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HOUSTON (CBS Houston) A British Airways flight from Houston to London made an emergency landing at an airport in Wales on Monday.
According to reports, technical issues arose with the aircraft during its descent into London. The plane’s 138 passengers were not injured. British Airways technicians were called out to look at the Boeing 747.
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Rock and roll has a rebellious sound. I write that hesitantly, because there is really no such thing as rock and roll, in terms of having a permanent nature or ongoing essence. Speed, loudness, and distorted acoustical effects do not a musical genre make. Rock is a mishmash of various musical traditionsGospel, blues, jazz, folk, country, swingrather than a tradition of its own. Like a vampire, rock needs fresh blood to survive, and it leaves its victims forever altered by draining their lifeblood. When bands began using string instruments in the late sixties, for example, they changed the way most people hear classical music, and classical music, to the extent that it is still culturally relevant, has had to adapt accordingly. Even calling rock rebellious is a dated description. But what will happen when all music becomes, to one degree or another, rockified? Can rock be, musically speaking, everything and still be rock and roll?
Monopolies have no competitors, but there is a competing brand to rebellious rock, and that is contemporary Christian music. Once derided not just by traditionalist Christians but also by rock devotees, Christian rock has come of age. Precisely because it tries to sound different from the rock mainstream, much of it is as good as or better than secular rockalthough it is still tightly segregated, like Christian fiction, from the mainstream markets.
If I were a trend-spotter, I would wager that secular rock will increasingly look to its Christian rival for new infusions of creativity and power. Take, for example, Patty Griffin’s “Wild Old Dog,” an intensely meditative song that gains in theological power with each new hearing. It begins:
God is a wild old dog
Someone left out on the highway
I seen him running by me
He don’t belong to no one now.
The song tells the story of a family that pulls over on the side of a highway in order to abandon their mangy and nearly blind old dog. When they set out for the ride, one of the family members tries to kick him into the car, but “He just climbed on in just like he knew.” He is a willing victim. Indeed, his destiny is to have his broken bones crushed and whittled down to nothing.
The pathos in this song is heavy, but it is redeemed from its own melodrama by the soaring quality of Griffin’s voice. She can be uplifting even when the words are driving you down, while the gracefulness of her singing sounds utterly forlorn. I know nothing about Griffin’s religious beliefs, but she has written a great religious song that begs to be interpreted theologically.
When the dog is let go, to the surprise of the singer and against all expectation, he tears “off runnin’ like we set him free.” The dog is not running away from the family, nor is he blindly running around, with no direction. In fact, with bad hips and knees, it is a miracle that he is running at all. It is uncertain what this does to the singer’s faith. The dog disappears right in front of her and leaves her thinking about how
Sometimes a heart can turn to dust
Get whittled down to nothing
Broken down and crushed.
The dog’s fate deeply wounds the singer, and this song is her attempt at healing.
But what about the dog, who is, after all, identified with God? The dog never loses his dignity. In fact, his sudden running seems to be telling the family that it is all right that they have kicked him out. The dog is old, but by embracing the wildness they have forced on him, he takes away the consequences of their cruelty. The dog is not just any kind of God, but the God who died to set us free.
We live in a world where sound has become a salvific commodity. Plugging in is how many people escape the drudgery of the ordinary and everyday. Favorite songs provide three minutes of transcendence. Nevertheless, rock is so ubiquitous that it is in danger of becoming musical wallpaper, with one style looking like another and none looking all that interesting, which leaves you wanting to tear them all down just to see the wall again.
Music lets us hear ideas that can be hard to grasp on an abstract or conceptual level. Griffin’s voice in this song, for example, makes the sadness of her words come alive in a way that expands our theological senses. We can hear in her voice the sound of the loss she is describing. More specifically, we can hear in her song the hard truth that Jesus Christ was never more like us than when we abandoned him.
Griffin is not Christian rock. But secular rock will increasingly look like Griffin, or it should. The future of rock is either to suffer a slow cultural death or be saved by more satisfying sounds by rebelling against its original rebellion and becoming more explicitly spiritual. Even if I am wrong about that prediction, the possibility that the best popular music can carry rich theological themes is something to celebrate. | <urn:uuid:0b192169-9db1-4d19-ba9b-a46fe1177084> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/03/saving-rock-and-roll | 2017-05-25T05:00:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607998.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525044605-20170525064605-00311.warc.gz | en | 0.971356 | 1,065 | [
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Villa Minoas is built in maisonette style providing two different levels. The villa is simply decorated with a great sense of taste and care and fully-equipped with modern amenities in order to satisfy all your needs.
The villa can easily accommodate 6 guests featuring a comfortable double bedroom on the gound floor, as well as two twin bedded bedrooms on the upper floor. Each bedroom features air-condition, an ensuite bathroom with shower and private balcony with panoramic views.
Furthermore, Villa Minoas offers a lovely lounge area with elegant furniture and a dining area, a separate fully-equipped kitchen and a utility area with a washing machine on the ground floor. A big courtyard with a private swimming pool and a built-in barbecue, as well as a covered terrace with patio furniture, both with beautiful panoramic views of the countryside and the blue sea are also available. | <urn:uuid:4ae28c9f-8c5d-4b3c-ad46-7ca41e7c7ca0> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.thehotel.gr/villa-minoas/en/Accommodation | 2017-05-25T04:51:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607998.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525044605-20170525064605-00311.warc.gz | en | 0.940563 | 184 | [
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Date: 12th Mar 2015
Venue: City Social, Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1HQ
Enjoy beautiful cuisine in a glamorous setting with magnificent views of the city skyline. The private dining room at City Social provides a chic and stylish evening experience.
In an era where senior IT professionals are expected to increase the speed of innovation, push out more services and improve flexibility, while managing risk and doing more for less, how should you prioritise? And while the promise of mobile, social, big data and cloud is evident in theory, how do you put it all into practice? How do you meld their use to your advantage?
Computer Business Review and HP invite you to a CBR Dining Club event that will address these very issues. Hear from senior HP executives as they introduce their ‘New Style of IT’ blueprint; learn how the latest IT trends might support your business and deliver required outcomes; and share insights and experiences with peers.
Do join us for what promises to be a night of lively conversation, actionable ideas, excellent company and great food.
Who should attend;
Senior IT decision makers
Heads of IT
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A series of murders and strange occurrences center around the Hotel Luxor. When a woman, Marion Menil (Dawn Addams of The Vault of Horror), stands out on a ledge threatening to jump, she is coaxed in by American millionaire scientist Henry Travers (Peter van Eyck of The Wages of Fear). As Travers tries to determine the reason for Marion's despair, Commissioner Kras (Gert Frobe) investigates the murder of a reporter who is shot while his car is stopped in traffic -- a murder that reminds Kras of a similar death that the late criminal Dr. Mabuse was responsible for (and which occurred in Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.) Assisting Kras is the blind psychic Peter Cornelius, even as Marion is assisted by her physician, the striking Dr. Jordan (Wolfgang Preiss). Whoever is behind the goings-on has outfitted the Hotel Luxor with television monitors in each room, as well as two-way mirrors. A bomb in the Commissioner's phone nearly ends the case for him. The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang's final Mabuse film, is an absorbing thriller with lots of twists and turns and a satisfying wind-up. The performances are good, with Wolfgang Preiss [The Terror of Dr. Mabuse] being especially notable.
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In an expanding effort by the meat industry to make its hamburger safe, officials at the retail giant Costco said Wednesday that they had struck a new accord on testing for the pathogen E. coli.
Costco’s food safety director, Craig Wilson, said the company would begin buying beef trimmings for making hamburger from Tyson, one of the largest beef producers, after an agreement reached with Tyson this week that allows Costco to test the trimmings before they are mixed with those from other suppliers.
The United States Department of Agriculture has encouraged such testing as a way to make hamburger safer, but some of the largest slaughterhouses have resisted the added scrutiny for fear that one grinder’s discovery of E. coli will lead to expanded recalls of beef sent to other grinders, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Costco is one of the few large grinders to test ingredients for the pathogen as they arrive at its plant, and Mr. Wilson said Tyson had declined to sell trimmings to the company, citing its testing.Continue reading the main story
A Tyson spokesman has declined to respond to the accusation, but said that the company did not prohibit grinders from testing and that some of its customers did conduct some of their own testing, beyond the testing that Tyson performs.
The report by The Times focused on the hamburger patties that precipitated one of the 16 outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 since 2007, and the injuries suffered by a children’s dance instructor, Stephanie Smith, now 22. While most E. coli victims recover, Ms. Smith developed kidney and brain injuries, and emerged from a coma partly paralyzed.
In a statement this week, Cargill, the food giant that made the hamburger eaten by Ms. Smith, said it was committed to continuous improvements in food safety. “Our hearts go out to Ms. Smith and her family, as well as the others whose lives have been so affected by O157:H7,” Cargill said.
Like other hamburger grinders, Cargill tests its ground beef for the pathogen only after it mixes trim from multiple suppliers, and Cargill officials told the U.S.D.A. that they could not identify the slaughterhouse that shipped the tainted beef in Ms. Smith’s burger, company and government records showed. Slaughterhouses are viewed as the most likely source of E. coli because the pathogen emerges from fecal matter on hides and in the digestive tracts of cattle.
In its statement, Cargill said it required suppliers to test their trim and take other steps that are also effective in preventing contamination. “Over the past 10 years, Cargill has invested $1 billion in ongoing meat science research and new food safety technologies and interventions,” the company added.
On Monday, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said the Times report would stimulate the department’s efforts to fight E. coli, which the department banned from ground beef in 1994.
“The story we learned about over the weekend is unacceptable and tragic,” Mr. Vilsack said in a statement.
He said the U.S.D.A. had already increased inspections and drafted guidelines for industry.
But some critics in Congress say the department has an irreconcilable conflict. “The U.S.D.A. is supposed to be protecting public health and at the same time be promoting agricultural products, and my view is that those two things don’t mix,” said Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut and chairwoman of a House agriculture panel.
On the floor of the House, Representative Louise M. Slaughter, Democrat of New York and chairwoman of the Rules Committee, read parts of The Times article on Wednesday and said the lingering pathogens in meat and the industry’s use of antibiotics were threatening to harm exports of beef to Europe.
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Dl Valve Private Limited was registered at Registrar of Companies Ahmedabad on 24 February, 2014 and is categorised as Company Limited by Shares and an Indian Non-Government Company.
Dl Valve Private Limited's Corporate Identification Number (CIN) is U29120GJ2014PTC078870 and Registeration Number is 078870.
Dl Valve Private Limited registered address on file is Survey No. 216, Plot No.3/1, Opp. Vijay Transport Opp. Balaji Oil Mill Veraval Shapar Gujarat India 360024, - , Gujarat, .
Dl Valve Private Limited currently have 2 Active Directors / Partners: Rishitkumar Bharatbhai Tilva, Kajalben Rishitkumar Tilva, and there are no other Active Directors / Partners in the company except these 2 officials.
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On 02/10/2014 Officers Derek Wiley and Todd Tedrow received the Macomb Police Department Lifesaving Award for actions in December 2013.
Officer Wiley was dispatched to a residence in Macomb for a suicidal subject. The subject was not located in the residence however Officer Wiley continued to investigate the issue. Officer Wiley was able to determine the correct address where the suicidal subject was located. Officer Wiley persisted at the residence where he was finally able to make contact with another subject who let officers in and led them to the victim who was unconscious. Officers Wiley and Tedrow worked together to remove tape and a plastic bag from the victims head thereby allowing the subject to breath again. The subject was treated by medical personnel. Due to Officer Wiley’s diligence and both officers quick thinking, calm demeanor and teamwork they were able to save the subjects life. | <urn:uuid:418ff513-c921-4d55-9aed-c5da2e8f6fab> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://macombpolice.com/2014/02/11/two-officers-receive-lifesaving-awards/ | 2017-05-28T16:41:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463610342.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528162023-20170528182023-00259.warc.gz | en | 0.988284 | 171 | [
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This IS how it works. This is not a game of tit for tat where the big guy in the sky scribbles down all your deeds in a notebook and prescribes your life as he sees fit based on your behavior. It’s not a system of rewards and positive reinforcement where if you are a good boy or girl, you get a treat in the form of a new car of new job.
I’m talking about living in a heaven on Earth in which your actions immediately determine your state of being. Your state of being then determines what you are pulling into your existence through the ether. Ether pulling is not magic. Radio waves and cell phone signals fly through the ether; why not thoughts?
As a matter of fact, with all of us being so connected through wireless modems and modus operandi, I believe that ESP is even more alive and well than it was in the days when the masses believed in voodoo. You have a thought, you type it and send it, and then the recipient receives it, all in the absence of physical presence or even a land line. We are literally sending thoughts and intentions through the air at all times which is why when you give, you feel good. And when you give, you receive. This goes both ways though. If you want to put out selfishness and fear, guess what you’re going to encounter; parasites and threats. I put out love as much as possible and that’s what I receive, sometimes in overwhelming amounts.
And it’s not because I’m a good boy. It’s because I’m a man that does good.
The best prayer is not wishful thinking; it’s wishful action. Say a prayer, set your intention and get to work. The most frustrated people are those who do nothing and expect everything. Those that do everything and expect nothing are literally living in heaven on Earth.
I’ll meet you there. | <urn:uuid:4484b14f-ab92-4a55-b8a3-cc3afa61e92d> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://ifoundmoneytoday.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/instant-karma-just-add-action/ | 2017-05-29T22:49:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463613135.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529223110-20170530003110-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.955079 | 408 | [
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We’re excited to be working with MBAs Across America this week in Pittsburgh and Reading, PA!
On Monday, the Pittsburgh Clean & Green Laundry project will be joined by MBAs Across America, newly formed by this year’s Harvard Business School graduating class to help unleash America’s entrepreneurs while making sure profits and equity are more evenly distributed as a business transformation-centric pathway out of relative poverty.
On Tuesday, we have another full day of meetings with MBSxAmerica and city of Reading, Pennsylvania. On our agenda: meetings with Mayor Vaughn Spencer and his administrative team, Redesign Reading, the Sustainability Committee’s Worker Cooperative Taskforce, Home Care Worker Cooperative, Solid Waste Diversion Program through Opportunity House, Community Kitchen Incubator Project, Acrylabs, Berks Community Foundation, Wyomissing Foundation and Permacultivate.
As MSNBC’s Morning Joe highlighted recently, MBAs Across America is turning into a national movement of MBAs & entrepreneurs working together to revitalize America.
We look forward to working with Casey Gerald, MBAs Across America co-founder, this week! See Casey’s Class Day Address to the HBS Class of 2014: | <urn:uuid:de151ca1-bbd9-4a12-bccb-0b3efabf37cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://1worker1vote.org/working-with-mbas-across-america-in-pennsylvania/ | 2017-05-23T08:57:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607593.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523083809-20170523103809-00008.warc.gz | en | 0.87857 | 255 | [
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Comme des Garçons - Rei is everything. what can more can I say?
Creatures of the Wind. I love these guys (Shane Gabier and Chris Peters), they just won runner up for the CFDA last year and they are Chicagoans. This fw collection is especially amazing, they keep using interested techniques and even more interesting textiles.
Haider Ackerman is a real dream. He is one of my idols when it comes to design and color palette. He always presents something fresh with a touch of eroticism and this season was no exception.
Rick Owens: The shapes everyone wants to live in.
Margiela, giving shoulder and leg.
Lanvin, looking very tough this season.
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The Lexus LFA will not be getting a successor anytime soon, as the company has recently announced.
If you have been a fan of the Lexus LFA, you will be disappointed to find out that the carmaker isn’t planning on offering a successor of it anytime soon. The announcement hasn’t been made in an official press release and it is part of a report published by Automotive News Europe, who have spoken to Mark Templin, the Lexus International executive vice president.
“We don’t have a plan for an LFA successor right now”, said Templin to our source. “When we started the LFA project, it wasn’t as expensive a car as it turned out to be. We started developing it, and it got better and better. We switched from steel to aluminum to carbon fiber. Everything kept changing. It became this real supercar”, added the company’s official.
As you probably know by now, the Lexus LFA has been in production between 2010 and 2012 and it was put together in Motomachi, Toyota City, Japan. The supercar was offered in a single body style, a two-door coupe, with a front mid-engine and rear-wheel drive layout. The model stands at 4,505 mm in length, 1,895 mm in width and 1,220 mm in height and it is packing a 4.8 liter V10 engine, which is capable of producing no less than 560 HP (412 kW) and 480 Nm (354 lb-ft) of torque, connected to a 6-speed sequential transmission, allowing it to reach a top speed of approximately 325 km/h (202 mph). | <urn:uuid:444665e9-f2e3-41a9-9123-2b65a72ce75d> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.inautonews.com/lexus-not-planning-on-offering-an-lfa-successor-in-the-near-future | 2017-05-23T09:06:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607593.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523083809-20170523103809-00008.warc.gz | en | 0.966886 | 358 | [
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About a month ago I was approached by Eero, a wifi system company out of San Fransisco. They contacted me about illustrating a print for their employees as Christmas gift. They had seen my write up in Design Milk and felt my style would be perfect for this project. We talked through the project and decided to move forward and I am so glad I did. Those people at Eero are great and the project was super fun!
Eero had asked that I create three different rough sketches. One being a more abstract depiction of the Eero unit resinating wifi and the other two being the Eero units in context, a home filled with holiday decorations. When I sent over all three and we agreed that I would continue working on the one point perspective illustration in the living room.
The traditional one point perspective is new for me. Normally I work in an isometric guide but thought this was a great opportunity to expand my abilities and it worked out well. I love new opportunity's that allow me to learn something new, it's even better when it's a success.
One thing Eero asked me from the beginning is to add subtle wifi icons through the illustration. I saved that until it was completed. I had found that there were several ways that I add them, can you spot them?
I originally presented the illustration with blues and a hint of a red but they felt it was too cold and they desired the illustration be more warm. I sat down and came up with an alternative color palette and they loved it! The result was a a warm green paired with a a bright red.
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Woodbrook Estates is an active 55+, land lease, manufactured home community with 461 sites. The community has security gates, two clubhouses, two heated pools, a spa, a sauna, an exercise room, twenty-one shuffleboard courts, one putting green and two laundry rooms. This is a land lease community with beautiful lakes. The lot rents include access to the amenities and activities in Woodbrook Estates. Resales priced under $25,000.
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I’ve been suffered digestive and burg problems for more than a month. In the previous encounter, I managed to “solve” the health issues by taking pro-biotic etc, but not this time.
I tried the digestive enzymes ……….although it didn’t cure the problems but it did improve my burg condition and relieve some heart burn (according to doctor, this is most probably due to hyperacidity).
According to some experienced friends, I should start with fruits that not so easy to “fail”, i.e. the pineapples. But I’m having a dilemma ………..I remember the last time I “dissect” a pineapples, I have to turn the fruit to pineapples jam, coz the whole fruit just can’t present as fresh cut fruit. So this will be a big challenge for me to deal with it.
To safeguard myself, I’m also going to make the green apple enzyme.
The recipe for the Pineapple Enzymes:
The recipe for the Green Apple Enzyme:
- 2 green apples
- Half Lemon
- Half pack of Brown Candy
The following are the steps of making the fruit enzymes:
- Clean all the fruits, utensils, glass containers and let it drip dry.
- Peel all the fruits and cut into small pieces.
- Arrange 1st layer of the cut fruits (pineapples or green apple) into the glass container
- Follow by another layer of brown candy.
- Repeat step 3 to 4 till the content is around 60% of the container.
- Arrange layers of lemon.
- Cover the last layer with brown candy.
- The ingredients should not more than 80% of the container. (Fermentations process will release a lot of gases and may overflow if the contents are too full)
- Close the container tightly and leave it in dry and cool place.
- “Rock and Roll” the container daily. Ensure all the fruits are immerse in the liquid to prevent mold / fungus growth. If required, add more brown candy
- After 3-4 days, can open the cover to release the gases. (Note: should open and close immediately)
- If observe for any mold / fungus growth (black dot), remove the affected fruits immediately and add more brown candy (high sugar content / low water content can help to preserve the fruits)
- The enzyme should be ready to be consumed in 2-3 weeks.
- Separate the fruit from liquid and transfer the enzyme into new clean glass bottle.
- The enzyme shall be kept in the refrigerator to preserve it better (cool temperature will slow down the fermentation process that will turn the enzyme into alcohol).
Left – Green Apple; Center – Green Apple & Pineapples (Candy at top layer only); Right – Pineapples
Can’t wait to harvest it in 3 weeks time!!!
Update on 25/06/08
Both taste good. I preferred the pineapples one, its look lighter in colour and sweeter (the 2 bottles at the right). It’s produced around 500ml from the pineapples jug.
The green apple & pineapples enzyme (at far left) is darker in colour and produce less enzyme (around 200ml).
I mixed 2 table spoons of fruit enzyme with 250ml cool water. Really refreshing.
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Advantages: Easy to read, loads of links, website rating system
Disadvantages: Could have had more pictures
...This is a genuinely good book that backs the trusted trademark of ".. for Dummies" which has proved throughout its series of books that it is the best when it comes to self-help guides. Packed full of internet links to the best of the net and tips on how ...
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Leggings are often a woman’s first choice because of their versatility. They can be dressed up or worn casually for convenience, and shoppers often opt for them because they’re more comfortable than jeans.
In a new study conducted by Slice Intelligence, researchers found that more female customers ordered leggings than jeans over the past three months. Online orders from the time examined were compared to data pulled from the same period last year. The results showed that leggings orders increased by 41 percent, whilst denim orders only increased by a measly 3 percent.
Athleisure has become a major trend in the fashion industry, which could account for the increase in sales. Designers have taken the casual leggings looks to the runway, celebrities have developed their own activewear lines based off the concept, and models and actresses are proponents of the trend as well.
The study also showed that two of the most popular shopping destinations for leggings and jeans are Amazon and Nordstrom. Amazon received the top percentage in market share in online leggings sales, whilst Nordstrom snagged that title in jeans sales.
Some top sellers for jeans also included Old Navy and Gap. Victoria’s Secret was also a top contender for leggings sales. Victoria’s Secret successful athleisure line VS Sport was introduced in July after the company announced it was getting rid of swimwear after 2016 to focus on activewear. More and more retailers are getting into the game as well. J. Crew recently launched an athleisure collection with New Balance, despite stating in 2014 that the company wasn’t planning to go into activewear.
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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Sunday, January 11, 2004
Three new groups of critically endangered endemic gazelle found
Chinese scientists have found three new groups of an extremely endangered Chinese gazelle species, the Przewalski's gazelle, in places adjacent to the Qinghai Lake basin, a traditional habitat for the animal in northeast China's Qinghai Province.
hinese scientists have found three new groups of an extremely endangered Chinese gazelle species, the Przewalski's gazelle, in places adjacent to the Qinghai Lake basin, a traditional habitat for the animal in northeast China's Qinghai Province.
The Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra Przewalskii), endemic to China like the famous Tibetan antelope, is the most endangered hoofed mammal species in the world.
The new findings could mean the gazelle is less endangered than previously believed, according to Jiang Zhigang, head of the experts team that made the findings.
According to Jiang, chief researcher and the gazelle program manager of the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, there are only about 1,000 giant pandas left in the wild, mainly in the hilly areas in China's Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, while it was reported that there were only some 350 Przewalski's gazelles living around Qinghai Lake in the mid-1980's.And the whole population further dropped to less than 300 now, according to previous field surveys.
Experts used to think the animal lived solely in the areas around Qinghai Lake, China's largest salty lake. Starting in autumn and winter in 2003, acting on the tips of local people, theteam led by Jiang, along with experts from the Qinghai provincial forestry department, expanded the search scope and finally found the three new herds in separate regions.
They announced their findings recently.
One gazelle group is in the Gonghe Basin, south of the Qinghai Lake basin but isolated from it by mountains. Another two groups were found in Tianjun County in the Qaidam Basin, west of the lakebasin. One of the two lives in a mountainous valley in the southwest of the county, and the other in Kuaierma Town near the county seat.
According to experts, both gazelle communities in the county are relatively in good conservation with a larger number of members. Jiang said they were closely watching the groups and the specific number of gazelles would be revealed following further observation and calculation. Before this exciting new discovery, Jiang and his colleagues found only about 300 gazelles that were divided into three groups and isolated from each other by human activity areas, making natural exchange of animals, and consequently the gene exchanges, between the populations almost impossible.
Dong Jiansheng, deputy director of the provincial wildlife reserve, said the finding of new gazelle groups will be significant to the protective efforts of the animal for fresh supply of genetic biodiversity.
The Przewalski's gazelle was named after a Russian adventurer who collected a specimen and brought it back to St. Petersburg in 1875.
The historical distribution of the Przewalski's gazelle covered an area in central and northwest China, including the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Gansu and Qinghai provinces.
Its population has been affected by several decades of habitat destruction and reduction of its range. The increase of human and cattle populations and the development of cultivated land areas have reduced the availability of food for the gazelles.
To deal with the critical situation, Jiang Zhigang initiated a field project including research of the remaining populations living in other areas, creation of a nature reserve around Qinghai Lake, including some corridors between the three populations, identification of lands available for possible translocation and establishment of new populations.
The critical status of the gazelle also aroused attention worldwide. The Species Surviving Commission of World Conservation Union ranked the status of the species as CR (critically endangered) in the IUCN 1996 Red List of Endangered Species.
The ecology and status of the gazelle have never been documented thoroughly, according to Jiang who has led a team for years to probe its population ecology and to find out the proximate causes accounting for the population declines in the species.
Since 1994 Jiang and his colleagues formed a research team to monitor the behavior and population dynamics of the Przewalski's gazelle around Qinghai Lake. New evidence indicated that human activity and high juvenile mortality are major threats to survival of the Przewalski's gazelle.
