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KEN FOX is 29 years old and worth more than $1 billion. He is also supremely self-confident. The founder and 4% owner of Internet Capital Group (ICG) has lost around $1 billion since early January. Is he rattled? Not at all. To Mr Fox, who looks as if he would have to show an ID before he could buy a drink, the market's wobbles are a buying opportunity: “90% of Internet stocks are ridiculously over-priced, but 10% are still dirt cheap”, he says. And, of course, among that 10% is ICG, a business-to-business (B2B) specialist that he likens to General Electric (what else?), the outstanding company of its era.
Mr Fox was an early proponent of today's conventional view that the biggest profits in e-commerce will come in B2B. ICG focuses on vertical exchanges (within a single industry), horizontal market makers (which span several industries) and providers of such B2B infrastructure as software and services. Its goal is nothing short of world domination: to own a big piece of every leading online exchange that its founders predict will emerge in each of the 50 most lucrative sectors of the B2B economy, ranging from health care to cattle ranching.
The price of ICG shares, after an initial public offering (IPO) in August, soared 27-fold during the rest of the year, making it the best-performing listing of 1999. Analysts were quick to call it a “one-share B2B play”. Cynics, meanwhile, have been equally quick to write it off as a one-share beneficiary of the mania for the Internet. Who is right?
If ICG were just another venture-capital investment fund, the answer would be simple. Even given its investments to date—two of the five firms to have listed have subsequently done well and one spectacularly (see chart)—the firm's current rating would rest on an improbable ability to pick winners. But ICG describes itself as a new sort of “operating-holding” company. It gets more involved in its investments than most backers, providing resources and expertise to help ensure a high success rate. “We add 80% of our value after we invest in a company”, claims Todd Hewlins, ICG's director of strategy. It will soon start new companies, too, following the establishment in March of a venture called eColony.
The firm is also unusually focused. Unlike, say, CMGI, an Internet company with a broad portfolio that includes AltaVista, a search engine, ICG concentrates only on B2B. It also has a team of executives to implement its strategy, including the former chief executives of Baan, Europe's second-largest software firm, and IBM's Whistle Communications, and senior people from Microsoft, McKinsey, Amazon and Japan's Softbank. Indeed, ICG likes to think of itself as similar to Japan's keiretsu, or corporate networks. Although this is an unfortunate metaphor—most keiretsu are now falling apart—it does conjure up the firm's aim to create a stable of companies that benefit from business relationships and common interests.
The GE comparison is more intriguing. Gary Wendt, former head of GE Capital, sits on ICG's advisory board. And GE is one of the firm's “strategic shareholders” (as are Ford, IBM and AT&T). ICG hopes to copy GE by using its head office to make its business units more successful than they would be as independent businesses. The firm's co-founder, Walter Buckley, points to several ways in which GE's head office adds value, including strategic advice, finance, accounting, training and recruitment.
Hiring the right people is vital to the company's ambitions and a challenge in today's labour market. ICG has built a unique 30-person in-house executive-search unit, headed by Rick Devine, formerly of Heidrick & Struggles, a big recruitment firm. Outside recruiters are often too expensive for start-ups. In-house recruiters, motivated by share options, are more committed to getting the right person, argues Mr Devine, noting that his team has already filled 40 top positions in ICG's firms.
ICG offers its firms strategic advice and technical expertise beefed up by its recent acquisition of a majority of RightWorks, a B2B-software firm. It also owns a large stake in eCredit, which serves exchanges' users by helping them to judge the creditworthiness of the counterparties to a trade. This could be crucial. B2B exchanges will succeed only if traders have as much confidence that online deals will be honoured as they do in their established offline supply-chain. ICG thinks that eCredit could become one of its main sources of profit—its GE Capital—by selling an array of financial services, including new hedging instruments.
All this is useful, impressive even. But how much of an edge does it give ICG in what will be a fierce battle? There are already an estimated 1,700 B2B exchanges, up from a handful two years ago. Increasingly, some of the world's biggest and richest firms—from Ford to Boeing to International Paper—are planning their own exchanges.
Moreover, in this battle, winners often take all. B2B may be like financial markets in which a single exchange tends to win most trading and profits, even if it is not the best. If a second-rate exchange is first to attract a critical mass of trading, even a better trading system may fail to wrest business away.
ICG says it is relaxed about the big firms' exchanges, arguing that it is evidence that B2B will grow even faster than expected. Some big firms are backing several horses: for instance, International Paper is also participating in ICG's PaperExchange. And, says Mr Fox, it is easier to announce plans for a B2B exchange—and thus to reassure shareholders that you “get” the Internet—than to realise them. ICG may yet be called in to help these firms build their exchanges.
ICG's firms have also sought partnerships with big companies to draw liquidity to an exchange. They now have ties of various sorts with more than 100 large companies, such as DuPont, with which ICG has a joint venture called CapSpan, to create B2B exchanges in chemicals and other industries. This carries the risk that rivals in an industry will stay away for fear that, despite declarations of neutrality, an exchange is tilted in favour of the partners. On the other hand, ICG's 50 target markets are mostly fragmented, where the risk of domination by one or two firms is slim, and offline supply-chain inefficiencies are large.
Ultimately, ICG's future depends on whether creating a winning B2B exchange is a predictable process, in which a single firm can accumulate enough expertise to give it the edge. Of course, the front end of each B2B exchange is unique, reflecting the idiosyncrasies of each particular industry: this is why ICG devotes much effort to hiring industry insiders who “know where the inefficiencies are and what skeletons are in the cupboard”. But it is betting that as much as 70% of what makes an exchange successful may be common to all exchanges. If so, it can rapidly transfer a useful new idea across its whole portfolio.
If this is true—and it seems plausible—ICG is well-placed. Its reputation as a B2B exchange powerhouse helps to attract firms that want to enter this market. This is particularly true overseas: it recently unveiled a joint venture with Hutchison Whampoa, a Hong Kong conglomerate, to develop B2B exchanges in Asia, and another with Enel, an Italian energy and telecoms firm. ICG can also shop around for acquisitions using its valuable shares as a currency, as well as a $1 billion-plus pile of cash generated by its IPO, a secondary offering and other fund-raising in December.
The danger is that B2B will fail to live up to today's expectations—which have become even more euphoric since investors lost their enthusiasm for business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce. Nobody should underestimate the revolutionary aspirations of B2B enthusiasts. The new B2B exchanges are an attempt to transform industry supply-chains that have worked in the same way for decades. Despite forecasts that B2B e-commerce will have a turnover of up to $4 trillion by 2003, actual turnover in 1999 was only a tiny fraction of that.
To be really profitable, ICG must do more than collect tiny transaction fees from firms trading on its exchanges. It must also persuade firms to buy transaction-support services, such as credit analysis, hedging tools, and the analysis of customer behaviour. ICG has enormous potential. But Mr Fox still has much to do if he wants to remain a billionaire well beyond his 30th birthday.
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Today’s spotlight features the Sinner’s Grove series and you can download the prequel, The Art of Love for free through tomorrow. Sinner’s Grove is also available for $.99. If you’re looking for a new romance series to start, check out this deal.
Celebrating the Release of Sinner’s Grove,
Here’s the Book That Begins the Saga …
Free on Amazon September 23-24: The Art of Love
Title: The Art of Love: Origins of Sinner’s Grove
Author: A.B. Michaels
Series: Sinner’s Grove (Prequel)
Genre: Historical Romance
With nothing but a strong back and a barrel full of ambition, August Wolff finds wealth beyond measure in the frozen goldfields of the Klondike. Success, however, comes at an unbearably high price. Now Gus walks alone, and all the money in the world can’t buy him what he needs.
In the late 1800’s, when women are largely seen and not heard, Amelia Starling longs for a life limited only by her imagination. Blessed with abundant artistic talent and an even bigger heart, she moves to the boom town of San Francisco, hoping to make her mark and living with the pain of a sacrifice no woman should have to make.
Two wounded yet defiant individuals meet at the dawn of a new century, discovering a passion eclipsing all they’d ever known. Longing to build a life together, can they overcome the dictates of a cruel and spiteful society?…The Art of Love is the prequel to the just-released contemporary romantic suspense novel, Sinner’s Grove.
Sinner’s Grove is available today and tomorrow only for 99 cents on Amazon.
Title: Sinner’s Grove
Author: A.B. Michaels
Series: Sinner’s Grove #1
Genre: Contemporary Romantic Suspense
A startling discovery when she was 14 left San Francisco artist Jenna Bergstrom estranged from her family; unforeseen tragedy only sharpened her loneliness. But now her ailing grandfather needs her expertise to re-open the family’s once-famous artists’ retreat on the California coast. The problem? She’ll have to face architect Brit Maguire, the ex-love of her life.
Seven years ago, Brit spent a magical time with the girl of his dreams, only to have her disappear from his life completely. Now she’s back, helping with the biggest architectural renovation of his career. No matter how deep his feelings still run, Brit can’t afford the distraction of Jenna Bergstrom, because something is going terribly wrong with the project at Sinner’s Grove.
As Jenna and Brit struggle to keep their passion in check, unseen enemies close in, bent on destroying more than just her grandfather’s dream. Through the prism of ever-increasing danger, Jenna finally discovers what true family—and true love—is all about. But will it be too late? | <urn:uuid:38957602-712c-4e8a-abbe-c03993743d12> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | https://sunmountainreviews.wordpress.com/category/romance/historical/ | 2017-04-30T03:12:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124297.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00238-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912915 | 643 |
Federer relieved after getting past 'mirror' Evans
Melbourne (AFP) –
Defending champion Roger Federer reached the Australian Open third round for a 20th straight year Wednesday but admitted it had been tough to get past his 'mirror' image Dan Evans.
Britain's world number 189 slowed the Fed Express to a crawl, keeping the Swiss master battling for more than two hours to win the opening two sets before finally succumbing 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/3), 6-3.
The ageless 20-time Grand Slam champion, who is gunning for a record seventh Melbourne Park title and third in a row, admitted he had been given an unusual challenge by the 28-year-old, who plays a similar style of tennis.
"Playing a player like Dan Evans is like facing myself," the 37-year-old Federer said.
"It feels like playing a mirror a little bit. That was my mindset heading into it -- how would I play myself potentially?"
Evans, whose ranking plummeted from a career-high 41 after he was slapped with a year-long ban for testing positive to cocaine in April 2017, played almost flawless tennis to stave off a set point on his way to forcing a first set tie-break.
He even had the temerity to lead 5-3 in the breaker before Federer stepped up a gear and reeled off the next four points to secure the set with a cry of "Come on!".
"It always helps when you sneak a break in the first set," said the Swiss star after a ding-dong contest lasting 2hr 35min. "The match might have been different."
Federer said he had expected Evans to cause him more problems than when he cruised through their previous Grand Slam meeting at Wimbledon in 2016 for the loss of just eight games.
"I have high regard, you know, in Dan. I think he's a good player. I've seen him play some really good matches over the years, I see why he can cause difficulties," he said.
"He's got a nice slice, defending the court well. He has the variation, which is always a hard thing to play against.
- 'Cat and mouse' -
"He was very sort of cat and mouse. I liked the match. It was enjoyable."
The loss of the first set after exactly an hour was harsh on Evans who had committed only two unforced errors and constantly put the third seed under pressure with his scampering, attacking game and flurry of winners off both wings.
The plucky Evans, who had covered acres of ground and found the lines unerringly, needed treatment for blisters on both feet before the second set started and immediately was broken.
But he refused to lie down and broke back as Federer served for the set to force another tie-break.
"I thought I might have pulled away midway through the second set," added Federer. "But I couldn't, to his credit. He played well."
The Swiss great hasn't often needed luck during his unparallelled career but he took advantage of some in the third set to finally ease the pressure.
Holding break point at 2-1, he barely scooped up a half-volley which grabbed the net cord and toppled over forcing Evans to go long.
A service game to love followed to put Federer 4-1 up and the brave resistance of Evans was finally broken.
The veteran will play unseeded American Taylor Fritz in the last 32.
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APA 6th Edition Žiljak, T. (2008). Lost in Translation: Discursive Obstacles in Educational Policy Transfers. Politička misao, 45 (5), 91-113. Preuzeto s https://hrcak.srce.hr/39934
MLA 8th Edition Žiljak, Tihomir. "Lost in Translation: Discursive Obstacles in Educational Policy Transfers." Politička misao, vol. 45, br. 5, 2008, str. 91-113. https://hrcak.srce.hr/39934. Citirano 15.12.2019.
Chicago 17th Edition Žiljak, Tihomir. "Lost in Translation: Discursive Obstacles in Educational Policy Transfers." Politička misao 45, br. 5 (2008): 91-113. https://hrcak.srce.hr/39934
Harvard Žiljak, T. (2008). 'Lost in Translation: Discursive Obstacles in Educational Policy Transfers', Politička misao, 45(5), str. 91-113. Preuzeto s: https://hrcak.srce.hr/39934 (Datum pristupa: 15.12.2019.)
Vancouver Žiljak T. Lost in Translation: Discursive Obstacles in Educational Policy Transfers. Politička misao [Internet]. 2008 [pristupljeno 15.12.2019.];45(5):91-113. Dostupno na: https://hrcak.srce.hr/39934
IEEE T. Žiljak, "Lost in Translation: Discursive Obstacles in Educational Policy Transfers", Politička misao, vol.45, br. 5, str. 91-113, 2008. [Online]. Dostupno na: https://hrcak.srce.hr/39934. [Citirano: 15.12.2019.]
Sažetak Discourse on a knowledge based society and its connection with the concept of lifelong learning is among the dominant debates within European education circles today. The term knowledge society can be explained as a policy construction which seeks to present things as they are, as they were, and as they should be. This paper deals with the various discourses on lifelong learning, especially where they present difficulties for educational policy transfers in the European Union. In the EU, lifelong learning connects educational and social policies, which today are mostly defined by member states. The European Union has complementary and supporting competences in education and shared competences for social policy (defined in the yet-to-be ratified Lisbon Treaty). But is there one policy that can connect the ideas of 27 different member states? The author argues that the idea of lifelong learning has until now only occurred within a specific epistemic community of international experts and leading persons of international organizations. Changes in Croatia’s educational policy, however, have occurred as a continuation of transition, under the influence of global changes, and as a part of the accession process to the European Union. The changes in definition of European educational initiatives can be attributed to the implementation processes, where a community in practice tends to adapt European meanings to the national environment, specifically the position of its own organization and abilities. It is argued that the difference between national and European discourse is not necessarily an obstacle to the development of national educational policies. | <urn:uuid:a724c775-6f7d-4e6b-92a3-b2f43a888a35> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=62595 | 2019-12-15T20:26:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541310866.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20191215201305-20191215225305-00386.warc.gz | en | 0.887699 | 737 |
Travel Agencies in Sarasota, FL
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At V.I.P. World Travel, we pride ourselves on individual service. Established in Sarasota in 1984 as a complete service travel agency, we currently have grown over the years and currently have over twenty five experienced travel counselors and support team. With over 600 years of combined travel experience, our knowledge base is extensive, with specialists in North America, Italy, Africa, Egypt, Ireland,
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Experience the very highest of the world's most intriguing destinations with iconic figures in Food, Wine, Sports, Entertainment and Global Culture. ATG Proprietors Malaka and Ryan Hilton fulfill the lifestyle world-class travelers seek with their brand of exclusive escorted tours, AuthentEscapes. Rewarding members with preferred pricing and enhanced amenities. | <urn:uuid:9c2fd765-c48f-435f-9b30-21bc738f2cef> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://www.holidaytravelagencies.com/in/sarasota-fl | 2019-02-16T01:36:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479729.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216004609-20190216030609-00178.warc.gz | en | 0.929222 | 624 |
The Netherlands Under-21s international, who joined from Vitesse this summer, wants to force his way into the starting XI under new boss Jose MourinhoEXCLUSIVE
By Guus Hetterscheid
Chelsea new-boy Marco van Ginkel is determined to fight for a place in Jose Mourinho's first team following his summer switch to Stamford Bridge and has hailed the 50-year-old's management.
The 20-year-old, who became the Portuguese boss's second signing following his return to the west London outfit, has impressed during the club's pre-season fixtures.
And now Van Ginkel is planning to establish himself in the Chelsea first team for the new Premier League season, though acknowledges it will be difficult, and hopes that it could earn him a spot in Louis van Gaal's Netherlands squad for the World Cup.
"From Vitesse to Chelsea is a big step," Van Ginkel told Goal. "I will be playing games at a very high level and that will develop me as a player.
"I have confidence in my own qualities but no one knows for sure if they will start every game – even the more experienced guys.
"I was a starter during the last [friendly] games. When you play 60 or 70 minutes from the start every game, you know you're on the right track. I feel like I can keep up with everyone physically at Chelsea but I also want to show my football skills at the start of the season.
"I hope to play as much as possible this season, looking towards the World Cup in Brazil. I didn't personally talk to Louis van Gaal about the transfer but my desire to go to the World Cup obviously played a part in my decision to come here."
Van Ginkel is particularly enthusiastic about the prospect of playing under Mourinho and revealed that it was the Portuguese's desire to have him in his squad, rather than loan him out, that persuaded him to move to Stamford Bridge.
"Mourinho is a great manager. I can learn a lot from him, in terms of tactics and technique," the youngster continued.
"We spoke on the phone before I came to Chelsea and he said that I wouldn't be leaving on loan this season. He took my doubts about the transfer away. We had a good conversation. He gave me a good feeling about moving to Chelsea.
"He is a good man, with a sense of humour - that's really important in a group. With Mourinho you know you have a manager with a really big personality in charge. You can feel it when he gives speeches. Everybody likes it. He has something special." | <urn:uuid:0a3fd00f-a8e4-46a0-a9dc-edf0ec73c7e9> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/137/england/2013/08/14/4186580/van-ginkel-eager-to-stake-claim-in-chelsea-first-team-place | 2015-05-25T07:25:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207928423.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113208-00051-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986384 | 537 |
The Sidney Health Center Chapel is conveniently located near the admissions area. The Chapel is open twenty-four hours a day for patient and visitors’ needs.
A prayer book is located in the Chapel for those who would like to request a prayer.
In House Pastor for Staff:
In the often stressful and demanding healthcare environment, the Chaplain is an understanding friend and confidant. The Chaplain can provide a listening ear and a pastoral point of view for the staff as they face professional and personal problems. Staff members who have no minister of their own often seek the Chaplain's counsel, especially during times of personal family need or professional pressures.
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Usually the healthcare Chaplain sees a patient/resident before his or her minister is aware of the hospitalization. With the patient/resident's permission, the Chaplain can call the family pastor, priest, rabbi, or other religious leader. The Chaplain provides pastoral care and support until the patient/resident's own minister arrives.
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The Chaplain is available to help with the distressed families of critically ill or dying patients/residents. If the patient/resident does not have his or her own minister, the Chaplain serves as trusted friend and pastoral support.
