuses on the recipient’s unfair benefits.\nAn unjust enrichment claim seeks to resolve agreements in which one party profits at the expense of another. Meanwhile, quantum meruit is about getting a fair price for services. Hence, on many occasions, a quantum meruit is used to prevent unjust enrichment.\n- Quantum Meruit Claims\n- Unjust Enrichment\nQuantum Meruit Claims\nWhat is quantum meruit? A quantum meruit is a legal claim when a party demands reasonable compensation for a service rendered. It’s filed when both parties have not agreed upon the value or cost of service, to which then the court will determine the fair market value of the services.\nGenerally, a quantum meruit claim can protect both the worker and the recipient of the service. For the worker, a quantum meruit claim sets the reasonable value for their services. Additionally, it protects the recipient from paying more than the fair market value of the services.\nWhen Can You File for a Quantum Meruit Claim?\nYou may file a quantum meruit claim when:\n- Both parties agree to a “quasi-contract” or an implied agreement or contract.\n- If both parties agree that compensation is to be made for the service, but with no specific amount.\n- The defendant benefited from the service.\n- The service was rendered even if the contract was terminated, void, or otherwise unenforceable because of events like fraud or death.\nHow to Prove Quantum Meruit Claims\nTo ensure the success of your quantum meruit claim, you need to prove 4 essential elements:\nServices were valuable\nYour responsibility as the plaintiff is to demonstrate the worth and benefit of the service provided. The service’s overall quality and commercial value are considered for the court to determine a “reasonable” sum. Additionally, you must also show that the defendant requested the services.\nServices were rendered\nYou must provide evidence that you partially or fully performed the agreed-upon services. If you worked under a contract that was later deemed void or unenforceable, a quantum meruit claim could assist in determining the reasonable amount for the services you provided.\nUnjust enrichment\nIt would be unfair to refuse to pay the plaintiff a fair price for those services if the defendant benefited from and enjoyed them.\nAgreement that services are not free\nWhile there’s no agreed amount for the service, it’s clear that both parties expected compensation. Both parties have agreed that the service is not a gift. The element of choice is present, and the defendant chose to pay.\nUnjust Enrichment\nWhat is unjust enrichment? It happens when one party receives benefits at the expense of another, which the law considers “unjust.” An unjust enrichment claim is a civil lawsuit made to seek restitution or remedy for the defendant’s unjust benefits.\nA simple example of an unjust enrichment claim is when a homeowner refuses to pay a gardener for the services because they didn’t sign a contract. The gardener may seek compensation under the elements and purpose of unjust enrichment claims.\nWhen Can You File for an Unjust Enrichment Claim?\nThe grounds for filing unjust enrichment claims are almost the same as quantum meruit. Ultimately, the guiding principle of an unjust enrichment claim is fairness, and no one should take advantage of someone else’s services for personal gain.\nHow to Prove Unjust Enrichment Claims\nThe 3 elements of a successful unjust enrichment claim are:\nDefendant received benefit\nThe court may ask: “Has the defendant received enriched?” The plaintiff must establish that the defendant benefited directly from the services and took advantage of them. In the case of the homeowner and the gardener, the homeowner enjoys the beautiful garden.\nPlaintiff’s expense\nWas the enrichment made at the plaintiff’s expense? It’s crucial to prove that the plaintiff’s labor led to the defendant’s joy. The facts of the case should demonstrate that the plaintiff put in a lot of effort and hard work to provide the service.\nUnjust\nWas the enrichment unjust? Under Michigan law, it’s critical to establish that the defendant’s continued use of the services while not paying for them is unfair and unjustifiable. This element can be tricky, especially if a breach of contract or agreement is involved.\nMuskegon Construction Attorney That Can Help You\nIf you’re interested in filing a quantum meruit or an unjust enrichment claim, you need an expert construction attorney. At Bowen Law, we have the right Muskegon construction attorney for you. Our legal experts will simplify the complicated process for you. Reach us at (231) 726-4484 for an appointment."}