Their research also revealed an inversely proportional link between wolves and the gazelle populations, and the proposal was made consequently to control the density of wolves in the area. According to Jiang, the Przewalski's gazelle is a flagship species in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, and also an indicating species of the ecotone between typical steppe and desert. | <urn:uuid:9efe0300-bd88-4136-afe0-360773c481e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://en.people.cn/200401/11/eng20040111_132316.shtml | 2017-05-25T08:43:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608058.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525083009-20170525103009-00033.warc.gz | en | 0.945584 | 1,059 | [
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Remember *The* Karl?! Aw, I really love this boy. He reminds me a lot of BT. A big, strong feral tom cat, who really, deep down is just a pile of mush that wants a home to call his own, and feel safe.Finally got him trapped this past Sunday for his neuter. He had some pretty nasty battle wounds behind his ears, and neck. The vet shaved , cleaned, medicated and ear tipped him as planned.
We couldn't just let Karl take a trip without his partner in crime, so yes, we also trapped the Linx Point, which my husband so dearly named Storm.
Isn't that just an adorable face!Storm was not too happy in the trap, as you can see in the photos the newspaper was shredded within minutes.
He also had wounds that needed cared for by the vet, and also an eye infection. Both boys were quite easy to trap. I originally set out the traps Saturday evening, without success. The only ones I kept trapping were the other cats in my existing colony. Sunday early morning I reset the traps with little hope, but within 10 minutes of each other, they both didn't hesitate to walk in.
We didn't get them back home until late, so they had to sleep in the traps overnight, until I could release them Monday morning. If any of you reading have ever been involved in TNR and releasing a feral, then you know the feeling you get, when you open that trap to release them. A feeling I can't really explain comes over you. Here is a cat you have never come close to touching, a cat born feral, terrified of humans. As a caretaker you build a special bond with these cats, a different sort of bond and relationship that you would with a normal household pet. They want to trust you, but they don't, and not trusting is what, for the most part, keeps them safe. We have this understanding. As they ran out of the traps, they jumped on the wall, stopped, turned, and just looked at me, then at their surroundings, then back at me, then they knew, they were home.I have another kitten similar to Lacee who has shown up, I am now working on trapping. I also have a stray, that most likely was dumped, and causing quite a bit of ruckus around here. Those two are my next priority. | <urn:uuid:8326a212-9242-4fda-b5ee-86d5572b3c47> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://itmatterstome-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/ | 2017-05-25T08:43:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608058.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525083009-20170525103009-00033.warc.gz | en | 0.990017 | 493 | [
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I made an extra and special post today, and here is the link. Special Note to all my Readers and Friends
The videos I have selected for this post are:
A Just for Laughs Gag/Juste pour Rire
Stanford Inn Christmas Lights Entrance
Holiday DIY - How to Make a Snow Globe
For the following, I am providing the link sources beneath each photo. You just need to click on the images to see a larger view.
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BERNIE’S OUT BRAWN IS IN
Liberty Media set to become the majority shareholder in F1 when it closes a deal to acquire 100% of Delta Topco – F1’s holding company – this month, Ecclestone’s position had been thrown into doubt. Originally, the 86-year-old claimed he had been asked to continue in his role for another three years by Liberty, but it is now understood the new owners want to put their own management structure in place, ousting Ecclestone.
Following approval from the FIA for Liberty to complete its takeover, Ecclestone admitted he did not know if he would remain in place to look after the commercial side of the sport, but on Monday he told Auto Motor und Sport that he was out, effective immediately.
“I was dismissed today,” he told AMUS. “I am simply gone. It’s official. I am no longer the leader of the company. My position has been taken by Chase Carey.
“My new position is one of those American terms. It’s something like an honorary president. I have this title now, even though I don’t know what it means.”
Ecclestone said he still expects to appear at grands prix in an unofficial capacity.
“I still have many friends in Formula 1. And I still have enough money to afford to attend a race,” he said, although he told AMUS he does not expect to retain his seat on the World Motor Sport Council.
“I doubt it,” he said. “First of all, I have to talk to [FIA president] Jean Todt about this.”
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Russian military forces stormed the Greenpeace owned Arctic Sunrise ship and arrested all crew members because of the threat over a Gazprom oil platform. Greenpeace activists have been protesting against oil exploration in the Arctic but they went to far in their actions. Armed Russian Guards boarded the Arctic Sunrise and took measures, the activists were "aggressive and provocative" according to Russian authorities. The crew members of the Greenpeace owned ship tried to interrupt the work of a state owned Russian(Gazprom) oil rig.
The last communication message from Arctic Sunrse was about Russian commandoes dropped by a helicopter on the ship and made crew members to obey their orders, all communications of the ship were cut. 3 crew members managed to lock themselves into a secret place and to use twitter for communicating with the world. They had sent a message that they were scared of the current situation and that all crew members were ordered to sit on their knees with guns against them.
Frank Hewetson, British action coordinator on the ship announced that 29 of the Greenpeace activists were held by armed men in the canteen and informed about the words of the scared crew members:
"About 10 commandoes boarded by a soviet era helicopter. They pushed us aside and ordered us to lie flat out on the deck. They then smashed their way onto the bridge.
Our engines have been turned off and they have isolated the captain Pete Wilcox. We have no idea what is happening."
There is no reports for injured people.
The location of the action scene was 60km north of the Russian coast near the island of Nova Zemlya. The situation happened in international waters and Greenpeace executives declared that the military operation was illegal.
Arctic campaigner Ben Ayliffe told:
"We have a right to be there. This was an entirely peaceful protest."
Russian government representatives announced that the Greenpeace activists were too aggressive and had the intention to provoke a response to become famous. 2 days ago two of the activists entered the Gazprom-owned Prirazlomnaya platform which is exploring the waters for oil. Russian coastguard arrested the intruders and sent them on the Russian coastguard ship Ladoga.
The Russian foreign ministry took the situation seriously and informed in a statement:
"The intruders' actions … had the outward signs of extremist activity that can lead to people's death and other grave consequences".
Gazprom (Russian state owned company) has the intention to begin production from the Prirazlomnaya platform in one year, information coming from Greenpeace which is concerned about the risk of an oil spill in an area that has 3 nature reserves protected by Russian law.
Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo told:
"This illegal boarding of a peaceful protest ship highlights the extreme lengths that the Russian government will go to keep Gazprom's dangerous Arctic drilling away from public scrutiny. We ask President Putin to restrain the Coast Guard and order them to holster their guns and withdraw. We are a peaceful organisation and our protest has done nothing to warrant this level of aggression." | <urn:uuid:5445cd52-ca57-467d-a142-f0bacf8523da> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.vesselfinder.com/news/1478-Russian-guards-attacked-Greenpeace-Arctic-ship-after-oil-protest | 2017-05-25T08:52:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608058.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525083009-20170525103009-00033.warc.gz | en | 0.976474 | 621 | [
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Six years ago, Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson launched their creator-owned ongoing series “The Boys” through DC Comics’ WildStorm imprint to much fanfare and a high expectation for violence, vulgarity, superheroes and satire. Six months later, the book was cancelled.
It was the best thing that could have happened.
Readers familiar with the over-the-top tale of a black ops team tasked with keeping the vilest “supes” on the planet from spiraling into an apocalyptic level of hedonism, murder and snuff films know that since issue #7, “The Boys” has been published by Dynamite Entertainment, where it has thrived, having been freed from the nervous oversight of a corporate publisher. Over the past six years, the book has launched 70 issues, three miniseries and countless graphic images involving everything from heads being punched off to hamsters being…well, you get the idea.
Unfortunately for its fanbase, that debauchery comes to an end this fall as Dynamite publishes the final two issues of “The Boys.” To celebrate the impressive and somewhat improbable achievement, CBR News is saying goodbye in style over the coming weeks with full interviews with the creators of the book, five full issues of the series being released for free — the first of which you can find after this interview — and a look behind the scenes of what made the best series about the worst of superheroes tick.
Today, we start off with the man with the “Glorious Five Year Plan” himself: Garth Ennis. In part one of a wide-ranging two-part interview, the writer reflects on what the early dismissal by WildStorm and DC meant for him and the series, how Dynamite’s involvement changed the book and his career for the better, what it is that makes superheroes a powerful candidate for satire while remaining his least favorite genre and how the leads of the series — particularly Wee Hughie and Butcher, who find themselves at a literal cliffhanger with two issues to go — have changed over the past six years. Check out Ennis’ thoughts and the complete “The Boys” #1 below!
CBR News: Garth, thinking back today on “The Boys'” WildStorm cancellation after six issues, how do you view the whole process of getting that “controversial” publicity push, fielding offers from publishers, transferring things over, all of it?
Garth Ennis: While there’s no doubt that we benefitted from it, nowadays the very notion of controversy has become almost a cure for insomnia — the claim is made so often and by so many people that the concept nearly loses all meaning. So while there were moments when I was worried, and others when I was amused, really I just found that period irritating. “Come on,” I thought. “Let’s get this over with and get back to work. Let’s get on with the story.”
I believe DC will soon be reprinting Pat Mills’ and Kev O’Neill’s magnificent “Marshall Law” series, and you’ll see a similar approach there: If you don’t have any natural affection for these characters, there are a number of pretty obvious first places your mind goes.
Well, I was surprised as things went on how far afield your “homages” ended up being. Is a deep knowledge of superheroes an unfortunate side effect of being a comics writer for you?
I spent twenty years on the DC comps’ list. No more, though — somebody finally noticed. You just can’t work in the business — and have friends in it — and not pick up on this stuff to some extent.
One way in which the “in-story” satire crosses over a bit with our real world is the character of The Legend, though comic makers over history have been known for quite a bit of self-mythologizing. Is there something particularly funny or true to you in the image of comics maker as propagandist?
As an outsider, the myths and legends of the mainstream U.S. comic book industry have always been interesting to me. With no affection for their work, I’ve always been able to look at creators’ behavior towards each other — and their supporters’ responses to/excuses for it — with a certain degree of wry amusement. The Legend had the final word on the subject a few issues back.
Let’s take a look at the Boys themselves. Hughie really stepped into the series as the consummate everyman — just a normal guy in a horrible situation. Yet over the course of the series, he’s forced to be a lot more than a victim of circumstance. What do you think is the most important thing Hughie’s learned about himself through all of this?
That he’ll never change, never become a tough guy, never have one of those “no more” moments that fictional characters have when they stop taking shit and go out to do what a man’s got to do. In other words, he’ll be like most people in real life and remain resolutely who he is, no matter how hard he yearns to be someone different. This was something I began to realize about Hughie early on, and became more convinced of the further I went with him. Towards the end he does manage to at least act like he’s changed, but as we’ll see at the true climax of the story in #71, it’s his (largely unwitting) adherence to his true nature that does him the most good.
On the opposite side of the equation, there’s Butcher. At this point, we know all the details, gruesome as they may be, for his hatred of the supes. But the book does ask whether Butcher truly approaches this world in a more overtly nihilistic way rather than as personal vendetta. How do you view his story in the book now that you’ve reached the end?
By now it’s clear that Butcher had his eye on the bigger picture all along. There was always that one guy he wanted to deal with personally, of course, but the accidental case of mistaken identity there has only fueled his commitment to the larger mission, to sorting out the core problem.
The trio of Mother’s Milk, The Female and The Frenchman all had their own unique stories in the series, but they also seemed to fall to tragic ends for ceding so much authority to Butcher for so long. In your eyes, does the experience of being a member of The Boys come with a guarantee of sorts of a tragic end?
Theirs was a violent world and they entered it no doubt anticipating that their lives would have violent ends — albeit, of course, with doom arriving from a rather different direction. There’s a certain expectation of this kind of catastrophe for anyone involving themselves in the dangerous end of things; the patrolling Marine who realizes he’s essentially a human IED detector, the black ops spy who suspects the last thing he’ll feel will be a gun muzzle against his neck some day. They don’t fool themselves about it, and live with some degree of melancholy as a result.
Stay tuned for part two of CBR’s farewell interview with Garth Ennis where the “Boys” writer goes deeper into the biggest story threads of the series and teases its grand finale. In the meantime, check out the first issue in it’s entirety, below! | <urn:uuid:757d67c8-916a-4a5f-9bb8-a09f400aff9a> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.cbr.com/saying-goodbye-to-the-boys-with-garth-ennis-part-1/ | 2017-05-26T09:08:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608652.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526090406-20170526110406-00107.warc.gz | en | 0.969882 | 1,599 | [
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Metropolitan Klezmer - Emelin Theatre
153 Library Lane - 914-698-0098
Mamaroneck, NY 10543
Description: Celebrate the last day of Hanukah with one of the finest American klezmer bands. The award-winning Metropolitan Klezmer performs an exhilarating range of musical treasures with agility and depth. This collaborative adventure of eight exceptional New York musicians combines the best of downtown classical and world music scenes, to create inspired interpretations and compositions of eclectic Yiddish repertoire. | <urn:uuid:6ec7cc68-5d8a-4731-8ed6-c05979166348> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.nymetroparents.com/neweventinfoprint.cfm?id=122331 | 2017-05-26T09:34:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608652.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526090406-20170526110406-00107.warc.gz | en | 0.79843 | 107 | [
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Wei Lin | Wednesday, September 25, 2013
This passing summer may have possibly been the most eventful summer I’ve ever had. I was granted the opportunity to study Chinese in Beijing with the Duke Study in China program.
Since my parents cannot communicate in English with me, I speak to them in Mandarin and my Fuzhounese dialect. I started in third year Chinese last year and felt comfortable and confident enough to spend an entire summer under the smoggy skies of Beijing. At first, I wanted to go to Beijing, study Chinese, head back to New York and never go back again.
This was not my first time in China, nor was it the second. It was the sixth. Prior to my departure from New York, my perception of China included dirty streets, rude people and awkward bathrooms. It was only after I had ordered food entirely in Chinese, gotten a temporary phone card in Chinese and used a squatting toilet did it occur to me I was in China, the China with the streets, the people and the bathroom.
However, this time I had much more to experience than just that; I had a whole two months to explore an entire city, to survey every nook and cranny, to eat at every renowned restaurant. This was my great adventure. I traveled a lot outside of my class time. My friends and I took weekend excursions to provinces hundreds of miles away.
By the end of my two months in Beijing, I learned so much about my heritage, and I was much closer to being fluent in Mandarin. I was blessed to have met so many great people, both within and outside the program. By the end of the summer, I was set on coming back to China; in fact, I accepted that my career will most likely be closely tied with China. It was truly a contrast from my initial plan.
If I could identify my time in China with one word, it would be “metamorphosis.” I went through many hardships and changes, but the results were nothing but positive. (Granted, I still have a slight cough from the air pollution.)
I love my Chinese heritage, and I love being a Chinese major (along with my two other majors.) I enjoy sharing the awesome stories I have with friends. I love the thrill of going bungee jumping into a beautiful gorge. I miss relying solely on my Chinese to get around.
One of the items on the Dean’s A-List is to learn a language. Just do it. Enrich your time at Notre Dame by studying a language and using it abroad. Enrich your life by mastering another language. It can open doors of opportunities to learn, live and love life. | <urn:uuid:001f78ed-4dc2-4332-94fa-60a99b5d09a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://ndsmcobserver.com/2013/09/beyond-borders/ | 2017-05-27T13:57:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608954.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527133144-20170527153144-00427.warc.gz | en | 0.980947 | 556 | [
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Our furniture was supposed to arrive last Friday, July 2nd. We’d have a lovely, long holiday weekend to figure out what goes where. Get settled. Nest. And then it was supposed to arrive today.
Latest report from the movers…
“Definitely the truck will arrive on Thursday. Maybe Friday.”
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Review from yitchuin wong
Quick fix to problem. BUT there is always another issue comes up after every update to fix the old one. Now is the app is less responsive and lag. Nicer and easier ui tho.
This app was great(10 stars) until the last update. Now all my widget's font size appear super huge even though the font size setting is set low. Obvious program error. Please fix ASAP! Argh!
Best widget I have, lets me put the info I want to see. Best customization in any widget.
Great app I am learning how to use it fully
Simple aesthetic, nuanced customization. Perfection.
So good with few bugs on designing
exactly what i want! thx for creating this app
Fixed potential crashes throughout Minimalistic Text
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Jim McMahon`s bizarre year with the Bears came to a bizarre halt in a Los Angeles doctor`s office Tuesday.
The quarterback announced he will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder on Dec. 12 by Dr. Frank Jobe for a torn rotator cuff and possible other muscle tears.
McMahon said he will be out for the season, including the playoffs. The Bears didn`t want McMahon to say anything before a Wednesday press conference in Lake Forest.
General manager Jerry Vainisi learned of the news on television while awaiting a call from McMahon`s agent, Steve Zucker.
Vainisi had asked Zucker and McMahon to keep quiet until Dr. Jobe could inform Bear physicians and coach Mike Ditka of the quarterback`s condition.
``We will not comment until we get all the facts,`` said Vainisi.
It was the final irony in a season marked by communications failures among McMahon, Ditka, trainer Fred Caito and team doctors from the first day of training camp, when McMahon pulled a groin muscle.
There were indications that McMahon and Zucker have not had their final say.
According to McMahon, Dr. Jobe may have found more than team physician Dr. Clarence Fossier and consulting physician Dr. Michael Schaffer found when examining the shoulder at various times following the season opener Sept. 7, when McMahon suffered a mild separation of the acromioclavicular joint in his right shoulder.
McMahon and the doctors said the separation eventually healed, but McMahon continued to complain of pain. On Nov. 11, an arthrogram of the shoulder revealed what Dr. Fossier described as a ``small tear`` in the rotator cuff. Rest was prescribed, with the possibility of offseason surgery. ``Dr. Jobe told me the same thing the doctors in Chicago told me,``
McMahon said. ``I do have a tear in the rotator cuff and it needs to be repaired. There`s also the possibility I have another tear in another part of the shoulder up in the top where it`s been hurting all along.
``He said it`s either a muscle or a ligament that`s torn.``
Dr. Jobe is a renowned specialist in arm and shoulder injuries and treats many professional baseball pitchers.
There was no reason given for delaying the surgery until Dec. 12. There was also no explanation of why a definite diagnosis could not be made before now, four games from the end of the regular season.
Zucker and McMahon said they cannot tell whether last Sunday`s flagrant foul by Green Bay`s Charles Martin significantly changed McMahon`s condition. They do know McMahon was hurting going into the game. McMahon admitted he was in pain when he practiced last week, but didn`t tell Ditka or Caito because he wanted to test his shoulder in a game for the first time in a month.
McMahon and Ditka have argued over the merits of practicing with a sore arm. McMahon would have preferred saving his arm until the Packer game, when he had problems warming up and threw poorly before Martin`s attack.
``I really don`t know if that (Martin) hurt it any worse or not,``
McMahon said. ``I can`t tell and they can`t tell because the tear I had before is still there. I don`t know if that`s any worse, but the part that`s really been hurting is definitely worse, so the hit did not help it.``
Before McMahon`s announcement that he will be out for the season, club president Michael McCaskey said the Bears had seen no reason for a fourth medical opinion after consultation with Dr. Fossier, Dr. Schaffer and Dr. Brent Pratley, McMahon`s surgeon at Brigham Young, resulted in essentially similar opinions.
The origin of McMahon`s rotator cuff injury is unknown, but McMahon complained of pain throughout the season in which he started only six games.
``I`m not really bitter,`` he said. ``I`m just kind of upset they would even question I was hurt, since I have played in the past with a lot of pain. It just bothered me a lot that people around did not believe me.``
McMahon said Dr. Jobe told him arthroscopic surgery will clean up dead tissue and fraying of the tear. If other problems are discovered during the scope, the joint will be opened up for further surgery.
Ditka said Monday he wished McMahon would have told him how much he was hurting last week.
``Then I would have started Mike Tomczak,`` Ditka said.
McMahon and Ditka were unable to maintain consistent dialogue and communication from Day 1, when Ditka said McMahon reported to camp out of shape and McMahon said his condition had nothing to do with his groin injury. For the second time in three years, the Bears will enter the playoffs without their No. 1 quarterback. In 1984, Steve Fuller started in the National Football Conference semifinal victory over Washington and in the NFC title loss to San Francisco.
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D.C. is always ripe with fresh talent that consistently challenge popular genres. The group I am referring too is Misun, a trio comprised of Misun Wojcik, William Devon and Nacey, a member of Nouveau Riche. Pulling from different genres to create their own music lovechild, they’ve created quirky music subgenres like Motown pop, aqua-wave/emo-pop and now, smooth nu dance which can be heard from their song “Sharpshooter”.
Though their wrap sheet is a bit sporadic, the group has the potential, especially if you base it off their opening set for Tittsworth at U Street Music Hall. If you were unable to catch the show, you can see them at our CMJ Showcase, “The Circus” at Drom on October 16th from 9-1AM. If you’re a CMJ Badge holder, the event is free and if you’re not, then it’s a mere $10, which by the way, will be the best $10 you’ve spent in a while. Tickets can be purchased here. | <urn:uuid:f041ca75-2abb-49f7-b3be-125d97a79619> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2012/10/cmj-preview-misun/ | 2017-05-28T20:18:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463611560.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528200854-20170528220854-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.94972 | 243 | [
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Christine Andreae lives with her husband in Bentonville, Virginia. She is the author of the thriller Smoke Eaters, When Evening Comes: The Education of a Hospice Volunteer, and a highly praised mystery series.
Mattie McCullough Mysteries
St. Martin's Press
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Let me preface this review by stating that I have never cried so hard. Like every great love story, there’s hope, joy, struggles and heartache. Watching Eddie Redmayne portray Dr. Stephen Hawking is absolutely amazing. He had his mannerisms down pat; from the awkward smile and small twitches, to the corny sense of humor and to the facial expressions full of love, despair, determination and triumph. Harry Lloyd, of Game of Thrones fame, plays his best friend, Brian.
Stephen Hawking was a brilliant student studying for his PhD in Astrophysics. He has a small but dedicated group of friends. As his studies progress, two major life altering events occur: he meets Jane Wilde, a fellow student who is studying for her PhD in medieval Spanish poetry and the heartbreaking diagnosis of Lou Gehrig’s disease. Doctors give Stephen a grim diagnosis; however, Stephen moves on, more determined than ever to finish his PhD dissertation on black holes and how they could have been a part of the creation of the universe and to go about predicting his theory, and then later on, disproving it.
Stephen’s parents try to paint a realistic portrayal of what life will be like, if Jane marries him. So young, and in love, she is determined to stay with him, even if their life together will be cut short. The doctors give Stephen between 2 to 3 years to live. Jane and Stephen get married and have a couple of children.
They say that there’s nothing as powerful as the power of love. Yet, we are all human beings and we all have moments where we struggle. We grow weary and we grow despondent. Jane becomes more of a nursemaid to Stephen than wife. With two children and a husband that continues to deteriorate as the weeks and months pass by, the stress begins to take its’ toll. Even though Dr. Hawking has achieved international acclaim as a great professor and scientist, home life is not normal. Jane struggles with her day to day activities of trying to balance being a wife and mother, while vaguely attempting to pursue her own PhD studies. Her children’s childhood suffer, she suffers and needs help. When the subject is broached, Stephen uses his sense of humor to alleviate the situation, but it is anything but funny.
The suggestion of joining a church choir to get out of the house and find something to look forward to was well intentioned by Jane’s mother. Charlie Cox, from Boardwalk Empire fame, plays Johnathan, a widower, who enjoys teaching music and leading the church choir. He becomes a part of the Hawking household. He tells Stephen he was married and understands what it is like to nurse a spouse through a lengthy illness. He himself lost his wife to leukemia. Johnathan soon becomes like the surrogate father figure to the children, often accompanying Stephen and Jane on excursions, providing physical and moral support to all the family members. It is touching to see that Johnathan truly cares about the welfare of the entire family. I picked up on the fact that there was an underlying attraction between Jane and Johnathan.
Stephen’s father suggests that Stephen take it very seriously: he needs round-the-clock care, as in terms of having a live in nurse to help out with all the medical responsibilities. Jane discovers that she is pregnant with her and Stephen’s third child. Jonathan bows out gracefully and has no wish to cause any more emotional turmoil for her or for the family.
On a trip to Bordeaux, France, Stephen suffers a horrendous lapse in health, which leads to him becoming comatose. Jane is called to the hospital and doctors give her a very grim prognosis: he might die if he is transferred back to Cambridge, England and he will never talk again. Jane, trying to be rational, states that Stephen will make it through the procedure of having a tracheotomy and that he will have all the care he needs, even if it is round the clock. Once back at home, Stephen is despondent and depressed. It is a cruel thing to have such a brilliant mind and be trapped in a body that shuts down. I found myself grabbing Kleenex by the handful; I felt sorrow for Stephen, as he wanted to prove his theory, he wanted to be able to walk and talk again like he did when he was a young chap at Cambridge University; I felt the angst of Jane, who did the best she could under the circumstances, while putting her own academic dreams aside. I felt for Jonathan, who had feelings for Jane, helped out with the family and gracefully bowed out before disgracing the family.
Help comes in the form of Elaine, a rather attractive nurse, and under her saucy and caring administration, Stephen thrives. She treated him like a man, not a sick person without hope. With the changes to technology over the years, Stephen went from using an ordinary wheelchair to an electronic wheelchair to an advanced one that included a mini screen and keyboard function. Stephen would be able to speak with everyone, via that screen and computerized voice. He writes a book; he becomes better at communication and he meets with students at universities; doing lectures and getting out there in the world, back with resilience and purpose. As he meets with various groups of students, his old university mates are in the crowd, cheering him on and his former university professor is there, supporting Stephen and cheering along with the crowd.