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Serving often as the healthcare facility's religious community public relations person, the Chaplain is able to coordinate services provided by the clergy. The Chaplain is prepared to conduct seminars and workshops on topics such as patient/resident visitation, terminal illness, death and dying, and the grieving process. | <urn:uuid:4fccd576-78d2-4cff-af56-aabedfaf0255> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://sidneyhealth.org/Service/Chaplain-Services | 2017-07-22T20:46:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424148.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170722202635-20170722222635-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.965343 | 327 |
BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, who runs his clothing enterprise ‘TShirt Bhaiya’ has now introduced a rather innovative product to stop Indians from spitting on streets and spreading diseases.
Bagga took to Twitter and shared a video of his product ‘Ezy Spit’ - a pouch containing a powder that solidifies a person’s spit.
In April 2020, the Union Home Ministry made spitting in public a punishable offence under the strict Disaster Management Act in its revised guidelines to contain COVID-19.
The guidelines issued by the ministry also make wearing of face masks in public places mandatory.
Spitting in public is an offence under municipal laws in various cities, but it is hardly taken seriously by the people in the country.
The Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation has imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 if anyone is caught spitting in public. Similar measures are also in place in municipal corporations of Delhi, and several other states.
Bihar, Jharkhand, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Haryana, Nagaland and Assam have already issued orders on the ban of use of smokeless tobacco products and spitting in public places amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
Under the consolidated revised guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) spitting has been made punishable with a fine under Section 51 (b) of the Disaster Management Act.
"Spitting in public spaces shall be punishable with a fine. There should be a strict ban on sale of liquor, 'gutka', tobacco etc, and spitting should be strictly prohibited," the national directives issued by the ministry said.
The directives shall be implemented by district magistrates through fines and penal action given under the Disaster Management Act, 2005.
Refusal to comply with the government orders under the Disaster Management Act may result in imprisonment up to one year or a fine, or both, the directives said. | <urn:uuid:997dca7d-0c85-467f-8cd9-8561be2279fa> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/whats-ezy-spit-bjp-leader-tajinder-bagga-wants-you-to-store-your-spit-in-this-pouch-heres-why | 2020-10-22T01:27:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107878662.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20201021235030-20201022025030-00193.warc.gz | en | 0.946831 | 402 |
Silicon Ranch Corp. announced Thursday it will develop a 200-acre, 20-megawatt solar farm in Social Circle, Ga., located about 50 miles east of Atlanta.
Based in Nashville, Silicon Ranch was founded by former Gov. Phil Bredesen, Matthew Kisber, ex-commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, and Reagan Farr, the former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Revenue. Kisber is the company's CEO and Farr serves as its vice chair and COO. Bredesen is chairman.
Silicon Ranch, through its recently acquired Simon Solar Farm LLC subsidiary, has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement with Georgia Power to deliver solar-generated electricity beginning in the summer of 2015. Steve Ivey, a Nashville music industry entrepreneur, founded Simon Solar.
“Silicon Ranch has been working with [Ivey] over the past year to bring this exciting opportunity to fruition,” Kisber said in a release.
Phoenix Solar Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany-based Phoenix Solar AG, will serve as Silicon’s Ranch’s strategic partner in the effort, providing technical assistance. | <urn:uuid:b6741afb-70a7-461b-820d-31b9fb1ea7de> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://nashvillepost.com/news/2012/1/12/silicon_ranch_announces_georgia_project | 2014-07-28T06:21:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510256757.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011736-00486-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956544 | 243 |
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PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.—As we all keep current with friends and family on Facebook, check in with colleagues on Yammer, or source job applicants through LinkedIn, social media is making information “increasingly porous,” observed Alison Davis.
Davis led a concurrent session, “Use Social Media to Increase Collaboration, Productivity and Engagement,” at the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2012 Strategy Conference here Oct. 3, 2012.
She is CEO and founder of Davis & Co. and co-author of
The Definitive Guide to HR Communication (FT, 2011) and
Your Attention Please (Adams Media, 2006).
Davis pointed to the rapid transformation of communication: 24/7 news coverage beginning with CNN in 1980, instant messaging in 1996, Facebook’s appearance in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006, the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010.
This has led to a growing wireless population. Eighty-seven percent of U.S. adults own a mobile phone, she said citing Pew Research Center data, and 68 percent of those in developing countries do so, too.
Mobile device users spend the bulk of their time social networking, conducting searches, reading, and communicating (22 percent, 21 percent, 20 percent, and 19 percent, respectively), she said.
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This constant connection is leading to “super-sized” social networking, with 40 percent of adults age 55 and older using social networking, Davis said. Among18- to 34-year-olds, 86 percent use social networking, she added.
Some of the trends shaping expectations around social media, she said, include a changing way in which people use and seek out media. A larger percentage of people today receive their news from social media than from traditional media. The millennial generation, for example, is more likely to check Facebook to find out about an earthquake that occurs in a friend’s area than to tune in to a news outlet.
This is a lesson for organizations, she pointed out. Just as consumers look to their mobile devices to price-check goods, so, too, can workers use their organization’s information to learn how one of the company’s regions is doing versus another. They can also discover what they need in order to be successful in their jobs.
“Everyone today is expected to have a more participative role in organizations, not simply to be an audience,” she said, noting that participation equals engagement.
She listed seven ways HR professionals can increase social media use at their organization:
Know your employees by looking at your demographics. Look at your demographics and ask employees what they want or need to keep in touch with each other and management, and to perform their work. Are the people you want to recruit using those networks? Only 8 percent of Americans, for example, are active on Twitter, she said.
Be casual, not formal. Be prepared for lots of questions versus having all the answers.
Start small. Take baby steps in social media, such as sharing or commenting on articles. Advance to “training wheels” that could include texting questions during a live employee “town hall” meeting or encouraging chat tools during web meetings.
Do less telling and more listening.
Consider having leadership start a blog and then encourage employees to comment and submit photos or videos about how their team contributes.
Consider a one-hour live CEO chat—such as a text question-and-answer format. She gave the example of one company that had a three-day online event the company’s leadership hosted; in three days there were more than 800 posts and an employee survey showed workers valued the leader interaction.
Offer training to employees new to social media and look to LinkedIn and Facebook for ideas on how to encourage interaction. She referred attendees to SHRM’s
social media policies.
Create collaborative venues.
She pointed to one organization thatlaunched Yammer as its new single platform for employee news and collaboration; Yammer membership increased from 1,688 to 12,000-plus in three months.
For HR professionals whose employers are nervous about using social media, she assured them that “it’s really something you can experiment with. You don’t have to get it perfectly right.”
She referred attendees to her downloadable e-book,
140 Ways to Use Social Media to Engage Employees, found at her company’s
Kathy Gurchiek is associate editor, HR News. Follow her on Twitter @kathygurchiek.
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You can imagine the effect on the boy.
I recently posted a link to this article on my Facebook profile, and it gathered quite a lot of comments, mostly from people who seem to agree with the basic premise, and some who are very much of the “I’ve got a gun and a shovel” school of parenting.
This lead me to think a bit more about the issue.
I totally understand the visceral satisfaction of the idea of being able to murder anyone who hurts your child. I remember walking through the park near my home with my 3-month old firstborn in her pram. A young man on a motorbike (which aren’t allowed in this park) came blasting by. If I’d had a gun, I would probably have shot him. The black rage that came over me at his daring to put my baby at risk was so deep, so fundamental, that only smashing the person’s face through the back of their head would have assuaged it in the moment.
It would, of course, have been entirely inappropriate, and instead of taking my kids to the park, they’d be visiting me in prison. It’s hard being a good parent when you’re at home; it must be way harder parenting from jail.
If a person is threatening your child’s life, and killing them is the best way to stop it, then by all means, taking their life is justified. But the “gun and shovel” meme isn’t about that. It’s about how fathers want to protect their daughters, not from assault, or rape, or anything like that. We want to protect them from sex. Because we (most of us, I assume) remember what it was like to be a teenage boy, and how desperate we were to get into the knickers of the girls we went out with. It was, in the 80s at least, still a truism that girls had it, but didn’t want to give it; boys wanted it, and had to persuade them to give it up. “It” here being sex, of course. There was also a pretty universal assumption that girls didn’t want sex, and so would only do it basically as a favour to the boy, or under some kind of coercion from the relatively benign but still horrible ‘he won’t love me if I don’t’ to worse forms of influence like drink and drugs.
So let’s unpack some of these assumptions.
1) Girls don’t want sex. This is just not true in most cases. Indeed, for centuries it was believed that women wanted sex MORE than men did. So let’s move on.
2) Whether the girl has sex or not is up to her father or her boyfriend. NO! NO! NO! It is, or should be, up to the people doing it: her and her boyfriend, assuming they are both of legal age. Of course, good parenting includes educating kids to understand the possible consequences of sex, both good and bad. But the core problem here is that in the gun and shovel scenario, the father and the boyfriend have agency, but the girl does not. So whether the woman has sex or not is down to an agreement between these two males. This was normal in the Stone Age, but it is an utterly disgusting pattern of thought in this day and age.
3) Sex = assault. Umm, no. So long as there is informed consent all round, sex does not equal assault. So while murdering a rapist has a certain appeal, murdering your daughter’s boyfriend should not. And if the daughter in question consented freely, then while it may be appropriate to counsel her against it if you think it’s not in her best interests, the boyfriend is innocent in this.
4) In the case of a woman being assaulted or coerced by a man, you should focus on the man… You see it in films and tv shows all the time; when a woman is hurt by somebody, her husband/brother/father/whoever doesn’t stay by her to help her get better; he charges off to wreak his revenge. As if it’s him who has been hurt. But the loving thing to do is to attend to the woman, not race off after the assailant; and only go after the son of a bitch if that’s what the person sinned against wants you to do.
So what is my plan, with my two daughters?
1) Sex education. That’s number one. If they know what they are doing, then they can grant or withhold informed consent.
2) Self-esteem. I want my kids to feel that they do not have to do anything to ingratiate themselves with anyone, or do anything they don’t want to. They can say no. If they have been brought up in an environment in which their desires, opinions, and consent matters, they are that much less likely to put up with abuse of any kind.
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4) Support. They should know that no matter what happens, I (and my wife of course) will support them. That ranges from picking them up from a party at 3am, no questions asked, so they don’t get in a car with a drunk driver, to helping them get through whatever bad things happen to them. They should also know that Daddy isn’t going to shoot anyone unless they specifically ask him to, and he agrees it’s a good idea.
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I’ve got it all worked out. I’ll be sitting on the porch sharpening a longsword with a stone. Schrrrripp! I’ll look at him and say: “So, you want to take my daughter out, huh?” Schrrrripp!
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“You’re not planning on doing anything with her, are you?” Schrrrripp!
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Have You Made Your Customers Smile Today?
NICE, France -- TM Forum Live! -- When Tuesday's keynote panel with two industry chairmen kicked off discussing "smile moments," I wasn't optimistic. Turned out I needn't have worried: The next 30 minutes had a lot of useful tips on how to be a customer-centric company.
For me, it also brought to mind T-Mobile US Inc. , even though the carrier was never mentioned.
David Moffatt, former CEO of Lebara Group and current board member on Asurion Limited's Asia-Pacific advisory board, and Michael Matthews, former Amdocs Ltd. (NYSE: DOX) CMO and chairman of the board at Archer Mobile, took the stage to talk about what being a company that truly cares about its customers looks like. It seems obvious, but it's not something many telcos have mastered.
Both agreed that it had to start with the leadership and some radically new thinking. Some of the key takeaways included:
- Allow employees to be individuals and have "spontaneous engagement" with customers. "If you let too much process and system get in the way, then people aren't equipped to deal with people with humanity," Matthews said.
- Build a culture of transparency and authenticity in leadership, which requires a cultural shift.
- The CEO needs to spearhead this cultural change by meeting with his or her employees face-to-face (even if there are thousands of them) and speaking with honesty and passion about what the company is doing.
- Analytics is important, but bear in mind that Steve Jobs never used it. "At best, it allows you to eliminate the things you should perhaps not be concentrating on," Matthews said. And, Moffatt added, data needs to be harnessed in a systematic way. "In most organizations, particularly telco, you need to think about the customer in isolation from all the other noise and systematize it," he said.
- As the CEO, get your board aligned with your vision and act as a mediator to break down silos, which exist because of the systems and structures for allocating budgets and how people are rewarded, not because of any ill-will between groups.
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I did think it was interesting when Moffatt pointed out that, "it's not about evangelizing or being the hero CEO." Legere, of course, relishes that role. I occasionally doubt the authenticity in his curse-laden keynotes, but you can't deny his attitude and changes are working. His competitors are noticing and customers are flocking to the Magenta brand. (See T-Mobile Sacrifices Costs for Customers and Getting Your Magenta Kicks.)
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Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge this week which is a trend watch-Ocean.
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I have loved writing on this darn blog. I have come to believe that no one truly cares about anyone nowadays, but somehow you all….strangers to my world…have managed to make me feel so significant, so valued, and so loved. I will never be able to thank you enough for that.
I don’t even know what to say…and I don’t even know if anything that I say really matters. But I hope that somehow I can touch your heart and let you know that you are loved… I love you. Even though most of us have never met, we are all brothers in sisters in the Body of Christ… We are family and we will someday get to spend eternity together. So you matter to me… You matter so much.
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I have pondered the Nature vs. Nurture debate deeply. I have researched it well… and have personally arrived at the conclusion that it’s both. However, I would tend to say that the “nurture” part of things has the greatest impact. In essence, I subscribe quite a bit to John Locke’s theory of Tabula Rasa, which as you probably know means that we are born a blank slate. I know that this isn’t entirely true, but I think it’s mostly true.
I think babies are the closest thing to Heaven… Really, I think this about ALL children in general. There is nothing more pure and precious than a child. Nothing. And I know that Jesus Himself feels the exact same way.
I can‘t make sense of the world we’re living in these days. What happened at Sandy Hook Elementary has greatly affected me. But the reality is that children are abused in a myriad of fashions all over the globe… constantly. What’s more, most of the time they are abused, neglected, and/or abandoned by the people who were supposed to love them the most… and to protect them with every fiber of their being.
The world is a nasty, depraved place and honestly, I don‘t know why we continue to have children knowing full well that we are living in End Times. I compare my generation to my kid’s…and to my Mother’s…and for GOD sakes, my precious Grandparent’s. It unraveling and changing so fast that I can hardly process it. Our country, which WAS founded on GOD has, I’m afraid, become an abomination to Him as I KNOW it has become an abomination to the rest of the world. I fear that God’s blessing is vanishing from our land… He flooded the world once and I have to wonder, “Was it even half as depraved now as it was then?” I ponder Bible stories that my grandmother used to tell me about Sodom and Gomorrah… but see, I know NOW that those weren’t just “stories“. Do we as a nation think that we are invincible from God Himself? Jonah tried to outrun God and he wound up in the belly of a whale. How much longer is God going to tolerate the depravity of our culture? I just really wonder.
I am not well right now. I fear that I may be losing my mind somehow. I am absolutely terrified beyond words, but I am finding that I have not been able to escape this perpetual downward spiral that I am wildly riding. My depression is beyond anything I could explain…and probably beyond anything anyone would be able to understand. I feel powerless and I feel utterly paralyzed. I have no idea what tomorrow will bring, but for me, hope is just not on the horizon. I’m trying to fight but I’m very weak and I’m very tired. My whole life has been a fight. I will be 40 in January and NEVER in my wildest dreams could I have EVER imagine that I would be here. I’m embarrassed, I’m morbidly humiliated, and shame and guilt are just killing me.
I have somehow managed to isolate myself from the world and the outcome has not been good. The ONLY hope that I have is in Jesus, but for the LIFE of me I cannot feel Him right now. I am reduced to an absolute shell of the vibrant, charismatic woman I once was… I don’t have much left. So with every ounce of my soul I humbly beg that you pray for me and my boys. Please intercede in my weakness. Please beg God to help me survive and see my way out of all this. I want you to know that I love my children more than anything on this Earth. They are the reason I draw breath… They are my whole entire world and I am so afraid that I am somehow failing them. GOD HELP ME!
I have honestly never felt this way in my entire life and again, I’m just overtaken with complete terror. There is a neuro doc whose primary practice is in San Francisco. His name is Dr. Daniel Amen. I have followed his work for years and know some incredibly reputable people who deeply believe in his work. His clinic does brain scans that give CONCRETE answers to what is going on with a patient’s mental health. That‘s what I want…of course I could never afford it. But still, I want CONCRETE answers. Something is totally NOT right with my freaking brain. I adore my counselor and my doctors too but diagnosing neurological problems are really just a hit or miss….or a trial and error kind of thing. I’m SICK of that.
What happened to my mother HAUNTS me each and every day. Her depression was real, but no one, INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY ME ever took her seriously until she was dead. She lay in her bed for THREE whole days before anyone even found her. I will NEVER forget what she looked like. She has the SADDEST look on her face. My mother was an incredible, beautiful woman but something happened and when she began to deteriorate it seemed, to me, to happened really fast. I take this shit seriously and I wish to GOD that the rest of society would too!! This isn’t something we can just sweep under the damn rug people. Look, the Sandy Hook incident would more than likely have never happened if someone would have reached out to that young man and taken his issues seriously.
I thank you for giving me a venue to express my heart… And I thank you in advance for your prayers. Jesus is not just MY only answer… He is YOUR only answer as well. Keep your eyes FIXED on Him. Recognize that He does NOT make rules so that He can be a buzz-kill or because He is just very bossy. God gives us rules to protect us from our stupid selves!!! When we disobey Him and veer out in our own direction we are blindly veering out from underneath His Almighty protection. We just cannot afford to do that anymore, can we?
All my love,
Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint;
heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
My soul is in deep anguish.
How long, Lord, how long?
Turn, Lord, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.
Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
Who praises you from the grave?
I am worn out from my groaning.
All night long I flood my bed with weeping
and drench my couch with tears.
My eyes grow weak with sorrow;
they fail because of all my foes.
Away from me, all you who do evil,
for the Lord has heard my weeping.
The Lord has heard my cry for mercy;
the Lord accepts my prayer.
All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and anguish;
they will turn back and suddenly be put to shame.
The Light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. -John 1:5
It’s been almost one month since I’ve written. I’ve wanted so much to write each and every single day, but certain life circumstances have left me just plain depleted and wholly exhausted. I suppose my pervasive depression was the driving force that has kept me wrapped tightly in my favorite blanket…in bed. You see, that’s that majority of what I’ve been doing since I last wrote–sleeping or working. When I’m not working I’m sleeping and when I’m not sleeping I’m working. That’s the long and short of it, friends. I have become a hermit lately with no social life or fellowship to speak of. As a matter of fact, my hygiene has even suffered a bit!
