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For those of you who don't know me, my name is Veronica Lawler. I'm a twenty-three year old New Orleanian making my way through life and taking in all the beauty it has to offer. I am a senior at the University of New Orleans working towards my degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Health Studies. My life revolves around my two passions, singing and health and nutrition. Singing has been my favorite thing to do ever since I was a little girl, and I just love exercising and eating healthy food. I could end this blog post by saying that my healthy lifestyle came easily to me, that I lost weight the healthy way, became a well-known Dietitian and lived happily ever after....but I'd be lying. I dreamed of that for a long time, but the actual experience of my dreams were somewhat different.
My battles were handed to me at a very young age, which in turn led to even bigger problems in my future. I was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when I was in first grade. It wasn't anything drastic at the time, but as I got older, your typical OCD ritual of turning the lights off three times escalated into bigger obsessions. For me, this obsession was my weight. The summer before entering my sophomore year of high school I became terribly depressed and my mind was overcome with negative thoughts and, call me crazy, but voices in my head. "You're not good enough. You're not pretty enough. You're not worthy of life." Hours of prayer, therapy sessions, tearful and sleepless nights. I couldn't silence them no matter what I did and I no longer felt I had control over anything in my life. However, there was one thing these "voices" couldn't control, and that was what I ate. That's where my problem started. I allowed myself to succumb to the pressures of being perfect, and my life took a turn for the worst.
Eating no more than 500-600 calories a day combined with over excessive exercise, my weight as well as my overall health plummeted. I dropped to a weight of 96 pounds, was beginning to lose my hair, completely lost my menstrual cycle, and became severely anemic. I started self-induced vomiting and also abused laxatives. I was a victim of my inner demons and was soon diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa. I wanted help, I was just terrified on how to ask for it or if I was even willing to try. It wasn't until my high school counselor, (Mrs. Amanda Pellegrin, who I am still so unbelievably thankful for to this day and owe my life to,) made it known to me that she knew I had a problem and was willing to help me. She was the first person who made me feel worthy of recovery and, for the first time in a few months, worthy of life. I wanted nothing more than to make her proud, and in the end, I started to become proud of myself.
Recovery has brought me so many gifts. For one, it showed me the beauty of life. For years, I was so blind to see it letting my disorder get in the way. But in freeing myself from its chains, I now see life in a whole new perspective I didn't think was possible. Another gift it brought me was my choice of study. I want nothing more than to spread my knowledge of health and wellness with others in hoping that I can help them improve their bodies by fueling them with the proper nutrients. I could go on for days talking about the many gifts and benefits recovery has brought me, but I want to take this time to talk about one in particular I'm so unbelievably thankful for, which is the person behind this blog, Taylor Melancon. Taylor was my roommate when we studied Dietetics together at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In such a short amount of time, she turned from roommate, to best friend, to one of my biggest inspirations. She's such a hardworking, smart, and driven individual who is so passionate about health and the benefits of nutrition. She really motivated me to work hard in school and to keep pushing through recovery. She is easily one of the best friends I have ever had and I know she will make an absolute incredible Dietitian.
I hope no one sees this as my sob story, because I see it as my story of never ending success. Recovery isn't over and it never will be. I go through this battle from the second I wake up to the very moment my head hits the pillow. Although it's not exactly what I would've wished for, this was the hand I was dealt and I'm learning to accept it. I am surrounded by God as well as the most amazing support system and now it's my turn to give back, which is why I'm so passionate about health and nutrition. My main goal in life is to help someone overcome an eating disorder, or any mental disorder at that, just as I am continuously learning to do so. If I can inspire just one person out there to get the help they need and the motivation to work towards bettering themselves both physically and mentally, then I have far surpassed the expectations I've made for myself.
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All you need is love and the law to let same-sex marriages happen
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- March 14, 2013
MY view about the need for marriage equality for same-sex couples in Australia has evolved over the years.
I am the product of a traditional upbringing in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life in a 20-year marriage to a man. If you had asked me for an opinion in those days, I would probably have responded that marriage was designed for men and women, intrinsically for nurturing and protecting their children.
Several years ago my current partner Virginia first raised the topic of marriage. My response then was that I didn't feel a particular personal need to marry, and that I didn't have strong feelings about the need for others to have that choice. Virginia's reaction was typically good natured, but incredulous. "How can you, a gay woman, not feel that it is absolutely wrong that we can't get married if we choose to?" she queried.
In the years since, I considered her question many times over. I also talked to family and friends about their feelings. What I now know is that there is a range of views, among straight and gay people.
Some people I've spoken to argue that marriage equality is the "thin end of the wedge" that will lead to polygamy, or worse. Others contend just as strongly that marriage is a non-religious institution that is a basic human right.
Not every gay person I know cares passionately about marriage equality, but for many, it changes the way they vote, in any election. Some of the people I have discussed it with, my brother Tony included, strongly support the status quo. Many have a "shrug the shoulders" attitude.
Somewhere in the process I came to my own firm belief that it is simply not right to deny two people who love and cherish each other the ability to get married, and in exactly the same way men and women do. I also concluded that Australia would be a better, stronger society if we allowed same-sex couples to marry.
Clearly though, given the sobering results of the same-sex marriage votes in Tasmania and Canberra last year it needs to be acknowledged we have a long way to go. The vote in the House of Representatives of 42 for and 98 against was very telling, particularly when the no voters included Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, as well as my brother Tony.
The result rammed home just how much work needs to be done, from both the Liberal and Labor sides. The fact is our elected leaders just don't see marriage equality as the crucial issue it is to some in our community.
Notwithstanding that my brother is the head of a major political party with a stated public policy position opposing marriage equality, I have seen his views shift.
After the vote in parliament last year, Tony admitted he was "conflicted" about his stance against the bill, given what he has seen firsthand in my and Virginia's experiences and relationship.
I believe proponents of the reform now need to bring "middle Australia" along in the debate. That means convincing parts of the country outside traditionally progressive areas like the inner city that marriage equality does not threaten their families or beliefs, and will in fact strengthen our society.
Equally, 2013 presents a great opportunity for marriage equality advocates. We are in the longest Australian federal election campaign in history, and have a chance not only to influence the hearts and minds of the community but also to talk with candidates, Labor and Liberal, when they turn up on our doorsteps in the months between now and September.
In talking about why we believe in change, we also need to be conscious that for many in our community the issue of marriage equality is a low priority compared with job security, paying the bills and getting a quality education for their children.
So how do we make it a priority? Just as Virginia did with me, we start with discussion. We can do it with a groundswell of respectful conversations around dinner tables, on street corners and when the local politician knocks on your door. Our message for change is about opening up a great institution to even more people who believe in it. So get talking Australia.
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SKELETAL remains found in SA's Mid-North have been identified as the body of suspected murder victim Luu Linh Le, who vanished from an Adelaide hospital in 1984.
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Welcome to this lovely cabin with a great location in Espedalen. The cabin has a good standard and is a great place to stay, both summer and winter. For those who want to try their fishing luck it is great fishing opportunities in the river. It is also great hiking opportunities in the area. A hike up to Ruten, which is 1517 meters above sea level, can be recommended. At the top there is a fantastic view towards Jotunheimen and Rondane. In the wintertime there are ski trails close to the cabin, as well as opportunities for alpine skiing at Skeikampen, about 45 minutes drive from the cabin. For more activities and experience it is opportunities for day trips to Lillehammer. Here you find shops, restaurants and many of the Olympic arenas after Winter Olympics in 1994. Maihaugen Museum is also worth a visit.
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The leader of the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV) has admitted their organization is taking federal money to traffic illegal aliens across the U.S. after they invade the border.
“We got lucky to be reimbursed for some of the efforts that we have been doing for so long and that’s good and that is taxpayer money,” said Sister Norma Pimentel, who works as CCRGV executive director.
“I don’t know the exact numbers right now because we are still talking because the reimbursement is not 100 percent given to us yet. It is just something that we have submitted to. We have requested like a little over a million dollars. But I don’t know that we have received it 100 percent, but yes, it’s possible that we could even get more but we’re working on that,” Pimentel added.
Pimentel admitted that her organization has even bought plane rides for illegal aliens to help them spread across the country, further contributing to the demographic demise of America.
“We definitely encourage for the family to be able to come up with that ticket, with that transportation, and so we’ll wait to make sure that happens,” Pimentel said, adding that they encourage the families of illegals to buy their own plane tickets in order to invade America but that they do fund the plane rides in certain instances.
The clip can be seen here:
Big League Politics has reported on how the Biden regime has caused one of the worst border disasters in U.S. history due to their lax policies:
“The Biden regime is attempting to deny compensation to illegal aliens who are demanding payoffs after allegedly being separated from families at the border.
The Department of Justice is arguing in court that the illegals allegedly separated from their families do not deserve to be compensated in a move that is sure to enrage far-left social interest groups who hoped the Biden administration would do their bidding on this matter. They are expected to make similar arguments in upcoming lawsuits as well.
“At issue in this case is whether adults who entered the country without authorization can challenge the federal government’s enforcement of federal immigration laws,” the briefing reads. “They cannot.”
The Biden administration has set up a task force in an attempt to placate the illegals whose families were allegedly separated. However, it is in major dispute as to whether or not these were actually families who were separated.”
The Biden regime is not just allowing the third-world migrant invasion with lax border policies, but also are subsidizing the relocation of illegal aliens across America through the direct funding of NGOs engaged in trafficking operations. Sister Pimentel should be ashamed of herself.
Well, I’m so happy for Sister Norma that she feel lucky. Lucky to rip off the American taxpayers and rip off America herself. She must be just another anti-American, liberal, progressive hanging on Biden. I would bet she has already been compensated by the federal government. She is disgusting and disgraceful.
I agree with you 100 percent this person don’treally know the true meaning of God. Because she is stealing from the American tax payer that’s paying for these illegal immigrants, Thou shout not steal is one of the ten commandments, thou shout no lie
Catholic Charity is nothing but a scam ripping off the American taxes payer that work hard for their money,Sister Norma Pimentel should go to jail and be lock up for life she is a traitor to the USA,she probably pocket the money for herself you can look at her and know she is a liar and not a sister of GOD he should Condemned her to Hell
Catholic Charity is con game using American taxes, to help these illegal immigrants this Sister Norma is a con artist she using the American people for her gain ,you can look at her and know she is a lair ,she is not doing the work of God ,but lining her on pockets ,she should be ashamed of her .
If that sister is so egar to transport illegals why doesn’t she take them home with her and pay for them, no the taxpayer gets stuck with taking care of them. the tax payers get stuck taking care of everybody and can’t afford to take care of themselves. sister Norma why don’t you take all the illegals back to their countries and mother them to death
Since leftist Pope Francis declared back in 2020 that America’s borders should be open is it so surprising that Catholic Charities of the RGV are moving illegals into America’s heartland? Catholic Charities of the RGV should be prosecuted for breaking immigration laws. Maybe when President Trump gets back into office and fires every left-winger in the Justice Department that will justifiably happen.
Why is Biden doing this..?….he actually acts as if the money is his and doesn’t need accounting for. What’s he getting out of this…they r all crooks…I am sure Biden is getting plenty out of this. What happened to the good ole USA. gGod help us…
I can already hear Jesus say…’ DEPART FROM ME FOR I DO NOT KNOW YOU.’ You can’t mock God, no matter how long and ornate your robe is! ALL these ‘ holier than Thou’, will pay!
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The human body comes equipped with dozens of features for survival, many of which kick in automatically when the need arises. There are defenses against hypothermia, blood loss, poisoning and many other scary situations, but few things are as complex as the body’s reactions to a lack of food and water. Here’s how your body fights back when you have to do without.
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With our sweating and dilute urine, we are clearly creatures of a water rich origin. This heritage comes back to bite us, however, when we have to go without an adequate water supply. Since the human body is constantly losing water to its environment and through metabolic processes, we are in need of frequent “refueling.” And, when that’s not available, the body takes action to start saving water. Urine becomes darker and more concentrated, and the output diminishes (sometimes greatly).
Our blood thickens and our waste becomes harder and drier. This all comes at a price. Dehydration causes headaches, a lack of strength and energy, constipation, cramps and a host of other symptoms. But this “water saver” mode of operation can save you from death by dehydration. The best way to keep track of your hydration level is to keep track of your water intake and urine output. You should be taking in more than 2 quarts a day, and urinating at least a quart and… | <urn:uuid:efe6dadf-7104-49d5-b662-f4357d7564c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://blog.finandfield.com/hunting-news/learn-survival-skills-going-without/ | 2017-10-17T17:00:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822145.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017163022-20171017183022-00128.warc.gz | en | 0.956382 | 300 |
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These situations are infrequent but do happen in Portugal. From time to time one tourist gets in trouble. Please do not facilitate when you visit my country. About three weeks ago three young British teen girls loaded with luggage also wanted to pick up a ride to Leiria city and I gave them the necessary information.It was Sunday and they were next to a park in this city where I live. On Sunday not many traffic goes through that area. If they stayed there they would never be able to get to Leiria! But they were three not just one. Even when travelling in group my advice is that youngsters must be aware of some risk. A trip from Leiria to Lisbon on public transportation is not so expensive. The bus ticket costs 12 euros. Nothing excuses the behaviour of that trucker driver but the time of careless hitchhiking travelling is gone. Certainly there are countries where it is even considered a dangerous activity. In Portugal this is not the case and most of the times you'll meet good people who will assist you with good will and sympathy. Nevertheless bad encounters can happen, as was the case for this young woman.
Here's some Portugal travel advice! About this issue it reads:
" Sexual assaults are infrequent. Nevertheless, be alert to the possible use of ‘date rape’ and other drugs, including ‘GHB’ and liquid ecstasy. Purchase your own drinks and keep sight of them at all times to make sure they cannot be spiked: female travellers should be particularly watchful. Be aware that alcohol and drugs can make you less alert, less in control and less aware of your environment. If you are going to drink, know your limit and remember that drinks served in bars overseas are often much stronger than those in the UK. Avoid splitting up from your friends, and don't go off with people you don't know. See our Rape and Sexual Assault Abroad and Victims of Crime Abroad pages." | <urn:uuid:14699adb-242b-4200-8c65-0bad76da0a04> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://aportugueselove.blogspot.com/2012/04/be-careful-when-hitchhiking.html | 2017-11-23T05:31:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806736.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123050243-20171123070243-00045.warc.gz | en | 0.97358 | 395 |
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Bella Thorne and Tyler Posey OnlyFans Halloween Collaboration for 2020
We all have all kinds of different friendships with our exes after the break-up. Some end up never talking again, some end up blocking each other. Though, some remain on good terms. Like Bella Thorne and Tyler Posey. In fact, they’re on such great terms that they ended up doing an OnlyFans collaboration together! Not kidding.
Tyler Posey showed off his Halloween costume with Bella Thorne along with an OnlyFans teaser
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He titled the caption,
Beetle juice got down with his bride. Come hang for Halloween link in bio
And the link in his bio leads to this screen:
And when you click on the ‘Only Fans’ tab, it brings you to Tyler Posey’s OnlyFans account page:
When you scroll down, you can see the post with the caption mentioning Bella Thorne:
The post is locked so you’ll have to subscribe to Tyler Posey’s OnlyFans account in order to view the post.
But if Tyler’s Instagram post is any hint, the two ex-lovebirds will probably be in their red Halloween attire. Bella Thorne also posted on her Twitter account:
Bella has added a link to her OnlyFans account as well.
It’s not clear whether Tyler Posey and Bella Thorne’s OnlyFans collaboration will entail a lot of explicit scenes or if it’ll just be something playful.
Bella Thorne is currently in a relationship with her beau Benjamin Mascolo with whom she also dressed up in Halloween costumes:
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Meanwhile, Tyler Posey is still single but he’s having a lot of fun on OnlyFans as he only recently joined. But it’s not too crazy to expect the two to do something explicit together because Bella Thorne has stated that she’s polyamorous. That means she can engage in romantic and s*xual relationships with multiple partners with their consent.
Plus, someone mentioned on Reddit that Bella Thorne may have been helping by directing Tyler Posey’s OnlyFans posts and content since the start.
Celebrities joining OnlyFans isn’t met with much praise though
Though, Bella Thorne causes quite an uproar when she joined OnlyFans and broke a lot of rules, and scammed fans. That led to many adult stars and s*x workers facing more stricter rules and regulations on OnlyFans. Many were criticizing Bella Thorne’s ruining the website and their means of income. She later apologized and tried to mend things, and stated that she only joined the platform for ‘research’ for an upcoming project with Sean Baker. Thorne also had a desire to destigmatize s*x work.
“Remove the stigma behind s*x, s*x work, and the negativity that surrounds the word S*X itself by bringing a mainstream face to it that’s what I was trying to do, to help bring more faces to the site to create more revenue for content creators on the site. I wanted to bring attention to the site, the more people on the site the more likely of a chance to normalize the stigmas, and in trying to do this I hurt you.”
Although Sean Baker said that there was no confirmation on their movie project and it was merely a discussion, he did suggest to Bella’s team:
to consult with s*x workers and address the way she went about this as to NOT hurt the s*x work industry.
Bella Thorne even attempted to correct things by saying that she will talk with those in charge of OnlyFans to fix the platform.
While many s*x workers are feeling that mainstream celebrities coming on OnlyFans is bad for their business, it doesn’t seem like it will stop them anytime soon. Hopefully, the platform can modify itself to satisfy all parties, including the s*x workers and adult stars that made the site popular in the first place. | <urn:uuid:13d2c553-2933-400d-a766-249853a80eb0> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://dankanator.com/82448/bella-thorne-tyler-posey-onlyfans-halloween-collaboration-2020/ | 2021-07-23T23:03:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046150067.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20210723210216-20210724000216-00664.warc.gz | en | 0.956442 | 853 |
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I was wondering about people who have loads LVs, especially who have a lot of day to day LV bags, how do you manage to use them? For me I have only 3 LVs ; neverfull MM, Alma Damier, and Epi petit Noe and Plan to buy Montorgueil PM and Tivoli GM. Everyday I use Neverfull MM as my day to day bag but thinking about if I buy Montorgueil,what about my neverfull MM, I don't know whether I will use her as often as before. Even more when I get Tivoli.... Heeeeheee. My husband said to me that my life is so hard, can't decide which LV i will use. | <urn:uuid:fc8aa26f-8d92-4248-9e2c-7d6c7820eb98> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/which-lv-to-use-today-tomorrow-the-day-after-tomorrow.246143/ | 2017-01-23T02:36:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00029-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969617 | 150 |
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., is right:
The USA Freedom Act started out as an imperfect bill aimed at solving a serious problem. The right and left have rallied around it as the best opportunity to curb apparently abusive dragnet surveillance by the National Security Agency.
But that was before the White House made a closed-door, 11th-hour effort to gut the bill. Worse, that effort is succeeding.
The White House and other pro-surveillance advocates are relying on opaque negotiations that occurred behind closed doors in order to scuttle meaningful surveillance reform.
That opacity alone is disturbing. But the White House is now relying on strong-arm tactics, in secret, scoring a series of seemingly subtle changes that will substantially gut the bill. As Rep. Lofgren said today, the bill that the House Judiciary Committee marked up (and which passed unanimously) is not the same as the bill that the House will now vote on.
And House Members have only a few hours to piece together their position. This is no way to approach a key democratic reform effort — it’s a way to evade democratic processes and thwart reform. | <urn:uuid:ae341c2d-1dd0-4d9e-b2ef-0e44b83695ff> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://sunlightfoundation.com/2014/05/21/rep-lofgren-explains-how-secrecy-undermines-the-usa-freedom-act-and-democratic-process/ | 2017-06-24T17:12:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320270.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624170517-20170624190517-00353.warc.gz | en | 0.959782 | 237 |
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This part of IEC 60300 provides a general introduction to the concept of life cycle costing and covers all applications. Although the life cycle costs consist of many contributing elements, this standard particularly highlights the costs associated with dependability of the product. This standard is intended for general application by both customers (users) and suppliers of products. It explains the purpose and value of life cycle costing and outlines the general approaches involved. It also identifies typical life cycle cost elements to facilitate project and programme planning. General guidance is provided for conducting a life cycle cost analysis, including life cycle cost model development. Illustrative examples are provided to explain the concepts.
|Nederlandse titel||Beleid met betrekking tot betrouwbaarheid - Deel 3-3: Leidraad voor de toepassing - Berekening van de levenscyclus|
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Fully Furnished 1 Bedroom Apartment with Water inc!!
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The Jamestown High School Marching Band received a warm welcome home Monday.
In the Jefferson Middle School parking lot, three buses full of JHS Marching Band members were cheered on by friends and family with shouts, honking horns and encouraging signs.
At the annual New York State Field Band Conference Championship on Sunday, the JHS Marching Band placed second out of the seven bands in their division. The competition was held at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse.
Friends and family cheer on the JHS Marching Band members.
P-J photos by Daniel Swanson
Marching Band Director Meghan Murray stands beside drum majors Jacob Sandstrom and Madison Walker-Blake.
Marching Band Director Meghan Murray was pleased with her band's results. "(We performed) excellently," she said with smile. She also added that the band had not earned a second place finish in nearly 10 years; last year the band placed fourth.
Drum majors Jacob Sandstrom and Madison Walker-Blake were equally ecstatic about second place. As conductors of the band, both regarded the second place finish as "an honor."
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Haruna Miyamoto-Borg is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan. She helps individuals and couples stop repeating destructive and often self-defeating patterns of behavior. She does so by working collaboratively to help people gain deeper understanding of their issues and of the complex factors that underlie such patterns.
Haruna’s style is an integrative approach that includes psychodynamic, cognitive- behavioral, family system, and mindfulness therapy. She works with individuals and couples to help them understand the underlying reasons for their behaviors in the present. This not only increases their understanding of themselves but it will also allows them let go of the familiar but dysfunctional ways of coping with life events. Many of the clients that Haruna works with are navigating such issues as depression, anxiety, trauma, addictions, infidelity, and sexual dysfunctions.
Haruna is also an anger management specialist, and is currently enrolled in postgraduate family and couple training at Ackerman Institute for the family.