Jane and Stephen’s love story comes to an end; they divorce and she marries Johnathan. The three remain friends and Stephen invites Jane with him, to Buckingham Palace to meet Queen Elizabeth. And at this point, you see the flashbacks of Stephen’s life story. The flashbacks include all his research, his time at university; his meeting Jane; getting married; having children; doing research; his therapy sessions; getting out there to the public and back to his happy days at Cambridge.
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THERE is a welcome seed of excitement on the work front, despite today's news of manufacturing job losses.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is promising employment for about 100 hospitality workers when his new CBD restaurant opens late next year.
Echoes of his down-to-earth style could be heard throughout a Jamie's Italian exec's visit to Adelaide yesterday.
In strict "Jamie's rules" casual dress, JO's Australian operations manager Karen Westfield announced that help is wanted in the CBD.
She also met Regency TAFE hopefuls, hospitality student Jess Teakle, 18, and Jurie van Wyngaard, 20, who is ready to go with his commercial cookery ticket.
They celebrated the good job news at the dramatic entrance to the site, a giant bank-security-grade embossed steel door which opens downwards, disappearing into a basement.
The door is one of many historic features, including the lofty banking chamber and basement safe, being restored to blend with the restaurant fitout.
The Adelaide arm in the series of restaurants, a partnership between Jamie Oliver and his Italian mentor, Chef Gennaro Contaldo, follows successful openings in Sydney, Perth, Canberra and, most recently, Brisbane.
"We're welcoming everyone to apply," says Karen. "The traits we are looking for are the passion and the love of food. Our restaurants are fast-paced and exciting. For successful candidates, there are plenty of opportunities for progression and travel too.''
Keenest applications will be accepted from today, with a recruiting drive to follow early in the new year for chefs of all levels, kitchen hands, bar staff, hosts, managers and waiters.
Karen promises as many local people as possible will be employed, and local produce will feature on the menus.
"There will definitely be lots of unique elements (at the Adelaide site) from the design of the restaurant to some of the produce we'll be using," she says. "We always offer daily specials which will allow us to make the most of all the incredible ingredients available here."
With the unique heritage-listed premises, adjacent to Adelaide icons including Parliament and Government House, specific reference to the building's bank history is planned, "emphasising the amazing ceiling height in the banking chamber, as well as using the main safe in the basement".
"The look and feel will be quite different to the other Jamie's Italians in Australia."
Jess and Jurie were excited to collect details for their applications.
"A job at Jamie's would be a seriously good experience, and it would look great on the resume," says Jess. "I use his recipes all the time."
"They will definitely get my application," says Jurie, who recently qualified with a Regency's Certificate 4, and is looking for an apprenticeship.
"Jamie is one of the greats. I would be one of the happiest people alive working here.
"This is also going to be a great boost for hospitality jobs in Adelaide. You'll get great training; it's the type of job that will set you up."
To apply, email [email protected]
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Hi ,we went to the Loire Vally and Paris in July.
Loved the castles and had a picnic lunch on the grounds of one of the castles. Loved the restaurant,Auberge du Bon Laboureur in Chenonceaux-expensive but wonderful.
In Paris I love the restaurant in the Musee d'Orsay for atmosphere and lunch. We sat at Cafe de Flore for wine, bread and soup onion and people watched for a few hours and that was great. Maisone de La Lozere was good, more of a less expensive hearty dinner. I enjoyed the food at Chez Fernand,but it was crowded and noisy. Le Reminent was hard to find, the a la carte menus was wonderful but the Prix Fixe menus was terrible, it was slightly snobbish there and a long wait for a less crowed restaurant at lunch. I was surprised to enjoy Maison Blanche as much as I did, but only if you sit outside on the terrace with a view! All the champagne and wine , perfect night, may have influenced me, but the 5 course dinner was delicious!
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We’re thrilled to announce the public launch of Together in HF – the first social network dedicated to heart failure patients and caregivers!
We are thankful that you were the first members of our HF community and appreciate all that you have contributed as founding members. The community would not be where it is today without your time and efforts preparing for its public debut.
We hope you’ve found the resources, dialogue and inspirational content helpful and encourage you to invite others to join in.
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Let’s join together as a community to give back to our country’s brave soldiers stationed around the world on December 17.
Operation Gratitude sends 250,000 care packages per year (almost 2 million to date!) to members of our armed services that include snacks, essentials, and letters to keep them motivated while they are away from home.
Join members of The Grady Firm, the Women Entrepreneurs Club, and nearly 2,000 other volunteers as as we participate in Package Assembly Day on December 17, 2016 from 9 am to 12 pm in Chatsworth, California.
On that day, you can assist with package assembly, read/screen letters, knit scarves, or write letters to our heroes.
You can also collect items in advance of the event to bring with you, or drop them off at The Grady Firm by December 16.
Help us honor the people that guard our freedom and keep us safe! If you have a loved one for whom you would like to request a package, you can do that as well.
Learn more about what items to bring on this wishlist.
If you can’t attend the event, you can also donate directly online to pay for the cost of shipping packages ($15 each).
If you would like to donate items or postage fees, we will be collecting them at The Grady Firm headquarters in Beverly Hills until December 16, 2016. Please email [email protected] to arrange for donation drop offs, or to RSVP for the Package Assembly Day. You can also sign up online as well so Operation Gratitude will expect you.
We look forward to seeing you on December 17!
ABOUT OPERATION GRATITUDE
Operation Gratitude annually sends 200,000+ care packages filled with food, entertainment, hygiene, and handmade items, plus personal letters of appreciation to Veterans, First Responders, New Recruits, Wounded Heroes, their Care Givers, and to individually named U.S. service members deployed overseas and their families waiting at home.
Its mission is to lift the spirits and meet the evolving needs of the Military and First Responder communities, and provide volunteer opportunities for civilians anywhere in America to express their appreciation to all who serve our nation.
Each package contains donated product valued from $45-100, and costs the organization $15 to assemble and ship.
Since its inception in 2003, Operation Gratitude volunteers have shipped more than 1,600,000 care packages.
ABOUT THE GRADY FIRM, P.C.
The Grady Firm, P.C. is a full-service law firm that provides business and legal counsel to entrepreneurs and their families at all stages of the business life cycle. Its attorneys take a comprehensive and holistic approach to helping their clients navigate the complex nature of running a business, from initial Startup concerns, through employee management and employment law compliance, to immigration and dispute resolution. Our attorneys use their litigation backgrounds to advise clients on ways to arm and defend themselves against lawsuits. We provide the benefit of an in-house legal team without the big firm price tag.
As a truly global practice, The Grady Firm attorneys act as the liaison for foreign companies that wish to expand to the United States by providing the business, immigration, employment, and cultural counseling they need to be successful in a new market.
ABOUT THE WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR’S CLUB
In recognition of the ever-expanding group of professional women who are creating their own businesses and Startup companies, Jennifer Grady founded the Women Entrepreneurs Club of Los Angeles in March 2012 with the goal of encouraging women to start and expand their businesses. Since its inception, the group has gained nearly 800 members from industries as diverse as marketing/PR, social media, branding, fashion, professional services, health and wellness, personal coaching, and publishing. The group attends conferences, happy hours, seminars, and special events as a community of like-minded entrepreneurs.
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MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SERVICES ON INCESSANT CLASHES BETWEEN PASTORALISTS, FARMERS AND FARMING COMMUNITIES
BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION
This paper is presented by Professor Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, a woman. As the only woman, making a presentation, looking at the grazing bill through the eyes and perception of the woman will be one of the wisest things the National Assembly will have to do. The reasons are not farfetched. She is the mother of not just her children but the nation's children. Also, she is fashioned by God, the creator to be a fitted help, not only for her husband but the whole community of men.
As a mother, I see this bill rather than an attempt to give the Fulani herdsmen space, but as an attempt to institutionalise Boko Haram throughout the country and cripple our children with fears of a people, who rather than love human beings, are more caring and more intimate with their herds. Fear has torments and as mothers, we see our children being tormented physically and even psychologically and emotionally. Time will not permit me to do justice in analysing the nature of the torments and their effects on our children. As an adult, let me recount my ordeal as a university professor, living near students’ hostels on the University campus.
I have Fulani Nomads living behind my house in Port Harcourt. They are wild, uncivilized and inaccessible. They wake us up at four 4 o’clock am daily and make everyone including all my students living in several four 4-storey buildings nearby have high blood pressure. I hope those buildings will not crash soon around my university. When I offered to buy them a grinding machine, they said pounding is their culture, yet their women showed me bleeding blistered hands. When I insisted that I would buy the grinder, they asked me how I would be fuelling it. When I told them to go to the nearby grinder to grind, they said they don’t have N20 naira to grind. When the Iwofe University community told them that they would be reported to the police authorities, they threw such great tantrums threatening that they would wipe away the entire university community and the whole Universe!
Their utterances and actions portray that they are ABOVE THE LAW. Everybody and even farmers who cherish life are terrified of them as they kill, rape, bomb, loot and maim anyone that entreats them. I had to go and complain to my brother, the Alhaji, who was hosting them on his land in Port Harcourt, to please intervene; which he graciously obliged me.
This should not be treated as an isolated case because I represent the so many women of Nigeria who may never be confident enough to present a memorandum of this nature. I carry their pains and anxieties here because I am a woman like them. As wife, I wish to kneel down and beg our men not to allow them to spread this hostility for whatever reasons which they may be advancing, not at this point in time in our history as a nation, when we are struggling with Boko Haram Insurgents.
I will cite a second testimony as a Kwaran from Ira, Kwara State Nigeria. For some time now, whenever, I go home, I observe that the women do not go to their farms anymore. Upon enquiry from the Oba and the women themselves, they explained that the Fulani herdsmen have taken over all their farms with all their crops are eaten up by their cows. They further exclaimed that the herdsmen rape and kill if they dare sight them on their farms. The men also do not bother going at all. The Kabiyesi said he has intervened, but the policemen are also afraid of the Fulani herdsmen. So the Farming occupation has thus been truncated. GOD help us!
To my mind, the Fulani herdsmen are business people like others seeking opportunity to market and enlarge their industry. Even now doctors are warning that red meat consumption should be curtailed and not as healthy as we thought. What right has the Nigerian Government to forcefully take community lands by legislation to enlarge the Fulanis cow business? Is it that other livestock farmers eg snail, goat etc. will also in every State be given a land as they desire for the enlargement of their businesses throughout the country? Is this the wish of the average Nigerian or is it that the Fulanis have terrorized us so much such that our husbands have become cowards to please them? God forbid! If our husbands will not protect us, we will have no choice but to move out on the street, if this bill is passed, to be killed by the bullets of our motherland.
The Federal Government plans to encourage the Cow Fulani Breeders to establish private Cattle Ranches and Grazing Reserves which is outdated, unscientific and unsustainable. That the nomadic culture of moving cattle from one place to another is not economically sound and that the culture should change for the creation of private cattle ranches with access to all the necessary amenities like schools, hospitals, Banks and proximity to Agro allied industries like Dairy, Tannery and Beef Production.
The startling statistics on the un-productivity of the current nomadic system is evident. The population of Cattle in Nigeria is 15million as against Brazil’s 220 million. Our dairy/milk production is extremely poor with 1L/cow compared to Brazil and Saudi Arabia of 30-40L/cow). Saudi Arabia produces 10 million pints of milk daily while Nigeria spends $1.32 million annually on importation of milk powder.
The Government is to assist Breeders with grazing grass seed and other incentives.
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (Nigerian Graduate Christian Fellowship Submission – An Affiliate of CAN)
A) Grazing reserve/grazing route is unsustainable, conflicts with Land use act of our constitution that vested the power on land allocation to State Governors and not the Federal Government. It is also prone to conflicts with host communities and Farmers.
B) The best solution is private ownership of modern day cattle ranches with access to veterinary services, Schools, Irrigation/water supply and other social amenities
C) It is wrong for Federal Government to seize a community land and give it to Private businessmen who are cattle breeders as it favours one group at the expense of others.
D) The land mass in Northern Nigeria far outstrips what obtained in the South. The entire South eastern states have a land mass of 28,982 km2 which is smaller than Kogi State (29,582 km2)!
The entire southern states in the west, east and south south is less than a third of the land mass in the North. It is therefore wrong for Government to allocate land from the South to breeders from the North.
E) Sambisia forest which is approximately 60,000 Km2 and has more than 6million hectares of land can be used as a national ranch where all breeders from different parts of the country can breed their cattle. This will help to develop the area and derive Boko Haram their haven.
F) That the Fulani Herdsmen causing havoc, raping women, and armed with sophisticated weapons is a grave security threat to the country and should be treated as terrorists.
G) Government’s proposal to solve herdsmen/farmers incessant clashes by introducing grazing land reserve all over the country will in our opinion extend their terrorist activities all over the country and this is not acceptable.
H) The idea that grazing reserves as a panacea to the problem is not only archaic, but unscientific, unsustainable and most modern nations including Saudi Arabia have introduced ranches instead of Nomadism.
I) Moreover, cattle rearing as practiced in Nigeria is a private business, therefore it is unfair for Government to acquire land from Farmers which is their only means of livelihood and give same to the Fulani Herdsmen free of charge. In summary, we advocate the Ranching system which will restrict every Farmer to his own portion of land thus eliminating incessant clashes and unnecessary loss of lives and properties.
RECOMMENDATIONS BY CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (CAN)
1. No grazing rights, routes or reserves (3Rs) because it is private business and tax payers’ money should not be used as in other normal private businesses in the country.
2. Loans should be sourced for through banks, Federal/State ministries, like other businesses in Nigeria to facilitate their education as an association to improve themselves so that they can fit in with 21st century Nomad practices in line with the millennium development goals. It is a well known fact that the Federal Government has released billions of naira for Grazing Reserves in Northern Nigeria which we presume should be enough.
3. Lands should be sourced at state level or through Northern Governors’ forum where the cows will be in their natural habitat in northern Nigeria. This should not be done by COERCION, MANIPULATION, INTIMIDATION, ENFORCEMENT OF LAW or THE PASSING OF ANY BILL INTO MOTION but with PERSUASION and ENCOURAGEMENT. State Governors should be adequately educated on what they stand to benefit.
4. Ranches/Reserves should be restricted to state of origin of Nomads or anyone into animal husbandry and the remaining untapped, uncultivated vast land space on the entire planet which happens to be in Northern Nigeria.
5. Chief Awolowo said “Tap and pipe water from the Atlantic Ocean to irrigate the whole of Northern Nigeria like other deserts of the world and you will feed the entire world from here”.
6. There should be no driving of herds all over the nation as the excuse to mass murder Nigerians in the South.
7. All Nigerian borders should be tightened, because most of these so called Fulani herdsmen who are actually Boko Haram and illegal immigrants from neighbouring Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Benin Republic etc. They are definitely not our Nigerian brothers.
1. WE BELIEVE THAT THE NATIONAL GRAZING BILL IS A SUBTLE WAY FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ISLAMISE NIGERIA. So, in order to alleviate and prove our fears wrong, such a BILL SHOULD NEVER BE PASSED INTO MOTION because it is not a LEGISLATIVE ISSUE.
2. We are of the opinion that there should be constant dialogue with all the stake holders to formulate a holistic plan that will promote peace, harmony and advancement of our Livestock industry, so that we don’t divide Nigeria into Southeria and Northeria either overtly or covertly.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
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William Bao Bean was managing director of Singtel Innov8 between 2010 and 2014. Singtel Innov8 is focused on investing in and driving innovative services and technology from around the world, especially China, to its 350m subscribers in Asia and Africa.
Before that, William Bao Bean was for three years a partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, an early stage venture capital firm that is backed by Softbank of Japan and Cisco and focused on the technology, media and telecom sectors. William began his investment career 12 years ago as a technology analyst in Taiwan. Most recently at Deutsche Bank, he was responsible for Internet and Telecom Equipment across Asia as well as China technology including telecom equipment, Internet, media, PCs, display, handsets and software. Prior to this, he covered Telecom Equipment and Digital Media companies with Bank of America Securities in San Francisco. William also worked as an associate analyst with the team covering PCs, Enterprise Hardware, Handhelds, Storage and Semiconductors at Bear Stearns in New York.
In 2006 he was ranked #3 All-Asia analyst for Technology/Software and IT Services by Institutional Investor Magazine Asia. In 2005, he was ranked #1 stock picker in Technology, Media and Telecom, and #3 overall for Hong Kong/China by Forbes/SCMP/Starmine as well as was a ranked analyst by Institutional Investor Magazine Asia. William is a regular presenter at industry conferences and has authored a number of white papers including: The Digital Home Handbook – Intelligence At The Edge and China Internet WVAS – The Second Coming. He currently sits on the boards of advisors/directors for companies including Punch Entertainment, Radiance, Tokiva, TalkDaTalk, Iotum, iTalki and the Music Matters and ad:tech China conferences. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.
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Question about Troy Bilt 5.5hp Self Propelled Mower
After the lawn mower sits a few days in my garage, it doesn't start. I pull the start chain and nothing happens for quite a few tries.
After a while, it will starts up but a lot of smoke come out of the exchaust. Not sure why or what needs to be done to fix this.
Please answer me fast
I used my mower two weeks ago. Now it won!t start, I check the air filter,change the gas, check the
spark plug and it was soaked with gas. I clean the plug and set the gap and it still won!t start. It
sound like it wants to start but it will not start.
please answer me fast
Thank you very much
Posted on Sep 17, 2008
You may need to change the oil and/or empty the old gas and replace it with new.
This thing happens when you don't take care of your lawn mower for too long.
Posted on Sep 01, 2008
SOURCE: My lawn mower doesn't start
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Posted on Dec 22, 2008
You may want to check the gas cap to see if it clogged with dirt. If the gas cap is clear, you more than likely have a carburetor problem. If you need tips on carb. cleaning, feel free to ask.
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or as an old coach of mine used to say, "Perfect practice makes perfect."
Sex takes practice.
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Back in November 2009, our exclusive report forecast that thousands of UK Internet users would soon be receiving cash demands in connection with allegations of illicit file-sharing, after lawyers ACS:Law were granted more court orders to obtain their identities.
James Bench from BeingThreatened, a consumer group dedicated to helping those wrongfully accused by this law firm and their partners (such as Germany-based DigiProtect), told TorrentFreak that people are starting to receive them this week. A small number have arrived to date, fittingly by the cheapest and most unreliable regular postage method available in the UK – 2nd class.
“So far the unreliability of the evidence appears not to have been addressed,” Bench explains. “100% of victims contacting BeingThreatened as a result of this new batch state they did not commit or authorise any copyright infringement of the work they are accused of sharing.”
Indeed, the unreliability of the evidence presented as part of these threatening letters has been raised yet again, this time by the Lords involved in the Digital Economy Bill debate.
Following on from his earlier criticism, on Monday Lord Lucas noted that the firm making these accusations are “not nice people to fall foul of,” they are “not nice to deal with,” and later adding “the methods that they use to extract money are not nice.”
Lord Lucas went on to explain that ACS:Law had “been kind enough” to write to him in person, but went on to criticize the evidence their allegations are based on.
Noting that the evidence is provided by foreign companies that do not disclose the methodology used to obtain it, Lord Lucas observed: “It may well have been obtained against data protection rules – that is certainly the conclusion that the Swiss and French authorities seem to have reached.”
Describing the allegations as “totally impenetrable,” Lord Lucas said that upon receiving these letters telling account holders that they have to pay money, people have no way of disproving what they are accused of.
“I think most of their [ACS:Law’s] income comes from people who just pay,” he said. “I am not aware that there have been many court cases at the end of this because of the element of bluff.”
To be more precise, ACS:Law have never taken anyone to court on file-sharing allegations, even though they threaten to.
Of course, the “bluffing” strategy can work two ways. Those who refuse to pay, admit nothing and stand their ground against any wrongful allegations, can also find that they come out on top.
So, how does a complete novice in legal matters stand up to these threats and summon the courage to do so in the face of these “totally impenetrable” allegations?
Simple. All they have to do is grab a copy of the ‘Speculative Invoicing Handbook’ just released by BeingThreatened under a Creative Commons License.
If you have been sent a letter demanding cash for an alleged copyright infringement, do nothing until you have read this handbook cover to cover – it is 100% free, absolutely comprehensive and could save you hundreds of pounds.
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Danny was extremely frustrated...Actually, that was an understatement, he was angry, irritated and bored as well. His best friends were recovering from ecto-acne, no thanks to a certain fruit loop, and all Danny wanted to do was sit with them till they felt 100% but, all of a sudden, Clockwork had teleported the boy to his lair, deep within the Ghost Zone and instantly spoken to Danny about his actions in the last few days.
Clockwork believed that, though Danny had learned, through his recent experience, to respect time, he still didn't fully understand how important the past was. What could the Master of Time expect though? Danny was only fourteen? But, Clockwork was fearful of the future, of one major future in particular; one in which Vlad Masters is banished to the stars and in time, returns to exact a horrific vengeance on the world.
Unfortunately, the young half ghost knew nothing of this and as a child, he didn't yet respect the fact that actions have consequences - more importantly, his animosity towards the only other of his kind. Though Clockwork had to admit, it was well justified animosity after everything that Vlad had done, but if things were to be amended, he knew that Danny would have to be convicted to make a move to do so. For Vlad was far too stubborn and stuck in his ways than Danny was, and he could more easily appeal to Danny's compassion, and when it came to Vlad Masters there was enough call for compassion, even if it took a while to see why.
"I know it's difficult for you to believe..." Clockwork said again to Danny.
"Difficult!" Danny shouted, "It's impossible! The guy's a class ‘A’ jerk! He's always trying to kill my dad! He's always showing off how much better he is at using his powers than me! He's a fruit loop!"
"Then it will surprise you to know that when he was young, he had as much difficulty in controlling his powers as you did."
"Yeah, right," Danny scoffed and crossed his arms.
"It's true," Clockwork told the young half ghost, "He had just as much, if not more difficulty than you have," the Time Master added, but Danny only continued to stare at him in disbelief. "And I intend to prove it to you."
"What d'you mean 'prove it to me'?" the young boy asked.
"It's something I think you need to see for yourself if you are ever to respect him."
"Like that'll happen!" Danny frowned.
"You have more in common than you think," the ghost said.
"Not you too, dude," the boy lamented, but Clockwork chose to ignore it.
"You do; you're both intelligent, resourceful, strong willed, independent, and of course, you are the only two half ghosts in the world."
"But he's evil!"
"Perhaps," the ghost shrugged, "But 20 years ago he was just like you. He didn't know how to control his powers, but luckily you have your friends, he had no one."
"Boo hoo, I'm in tears," Danny rolled his eyes.
"And ghost sightings were much rarer, you've been surrounded by them since you first developed your powers, you know what different powers exist and you can attempt to work on them yourself. Where do you suppose he got his ideas?"
"I don't know?! Why d'you care anyway?"
"I 'care' about everything. It's my job," Clockwork replied enigmatically.
"Well, you shouldn't care about this!"
"And that, is exactly why I do," the ghost told a confused Danny.
Clockwork raised his staff at the blank time screen standing upright, and green smoke began to blur from nothing. It spiralled around and around, making Danny feel dizzy, until it separated off into different colours and shapes.
After a few seconds, it formed an image of the mid-morning sun beating down on what looked like the outer fringes of a major city with crumbling, greyish buildings coated in graffiti and streets lined with litter. Danny noticed that the cars driving there were old fashioned, at least to him they were old fashioned. In actual fact, they were actually around two decades old. There were people walking down the street as well, but the main focus seemed to be the large block of flats centred in the image. The building had certainly seen better days.
Danny looked to Clockwork for an explanation when he could find none.
"Downtown Madison, Wisconsin, May 18th, 1986," Clockwork gave a smile.
"What's so special about it?" Danny shrugged as he stared at the images on the time portal; still nothing appeared to stand out to him.
"It is exactly three weeks after 22 year old Vladimir Masters was released from hospital, after two years and four months," Clockwork answered.
"And you're showing this to me because?"
"Because it’s something you need to see, now let's take a closer look," the ghost said raising his staff again.
"No, wait, don't!" Danny cried, but it was too late for him to flee; he was already engulfed in Clockwork's power.
The next thing he knew, he was floating in Madison, Wisconsin of 20 years ago. "Great, more old culture," he muttered to himself, looking at the people walking below them.
"There," Clockwork pointed and Danny reluctantly turned his head in said direction, "That window," he specified.
"That one?" Danny asked and the ghost nodded, "What about it?"
"It is where Vladimir moved to after the hospital released him."
"But it's so...it looks so...lived in..." Danny muttered.
"Of course, here in 1986 he has hardly a penny to his name," Clockwork explained and Danny's eyes widened in shock.
"But he cheated his way up, didn't he?" the boy frowned. He'd always assumed that Vlad had always been a cheat and a liar.
"All will be explained," the time ghost said simply and together they floated towards the apartment window and through the wall into what was the main sitting room.
It was sparsely furnished and what little there was, was an odd mishmash of colours and designs. The wallpaper was a miserable faded hue, and the floor hadn't fared much better either. There were battered books, crumpled papers and cables and wires everywhere, they were on every surface in sight so it was clear that the inhabitant was an intellectual, if a generally untidy person. But Danny supposed that, in such surroundings, why would one bother being tidy; it wouldn't make a difference to the overwhelming ambience of depression that the overall colour palette produced.
A loud shattering sound made Danny jump and then he heard a voice speak. "Butter biscuits!" they heard it say and Danny stifled a laugh, "Not again!" the voice added and a second later, the source of the voice emerged from an adjoining room.
