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July 12, 2013
In 1996, President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Among other things, section 3 of DOMA provides that, for purposes of federal law, "spouse" only includes opposite-sex spouses. On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional in United States v. Windsor. This has a number of important implications for employee benefit plans that cover participants who have same-sex spouses.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the tax qualification requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Code) impose a number of requirements on retirement plans where the definition of "spouse" is critical. Among other things:
A plan participant’s spouse generally must be the primary death beneficiary unless the spouse waives such status.
Pension plans must pay benefits in the form of a qualified joint and survivor annuity with the surviving spouse as the contingent annuitant unless waived by the spouse.
If the participant dies before commencing benefits, a pension plan must pay benefits in the form of a qualified preretirement survivor annuity to the surviving spouse, unless the spouse has waived such coverage.
A plan generally must pay benefits to an "alternate payee" pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO). QDROs typically assign a portion of a participant’s retirement benefits to a former spouse.
Qualified plan benefits generally must commence at age 70-1/2 (or, if later, when the participant retires), and the amount of the benefits that must be paid annually depends in part on whether the participant has a spousal beneficiary.
Surviving spouses have more flexibility to "roll over" qualified plan distributions than non-spouse beneficiaries.
Welfare benefits, such as medical benefits and benefits under flexible spending accounts, are also affected by the Supreme Court’s ruling. Medical benefits provided to spouses generally are tax-free, while they typically are not when provided to others who do not qualify as tax "dependents" under the Code (and most same-sex spouses do not so qualify). Medical care flexible spending accounts may provide benefits to spouses, but generally not to others who are not tax dependents. The Windsor decision changes how these rules must be applied.
In our experience, most employee benefit plans do not define who constitutes a spouse for plan purposes, and the Court’s decision does not dictate how the term must be defined in all circumstances. Plan sponsors should review their plan documents to determine whether any changes are necessary or desirable. Plans that do not define the term spouse may be deemed to include same-sex spouses for plan purposes. In addition, plan administrative procedures will have to be reviewed and revised. For example, retirement plan beneficiary designations of participants with same-sex spouses may no longer be valid if the same-sex spouse did not provide notarized consent. Employers will also have to revamp their tax reporting and withholding systems, as medical benefits provided to same-sex spouses will no longer be on an "after-tax" basis.
This important Court ruling raises difficult transition issues for employee benefit plans that will take time to implement. Among other things, the potential retroactivity of the Windsor holding is unclear. We are hopeful that the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor will issue guidance on some of the key issues that Windsor raises, but plan sponsors should begin planning the transition now.
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One More reason Tom Brady is cooler than Peyton Manning
Here at Torque News we do not judge people by the cars they drive. Simply put, most folks would prefer to have a full stable of cars, each suited to the particular mood and needs of the day. The fact remains that budgets, families, and taste dictate what we drive pretty much in that order. However, there are those who walk among us that have more money than they will ever spend, or that their heirs can spend in a few generations. It seems fair to pick on those folks a bit when they opt for a ride that seems, shall we say, ill-suited to their station in life.
We all remember Tiger Woods’ family implosion that resulted in a golf club coming through his rear window. Who could blame the big-guy if he from then on bought extended bed pick-ups with a contractors wire mesh over the rear glass? Once burned, twice shy. However, it seems he is a Buick man now and he has just been joined by Peyton Manning.
For those who are not paying attention Peyton is the guy who a few years back was the favorite son at Thanksgiving at his house, Super Bowl winner, and arguably the best QB in the NFL. Then his little brother had the audacity to win two rings and upset the apple cart. Who’s sitting at the kids table this year? That sibling rivalry is minor compared to Peyton’s real rivalry though. The guy Peyton wakes up in sweats cursing is named Tom Brady and Peyton has just handed us one more reason to think Tom Terrific is the big man on campus.
There is no doubt that Buick is a world class luxury car. GM is laughing all the way to the bank and the word for luxury car in China is pronounced Byoo-wik. However, here in the US cool is not pronounced Verano. On the contrary, it is much more subtle. One car that is cool is the Audi A8, especially a black one. Maybe one with a bit of something special under the hood, some tinted glass and a whiff of supermodel mingling with the leather scent. That’s Tom Brady’s ride and that is why he is the man. Peyton’s Verano looks a little common next to Tom’s ride at the stop light. Dockers compared to Armani. A press release today shows Peyton in a new commercial saying “After I call audibles in the Verano, I don’t get hit in the back.” That is a good way to look at it. After all, Tom Brady was hit pretty hard from the side while driving in his A8 to a game once.
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- How much D mannose do you take for a UTI?
- Can you flush out a UTI with water?
- What feels like a UTI but isnt UTI?
- Can you still have a UTI if urine test is negative?
- Can bacterial vaginosis cause UTI?
- What does a negative urine culture mean?
- Will UTI go away without antibiotics?
- How long can a UTI go untreated?
- What happens if a UTI goes untreated for a week?
- What is best antibiotic for urinary tract infection?
- What can mimic a urinary tract infection?
- Does a UTI always show up in a urine test?
- What does smelly urine mean female?
- Do UTIs come on suddenly?
- What are the symptoms of a bladder infection in a woman?
- What causes UTI symptoms but no infection?
- Can emotional stress cause UTI?
- When should you see a Dr for a UTI?
How much D mannose do you take for a UTI?
For preventing frequent UTIs: 2 grams once daily, or 1 gram twice daily.
For treating an active UTI: 1.5 grams twice daily for 3 days, and then once daily for 10 days; or 1 gram three times daily for 14 days..
Can you flush out a UTI with water?
Drinking water helps dilute your urine and ensures that you’ll urinate more frequently — allowing bacteria to be flushed from your urinary tract before an infection can begin. Drink cranberry juice.
What feels like a UTI but isnt UTI?
Interstitial cystitis, or IC, is a mysterious, painful bladder condition with no known cause or cure. Patients typically experience symptoms resembling those of a urinary tract infection, minus the actual infection: the burning, the urgency, the constant need to pee, the overall pelvic pain and discomfort.
Can you still have a UTI if urine test is negative?
Let’s just put it out there that if you have received negative results for a urine culture, but you still have symptoms, it is very possible you have a UTI. This happens very frequently, and we can help explain why below. It’s also a good idea to have an understanding of how a standard urine culture works.
Can bacterial vaginosis cause UTI?
Women with bacterial vaginosis are at increased risk for urinary tract infections. Bacterial vaginosis is the most common vaginal infecton. Its prevalence varies from 10 to 65% and is higher in sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics.
What does a negative urine culture mean?
This means it does not contain any bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi). But bacteria can enter the urethra and cause a urinary tract infection (UTI). A sample of urine is added to a substance that promotes the growth of germs. If no germs grow, the culture is negative. If germs grow, the culture is positive.
Will UTI go away without antibiotics?
Antibiotics are an effective treatment for UTIs. However, the body can often resolve minor, uncomplicated UTIs on its own without the help of antibiotics. By some estimates, 25–42 percent of uncomplicated UTI infections clear on their own. In these cases, people can try a range of home remedies to speed up recovery.
How long can a UTI go untreated?
But if left untreated, the infection can spread up to the kidneys and bloodstream and become life-threatening. Kidney infections can lead to kidney damage and kidney scarring. Symptoms of a UTI usually improve within two to three days after starting antibiotic therapy.
What happens if a UTI goes untreated for a week?
The infection from an untreated UTI can eventually travel through the body, becoming very dangerous, even deadly. “If a bladder infection goes untreated, it can become a kidney infection. A kidney infection is a much more serious infection, because the infection can travel to the blood stream, causing sepsis.
What is best antibiotic for urinary tract infection?
Drugs commonly recommended for simple UTIs include:Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim, Septra, others)Fosfomycin (Monurol)Nitrofurantoin (Macrodantin, Macrobid)Cephalexin (Keflex)Ceftriaxone.
What can mimic a urinary tract infection?
These include chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis. Simple lab tests are available to distinguish a UTI from an STD. Interstitial cystitis also has many of the same symptoms as a urinary tract infection. It can happen in both men and women and can start after a UTI.
Does a UTI always show up in a urine test?
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) — When doctors suspect a patient has a urinary tract infection, they often request a urine sample so they can test for the presence of bacteria. Now, new research suggests this step may be unnecessary.
What does smelly urine mean female?
The presence of bacteria in the urine, such as with a urinary tract infection (UTI), can affect the appearance and smell of urine. When there is an infection in the urinary tract, the urine may take on a foul-smelling odor as well as appear cloudy or bloody.
Do UTIs come on suddenly?
Changes that happen during pregnancy and after menopause can also make a woman prone to UTIs. Sometimes you don’t even know you have a UTI. Most often you will have symptoms, though. They come suddenly, with no warning.
What are the symptoms of a bladder infection in a woman?
SymptomsA strong, persistent urge to urinate.A burning sensation when urinating.Passing frequent, small amounts of urine.Blood in the urine (hematuria)Passing cloudy or strong-smelling urine.Pelvic discomfort.A feeling of pressure in the lower abdomen.Low-grade fever.
What causes UTI symptoms but no infection?
When you have symptoms of a urinary tract infection but tests of your urine find very few or no bacteria, you may be diagnosed with urethral syndrome. It is also sometimes called symptomatic abacteriuria. Women have urethral syndrome much more often than men. Usually a cause of the symptoms cannot be found.
Can emotional stress cause UTI?
Commonly known as UTI, urinary tract infections can be induced by stress. Feeling highly stressed is not the direct cause, but it leads to high levels of cortisol, which reduce the effect of the immune system.
When should you see a Dr for a UTI?
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The Hungarian GP has been run since 1986 and was the first to be held behind the Iron Curtain. It’s traditionally held in the middle of summer when temperatures hit the mid 30s! This is a classic photo and is as old as the race itself; the water tower is based in the nearby town of Mogyorod which can be seen in the background of this shot taken at turn 6.
Canon 1DX, 300mm lens, 1/500th sec @f8
Friday 27th July 2018, 11.18AM
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The gender-issues debate has become so dominated by inflated hysteria and 'politically-correct' thinking (if that's the right word...) that it's difficult to get back to the real issues. The basic theme of equality is simple:
"The needs, concerns, feelings and fears of women and of men are of exactly equal value and importance"
Yet it's surprising how many people have enormous difficulty with that concept... Men;s descriptions of their experiences are exactly as true as women's accounts of similar situations: no more true, but also no less true - a point which many people would apparently prefer to be forgotten...
Regrettably, much of the so-called 'feminist research' on gender-issues in general, and on domestic violence in particular, can only be described as ill-researched, ill-thought-through rubbish which suffers badly from circular reasoning and a psychological problem known as 'projection'. Probably the least-known - certainly the least-publicised - fact is that in almost every category, from infancy onwards, males suffer far more violence, from both sexes, far more seriously than females: yet it is only the protection of females - and adult females at that - which is promoted politically as a serious concern. Abuse of girls in childhood is rightly regarded as abnormal and wrong; yet abuse of boys is considered so normal, even so 'right', that an abusive mother may legally be classified as the victim of her infant son... Men's status, women's safety: they're both societal obsessions which work directly against any gender-equality in our society.
Worse, most of the information used to promote the current 'politically correct' view of women's risk of 'assault by the patriarchy' is at best methodologically indefensible, often simply wrong, and on occasion even intentionally and knowingly false. As a result of the flood of spurious pseudo-'facts' from this 'research', most public perceptions of the problems are completely wrong - as is invariably shown by any methodologically-sound study of genuine source-data, especially if data on both sexes (rather than solely on women) are included. For example:
None of those common misperceptions can be said to help towards a genuine equality...
In reality, most of the well-known supposed 'facts' about the problems of domestic violence and sexual-assault - "one in four college women raped!" "one in ten women seriously assaulted at home each day!" and so on - simply aren't facts at all. The 'studies' that promote them are, almost without exception, ludicrously sexist in their sources, and fundamentally incompetent in their methodology: most can only be described under the general category of "all the news that's fit to invent". Their link to genuine fact is often tenuous at best, but they do make for good newspaper headlines and political slogans... and 'jobs for the girls' - a new self-appointed 'God's Police', as Australian feminist Ann Summers admits - in an entirely unnecessary 'gender war'.
The basic political situation we have on gender issues in most Western cultures at present is that women have rights, and men have blame. The society is in real danger of falling apart, for the simple reason that no-one is taking responsibility: women have few legal responsibilities for their own actions - and are often prevented from taking responsibility even if they wish to do so - whilst vast numbers of men are too shell-shocked to be able to respond to what's going on, since any and every action brings forth further abuse. It's becoming clear, too, that one of the few real changes wrought by decades of 'equal opportunity' legislation is a huge increase in the gap between rich and poor: so-called 'equality' has been very much a middle-class phenomenon, with high-earning middle-class women depending on a new underclass of underpaid women to do housework and child-minding, whilst little or no work is available for working-class men. This is not a tenable situation... the risk of a full-scale right-wing backlash is very real indeed at present...
We have no chance of achieving a genuine equality of the sexes unless men and women start being honest with themselves and each other. Yet the political is personal: before prescribing what others should or should not do, we must look to our own actions first...
It's also important to recognise that social stereotypes are immensely powerful - and that if we do nothing about them, they will simply reassert themselves, sneaking back in through the side door. Three matched pairs of stereotypes that are useful to explore are:
This stereotype is the key reason why it's so difficult for women to get acknowledgement for what they do - and the low status still accorded to what they do. A great deal of work has been done in the past three decades on the women's side of this equation, which has led to all those ludicrous "the first women to do this... the first women to do that..." stories in newspapers, but also a simple acknowledgement to women can and will do almost any kind of work in our society. What hasn't happened is a matching acknowledgement that men are: the definition of what it is to 'be a man' is invariably described in terms of actions - "you must do this to be a man... and this... and this... and this..." (a list which changes wildly, even faster than women's fashions - a list which usually contains impossible demands and impossible contradictions) - in other words men are still viewed as 'human doings' rather than 'human beings'.
Although a depressing number of women and men do exemplify their respective halves of this stereotype, it is only a stereotype - a fact which has been illustrated many, many times over by countless professional women. Yet, again, whilst enormous work has been done in the past few decades to counter the women's side of this stereotype, the male side has, if anything, been reinforced. There are constant demands that men should say what they feel - but are actively silenced or denigrated if they do. The Melbourne journalist Terry Lane commented that the instant response of his wife and daughter to his innocuous comment that he'd 'like to climb the Himalayas whilst he still had the knees to do it it' was "You don't feel that! You can't feel that! You shouldn't feel that! You have no right to feel that!" - the notion that he actually did feel that was simply not permitted to exist. Yet our feelings are our link into reality: if our feelings are constantly denied by others - if we are constantly told that we do not feel the feelings we actually experience - we slowly lose touch with reality, and may eventually go insane. In many ways, this is actually the so-called 'normal' experience of most males, especially in mother-dominated or mother-only households... yet our society 'blames the victim' in these cases because they are male... More disturbing is that many self-styled 'feminists' have argued, either implicitly or even explicitly, that women have an inalienable right to abuse males, on the assumption that men have no feelings, therefore cannot be hurt, therefore must accept whatever abuse any woman cares to dish out (for example, Dale Spender's oft-repeated exhortation to "insult at least three men a day, on principle, to keep them in their place"). The reality, as shown in a Australian national study, is that adult males experience at least as much psychiatric illness arising from abuse as women, and adolescent males at least twice as much psychiatric illness arising from abuse - yet support services are reserved almost exclusively for women, on the assumption that men's feelings simply do not matter... Exactly the same applies in Family Court rulings in most 'Western' states: the mother's feelings are deemed paramount, above those of the children, let alone those of the father, who is legally regarded essentially as a slave who must provide for others regardless of the cost - in any sense - to himself... Put simply, no society can maintain that kind of stress indefinitely: and there are clear signs that the resultant strains are beginning to approach catastrophic failure at a social and societal level...
This again is primarily a stereotype, but it's one that does have genuine roots in anatomy, physiology and perceptual psychology, and as such can be useful. It's the reason, for example, why men so often seem to expect praise after having done the washing-up: to a 'hunter' perspective, every task is a distinct project with a beginning, a middle, an end, and a celebration or rest-period - not simply part of a continuum, as it is to the 'gatherer' perspective. Male physiology and anatomy are geared to high-energy, low-endurance 'burst' tasks; female physiology and anatomy are geared to low-energy, high-endurance tasks; hence the comment in the Vietnam era that "a woman can carry only 80% of the load of a man, but for 150% the distance". Yet it's also the reason why the infamous 'housework' debate - who does what, and for how long - can never reach a valid conclusion: the gatherer/hunter stereotype ensures that men and women tend to do the same overall tasks in very different ways, with very different uses of time. And male and female perceptual psychology tend to be different, with males tending toward a hunter's 'one-pointedness' and spatial orientation, and females toward a gatherer's concern with multi-tasking and minute detail: hence women's greater difficulty than men with upside-down maps, but greater ease with selection of items when shopping - especially for clothes, with which many men have great difficulty. But this is only a stereotype, a useful generalisation: ultimately we're all individuals, our own individual variant on the threads and themes of life: hence in practice 'identical' is rarely 'equal'...
At the end, equality is down to us as individuals. We each choose our own wyrd, our own fate - which in turn interweaves with those of others. If you choose to support the current pseudo-equality - where women (especially middle-class feminists) can almost invariably claim to be 'more equal than others' - you're welcome to do so: yet don't delude yourself into thinking that it is in any way a genuine equality. "There's always a choice", says the wyrd, "yet there's also, always, a twist...": do what you will, but be very sure that you will it!
1. For detailed examples of such 'studies', and a discussion of the concomitant impact on gender-equality, see Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism?; for examples of often blatantly circular reasoning and obsessive male-blame, see National Strategy on Violence Against Women, Office of the Status of Women, Canberra, 1993. [back]
2. Martin Hiraga, Gay and Lesbian Task Force, quoted in "", 1995. Also relevant are the comments in a personal communication from a (gay male) AIDS counsellor, who also counsels lesbian women on management of violent relationships: he complained to me that at a conference that he attended (in 1996) on violence to and within the gay and lesbian communities, all research papers on violence to gays and lesbians, and violence within gay relationships, were open and public, whereas those on violence in lesbian relationships were private to women only, and - unlike all other papers, were not published in the conference proceedings. As he said, he knows how serious the problems are, as he sees lesbian clients with violence problems every week: but without genuine and accurate research data, he cannot properly help his clients. Courtesy of the continuing obsessive denial of women's violence - solely to prop up a pointlessly dishonest form of politics - women themselves are being hurt badly, by other women... and no-one is being allowed to stop it happening... [back]
3. Initiation of assault: from Straus and Gelles' (US) National Family Violence Survey, 1975; incidence of severe violence: from Kantor and Straus, 1995 (male minor violence 9.9%, female minor violence 9.5%; male severe violence 2.0%, female severe violence 4.4% of cases studied) [back]
4. From analysis of UK official (Home Office) statistics on murder rates: the highest risk was for the 0-1 age-group, then the 15-25 age group, then the 1-5 age-group; adult females were way down on the list. In all cases victims were predominantly male - in the 15-25yr group killed mostly by each other, and in the infant and toddler groups killed mostly by mothers. Note also that whilst child-killings by adult males are invariably classed as murder, child-killings by mothers are usually classed as the lesser crime of infanticide - and hence are not shown in the more-commonly-quoted official statistics on murder, thus exacerbating the illusion that violence by females is rare. [back]
5. For an analysis of the dubious methodology and results of Stark and Flitcraft's 'study', see Christina Hoff Sommers' Who Stole Feminism?; "the real figure" quoted is from "Domestic Violence: Patterns and Indicators", Monash University Accident Research Centre, [Victoria, Australia], Dec 1994 - though note that even this has a number of severe methodological errors which, in every case, artificially inflate incidence-rates for women and/or suppress incidence-rates for men. [back]
6. The Domestic Violence support services in the Australian Capital Territory (Canberra) and Victoria (Melbourne) explicitly state in their literature that their facilities are "for women and children only"; I know of several men who have called for help and been told either to go away, or referred to a programme for perpetrators of domestic violence. The absence of services for men has been circularly used by these organisations to argue that since men are not permitted to use these 'women-only' services, this proves that no such services are needed by men... Although women are known, from virtually every study, to be the primary abusers of children, there is at present only one shelter in Australia to which a father may take a child away for safety from an abusive mother: in most states there is instead a legal requirement that the man, in such circumstances, must be charged with kidnapping, and the child returned to the mother... For details of the situation for women thirty years ago, see Erin Pizzey, Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear; as Pizzey herself now argues, the situation was always much the same for both women and men, but whilst support for women has radically improved, that for men has radically worsened - a result, for the most part, of intense lobbying and intentional misinformation by self-styled 'women's organisations'. [back]
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Bolton Wanderers had bagged yet another Premier League title and a 6th Champions League in 10 years in the 2048/49 campaign. With 2050 (and FM22) approaching, I’d decided this would be my last season, which also happened to be the 175th in the club’s history. And we went into it targeting a first Club World Cup and 15 titles in a row.
We saw plenty of players leave in the summer of 2049, including Pedro Sousa joining Liverpool for £66 million, Gaspard Lallement going to Leicester for an outrageous £60 million, left-back Gabriel joining Hertha for £30.5 million and Rob Irwin joining Empoli for £18.25 million. That brought in more than £250 million, which took the bank balance back over £1.1 billion for the first time in a few years.
Our focus of snapping up the best youth talent around the world paid off as centre-back Esteban Almada arrived from River for just £3.5 million. He looks like being an absolute beast and joins a squad containing 11 wonderkids, which shows just how good a young side we still have!
Club World Cup
The only trophy evading us in this wild journey is the FIFA Club World Cup, and this time we got a better draw with River Plate and Pyramids (from Egypt). We battered River 5-0, with Kyle Rangel scoring twice to match his tally all of last season!, then exciting prospects Malek Ziani and the homegrown Jacob Wangen both scored twice in a 6-0 thumping of Pyramids.
An Onur Kocaaslan double eased a knackered side past Juventus 2-1. And that teed up a rematch of the Champions League Final as we faced PSG, now managerless after Tuchel retired after 30 years and 30 league titles, in the semis. An early Kocaaslan was enough for a 1-0 win in a terrible match between two exhausted teams.
Nevertheless, the Final was an all English affair against an ageing Liverpool, who beat Gremio 1-0 in the semis. We dominated and second half goals from Kocaaslan and Ferre Naessens earned a slightly underwhelming 2-1 win.
Bolton Wanderers were World Champions for the first time!! And I topped the Greatest English Manager list for the first time!
We added more silverware by wrapping up an 8th Charity Shield, beating Arsenal 1-1 on penalties, which sealed my 40th trophy as a manager! And my 41st followed a week later as we beat Dortmund 1-0 to lift our sixth UEFA Super Cup.
Chasing 15 in a row
The new season started well with the strikeforce of Kocaaslan and Ivan Bone scoring in a 2-1 win over West Brom, who somehow scored from 0.13 xG. Standard. Bone earned us a point at Arsenal before a Kocaaslan double inspired a 3-0 win over Southampton and the Turk scored again in a 2-0 win over Derby, in which midfielder Dyonatas suffered a broken leg that promoted academy product Peter Kelly.
Kocaaslan bagged his 350th Bolton goal in a 3-0 win over Newcastle that saw a classic Germán Martínez performance with two assists on his 475th Bolton league appearance. The strong start continued through to a November international break, including two more Martínez creative masterclasses, then a Naessens brace earned a 2-0 win over second-placed Villa to move us 11 points clear after 12 games!
We hadn’t been scoring loads of goals but that ended with a string of games against struggling sides, including thumping next-to-bottom Stoke 7-1 led by a Kocaaslan quadruple.
We’d gone 17 unbeaten before a trip to second-placed Man United, where we’d failed to win in three attempts, for a Boxing Day cracker. United led early but a Kris Bridges screamer seemed to be earning a point until a brilliant run and cross by left-back and captain Marco Brunori was matched by a Kocaaslan header to win it in the 91st-minute! And a 1-0 win at former bogey side Everton two days later took us 12 points clear at the top.