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{"text": "Welcome to Paws & Purrs Barkery & Boutique!\nWelcome to Paws & Purrs Barkery & Boutique!\nXMSBM001\n$16.95\nThe Hot Spots Healing Solution Oil for Dogs is a therapeutic moisturizing, anti-itch formula that provides fast relief for dry, itchy, or irritated skin.\nBenefits: A Blend of Essential Oils to relieve dry, itching or irritated skin. Sulfate Free, Paraben Free No Animal Testing or Bi-Products Used\nDirections for Proper Use: Apply 2 – 3 full pumps directly onto dry, itchy or irritated skin. With love and gentle care, work treatment liquid into affected areas allowing the moisture to be absorbed by your dog’s skin. Use up to 4 times daily.\nThis product is not intended to replace proper veterinary care. For external use only. Avoid direct ingestion and rinse thoroughly if exposed to eyes.\nIngredients: Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Cannabis Sativa (Hemp) Seed Oil, Tocopherol, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Prunus Armenica (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Oil, Pelargonium Graveolens (Geranium) Oil, Aniba Rosaeodora (Rosewood) Oil, Litsea Cubeba (Maychang) Oil, Cedros Atlantica (Cedarwood) Oil, Eucalyptus Gobulus Leaf Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Mauro Inc.’s Blend of Essential Oils.\nAvailability: Usually ships in 7-14 business days.\nCollections: Best seller, Best Selling Products, New Products, Newest Products, Spa\nType: Bath, Spa & Grooming\nCategory: Shampoo & Conditioner\nSign up to get the latest on sales, new releases and more …"}
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{"text": "The Cutting Edge of Medical Technology Content, Community & Collaboration\nTime: January 15, 2019 at 9am to January 16, 2019 at 6pm\nLocation: DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia Airport\nStreet: 4509 Island Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19153\nCity/Town: Philadelphia\nWebsite or Map:…\nPhone: 18004479407\nEvent Type: seminar\nOrganized By: John Robinson\nLatest Activity: Nov 29, 2018\nExport to Outlook or iCal (.ics).\"\nComment\n© 2021 Created by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight.\nBadges | Report an Issue | Terms of Service\nRSVP for Applied Statistics for FDA Process Validation 2019 to add comments!\nJoin MedTech I.Q."}
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{"text": "Wholesale distributor of pressure, temperature, flow, and level instrumentation since 1989.\nTel-Tru SD5 Digital Thermometer\nTel-Tru® Type SD5 Digi-Tel sanitary direct thermometers meet 3-A Standard Number 74-06, Sanitary Standards for Sensors & Sensor Fittings & Connections Used on Milk & Milk Products Equipment. Other application markets include the food & beverage processing and pharmaceutical industries. No thermowell is required because a Tri-Clamp® sanitary fitting is integral to the thermometer, reducing installation and instrument costs.\n[button href=”” target=”_blank” icon=”no-icon” class=”btn-ghost”]Data Sheet[/button]\nOnly logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.\nReviews\nThere are no reviews yet."}
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{"text": "Configuring Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO)\nWith SAML configured, you can enable a single sign-on (SSO) solution that minimizes the number of times a user must log on to cloud applications and websites.\nRequirements\n- Configure Qlik NPrinting.\n- Configure the identity provider\n(IdP)by uploading the Qlik NPrinting metadata, or manually extracting the required information.\n- Upload the identity provider\n(IdP)metadata to Qlik NPrinting.\n- Access Qlik NPrinting from the buttons on the login page, or the identity provider\n(IdP)console.\nAny static strings in the user directory need to be inside square brackets [ ]. For example: [DOMAIN]\nYou must enable Windows authentication to use the Qlik NPrinting On-Demand Add-on on QlikView Web server.\nIf you only want to use SAML authentication, then you must install the Qlik NPrinting On-Demand Add-on on a QlikView Server configured on a Microsoft IIS Web Sever.\nInstalling On-Demand Add-on on a Microsoft IIS hosted QlikView AccessPoint\nConfiguring Qlik NPrinting\nDo the following:\n- Log in to Qlik NPrinting as an administrator.\n- Go to Admin > Settings and click on the SAML tab.\n- Click the Add configuration button.\n- Enter a Name for your SAML configuration.\n- Select either WebConsole or NewsStand from the Portal drop-down.\n- Enter the URL of your Qlik NPrinting web console or NewsStand in the Service Provider URL field. For example,: This must be a fully qualified domain name.\n- Enter an Entity ID, for example OktaWebConsole.Note: This is used to configure your identity provider.\n- Select the radio button for your preferred authentication method, either Authenticate user by Domain\\Name or Authenticate user by email and enter the name for the attribute that is used to exchange communication between the identity provider\n(IdP)and Qlik NPrinting.\n- Click Save.\n- Click on the name of the configuration you created.\n- Click on Download SP Metadata.\nYou have now created a SAML configuration and downloaded an\nConfiguring the identity provider\n(IdP)\nIdentity provider configuration is specific to the\n- IdP Entity ID, as a property under the EntityDescriptor tag\n- The Assertion Consumer Service URL, as the Location property of the AssertionConsumerService tag\n- The Assertion Consumer Service Index as the index property of the AssertionConsumerService tag\nUploading the identity provider\nIdP metadata\nAs soon as the identity provider\nOnce you have the\nDo the following:\n- Log in to Qlik NPrinting as an administrator.\n- Go to Admin > Settings and click on the SAML tab.\n- Select the configuration that you created in the first procedure.\n- Click the Browse button to upload the IdP XML metadata file.\n- Navigate to the location where your metadata.xml file is stored and select it.\n- Click Save.\nAccessing Qlik NPrinting via SSO\nYou can access Qlik NPrinting via SSO by going to the login page clicking on the identity provider"}