A young man stormed through into the room with an exasperated and somewhat confused expression. His pure white hair was loosely tied back with strands escaping to fall over pale skin and his clothes proved to be the cleanest things in the room by a mile, strangely, though they too showed signs of long use. The black, long sleeved shirt and jeans were clearly much loved, and he wiped his hands quickly on his jeans as he nimbly walked across to a fraying, thread bare arm chair and flopped down into it, not noticing Danny and Clockwork.
"Is he ignoring us?" Danny asked.
"He can't see us, we're watching events that have happened, that is all."
"So...we're the ghosts of Christmas past?" the young boy said sarcastically, but the Time Master chose not to reply.
The young Vlad gave a world weary sigh and pushed himself up in the chair to sit cross legged and rested his elbows on his legs, then put his head in his hands. "What's wrong with me?" he said to himself and then proceeded to jump as a phone began to ring. It was partially buried under a stack of papers on a table close to him so, reluctantly, he reached out a hand to brush the papers onto the floor then lifted the receiver to speak.
"What?" he snapped and listened for a second, "...No, Jack, I'm busy...leave me alone...I really don't want to know...I don't care...now...don't call me again...I mean it..." he said and swiftly threw the phone aside. It crashed to the floor and then, Vlad sprang from his chair, unhooked the wire from the wall, picked up the whole phone and threw it across the room. Crashing into a very tall, precarious stack of books, it all came tumbling down with a loud cacophony of noise and then there came a swift 'bang' against the far wall from the other side.
"Hey! Keep it down in there, punk!" a disembodied voice screamed deeply and Vlad only glared at the direction it came from. Luckily for that neighbour, Vlad hadn't been able to shoot ectoplasm from his eyes, or he'd have been a goner.
Danny then heard Vlad scoff and then wince - confused, the young half ghost floated closer to him. He had to jump back a fraction, when a second later, the young Vlad collapsed to the floor, clutching his head and gritting his teeth as though afflicted by the worlds' worse migraine, "Not again...not now..." he said to himself, "Enough!"
"What's happening?" Danny asked.
"Same thing that happens to you in the future, only much slower," Clockwork told him and the boy continued to stare at Vlad.
"Can't we...I dunno...do something?" he asked in vain.
"No, we have no right to change his life, and remember, we are observers only here," the time ghost told him. Danny knew he was right of course, he also knew that kneeling across from him, was the very man who'd caused him so much trouble, but Danny didn't enjoy seeing anyone in so much pain...even his arch enemy.
A brief flash of black appeared around the young man and Danny retreated back even further out of habit. The light vanished, then reappeared and continued to fizzle out, this repeated several times over and Vlad's eyes began to glow red. When he was eventually engulfed in the dark rings of light, what it revealed wasn't what Danny recognised.
Vlad's skin was still the pale, pinkish hue as his human half, he didn't appear to have fangs and the flamboyant outfit of white, black and red was non-existent. In fact Vlad was wearing his human clothes. The only things that were the same as Danny remembered were that his eyes were red, and his hair was now black and he took on the same, unnatural glowing aura of all ghosts.
"I'm confused," Danny muttered, watching Vlad frown in a similar state of emotion.
Catching a glimpse of his face in the reflection off the old television screen, Vlad jumped back, uneasily landing on the cushion of the chair and toppling it backwards with him still on it. "Ouch," he muttered, rubbing the back of his head as he pushed himself off the fallen chair, and Danny giggled.
Vlad reached up and touched his hair, unable to believe what he thought he'd seen, but again, he saw a blur of red in the screen which again was strange, because he wasn't wearing any red. "I'm seeing things...I'm losing my mind...anything...it can't be real..." he said to himself, quickly stumbling through the rooms.
Danny slowly followed and he came into a small, outdated, barely finished bathroom as Vlad was staring wide eyed at himself in a small mirror above a cheap, grimy sink. The young man seemed frozen to the spot and his breathing rapidly increased. After a minute, he slowly reached out a hand and touched the mirror as though somehow testing its reliability, he placed his fingers on the reflection of his glowing red eyes and gasped.
Then, making Danny jump, he turned tail and ran swiftly out of the room, slamming the door behind him, trying to distance himself from what he saw. "Not possible," Vlad told himself, wrapping his arms round his chest and shaking. "It's a dream... It's a..." he broke off as the glowing rings appeared again and once more, he grimaced.
It didn't take as long, this time, for him to change back, but when he had, his eyes seemed heavy and he swayed where he stood. Vlad leaned back, his back hitting the wall and he slid down to the floor. His eyes were closed a second later.
"What happened?" Danny asked.
"He didn't receive ghost powers straight after his accident, it took longer for his cells to fully fuse with the ecto-energy because, unlike you, only part of his body was exposed to it, and it was contaminated, if you recall," Clockwork told Danny.
"So...that's why he was in hospital?"
"Correct, because Vladimir didn't fully 'half die', the ghost cells slowly killed of half the human cells in the space of two years. Doctors could find no explanation or cure, but the ecto-acne cleared up so they released him, after all, to them, he seemed to be improving medically."
"Even though half of him was dying?"
"Yes, but the ghost part was compensating for it, as it did with you. Now, come on," Clockwork said to Danny, "There's more," he added and they vanished as silently as they had arrived.
Danny quickly found himself at the dingy, downtown apartments again but this time, he and Clockwork were flying intangibly through the floors of the building, at the same speed as one other ghost; Vlad.
"Whoa...whoa...whoa...whoa..." Vlad cried, as he fell intangibly through level after level of his apartment building, "Stop!" he yelled to himself, and instantly he did stop, floating a foot off the ground. Eyes wide, he breathed heavily as he stared at the floor, then, in shock he then fell the remaining distance and landed flat on his stomach.
Now that he could get a better look, he saw that Vlad's skin had taken on a pale blue colour and small fangs glistened.
"What's going on with the blue skin tone?" he asked Clockwork.
"His ghost half is maturing, as yours will; it happened faster with Vladimir because he was older than you when he got his powers. It's actually only five weeks since he first transformed," the Time Ghost answered as Vlad stood up. He brushed off his clothes, which now were all black, and cracked his neck.
"I really need to stop doing that," Vlad said to himself, looking up. He then walked around, testing his limbs, and saw that he'd landed right in the basement where the washing machines and dryers were kept for the tenants. At least it was empty. "...Leave the hospital, they said...you'll be fine, they said," Vlad cursed under his breath as he moved about the room.
Then, the door at the far end of the room clicked open, and nearly jumped out of his skin. "Curses!" he muttered before turning himself intangible, and lucky for him it worked this time on command.
A young woman with long dark hair and tanned skin walked into the room with a basket full of clothes, she then walked across to a machine and began piling the clothes into it with a bored expression. Vlad stood not far from her, still intangible, walked away, trying to fly from the room. He managed to fly up from the floor and then prompt fell back down again, visible to the young woman.
At the sound of Vlad falling, she turned around and jumped, dropping her laundry she froze in shock.
"Umm...Boo?" Vlad shrugged and the woman ran screaming bloody murder from the room, a second later, he burst out laughing, clutching his stomach. After much effort, he then flew clear of the building and up into the air, Danny and Clockwork following behind him.
It didn't take long before Vlad floundered in the air, alternating from skimming the clouds to just being able to avoid the tops of the buildings, fortunately throughout the whole flight he somehow managed to stay invisible. A few minutes later, Vlad more or less fell back down to earth, landing in an alleyway of the main streets, transforming back was out of his control.
"Oh, sugar cookies!" Vlad rolled his eyes, dropping to the floor again, now as a human. "Ah!" he cried out as a glowing green net sprang out of nowhere, trapping him inside it.
"Ah-ha!" Skulker exclaimed happily, "A rare specimen indeed; half human, half ghost...you'll make a fine edition to my collection!"
"Your collection? How delightful," Vlad drawled, "Who exactly are you?"
"I am Skulker, Ghost Zone's greatest hunter, and you are my prey, ghost hybrid. I've never seen anything like you before; imagine my surprise when my tracker picked you up!" Skulker answered. "Tell me, would you prefer I hang your pelt above my fire place or use it as a welcome rug?"
"Erm, honestly, neither," Vlad raised an amused eyebrow even though he was still trapped in the ecto-net.
"Too bad!" Skulker chuckled, and dragged the net forwards. But Vlad phased through it with much concentration, and Skulker reeled in an empty net. "Ah, so now you can control your powers," the hunter grinned, floating up off the ground, "Come on, then hybrid, show me what you can do."
Vlad smirked back, and transformed into his increasingly developing ghost half and raised his hand. It took a few seconds, but he managed to make his limb glow with ecto-energy which he instantly released in Skulker's direction.
But so intrigued was the hunter, he didn't notice the blast until it hit him and he was surprised at its intensity. He was thrown straight up against a brick wall, slamming into it as the ectoplasm shocked his body for at least fifteen seconds before dissipating. When he landed back on the ground he saw the human looking at his hand in surprise. Perhaps the hybrid was just as shocked as he.
Skulker than flew at Vlad and the two fought hand to hand combat, and once more the hunter was surprised when he couldn't instantly throw off the hybrid. Vlad already had the strength of ten strong humans and his reflexes had improved as well, making him almost equal to the hunter.
They both jumped back, then attacked with ectoplasmic blasts and it threw the pair in opposite directions when the opposing energies met. Vlad took his chance and flew quickly away from the alley, looking back over his shoulder the whole way, made it back to his flat and collapsed onto his bed with a sigh. "Ghost Zones' greatest hunter, huh?" he muttered, his voice muffled by the quilts, "Just what I need!"
"Hey, that's what I..." Danny began, then stopped, "Erm...never mind...next, please," he smiled nervously at Clockwork who only grinned charismatically.
This time, once again, Vlad was kneeling in on sitting room floor, clearly concentrating very deeply, staring at his hand. After a while, his hand started to glow a deep pink and then it vanished. Vlad let out a snort of anger, before trying again, and again, and again.
When he failed for a fifth time, Vlad groaned and fell back into the floor, kicking away piles of books and clothes as he lay there with closed eyes. He was evidently giving up, but just as he turned to lie on his right side, he felt his hand sting painfully.
"Oww!" he muttered, sitting bolt upright and raising his hand. It was now burning with ectoplasm, shocking Vlad with its intensity. As it continued to burn he found he couldn't stop it and he was almost panicking as he shook his hand, trying to shake off the power.
Unfortunately for Vlad, his actions made the ectoplasm shoot right from his hand, and hit his sitting room wall with a crash and a loud sizzling sound. "Whoops," Vlad said to himself.
Danny giggled at the large scorch mark on the sitting room wall, but before he could actually see more, Clockwork altered the surroundings, and the year, once more.
This time, there was a man in a long, black coat, and a white ponytail walking towards a large pavilion full of people in expensive, celebration regalia. He cast a cold aura as he moved past several smiling men and women as he walked, but he spoke to none of them. Instead, he moved slowly, and silently through the throng of people, watching as a man in a sharp tuxedo dancing happily with a woman with red hair, elegantly strung with fake pearls, dressed in a white wedding gown.
Hanging on a nearby wall was a banner that read 'Just Married', and Danny could see that the man and woman were in fact his mother and father, and that it was Vlad standing off to the side. He looked jealous, angry and lonely all at the same time as the music drew to a close. When it stopped completely the crowd applauded for Jack and Maddie and they took mocking bows, laughing.
"V-man, there you are," Jack grinned, taking Maddie's hand they walked quickly towards him, "We couldn't see you earlier."
"I wasn't there," Vlad replied coldly.
"Oh, why?" Jack asked, confused.
"I was busy," the white haired, pale man said.
"Vlad, please..." Maddie frowned, "Don't be like this. What happened to you?" she asked, and Vlad narrowed his eyes.
"What happened?! What happened was I spent over two years of my life in hospital, thinking I was going to die!"
"But you're fine now," she pleaded, "You're our friend, we don't want to fight, can't things just go back to how they used to be."
"Yes, used to be," Vlad sighed, "I just came to tell you to stop harassing me, and leave me be."
"You didn't come to celebrate with us?" Maddie frowned.
"Come on, Vladdie, it'll be great..." Jack began.
"No, it won't, Jack..."
"But, Vlad, you're our friend," Maddie repeated.
"Don't you remember; we used to everything together. Why're you making things different?" Jack asked his old friend.
"I don't expect you to understand, but I have plans, and they don't involve you," Vlad said, turning to walk away. Then, suddenly, he stopped and spoke again, "Ah...congratulations...I'm sure you'll be...very...happy together," he ground out, almost painfully, and full of malice, then he walked swiftly away with the crowd parting as he moved.
"I don't understand it, Maddie, we used to be such great pals," Jack said to his new wife.
"I know, Jack...I guess what happened to him was worse than we thought," Maddie sighed.
"We'll make it up to him somehow," her husband replied, regaining his usual jovial manner.
"I hope so."
Danny watched as his father hugged his mother, and both mourned the confusing loss of a friend - lost in a way they'd never understand.
Vlad sat in his flat, dressed in a loose white shirt and dark trousers, he was in the sitting room which was now littered with boxes. Still as a statue he was leant over a microscope with a note book by his side and a pencil behind his ear. He was clearly deep in thought and Danny floated closer to try and see what was on the glass slide of the microscope.
Vlad then scribbled down a few notes on the paper and subsequently, placed the pencil behind his ear and put aside the microscope and pad with a sigh. "I'm really not human anymore," he said to himself and stood up to open the window and lean against the sill.
Danny could now see what Vlad had jotted down; it was a curiously altered, yet perfect depiction, of the mans' ghostly altered DNA.
"Is that what my DNA looks like as well?" Danny asked Clockwork who only nodded.
After a minute, Vlad returned to his microscope, he picked it up and put it away in one of the boxes lying around the room. Then, he snatched a newspaper from off a chair and stared intently at one particular page, trailing over different articles with his pencil. Then he circled something rather vigorously and gave a small smile. He reached out to grasp a coffee mug and raised it to his lips.
"Urgh...cold..." he muttered, taking the mug through into the kitchen, leaving the newspaper on the chair.
'Business Associates Wanted', it read and Danny shuddered at the thought that one relatively small article had made Vlad's whole fortune.
Vlad now, was standing in an office alone, facing a wall of windows looking out onto a bustling city at dusk. The bright lights reflecting on the glass, illuminating Vlad's dark suit and pale features from the shadows. He looked comfortable and at home, leading Danny to believe that this was Vlad private office, but then in walked an aged man who looked to be in his mid-sixties wearing a crisp suit of dark blue with stern features and thinning hair.
"Thank you for waiting, Mr Masters, I'm Adrian Anderson, CEO," the man said, moving forwards and offering his hand to Vlad. "I'm sorry for the late meeting, but I'm leaving for Beijing tomorrow, and I was told that you were the best candidate for the job and that I just had to meet you before I left. Take a seat," he gestured to the seat on either sides of the desk.
The man, Anderson, pulled out a pair of glasses from his suit jacket pocket and began to read the papers on his desk, "So, Vladimir Masters - valedictorian in high school, three in college before...two years hospitalised?" he broke off, questioning Vlad.
"A fellow students' lab experiment gone wrong before I could stop it," was all Vlad said, and Anderson continued with a light cough.
"...Graduated with honours, specialist subjects; advanced Mathematics and Applied Physics, awards for theories in Obscure Physics and Computer Development as well. Previous work experience, various shop work, managing accounts of student cafés. Impressive. But when all's said and done, you're a scientist; a very good one it seems, but not a business expert or even a business student," he raised an eyebrow at the papers.
"Business is, in a way, an exact science," Vlad replied.
"Maybe, but physics won't help you here, son. We do have a science branch, a very good one as a matter of fact, why don't you try applying for a research job there? I've no doubt you'll surpass anyone else applying."
"I like a challenge; science isn't a challenge anymore, the next thing I thought of was business," Vlad shrugged.
"Well, that's a brutally honest answer..." the man's eyes widened, "It's not one I've heard before either."
"I want this job, and I intend to succeed. In truth I care little for the idea that this job will improve either my character or my work ethic. I can't change the fact that I majored in Physics and Mathematics, but this is my choice."
"And is this what you told my Head of Staff?" Anderson asked with a small smile.
"Yes," Vlad answered, "I got the feeling he found it all rather amusing," he said stoically.
"Well, I get the feeling he's laughing at us both right now, but I'll make you a deal, kid," Anderson leaned forwards, "I'll give you two months on full pay to prove to me you have a head for business, if not, you'll have to walk out the door and stick with your science. What d'you think?"
Vlad raised his head, thinking for a moment, as the man continued, "And if this works out, imagine...we'll both be laughing at him."
"I don't doubt you'll be ridiculed for taking such a gamble," Vlad said.
"Gambles are necessary in business...and in science, sometimes they pay off, sometimes they don't. So, do we have a deal?"
"We do," Vlad replied confidently and Anderson smiled then reached out his hand for a second handshake.
"So...he got a job legit...doesn't mean he didn't cheat the guy into giving him his company," Danny said to Clockwork a minute later.
"It may surprise you to know that he didn't, Adrian Anderson retired six years later, leaving his company to Vladimir perfectly legally and without ghostly interference," the Time Master said, "...Don't believe me?"
"Erm...no," the ghost boy crossed his arms and green smoke swallowed the scene again.
It was daylight now, in the same office, only now there were cardboard boxes full of books, papers, and knick-knacks. An older looking Adrian Anderson was sitting at his desk, looking down at a framed award in reminiscence just as Vlad burst into the room.
"Ah, Vlad, do come in," Anderson gave a smile.
"You are retiring then?" Vlad questioned.
"Oh yes, I've worked all my life. I'm old and tired, I'm leaving the company to you, and I plan to spend the remainder of my life enjoying my success on a little island I know off the coast of Italy," Anderson said.
"Old and tired?" Anderson raised an eye brow.
"No, after that!" Vlad snapped.
"Retiring to Italy?"
"No, no, in the middle!"
"Leaving the company to you?"
"That's the one...wait...why are you doing that?"
"You don't want it?"
"Of course I do," Vlad replied honestly.
"Then congratulations kid," he chuckled, "I've already taken care of everything, all you need do, is sign these, and tomorrow this office'll be yours," Anderson added, tossing a thick, brown, A4 sized envelope onto the desk from one of the boxes. "You did what you said you would, you succeeded, you improved this company, and I've no doubt that you'll do even better on your own."
Vlad stood still, meeting the gaze of the old man who spoke again, "You proved us all wrong, kid, I would say you should be proud of that, but you already are. I'll tell you one thing though; don't be too proud, it won't do you any good. You're the best businessman I've ever met, you learned the trade as fast as anything, but that's your problem; you're too good."
"If you don't trust me, give the company to someone else," Vlad scoffed.
"No, you're the best bet to keep this place going," Anderson told him, "So do what you want; change the name, expand, invest, whatever...just remember, things can come crashing down faster than they go up," he said and Vlad crossed his arms.
"Taking up Philosophy, are we?" he smirked and Anderson chuckled.
"No, no, it's too late for that, I just don't want to see you lose it all," the old man answered.
"You won't; I don't intend to," Vlad said and Anderson sighed.
"I'd like to say we've been good friends...but you never let anyone in...We’ve been good associates, haven't we?"
"You're getting sappy in your old age, Anderson," Vlad told him.
"Yeah," the man shrugged, "Maybe I am, but I'm retired now, it doesn't matter what I do. I don't have to keep up the façade anymore."
"It's a game, and you're quitting."
"No, it might be a game, but if it is, I've won and I've got my bonus prize to boot."
"No good deed goes unpunished," Vlad grinned.
"Precisely," Anderson nodded in amusement, then picked up the last framed photo on his desk, placed it on one of the boxes and stood up. "Well, that's all of it," he said, "It's all yours now, Vlad, good luck," he finished, walking over to Vlad and putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I won't need it," Vlad replied.
"I know," the man smiled, "But I'll say it anyway," he said, then left the room.
Vlad once more moved to stand in front of the wall of windows with a satisfied smile on his face, he literally felt like he was standing on top of the world now, and it showed.
"You can't be serious!" Vlad scoffed a second later. The setting was different altogether, but Vlad still wore an amused expression.
"I am!" another man shouted back.
"This is my company, you don't have the skills to take it from me."
"You're not suited to this business, everyone knows it..."
"I am the CEO, and you will show respect!" Vlad finished, and the temperature in the room dropped. It was a large, light filled room decorated with pale colours and with long, dark wood table in the centre, with each chair taken. Men and women in crisp suits and uneasy expressions sat around the table, watching Vlad stare down his would-be rival in business. The others seemed to know better than to get involved, but this other young man standing up, did not.
"Mr Smith...maybe you should sit down," a scared looking woman whispered to her young, naïve colleague.
"I won't 'sit down'," the man cried, "This man isn't qualified to run a pretzel stand, let alone buy out another company!"
"Wow, tough room," Danny breathed, "What's goin' on?"
"This first time Vlad used his powers in his work," Clockwork said, "You might argue he was somewhat justified."
"It's not up to you," another person quietly told Smith, "Now quiet down, or get out," and reluctantly, the young man sat down.
"As we were saying, Mr Masters," a confident woman spoke up. Her light brown hair was pinned back smoothly and her light grey suit was well tailored, "Your offer is very generous, and very much appreciated, but we will require further deliberation. I suggest we reconvene after further deliberation," she said and Vlad nodded sharply.
Everyone then left the room, taking their briefcases and suit jackets with them, but Smith, the young arrogant man remained. He stood up after everyone had left and walked across to Vlad, angrily speaking again, "I meant it; this company will be mine, and when it is, every pathetic worker will be fired and you will be ruined!" the man told Vlad whose eyes shone red. He then turned himself intangible and floated forwards to easily overshadow the younger mans' body.
He then picked up Smith's briefcase, floated up through the ceiling and into an office, to sit at a desk with a computer. It didn't take him long to type up a short, insulting letter of resignation in Smith's guise, then he destroyed every paper in the briefcase. Vlad put the letter in Smith's pocket, then went to another office.
Inside his own office, Vlad downed a bottle of strong whiskey, or rather, Smith downed it quickly. Then he walked out onto the main floor, and left the young man's body - he quickly fell to the floor in confusion. Vlad watched invisibly as the young man was ridiculed for his sudden drunkenness.
"He did save hundreds of jobs that day; Mr Smith had a reputation for running lives, even at such a young age," Clockwork said to Danny.
"Yeah, but Vlad only did it to save his own skin," Danny rolled his eyes.
"Perhaps," the Time Ghost shrugged, "But regardless of the reason, Vlad ruined the young and arrogant Mr Smith and began expanding his business empire. He was of course, feared, but it must be said, his companies did remarkably well."
"That's no excuse to turn into a jerk," the young half ghost said and everything faded away again.
The large, sterile lights from the offices faded into smaller, more intimate little flames, flickering in the shadows, and a much more somber atmosphere emerged. Even in the dark, though it was clear that this was no dingy, downtown flat, the room was huge and it was filled with things, unlike what Danny had seen before.
There were chairs, sofas, tables, bookshelves piled high with books and papers, there was a large television, priceless statues and artefacts, even a Ming vase or two. But despite all that, it had an aura of loneliness and Danny shivered lightly - either from cold or from some kind of fear, he wasn't quite certain.
When he heard a light cough, Danny spun around, next to the still Clockwork, and found the source of the noise. It was a man, the only person in the room, sitting in an armchair, with a glass of red wine in hand.
"Happy Birthday, Vlad," he said to himself, raising the wine glass and downing it in one.
Beside Vlad's chair was a small coffee table on which sat several, full paper folders. Vlad turned to look at them, he put down the glass at his feet, and picked up the first folder and a pen; clearly intending to work, even on his birthday.
"Okay, now that's just sad," Danny commented, "Who spends their birthday by themselves like this?"
"He does, every year," Clockwork answered him.
"Ouch," Danny winced briefly as the scene faded away.
"Great, now we're back to the castle!" Danny rolled his eyes, as he and Clockwork floated into Vlad's secret lab. The man himself was lying on the floor, tightening bolts around a large ghost portal.
"There," Vlad said to himself, putting down the wrench, standing up and brushing the dust from his clothes. He walked over to a control panel, carefully pressed several button in succession with the look of a hopeful child at Christmas.
He stood back as the doors to the portal separated and retracted, and then he smirked and chuckled as he saw the swirling green of the Ghost Zone open up before him, "Finally, after all these years," he spoke aloud in triumph.
"So...when was this?" Danny said, "Did he have a working portal before my parents?"
"Ten years before, to be precise," Clockwork answered, "Technically, it was the first, successful, man-made portal, and it was quite an achievement."
"Scary," he shuddered as Vlad transformed into the Plasmius that Danny would come to know, cape and costume complete.
Vlad then floated over to the control panel, set a controlled lock and floated into the Ghost Zone for the first time. Five seconds later, the metal doors slammed shut behind him, echoing throughout the lab, making Danny feel very isolated and very small.
The scene now was Fenton Works, but it was much messier than Danny recalled, and some of the larger pieces of furniture weren't even there yet. He even saw one or two removal boxes lying around. It was just a few months after his parents had moved here, with a three year old Jazz, and sixth month old Danny.
In the sitting room, Danny saw his parents sitting opposite Vlad Masters who was reading from a piece of paper with a quizzical expression on his face.
"You want me to be godfather to your children?" Vlad raised an eyebrow.
"Of course, Vladdie!" Jack said loudly, and his wife 'shushed' him.
"They're sleeping," she told him and he smiled apologetically. Maddie glanced across the room and Danny's eyes widened as he saw a pale blue infants' crib with a baby sleeping soundly inside.
"Whoa...wait up...my parents made Vlad our...godfather?!" Danny yelled, "How come they didn't tell us?!"
"Keep watching," Clockwork told him calmly, watching as Vlad stared at the pen in his hand.