We moved into the second half of the 21st Century for the first time in my time playing Football Manager. with Ziani defending his FIFA Best Under 21 Player and European Golden Boy awards, Darlan winning World Golden Glove and Darlan, Brunori, Martínez and Ziani in the FIFPro World Team of the Year.
We also snapped up the latest group of Bolton wonderkids, including Uruguayan Gustavo Canosa for £9 million from Nacional. He’s apparently a midfielder but I think he’d be an ideal ball-playing centre-back.
The new decade began in fine style with Kocaaslan bagging consecutive braces to inspire a 3-2 win at fifth-placed West Brom then a 2-1 win over third-placed Arsenal, in which we racked up 29 shots and 4.08 xG! By the end of January we had a 21-point lead and the league was effectively over.
Our romp towards the title continued with a new Premier League record 20-match winning spree, which included 11 consecutive wins without conceding. Highlights were a 7-0 battering of Palace, Kocaaslan scoring the only goal at Newcastle in my 1,600th match in management, and hot prospects combining as Wangen teed up Kelly for the opener at Bournemouth.
We won the league by easily our biggest margin yet, even beating fourth-placed Everton 1-0 on the penultimate day with a fully rotated 11. So we basically have two teams better than the rest of the league! And that helped us to smash our own Premier League record points total, finishing top on a mighty 105 points.
Kocaaslan was the league’s top scorer for the sixth time with 28 goals in 36 games, which was 7 more than our former striker Lotiman, now at Spurs. But Martínez was the best player in the league with 17 assists and an average rating of 7.49 in 36 games, which won him English Footballer of the Year and Players’ Player of the Year for the second time. While the exciting Bridges won English Players’ Young Player of the Year and Darlan won Golden Glove for the fifth time. And I won my 12th Manager of the Year award a couple of days after my 66th birthday.
We drew Inter in the group stage for the second year in a row, along with Genk and Valladolid. We got off to a flyer in Milan as a Martínez masterclass inspired a 3-0 win over Inter. Then fully rotated, very young sides battered Genk with 28 shots to two and won 2-0, including a goal from Wangen, beat Real Valladolid 1-0 home and away and beat Inter 3-0 with Wangen scoring again. They rounded the group off with one of the best individual performances of the save as homegrown striker Nick Inness scored two and created three and Wangen scored two more in a 5-1 thrashing of Genk!
We breezed past Vitoria de Guimaraes then drew a first ever knockout rounds clash with old group foes Hertha BSC. We beat them 1-0 away with a trademark Bridges screamer then a Naessens brace and Wangen sealed a 3-0 home win. Our 2044 final opponents Bayern followed in the semis, and a classic performance saw us thump them 4-0 led by magnificent Martínez with two assists, Kocaaslan scoring against his former club and a very early red card for a shocking challenge. That set a new Champions League record of 12 consecutive wins! But that ended as we lost 2-0 in Germany but progressed to a fourth consecutive Final.
Champions League Final
That meant that, fittingly, my last match as Bolton Wanderers manager would be the Champions League Final of 2050. Slightly disappointingly, our opponent was again English as we faced Aston Villa, who beat Barcelona in the semis!
Both sides travelled to the Olympiastadion in Berlin, with Villa taking three former Bolton players in Djerovic, Ntelekos (who they bought off Dortmund for £92 million!) and our homegrown boy Barlow. While we had Naessens injured and Marcos Roberto unfit, so we lined up:
Starters: Darlan; Bentley, Preston, Álvarez, Brunori; Rangel, Bridges, Martínez; Ziani; Kocaaslan, Wangen
Subs: Bone, Gómez, Marcos Roberto, Dyonatas, Patterson, Kelly, Sebastian, Canosa, Sergio, Carlos Humberto, Almada, Cannon
The only highlight of a dull first-half was Rangel missing a sitter just before the break. But we came to life as Ziani latched onto a Darlan clearance, burst into the box and crossed for Kocaaslan to tap home. And, despite our 2.25 xG, that was enough to win a seventh Champions League in 12 years! We did so with a 100% Champions League win record this season.
Our main man yet again this season was Kocaaslan, who scored 36 goals in 48 games in all competitions. While Martínez, now 34, led the way with 21 assists in 48 games that won him fans’ player of the season again.
Naessens scored 18 and exciting prospect Wangen scored 12, followed by Ziani and the impressive Bridges – who’s suddenly become the best player at the club (9), Rangel (8) and Patterson (7). Brunori got 11 assists, followed by Ziani and Kocaaslan (9), Bentley (8) and Rangel (7).
We also set new club records of 14 games without conceding (which earned the Park the Tank Steam achievement), surpassing the previous record of eight, and 19 consecutive wins, breaking the previous record of 13.
Trotters Talent update
We leave Bolton with plenty of exciting homegrown talent, including the exciting Wangen, who came second in Champions League Striker of the Season and midfielder Kelly, who won our Goal of the Season. Although Ivan Bone’s career has stalled a little this season.
A look around England
We won yet a 15th title while Liverpool finished way down in 10th and Bournemouth, Stoke and Brighton went down. Man City did get promoted as champions this time, along with Norwich and Watford, while Cardiff, Cambridge and Rotherham went down.
Sheffield Wednesday won League 1 and Barnsley and Bristol City came up with them as Brentford, Forest Green, Millwall and Stockport went down. Coventry won League 2, Walsall, Hull and Burton went up and Boston and Bromley were relegated. Chester won the National League and were promoted with Barnet as Stevenage, Boreham Wood, Dartford and Yeovil went down. They were replaced by Kidderminster, Southport, Dagenham & Redbridge and Salisbury, while Worcester, Ashton, Bradford Park Avenue, Coalville, Margate, Cirencester, Kings Langsley and Carshalton dropped out of the system.
Newcastle beat Derby 1-0 to win the FA Cup, which was their first major trophy in 95 years!, and Everton won the Carabao Cup on penalties against Liverpool. And Man United beat Montpellier 1-0 to win the Europa League.
Signing off as World Champions with a 15th Premier League title and a 7th Champions League in the 175th-year of the club’s history seems like a fitting end to this crazy tale of managing a ridiculously good Bolton Wanderers side. We’ll round the season out with a Trotters Talent review and potentially look into the future with some simulations.
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I bring this in because I've still been in conversation with the koan that I
wrote about recently (see my previous blog entry for the koan) and find that
more has come to light that wants to be shared. It's along the lines of
something that's been coming up regularly in my practice and in my talks
lately: noticing the way we do a lot of "thinging" in our lives. By this I'm
referring to how our concepts and ideas of how and what the world is become
a little more solidified than they need be; we make into "things" that which
is more amorphous and flowing. We thing ourselves and our experiences, we
thing our partners and children, our friends, communities, societies, our culture, others' cultures, our life and our world. And by doing so we tend to mistake the thing we've created for the person or situation or event that is appearing right in front of us, relating to our environment through how we think it is rather than how it actually is. The thing is, thinging itself is not a problem. It can be useful to a degree and even necessary, helping us to navigate and make sense of our world. The issue is how solid and fixed we allow the things we create to become, which affects how connected to or distanced from our life and the living of it we feel.
In the koan, Zhaozhou engages in a bit of thinging, starting with his first question, "What is the Tao?" Tao with a capital T, already having some idea of this thing he is asking about and perhaps some inkling about what it might be like to experience it. Yet he is still asking for clarification, maybe in part to see if the teacher's response will support his view, and also out of genuine curiosity. Overall, It's as though he is looking to some horizon and asking how to get there. Nanquan's reply leads in a different direction, pulling Zhaozhou back to here: "Ordinary mind is the Tao." For a moment there is a sense of relief, of this Tao perhaps being nearer and more accessible, but then the thinging kicks in again, this time in regard to "ordinary mind." My experience as Zhaozhou at this moment is one of understanding that this Tao is closer than I might think, but Nanquan couldn't possibly be referring to this ordinary mind of mine, the one that is with me day in and day out, so how can I get to the Ordinary Mind of which he speaks. Another horizon created, followed by another response from Nanquan directed toward dismantling it, the entire conversation being a dance between thinging and unthinging in hopes of opening to a wider, boundless territory. I find it interesting that as the territory is unfolding more and more, Nanquan mentions the "genuine Tao," seeming to be working contrary to himself. Is he throwing that out there to gauge how the dance is going for Zhaozhou, to see if he'll swallow the hook? Or is he simply showing, perhaps unknowingly, that thinging is just a part of our human experience, that thinging happens?
As often happens when working with koans, I recalled an event from my own life related to thinging while hanging out with this koan. I see at as my first real koan encounter, though it happened years before I had connected with or developed any kind of formal Zen practice. I was attending Western State College (now Western State Colorado University) and had a class instructed by T.C. Johnson. He could be quite tenacious and intimidating at times, and was mostly. While I had my moments of being unnerved, I find that all-in-all I respected and even enjoyed those qualities of his. One assignment we had was to write a persuasive paper trying to sell something to another culture, the culture in this case being Japanese, trying to appeal to their sensibilities and values. This particular day he had been talking about the Japanese sense of self, the notion of individual identity as related to the group or societal identity. Somewhere in the course of this he invited (maybe challenged is more accurate) someone from the class to present who they were.
Now, although I didn't have a formal Zen practice then, I had been interested in and studying it for some time already, and as a result recognized something about the dynamic of what might follow this invitation, thinking I might have a leg up because of this (and also noticing that, likely due to the aforementioned intimidation factor, no one else was budging in the least). What I thought I might do is say something about who I was right then but explain how I'm always changing, so in the end I can't really say who I am. I stood up and began to speak, and nearly right away was met by a bellowing, "Who are you?!" from Mr. Johnson. I started again. "Who are you?!" "I'm trying to tell you, but-" "Who are you?!" I took a breath and tried a different approach: "No matter what I say about who I am, it will not be-" "Who are you?!" Any kind of strategy or formula was out the window now. "I'm Andrew." "Who are you?!" "Me." "Who are you?!" I just stood there, not knowing what to say, which fell away to just not saying anything (there is a difference between the two), then sat back down. There was no commentary or discussion about any of what had just happened, and the class just kept rolling along.
While this experience was a little embarrassing and awkward in the social context of the classroom, it was also a bit thrilling and exhilarating. I was still enjoying it afterward (and appreciate it to this day), watching as my mind tried to figure out what would have been the "right" response and never being able to settle upon anything. In a fierce and direct way, T.C. Johnson was showing me that nothing (or no thing) I could say, either in affirmation or negation, could possibly convey who I was at that moment. At the same time, with a retrospective lens I see that my standing up and stumbling through trying to say something is who I was, his "Who are you?!" again and again is who he was, and the rest of the class who silently remained in their seats is who they were. And though I had some kind of understanding of this at that time, it was much later I realized that by not being allowed to explain anything I was able to experience who I was more directly, beyond words or ideas.
We are encountering T.C. Johnsons every day, but in much more subtle, nearly invisible ways. Although we don't always notice how we are not what we think or present ourselves to be, there is an underlying feeling of not-quite-it-ness we can experience, regardless. And there can be moments when we become vividly aware of how many things we've made of ourselves and our lives, and a feeling of tightness and heaviness at realizing that none of those things is really who we are. In hopes of decreasing or dissipating that feeling, there is a natural tendency to want to do the opposite of what we've been doing, to undo the thinging that got us here, seeing that as the way to free ourselves of those weights and constrictions. But if we make a project out of it, endeavoring to live outside of our concepts and constructs, then we are making a thing of not-thinging, essentially redecorating the same house and continuing to live there. Even if we recognize this and move out of the house, vowing to never live in another house again, traces of the original dynamic and dilemma still remain, as illumined in this koan story:
Someone said to Zhaozhou, "I've come with nothing. Isn't it wonderful?"
Zhaozhou said, "Put it down."
"But I don't have anything. How can I put it down?"
Zhaozhou replied, "Well, then keep carrying it."
So, what are we to do? Not much, I'd say. Again, thinging happens, it's part of being human and helps us get by. We can simply notice and pay attention to how it occurs and manifests in our lives. We can see how some of our thingings come and go rather quickly, like a series of stones that help us cross a mountain stream. We can see how others are like a boat we have to stay in for a while as we cross a wide river. And we can notice how sometimes we get to dry land but remain in the boat and keep trying to row. And we might even stay in the boat, as it has become comfortable and familiar, so we try to make of it a home. But at some point we realize we are living in something that has gone beyond its purpose, and we can better serve ourselves and the world by stepping out and venturing onward. We can trust that there will be stones at the next stream and other boats at other rivers, or that our feet are going to get wet sometimes and that's okay, or that we can swim and float and drift along as needed.
So, what is the Tao, the Way? As Lao Tzu begins the Tao Te Ching, "The way that becomes a way is not the Eternal Way." That's one response. And another to join it is, "What is not the Way?" It is walking, running, climbing, jumping, stopping, sitting, singing, yelling, crying, frustration, joy, sorrow, despair, contentment, helping, hurting, doing nothing, doing something, seeking, finding, losing, being stuck, being freed, being weak and weary, feeling strong and energized, finally finishing, just starting, having enough, wanting more, receiving, giving, scratches, bruises, healing and being healed. It is none of this and all of this, and more, and not quite, and Yes! It is a cool morning with birds chirping at the feeder, sun coming out now, fingers tired of typing, dishes and other things to which to tend.
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Racing enthusiasts who’ve been eagerly awaiting the sport’s return to a local track now have a bit longer to wait.
The new owners of the former Punta Gorda Speedway — Punta Gorda-based Haase Enterprises, who had planned to reopen as the Three Palms Speedway — owe two months of back rent, according to the Charlotte County Airport Authority. The lease, signed last October, stated they had nine months before they needed to begin paying rent, so they could have time for repairs to the site, which included a new fence and grandstands. That would have placed the payment in July.
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6 Ways to Fill in Gaps in Your CV
The job market nowadays moves at a lightning-fast pace. As such, the labour force is all but obligated to learn and adapt or else risk getting left behind. That’s why it can be a little difficult for those who have gaps in their CV to keep up or get back on track.
There are a variety of reasons that a person may have that gap in their employment history and, more often than not, it’s through no fault of their own. Still, there are a lot of employers who have a bias (often an unconscious one) against those who have been out of work for a period.
If you’re one among this group of people, don’t fret. There are many ways that you can fill the gaps in your CV to overcome difficulties in finding a job. Here are a few examples:
1. Be an Active Member of an Industry-Related Organisation
One of the simplest ways to fill gaps in your employment is to join an industry-related organisation. It’s a good way to practise your skills, not to mention build a robust network. The key is to be an active participant, preferably in a highly visible role. Make sure to put this on the “Experience” section of your résumé or CV. This way, you’ll increase the value of the work you’ve done.
Joining an organisation may also open up new opportunities for you. For example, you may possibly meet fellow members who may also be prospective employers (again, building a robust network). You’ll also be exposed to colleagues who can show you new skills or even just freshen your perspective. Both of these will be valuable for when you start getting interviews.
2. Learn a New Skill
A big part of the reluctance of employers in hiring people with gaps in their CV is the fear that the person might not have the most updated knowledge or skill set. Again, the modern job market is a fast-paced one with plenty of competition. If a company hires the wrong person, so to speak, then they stand to lose so much more than money.
To reassure employers that you are, in fact, keeping updated, you can enrol in practical training courses that are relevant to your industry. There are courses that you can finish within a day or two, while some are more intensive and can take a year or so to complete. Consider your timeline projections and chosen career path to help you decide on the best programmes to take.
3. Create Content
In the world of digital marketing, there’s a popular quote that goes “content is king.” It’s truer now more than ever, as internet users continue to consume content faster than many creators can make them. In short, there’s a lot of space for you on the internet to share what you know.
Of course, you have to be strategic about the content you produce. Think about the skills you have that are valuable in the roles you’re targeting to fill. Industry insider knowledge will always be relevant, and is also easy to branch out from for future content.
You also shouldn’t limit yourself when it comes to the platform. Video is definitely the most popular, being an audio-visual and therefore an engaging medium. Still, well-written content in the form of blogs remains to be valuable especially if you want to rank high in search engine results.
Other platforms you should consider for engagement include social media groups. You should also take a look at messaging apps, where you can connect in a more direct and personal way with those who consume your content.
4. Reach Out
Having a business network is important to any professional, but especially to those who are currently out of a job. If you’ve already built one while you’re at work, then great. If not, you have to start getting comfortable with outreach.
Look within your personal network first. Maybe there’s a friend or family member you can help. They can then get in touch with their own colleagues and acquaintances who may be in need of your skills and services. You can also try approaching smaller brands or independent entrepreneurs.
5. Consider Freelancing
The gig economy continues to thrive, thanks to technology that has eliminated geographical barriers. You can find a lot of freelancing options online, either through social media or dedicated freelancing websites. Many job boards and online classifieds also have freelance postings.
What’s great about this option is that you can continue to improve your skills while earning. You can also work with international clients, who can further open doors of opportunity for you. Potential employers will also see this as a good sign since you’re able to interact well with different kinds of people.
6. Do Some Pro Bono Work
Last but certainly not least, it’s a good idea to do some pro bono work. Whether you’re out of a job or not, it’s a practice that every professional can benefit from. Not only does it build goodwill, but it also expands your network and helps foster a positive reputation that can further boost your chances of getting hired.
To further elevate the value of your work, consider putting your pro bono work as a consulting experience in your CV.
It can feel discouraging when you keep getting turned down for jobs you know you can do well, just because of a blip in your record. However, keep in mind that there’s a lot you can do to control the narrative. Consider the methods above to fill in gaps in your CV, beef up your credentials, and increase your fighting edge in a highly competitive job market. Good luck! | <urn:uuid:61239518-d77f-4ccc-85a9-0d1c2b54ba79> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://cctrainingacademy.co.nz/fill-in-gaps-in-your-cv/ | 2022-01-24T07:27:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304515.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124054039-20220124084039-00533.warc.gz | en | 0.953809 | 1,186 |
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All the carb business aside (and the foods that poison, etc.), what is worth repeating over and over is: 'any diet will work short-term.' Wow! If people really realized that, they wouldn't argue about any food or any diet - ever! They would just shut up and diet. And if some food made them feel ill, for whatever reason having to do with their own individual health profile and tastes and genetic makeup, they'd simply change diets. Because ANY diet works short-term. ANY!
Just think, all those people who ate tons of fruit and the weight came off (Beverly Hills Diet) would be just fine with their diet philosophy. Because it worked for them. If it didn't work for them, then they would try something else. The 'Super Cleanse' diet (maple syrup, cayenne, water, etc.) might work just fine. Or the Cabbage Soup diet. Or the SlimFast diet, or the 'chew each mouthful twenty times' diet (The Fletcher diet).
Working out something you can live with long term is the challenge. ANY diet works short-term. What can get you through Christmas, New Years, baby showers, periods of stress and depression, more than you can imagine at the moment, and wonderful vacations in Paradise-like locations with gorgeous food and sun - you have to work out that all those things constitute the life you're going to live. Life is a whole lot more complicated and what you eat is a decision you will make two or three times a day (or more, depending on the circumstances). Whatever you decide is your strategy for KEEPING the weight off (not losing it - although that's where the emphasis usually goes in diet discussions). 'Keeping it off' is the hardest thing you will do. | <urn:uuid:12fce564-95b1-4467-9f28-52cbc6f46e8e> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.fitday.com/fitness/forums/80780-post2.html | 2015-09-02T06:27:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645257890.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031417-00131-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95418 | 369 |
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it taste like real strawberry but in a different way
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I've been inspired by my previous post, wherein I couldn't remember if I had reviewed the Trader Joe's Raisin and Pecan bar before and decided not to check my archives before tasting it again. I thought it would be kind of fun to actually go back and re-sample some candy bars that I know I've reviewed in the past, but can't quite remember what I thought of them.
That brings us to the Nestle Crunch Crisp. A very fresh Nestle Crunch is one of my top favorite candy bars, so I had high hopes for the Crunch Crisp. I bought a pack of snack-sized bars, since they were on sale this week and my house has been stripped clean of all chocolate.
The first thing I noticed was the description on the wrapper: "Baked Wafers, Crisped Rice & Chocolate Creme." (The bold text is theirs, not mine.) Are they hoping we feel like this is a healthy choice because the wafers are baked? As opposed to what? Fried?
Now like I said, I haven't looked back at my original review, but I have to tell you, I found these terribly disappointing. Yes, they were crunchy, but they were overly sweet and had a funky chemical-chocolate taste to them. I wouldn't buy these again.
Now comes the fun part. I just looked back at my original review here. OMG. I loved them! And I even compared them to the now-extinct Bar None. What was I thinking?! This is SO not like a Bar None. I hang my head in shame. Although there are two factors to take into consideration: 1) My first sample was had after several glasses of champagne, which no doubt made my taste buds all wacky and 2) The current samples have been sitting in my refrigerator, so that absolutely does alter the taste a bit.
I'm not sure how I feel about this now. Can I be trusted? Will you ever listen to anything I say ever again? I didn't expect such an existential crisis this evening. I think I need to go cleanse my palate with Saltines now. We'll talk again tomorrow after I sleep on this. | <urn:uuid:51e9f27e-e618-4be2-bf98-0fd831c8a183> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://candyyumyum.blogspot.com/2010/08/review-re-do-nestle-crunch-crisp.html | 2017-08-19T16:49:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105700.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170819162833-20170819182833-00384.warc.gz | en | 0.98812 | 451 |
By: Dhaval Shrimankar
The system of Indian classical music known as Raga Sangeet can be traced back nearly two thousand years to its origin in the Vedic hymns of the Hindu temples. Unlike Western classical music which has written scores, an Indian classical performance is based on improvisation, and anywhere from 10% to 90% of the performance could be extempore, depending on the creative imagination of the artist. The music is rendered orally to the disciple by his guru, popularly known as guru-shishya (teacher-student) parampara (tradition).
The very heart of Indian music is the raga, the melodic form upon which the artist improvises his performance. A raga is a scientific, precise, subtle and aesthetic melodic form with its own ascending and descending movement consisting of either a full seven-note octave or a series of six or five notes.
Every raga is characterized by its own particular mood. The acknowledged order of these nine sentiments, or emotions, is as follows: romantic and erotic, humorous, pathetic, anger, heroic, fearful, disgust, amazement and peaceful.
Each raga, in addition to being associated with a particular mood, is also closely connected to a particular time of day or a season of the year. Thus through the rich melodies and rhythm of Indian music, every human emotion, every subtle feeling in man and nature, can be musically expressed and experienced.
In terms of aesthetics, a raga is the projection of the artist's inner spirit: a manifestation of his most profound feelings and sensibilities. The musician breathes life into each raga as he unfolds and expands it so that each note shimmers and pulsates with life and the raga is revealed vibrant and incandescent with beauty.
The tala, or rhythmic cycle of a raga, plays an equally important role in expressing the mood. There is a unique relationship between melody and rhythm. The intricacies depict the complexities and sophistication with which they are woven together.
The division in a taal and the stress on the first beat, called sum, are the most important feature. The most exciting moment for a seasoned listener is when both the musicians, after their individual improvisations, come back together on the sum.
Today, Indian classical music is a permanent part of Western culture. Many composers and musicians have been influenced by our music. The openness, will to learn, and sincere enthusiasm of Western audiences are a continuing source of inspiration and delight. Indian music is one of the highest forms of music existing and nourished through its rich cultural heritage. | <urn:uuid:fd03eb94-2924-4881-8d32-6c43f144ea7d> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://emusicguides.com/info/Musical-Genre/Introduction-to-Indian-Classical-Music-101.html | 2017-08-21T12:08:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886108268.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170821114342-20170821134342-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960424 | 539 |
We've got some real bozos in the national political arena. Just browse the senate or house of reps and you'll find characters that are astounding in their ignorance and lack of intellect. In characterizing them, "dignity" is never a word that applies.