Couples counseling - Addressing relationship issues and strengthening communications that harness trust, connection, empathy and affections
Depression - Alleviating feelings of hopeless, pervasive sadness, low energy, sleep disturbance, loss of interests
Anxiety - Identifying and treating anxiety in different settings (social/non-social); providing skills to cope with anxiety and panic disorder
Anger management - Helping to understand what contributes to anger; teaching skills to express and manage anger in a healthier, non-threatening way
Addiction - Identifying what’s contributing the addiction (emotional/behavioral/social) and helping to reduce or stop the addictive behavior
Trauma - Healing after significantly threatening or destructive events such as a loss of loved ones and sexual, verbal, physical abuse
Sex therapy & sexual health - Addressing emotional, social, and physical concerns related to sexual intimacy and functioning; identifying issues related to sex such as shame, history of sexual abuse, sexual dysfunction or distancing; providing education around sexuality and sexual connection
Eating disorders - Identifying and reducing unhealthy eating patterns such as restricting, purging, and binging; healing the emotional pain that contributes to the repetitive, distorted behavior
Race & cultural identity - Identifying intersectionality of oneself from the perspectives of race, culture, family, class, religion, education, and history
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National Anger Management Association, Anger Management Specialist, 2016
Center for Urban Community Services, 2003 - 2008
Ackerman Institute for the Family Training, 2018
William Alanson White Eating Disorder Certificate Program, 2016
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Iceland bid threatens whaling commissionLondon, UK - As the 53rd meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opens today in London, WWF, the conservation organization, is warning that Iceland's attempt to rejoin the IWC while maintaining a reservation on the long-standing moratorium on commercial whaling threatens the survival of the Commission.
No state has ever previously attempted to join the IWC while announcing that they would not be bound by all its previous decisions.
WWF believes that if Iceland's move is accepted it will set a precedent that would prevent the IWC ever again being able to make binding decisions. Any member state could then leave the IWC and then rejoin with a reservation on any aspect of the management of whaling, such as whaling catch limits, management procedures, inspection regulations, or whale sanctuaries.
With its decisions no longer viewed as binding, the IWC would lose all authority. "Iceland joining the IWC with a reservation on a previous IWC decision is a poison pill that would fatally undermine the Commission," said Cassandra Phillips, Senior Policy Adviser, Whales and Antarctica for WWF. "This bid by Iceland would make it impossible for the IWC to adopt any binding regulations. Norway and Japan, both whaling countries that have long said that they want to finalize a new whaling management plan must now either persuade Iceland to change its strategy or vote against its bid to rejoin."
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea recognises migratory whales as species of global conservation concern calling for international regulation of their use.
The destruction of the IWC would remove such regulation and have devastating consequences for future management of whaling and the world's whale stocks.
Without the IWC there could be a whaling free-for-all as there would be no agreed world-wide policy on catch limits, supervision, or control of whaling operations.
Iceland was previously a member of the IWC but left in 1992. It has now announced that it is rejoining but with a "reservation" on the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling.
Formerly a whaling nation hunting fin, sei and Northern minke whales, Iceland still has a whaling land station and whaling ships kept ready for use.
The former whalers are hopeful that whaling will again be authorised by the Icelandic Government. There is only a small domestic market for whalemeat so the whalers want to export the meat and blubber to Japan where prices are at least four times higher.
However Iceland has one of the fastest growing and most successful whale-watching industries anywhere in the world.
Numbers grew from just 100 passengers in 1991 to 35,250 in 1999 and 44,000 in 2000. The foreign tourists who visit Iceland to go whale-watching are overwhelmingly opposed to whaling and would be unlikely to visit Iceland again if whaling were resumed.
Recent analysis suggests that the value to the Icelandic economy of whale-watching, around US$10 million, already exceeds the potential proceeds from resuming whaling.
''It's up to Iceland to choose between supporting the IWC or destroying it,'' Mrs Phillips added.
For further information:
Cassandra Phillips, Senior Policy Adviser, WWF International, Whales and Antarctica. Tel: +44 20 8741 1555, mobile: +44 7785 920 617 Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
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With Miele HQ previously based in Knoxfield since the brand entered the Australian market 40 years ago, relocating to the inner suburb of Hawthorn East posed an unprecedented challenge to Knox-local staff members accustomed to driving daily to the office.
WMK was engaged to assist Miele in designing a new office environment that would excite, engage and entice staff to frequent the office plus design a space that is both functional yet aesthetically aligned to the Miele brand. Further, Miele were looking to embrace an activity-based workstyle and move to an agile way of working - a significant change from how staff had previously utilised the office.
WMK started with developing the workplace strategy and involved all the Miele staff in the consultative process to determine a holistic understanding of the future aspirations of the workplace.
The strategy informed the concept which emulated the stylish Miele brand - a dark, moody, and sophisticated colour palette to the front of house, and a light, bright and green environment to the back of house. The staff's involvement and ownership n the conceptual iteration of the Miele 'home' began the journey of excitement and enthusiasm for the return to the office.
Miele has noted how staff have embraced their new home, adapting to the flexible and agile way of working, including the use of collaborative and social zones. With full height glazing to all sides of the floor plate natural light pours in, and the green terrace wraps 3 sides of the building, staff now have a wellness overlay which has contributed to the enthusiasm of coming into the office.
Miele’s brand has been showcased upon entry with a rich, sophisticated palette complemented by a gallery style History Zone captivating staff, visitors, and clients. With Miele’s appliances used throughout the space, the office is a landmark destination for the brand's HQ.
Miele HQ has been shortlisted in the IDEA Awards 2022
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Capel Manor Gardens' 30-acre estate provides a colourful inspiration and scented oasis surrounding a Georgian Manor House and Victorian Stables. Make the most of this unique opportunity to see behind the scenes at Greater London's only specialist College of Horticulture, Floristry, Garden Design, Arboriculture, Animal Care and Countryside Studies and take away fresh ideas for your own garden.
Capel Manor Gardens features 30 acres of richly planted themed gardens including Historical Gardens, Italianate Maze, Japanese Garden, Kim Wilde's Jungle Gym Garden and many others. It also contains the Gardening Which? Magazine demonstration and trial gardens and The National Gardening Centre. This centre has specially designed gardens including Sunflower Street – seven front and back gardens designed by former students.
There is also The Hessayon Centre with garden gift shop and plant sales in the summer season. •The Animal Corner has Kune Kune pigs, goats, poultry and rabbits and Clydesdale Horses can be seen working and exercising in the grounds. Refreshments are available in the Terrace Restaurant serving hot and cold food or bring your own picnic.
Prices and opening times
|Child Ticket||Up to £2.50 per ticket|
|Family Ticket||£13.50 per ticket|
|Concession Ticket||£4.50 per ticket|
|Adult Ticket||£5.50 per ticket|
Children 5 and under go free.
Concessions include senior citizens, disabled, students and benefit card holders. Family tickets include 2 adults and up to 3 children.
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Winter Opening: November to February
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Summer Opening: March to October
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Capel Manor Gardens
Bullsmoor LaneEnfieldEN1 4RQ
- +44 (0)845 6122122
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Can I come to the farm for an unscheduled visit to walk around the farm and visit the animals?
- Unfortunately, all visits must be scheduled in advance & supervised. In addition, riding time must be scheduled in advance with an instructor.
Can I bring my dog(s) to the farm?
- Absolutely no outside dogs are permitted on the farm. We have 3 farm dogs who are the only dogs allowed on the property. We do not advise bringing a dog and leaving them in the car.
Can I give animals treats?
- We do not hand treat our horses. If you would like to give a treat to an animal, it must be with an instructor & given in a bucket.
Is smoking permitted on the farm?
- There is no smoking allowed on the property at any time.
Do you have hours of operation?
- The farm is open by appointment only.
Do you take small animals/ ponies off site for a birthday party at an individual's house?
- All birthday party options are available on the farm ONLY. We do not take small animals off site for birthday parties at someone's home.\
What forms of payment do you take for board, riding lessons, birthday parties, etc.?
- We accept cash, checks made out to 'Fun-E Farm T.O.O.' or credit cards (processing fees apply when paying with a credit card). Summer camp may be paid online using a credit card but all other credit card transactions must be made at the farm with a farm staff member. | <urn:uuid:af2138bd-ee95-4c7f-9fdb-58475cd504bc> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://funefarmtoo.com/faqs/ | 2019-01-22T18:27:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583867214.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20190122182019-20190122204019-00190.warc.gz | en | 0.942133 | 317 |
The June Face to Face meeting of the QA Working
Group will take place on Tuesday through Thursday, June 15, 16, and
17 on the Sun Microsystems campus
in Santa Clara, California.
The campus is bounded by Lafayette St, Agnew Rd, and Montague Expressway. The main entrance to the campus is Palm Drive, off Lafayette St. ( Use "Palm Drive, Santa Clara, CA" as the address when consulting online mapping services.) We will meet in the library of the Director's Mansion, which is Building 7 on the attached campus map.
Sun's Santa Clara campus is 4 miles from San Jose International Airport (SJC), and 32 miles from San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Use SJC if you have the option to do so.
1a. From San Jose airport, take 101 North (towards
1b. From San Francisco airport, take 101 South (towards San Jose)
2. Take Montague Expressway exit towards Agnew Center
3. Take the ramp to Lafayette Street and turn right
4. Turn right on Palm Drive, onto the campus
5. The mansion is towards the left - park wherever you see others parking
If you fly into San Jose, take a taxi (the campus is only 4 miles from the airport). The taxi fare from San Francisco airport is expensive (about $75). It's possible, but not especially convenient, to travel to Sun by train. Take a shuttle-bus to the Millbrae Caltrain station, then a one-hour train ride to Santa Clara, where you will need to call for a taxi to take you the remaining two miles to the campus (or your hotel). Ask for more information if you want to take this option.
We have a couple of choices for accommodations:
27000 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054
or nationwide number reservations: (800) 228-9290
This is a full-service hotel, situated about 1.5 miles from the Sun campus. Their mid-week rate (no Sun discount is available) is $189/day.
3915 Rivermark Plaza
Santa Clara, CA 95054
This is an "extended stay" hotel, meaning that it
doesn't have dining facilities. However, breakfast is included, and
the hotel is located in a shopping area that contains many
restaurants. See http://www.rivermark.net/shopping.html.
The hotel is located less than a mile from the Sun campus (at the junction of Agnews and Lafayett on the campus map). They are offering the Sun Microsystems rate (studio - $95.00/day, 1 Bedroom - $105.00/day) to QAWG members. This rate includes a free breakfast, free local and domestic long distance phone calls, and free wired and wireless high speed internet access. They have a customized web-page for reservations: see http://www.sierrasuites.com/corporate/index.asp?id=sunmicro.
If you have any problems getting the Sun rate, please contact:
Joyce S. Dragon
Field Assignment Director / National Sales Team
Sierra Suites Hotels
Visitor's badges will be needed while on the campus. Arrangements to be announced.
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2014 Corvette Stingray steals crowd’s heart at Chicago Auto Show
BY MAUREEN O’DONNELL Staff Reporter February 10, 2013 7:26PM
Damien Fisher, sales representative for Napleton's Aston Martin in Downers Grove, sits in a 2013 silver DB9 at the 2013 Chicago Auto Show Sunday February 10, 2013 at McCormick Place. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times
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- New Stingray lives up to Corvette legacy
Updated: March 12, 2013 6:26AM
They were together, onstage and on display, at the Chicago Auto Show.
Exhibit A: Tifarah Aragona. Blond. 6-foot-3 in heels. Wrapped in a bandage-style dress. She looked like a model, but she was billed as a “product specialist,” trained to answer all kinds of questions about Exhibit B.
Exhibit B: the 2014 Corvette Stingray. Torch Red. Just shy of 15 feet long. Curves in all the right places.
Guess which one drew more stares?
If you guessed B, you’d be right.
The crowd around the Seventh Generation Corvette on Sunday was as thick as at Taste of Chicago — if they were giving out free deep-dish and turkey legs. It was Chicago’s first look at the 2014 ’vette.
People held up their cellphones as if they were at a rock concert, asking Aragona to step away from the car so they could capture images of the sweet, sweet ride.
“There’s so many people around [who say], ‘Can you move out of the way? I want to get a full picture,’ “ Aragona said.
The interest in the new Stingray — redesigned with more aerodynamic curves than angles — illustrates an increasingly strong market, with a public that wants better fuel efficiency, style and safety, said David E. Sloan, president of the Chicago Automobile Trade Association. Automotive sales for 2013 are forecast at 15.5 million nationwide, compared with 14.4 million last year, he said.
But statistics don’t explain the lure of the Corvette — especially a red one. (A 1998 book about the history of the car, by James Schefter, was titled: “All Corvettes are Red.”)
The mystique has only grown since the car rolled out in 1953. “It’s going to be the fastest base Corvette, and most fuel efficient. It can go from 0-to-60 in under four seconds,” Aradona told the gapers.
Todd Davis, 53, drove four hours from Robins, Iowa, to see it. He owns a 2008 model, but he’s already on his dealer’s list to buy the new one.
“I just think it’s a lot of performance for the money,” said Davis, a manager at Rockwell-Collins aviation. He races his Corvette in Autocross events. He likes the new model’s increased horsepower and torque — and it’s billed as getting 30 mpg on the highway.
Base price for the coupe will be well under $60,000, according to Chevy officials. “If you can afford the old one, you can afford this one,” Davis said.
The car drew fathers and sons together, like Paul Mendez, Jr., and Paul Mendez, Sr., both of Brookfield. They came to the Auto Show just to see the new model.
“The lines are just phenomenal,” said Paul Jr., a 15-year-old sophomore at Lyons Township High School.
Paul Sr., 56, plans to buy the car — if he wins the lottery. “It is a little difficult to get out of, with bad knees, but it’s worth it,” he said.
If the Corvette is a dream car, then how to describe the vehicles in the Auto Show’s “Supercar Garage?”
They aren’t what the other half drives. They are what the other half of the other half of the other half drives. Visitors could look but not touch — they were behind a Plexiglass fence.
There was a “Lambo” with enough horsepower to turbo-charge a bunch of rodeos. The Lamborghini Aventador, with a sticker price of $455,025, has an astounding 700 horsepower, and goes from 0-to-60 in 2.9 seconds.
The most expensive car was a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, with an asking price of $497,125. Ed Triwush of Steve Foley Motors in Northbrook outlined its features, including:
♦Lambswool floor mats and seats crafted of leather from Northern Europe (where there are fewer bugs and barbed wire fences to mar the finish.)
♦Concierge service in any major city. You can call your Rolls dealer, and they’ll make reservations for you at fine restaurants, rather than relying on GPS and your Smartphone.
♦A customized $1,600 umbrella that fits in a hidden compartment. The umbrella is perfectly calibrated to be pinned inside so it doesn’t create vibrations.
Gazing at the car popularized by James Bond were Anthony Green, 30, of Chicago, and his nephew, Dorien Baker, 13, of Homewood.
“I have an Aston Martin at my home in Cali — if I could travel back in time 20 years and perfect my jumpshot,” joked Green, who said he’s proud to sell cars at Arlington Kia.
Two 18-year-olds from St. Joseph, Mich. stood lost in reverie next to a McLaren 12C Coupe.
“Can you imagine picking a girl up for a date in that?” asked Mitch Conrad.
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I've been hard at work this weekend updating Jojoba to version 4 and which is now available on the PowerShell Gallery.
It has a new logo.
It has coloured output that draws the eye to console output.
- The GitHub README has been overhauled as a one-stop documentation shop to get started.
- It has numerous bugs fixed and over 40 tests.
- It's faster and returns output faster.
- Your functions need less template code and have more flexibility with the input parameters.
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Apple has sold 1m units of the iPad in the four weeks since it went on sale in the US, suggesting that demand for the touchscreen tablet computer is higher than anticipated.
However, the company faced criticism from users who complained that the 3G iPad, released at the weekend, was delivering poor video performance over AT&T’s network.
By hitting the 1m sales mark in 28 days, Apple can point to the iPad as one of its most successful product launches.
When the iPhone was released in 2007, it took 74 days for Apple to move 1m units. It sold 300,000 iPads on the first day the device went on sale, April 3.
Steve Jobs, Apple chief executive, said “demand continues to exceed supply’’ and that the company was working to catch up.
Apple said last month it would delay the international roll-out of the iPad as it struggled to keep up with demand. International pre-orders will begin next week.
Before the launch, critics wondered whether users would have room for a third device between a smartphone and a personal computer.
“It’s too early to say for sure, but it’s off to a good start,” said Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray. “It looks like this is a category that is going to be around.”
Since its launch, iPad users have downloaded more than 12m apps from the App Store. Developers have created at least 5,000 apps unique to the iPad.
Apple also said customers have downloaded 1.5m eBooks from Apple’s new iBookstore, suggesting that many early users were using their iPads as an e-reader.
The company is positioning the iPad as a direct challenger to Amazon’s Kindle device, the market leader in e-readers. Mr Jobs has pledged that the iPad would “go a little further” than the Kindle.
Amazon does not release sales figures, but analysts estimate there are about 3m Kindles in use.
The rosy debut of the iPad has been marred by complaints from users who say the 3G service, which is provided by AT&T, compromises the quality of video and does not allow some apps to work.
In particular, users have complained that when YouTube is played over the 3G network, the quality is reduced from high definition to a lower-resolution version, and that the ABC Player does not work unless it is connected to Wi-Fi.
The Netflix app, however, was reported to be working on the 3G network.
“It’s annoying for people who went out and bought an iPad and thought they would watch video on the bus ride home,” Mr Munster said. “But I don’t think it’s a deal breaker.”
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You may be surprised to know that Corned beef is not a dish you would find in Ireland, especially not on St. Patrick’s Day. So why and how did corned beef end up on the menu for this holiday you might ask. Well, it’s more so a British thing because they ate beef regularly, and bought salt for Ireland to cure it. Ireland used there cows for dairy products, milk and their strength in the fields.
Gaelic Ireland considered cows to be sacred animals and symbols of wealth. The only time a cow was killed for meat was if it was too old to produce or work. It wasn’t until Irish immigration, and their proximity to their Jewish neighbors, that they partook in the celebratory meal of their culture and history. They would pair Jewish brisket with cabbage and potatoes. So to break it down, the potato represented their history, the cabbage because it was affordable and the brisket because it was a splurge.Read More »
Corned Beef in the Stove
For corned beef in the stove, you will need about 3 to 4 hours for total cook time.
Most stove corned beef recipes can be cooked in or on the stove. The key to the stove methods is low and slow, being sure to check the internal meat temp reaches 160°F. Cooking brisket this way is reminiscent to a traditional Mom’s corned beef recipe.
Corned Beef in the Instant Pot
For corned beef in an Instant Pot, you will be using about 2 pounds of brisket. With Instant Pot recipes, you need to be all about the layers. In this recipe you will be placing onions in first, then putting the brisket on top and finally pouring in the broth. You’ll cook for 90 minutes, follow manufacture guidelines, and put in your cabbage, potato, and carrots with oil and cook for an additional 4 to 5 minutes.
Corned Beef in a Crock Pot
Who doesn’t love their Crock Pot, or better yet, the Crock Pot setting on their Instant Pot? Slow cooker corned beef is super juicy, and easily done any night of the week, not just on St. Patrick’s Day. With a Crock Pot you can easily fit 3 to 4 pounds of brisket. This method is the slowest cooking method, but the end result is so worth it. Within in 4 to 5 hours, you will have the tastiest corned beef and cabbage.
Although corned beef recipes are generally cooked with cabbage and potatoes, you can cook this dish up with a twist. From soup to egg rolls, hash and quesadillas, let your creativity loose if you want to kick up this classic dish. From stove to Instant Pot and Crock Pot, we know you will be successful in serving up a St. Paddy’s Day corned beef recipe fit for king no matter what method you choose.
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Xing Sign Horse Plastic. Let people know that your Horse may be crossing at any time! Sign made of high impact polystyrene (plastic) and is suitable for Indoor or Outdoor Use.
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Faqir Syed Saifuddin – Preserving our Heritage
Inside Bhatti Gate (one of the 12 gates of the old walled city of Lahore) approximately 500m on the right hand side you will come across a burgundy gate of a small mansion that houses the Fakir Khana Museum. It is one of the largest private collection in South Asia and the only private collection of its scale recognized by the government of Pakistan.
Faqir Syed Saifuddin is the curator of this unique and amazing museum, who still has his residence in the same building as well. He is the 6th generation of the Faqir family, one of the oldest Syed family who settled in Lahore in the year 1730. Their collection represents the art from the 18th, 19th and the 20th century. They have even loaned many pieces to various museums all across Pakistan which include the Lahore museum, Karachi museum and the Army museum in Rawalpindi.
You enter this place and time stops. The experience is further enhanced by the engrossing style of Mr. Saifuddin, with which he brings life to events that took place centuries ago. The history that surrounds you gives the visitor an insight of the multi-cultural existence which sadly is being disowned today.
“Lahore is known as the cultural hub because it has groomed many artists, writers, poets and intellectuals. Their craft was nourished and recognized in this city. This was the city that could read, write and understand five languages, reflective the amalgamation of various cultures that called this place their home.”
At first Mr. Saifuddin is going to ask about interests and accordingly take that direction of history. There is a story behind each and every artifact, every book and every painting. One of his oldest painting is the one that depicts the birth of Krishna, there is a patch work shawl of Rani Jhinda, pieces of Gandhara period, copies of the Quran written on goat skin, armor of the years past and much more.
“People invest in property and jewelry, I suggest that they invest in art as well”.
Do you think that in future we will ever go back to celebrating our diversity for which Lahore was known?
As a student of history I am a firm believer that everything gets back to its roots no matter how far it goes, at the end it has to connect with the roots. This is how nature works. We might be in troubled waters for now but things will get better and we will reach the harmony that is embedded in our culture and what gives this great city its identity.
The younger generation is not introduced to their own heritage, their legends, philosophers, artists etc in their schools or at homes. They can identify these legends belonging to other cultures, which is a good thing as it helps expand your view point. However, this positive thing becomes detrimental when they are cut off from their own roots. A balance is required and this is where Fakir Khana fits in and that is why it should be supported and given its due exposure.