"So, V-man...what d'you say?" Jack asked Vlad, but the man only sighed. "I know we've had our differences, and I know you told us not to bother you again...but this is important."
"If I do this, you have to agree never to tell either Jasmine or Daniel," Vlad told them.
"What, why?" Maddie frowned.
"I want to be left alone, I mean it this time, I think I've earned that right," the man answered harshly, "However, should it become necessary, I will render any aid I deem appropriate should the time arrive."
"Huh?" Jack furrowed his brow in confusion and his wife laid a silencing hand on his arms.
"Alright, Vlad," she nodded, "We trust you," she added, and Vlad signed the papers.
"Mommy?" a quiet, young voice spoke, and three year old Jazz appeared in the doorway wearing pale pink pyjamas. "I'm thirsty," the girl mumbled sleepily, rubbing her eyes. She gazed curiously at the stranger in the sitting room for no more than five seconds then Maddie proceeded to lift the infant into her arms.
"Okay, sweetie," Maddie smiled, taking Jazz into the kitchen.
"Thanks, Vladdie, it means a lot to us," Jack told Vlad as Maddie left.
"I can't imagine why you'd choose me...of all people," the man said.
"We've been through a lot together, we had a lot of fun," Jack reminisced.
"Yes, it was endless fun," Vlad mocked sarcastically, but it went right over Jack's head.
"That reminds me, I'll show you my latest invention, it vacuums ten times after than a regular vacuum and it should run off ecto energy once I figure out how to harness the stuff. Wait here," Jack said excitedly, and ran off to his lab.
Vlad sighed and put down the pen he still clutched in his hand, he looked rather shell shocked and pale as he squeezed the bridge of his nose. A second later, there came a loud crashing and smashing sound, followed by the sound of something heavy, heading towards the sitting room.
Vlad flickered his gaze around, using his ghostly senses, and then he shot up, ran quickly over to the baby Danny, lifted him into his arms, and made the both of them intangible just as Jack's new invention tore through the room, slamming into the cot and all but crushing it. The machine then moved by itself into another room.
"Maddie! The Fenton vacuum! It's on the run again!" Jack cried as he ran through into the room seeing Vlad holding Danny, and then the crushed baby cot in the corner, "See, V-man, you are good with kids..." he said with a smile, then ran from the room.
"You better hope you fare better than I did, Daniel," the man sighed, cradling the child in his arms, "...You and your sister," he added as the baby opened his eyes to stare at Vlad.
Vlad, using his ghost powers, encased the blanket in ecto-energy and it floated up to him, allowing him to wrap the smiling Danny inside it. "Don't get too used to them, child, they come with a hefty price," Vlad said, referring to his powers when the baby laughed, staring at the 'magic' blanket. "One I doubt you'd be willing to pay," he added almost smugly.
"I got it!" Jack yelled, "I caught the Fenton vacuum!" he ran back into the sitting room, smiling triumphantly at Vlad. "Hey, how 'bout a family photo, V-man?" Jack asked seeing his friend still holding Danny.
"I really don't..." Vlad shook his head, suddenly very uneasy.
"It'll be great," Jack smiled, going into the kitchen after his wife, "...Maddie, where'd we put the Fenton camera?"
"...Wow, talk about irony," Danny said to Clockwork.
"I don't think it was lost on Vladimir either, Danny," the ghost replied, waving his staff once more.
Danny grimaced as he once again recognised his arch enemies' high tech laboratory, and this time it was full of loud noise and several ghosts. Skulker was floating off to the side, smirking widely, as the three vulture ghosts all but cowered in fear.
"Blast it all!" Vlad yelled furiously, as he shot a bright blast of pink ectoplasm into his open ghost portal. His cape flew behind him, pushed back from the force of his attacks. He continued to do this over and over again, screaming and yelling hoarsely each time. "Why didn't you tell me that the ghost boy was Jack Fenton's son?!" he bellowed, turning to face the three vultures Danny knew so well. "I had to find like this! It's not good enough I tell you!"
"Ve didn't know, boss, ve svear!" one of the birds answered in his heavily accented voice.
"Ve didn't know it vas so important to find out..." another of them added.
"Why Daniel? Why him?!"
"Get out!" Vlad ordered the ghosts, and they didn't need telling twice. They fled into the portal faster than Danny had ever seen them move, leaving Vlad alone with Skulker. "And what do you have to say for yourself?!" he demanded of the hunter.
"What?" Skulker said in confusion, "Me? What'd I do?"
"You knew, didn't you? Why didn't you inform me Daniel Fenton was the ghost child you so badly wanted to capture?"
"I didn't think his human life was important; you didn't say anything about it and even ghosts can't read minds, Plasmius," the hunter answered sensibly.
"...Everything I lost, and he gets his powers for nothing!" Vlad scowled, sending another strong blast into the Ghost Zone, enjoying the crackling sound it made on impact with the other dimension.
"You know, if you end up hitting something in there, it'll come in here after you," Skulker said to him, pointing his thumb at the portal.
"I don't care!" Vlad yelled.
"Okay," Skulker shrugged his huge shoulders and crossed his arms. "I don't know why you bother with those three anyway, they can't do anything right."
"They don't ask questions for a start," Vlad hissed, "And it's not like you've never messed up before...speaking of which, shouldn't you be checking out a book on a purple back gorilla or something?" he added, in a calmer tone.
"Hey! That wasn't my fault, and when are you gonna get rid of that damn thing for me?!"
"All in good time," Vlad chuckled.
"I'm losing good prey because of it, and you gave me your word..."
"I'll see to it, Skulker," the older hybrid replied. "Meantime...hunt the boy if you wish, it will serve to improve his hold on his powers," he added slowly.
"I'm no one’s teacher, Plasmius!" the hunter growled threateningly, but Vlad didn't flinch.
"The boy is too stubborn; he won't learn anything from me, or anyone else willingly."
"Why does that sound familiar?" Skulker asked him, still with a hint of anger.
"Oh, you're hilarious," Vlad rolled his eyes.
"If you want him to learn anything, why don't you teach him? He is like you, after all."
"He already thinks of me as a villain, it's better off if it stays that way," the man answered the hunter.
"I never thought of you as having a martyr complex, Plasmius."
"Nor I you as having a second death wish, Skulker," Vlad growled back, his eyes shining a deeper red. The hunter backed off reluctantly and Vlad continued, "I expect you to inform the others; no one is to do the boy any lasting harm."
"Why should I be your messenger?!
"Because if anyone harms Daniel irrevocably, I will do the same to you and the ghost in question, ten times over - and you'll most definitely be first."
"Right, I'll do that then," Skulker swallowed nervously, "But...they boy...why do you care?" he asked after a moment.
"It's my job to care," Vlad answered and Danny's eyes widened.
He remembered having the same conversation with Clockwork just before this had all begun. Had Clockwork said the same thing as Vlad on purpose? "Daniel will learn what he needs to know...whether he wants to or not," Vlad said, snapping Danny from his thoughts.
Skulker sighed heavily and started at his employer, "I still don't understand you at all," the hunter admitted.
"That's not important, what is important is that you do the task I've given you. It's what was agreed, and though I'm loathe to interfere, I never go back on my word...even if that promise was made to Jack Fenton," Vlad muttered.
"Just to be clear...I have no idea what you're talking about..." Skulker said, wide eyed to Vlad.
"I don't expect you to," Vlad replied enigmatically, "Now, if you will..." he added, indicating towards the ghost portal.
"Alright, but if you fire at me I'll come back and start hunting you again, I swear, I'll..."
"I highly doubt you'll succeed should you do so - you quit for a reason, if you recall," was the confident reply he got.
"Fine," the hunter sagged in defeat and then flew into the portal, Vlad then preceded to close it and lock it. Clockwork raised his staff again.
"Well, what did you want, Skulker," Vlad asked. He was standing in his castle library; it was huge, constructed from dark wood, each shelf was piled high with books and two spiral staircases, one at either end of the room, lead up to an upper mezzanine. Danny and Clockwork floated on the main ground level, listening as Skulker spoke back.
"I'm doing what you wanted, Plasmius, you said you wanted reports on the ghost child," the hunter answered, floating up to where Vlad stood in the mezzanine.
"He'd getting better, he and the female hunter...managed to elude me..."
"Together?" Vlad raised an eyebrow.
"You failed then?" Vlad chuckled. "I fully expected them to escape," Vlad replied, "Your plan wasn't exactly a stroke of genius."
"What? How do you know about it? You weren't there!"
"I don't have to be; do you really think I'd leave two of my best pawns alone in another state to do as they please, with only one ghost to pick and choose what and when he reports to me?" the man scoffed, pulling out a book only to return it a second later.
"I should've seen that coming," Skulker sighed, "So you've been spying on the both of them all along?"
"Hey!" Danny cried, "That fruit loop! He was spying on me all the way back then?!" he expected a reply from Clockwork, but the ghost was silent.
"And I should tell you, Skulker, if you damaged either of them, it won't turn out well for you," Vlad threatened.
"I thought I told you; I want that whelps' pelt on my wall!"
"Daniel and the girl are mine, Skulker, they are my pawns, and I expect they'll both prove useful, one day," Vlad said narcissistically.
"That's all well and good, but I swore an oath to hunt the ghost child to his death!"
"You'll have to get through me to do that," Vlad growled, his eyes flashing red in anger.
"You're a warped man, Plasmius," Skulker shook his head.
"No doubt, but my promise was made before yours, and I am stronger," the man said, "I had a feeling they'd work well together," he added, mostly to himself.
"You didn't plan this, there's no what you could've know how..."
"No, but I could guess; I know Daniel, I know what he believes, and the girl is ruled by the same morals," Vlad told Skulker.
"I'm still going to hunt him."
"I know, I won't stop you...unless I have to," Vlad vowed aloud and Skulker nodded, flying up out of the building, leaving Vlad to his library.
"Man, they're both screwed up," Danny crossed his arms and closed his eyes as the green smoke appeared again.
When he opened his eyes Danny found himself in Vlad's lab again, but this time he saw something very familiar; his parents' ecto-suit. It had been taken apart, piece by piece and lay scattered methodically on a large table.
"It's almost completely perfect," Vlad said, examining a small part of the suit, "Who'd thought Jack Fenton could design something so ingenious."
He then out down the piece and moved across the room to sit down at a computer with several monitors and a glass, touch sensitive keyboard. In Danny's opinion it was very possible to have too many monitors on one computer. Vlad began typing rapidly, analysing the data from the ecto-suit, which was shown on one of the screens. "Almost completely perfect," the man repeated, "But I can do better," he chuckled and continued to type.
A second later, Vlad opened a drawer and took out, what looked to Danny to be a small radio. "Skulker, come to my lab, I may have a job for you," Vlad smirked.
"What kind of job?" the hunter replied, "And I'd rather you remember that I'm not your personal lackey, Plasmius."
"You're paid well, Skulker, dot complain or I'll get someone else; The Fright Knight could get the job done just as well as you."
"Fine, fine, what d'you want me to do?" Skulker sighed.
"I need you to get me a few things...from Amity Park," Vlad answered.
Now, Vlad was sitting in a window seat on a luxuriously decorated plane, it was of course his private plane, with deep red upholstery, and the curtains closed it had a womb like feel. The lights were dimmed, making it seem even darker, and the man himself had his head resting in his hands. He was weak and unsteady, and in recovery from ecto-acne for the second time in twenty years.
At least he knew the cure this time, but if the disease returned a third time, Vlad wasn't sure if he could survive it; cure or no, ecto-acne took its toll on the body. In the few short hours since he'd been cured he'd already been afflicted with severe headaches accompanied by intermittent loss of vision and palpitations, hot sweats and cold fits and his motor functions were damaged making him unsteady.
He knew that Danny's friends would recover a lot quicker than him because they were young and they'd never had the disease before. So, luckily for them there'd be no lasting damage. The purpose they had served was complete; Vlad was cured and now he had only to deal with the aftermath, which was almost as bad as the disease itself.
Vlad shivered violently, hugging his jacket closer around himself as he was hit with yet another severe chill, even his teeth chattered as his core body temperature plummeted and he could feel his limbs freeze up.
"What's going on now?" Danny asked, confused by what little he'd seen.
"This happened only hours ago, Vlad is returning to Wisconsin," Clockwork replied, "He was lucky to survive."
"But..." Danny frowned, then shook his head as Vlad continued to shiver, "...Well, I don't care anyway," he shook his head, walking down the spacious aisle, "He could've killed Sam and Tucker!"
Vlad then breathed deeply, and his hands ignited with ghostly energy and he began to emit a strong, warm aura. His shivering began to subside and he let out a nasally growl of frustration, irritated beyond measure at his own weaknesses.
Slowly, he felt the cold leave him completely, and he slouched motionless for a good few minutes, simply too weak to move. Then, even slower, trying not to jostle his heavy, aching limbs, Vlad suddenly reached into his jacket pocket, pulled out his wallet, and opened it. From behind a pocket full of business cards he retrieved a folded up photograph. Vlad stared down at the old, crumpled piece of laminated paper with a strange look.
"Sir?" a quiet voice spoke up, and Vlad looked up, dropping the photo as he did.
"What?" Vlad demanded, weakly attempting a semblance of confidence.
"Erm...we'll be landing in a few minutes...sir," the man blinked nervously and left as quickly as possible after Vlad nodded once with a sigh.
In between this short exchange of words, Danny had floated across the aisle, and knelt down to get a batter look at the photo and saw, to his great surprise, that it showed his mother holding a three year old Jazz, and his father with one arm around his wife, and the other around Vlad who was looking down at the baby Danny in his arms.
When the nameless man was gone, Vlad gently picked up the photo in his right hand and held it at eye level, then his left hand lit up with ghostly energy once again. He adopted a stern, emotionless expression as he moved his right hand closer and closer to his left...and then he stopped.
Vlad sighed and let the energy dissipate and put the photograph away, hiding it at the back of his wallet again. He then buckled his seat belt before the plane began its descent.
Danny remerged in Clockwork's lair, looking dazed and disoriented as his feet touched the ground. "Should that be makin' a guy dizzy?" he rhetorically asked the Time Master.
"Well, what do you think of what I showed you?" Clockwork asked him, tilting his head curiously.
"W..." Danny shrugged, "What am I supposed to think? Ok, I get it; Vlad had trouble with his powers, big deal...why'd you show me, anyway?" Danny crossed his arms, "Yeah, it's all kinda sad, but it's not like I can change anything that happened, and it's not like Vlad'd let me if I could, anyway."
"No, but you can change things that could happen," Clockwork replied mysteriously and Danny rolled his eyes.
"Can't you just drop the riddles for one day...please?"
"No," the Time Master said simply.
"Well...then how am I supposed to know what the heck you're talking about?!"
"Maybe you're not...just don't forget any of what you saw."
"Why? What would it change? I didn't want this! I didn't have a choice! He's the one always on my back. He's the one with the evil plots! It doesn't matter if he really is my godfather or not - which I still can't believe no one ever told me about that - but if he cared, he wouldn't have done half of what he did! Vlad only cares about himself."
"Just think about it," Clockwork said simply, only frustrating Danny further.
Danny threw up his arms in irritation and flew up into the air, "I give up, I'm going home. See you 'round, dude," he sighed and flew away, finding it impossible, no matter how hard he tried, to forget it all.here ... | <urn:uuid:f65be2e9-9cf3-400f-bc1c-2c6b7bd16221> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.inkitt.com/stories/fanfiction/24896 | 2017-05-26T13:20:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608665.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526124958-20170526144958-00083.warc.gz | en | 0.989334 | 12,900 | [
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Atheist Sigfried Gold made quite a stir last summer when the Washington Post ran a story about the amazing success of his prayers to a goddess he created and doesn’t believe in. Some atheists attacked him, saying that he couldn’t pray and still be an atheist. The story so intrigued me that I’m still telling it to people.
The journalist in me particularly likes this story because it confounds and offends both believers and nonbelievers. There’s a saying in journalism: If everybody is mad at you, you’re doing something right.
So here’s the story I so like telling and some possible explanations. Gold began drawing a 15-foot goddess decades ago. He named her Ms. X, after Malcolm X. Four years ago, depressed, drifting in his relationship with his family and overweight, he joined a 12-step program for overeaters. In response to the requirement that he turn his eating problem over to God, he began praying to Ms X in the morning, at night and before meals. He never believed she was real.
Today, 110 pounds lighter, free of depression and happy in his family relationships, he credits prayer with delivering him. He still doesn’t believe she is real. But his prayers are real. And powerfully liberating. His explanation is simple.
“If you say, ‘I ought to have more serenity about the things I can’t change,’ versus ‘Grant me serenity,’ there is a humility, a surrender, an openness. If you say, ‘grant me,’ you’re saying you can’t do it by yourself. Or you wouldn’t be there,” Gold, a software engineer, told the Washington Post.
Nineteenth Century psychologist William James, also not a believer, had a theory that fits with Mr. Gold’s reasoning. It’s the same one that James used to explain the life-changing effect which religious conversions can have.
Many nonbelievers simply deny that religious conversion changes people. But James was too keen and honest an observer to accept that. Religion didn’t permanently change everyone, he observed, but sometimes conversions caused basic shifts in people’s core personalities for the better. These shifts went beyond mere allegiance to an idea, James noted. Sometimes those he called “twice-born” emerged from a conversion experience with more hope, security, kindness, energy and true virtue.
While James didn’t blindly deny that God might be responsible, he looked for other explanations. He came to believe that when people finally stop struggling to solve problems on their own and turn them over to God, the conscious mind, which has become miserable and overwhelmed in its failure to find solutions, steps aside, allowing the unconscious to work out what’s at issue. The unconscious mind then rights what’s wrong, healing whatever soul sickness is causing such misery.
More modern science offers a corresponding explanation: the placebo effect, which has been described as the mind’s ability to produce a future that’s been promised. You take a pill, you expect to be better, and the brain produces chemicals that make that happen. The placebo effect is so powerful that it often beats even drugs that have been on the market and considered effective for years.
So prayer might be a placebo. Even if the supplicant is only speaking to himself, if the prayer for inner change or healing is heartfelt, the mind and body may respond at deep levels.
But following that reasoning, we might say that such prayers aren’t answered by outside help at all. Instead they are heard by the self and answered by the self. We might consider them focused meditations with an added element of surrender to relieve the pressure that so often sabotages us.
But Gold isn’t going for it. He has done meditation. Meditation didn’t change him. Prayer to Ms. X did.
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Whether I’m standing on the front verandah of our little cottage at Wombat Hill, or looking back at these photos, I am simultaneously thrilled that this is about to become our permanent home, amazed that we’ve managed to land us something so beautiful, and full of gratitude that we’re in a position to take advantage of all the loveliness that lays before us.
In just 3 weeks I will have finished my grad year. In 4 weeks the removalists will have collected all of our belongings here in Melbourne and we will all be living on our little farm. In 5 weeks the removalists will have delivered all of our belongings (and we’ll probably still be trying to squeeze it all into the shed) and we will be truly at home.
But oh my, this has been a huge year. Huge.
We spent the first half of the year in the throes of finding and buying this lovely property. There were literally thousands of kilometres driven, many hours spent traipsing up and down hills, false starts involving ridiculous planning legislation, hours juggling finances, and weeks wondering whether we could ever pull this off – when they say buying a home is one of life’s great stressors, man they were right!
Of course, things have only hotted up since the contract was signed, sealed and delivered and for the last five months we’ve been living amidst the chaos of moving, with boxes stacked everywhere, mess that I could never usually tolerate, and no sense of routine or down time. We are so done with it and just want to be there!
During this upheaval, Julian and I have nurtured and encouraged our child through the end of his formal schooling, all the while supporting and loving him through the first stages of his transition. Our steepest parenting experience yet.
Then, halfway through the year, my beloved Grandad died amidst horrible and ongoing extended family unpleasantness. And at the end of his funeral (a dreadful affair) I literally had a young motorcyclist (who was racing a mate through a red light) hit by a 4WD and land on the road in front of me – his femur snapped in half and sticking out through his horrifically injured leg. There I crouched, on the phone to the paramedics, terrified this young man’s femoral artery would begin to bleed, and crazily thinking, “oh my god! I’ve only got a dress on! (the postmaster’s granddaughter’s dress) I’m going to have to pull it off and use it to staunch the blood flow and I’ll be standing here on Lutwyche Road in my knickers and bra!” – thankfully that didn’t happen, the ambulance arrived very quickly and the young man survived.
And then, of course, there is the whole “Grad Year” experience, where I’ve spent the vast majority of my time pushed totally out of my comfort zone (and the habits of a 17 year veteran of stay at home mummying), expected to behave with confidence, compassion and competence, whilst balancing on the lip of a very steep learning curve.
I’ve had a patient die whilst cradled against my body. I’ve had several others come very close – let me tell you how long that adrenaline takes to leave your body! I’ve had shifts where it is so confronting I’ve literally wanted to lay on the floor and wail “I can’t do this!!!!!” And others where I have had to say to the nurse in charge “This patient is just beyond my skills and experience.” And there have been many crazy, chaotic shifts in Emergency where I get by by practising my best Dory impression “Just keep swimming/smiling/nursing/writing/observing/comforting/caring … “
Then, yesterday morning, as I was preparing for a long shift in RITZ (that’s where the patients come after they’ve been triaged), I was very aware that my chest felt funny. Not asthma funny (44 years experience with that one). Not anxiety funny (something I thankfully seem to have had under control for the last few years). A different funny – like every few moments there was a pigeon fluttering in my chest trying to get out, followed by a heavy-feeling thump.
Now I had noticed this, on and off, the day before when I was at work and thought I was just tired. But yesterday morning, it started the moment I got up and just kept happening. So, at my mum’s demand, I got ready for work quickly and headed in early, thinking I would just mention it to one of the senior staff to see if they thought it needed looking at.
See, when you work in Emergency you see a lot of people who aren’t dreadfully sick – they’re a little bit off, worried, unsure of what to do, and need to know that it’s all okay and they’ll be fine. I’m cool with that but I didn’t want to be one of those people.
However, when I arrived at work, it was chaos. So I just popped my stethoscope around my neck and got working whilst that pigeon fluttered away.
Eventually my nursing educator arrived and innocently asked how I was. I almost cried and whispered “Actually, I’ve got a really weird feeling in my chest.”
The next thing, I was triaged, in the white patient gown, on the trolley, cardiac monitor hooked up, with bloods being taken. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so awkward in my life as junior doctors waved and smiled to me from the desk, orderlies made kind jokes about me being today’s “mystery shopper”, and my nursing colleagues popped in and out of my cubicle to give me a hug, see how I was doing, and watch the monitor.
Turns out I was having premature atrial contractions – little “ectopics” that were randomly firing off every now and then. They were the flutter. Then because they are pretty useless, the next proper contraction had more blood behind it which created the “thump”. My colleagues watched the monitor and would say “Oh did you feel that one! I saw it!” “Yep,” I’d answer. Surreal.
My bloods were perfect. My blood pressure remained a rock solid 117/60 (thereabouts) for 3 hours. The consultant checked me out, gave me the thumbs up, and deemed it best if I went home and rested for the rest of this day and the next. I’m not at any risk of anything awful happening. It may never happen again or it may be something I experience on and off for the rest of my life. Premature atrial contractions are the most common cardiac arrythmias and they don’t need treatment unless they become symptomatic (i.e. shortness of breath, dizzyness, or coming in a regular pattern)
These things just happen sometimes – more common in women then men, and common for women experiencing menopause.
Wow! Isn’t menopause the gift that just keeps on giving. I can add trapped pigeons fluttering to the floods of blood I have during my really frequent periods!
So here I am at home. Amidst the appalling mess. I haven’t vacuumed for a fortnight so there’s Fu fluff everywhere (she’s having her summer moult). Do you know, I haven’t even cleaned the shower floor for over a month. I no longer have ANY domestic aspirations for this house. I just want to get out.
Oh and it’s tipped to hit 42 degrees today. Yay Climate Change! Nothing like a mess to make me feel ten times hotter.
There is still so much to pack. There are Christmas presents to finish, buy and wrap. Remember – there’s only 3 weeks and 2 days until those removalists arrive. And I still have two blocks of night shift, one block of days, and a quality project to get through at work. And Christmas to celebrate.
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Natural resource based conflict among pastoralist communities in Kenya
The study examines the natural resource based conflict among pastoralist communities in Kenya. The study aims at identifying causes of conflicts among pastoral communities and the effects of conflicts in Kenya. The study developed a theoretical framework which guided the study. The framework highlights conflicts as being caused by some key factors such as competition for resources (a structural cause) which arise when manipulated by various actors like herders and pastoralist, political leaders and among others. The framework also portrays the outcomes of conflicts presenting a direction link between causes of conflicts and the various players. The data used in the study was based on secondary data sourced from Plan Action and was collected in 2005. The data collected was meant to access the socio – economic impacts of conflicts on pastoral communities. The data captured targeted population living in arid and semi arid areas of Northern Kenya. Adopting the Plan Action research design justifications, the data sampled comprised of 10 districts from the Northern Kenya districts and covered the period between 1994 – 2004. The data was analyzed using statistical software packages. Descriptive statistics are presented graphically using graphs and pie charts. The study found out that most conflicts in the country are mainly caused as a result of scarcity of natural resources. Persistent drought as a result of climate change increases the strain in the already existing natural scarce resources which leads to conflict as people fight for grazing and farm land rights. The study also established that factors such as economic and political marginalization, active resistance by pastoralist communities to assimilation, resource depletion and demographic changes, and the growing availability of small arms and light weapons are among the major factors causing conflicts in the country. As a result of conflicts, communities are left with reduced crop and livestock yields, increased casualties as many people are left injured and some killed, residents in the communities are also displaced with their property left destroyed. In addition social services are also affected leading to closure of schools, health centers and other outdoor activities as intensified insecurity looms in the community. This study recommends a number of policies such as: promoting understanding and appreciation of conflicts, formulate policy on peace building, strengthening service delivery to ASAL areas, promote inter community peace building activities, promote conflict sensitivity and inter sector mainstreaming of conflict management, mopping up of illegal weapons and building policy advocacy and lobbying capacities of local organizations and communities. | <urn:uuid:0363bf9e-c379-4e8c-9024-5db6525fc088> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/58420 | 2017-05-29T00:05:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612003.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528235437-20170529015437-00211.warc.gz | en | 0.958034 | 473 | [
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The Aramaic language was the international trade language of the ancient Middle East. Originated in what is modern-day Syria, between 1000 and 600 BCE it became extremely widespread, spoken from the Mediterranean coast to the borders of India. Its script, derived from Phoenician and first attested during the 9th century BCE, also became extremely popular and was adopted by many people, both with or without any previous writing system.