But here on the local level, we see a whole 'nuther animal. These guys are absolute morons. And let's face it, Wv aint exactly prime locale for finding interestiing and creative people to fill political positions. Some of them have been hanging around local politics for decades and keep getting elected to some insignificant little local office or another. Below is Charleston, WV's finest. Yea, I'm sure you all know of some political hack who is dumber or more insignificant, so do I, but this buffoon just happened to cross my radar this morning. . .
County officials fear more cell phone towers
Carper seeks balance between service, safety
By Rusty Marks
Kanawha County officials fear a rash of requests to build cellular phone towers will lead to a cell tower arms race.
"I'm against having cell towers every five feet," Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper said Thursday.
"every five feet?" WTF are you talking about you fucking blathering hack? There are all sorts of towers lining the Kanawha Valley. Cell towers are probably in the minority and certainly not the most obtrusive. "every five feet." You sound like a third grade school yard weenie.
"Theoretically, you could hang a hot dog out your car window now and have it cooked by the RF [radiation] from all these cell towers," Carper said.
No bozo, not theorethically or in actuality could you "cook a hot dog" on a cell tower, even if you put the sausage right up next to it. Obviously you know absolutely nothing about what you spew from your ignorant pie hole. What's your motive for saying ignorant shit like that? To sound smart? Scare people? What? Guess what Monkey Boy, you only sound like an ignorant jr. hi. geek.
"We were on the cutting edge when we did this," Carper said.
Sorry man-child, but you've never been on the cutting edge of ANYTHING if you've been a Kanawha Co. hack for the past 30 yrs., and certainly your dull fat ass has never gone beyond the position of space occupying air breather.
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The value of health literacy extends far beyond the boundaries of COVID-19. Education leads to fact-based empowerment, and an educated healthcare consumer can be a potent change agent. Poor health literacy is one of the reasons why life expectancy is lower in Republican-led states, and the problem has been growing worse for decades. The highest rates for covid-19 deaths and murders are found mainly in red states.
Low levels of health literacy are a source of health disparities among disadvantaged communities and minorities. Of the nearly 77 million Americans who struggle with health-related reading tasks, 65% are minorities. The issue of health literacy and minority communities is not new. Still, it has been rediscovered because of COVID-19, precisely because of the problem of vaccine hesitancy driven by historical distrust of government-sponsored healthcare programs and a perceived lack of clinical trial diversity.
The health-care options in any given state are likely to depend on which party controls the statehouse. That dictates access, cost, and coverage, particularly for the roughly 17 million people who buy their insurance and the 29 million people who lack it entirely. In the book “Homeland Insecurity … American Children at Risk,” the author suggested that kids in red states are more likely to lack health insurance, live in poverty, and die early.
The fastest-growing states in terms of the population over the last decade, including Texas, Florida, and Georgia, (red states) consistently rank last regarding health and health care. This is because these states have large numbers of uninsured adults, high levels of premature death from treatable conditions, less investment in public health, too many people with mental illnesses unable to get the care they need, and residents facing mounting insurance costs that make health care less affordable than in many other parts of the country,according to the Commonwealth Fund.
Take Texas, which added 4 million people, the most of any state, over the past decade. Texas ranked 42nd overall in our measure of health system performance — primarily because of how hard it is for people in the state to get and afford the health care they need. It has the highest uninsured rate in the country, and fewer of its residents report having a regular source of health care — an important marker of how well the health system is working. Texas also has the most significant number of residents who said they skipped health care they needed because of cost, and health insurance costs take a more substantial share of people’s incomes in Texas than in almost any other state. Texas is also one of 14 states that still have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act provisions, leaving millions of working people uninsured.
Florida, which grew by nearly 3 million people, has a similar story. It ranks 41st overall, and its residents face many of the same health care access and affordability challenges as people living in Texas, with many uninsured and high insurance costs. Another fast-growing state, Georgia, ranks 46th overall. Georgians face similar health care access problems as Texans and Floridians, but what stands out is its preventable mortality: Georgia has one of the highest rates of premature (before age 75) death from treatable conditions and one of the highest rates of infant mortality — ranking 42nd on both measures. All three of these states rank poorly in other areas of health care too.
Politics of red states are killing their residents. Conservative governors increasingly use preemption, the authority to override local governments, to block liberal health policies (e.g., indoor smoking bans),” he notes. States have preempted local regulations on nutrition (e.g., menu labeling, food deserts), and, as of 2013, 45 states had enacted statutes to limit local firearm regulations.
The difference between red and blue states might be related to gun laws, higher levels of poverty (where red states also predominate), low education levels (also worse in red states), cruddy health care (identical), or relatively low economic opportunity (again, red states dominate the worst states).
Whatever the specific reason, the governing philosophy of right-wing states (e.g., low spending; prioritization of cultural wedge issues; anti-elitism) leads to deadly results. Maybe it’s time they stop spending their political energy persecuting gay kids, banning books, outlawing abortion, and fanning culture wars. They have plenty of systemic problems they’ve failed to address while busying themselves with MAGA crusades. Red-state voters should see why their states have fallen so far behind in so many categories. | <urn:uuid:58a85a0d-452a-41e4-ab70-e33263cbfe0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://worldofdtcmarketing.com/red-states-are-bad-for-your-health/ | 2022-05-28T19:50:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663019783.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220528185151-20220528215151-00509.warc.gz | en | 0.962217 | 929 |
AFF-USA; Courtesy Shakira
According to photographers on the scene, the singer spent more than six hours inside the Jordi Ripoll salon, which opened just for her. After getting her cut — and posting a cute pic to Twitter (right) — Shakira reportedly went straight for boyfriend Gerard Pique‘s apartment.
Since Shakira has had pretty long locks for quite some time, the new style is definitely a change, but the sharp bob and fringe-y bangs — similar to Katy Perry’s new cut — are very flattering. Tell us: What do you think of Shakira’s new look? | <urn:uuid:d5e447ad-bbc9-4205-86ea-d363c1087f94> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://people.com/style/photo-shakira-chops-her-hair/ | 2017-08-19T22:24:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105927.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170819220657-20170820000657-00620.warc.gz | en | 0.960221 | 131 |
Get your baby boy ready for every muddy outdoor adventure with a wardrobe full of T-shirts, long-sleeve T-shirts and loose-fit vests. Choose T-shirts with whimsical prints, fun characters and cute animal motifs. Let’s be honest, anything in pint sized is sweet and cute. You’ll be able to dress as a mini version of his dad! Our tops are available in cotton and cotton blends, the fabrics are breathable and soft so he’ll be comfortable all-day long. These T-shirt options are great during times when the weather cool. In the same way that you’d dress yourself in layers to peel off or add on as the weather changes, so to should you layer up your baby boy. Start with a short-sleeved T-shirt, layer on pants or joggers, and top off with a light hoodie.
While you might be keen to go neutral as it’s the safest option, but don’t be afraid to embrace bright colours and prints. You can pair them with jeans and neutral joggers or shorts. Look out for loose-fit T-shirts with wide necks so that you can easily pull his T-shirts over his head – nothing makes a baby fuss quicker than a too-tight T-shirt. Long-sleeve T-shirts are great for easy and everyday tops for your baby boy to wear as the weather starts to cool. Wear them as is or layer them under a cardigan or jersey as winter kicks in. There is also a selection of quirky printed sweaters, which adds some fun to his wardrobe. If you’re feeling bold, clash prints – it’s the perfect time to have fun with his look before he starts telling you what he wants to wear. | <urn:uuid:9beb029a-0fb4-44ea-8151-f2afcb29bbe6> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.spree.co.za/category/kids-and-babies/baby-boys-tops-1305?event_category=Nav_Flyout&event_action=-Baby-Boys-0-2-Tops | 2018-03-17T16:21:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257645248.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20180317155348-20180317175348-00141.warc.gz | en | 0.945007 | 372 |
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[Brazil, religious education] STF Conclui Julgamento Sobre Ensino Religioso nas Escolas Públicas ADI No. 4439, September 27, 2017. The Brazilian Federal Supreme Court dismissed, by a 6 to 5 majority, a Direct Action of Unconstitutionality in which the Public Prosecutor’s Office questioned the model of religious education in the country’s public school system. In Portuguese: Initial question. Conclusion of Decision
English: Comment on I-CONnect Blog.
[Europe: Italy, conscientious objectors] Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) v. Italy (2016), Complaint No. 91/2013 (European Committee on Social Rights, Strasbourg, France) Decision in English.
–-which builds upon this 2014 decision: International Planned Parenthood European Network v. Italy (2014), Complaint No. 87/2012, 10 March 2014 (European Committee on Social Rights, Strasbourg, France) Decision in English. Both decisions summarized by Tania Pagotto.
[Kenya] – Court of Appeal acquitted Jackson Tali, a registered nurse sentenced to death on murder charges re pregnancy complications. October 19, 2017. Press release by the Center for Reproductive Rights Overturns: Republic v Jackson Namunya Tali eKLR, High Court Criminal Case No. 75 of 2009 (High Court of Kenya at Nairobi). Overturned decision. Overturned decision summarized in Legal Grounds III by Godfrey Kangaude and Annagrace Rwehumbiza.
[Spain, conscientious objectors] Zurich Insurance PLC, Sucursal en España v. Doña Encarnacion y don César y Servicio Galego de Saude, Sentencia 00392/2017, Apelación 43/17 (High Court of Galicia at Coruña, Spain) Decision in Spanish. English summary by lawyer F. F. Guillen.
[West Africa: Nigerian police abuse women] Suit no ECW/CCJ/APP/17/14. October 13, 2017, Community Court of Justice, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) awarded 18 million naira as compensation to an actress Dorothy Chioma Njemanze and two other women for the violation of their human rights to dignity following the physical, sexual and psychological violence inflicted on them by agents of the Nigerian State. Press release from ECOWAS Court. Newspaper report. Comment by Benson Chakaya
Africa – Doctoral Scholarships: LL.D/D.Phil in Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa:
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, calls for applications for full-time doctoral scholarships in the field of sexual and/or reproductive rights and their intersection with culture or criminalisation in the African region. Apply by 15 Nov 2017 Scholarship details
Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies, ed. Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman and Bernard M. Dickens (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), now also in Spanish (see next entry) and in paperback, 20% discount code PH70. English edition from U Penn Press. Table of Contents with chapter summaries.
Abortion Decisions Online, based on the book’s Table of Cases
El aborto en el derecho transnacional: casos y controversias, ed. Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman y Bernard M. Dickens (Mexico: FCE/CIDE, 2016) En espanol, 2016: Fondo de Cultura Económica y Libreria CIDE. Índice con resúmenes de capítulos 1-11
Tabla de Casos/Jurisprudencia sobre aborto en línea con enlaces a muchas de las decisiones judiciales
[abortion] “How Laws Fail the Promise of Medical Abortion: A Global Look,” by Patty Skuster, Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 18.379, 2017. Abstract and Article.
[abortion] “The Politics of Global Abortion Rights,” by Joanna N. Erdman, Brown Journal of World Affairs 22.2 (2016): 39-57. Article online
[abortion, Central and Eastern Europe] “Mandatory Waiting Periods and Biased Abortion Counseling in Central and Eastern Europe,” by Leah Hoctor and Adriana Lamačková, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 139 (Nov. 2017): 253–258. PDF at Wiley Online Library. Submitted text online at SSRN.
“Abortion Travel and the Limits of Choice,” by Lisa Kelly, 12 FIU L. Rev. 27 (2016).
[Africa] “Conscientious Objection to Abortion and Accommodating Women’s Reproductive Health Rights: Reflections on a Decision of the Constitutional Court of Colombia from an African Regional Human Rights Perspective,” by Charles G. Ngwena, Journal of African Law, 58 (2014): 183-209 Article now online.
[Africa] Legal Grounds III, Reproductive and Sexual Rights in Sub-Saharan African Courts (2017)
Legal Grounds III Online now includes searchable links to entire book, individual case summaries and decisions, plus more recent cases.
[Zika, Brasil and Human Rights Obligations]: now in Spanish, Portuguese and English:
—“Infección por el virus de Zika en Brasil y obligaciones relacionadas con los derechos humanos,” por Debora Diniz, Sinara Gumieri, Beatriz Galli Bevilacqua, Rebecca J. Cook, y Bernard M. Dickens, Boletin FLASOG 5.2( June 2017): 6-12.
En espanol Boletin FLASOG, pp 6-12
Em português do Brasil, forthcoming in Revista Uni Brasilia Direito.
—“Zika Infection in Brazil and Human Rights Obligations,” by Debora Diniz, Sinara Gumieri, Beatriz Galli Bevilacqua, Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 136.1 (Jan. 2017) 105-110.
PDF online. Submitted text in English at SSRN.
International news and resources for advocacy: International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion.
US-focused news, resources, and legal developments are available on Repro Rights Prof Blog. View or subscribe.
Links to employers in the field of Reproductive and Sexual Health Law are online here
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WordPress has made it! It’s the world’s most popular content management system, in fact, the best cms platforms 2020, that’s fuelling almost 34% of the websites on the Internet. Wait! Hold your horses, there are more startling facts to keep you alive. Since the major activities on WordPress have to do with the publishing of personal blogs, portfolios, news and e-commerce maintenance, WordPress statistics and data measure about 17 blogs published on WordPress per second. On a monthly basis, this may go straight up to 70 million new posts and 77 million new comments. How can this not be true. In fact, every six months about 1.1 million new domains are registered on WordPress. We could perhaps have a whole new blog post on WordPress statistics but did you notice that all these data are testaments to WordPress’s flexibility and constant change? So, if you have plans to design a WordPress website, you need to keep the latest trends up your sleeve to stay ahead of the queue. However, a detailed look at WordPress trends will not fit into a tight post and demands a good amount of discussion like the one below. You can still take a quick look at my chopped up video content on WordPress Trends for 2020-21. Or maybe come along and read the interesting details that will follow!
From the previous data, you can easily infer that businesses across the globe are resorting to WordPress development to design their powerful websites in no time. Since business needs, customer tastes, and choices keep swinging without a warning, trends keep emerging and leaving. To gain the maximum potential out of a WordPress website, you will have to stay on the loop updating the new features, functionalities, themes, and plugins to push your website to the next level of performance. Coming back to some statistics to leave you surprised again? No at all, just to back my take on trends. Say, WordPress plugins for instance, let users personalize their unique needs and among the 55,000 plugins living in the WordPress Directory, new options are added daily. What about the themes and style sheets sold on premium Envato Market worth $1 million? Although the WordPress theme development team releases default themes every year, about 11,000 themes have made it to the users through the Envato Market. Most likely searches appear for niche themes and responsive themes which has something new to offer every time a user comes back. Now that’s too much data, but worth a plunge. Moreover, If you stay on trend you also win the benefit of cutting through your competitors. After all, a trendsetter never fails to impress his audience, isn’t it?
The latest developments are rolled out in two ways – (i) WordPress latest updates on design trends and (ii) updates brought by the company itself. Our discussion would follow with these benchmarks in mind and most importantly the platform introduced in recent years. All hail Gutenberg! The brand new editor for the WordPress platform that will take care of all the essential WordPress trends for 2020. With the arrival of Gutenberg, WordPress has shifted to adding content within “blocks” instead of leaving it scattered all over the place on a page. All the following releases of WordPress are hoping to see the same block principle applied to menus, widgets and all other parts of the user interface. Therefore, taking a step forward with WordPress in 2020 has to ring a bell on “blocks”, so that adding rich content becomes simple and enjoyable.
Now, this is for those who cannot get their tech side up to design a site to their needs. Even when developers and WordPress companies can assist your unique needs, few designers hold back from making a site because they find it difficult. However, with Gutenberg, WordPress has kick-started the native page building system that gives you a simplified user interface with options to alter a few territories of the page. Just a drag and a drop and there you get to see what your page would look like. Elementor and Divi are common examples of such page building tools. Why just designers, even developers see page builders as a hack for quick deployment now. The need for websites are increasing every day and this trend is sure to stay at the peak in the WordPress latest version 2020 and more years that follow – a non-stop running feature indeed!
We know that WordPress powers millions of brands and businesses despite its size and purpose. So, it’s not always profitable to stick to specialized themes. With the advent of blocks, designers can now go beyond the boundaries of WordPress theme development to customize their websites. Any sort of site comes in handy with a set of multipurpose themes with different styles and plugins to choose from. Individuals are pulled into the customizing options with multipurpose themes already gaining popularity in the WordPress latest version 2020 and are sure to rise in the coming years.
The motion design is a relatively young member of the UI family has now seeped into the trends making up the WordPress website builder. Gone are the days when users were amazed by static pages with flashy colors, textures, symbols, and styles, now they look for incredible movements that take them through a journey. It should tell your users where to go next, which tab to click on or which is the most important content on the page. If used correctly, it can be the most powerful tool that breathes life into your websites recounting your brand’s unique story.
Voice Search is not something unheard of. With Siri, Alexa, and Cortana penetrating into our lives, such voice-activated WordPress website development will also take an offshoot. Since users prefer feeding voice commands to find their way to search and reach the best websites, more and more businesses are adding voice search capabilities to their WordPress websites for ranking better on the SERP pages of search engines. It is assumed that a large proportion of online dealings will take place through voice searches instead of typing and clicking around websites. Due to which, one of the WordPress plugin ideas 2020 could be a voice search plugin like – Voice Assistant Dialog Navigation or WP Fastest Site Search. Another, fascinating trend that has taken over websites in recent years is the pop-up “ Hi, how can I help you?” – yes the chatbots! Users prefer coming back to websites that can enquire about their needs, solve problems, answer queries, and talk to them just as humans would. They are a great way to gather data from customers in real-time and through CRM in WordPress, this has become easily conceivable. Since chatbots bring both customers and convenience to your website, they are hitting the grounds as one of the best WordPress tools 2020.
Online purchase and selling websites are ever-growing. From the littlest of things to the biggest of commodities, users get to view the complete details before the product arrives at their doorsteps with a swipe of a finger. For the remote purchase that happens, businesses are now trying to incorporate augmented reality technology to improve the shopping experience of their customers. The AR lets your users try out products virtually as it were in reality. For instance, an optics company selling their glasses online can set AR into motion so that buyers can virtually try them on before ordering. Thanks to WooCommerce, the smart WordPress eCommerce plugin that can turn your WordPress page into a revenue-generating internet business site. This plugin creates smooth payment gateways, inventory maintaining channels and power customer service too making it the most loved WordPress e-commerce website builder.
No fancy flourishes, no gaudy layouts, no flashy color patterns. Saying yes to a design that uses lots of white spaces, a well-chosen color palette, enough design around the content to offer an aesthetically pleasing experience is what minimalistic web pages do. And that’s exactly what ranks high in people’s preferences. This trend is also an offshoot of wearable tech like smartwatches with smaller screen sizes. People need sites that take less time to load with relevant content to help them achieve their goals. WordPress also looks to be minimalist with a lot of breathing space to increase site speed with mobile optimization.
With websites piling up each day, it has become difficult to give that extra reason for your users to choose your brand. But there’s no giving up. When old ways don’t work you need to switch to some creative ways to scale up and the new way to do this is by infusing handmade or hand-drawn designs to showcase your personality. WordPress is open to any such experiments – quirky, funny, lively or whatsoever.
WordPress developers are all set to phase out the classic editor. So, shouldn’t the same go with you? You do not want your plugins to fall outdated posing a security threat. While you look forward to going with Gutenberg, you may not know what impact it can have on your current website. After all, an editor shouldn’t leave nightmares for the rest of the days. So before you start, I recommend you test it on a staging site of your live website. Just because you do not want your website to crash if the editor proves incompatible. Next, you can continue installing the Gutenberg editor in the plugin form editor from your dashboard if you’ve updated your WordPress to the latest version. Now, if you find errors after the new editor is installed, do not fret because this happens. Instead, make a note of all the errors that are most likely to occur with plugins and themes and try updating them. Once updated, you are done with troubleshooting and your website looks like in place now. Moving ahead, create a backup of your original WordPress page before installing Gutenberg in the final process. Now that you’ve protected your original site against any risk, you can finally try Guttenberg for your WordPress.
With WordPress making it to the list of best cms platforms 2020, there is always a need to measure its rightfulness to the title. One of the ways to access WordPress development is through the availability of themes to the users. Choices are abundant but there are several parameters to cross-check before you proceed with a particular theme. Since themes are pillars playing a major role as WordPress website builders, the first and foremost feature would be the cost. Now based on your purpose you could choose either the free or premium themes. Free themes are handy for those of you who want simple designs but have limited options of customizing. With premium, it’s the other way around. Second, you need to make sure that the themes work well on every browser and respond equally on mobile devices and PCs. Also, if a theme has a demo version to test run then you might as well go ahead with it. Most importantly, never choose a theme before considering its security features – themes with bad security is a loss for the worse.
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Preheat oven to 200°C/ 180°C fan forced. Heat a griddle pan to medium heat. Cook zucchini on either side for 1 minute or until grill lines appear, remove from pan and reserve.
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- The Monthly Jobs Report - 8:30am on the first Friday of the month was a time to showcase Bush's failure to create enough jobs beyond the 150K jobs that were necessary to address natural growth of the American population
- The Stock Market - decline = Bush is a failure. Success = corporate greed needs to be put in check
- Last was the question of "Bush' s First Veto"
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Obama First Veto Watch
As I think back to my days on various progressive biased blogs I am recalling the rituals that were constructed by the anti-Bush progerssives.
You see the fact that Bush never vetoed any bills from Congress was proof that he was complicit in with the policies coming out of congress and thus a weak, rubber stamp President.
Well Bush finally did render a veto of congress. It was in his second term, against stem cells. It was July 2006
I now will keep track of any evidence of Obama's intention to veto anything coming out of the Democratic House and Senate.
Obama did recently threaten to video a bill which threatens to strip $800 million from the federal education spending for "Race To The Top", Charter Schools and other programs. It is the left wing Democrats that threaten these cuts.
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Hey Backers !
I wasn't able to find any (or very less) informations about Guns being available in the game.
I pledged PoE but without access to the Backer Beta [ :'( ], my question was :
- What types of guns are (or will be) available ? Can anybody list them ? or just a few .
- Is there one-handed Pistols / Dual'Guns ?
I'm interested in the Cipher Class and have seen that he builds his "Focus" on auto-attacks, so my guess was (Dream Mode Activated) that it would be cool to be a Cipher with Dual'Guns (just like Dual'Daggers) to auto-attack foes :D.
What can you guys tell me about this ?
PS : This isn't a Post about "Guns has nothing to do in Fantasy !" because adding Guns in a Fantasy World is a Fantasy too xD.
Just a question that I'm thinking about now : Any hints on an Open Beta soon ? Early 2015 ?
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Diary of a Currency Trader: A simple strategy for foreign exchange trading and how it is used in pra (BOK)
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Diary of a Currency Trader is Samuel J. Rae's no-nonsense, full disclosure look at his approach to the retail foreign exchange markets. In the book Samuel takes you through his personal journey and how he got to where he is today followed by a step-by-step, illustrated description of the strategy he uses and the principles that underlie his approach. Having described the way he trades, Samuel then journals ninety days' worth of market operations with full explanations as to how and why he enters each and every trade, the results he achieves and his thoughts on the markets he operates in. Fully illustrated and set out in an easy to follow format, Diary of a Currency Trader takes you into the daily operations of a retail trader to an unprecedented level of detail. If you are looking to discover what it actually means to trade forex full time, this book is for you.
|Utgitt||2013||Forfatter||Samuel J. Rae|
Harriman House Publishing
|Antall sider||182||Dimensjoner||14cm x 21,6cm x 1cm|
|Vekt||218 gram||Leverandør||Bertram Trading Ltd|
|Emner og form||Investment & securities, Diaries, letters & journals, Monetary economics| | <urn:uuid:f2ee9cae-8cac-4af7-a2ad-f20a3cb7e68a> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://www.platekompaniet.no/bok/diary-of-a-currency-trader-a-simple-strategy-for-foreign-exchange-trading-and-how-it-is-used-in-pra-samuel-j-rae/ | 2017-08-24T11:13:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886133449.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170824101532-20170824121532-00601.warc.gz | en | 0.895418 | 309 |
Forest School in Walthamstow hosting open evening this June
PUBLISHED: 10:03 13 May 2019 | UPDATED: 10:03 13 May 2019
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Forest is a well-rounded, happy, busy school offering excellent academic provision and a full range of co-curricular opportunities, with around 1400 boys and girls from 4 – 18yrs
They believe that our combination of single-sex and mixed educational opportunities - the diamond structure - gives pupils the best of all worlds. They thrive on it.