You see, a few months ago before my gross reduction in income, I used AG, Biolage, Purology, and Philosophy products to care for my hair and body. In the realm of make-up I prefer Mac, Two-Faced, Smashbox, and Urban Decay, just to name a few. Men, this may mean nothing to you, but ladies, you know exactly what I’m talking about! More than any of my physical traits I love my hair and for years upon years have only allowed the best products to come near it. I mean, I was using a $55 bottle of conditioner and a $30 glaze to keep my hair from being frizzy, while giving it just the perfect amount of volume and texture to put me in a close 2nd in a “best hair” contest with Jennifer Aniston herself!
My $20 sugar and hemp-infused body scrub and $20 shower gel left my artificially tanned skin as smooth as a baby’s backside and smelling of an organic rhapsody of lavender with subtle hints of warm, toasted vanilla. After my rejuvenating power showers, I used to like to smooth on some of my deliciously decadent Philosophy body cream ($28) before hitting my pillow which I even misted with a light Bath and Body Work’s fragrance. Now, I buy Pantene products from the Dollar General, and adorn my skin in Wal-Mart’s generic version of Dove’s mildly-exfoliating body soap. My razor is one that my former reprobate of a roommate left behind accidentally. It isn’t the sinfully sharp, quadruple-bladed razor that I’m accustomed to; it’s one of those Bic disposable numbers. So, like I said, my hygiene has suffered a little; I can admit that. But in my dirty defense, “bath time is no longer a spa-like experience“. Shoot, as of late, I’ve been so down that I have even had to remind myself to brush my damn teeth each day. The loss of my beauty products hurt a little but I’m proud to report that my hair and skin have held up better than expected… and I still have all my teeth (in spite of my recurring nightmare that I’m missing my front one–we’ll talk about that another time).
I suppose that being separated from my elite beauty products aren’t really my biggest issue though right now. As a matter of fact, although my skin is a bit ashy and my hair is somewhat wiry I must say, I have much bigger fish to fry.
Surprisingly, money is not now nor has it ever been a great source of pleasure for me. I mean, sure I like to shop sometimes, but I simply do not love money; never have. I have dated wealthy men; wasn’t impressed. Hence, I can say, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that I will never marry a man for his money. I like to have money for reasons related to financial stability. You know what I mean, friend? I desperately want to be able to comfortably pay my mortgage, car note, and my other giant mountain of debts. I want to comfortably be able to give my children lunch money each day and not have to worry about how I’m going to get groceries from week to week. I want to be able to save my money too like normal people seem to do… And I want to be able to tithe. But more than “anything” I want to be able to help others who are in need. “Especially” single parents and their seemingly indefensible children.
I often joke with God about Him not ever allowing me to win the blasted lottery. I mean, my church would receive more than 10%, I would do mission trips to Africa and South America… building educational facilities all along the way, putting shoes on bare, calloused, little feet–and I could certainly ensure that an exorbitant amount of hungry, suffering children never feel the pangs of hunger in their little bellies again. I could effectively share and spread the Gospel and even put a sizeable dent in the monstrosities that make up the sex trafficking industry. I could pop a few caps in the asses of some of the cartel too! In short, I could help so many people. So why in the world would He not trust me with a bit of money? It just doesn’t make sense, does it? Even if he didn’t choose me, He could at least chose someone with a heart like mine! Ugh! Money is the root of all evil! It’s come to a point where I am disgusted by it and what it represents. I kind of hate it actually. I hate how it distracts people and keeps them from experiencing face-to-face encounters with God. You see, if I’ve learned anything, I’ve learned that poverty causes you to lean on Jesus, which deepens and sweetens your relationship with Him. In that way, I feel kind of sad for the majority of rich folks. (Disclaimer: I’m not saying that all rich folks don’t have precious relationships with God!)
But I suppose my theories on money and religion aren’t so important right now. You see, I have to admit something, friends. Late Sunday night… early Monday morning, I was in a place of such deep, devastating sorrow that I was, in all sincerity planning my great escape. I was planning on ending my life. My pain was so agonizing and unbearable that night and I had cried until my eyes were almost swollen shut. All the suffering that I had experienced in my life just came together, forming one indescribable but all-consuming ache. I had a plan and began subtly saying my goodbyes to those that I love in the wee small hours of the night. Were it not for my beautiful son Jonah who was peacefully sleeping near me, I know that I would be nothing more than a memory right now. Praise Jesus that I was able to remember back to the night my then, 5-year-old Jeremiah (who was sleeping) and I drove up on my mother’s house to see why she hadn’t been answering the phone all weekend. It was on that fateful night that I discovered that my mother had committed suicide.
I reminisced upon the moments and hours that passed after seeing her lifeless, pale, white body laying in her bed. She had the saddest expression on her face. She looked like her heart had been broken. She had been dead, laying in that bed for three days.
I also reminisced upon her funeral. She asked that we play a few songs, namely “Please Remember” by LeAnn Rimes. It’s a beautiful song, but my heart broke into a thousand pieces when I heard it play at the service. I vaguely remember that I literally let out a moan so deep and so loud during the song that my precious grandfather had to take his focus off of mourning the death of his child, and focus on consoling me. It was one of those soul cries…I just couldn’t maintain my composure sitting there looking at her casket.
Then my mind wandered back to the days before her funeral, pre-visitation. I got my mother ready for her funeral. With the help of my cousin, who is a physician, we managed to get my mother’s body dressed. And mind you, we didn’t pull the easy, funeral parlor trick where you merely cut a slit down the back of a shirt or a dress…we literally got her dressed, from head to toe. She was bloated and had Frankenstein-like stitching all around her head from the autopsy. Remember, my mom was a cop… She once had to participate in an autopsy during her training at the police academy and was happy to report that she “got to crack the skull-cap“. I remember her telling me that the human face is peeled back away from the head and that it simply looks like a mask as it is pulled down and then pulled back up toward the end of the procedure. Add to that, I was also keenly aware that the deceased’s brain and other organs are taken out and weighed–among other things during an autopsy– and then tossed back into the chest cavity which is then sloppily sewn back up.
She was so brave when she was a cop, so I had resigned to be brave like her during this sacred time to ensure that it was “me” taking care of her sweet body, ensuring that she was handled with supreme love and dignity. The Holy Spirit definitely guided me as I prepared her body because I was so much stronger in that moment than you or anyone else could ever imagine. I felt like she was with me and that God was bringing a much-needed sense of peace and understanding to our relationship. Still, there were subtle reminders like her sad-faced, lifeless body reeking of formaldehyde, which was literally oozing from her pores and causing her beautiful hair to fall out as I curled and styled it.
Praise the Maker that was able to successfully get her hair and make-up done. I had managed to get her ready for her funeral all by myself, except for the help that my sweet cousin gave me in actually dressing her body. I was proud of my cosmetology skills but what was bothering me was the fact that she had fallen after taking all the medication that she took. I think she attempted to overdose but discovered that what she had taken did not kill her. I think she sedated herself heavily and then woke up, disappointed that she was not dead yet. I believe this is when she dizzily got up to grab for more pills (the ones that really killed her). When she did she feel into a box fan thus breaking some of her acrylic nails.
I said to myself right then, “MY mother is not going to see Jesus needing a fill!” Hastily and with great determination I called a nail salon that was located across the street from the funeral home. I asked them to please come and help me get my mother’s nails repaired. Now apparently the Vietnamese culture does not play well with the dead, because a timid but traumatized little Asian voice echoed back at me saying, “D-no, we no do dat foe yew mudda! We skeead!” I couldn’t help but chuckle a little bit.
Finally though, my tenaciousness and perseverance had paid off. With the help of my cousin, we found someone from a local hospital who was willing to give my mother her final fill. I tell you what, that girl did one heck of a job! She had my dead mother’s arms all sprawled out with “forms” on every nail. By the time this gal was finished my mother’s nails looked amazing and the whole damn funeral home smelled not of formaldehyde, but of acetone! I know it’s not funny, but the entire place smelled like a nail salon!
All this to say, the memories of my mother’s suicide are fresh. So, the question is how could I do that to my Jeremiah and my Jonah? How could I do it to my family? How could I even entertain such thoughts? Who would have found me? Would I have had to have had a closed-casket because the left side of my head was missing from the exit of the bullet?
I know these are maniacally morbid thoughts, but I thought of them all as I weighed out my unspeakable options. Truth be told, I prayed and prayed for Jesus to come back. I desperately wanted the Rapture to happen so my kids and I could just fly away from such an ugly, senseless, evil world. I guess Jesus wasn’t ready to mount His majestic, white horse and ride to my rescue though. Or maybe it was on account of the Battle of Armageddon hasn’t occurred yet or we haven’t all been asked to receive the mark of the Beast!?! Either way, we’re all still here and aren’t winged and singing with the Hosts of Heaven. I apologize if I have offended any of you by prematurely trying to end the world.
But you see, I’m really broke and struggling. I stand to lose everything. My home was literally one day from foreclosure. My attorney met me at 7 am on Labor Day (September 3rd) to allow me to file for bankruptcy; I did. Shortly thereafter, my boyfriend did some things that were absolutely appalling. I had to send him away as his addictions and alcoholism were consuming us. He was also becoming abusive again. Add to that, I found two condoms in his suitcase… We “rarely” have sex and when we do, we don’t use condoms.
I remember clearly back to September the 3rd because it was my late grandmother’s birthday that day. I had been having some problems with dizziness and fainting and that afternoon, I got up too fast I suppose and I fainted. Jonah was standing next to me when it happened. I hit my head really, really hard on the closet door behind me. Jonah screamed “MOMMY” in a tone that affected me to my core; still does today. He was so scared and was crying. I’ve never seen him get that upset and lose it like that. Let’s just say that, in that instant it was painfully clear how much Jonah loved me. It was also the memory of his cry for me that prevented me from making an irreversible decision the other night, which was the morning of the 24th.
“What happened that night?“, you’re probably wondering, that could have taken me to the edge of a cliff like that. I’ll tell you what happened, I found out that I lost my job. Friends, I am yet unemployed again and I have to make a mortgage payment soon PLUS my monthly bankruptcy payment to the trustee. I’ve depleted all of my resources.
I took this job with the hopes of moving up quickly. I don’t mind telling you that I went from making $50K a year to a little over $19K a year. I was literally pulling in $9.53 an hour at the airline I worked for, with all my education and experience. But you know what? I loved that job. I loved the people. I loved working from home, which was a first for me. I worked and trained so hard and it was all taken away in a flash.
So here I am. I do not know what’s going to happen to me next. I have never been angry with God before the other night. However, on that night I felt as if he had completely betrayed me and that all the prayers that I had humbly prayed to him…and I also felt like the time that I had spent on my knees were all in vain or that he was simply choosing to ignore me. Today, I have decided to put up a little bit of a fight…as much as I can. But know this friends, I HATE the devil. He seems to want to devour me and my precious children. It’s getting hard to take. Just when I started feeling connected to the Lord again today, I turned on my computer to write on this blog. I was going to praise God at that time. As soon as my fingers hit the keyboard, my power went out. Our electricity was shut off. I owed $436. Frightful times….
I am going to be writing a lot more in the coming days. This is going to be an interesting ride but I invited you all along a while back. God is going to move in my life. I just don’t know how right now and I am overcome with grief and fear. Please pray for me and my two children as we walk through this horrifically perilous time. I’m running out of tricks, friends. I’m getting older and I’m running out tricks. As a matter of fact, this is how I feel (dramatic, but true nonetheless):
I love you all and will be writing again soon. Sufficed to say, you are loved. The very fact that you are reading this right now, wherever you are…humbles me in unspeakable ways. If you only knew how much YOU keep me going!
The Light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. (John 1:5). I can’t understand it right now either…
All my love,
This is a post from a “dear” friend of mine. It touched my heart and I know it will touch yours too…
In order for a glow stick to shine it must be broken on the inside.
There are some things in life I’d just as soon not know. Knowing it just hurts I have friends who know this fact even more than me. I guarantee they would just as soon not know. But knowing makes you all the deeper, all the more real, all the more able to be used, all the more stronger. I bring three pieces of evidence to the courtroom of the public opinion today:
1) Shari Smith. 2 days before her high school graduation, her father, the pastor of the church in their town, was looking out of the window of his study as his daughter drove up their driveway, get out of the car and check the mail. He went back to studying. A few moments later, he looked up again to see her car still in the driveway with the door open, and…
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YIT [YTY1V] to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell
ADVISORY, Dec. 3, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
YIT, a leading European service company in building systems, construction services and services for industry, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square to celebrate its 100th anniversary.
In honor of the occasion, Timo Lehtinen, CFO and Hanna-Maria Heikkinen, Vice President, Investor Relations, will ring the Opening Bell.
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YIT has grown strongly in the 2000s: the company's revenue has more than tripled and operating profit more than doubled.
Housing construction in Russia offers YIT significant growth and profitability potential in the long term. The company has operated in Russia for over 50 years and seen both upturns and downturns. During the last year, YIT has expanded into eight new cities in the Moscow region.
YIT is one of the largest Western construction companies in Russia. The growth in the volume of housing construction is supported by the growing middle class's great need for improved quality of housing, the favourable development of the mortgage market and the increase in the number of households.
In Russia, customers have traditionally purchased their homes unfinished and finished them themselves. Even though individualism is still very important to Russians, our customers increasingly want to buy finished residential units. YIT's reputation as a reliable construction company in Russia improved significantly during the financial crisis, with the company continuing the construction of all of its projects as planned. As proof of good development, the company has won several quality awards in construction in Russia.
YIT celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2012. The company was established in the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1912. Today, YIT is a leading European service company in building systems, construction services and services for industry. Our 26,000 professionals serve customers in 14 countries in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia and Central Europe. YIT's vision is to lead the way in creating and maintaining good living environments. In 2011, YIT's revenue was approximately EUR 4.4 billion. YIT's shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. www.yitgroup.com.
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“Are you teaching your baby to sign?”, “Are you going to use sign language with your baby?”, “My baby knows over 50 signs already, and she’s only 10 months! Are you teaching Evalee sign language?”. These are just a few examples of what I was subjected to when I was pregnant and after I had my daughter Evalee. Honestly, I didn’t know there was such as thing as baby sign language until I got pregnant. The idea sounded intriguing… so I did some research and purchased a few books. I have “Baby Sign Language Basics, Early Communication for Hearing Babies & Toddlers” by Monta Z. Briant, “Teach Your Tot to Sign – The Parent’s Guide to American Sign Language” by Stacy A. Thompson and the children’s board book “My First Signs” by Annie Kubler. I thumbed through them a bit before she was born and started to use some basic signs like milk, more, eat & sleep when she was around 6 months or so. Evalee really took to the board book with its wonderful illustrations. If I had to recommend one book that would be it.
Evalee is now 19 months and uses only a few signs. Her catalog consists of milk, more, eat, cookie, out, mommy, dog, book, water, please & thank you. I was excited about it at first, to be able to communicate with her as early as 10 or 11 months was great. Lately I’ve been questioning my decision to teach her sign. I realize all kids develop at their own speed but she isn’t talking as much as her peers. She seems to rely on the signs a lot, so much so that I have yet to hear her say “Mommy”. Otherwise, she points and grunts. This may be a result of being home with me all the time and not in daycare or around other toddlers much. I try to set up play dates, but it doesn’t happen as often as I would like. I’m not necessarily worried or concerned, I know her hearing is perfect, it would just be nice to hear “Mommy”. Is that selfish?
I remember speaking with a friend a while back about her daughter who was a few months old at the time and asked if they were considering using sign and she said no. Her reason being that a member of her family used sign language with their child, who was over 2, and she wasn’t speaking much at all. The funny thing is, all advocates of baby sign language argue that babies are prone to talking sooner when exposed to sign language, which was one of my main reasons for teaching Evalee to sign.
On the flip side, both my brother-in-law and cousin-in-law have used sign with their children and both kids are speaking really well for their age. Sarah will be 2 in March and speaks very well and Carson is 2 & a half and you can have a full conversation with him. Who knows, right?
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Don’t get me wrong. It is absolutely lovely to get a positive email from a reader. Writing is a solitary and sometimes lonely enterprise, and authors are periodically swamped by self-doubt. Messages that affirm that your stories are being read and appreciated are priceless.
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Think about how it works: A reader is ready for a new book, and doesn’t already have one in mind, so he starts looking around on the Amazon website. And good luck for you, as the reader searches, information about your book pops up on his screen. “Sounds interesting,” our reader thinks. But he’s never heard of you before, so he’s not about to buy your book without more information. Maybe he’ll read the excerpt, if there is one. But one thing he will almost always do: He will look at the number of reader reviews, and how the ratings stack up.
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L.A.-by-way-of-Boston rapper Sammy Adams hit the PopCrush offices to play a friendly and fun round of Pop the Question with us. Adams was totally chill and laid back as he fired off the darts and responded to our silly and serious questions.
Sammy Adams paid a visit to the PopCrush office recently to sit down and chat about changing coasts and about his new album 'I Wish,' which features the Mike Posner-featured 'L.A. Story,' and a new track called 'Dark Horse.' We certainly got to know more about Adams the artist in this exclusive chat.
Sammy Adams has left his native Boston behind for the sunny skies and warm shores of the West Coast! Adams tells his 'L.A. Story' with an assist from Mike Posner in his video for the track of the same name.
Sammy Adams' 'L.A. Story' isn't necessarily a chronological tale. The MC wreaks havoc in the city of Angels in his new viral video for the track -- and he does so while doing a remarkably good job at keeping his balance.
Ciara took her ferocious dancing feet and completely squashed the competition in last week's About to Pop poll. The R&B diva's latest single, the fast-paced, '90s-inspired dance jam 'Got Me Good,' garnered more than 65% of the fan votes, meaning all of you can get groove on to the club-ready track this weekend when it receives 20+ spins on PopCrush's radio show! Check out a list of stations where you can tune in here.
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About-to-pop artist Sammy Adams, who just dropped the partytastic, good time video for 'All Night Longer,' will hit the road this fall on a tour. He'll hit a bunch of cities and venues with 3OH!3, too. The singer/rapper/songwriter, who is also a classically trained
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|Paul Travis, Executive Director
Paul Travis joined FLT in July, 2014, as Executive Director. Paul has over 16 years of nonprofit conservation and leadership experience and holds a strong commitment to preserving our natural heritage, open space, and “way of life” in the Flathead for generations to come. Paul and his wife, Samantha Travis live in Kalispell with their three children: daughter Neve (12 years old), Landon (10 years old), and Astrid (4 year old). Paul and his family have deep roots in the Flathead Valley and spend as much time as possible outdoors hiking, boating, skiing and enjoying everything this beautiful area has to offer. He continues to enjoy sharing this with his family while building upon the important conservation goals of the Flathead Land Trust.
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Ryan Hunter became a Land Protection Specialist in July, 2009. He earned a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, with an emphasis on environmental and community development planning, from Portland State University in 2004. Prior to moving to Montana, Ryan worked as an Assistant Planner for Jefferson County in Port Townsend, Washington. Ryan has also previously worked for environmental non-profits, including forest conservation and salmon recovery organizations. He enjoys backpacking and kayaking the great wild places of Northwest Montana with his wife Eve and daughter Autumn.