In a country where due to multiple factors the majority of the people don’t invest in the local art and history now people like Mr. Saiduddin are a beacon of hope. He is keeping our heritage alive without much help for the authorities, who is still optimistic about the future and instills the same hope in those who visit. | <urn:uuid:13e40a69-2386-4313-94a3-c16745a76e65> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://myvoiceunheard.com/faqir-khana/ | 2018-07-19T11:45:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590866.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20180719105750-20180719125750-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.977245 | 713 |
So I woke up pretty sleepy this morning, and generally I’m a really good sleeper in terms of hours and my dreams. But last night was different.
I was panic stricken throughout my night, falling in and out of consciousness. Having my mind play tricks on me whether I’m actually dreaming or awake. Occasionally I will have these nights, where my emotions and dreams are just over the top. Waking up and hearing a noise in my room or in the house, knowing that I’m probably dreaming…but am I?
I remember one night having the most vivid dream – while lying in a hotel room, dreaming of something crawling in from the other side of the bed and all I could see was the blanket being raised….extreme fear entered my body. Waking up from that was terrifying, as I woke up I remember looking around my hotel room exactly how I pictured it in my dream…except the blanket was down and my heart was racing 500 miles an hour., was in a dream or real?
Nightmares can be paralyzing, striking such fear into you as a person that you have a hard time defining what is reality and what was a dream. Because we’ve all had those horror filled dreams of scary people, and witches and monsters…in different houses and different places….they scare us – but our mind wakes us up and we feel comfort knowing we are in our own room and our own familiar place. But what happens when the nightmare takes place in your place of comfort…in the very place that you are supposed to feel secure in?
I once wrote about how your dreams could be so real that it can affect your emotional state…and coming back to that….having nights like these make me realize that your mind can create anything –our brains even have the power to overlap reality, creating a fictional world of horror.
Worst thing about this? No one knows your greatest fears like you do…..in turn leaving you completely vulnerable.
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By BBC International Publicity
Published December 3, 2013
The winner of this year’s BBC African Footballer of the Year award is Manchester City star, Yaya Toure. Ivory Coast’s Toure, whose successes this year already include 13 goals for club and country, was the choice of the BBC’s global audience.
Toure held off competition from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon who plays for Borussia Dortmund), Nigeria’s Victor Moses (who plays for Liverpool) and John Obi Mikel (who plays for Chelsea), and Burkinabe Jonathan Pitroipa who plays for Rennes.
The BBC’s Peter Okwoche presented Toure with the trophy on Monday, December 2, 2013 at Manchester City’s training ground, Carrington. The announcement was made from Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium in a simulcast broadcast on the Focus on Africa programme on BBC World News Television and on BBC World Service radio at 17.35 GMT. The announcement was also streamed on the BBC News and Sport websites.
“Thank you to all the fans around the world who continue to support me and who love me a lot. I’m very proud, I’m very happy, this award is amazing. It’s the fifth time in a row [being nominated] and this time is very special,” Yaya Toure said.
BBC Africa’s Current Affairs Editor, Vera Kwakofi, said: “We are pleased for Yaya Toure that he has finally won the BBC African Footballer of the Year on his fifth nomination for the award. This shows the high esteem in which he is held by lovers of African football and the respect the fans have for his exploits for club and country.”
Previous winners of the BBC African Footballer of the Year award include Christopher Katongo, Andre ‘Dede’ Ayew, Asamoah Gyan, Didier Drogba, Mohamed Aboutrika, Emmanuel Adebayor, Michael Essien, Jay-Jay Okocha, Samuel Kuffour, Nwankwo Kanu and George Weah. | <urn:uuid:41b8ca91-7de3-4969-9d99-50eacdded560> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | http://artmatters.info/sport/2013/12/bbc-african-footballer-of-the-year-award-2013-winner-announced/ | 2016-09-29T22:05:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738661953.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173741-00254-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919834 | 451 |
The Samsung seems to throw too much weight to the promotion of its products, especially in 2012 was the year that confirmed spending, more or less, more than $ 4 billion in advertising campaigns.
Indeed, the amounts spent by Samsung in the last four years can be compared with the “giant” of advertising that goes by the name Coca-Cola, and in 2012 managed to surpass it. One has to think that the money given to advertising the Korean company last year, is up to four times more than they spent the Passwort ? Software Version 9 Adobe Flash Player. main competitor, Apple.
With the impending release of the new GalaxyS IV in the U.S. market is expected to continue this aggressive promotional engaged as Samsung, has a start new advertising campaigns for the company”s new flagship.
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My husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer in June 2010. Within a week he was seeing Dr. Huabing Wen on a weekly basis for acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Dr. Wen's herbal meds have kept him relatively pain free, eating and sleeping normally and in good spirits. Over the past nine months Dr. Wen has worked closely with our oncologist and has adapted his herbal medicines to be compatible with various cycles of chemotherapy. Dr. Wen's has become our family clinic - a quiet, nurturing, healing place in the busy, noisy city of Los Angeles.
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Stuttgart earn breathing space
Stuttgart claim tight away win at Freiburg
Last Updated: January 22, 2010 10:10pm
Marica: Celebrates scoring
Stuttgart climbed five points clear of the Bundesliga relegation zone with a 1-0 win against SC Freiburg.
Ciprian Marica's goal earned them victory at the Badenova-Stadion, but Christian Gross' side were made to sweat as their hosts had a goal controversially disallowed in the second half.
An offside Heiko Butscher got the final touch to Papiss Cisse's goalbound shot, though the goal was only disallowed after protests from Stuttgart.
The visitors dominated the early stages and Simon Pouplin had to turn Pavel Pogrebnyak's drive from a free-kick over the bar before the Russian wasted a glorious chance.
Alexander Hleb's intelligent pull-back found Sami Khedira, his shot from the edge of the box was parried by Pouplin and, off-balance, Pogrebnyak blazed horribly over from 10 yards.
A swift Freiburg break ended with left-winger Felix Bastians cutting inside and curling wide from 18 yards before Daniel Caligiuri went close from the other flank.
But Marica gave Stuttgart a deserved lead five minutes before the interval after Hleb neatly picked out Pogrebnyak. The Russian was tackled by Daniel Williams, but the ball fell for Marica to slot home.
Freiburg's Omer Toprak made a superb goalline clearance from Roberto Hilbert's shot shortly after the interval before the home side were denied their equaliser.
Cisse's shot found the net but the goal was - eventually - chalked off due to the deflection off centre-back Butscher, surprisingly popping up in an offside position.
Freiburg again threatened as Williams' cross picked out Bastians, whose header was booted off the line by Georg Niedermeier.
Pouplin dived to deny Khedira and turned Marica's drive over after Timo Gebhart's brilliant flick.
Marica was harshly denied a late second when he was penalised for high feet in turning a Gebhart corner past Pouplin.
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My 600 Lb Life cast member Steven Assanti’s controversies (and his surprise marriage) have made him so well-known that he almost completely overshadows his brother Justin. There’s a good bit of misinformation about Justin out there — but is Justin Assanti dead? And did he and Steven ever reconcile?
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Earlier this year, Starcasm broke the news of controversial My 600 Lb Life star Steven Assanti's surprise marriage to a massage therapist from Iowa. Viewers and detractors scoffed at the relationship, and some suspected catfishing -- but we've got the latest on Steven Assanti still married, including new pics of the pair and their matching tattoos. Keep reading to see those, plus an exclusive quote from Steven and Stephanie on their relationship...
When Jenna Jameson gave birth to daughter Batel Lu April 2017, the former adult actress found herself at her highest weight and without her standby weightless tool: drugs. She was afraid she would be unable to loss weight with her new sober life, but was determined to do it in a healthy way for herself and her family. In a new Instagram post 44-year-old mom of three shares some of the anxieties and realities of her body image journey over the past year.
The Skin Tight Tim Bauer episode featured a man so overcome with happiness and gratitude for the skin removal surgery he was about to undergo that he broke down in tears. Now, over two years later, Tim's life has only gotten better -- as evidenced by the fact that he's just a few months away from marrying the second love of his life!
The first-ever subject of TLC's Skin Tight is looking better than ever -- and she's got the pics to prove it! Our updated Skin Tight Lauana after photo gallery comes complete with Lauana's latest updates, in which she says she's come to terms with her scars, is learning to deal with the person she used to be, and continues to maintain a near-low weight level.
Kylie Jenner made her triumphant return to the land of selfies this week, and her Instagram feed is awash with comments from people who refuse to believe that she didn't have a little post-pregnancy nip and tuck before sharing the shots. This has, naturally, led to all kinds of new commentary on Kylie's mom bod.
The Blac Chyna nude Paper Magazine photos are here...and they're as bold as the woman herself! The 28-year-old is the latest Kardashian family member to pose nude on the cover of the iconic fashion magazine. But will Chyna's spread break the internet like Kim's cover so long ago? Read on to judge for yourself!
Kylie Jenner's boobs have been an even bigger topic of conversation than usual of late, thanks to a spate of speculation that the 19-year-old had them augmented in a recent (and top-secret) surgery. Kylie herself struck back against the rumors during an impromptu Q&A with fans on Twitter; read on to see what she had to say! Plus, she's a stepmom to Tyga('s son King Cairo)!
Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian appear closer than ever as preparations for their late-summer wedding roll on–but a string of recent social media updates and rumors sees the couple courting controversy. Read on to see the statement from Blac that sent her fans into a tizzy, and to find out the latest about Rob's weight loss, which may or may not have been as natural as it seemed...
The Dating Naked blur is probably the biggest (and most important!) star of VH1's hit show, but the effect has become so common that viewers may take it for granted. However, as an experienced visual editor explains, it takes a lot of hard work to make sure everything that needs to be censored gets hidden–and, as a couple of prominent slip-ups reveal, mistakes do happen!
Blac Chyna fat shaming is under close scrutiny, thanks to a series of social media posts by Mrs. Angela Kardashian herself. Blac recently took to Snapchat to reveal the amount of weight she's gained since becoming pregnant with Rob Kardashian's baby; her post–and another she recently shared on Instagram–is widely seen as a response to the many haters who've taunted her about the changes in her appearance since she became pregnant. | <urn:uuid:0bb2d377-64f1-4f72-9042-6fddccd7e864> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://starcasm.net/category/health-and-beauty/body-image/ | 2022-05-18T12:54:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662522270.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220518115411-20220518145411-00040.warc.gz | en | 0.975261 | 904 |
Rebellious Daughters of History #33
by Jack Robertson (guest contribution) and ,,Judy Cox
Red Clydeside Rent Strike Leader: Mary Barbour
Mary Barbour was born in the Renfrewshire village of Kilbarchan in 1875, daughter and third child of seven to James Rough, a carpet weaver, and his wife, Jane Gavin. Mary left school at the age of 14 and went to work as a thread twister and then carpet printer.
After her marriage to engineering worker, David Barbour, the couple settled in Govan where she became an active member of the ‘Kinning Park Co-Operative Guild’, the first to be established in Scotland. She also joined the Independent Labour Party and took part in the Socialist Sunday School.
By the outbreak of the First World War, Glasgow was a centre of the munitions industry. Discontent grew among the workers and led to widespread strike action in the engineering industry, much of it involving women and unskilled labour.
The trigger for what became known as Red Clydeside was a strike involving women workers at the Singer sewing machines factory in Clydebank, when the workforce of 11,000 came out in solidarity with 12 female colleagues in March 1911.
Housing conditions is Glasgow at the time were appalling. Writing about what he called Glasgow’s Housing Disgrace, one of the leaders of the First Shop Stewards’ Movement on Clydeside, Harry McShane, wrote that
‘thousands of families are denied a decent home life…in some houses, three, four and five persons share the same bed…the houses in which they live are rat infested…young people living in old, dilapidated properties cannot tell their friends where they live’.
When Glasgow landlords, or factors, tried to impose huge rent increases at the same time as young men of fighting age were being sent to fight in France, Mary Barbour was instrumental in forming the ‘South Govan Women’s Housing Association’. She was then a working class housewife with two sons and her husband was employed in the shipyards. The Govan organising committee prevented evictions, blocking the entrance to tenement blocks and the hounding of Sherriff’s Officers.
In his memoir, ‘Revolt on the Clyde’, the Clydeside MP, Willie Gallagher wrote: ‘Street meetings, back-court meetings, drums, bells, trumpets – every method was used to bring the women out and organise them for the struggle. Notices were printed by the thousand and put up in windows: wherever you went you could see them. In street after street, scarcely a window without one: “We Are Not Paying Increased Rent”.
Rent strikes soon spread to the entire Clydeside area and culminated, in November 1915, with one of the biggest demonstrations in Glasgow’s political history. Thousands of women and thousands of shipyard and engineering workers paraded to the Sheriff’s Court “where the demonstration was near riot proportions”. The protestors became known as ‘Mary Barbour’s Army’ and included other leading women fighters such as Agnes Dollan, Helen Crawfurd, Mary Laird and Mary Jeff.
Mary Barbour became a founding member of the ‘Women’s Peace Crusade’, which campaigned for a negotiated settlement to World War 1. Later she stood as a Labour candidate for the Fairfield ward in Govan and became one of the first women councillors elected to Glasgow Town Council.
In March 2018, after a long battle, a statue commemorating Mary Barbour was unveiled at Govan Cross in Glasgow. Her image also forms part of the commemorative mural displayed on the west side of the Clutha Bar, the site of the helicopter crash in 2013.
Black revolutionary: Angela Davis (1944- )
Angela was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in the “Dynamite Hill” neighborhood, by the where houses were bombed to drive out middle-class blacks. Her mother, Sallye Bell Davis, was a leading organizer of the ‘Southern Negro Youth Congress’, which was influenced by the Communist Party.
As a Girl Scout, she marched and picketed to protest racial segregation in Birmingham and joined a communist youth movement.
She studied French at Brandeis University and she was in Biarritz when she learned of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing by the Ku Klux Klan, in which four black girls were killed. She knew one of the victims.
Angela studied philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany under the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse, later recalling that, “Herbert Marcuse taught me that it was possible to be an academic, an activist, a scholar, and a revolutionary”.
Back in the U.S., Angela studied at the University of California before moving to East Germany, where she gained a doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Back in the U.S., she joined the Communist Party and was active in the women’s movement, the Black Panther Party, and the campaign against the Vietnam War. In 1969, she told a meeting:
“We are facing a common enemy and that enemy is Yankee Imperialism, which is killing us both here and abroad. Now I think anyone who would try to separate those struggles, anyone who would say that in order to consolidate an anti-war movement, we have to leave all of these other outlying issues out of the picture, is playing right into the hands of the enemy.”
In 1969 she was fired as acting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California (UCLA) due to her Communist Party membership. A court ruled this illegal, so the university fired her again, for using inflammatory language. The report stated, “We deem particularly offensive her repeated characterizations of the police as ‘pigs'”.
Davis supported the Soledad Brothers, three inmates who were accused of killing a prison guard at Soledad Prison.
In 1970, firearms registered to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in California. The teenage brother of a Soledad prisoner, George Jackson, led the raid but when police starting shooting, four people, including the judge, were killed.
A warrant was issued for Angela’s arrest. The FBI director J. Edgar Hoover listed Davis on the FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List’. When she was finally captured President Richard M. Nixon congratulated the FBI on its “capture of the dangerous terrorist Angela Davis.”
Across the nation, thousands of people began organizing a movement to gain her release. John Lennon and Yoko Ono contributed to this campaign with the song “Angela”.
On June 4, 1972, the all-white jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
After her acquittal, Davis went on an international speaking tour and the tour included Cuba, where she had previously been received by Fidel Castro in 1969 as a member of a Communist Party delegation.
During the 1970s she visited Marxist-Leninist governed countries and during the 1980s was twice the Communist Party’s candidate for Vice President
In the 1980s she was professor of ethnic studies at San Francisco State University. Much of her work focused on the abolition of prisons.
In 1991, Angela left the CP and joined the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
Angela joined the feminist studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has received various awards, including the Lenin Peace Prize.
In 2001 Angela spoke out against the war on terror following the 9/11 attacks. She supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.
In 2017 Angela was an honorary co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, in protest President Trump’s inauguration.
In November 2019, Davis signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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Dep. Kevin Fitzsimmons made his debut on the July 28th episode of Live PD. His breakout TV appearance started with a foot chase across a parking lot. He was running after a suspect who was suspected in an alleged drug activity incident.
The first appearance of “Fitz”, as he is called, wasn’t the way he probably intended to be pictured on national TV as he took a tumble as the camera person passed him by. The fall happens around the 49 minute mark of the episode. Thankfully “Fitz” had backup as he was riding with Lt. Danny Brown who chased the suspect down and onto the ground where he proceeded to cuff him.
Dep. Fitzsimmons works in region four and is assigned to Delta Squad. Region four covers most of the area around Broad River Road and St. Andrew Road areas.
— Richland County Sheriff’s Dept. (@RCSD) July 28, 2018
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Gp suspected fibroid and enlarged uterus
Ultrasound one and gynae 1 said adenomyosis plus slightly enlarged uterus and deep Endo but no fibroid
Ultrasound 2 reported fibroid somewhere else nothing else.
Gynae then 2 warns of significant Endo, no mention of adenomyosis and states normal uterus (meanwhile pain worse)
MRI results in and letter now out of blue mentions small endometriomas in both my ovaries but nothing else.... no one has talked about Endo in ovaries till now.
Why is each scan result conflicting with each other?
Dont get me wrong, It sounds promising that not more was found. And the deep rectal thing seems not to have been raised by anyone but first bloke.
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Easily our number one spot, this not-to-be-missed eatery is the epitome of East Coast seafood. Think fresh off the boat seafood meets something out of “the Holiday” sort of charm. This super small restaurant does not take reservations, and is not shy at offering wait times upwards of two hours. So plan accordingly, and either go early or with no other plans, because this spot is well worth the wait and then some. Once you’re in, there is absolutely no rush, so take your time and soak in every moment.
Don’t miss: Anything from the raw bar, but especially their oysters, beer braised shrimp cocktail, and the stone crab claws. The crudo of the day is always spot on, and of course it wouldn’t be a meal at Neptune without their cold lobster roll (which is served with a pile of the most delicious french fries). Also make sure to peruse their wine and beer list, which are quite thoughtfully chosen and offer some of the most interesting options in the city.
Pretty much at the opposite end of the spectrum from Neptune Oyster, Anna’s Taqueria has been serving up tasty Mexican food in Boston for as long as we both can remember. For us it started as a great place to grab a greasy and cheap meal in college, but it turned into something so much more. We’ve found that nowhere else that we have lived or traveled to (including San Diego) has anything that even comes close to what is being served up here. And as they say on their website, “you can’t have Anna’s without Boston, and you can’t have Boston without Anna’s.”
Order: My favorite is always their quesadilla, which is stuffed to your liking just like a burrito. But if burritos are your thing, trust me, you won’t be disappointed. In terms of fillings, always order extra cheese, anything with carnitas, and definitely try a taco al pastor.
For whatever reason, this place just feels synonymous with the North End. Because if you are going to the North End, it’s most likely that you are going to Giacamo’s. We’ve been frequenting this location for over 17 years, and honestly not one thing has changed. They definitely have gotten their time in the limelight and hoards of great reviews, but to all of our delight, they are still churning out the same delicious food to hungry diners night after night just like they were when we first discovered them.
Insider Tip: Plan accordingly, because this is another restaurant that does not take reservations, and is cash only. And don’t fear the line, because it moves surprisingly fast!
Order: The fried calamari, mozzarella marinara, Caesar salad, the garlic bread, the mussel appetizer in the Giacamo sauce, the fusilli special of the day (which has been the special of the day for about 10 years now) also in the Giacamo sauce, and a glass of Chianti.
Since you are most likely already in the North End for either Giacamo’s or Neptune Oyster, there is absolutely no way that you could possibly pass up picking up some of the best Italian pastries for a little something sweet. For years we had actually avoided Mike’s, partly because their lines always looked pretty intimidating, and partly because some of our family preferred a different bakery. But after nearly a decade, we decided to give it a try, and WOW, we had been missing out! Everything here is so good, and we now pride ourselves on being regulars.
Plan ahead: This spot is cash only, and best to be eaten somewhere else due to the limited seating. (There are plenty of nice park benches just a few blocks away on the Greenway.)
Favorites: It’s hard to choose a favorite with so many delicious options, but we always tend to gravitate towards an amaretto cannoli and the rainbow cookies.
To some, this might be a surprise to see this on my list. And to others, you will be surprised why it is on my list. Because the Top of the Hub is here making my no. 5 spot for Boston not because of the food (because really, don’t go here to eat, it’s average at best), but simply for a drink. There truly is no better place to enjoy a view of the city than from the Top of the Hub. And at some point during your travels, after many long hours of walking, you will want to stop and kick up your feet for a few. And this is exactly where you will want to do that.
Our Tip: Plan to come here for a little late afternoon drink. That will be the perfect time to rest your feet, but it will also practically guarantee you a bar table that is literally overlooking the city. And while the views are beautiful anytime of the year, especially make a point of stopping by during the Fall, or anytime that it is snowing. Cheers! | <urn:uuid:889be76f-18c9-42e6-8e15-d8b2b9f89244> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://lamiabellavita.com/bostons-best-restaurants/ | 2020-09-29T06:53:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401632671.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929060555-20200929090555-00317.warc.gz | en | 0.966182 | 1,079 |
A programme developed by the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) for the Australian and New Zealand water industries will create opportunities for innovative, European technology companies.
A Technology Roadmap has been created by the Australian and New Zealand water sectors through W-Lab – a WSAA initiative delivered by technology and business consultancy Isle Utilities (Asia–Pacific), and change-making consultancy ThinkPlace.
“The Technology Roadmap depicts a new water future vision co-created by the water industry in Australia and New Zealand,” said Mr Adam Lovell, executive director, WSAA.
“The Roadmap will guide both the industry as they seek to explore innovative solutions, as well as technology developers who are putting their ideas into practice and want to play a part in helping the water industry reach their goals.”
W-Lab is activating the global technology market by putting out a series of call to markets, based on the key opportunities identified through the ideation summit and Launchpad workshops, which focused on the four innovation frames: customer, nature, enterprise and flows.