Within the Prep School and Senior School, the Form and House system means that pupils are looked after in small units of care. In the Pre-Prep (4 - 7) and Sixth Form (16 - 18), boys and girls are taught together, but between the ages of 7 and 16 pupils are taught in separate classes, to maximise the benefits of single-sex teaching for children of that age.
Life is not a single-sex environment, however, and a child's social development involves learning to form relationships with a wide range of people. This is where Forest's diamond structure comes into its own.
Outside the classroom, for example, boys and girls of all ages mix in a wide range of co-curricular activities; brothers and sisters share the same school in a way that single-sex teaching would otherwise preclude.
They benefit from a tremendous location, a city school with thirty acres of grounds surrounded by ancient forest here on the very edge of London, all creating a wonderfully diverse community for pupils that they are very proud of.
You will find details of future opportunities to visit Forest on their website.
The Summer Open Evening takes place on Monday 24th June, 4.30pm -7pm.
The next Open Day will be held on 21st September, 8.30am-1.30pm.
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The saga behind the firing of former Washington Redskins general manager Scot McCloughan continues to captivate the attention of several media outlets. In recent reports about McCloughan’s departure, there seems to be a focus on the manner in which he dealt with some Redskins players.
One reported incident deals with meeting with cornerback Bashaud Breeland. Despite information shared about a tense meeting between the fourth-year defensive back and the former general manager, Breeland took to Twitter to tell his side of the story.
Based off the series of tweets posted by the former Clemson star, it’s clear Breeland didn’t approve of the conclusions that mentioned about his after practice meeting with McCloughan in December of 2016.
There has been much speculation from unnamed sources about McCloughan’s tenure and ultimate dismissal from the Redskins it was surprising to see Breeland respond in such a public manner.
The barrage of tweets posted by Breeland illustrates how social media can be used by players to provide unfiltered rebuttals of news stories written about them or the team in which they play. Despite the reporting about a shouting match between the two men, Breeland apparently wanted it known that he has a lot of respect for the former GM of the Burgundy and Gold. | <urn:uuid:b15a8e51-23fc-4156-a378-07008fd2f9df> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://redskinswire.usatoday.com/2017/03/17/redskins-bashaud-breeland-addresses-relationship-with-fired-gm-scot-mccloughan/ | 2017-05-25T18:08:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608120.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525180025-20170525200025-00412.warc.gz | en | 0.97958 | 261 |
I am very slow with completing books as I am consumed with job hunting for a health lawyer position in MA. I thought it would be fun to track my reading progress each week. The Sunday Salon is an online reading group where all the participants set aside time to read every Sunday and blog about the experience. To learn more or to join, click on the picture above.
This morning before I started my bar exam studying, I read a few more pages of the Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham. The book is coming to close and I am purposely reading slowly because I have enjoyed it so much. I wish that I could say the same thing about the material I need to read to prepare for the bar exam :)
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Just three players from Saturday’s 3-0 win at Exeter are in Lincoln City’s starting line-up for tonight’s Checkatrade Trophy clash with Mansfield.
Danny Cowley has made eight changes to the side as the Imps begin the defence of the competition they memorably won in April with a 1-0 victory over Shrewsbury at Wembley.
Only defenders Michael Bostwick and Harry Toffolo and winger Harry Anderson have retained their places in the side as Cowley again shuffles his pack for a cup matches.
Among the players to come into the side are recent signings Kellan Gordon and Bernard Mensah, while summer signings Joan Luque and Adam Crookes make only their second starts for the club.
There are a couple of surprise names on the bench with recently-signed Academy striker Jordan Adebayo-Smith and veteran player-coach Jamie McCombe among the substitutes.
The Stags, who like the Imps are unbeaten in League Two so far this season, have made six changes to the side which defeated Carlisle 1-0 on Saturday.
Imps: Slocombe; Gordon, Bostwick, Crookes, Toffolo; Chapman, Luque, McCartan; Anderson, Rhead, Mensah.
Subs: Smith, O’Connor, Frecklington, Andrade, McCombe, Akinde, Adebayo-Smith.
Stags: Logan, White, Benning, Preston, McDonald, Davies, Atkinson, Butcher, Elsnik, Gibbens, Rose.
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A man suspected of being involved in the recent Estcourt cannibalism case has been arrested in Izingolweni, KwaZulu-Natal, South Coast Herald reports.
Police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbhele confirmed late yesterday (Wednesday) that he was the sixth suspect to be arrested.
“The 25-year-old was hiding in the Izingolweni area. He was arrested and charged, and will appear in court today (Thursday),” said Colonel Mbhele.
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Going From One Child to Twoby Amy Werdekker
So, you’re surviving life with your first child? Congratulations! Who knew something so small could make your heart grow so big and turn your world completely upside down? Well...just wait until baby number two comes crashing into your lives!
You’ve been there, done that with all the baby books, the sleepless nights, endless feeds and nappy changes that you would almost consider yourself a pro and think it will be a breeze to just slot another child right into your cosy little trio. No matter how prepared you think you are for a second child, nothing can ever fully prepare you until you are in the throws of it. One child is one. Two is like ten! And while you may have gained a little more confidence in your parenting skills since your first baby was born and you’ve already bookmarked your favorite google searches - ‘what happens if my baby doesn’t poo for 10 days’, it’s important to remember that every child is different and they occasionally like to throw you a curveball to keep you on your toes!
Here are a few of my main worries and what I did to help tackle them:
‘How can my heart possibly be big enough to love another baby as much as my first?’
As your due date looms closer, you will start to worry about loving baby number two as much as your firstborn and how could your heart possibly be big enough? Truthfully, your heart isn’t big enough! But what it will do is literally double in size. And while you may not love them both exactly the same, or one more than the other, you will love them each in different ways. For instance, I will always love Flynn for being the one that made me a mother but I will always love Arthur for teaching me patience due to his cheeky, persistent nature.
‘Postpartum recovery with a toddler’
Remember after having your first child when you spent too many days than you care to admit lounging around the house in your dressing gown, napping when the baby napped and taking things easy? Well, you can kiss goodbye to those memories because you won't be able to do that again. Your first child won't care if you’re exhausted from birthing a baby and up all night cluster feeding. They won't care if your body feels bruised and broken and your boobs feel like they are about to explode the day your milk comes in as they dive onto you for a cuddle. They won't care if you’ve literally had to be stitched back together while they are demanding you take them to soft play or the park. Recovery second time around is a whole different ballgame and some days, you will just have to suck it up or ask for help, especially when that Paternity Leave ends and you are flying solo.
‘How will I give them both the attention they need?’
This one is trickier and definitely one I struggled with the most initially. A newborn baby demands A LOT of attention and that only becomes more apparent when you have a second child to factor into the mix. Flynn was 2.5 years old when Arthur came along and so he was mostly able to understand that Arthur ‘needed Mommy’ a lot at times but I found that getting him in on the action with things such as bath time and diaper changes helped him to feel a bit more involved and more accepting of his new title of ‘big brother’. Newborns also sleep A LOT so that was another way I made the most of utilizing any free time I had with Flynn. Housework and chores can wait. Arthurs nap-times meant playtime for Flynn and that of course sometimes meant that my home looked like we were losing a game of Jumanji. I never wanted him to feel pushed out or second best, so even if I was busy with Arthur, I would always make sure he was getting that 1-2-1 time with Joey instead or spending time with grandparents. It’s a juggle to begin with but you will soon settle into a new routine of whatever works for you. Admittedly though, it is hard to prioritize your children when one is crying to be fed and the other is crying for attention but I promise you, you will get there. It is also completely normal to wish multiple times a day that your horror of a toddler would just shut up so that you can tend to your newborn, and that doesn’t mean you love them any less, or you are a bad parent. It means you are human and the juggle of motherhood is really hard!
‘What if they hate their baby sibling?’
I really worried about this one. Flynn was not only the firstborn, but he was also the first grandchild in our family and for 2.5 years, he had enjoyed all of the attention on him. How was he going to feel when this new little person arrived and stole his thunder? To help him prepare for this, we read books about becoming a big brother and mommy having a baby in her tummy etc. I would let him feel the baby kicking and we would talk about what it would be like having a baby join the family. As the day got nearer and nearer, he became more and more excited, I will never forget the day Flynn met Arthur for the first time. He ran into our living room with the biggest smile on his face and took one look at Arthur in my arms, sat down beside me and demanded a cuddle. All he could say was “he’s so cute and little!” and right there and then, my heart just melted.
‘Getting out of the house with 2 children’
Leaving the house with one child is a mission in itself sometimes, but with two, you need to give yourself at least half an hour before you actually need to leave or just accept the fact you will never be on time for anything ever again. You can almost guarantee that one child will need the toilet/changing or another will want to be fed. And you will need to make sure you own a bag big enough to house all the diapers, wipes, spare outfits, snacks, drinks, toys etc. It’s like packing for a mini-break every time you leave the house, just less fun! I found that using a backpack style changing bag was a total lifesaver as it could fit so much stuff in and was much easier to carry around. We also purchased a buggy board for the stroller to give somewhere for Flynn to have a little rest while out and about if he got tired of walking. He was at an age where he didn’t want to be in a stroller anymore but would still throw out the occasional “CARRY MEEEEE!” if he just couldn’t be bothered to walk so this was an ideal compromise. There will, of course, be days where the thought of leaving the house is just far too much effort and all you will want to do is bunker down at home and hide away from the thought of taking 2 small humans out but trust me, your toddler will thank you for it. Even just a short walk for some fresh air will help tire them out and get rid of some of that pent up energy for them.
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Assignment 1 key
Assignment 1 Update on questions 10 , 11, or (No) Fun with Bibliography
There were enough
difficulties with questions # 10
and #11 on Assignment 1 that I'm going to give you two new ones to
those, before weighing the pass/fail scores. However, you can learn a
those problems detailed below. As we see, web material remains an
emulation of print. In all answers 2nd and subsequent lines would be
indented, but on my browser it all fits on one line and indenting may
mess up the wrap function..
Complications with number 10 on Assignment 1.
The primary medium is not controversial; it is a magazine rather than an academic journal. However, if you looked it up on our NCSU library catalog, you'd have seen Atlantic Monthly listed for the print title, but The Atlantic in Lexis/Nexis database. Used to be called The Atlantic Monthly Magazine. Now online it' s just The Atlantic. If this were a print only medium, the MLA answer form is:
Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic July - Aug. 2008 : n. pag. Print.
note no volume or issue # given or needed, unlike academic journals, and note that it's quite common for magazines to not be single month dates. That's why citation builder is smart to include the 2-month option in its pulldown menu of date types.
MLA shows magazine title italicized, no punctuation between title and date, and use of n. pag. for no pages given, following the colon that always separates a magazine's publication info from its pages.
But the question included info about its online version and here's where we see confusing variants. In your MLA Handbook, MLA7 shows one most similar entry, an article in Newsweek found online. On p. 186 (5.6.2) We see this:
Tyre, Peg. "Standardized Tests in College?" Newsweek. Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2007. Web. 21 Aug. 2007.
What's confusing here is that is falls under the subhead "A Work Cited Only on the Web". Yes, it is, but it also exists in print and not just on the web and should, to avoid confusion, go in the next subhead "A Work on the Web Cited with Print Publication Data."
If I put all of the publication data for this one into Citation Builder it returns the correct MLA7 entry thus:
Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains." The Atlantic. The Atlantic, July & Aug. 2008: n. pag. Web. 1 Oct. 2011.
note that the n in n. pag is not capped because it follows a colon, not a period.
<>Some of your answers put parentheses around the date info, something not seen in MLA. So I'm guessing you who did that looked up the actual Atlantic article in LexisNexis, and then used it's export function to generate an entry that takes this Lexis Nexis export in MLA7 form . I tried it with another essay by the same author at got this:>
Carr, Nicholas. "Googlethink." The Atlantic. (June 8, 2010 ): 693 words. LexisNexis Academic. Web. Date Accessed: 2012/08/31.
Note that the caution flag says may not be correct. And it isn't yet in MLA7 form whether you default to print only, or cite it as in print but available on web.
If I plug the very same data into Zotero and ask for an MLA7 entry we get this:
Nicholas Carr. “Googlethink.” The Atlantic 8 June 2010. Web. 31 Aug. 2012.
You could retrieve the source from this, but it also doesn't match the MLA7's own Newsweek-type example it should, because it leaves out online publisher after title.
Complications with #11
Here it boils down to what the right name of the site is and what the online publisher name is. The organization that uses the site to publish is Conference on College Composition and Communication. Known in the trade as 4 Cs, but often shortened in works cited to CCCC. Although the web-published item was in quotation marks, it was not published in the print journal, College Composition and Communication. Instead it was displayed "published" on the web directly on the home page in 2009. The statement was revised in 2009 from a prior version in 2007. In such cases, just pick the most recent revision date. Since the publisher was not the journal CCC, since this statement on second language writers wasn't in the print journal, it would make sense for it to be the whole organization, or CCCC. However, the most correct version of all for the web publisher, as those paying to put it up, is really the NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English. Note they hold the copyright, and that is what best emulates real publication. They wouldn't be italicized, because in MLA names of publishers, print or web, are not.
#11 Correct answer variants:
Committee On Second Language Writing And Writers. "CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers." CCCC Homepage. CCCC, Nov. 2009. Web. 1 Nov. 2011.
Committee On Second Language Writing And Writers. "CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers." CCCC Home Page. CCCC, Nov. 2009. Web. 1 Nov. 2011.
Committee On Second Language Writing And Writers. "CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers." CCCC Home Page. NCTE, Nov. 2009. Web. 1 Nov. 2011.
spelled out the abbreviated, shorter versions, that's fine. MLA just
encourages shorter where possible
Even though the closest entry listing a web home page in 5.6.2 p. 186 shows home page not in italics, here the home page is the larger compilation within which we find the statement, putting the latter in quotation marks and the former italicized, to keep MLA consistent with itself. In the Liu example, there is no item within the page, so my best guess is that MLA treats any home page as if it were a preface or forward, items not italicized in MLA, but not a great parallel with many a home page.
title: The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction
author: Wayne C. Booth
publisher: University of California Press
publication date: 1992
publication place: Berkeley
Booth, Wayne C. The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction. Berkeley: U of California P, 1992. Print.
single-author book. monograph.
chapter title: Imagination in Place
book title: The Way of Ignorance
inclusive pages of chapter: 39-52
publication date: 2005
publication place: Berkeley
author: Wendell Berry
Berry, Wendell. "Imagination in Place." The Way of Ignorance. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2005. 39-52. Print.
essay in a
authors: Roman Jakobson and Linda R. Waugh
book title: The Sound Shape of Language
publisher: Indiana University Press
publication place: Bloomington
publication date: 1979
Jakobson, Roman, and Linda R. Waugh. The Sound Shape of Language. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1979. Print.
translator: Robert Fagles
book title: The Odyssey
publication date: 1996
publication place: New York
Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Viking, 1996. Print.
work in translation
title of article: Place Deixis and the Schematics of Imagined Space: Milton to Keats
author: Mark J. Bruhn
journal title: Poetics Today
volume number: 26
issue number: 3
date of print publication: 2005
inclusive pages of article: 387-432
date of reseracher's access: 3 Oct. 2011
medium: print and online journal
Bruhn, Mark J. "Place Deixis and the Schematics of Imagined Space: Milton to Keats." Poetics Today 26.3 (2005): 387-432. Web. 3 Oct. 2011.
print, available online
author: Geoffrey Chaucer
editor of collection: F. W. Robinson
publication date: 1957
publication place: Boston
collection title: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F. W. Robinson. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1957. Print.
dissertation title: Blurred Distinctions: Emerging Forms of Academic Writing
degree-granting institution: University of New Mexico
year of degree: 1996
publisher: not published
date of publication: none, unpublished dissertation
author: Denise R. Stephenson
Stephenson, Denise R. "Blurred Distinctions: Emerging Forms of Academic Writing." Diss. U of New Mexico, 1996. Print.
Title of Essay: Michel Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric
Volume # of journal: 25
Issue # of journal: 4
Pubulication year: 1992
Inclusive pages of essay: 351-364
Journal Title Philosophy and Rhetoric
Author of essay: Barbara Biesecker
Biesecker, Barbara. "Michel Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 25.4 (1992): 351-364. Print.
title: The Time Machine
original publication date: 1895
modern publication place: London
modern publication date: 1992
modern publisher: Dent
author of book: H. G. Wells
Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. 1895. London: Dent, 1992. Print.
author: Nicholas Carr
title: Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
magazine title: The Atlantic
publication issue date: July - August 2008
online publisher: The Atlantic pages of essay: no pages given
date of researcher's access: 1 Oct. 2011
Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains." The Atlantic Jul. - Aug. 2008: n. pag. The Atlantic. Web. 1 Oct. 2011.
author: Committee on Second Language Writing and Writers
title of article: "CCCC Statement on Second Language writing and Writers."
site of online publication: CCC Homepage
online publisher: CCC
date posted/published: Nov. 2009
Date of access: 1 Nov. 2011.
Committee on Second Language Writing and Writers. "CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers." CCCC Home Page. CCCC, Nov. 2009. Web. 1 Nov. 2011.
author of web essay
film title: It's a Wonderful Life
release date: 1946
director: Frank Capra
performers: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas Mitchell
Capra, Frank, dir. It's a Wonderful Life. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas Mitchell. RKO, 1946. Film.
online only journal title: PostModernCulture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism
author of essay: Krister Friday
volume number of journal: 13
issue number of journal: 3
posting/publication date of journal: 2003
pages of essay: no pages given, but 38 paragraphs long
date of reseracher's access: 8 Aug. 2012
title of essay: A Generation of Men Without History: Fight Club, Masculinity, and the Historical Sympton
Krister. "A Generation of Men Without History: Fight Club,
Masculinity, and the Historical Symptom." PostModernCulture: An
Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism 13.3 (2003): 38
pars. Web. 8 Aug. 2012.
Friday, Krister. "A Generation of Men Without History: Fight Club, Masculinity, and the Historical Symptom." PostModernCulture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism 13.3 (2003): n. pag. Web. 8 Aug. 2012.
academic journal article
author: William Wordsworh
date of reseracher's access: 17 Oct. 2011
site of online posting: Bartleby.com
online publisher: Bartleby.com
date of online publishing: no date given
title of poem: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Wordsworth, William. "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." Bartleby.com. Bartleby.com, n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2011.
poem in online
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entry you are citing the complete, multivolume work
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
title: The Oxford Sherlock Holmes
publisher: Oxford University Press
place of publication: New York
date of publication: 1993
number of volumes: 9
editor: Owen Dudley Edwards
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Oxford Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Owen Dudley Edwards. 9 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Print.
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Where are you headed for Labour Day long weekend?
Read this before you make any final decisions
August 18, 2016
The Vancouver Island towns of Courtenay and Comox are exactly an eight-minute drive from each other, so a visit to one is really a visit to both. Courtenay distinguishes itself as the Comox Valley’s central “urban” hub (population 24,000) on the island’s middle-east side, which means a mix of restaurants, coastal treasures and wineries make CoCo the perfect summer stopover.
B.C.’s Best Oysters (That’s right, I said best)
Just like you start a Vegas trip off with shots, a coastal road trip should be christened with a round of fresh oysters. Twenty-ish minutes of driving south along the ocean from Courtenay proper (take the scenic route on Island Highway) lands you at Fanny Bay Oysters HQ.
This large oyster, clam and mussel farm grows its shellfish right out on the beach and in Baynes, Desolation and Okeover Sounds—significant because oysters, nature’s water filters, are only as good as the water they’re living in.
I had tried oysters reluctantly maybe once or twice before, but slurping back a Fanny Bay (even totally au naturel) was a transformative experience: where I expected fishiness, there was only the fresh, delicate taste of brine. It was like taking a sip of mild saltwater (but in the best way!). Fanny Bay tours typically run Tuesday and Thursday year-round at $10 a head, which includes an oyster tasting so long as they’re in season (call ahead to book: 250-335-0125).
Fuelling Up For Afternoon Activities
Back in quaint, downtown Courtenay, you’ll find local favourite Atlas Café on a sleepy store-lined street. The fare is somewhere between Earls and a home-style diner, with generously proportioned dishes that range from West Coast to Greek to Middle Eastern in cozy and colourful adjoining rooms. This adult paired a chocolate milkshake with my hearty chicken and mushroom quesadilla (stuffed with whole pieces of sautéed mushrooms and onions with roasted corn, spiced black beans and mozzarella)—and the friendly staff didn’t judge me one bit.
Your Afternoon Joy Ride
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, biking is the best way to explore new territory. Owner and operator of Island Joy Rides Laurel Cronk made the trip with her thoughtfully planned tour along the Vancouver-seawall-esque paths of Courtenay River (I thought I spotted a white shark, but it was a fat seal!), and around to beaches, farms, and highlights from the local food scene. Her hybrid bikes have all the gears so you easily transition from city hills to farmland roads, and before you go she puts out this amazing spread of snacks (there were healthier things, but I of course went straight for the jelly beans and M&Ms).
3 Notable Stops Along our Island Joy Ride
Blue Moon Winery and Ciderworx: Expansive and lush garden out back where the owners let us taste edible flowers—like the periwinkle-blue and white verbena (it tasted like a peppery radish)—along with award-winning sparkling ciders and fruit wines.
Hot Chocolates: Row upon row of handmade sweets (sea salt vanilla caramels and peanut butter Nanaimo bars—be still my heart), plus tons of chocolate gifts you can cart home to your favourite friends. The shop also shares space with Cakebread Artisan Bakery—make sure you tap every keg-like pot of ingredient-infused olive oils for a sample before you go.
Art Alchemy: Nine women have banded together to share a studio space downtown, so walking through the open-concept artists’ space isn’t intimidating or intrusive. I was instantly drawn to the work of Nicolette Valikoski, who creates abstract horizons and naturescapes in cupcake-pinks and -yellows that look like they’ve been spread on thick and creamy like icing.
Nothing “Small Town” about Dinner at Locals
Living in Vancouver sets the foodie bar pretty high (I suspect our McDonald’s will be the first to go organic-farm-to-table)—that’s what makes Locals in Courtenay an even more impressive gem. It’s housed in a 1938 residence called Old House, and close proximity to pastures and ocean waters means they can locally source bison, crab, oysters, rabbits, ducks and artisan cheeses. The jumbo scallop and pork belly on a dollop of carrot mash and oven-crisp kale was so good I almost felt bad about taking the extra portion (two of us, three scallops). Equally tasty, the prociutto-wrapped halibut was cooked perfectly on the dry-to-swimming scale and served with ample veg and baked polenta.
Your Waterfront Stay
The waterfront view from every room in my suite at Kingfisher Oceanside Resort and Spa had me gleefully prancing around like an idiot during a preliminary scope-out. I was right on the corner and at night splashy beach waves outside lulled me to sleep faster than a 100-level poli-sci lecture.
The Cave Kickstart
Kingfisher doesn’t have “spa” in the title for nothing. The resort’s unique hydrotherapy course (a.k.a. mixed-temp water treatments to relax and rejuvenate), isn’t your run-of-the-mill, splash through hot-and-cold pools—oh, no! After robing up you descend into a warm, dark, softly lit basement cave decorated with Disney-park rock walls and bleached driftwood. Your hydrotherapy concierge guides you through the course and moves your water and towel around for you like you’re a Kardashian. The alcove of high-pressured massage showers is amazing, but don’t be stupid and wear makeup like me because you have a scheduled event right after. You get absolutely drenched head-to-toe, so you’ll want to enjoy it, mascara-disaster-free. My favourite part was the sea kelp and salt scrub baths at the end. Portioned out in actual clam shells, you rub the handmade scrub all over and then soak in cozy one-person hot tubs carved into the ground. After showering off, you’ll be floating the rest of the day.