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Ty5592 (1018) - Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA - JUN 13, 2006
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
slightly hazy yellow in color. Strong citrus aroma with same flavor. very smooth and easy to drink dispite massive hop flavor. Not better then dreadnaught.
unclemattie (4358) - Georgia, USA - JUN 12, 2006
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
This beer is perfect overall. CAUTION!
Do not make this the first beer during a tasting session... IT WILL KILL YOUR PALATE. =) this is one of my fave all time IPAs.
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xdream (16) - Madison, Alabama, USA - JUN 12, 2006
4.7 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
After uncapping the 22 once bottle my nostrils were assaulted by hoppy citrus aromas that made me jump back from the bottle as it was possessed. Once I had gained my compsure from the onslaught, I poured the devilís brew into a snifter. It poured a liquid gold that shimmered in the sunlight liike a necklace my girlfrinedís grandmother had bought her for a very hoppy birthday. The aromas eminating from the glass made me shiver with terror of what it was going to do to my palate. Finally after much inner debate I dared to take a sip....and it was a hop explosion in mouth that left my tongue hungry for more. All I can say is the flavor was HOPPY HOPPY HOPPY!
sbaz040 (38) - phoenix, Arizona, USA - JUN 11, 2006
4.5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Not as good as stone IPA.the bitterness overwelmed the fruit taste..
HopBackDoc (474) - Hatboro, Pennsylvania, USA - JUN 11, 2006
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
22 oz. bottle. Amber colored with light head that disappeared fairly quickly. Hoppy, citrus aroma. I thought this was a bit thin bodied and lacked the flavor of the regular Stone IPA, but I may have had it a bit too cold because the last 4 or 5 ounces were much better. I was a bit disappointed at first because of the great beers thst Stone has, so I guess Iíll have to give this one another try and rate it again!
railcat1 (702) - Kissimmee, Florida, USA - JUN 4, 2006
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
great ipa with hop delight i keep running into more stone beers and every one has been great.
casper78 (21) - bakersfield, California, USA - JUN 4, 2006
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Bottle 1 pnt 6 oz POurs a deep amber color with light head. ThisIPA is what itís all about. Stone has done it again.
MrEcted1 (144) - Wheat Ridge, Colorado, USA - JUN 3, 2006
4.4 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
WOW! This is one complex mutha of an IPA. Definitely not your typical IPA and not just because itís extremely forward with hops, much more so then most IPAs. Everything about this beer is amazing. Nice aroma with piney scents along with a dark carmel scent pulling through as well. Sounds typical but itís just different with this one. Hops are MASSIVE. Everytime I drink this one my first sip is like "OMG this bastard is HOPPY!" but as the hop resins coat your tongue (and they do quickly) you will definitely find some hidden complexities and it balances out very well. Definitely in the top 4 IPAs for me.
ghawener (1553) - San Salvador, EL SALVADOR - JUN 3, 2006
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle: Bright orange-yellow, nice lacing. Aroma is floral, very hoppy. Also strongly present in the intense taste, a true IPA.
eaglefan538 (3012) - Wilmington, Delaware, USA - JUN 3, 2006
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: SEP 29, 2007 Original rating, 7/05: Nice amber orange color that came with a small but respectable initial head. The latter dissipated far before the drink was gone and the lacing was minimal to none. The aroma was hoppy (pine, minimal floral) with a touch of fruit (citrus). Flavor was much of the same with a fairly sweet base. The hop "bite" definitely gets you initially with a mild burn sensation. However, that disappeared quickly into a pleasantly hopped beverage to go along with the old bay-spiced crabs I had with it. Not a bad combination, although this DIPA was hard to distinguish from the rest of the bunch out there (good, but it didnít really stand out). Re-rate, Nov. 06: Pretty smooth, not overly bitter, nice hops presence for a dIPA, where the malts can outrun the hops. This one had a significant floral hop presence this time through over top of crystal malt and citrus hopping. A nicely balanced dIPA, but nothing to write home about. Re-rate, Sept. 07 on draft: Amber-yellow in color, very nice initial head, quite good lacing. The aroma was most certainly hoppy, lots of citrus and grapefruits in there, followed by a touch of resinous pine in the finish, absolutely no floral elements. The flavor followed suite, ample citrus and grapefruits over top of a malt base much like Stoneís basic IPA, crystal malts, etc.... This thing works for me quite well, and along with the standard IPA, this thing is up there among my favorites. Mouthfeel is full, yet not creamy, carbonated (with nicely slowed rising bubbles), alcohol gentle. The numbers on this thing have risen quite nicely over my experiences, this tap experience perhaps the best. | <urn:uuid:5fe31ccb-7bc2-4b5b-974e-f78302662fa4> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/stone-ruination-ipa/14709/1/290/ | 2016-05-27T22:43:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277091.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00228-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91742 | 1,520 |
Yesterday was the 94th anniversary of the 19th ammendment, granting women the right to vote. August 26th is officially known as Women’s Equality Day though I don’t remember hearing about it in school or very often as an adult. To celebrate, my brother and I attended a celebration of Women Suffragists at the Kate Sessions Statue at Balboa ParkPark which was presented by the California Womens Museum. Local women dressed up as famous suffragists in historical clothing and read biographies pertaining to those women whose work spurred the suffragist movement.
My only disappointment, other than such a small turnout, was the lack of any representation of women suffragists who were Native, Mexican, African, or Asian American. We all know about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony, but there were so many more women who sacrificed and risked their livelihoods to give all women equal standing to men. The history, or “herstory”, of women in America is very rich and interesting; here are some of my favorite heroes of the past 100+ years.
Prior the 1920 federal law proclaiming women could vote, California granted women this right in 1911. The first Chinese-American women to vote were Emma Hoo Tom and Clara Chan Lee in Oakland, CA. This is a really impressiveimpressive feat since in 1882 the U.S. government passed the totally racist Chinese Exclusion Act basically prohibiting Chinese from becoming citizens or gaining entry into the country.
Maria Latigo Hernandez was a Mexican-American civil rights activist and midwife in the early and mid 1900’s. She marched, lectured, and rallied for equal rights and education. She refused to accept the idea that assimilation meant only speaking and writing in English and she continued to include Spanish in her speeches.
Ida B. Wells was an African-American woman born enslaved just before the Emancipation proclamation. She was a teacher, journalist, and lecturer. In 1884 she refused to give up her seat for white passengers on a train, long before Rosa Parks, but was still dragged off the train. Her journalism focused on lynchings and racism and she was actively involved in the suffragist movement.
Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren was one of New Mexico’s first female government officials, an educator, businesswoman, historian, and activist in the early 1900’s.
In the late 1800’s Sarah Winnemucca, an educator an interpreter of the North-American Paiute tribe, lectured across the country about Native affairs and the mismanagement in the hands of the government.
Susan La Flesche Piccote was a Native-American activist of Omaha and European descent, and the first Native women physician. She founded a hospital on the Omaha reservation in 1913.
Josephine St. Pierre was editor of The Womens Era newspaper and an activist in the late 1800’s through early 1900’s. Despite her success creating organizations for colored women and knowing Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, she faced racism from mostly white women’s organizations and sexism from African-American males.
This is just a sampling of women suffragists in the U.S.. If you know of an amazing native, Asian, African or Mexican American women please leave a comment below. The suffragist movement spread far and wide from West coast to East and everywhere in between. In 1890 Wyoming became the first state to ratify voting rights for women. You can see a map and timeline of he suffrage movement at constitutioncenter.org/timeline.
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Here’s the latest news out of our elected whores Senators. Some sell-out DINOs have come to an agreement with some Repugs. The short version:
- Employers don’t have to buy coverage
- You still have to get coverage somewhere, but where is not their problem
- No public option
- No such thing as a pre-existing condition
Seriously, the only good point is the last one, and they could have handled that in a 2 page item tacked on the end of any random bit of legislation. It’s not a “reform”, its just how things need to be.
Get real, DINOs, the Republicans want to kill reform, and they will do whatever it takes to do so. They have said this in public! Are you not listening? Do I have to tear up my membership card in the Democratic Party and start sending all my donations to Democracy for America? So help me I will do just that if this Congress with its elected filibuster-proof majority of Democrats screws We The People.
Insurance companies are doing everything they can to keep from having a real reform go through. They are providing distortions of data to Congressmice, they are running a huge PR campaign, and there will be no sleep for lobbyists on any side of the issue before Christmas. Gee, Big Tobacco and Big Insurance have lobbyists, and feminists want to focus on how porn and prostitution exploit people.
The fact of the matter is that normal people can’t afford coverage — the cost of which sometimes exceeds their paycheck. When they do have coverage, their out of pocket health care costs still often exceed 10% of their annual income. Low wage individuals are unlikely to have access to employer provided coverage, and unlikely to be able to afford individual coverage. The result is kids without coverage ending up with chronic problems, people dying because they can’t afford coverage, people going bankrupt over medical bills, people being sued over the medical bills of relatives in other states.
Businesses can’t afford coverage, and this is making American products and services uncompetitive on a price basis. Because of a combination of health insurance issues and financing issues, it is almost impossible to start a new business right now. And that means no new jobs out of small business, of the kind we saw in decades past. It used to be that unemployment could be an opportunity to take a flier on the next big thing, but who can afford to do that now?
Doctors can’t afford to do business with insurance companies, who often arbitrarily determine what they will pay and what they will cover. A new study says that medical facilities spend “at least $23 billion to $31 billion each year” just in the amount of salary they pay while employees deal with the insurance people. That’s $23-31 thousand million that doesn’t provide any care whatsoever. And it doesn’t even count what it costs the insurance company on the other end to process the claim.
Meanwhile, insurance companies are making obscene profits — which again provides no care whatsoever — doing morally reprehensible things, and Congress fiddles while our system drowns. We keep talking and talking, and those in power keep trying to move the discussion on out to Right Field, which is the only place it makes sense that the for-profit model of health insurance that got us here can somehow get us out. Health care is really too important to be profitable.
The center — the real center, not the made up one they seem to worship in Washington — wants real reform. They want it now. Our Senators need to get up off their worthless rumps and do what the people sent them to do instead of what a few wildly profitable businesses want.
Remember this when the primaries come around.
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Asus, with an aim to strengthen the brand’s presence in Malaysia, has opened an Asus ROG (Republic of Gamers) Malaysia concept store in Low Yat Plaza, in Kuala Lumpur.
Asus ROG concept has entered the 10th year of inception and it is gradually expanding its footprint within greater Asia, including Taiwan.
This endeavor aims at offering the consumers the best gaming experience before they possess their own gear.
The store has been launched in the Low Yat Plaza, considered as the largest IT lifestyle mall in Malaysia. ASUS has opened this store in partnership with Brightstar Computer.
ASUS ROG GX800 is company’s most powerful gaming laptop that promises desktop-class gaming performance. The biggest highlight is its liquid-cooling feature that comes in a hydro-overclocking dock attached to the rear of the laptop.
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what is new, is that now there are 'confirmed' sources indicating that this announcement is going to happen on Monday, at the 2005 World Wide Developers Conference of Apple's. (Why monday? thats when Apple CEO and iDeity Steve Jobs will be giving the keynote speech.) Mac OS Rumors, a rumor site that i've followed off and on for the last few years, indicates that it maybe more of a business server line switch or addition to the product line rather than the consumer / 'prosumer' models that we're used to seeing.
i tend to believe this rumor spin more so than others - why? its less of a "OSX WILL RUN ON A PC!!!" style of rabble and more believable because its an evolutionary path - OSX to Itanium™ style chipset.
all i know is that its been a long time since Apple announced anything really new. everything so far has been evolutionary changes to the base systems. and by new, i mean iPod like. maybe its time for the iTablet or a new pda like device ala Newton? | <urn:uuid:999d8151-b5bf-4b0c-aea6-ab7b167d0226> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://spikenheimer.livejournal.com/796507.html | 2018-09-26T13:52:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267164925.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20180926121205-20180926141605-00104.warc.gz | en | 0.960074 | 222 |
Do large investors increase the vulnerability of a country to speculative attacks in the foreign exchange markets? To address this issue, we build a model of currency crises where a single large investor and a continuum of small investors independently decide whether to attack a currency based on their private information about fundamentals. Even abstracting from signalling, the presence of the large investor does make all other traders more aggressive in their selling. Relative to the case in which there is no large investor, small investors attack the currency when fundamentals are stronger. Yet, the difference can be small, or non-existent, depending on the relative precision of private information of the small and large investors. Adding signalling makes the influence of the large trader on small traders' behaviour much stronger.
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Scavenger hunts are unforgettable experiences that will have you laughing and exploring your city in a whole new way. If you are interested in joining in on the scavenger hunt fun but do not have a large group, try to find a public scavenger hunt that you can participate in as an individual.
Public scavenger hunts are open events that will have you racing around the city of your choice. Try a hunt in your hometown or try exploring a new city with fellow adventure seekers. You can bring along a team of four to six friends or be placed into a team of new friends.
Where are These Public Hunts?
cityHUNT currently offers public scavenger hunts in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago. On occasion, cityHUNT will offer public hunts in other cities. Check the cityHUNT website to find a public scavenger hunt that suits your schedule and interests.
Throughout the year, cityHUNT offers public scavenger hunts including Halloween and Christmas-themed hunts. cityHUNT also offers pub crawl adventures that last a little longer and include stops at pubs throughout the city.
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On the day of the public scavenger hunt everyone will meet in a designated location for orientation and to review hunt rules. Each team is provided with an envelope of clues and a digital camera for documenting their finds along the hunt.
Throughout the hunt you will solve riddles, find clues and outsmart other teams to become the cityHunt ultimate champion. Clues are placed in various locations throughout the city including well-known landmarks, parks and neighborhoods. Points are earned along hunt as you solve riddles and document your finds with the provided digital camera. You can also earn bonus points throughout the day.
Whether you choose to experience the scavenger hunt with old friends or new, you will enjoy a day with like-minded adventure seekers who love competition and fun. Public scavenger hunts last between 2 1/2 to 4 hours. After the hunt is over, teams reconvene for the wrap-up party which includes drinks, a slide show of all the hilarious photos taken during the hunt and an awards presentation. | <urn:uuid:ebe8c2e8-7890-405c-8f41-8b3ca7949039> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://cityhunt.org/find-a-public-scavenger-hunt/ | 2014-09-02T04:19:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535921550.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20140901014521-00249-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955612 | 500 |
PLYMOUTH—At 16, Samantha Reckis has the long auburn hair she had as a child, the same laugh, the same spirit. But she is not the same person, nor are her parents, since she suffered devastating injuries after taking Children’s Motrin at age 7.
A Plymouth County jury this week awarded Samantha and her parents a record $63 million in damages against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson for failing to adequately warn patients about the painkiller’s potential side effects.
In an interview with the Globe Friday afternoon, Samantha’s parents Lisa and Richard Reckis spoke about their daughter, the verdict, and the challenges she faces. Her parents, who are divorced, did not want Samantha to speak to the press.
Samantha, now a high school freshman in Plymouth, has remained on the honor roll despite six brain surgeries.
“She has to work twice as hard as other students to keep up her grades,” says her mother. “She doesn’t want anyone to pity her. She just wants a normal life.”
Her parents describe their daughter as “a happy kid,” strong willed and driven. She wants to go to college to study nursing, her mother says, because she saw what her doctors and nurses could do. “She wants to help other people, especially children.”
After taking the Children’s Motrin at Thanksgiving 2003, Samantha suffered a severe reaction that resulted in the loss of most of her skin, permanent lung and liver damage, and blindness. Over the years, she has undergone nearly 40 surgeries. She first underwent brain surgery after having an aneursym and a stroke shortly after her reaction to the drug.
Her injuries haven’t stopped her from one of her main passions: Reading the Harry Potter books. She reads on a special television that magnifies the type onto a screen a couple of inches from her face.
“It takes her forever,” says Lisa. “But she absolutely loves Harry Potter. Most of her childhood has been about medicines and operations. This is fun and magic.”
After the verdict Wednesday, her mother asked where she wanted to go if she could go anywhere in the world. “To Universal Studios in Florida,” Samantha replied, “to see Harry Potter World.”
Lisa laughs. “I just took her there, and she wants to go back.”
What the multi-million dollar award means, her parents say, is that neither they nor their daughter will have to worry about her future: college, health, and living expenses. Lisa is a personal care attendant. Richard works at a gas station.
Both say they are relieved and gratified over the verdict, which came after five weeks of testimony. “As far as Sam goes, 12 people stood up and spoke for her,” says Richard. “It made me think the last 10 years were not in vain.” | <urn:uuid:82dae332-945c-49c1-a8bd-e54956d78f46> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.boston.com/news/2013/02/15/motrinfamily/VLgbLrjqbV72MH6sqCJvGN/story.html?comments=all&ia=15497522 | 2015-02-01T10:58:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115862441.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161102-00220-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98057 | 623 |
Transport in Amsterdam
Travelling to Amsterdam
Amsterdam is well connected by air, rail and road. When you arrive at Schiphol Airport there’s a very convenient train service with the city. The main station Amsterdam Centraal is served every 10 minutes. oakley outlet Rail tickets will cost you about €5 one-way.
By foot or by bike
The city of Amsterdam is rather small, and most of it can be travelled by foot. Most locals drive a bike as it’s the fastest way of getting around. Please take care when crossing red asphalt: Those are the bike lanes in between sidewalks and lanes for motorized traffic.
With public transport
Public transport is efficient. You can buy 1-day, 2-day, …7-day tickets or go for a combination with Airport train. If you extend your stay for some sight seeing, the I Amsterdam card may be good choice. It saves you money and a lot of time for not having to wait in lines.
Staying at Amsterdam
For hotels we suggest you to look for hotels downtown or east side. There are two hotels not so close (half an hour walking to downtown) that we would prefer to sleep ourself: Lloyd Hotel in former Eastern ray ban outlet Docklands (use bookingcode scratch2015AMS for fake ray bans a discount) and Volkshotel, the former headquarters of a Dutch Newspaper.
With University of Amsterdam we agreed on a special rate for beds in Stayokay hostel, which is kind of in-between.
Campground Zeeburg is conveniently located on the East side and their cabins are much cheaper than hotels.
Further to the East you can sleep in amazing artworks (check out the video coverage) at €85 for two: Urban Campsite Amsterdam.
As an alternative to a hotel you could check the sites offering apartments like Wimdu and Airbnb ( Amsterdam is the first city worldwide to have a deal with AirBnB on tourist tax).
We will try to find host families for people on a very tight budget. Or you can check out if people want to exchange with your house.
Activities in Amsterdam
We expect you to be pretty busy during conference hours. But when coming from far it’s definitely worth to extend your stay with some days. Good to know: The last minute ticket shop sells tickets half price for events the same day.
We especially recommend the following:
- The Pianola Museum is a wonderful small museum where Intellectual you see and hear automatic pianos that are about a century old. They have concerts, among them un-playable piano pieces.