Dr Alex Cech, chief technology officer at Isle Utilities (Asia-Pacific) said, “The Roadmap identifies where the key challenges to the industry lie, and then matches those challenges with technologies and solutions from around the world.”
“The discovery of the individual requirements and the specific challenges of the local utilities through the W-Lab programme enables us to use our global reach to find bespoke solutions for the water sector. This process empowers our network to make confident decisions for their organisation’s future.”
W-Lab wants to hear from innovative technology companies who can help assist water utilities in lowering costs through innovation, using new technologies to remain relevant as an equitable provider of essential services, as well as deliver to ever-evolving customer expectations in service delivery and care for the environment.
“My ultimate hope for the programme is that it will allow water authorities to make informed, confident decisions. We want to get to the point where all utilities have access to the same information and a community of peers who are facing these similar challenges. Once you get to that point everything flows on from there,” added Dr Cech.
The first Technology Showcase, hosted on 11 November, investigated a high quality shortlist of technologies that meet one of the high priority opportunity areas – How might we explore new markets, recover value from waste and understand the potential impacts of new products for our customers, our environment and our business.
The next call to market will be released mid-December with the second Showcase scheduled for March 2021.
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Adorage for Movie Maker is the ultimate enhancement for Movie Maker! It contains more than 100 videoeffects for results like stunning transitions or decorative frames, offering new possibilities in Movie Maker. Just select an effect - that?s it. Adorage works as plugin direct in Movie Maker. 3D-objects and photo-realistic motifs offer professional. Free download of Adorage for Movie Maker 1, size 33.30 Mb.
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2 enabled developers to load their own custom effects and transitions - generically called transforms - into the Windows Movie Maker interface.
Both Windows Movie Maker 6.0 in Windows Vista and Windows DVD Maker 1.0 in Windows Vista implement their transforms using Microsoft Direct3D and hardware. Free download of Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker SDK 1.0, size 0 b.
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Picture Collage Maker Lite for Mac is a powerful and easy-to-use photo collage maker for Mac OS X, which allows you to create your photo collages, greeting cards, posters, scrapbooks freely, it helps you transform your special moments into unique photo collages for sharing with families and friends. It comes with 100+ creative templates to assist. Freeware download of Picture Collage Maker Lite for Mac 1.0.1, size 48.29 Mb.
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As professional movie making software, Panda Movie Maker lets you easily make movie, import collections and edit your videos. Almost all videos are supported except rmvb, HD videos (HD AVI, HD MPEG-2/4, HD VOB, HD WMV), and common videos (AVI, 3GP, M4V, MPEG, MP4, RM, RMVB, FLV, VOB, MPV, MOV, DAT, ASF, WMV).
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Looking for an all-in-one photo collage software that's fast and easy? Look no further. Picture Collage Maker is a powerful, versatile way to build any photo collage and scrapbook project-whether you're just starting out or have been collaging for years.You can also create your calendar, greeting card, invitation card, poster and more you can think. Free download of Picture Collage Maker 3.0.1, size 56.63 Mb. | <urn:uuid:e8d9e470-a609-48f4-9835-0639b6c31d09> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.fileguru.com/apps/picture_movie_maker | 2017-06-29T02:09:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323842.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629015021-20170629035021-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.830045 | 1,913 |
Jason Fried, founder of lightweight, Web-based applications maker 37signals, offered his five-point formula for software development success to the audience at the Web 2.0 conference. Traditional software development is expensive, resource-intensive, and born of a Cold War mentality, Fried said. His advice is to "think about one downing, instead of one upping, and underdoing competitors"--beating them with less.
According to Fried, in the era of lightweight apps and simple products you need less money, people, time, abstractions and software.
Fried believes that money mostly buys salaries and you only need three people--a designer, programmer and utility player, which he calls a "sweeper." The feature set should be scaled for the headcount. Having less time is also an advantage. "You spend time in unproductive meetings and overanalyzing the product. Less time forces you to spend less time on better things," Fried said.
He suggested 30 hours per week per person, which "forces you into building better products and being creative with your time." And, if you have less time, you have less time to think about abstractions, such as functional specification documents, which Fried characterized as a waste of time. "Instead, build the product and start from the user interface customer experience first; then wrap with the technology," Fried said. "The interface screens are the functional specification."
Finally, building less software means fewer features, less documentation, minimal support and less confusion in selling the product. "Less software is key to building very specific tools. There are a million simple problems to solve with less. Competitors solving complicated ones are most likely to fail," Fried said. "For Web-based software there are plenty of simple problems to pick from and you can nail."
So far, Fried has shown that the basic less is more model (although he probably puts in at least 60 hours a week) is working with his set of subscription-based products, but just wait until users or customers start requesting more features, faster time to market and competiton peaks. Small and nimble teams, and software, right-sized for the Web, can be highly efficient, but having the discipline to stay that way is really hard...
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Reading is my escape . Reality is too harsh to face at such a young age.
Love is a fantasy mixed with different strong emotions that every person dreams of.
I'm not lonely I have books that keep awake at night. I have a imagination where dreams come true. I have a cat that is my best friend even though Lucifer/Lucy doesn't care. I wear glasses like a nerd . I have few stories come and read and let me know what you think. :)
Location:In the middle of nowhere
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Although the appraisal concepts are the same and the results similar, the process is different. No particular sale or group of sales is used to determine the value of your property, but all of a certain calendar year’s sales are included in the analysis that set the parameters for the next fiscal year.
Every 3rd year the Department of Revenue (DOR) requires each city or town to conduct a revaluation. This is a year-long process during which the DOR examines every phase of the assessing operation before certifying the values. During the 2 years in between revaluations the Assessors may change the values if sales activity so indicates. These yearly updates are called Interim Year Adjustments. There was an adjustment to the values for FY 2009. | <urn:uuid:12aac56e-dd0f-4be4-8c93-b0b5c8bd1a8a> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://merrimac01860.info/faq.aspx?TID=19 | 2019-08-25T15:47:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027330750.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190825151521-20190825173521-00382.warc.gz | en | 0.924607 | 179 |
prophet(df = df, growth = "linear", changepoints = NULL, n.changepoints = 25, yearly.seasonality = TRUE, weekly.seasonality = TRUE, holidays = NULL, seasonality.prior.scale = 10, changepoint.prior.scale = 0.05, holidays.prior.scale = 10, mcmc.samples = 0, interval.width = 0.8, uncertainty.samples = 1000, fit = TRUE)
- Data frame with columns ds (date type) and y, the time series. If growth is logistic, then df must also have a column cap that specifies the capacity at each ds.
- String 'linear' or 'logistic' to specify a linear or logistic trend.
- Vector of dates at which to include potential changepoints. Each date must be present in df$ds. If not specified, potential changepoints are selected automatically.
- Number of potential changepoints to include. Not used if input `changepoints` is supplied. If `changepoints` is not supplied, then n.changepoints potential changepoints are selected uniformly from the first 80 percent of df$ds.
- Boolean, fit yearly seasonality.
- Boolean, fit weekly seasonality.
- data frame with columns holiday (character) and ds (date type)and optionally columns lower_window and upper_window which specify a range of days around the date to be included as holidays.
- Parameter modulating the strength of the seasonality model. Larger values allow the model to fit larger seasonal fluctuations, smaller values dampen the seasonality.
- Parameter modulating the flexibility of the automatic changepoint selection. Large values will allow many changepoints, small values will allow few changepoints.
- Parameter modulating the strength of the holiday components model.
- Integer, if great than 0, will do full Bayesian inference with the specified number of MCMC samples. If 0, will do MAP estimation.
- Numeric, width of the uncertainty intervals provided for the forecast. If mcmc.samples=0, this will be only the uncertainty in the trend using the MAP estimate of the extrapolated generative model. If mcmc.samples>0, this will be integrated over all model parameters, which will include uncertainty in seasonality.
- Number of simulated draws used to estimate uncertainty intervals.
- Boolean, if FALSE the model is initialized but not fit.
A prophet model.
## Not run: # history <- data.frame(ds = seq(as.Date('2015-01-01'), as.Date('2016-01-01'), by = 'd'), # y = sin(1:366/200) + rnorm(366)/10) # m <- prophet(history) # ## End(Not run)
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PLEASANTON -- Police are searching for a Livermore man they believe to be the suspect in a stabbing at an apartment complex in Pleasanton on Wednesday.
Jesse Serpa, 33, is facing an attempted murder charge from the Alameda County District Attorney's Office after he was identified by the victim as the man responsible for stabbing him in the chest, police said Friday.
Witnesses told police that the two men were arguing and then began fighting at an apartment complex, located at 3819 Vineyard Ave. about 9 p.m. Wednesday. At some point during the fight, Serpa allegedly got hold of a knife and stabbed the victim once before fleeing on foot, police said.
The 30-year-old victim, also a Livermore resident, was taken to Eden Hospital for the treatment of his injury, which is non-life threatening.
There is a no-bail warrant currently for Serpa's arrest. Police are asking that anyone with information regarding this investigation or the location of Jesse Serpa to call the Pleasanton Police Department at 925-931-5100.
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I got this recipe off of foodnetwork.com, another favorite by Chef Robin Miller. I always double my broth, I like more broth so I can store leftovers. I’m going to add basil, garlic, oregano, and a sweet potato chopped into small chunks as well.
- 3 cups reduced-sodium vegetable or chicken broth
- 1 (28-ounce) can diced tomatoes
- 1 (15-ounce) can white (cannellini or navy) beans, drained
- 2 carrots, peeled and chopped
- 1 celery stalk, chopped
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon dried sage
- 2 bay leaves
- Salt and ground Pepper
- 1 Cup of Barley
- 1 medium zucchini, chopped
- 2 cups coarsely chopped fresh or frozen spinach, defrosted
- 4 tablespoons grated Parmesan or Romano cheese
- Basil sprigs, garnish, optional
In a slow cooker, combine broth, tomatoes, beans, carrots, celery, onion, thyme, sage, bay leaves, and 1/2 teaspoon each salt and black pepper. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours or on HIGH for 3 to 4 hours.
Thirty minutes before the soup is done cooking, add ditalini, zucchini and spinach. Cover and cook 30 more minutes. Remove bay leaves and season, to taste, with salt and black pepper. Ladle soup into bowls and sprinkle parmesan cheese over top. Garnish with basil, if desired. | <urn:uuid:c374a4fd-250e-4aaf-b1a1-1656c5199215> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | http://www.mommasmeals.org/minestrone-soup/ | 2019-10-15T08:30:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986657949.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20191015082202-20191015105702-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.832961 | 331 |
Clare’s minor footballers have made two changes to their team for Sunday’s All-Ireland MFC quarter-final against Galway.
Maurice Walsh’s side lost the Munster Final to Kerry on a scoreline of 3-21 to 1-07 on June 23rd. The management have made two changes in attack for the game; Mark McInerney and Jack Regan who started the provincial decider are left out of the panel of twenty four. Padraic O’Donoghue and Kevin Keane take their places in the starting team.
County minor hurlers Robin Mounsey, Gearoid O’Grady and Keelan Guyler are included among the substitutes with the footballers for the first time this year.
O’Connor Park in Tullamore hosts the game which throws in at 1:30pm.
1: Michael Garrihy (St Breckans)
2: Jack Reidy (Shannon Gaels)
3: Darragh Connelly (Ennistymon)
4: John Murphy (Ennistymon)
5: Gavin D’Auria (Éire Óg)
6: Cillian Rouine (Ennistymon)
7: Adam O Connor (Kilmurry Ibrickane)
8: Chibby Okoye (Banner)
9: Emmet McMahon (Kildysart)
10: Thomas Kelly (Shannon Gaels)
11: Cian McDonough (St Josephs Doora/Barefield)
12: Padraic O Donoghue (Cooraclare)
13: Kevin Keane (Corofin)
14: Shane Meehan (Banner)
15: Joey Droney (Michael Cusacks)
16: Mark Cleary (Banner)
17: Robin Mounsey (Ruan)
18: Gearoid O Grady (Kilmihil)
19: Damian Lynch (Kilmurry Ibrickane)
20: Keelan Guyler (Inagh/Kilnamona)
21: Conor Carrig (Wolfe Tones)
22: Eoin Rouine (Ennistymon)
23: Conor Hassett (Kildysart)
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History "The Guild Through the Years"
THE GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD - 1964 to 2015
The Greensboro Symphony Guild was founded in 1964 to promote and foster music culture and education primarily by aiding the Greensboro Symphony Society in the promotion of an orchestra in the community. Although the antecedents of the Symphony had been performing since 1920, the Symphony Society, founded in 1959, soon recognized the need for a vital support group. With help and advice from UNCG music faculty members, the Junior League of Greensboro was enlisted to organize a community-based Symphony Guild of dedicated women, which started in 1964.
As part of its mission the Guild immediately developed and located funding for In-School Concerts which were performed by orchestra ensembles. This important educational outreach was expanded by the Guild in 1978 to include full-orchestra concerts for students. Now known as In-School Ensembles and Student Concerts and administered by the GSO, these performances are heard by third, fourth and seventh graders in Guilford County and surrounding areas. Yearly, the combined educational programs supported by the Guild reach more than 50,000 students. These programs include Elementary School Concerts (1977), Music in the Middle (1987), and the orKIDStra Series (1994-2009). In 2008, the Guild started a high school partnership program, sending GSO musicians into the school to work with music students culminating in a concert before a Masterworks concert. In the spring of 2009, K through 2 in school music ensembles began through Guild initiative and sponsorship. The ASCAP award-winning Youth Orchestra has also continuously received generous Guild support through scholarships, awards and special funding for events such as a performance trip to Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NY, in 1988, Carnegie Hall in 2007 and Chicago in 2014. In the spring of 2010, the Youth Symphony Orchestra toured Vienna, Salzburg and Munich. Youth Strings, Allegro Strings and Honors Quartet have been added to the Youth Orchestra program. Support for these and for adult education/outreach programs such as Preludes, and Music at Midday concerts are part of the Guild’s service to the community.
For many years the Guild worked with the Symphony in developing effective ticket sales campaigns, securing special contributions, selling playbill ads and working in the United Arts Council Fund Drive. To ensure the continued excellence of the Symphony, in May 1986, Guild President Rachel Hull established the Endowment Fund with a commitment to endow a $250,000 Concertmaster’s Chair. This was completed in May 1995. Fund raisers such as the Symphony Ball (1970’s and 1980’s), Presentation Ball (since 1978), the Triad Symphony Auction (1984 - 1991), pre-concert Dinners, Guild Gifts (1987 -1990), Homes Tour and Gala (1981-2013), Bravo Cookbook (1984), Guild Golf Classic (since 1992), Super Sale (bi-yearly since1996), Broadway Magic (1999-2000), SRO Parties (2007), Recipes of Note Cookbook (currently for sale), the Blue Jean Ball (2010), the Scavenger Hunt (2011), 50th Anniversary Gala (2014), and many special projects and events have financially supported the Endowment, the GSO operating fund and Guild music education programs.
With 18 charter members, the Guild has grown from 120 members in 1964 to more than 300 in 2014. The challenges, goals and responsibilities of the Guild are consistently met and increased with the growth of the GSO. From a college ensemble conducted by Henry H. Fuchs in 1920, to the Greensboro Orchestra organized by Dr. Hugh Altvater in 1939, the batons of George Dickieson, M. Thomas Cousins (1963-66), Sheldon Morgenstern (1967-74), Dr. Peter Paul Fuchs (1975-87), Paul Anthony McRae (1987-95), Stuart Malina (1996-2002) and Dmitry Sitkovetsky (2003-present) have continued to inspire the excellence of the musicians and increase the outreach of the orchestra. Promoting the Symphony since 1964 has been both a privilege and a pleasure for the hundreds of dedicated members of the Greensboro Symphony Guild.
Through the years Guild ticket campaigns, educational programs, and fundraising efforts have received national recognition and awards from the American Symphony Orchestra League. The most recent were in 2005, when the ASOL Volunteer Council awarded to the Guild its Silver Award for the 2005 Golf Classic, as well as the Excellence of Innovation Award to the newly formed Marketing Council for outstanding advancement. Perhaps the most prestigious honor came in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan bestowed upon the Guild the President’s Volunteer Action Award for Outstanding Service. This Presidential Medal is passed to the incoming President each year at the May General Membership Meeting. | <urn:uuid:95d3fdfc-974d-4e0e-8f09-2e3203c59e80> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.gsoguild.org/about-us/history-guild-through-years/ | 2023-06-05T09:41:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224651815.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605085657-20230605115657-00227.warc.gz | en | 0.943488 | 1,006 |
Bobby Drake [Secret]
DISTINCTIONS (D4 + Plot Point or D8)
- Original X-Man
- Solid Friendships
- Unknown Potential
Ice Slide: D8
Ice Blast: D8
Enhanced Stamina: D8
Superhuman Durability: D10
Ice Mastery: D10
Enhanced Stamina: D8
Thermal Senses: D8
SFX (Blizzard): Use two or more Cryokinetic powers in a single dice pool at -1 Step Down for each additional power.
SFX (Avalanche): Target multiple opponents. For every additional target, add D6 to your Pool and Step Up one Effect die.
SFX (Unleashed): Step up or double any Cryokinetic power for one action, then Step Down your highest Cryokinetic power die until your next transition scene.
SFX (Immunity): Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma, or complications from Cold or Ice-based attacks.
SFX (Icy Constructs): Add D6 and Step Up your Effect die +1 when using Cryokinetic Mutation to create assets.
SFX (Ice, Ice Baby): Add a D6 and Step Up Effect die +1 when inflicting ice-based complications on a target.
Limit (Conscious Activation): While stressed out, asleep, or unconscious, shutdown Cryokinetic Mutation. Recover Cryokinetic Mutation when you recover that stress or wake up. If you take emotional trauma, shutdown Cryokinetic Mutation until you recover that trauma.
Limit (Heat Sensitive): Shutdown a Cryokinetic Mutation power when hit by a heat or fire-based attack and gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an Opportunity or during a Transition Scene.
Limit (Mutant): Earn 1 PP when affected by mutant-specific Milestones or tech.
SPECIALITIES (you may convert Expert D8 into 2D6, or Master D10 to 2D8 or 3D6)
Combat Expert: D8
Cosmic Expert: D8
1 XP- When you wisecrack during combat.
3 XP- When an ally accuses you of not taking things seriously during an important moment or combat.
10 XP- When you decide to either grow up and take on the responsibility of leading a team, or convince yourself that you aren’t ready for that responsibility.
1 XP- When you use your Unleashed SFX power with a D4 Distinction and succeed.
3 XP- When you discuss your reluctance to use the full potential of your power with another character.
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Are you ashamed of the Gospel?
This post will be not be what you would probably expect in a writing about Easter. As we celebrate our risen LORD on Sunday, we remember the victory that was won on that hill in Jerusalem. But as we celebrate we must also be aware the plan of our enemy, who seeks to diminish that victory or deny it outright. Now more than ever we must be committed to proclaiming the truth.
We are in dangerous times. Past the post-modern indifference to the gospel, and the perceived insignificance of the church that it has brought, and in the midst of outright hostility and persecution. I see evidence of this on many fronts, blatant intolerance, persecution masquerading as “non-discrimination” and outright violence against Christianity. In times like these it is easy to lash out and go on the offensive towards those who are being used to precipitate these attacks, but we must not forget we do not battle against flesh and blood.
Palm Sunday is over, Good Friday has arrived, and my question is,
“Are you ashamed of the gospel?”
Robert George professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University recently asked this question in a speech at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. The following is from that speech.
“Am I ashamed of the Gospel? This question opens other questions. Am I prepared to pay the price that will be demanded if I refuse to be ashamed, and give public witness to the massively, politically incorrect truths of the Gospel? Truths that are rejected by an elite culture shaped by expressive individualism, and me-generation liberalism that do not want to hear it spoken?
To put it more simply am I willing or unwilling, to take up my cross and follow Christ? Powerful forces and currents in our society press us to be ashamed of the Gospel.
To be ashamed of our belief in the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions.
To be ashamed of our belief in the unalienable right given even in our constitution that every member of the human family, irrespective of age or size or stage of development or condition of dependency, is the bearer of inherent dignity and an equal right to life?
To be ashamed of our belief in what the Bible teaches, beginning in Genesis with Adam and Eve, and throughout the human story in the Bible, that marriage is between one man and one woman?
To be ashamed of our belief that every precious child in the womb is a creature made in the image and likeness of God and deserves respect and protection. If you refuse to be ashamed then powerful people and institutions say you are a:
misogynist—a hater of women, someone who poses a threat to people’s privacy, an enemy of women’s “reproductive freedom.”
homophobes, a bigot, someone who doesn’t believe in equality. You even represent a threat to people’s safety. You ought to be ashamed!
But, of course, what you believe, if you believe these things, is a crucial part of the Gospel. You believe the truth—in its fullness—about the dignity of the human person and the nature of marriage and sexual morality as proclaimed by the Bible—our only secure source of understanding the Gospel message.
When you are invited to distance yourself from these teachings or go silent about them, when you are threatened with the loss of professional opportunities or social standing if you do not, slandered, vilified, threatened with loss of business and income as has happened recently in Oregon, New Mexico, Washington, and other places, violence of the type that occurred against those who supported prop. 8 in California in 2008 and is happening now, when you are threatened with being thrown in jail under the guise of hate speech, when these things happen you are being pressured to be ashamed of the Gospel—which means to give up faith in the Lordship of Christ and hope in the triumph of goodness, righteousness, and love in and through Him.
Yes Good Friday has arrived. The memory of Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem has faded. Yes, he had been greeted—and not long ago—by throngs of people waving palm branches and shouting “Hosanna to the Son of David.” He rode into the Jerusalem of Europe and the Jerusalem of the Americas and was proclaimed Lord and King. But all that is now in the past. Friday has come. The love affair with Jesus and his Gospel and his Church is over. Elite sectors of the cultures of Europe and North America no longer welcome his message. “Away with him,” they shout. “Give us Barabbas!”
As I read this I was reminded that Daniel, when facing the lion’s den, and the pressure to bow and pray only to the god of his culture had three possible choices.