It’s Wine O’Clock Somewhere
They serve a fresh brunch at Kingfisher hotel’s Breakwater Restaurant (the best part is the view—eggs benny with a side of ocean panorama, don’t mind if I do), BUT you’ll want to save some room for what’s coming later.
The problem with wine tours and wine routes is that you need a designated driver to cart you around safely on those long farm roads. For my trip we booked a van and designated driver from Ambassador Transportation Corp who took us wherever our vino-chasing hearts desired ($70.75 per hour; another good reason to go with friends).
Stop at 40 Knots Vineyard and Estate Winery
This Comox winery is like a Texas ranch meets forest farm, and co-owner Brenda Hetman-Craig (who runs the place with husband Layne Robert Craig) is your friendly hostess with the mostess pouring the majority of your red and white tasters up front. (My fave summer bottle: the refreshing 2011 Spindrift Soleil Rose Brut.) In the back, rows of telltale vines are lightly fenced off to keep the natural lawn mowers from escaping (a crew of fuzzy, pet-able sheep, ducks and chickens). Back inside the airy tasting room you’ll see a host of recycled materials and vintage items, like the repurposed printing press tables and sewing machines.
Note: The problem with wine tours and wine routes is that you need adesignated driver to cart you around safely on those long farm roads. For my trip we booked a van and DD from Ambassador Transportation Corp who took us wherever our vino-chasing hearts desired ($70.75 per hour; another good reason to go with friends).
Pizza Paradise: Coastal Black Estate Winery
As soon as the toothsome waft of gourmet pizzas hits you outside Coastal Black, you’ll be thankful you skipped second breakfast.
Tucked into the forest in the Comox Valley’s northern Black Creek area, Coastal Black Estate Winery is an award-winning 600-acre fruit winery four generations of family farmers have called home. Besides a big tasting room for samples and browsing mead and merch, an expansive patio area beckons you out front. Post-tasting, I had a sunny patio table all to myself where I got to watch my pizza bake just steps away in the outdoor wood-fired oven. That flat-crust, pesto-arugula-goat-cheese-yam dream was worth the trip alone. | <urn:uuid:af792e9a-9213-4bc2-83b2-7f2d1b189c6e> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | http://vanmag.com/go/where-are-you-headed-for-labour-day-long/ | 2019-06-26T22:04:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628000575.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190626214837-20190627000837-00557.warc.gz | en | 0.924964 | 1,970 |
When we take into account the number of citizens, more road casualties are yearly calculated in Flanders than anywhere else in Europe. The risk of a fatal road accident is even twice as high as in the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The Flemish Government must increase efforts to drastically lower the fatal and seriously injured casualties. To be able to take the right measures, thorough scientific research is indispensable. Therefore the activities of the Policy Research Centre for Road Safety 2002 – 2006 (1st generation) and of the Policy Research Centre for Mobility and Public Works, track Road Safety, 2007-2011 (2nd generation) will be continued by the 3rd generation Policy Research Centre for Road Safety 2012-2015.
Policy Research Centre for Road Safety is a framework project, in which several subprojects were executed. In each of these subprojects researchers aimed to develop innovative and feasible measures to motivate drivers to drive more safely, and to evaluate the effectiveness of existing measures. Three broad categories of safety measures were considered: enforcement, infrastructural measures and educative insight programs. In order to provide solid answers, accident rates and indicators for accident risk and accident involvement were gathered and thoroughly analysed. Researchers paid specific attention to the interaction between human behaviour and road infrastructure, the relation between vehicle and surroundings.
Wide range of subjects
Various subjects and research questions were tackled. What does the transition to electric bicycles imply for road safety? Do junior and high school students think more consciously about possible consequence of their behaviour in traffic after having met a road victim or a related family member? Are there any road crash patterns to be deduced when examining the manoeuvres on a roundabout? Do drivers approach a junction differently when unmanned speed cameras are or are not announced? All reports were published on www.steunpuntverkeersveiligheid.be.
Policy Research Centre Programme
The Policy Research Centre Programme was launched in 2001 to provide scientific basis for policy. They were needed by the Flemish Government in order to quickly anticipate social developments and challenges and take proactive measures. The emphasis in the policy research centres is on structural funding. For the third time in a row, financing was foreseen for the topic of ‘road safety’. | <urn:uuid:16d322dc-6e81-47ec-bef7-331ea597c3c2> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://www.uhasselt.be/UH/IMOB-EN/IMOB_EN-Research/49400-Road-safety/Policy-Research-Centre-Road-Safety.html | 2021-09-23T14:33:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057424.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923135058-20210923165058-00583.warc.gz | en | 0.956249 | 451 |
We propose you the Moonima as one of the best Quality / Price Diving Liveaboard you can experience in Maldives. Services onboard is given with excellence to the guest in a friendship atmosphere, try them.
The Moonima is a 30 Metre (98ft) dive yacht, built and powered for comfort, safety and stability.
She is twin diesel-powered and has 110 volt power on board.
The Moonima sleeps up to 16 guests in privacy and comfort.
The main deck has a beautiful air conditioned salon with bar, TV/DVD, stereo player and an assortment of movies, CDs and books. There is an outdoor coffee area at the front and an outdoor dining area at the aft.
The upper deck is partially shaded and has chaise longues, chairs and a hot tub for relaxation.
For those that enjoy the sun there is a top level sun deck with chaise longues.
The platform is equipped with exit ladders and freshwater showers.
The dive tender is spacious and well equipped with personal gear boxes and an in-place fill station.
The Moonima has 8 comfortable staterooms.
All cabins have private head with shower, closet and AC.
1 Suite Stateroom (no 1): Double bed, window.
2 Deluxe Staterooms (no 2 & 3): Double bed, porthole.
5 Deluxe Staterooms (no 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8): Double bed and single bed, porthole.
14 dives for 7 day trip or 21 dives for 10 days trip. Including one night dive per week.
Weights, weight belts and 80 cu. ft. (11.2Ll) aluminium tanks with standard yoke and DIN valves are included.
All dives are guided by professionals and from the dive tender boat.
Nitrox available: to be verified.
Rental Dive Equipment Available：Rate on request and must be booked in advance.
Dive Insurance： Mandatory.
Travel Insurance: Recommended.
Wi-Fi Internet Available： No.
Payment on board： By cash only: USD and local currency MVR (Maldivian Rufiyaa).
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Not only is February Black History Month, it’s also American Heart Month, a time to raise awareness about heart health. And the perfect opportunity to introduce Beyond the Waiting Room’s newest Profiles of C.A.R.E feature, Dr. Jane Kao.
Dr. Kao is a pediatric cardiologist and holds a special place in my heart (pun intended) as the physician who diagnosed Catherine’s heart defect and told us she may have Down syndrome. Dr. Kao has been with us from day one and is still an integral part of Catherine’s healthcare and our lives. I’m honored for her to share her story with you.
Dr. Kao’s journey to pediatric cardiology actually started with her as a caregiver when she was only 11 years old.
“During the summers when I was between 11 and 13, I took care of a little boy that lived in my neighborhood. He was four and had leukemia and at that time I didn’t know what that was. All I knew was that he was sickly and frail all the time. I would see him go in to get his chemo and coming back out really sick. So, I saw what he was going through and witnessed his struggles.
Christopher died when he was seven. I remember not wanting to go to the memorial service because I was depressed and my mother asking me, ‘Well, if you don’t want to go, what do you want me to tell Christopher’s mother?’ I thought about it and said, “Tell her that when I grow up, I want to care of children like Christopher.”
Dr. Kao took her vow to care for sick children seriously and now has a thriving medical practice in Dallas, Texas. One of the most important aspects of her job is to prepare the family for what’s to come once she’s confirmed there’s a heart defect. She explains that congenital heart defects are the number one birth defect and the most common, occurring in 1% of all live births.
She sits down with the family, explains the anatomy of a normal heart, then shows them a picture of their child’s heart and points out the differences. This is what she did for Lillian and Merle fourteen years ago.
“Lillian had a high-risk ultrasound and her high-risk OB-GYN noted there was something wrong with the baby’s heart. She was referred to me for a further detailed scan of Catherine’s heart. What I do is make the diagnosis and provide the medical care. The actual surgery is done by a congenital heart surgeon.”
Even though Dr. Kao isn’t directly involved with the surgery, she still makes sure the families are prepared.
“I explain what needs to be done, the surgical process and procedures. Sometimes there’s one surgery that needs to be done, sometimes there’s multiple. I give them a timeline, what to expect, length of hospitalization, going home, what medications they need to administer. I go over all of that.”
But for some, it’s just too much.
“I have to kind of gauge because some parents are so overwhelmed they really can’t handle anything beyond the initial expectation. So, as things progress I need to give them more and more information. Knowing ahead of time obviously can cause a lot of anxiety but in the long run it helps the family to cope. It also helps the child, because everyone knows what to expect.”
Dr. Kao considers her work with her patients a gift.
“Sometimes I feel like I get more out of it than my patients do. I feel very honored to take care of these kids. Catherine is a perfect example of being able to see my patients evolve over time. I saw her as a baby and how sick she was and now look at her. Her heart is fully repaired. Having a part in that is one of the most rewarding aspects of my profession.”
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This is my post on day 9 of RM 2.
Beetroot - 1 medium size,peeled and diced small
Canned white chana/garbanzo beans - 1
shredded coconut - 1/2 cup or more according to ones taste
mustard seeds - 1 tsp
cumin seeds - 1 tsp
red chillies - 3-4 nos
curry leaves - of 1 sprig
salt to taste
In a kadai heat some oil.Add mustard seeds.When it starts to crackle add cumin seeds,red chillies and curry leaves.Stir for a couple of mins and then add the diced beetroot.Add salt and mix well.Cover and let it cook for 5- 6 mins.Now add the canned garbanzo beans/channa and mix. Sprinkle some water if required.Cover and let it cook for 10 mins or until the beets are tender.Check for salt and then add the shredded coconut in the end.Mix well and let it cook for another 2-3 mins.Serve hot with roti or rice and dal.
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Eligibility and Selection Criteria
The Scheme is open to full-time non-final year undergraduates who meet the following criteria:
1. Hong Kong Permanent Resident with the right of abode in Hong Kong;
2. Undertaking a science-related bachelor degree funded by the University Grants Committee (UGC) – including (i) Sciences; (ii) Engineering & Technology; and (iii) Medicine & Health professions;
3. Preferably cumulative GPA of 3.3 (or equivalent) or above;
4. A minimum total TOEFL (Internet-based test) score of 90 with scores for individual sections not lower than 21 on reading, 22 on listening, 21 on speaking, and 17 on writing; or a minimum IELTS (Academic test) overall band score of 6.5, with no component below 6.0. These are irrespective of overseas universities’ requirements. All tests must have been taken on or since 10 February 2016;
5. Has passion in innovation and technology, and intention of pursuing this as a career;
6. Well-rounded, has participated in extra-curricular and/or community service activities;
7. Able to display tremendous upside potential and benefit the most from the Scheme;
8. Willing to serve the community and have a strong commitment to Hong Kong;
9. Possesses good communication skills; and
10. Has not previously reserved an award in this Scheme.
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Women’s volleyball Heungkuk Life Insurance finally jumped to the top of the league.
Heungkuk Life Insurance defeated Pepper Savings Bank with a set score of 3-0 (25-17 25-18 25-19) in the Dodram 2022-2023 V-League Women’s home game held at Incheon Samsan World Gymnasium on the 15th. It was a shutout victory that was completed in just 1 hour and 28 minutes from the start of the game.
Heungkuk Life Insurance, who accumulated 63 points (21 wins and 7 losses) with the victory on this day, succeeded in overtaking Hyundai E&C (61 points, 21 wins and 7 losses), which had maintained its first place. It is the first recapture of the lead in 107 days after losing to Hyundai Engineering & Construction on November 1 last year at the very beginning of the season and being pushed to second place.
Heungkuk Life Insurance’s acting manager Kim Dae-kyung came out with a rotation that put Kim Yeon-kyung and Yelena on the opposite side and Lee Won-jung as the setter. The intention is to maintain offensive power while continuing to put either Kim Yeon-kyung or Yelena at the forefront. Kim Yeon-kyung scored 19 points and Yelena scored 16 points, meeting expectations properly.
On this day, Kim Yeon-kyung’s performance was close to perfect. Her offensive efficiency was 63.33%, which resulted in her only 1 error while she scored 19 points. On the 11th, she cleanly brushed off her regrets with her attack efficiency of 24.44% and 6 errors (18 points) in the match against IBK Industrial Bank.
After the game, Kim Yeon-kyung said, “In the match against Industrial Bank of Korea, nothing went well, so I reflected a lot.” The battle for leadership isn’t over. With 5 rounds currently in progress, 8 more matches remain. For the lead Mercury, the tension cannot be released until the end. Kim Yeon-kyung said, “Now is the critical moment,” and emphasized, “It is the time when all teams sag physically and injured players start coming out, and the more you do, the better you have to endure.” 카지노
Kim Yeon-kyung also focused his attention on the day by mentioning the possibility of his active retirement. He was the answer to the question, ‘There are rumors that he is retiring’. Kim Yeon-kyung said, “I’d be lying if I said I had no thoughts at all.” However, Kim Yeon-kyung added, “There are many things to talk about with the club, and my thoughts have not yet been clearly organized.” When asked if noise within the club this season, such as the resignation of former coach Kwon Soon-chan, had an impact, he said, “There were always turbulent things while playing. That’s not it,” he drew a line. | <urn:uuid:be153d74-7b33-4c7b-bd92-024e59692820> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://moordi.xyz/heungkuk-life-insurance-finally-at-the-forefront-kim-yeon-kyung-retirement-in-trouble/ | 2023-04-01T07:23:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949701.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401063607-20230401093607-00002.warc.gz | en | 0.97373 | 661 |
Need for closure and coercion in inter-group conflicts: experimental evidence for the mitigating effect of accessible conflict schemas
Golec de Zavala, Agnieszka and Federico, Christopher and Cisłak, Aleksandra and Sigger, Jonathan (2008) Need for closure and coercion in inter-group conflicts: experimental evidence for the mitigating effect of accessible conflict schemas. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38 (1). pp. 84-105. ISSN 0046-2772
Official URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/1142505...
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Three experimental studies demonstrate that momentarily-accessible conflict-schemas moderate the relationship between need for closure and conflict-strategy preferences, with the relationship between a high need for closure and increased competitiveness reduced to non-significance when a cooperative conflict schema is made salient but strengthened when a hostile one is activated. Study 1 manipulated the accessibility of competitive versus cooperative conflict schemas using different descriptions of a contemporary political conflict, while Studies 2 and 3 manipulated conflict-schema accessibility using primes embedded in an ostensibly-unrelated lexical decision task. Together, the present studies provide a strong pattern of experimental support for the moderating effect of conflict-schema accessibility suggested by earlier correlational studies. The implications for conflict reduction are discussed.
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6 Battle-Tested Ways to Transform Your Small Business Into a Brand
Whenever you and we hear the word brand, more often than not our minds fly to the names we trust in the market.
Be it a clothing brand like Calvin Klien, a sporting goods company like Nike, or even a consumable item like Coca-Cola in beverages — these are labels that have created a place for themselves not just in the markets, but also in the psyche of the masses.
Regardless of whether you buy from them currently or not, you clearly recognize them and probably even hold their products in higher regard than those not-so-famous ones you get at the local marts.
However, these companies also had a starting point before they reached the higher-ups. For instance, one of the most popular names in the computer industry, Apple, began its business through a garage.
If you too own a small business and wish to transform your commerce into a well-known brand, hereunder is a list specially curated for you. ALso, you must read The E-Myth Revisited once. These are some simple steps that you can adopt and follow in your daily operations to see your company grow.
Transform Your Business Into A Brand
Stepping up towards becoming a brand after being a small business for all its past — it may not sound easy, but if the right path is pursued, it might not be as difficult either. The list underneath consists of 6 tried and tested ways that can bring you a step closer to that ultimate goal.
Build your Brand
Building one’s brand is not only about having a good product, but also a lot about the company itself. The goals, alongside the principles that guide a business form a foundation upon which a customer places their trust. In fact, it has been noted that about 89% of shoppers are willing to stay loyal to the company that shares the same set of values as they do.
Simultaneously, your logo also needs to reflect these values and choices and be attractive in a way that it quickly turns to being easily recognizable. Coca-Cola is a prime example for this as almost every adult in the world is known to be familiar with it.
Connect with the Potential Market
It is of vital importance that you connect with the right audience when putting a product out. Firstly, the market you’re reaching should consist of people who may want to use it. And secondly, your target population should actually have a use for it. Unless you transform yourself into either a necessity or an inexpensive luxury, your item may not gain as much traction as you want. Cords developed specifically so you don’t lose your airpods (which were meant to be wireless for a reason) is one such product that is creating a place in the market for itself.
However, it may be wise to invent a product that can run long-term and not just for a short time period like the aforementioned example.
Update your Internal Working
Understandably, you will do all you can to build your business into a famous brand, but that includes paying attention to your company’s internal working system as well. Being a small enterprise means you can do away without a lot of necessary tools and softwares by sticking to the basic ones, but when you need to prepare your employees for the upcoming growth as well.
This development is sure to be met with a series of technological and work-style changes as well, which can be difficult to keep a track of but a streamlined change management process can help you go a long way.
Consistency is key when you’re trying to build awareness or woo customers into trusting you. That is precisely why it is essential that you maintain the same image regardless of what platform you are spreading your message from. Be it Facebook, Instagram, or a popular blog you know of, if you’re going to be using it to get in the public eye, make sure your personality and brand image is not being altered with each.
Also, all your messages should be in accordance with your company principles so that no two communications stand out to be contradicting each other.
Focus on Long-term Relationships
Many small businesses make the near-fatal mistake of focusing on the customer only in the present, instead of thinking about how a long-term relationship with them can benefit much more.
By providing good customer service alongside a truly brilliant product, you are ensuring that they become loyal to you and stay with you for a longer period. Reminding them of your existence and engaging in light conversations regularly is also a great way to share that you care.
Dare to be Different
Last, but certainly not any less important, be different. Dare to become the distinguished face in the crowd rather than just crowd itself by ensuring that either your product or your operations and customer service make you stand out. Do something different or the same things differently — it is entirely your choice, but making a difference only happens when you try to be different.
Every small business dreams to make a name for themselves in the big league but it is only a handful that succeed. Now this may be because often, they do not know how to traverse the path ahead, but luckily for you, now you do.
So stop waiting and start growing, today!
We’ll see you on the other side.
Lucy Manole is a creative content writer and strategist at Marketing Digest. She specializes in writing about digital marketing, technology, entrepreneurship, and education. When she is not writing or editing, she spends time reading books, cooking and traveling. | <urn:uuid:b76ece10-b2bd-4801-a7f0-29262588090d> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://technonguide.com/6-battle-tested-ways-to-transform-your-small-business-into-a-brand/ | 2023-12-03T21:19:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203193127-20231203223127-00189.warc.gz | en | 0.963292 | 1,149 |
Thank you for reading Simon Goes to Spain
Thank you to all those people who posted a review for Simon Goes to Spain. I’ve had a few people ask how it is going and to be honest, I don’t really know. Last weekend, after a glass of wine, I did a Google search and found that there were two second hand copies for sale on eBay. So at least two have been sold! Austin Macauley will provide me with data, I am sure, however, I’m not brave enough to ask, yet. Especially not without a glass of wine first!
I’ve given the sequel, Simon Goes to Camp a quick edit. In this story Simon stumbles across the Eco-Terrorist, Jasper while playing man-hunt in the dark. It offers an insight into the difficulty children with autism face in mainstream settings, and there are some very funny moments when Simon discovers the animals can communicate with him. Let’s hope Simon Goes to Spain sells, so it gets published. | <urn:uuid:a53fd2f1-94f8-4c8d-bc29-a7a3d155d3ba> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://ejavey.ampbk.com/blogs/thank-you-for-reading-simon-goes-to-spain/ | 2021-06-22T04:50:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488507640.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20210622033023-20210622063023-00395.warc.gz | en | 0.968565 | 212 |
Has the Oreo brand become diluted?
Tom Dougherty, CEO – Stealing Share
21 October 2011
How many kinds of Oreos do we need?
As I’ve stated before, I have a terrible weakness when it comes to junk food. Incidentally, the Oreo cookie, with its wonderfully delicious chocolaty wafer and vanilla crème center, once ranked on my highest tier of saccharin goodness.
As a child, I was a fan of pulling my Oreo cookies apart and savoring the particular side fortunate enough to catch the largest piece of vanilla crème.
They’re simple yet perfect cookies — one of Nabisco’s home runs.
“Why exactly does Nabisco suddenly need this many Oreo options?”
The reason I pose this question is that, recently, Nabisco has made a barrage of variations to its classic Oreo cookie theme. Right now, the selection of Oreos in the supermarket no longer takes up a normal sized portion of the cookie shelf. They now consume the entirety of the shelf from floor to the ceiling. It seems like Nabisco is afraid we are going to forget all about the Oreo.
Honestly, who can forget about the Oreo cookie?
Here is just a small listing of the many new and unnecessary Oreo cookies now on the shelves:
Triple Double Chocolate
Pure Milk Chocolate
Golden Double Stuff
Golden Uh-Oh with Chocolate Cream
Double Stuff Chocolate
Chocolate Fudge Sundae (The Limited Edition)
Chocolate Mint ’n Crème
Why exactly does Nabisco suddenly need this many Oreo options?
Take a look at Oreo’s webpage. In year’s past, its product line may have been entirely featured on one webpage. Now, Oreo has an astonishing six pages worth of products. This seems ridiculous to me.
What does this all mean?
Clearly, Nabisco is overextending the brand. To understand your brand means having the confidence to recognize what it is that you do well. In a shaky marketplace, it can be easy to forget that. Nabisco does the Double Stuff Oreo and Regular Oreo cookie really well. They should stick with that and do so confidently. Otherwise, it threatens to dilute the Oreo brand itself, if it’s not already. Think of how powerful of a brand Cheerios used to be until it had so many variations of it that the Cheerios brand has become basically meaningless.
Adding too many options only complicates our shopping experience and ultimately weakens the reasons we were attracted to the brand in the first place. Surely, Nabisco doesn’t want to do that.
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"We need to actively engage parents before we jump to invest in pre-K for all," Jack Shonkoff, director of The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, wisely proclaimed yesterday at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Symposium on Child Health, Resilience and Toxic Stress in Washington, DC. Promoting a "two generation approach," symposium speakers recognized that not only the child, but the parent-child relationship, is the concern of the pediatrician.
One of the speakers addressed the problem of "uncompensated time." This phrase hit the nail on the head. Time and space is the treatment. People need to feel safe to be able talk about what is important. This includes both the clinician and the parent. When the pediatrician feels stressed by a waiting room full of patients that the current system of care demands he must see, he is not able to be present with a parent in the way that careful listening requires.
It is like a set of Russian dolls. The society values the clinician's time, offering the opportunity to listen to the parent, who listens to the child. And as many at the symposium recognized, it is not just pediatricians, but also child care workers, teachers, home visitors and others who have the opportunity to support stressed parents. All policy needs to be focused on protecting space and time to listen. Listening is not high tech. But it is this space and time, where parents feel safe and valued, that we have the opportunity to grow healthy brains and minds.
Pediatrician and journalist Perri Klass gave a beautiful talk about Reach Out and Read, a national program that distributes books to parents in pediatrician's offices. She spoke honestly about the growing realization that benefits were not from larger vocabulary or "school readiness." Rather it was the act of reading, the gentle sound of the parent's voice, fully in the moment with the child, that was responsible for positive results.