- Stedelijk Museum has expositions on Zero and Matisse in August: zero: let us explore the stars and the oasis of matisse.
- The Van Gogh museum has interesting Friday Nights, we asked them if some of us can perform Friday 14th.
- The Royal Concertgebouw is one of the best concert halls in the world, famous for its exceptional acoustic and varied program. During the conference you can hear Mariza on Wednesday and enjoy the works of minimal composer Einaudi while laying on the floor on Saturday.
And if you’re into something else, we have:
- a cat museum
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- the Rijksmuseum
- free ferries crossing the water to Amsterdam North which can be combined with a nice walk on the other side
The week after Scratch conference the city will be flooded by people heading for Sail 2015.
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Congratulations to Donghyun, Junhyeok, Jaemin, Orion, and Hochul for their accepted papers: D. Kim, J. Lee, O. Campbell, H. Hwang, L. Sentis, Computationally-Robust and Efficient Prioritized Whole-Body Controller with Contact Constraints (arXiv preprint), IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and…
Here is the pointer to the slides: safety-control-synthesis
Our students Minkyu, Nico and Arnau, will be competing at RoboCup@Home Domestic Standard Platform in Montreal this week along a larger team. Wishing the whole Austin Villa team best luck!
Here ares some snippets of a panel that PI, Dr. Sentis, moderated at SXSW 2018.
This paper starts with the speculative fragment: Is it okay for robots to stop objects or other robots that could collide with people?
This paper discusses the coupled dynamics between series-elastic actuators and the multi-dof robotics structure followed by neat trajectory optimization to allow the robot to jump.
To achieve full mechanical potential we must estimate non-conservative uncertainty bounds. This paper proposes a quadric inclusion formulation aimed at greatly increasing control performance of future robotic systems.
The future of STEM education is here! The University of Texas at Austin teams up with Apptronik Systems to deliver ubiquitous laboratory STEM education around the globe for all communities. How would you like to use NASA inspired actuators for…
This thesis, written by PhD student Kwan Suk Kim posits that no matter how hard we try, collisions will always happen, and therefore we need to confront and study them both during autonomous navigation or dexterous manipulation. Chapter 5 connects…
Liquid Cooled Viscoelastic actuators are aimed at fielding human-centered lightweight robot structures with high payload capabilities and high mechanical robustness. This technology excels at the following five axes: energy efficiency, torque density, mechanical robustness, position and force controllability.
This study presents a theoretical method for planning and controlling agile bipedal locomotion based on robustly tracking a set of non-periodic keyframe states.
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Sugardaddy dating is an expanding trend that gives many benefits to both parties. If you’re interested in checking out this way of living, check out these top sugardaddy sites.
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Every child in Baltimore deserves access to a good education that will prepare them for the future. It is imperative that every public school receive the funding they need to do right by our educators AND provide a safe, and accessible educational environment. The Kirwan Commission is a good start but Natasha is dedicated to ensuring that the City Council approves a budget that does their part and addresses the demoralizing deterioration of many of our school’s physical plant and infrastructure.
We must offer non-traditional employment opportunities to our youth, not all kids want to go to college -- opportunities that they can grow into careers. We should enhance the development opportunities of our local businesses such as CDL schools and trade schools that will provide a path to careers and not just jobs. We should double down on supporting innovative partnerships like Job Opportunities Task Force’s Jump Start partnership with the building trades Unions. | <urn:uuid:c7f35353-695c-44ea-afdf-017b2be0860a> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://natashaforbaltimore.com/ | 2020-07-13T18:40:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657146247.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20200713162746-20200713192746-00226.warc.gz | en | 0.956932 | 177 |
Secure messaging client Telegram gets updated frequently with new features, but it's still 100% free and has no ads. The latest batch of awesome and inexplicably free stuff includes the option to have more than 200 members in a group, and should that larger group (or any group) need official admins, you can do that too.
Here's the changelog for Telegram 3.3.
- Groups can now have multiple administrators with the ability to edit the name and logo, and add and remove members.
- Groups that have reached their capacity of 200 users can be upgraded to supergroups of up to 1,000 members.
- Channels got a new Quick Share button right next to messages.
Supergroups are a feature users have been asking for ever since Telegram launched with the 200 user limit. These groups are optimized to load quickly even with more members. They will be muted by default, though, and will send fewer left/joined messages.
Administrators are also a new feature in Telegram. By default, all users of a group are admins, but you can change that to appoint people to manage the group. Admins can remove users, edit the group name, and change the group profile picture.
The new version looks to be widely available, but we've got it on APK Mirror too if you need it.
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Good morning lovely Naturalistas. Happy holidays. OK just one day holiday?
I find it super amazing that wearing my natural hair in a bun, pineapple, side bun and so on has been a way to get off the salon for weeks where schedules are choking.
I used elastic band (rubber band) in holding my hair before now, you know, just expand and roll in. It holds well until the bands “suck” oil from my hair and it snaps?. I’m not a scarf person with my natural hair, it wasn’t an option, till I stumbled on the bra strap hack and boom?
So, this is it. Bra straps come in varying sizes (talking about width), from the tiniest being 0.25inch (the type in breast tubes) and well, the biggest I have seen is about 2 inches.
The way you like it is strictly your choice and you can also have them bejeweled. I usually do the 0.25 to half an inch. They can be as long as 15 inches.
You can use this strap in two ways.
1. By joining both side of the hook together. I.e. you tuck the hook at both ends and voilà, you have your hair band
This is for those with small head circumference or a slacked strap. Move the control of the strap backwards till you reach your desired width. (As you adjust the strap, it doubles, thereby creating a double strap held in place by the hook). Clip the hook on the single strap to the body of the packer to the left, move the straying hook to the meeting point and hook it down too. Dazall.
Holds hair all day long.
Give a try and let us see.
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Exchange rates have a very important influence on international trade. Stability of international trade depends to a larger extent on the stability of the exchange rates. Thus, fluctuations in foreign exchange will have an adverse effect on the international trade. The currency exchange rates for various currencies fluctuate daily and sometimes frequently according to Machlup (45). In this paper I seek to examine the impact of foreign exchange in international trade.
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Demand and supply
Money just like commodities in the market is subject to the forces of demand and supply. International trade is largely influenced by a country’s exchange rate (Mankiw 89). When demand for country’s currency is high as a result of an upward surge in demand for its commodities in the international market, the exchange rate increases in the short run. If the level of exchange rate remains high while supply of that particular commodity remains fixed, the demand for that commodity will slow down as it becomes expensive to importers who shift to lesser expensive export commodities in the international market. However, in the long run increased demand for the country’s domestic exports encourage domestic producers to increase their supply of commodities so as to take advantage of the incentives to produce as is often the tendency. The increase in supply offsets the increase in price level of the foreign currency and demand for the goods in the stabilized international market.
On the other hand, if national currency’s demand decreases causing a decline in its exchange rate relatively to the importer’s currency, the currency becomes cheaper as well as the country’s exports. This is because the importing country experiences an appreciation of its currency due to a decreased supply of its currency in the international market which causes an appreciation of its price relative to the exporter. If country A’s exports are relatively more expensive to its imports, the country’s imports increases as imported goods become cheaper than domestically produced commodities. The domestic citizens have incentive to import more from country B leading to depreciation of its exchange rate. On the other hand, the decrease in the rate of exchange makes exports cheaper hence encouraging international trade as importers find our exports cheaper.
Thus, it can be argued that whenever the country’s exchange is high, the domestic price of goods become expensive relative to imports. It is easier to import as imported goods are cheaper than the domestic commodities. As a result the country’s exports decrease as its imports increase (Sparknotes 6).
Stability of the country’s exchange rate
Volatility in exchange rate leads to a decrease of international trade (Benard 1). If the country’s rate of exchange is stable meaning it experiences minimal rates of price fluctuations, it encourages international trade. This is because losses as a result of fluctuations are minimized acting as an incentive for traders to engage more in the international exchange. A fluctuating level of foreign exchange causes loss of confidence to the country’s currency causing traders to reduce their trade volumes while producers cut back their levels of output. On the other hand, a stable currency experiences lesser losses resulting from foreign exchange hence encouraging international trade. Stabilization of exchange rate is important in boosting international trade (McConnell, Brue & Campbell 384)
The rate of inflation
The Country’s rate of inflation has a heavy impact on its exchange rate. A higher rate of inflation acts as a disincentive to investors as the currency become unattractive and is thus avoided. This lowers its exchange rate in the international market. As a result imports become cheaper while exports become expensive leading to an influx of imports into the country. This discourages local production due to competition from the cheaper foreign goods. As a result of reduced demand of the domestic commodities, producers respond by cutting down their production to cut their costs of production. Other firms are forced to shut down their operating cutting do3wn the domestic output further. This leads into a reduction of the trade volumes to the international market hence adversely affecting a country’s involvement in the international trade.
People’s speculation about the economic performance of their country in the times ahead also influences its rate of exchange which in turn affects international trade. If the economic players perceive that the economy is likely to register positive growth, investor appetite increases followed by capital inflow which in turn causes the country’s currency to appreciate in value as a result of the proportional increase in demand. This leads to an increase in the country’s output leading to an increase in international trade.
However negative speculation about the economic growth is manifested in the decline in the country’s foreign exchange as investors shy away from the currency. Those who had plans to invest defer their investment plans into the future leading to a lag in investments. Output falls and trade volumes in the international trade decline as increasingly more and more firms reduce their new investments due to their speculation about a decrease in demand. In addition the domestic citizens dispose more and more of the domestic currency in exchange of other currencies to shield themselves fro losses in currency exchange.
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“I HAVE a little spiel I like to give about thread,” Natalie Chanin said the other day. “The ladies laugh at me and call it my Oprah moment, but here’s how it goes: It’s called loving your thread, and it’s all about talking to the thread, coaxing it to take the path of least resistance. [...] | <urn:uuid:1601cb82-72e8-4037-8380-9faa142c037f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://virtualteahouse.com/2008/02/page/2/ | 2013-05-25T20:52:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706298270/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121138-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948759 | 483 |
Suspects in connection with a Jackson Heights heist more than a week ago are believed to have struck the same apartment again, cops said.
Two males armed with guns forced their way into a basement apartment in the neighborhood yesterday, posing as police officers to get the victims to open the door, authorities said.
They tied up one adult male and then shot another male victim in the leg before fleeing the scene empty handed, according to police.
The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition.
The NYPD believe the male perpetrators are two of four male Hispanic suspects that are wanted in connection with a robbery on July 23 at around 5:15 p.m. in the same basement apartment.
In that case the men entered through an unlocked front door with a gun and demanded money. After the theft they fled the scene without injuring any victims.
Police are still investigating both crimes.
Anyone with information in regards to these incidents are asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577. | <urn:uuid:e3ad3a19-3ab0-4a92-bfc7-7dbcf63dacde> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://queenscourier.com/cops-jackson-heights-robbers-strike-again/ | 2015-09-03T17:26:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645322940.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031522-00336-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95408 | 260 |
A woman is dead after flames ripped through an apartment in the city of Groton Wednesday night.
Firefighters responded to the Branford Manor complex on Branford Avenue around 9 p.m. and found heavy fire coming from an apartment.
The woman who died is a resident of the building. She was the only one inside the apartment, officials said. She was found in a second-story bedroom.
Groton Police are not yet identifying the victim, who Police Chief Michael Spellman said was severely burned. They are waiting on dental records for definitive identification.
Her ex-boyfriend, Kenny Torres, told NBC Connecticut that he dated the victim for about six years. She had two children, one with him.
The victim’s older daughter called Torres Wednesday night asking him for help, according to Torres.
He said when he arrived, his ex was throwing glass and threw a Christmas tree outside. He got the two girls to safety but when he turned around the apartment was on fire.
Torres said he and neighbors tried to help her but the doors were locked and the flames were too intense.
So intense that City of Groton Fire Chief Robert Tompkins said firefighters could not immediately get upstairs to look for her.
“There appears to be no foul play involved in this case,” according to Spellman, who got the information for the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office.
The Office of the State Fire Marshal is looking into a cause and origin, Spellman said.
Per protocol, police notified the Department of Children and Families of the incident, he added.
Michael Purdick, a resident of the building, said Wednesday night that he was one of the people trying to save the woman.
“The flames shot out. The smoke was barreling off the ground. I got about three feet into the house, crawling on my hands and knees, trying to get her,” Purdick said. “We’re screaming for her and she’s not answering us back. I couldn’t go any further. I had to turn around and come back out.”
Next-door neighbor Kevin Stamps said he also stepped in.
“We (were) trying to get the door open. Banging on the door, trying to break the locks. Finally we break the locks, the flames came out,” Stamps said.
When he rushed his family out of his home Wednesday night, Stamps’ was separated from his six-month-old puppy who ran in a different direction. Thursday they were reunited.
“I’m happy to have him,” Stamps said. “This is all I was worried about last night.”
Four units were evacuated, including Stamps’ and Patience Clarke’s. She borders the victim on the other side.
““It’s horrible to lose your mother at Christmas time. The older one’s old enough to know everything going on. She’s going to need a lot of support,” Clarke said.
She got the call about the fire from another neighbor, and called their development it a close-knit community. Clarke said the victim and her children would play with her son.
“She loved her kids. She was very inclusive,” Clarke said.
She lost everything in the fire, including her Christmas presents.
“All of our clothes. (My son) just went to school in the same clothes he was wearing yesterday,” according to Clarke.
Clarke and other neighbors said the property management company is looking to relocate them into new apartments in the next day or so, ahead of the Christmas holiday.
“It’s a lot more than I thought a building owner would do. They’re looking for other apartments. They’re trying to get some by tomorrow. They’re trying to get Christmas presents together. They’re asking for sizes for clothes,” Clarke said.
The City of Groton Police Department, through the City of Groton Police Union, along with other city agencies are fundraising for the victim’s family. Those interested in contributing can contact Rev. Coleman of St. John's Christian Church at 860-449-0331. | <urn:uuid:f47eb12f-3c27-4a93-b73e-bca5b666ef3c> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Crews-Respond-to-Fire-at-Apartment-Complex-in-Groton-503182751.html | 2019-11-13T09:17:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667177.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20191113090217-20191113114217-00397.warc.gz | en | 0.982617 | 900 |
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John 2: 13-17: "And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise. And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."
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So it doesn't look like much. Who cares? How many times have I had a pretty little bit of pastry or cake and it tastes, well, bad? This is not gorgeous, no, but it will make your tastebuds sing.
So what did I do differently?
- The fat. Butter, my friend. Butter.
- The cocoa powder. My go-to cocoa powder is the Dutch-process cocoa powder from Penzey's, but I haven't had the occasion to stop in the store or place a mail order recently, so this time I used Hershey's Special Dark. But here's the thing—I haven't liked the results of the Penzey's cocoa powder much. Hershey's Special Dark is a blend of Dutch-process and natural cocoa powders, and maybe therein lies the difference, as different types of cocoa have different levels of alkalinity. Whatever happened this time around, the chocolate flavor was richer than other attempts at the recipe.
- The flour. Because I'm a sucker for a low price-per-unit, I've been baking with Ultragrain flour from my beloved Costco. I've had pretty good results with it. The texture of the finished products can be crumbly, as with whole wheat, while at the same time becoming tough easily. It's a tricky flour to use, but it worked with this recipe.
- The sugar. Due to an unfortunate run-in with red wine vinegar, my white sugar met an untimely demise, so I used brown sugar.
- The icing. Since it's not likely that I have unsweetened chocolate and cream lying around my house, I threw some things together and ended up with the icing I wanted all along. It's pretty much a whipped ganache, but it is made of much less fancy ingredients than you'd expect.
Some might say I've created a whole new recipe. I say it's just an improvement.
Beatrice's devil's food cake, improved
2 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. butter, softened
1/2 t. salt
1/2 c. milk
3 heaping T. cocoa
1 t. vanilla
1/2 t. baking powder
2 T. baking soda
3 c. flour
1 c. boiling water
1 1/2 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 c. half and half
1/2 c. brown sugar
3 T. butter
1/4 t. vanilla
- Using a stand mixer, cream the brown sugar and butter. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add salt, milk, cocoa, vanilla, baking powder, and baking soda and mix to combine.
- Mix in the flour at a low speed, one cup at a time.
- Gradually mix in the boiling water. Mix until smooth.
- Pour into a prepared 9x13 pan (greased/floured or sprayed with nonstick spray). Bake at 350 degrees until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make the icing. In a saucepan on medium heat, combine the chocolate chips, half and half, and brown sugar. Bring to a boil, and boil for four minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in butter and vanilla. In a stand mixer with a wire whip attachment, whip the icing until it is cool and begins to become fluffy and lighter in color. This should take at least 15 minutes.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Heavy rains accompanied by lightning are likely to lash the state from October 9 (Sunday) to October 13 (Thursday), forecasted India Metrological Department. IMD has sounded a yellow alert in various districts on Sunday and Monday.
Yellow alert is sounded in Idukki, Palakkad, Malappuram and Wayanad districts on Sunday. Meanwhile, Idukki and Wayanad are placed under yellow alert on Monday.
As per the IMD alert, heavy rainfall ranging from 64.5 mm to 115.5 mm is expected in isolated places across the state. | <urn:uuid:4b8f33eb-996b-47e3-b117-947862687bed> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/heavy-rains-likely-in-kerala-till-oct-13-imd-sounds-yellow-alert-in-4-districts-1.7942481 | 2023-01-31T19:47:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499890.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131190543-20230131220543-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96658 | 130 |
The healthy diet has recently become an extremely popular topic. “What to eat to lose weight? How to live without sugar and salt? What to do if I can’t find organic carrots?” These are the questions that keep popping up in our minds.
We figured it out and want to share 6 scientifically proven answers to the most frequently asked questions about nutrition with you.
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Our total body energy depends on the food we eat. Regular consumption of brown rice, honey, and eggs will help you stay active.
But if you need an instant energy boost, don’t rush to another energy drink because it contains a lot of sugar and caffeine, which will give you artificial energy. Instead, eating an apple will naturally boost your energy.
Foods That Don’t Increase Cholesterol
Eating cholesterol is not always bad. It all depends on the type of fat a product contains. Products such as butter, sausages, milk chocolate, and even candies are rich in saturated fats that increase cholesterol levels, while unsalted cereals, beans, lentils, and nuts are the products that help lower the levels of cholesterol naturally because they are low in this type of fat.
Eggs, prawns, and liver, despite being rich in cholesterol, do not actually increase their level in our body. Yogurt and other whole dairy products, on the other hand, may seem harmless, but the amount of saturated fat they contain is very high. That is why it is better to limit your consumption.
Only a small part of the world’s population is gluten intolerant. All other people (about 90%) can freely consume wheat and other gluten-containing products.
There is no product that can help your body stay healthy and at the same time, if your diet is balanced, no product will stand out.
There are products that contain slightly healthier items than others, such as spinach, broccoli, blueberries, chickpeas, lentils, beans, cabbage, peaches, and nuts. They should be included in your menu right away.