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{"text": "Med camp volunteers wanted for April 2020.\nEHN is setting up a medical camp for the first two weeks of April and are looking for volunteers to help manage and run the camp. A background in medicine is of course an advantage but volunteers without experience will also be able to join on the admin and organising side. So please if you are a fully qualified medical professional or a student looking for a new experience while helping others then this is a challenge for you.\nYour duties as you can imagine will be varied depending on the patients that come through the doors but from past experience it can be anything from just a common cold to broken limbs, cuts bruises etc. Though the majority of your duties will be to provide basic medical checks for the patients and diagnose any potential problems. Please note if there is anything serious then the patient will be sent to the nearest hospital in Pokhara for the care they need.\nAt the moment we have to finalise the location but the dates will be April 1st to April 15th to cover the med camp but you are welcome to stay longer and join another project or even take some well earned rest and explore this wonderful country. If you would like to do this then please as our guests talk with our team who will help and advise you.\nAll volunteers live and stay in small groups with local families in a home stay who will provide two local meals a day plus room. The food is freshly cooked and centres around the Nepali Dhal Bhat Tarkari (rice, curry and lentil soup) with noodles, biscuits and plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables available.\nWe will cap the med camp at 10 volunteers so its on a first come first served basis and at present we have 3 to 4 volunteers already looking to book.\nIf you require any further details please do not hesitate to contact me at philehn@gmail.com or visit us at"}
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{"text": "By Benon Herbert Oluka\nThe report, which was released yesterday by Human Rights Watch, says the LRA killed at least 321 civilians and abducted 250 others, including at least 80 children, during a previously unreported four-day rampage in the Makombo area of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2009.\nAccording to the 67-page report, titled \"Trail of Death: LRA Atrocities in Northeastern Congo,\" LRA forces attacked at least 10 villages, capturing, killing, and abducting hundreds of civilians, including women and children. It paints pictures of gruesome murders, where the victims were tied up and then hacked to death with machetes or had their skulls crushed with axes and heavy wooden sticks.\nBut Lt. Col. Felix Kulayigye, the UPDF and Defence ministry spokesman, took issue with the findings of the Human Rights Watch fact-finding mission, which visited the massacre area in February.\nScattered population\n\"The population in DRC is not concentrated. So, for the LRA to get time to collect 300 people and kill them, they need days not hours to do so,\" he said, adding: \"In Barlonyo, they were able to kill about 200 because people were in an IDP camp. What about people settled in their villages in a forested region?\"\nCol. Kulayigye wondered whether the Congo army would not have got wind of LRA activities within those four days and gone to rescue its people. He said the UPDF intelligence indicates that the LRA has less than 200 fighters who have no capacity to kill with impunity."}
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{"text": "Performances begin February 11 at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre for the New York premiere of Dana H., a new play by Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath, directed by Les Waters. The play, previously seen in Los Angeles and Chicago, details Hnath's mother's real-life kidnapping by a patient in the psych ward where she worked as a chaplain.\nDana H. is adapted from interviews with Dana Higginbotham, conducted by Steve Cosson, and stars Deirdre O’Connell in the title role. The play recounts the true story of how she was held captive for her life, trapped in a series of Florida motels, disoriented and terrified, for five months.\nRead: How the Vineyard Creates Groundbreaking Work By Veterans and Newcomers Alike\nDana H. had its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre at Center Theatre Group, followed by a production at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. The play is part of a Vineyard season lineup that includes Tina Satter's Is This a Room, which returned for an extended run, and the upcoming production of Antoinette Nwandu's Tuvalu Or, The Saddest Song.\nDana H. features scenic design by Andrew Boyce, costume design by Janice Pytel, lighting and supertitle design by Paul Toben, and sound design by Mikhail Fiksel."}