- Say nothing, take his faith into hiding “It doesn’t involve me so no need to get involved”
- Live out his beliefs on the “down low” only talk about it only in private, fade into the crowd
- Open the window and pray. Continue to worship God even in unfavorable circumstances, and stand for Him.
We face the same choices today…
On that Friday long ago it must have seemed to the followers of Jesus that all was lost. The popularity, the acceptance, and the shouts of “Hosanna” by the crowds, over. Replaced by shouts of “crucify him, crucify him”
And now he is dying, hanging on a Roman cross. But what seemed like the worst thing turned out to be the best thing. And we know the end of the story. Our choices are clear. We can choose to not be ashamed of the Gospel, choose to be a part of His story, and accept whatever may come, or choose their story.
It may be Friday but Sunday is coming…
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"Dance/ It's all I wanna do." These are the first words declared in "All The Lovers," the opening track to Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite. And that's the thesis in a nutshell of her 11th album, which is being touted as a celebration of the pop singer's "dance-floor roots." The theme holds true in that the 12 tracks are pulse-heavy and anthemic, but not in the literal sense of being retrospective of the many dance styles she has covered in her 23-year music career. However, Aphrodite's most memorable quality is its affirmation of Minogue's reputation as a star for the masses.
Aphrodite is everything you expect it to be: inspiring, motivating and celebratory. No surprise, given the all-star talent backing the Minogue machine. Her production team reads like a who's-who of contemporary European dance (Starsmith, Calvin Harris) and pop (Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley, Nerina Pallot) talent. And all of their efforts were overseen by Stuart Price, the producer behind Madonna's most recent dance success, Confessions On A Dance Floor. Top all of this off with Minogue's eternally twee voice (has anyone else noticed that the older she gets, the younger her voice sounds?), and their collective efforts result in the collective "Yippeee!" that characterizes Aphrodite.
The album opens promisingly with a pulsating jab-cross-cross combo. Kicking off the proceedings is the aforementioned dance-floor shout-out "All The Lovers" which reunites Minogue with Kish Mauve, the British duo that gave her her slick 2007 hit "2 Hearts." More aerobicise-worthy are the following cuts "Get Outta My Way" and "Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)." Both tracks are all synths and thumps, or readymade pogo machines designed to incite a perma-state (physical or mental) of arms-up feet-jumping. Crafted songs are passed on in favor of the structure du jour: chorus, chorus, chorus. Half of the album follows this pattern, as Calvin Harris' swirling "Too Much" and Nerina Pallot and Andy Chatterley's marching "Aphrodite" cram numerous catchy hooks to make you reach for your hairbrush karaoke mic or the ceiling bubble-machine.
To be fair Aphrodite has its share of subtle moments mostly under the patient direction of Price. He layers Kylie's a cappella voice gradually on intro to "Illusion" while he pairs her lightly skipping vocals with a brisk string arrangement on "Looking For An Angel." "Closer" bangs the hardest of Price's productions, but not before building a tense path of baroque arpeggios before hitting the chorus. Price also teams with Pascal Gabriel, whose resume runs the gamut from '70s punk band the Razors to New Order to contemporary pop artists like Dido, to vaguely Daft Punk-ish album closer "Can't Beat The Feeling." However even these relatively thoughtful moments are filled with exuberant sunshine and cheer.
Considering that Kylie Minogue's base reads like a rainbow coalition of possible music listeners, Aphrodite's tendency to instantly gratify makes sense. On one end, she has sold nearly 70 million records worldwide, is both a soap star and a gay icon and most recently appeared at Glastonbury. On another end, she has sung with Nick Cave, been covered by the Flaming Lips and mashed up with Kyuss. A bright melody and a brighter smile is her way to split the difference. The trade-off is that the music is not always the most resonant. If she were in politics, she would likely crush the election with her popularity, but have difficulty executing policy because of her lack of substantial ideas. Aphrodite makes offerings to all camps--some sonic noise here, some choice arrangements there, but don't forget the big ending! It aspires to be more than dance-floor music. This is music for Frank's daily commute to/from the job he hates. This is music for Stella's weekly aerobic kickboxing class at Crunch. This is music for Tyler's guilty pleasures. This is music for Ashley's drill team routine. And this is music for Josh's most fantastic Saturday night evar--until next Saturday, of course. Aphrodite accomplishes all this, but won't there be another Aphrodite tomorrow? | <urn:uuid:0c4732e0-c702-41b7-a506-78deb07102a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/kylie-minogue/aphodite/41911/ | 2013-12-06T12:14:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163051516/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131731-00019-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941919 | 930 |
Do's and Don'ts of Cleaning with Castile Soap
Castile soap is a vegetable-based, chemical-free product with no synthetic ingredients. Made from sustainable plant based oils including avocado, almond, coconut and olive oils, it originated in Spain in the 12th century from Castile.
It is an exceptionally versatile ingredient and when diluted, can clean anything fro floors to countertops. It is excellent at cleaning dirt, cutting through grease and removing stains. It's also effective despite being mild.
Mix with Acids
While acids (like vinegar) and bases (like castile soap) are powerful cleaning tools on their own, it's best not to mix castile soap with acidic ingredients. Castile soap is made with oil, so mixing with vinegar or lemon will result in a white, curdled solution that might leave behind a sticky film.
Use with Hard Water
Given its high mineral content, using castile soap with hard water can result in extra residue, which might leave surfaces feeling a bit sticky. To avoid this, boil the water first, use distilled water, or use a solution of water and vinegar on a cloth as an acid rinse to cut the grease.
Use on Tannin Stains
Although castile soap is a very effective mild cleaner, it won't tackle tannin stains like coffee, tea or juice.
Use as a Little and Often Floor Cleaner
Make a solution with ½ tsp of castile soap in 500ml warm water, add 10 drops essential oil and put in an old squirty bottle. This can be used to clean marble, natural stone or granite surfaces. Polish with microfibre cloth.
Use on Marble, Granite or Natural Stone Surfaces
Stone surfaces are often delicate and cannot be cleaned with acid ingredients such as vinegar or lemon. To clean more delicate surfaces, use a solution of castile soap and warm water. Polish with a microfibre cloth.
Use an Acid Cleaner as a 'Rinse'
Castile soap can leave a salt residue behind - cut through this by applying an acid rinse of water and vinegar or lemon solution.
Use as a Natural Laundry Detergent
Use a mixture of castile soap with baking soda for an eco alternative to detergent. You can also pre-treat stains with a dab of castile soap. In place of laundry detergents, lavender or unscented Castile soap is a natural alternative. Use 1/8 to 1/6 cup (preferably added to the wash water directly). For the rinse cycle, try a mixture of 16 ounces distilled white vinegar and some lavender essential oil, which will remove any remaining traces of soap and leave a beautiful scent.
Use on Woodwork
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Astrology and Online dating sites
The use of zodiac in online dating services is a relatively new phenomenon, however, many millennials and Gen Zers are all for it. Others are cynics, worried that people will disqualify fits based on their birth charts. Regardless of your own personal https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/qualities-of-a-successful-relationship-from-couples-therapist thoughts and opinions on astrology, it is important to make certain that your profile is definitely authentic and honest.
If you are a Libra, you should do not forget that astrology can help you make very good suits. While you should never reject somebody https://cupidbrides.com/dateinasia-review for their astrological indication, it can help you narrow down the pool of potential matches. For example , Virgos may favor people who publish their love of order, while Scorpios can easily want a partner who will encourage them.
Astrology can be an extremely helpful tool with regards to online dating. Sometimes, it can even assist you in finding a suitable spouse. A study upon astrology and online dating seen that people which have the same horoscope are more likely to complement. For example , a Leo and a Taurus are more suitable than a Libra and Capricorn. Applying astrology to match people is thrilling can help you reduce your choices. It can possibly help you prevent being declined by a person you are drawn to.
A new dating iphone app based on zodiac has been developed by Rachel Lo. The app uses a complex algorithm to complement persons based on their birth charts. The algorithm takes into account all of the major facets of a person’s birth graph and or. | <urn:uuid:1a085300-044c-4d88-8dcb-282dd26e7490> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://new.childsplayplus.com/astrology-and-online-dating-sites/ | 2023-03-27T03:49:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296946637.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20230327025922-20230327055922-00691.warc.gz | en | 0.95317 | 363 |
Why we fear ghosts
Hi guys, through my spiritual paractices, i have come to learn a great deal through meditation and conversing with my spirit guides.
i was very scared of ghosts, when i first started to see them, after opening my third eye,
and i was scared by a few of them , some haunted me , which was karma for haunting them in past lives.
what i wanted to say about ghosts though is that not everyone is scared , of them , and some are scared so why is, that some people just naturaly braver, well the answer is no to that question .
people who fear ghosts , were people in previous lives who haunted people whe they were dead. when you do bad things to people you naturaly fear that person returning the the evil you inflicted onto them.
so if you haunt someone , you then reincarante and in the next life you naturaly have a fear of ghosts,i see ghost every day but i dont fear themall, i said to myself last night , why do we fear ghosts and they dont fear us ,after all we are allghosts even the living are ghosts in physical bodies.
a ghost is the soul of a person , whos energy moulded to the shape of the physical body, when they were incarnated, then that person died and left that body , so in fact the living are nothing more than ghosts with bodies , attached by a silvercord from the crown chakra to the physical body.
i guess its becuase some are mischievous and have a greater advantage over us , and can walk through walls when we are unsuspecting, another thing is the energy of the ghost .
if you was a good person , in life say a nurse, and you lived life to the full and was happy , you will be the same in death , and if someone from the world of the living , saw that ghost , they are not likely to fear it as much as they may a murderer who was calous and angry before he died.
many places have ghosts , but they are kind ghosts , in life and will know if your scared of ghosts and will not show themselves to you out of respect , becuase they would be the type of person that does not take advantage of others.
but others are weak of character and will exploit there power over others , and haunt them not knpwing that there furure lives will then have to be haunted.
all hauntings are karmic , which means a man can go into a house and get haunted, and chased out , and then another man can go in and feel nothing. its all to do with what you did in past lives.
if you fear ghosts , then thats a pretty good indication that you haunted others in past lives.
but that can be healed , if you are in tune with your spirit guides, and aslong as you dont owe any karma , i am healingmy fears , and i am alittle more excepting of ghosts becuase i dont have any hostility towrds them .
my fear of the dead started many life times ago when i was a spartan ,i was one of the three hundred spartans , and i died at thermopylae , in 480 bc, when we all died from the arrowe we did not stop the fight , all 300 of us went into the underworld , and attacked all the demons and hostiles in the underworld .
thats why i fear them today. attack others and you naturaly fear them repaying you .
thats why we as spiritual beings must act in love.at all times.
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Cruise ships: Expert discusses safety and regulations
Cruise ships are jam packed full of evening entertainment to cater to passengers with a variety of tastes. Whether it be a host of different restaurants tailored to the eclectic preferences of foodies, theatre shows for passengers craving an immersive experience or simply the chance to doll up and look fancy, the chances are travellers can do one or all three on the same vessel. But it isn't just holidaymakers who live onboard cruise ships for the duration of the voyage. What happens when the official passenger areas close down and the crew take control?
A former cruise ship worker has let slip their antics get particularly rowdy, with security called numerous times.
Joshua Kinser, who worked as a drummer on board more than 300 cruise ships, told how the crew let their hair down each and every night after hours.
He wrote in his new book, Chronicles of a Cruise Ship member: “The crew bar is where the cruise ship party begins.
"Once the bar is closed, crew members pour out onto the crew deck and continue, often until security is called.
“Then crew members move to hallways, stairwells, inside lifeboats, broom closets, dressing rooms, someone’s cabin, anywhere they can find until security is called once again.
Cruise secrets: Cruise ship staff love a party just like passengers
“Eventually the party winds down about the time that crew members must show up for work, and then they do it all over again.
“I partook in this for a while. We were all young once.
“Then I realised operating on two hours of sleep and working a full time job at sea weren’t particularly compatible, a realisation most of us come to somewhere around our thirtieth birthday after our brains have fully developed.”
Yet despite the rowdiness, the overall experience for passengers is of prime safety.
A fellow ex cruise ship employee, Jay Herring, has told how cruise ships have exceptionally high standards.
Jay opened up on his experiences in his new book, The Truth About Cruise Ships.
He reassured travellers that, in fact, cruises were one of the safest holiday forms around.
He wrote: “Much can go wrong in a hotel size vehicle.
“Cruising is actually very safe.
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Last term and this term we have been throwing ourselves into the wonderful world of story writing! Shonagh Davidson, a drama teacher from East Lothian Arts Services, visited us to deliver a drama workshop on fairy tales. We built on drama skills from the workshop to help us write a Celtic fairy tale and a Roman warrior story. We enjoyed using the Roman and Celtic weapons and shields that we had made when acting out our story ideas!
Story Writing Through Drama on PhotoPeach
This term we have chosen to study Jeremy Strong’s science fiction novel ‘Krazy Cow Saves the World’ as our class story. During the second week of term we chose a character in the story and developed the character in the same style as the author. We were amazed at the amount of adjectives and fantastic wow words we were able to think of when working with our writing buddies! During the third week of term we chose a really funny part of the story to stop at and then continued the story on in the same style as the author. Last week we wrote a letter to Jeremy Strong to ask if he could give us feedback on our story writing. Well done Lucy Townshend and Ryan Dunn for being voted writing stars of the week and getting your excellent letters on the wall of success!!
Artist, Eileen Hall, visited to share her experiences and objects from Ecuador. P2/3 enjoyed telling Eileen about their ‘Wonder Room’ and why the objects that had been taken in were special to them. The carved wooden dolls, paintings, images from books and ideas from a story were all used to help P2/3 create a chalk pastel drawing of their representation of Ecuador. When Eileen left P2/3 talked about how they could develop their imaginative and observational pastel drawings by blending pastels in different ways and adding detail. We shared our work in groups and liked the fact everyone’s pictures were completely different!
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This week P2/3 chose learning that they wanted to share on the blog. Here is some of their fantastic work and experiences from the last eight weeks or so!
In October, to link in with our Celts and Romans project, we ventured to Bothwell Castle to work alongside experts on an archaeological excavation! We worked in teams to find objects like bones, teeth and pottery. We enjoyed listening to spooky stories about what was thought to have happened in Bothwell castle and nearby areas of Haddington long ago. It rained all morning but the weather didn’t stop us from having fun!
On Thursday afternoon, head archaeologist, David Connelly came into class to share more of the weird and wonderful objects that had been found by archaeologists. He helped us work together to write a poem on archaeology.
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Once again the Parent Council transformed our school into a ghoulish disco hall to celebrate Halloween. Many pupils from across the school came dressed up in their spooky costumes. A night enjoyed by all, thank you to the Parent Council.
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Knowing how to write the best Instagram bio is essential for getting followers. In the social media world, your Instagram bio defines who you are as a person. It sets the stage for what people can expect when following you.
Essentially, your Instagram bio is your chance to make a good first impression in the IG community. And don’t forget, your Instagram username is just as important.
(Check out our article on how to create the perfect Instagram username here).
The best Instagram bio can make a user click “Follow” without even thinking twice. How do you do it? With these top 10 Instagram bio tips!
So, without further ado, let’s talk about how to write a good Instagram bio.
Best Instagram Bio Tips
Instagram Bio Tip #1: Introduce Yourself
The best Instagram bios always include a brief description of who you are as a person or brand. There are several different formats and ideas for how to do this, so let’s go over a few.
A good Instagram bio idea is to write the top words that describe you in a line, separated by forward slashes. This is a popular method of quickly introducing yourself to your fans. For an example of what this looks like, check out @omarregan’s Instagram bio.
This Instagram bio idea is great because it only takes up one line and very clearly describes you as a brand. In the example above, @omarregan uses this method to describe himself as “Comedian/Actor/Writer/Director.”
In this case, @omarregan’s brand is very diverse. If you’re known for wearing many different hats (like he is) consider putting what you’re known for or are most passionate about first.
For example, if you’re primarily an actor who also likes to direct and write, put “actor” in the forefront of your description. (Actor/Director/Writer)
Instagram Bio Tip #2: Create a Call To Action
If you are a business or brand on Instagram, consider creating a call-to-action in your Instagram bio. Including a question in the description is great for getting users interested in your service or product.
Take a look at how we’ve used a question in Riotly Social Media’s Instagram bio to get users interested in learning more about our company:
For businesses, the best Instagram bios will include a short sentence describing clearly what your business does. See Riotly’s Instagram bio in the photo above for ideas.
Instagram Bio Tip #3: Define What Makes You Unique
For individuals and influencers, a good Instagram bio idea is to include descriptive phrases that help you connect with your followers on a personal level.
As an influencer, you want to reach a particular audience that will identify with you as a brand. What makes you unique? What is special about you that will make people want to follow you?
Let’s take a look at an example of what I mean. Aurora McCausland is an influencer based in Utah. Her Instagram bio is fun and relatable:
Including little tidbits of information like “Always drinking coffee” help describe your personality on a relatable level. Plus, it helps other users identify with you.
Instagram Bio Tip #4: Include a Link
Instagram allows every user to include one link in their Instagram bio. Make it count! If you have a website, link to it! Instagram’s “link in bio” feature is a great way to promote your brand’s website or blog.
I do this all the time for Riotly Social Media. Anytime I want to share a new blog post with our readers, I’ll post a picture of it on Instagram. I describe what the new article is about, how it can help our readers, and let them know how they can find it on our website.
Take a look:
Since you can’t post links in actual Instagram posts, a great option is to link to a larger page on your site in your Instagram bio. Here, I’m letting people know that they can read this article, and all my other new blog posts by clicking the link in our bio on our Instagram profile page.
Instagram Bio Tip #5: List your other Social Media Accounts
Let’s look at Aurora McCausland’s Instagram bio again. Notice that she lists her Twitter handle in her Instagram Bio:
This is a really good Instagram bio idea. The best Instagram bios will let users know where else they can follow you on social media. This is a great way to increase your following across multiple platforms.
If you have multiple different social media accounts, add them all! You don’t have to limit yourself to listing only one!
Instagram Bio Tip #6: Use Emojis
Emojis are a great way to add some flair to your Instagram bio. They can also be used to describe your brand visually, instead of with words. @ily.memess is a great example of how you can add emojis to create flair and make your Instagram bio look pretty:
Instagram bio emojis are also great when you have limited characters to work with, and a lot to say. Use them to spruce up your bio or even replace words with images!
Instagram Bio Tip #7: Instagram Bio Quotes
Instagram bio quotes are a unique and artful way to connect with your followers. Take a look at @everchanginghorizon’s Instagram bio:
Quin doesn’t necessarily give a lot of information about who he is in this bio, but he does succeed in creating a lot of intrigue around his profile.
The quote he includes is incredibly powerful, relatable, and inspiring. A quote like this one can easily evoke an emotional response from other IG users. Plus, it’ll definitely make people want to follow him to see more.
Reaching others on an emotional level is a very effective way of connecting with other IG users (and growing followers as a result). Focus on staying authentic and genuine!
Instagram Bio Tip #8: Encourage People to Search for You Outside of Instagram
In some cases, you might be trying to grow your brand outside of Instagram as well. For example, perhaps you’re trying to promote a TV show you’re in, or get more views and subscribers on Youtube.
A great Instagram bio idea is to list other accomplishments and projects you’re currently involved in. Media mentions are also great to include. Take a look at Meagan Martin’s Instagram bio:
Meagan Martin is a superstar in a lot of different disciplines, including being a generally amazing human being.
I first became aware of Meagan through her accomplishments in the climbing community. Since then, her success on American Ninja Warrior and her modeling career with Athleta have catapulted her into stardom.
So, what makes her bio one of the best Instagram bios out there? A long list of accomplishments. She includes her title as an American Ninja Warrior, a Model, and a future competitor on the US Climbing Team in the next Olympics.
While she documents a lot of these accomplishments on her Instagram, a much larger portion of her media coverage is outside of IG. By listing each accomplishment on her Instagram bio, she’s sparking the curiosity of Instagram users.
Effectively, Meagan is using her Instagram bio to encourage users to search for her outside of Instagram. This is a great tip for growing your brand’s presence all across the web.
If you’re an influencer trying to get sponsored, include accomplishments or media mentions that build your reputation. This will help sponsors see you as an expert and professional in your field, making them more likely to work with you.
Instagram Bio Tip #9: Promote a New Product/Drive Awareness
One of the best Instagram bio ideas is to utilize the Instagram bio link to promote a product.
Let’s say your company is just about to release a new product to the public. Or perhaps, you’re about to launch a new ad campaign and need views.
You can post about the new product or campaign in stories, posts or Instagram ads. From there, you can direct users to your Instagram bio where you’ve included a special link to follow.
Let’s look at an example:
Jimmy Chin, an incredible photographer, filmmaker, and all-around awe-inspiring human being, is known for many different projects.
His incredible film Meru brought me (and everyone else in the climbing community) to tears. His most recent project, Free Solo, has reached an incredible $12.6 million in box office revenue.
As you can see, he uses the Instagram bio link as an opportunity to promote his new movie, Free Solo (which you should definitely go see).
This is a great way to drive targeted awareness, sales and engagement as a brand.
This Instagram bio idea can also be used to push promotional deals and drive sales. Try creating an Instagram contest with your bio link to drive traffic to your site.
Instagram Bio Tip #10: Add an Instagram Bio Space
A great Instagram bio idea is to add spaces between sentences. This keeps your Instagram bio looking neat and tidy. Keep in mind though, Instagram Bio spaces don’t work if you have a lot of information in your bio.
For example, take a look at Jimmy Chin’s Instagram bio again:
Due to a large number of partnerships, affiliations, and titles, Instagram bio spaces would not work very well.
His use of two forward slashes between each word, however, is a great way to include a lot of information while keeping your Instagram bio looking clean.
An example of using Instagram bio spaces:
Let’s look back at Aurora McCausland’s bio once again. She has just enough information where Instagram bio spaces work super well, making her IG bio look clean and simple. So, how do you do it?
Creating spaces between sentences in your Instagram bio is quite simple. Go to your Instagram profile page and click the “Edit Profile” button, located to the right of your IG photo.
Once here, click where it says “Bio.”On an iPhone, click the “123” button to change the “#” button in the lower right-hand corner to “Return.” button.