Tasty freshly baked bread is a pleasure that has nothing to do with healthy eating. You can eat bread, but you should not consider it an important component of a healthy diet.
A healthy high-grade diet is impossible without carbohydrates. All useful plant products are a source of carbohydrates.
You should exclude refined foods and foods high in sugar from your diet, not because they are high in carbohydrates, but because they contain fat, sodium, and other dangerous ingredients. Carbs are not bad, unhealthy junk food is bad!
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January 17 – Thermodog. The fire looks much more impressive in motion than in still life.
July 18 – How to Piss Off Your Cat in 4 Easy Steps
January 19 – Plum Island. Shot on the iPhone with Camera Plus and a Holga filter.
As I sit here and type, the dog is doing it again at my feet. She’s a Tennessee girl, and I don’t think she really likes this New England winter stuff. | <urn:uuid:d96ea3d9-273b-4146-8d08-0c227da4b5ac> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://notesfrommosquitohill.com/2012/01/19/project-366-january-17-19-2012/ | 2023-03-30T15:11:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949331.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330132508-20230330162508-00009.warc.gz | en | 0.958083 | 97 |
26 things I'm eyeing for Spring....
3. Okay, maybe these barrettes, too.
4. Nylon Prada everything
6. My favorite sneakers in a fun color
8. Pool day friendly pink sunnies
10. Another bodysuit from my favorite brand
12. A tie dye tank to wear with silk skirts, denim and everything in between.
13. A lightweight version of my favorite blazer ever.
14. More concealer, specifically this one, because it saves me every time a new spot appears.
15. Fancy board shorts, because I do live in Cali after all
16. Tie dye socks (did I mention I’m a California girl?
17. A colorful crochet tank
18. The affordable dress I told all my friends about and then ordered for myself.
20. An energy clearing candle to get rid of bad vibes
21. A collagen mask, because I did just turn another year older.
22. A simple slip dress that I will wear over and over again
23. A cozy blanket for my new place
26. New sneakers because I finally got a gym membership
SHOP all these items below:
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Home Living : June 12th 2012
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Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues
- Rumour. Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?
I, from the orient to the drooping west,
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of earth.
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
I speak of peace while covert emnity,
Under the smile of safety, wounds the world;
And who but Rumour, who but only I,
Make fearful musters and prepar'd defence,
Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief,
Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,
And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wav'ring multitude,
Can play upon it. But what need I thus
My well-known body to anatomize
Among my household? Why is Rumour here?
I run before King Harry's victory,
Who, in a bloody field by Shrewsbury,
Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,
Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
Even with the rebels' blood. But what mean I
To speak so true at first? My office is
To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell
Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,
And that the King before the Douglas' rage
Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death.
This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns
Between that royal field of Shrewsbury
And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,
Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,
Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on,
And not a man of them brings other news
Than they have learnt of me. From Rumour's tongues
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This 3 hour course looks at some of the major influences of early childhood education in the professional field. People and movements from the United States and abroad are put into a historical context and their influence upon early childhood education are discussed in detail.
Core of Knowledge Content Area: 3 Hours Child Development
This course has been approved by MSDE Early Childhood Division approval number CKO-380.
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This charming stone with siding colonial is sited on a sunny, well-landscaped, very private lot and features a beautiful in-ground pool and surrounding patio area. Best of all, it is located in coveted Radnor Township. The home is located on a quiet street that is welcoming to neighborhood youngsters for bike riding and serious or leisure walkers. A quality built home that has been well-maintained, it boasts a renovated and expanded kitchen with glassed eat-in and sitting area and beautiful hard wood floors throughout. The rooms are generously proportioned with the many windows in each room bringing the outside in and flooding the rooms with light. This home is terrific for indoor and outdoor entertaining in its enlarged spaces and for relaxing in its cozy ones. The bedrooms upstairs, one of which is currently used as a sitting room, are ample-sized and light-filled. The home is convenient to all major transportation routes, shopping, and the best public and private schools in Pennsylvania. It is a must-see! | <urn:uuid:6e3d2152-035a-4635-a0f4-2da454cd6317> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www.foxroach.com/home-details/832-milmar-rd-newtown-square-pa-19073/129-2-7009527/ | 2017-08-21T02:58:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886107487.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20170821022354-20170821042354-00156.warc.gz | en | 0.97896 | 207 |
Brian Hackney remains as a solid force of power on the Spirits (45+) squad. A talented first baseman, Hackney can always be relied upon for great contact and punishment of any ball he puts into play. Hackney brings a depth of experience from his college years at the University of Arizona. He has a number of years experience in North Texas baseball, and his skills and input to other players assist in the development of both individuals and the team as a whole.
Brian has made several trips to the annual All-Star in NTABL play and made his way back to the big game at Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, TX during the 2016 season. He led the team in batting average at one point during the season, hitting well over the .600 mark. Hackney, or “Hack” as the team refers to him, is clutch at the dish sending baseballs deep and often as he always ranks among the top in the extra base hits category. In 2016, Hack finished with a .468 average including a home run, 3 doubles, and 18 base hits. His offensive contribution also included 16 runs and 16 runs batted in (RBI).
During the 2018 campaign, Hackney finished fifth on the team with 22 hits including 5 doubles while finishing with a .400 average. Brian also slugged in 14 runs batted in to assist the team in tallying 228 runs to finish the season; an average of nearly 11 runs per game.
Hackney is a Senior Consultant for Hackney Consulting Services, Inc, a former sponsor of the Dallas Spirits Baseball Club and he currently resides in Wylie, Texas along with his wife, Carla, and their 4 daughters and son. | <urn:uuid:cf84cf22-c3a5-421d-a256-be2882aa1180> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://www.spiritsbaseball.net/roster/brian-hackney-2019/ | 2022-01-26T20:19:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304961.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126192506-20220126222506-00280.warc.gz | en | 0.977971 | 356 |
Several years ago I started a research project whose goal was to apply the structural-demographic theory to the American history (see Sticking My Neck Out). As I started collecting data, I began seeing connections between seemingly unrelated trends affecting the American society during the last three decades. For example, as the disparity between the incomes of workers and corporate chiefs became more extreme, increasingly large numbers of students flocked to law and business schools; meanwhile, incidence of seemingly senseless shooting rampages exploded to truly epidemic levels.
Viewed through the lens of the structural-demographic theory, however, these trends (and a number of others) all pointed to the same conclusion: that the USA was entering a pre-crisis phase of the secular cycle. Our investigations of historical societies showed that rising economic inequality, elite overproduction (in the US taking the form of overproduction of law and business degrees), and increasing political violence are reliable indicators of a crisis to come. Particularly worrying is the recent shift in shooting rampages, from workplace- and school-related rampages to violence against the state and state representatives.
In 2010 I published a short essay in the science journal Nature, in which I pointed out these worrying trends, and suggested that they were all slated to intensify in the years around 2020. A month ago I posted a book-length manuscript, which fleshes out the theoretical argument with large amounts of data we are fortunate to have for the American society and polity.
The disquieting conclusion from this more recent analysis is that we are still firmly on track to some kind of a social and political upheaval during the coming decade or so. The worsening structural-demographic trends argue that things will be quite a lot more violent than the 1960s. How much worse – I don’t want [to] even think about it.
But as I read the today’s news, I am struck by how many parallels there are between the 2010s and the 1850s, especially on the political front.
Before 1850 the United States had a stable political landscape dominated by two main parties: the Democrats and the Whigs. During the 1850s this “Second Party System” collapsed.
The Democrats split along the Southern/Northern divide, while the Whig party simply disintegrated. In his 1976 book, The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861, the historian David Potter describes a stunning array of parties and factions with which the voters were presented in 1854. These included: Democrats, Whigs, Free Soilers, Republicans, People’s party men, Anti-Nebraskaites, Fusionists, Know-Nothings, Know-Somethings, Main Lawites, Temperance men, Rum Democrats, Silver Gray Whigs, Hindoos, Hard Shell Democrats, Soft Shells, Half Shells, and Adopted Citizens.
Will some future historian write a book, titled The Impending Crisis, 2008–2021? We are not quite in 1854 yet, but the current Republican-Democratic Party System is already showing the signs of fragmentation.
The political scientists Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal have analyzed the voting patterns in the U.S. Congress, which enabled them to quantify polarization among the American political elites. They showed that during the 1950s and 1960s there was virtually no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. The American political elites were remarkably unified, just as they were during the Era of Good Feelings in the 1820s.
In The Big Sort the journalist Bill Bishop describes this ‘Second Era of Good Feelings’ as follows:
The American ideal was to get along. The national goal was moderation and consensus. … In Congress, members visited, talked across party boundaries. They hung out at the gym, socialized at receptions, and formed friendships that had nothing to do with party and ideology. (After all, members had been elected more on their personal connections at home—what V. O. Key called “friends and neighbors” politics—than by the force of party or policy.)
Things are quite different now. McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal provide the numbers, but anybody who reads the news can tell that we are not in the fifties anymore. When I wrote my Nature essay on the problem of 2020, the degree of vituperation between the Republicans and the Democrats was already beyond any limits of civilized discourse. Things got even worse since then.
Now it’s the Republicans who are splintering. One of the leaders of the Tea Party wing in the Senate, Ted Cruz, compared fellow Republican senators who didn’t agree with him to appeasers of Nazi Germany (see the Reuters article).
The way things are going, soon the Republicans will start comparing each other to Bashar al-Assad or Kim Jong-un.
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The Governor of Texas recently singed a bill that will change the future of physical therapy in this state forever.
For those who are unaware, Texas was one of only two states in America that still required patients to obtain a referral from a physician in order to access physical therapy. This is an issue for many reasons. Without direct access to physical therapy services, many patients live with painful conditions for far too long, only seeking assistance when the pain becomes unmanageable.
Physical therapists are movement experts who are trained in the methods of pain relief, prevention, and functional improvement. In some cases, a physician may not recommend physical therapy services simply because they do not have the same knowledge that a licensed physical therapist does on how much a patient can benefit from them.
Furthermore, going through a physician to gain a referral every time is a hassle. Patients don’t want to spend time and energy to do so – and we don’t blame them! In many cases, a physician visit for minor aches and pains may not even be necessary.
Fortunately for physical therapists and patients everywhere, this is no longer the case! With the signing of House Bill 29, patients now have direct access to physical therapy whenever they need it – without having to go through their physician! This bill provides patients with:
- Improved Access to Care
- Better Health Outcomes
- Lower Health Care Costs
“Many pains and aches that patients have can be treated, and exercises to be done at home can be demonstrated from the first time a patient sees a Physical Therapist,” said Dr. Nat Christadoss owner of Physical Therapy of Melissa. He continued, “This change is great news for patients who can now go directly to the most appropriate healthcare provider and not wait for appointments, offices visits or possible unnecessary tests.”
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Posted in thread: Show Your Electric Brew Day Pictures! on 02-03-2016 at 04:58 AM
A couple recent pics with some new additions.
Posted in thread: So who's brewing this weekend? on 10-25-2015 at 01:56 AM
Red ale today
Posted in thread: Tiber's Premium Pils (1st Place German style Pilsner) on 08-18-2015 at 03:01 AM
Took 1st place in category in KY state fair with wyeast pilsen yeast and I didn't use
melanoiden malt. One of my favorite brews.
Posted in thread: Oztoberfest (1st place with score of 43!) on 08-15-2015 at 03:58 AM
Mine on the right based on this recipe. Sam Adams on the left. I know it's not a clone was
tasting each side by side.
Posted in thread: So who's brewing this weekend? on 08-12-2015 at 09:31 PM
Brewed up a Brown ale. My buddy brewed an Amber.
Posted in thread: Tiber's Premium Pils (1st Place German style Pilsner) on 07-19-2015 at 04:14 AM
Great simple recipe, my first step mash on electric system, used brulosophy lager method.
Posted in thread: BCS462 fermentation control on 05-19-2015 at 02:59 AM
Finally got this set up using cat 5 cable and powertails to control freezers and space heaters.
Seems to work great in my tests. Looking forward to fermenting my first brew. It was very
simple using t...
Posted in thread: BCS462 fermentation control on 04-15-2015 at 07:32 PM
Thanks for the in for Jon! Based on what I read I need a way to connect the freezers/heaters to
the control panel to switch on and off through relays. It sounds like folks have done this
using the net...
Posted in thread: BCS462 fermentation control on 04-15-2015 at 03:07 AM
I'm not using glycol, pumps or valves. Just freezers and desk space heaters to control temps
inside the freezer. Just looking for a way to control the freezers/heaters through the bcs.
Posted in thread: BCS462 fermentation control on 04-13-2015 at 12:22 AM
I have a 50A panel from ebrewsupply that has a BCS462 installed inside. I have 4 temp probes
for fermentation open on the panel and I have two freezers that I would like to control. Can
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Danny Duncan is the drummer for the band We the kings, along with Travis Clark, Hunter Thomsen, and Drew Thomsen. He makes all of their King's Carriage videos and is apparently one hell of a cook. He loves sweet tea, awkward silences, beating Travis at video games, and has randomly come to appreciate pickles. He also usually goes by Dan Dan.
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One issue that has been great fodder for critics of the Southern Baptist Convention has been their attitudes toward and treatment of women. In the 1998 convention they revised the Baptist Faith and Message to state that wives must submit to their husbands. In 2000, they passed rules to prevent women from serving as pastor. This has put them out of step with most Protestant denominations.
At least 8,000 delegates attended the 141st annual Southern Baptist Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1998. The focal point of that years convention was a revision of the Baptist Faith and Message first written in 1925 and then rewritten in 1963. The changes approved on June 9 were a culmination of 20+ years of conservative leanings within the Nashville-based church.
The text of the altered 18th Article of the Baptist Faith and Message reads:
- God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption.
- Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is Gods unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and his church, and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel for sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation of the human race.
- The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in Gods image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to his people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.
- Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children Gods pattern for marriage. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.
Changes were derived from two verses in the New Testament book of Ephesians:
- Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. (Ephesians 5: 22-23)
- Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother this is the first commandment with a promise: so that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth. And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 6: 1-4)
Overwhelmingly rejected were two other amendments that called upon husbands and wives to submit to each other and that would have included widows, widowers, and single persons as expressions of family. Evidently, Baptist men didnt like the idea of making any sort of gesture of submission to their wives.
And what about widows and widowers is one kicked out of the family the moment ones spouse dies? Is marriage so privileged a state that all pre-marital and post-marital people can be excluded from the definition of family? Thats absurd. The nature of what constitutes a family is not God-given but created by culture. Our definitions have been changing over time, perhaps for the better.
Not surprisingly, various Biblical verses were specifically ignored in the creation of this new mission statement. For example, the passage in chapter 6 of Ephesians is immediately followed by another verse which has been used to justify slavery and authoritarian relationships in general: Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ. The Southern Baptists, interestingly, broke away from the Baptist church over the issue of slavery. They also opposed desegregation in the 1960s.
Deuteronomy 22:23-4 states: If there is a young woman, a virgin already engaged to be married, and a man meets her in the town and lies with her, you shall bring both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry for help in the town and the man because he violated his neighbors wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. I wonder if such a change in rape laws is something which they will call for in the coming years? | <urn:uuid:34266cab-5429-4ba8-8ab0-751ad61da58a> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://atheism.about.com/od/baptistssouthernbaptists/a/baptistwomen.htm | 2013-12-06T13:49:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163051776/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131731-00008-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979 | 990 |
Review of Short Phrases and Links|
This Review contains major "Blade"- related terms, short phrases and links grouped together in the form of Encyclopedia article.
- Blade is a 1998 film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the published stories of the Marvel Comics character Blade.
- The blade is very deep and curved on its face; this resembles a Chinese sabre or the Japanese naginata and bisento, or the European glaive and voulge.
- The blade is rounded at the base, extending generally 5-lobed without fine teeth (compared to red and silver maples).
- The blade is rounded at the base, extending generally 5 to lobules without fine teeth (compared to Red and Silver Maples).
- The blade is rounded at the base, which usually runs from 5 to lobules without fine teeth (compared to Red and silver maples).
- The typical dagger has a pointed, usually double-edged blade, as opposed to a knife, which has a single edge and is a bit shorter than the dagger.
- Before, practice was carried out with either a very hard wooden sword (a bokken) or one with a dulled steel blade.
- A saw with a narrow blade (a keyhole saw) is a handy tool when cutting off old gnarled branches.
- Cost: 500 Zenny Falchion 7 Strength+3 Trench coat A single edged heavy blade with a slight curve at the tip.
- A blade longer than two shaku is considered a daitō, or long sword.
- Ashwatthama had picked up a small blade of grass and charged it with the Brahmastra and fired it at the Pandavas.
- Shave biopsy: A procedure in which a skin abnormality and a thin layer of surrounding skin are removed with a small blade for examination under a microscope.
- The suction-side boundary layer on the rotor blade will be bled off, the air will be re-energized using a MEMS-based micropump embedded within the blade.
- A glaive is a polearm consisting of a single-edged blade on the end of a pole.
- With this came a single-edged blade known as the chokuto.
- Under anesthesia, the enlarged areas of gingiva can be cut back with a scalpel blade, but it usually recurs.
- Some small islands don't have a single blade of grass, but are completely filled with houses.
- Jojutsu is taught so you will still be armed and dangerous if your axe blade separates from the stick.
- After fixing the blade on to the frame, tighten the wing-nut to ensure proper tension for the hacksaw blade.
- The blades may be either flat like a hacksaw blade or round.
- Bisento: A spear-like weapon with a blade resembling a scimitar affixed to its end.
- The Blade Element Theory: States that blade element equals radial cross-section of a blade.
- If a patient's jaw is deteriorating or is especially thin, a subperiosteal implant, blade implant, or cylinder implant might be used instead.
- The story presented in the anime never reaches a point where the nature of the Blade Children is explained.
- Under scanning electron microscope, the edge of the razor blade from the resonator was seen to take on a smoother, less angular form over time.
- Cut out the desired piece of agarose using a razor blade or scalpel blade, and try to get as little extra agarose as possible.
- The most common symptom of cholecystitis is pain in your upper right abdomen that can sometimes move around to your back or right shoulder blade.
- He then sheared off the tip of his left shoulder blade when he crashed early in the '95 season and did the same to his right shoulder blade in '99.
- The scapula is a large, triangular, flat bone on the back side of the rib cage commonly called the shoulder blade.
- The scapula, unlike the shoulder blade of other animals, is narrow, thin and slightly curved.
- In the 1970s JPL did extensive studies of rotating blade and rotating ring sails for a mission to rendezvous with Halley's Comet.
- Extraction Atherectomy uses a rotating blade inside the tip of the catheter to cut the plaque.
- Czisny says when she finds her blade finds the sweet spot and she begins rotating, she could stay in that position all day.
- A daito is a sword with a blade longer than two shaku (shaku = 11.9 inches).
- They were quickly turned heel as The Blade Runners.
- The angle of attack is increased on the retreating blade to produce more lift, compensating for the slower airspeed over the blade.