Was originally spoken by Arameans in Northern Syria and Mesopotamia and used in commercial and diplomatic transactions. The language eventually replaced Hebrew and was spoken at the time of Jesus. At that time, Hebrew ...
BIB 5453x: Talmudic Aramaic
The one and only Literal Translation & Transliteration of the New Covenant from the language of our Lord, Yah Shua the MESHIAH. Translating & Transliterating directly from the Aramaic circumvents the intermediary interuptive and ambiguous use of...
ARAMAIC BIBLE SOCIETY, THE
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Institute of Biblical and Related Languages Home Page
The primary biblical languages, Greek and Hebrew, have long been a regular part of Baylor's course offerings. Since 1989, with the establishment of the Institute program two important curriculum developments have occurred. An undergraduate major with a focus on Biblical languages has been available
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There is a file on my computer simply titled "Inspiration"
I have gathered a series of images from blogs, magazines, websites and books
and placed them in this folder.
I then set up my computer to play a slideshow of these images
~changing pictures every 15 minutes~
Now, when I am at work
-diligently trying to keep up with the present day's tasks-
I look over at my laptop screen and see...
|I love this image but again I don't have the exact source|
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WV Law Geek's Twitter Updates
Monday, November 14, 2011
Da Geek's Big East Power Rankings and Bowl Projections 11/14/2011:
3. Pitt has moved its way back into serious conference contention. The reason that they reside here and not with WVU and Cincy in the top spot is that they lost to Cincinnati and have to travel to Morgantown without their star runner. While the WVU defense has proven to be porous, so does Pitt's defense against spread offenses. They have however, made themselves a contender with some help. They need Cincinnati to lose 2 more and win out for the crown. Pitt is likely making a trip to Birmingham Alabama.
4. Louisville is still very much a contender but need both Pitt and Cincy to fall twice more. In a four way tie they lose all the tie-breakers with their loss to Cincinnati and Pitt. They do hold a tiebreaker over WVU but they can't win in either the 3 way or 2 way tie scenario. They still have work to do but a bowl birth in Tampa Florida is now becoming close to a reality.
5. Rutgers holds down the number 5 spot though they are also in mathematical contention for the crown. Though they are also at a disadvantage due to tie-breaker woes. As I have maintained for weeks they have all but locked up their bowl bid to the Pinstripe Bowl in New York City.
6. Connecticut and South Florida have moved into a tie for this spot. Both teams got much needed victories this weekend. Neither have a real good shot at a bowl game this post season but neither are mathematically out of that scenario either. This fight to be at the bottom of the conference is fierce. Only time will tell.
8. And Syracuse has now locked up the bottom feeder status for the week. After giving WVU an embarrassing loss they are now falling out of conference contention with every week that passes. It appears that wins over Wake Forest and WVU will be their key wins for the season. Losing to Connecticut is considered a cardinal sin. Particularly when you lose to your fired ex-coach at home. Syracuse much like those other teams so desperate to be at the bottom of the conference still have a legit shot at a bowl birth but now that picture has become quite out of focus.
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Students in Chicago have had enough with their school system.
A group called Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools boycotted the state-mandated test, PSAE, on Wednesday and protested citywide. Like many people against standardized testing, the students, which numbered in the hundreds, have had enough with test taking.
But their objections, however, go further.
They are also fed up with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the public school system’s leaders in their attempts to shutter 54 school programs and 61 school buildings, mostly in underprivileged and minority neighborhoods.
Brian Sturgis, a senior at Chicago’s Paul Robeson High School and an organizer of the boycott, wrote in an Education Week blog, “Mayor Emanuel and the Chicago Board of Education are supposed to make the CPS system work for all of us. But instead they are putting too much pressure on standardized testing and threatening to close schools that don't have high test scores. When schools are under so much pressure to raise test scores it leads to low-scoring students being neglected, not supported.” | <urn:uuid:bcd816cc-7cef-49d1-a655-54e7286380c2> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.ebony.com/news-views/chicago-students-boycott-tests-981 | 2017-05-29T00:13:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612003.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528235437-20170529015437-00211.warc.gz | en | 0.980488 | 225 | [
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Singer Rihanna was spotted looking gorgeous as always while rocking a Tony Montana graphic print t-shirt dress layered under an oversized
Musician, Rihanna was spotted rocking a Vetements x Alpha Industries reversible bomber jacket worth $2,295 USD, while in NYC. The
Music star, Rihanna was spotted at the Christian Dior show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2017/2018, held on
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Our very own Aaron Paul Lazar tagged me on FB to share seven things that people might or might not know about my writing. So here they are!
- I keep vampire hours. Dawn means dusk and dusk means writing.
- I have a minor in medieval history and thus medieval history has a place in all my novels.
- I love reading all kinds of genres and I believe that variety enriches the writer’s life.
- I’m a news junkie and, believe it or not, the real world fuels my fantasy.
- The only activity I enjoy almost as much as writing is traveling. To me they’re both different ways of exploring the world.
- My supervisor has whiskers, pointy ears and a tail.
- My husband likes to think that all my epic heroes
are based on him and, some days, I let him believe it. ****Dora Machado is the award-winning author of the epic fantasy Stonewiser series and her newest novel, The Curse Giver, available from Twilight Times Books. She is one only a few Hispanic women writing fantasy in the United States today. She grew up in the Dominican Republic, where she developed a fascination for writing and a taste for Merengue. After a lifetime of straddling such compelling but different worlds, fantasy is a natural fit to her stories.When she is not writing fiction, Dora also writes features for the award-winning blog Murder By Four and Savvy Authors, where writers help writers. She lives in Florida with her indulgent husband and two very opinionated cats.To learn more about Dora Machado and her award winning novels, visit her at www.doramachado.com , email her at [email protected], find her on Facebook, or follow her on Twitter. | <urn:uuid:e729d337-cc25-49c2-81d7-f39dd9c22d4a> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://murderby4.blogspot.com/2015/04/seven-things-about-my-writing-people.html | 2017-05-30T07:27:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463614615.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170530070611-20170530090611-00019.warc.gz | en | 0.956721 | 381 | [
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"The wood was brought to the works in 'log' form and cut to shape. At this time most wagons were built from wood although timber was soon to be replaced by steel. Newton Heath carriage works opened in 1877, producing and repairing carriages and wagons for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Carriages and wagons were built here until 1932."
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A 3-year-old girl was admitted with abrupt onset of acute severe abdominal pain and drowsiness, without vomiting or diarrhoea. No history of abdominal trauma was reported. On admission, she was moaning, her heart rate was 161 bpm, blood pressure was 108/72 mm Hg, capillary refill time was <2 s and she was apyrexial. On physical examination, there was marked abdominal distension, with generalised abdominal tenderness without peritoneal signs. Blood tests showed hyperamylasemia (780 IU/L), neutrophilia (white cell count 14×10^9/L; neutrophil 11.9×10^9/L) and hyperglycaemia (155 mg/dL–8.6 mmol/L). A supine plain abdominal X-ray showed a huge gastric bubble (figure 1). A nasogastric tube was inserted, and 500 mL of non-bilious fluid and 150 mL of gas were suctioned, with prompt improvement of symptoms.
Which of the following is the most common cause of hyperamylasemia …
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تحميل كورس Photo Colorization in Photoshop: Bring B&W Photographs to Life
A recent trend has emerged for designers to colorize (aka add color) to black and white photographs. Colorization makes us realize how vibrant and colorful life was before the advent of color photography.
You’ll learn how to:
- get a free trial of Photoshop
- set up the photoshop project for colorization
- choose the right brush settings
- add color
- colorize skin, hair, eyes, backgrounds
- save your images for sharing
- and much more!
Included in the course are practice sessions, where you can watch me in real time. I go over everything I’m doing, while I’m doing it. Learn by following along! Included in the course are bonus materials for you to follow along and practice. These materials include:
- practice photos
- Photoshop templates
- Coloring cheat sheet
- Skin tone charts
You’ll be coloring in less than 30 minutes! But there is a lot more material that goes in depth and helps you become proficient at colorization. If you’re looking for a new skill or just want to have fun, please enroll in this course! It’s fun, it’s therapeutic, it’s hip!
Photo Colorization in Photoshop: Bring B&W Photographs to Life
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التحميل من Google Drive لو توقفت لينكات التحميل برجاء اخباري لأعيد رفع الكورس مره اخري If Links are dead . comment and tell me
التحميل من Google Drive
لو توقفت لينكات التحميل برجاء اخباري لأعيد رفع الكورس مره اخري
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There’s a catch to drywall repair that everyone should know before attempting to “do-it-yourself” for the first time. Drywall repair is easy to do, but it is also easy to do a tremendously bad job. For this reason, a simple introduction to drywall repair materials and tools is a great place to start on your path toward patching and painting your property’s interior structural damages. But remember, it’s not just practice that makes perfect, it is also knowledge, especially in terms of drywall repair. So continue your research and learn all that you can about drywall work before getting started on your personal projects. Continue reading to review some common industry knowledge for drywall repair.
Also called drywall “mud”, there are two common types of joint compound used to repair and patch: light-weight and all-purpose. Both are easy to work with and retain a room-temperature shelf-life of 9 months. The most important tip for buying drywall compound is to buy enough. For large projects, expect to purchase 4.5 gallon bucket of material.
For smaller projects, you can get away with a one gallon bucket, but you may be paying close to the same amount for a larger bucket. If you think you might have future work in the next 9 months, it is more cost-effective to go with the larger bucket. If not, go with the smaller amount so to not waste any material.
Spackle and Plaster
Many people are confused about the difference among drywall compound, spackle, and plaster. The differences are subtle, and hardly noticeable to the average layperson, but they do exist. Compound, joint compound, or drywall mud all refer to the same product, and used mostly for larger drywall and gypsum board projects that require more durability, namely to cover joints between panels.
Spackle is very similar to joint compound, but used mostly for small household repairs for plaster and drywall. Plaster is a type of wall material found mostly in older or historic buildings. It is a more time-consuming approach to wall repair in comparison to spackle.
Drywall Repair Tools
You can purchase drywall repair kits that come with virtually all the essentials for drywall patching and repair. Kits range in quantity, size, and price, but common ones generally include 2-3 flexible knives, a utility knife, an insider-corner knife, hammer, screwdriver, saw, drill, nails, and screws. But drywall repairs also require additional materials depending on the needs of the project.
You can purchase all of the above-listed materials at any local hardware or home improvement store. Ask a store attendant to point you in the right direction, and give advice on the most reliable products. Talk to a licensed drywall contractor for expert advice on household drywall repairs, drywall projects, drywall replacement, and more. They can even take the weight off your shoulders by getting the job done faster, better, and at a price that won’t make you think twice! | <urn:uuid:9c95d821-44b5-4252-81ec-c908f60f4a39> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.hacerturismo.net/ | 2017-05-25T14:09:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608084.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525140724-20170525160724-00116.warc.gz | en | 0.945753 | 638 | [
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Load Lines, Consolidated 2005The International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, has been accepted by many States since it was adopted in 1966 and entered into force in July 1968. The Convention was modified by a Protocol in 1988; other States have accepted the Convention as modified by this 1988 Protocol, which entered into force in February 2000. The 1988 Protocol has been modified by the 2003 Amendments which were adopted by MSC.143(77) in June 2003 and entered into force in January 2005, and by the 2004 Amendments which were adopted by MSC.172(79) in December 2004 and are expected to come into force in July 2006.
This new publication contains the text of the 1966 Convention; the articles of the 1988 Protocol; a consolidated text of the 1966 Convention as modified by the 1988 Protocol, the 2003 and 2004 Amendments to the Protocol; and the unified interpretations of the Convention approved by the Maritime Safety Committee up to 2004.
Please note that this publication contains the text for those whose States are party to the original Load Lines Convention as well as the text for those States who are party to the amended Load Lines Convention. Please refer to your National Administration to see which applies to you.
Update: Supplement for the Load Lines, Consolidated 2005 Edition, has been published and is available to download here
Update: Supplement for the Load Lines, Consolidated 2005 Edition Spanish Edition, has been published and is available to download here
Update: A January 2016 supplement for Convention on Load Lines (LL), 2005 Edition has been published and is available to download.
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We name things round here. Our trucks have names, our critters all have names (yes, even the ones we’re gonna eat), the stuffed animals have names, heck, even our cameras have names.
I have a friend who named her pillow. I don’t think we’ve ever named our pillows, but we DO have:
-Various stuffed animals, dolls, and animal toys named Steve. My youngest went through a Steve phase and named everything he owned Steve for about a two-year period. This includes the red kitty that is really a bear, his two plastic Fisher Price toys, one hippo and one rhino he named Steve and Steve, and his baby bunny that came from a surprise litter born to his big brother’s doe. His baby bunny is a female but, you guessed it, her name is Steve too.
My husband isn’t hip on naming things. He’s pretty plain that way. “You don’t have to have a NAME for EVERYTHING” he tells us.
I whip out my Holy Spirit Junior and tell him if God brought ALL the animals to Adam and gave him the joyful task of naming every single one, AND if Jesus has enough names there are books written about all of them, names MUST be important.
He hasn’t responded to that one yet. Unless you count an eye roll as a response. 😀
We’ll continue to name things round here. Names make things part of the family, part of our daily life.
I was thinking this morning about all the animals we’ve named over the years. And that got me to wondering about everybody else and the names they choose for their critters.
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Jason Wu’s collection for Target launched across the United States earlier this month and promptly sold out, amid much jostling and chaos. Well, are you ready Southern Ontarians? Because for once, it pays to be a polite, patient Canadian: to promote its impending launch of Canadian stores next year, Target is bringing a pop-up store of Wu’s collection of whimsical dot prints, stripes and pretty purses to Toronto next week.
A few things are notable about the one-day only event. First, to prevent a mob scene or a total clean-out, Target is (wisely, we think) limiting purchase quantities to three items per shopper. Next, they will also donate the equivalent of 100% of the sales from the pop-up shop to United Way Toronto. And oh yes, did I mention that Wu himself will be in attendance, bringing his Can-Con cred with him (as a child living in Vancouver, he famously learned to both speak English and sew in Canada).
On Tuesday I spoke with Wu, who was fresh from presenting his runway collection show at New York Fashion Week. “I’m good, I’m rested – I’m ready to start again,” Wu enthused, explaining he’d taken Monday off to spend with his parents, who come to town and attend his shows. The collection takes its cues from the idea of American girls in Paris, but not the Leslie Caron type – Wu was inspired by New Wave’s chic Jean Seberg and Anna Karina. “Seberg is a good example,” he said, “because she has that nonchalance and chic American style, an American girl of French descent who starred in French movies and embodied it.”
“This is not the first time a designer collaboration has happened,” Wu added; “I didn’t want the pieces in the collection to be trendy, to scream out. It’s a little more subtle than that, there’s something quite timeless to it. I just think they’re really great pieces with their own life, worn together or separate. And in today’s market it’s hard to find something nice that you can wear to multiple occasions and keep for a long time.”
The designer takes us through four favourite pieces from the collection.
Navy floral chiffon skirt, $20
“Since it was a small capsule collection, only 53 pieces including handbags and scarves, I wanted to keep the message really tight, which means I wanted to keep it very concise. I decided to make it a dress message – comfortable skirts and tops and dresses.” There are no trousers, but a few pairs of shorts. “I think fashion is always a cycle and think right now we’re in a more feminine stage, with an emphasis on feminine form, dressing in a more feminine way, that’s been in the air for the past few years – people are really looking for clothes like that, dressed-up and dressed-down at same time.”
Cat T-shirt, $20
The commercial and teaser trailer for the collection feature Milu, this illustrated black cat, wreaking havoc in his studio after hours. Wu’s own pet kitties, Jinxy and Peaches, are homebodies and have never ventured into his studio offices (“I keep them at home, they don’t like to leave!”). At least that he knows of. “But I love the idea of mixing some whimsical elements within what I do and I think it’s good to not take everything so seriously. I love the idea of cat, which is representative of this collection, to me it says everything I wanted to say about the designs – a little mischievous, but also graceful and elegant at the same time. There’s a feline gracefulness – that’s why thy call it the catwalk,” he chuckled. “And when I was thinking about these New Wave films they call these girls gamine, which is a little mischievous [term].”
Goldenrod textured pleated top, $20
“I felt like to try to do an evening dress with feathers or beading at this price point wouldn’t translate so well,” Wu said, referencing a certain white First Lady gown. “To use really great silks, cottons and materials that are beautiful in their own right and would be appropriate, and instead of being very literal to my own [ready-to-wear] was more interesting. With the shape I was aiming for early 60s, there’s definitely a little sense of nostalgia in the clothes, a sense of refreshed classics in the pieces that I thought was nice.”
Canvas trenchcoat with French binding detail, $45
“I love navy – I think it works with just about everything in a closet. And what wanted to achieve is I didn’t want it to be a mere carbon copy of my main, so for this I designed it from scratch with the intention that it could have its force of its own – we used a great canvas so the piece isn’t very expensive but desirable and also very luxurious. I think a lot of people think luxurious means expensive but to me having something well designed is more important. The intention behind the piece has to be well thought out.”
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i was tagged by thanks Q_Q
1. Write down every letter of your name or username vertically.
2. Write a song that pops into your mind beginning with each letter.
3. Count the number of letters and tag that many people
n: nonsense market - Merry
i: insomnia - Iamx
c: cube - Dir en grey
k: kaenaru hito - mucc
y: you know what they do to guys like us in prison - My chemical romance (sorry not sorry xD)
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For non-native speakers, one of the hardest aspects of learning a new language are the idioms. Picture this: You run up to your friend Thomas to tell him that you were chosen to make a speech at the school ceremony tonight, and it goes a little something like…
“Hey Thomas, the school picked me to make a speech at the celebration tonight!”
“No! You are twisting my arm! Congrats on that, just be cool as a cucumber and it should be a piece of cake!”
If you are a non-English speaker, you may be confused. You haven't even touched his arm, and what’s all this about cucumbers and cakes?
Idioms are phrases that have developed over time to take on meanings that go beyond their literal definition. They often rely on analogies, metaphors, and historical background to define their meaning. The funny coincidence is, despite the cultural and historical differences between Western countries and China, there are many English idioms with a “twin” in Chinese.
We created a list of our favorite English idioms that have Chinese counterparts. Some of these idioms are rooted in history, some are quite similar in phrasing to their English equivalent, and some make chuckle-worthy and unexpected comparisons. Without further ado, here are our favorite English idioms that also exist in Chinese.
1. Speak of the devil /说曹操，曹操到(Shuō cáocāo, cáocāo dào)
The Chinese version refers to a historical figure, 曹操 (cáo cāo), who was a general during the Three Kingdoms period. He had eyes and ears everywhere, spying on people to detect any signs of political unrest. As a result, he was able to take swift action at the earliest signs of rebellion. People had to be careful whenever they want to mention 曹操 ‘s name!
If you are gossiping about someone, and within seconds the subject of your gossip shows up, you would be right to use this phrase.
(曹操 was so prominent in ancient Chinese culture that he's a main character in the Red Cliff movie series, which made our list here: Chinese Movies You Need Watch.)
2. When in Rome, do as the Romans/入乡随俗 (Rù xiāng suí sú)
Guests must observe the customs of place they are visiting. This phrase is used to tell people to assimilate to a new culture out of respect and to be at peace with their new surroundings. So when you are in China, try the popular drink Baijiu when you get a chance!
3. Every cloud has a silver lining/塞翁失马 (Sài wēng shī mǎ)
塞翁失马 is a well-known ChengYu passed down for thousands of years in Chinese culture. 塞翁 was an old man during the Warring State Period. One day, one of his favorite horses ran away. The neighbors came over to console him, but 塞翁 said: “It’s okay to lose a horse, maybe it will bring luck.”
In a few days, the runaway horse came home, and brought along another handsome horse. The neighbors came over this time to congratulate him, but 塞翁 was instead worried. He said: “To find a horse is not necessarily a good thing. Maybe it will cause trouble.” Sure enough, 塞翁’s son was riding the new horse when he fell and broke his leg.
The neighbors came over to cheer up 塞翁, but he cheerily said: “Don’t worry, he broke his leg but is still alive, maybe this is a good thing.” His neighbors thought the old man had lost his mind. However, not long after, a draft for the war started, and 塞翁’s son was spared because of his broken leg.
This fable goes to show that in each bad event, some benefit can be derived, which is similar to the English “Every cloud has a silver lining.” However, 塞翁失马 also shows the converse situation, in that each good event could also lead to something bad.
4. Kill two birds with one stone/一箭双雕 (Yī jiàn shuāng diāo)
The Chinese 一箭双雕 is almost an exact parallel to the English “Kill two birds with one stone,” except instead of the stone, the Chinese version uses “箭 (jiàn)”, which means “arrow.” Both of these phrases are metaphors for accomplishing two goals by doing only one task.
5. To each his own /萝卜青菜，各有所爱 (Luóbo qīngcài, gè yǒu suǒ ài)
“To each his own” means that each person has a right to his or her own personal preferences. The Chinese version of this phrase makes a specific analogy, in that its literal translation means “There are people who like radishes, and people who like green vegetables.” Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean that other people won’t.
6. Can't judge a book by its cover/人不可貌相 (Rén bùkě màoxiàng)
You cannot judge a book by its cover, and you cannot judge a person by his looks. Both the English and Chinese version of this idiom tell us that we should not make shallow judgements about the value of something based on its appearance alone.
7. Pot calls the kettle black/五十步笑百步 (Wǔshí bù xiào bǎi bù)
The Chinese idiom “五十步笑百步” also comes from a Chinese fable. The story is that, one day during a battle, two soldiers started running away from the frontline. The solder who ran away only fifty steps started making fun of the one who ran a hundred steps for not being brave. Both these phrases are used to poke fun at people who hypocritically criticize others, even though they have made the same mistake.
8. Rome wasn’t built in a day/一口吃不成胖子 (Yīkǒu chī bùchéng pàngzi)
This Chinese idiom is my favorite of the bunch. The literal translation is: “You can’t get fat from just one bite.”(This is also what I tell myself when I see my favorite Chinese foods, but that’s a story for another day.)
Similar to “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” these two phrases both assure people that time, patience, and consistent effort are needed to achieve big results.
Funny netizens in China made a play on this popular Chinese idiom by tackling on a second half of the phrase, “…一口吃不成胖子 而胖子却是一口一口吃出来的,” which means “You can’t get fat from just one bite, but fat is built up one bite at a time.”
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This year marks the second year we participated in The New York Times Travel Show, which is the largest trade and consumer travel event in North America, featuring nearly 500 exhibitors from more than 150 countries.
In addition to discounts and special offers, the show provides educational seminars and live entertainment for families, individuals, couples and seniors. The 2014 New York Times Travel Show was held February 28 through March 2 at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Center.
This year, they had the The New York Times Travel Show Exhibitor Awards, which recognize excellence and innovation in exhibitor booths, displays and presentations.
The winners and their award categories are as follows:
- Most Interactive Booth – Atlantic City Alliance
- Best Booth Design – American Express
- Best Booth Decor – AMResorts
- Most Innovative Booth – LiveLeaf, Inc.
- The People’s Choice – Cruise Planners/American Express Travel
- Best Small Booth – The Explorer’s Passage
- Rookie of the Year – Onefinestay
Winners were presented with their awards on the floor of The New York Times Travel Show on Sunday, March 2, the final day of the show. Winning exhibitors were chosen by the staff of The New York Times Travel Show in all categories except for The People’s Choice award, which was determined by monitoring booth traffic over the three days of the Travel Show. | <urn:uuid:fdf9ee65-32ed-42b5-93eb-4668771580e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://weblogtheworld.com/countries/northern-america/america/america_ny/city-newyorkcity/new-york-times-travel-show-exhibitor-awards | 2017-05-29T04:05:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612013.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529034049-20170529054049-00187.warc.gz | en | 0.942374 | 291 | [
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A couple months ago we featured a deal for these “Sport Red” Koston One’s from Kinetic. Well, the markdown has now doubled and four nice sizes are in stock! The Koston One model is one that has been such a big hit for Nike SB that the stream of new colorways has stayed steady since its debut. And for fans of red kicks, these are a great look and a perfect pair for everyday use. You don’t often see a skate shoe crossover to mass appeal like the Janoski or Koston One has, but both silhouettes are designed so well from a simplistic approach that the appeal is widespread. Featuring a reinforced synthetic leather suede upper with Lunar foam cushioning in the sole, these kicks will stay light on your feet and the bargain keeps it light on your bank account. | <urn:uuid:d71255ef-4b47-443d-a74d-04f51119218f> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://kicksdeals.com/2012/10/10/nike-sb-koston-one-sport-red-4/ | 2017-05-30T09:16:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463614620.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170530085905-20170530105905-00507.warc.gz | en | 0.958372 | 172 | [
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David Nyheim, Chief Executive of ECAS and Managing Partner and Chairman of INCAS Consulting Ltd. (Malta).