One audience member asked a wise question about giving a book to a mother who has herself not been read to, and so does not have a model for this kind of intimate interaction. Klass responded that this is true of any advice or guidance we give to a parent. Her response leads back to the notion that rather than giving information, or teaching skills, first we need to listen, to be curious about the experience of the person we are with.
My first book, Keeping Your Child in Mind, whose second chapter is "Listening to Parents, Strengthening the Secure Base" translates the explosion of contemporary research that Shonkoff referred to in his presentation. The book shows what this approach looks like for a range of everyday parenting concerns from newborn to teenage years.
While the symposium was occurring, a relevant headline, A Case Study in Maternal Mental Illness, on New York Times front page, told the tragic story of a mother's struggles with her belief that she had caused her baby harm. This conviction eventually led to her jump from a building with her infant strapped to her chest. While one cannot fully understand the treatment she received by reading a newspaper article, it appears that there were multiple interventions along the way, all of which treated the mother and baby separately. Many pediatricians reassured the mother that there was "nothing wrong." Psychiatrists diagnosed depression and prescribed medication.
Knowing the research on the value of treating parent and child together, I can't help but wonder if time with an experienced clinician who could sit on the floor with both parent and baby, might have offered the opportunity to make sense of her suffering and so set the pair on a different path. In the abundance of advice, reassurance and diagnosing of illness, was there time and space for listening?
For when parents, who may be stressed and overwhelmed, feel heard, recognized and understood, they are better able to do the same for their child. When parents listen to their child, are fully present with their child, they offer the opportunity build resilience and the capacity to manage adversity. It is not about giving information, or even about teaching skills. It is about supporting parents' efforts to connect with their most competent self.
Central to this view is the notion of the good-enough mother, a phrase coined by pediatrician turned psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott, and demonstrated in the contemporary research of developmental psychologist Ed Tronick. The good-enough mother is not perfect. But it is her very imperfection that drives development forward in a healthy way. Parents make mistakes. It is through these mistakes, and their subsequent recognition and repair, that children learn to manage the inevitable challenges of life.
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7 Books That Will Make You Think About Motherhood in New Ways
These books are starting to build a more inclusive library of narratives on what it means to be a parent
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When I was thinking of pursuing single motherhood, I sought out books—fiction and nonfiction—about motherhood and parenting. What I ran into, again and again, were variations on the same story: white woman (most of the time), partnered or married (always to a man), usually upper-class, who gets pregnant easily and is more or less happy about the outcome. The stories typically end happily, with no prolonged rounds of IUI or IVF, no worries about insurance or tens of thousands of dollars spent and not winding up with a viable pregnancy – these stories were mostly absent six years ago. The boundaries of what we think of when we think about motherhood can be exclusionary and narrow. What we need are new representations of what motherhood—parenthood, really—is, and what it can look like.
Recently I read two books that especially got me thinking about this: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, and The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc. Belc in particular dissects the motions and intricacies of parenthood and all of the societal constructs around it. He carried his son Samson, and the experiences of conception, pregnancy, and nursing helped to clarify his gender identity as a nonbinary, transmasculine parent. Yet on the birth certificate, Belc is listed as the “natural mother of the child.” We haven’t yet made the space for parents who don’t fit the assumed binary. (You’ve probably gotten a hundred emails about discounts and promotions for Mother’s Day this weekend, but I bet you didn’t get any for the nascent Nonbinary Parents’ Day in April). And we haven’t made room for other motherhood and parenthood narratives that don’t fit our assumed ideal, or the conventional paradigm. These books are starting to turn the tide.
Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)fertility by Myriam Steinberg
Shortly after turning 40, Myriam Steinberg decided to pursue single motherhood. After picking a sperm donor, she figured the rest would be straightforward. This engrossing graphic memoir details Steinberg’s journey through procedures, pregnancies, losses, and all of the cultural and societal taboos we have around these things. Without language and shared experience, these are harder and more isolating—but Steinberg found solace in the support she did have. This book takes an unflinching look at how we frame motherhood and loss, and is a quiet call for more openness, while providing camaraderie for those who have gone through something similar.
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams
This anthology, centering marginalized mothers and mothers of color, focuses on those recreating the motherhood space. These mothers discuss capitalism, revolutionizing the practice of motherhood, single motherhood, queer motherhood, collective mothering, adoption, teen motherhood, and more. These pieces dare to imagine and set forth a new look at what mothering and parenting can be, and how we can work together to get to that place.
When Jennifer Berney and her wife Kelly decided to start a family, they assumed they’d go to a fertility clinic and proceed from there. When they went, they realized that medical facilities just didn’t know how to handle couples that weren’t heterosexual. There was no space on the forms for them, the doctors and nurses were uncomfortable or downright rude, and the process didn’t take them into account. Turning to alternatives, Berney researches fertility and family-building in the LGBTQ+ community, and pursues her own path to starting a family with her wife.
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin
In this hybrid memoir/cultural exploration, Nefertiti Austin tells her story about adopting as a single Black woman. She looks at the history of adoption, especially in the Black community, breaks down the stereotypes and assumptions of single mothers—particularly Black single mothers—and writes about what it’s like raising Black children in today’s world. It is an honest look at her experience of single motherhood and the intersections of race and parenting, which all-too-often are ignored in most parenting books.
With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
Sammie and Monika are raising their son Samson, and motherhood isn’t quite what Sammie expected. She is downright scared of her son, a sullen boy prone to outbursts and creepy behavior. Working from home, she tries her best to manage her life and mother Samson, but starts to resent her wife Monika. As the years go by, Sammie’s frustration keeps building and her relationship with Monika starts to unravel. When Samson’s aggression can no longer be ignored, Sammie is confronted with her own responsibility in the situation. What follows in this story is a look at the shifting roles in a family, the changing dynamics of marriage, and the narratives we tell ourselves.
Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector
Spector describes herself as “an infertile, high-femme, low-income, non-biological Jewish mom, dyke drama queen and ectopic pregnancy survivor.” This oversized, lush graphic memoir draws you in to follow Spector over a decade of her life, including trying to get pregnant, infertility, her father’s illness and death, and relationship dynamics. It is a brash, personal look at Spector’s story, reminiscent of getting a peek into a chaotic and beautiful personal sketchbook.
I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, A Movement by Jessica Zucker
Pregnancy isn’t part of every parenthood story, but for many people who have wanted to become parents by giving birth, miscarriage is a common but underdiscussed experience. Zucker is a psychologist who specializes in reproductive and maternal mental health. She’s seen countless women struggling with infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy and parenthood, and everything in between—but when she miscarried her second pregnancy at 16 weeks, home alone, she wasn’t prepared for just how much it would change her life. She found that people didn’t know how to react afterward. There is still a stigma around miscarriage, and Zucker realized how important and necessary it was for people to start speaking up. She uses her own story, and those of others, to create a call for change. | <urn:uuid:fd5a647e-76ac-4f1d-b8dd-c0d5459325c5> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://electricliterature.com/7-books-that-will-make-you-think-about-motherhood-in-new-ways/ | 2021-06-21T22:11:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488504838.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621212241-20210622002241-00520.warc.gz | en | 0.949017 | 1,463 |
Sunday, April 20, 2014
The 2014 Australian Lyrid Meteor Shower, Morning 23 April
The Lyrids, the debris of comet C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) are a weak but reliable shower that occurs every year between April 16- April 25, with the peak this year between 4-15 hrs UT on April 22 .
That's between 2pm -April 22 to 1 am 23 April in east coast Australia, but as the radiant doesn't rise until 1 am, the best time to view the Lyrids in Australia is from 4 am on the 23rd.
The predicted ZHR this year is 18 meteors per hour. This means that under ideal conditions, you will see a meteor on average about once every three minutes. This can be as interesting as watching paint dry. Also, while that meteor every three minutes is the average, meteors are like buses, you wait for ages and then a whole bunch turn up.
The rate is actually less than the ZHR, ZHR means Zenithal Hourly Rate, the number of meteors you could expect to see if the radiant (the apparent position where the meteors originate) was at the highest point of the sky, under dark sky conditions.
Of course under real conditions the Lyrids radiant will not rise that high for most places, and most places won't have really dark skies. The lower the radiant is, the thicker atmosphere will obscure the fainter meteors, and some of the meteors will start to "burn" below the horizon, so over all you will see fewer.
This is particularly true in Australia, where the radiant is very low to the horizon. In Australia the radiant rises about 1 am local time, but it is not really high enough for there to be any real chance of seeing meteors until around 4 am, when the radiant is between three handspans to four handspans above the horizon (see diagram above). The other factor is the just past last quarter Moon which is not far from the radiant, washing the fainter meteors out.
From Australia, at 4 am, under dark sky conditions, we will see between 2 meteors per hour (southern states) to 3 meteors per hour (Northern Territory and QLD).
Choose 6 April Lyrids from the drop down meteor shower Menu, the date (make sure that you set the year to 2014, and your location, most people will have to put in their latitude and longitude (strangely, Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin and Perth are listed in the drop down menu, but Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart are not) under "other" in the location box.
This will give you a chart of the numbers of meteors per hour you can expect at various times (see image to the left).
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Invasive Plant Guide: Giant PlumelessThistle
- Flower color: pink-purple
- Flowers:July to September
- Stems: partly winged; spiny. Multiple flower-heads at end of stems.
- Plant height: ranges from about 1 foot to 6 feet
- Leaves: very spiny
Growth habit: annual/biennial
Open disturbed sites, roadsides, fields, pastures, hillsides, rangeland, forest openings. Prefers warm, dry climate areas. Tolerates a wide range of soil types.
Giant plumeless thistle (Carduus acanthoides) is found in only one location in the mid-Klamath. This is also the only known location in all of Siskiyou County.
Plant spreads by seed only. Seeds are viable for up to seven years, and germinate aggressively.
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During the 2010 General Election campaign, a Labour photo opp with Gordon Brown was interrupted by a car colliding with a bus stop. At that point, I thought it was as bad as things could get - how could any metaphorical car crash by a politician possibly outdo the real thing?
Chris Bryant is evidently more imaginative, and has today embarked on a one man mission to prove me wrong. Belted into the driver's seat of a rhetorical red mini metro, he careered through the political media, ploughing into bollards, oncoming traffic, tourists and both mounted cavalrymen outside Horseguards.
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HBCU leaders meeting with business leaders at GOP event
WASHINGTON (AP) - The leaders of the nation's historically black colleges and universities got major face time in front of some of America's top companies, like Google, Starbucks and Walmart, on Tuesday at this year's HBCU Fly-In, sponsored by congressional Republicans.
They didn't, however, go back to the Oval Office for a photo op with President Donald Trump, who announced his liaison between the White House and HBCUs.
The HBCU Fly-In started last year as a way for the colleges and universities to meet GOP officials and find ways to work with the federal government. Instead of focusing solely on education policy and funding, GOP Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said the HBCU presidents asked for connections to companies that would be willing to partner with the schools and employ their graduates.
Johnny C. Taylor Jr. speaks during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, to announce Taylor as chairman of the President Donald Trump's board of advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU.) Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, is right, and second from right is Johnathan Holifield executive director HBCU. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
"We're looking for opportunities to better prepare our students in the work environment, so I think conversations with representatives from the corporate environment and feedback on what the world is looking for today is great information I can take back to my faculty and my students," said Henry N. Tisdale, president of Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Scott and Walker touted the changes since last year's discussions, including the restoration of full-year Pell Grants, which HBCU presidents asked for last year. Pell Grants are limited to students with financial need.
"A promise was made," said Ronald A. Johnson, president of Clark Atlanta University. "It took more than a minute to put together the actual plan, but at least summer Pell" - part of the year-round grants - "came out of that."
The event happened as the White House named Johnny C. Taylor Jr., the former head of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, as chairman of the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
"Since I signed the executive order establishing this initiative in my administration, we have made great strides in strengthening HBCUs, a cherished and vital institution in our country," Trump said.
There were more than 231,000 students at these schools in 2014, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Almost 80 percent were black.
Total enrollment at HBCUs declined from 326,614 to 294,316 between 2010 and 2014, according to the latest information available from the Center. The percentage of black college students attending a historically black college or university dropped from 18 percent of the overall total in 1976 to 8 percent in 2014.
Last year's HBCU Fly-In included a photo with Trump in the Oval Office. Many of the presidents were criticized for posing in the photo by students and alumni on their campuses afterward. Trump got 8 percent of the African-American vote in his presidential election.
"There was a lot of negative feedback, but at that time it was something we had to do," said Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, president of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Q. I believe you may have touched on this in past comments/articles, but I was wondering if you could address this head on: Does the Bible discuss a time of “Great Revival” at the end of the age? Many church leaders speak of a “great awakening” or a “wave” of revival, where the Holy Spirit is going to take the world by storm in the end times…and I’m not sure this is correct. Unfortunately.
A. According to the bible, as the end of the age approaches, the true church will become weaker (Rev. 3:8) while the apostate Church becomes wealthier (Rev. 3:17). There will be a great falling away from the faith (2 Thes. 2:3) as people who call themselves Christian depart from a literal belief in Scripture and gather around them teachers who will say what they want to hear. (2 Tim 4:3)
As an example there is a great schism coming in the Charismatic movement when those who’ve adopted an “anything goes” attitude when it comes to the supernatural, part company with those who insist on holding to the Biblical injunction to “test the spirits”. In my opinion the “anything goes” group is demonstrating a remarkable spiritual immaturity, similar to that which Paul criticized among the Corinthians, by refusing to put up with sound doctrine and is actually laying the ground work for this falling away in the Charismatic movement.
The same thing is happening among so-called evangelicals who in the name of church growth and social activism are no longer teaching the need for a personal relationship with Jesus as being our first priority, but are actually working to develop congregations that consist of equal numbers of believers and unbelievers. These 50-50 congregations are said to be necessary in order to draw believers away from their spiritual absolutes by creating an environment where consensus rules.
Both these examples have at their center a belief in Dominion Theology, which holds that the church will experience such a mighty revival in the End Times that it will actually take over the world.
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I saw this movie and here is what I think
-I think Dr gary Wadler is a moron
-I think Don Hooton and his anti steroid crusade is an absolute joke
-I think it's also very disturbing how easily that guy was able to make his own supplement.
-I find it even more disturbing that Henry Waxman, who called the steroids hearing didn't know what the legality of steroids even were when he was asked, nor was he able to recall what the legal drinking age was
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that was an awesome movie.. received it in the mail yesterday and watched it that night. ima watch it tonight just because...
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A football game on TV = Entertaining time programing.
A guy posing and flexing on TV = 2 am between infomercials at best.
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Well, what do we have here! Another fabulous Kristen Stewart magazine cover, shot by Mario Testino and wearing floral Gucci. Oh, and her lips? Scarlett red! I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am way excited about the upcoming press tour for the last installment of the Twilight films, and I am glad to see Stewart being featured prominently and positively on the cover of a magazine. In the end, we all make mistakes, and life goes on, specially when you look this good. | <urn:uuid:dba9c1c0-c763-4059-a641-f61d55ef5b62> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.theiconconcierge.com/red-carpet-events/kristen-stewart-on-the-cover-of-vogue-uk-in-gucci | 2014-07-24T01:41:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997884573.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025804-00192-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920037 | 106 |
Birdie wanted a full on photo shoot for her special Daddy-Daughter Dance Day.
Here you go, "Holla Batgirl."
Before, with a little mascara and blush. Gorgeous.
If you can't tell, she's really into not smiling right now.
Since (in real life and not just in her head) she's not 18 and posing for Vogue, I asked her to humor me with at least one sweet, little girl smile.
Here's the official photo taken at the dance. The rumor is, these two tore up the dance floor. I have no doubt. | <urn:uuid:f7ed91d7-76d7-43c7-a9b8-915f3535dc3c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://thebacles.blogspot.com/2016/05/ | 2017-06-24T17:12:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320270.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624170517-20170624190517-00286.warc.gz | en | 0.954068 | 125 |
On Saturday December 4th, (after missing last year due to covid) 16 members of the International Stars Section met at Roadside B&G for the section's annual Holiday Dinner party.
All attendees received Classic Mercedes Benz keychains, and the ladies also received poinsettias to take home for the holiday. The festive party began with appetizers and cocktails. While new friends were made or reunited prior to dinner.
Dinner started with a Michigan Cherry salad and members had their choice of; Panko Chicken Cutlet, Cedar Planked Salmon or Filet Mignon (which seemed to be the most popular). This was followed by dessert; Gold Brick Sundae or Triple Chocolate Icebox Cake. “DELICIOUS”
After dinner Section President Don MacDonald gave a review of our 2021 club's events including the Spring Dust off, Concours of America and our Fall Color tour. Don also announced that our 2022 planning lunch would be held on January 22nd (all members are invited). He then moved on to Member and Officer of the Year awards. Robert Beltz was named Member of the Year for his many years of service, especially his help, counsel, and advice with the MBCA raffle. James Fancy was named Officer of the Year for all of his hard work and efforts as both the Sections Secretary and editor of the Sections newsletter. Congratulations to them both.
Rich and Margaret Godfrey were also thanked for coordinating this year’s Holiday Dinner.
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What is all the fuss about? All we hear about these days is how many followers you have on your Facebook or LinkedIn account. Has our country gone crazy with this idea of “social networking “or “social media”? Perhaps; in fact we have not even begun to see the impact of social media in our personal lives and businesses.
What is Social Networking?
Basic “old school” networking used to involve golf, a drink, or taking someone to a football game. One of the goals of the “old” style networking was to learn about the person and communicate with them about your solutions, ideas and skills. The goal may be the same, but the methods are new. Social media or social networking is a term used to describe a method of communicating both for social and business objectives, with millions of other people connected to the same kind of communication tool. To put it another way, social media is an umbrella term that defines the many different kinds of activities used to integrate technology into social and business interaction, including pictures, audio and videos.
What Are The Benefits?
A recent study in 2009 by Michael Stelzner points out some real benefits to developing a social networking strategy. | <urn:uuid:5b3aca2e-7f17-4628-aeea-8ed2b8fc7ea9> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://bizrisk.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/social-media-for-insurance-agents-part-one/ | 2017-08-17T05:44:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102967.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170817053725-20170817073725-00036.warc.gz | en | 0.947039 | 251 |
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There aren’t many franchises as consistently great as the Mission Impossible series. Each film has had it’s own unique flavor to this point, and while some sequels have faired better than others, the series on the whole has managed to remain fresh for nearly two decades. Rogue Nation, the latest installment, is different in the sense that it doesn’t feel like a film that is reinventing the franchise once again or pushing any envelopes. Instead, Rogue Nation excels at expertly executing on a somewhat familiar story. Perhaps it’s lacking in innovation, but this also might be the most well rounded Mission Impossible film to date.
There is just something charming about Amy Schumer. While I understand she isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, she really doesn’t give a damn one-way or another what we think, and I guess that’s just the type of thing I like about her. Trainwreck serves as the outspoken comedian’s debut in a leading role, and if it’s any indication we’ll hopefully be seeing more of Schumer on the big screen in the future. | <urn:uuid:53dc8eff-9734-47b0-846c-4a9a54e4539c> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://inerdthings.wordpress.com/category/reviews/ | 2018-04-23T23:18:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946256.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423223408-20180424003408-00443.warc.gz | en | 0.949186 | 236 |
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Would you dare?
by Sonya06 reviews
What if Kagami Taiga had a twin? And what if that twin happened to be a challenging girl, who decided to attend Touou Academy as the second manager of the basketball team... Is she capable of managing the problematic ace? And is he capable of handling her?
Kuroko no Basuke/黒子のバスケ - Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 61 - Words: 771,036 - Reviews: 426 - Favs: 553 - Follows: 583 - Updated: 8/17 - Published: 6/22/2018 - [Aomine D., OC] Kagami T., Touou
The Last Straw
by raspberry dreams reviews
Attacked, Potioned and Cursed? No thanks! Voldemort's death and the end of the war doesn't end the bigotry of wizarding Britain. It doesn't end the danger to Harry either and finally he's had enough. Leaving in search of a place he can just be himself he finds a happiness he'd barely dared to dream of. Mpreg.
Crossover - Harry Potter & NCIS - Rated: M - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 112 - Words: 499,458 - Reviews: 4657 - Favs: 3,889 - Follows: 4,529 - Updated: 6/30 - Published: 8/7/2016 - [Harry P., Tim M.]
Hidden in plain sight
by AnaTheOtherAlien reviews
Harry lied about what happened in the Graveyard. Voldemort was back, but they never dueled. Instead, Harry Potter decides to follow his own intuition, instead of letting everyone else control his life. BCJ/HP
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 12 - Words: 48,065 - Reviews: 79 - Favs: 319 - Follows: 429 - Updated: 4/14 - Published: 1/3/2020 - [Harry P., Barty C. Jr.]
He's My Son
by ThePlatinumLotus reviews
Harry finds out Snape is his father, but Snape doesn't want him and his friends leave him. Harry tries to end it all with suicide, but is saved at the last minute by a woman who becomes his adoptive mother. He goes to Durmstrang and makes new friends, but when he returns for the Tri-Wizard tournament all new problems arise from old faces. Slash, HPxVK, SSxOC.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Family/Drama - Chapters: 27 - Words: 97,363 - Reviews: 1004 - Favs: 3,104 - Follows: 3,783 - Updated: 9/22/2019 - Published: 7/22/2014 - [Harry P., Viktor K.] [Severus S., OC]
Deucalion: The First Alpha
by Darth Aptal reviews
Harry realizes how out of his depth he truly is, and that no one is going to hold his hand through life. Self-Defense Lessons and a horrifying ritual, set Harry on a different path. [4th Year AU] [Werewolf!HarryPotter] [BAMF!HarryPotter] [Kill Bill Sword-Fu] [Harry Potter/Viktor Krum] [AntiHero!HarryPotter]
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Adventure - Chapters: 9 - Words: 20,161 - Reviews: 27 - Favs: 195 - Follows: 249 - Updated: 4/9/2017 - Published: 3/28/2017 - [Harry P., Viktor K.]
by choiheeyeonnie reviews
"Let's not grow apart…" Kuroko smiled, as he lovingly held his lover's soft cheeks by his two hands. They were so delicate on his touch that he would forever treasure it. Her scent was lovely that captivated him once again.
Kuroko no Basuke/黒子のバスケ - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,346 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 21 - Follows: 8 - Published: 2/8/2017 - [Kuroko T., Momoi S.] Aomine D. - Complete
The Open Sea 2: Magic of the Sea
by Voldemort's Hikari1 reviews
Harry has been reunited with Jack and Davy will he now have the strength to defeat Voldemort? Will his time and lessons he learned in the past be able to help him unite everyone together in his time? You'll have to read to find out.
Crossover - Harry Potter & Pirates of the Caribbean - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 8,663 - Reviews: 322 - Favs: 920 - Follows: 966 - Updated: 7/18/2010 - Published: 3/7/2010 - Harry P., Capt. Jack Sparrow, Davy Jones
The Open Sea
by Voldemort's Hikari1 reviews
Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones don't want just one heart! What is Harry Potter to do? Jack Sparrow/Harry, Davy Jones/Harry. Summary in profile. Under new management, original is from Dark Crimson Flame. Sign up to write the next or future chapters. Enjoy!
Crossover - Harry Potter & Pirates of the Caribbean - Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 22 - Words: 70,184 - Reviews: 414 - Favs: 1,508 - Follows: 721 - Updated: 3/7/2010 - Published: 4/17/2009 - Complete | <urn:uuid:f458f289-aa1c-4183-b5a6-271d1675534c> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://www.fanfiction.net/u/13023020/dsaois | 2021-09-19T09:22:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056752.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20210919065755-20210919095755-00485.warc.gz | en | 0.900818 | 1,195 |
Salambo discovering Ethiopia
Moving somewhere new is always difficult, but moving to Addis Ababa is quite a shock! What struck me first coming from Europe was not the poverty, the chaos or the lack of infrastructure, but the unbearably high pollution level. I had read and heard about it, but only realized what it meant when I had to constantly breathe the black fumes myself. It is hard to escape. The pollution is everywhere in the city, not only in the bustling centre. Even the many old eucalyptus trees, which were brought in from Australia when the city was created, do not help anymore; the smell of black diesel fuel is overpowering.