Note: This may not be necessary on Android phones. On Google phones, the return key stays the same.
That’s it! No need to do any fancy editing to clean up your Instagram bio. Simply hitting “Return” on your keyboard will create a new line break in your bio.
In a market as oversaturated and competitive as Instagram, we only get one shot to make a lasting impression. How do you know if you have written the best Instagram bio for your page?
Read over your Instagram bio a couple of times. Ask yourself, does this really capture who I am? Am I representing my brand the way I want to?
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Yesterday, more than 90 specialists attended “The eCSI Project: Further Steps for Enhanced Cyber Security Services” where the current stage of the project “Enhanced National Cyber Security Services and Capabilities for Interoperability – eCSI”, implemented by CERT-RO was presented.
The event was marked by the presence of cyber security experts, decision-makers in the political environment and representatives of public and private companies.
Mr. Ionuţ-Andrei Valeriu, State Secretary within the Ministry of Communications and Information Society, highlighted the importance of the project for the Ministry of Communications, in light of the services developed by CERT-RO, meeting the requirements for increasing incident prevention and management capacity at national level, as well as participation in the EU-wide unitary ecosystem for incident response.
CERT-RO General Director, Mr. Catalin Aramă, pointed out the importance of cooperation in the field of cyber security, the role of Europe’s Interconnection Mechanism and the role of the NIS Directive, in providing a cyber security environment.
The main topics discussed at the conference were:
- CERT-RO mandate and the NIS Directive
- Presentation of the project current stage “Enhanced National Cyber Security Services and Capabilities for Interoperability – eCSI”
- National Cyber Security Platform Demo (NCSP)
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Overall, Texas voters — by a slight majority — believe the federal government should continue oversight of the state's changes in election laws, according to the October 2012 University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. But partisans are split.
An onslaught of media scrutiny doesn't appear to have slowed Ted Cruz, who returned to Texas on Tuesday.
It's no surprise who leads off this week's playlist of songs based on the week's news. We just had to start with a song by controversial State of the Union attendee Ted Nugent.
Weeks after Ted Cruz began building a reputation as the U.S. Senate's brashest new member, his colleagues are beginning to sound off. | <urn:uuid:b9deefb6-294a-4154-8510-ea78727374a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | https://www.texastribune.org/blogs/2013/feb/20/ | 2016-08-27T20:38:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982925602.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823200845-00126-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977581 | 138 |
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Preview: The White Devil, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
The lovers have a devil of a time
Tuesday 27 December 2005
Two years ago Oyelowo set up Inservice Productions with his wife, Jessica, and three actor friends in Brighton. After a successful youth-theatre production and a short film, Graham and Alice, which will screen on BBC4 next year, they are preparing for their first professional play.
Oyelowo has chosen The White Devil for the big launch. An RSC veteran, he feels at home with the classics. "Brighton is so infested with very cutting-edge, Royal-Court-type drama happening in basements all over the place. We wanted to introduce a bit of classical theatre."
He has updated Webster's Jacobean tragedy for the 21st-century, taking inspiration from its military, aristocratic world. "It looks at a very regimented, formalised world which supposedly is full of honour but has an underbelly of lust, ambition and all things ugly."
Flaminio and Marcello have become Flaminia and Marcella, in response to his actress friends' complaints that "all the best parts in classical theatre go to men". Instead of two brothers and a sister, there are now three sisters, which opens up an entire echo-chamber of theatrical resonances, as well as gender issues. "When I see a woman in military uniform, I think, 'What happened? Did your dad want boys?'" says Oyelowo.
Webster's flowery, proverbial language has also been checked in a bid for narrative clarity and modern appeal. "Webster may well be spinning furiously in his grave at what we're doing with the play, but thankfully he's no longer around to beat me with a stick."
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Have been wanting to make a Kamakura for a long long long time. Just that never had the time or what I wanted to based it on. The original Devil’s Due G.I. Joe No. 1 has already been made into a Toy so I just tried something different for a change.
This figure is made for my nephew for his Birthday … :D
The only major work was done to the torso with Epoxy Putty. I removed the stupid looking Miss Universe Sash thingy. Not sure why they have to sculpt that in the 1st place because it looks dumb and gave him the hood to make it more like Kamakura.
I added the spot patterned garb because I like it and it is loosely based on DDP G.I. Joe issue #20. The rest of the pieces are just factory parts.
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Watch Dogs was one of our top games of this year's E3, and for good reason. The futuristic sci-fi action game seemed so advanced that some doubted it would even arrive on this generation's consoles.
But Ubisoft has since confirmed that it will "for sure" make it to Xbox 360 and PS3, and it turns out Wii U is even a possibility. And in a financial call today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot revealed that Watch Dogs will arrive in 2013.
When in 2013? That's still under wraps, though we'd bet our privacy on Watch Dogs arriving Fall 2013. | <urn:uuid:753a85ab-bdd6-4124-928f-61252a4ef4f7> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/11/ubisoft-e3-watch-dogs-coming-release-date-2013-wii-u | 2015-04-26T03:48:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246652296.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045732-00055-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944267 | 123 |
Rabbitohs halfback Adam Reynolds gives his Fujitsu Post-Match Reaction following his team's 29-10 victory over St George Illawarra tonight (Monday).
The night bore an important milestone for the playmaker - Reynolds notching up his 500th career point in the match with his first conversion of the night. The victory puts Souths into the top four, but Reynolds isn't getting carried away.
"It's a nice feeling being in fourth," said Reynolds.
"But in saying that, there's still a long way to go. Tonight's a first step in the right direction and I'm sure the boys will be keen to get back to training and work on those little areas."
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Good news for former Republican Rep. Pat Toomey in his Pennsylvania Senate campaign against Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak. A new Quinnipiac poll shows Toomey leading 50 to 43 percent in a survey of voters taken Sept. 15-19 with a 3.8 percentage-point margin of error, Roll Call
And Toomey should benefit from President Obama’s slumping approval ratings. A hefty 56 percent of Pennsylvania voters disapprove of Obama’s job performance, and 52 percent want a senator who opposes his policies.
To be sure, the race is by no means over.
“Pat Toomey is in a good place, ahead by seven points with six weeks to go. But Joe Sestak has proven himself a tough competitor so it’s too early to order the champagne,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.
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No, a slew of other performers also play there, taking over the tavern and drawing large crowds once a month in the name of "Classical Revolution Cleveland," the local branch of a national movement dedicated to upending classical-music custom.
And the movement's only getting stronger. On Tuesday, the Revolution hosts its first nonresident guest, Ensemble39, an octet from Philadelphia.
"It's growing more than I think we all expected," said pianist Shuai Wang, leader of the local affiliate, which convenes at the Happy Dog the third Tuesday of every month and at the Barking Spider Tavern the first Sunday. (There are also occasional special events such as the Ensemble39 show.)
"That's why this group wanted to stop by, because they've heard so much about us. So many people have told me the way we do things in Cleveland is different."
Word of the local group's activities -- and of the Happy Dog's gourmet tube steaks -- spread to Philly via violist Ayane Kozasa, a founding member of Ensemble39 and a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, the school from which most of Classical Revolution Cleveland hails.
She caught wind of the group's high standards and even higher energy level, and spotted the perfect opportunity for her eight-member string-and-woodwind combo to branch out.
"We really wanted to start connecting with a wider audience, and we had always talked about how we wanted to go back to Cleveland," said Kozasa, noting that the group's co-founder, oboist Alexandra von der Embse, graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Expect the vibe to be special. Not only will people be chatting, drinking beer and downing hot dogs, but the set list itself also will be markedly different from that of a typical chamber concert.
The program, titled "1-2-3-4-5," begins with a piece for solo clarinet and ends with Dvorak's String Quintet No. 2. In between will be a duo, trio and quartet, in keeping with Wang's belief that even casual concerts should be more than the musical version of open-mike night.
"I like to make sure there's a nice flow," Wang said. "I believe in high-quality performances."
People seem to be noticing. Sean Watterson, co-owner of the Happy Dog, said Revolution events at his tavern are well attended and highly animated, much like recent appearances by Ensemble HD, a group composed primarily of musicians from the Cleveland Orchestra.
"[W]e consistently pack the house," Watterson said. "What's great about it is that our crowd now looks at it . . . like the rock bands or polka bands they see here on other nights."
Most classical musicians regard talking and other noises as disturbances. Not Classical Revolution Cleveland or their peers in Ensemble39.
In their view, such sounds are simply challenges, part of the job of making classical music more accessible and themselves better, more engaging performers.
"It's important for the musicians to capture the audience," Wang said. "You have to show what you can do with pure, personal love. It will show through, and the audience will get it." | <urn:uuid:e8a43db7-4b48-4579-9432-de2195b562f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2012/10/classical_revolution_cleveland.html | 2016-10-22T02:02:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00272-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963892 | 674 |
Giuseppe Macario, PhD • Italy 🇮🇹 • Caribbean 🇵🇦 • USA 🇺🇸
Two-time world record holder at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC); the world records are still unbeaten despite fierce competition from Russia, China, USA, Japan, and many more countries in Europe.
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Giuseppe Macario, PhD, born in Rome on June 5th 1981 (5/6/1981 EU format, or 6/5/1981), is considered one of the Italian experts in 3D virtual environments and virtual reality. He has authored Italian and English publications about the history and applications of virtual worlds in various fields of culture and science (education, medicine, logistics, economics, management, etc.), focusing on Second Life and its open source OpenSimulator/Hypergrid variant. Using optimized ANSI-C, Giuseppe Macario set two world records at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in the early 2000s, which are still unbeaten. One of the problem (MIDI preprocessing) was not solved by the Harvard University team, which was going to win the world title in the same year. Giuseppe Macario teaches and participates in research initiatives at universities in Italy and America, and has been an entrepreneur since 2003. His passion for the Italian cultural and artistic heritage, developed during the years of Reuters' Second Life Italian bureau, combined with an inquisitive and eclectic mind, prompted Giuseppe Macario to write screenplays for TV productions, including a short featuring Julia Roberts.
Giuseppe Macario's last book about Second Life can be requested at the Library of Congress in the US. It is distributed under a free license (Creative Commons). A new book about the presence of Amazon in Second Life is also available.
Giuseppe Macario carried out the first Italian experiment of social entrepreneurship in Second Life. The experiment, supported by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, focused on the fields of virtual economies and networking, making use of a number of techniques to exploit Oracle technologies in agriculture by means of simulations carried out in virtual worlds. The experiment also examined important aspects of computational advertising in Italy and algorithmic techniques related to machine-learned ranking systems for Italy-based search engines.
Giuseppe Macario remains the first and only Italian computer programmer to set two world records by solving problems of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. One of the problems was the only one not solved by Harvard University, that is to say the team that was going to become the world champion in the same year.
His strong background in programming, in conjunction with an eclectic approach to humanities (languages, literature, journalism, communications, cinema), allowed him to maintain high standards of excellence and pursue long-term strategic goals while firmly believing in the tremendous intrinsic potential of virtual worlds.
In Second Life Giuseppe Macario also established a bilingual Italian/English independent news agency, whose areas of interest include freedom of speech in Italy and the preservation of Italy's artistic and natural heritage. Furthermore, the agency used to translate Reuters Second Life bureau's news into Italian. Its LSL news feed was used by people from all over the world with the goal of better understanding the Italian culture and language.
Giuseppe Macario has extensive experience in designing, executing and reporting solutions for problems involving large scale data warehousing and real-time analytics. By creating intuitive architectures, he helps organizations effectively analyze and process terabytes of unstructured and structured data.
The meaning of Giuseppe Macario is you are blessed because God will increase. Indeed, Giuseppe (Joseph in English) is a given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew: Yossef, Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic: Yôsēp̄. The name can be translated from Hebrew יוסף יהוה yosef YHWH into English as "Yahweh/Jehovah shall increase/add". Macario (family name, in this case) is the Italian translation of the Greek given name Makarios. The old-Greek word Μακάριος can be translated into English as "blessed/happy". | <urn:uuid:36817734-600d-468d-8442-f456fd0618da> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://giuseppemacario.men/ | 2018-09-22T00:13:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267157574.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20180921225800-20180922010200-00209.warc.gz | en | 0.927046 | 1,093 |
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AUGUSTA, Maine — The Brewer Falcons and Bangor Comrades have been frequent participants in the state American Legion baseball tournament since the turn of the century.
And while both are back in the eight-team mix when play begins Wednesday at the Capital Area Recreation Association complex on Piggery Road, they will do so having already answered some significant questions this summer.
Brewer, which won the Zone 1 tournament championship last week, wasn’t sure of the identity of its coach until just before the regular season began in mid-June.
Runner-up Bangor, meanwhile, had a returning coach in Dave Morris but one of the younger teams it has fielded in recent years.
The uncertainty for each team proved exceedingly modest, with Bangor now set to play its first game in the double-elimination state tournament against Zone 5 (York County) champion Fayette-Staples of Saco at 11 a.m. and Brewer to play Zone 5 runner-up Staples Crossing of South Berwick at 4 p.m.
Both games will be held at McGuire Field in the two-field arrangement.
Bangor will be making its 11th trip to states in the last 13 years, while Brewer will be making its seventh appearance since 2000.
The Falcons’ coaching search ultimately ended with Darrell Pluard, a former Marine and one-time head coach of Bangor’s Motor City American Legion entry. He stepped in around Memorial Day as the replacement for Chris Morris, who left after last season when he took a coaching job at Husson University in Bangor.
Brewer (16-8) lost four of its first five games this summer but found its groove late during the five-week, 21-game regular-season schedule and then used a late-game comeback in the postseason opener against Hampden as the springboard to an unbeaten three-game run to the zone crown.
“These kids never quit on themselves,” said Pluard after Brewer’s 10-3 victory over Bangor in the Zone 1 championship game. “We struggled early to find our identity, we really had to learn each other, and it took me some time to learn them.
“But we came in on a pretty good roll, we had been playing pretty well. We lost a tough 2-1 nine-inning game to Motor City, and then we pulled up the old bootstraps and put our nose to the grindstone and worked a lot on hitting and refocused our pitching staff on location,” he added.
Pitching was a key to the Falcons’ zone tournament success, with Zone 1 pitcher of the year Jeff Weeks, Kyle Alexander, Carter DeRedin and reliever Brendan Moore all working with veteran catcher Nick Moore, a freshman on the Husson baseball team this spring.
“We have ridden those pitchers, and they’ve gotten better and better, and they’ve worked hard with Nick,” said Pluard. “We’ve got, to me, the best catcher in this Legion area. He’s well-schooled, and when he calls a pitch the guys know better than to argue because he knows what he’s doing back there.”
Bangor (23-3) similarly has relied on pitching strength to fuel its success, particularly the combination of left-hander Curtis Worcester and right-hander Justin Courtney.
Worcester, a freshman at the University of Southern Maine this spring, was named the Zone 1 player of the year in recognition of a 6-0 summer on the mound. That effort already has included two postseason shutouts, a 2-0 win over Penquis of Dover-Foxcroft in the zone tournament and a 10-0, eight-inning win over Moody’s Collision of Gorham last Saturday in a state tournament play-in game at Augusta.
Courtney, who recently made a verbal commitment to join the University of Maine baseball program after he graduates from high school next spring, also earned first-team All-Zone 1 honors after going 5-0 with 55 strikeouts in 36⅓ innings of work.
“I think we have very good pitching,” said Morris, “and our defense is solid, so if we can hit with some authority, we can do some good things.”
The rest of the Bangor roster is relatively young by Comrades’ standards, yet Bangor went 20-1 during the regular season to win the top seed for the zone tournament.
“It’s really been a team of adjustments all season long,” said Morris. “When you have a young team you can work to teach them to make good decisions and adjustments, and that’s what we’ve done and I’m pleased with that.”
Bangor made one significant adjustment after the zone tournament that paid off in its play-in game victory.
“In the zone tournament the one thing we were disappointed about as a team was the fact that we let a lot of fastballs go by,” said Morris. “In our zone there was a lot of quality pitching this year, but when you let the fastball go by you take a pitcher who might be pretty good and make him great.
“Against Gorham we sat on the fastball, and when you can get in those hitters’ counts and jump on that fastball good things can happen.”
A new American Legion state champion will be crowned this weekend, with 2012 winner First Title of Portland, made up of players mostly from Cheverus High School, not in this year’s field.
With Bangor’s play-in win over Moody’s Collision of Gorham, just one team from the Portland-area Zone 4 — which has won 12 of the last 15 state championships — is left among the contenders.
That team, Westbrook, will open against Zone 3 (Western Maine) runner-up Windham in the 2 p.m. game at Morton Field, following the 10 a.m. game at that location between Zone 2 (Central Maine) champion The Red Barn of Augusta and Zone 3 winner Pastime Club of Lewiston, the state champ in 2010 and 2011. | <urn:uuid:b0047518-c89c-48df-ba08-619d0592d5de> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://bangordailynews.com/2013/07/30/sports/brewer-bangor-set-to-open-play-at-state-american-legion-baseball-tournament/?ref=relatedBox | 2015-07-02T22:25:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095671.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00154-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965568 | 1,306 |
Re: Fighting in Hockey: In or Out
Most fights last 15 - 20 seconds with helmets on. Nobody wins, they fall on the ice or dance around and waste time. I have MMA if I want to watch real fights. I want to see skill.
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In her most dramatic speech to date about climate change, National Security Advisor Susan Rice suggests climate change was partially responsible for the conflict in Syria and represents a looming threat to the entire world.
“In the years prior to civil war breaking out in Syria, that country also experienced its worst drought on record,” she said during a political speech at Stanford University. “Farming families moved en masse into urban centers, increasing political unrest and further priming the country for conflict.”
An alarmed Rice warned that climate change was “an advancing menace” that portended doom for the nations around the world.
“Today, we face no greater long-term challenge than climate change, an advancing menace that imperils so many of the other things we hope to achieve,” she said according to advance text of her speech.
Rice echoed many themes promulgated by the Obama administration but ratcheted up the alarmist rhetoric to a fever pitch.
“Consider the impacts—to the global economy and to our shared security—when rising seas begin to swallow nations whole,” she explained while discussing rising sea levels of “as much as 20 feet.”
She also suggested that the the recent floods in North and South Carolina and massive forest fires were partially a result of climate change.
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FILE PHOTO: Coroners and forensic anthropologists recover human remains from a trailer home destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, U.S., November 17, 2018. REUTERS/Terray Sylvester
(Reuters) – The number of people listed as missing after California’s deadliest wildfire has dropped again to 25, down from a high of more than 1,200 about two weeks ago, officials said.
The death toll from the Camp Fire that all but obliterated the mountain town community of Paradise in northern California stood unchanged at 88, the Butte County Sheriff Department said late on Saturday in a statement.
On Friday, it had said 49 were missing.
The roster of those unaccounted for has fluctuated widely since the fire erupted on Nov. 8 and swept through Paradise, a town once home to almost 27,000 people about 175 miles (280 km) north of San Francisco.
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My first impression of Jay Sefton was “Apple Pie”. Average good looks, average build. Welcoming disposition. Just a nice guy that I would happily introduce to any of my single girlfriends. But he turns into a real looker when you take a moment and look into his eyes.
After s short round of musical chairs, we sat down in a noisier than usual Starbucks, where I went to the business of getting to know the artist actor and creator of the one-person show “The Most Mediocre Story Never Told”, set to open this weekend at the Meta Theatre in Hollywood.
K7: Let’s start with my standard boring question. How did theatre find you?
JS: I had done a passion play where I played Jesus when I was 13. Then did nothing for about ten years. I think in high school I applied to certain things because of things that I saw, ‘I’ll be a finance major’, after seeing the movie Wall Street. Finally I just kinda bit the bullet and found a school with a theater program that you don’t have to audition for cause I’m not really good with all of what auditioning entails.
JS: And I found one and it ended up being a great experience the first semester. I was between classes and one of the teachers grabbed me and pulled me into his office and pulled this girl into his office. They were doing Twelfth Night. They had us stand next to each other and he was like “Read this.” We ended up reading with each other and I got to play Sebastian. I guess I liked like the girl that was playing…Viola.
K7: And where was that?
JS: Westchester University. About an hour five minutes outside of Philadelphia.
K7: I have to tell you, I’m a little... I’ve read your one-sheet. But I’m still not quite getting the actually concept of you show? Maybe you could explain it to me again.
JS: I started out… I was getting ready to quit acting. I have a friend who had a one-person show. She was from California. It was a great great show. She traveled around the world and when she came back she said she wanted to do a workshop. It would just be like five people working on material and was I interested. Well I immediately said yes, but then I get home and I remember that I’m going to quit acting. So I sent her and email saying thanks a lot but…
K7: How long had you been at it?
JS: Maybe six or seven years out here. There were times here when I I was gonna break in, and they just fizzled away. So I sent her a an email saying thanks no. And she said why don’t you use the workshop to explore why you wanna leave acting…
JS: So I went to this workshop and I got in stage and I said I’m just gonna tell you what’s going on with my body right now. You know, I just talked about what was doing on right then and there. And I was able to launch into stories from there. It was like this whole freeing experience. And I started writing out more and more of my stories. I would go ‘…and this is what happened.’ working with my friend Mike, trying to weave them together in an interesting way.
JS: And I did this weekend long retreat where they talk about, the personal narrative and the difference between the event and story that you wrap around the event. Maybe there was something that I was hanging on to – like say my mother. The story I wrapped around it made it mean something that wasn’t even about my mother. So I’m just carrying around this thing the story inside this event.
JS: So Monday comes around and I’m working with Mike and I say I can’t do this show. He says just read what you’ve got. And I say I can get up there. And I start to think further about stories that I tell about myself. And I wonder how do I do a theater piece without telling the same old stories. How do I do something new? I don’t wanna be the guy who’s the underdog from Philadelphia. I want to be confident and create in the moment.
K7: So that would make your show to a large degree, improvisational?
JS: It is scripted, but it has the feel of begin improvisational. What I want to do is start with hey here I am, I was born… and devolve.
K7: Improv is the wrong word. I mean spontaneous.
JS: I have an idea for a character from Philadelphia. He’s hardcore, he’s into the stones. So I get to expand on that and go with the character, who’s a bit of an a**hole who’s forever trashing my stories. He’s the character that kind of hijacks the whole show.