Before going any further, there is an assumption that underpins this think-piece and which needs some elaboration. And that is a commonly shared belief that peace-making and peace-building are (among many) soft power instruments. “Soft power” is a term coined by Joseph Nye in the 1980s, which is “the ability of a country to persuade others to do what it wants without force or coercion”. Many who have read Nye’s 1990 book, “Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power” will recognise that the notion of “soft power” goes back by about 2400 years to Sun Tzu’s Art of War, making where we’re now at perhaps unsurprising. The evidence of how these particular instruments are part of soft power is seen in the foreign policy of several countries, including my own (Norway), where peace-making and peace-building are integral to the projection of foreign policy influence.
So what are the threads that have led to the entanglement of peace work into war-making?
The first thread, as mentioned, started with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The collapse of the Soviet Union and bipolar order saw a rise in civil conflicts across the world, including the Yugoslav wars (1991-2001), Somali war (1991-today), Georgian civil war (1991-1993), Rwandan civil war (1990-1994), and Chechen wars (1994-1996 and 1999-2009), to mention but a few. Intelligence services and military in the West and former Soviet republics realised that Cold War intelligence methods were inadequate to understand the dynamics of these conflicts. They became increasingly interested in (and wary of) the work of NGOs and universities involved in conflict early warning (part of the peace-building toolbox). Organisations such as Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (FEWER) were approached by intelligence agencies and had their activities monitored. There were several direct collaboration initiatives between intelligence and (particularly US) academia, including the State Failure Task Force (later Political Instability Task Force). This work was part of what led to the rise of Open Source Intelligence (the securitised twin of conflict early warning) (OSINT); an important tool in governmental efforts to monitor and analyse civil conflicts and a strategic addition (initially) to traditional intelligence gathering.
The second thread followed 9/11 and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. While the initial toppling of the Taliban and defeat of Sadam Hussein’s military forces was swift, Allied forces quickly began to lose the peace. “Winning hearts and minds” became an important element in the battle for stability and Allied strategists turned to soft power for answers. A key soft power instrument became Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). First deployed in Afghanistan in 2001 by the United States government, PRTs consist of military officers, diplomats, and reconstruction experts, who work to support reconstruction and stabilise in unstable areas. PRTs (also known as stabilisation teams) were later deployed to Iraq and carried out activities that are typically seen in peace-building and conflict-sensitive area-based development projects. The main difference being that PRT activities are carried out in conjunction with military forces and aligned to military objectives. A close association was formed, therefore, between developmental actors, peace-builders, and humanitarian workers – who were doing PRT work – and perceived (and actual) occupying forces in the eyes of the population and insurgents.
Some of the many challenges that emerge from the alignment of peace work to military objectives surfaced in a small perception survey conducted in 2012 byMona Chalabi, one of our talented ECAS Junior Associates at the time, across several governorates in Iraq. It was focused on ordinary Iraqi’s experiences of stabilisation. Among her findings was a perception by a majority of respondents that the greatest personal security threat during the occupation was posed by Allied forces, not by insurgents. That finding raises the question of how effective you can be in bringing sustainable peace and security to an area when you are seen as the principal threat; doing what some bluntly refer to “peace-building at gunpoint”. Related to this is a compromise on neutrality and the view of some insurgent groups and governments that organisations involved in peace-building and reconstruction are extensions of hostile soft power, and therefore legitimate military targets.
The third thread emerged with the colour revolutions in former Soviet republics and was strengthened by the Arab Spring. The significance of the Rose Revolution (Georgia, 2003), Orange Revolution (Ukraine, 2005), Pink Revolution (Kyrgyzstan, 2005), and social upheaval in several other former Soviet republics was of course not lost on Russia. Inspired, some will say by the work ofGene Sharpe on non-violent resistance, the colour revolutions prompted Russian military strategists to develop what is known as the Makarov Doctrine (see more about this below), and the Russian state to develop methods to manage “street politics” and tighten control of foreign funded civil society groups in Russia.
The Arab Spring (2010-2012) that came after the colour revolutions, saw the extensive use of social media to plan and execute demonstrations, thwart government counter-measures, and sway public opinion. It is seen by many in intelligence, diplomatic and military circles as the time when OSINT (conflict early warning’s securitised twin mentioned above) shifted from a strategic addition to traditional intelligence, to become an important tactical and operational tool. The events in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen showed that it had become possible to follow and support popular revolt in real time and by remote with tactically relevant information (e.g. how to counter the use of aerial surveillance of gatherings by burning tires). The hard power applications of soft power instruments came sharply into focus.
The final and most recent thread was the execution of Russian hybrid warfare strategy (the Makarov Doctrine) in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. In February 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev signed what was later referred to as the Makarov Doctrine (named after former Chief of the General Staff Army-General Nikolai Makarov) otherwise known as Russia’s hybrid warfare (or non-linear warfare) strategy. Explained by Makarov’s successor, Valery Gerasimov, “a perfectly thriving state can, in a matter of months or even days, be transformed into an arena of fierce armed conflict, become a victim of foreign intervention, and sink into a web of chaos, humanitarian catastrophe, and civil war.” This, he said, could be done by combining “political, economic, informational, humanitarian”, and other soft power instruments with “the protest potential of the population”. Some will say that the strategy was executed by Russia in Crimea in 2014, leading to the annexation of the peninsula without any major military confrontation, and followed by the destabilisation of the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
Whereas Western soft power use in Afghanistan and Iraq was focused on winning the peace after military confrontation, Russian innovation was the deployment of soft power instruments from the very beginning and throughout a military campaign to great effect. And herein lies the fundamental challenge. These soft power instruments (political, economic, informational, humanitarian) now used for war-making are also at the core of the peace-making and peace-building toolbox.
So there. That is the story, then, of how the securitisation of peace happened, and how making and building of peace is increasingly becoming an instrument of war. For those involved in peace work, the key question is now how we do our work when our methods are also used to wage war?
So what’s the photograph? It is a snapshot of a slide from a presentation we recently gave to Chinese policy makers and think tanks on the securitisation of conflict prevention. It was the conclusion of a UK-China dialogue on conflict prevention, organised by Saferworld, and funded by the UK’s Department for International Development. It summarises the seven threads (yes – there are three more) that got making peace entangled with waging war. If you want to learn more about the photograph, the other three threads, or our work, just get in touch. | <urn:uuid:3397d1fc-d6c7-485b-8582-632baead4eaa> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://artraker.wordpress.com/ | 2017-05-30T09:19:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463614620.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170530085905-20170530105905-00507.warc.gz | en | 0.961196 | 1,718 | [
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Feel like a celebrity of the day by adorning this golden danglers on suitable occasions. Jewelry plays a significant role in every woman’s life, the designs and craftsmanship differs in every region of the world. Mughals have inspired the jewelry designs in some parts of India. This pair reminds us of delicate traditional designs crafted as imitation jewelry and not pure gold. It is sturdy, affordable and easy for day to day life with long shelf life. | <urn:uuid:4fb12f06-2e53-446d-9776-f69c2026401e> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.goldgiftideas.com/product/charming-golden-glorious-danglers/ | 2018-05-21T10:50:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864063.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521102758-20180521122758-00439.warc.gz | en | 0.936163 | 95 | [
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1. European Commission: Informal Stakeholders Meeting on Responsible Management of the Supply Chain in the Garment Sector
Last week, SOURCE Editor in Chief, Sarah Ditty, attended the Informal stakeholders meeting on responsible management of the supply chain in the garment sector in Brussels, Belgium.
The European Commission is set to launch a multi-stakeholder initiative that will address all key aspects of sustainable development in the garment supply chain, including social, environmental, health and safety, human rights, gender issues, sustainable production and consumption.
Ditty, who is also part of the Fashion Revolution team, was pleased to contribute towards the shaping of the
priority issues to be tackled by this new EU platform.
The 5-year objectives are yet to be set, but there was a lot of debate around the following key issues:
- Convergence of social and environmental standards;
- Support for SMEs in Europe;
- Capacity building for producing countries;
- Transparency and reporting; and
- Access to information for consumers
2. Ethical Fashion 2020: A New Vision for Transparency
On Monday 29 June, EFF team members Sarah Ditty (SOURCE Editor in Chief) and Clare Lissaman (Ethical Fashion Consulting) took part in a roundtable debate “Ethical Fashion 2020: a New Vision for Transparency” at the UK Houses of Parliament.
The two hour debate was chaired by Lucy Siegle in conversation with the Executive Directors of the Ethical Trading Initiative, the Bangladesh Accord, British Fashion Council, Maquiladora Health & Safety Network and Baroness Young of Hornsey.
The key take-aways were:
- Transparency is a key to progress
- Public disclosure of factories and their conditions is critical
- Now is the time to move away from ‘sweatshop’ business models
- Showcasing and celebrating good practices and positive stories is crucial
- Legislation is part of the answer but not the whole solution, cultural change is needed
Notes to Editor: If you would like to request further information or a follow up interview with a member of the Ethical Fashion Forum and SOURCE team, please contact our Marketing Officer: Qiulae Wong – [email protected] or 020 7739 7692
About the Ethical Fashion Forum
The Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) is the industry body for sustainable fashion, representing over 10,000 members in more than 100 countries. EFF supports its members through the SOURCE platform, launched in 2011, which provides an online network, sourcing and business database, business intelligence, and a global programme of events.
Ethical Fashion: Key Statistics
- Fashion is considered to be a $3 trillion industry
- 200 out of the 500 on Forbes annual rich list have made their money from the fashion and retail industry and together are worth over $1 trillion.-McKinsey Report
- 91% of fashion companies still don’t know where their cotton comes from – Behind the Barcode, Baptist World Aid Australia
- 1,129 people died and over 2,500 were injured in the Rana Plaza disaster in 2011
- 50% of consumers are now willing to pay a premium for brands with a social or environmental commitment – 2012 Edelman Good Purpose Report
- Fashion Revolution Day’s web content was viewed over 14 billion times in 2015
- Successful sustainable fashion brand, Reformation, turned over $25 million in 2014, and has just raised $12 million in investment from supermodel Karlie Kloss and VC firms
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Apple releases four TV adverts for the iPhone 5
Following yesterday’s launch of the iPhone 5, Apple has released four TV adverts promoting the new device. Titled “Thumbs”, “Cheese”, “Physics”, and “Ears”, the ads showcase how the 4-inch display is the ideal size for your thumb, the fact that the device is taller yet lighter than previous models, the camera’s panoramic mode, and the new EarPod earphones bundled with the device.
“Introducing the iPhone 5, with 4-inch Retina display. It’s the perfect size for everything — including your thumb.”
“Introducing the iPhone 5. Now taking beautiful photos in panorama is as simple as saying “cheese”.”
“The iPhone 5 is here. The biggest and tallest yet somehow thinnest and lightest iPhone yet.”
“Introducing the iPhone 5, with EarPods — designed to sound better and earshaped to fit better.”
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Academic Planning Manager
I'm looking to recruit a Academic Planning Manager on an interim basis to support the Academic Planning Team at London Business School, one of the top educational and business institutions in the world who strive to have a profound impact on the way the world does business. To be considered for this role you must have experience of CMIS, it is essential so please do not apply unless you have experience of CMIS.
This role is set to last 3-6 months, based at Regents Park in London. You will bring previous experience in a scheduling/resourcing/ timetabling in an academic environment.
The role involves providing project management support to Associate Director and Senior Academic Planning Manager as well as the following:
* Support the development of a detailed project plan to manage key stages and overall completion of core teaching planning
* Develop an understanding of all degree programmes and elective requirements and provide specialist support to staff within degree education.
* Manage strict timelines with regards to meeting objectives, key stages and overall completion of core and elective scheduling.
* Create timetables for degree programmes using CMIS auto and manual scheduling.
* Liaise with the other Academic Planning Managers to ensure teaching planning is coherent and coordinated.
* Work closely with the Senior Manager to collate and organise space planning needs for all core and elective teaching.
* Manage timetable publication to students through relevant systems/software.
* Ensuring accurate information for course rules, session information, faculty information, space and all other required course admin information is kept up to date at all times
* Management of teaching planning inboxes
* Support the department's relationship and visibility with stakeholders both within DPO and across the School, as appropriate to role.
* Assist the Senior Academic Planning Manager with a clear plan for managing key stakeholder relationships across the year.
* Provide specialist support and guidance to programme teams and other School departments, as required.
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With the lingering taste of severely bad coffee in my mouth from that place in lovely Jamestown, we slogged it pretty much non-stop all the way to San Francisco, stopping a couple of times to stretch our legs and take a break from driving.
Once on the freeways I quickly learned how mad some of the drivers are in this state, scarily exceeding the speed limit and not caring to indicate when swerving and changing lanes just metres in front of us. Crazy bloody idiots.
I couldn’t help but get pangs of excitement as I drove, catching sight of the San Francisco skyline as we approached the Oakland Bay Bridge. “Quick grab the camera and get some shots of the bridge!” I said as the Sat Nav directed me to the correct lanes. Snaps to the other half for the great shots of the bridge, taken as we crossed the bay heading into town.
Now all I needed to do was follow the navigated instructions from the bridge to The Fairmont on Nob Hill, home for the next four nights. Easy peasy and a big WOW, we’re in San Fran! Another one ticked off my “to do” list. Yes, it’s the small things, but I’ve been hankering to get to this town since I was a teenager.
After a couple of hours traversing the steep hills of this town we ended up in North Beach following a brief and uninspiring walk through Chinatown. Being a little early, it wasn’t quite time for food. Hold on. Allow me to rephrase as I’m an almost-firm believer it’s always time for food.
Neither of us was feeling hungry so instead it was more like time for a well deserved drink after enduring the freeways and idiotic drivers for most of the day. The next leg of our journey begins; albeit in an iconic bohemian bar we’d just stumbled upon.
Music, chatter and people watching over Colombus Avenue as we rub shoulders with like-minded boozing locals. I do like this place, even if that shady piece of shit did swipe our tip from the table after we left. Sorry, waitress, you were too slow in clearing our glasses.
Not really knowing where we’d end up for dinner on our first night, I had sufficient confidence that just being in North Beach was a good place to start looking. There’s no shortage of bars and restaurants in this neighbourhood and our pangs of hunger prompted us to give this seemingly popular place a go.
A couple of tables remained in this dimly lit hot house of Italian food so we grabbed one of them, sinking into a dark corner near the bar. Man, what a joint. As busy as Sodini’s was with hungry humans we were looked after with welcoming warmth from a fantastic waitress that made us feel at home from the moment our glutes hit the seats. In fact all of the staff made everyone feel at home, especially the big dude behind the bar.
A bottle of Geyser Peak sauv blanc from Sonoma was poured, we chose our edibles and started off with an incredible grilled polenta (10.95) doused in marinara sauce, some oozing cheese and a whole lot of tasty love. Yes I was in love, at that moment in time, with a plate of food. Not the first time.
The vino was pretty damn special as well. Pasta seemed like the way to go for both of us; tortellini al pesto (13.95) and linguini seafood (18.95), both of which were tasty but not fantastic. Humble pasta at a humble eatery. I wasn’t expecting anything mind-blowingly extraordinary.
When a room rate doesn’t include breakfast it generally means hitting the streets and eating as the locals do, or finding whatever-the-hell you can. Lucky for us we had farm:table just down the freakishly-steep hill from the hotel. This place was already on my “to eat” list and somehow, for the duration of our stay in San Francisco, became the breakfast venue by default. If there’s anything better between The Fairmont and farm:table, I do apologise, we just didn’t notice you. Or smell your fabulous coffee before we arrived.
The farm:table set-up is centred around an 8-seater communal table, making for coveted positioning as there’s not much else going in the seating department other than a couple of minuscule tables out on the sidewalk. Ahem, sorry I mean footpath. The coffee is made with love, none of that diluted Americano rubbish, and the food is kept simple and seasonal.
They even grow herbs up on the roof-terrace. Over our several visits I picked up on the limited breakfast menu formula that seemed to change daily. Toasted bread with a certain topping, a small plate of something-or-other that included boiled or poached eggs, and the usual cereal or grain with milk or yoghurt.
First visit saw us tucking into whole wheat toast (7.5) topped with mascarpone, mixed heirloom apples and caramel almonds. Yes, caramel almonds and it freakin’ worked. The other dish was hard boiled eggs (8.5) with candy stripe tomatoes, roasted peppers and baguette. It was at this point in our American travels that confirmed to me how much better tomatoes tasted in this country than in little ol’ Australia.
It may have been a seasonal thing but to be honest, when tomatoes are in season in Australia they don’t taste as sweet and glorious as what we’d been eating in New York, and now in California.
On our other visits to farm:table we ate things like boiled eggs with marvel stripe beans, bacon & German rye caramelised onion, fetta & parsley quiche (8) and an orgasmic braised pork shoulder (9) with tomato, long pepper, pan de mie and soft boiled egg.
Pan de mie is a lightly sweetened bread, a little like the “regular” stuff you find around the country. Kinda like brioche. To my general experience regular bread is sweeter in the US, much more than I’ve encountered in Oz, Europe and the UK.
On one particular day we scratched the surface of The Mission district, an enclave that seems to have a culture of its own; flavoured with Central American food, heritage and architecture. This is one colourful neighbourhood, especially with its murals.
While the virginal Mexican wave may be flapping around Sydney, here in the Mission it’s very much the norm. Especially at the iconic 50-year old Gallardo’s with its humble interior, black & white era film pics, occasional mInnoDBchi band and steady stream of devotees. This is not a contrived Mexican restaurant with bright colours and sombrero’s, it’s a simple place for punters that want their fill on home-style stodge, and plenty of it.
Only on the weekends can you sample the menudo (7) and the birria (7.5), both of which we had. Menudo is a flavoursome broth containing tripe, then self-garnished with onion, coriander, extra chilli and dried oregano. Tasty, nourishing and very rustic.
Birria is much more friendly if you’re not into the offal thing. It’s a spicy lamb soup rich with deep flavours and perfect coupled with corn tortillas. I also tried the higardo encebollado (8.25), basically liver and onions, served on an enormous plate. I was completely defeated with the size of the meal, the menudo didn’t help, leaving half of it uneaten. Sadly the liver was over-cooked and really dry, making for something I struggled to get down comfortably.
Several blocks away is the fantastic Commonwealth restaurant where executive chef Jason Fox and chef de cuisine Ian Muntzert work their New American magic, dishing up delicious and creative food in a Mexican-heavy neighbourhood. $60 for a 6-course degustation sounded too good to be true.
Irresistable, in fact, knowing that in my hometown a six-course dego normally hovers around the $100 bracket. Plus the restaurant donates $10 from the degustation price to local charities.
We choose an organic Natural Process Alliance sauvignon blanc from the Russian River Valley, pre-warned with its unconventional sauv blanc flavour and appearance. This vino comes bottled in a screw-top stainless steel cylinder, decantered into glass before being poured into wine glasses.
By appearance it’s cloudy and by my personal palate it’s very acidic, apple-like and almost vinegary. Not a fan. The tart acidity of the wine paralleled the pimento spilette & seaweed chips, served with malt vinegar mousse. These little babies were just the ticket, flecked with nori and spices and making the wine a little more palatable for me.
An amuse of ocean trout crudo starts off the procession with delicate flavours of the raw trout, apple beet yuzu jelly and pickled wasabi with micro herbs. Served on a seaweed brioche cracker, the sea urchin is deliciously creamy with pearls of tapioca, ginger, cauliflower, kimchee and assorted wild greens. Overall it had a peppery, almost parmesan-like flavour.
The grilled chicken tsukune is a simple arrangement of meat balls, citrusy umeboshi, sushi rice cracker and micro shiso leaves. A surprise addition to our six courses is a pan-seared scallop with squid ink cracker and a yuzu emulsion. Loved it!
Onto some heavier proteins – grilled lamb cheeks with shishito peppers, sesame spätzle, a raw bean salad and dashi. Beautifully tender meat with some great clean flavours. Pork loin was the other protein, lightened with gem lettuce, fennel, slivers of plum, black garlic, mustard seeds and silky young coconut. Loved this one as well.
A complimentary pre-dessert of cardamom sponge cake comes deconstructed with hazelnut streusel, pear sorbet and huckleberry fool. The only off-putting component was the slate it came served on. Not that we needed it, or would have rejected it, a chocolate-coated peanut butter semifreddo with a very scant smear of caramel and frozen popcorn. What a fantastic meal!
We may have been sufficiently full from our Commonwealth meal, but I had plans of tracking down a food truck I’d been following on twitter for a couple of months prior to this trip. About a ten minute walk away from the Mission, we headed for the Castro district in search of the corner of Market and Castro Streets.
You see, the Crème Brûlée Cart had tweeted it’s location earlier that day and I made sure we tried it at least once while in town. This guy started up in some back alley, torch in hand, a small cart and a growing number of followers. Now they’ve added a truck, expanding the sugar-topped mini empire to greater San Francisco.
There were 7 flavours available and as much as I wanted to try every one of them, we did just two. Honey vanilla bean (4) and the cham-wow! (4) which was dark chocolate with Chambord & black raspberry liqueur. Just brilliant.
I’ve never been one to specifically make my way to a museum to eat at its restaurant but after stumbling upon The Moss Room online I made sure we got there, if only to check out its impressive 12-metre wall of ferns. The Californian Academy of Sciences is located in the sprawling Golden Gate Park and the restaurant can be found beneath the Academy Cafe, a cafeteria of sorts crawling with screaming children. I do like children, don’t get me wrong, just not the noisy ones.
Descending the stairs from the cafeteria begins to feel like another world, a child-free world of calm and serenity. Every now and then a shroud of mist sprays down over the ferns, giving the impression you’re in a temperate rainforest far away from the city.
There’s nothing ground breaking about the food at the The Moss Room but at the same time, it’s far from shabby fare. I started with delicious panko-fried Huma Huma oysters (13) from Washington State, simply served with chilli, cucumber and lemon aioli. I rarely eat fried oysters as I prefer them fresh but these were just the ticket.
I really liked the Llano Seco Farms pork sugo (18) , mixed through pappardelle with flecks of spinach and grand padano and thanks to someones aversion to corn, I got every kernel that came with the house made fennel sausage (19), shelling beans, spring onion and arugula. That was one mighty fine sausage.
Dessert-wise, the angel cloud cake (9) came as torn chunks topped with diced strawberries and a lemon lavender sorbet. It was ok. Much more interesting was the vacherin (9), a scoop of coffee gelato perched on top of Swiss meringue, loads of chocolate sauce, crème anglaise and candied flaked almonds. It looked an absolute mess when I took to it with a spoon, but man it was tasty.
Just near Golden Gate Park is Haight-Ashbury, a hippy hot-spot in the 60’s. These days the area maintains somewhat of a bohemian vibe with alternative shops, restaurants, music shops and not-so-subtle joints (pardon the pun) selling accoutrement for pot-heads.
Need a pretty bong? Look no further than Haight Street. Personally I found the strip pretty touristy so rather than hang around and perpetuate the fact, we grabbed the next tram and headed back to town.
Whilst on the tram we both had pangs for a coffee so I whipped out the iPhone and checked my City Maps 2Go app to see if I had any coffee shops pinned on it. There was one just down the road so we jumped out and got our fill at Blue Bottle Coffee which led to the discovery of this little ice cream place, Smitten Ice Cream. When there’s a queue of people like the one we saw, it’s got to be good. Right?
Just as the Crème Brûlée dude started out small, the lady behind Smitten started out a few years ago by wheeling a small wagon around events and festivals. Thanks to a custom made machine that relies on liquid nitrogen, a few basic ingredients are transformed into the creamiest ice cream in 60 seconds. These days Smitten Ice Cream has a permanent home in a recycled shipping container parked on Octavia Street just down from Blue Bottle Coffee and just next to Ritual Coffee.
Churning ice cream so quickly in such cold temperatures makes for smaller ice crystals and a much creamier result. No emulsifiers, stabilisers or preservatives. The options aren’t extensive so you don’t have to faff around choosing what you want. A small TCHO chocolate (4.25) for him and a regular peanut butter with honey (6) for me. The green things on top would be candied jalapeños. Hot and sweet. Great stuff.
Following a very uninspiring afternoon visit to the Fisherman’s Wharf precinct, hence no photo’s, we made our way back up to North Beach to suss out where we may potentially end up for dinner. Calzone’s looked like a good contender but seeing it was still a bit early we just sat outside, nibbled on some really good Italian pot stickers (9.95), some vino and people watching.
The pot stickers were filled with mild sausage meat, wild mushrooms, garlic and ginger. It was like Europe meets Asia, cocooned in a wonton wrapper, pan-fried and then steamed.
The Stinking Rose seems to be somewhat of an institution, known for it’s heavy-handed use of garlic in pretty much everything on the menu. This place just had to make my eating list by pure novelty value. Ok, I’m not one for themed restaurants and looking around the restaurant at its many eclectic rooms, there was a definite theme going on. Let’s just pretend we’re back in Vegas, shall we?
The food is garlic-flavoured Italian. Not the best Italian, just middle-of-the-road stodge where the flavour of garlic will stay on your tongue longer than the memory of the food in your mind. Fluffy complimentary bread rolls and a forty clove garlic chicken (19.95). Yes, forty cloves. They were huddled around the roasted piece of chicken which was nicely seasoned and surprisingly un-garlicy. Ho hum.