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{"text": "\"Oh yes I remember this place\" Mr NQN said as we walked into Shanghai Memory, the latest installment of Shanghai eateries on Ashfield's Liverpool Street. Impromptu, one afternoon we had visited it without the camera but with Mr NQN's cavernous, growling tummy. Open for a couple of months, it was a comedy of errors, Fawlty Towers style with wrong orders being brought to the table, menus with misleading photos, the menu's currency in Yuan. The customers around us banded together in sympathy when something had gone missing or delivered to the wrong table.\nThings have thankfully improved this evening and our booking for four has a table reserved for us towards the back. The interior is new with a window full of dumpling makers. The owner is the son of the owners of Shanghai Night just down the road and he has brought his dumpling makers with him. The space is long and rectangular with white tiles that are vaguely bathroom-like.\nThe menu's cover is already covered with pen marks and there also a laminated double sided colour menu. The latter has things grouped in themes like \"crab meat\" and \"chilli\" whilst the other menu is more of a traditional menu, not unlike the one at Shanghai Night. One thing we learned with the previous visit was that often the pictures don't match the items on the menu - the owner had explained that they bought the pictures and had the menus printed up in China so when we ordered prawn balls from the picture and honey king prawns came out, we were initially baffled as to why.\nIt takes me a good 10 minutes to circumnavigate the menu - I'm not sure why it's so confusing and hard to choose but it is. We make some orders for the dumplings, always a crowd pleaser and a must for filling Mr NQN's tummy. My mother Rose loves things that are deep fried and my father Ronald, well he likes anything that might be Cantonese.\nShanghai hand made fried noodles with pork and vegetables $8.80\nThe food comes out quickly - like within 10 minutes. We start with an item that we see brought to many tables, the hand made fried noodles with slices of pork and greens. The noodles are springy and lightly chewy and we all enjoy these although I'm not really fond of the pork used in the noodles.\nBeef & leek and chicken &coriander dumplings $8.80 per plate\nWe always seem to have a case of over-orderitis but we feel somewhat safe in the knowledge that for 20 cents a container, you can take it home and we can dinner for the next night sorted. The steamed dumplings are out next and we have chosen the beef and leek and the chicken and coriander, the latter favoured by most except for Mr NQN (he is so contrary! :P ).\nCrabmeat with Chinese new year rice cake $13.80\nWe had originally ordered the blue swimmer crab with Chinese new year's rice cake but that was sold out so we went with just the crab without the shell. We figured for that price, you would either get very little crab meat or not the most freshly picked crab meat. We ended up with quite a bit of rich crab meat with a ginger and shallot sauce with slices of spongey, squeaky new year's rice cake.\nZi-zhuan dry wonton with cucumber and chilli oil. $7.80\nI was hoping to have something similar to the chilli wontons I had eaten at Hu Tong in Melbourne but these didn't have chilli on it so much as a liquidy sesame paste and batons of cucumber. The wontons themselves were quite watery and I'm not a huge fan of the sesame sauce on dumplings.\nLotus family fried with celery and red beans $14.80\n\"That is a bit of a dud dish\" Mr NQN said and I had to agree. I had actually ordered the one above it but this one arrived instead. It has a range of crunchy vegetables, lotus root, lotus nuts and crunchy white fungus mushrooms although it needs more flavour added to it. When the owner asks us how the food was and we told him that we didn't really fancy this dish, his supposed \"maybe it was because the vegetables were frozen.\"\nDeep fried pork with dried osmanthus flowers $12.80\nThe deep fried pork came dry fried and not greasy at all with some dried osmanthus flowers on top which gave it a sweet, floral flavour.\nPan fried pork and crab dumplings $9.80\nThe pan fried dumplings are a favourite at the table. They've got crispy bottoms and a soft pudgy top which hides a gingery broth and a ball of soft pork and crab mince. 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