- Propeller pitch --the angle at which the propeller blade (or part of it) "bites" into the air, its angle of attack.
- Insert a scalpel blade into the inferior frontal gyrus to a depth of 2 cm, at an angle of about 70 E to the cortical surface.
- Unlike the zanbato the blade tended to be thin towards the tip making it lighter to wield.
- The espada ropera distinguishes itself from the rapier in that its blade, though thin, could be used to make effective cuts.
- In this story, the dime is so old that it has become thin as a razor blade and allows Scrooge to cut binding ropes and escape from the Beagle Boys.
- Thus, if the bird strike causes it to "throw a blade" (break apart in a way where parts fly off at high speed), doing so must not cause loss of the aircraft.
- Over the course of a season, the sticks would splinter, they would break, the blade would snap off, the shaft would crack.
- A scapular fracture is a break in the scapula (shoulder blade).
- The provocatores are distinguishable by a helmet without crest, a curved rectangular shield, and a sword with a straight blade.
- It also has the side effect of making a loud "hiss" when the sword is swung straight (back of blade (mune) in line with the ha).
- This is not possible with the straight "blade" of the shinai.
- When viewed from the side, the blade of a figure skate is not flat, but curved slightly, forming an arc of a circle with a radius of 180-220 cm.
- As the blade swings to the other side of the helicopter, it moves at rotor tip speed minus aircraft speed and is called the retreating blade.
- Like the foliage leaves, the cotyledon often has a basal sheath surmounted on one side by a limb that may or may not be divided into blade and petiole.
- Fujita Seiko, in his Shurikenjutsu book depicts the blade as the type of tanto shown in Fig.
- When unarmored, samurai would carry their sword with the blade facing up.
- Its blade was typically a hollow triangular shape and was much thicker at the hilt.
- A light spear or lance, especially one with a short shaft and long blade for close combat, used by Bantu peoples of southern Africa.
- This area is protected by the blade of the stick at all times, and is closed up by the upper leg pads when the goalie is in the butterfly position.
- Note that the assumption here is that it cranks - the crankshaft and blade rotates in a normal manner but the engine never catches.
- The holes 38 defined by the blade portion are oblong and increase the vertical surface area for vertical bracing relative to the jawbone.
- A dental implant can be shaped like a screw, cylinder or blade that is surgically placed into the jawbone.
- In FIG. 3 a post 40 is secured by a screw 30 to a blade implant 50 having a bore 51, at its top face.
- In clasping or decurrent leaves, the blade partially or wholly surrounds the stem, often giving the impression that the shoot grows through the leaf.
- Biken Jutsu, the arts of the blade which includes iai (drawing the sword) ken (the use of the sword) tanto (knife).
- In the manga, after being defeated by Vash the Stampede, Rai-Dei the Blade attempts to shoot his blade at Vash, (?) but is shot to death by Wolfwood.
- Hizumi Mizushiro He only appears in the manga; and is the 'younger brother' of the father of the Blade Children.
- In the manga, Yamato already begun with having a B-Daman named Cobalt Sword which would be upgraded to Cobalt Blade.
- A petiole may be absent, or the blade may not be laminar (flattened).
- Otherwise, the blade is compound and each large division of the laminar tissue arising from the rachis is called a pinna (pl., pinnae).
- His Musou attack involves forward slashing and slicing with the blade, in almost the same way as Lü Meng does with his lance.
- If the ovary is large enough, you can do this by holding the ovary vertically in one hand and slicing it with a razor blade held in the other hand.
- Made to slice through its target with a single cut, a sword of Dotanuki design is characterized by its thicker and heavier blade.
- A blade warrior uses the same `slice, slice' move over and over.
- Ritual beheading happened after death, using a thin blade that would cut down through the front of the neck and slice between the vertebrae.
- Glaive Fork- The glaive fork is simply a glaive with a spiked prong set to face forward from the blade.
- A pressure difference is produced between the forward and rear surfaces of the airfoil -shaped blade, and air or water is accelerated behind the blade.
- With a straight blade, it was for thrust and puncture, not slash and gash like the cutlass.
- It is the inertial reaction of this gas flow that causes the engine to provide thrust, this force being used to propel an airframe or a rotor blade.
- RZA has gone on to score several more productions including Blade: Trinity, Afro Samurai, The Protector, Freedom Writers and several others.
- The sabre is the "cutting" weapon, with a curved guard and a triangular blade.
- A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
- The Aberaeron shovel too, with its long, curved handle and triangular blade was well suited to the needs of a hilly country.
- During this period of time, the longsword grew out of the arming sword, eventually resulting in a blade comfortably wielded in both hands at once.
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The New Fall Season - The Continuing Adventures of Randy's Tivo:
Wow, it's amazing how fast optimism and joy can turn to bitterness and spite. The rapid-fire cancellation of two of my favorite shows, Kidnapped and Smith, not to mention underperforming ratings for the other new shows I'm really enjoying (Studio 60 and The Nine) have me convinced that all the great new TV I loved won't even live out the month, let alone the season. Kidnapped is at least getting closure, but it's moved to Saturdays, and it looks like it won't air this week, as there's some sort of special or sports on in its timeslot. I'd probably be better off just waiting on the inevitable DVD release, but I really want to see more of it now.
Studio 60: The latest episode was not as strong as the rest, but it's still the best new show of the season, especially with the only other contender for the title (Smith) was unceremoniously dumped by CBS. CBS has been unceremoniously dumped by me. It doesn't even exist as a network anymore as far as my Tivo is concerned. I'm hoping that the show's declining ratings won't mean a cancellation or "hiatus," but at this point I just keep expecting the other shoe to drop.
Heroes: Weak. There are some things I like, including Hiro's story and the neat little twist of having Sylar, the villain, have all of the heroes' powers, including the psycho personality that Nikki has. I'm guessing here, but I think it's pretty clear that's where they're going. But really, I think the producers think it's like Lost, when really it's not even in The 4400's class yet. Too many characters, only half of them interesting, a boring serial killer villain and hazy science and origins... it needs to get more focused, and fast. Actually, I guess it doesn't, as it's the breakout hit of the season. But I won't watch something just because it's genre, and Heroes may wind up on the same "dead to me" pile as Smallville soon.
Veronica Mars: I don't know how the second episode was because Time Warner killed one of the two channels carrying CW programming, with no warning. So I had an hour-long block of text about how Time Warner couldn't carry the program instead of Veronica Mars on my Tivo. It's not available on iTunes or streamed on the CW site, either. I'll find some way to watch it, though, I'm sure.
Lost: Fantastic. I love the mysteries, really intrigued by the various new characters, and every week I turn it off wanting to watch the next episode immediately. If I could time travel into the future, I'd bring back newspapers, stock reports and as many DVD box sets of Lost as there were available. Which then wouldn't play on my antiquated old technology DVD player, of course. There's always a trick with time travel, you know.
The Nine: Still interested, although the lower ratings have me worried that this will be yet another serialized show that doesn't pay off with anything but cancellation and unsolved questions. Great cast, though, and I like the mysteries. It's not in the same class as Kidnapped, Smith or Studio 60 for me, but it's very watchable.
30 Rock: Really weak. If it weren't for Alec Baldwin, it might be unwatchable. But Baldwin is *so* good that he elevates the entire show when he's on. Hopefully the rest of the show will rise to his level.
Battlestar Galactica: Amazing two-hour opener. I haven't been as on-board this series as my friends, it's been in my "like it, don't love it" box for a long time... but this was a phenomenal opener. Battlestar Galactica is officially in my top five shows at the moment. Which brings me to the updated list:
TOP TEN SHOWS (ALL SHOWS NOT YET CANCELLED):
1. Studio 60 on Sunset (NBC)
2. Lost (ABC)
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4. Veronica Mars (CW)
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(Dec 02, 2007) Although Japan's A-Bomb Special Measures Law of 1968 did not clearly exclude A-bomb survivors who lived outside Japan from being recipients of health maintenance allowances, the Health Ministry notification of 1974 excluded them. Forty Koreans who returned to Korea after the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima sued the Japanese government in Japan, asking for compensation for emotional damages caused by the illegal notification, among other claims. The Japanese Supreme Court, on November 1, 2007, affirmed lower court decisions that admitted the illegality of the notification and the responsibility of the state, based on the State Tort Act, and awarded 1.2 million yen (about US$11,000) per person. (Kankokujin hibakusha soshō, 2shin hanketsu o shiji [Korean A-bomb survivor case, the second instance judgment confirmed], YOMIURI ONLINE, Nov. 1, 2007.)
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The 6th shot of Scoring At The Movies does the NASCAR thing with Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Sacha Baron Cohen goofing it up as race-car drivers. This podcast could have been a quote-fest (and we definitely enjoyed referring to the best lines), but we also steered down some chat-worthy avenues. Is the movie homophobic? Is it a bit too hard on NASCAR fans, especially those from the south? Also, this became the unofficial Tom Cruise podcast, partly because Mister Scientology is hilariously referenced in Talladega, but also because we just felt like branching off into Cruisian territory.
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"That's just the way this kid comes to play every day," Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston marveled. "He plays hard. I like his style."
Hill's latest performance helped Toronto improve its record to 17-9, representing the club's best start through 26 games since posting the same mark in 2001. The win over the Orioles also gave the Jays four series victories in a row at home to begin the season -- the best run of that kind since Toronto claimed five straight in 1992.
Among their 17 victories, the Blue Jays have come from behind nine times already this season, and the team has pieced together four in walk-off fashion. Toronto currently resides in first place in the American League East, largely due to the high-octane offense that has masked a variety of pitching issues.
Leading the way has been Hill, who missed the final four months of last season after suffering a serious concussion. Hill has been showing the Blue Jays what they were missing with him out of the picture, entering Saturday's game with a Major League-leading 41 hits -- the most through a season's first 25 games in team history.
Hill's 2-for-6 showing against Baltimore trimmed his average to .374, but it gave him 22 RBIs and a team-high six home runs. Hill has recorded multihit games 14 times this season, reached base in 25 games and collected at least one hit in 23 contests. It's been a main reason for the Jays' rise to the top of the league's offensive ranks.
"If he continues to hit like that," Gaston said, "and we can get some help from some of the other guys, then that means we're going to have a chance to win a lot of ballgames this year."
Against Baltimore, Hill's late-inning heroics helped overcome a costly fielding gaffe. With the score locked at 3 in the 10th inning, Hill bobbled a ground ball off the bat of Nick Markakis, allowing the O's right fielder to reach base to open the frame. Markakis later scored on a fielder's-choice grounder to give Baltimore a short-lived 4-3 advantage.
That came after the Jays and Orioles traded zeros for six-plus innings, sending Toronto starter Robert Ray and Baltimore's Brad Bergesen to no-decisions. Ray, promoted from Triple-A Las Vegas on Friday, logged 5 2/3 innings in his Major League debut, limiting the Orioles to three runs on four hits.
With his parents and fiancee in the stands, Ray admitted he felt some early-inning nerves. In the first inning, Baltimore's Adam Jones welcomed the right-hander with a solo home run. The Orioles (9-15) added a pair of runs on a double from Aubrey Huff in the third. That effectively canceled out the three runs plated by the Jays an inning earlier.
Ray, who ended with two strikeouts and four walks, settled down over the remainder of his start, but he was far from satisfied.
"At first, with the blood pumping, I was probably overdoing it a little bit," Ray said. "I've got to be better than that, for sure. I'm happy that I kept us in the game and we came out on top, but I've got to be better than that."
Following Ray's exit, Toronto's bullpen kept the Orioles off the scoreboard until Hill's error paved the way for a run in the 10th.
Not long after that ill-timed miscue, Hill strolled into the batter's box in the home half of the frame with a chance to make up for the mistake. Hill did just that, belting a 1-0 pitch from closer George Sherrill deep to left for a solo homer that knotted the score, 4-4.
Even so, Hill insisted that the error wasn't on his mind.
"You can't go up to the plate thinking something like that," Hill said. "Obviously it ended up where it worked out. Everyone wants to redeem themself, so to speak, but you can't take anything that happens on the field up to the plate."
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Last month I had the privilege to feature on the TEA+ Teas Blog since they had a month of celebrating all things RUNNING!
They had asked me a few questions on my lifestyle and how it all begin. Read ahead for the full piece!
WHY DID YOU GET INTO RUNNING?
I had become a little lost in my early 20’s, post university and in between jobs, I picked up some bad habits and had an unhealthy lifestyle and didn’t have much positivity. Unfortunately, my young cousin passed away from a terminal illness and wanted to do something to alleviate the situation. His friend had planned to run a half marathon in his honour and felt like it was something I could do, and had wanted to experience a life changing experience, to which it was. I trained hard, which took me out of the situation that I was in, I gained a healthier life and was a much more positive person. I ran for my cousin in his memory later that year and haven’t stopped since!
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE RACE TO RUN?
Firstly, I think of Berlin Marathon. It was my second 26.2 mile race and it holds some great memories, achievements and the scenery. If it comes down to fact that I have done [a race] multiple times, I would say the Great North Run or Liverpool Rock and Roll half!
DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIRST RACE?
YES! The race that become the first of many. The Great North Run was the race I did for my late cousin Aaron, it was very special to me and I continued to run the race a total of three times after. Newcastle is super friendly, and it also holds great memories and has amazing support on the side-lines.
HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A RACE?
I set myself enough time to go through the milestones properly, sometimes extra time to get myself warmed up to the idea of running the distance. I focus on nutrition and rest, so I can be comfortable in the knowledge that my body is ready, even if my mind is slightly behind! My social life goes to pop for a short while, but there is always time for celebration afterwards!
WHAT’S YOUR #1 TIP?
Make sure that you are comfortable running a certain amount of distance before race day, regardless of time. Even if it takes you a while to get there, you just need to experience being on your feet for a long time, so you can understand the feeling prior to race day. I have a number of miles that I want to hit before any race, and that would include the 5/10KM distance up to ultra. Practice makes perfect!
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How To Make Cauliflower Bacon Mac and Cheese
Take your traditional mac and cheese and turn it slightly healthier with some tender cauliflower! Whip up a filling batch in just under one hour.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Bring a large pot of water to boil. Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens.
Toss cauliflower on a baking sheet with a large drizzle of olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper.
Roast in the oven for about 25 minutes until tender.
Heat a large pan over medium high heat. Add the bacon and cook until just crispy. Remove from the pan and set aside to drain on paper towels. Remove pan from heat, reserving just 1 tablespoon of bacon fat.
Once the water is boiling, add the pasta and cook until al dente. Drain.
Heat the butter in a pan with reserved bacon fat until melted. Add the scallion whites and cook for 1 minute. Add the flour and cook, stirring, for about 1 minute until lightly browned.
Slowly whisk in the milk. Stir in the stock and simmer until thickened.
Stir in cheese until thoroughly combined. Remove pan from heat. Season with salt and pepper.
Crumble bacon into pieces. Stir the bacon, pasta, and the cauliflower into the sauce.
Transfer into a lightly oiled baking dish. Scatter the remaining cauliflower on top.
Bake until bubbly, 5 to 7 minutes.
Garnish with scallion greens and serve. Enjoy!
- Calories: 1141.67kcal
- Fat: 56.36g
- Saturated Fat: 25.12g
- Trans Fat: 0.97g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 19.27g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 6.03g
- Carbohydrates: 111.63g
- Fiber: 9.95g
- Sugar: 15.29g
- Protein: 48.46g
- Cholesterol: 123.74mg
- Sodium: 1600.83mg
- Calcium: 664.25mg
- Potassium: 1492.39mg
- Iron: 3.60mg
- Vitamin A: 261.41µg
- Vitamin C: 134.42mg
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Civilization, in every generation, must be defended from barbarians.
The barbarians outside the gate, the barbarians inside the gate, and the barbarian in the mirror...
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Did Someone Say Total War? Comin' Up!
Via FrontPageMag, I've come across the Eastern Orthodox blogger called Father John. Here's an excellent post called "The Aggressors Set The Rules" which answers objections to Hiroshima and Dresden. Very effective use of pictures on the blog. Also, humor, as you'll see in the second picture of this post. | <urn:uuid:28970cc1-e4a6-4bb6-940a-f490b05514e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://cartagodelenda.blogspot.com/2005/02/did-someone-say-total-war-comin-up.html | 2017-04-24T20:56:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119838.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00519-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925832 | 122 |
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there is nothing more intimidating than a blank sheet of paper, especially
when it needs to be filled with insightful, coherent, intelligent ideas
before a certain deadline. First you must decide on a topic, and then you
have to think of things to say about it. Different writers have different
methods for conquering the dreaded blank sheet.
Here are some suggestions.
Talk. Talk about your assignment
with anyone who will listen: friends, family, your professor, or a writing
center consultant. This way, you are not alone - and conversation often
leads to good ideas. If you talk about something that sounds interesting do
not assume you will remember it; make a note of it before you forget.
Write. Freewriting is an excellent
way to come up with a topic and/or supporting details. Instead of agonizing
over your assignment, force yourself to do something about it. Take half an
hour, sit down at your computer or desk, and just write. Write everything
that comes to mind, no matter how stupid it might seem. Do not worry about
form or grammar, and do not let yourself stop until the half hour is up.
When you are done, read what you have written and look for ideas that might
work in your paper.
Brainstorm. This is like
freewriting, except you just make a list of ideas--a list of possible
topics, or a list of details or points that you might include in the paper.
Always keep your notebook handy, and try to squeeze out as many ideas as you
can. You can eliminate the stupid ones later.
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not worry about sloppy wording; you can revise it before you include it in
your final draft.
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need to include. This plan might change, but at least the paper has a
Start in the middle. Once you have
a working thesis and a plan, it is time to write a rough draft. Many people
find the introduction to be the most difficult part of a paper. If you are
stuck on that first sentence, skip it! (Or
just write something stupid that you can rewrite later.) Jump to the body
paragraphs, and do the introduction last. Sometimes it is easier to
introduce when you can see exactly what you are introducing.
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Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care Under Managed Care
Background: Parity in insurance coverage for mental health and substance abuse has been a key goal of mental health and substance abuse care advocates in the United States during most of the past 20 years. The push for parity began during the era of indemnity insurance and fee for service payment when benefit design was the main rationing device in health care. The central economic argument for enacting legislation aimed at regulating the insurance benefit was to address market failure stemming from adverse selection. The case against parity was based on inefficiency related to moral hazard. Empirical analyses provided evidence that ambulatory mental health services were considerably more responsive to the terms of insurance than were ambulatory medical services. Aims: Our goal in this research is to reexamine the economics of parity in the light of recent changes in the delivery of health care in the United States. Specifically managed care has fundamentally altered the way in which health services are rationed. Benefit design is now only one mechanism among many that are used to allocate health care resources and control costs. We examine the implication of these changes for policies aimed at achieving parity in insurance coverage. Method: We develop a theoretical approach to characterizing rationing under managed care. We then analyze the traditional efficiency concerns in insurance, adverse selection and moral hazard in the context of policy aimed at regulating health and mental health benefits under private insurance. Results: We show that since managed care controls and utilization in new ways Parity in benefit design no longer implies equal access to and quality of mental health and substance abuse care. Because costs are controlled by management under managed care and not primarily by out of pocket prices paid by consumers, demand response recedes as an efficiency argument against parity. At the same time parity in benefit design may accomplish less with respect to providing a remedy to problems related to adverse selection.
Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w6838
Published: Frank, R. G. and T. G. McGuire. “Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care under Managed Care." The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 1 (1998): 153-159.
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By 2020, millennials are expected to make up 50% of the global work-force and with this in mind, here’s the 5 niche, high-tech fields which offer great appeal and career promise for budding engineers.
Global heavy-weight companies are keenly interested in the productivity and efficiency improvements drone technology advances unlock. Amazon, one of many companies, are looking to start using drone delivery systems in just a short year or 2 from now. Even McDonalds has their eye on such tech.
Jobs such as UAV aerospace engineer, or UAV developer should be pursued by interested engineers.
Augmented reality engineering, also known as virtual reality engineering, is a monumentally exciting field to become a part of right now. Behemoths such as Google, Nokia and so many more are all investing in research and development in this area.
Those involved in this field could be doing anything from engineering devices for shooting & watching a virtual reality movie, to engineering 3D models for augmented reality video-game testing and so much more.
Careers in this field are growing and offer any number of exciting career paths and new opportunities. Even the banking sector is looking into integrating such technology.
Job titles can vary, so look for titles ranging from optical design engineer, or 3D modeller/artist, to multimedia designer, to VR developer.
Architecture evolves and so must structural engineers and city planners. Modern aesthetic demands coupled with countries across the world looking towards adopting more sustainable building practices, mean the engineers of today have a lot to deal with.
If you believe in renewable energy and sustainability, have a talent for design and approach your work meticulously then this field may be perfect for you.
In this collaborative engineering field, engineers must be able to communicate well with designers and stay up to date on the latest software imperative to doing their job.
Those interested in this type of engineering should look for structural engineer job titles.
Healthcare and biology is another field which is becoming hugely exciting. The future of healthcare is being forged thanks to advances in new biomedical technologies including nanomedicine, bionics and so much more.
Engineers in this field who develop, test, maintain & fix these various technologies get hands-on experience working on the medical sectors most cutting-edge and ground-breaking projects.
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It could be argued nuclear engineers are more vital today than ever before. As renewable energy alternatives become increasingly important across the globe, these are the experts helping to mitigate climate change and ensure our future of our next generations.
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No, @nicksoph, I should THANK you for making a simple post of me into this detailed guide, it was you helped more people to implement their own wonderful 4K Hackintosh , and saved their a lot of Googling time.@li3p Thanks for getting the first of these working. I have 2 4k monitors working beautifully following your instructions. There are other issues with these machines which may impact HDMI working and those who have tried HDMI have reported problems (and never 4k resolution) but the details of what sorts of hdmi setups work are vague and I have not tried to find out.
It seems the default settings are not dependent on the bios and machines can have different uefi settings independent of bios version. And as you say the default for cfg lock is 1 but mine and others had it set to 2 - which is not an option in the valid options list!
The biggest issue to making these perfect is finding a way to turn off "Enable Legacy Roms" and if you have any ideas about that...
Thank you again, your first post was a great step forward.
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Best of NAB 2018: All About Facebook LiveApril 30, 2018
Facebook played a big role at the 2018 NAB Show, manning an entire pavilion and dominating many discussions around OTT (over-the-top) broadcasting. At Wowza, we know a thing or two about streaming to Facebook Live, thanks to our ongoing work in collaboration with Facebook on the Wowza ClearCaster™ appliance, which delivers the highest-quality broadcasts possible to Facebook Live.
This year, the Wowza booth was home to many interesting discussions about how professional broadcasters today are using Facebook Live. Check out these Wowza Studio Sessions, with hosts from Wowza as well as Rob Baynard and Aubrey Russell from Live X, who co-host the show “Ready Take Live.” We’ll dive into use cases and hot topics around Facebook Live streaming from our production studio at NAB 2018.
How Facebook Is Changing the Broadcast News Industry and How to Adjust
The broadcast news industry's use of social media is fraught with opportunities and obstacles. Learn how KHQ, a local news station in Spokane, Washington, is using Wowza ClearCaster and other innovative techniques and tactics to step up to the challenge.
Featuring: Evan Paul, Wowza; Neal Boling and Tracie Zeravica, KHQ
Turning Your Digital Team into Professional Broadcasters
Learn how to easily turn your digital teams into professional broadcasters with Wowza ClearCaster integration for Vidpresso: a cloud-based platform that allows anyone to integrate custom graphic overlays, multi-camera setups and switchers, interactive capabilities and more—even if they don’t have a streaming background.
Featuring: Rob Baynard, Live X; Anthony Lazaro, Wowza; Randall Bennett, Vidpresso
Leveraging Facebook at Biola University: A Case Study for ClearCaster in Higher Education
Biola University explains how they implemented Wowza ClearCaster and leveraged the platform students are already on: Facebook. Learn how they use Facebook Live to broadcast live lectures, Q&As and events to current, potential and former students anywhere in the world.
Featuring: Evan Paul, Wowza; David Baxter, Biola University
The Wonders of the Facebook Live API
Facebook’s Colleen Henry and Charlie Good, CTO and co-founder at Wowza, provide insight into the Live API for Facebook and the symbiotic relationship with the Wowza ClearCaster appliance.
Featuring: Anthony Lazaro, Wowza; Colleen Henry, Facebook; Charlie Good, Wowza
State of Social Streaming at NAB 2018
Streaming Media Magazine joins Live X to talk about the current state of social streaming, and what to expect at this year's Live Streaming Summit.
Featuring: Rob Baynard, Live X; Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, Streaming Media Magazine
Live Social Graphics Made Easy With Tagboard
Learn how to easily integrate social comments, images and video into live broadcasts with Tagboard.
Featuring: Aubrey Russell, Live X; Christine Borrmann, Tagboard
Fight the Tyranny of Post: Go Live!
Don't let post production tie up your content pipeline. Learn how Butcher Bird Studios is fighting the tyranny of post by going live.
Featuring: Rob Baynard, Live X; Steven Calcote, Butcher Bird Studios
Facebook Live Native Monetization Methods
Capitalize on your Facebook Live broadcasts with native features for monetization, including advertising, cross-posting and branded tagging sponsorships.
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Ordinance #627 - City of Elgin
January 17, 2013 by lmorgan
ORDINANCE NO. 627
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ELGIN , NEBRASKA, ACCEPTING AND APPROVING THE FINAL PLAT OF MEADOWBROOK SUBDIVISION; DIRECTING THE SAME TO BE RECORDED BY THE ANTELOPE COUNTY REGISTER OF DEEDS; TO PROVIDE WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ORDINANCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW.
WHEREAS, Capital Select, LLC, by and through Janet Koinzan, Member, as the owner of real estate legally described herein has sought approval of the final plat of certain real estate within the City of Elgin and has caused the same to be surveyed, platted and designated as “Meadowbrook Subdivision” and has agreed that t he streets and public ways shown thereon shall be freely and voluntarily dedicated to the public for its use forever; and
WHEREAS, the City of Elgin held a public hearing regarding the approval of said final plat; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Elgin, Nebraska, has approved the final plat of the “Meadowbrook Subdivision “ legally described as follows:
Lot 1, Block 1, all of Block 2 and all of Block 3, located in Cooper’s Addition amended plat City of Elgin, Antelope County, Nebraska, including 100 foot wide Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company abandoned right of way lying coincident with the east line of said Blocks 1, 2, and 3 more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the SW corner of said Block 3; Thence N00•32’19 “W, and on the west line of said Blocks 3 and 2, 527.94 feet to A 5/8 “ rebar w/cap, said rebar being the SW corner of Lot 3, Block 1; THENCE N89•38’18”E, and on the south line of said Lot 3, Block 1, 140.54 feet to a 5/8 “ reba r w/cap , said rebar being the SE corner of Said Lot 3, Block 1; THENCE N00•36’29”W, and on the east line of Lots 2 and 3, Block 1, 265.37 feet to the NE corner of said Lot 2, Block 1; THENCE N89•40’ 55”E, and on the North line of Lot 1, Block 1, 279.73 feet to a 5/8 rebar w/cap On the easterly R.O.W. Iine of said abandoned railroad; THENCE S07•13’ 52 “ E, and on the easterly R.O.W. line of said abandoned railroad 797.95 feet THENCE S89•32’29”W, and on the south line of said Block 3, extended east 512.94 feet to the point of beginning and containing 7.63 acres more or less.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ELGIN, Section 1 :The above-described real estate shall be known as Meadowbrook Subdivision of the City of Elgin, Antelope County, Nebraska;
Section 2: The attached and incorporated final plat of Meadowbrook Subdivision is approved by the City Council of the City of Elgin, Antelope County, Nebraska;
Section 3: The Antelope County Register of Deeds is directed to record the final plat of the Meadowbrook Subdivision referenced herein;
Section 4: Capital Select, LLC is directed to provide the City of Elgin with a verified recorded copy of the final plat immediately upon its recordation with the Register of Deeds.
Section 5: The City Council of the City of Elgin, Antelope County, Nebraska, hereby accepts the dedication of the streets and public ways noted thereon; and
Section 6: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect on and after its passage of approval as provided by State Law;
Approved and passed by the governing body of the City of Elgin, Nebraska this 7th day of January, 2013.
CITY OF ELGIN, NEBRASKA
BY Mike Schmitt
ATTEST: Vicki S. Miller
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No Flames at all Tim, a couple questions or comments
1 At one time, at least out here, there were requirements that you needed to met for certian class’s. Shifter being one, TaG another A required amount of time in a lower HP class being one of them. Same deal for Road Racing. Is that required?
I understand Shops and sales men hate this, I also know first hand its a problem for special or “one of” races to get proper varifacation, but clearly, clearly some of these people are far over their heads.
That brings us to Number 2 question which I really don’t get at all. 2 cy sprint seems obsessed with this concept that you need to hire, tuners, chassis guys, driving coaches and be “under someones tent” to be competitive. My kids have raced every form of karting, and really I just don’t see much of that anywhere else. To be honest, some places you’d be laughed off the track.
We always have asked others for advice, and given it ourselves to anyone that asks us, but there’s no question in my mind, that a increasing number of driver are being pushed beyond their personal experience level either by their parents or personal ego or shops looking for their next disposable hero with a wallet. Any driver has to have the knowledge and experience to move up to faster forms of racing. There’s a difference between someone thinking their ready, and really having it behind them
Sorry that sound so harsh, it certainly doesn’t mean all people or shops by any means, but if you have been around, and grown up through kart racing, look at what you see today, you get the point
We just got back from the Road Race at Blackhawk Farms. 2 mile track 100+ mph for many classes, no shortage of shifters, TaG’s and Sprint opens. Really don’t know official entries numbers but would guess the normal 200-300 entries. Total number of Red Flags, 1, to chase the snapping turtle off the side of the track, I think he was trying to grid for LO 206
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For Australians, Jacki Weaver is a household name.
The 71-year-old actress is famous for her roles in Picnic at Hanging Rock, Bandstand and will soon be recognised in Stan’s new original series Bloom.
But on Sunday night, the actress showed a side of herself that her adoring fans had no idea existed.
Speaking to Charles Wooley on 60 Minutes, Weaver opened up about the moment she thought she was going to die.
“I was told I could die,” she shared. “It was frightening for myself, my husband and my family.”
Weaver had a pheochromocytoma, which is a rare form of tumour on the adrenal gland. While the rare tumours are usually the size of a twenty cent coin, the actress shared that her tumour was “as big as a mango”.
The surgery to remove the terrifying tumour took seven hours, and she has the scars to prove it.
“Six scars right across my abdomen. They were trying to save my kidney and my spleen because they thought I’d lose them as well,” she said.
She added that she is now feeling 100 per cent better.
“I’m only missing a mango-sized tumour and one adrenal gland, and the other one seems to be working fine,” she said.
“I kept it quiet. I was a little bit shy about it, but now I’m 100 per cent again,” she added.
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Middle School art students create with 3-D technology
By: Morgan Sexton
Emily Pitman put on a helmet and took two remote controls into her hands. With the press of a button, Emily was transported from her classroom to digital art studio where her imagination was the only limit. After an hour, the sixth grader had designed a floor-length dress made entirely out of pink fire. She stepped around her dress and removed her helmet. When she emerged back into her classroom, her creation was on a computer screen for the whole class to see.
Emily’s story sounds like a futuristic fantasy, but Wayne County Middle School students are using 3-D technology to learn and create nearly every day. Art teacher Juliet Perkins uses Virtual Reality (VR) software and 3-D printing to expose her students to what she believes is the industry of the future.
Perkins’ students use their artistic expression to design three-dimensional objects in free programs called Google Blocks, Google Tilt Brush, and TinkerCAD. Once their masterpiece is complete, they must convert their creation into a printable file and send it to the 3-D printer. Many students also learn to do routine maintenance on the printer.
These immersive projects are fun for the students, but Perkins knows that these design and technical skills will give the kids an advantage as they search for future careers.
According to Perkins, factory jobs are changing rapidly. 3-D printers are able to build objects in dozens of materials, including plastic, metal, and even chocolate. This means that manufacturing is likely to become driven by 3-D printers in the near future.
“Introducing this technology to students at a young age will allow them to be competitors in the job market once they graduate,” said Perkins. Her students have been creating decorative items like trophies and paperweights, as well as functional keychains, dog tags, screws, and bolts.
Perkins enjoys watching her students create and print their own designs. She notes that most students create gifts for friends, teachers, and other important people in their lives.
“It is really quite sweet that they think of others in this process,” added Perkins.
When the students aren’t creating their own virtual designs, they are able to travel on field trips through Virtual Reality. Many students have walked through VR art galleries and zoos. Several colleges have also begun offering VR campus tours.
“This technology is always changing and improving,” said Perkins. With her programs and printer, she plans to ensure that her students will remain ahead of the curve in this high-tech world.
Alex West enjoyed the creative process of designing a deer head using TinkerCAD
Delany Lester changes the filament in the 3-D printer
Emily Pitman puts the finished touches on her dress using the Google Tilt Brush
Emory Turner shows off a vehicle he designed
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Sometimes things backfire. An author knows this best, as do many world leaders I’m sure. But today this saying took a whole new meaning on Twitter. EL James, author of the Fifty Shades of Grey series, either decided herself, or her publicist decided (it’s not real clear) to do a Q&A session on Twitter. The basis of this was to ask her a question and she’d respond. Hashtag: #AskELJames
Few things to get clear here:
1. We live in a society where bad news is reported before good news. Bad news also sells. You can turn the channel on any news or weather station and see this. It’s human nature that we go looking for the biggest piece of something that will refuse to let us look away. Train wreck anyone? And today on Twitter, this was a prime example.
2. I’ve read the FSOG series. I wasn’t a true fan, could barely get through them, but pushed on. There are several reasons for this, but none of it had to do with the decisions or actions of these fictional characters (okay, that one scene had me gagging, but that’s different). It was the writing. Plain and simple. The writing turned me off. The concept behind the story was the only thing that kept me turning those pages.
3. That said, I will admit that in the beginning of the #AskELJames session, I laughed a few times. While a few tweets were snarky, they were also funny. However, that humor quickly took a turn for the worse and this Twitter session soon turned into a nightmare (let’s call it what it is). The bashing on an author, for whatever reason, got to be a bit much. So much so that I had to shut down Twitter. But of course, that human nature part of me reopened it again an hour later. And I tell you, it had just gotten worse.
Now, none of this is going to change people’s opinions of Ms. James. I’ve heard many of them, some of which are rumors, and some of which come from those who have experienced her actions first hand. This spans a big range of time going back to when she first attended a breakfast with her fans here in NY years ago. I tell you, the writing industry isn’t that big of a place. And word gets around very quickly. So authors behaving badly, or behaving great, or stating their opinion about something controversial, any of it, is going to get around the community quickly.
But the point I’m trying to make (and trust me, there is one somewhere in here) is this is just a book. Sure, it contains some sensitive material, some controversial topics, and may or may not show a character who exhibits some mental instability, but it’s just a book. This book should only be read by adults and those adults should be smart enough to make their own decisions between right and wrong. One book (or four!) isn’t going to change that. If that were the case, more people (than the few we already have out there) would be making horrible decisions on a daily basis.
If you don’t like the book(s), don’t read it (them). Simple as that. Move on with your life and focus on what’s important. Don’t let the sensitive topics of books bring you to a level that could be classified as bullying. If we were to bash all authors for what they write, there’d be a hell of a lot more on that list, some of which are big favorites. I mean, just look at other books, such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. That right there should have more people up in arms. But it doesn’t. And you don’t hear about it. At all.
So sure, EL James may act a certain way to some, she may come off short to others, many may not like her books, some may love them, and we all know she may not have originally created these characters, but Ms. James wrote a series of books that hit the market and took it by storm. People bought them. Some loved and hated them. She made a whole slew of money. End of story. Nothing is going to change that, nor do I doubt she’s crying in a corner over how she was treated on Twitter today.
I’m not discounting women who have been victims of domestic abuse or rape. Trust me. I get it. More than you will ever know. But what I am saying is this is just a book. It doesn’t outline how people have to live their lives, nor does it dictate how someone should act.
And in the end, it’s the world looking at those mean and nasty comments and judging you. They are looking at you and wondering why there is so much hatred, why so much negativity, and especially if it’s an author, they are wondering just what kind of individual you are. I don't know Ms. James personally, nor am I writing this to defend her. But I was honestly embarrassed for many on Twitter today, so much so that it turned my stomach. Bashing or bullying someone online isn’t attractive, nor is it a trait of anyone who is healthy. Just take care, try to remember that there are often VERY REAL people on the other end of the computer (even if they are famous!) and again, remember…it’s just a friggen book. | <urn:uuid:d6cab6fb-b777-4d87-9d92-b415123403cb> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | http://www.authordcstone.com/blog/a-cringe-worthy-matter-twitter-went-horribly-wrong | 2019-11-21T22:30:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670987.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121204227-20191121232227-00007.warc.gz | en | 0.979756 | 1,175 |
Chris Martin brought the cutest plus-one when he sat courtside at the LA Lakers game on Wednesday. The Coldplay singer, who is headlining this year's Super Bowl halftime show, cuddled up to son Moses as they watched their home team take on the Sacramento Kings. The duo was all smiles as they laughed and ate junk food during the game. Of course, this isn't the first time we've seen the father-son duo bond over basketball. Earlier this month, Chris took Moses, whom he shares with ex Gwyneth Paltrow, to another Lakers game. Keep reading to see more of their fun night, then check out Chris's sweet bond with daughter Apple.
Chris Martin Gets in Some Quality Time With Son Moses Ahead of the Super Bowl
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