JS: I’ve been working on this for a while and I could continue to work on it. My life could continually recreate itself. But it was my director who said that you’re going up on November 11th. You need to get this up in front of people. I’m thinking this is a dumb idea, it’ll never work. And she well we’re going to find out November 11th. And it went well. So I thought, alright, maybe this the right time and… it will have a life. It’s the first time in my life I ever had my own vision, and watched it…
K7: Have a life off the page?
JS: Yeah. I never trusted anything before.
K7: Was there a defining moment when all the voices of doubt just went away and you said, I’m gonna do this?
JS: With the show?
K7: With the whole acting thing?
JS: I think so. I went to graduate school in Texas. And I only went for one year and then I did lots of summer theater. And someone had given me The Artist’s Way. And I was pretty sure it was the first thing I ever completed in my life. I remember holding it in my hands, and there were exercises at the end of each chapter. So I’m reading to and thinking ok the chapters are pretty good. And I start doing the exercises and I go through all the exercises that became pretty empowering for me. I’d gotten pretty comfortable with only going so far and then stopping. So, somehow that got me to the point where I said, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna do this stuff.
K7: And your family is OK with you being an artist?
JS: This is pretty new for the family. But no one is really into the arts. But they told me from 19, 22, 23, that I could go in any direction whatsoever. They watched my drop out of community college, which was painful for them. But when they are in a theater with other people and they are watching their son perform, then they are happy that there is at least direction.
K7: I find that that’s where families get it. If they are not on board with you being an artist. Once they see you on stage, and the affect their kid has on an audience, then they get it.. Being part of the whole experience of seeing the work. How is your show…
JS: The Most Mediocre Story Never Told.
K7: Right. How is your show going to be different from the other show folks will find along Theatre Row on Santa Monica Boulevard?
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There are 3 set up rows. Do you understand all 3 of them? Because if you do you know everything you need to know to do what they are saying on row 1. But I'll explain it a bit in a second.
A M1L is also called a M1F and the M1R is called a M1B, I find those names more helpful. I don't know what problem you are having, but maybe the stitch count isn't coming out right or something like that. It could be that you don't understand how to do the 2 increases correctly and that could effect the stitch count. There is a video about how to do these 2 increases in the video section and a short explanation in the "Glossary". These increases are happening in the little strand running between the last stitch on the right needle and the next stitch on the left needle.
Row 1 (RS): K2, M1L, knit to center stitch, M1R, K1, M1L, knit to last 2 sts, M1R, K2
**Row 2 (WS): K2, purl to last 2 sts, K2
You have 7 stitches after you finish the 3 set up rows. The middle one is set apart by a marker on each side of it. You are going to be working in stockinette (knit a row, purl a row) with 2 sts of garter stitch (knit every row) on each side edge from this point.
Row 1: K2, then work a M1L, now knit to the first marker, do the M1R, slip the marker, k1, slip the second marker, do a M1L, knit until 2 stitches remain on the left needle and work a M1R, knit the last 2 stitches.
You want to keep only 1 stitch between the 2 markers all the time and slipping them the way I said will do that.
Row 2: always amounts to knitting the 2 stitches on each end and purling all the ones in the middle, slipping the markers as you come to them.
Then you just keep repeating rows 1 and 2. The number of stitches will keep growing to produce a triangle and it will be stockinette with 2 stitches of garter on each side.
When you have repeated 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, (which is 11 rows) you will be on a wrong side row (row 12), knit this row all the way across. This will throw a purl row to the front and make a decorative raised row.
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We each have our own unique drum to beat across the glowing sky from our dawn until our dusk and ever after through the stardust of the universe and beyond this is why being able to talk exclusively with Meka, lead vocalist of Meka Nism, meant so much to myself personally. There has been great enjoyment watching and getting to know a little more about Meka since connecting with her a few months ago. Her ideals are wide open, her passion is more than just a flame, and her zeal for living catches you in her music. Thank you for the opportunity Music Matters and especially thank you Meka.- Song River
Hey Meka Nism thank you so much for talking with us at Music Matters! We hope this is okay but we wanted to direct our questions over to mainly Meka.
Hai, yes, arigato, so happy to talk to Music Matters!
MM: Meka you seem to have a unique background. What is your association with the Far East?
Meka: Sometimes you have an unexplained calling to go somewhere. I was looking for musical inspiration, life inspiration, to experience something different. My heart was drawn to Japan for so many reasons, though I am sure I was unaware of most of them, so I just started talking about wanting to live there. A girl in a coffeehouse called Stardust told me about how she went and I followed the clues that she laid out for me. Everything clicked in place and I rushed to finish my acoustic album “Mad to Love,” as project name Meka Nism & her Rusty Tears. I released it the same week that I moved to Japan and it was with me all over the country as I played over 150 shows as I solo artist, Ms. Meka Nism and with a band that I created with Japanese singer/songwriter/bass player Yukari Ikeda called Origami Girls. We recorded several singles with 2 songs each and even made a zombie movie for our Halloween release Zombie Grrrls! Japan is such a special place that is quite dear to my heart, as a second home. I enjoyed many cultural experiences and had the chance to study some Butoh dance with Ima Tenko and be exposed to some Shinto traditions and Buddhist philosophies.. The depth of respect and rich content of every interaction will be with me for life. Went back recently for Yukari’s wedding to her visual kei rocker husband Chu, and they now own and run Rock Bar Chu in Osaka. Got to play there and a few other appearances at Hide Ultra Bide’s studio (where I recorded some experimental punk inspired songs, still to be released) and a live house called Urbanguild where the performance art community thrives. Very much looking forward to taking Meka Nism with our new release, “The War Inside,” back to Japan to unite my tribes, my fam from both countries and have lots of onigiri (rice balls) and green tea.
MM: What influences from your time there do you think stayed with you?
Meka: The deep connections, deep appreciation for detail, constant respect and awareness of others space and comfort. Everything was cared for, there is no trash on the ground, extreme train etiquette, there are social rules for everything, so it’s more predictable to know how to behave in some situation, like a script has been laid out for many interactions, so there is a feeling of comfort and safety in daily activities. I really admire this. I could never understand or maintain these qualities fully, but I do have a huge awareness for things that I would have never noticed before. There is a zen to every moment, there is a sacred way to interact with all the mundane tasks in life. Being more present in cooking, cleaning, painting, singing… is a new goal of mine because of my time in Japan. I like to eat seaweed and sour pickled plums now. No shoes on inside the house, I eat miso soup when I am sick. The gentle feminine qualities influenced my fashion; I wear more flowers in my hair and more girly clothes, well, sometimes, lol. I still watch Japanese televison, bow at everyone and use Japanese words for things I can’t express as well in English. Yabaii desune (Isn’t that a little dangerous?!)
MM: How have you integrated them into your song-writing?
Meka: The first song that I wrote when I returned to the states was “Bring the Sun Back,” a tribute to my sorrow of leaving the land of the rising sun, and asking that light that it filled me with, to return to my soul. Some of the lyrics are in Japanese, and the imagery of the music video is inspired by the Japanese mythology of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu and the art of Butoh dance. The song “Mouth of God,” from our second EP, “The Shift:Anthems for a Revolution,” was originally titled “Kamikuchi,” which translates to god mouth, talking about the Japanese female Shamans who healed by speaking directly to spirit. Now, the band has continued it’s evolution and I write lyrics that are intentionally charged with the messages of self- empowerment, manifestation, spiritual healing and having the courage to face your fears and challenges while allowing them to become your blessings. I definitely learned many things in Japan that sparked my continuous desire to learn even more. I believe that everyone should live someplace outside of their “hometown,” to expand their minds, hearts and comprehension of the meaning of being human. Sometimes when you can’t physically travel, though, you can use the music to spiritually travel. I study Shamanism, and this is exactly why I use the music that I create to be a journey past the previous limits of understanding and the sound medicine for the dis-ease caused by the difficulties of our lives. Taking listeners to the energies that I experienced in Japan, Hawaii, Brazil, Dublin, New York or Germany is the way I share my passion and healing. That’s why “The War Inside, ” is very important to us, because it is the expression of heightened experience of sound that relates to our cultural, mental and spiritual travels. Looking forward to seeing where it takes us next. 🙂
MM: How about your performances and even more importantly your lifestyle?
Meka: Many artist in Japan dedicate their entire life to perfecting a single style of art. They sacrifice everything for it with most impressive discipline imaginable. My strengths are very different, I am much more of an emotional and intuitive artist, but I have given my life to my music. My parent’s taught me the value of hard work, family and problem solving. From all of these sources, I have found that dedication, sacrifice and commitment are treasures in life. I will never stop singing, writing, painting or performing. The musicians, butoh dancers and other artists that I become close to in Japan showed me the intensity of devotion that they put into their craft, like a personal religion of their our creation. To witness their gift and know their motivation at this magnitude was one of the most awe-inspiring and humbling experiences of my life. I know that each of the members of Meka Nism have made sacrifices for the music that we are creating and the life that we life in order to stay dedicated to our passion, and like the creatives in Japan, we are just getting started.
MM: Were you the child around the house growing up who was always singing?
Meka: Absolutely, I would even put on mini concerts on my front porch and invite the neighbors. My mom was involved in technical theater arts, so I was always backstage pretending to be the understudy for all of the parts. She also threw me fancy tea parties and made sure I had a treasure chest of costumes to become a new character everyday. I took many dance classes including ballet, jazz, tap, International Folk Dance and that helped me develop my passion for travel. My aptitude for fantasy may have encouraged me to exit reality a little more than anticipated, but I am still very grounded, just don’t expect me to dress like a normal person, or the challenge may baffle me. Good thing I have fashion designers like AshRock Art making me magical head pieces and such for my Live shows!
MM: You seem naturally comfortable in front of a camera and with a mic in hand- do you still get the jitters before a performance?
Meka: It’s more nerve-wracking doing regular life tasks, but yes, sometimes, I do get nervous. I see the stage and camera as sacred space to deliver my energy and message while connecting to an amazing group of kindred souls in the audience. It’s important to me, and now my band to offer something special on stage, something with meaning. We have so much love for what we do and commitment to it. The reason WHY I perform is probably why I forget to be nervous about not being perfect, or not being something someone wants me to be. My uniqueness is what I have to offer, and because I sing and scream with as much intensity as I do, and have bright red dreads to wear my courage, and dress in Shaman inspired garb, I instantly give permission to everyone else around me to be their most unique self. I may not fight into categories very well, but I do expand the boundaries of what previous limitations where held before. There aren’t a lot of women in heavy genres of music, or spiritual themes in metal, but maybe its time there is, and that makes me very confident to take all of my qualities and imperfections on stage at full blast at every opportunity.
MM: The music video certainly conveys the power of our own mind. How much of the song is actually your own personal story Meka?
Meka: It was such a pleasure working with Jim Doughtery and everyone to bring, “The War Inside, ” to life. The video takes place in 2 worlds, 1.Conscious Reality when we are dressed clean in all black and 2.) The Underworld/ Subconcious, the place where the Shaman does her healing work where we are all more dirty and post apocalyptic looking with the presence of the Chakra/Butoh dancers as our fears and our solutions. It shows me as myself, my own displaced crown chakra, and my own healer/ Shaman rescuer. I practice the healing arts of Reiki, Shamanism, spiritual advisement/tarot reader and energy work. This video is the expression of a Shamanic journey and a reiki healing. We all have so many issues that we face on a daily basis, like addiction, depression, anxiety, insecurity and other fears. This song and video for “The War Inside,” represents the struggles and path to recovery, by facing what we are afraid of, and letting it heal us, we are set free from disease and limitations. It shows my own personal healing journey, through my experience lens, but it relates to everyone going through similar challenges. The story is timeless and universal for those who wish to relate.
MM: Struggles come with the frailty of being human, from where do you draw your strength? Whether it be writing, performing or simple daily tasks of just cleaning house, or driving to the store?
Meka: Struggles are your opportunity for blessings, chance to get uncomfortable and make changes. Everything can be so hard, but, somehow, we do it. I find myself being afraid of simple things, but extremely brave in the most terrifying times. I am at my best when working with others, and giving to others, but I need a lot of alone time to recharge in silent mediation (and lots of naps, lol). I can give encouragement to others easier than myself, but I know that they only way to help others is to fight to be my best self. Not sure what that is, but I learn a new strength everyday. I draw a lot of strength from my close friends, strong family, and focusing on a higher purpose in life, even when I forget to get an oil change or need to go to the horrifying grocery store to survive. lol.
MM: What does your creative space look like, describe it to us.
Meka: My home is a funky, creative, abstract collective art gallery. I have a dressing room covered with photos of inspirational female singers like PJ Harvey, Janis Joplin and Siouxie Sioux, my paintings of witches burning at the stake,waterfalls, faces, etc, vintage hats, crazy jewelry and costumes. There are alters for my meditation, tarot cards and spiritual tools, too many books, records, CDs, and instruments. I love to cook healthy, flavorful food, and drink tea or my signature coffee Meka Nism Shaman Blend from Breyting Community Roaster (www.communityroaster.com
) I love doing yoga or dancing in my living room, though it is a creative use of space, good thing living in Japan taught me how to “Tetris” everything. lol.
MM: If you had one gift you could pass onto humanity would gift would you give?
Meka: Enlightenment, not that I have it to give, but at least the quest for it. May I sing to “wake up,” inspiration and courage in others, may I live to see us all elevate to the next level of human consciousness. May everyone know that they don’t have to be like anyone else, but they are not alone. May I give the gift of the awareness and tools to battle “The War Inside,” to those will need it. May one song give you confidence to live your best life, create your own miracles and face another day.
We all want to thank Meka of Meka Nism for taking the time to chat with us so we can learn more about her and her creative side, and how she appreciates and views life. Be sure to check out the music video below for “The War Inside” and leave a comment with your thoughts!
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Former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist DJ Ashba says that he "gladly stepped away" from the band once he found out that Slash was returning to the Axl Rose-fronted group.
The SIXX:A.M. co-founder, who joined GUNS N' ROSES in March 2009 following the departure of Robin Finck, told "Vegas Junkeez" about his stint with the band: "SIXX:A.M. [had] a No. 1, biggest song of the year on the radio, but it didn't come close to comparing, or preparing me for the magnitude that was ahead of me. I had no idea. I had no idea about a lot of things. I didn't understand taking the gig, there'd be certain… 'Cause I went into it probably pretty naïve. Slash is one of my guitar inspirations, so, to me, it was just so inspiring and such a cool thing. But I didn't really think about, 'Oh my God. There are hardcore GN'R fans, and you've gotta win these guys over.' Once you do, you win 'em for life and they're the best fans you could ever possibly have… But I didn't realize there was gonna be a big handful of people that, no matter how good you do at the gig, they were gonna fucking hate you, because you're not [one of the members of the classic lineup]… And I get that now — standing back, I totally get it and I respect it. But it's almost like they immediately pitted me against Slash, and I was just, like, 'I'm a fan too. I'm one of you.' So it was weird for me to get used to that. It was just one of those things where I just wanted to do whatever I could to do the gig justice — try to bring back, or carry on that reckless rock and roll attitude that I loved about the band."
Asked about his July 2015 announcement that he was leaving GUNS N' ROSES, Ashba said: "It's one of those things where I knew Slash was coming back, which, as a fan… You've gotta understand — I'm a fan; I'm incredibly excited. Number one, I played a lot of the Slash parts, so I didn't have the brain capacity to relearn three and a half hours' worth of music differently. But more than that, if he's coming back, this is his gig. I gladly stepped… I was, like, 'Hey…' And it was the best of both worlds, because I get my favorite band back and I get to go play in a band called SIXX:A.M. that I helped create, so it was just a win-win for me. And I'll always cherish the times I had. But, yeah, I gladly stepped back."
Back in 2016, Ashba claimed that he was approached about being part of GN'R's "Not In This Lifetime" tour, but that he declined, citing his desire to pursue SIXX:A.M. full time.
Only Slash, Rose and bassist Duff McKagan from GN'R's "Appetite For Destruction"-era lineup are taking part in the band's current reunion. They are being joined by keyboardist Dizzy Reed, guitarist Richard Fortus and drummer Frank Ferrer. Also appearing with them is second keyboardist Melissa Reese.
SIXX:A.M. recently recorded four new songs. The band, which also features bassist Nikki Sixx, singer James Michael and drummer Dustin Steinke, hasn't released any new music in two years and had been on hiatus since 2017.
Last year, Ashba and Michael announced the formation of a new band, PYROMANTIC. Several months later, Michael revealed that he was no longer involved with the project. | <urn:uuid:f1fed7e7-ff80-45e4-8ce9-c77ba4c3c0ba> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/dj-ashba-says-he-gladly-stepped-away-from-guns-n-roses-once-he-found-out-slash-was-coming-back/ | 2020-09-29T10:56:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401641638.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20200929091913-20200929121913-00510.warc.gz | en | 0.987968 | 798 |
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Camera Club of Brevard July Meeting Announcement
The Camera Club of Brevard will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Eau Gallie Civic Center, 1551 Highland Ave. in Melbourne. The evening’s program will be about competition photography. What makes a great competition photograph? This is a question CCB members ask all the time. You'll see and hear the answers throughout the program. During the program, one hundred excellent photographs from CCB members and Great Britain's Cannock Photographic Society will be shown. You will see how each photograph is scored, including commentary by three judges. And you'll experience a fun photography game show. Be prepared to have fun, and to learn about what makes great competition photos.
The June photo contest theme was “Delicate”. The First Prize, Blue-ribbon winners in both Class A and Class B are shown above. The July photo contest theme is “What Is It?”. Members may submit one photograph to one contest. (For an explanation of our Class A and Class B contests, please see our website.)
The CCB meets the first Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6:30 p.m. at the Eau Gallie Civic Center, 1551 Highland Ave. in historic Eau Gallie. Guests are always welcome. If a guest becomes a member at a meeting, he or she is entitled to immediately enter our photo contests. For more information please see www.ccbrevard.com, our newly enhanced website. | <urn:uuid:1a116103-44a8-4194-828f-745bcd3f37fe> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://www.brevardartnews.com/2016/06/camera-club-of-brevard-july-meeting.html | 2018-07-21T00:11:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592001.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720232914-20180721012914-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.960723 | 334 |
Which political party am I voting for?
Are you confused about which political party to belong to? Me too. I have a political economy blog, and I live and breathe this stuff and yet, I do not feel strongly towards one party and for good reason. The reason is we are all different and one size does not fit all. With political parties we really only have two sizes to chooses from in the USA. That is not a lot.
However, the good news is I have pretty clear ideological views. I have a positive vision of my America, with ideals and concrete solutions based my understanding of Economics and the ideas of the enlightenment.
Look, I do not make friends or enemies based on politics. I believe you can of course marry someone who believes the opposite of you (take the governor of CA for example). What is politics but an abstraction. Therefore, I so not want to turn you off, if you enjoy other parts of my blog. Do not worry if you are not in complete agreement politically with me.
Here are my political views. I a financial and social conservative but also anti-war and pro environment and pro services for the poor. Let me explain.
My Republican parties views
Don’t you want a smaller government?
- Balanced budget amendment – Even start paying down some of the debt slowly as it crowds out private investment.
- Radical reduction in government spending – Anything government can do individuals can do more efficiently.
- Reduction of taxes or near elimination of taxation – For the poor, for the middle class and even for the rich. You should not have to work half your days for another man’s wife. The money you will never really see it again and it will go into some black hole and not really benefit you, or anyone perhaps. America grew rich the first 170 years without direct taxation (something the founding fathers warned against).
- Pro-life – You can dislike me on this one, but I believe life is sacred. I live in Krakow with an old WWII German ‘work camp’ 2 minutes away. I walk though this camp often and I can not image other humans having the power to determine who should live or who should not, based on convenience, usefulness or some other criteria. Life is a gift.
- School Prayer – Optional moment of silence and not forbidding the word ‘God’ in school. I am for the freedom of religion not the freedom from religion.
But the republicans really burned me when their promise to America was some abstract document. It should be clear: like balance the budget and pay off the debt. They basically promised to eliminate health care and replace it with more military spending for foreign wars, gee whiz that sounds like a deal.
My Libertarian views
- Anti-Imperialist – The Bush wars were for the extension of the US sphere of influence, and to secure the free flow of oil (Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan) to protect our American way of life. There are many other more oppressed people we could have liberated and we do nothing about in the world. There are terrorist camps in many countries, like Syria for example, but we picked Kuwait and Iraq for the oil and Afghanistan for the oil pipeline. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are oil rich and by coincidence sit on top of Afghanistan who we invaded and Pakistan who we pay. The money could have been better spend on fighting terrorist with improved technology and detection, rather than the WWII style of building tanks and submarines. My father worked in the jet aircraft industry and military is the largest special interest there is in Washington. Wars are won with technology not listening to the generals who are thinking in conventional terms based on things they learned in past wars. If we could ask the generals of WWI in 1939 what went wrong, I think they would say, they were thinking in outdated ways and did not even know it. Focus on the defense of America, rather than imperialism, and we will have less enemies and people to fight and we the surge in innovation coming from the reduction in the crowding out effect will give the USA a real advantage. Firing million dollar missiles in no man’s land on the opposite side of the globe is not as effective as implementing the best facial recognition, lie detection technology in every port of entry to the USA, or much deeper cloud profiling like search engines do etc. Think of why the Soviet Union fell apart, massive investment in conventional arms build up while it was outclassed my US technology. I spend many years studying military history and to defend a country from foreign threats you do not need a bloated military. All the money we spend on this could have been channeled for better use. Ten years of war and it ruined our reputation, lost lives and drove us in debt. We need to be one step ahead of terrorist with high technology or we will have a nuke in one of our cities, not spending our resources occupying some piece of desert on the other side of the globe. And no we can not do both. We have chosen the latter. If we had chosen the former we would be technologically in the future ten years. The Bush wars in the long run cost the USA national security and I feel a little bit safer in Europe than in a US city.
- Keep the Internet free – If the government could it would get its meat hooks into the web.
- Free Market – If you bailout, either big business like the Republicans do or throw money at the problem like the Democrats do, you will create inefficiencies that will result in years of economic pain. Let the markets work.