For the first few days here, I felt I couldn’t breathe, my lungs were burning, I was gasping for oxygen, desperate to get out of the city as soon as possible to get some fresh air. A lot of it is due to the high altitude of the city, which stands at 2500 metres. I was told about it, but didn’t think I would feel it so badly. When I opened my windows at night, the air didn’t feel fresh. There is always a lingering smell of pollution and burning. I don’t know if I’ll get used to it. The mixture of altitude sickness and pollution is something else.
Having been here for a week now, I begin to feel a bit better about breathing. I feel less claustrophobic and wake up less in a panic at night. Still, having to go every morning to Churchill road, one of the city’s main arteries where our school is hasn’t been a particularly nice experience so far! We’ll probably get used to it…
I’m going around Addis with a driver, it may seem quite exclusive seen from Europe, but it is a necessity rather than a luxury here. The car we use is a 20 year-old Toyota Corolla which is everything but glamorous (a temporary arrangement until we can import a car). If it wasn’t for Salomon, our driver, I would be completely lost. Addis doesn’t function like a western city. There are no maps, and even if there are, they are completely irrelevant. Locally, people don’t use street names, they use reference points across the city. Only the wide avenues, such as Churchill road or Bole road leading to the airport have proper names. As an example, one road is called “spare parts” road because that’s where all the spare parts for cars can be found. Another road is called 6 kilo and then 5 kilo leading to Arat kilo, the square officially named Meyazia 27, the day in the Ethiopian calendar which commemorates the victory over the Fascists, but in Addis it is called Arat kilo. Another area is called “what you have” because that’s where people buy or sell personal items they no longer want. Salomon told me that people even sold single shoes there, which are bought by people who have only one leg or one foot.
Foreign embassies and schools are also an important reference point, which local people know very well. According to Salomon again, most residents wouldn’t even know the official street names as they appear on Google maps. So finding one’s way when new to the city is practically impossible. After a few days, I had to look at a map again just to understand where places were in relation with one another. I still don’t know the streets, but I now know where the French embassy is in relation to the German or the Canadian one (at opposite ends of the city).
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Colored Wedding Dress Modern | Looking for inspiration wedding dresses need reference. Well, I’ll share some ideas for colored wedding dress modern. Here you can find wedding dress ideas that ladies can wear during a luxurious wedding.
With décor choices and so many details, it is understandable Why minimalism is now such a wedding fashion trend, and let us tell you. You may think you need centerpieces and layers of linens to your table settings, or overflowing floral chandeliers interspersed with string light, but there’s also much to be said for the weddingwhere less is more.
Rather than eliminating details (as the style is often Translated ), a clean appearance merely makes them intentional. Without the fuss, there is nothing to distract from the components that do remain, allowing them to stand out as a focal point and giving more significance to them. A minimalist look points the focus right where it should be–about the both of you. And in a reception, it empowers the beauty and light of the venue to shine through.
A wedding that is minimalist manifests in a few ways. There’s There, and minimalism, which includes a good deal of white with accents of lush greenery’s industrial minimalism. Then there’s modern minimalism, which likes to play up geometry and shapes, and romantic minimalism, with ethereal linens or elegant calligraphy here or there. And the design favors a palette for a appearance that is airy and soft. But that’s not to say you can not throw in a spot of colour, which offers an unexpected and personalized twist. It’s your choice to create the look your own, but no matter which way you go, it promises to be crisp and timeless with underlying sophistication.
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But lately there has been a rash of crimes so eccentric and random that even Detective Gould is stumped. Will he discover the connection between the compulsive chair thief, the novelist who uses purloined street signs to write her magnum opus, and the photographer who secretly documents peoples' most anguished personal moments? Or will Detective Gould finally meet his match?
This is a wonderful, and wonderfully engaging take on the tradition of the hard boiled detective. In this world it is the art of theft, as much as the theft of art, that is important. And this poses a different kind of challenge to the indefatigable Detective Gould. But my favorite part is the interrogations, as suspect and detective engage in metaphysical and political discussions of the nature of crime. | <urn:uuid:084a48a4-a189-4ca6-b370-168f4f0b9f25> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://obliqueintent.blogspot.com/2013/05/ | 2017-04-25T20:29:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120878.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00302-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961543 | 157 |
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Pippa Middleton the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate (Catherine) Middleton. She is known for her fashion style and class. Since the days of the Royal Wedding, we have seen Pippa rock the somber look to the party chick and everything in between.Paparazzi follow her around like they can’t have enough of her, so she is on her best fashion sense and always leaves the house looking like she stepped out of a photo shoot. But what’s not to love, Pippa shows us that just designer wear garments are not a must have and you can shop anywhere from the high street and look like a million bucks.
The products and style she sports now has become international news and many viewers are seen wanting to know what she is wearing. Plus she was known for her physical assets during the Royal Wedding which made her known to the public. Way to go Pippa, you know how to Rock it!
Some of the brand she was spotted wearing were French Connection, Zara, Temperly, Fay, and many of her accessories were spotted in Modalu, L.K Bennett, Knomo, Ri2k, Gucci, Tory Burch brands.
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Please forward this to friends, relatives, “centrists” and conservatives you know. You may have heard about the “Occupy” protests that are occurring in cities around the country. They aren’t what you are hearing. Please come to one and see for yourself. If you are young, old, white, black, brown, poor, rich, left, right, centrist, even Tea Party you will find people just like you. You might agree, you might disagree, you might love it, you might hate it, but you owe it to yourself to come and see for yourself.
A lot of people feel frustration with the huge and increasing gap between the rich and the poor and the effect this is having on our country, culture, politics and the way we relate to each other as Americans. It seems like everything in the country is now geared toward the top 1%, and the rest of us are divided and supposed to keep quiet and accept this. Somehow the Occupy movement started at just the right time, when just the right number of people were fed up with the way things are going and the lack of solutions coming from our political leaders. It grew quickly, because people were tired of keeping quiet while our government seems to operate only for the benefit of the top few and expects the rest of us to sacrifice to pay for that.
This all brings us a chance to restore democracy not just in our communities, but within ourselves. By attending and participating, we are exercising the “muscles” of democracy, of speaking up and being part of something. The thing is, you won’t just see it, you’ll feel it. You’ll feel what it is like to have so many people around you who agree with you. You’ll feel what it is like to be part of something important.
How To Find One Near You
The “Occupy” movement has now been going on for just over six weeks, and has spread to hundreds of towns across the country. You can probably find one near you. Start at Occupy Together which is at http://www.occupytogether.org/. Take a look at the page where they show you what is happening in your area, using a map. Also, try typing ‘Occupy’ and the name of your town into Google just to see what pops up.
Also see them on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/occupyeverywhere, and http://www.facebook.com/Gilded.Age . Also visit the Rebuild the Dream movement, and, of course, MoveOn.org.
So now that you know where one is, come on down, and see for yourself. If you need a ride ask your niece or your aunt. If your aunt needs a ride, give her a ride.
What To Expect
Warning, there might be some people with beards, and God forbid, drum circles.
People are out there speaking for themselves, and learning how to be citizens again, instead of just consumers. This will have a lot of interesting outcomes, most of them good, some of them won’t work out. But it will be people who want to be involved again.
Depending on your community, there will likely be a turnout of some people with signs and leaflets, maybe some people set up with tables to do things like register people to vote, organizations with literature, groups that know each other, people who don’t know each other standing around, etc. There will be a diversity people people.
These events are self-organizing, no one is “running” these events, but volunteers will be helping to organize them. The character of the event completely depends on who shows up, who volunteers to help run it, and how much the people speak up. So it’s up to you to do your part.
See the website How To Occupy and the Field Manual wiki.
Occupy events have a “General Assembly” meeting once or twice every day. In New York the meeting is at 7pm. At the recent Redwood City, CA Occupy event it was at about 6pm. As I said above, volunteers run things, which means that after you get to know the ropes you might want to volunteer.
From the Occupy Wall Street website:
The occupations around the world are being organized using a non-binding consensus based collective decision making tool known as a “people’s assembly”. To learn more about how to use this process to organize your local community to fight back against social injustice, please read this quick guide on group dynamics in people’s assemblies.
These meetings are the heart of the movement. Please come attend one, even if it is just to watch. You’ll feel what it is like to be say what is on your mind. (And you’ll feel what it is like to sit there while so many other people say what is on their minds. Don’t worry, it works, and people keep comments short.) This is what democracy looks like.
Occupy Redwood City
Friday I attended Occupy Redwood City (California), and took some pictures. It was the first Redwood City event, maybe 50 people showed up, and the General Assembly lasted a couple of hours. They’ll meet again next Friday, and probably should expect a lot more people now that it is up and in operation and people are telling each other about it. If 50 people doesn’t seem like a lot, this is not a huge city, and there are more than a hundred events like it going on, some with thousands of people turning out.
Scary, no? Especially the guy (me) with the little white dog. Was that a beard? Of, that first one is a short video, click here in case it doesn’t work in this post.
Don’t Let Them Scare You Away
Speaking of being scary: There will not be violence. This is a non-violent movement. The media outlets, talk show hosts, columnists, etc. that tell you there is violence are trying to keep you from showing up. They are trying to scare you. When they send large numbers of police to shoot tear gas into these events, it is an attempt to intimidate people, not just there but people who are thinking of showing up.
Another way they are trying to keep people from showing up is with humiliation. This is a remarkably effective technique. Make people ashamed to show up, tell them they will be laughed at, or shunned, and people will stay away. They tell you the “protesters” are “dirty,” even “urine-soaked.” They tell you they are “hippies” and thinkthis will make you ashamed to show up and speak your mind.
This is about what speech is “permissible” and what is not. The corporate-conservatives on the Supreme Court say that corporations are people who “speak” and can use all of their money to swamp our elections. But when people show up to complain about the 1% running everything, they are met with force. The big banks can crash the economy and commit crimes and are offered modest “settlements,” but when people show up to complain they are beaten, maced, tear-gassed and arrested.
Don’t let them make you feel scared or ashamed to stand up for your rights.
Show Up & See For Yourself
If you want democracy you have to fight for democracy. You have to stand up for your rights or they will go away. Please visit at least on Occupy event in your area, and see for yourself.
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF.
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Your Favourite Photoshop Tutorials in One Place
Drawing a Pretty Cartoon Character
Under Drawing Effect, Photoshop Tutorial
If you are a cartoon lover, you may want to design your own character. To draw one, it can be very complicate, so here will show you the process for coloring the character and add photoshop effects to beautify your drawing.
No need any photos, you can create a fantastic easily. This will present you some skills to create a fantastic universe using Photoshop brushes. It will give you an idea to make your own universe using different color and different size or type of brushes.
In this tutorial, it will describe a workflow that allows you to make a realistic and painterly scene, and easily generate and integrate 3D elements to it. You can use the skills and ideas to create any supernatural scene you want.
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a dramatic solar eclipse scene in Photoshop. We will add a texture in the end just to give that retro feel to the image. Very nice, have a try!
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The Homer High School volleyball team exacted a little payback on the Skyview Panthers over homecoming weekend.
The Mariners pulled off an impressive comeback, rallying to win three straight games and capture a 3-2 Region III/4A match over Skyview on Friday night. The Panthers rolled to a 15-2 win in game one, then took the second game 15-7 before the Mariners rallied to win three straight games, 15-8, 15-9 and 15-12.
Homer's thrilling win came after Skyview had swept the Mariners just one week earlier.
"I think what happened was we woke Homer up," Skyview coach Sheila Kupferschmid said. "We had plenty of opportunities to win the match. Skyview had more talent, but volleyball is a game where you need to win as a team.
"Homer was really disciplined at that. They excelled at defense and wouldn't let the balls drop. I credit Homer for staying with it and competing."
Homer's Stacey Borgman and partner Mary Obidinski edged the crew from Canada by 0.16 seconds to win the "B" consolation final for women's lightweight double sculls on Sunday at the World Rowing Championships in Seville, Spain. With that finish the pair earned 7th place overall. Borgman and Obidinski got off the line in fourth position, trailing the Canadian crew by 2.48 seconds and still sat in the fourth spot at the midway point of the race. That's when Borgman and Obidinski made their move. The crew moved into second position with 500 meters remaining and edged ahead of Canada with less than 250 meters to go to take the victory. The U.S. boat finished in a time of 7:07.33, while Canada stroked to a 7:07.49. The American pair just missed qualifying for the finals when they finished fourth in Friday's semifinal heat.
Hoop officials meeting
Cook Inlet Basketball Officials will be holding a meeting in Homer on Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Pate Insurance office on the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Lake Street. Anyone interested in officiating junior high and high school games is encouraged to attend. Call 235-8019 for more information.
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Micromobility operator TIER has launched a fleet of 500 e-bikes in London, after agreeing to a partnership with the borough of Islington.
TIER is one of three operators currently taking part in the London e-scooter trial and plans to roll out more of its micromobility devices across the capital next year.
The firm has deployed fleets of e-bikes in cities across Europe including Paris, Eindhoven, and York.
Available from parking pays in Islington, riders will pay £1 to unlock the device and then £0.15 per minute.
“At TIER we are passionate about cutting emissions and improving air quality in cities across Europe,” said Georgia Yexley, Head of Cities UK and Ireland at TIER.
“We know e-bikes can play a significant role in encouraging people to ditch their cars and switch to greener modes of transport.
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You see, silvertips can smell your fear, just like any other scary-ass predator. But unlike most predators, they can smell your fear over distances measured in double digits. In miles. These bears can smell a carcass from 18 miles away. When a silvertip enters a clearing, you're screwed even if you left 48 hours before. And if you're still there, all that sweating, pissing yourself and crapping your pants while you ran away will be laying down a neon-colored trail for the bear to follow until you get tired.
Part of the reason for this is because, despite what some scientists would have you believe, predators are scavengers as well, and the ability to smell a dead body close to 20 miles away goes a long way toward helping get a free meal. Since bears scare the shit out of every other living thing (except maybe wolverines), being able to smell someone else's kill is like being a 250-pound bully in eighth grade; no one is going to fuck with you when you walk up to him and take his food. Not even entire packs of wolves.
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February 4th, 2004, 03:00 AM
Lightweight (simpler) CMS
After searching the net for various CMS I couldn't find anything that is suited for my current needs.
Allright, Plone does look good, but it requires quite a fast computer. And all are packed with features. Features I will never use in my current project. All I need is a way to add new pages (articles) with pictures. And maybe to get an auto-generated index with some thumbnails. Nothing more.
Than, regarding the resource consumption - that is another issue. I have been using with success a very lightweight web server called boa. I don't have the need for the complex apache. Do I have to go the apache way if I want a CMS?
Any hint would be helpful.
February 4th, 2004, 05:03 AM
Have you checked out http://www.bricolage.cc ?
It's what www.theregister.co.uk amongst others use to do their CMS.
As for webservers. Apache is simple to use and run. No need to run anything else IMO - whats the advantage of being more lightweight?
February 4th, 2004, 06:42 AM
Well... I have no real good reason not to use apache. Only the fact that it seems to me a less used web server getts less attention from the crackers as well. Than, the complexity makes Apache more vulnerable and makes my job harder as I have to 'close down' some more features. When it comes to resource consumption - why use something bloated with features you don't use? I agree, php/python support is far better in Apache from what I have read.
About bricolage I knew nothing. The search on google or freshmeat brings up so many options, and most of them are comercial offers or same CMS analysed over and over again by various users.
This seems to be a good start. Thank you very much.
February 4th, 2004, 07:16 AM
Although I have never used Bricolage - it does seem to get some good press from all who use it. Although its crafted in that cryptic Perl language :-) it seems ot be fairly solid. From the screenshots the CMS capabilities look great!
February 4th, 2004, 07:30 AM
I just found a very interesting option called WebMake. As they say you don't even need scripting support on the destination server.
February 4th, 2004, 07:36 AM
There's a few which produce static output pages. Dreamweaver even has such capabilities via its templating system.
February 5th, 2004, 03:16 AM
After all, for a bunch of articles with pictures that have to be bound together with a few table of contents and a site map (auto-generated) this static aproach seems better to me.
Is there a OpenSource project that does what DreamWeaver does?
February 5th, 2004, 04:15 AM
Yeah, EzPublish or something. I looked at it a while back.
February 5th, 2004, 08:38 AM
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Following a new trojan threat for Mac OS X that was uncovered last week, Apple has updated its anti-malware tools for the Mac that will ensure we continue to sleep soundly at night, safe in the knowledge our beloved Macs aren’t at risk.The new trojan, named “Trojan-Dropper:OSX/Revir.a,” disguises itself as an innocent PDF file, filled with nothing but “offensive political statements” written in Chinese. When you open it up, however, the file opens up a backdoor to your Mac that will allow unwanted access to your machine.
The shameless thugs behind the threat weren’t quite intelligent enough to create the malware properly, according to a CNET report, but it can still be a malicious threat. Thankfully, Apple has moved quickly to ensure our systems are safe, by updating the malware definitions for OS X Lion and Snow Leopard so that these systems can recognize the threat.
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Another trojan threat, this time posing as Adobe Flash Player, was discovered this week by antivirus firm Intego. Named “Trojan OSX/flashback.A,” this threat must be installed on your system by a user, but acts as Adobe Flash Player to go unnoticed. It’s also a little more problematic than the last Flash Trojan:
Unlike the previous Flash Trojan (called Bash/QHost.WB), which changed one file on the system, this new Trojan is a bit more complex and first deactivates network security features, then installs a dyld library that will run and inject code into applications that the user is running. The Trojan will also try to send personal information and machine-specific information to remote servers.
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Today's post is filled with tips on how to talk to a guy whose shyness is making it tough on you. This was written as a direct answer to a great question from a dedicated reader who left the question below:
There’s this amazing guy and he is literally all I think about. I really like him but he’s really shy and doesn’t interact with many girls often. I’ve caught him looking at me several times but every time I try to talk to him the conversations are really short.
I’ve made him laugh before but then it seems like he’s avoiding me whenever I see him.
I know his family fairly well and him too, but I don’t know if I should approach him with the idea of being more than friends.
I can’t tell if he’s into me or not and how to approach him if he is.
I used to be a very shy guy so I think I can help you out. First Let's dig into his mind from my previous point of view.
It felt like I was going to be judged negatively. I wasn't sure what to say or how my words would come across to others. I was always "at a loss" of what to talk about and was a little afraid of doing something socially unaccepted.
Although this shyness was there all the time and I preferred solitude and working alone than with others, when it came time to interacting with girls and then women - THAT is when it was the worst.
Oddly enough - one on one with a woman felt natural. I could be myself. I felt most comfortable and at ease and could connect with anyone.
In a group - even just one extra person EVERYTHING changed and I would retreat to barely interacting or talking to others. Part of that stemmed from a fear of confrontation and part of it came about from an unknown place...
It just never felt right. Like something was a little off. It wasn't a full blown anxiety with a fast heart rate because I would handle all that nervous energy by tapping my hands on something, rocking my legs, any tick which would alleviate the tension I was experiencing in those moments.
Where my shyness around women came from was obvious - a low self-esteem, insecurity about myself, I felt ugly and believed NO girl or woman would ever want me and so I'd have to make up for it by developing a private friendship first and HOPE something else would happen.
Which it rarely if ever did.
Based on the psychology of shyness and what I experienced it becomes a little more clear on how to approach and talk to a shy quiet guy so he's less likely to continually avoid you in the future.
It's best to start the approach or conversation when there is very little social pressure added on top of what he is already experiencing.
(Nervous, anxious, unsure, and self-conscious.)
In other words make it a very clear ONE on ONE interaction where others can hear what it being said or done. I'm not saying that is easy - merely saying it's the BEST place for it to happen.
Shy people tend to internalize too much and connect it to themselves. If others are around, you won't be talking to him directly - you'll be speaking to the FILTER he puts in place to protect himself making it extremely difficult to connect with him AND he will do anything and everything to avoid being STUCK in that position.
Since shy people tend to have more social fears they live in the future a lot which is generally where the fear lie - a prediction of a bad event.
This means you must NEVER go into thinking you want to be more than friends with him. Don't add to the pressure - alleviate by keeping it open and very neutral until he begins to feel more comfortable around you and less fearful of screwing something up.
Here's a simple example of how even a simple small question adds pressure.
"What do you do for a living?"
Something which all too commonly asked early on of a guy. You might think it's no big deal to answer but it actually is because:
He might not like his job and is worried you won't like him for what he does. He might not think it's "cool" enough. Even IF he enjoys what he does his first thought is (because he's probably been very unsuccessful with women) that YOU couldn't possibly be attracted to a guy who does THAT.
And that's just a simple career question. Imagine other questions which are far more revealing more intense to answer.
It's BEST to steer clear of personal questions like that. It's tough but it's certainly possible.
Think of it this way: No questions. No pressure.
Your immediate goal should be about a simple fun exchange of ideas which he feels less likely to be judged on.
Observe something unique. Relate it to something you're used to or have in common with him or let him make that connection himself.
Here's another helpful tip:
People (specifically shy guys) FEED off the energy around them so much they FEEL it more than others.
Which is just one reason shy guys avoid public places that are high energy. It raises their self-conscious thoughts to a higher level.
This means YOU must do whatever you can to avoid being nervous yourself. You must quiet your mind and your body language. So you BRING him to a state of complete by being at complete ease yourself.
I'm not saying you have to do it perfectly - just to understand how important it can be and how when your mind is racing forward and your energy level is higher than usual - it will rub off on him.
Making him for one - more nervous and you'll make less of a connection with him AND once again - he'll do anything to avoid being what he feels is STUCK in a situation he can't easily get out or remove himself from quickly.
Here's a great post I like to help you achieve that from Mirabelle Summers:
"A common mistake that intelligent women often commit is to think too much about certain things. They get so caught up in their own world of thoughts that they’ll come off as aloof or distracted… when in reality they’re just petrified from FEAR of not knowing what to say next."
Another few tips:
Take things SLOW. slower than you normally would for a guy who isn't so shy and reserved.
Add a little self-deprecating humor to the conversation. Chances are - if he's attracted to you he's going to put you on a pedestal which is only going to push him away or have him do things which are far from attractive and he's subconsciously is aware of it.
The more "goddess" like he thinks you are - the more introverted and uneasy he will feel.
You will take off some of the pressure on him, make him feel more relaxed and open around you, AND more safe.
When a shy guy feels that way around you - he will be FAR more likely to want to experience it again and again and again.
When he feels safe - he'll open up and you'll find connecting with him a lot easier an natural too.
Now that I've got some of the tips on talking and opening up a shy guy - let's dig a little further into what you wrote before this is finished:
He's an amazing guy who is always on your mind and you're not sure if he likes you; I'm guessing you mean "in that way".
Of course he's amazing - why else would you be thinking about him all the time.
Here's something you must never forget.
ALWAYS assume unless otherwise directed, told, or shown that a guy can and should be interested in you for something more.
I'm not saying that you must believe all guys want to get in your pants and act in that way - that's the extreme and bad opposite.
I'm merely saying that you must feel and believe you're confident and beyond good enough to be with ANY guy you choose.
Don't approach it with, "I hope he likes me?????"
Approach ALL potential dates with confidence and a true belief in yourself and go from there.
You've caught him looking at you a few times but when you've tried to talk to him the conversations are short.
Since I'm not there listening to the conversation or watching him stare at you - I can say neither one way or another why the conversations are short.
It could be that's he's shy.
It could be you or him or both of you are not generally good at talking to someone in a certain way when you're attracted to each other.
BUT if you believe he's "checking you out" - then go with it and do what you can (based on the tips above) to keep the conversation as light and fun as possible AND introduce some real FLIRTING with him.
Don't WAIT for something to happen. MAKE it happen. Just make sure you're sticking to the female side and not being too pushy or masculine and I'm sure you'll do just fine with it.
You've made him laugh but it seems like he's avoiding you.