- School choice – Basically I learned very little in the public school years. Did you? I mean you spent the most productive times of our life in terms of learning just going through the motions. Why not have school choice?
My Democratic views
- Guns– I live in Europe and we do not have guns except for hunting and they are hard to get. I live in large city people are not injured with guns. Sure the right to bare arms, but does that mean I can bear a nuclear device? No way. Freedom is a responsibility and a limited good. You can restrict guns.
- The environment – You can argue anyway you want, but I do not want to be breathing your pollution. There is something called a public good and taxation on pollution with an earmark for cleaning the environment is not a bad idea. I think America would consume the world if it could.
- Social system – I pay US and EU taxes even though I live in Europe. In the EU I get health care and pension and my family gets a university education and many other things. What would I get if I moved back to the USA? Zero. I pay taxes but get nothing. Do you think that is normal? I have no reason to move back. Here in the EU I pay taxes and get something besides billion dollar nuclear submarines. Either cut taxes and privatize social security etc or give working normal Americans a tangible benefit. But taxation and throwing money into a black hole is a waste and unjust. Even the great libertarian Milton Friedman said that a rich society like the USA could help poor. It could be done with a negative income tax or whatever, but not taxes with nothing but foreign wars and payments to lawyers and insurance companies for medical care with jacked up prices.
- Social tolerance – You know I am catholic and a family man but I do not really care about issues like homosexuality etc. People can do what they want, we as a nation have bigger fish to fry.
What political party am I? I am a registered Republican but probably closer to Libertarian for life. I usually vote Republican and Libertarian. I do not vote libertarian for the offices of the President of the United States or tight senatorial or representative races for practical reasons. In for the President and tight races I will vote GOP for now. But I have voted Democrat.
I think the Democrats put themselves out there are morally more compassionate, the Libertarians as intellectually superior and the Republicans as the true patriots. Of course all three are not true. Well did you ever read the American folk tale about Rip Van Winkle? Basically the politics and parties changes, but nothing really changed. So yes I love politics but I do not make enemies based on my views. I do not have all the answers.
Mark Biernat’s vision of America
The government that governs least governs best.
My vision for America is a low tax, smaller government, debt free country, that respects the rights of individuals from school prayer to other beliefs and cultures and ideas. I am for the promotion of safer communities with limited guns, cleaner environment and much more wiser defense spending. In the end, I really do care about pro-life. I am very pro-family as I love my family and think a loving family with two parents is the healthiest place for a child be raised. I think I am what the founding father’s might believe if they were alive today. A small libertarian government.
I wrote three two earlier posts on some pluses and minuses of the political affiliations.
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Robert T. Boylan
Mineworkers Union Official
Robert T. Boylan, former executive director of the United Mine Workers of America welfare and retirement fund, died June 21 of melanoma at his home in Bethesda. He died on his 83rd birthday.
Mr. Boylan spent 35 years administering the Mine Workers' retirement fund, since its founding in 1947. During his tenure, the fund spent billions of dollars on medical care and benefits for miners and their families. He retired in 1983.
He was born in Scranton, Pa., to a family with a long history in mining and union activism. His grandfather, Thomas P. Boylan, helped organize Pennsylvania miners in the 19th century. His father, who also worked in the mines, achieved national prominence as president of the United Mine Workers' local No. 1 and was an associate of UMW president John L. Lewis. Mr. Boylan, who worked in the mines for several summers, came to Washington in 1947 as a special assistant to Lewis.
During World War II, he was rejected as an officer candidate because of an eye injury he received as a varsity football player at the University of Pennsylvania. Instead, he enlisted in the Army and served in the infantry in France and Germany. He attained the rank of staff sergeant.
After the war, he returned to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received a bachelor's degree in economics.
In his youth, he was a skilled boxer, swimmer, handball player and golfer. He remained an active sportsman until weeks before his death, swimming several miles each day. He had lived in Bethesda since 1947 and was a longtime member of Kenwood Country Club.
He was a member of the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda for more than 50 years and belonged to several church organizations, including a men's group that assisted in funeral services several times a week.
His wife, Catherine F. Boylan, died in 1962.
Survivors include three children, Frances Brezna of Falls Church, Richard Boylan of Virginia Beach and John Boylan of Warrenton; and nine grandchildren.
Weir Messick Brown
Treasury Department Official
Weir Messick Brown, 90, an economist, financial adviser and author who retired in 1980 as inspector general for international finance at the Treasury Department, died of pneumonia July 11 at Brighton Gardens nursing home in Bethesda.
Dr. Brown, who had lived in Washington off and on since 1941, was born in Brighton, Ill. He graduated from Oberlin College and received a master's and a doctoral degree in economics from Brown University.
He worked as an economist in the Office of Price Administration before entering the Navy during World War II. After the war, which included service in the Pacific, he joined the research division of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. He then traveled to The Hague as a financial adviser with the Marshall Plan mission to the Netherlands.
He began at the Treasury Department in 1951, when he was named chief of the European division in the international finance office. He later served as a Treasury representative to the Allied high commission for Germany and as Treasury attache to the American embassy in Bonn. In the 1960s and 1970s, he spent a number of years in Paris, first as deputy chief and then as acting chief of the U.S. mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Dr. Brown, a recipient of the Treasury Department's Exceptional Service Award, was a former research fellow and federal executive fellow at the Brookings Institution.
He wrote four books on finance, including "Bank Lending to Business Borrowers: Interest Rates and U.S. Monetary Policy" (1992).
He was a member of the Cosmos Club and the American Economic Association.
His first wife, Vivian Brown, died in 1981.
Survivors include his wife of 21 years, Maxine S. Brown of Washington; a son from his first marriage, Peter D.G. Brown of New Paltz, N.Y.; three stepchildren, Rick Stewart of Rockville, Phillip Stewart of Bethesda and Suzan Meves of Germany; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Chieh Chien Chang
Chieh Chien Chang, 90, a Catholic University professor who was a leading expert on aeronautical engineering and simulated weather conditions, died July 5 of a heart ailment at a hospital in Houston. He had lived in Houston for the past five years.
Dr. Chang was chairman of the department of space science and applied physics at Catholic University from 1962 to 1974 and continued to serve as a professor until 1978. His specialties included fluid mechanics, blood flow, solar wind, plasma physics and weather behavior. He was featured in an article in Time magazine in 1966 for designing the first laboratory simulation of a tornado.
Dr. Chang was born in Beijing, where he began his academic and research career in the 1930s. He helped build China's first wind tunnel for designing aircraft. He fled China in 1937, just ahead of the Japanese occupation.
He came to the United States in 1940 as a scholarship student at California Institute of Technology, from which he received a doctorate in aeronautical engineering in 1950. During World War II, he worked for a research firm in New Rochelle, N.Y., and for Glenn L. Martin Aircraft in Baltimore, exploring the use of wood and lightweight materials in airplane design.
Dr. Chang was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University from 1947 to 1952. After studying in England as a Guggenheim fellow, he taught at the University of Maryland in the 1953-54 school year. He was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota from 1954 to 1961.
After his retirement from Catholic University in 1978, Dr. Chang traveled frequently to China, collaborating with meteorologists to develop ways to control seasonal monsoons. He also was instrumental in improving the science curricula at Chinese universities, including his alma mater, Northeastern University in Shenyang.
In 1991, he played a role in freeing Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, a Chinese nationalist leader in the 1930s who had been under house arrest in Taiwan since 1948.
Dr. Chang lived in Silver Spring from 1962 until 1999, when he moved to Houston.
His wife of 64 years, Than Chie Chang, died in 2002.
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Our fave local chef (who happens to be our great friend and neighbour) has recently created a line of fantastic syrups and preserves. Her products are created from carefully curated ingredients sourced as locally as possible and made by hand in small batches. As the seasons change, so will Fink's products.
Fink has hosted two incredibly successful tastings during our first two weekends. We've received amazing feedback on the delectable syrups and we can't keep the Branston Pickle in stock.
Syrup Flavours Include:
Provence in the Tropics - hibiscus-lavender syrup
Made for Tea - licorice-ginger syrup
Sweet Home - elderflower syrup
Refreshing Remedy - linden flower & mint
Taste of Morocco - lemonbalm & mint syrup
Granola's BFF - berry & tonka bean syrup [sold out]
Waldmeister - sweet woodruff & rose syrup
Flavour O - orange syrup
Your Bean Nutty - tonka bean syrup
Ghost Beans - hot pickled beans
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Karl Urban joins some some heavy weights in "Red," but that's nothing new for the "Star Trek" and "Lord of the Rings" star.
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5 relationship lessons you can learn from your parents
This New Year, if you resolve to better your own relationship take some time to reflect on the way your parents interacted and decode how it might affect your own views of love.
Here are 5 key lessons that you can learn from the relationship of your parents:
1. How you fight is important. Every relationship will hit roadblocks and challenges, and at times you’ll get on each other’s nerves. It’s how you handle those times that matter. Were your parents’ arguments unnecessarily fiery and explosive? Did they sweep things under the rug and never show signs of conflict? Did they calmly express their feelings and try to reach a compromise? As children, we often receive a front row seat to our parents’ arguments, and whether or not we think their arguing style is healthy or harmful, we can learn a lot from them. Even if the only thing you learnt from your parents’ arguing style is “Don’t do what they did”, that’s still an important lesson.
2. Relationships take hard work. Did your parents work to keep their relationship fun and interesting and reap the rewards, or were they completely apathetic about how they spent their time together? Taking time to reflect on the work that your parents put in can help you to realise the impact that effort (or lack thereof) has on a relationship.
3. Communication is key. Were both of your parents totally in sync with their communication styles? Did one person never feel like they were heard? Did one parent always shut down completely at the first sign of conflict? A happy relationship requires great communication skills – this means that both parties need to be actively listening to each other as well as communicating their own feelings in a constructive and helpful way. If you remember one (or both) of your parents being consistently frustrated at not being heard, reflect on how this impacted their relationship as a whole and ask yourself – are you repeating any of their actions?
4. You’ve got to be 100% in it. Perhaps you saw both of your parents pouring their hearts and souls into making their marriage awesome. Conversely, perhaps you saw one parent really trying and the other falling far behind – or maybe you saw both of your parents flat out giving up on each other and improving their marriage. Whichever slice of the dedication pie you saw your parents exhibiting, you’ll have seen that a relationship is often significantly strained when you can clearly tell that one person isn’t giving it their all. If one person is always working harder than the other person to keep the relationship functioning and thriving, resentment will soon breed. Don’t let resentment have a place in your own relationship.
5. A “normal” relationship doesn’t exist. What’s standard for one couple might be completely opposite to the way another couple interacts – and neither one of those couples are right or wrong. Whilst it’s helpful to reflect on your parents’ relationship, try and avoid comparing it to your own endeavours in terms of which relationship is better or worse. No two relationships are exactly alike, and that’s a beautiful thing.
Whether you agree or disagree with the way your parents handled their relationship, there are some big lessons to be learned. Don’t take these lessons for granted – put them into practice and apply them to your relationships every day.
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Another week of ACC action, and now we’re actually figuring out how good teams are. Tougher opponents could spell doom for several teams, though because they’re untested to this point, we really don’t know what to expect once up against fellow conference teams. Just like normal, we’re running down the list of every ACC (plus Louisville) game and predicting outcomes that will almost undoubtedly be wrong. Have some picks of your own? Predict away in the comments!
Game of the Week
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (3-1) (2-1) at Miami Hurricanes (4-0) (0-0): Georgia Tech was kept in check last week, while no one’s really contained Miami to this point. Vad Lee‘s not your typical triple-option quarterback, so I’m not sure the extra time the Wreck gets here is even worth it. Lee knows what he’s doing, of course, but he’s yet to go up against a legitimate defensive front. The defense is rock-solid for Tech, though this Miami offense has more than enough playmakers to combat that. As much as this one seems ripe for a Yellow Jackets upset, there’s just too much to like about the ‘Canes. Serviceable defense, dynamic offense — they can take care of this game, albeit barely. Prediction: Miami 33, Georgia Tech 24
The Rest of the Slate (in order of start time):
Ball State Cardinals (4-1) at Virginia Cavaliers (2-2) (0-1): Ball State’s offense has been entirely to hard to stop so far this season, putting up 40 points per game through five contests. The Virginia defense appears ready for the challenge, though. Outside of the Oregon debacle, the Hoos have not allowed 20 points to any opponent, which bodes well for their matchup with the Cardinals. If they can keep containment on Ball State’s passing game as they have other teams’, that should lead them to a comfortable victory. Prediction: Virginia 31, Ball State 21
Maryland Terrapins (4-0) (0-0) at Florida State Seminoles (4-0) (2-0): FSU’s offense has been impressive thsu far, while their defense has been less than stellar. For the first time this season though, they’re up against an actual challenge to both. With an aggressive Terps’ defense nipping at their heels, can the ‘Noles outlast and outscore their challenging, surprising opponent? And considering Maryland’s tough passing attack, can FSU keep containment on both C.J. Brown and Stefon Diggs? This won’t be a blowout at all, but I’m still tempted to take FSU, if only because that program’s well assimilated to these types of heated, competitive matchups at this point in the year. Prediction: Florida State 38, Maryland 27 | <urn:uuid:53f320cf-b25c-4b05-8a06-c4c454849286> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://atlanticcoastconvos.com/tag/c-j-brown/page/2/ | 2014-04-16T08:02:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609521558.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005201-00411-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942893 | 628 |
Saline mistakenly awards swim coach Todd Brunty national coach of the year plaque
A national coach of the year award presented to Saline High School boys swimming and diving coach Todd Brunty was done so in error.
A plaque presented to Brunty on Thursday, Jan. 5 identified him as the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association coach of the year. NISCA officials informed AnnArbor.com that such an award does not exist.
"NISCA was not the organization that awarded Saline coach Todd Brunty the 'National Coach of the Year' award. Saline was awarded the Class 3 National Dual Meet Championship as a team, but we do not award a specific coach of the year," NISCA secretary Eve Julian said in an email.
An official with the National Federation of State High School Associations confirmed that Brunty was named the 2010 NFHS state coach of the year and the school’s boys swimming team won a 2011 NISCA national championship.
Saline athletic director Rob White said parents and administrators confused the awards and a plaque was made in recognition of an award they mistakenly thought Brunty had won.
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Washington: Since time immemorial, silverware has found a way to walk out of dining rooms.
But the golden age of modern restaurant in the early 2000s. That’s when, as chefs became celebrities and dining out became theatre, well-designed restaurants turned regular customers into cunning thieves.
In a story on the subject in 2002, the New York Times highlighted several items that had been stolen from notable restaurants: a $1,200 (Dh4,407) silver Champagne bucket from Locke-Ober in Boston and a $1,000 fish-shaped bamboo lamp from Dahlia Lounge in Seattle, among others.
At New York’s Eleven Madison Park, someone managed to remove one of the two dozen framed vintage photographs, sourced by then-owner Danny Meyer, from the dining room wall out in the open; its value was about $1,500.
Restaurant thieves beware: Anything that costs from $1,000 to $3,000 counts as grand larceny. And often the staff is aware that something on your table is missing.
“A lot of the time, you know people are stealing,” says Robert Bohr, partner at New York’s Charlie Bird and Pasquale Jones. “You have to decide how big you are going to make it.”
These days, we’re so deep in the Brooklyn aesthetic, there aren’t many silver Champagne buckets lying around.
So diners have found more unconventional items to covet. We’re not just talking about that one charming teaspoon or mini vase, or the mismatched coupe — not to mention toilet paper — that often finds its way into someone’s pocket on a larcenous whim.
Here, we’ve gathered tales of significant items that have been taken from restaurants, from the seemingly worthless (Why would you want that?) to the unwieldy (How do you steal a 1.8-metre tree? ).
Fruit trees stolen
The country Italian restaurant Coltivare in the Heights is known for its locavore pizzas and 280-square-metre garden, the source for dishes like the Backyard Lettuce and Herb Salad. That guests have walked in and grabbed vegetables and fruit off the vine doesn’t put it in the hall of fame. But guests started stealing actual fruit trees. Three have gone missing, including a 1.8-metre-tall kumquat tree, worth about $175.
Says chef Ryan Pera: “I was stunned and hurt, but more awed by the fact that it was obviously planned. I mean, someone had to come prepared with proper garden tools, a truck, and the know-how on how to steal a tree.”
Signature plates disappear
At the reopened mega Japanese restaurant Megu, the signature plates are disappearing. Manufactured in Hiroshima, the hand-painted plates with the Megu name stamped on the bottom were introduced for the restaurant’s original incarnation, and they’re valuable, worth about $500 each.
It’s proved relatively easy for someone to slip the plates”-used for dishes like Yellowtail Kanzuri and the Matcha Crepe Cake” — into a large handbag:
The restaurant estimates that about twice a week someone takes one. Since it reopened last October, Megu has lost about 65 plates, or $32,500 worth of tableware; they only have 60 left.
(As a result, the restaurant has asked the staff to be extra diligent when they see the plates on the table and to whisk them away as soon as the food is gone.)
Under the category of things that are technically useless outside the restaurant, here’s something interesting: At Underbelly, which celebrates the wildly diverse Houston food scene, the liquor list is styled like a comic book with corresponding art and graffitied blurbs. The plain, unassuming leather liquor lists get taken on a regular basis, along with the engaging list.
The covers are made for Underbelly by a local craftsman, and they cost $30 each — more than most but not technically valuable. Says partner Kevin Floyd: “I don’t think people use them for anything. I just think people steal them for fun, and the universe will punish them someday.”
No more tin can shakers
At the Cal-Italian restaurant Love & Salt in Manhattan Beach, the vibrantly coloured, Americana tin salt and pepper shaker cans that hold the cheques are routinely taken.
In fact, you can’t find them at the restaurant any longer. “They disappeared so often that we stopped using them,” says chef Michael Fiorelli.
“We were constantly driving across the city just to keep them in stock. It was almost like we were offering a takeaway for dining with us.”
The mismatched cocktail glasses have also proved popular. And, says Fiorelli, “we may as well give those Moscow mule mugs away.” The copper-styled cups are a preferred target among restaurant thieves everywhere.
When Robert Bohr, of Charlie Bird and Pasquale Jones, worked at the exceptional wine-oriented restaurant Cru a dozen years ago, people routinely stole the Christofle silver.
“It was like $85 a fork, and dozens of pieces would get taken,” he says.
Now the piece of tableware most likely to get stolen are Pasquale Jones’s handsome red-handled Perceval 9.47 steak knives, which go for about $50 each.
But what gets Bohr most worked up is the theft of much more mundane items at the fresh-flavoured Mediterranean spot Charlie Bird.
“We had a Mason jar of dental floss picks; people would take 500 of them,” he says. “Our ‘Employees Must Wash Hands’ sign, done by a graphic artist, people took that. And then we started using Jo Malone candles to make the bathroom at Pasquale smell nice. They cost like $75, and one night someone stole a lit candle. [ Editor’s note: Presumably they blew it out first. ] They took a candle, full of smelly liquid wax, and put it in their bag. Now I check the bathroom more frequently.”
Near the entrance to Tribeca restaurant Batard sits a formidable antique duck press.
A good vintage one starts at a couple thousand dollars and can go as high as $45,000. One night, after a Domaine Lafarge Burgundy dinner, co-owner John Winterman found that a guest had walked out with it.
“It was hailing, and he was stumbling a little bit”-a duck press weighs about 18kg — so it was easy to catch him. I said, ‘I’ll be taking that back now.’ A lot of [liquor] had been consumed that night: The guy said, OK, and kept walking.”
At the Lower East Side liquor bar Copper & Oak, the bathroom door is decorated with assorted corks and bottle stoppers. People steal the bottle stoppers right off the door; the most popular is Blanton’s bourbon’s iconic little metal jockey on horseback.
In fact, they’re so popular that Copper & Oak has stopped replacing them; customers don’t drink enough of the $100 bourbon to keep up with the rate of theft of those stoppers.
The celebrity hangout gastropub The Spotted Pig has more things stolen from it than any other restaurant, claims co-owner Ken Friedman.
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Located on Oahu, Manoa is a residential valley neighborhood. It is approximately 3 miles inland from downtown, close to Waikiki and Ala Moana. While it may not be on the list for tourists, it is a worthwhile spot to check out offering a look into one of Oahu’s older communities.
I learned that in 1825, Manoa was the site of the first sugarcane and coffee plantations in Hawaii. The word “Manoa” is a Hawaiian term translating to “thick, solid or vast” perhaps a reference to the valley itself. The valley receives a high amount of rain, keeping it lush and green so don’t be surprised if you see a rainbow.
The Manoa area is home to the University of Hawaii’s main campus and some of Hawaii’s most historic homes. One such building has been converted into a charming brunch spot called the Waioli Tea Room. Manoa Marketplace is the central shopping area and features a farmer’s market several days a week. It is a great opportunity to mix with residents and support the local flower and produce farmers.
Close by is Manoa Falls, an easy 3 mile round trip hike. The waterfall features a vertical drop of about 150 feet into a small pool. Please note that the water is not safe for drinking. The trail is well worn and travels through an amazing bamboo forest and features some unusual native plants. Another area to stretch your legs is Lyon Arboretum. This 200-acre botanical garden features beautiful trails and views of Manoa Valley. The Arboretum is open to the public on weekdays from 9 – 4 PM and admission is free. I encourage you to make the trip to Manoa Valley and see for yourself why it is one of Oahu’s most charming communities.
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DOGWOOD Photo Pendant/Sterling Silver & Garnet/ ( IN STOCK)
Handmade tiny square pendant in sterling silver frames a miniature photograph of a dogwood flower and hangs from a 16 inch simple cable chain. Accented with a garnet stone drop
Image has been permanently sealed with a waterproof resin.
Pendant is available and in stock now and ready to ship
Comes in a gift box
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014
One man was rushed to the hospital early this morning after he was found with multiple gunshot wounds.
According to Georgetown Police Capt. Nelson Brown, the shooting occurred in the 900 block of Duke Street.
“Officers found a black male in the roadway with multiple gun shots,” stated Brown. “The crime scene is secure and the victim has been transported to the hospital.”
No other details have been released.
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