Okay - making him laugh is good thing but honestly, doesn't really mean much here. Guys like women with a sense of humor but when it comes to attraction - there MUST be a lot more to it and a lot more going on.
Not that it's a bad thing - just don't go reading too much into it.
Now if he's avoiding AND you absolutely think it's because he's shy - then don't worry about it.
IF it is a problem AND the tips above are not working AND you're finding no way to get through to him then I'm sorry BUT that is his issue to deal with in his own way.
REMEMBER: It's a BIG responsibility of him to be a man here if he's interested and attracted to you.
If he won't or can't - there's not much more you can safely do without taking on the masculine role which will either cause major problems in the future or send him running.
You're not sure if you should "approach" him with the idea of being more than friends.
Find a balance which works for you.
It's not always best to go into it with the IDEA of being more than friends BUT at the same time you don't want to go in it with the sole purpose of getting a date.
Which means - you need to leave it OPEN to going somewhere BUT at the same time make it more probable to happen.
It's a bit tricky but not impossible.
What I teach guys you can use too...
Don't go into ANY interaction with potential date to GET something - do it to give something. Something memorable. Something fun. Anything which makes them WANT to see you see again.
Don't add all the unneeded pressure of getting a date because you'll act outside your attractive self and quite honestly - whenever you sense someone is TRYING to get something from you - you're far less likely to get it.
Rather than getting into all that because it's kind of a big subject, I'd like you to read this next article that I love to turn to because it's so good... from the same woman in the article above.
It's about "dates" in general but the idea of staying in the moment do APPLY here and should be used in each and every interaction you have with guy SPECIFICALLY when you're INTO him this much:
"And because of the importance that you’ve invested this date with – the emotional significance that it now has for you, what with this guy potentially being your future husband and all – suddenly, everything is MUCH too important for you to be able to relax.
There’s too much at stake.
What if you screw up?
You’ll have ruined a potentially great relationship with this guy, who could even be The One!
What if he doesn’t like you?
What if you do or say something dumb? What if you RUIN everything??
That is the kind of thinking that your ‘mental chatterbox’ will subject you to, when you over-invest in an event’s significance. The pressure involved causes you to get stressed out, anxious, self-conscious, and jumpy …
… and it’s simply NOT ATTRACTIVE."
The original author is part of a team of experts on dating, attraction, and relationships called Meet Your Sweet. That's their main link. They give me this one to point you to where you pick up the extremely helpful Get A Guy Guide - Leading you with a video: Powerful Obsession Triggers That Make Men Crave You.
Whereas I tend to specialize in understanding men and all that good stuff - advice like you've been given today is a little rare for me. You can, with certain, benefit from checking out those few links above to help you ATTRACT and CONNECT with ANY men - shy or not.
Lots of great advice there.
The "shy guy" does require a little more tact or a slightly more reserved approach if you want him to STEP up, OUT OF HIS SHYNESS and take you out for a date or to assure you're seen as more than a friend to him.
Try to keep it one on one (f possible) with him so he'll be less reserved.
Cut down on as much as you can on the added social pressure shy guys feel.
Stay away from asking too many personal questions about him. Let him reveal himself to you slowly and on his own terms so he'll be less likely to retreat and avoid seeing you again.
Keep it all simple - go in it with the idea of just exchanging fun stuff that you both can relate to.
DO your best to make sure if you're nervous or have a little extra energy that's it's not too obvious - your state of mind or being will rub off on him. If he feels it too much with you, he'll be far less likely to want to be put in that position again.
Don't sell yourself at all. If he already has you on a pedestal you don't want to make it worse because you won't get himself, you'll get a huge filter and find it extremely tough to open him up and connect with him.
Try some self-deprecating FUN humor or anything which eases hie view of you. It won't affect his attraction or interest in you.
Follow the tips from Mirabelle above - they'll help you quite your mind and his at the same time AND they're just great advice anyways.
I used to be a shy guy myself so I know where's he's coming from - a little insecure, low self-esteem especially around women, fear of social pressures or saying or doing the wrong things, a feeling like we're always being judged, and WAY too many self-conscious thoughts which has us living in our heads a lot more than usual.
Keep all the in mind as you approach the shy guy BUT never forget the reality of guys like this:
Some guys like this will NEVER let you in.
You can do some encouraging things to open him up and get him to feel more comfortable around you BUT...
The rest is HIS deal. You're not there to CHANGE him.
You want to avoid taking on a masculine role when you're with him because that will pose future problems which are easy to predict because they WILL happen.
It's ENTIRELY HIS responsibility to get past all this shyness and fears so don't waste too much of your valuable time IF it's not working for you.
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>Or does anyone else find it odd that the voice-over on the Mervyn’s going out of business sale commercial is so upbeat? I’m a little sad about it. When I was a kid, I loved shopping at Mervyn’s with my mom. Who doesn’t remember those “Open, open, open!” commercials? Clearly, the management of the stores and corporation fell off over the years.
>A couple weeks ago I was watching that “Last Lecture” on PBS and realized that I can’t even remember having any childhood dreams. Is that normal?
I think my childhood dream was to get the hell out of school. Seriously, I don’t remember wanting to do anything but not go to school. I know I couldn’t wait to grow up and be able to do whatever I wanted. Maybe that was my childhood dream, to be a grown up.
>Or do you think it’s odd that my coworker has really told no one that she is pregnant? Based on just looking at her, I’d guess that she’s about 6-7 months along. As far as I know, it’s her first kid. Granted, now I know why she’s been angry/moody the entire time I’ve known her.
It’s one thing to be low key about it, but she has not acted like she’s pregnant other than changing her wardrobe to accommodate her ever expanding waistline. She never talks about it. Which, for me is a breath of fresh air, but also highly unusual.
If fact, I didn’t even know she was pregnant until one of the guys in my department asked me if she was pregnant. Over the past few weeks, I had noticed that her clothes were making her look pregnant, but I just chalked it up to a poor fashion sense or low self-esteem. I mean you can’t go up to a woman and go, “Are you pregnant? Because you look like you might be.” He asked around and confirmed his curiosity that she is indeed with child.
There have been three other gals in the office who just recently gave birth. So, it’s not like the office is only full of men who would rather gouge their eyes out with a dull knife than hear about pregnancy. There’s a decent ratio of women who would enjoy a pregnancy small talk moment now and then.
I’ve just never met anyone who was so indifferent about pregnancy. Sometime in October she will probably mysteriously take some time off for “personal reasons”. One good thing, we probably won’t have a baby shower for her. I just can’t stand baby showers.
>Or are parents not as parental as they used to be? I was listening to Sammy Hagar sing about Fast Times at Ridgemont High on my way to work today, when I realized that kids really don’t have real shit to complain about these days. They pretty much get whatever the hell they want.
What are they going to rebel against? “Dammit, my parents didn’t get me the cell phone that plays mp3s. I just have this old one that takes pictures.” Parents used to say, “Sorry we can’t afford to buy you that.”
It’s not like these are 16 year olds who have jobs and are paying for their own stuff. These are 13 year olds who don’t even have a paper route. They just get handed shit whenever they whine for it long enough.
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TOPEKA – The Kansas High School Activities Association (KSHSAA) has announced the hosting sub-state volleyball sites as well as assignments for the 2019 postseason.
Sub-State will be held on Saturday, October 26th. The winner of each sub-state tournament will advance to the state tournament of their respective classification on November 1st-2nd 2019.
CLASS 5A SUB-STATES
-hese schools have been divided into 2 groups of 18 on a geographical basis. Each group of 18 schools will conduct 4 sub-state tournaments (2 5-team tournaments and 2 4-team tournaments). The top 4 seeds will host a tournament.
Seeding Manager: Gary Mattingly, Lansing HS
Basehor-Linwood HS; Bonner Springs HS; De Soto HS; Kansas City-FL Schlagle HS; Kansas City-Sumner Academy; Kansas City-Turner HS; Kansas City-Washington HS; Lansing HS; Leavenworth HS; Lenexa-St. James Academy; Overland Park-Blue Valley Southwest HS; Overland Park-St. Thomas Aquinas HS; Pittsburg HS; Spring Hill HS; Tecumseh-Shawnee Heights HS; Topeka West HS; Topeka-Highland Park HS; Topeka-Seaman HS;
CLASS 4A SUB-STATES
-These schools have been divided into 2 groups of 18 on a geographical basis. Each group of 18 schools will conduct 4 sub-state tournaments (2 5-team tournaments and 2 4-team tournaments). The top 4 seeds will host a tournament.
Seeding Manager: Brad Graf, Ottawa HS
Altamont-Labette County HS; Atchison HS; Baldwin HS; Chanute HS; Coffeyville-Field Kindley HS; Eudora HS; Fort Scott HS; Girard HS; Independence HS; Iola HS; Kansas City-Piper HS; Louisburg HS; Ottawa HS; Paola HS; Parsons HS; Shawnee Mission-Bishop Miege HS; Tonganoxie HS; Topeka-Hayden HS;
CLASS 3A SUB-STATES
Fredonia HS – Dee Barnett, Manager(s) (2 Courts)
Burlington HS; Caney Valley HS; Cherryvale HS; Douglass HS; Eureka HS; Fredonia HS; Humboldt HS; Neodesha HS;
Frontenac HS – Paul Colton, Manager(s) (2 Courts)
Baxter Springs HS; Columbus HS; Frontenac HS; Galena HS; Garnett-Anderson County HS; LaCygne-Prairie View HS; Osawatomie HS; Riverton HS;
Perry-Lecompton HS – Mike Paramore, Manager(s) (2 Courts)
Easton-Pleasant Ridge HS; Hoyt-Royal Valley HS; Kansas City-Bishop Ward HS; Meriden-Jefferson West HS; Perry-Lecompton HS; Pomona-West Franklin HS; Santa Fe Trail HS; Wellsville HS;
CLASS 2A SUB-STATES
Arma-Northeast HS – Piper Richardson, Manager(s) (2 Courts)
Arma-Northeast HS; Cherokee-Southeast HS; Erie HS; Mound City-Jayhawk Linn HS; Pittsburg-St. Mary’s Colgan HS; Pleasanton HS; Uniontown HS; Yates Center HS;
* Leon-Bluestem HS – Nick Barnes, Manager(s) (2 Courts)
Belle Plaine HS; Cottonwood Falls-Chase County HS; Dexter HS\Cedar Vale HS; Hillsboro HS; Howard-West Elk HS; Leon-Bluestem HS; Marion HS; Sedan HS; Whitewater-Remington HS;
CLASS 1A REGIONALS & SUB-STATES
16 Class 1A regional tournaments will be conducted on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22.
- The 1A schools are divided geographically into four areas/groups. Each group will have 4 regional tournaments with the same number of schools insofar as possible. 107 schools = 3 groups @ 27 schools & 1 group @ 26 schools. Each Group = 4 Regional Tournaments of 6 or 7 schools.
- The top 2 teams from each regional tournament will advance to their area sub-state tournament and be placed in opposite brackets.
- Brackets/Seeding: 1A = Wednesday, October 16 @ 10AM. Brackets will be posted when the tournament is seeded.
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Electronic health records contain critical information for both medical providers and patients. But these records also contain information that could interfere with an artificial intelligence algorithm’s ability to predict patients’ risk for future disease.
Researchers at the College of Information Sciences and Technology are aiming to eliminate some of this noise—or unnecessary data—through a new machine learning model. Called LSAN, the deep neural network uses a two-pronged approach to scan electronic health record data and identify information that could predict the patient’s risk for developing a target disease in the future.
“Say we want to predict whether a patient will suffer from diabetes in the future,” said Ma. “We will use the patient’s historical data, which in some ways may be related to diabetes, such as high blood pressure or heart failure, and those are risk factors for the target disease.”
He continued, “But there are also some unrelated diagnosis codes or symptoms, and that noise information for the patient is what we want the model to remove and will give them a lower weight.”
Electronic health records use a two-level hierarchical structure to capture the medical journey of a patient using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes. The hierarchy begins with the patient, followed by the chronological sequence of visits. Then within each visit, ICD codes are stored with the recorded symptoms for that visit.
LSAN, which stands for “Long-term Dependencies and Short-term Correlations with Hierarchical Attention Network for Risk Prediction,” uses a hierarchical attention module (HAM) to highlight the ranked order of electronic health record data and give different weights to the ICD codes according to their relevance to a target disease. Then, a temporal aggregation module (TAM) analyzes long-term dependencies, such as how each visit relates to others in a patient’s complete medical journey, and short-term correlations, such as how every visit relates to others in a short time period.
“A patient that has diabetes may sometimes visit the doctor and ask questions about the treatment of diabetes,” said Fenglong Ma, assistant professor of information sciences and technology and principal investigator. “But sometimes they may go to the doctor because they have a cold. So we want to remove the randomness of the noise data from the electronic health data.”
He added, “”The model can output the probability of whether the patient will suffer some disease. For some patients, they may not have clear symptoms at the current time, but the model can make a prediction.”
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Rep. Granger at AIPAC
Washington D.C.--- Yesterday, Rep. Granger participated in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) roundtable on bi-partisanship with Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) and released the following statement.
“I was proud to share the stage with my friend Nita Lowey and show our common belief that we stand firmly behind Israel. We must continue to support and nurture our relationship with Israel to maintain our strongest regional alliance and protect the world from bad actors. I will continue to work with my Republican and Democrat friends to ensure this happens.”
The AIPAC policy conference is in Washington D.C. from March 24-26 and approximately 18,000 people will attend. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left from the conference early to head back to Tel-Aviv where a rocket fired from Gaza had struck a home outside of the city and injured 7 Israelis. | <urn:uuid:5ea1e30d-de31-482b-925f-c08851e47c87> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | https://kaygranger.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-granger-aipac | 2019-10-23T10:47:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987833089.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023094558-20191023122058-00031.warc.gz | en | 0.936984 | 194 |
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Great document for special education teachers to use to track their goals for each student on their case load. It's simple and easy to reference. It provides teachers with an at-a-glance version of each students' IEP. | <urn:uuid:b4acb944-b274-4fca-89df-062b5cea89ec> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/IEP-Goal-Grid-3341489 | 2018-07-23T18:04:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676599291.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723164955-20180723184955-00055.warc.gz | en | 0.930802 | 74 |
Aging has made it increasingly important that locations of no-purchase-necessary public restrooms is achieved wherever this buffalo roams.
As a public service, here is a brief list and review of some available facilities in the Holland area.
They’re rated according to conditions encountered during a series of frightfully informal, spontaneous “surveys” taken by an investigator who has requested anonymity.
The rating scale ranges from zero to five rolls (of TP). Zero rolls, for example, would be like the restroom in Nuremberg’s old town square by the Durer house. It was dark, unbelievably aromatic, wet floors, ceiling and walls, covered with graffiti. It was a dirty bomb partially detonated. A five roll rating would be given a facility such as Amway Grand Hotel — plush bright white cotton hand towels and imported cologne offered by a tuxedoed attendant.
Another example for consideration — supplies: When visiting a Mexican Convent our anonymous investigator was unexpectedly experiencing re-enactments of the Spanish-American War between his flora and fauna. It was a certain losing battle. He was great with need. The banya was clean and dry however one item was missing — papel de lavabo.
Two nuns at a nearby table were found to be the exclusive distributors for the local toilet paper ministry. In his cultural illiteracy, he mimed the need for some paper (mental image forming?), “rapidamente, por favor” and was given ONE SQUARE. Uno.
“Estas loco?” In increasing desperation, he asked for more and was given an additional square. Dos squaritas en total. Without going into more detail than necessary, it shall rest by saying that extreme needs can bring about extreme means. From that point on, he learned to BYOTP. Rating: half-roll (one’s own).
Luckily, here we expect free and reasonably clean, well-stocked public restrooms.
In spite of local shop and restaurant window signs proclaiming, “Restrooms are for patrons only” there are a few places in our area where one can seek his or her “rest.”
• Below the hallway east of Butch’s Restaurant is a semi-hidden restroom. It is in the center of the shopping district and yet eerily remote. Save for occasional graffiti, it is clean and stocked with necessary paper. Three rolls.
• The nicest newest one is at Ninth and College although it can be a butt (oops-typo), a bit chilly on a cool day. Three to four rolls depending on outside temp.
• Family Fare, D&W, Meijers and fast food franchises have nice restrooms but heavy use can add undesirable ambiance. Two and a half to four rolls.
• Herrick Library has great restrooms on each floor. Four rolls.
• The home improvement centers (Lowes, Menards and Home Depot) have clean, serviceable restrooms but require long, sometimes strained walks to their locations in the backs of the huge stores. The hand dryer at Lowes is so strong, it could remove the paint from a ’38 Buick. Two to three rolls.
• Barnes and Noble, Michaels, Target, Younkers, Kohl’s, TJ Maxx are all safe bets. Four rolls.
• Hope College buildings; Three to four rolls each.
Our investigator has surely missed a few but he’ll continue his never ending quest for truth, justice, the American way and the opportunity to “rest” when needed. | <urn:uuid:08a661db-1f3c-4761-847d-c2abd19e1ea1> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.hollandsentinel.com/x1542104275/Column-Potty-talk | 2019-07-19T16:53:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526324.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20190719161034-20190719183034-00061.warc.gz | en | 0.954127 | 750 |
I spent the summer of 2018 living a truck camper that I custom built in a first generation Toyota Tacoma. Since 2015 I’ve lived in a Honda Element, an old VW Westy van, and out of my backpack, but after countless failed attempts to explore the wild off-road backcountry of Western North America, I knew it was time for a capable 4×4 adventure rig.
Living in a Truck Camper – Film
I’ve been eyeing Tacoma’s for years, and while sipping a bottle of wine in New Zealand I stumbled upon a truck for sale on Craigslist in Denver. It was half way around the world, true, but my brother lived there, so once the sun rose in America I called and asked him to go buy it for me. A few days later I booked a flight back, arrived in Denver, and picked up my new ride, a 2002 Toyota Tacoma with nearly 200,000 miles on it.
I wanted the off-road capability of the 5-speed 4×4 Tacoma TRD, but an added benefit was that it came with a bed cap that would be ideal for a living space. The first step in building my new home was resealing the shell, so I pulled the cap off the truck, popped out all the windows and frames, cleaned the surfaces, and used RV butyl tape to make everything water tight.
Of course, no project is complete until you make it more difficult. So, in addition to resealing the windows, I actually cut a new hole in the perfectly good shell in order to install a roof vent. During the summer this would prove to be necessary, but at the time cutting a new hole seemed like a potential step backward!
Next I drove back to Indiana to do some real work. It helps to have a few welders in the family, and they fired up their torches to give the truck a face lift. In the front we removed the stock bumper and replaced it with an ARB Bull Bar and a Smittybilt winch. We bought some steel and my step-dad and step-brother fabricated rock sliders for the sides and replaced the stock rear bumper a custom steel bumper with built in reverse flood lights.
While the professionals were working, I tried my hand at custom mounting a roof basket above the cab. The first gen extended cab Tacoma didn’t include rear doors, so the Yakima door frame clamps weren’t an option. No problem, I figured I could easily drill through the roof and mount the rack directly to the frame. I was wrong, oh so wrong…
After my first two holes missed the mark I called in the experts. We were able to drill through the roof directly into the frame of the truck, run bolts through, and cut pieces of thin coffee can plastic to shim up the open space. Once we (and by that, I mean the experts) were done, the roof mounted basket was rock solid and ready to carry some serious weight. Before working on the living space I buttoned up the exterior, mounting auxiliary lights, a shovel, Hi-Lift jack, and traction boards.
I wanted to keep the living space in the truck bed simple, and we ended up with a welded steel frame bolted into the bedrails, with plywood sheets to create a lofted bed. On top I used a 3 inch memory foam pad for a single mattress, and next to it a plastic 3 drawer storage bin from Walmart for all my clothes. Under the platform I bought 7 plastic bins to store my kitchen (camp stove, pots, pans, utensils), food, running gear, shoes, camping gear, tools, recover gear, and other odds and ends. While planning I divided the truck bed into sixths, and I purposefully left the rear driver’s side sixth open, no platform and no storage, so I had a space to get dressed in the morning and could also lounge back and read a book at night. Once we were done everything I owned fit cozily into the Tacoma and I was ready to hit the road!
While I was finalizing my new Tacoma home, I actually still owned my old VW van home. After doing the majority of the work on the truck in Indiana I drove all the way back to Southern California to finally sell the van. I’ll miss Tantor the VW van, but owning two homes was kinda a lot of work!
With cash in my pocket from the van sale I drove the truck back to Denver to get the last upgrade, a 2.5″ Bilstein lift, new black Pro Comp wheels, and BFG KO2 all terrain tires. And finally, after several months, a few thousand dollars, and road trips between California and Indiana, my new home was complete and I was living in a truck camper. The 2002 Toyota Tacoma officially became part of my family as Terk the Tacoma, named after Tarzan’s friend Terk. My old lumbering brown VW van was perfect as Tantor, Tarzan’s lumbering brown elephant friend, but Terk is his is spunky, high energy, silver ape friend, which which seems to fit this silver Tacoma adventure rig perfectly! | <urn:uuid:119c29a5-51bc-49aa-9d68-b2ee5fd062fe> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | http://christarzanclemens.com/2018/11/living-in-a-truck-camper/?shared=email&msg=fail | 2020-02-29T03:03:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875148375.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20200229022458-20200229052458-00128.warc.gz | en | 0.964771 | 1,070 |
Yes! This drama is clichéd to the core since it covers nothing but gherulu politics yet it continues to hold my interest. The fact that Naila is so full of flaws and everyone else around her has been extremely compromising till now is funny and interesting at the same time. Even with her twisted and controlling personality, Naila is undeniably the best thing about this play. Kiran’s character is turning out to be an interesting addition to the play as well. She balances the over-niceness of rest of the family members and Amir’s reaction tonight was the perfect development in the story. It was about time that someone confronted Naila and unlike the last time, this time around Naila’s egoistic nature did not allow her to stay in Ahmed’s house after everything that happened. Ahmed’s reaction however came out of nowhere and I must say that while this drama shows how a wife and daughter-in-law who is not willing to compromise cannot have a healthy relationship with her husband or her in laws, it also shows how important it is for the husbands to keep a balance. Had Ahmed not compromised this much Naila would have known better.
I must say that Naila’s character is perfectly etched-out, she knows how to get her way just because she is stubborn and spoiled! The writer should have focused more on Ahmed’s character and what was going through his mind when Naila was misbehaving with his parents in tonight’s episode before he finally lost his cool completely. Ahmed has been shown as someone who was completely smitten right from the day he laid his eyes on Naila and while it is easy to understand why he could not allow his wife to treat his parents badly but even then it is impossible to imagine someone like him putting his foot down like this. I am waiting to see how his track is handled from here on.
This drama reminds me of the old PTV drama Aanch in which Shagufta Ijaz played the role of a woman who felt like she deserved better when she was married to Shafi Muhammad’s character because he was much older than her and was a widower. The only difference is that the circumstances are different and also that Ahmed’s character so far isn’t as impactful as Shafi Muhammad’s character in that play. Otherwise, I hope that this drama also shows Naila regretting her decision and finally understanding that sometimes compromising is far more important than having your own way. Right now, I am waiting to see how this recent development brings about a gradual change in Naila’s personality.
Hania Amir yet again was the star of the show tonight. I absolutely love the fact that she pays very little attention to her outfits and make-up and her main focus is her performance although this character could have been very glamorous but she has kept glamour to the minimum. She owns her character right from the start and I am pretty sure she will deliver even when Naila’s character changes in the future. The fast pace of the drama is another reason why it keeps you looking forward to more. Titli continues to be an entertaining play and the ultimate guilty pleasure even after all these weeks.
How many of you watched this latest episode? Don’t forget to share your thoughts about it. | <urn:uuid:da9f9672-907f-4b63-8700-259e75d2653d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://reviewit.pk/titli-episode-9-review-thoroughly-entertaining/ | 2017-06-28T02:02:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322275.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628014207-20170628034207-00425.warc.gz | en | 0.988017 | 688 |
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