I went for silence of the lamb shank (oh please, don’t make me regurgitate my bread roll) a very tender chianti-glazed shank with fava beans, creamed chard and mash (19.95). The meat was actually quite good and barely tasted of garlic, unless of course you accidentally forked one of the semi-cooked cloves scattered around the plate. Surprisingly the dessert had the strongest garlic flavour out of our meals.
Gilroy’s famous garlic ice cream (6.95), topped with caramel molé sauce. The moment you start eating it you notice a little bit of garlic. Half way through the enormous scoop the garlic flavour takes over your palate until the sweetness transforms into an overall bitterness. It got a little sickly after a while so I put the spoon down and called it a night. No need to rush to this place, folks.
Wet weather decided to move into town on our last day, dampening our experience but not holding us back on exploring the eateries. Vietnamese was on the cards for a relaxed lunch at hot-spot Turtle Tower Restaurant in Civic Center. We left our names on the door and awaited a table, yes it’s that popular, and once seated it was Tsingtao (3.45) beer all ’round. I know, not very Vietnamese but it was the only Asian beer on the menu.
We begin nibbling on some Imperial rolls (2.15 each), much like the ones you get in Hue, Vietnam. Light, crispy, soft and damn tasty. The other half tucks into a pho gà (6.2) while I dip into some bun cha ha noi (8.2) – grilled pork patty and sliced pork, vermicelli noodles, pickled veg and the usual herbs and leaves. The meat is smokey and the broth just divine.
There were no real plans for our last night so we ventured back to North Beach as the selection of restaurants is pretty decent. I quietly wanted to try a Taiwanese place called Hunan Home’s but got the impression the other half wasn’t all that keen on it. Damn. We settled on Panta Rei, a modern-looking Italian restaurant on the main strip. Our legs were aching, the menu sounded good enough, this would do.
Somehow I ordered two squid ink dishes. Firstly the rather large polenta nera (12.95), tinted black from ink and generously doused in creamy mascarpone studded with nubs of shrimp. To say I loved this starter is an understatement. I wanted to marry it.
Secondly it was linguine nere (17.95) with mussels, clams, calamari and shrimp in a white wine sauce. Not as outstanding as the polenta but still very good. Strangely the other half chooses a pasta with a cream sauce, something I know never really occurs. Pappardelle verdi all’anatra (17.95) – i.e. green fettucine with duck meat in brandy pink sauce. I ended up with the last quarter of it, preferring it to mine.
Not only was our waiter incredibly friendly and helpful but he gave us a slab of tiramisu to share, no charge. Really liked it.
Checking out of our hotel early, we threw the bags in the rental car and drove down the hill to our regular breakfast haunt farm:table, filling up on white Cheddar and mixed herb quiche (8) and the house cereal (6.5) with berries, yoghurt and star thistle honey. Not to forget a couple of coffees each as we didn’t really know when the next time would be where we’d have a good coffee.
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For some time now we are working on a project for an Australian meat industry. Today we welcomed the customer at our office in order to go through the project in detail. We also had the opportunity to look at similar equipment at a food factory close by our office. This way the customer also got the chance to exchange experience from the operators of the machines. This is worth a lot in order to show the benefits of the machinery.
Next weekend we are leaving Sweden for the IPE show in Atlanta. We will be exhibiting a single column lift together with a scale and a hydraulic tipper. Hopefully we will see a lot of interested customers over there.
Our service engineer is on his way back from an installation in Germany that was performed this past weekend. He says that the traffic is proceeding slowly due to some heavy snowing. We hope he is back for next appointment! And our sales staff will visit customer sites in the middle of Sweden as well as in Denmark during the week. | <urn:uuid:71b560f1-75a7-4066-a1e0-8562259b7b9b> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://nimokgab.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/long-distant-visitors/ | 2018-05-24T11:54:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866276.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524112244-20180524132244-00119.warc.gz | en | 0.981463 | 198 | [
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Last week, Mercury might have brought more objectiveness and coolness to our minds, but now the vigorous sun in triumphant Aries connects with other planets to make our hearts stouter and wills more robust. This positive expression of energy might come with a compulsion to express it in some active and powerful way, whether that’s training for a marathon or trying the latest HIIT class you’ve been seeing all over Instagram.
Beautiful Venus shimmies into lively Aries on Tuesday to intensify our interest in good looks, whether you’re doing the checking or getting checked out. She definitely amps up your spring fever and improves activity on dating apps. So make sure your profile is up-to-date.
On the determination front, the sun digs deep within us as he struggles with forceful Pluto on Wednesday, directing us to stand our ground and follow through with our intentions. However, perseverance can easily transform into the kind of silly stubbornness that inspires you to cut your nose off to spite your face, if you’re not careful. Put that power into what improves your life, not what keeps you in a rut.
However, self-improvement doesn’t mean that you have to follow someone else’s methods. The sun’s high-powered meeting by conjunction with off-beat Uranus on Saturday means you’ll have to find your own way of making something funky. This hookup might make it difficult if you want people to conform to a set plan. One way around that is to add an element of surprise.
The planetary weather report: Use these guidelines to unlock the stars, not to be locked down by them.
The new moon on Thursday adds a lot of energy to the pot since, after all, it promises renewal. Nurture the bud of your intentions by getting out to make them happen. The sun shines with enough energy and will to boost you.
Read on for your sign’s Sky Code.
Aries (March 21 to April 19)
You often end up at the top of the pile because you know how to get to the bottom line quicker than most. You should be prepared to hang tough to see your perseverance pay off with a thorny issue. However, don’t give all your attention to these difficult situations. With Venus entering your sign, you have a chance to draw attention while also making your amorous intentions known. Don’t hold back because it’s your original sense of style that will make you nearly irresistible.
Taurus (April 20 to May 21)
Sometimes a quick jaunt down Memory Lane is the fuel you need to focus on your future. Recently you might have been inclined to remember something as better than it was, perhaps a relationship or job. Fortunately, someone or something comes back like a Walking Dead zombie to set the record straight. Don’t try to salvage much from the past or doubt what you’re feeling or thinking now. You’re probably right. Savor the present, and press forward. You’ll have plenty of time to check out what you thought you missed in life’s rearview mirror.
Gemini (May 21 to June 20)
Build more trust and openness among colleagues or friends by finding something exciting and novel to do together. Pioneering new territory won’t happen by doing the same ol’. You don’t have to sign up for an extreme-sports challenge, but doing something original quickly levels the playing field with people in your life, especially new ones. You don’t have time to do years of vetting and a casual lunch won’t scratch deep enough for you.
Cancer (June 21 to July 21)
You’re not often on the precipice of neglecting anyone, but you might run that risk this week. Someone needs your help and you might not hear his or her shouts because you’re fully focused on a career goal. You should recognize, though, that this person is also part of your mission. After all, you’re likely striving higher because you want to do and have more for others. You have to be careful of what you sacrifice along the way. It’s awful lonely at the top if you forget all the people who inspired you to be there in the first place.
Leo (July 22 to August 21)
As a sign of royalty, you have two ways you can satisfy the feeling of regality in people’s lives: You can help them feel special or you can make them feel like shit, whether because of their own offenses or your own mood fluctuations. The problem with the latter choice is that you can never be sure if your estimation of another person is correct. You might encounter someone who puts on airs because she wants to feel more important than everyone. Let it happen, because you have enough specialness to share and there’s nothing gained by shortchanging others.
Virgo (August 22 to September 21)
Sharing your hidden talents and abilities is only the first step to improving your fortunes. The next one is to invest further in them so that they can net more for you, either in gratification or gold. Unfortunately, you might try to tell yourself that you’re not good enough or you won’t get much out of the investment. Okay, you’re not as good as you could be and money isn’t the best reason to develop what you got. Can we move on now? Remember: Sometimes the pleasure of providing your best for others is reward enough.
Libra (September 22 to October 21)
An Aries new moon is a reset button for your one-on-one relationships, like clients, significant others, and your therapist. As you’ve done the work to re-prioritize how others fit into your plans, now you have to listen and think about how you fit into theirs. You’re likely ready to give, but they also might be inclined to take more than their fair share. The key thing is to figure out what’s fair and not to assume that you have to accept anyone else’s initial offer. Be open to negotiating a better deal.
Scorpio (October 22 to November 21)
Although you’re often reluctant to change, welcoming it in your daily life might be just what you need for more motivation. Even if you followed through with putting a little more magic in your life last week, you need to dig deeper to step up your overall plans to kick ass, whether that’s fiscally or physically. You’ve been pulling metaphorical punches, partly because your technique has been sloppy. It’s time to let that go. To get more, you’ll have to give more.
Sagittarius (November 22 to December 21)
As the Bible says, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” In case, you’re not clear, it’s passion and big dreams that get your heart pounding, not minutiae and chitchat. No more excuses, Centaur. It’s time to hit more big targets, one step at a time, and that might scare you. However, there’s no denying that once you look closer at what you got and dare to envision what you can have, your heart can have more pleasure and treasure.
Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)
You probably won’t believe that gravity doesn’t have more of a hold on you this week than most others. If you can crawl out of bed, it might feel like you need jet propellers to achieve escape velocity from your apartment. Don’t fight it too much. Give in to the need to “nest” and ground yourself, especially if you can spend more time with people who delight and excite you. The number doesn’t matter. A happy and comfortable home can feel that way whether there are 10 people there, or 1.
Aquarius (January 21 to February 18)
You might speak truth to power so much that you feel like it’s become a full-time job. So this week take a vacay from sending thunderbolts of real talk. There are only so many ways you can tell people about what’s wrong with their lives before you sound like a broken record. Keep your precious sense of urgency and stay focused on only the most pressing things you have to say.
Pisces (February 19 to March 20)
Think-and-grow-rich types have a saying: “Pay yourself first.” The idea is that you invest in yourself before anything else, even if you only get a dollar before you dole out bigger bucks to others. What counts most, however, is the practice of thinking about your own value first rather than what you owe to other people. You’re a better catch than you realize and it’s high time you start acting like it. Might not be a bad idea to look like it too. Purchase a big-ticket item that makes you look and feel good.
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The core to the virtual network is the virtual switch. The virtual switch has uplinks from physical switches via physical network interface cards (pNICs) and ports that attach to virtual machines. But what other features define the virtual switch?
Let's start with what a virtual switch is not. Technically speaking, KVM, XenServer, Open Source Xen and Hyper-V, plus all the hosted virtualization products, use a virtual bridge and not a virtual switch. There is not much difference between a bridge and a switch. They both send data between two different segments of a network and they both verify the data being sent.
However, virtual switch software has many more features available to it and can perform more complex operations, including the implementation of virtual LANs, EtherChannel and other more advanced networking tools.
In either case, the pNICs are placed in bridging mode, and you bridge from a physical switch to a virtual switch. This is just like putting an uplink cable between two physical switches. We are in essence uplinking from the physical switch to the virtual switch. In some cases, it is also possible to have virtual switches that are not connected to any pNIC, thereby creating fully virtualized networks.
Each virtual switch system for each hypervisor has different virtual switch security mechanisms. Currently, VMware vSphere has some of the more advanced capabilities, but this will change when the Xen OpenVSwitch is available.
Connected to the virtual machine side of each virtual switch is a virtual network interface card (vNIC). There can be one or more vNICs per VM. However, it is not possible to layer virtual switches, i.e., one virtual switch cannot directly attach to another virtual switch. To connect a virtual switch to another virtual switch from within the virtual network, you must place a VM between them. These VMs would have at least 2 vNICs and act either as a router, firewall or gateway device. By using VMs that act as these types of devices, it is possible to build very complex virtual networks.
The key to virtual switch configuration is that the switch connects on one side to the physical network through the pNICS, and on the other side a virtual switch connects to the virtual machines via the VM's vNICs. This creates the virtual network.
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If you’re looking for the best water purifier for home use, it’s best to have an idea of what type of water purifier you’re looking for. Once you figure that out, the rest is easy.
The most common type of water purifier is the pitcher. And, it’s presumed that the water pitcher is the most budget-friendly option. However, that’s not always necessarily the case. The faucet water filter is another budget option, but, we’ll get to that in a bit.
The water pitcher is going to reduce the chlorine taste and odor. In addition, it will reduce contaminants such as zinc, copper, mercury and cadmium. The pitcher is also going to be convenient, while keeping the water refrigerator-cold when you need it.
Now, the faucet water filter is the other budget option we just mentioned. The faucet water filter is for those who don’t want bulky containers taking up valuable counter or refrigerator space.
And, besides clearing up valuable space, this is the best water purifier for home use for those that want to decontaminate their water source for all purposes. This includes decontamination for rinsing the dishes and washing hands.
The next type of water purifier up for consideration is the countertop water purifier. And, we have two different options for the countertop on our best water purifier for home use list.
The countertop water purifier filters the water much more thoroughly than the water pitcher and the faucet water filter. And, it will clear the water of microorganisms and bacteria that the other two budget options won’t. Additionally, one of our picks for countertop purifier creates alkaline ionized water. We go into more detail about this below.
The final type of water filtration system is what we call the tank system. And, we have two different types for entirely two different scenarios. One of the tank systems will fit under the kitchen sink and will most likely offer the purest form of water than any other purifier by eliminating up to 99% of all contaminants.
The second pick for best water purifier for home use in the tank system category is meant to purify treated or untreated water in less than desirable conditions. Many people who use this water purifier live in areas where the water is rough or they need to extract from a lake or pond. Additionally, this is an ideal water purifier to take camping or to treat water in foreign countries.
By now you should have an idea of what type of water purifier you’re looking for. And, we have six of the best reviewed at-home purifiers for each category. After extensive research, these purifiers completely out-shine the rest on the market. So, whichever one you may go with, the chances are high that you will be completely satisfied.
Best Water Purifier for Home Use
Best Water Purifier for Home Use
Brita 10 Cup Everyday Water Pitcher
This pick for best water purifier for home use is pretty much a standard in every household. It’s a convenient, budget-friendly way to obtain purer water and better tasting water.
The Brita 10 Cup Everyday Water Pitcher is Brita’s largest basic pitcher at approximately 80 fluid ounces. This water purifier pitcher comes in an oval design to fit easily in the refrigerator door.
This water pitcher is made of BPA-free plastic and will help to reduce contaminants such as zinc, copper, mercury and cadmium. In addition, it will reduce chlorine taste and odor for fresh tasting water.
The maintenance on this 10 Cup Water Pitcher is fairly easy. To wash, simply hand wash with mild detergent. And, although some people have great success running this pitcher through the dishwasher, it is not recommended by Brita.
Approximately every couple of months or every 40 gallons, the filter will need to be changed. You can find replacement filters here.
For your convenience, this water purifier comes with a filter change indicator to remind you to change out the filter. And, to get you started, this water pitcher comes with a filter all ready to go.
Lastly, if you’re looking for something smaller, Brita has a 5 cup water pitcher which you can find here.
Kabter Healthy Faucet Water Filter System
The faucet water filter is a great option for those wanting filtered water beyond drinking water. The Kabter Healthy Faucet Water Filter System is a convenient and hassle-free budget option.
This pick for best at home water filter uses activated carbon and KDF55 to reduce contaminants such as sediment, chlorine, cysts, benzene, asbestos, mercury and lead. In addition, KDF55 can kill bacteria and stunt the growth of lime, mold and fungi.
And, not only will the Kabter Healthy Faucet Water Filter System reduce contaminants, it will also help improve the water by reducing the chlorine smell and taste.
This water filter is made of food grade ABS plastic which is BPA and Phthalate free. It is easy to install and easy to use. And, you can turn the system on and off with the flip of the switch if you’re looking to prolong the use of the filter. Each filter will last approximately 200 gallons or every 3-5 months depending on the quality of your water source and usage.
Finally, the Kabter Healthy Faucet Water Filter System will fit most faucets, but, it’s best to consult the company first.
Brondell H2O+ Cypress Countertop Water Filter System
Our first pick for best water purifier for home use in the countertop category is a high quality filtration system that is usually found in more elaborate tank systems.
The Brondell H2O+ Cypress Countertop Water Filter System offers 3 stage Nanotrap technology which runs through 3 separate advanced water filters. This 3 stage system dramatically reduces chemicals such as atrazine, chlorobenzene, trihalomethanes, methoxychlor, endrin, benzine, DBCP and aesthetic chlorine from your water source.
The 1st stage of this system is a 2 step filter which reduces sand, rust and fine particles from the water supply. The 2nd stage reduces turbidity, waterborne microorganisms and numerous other particulates. Finally, the 3rd stage further reduces particulates such as chlorine, volatile organic compounds and the like. Additionally, the 3rd stage also rids the water source of bad tastes and odors.
And, so you know you’re getting the real deal, this water filter system has been tested and certified by the Water Quality Association to comply with NSF/ANSI Standards 42 for the reduction of claims specified.
Lastly, the Brondell H2O+ Cypress Countertop Water Filter System is easy to install and will fit 99% of faucets with the provided faucet diverter. In addition, the filter replacement is just as easy to install and the recommended filter replacement for the 1st and 3rd stage filtration is every 6 months. For the 2nd stage filtration, the recommended replacement is every 12 months.
Webetop Water Ionizer and Water Purifier Machine
Our second pick for best water purifier for home use in the countertop category is an alkalized ionized water filtration system. Now, alkalized water has some controversy surrounding it, so make sure you’re well-informed before you make this particular purchase.
The Webetop Water Ionizer and Water Purifier Machine is made of 5 platinum-coated titanium energy-efficient plates and features a back-lit LCD touch panel. This panel will display the pH and ORP, the flow rate, the temperature and the filter’s usage life.
This water purifier is controlled by the 7 different water settings to adjust the alkalinity and to add antioxidants. Choose from these 7 water settings: pH 9.0-10.5 for food disinfection and cleaning dishes, pH 8.5-10 for daily drinking, pH 8.0-9.0 for cooking and drinking, pH 7.5-8.5 for initial drinking, pH 7 for no color, taste or impurity, pH 5.0-6.5 for facial and skin cleansing and pH 3.5-5.5 for sterilization and disinfection.
And, these settings can be controlled via the CDC touch control panel. In addition, you can also control the maintenance via the touch control panel.
And, speaking of maintenance, you’re in luck. Because the Webetop Water Ionizer and Water Purifier Machine has a self-cleaning function to prevent scaling. It also has a built-in overheat protection system to prevent high temperature water from entering the machine.
The filter on this alkaline water purifier will purify and ionize over 6,000 liters of water. And, the carbon water filter can last up to a year before needing to be replaced.
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Summertime…and the living is easy…fish are jumping and the cotton is high… (George Gershwin 1934)
After a Summer of easy living and virtually non-stop football, the new season is nearly upon us once again. So a big fat hurrah for that.
It seems like only yesterday since Manchester United’s glorious victory over Crystal Palace and the whole two minutes it was celebrated for before word leaked out over Louis van Gaal’s forthcoming dismissal. I’d love to know just what kind of knobheads we have in our support who thought it was a good idea to boo van Gaal every time his kite came up on the big screen at Wembley. Those wankers got their wishes almost seconds after the final whistle when the wholly accurate rumour that van Gaal was to be sacked Continue reading …And The Living Is Easy… – Manchester 4th August 2016
I was surprised in the week approaching this match at the trepidation Newcastle fans were approaching this fixture with. With hindsight, they were right to be worried. After a level opening to the match, Newcastle folded like a cheap pair of trousers once Juan Mata put United into the lead in the 39th minute with a fantastic free kick. Anders Lindegaard stopped picking his nose for the day and he made a couple of excellent saves early in the match, particularly from Papiss Cisse in the 24th minute.
David Moyes took a gamble with this side today, obviously with Wednesday night in mind. That it resulted in United’s best league result of the season thus far is a happy coincidence for Moyes and a bit of long overdue good luck for him too. I’m not sure if he knew just how well Shinji Kagawa and Juan Mata would play together but he will know after todays performance, just in case he had any doubt. Kagawa along with Javier Hernadez were instrumental in United’s 2nd goal, scored with casual ease by Mata. Hernandez and Kagawa linked up again in the 65th minute to make the score 3-0 and finish off any lingering hope of Newcastle getting back into the game. This gave prompt to possibly the earliest exodus I’ve ever seen a football ground from a pathetic and risibly overrated home support. People leave early for all kinds of reasons but never to this volume.
Milburn Stand rapidly emptying immediately after United’s 3rd goal
We are the Geordies, the Geordie boot boys,
For we are mental, we are mad,
We’re the loudest football supporters,
the world has ever had…
This was the first of only four seasons where there was to be two group stages in the European Cup. United had cruised through the second group stage without too much problem, beating Girondins de Bordeaux home and away and losing at Fiorentina just before Christmas, partially due to a rare Roy Keane mistake which gifted Gabriel Batistuta the first goal in a 2-0 win for the Viola. This season saw European football at saturation level. On the 21st of March 2000, I was high up in the almost vertical Estadio de Mestalla watching Valencia and United play out a 0-0 draw which was very convenient for both sides. I didn’t know it at the time but exactly two weeks later, I would be back in Spain watching United play 200 miles from where I was at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. Back in Manchester on the Friday after the Valencia match about Midday, the news came through that United had drawn Real Madrid in the Quarter finals. Huge mobile phones were abuzz with all kinds of excited phone calls and text messages flying about with plans to go. I remember being sat by a computer on the Easyjet website ready to book flights from Speke to Barajas and it went swimmingly, return flights booked for four at a grand total of just under £350.00. Sitting there feeling very pleased with myself, we all went to the pub for an all dayer in good spirits. The first sign of worry came when we heard later on that day that the match at the Bernabéu was on a Tuesday night. We’d booked flights to go out on Wednesday morning and as everybody knows, once a flight with Easyjet is booked it’s cast in Moses tablets and impossible to change. We found flights going out of Gatwick on the Tuesday morning with Air Europa which cost us just over £100.00 apiece that did have the consolation of the fact that we could smoke on the flight (in those days, a very rare privilege, nowadays illegal).
They were former team mates at Nottingham Forest but Roy Keane and Alf Inge Håland were never friends. The real trouble started at Elland Road in September 1997 when a Roy Keane foul on Alf Inge Håland resulted in Keane acquring a career threatening cruciate ligament injury. Soon after with breathtaking callous indiference, Håland stated that Roy Keane had deserved the injury that he’d acquired at Elland Road that day, a sentiment like this was not going to be forgotten. After Roy Keane had made his infamous comment regarding some United fans and prawn sandwiches after a fraught European Cup victory over Dynamo Kyiv at Old Trafford in November 2000, Håland couldn’t help but stick his oar and criticise Keane for comments made that had absolutely nothing to do with him, the club he was skipper of or the fans of that club. Talk about pulling the tigers tail? City fans mistakenly and conveniently blame Roy Keane for ending Alf-Inge Håland’s career for that “challenge” in the Old Trafford derby in April 2001. When Keane done Håland, whether he meant to or not, he struck a blow for all United fans that afternoon. Håland had in his days as a Leeds United player, referred to Manchester United as “Munichs” and “scum” on his own personal website. When Håland joined newly promoted City in the summer of 2000, he was described as “articulate” by the easily impressed City correspondent, Chris Bailey in the Manchester Evening News (he who’s now head of PR at City). I can only imagine that anybody whom is bi-lingual is articulate in Bailey’s eyes.
Roy Keane in the process of injuring Alf IngeHåland so badly that Håland gets up two minutes later and finishes the game. Håland retired from football two years later with an injury to his LEFT knee
I hope Wigan go down, I really do. I’ve no particular dislike of the club but it’s not even a football town. Wigan’s most boisterous support comes from the Billy Boston stand, named very appropriately, after a legendary Welsh winger who played for Wigan rugby league club between 1953 to 1968. That boisterous support basically used a bass drum to attempt to create an atmosphere, God forbid they actually did it by singing, shouting or what have you. Can anybody think of a legendary Wigan Athletic player they could name a stand after? Wigan Athletic couldn’t so they named the stand I was placed in today after their old stadium, Springfield Park and the entire stadium is named after the shy, retiring and too modest Dave Whelan, a man who played for Blackburn Rovers. Wigan can’t even fill out their stadium for the visit of United, Arsenal or Liverpool and worst of all, they hold back 1,000 tickets of the usual away fans allocation for United’s visit, to sell as corporate packages at £125.00 a pop. The face value of the ticket is £28.00, this means that Wigan are basically charging United fans £97.00 for chicken-in-the-basket or some other shite just so we can watch the match. It’s extortion basically. There are ticket touts operating, strictly speaking, illegally on Warwick Road yet they don’t take the piss like this. Wigan are somehow, perfectly within their rights to do this. The attendance today was 20,342 which means that officially, there was 4,791 empty seats in the ground. If they say so, but it looked like far more. United fans were screaming for tickets for this match, but Wigan, being the kind of small minded club it is would rather have advertisements for a betting company covering seats in a prominent position for TV cameras than having arses on them seats. Clubs with a mentality like that have no place in the top league. Their ground is in the middle of bleedin’ nowhere, all the backdrop is of sky and grass and whenever they score a goal, they need the stadium MC to induce them to celebrate by playing Tom Hark by The Pirhanas. My ticket today came from a very decent Wigan fan who procured me two seats for the Springfield stand, sat supposedly amongst Wigan fans but there were a lot of reds in there today. United fans, as per usual on the road, were in fantastic voice with plenty of songs celebrating players from days of yore like George Best, Andy Cole, Nicky Butt, Jaap Stam, Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Eric Cantona. Once United got a grip on the game, with goals from Javier Hernandez (35 mins) and Robin Van Persie (43) in the latter part the first half, everybody with a red allegiance relaxed and enjoyed the game. Wigan were spirited but completely outclassed and barring a balls up of proportions last witnesses when Everton last played at Old Trafford, this game was won by half time. | <urn:uuid:24b1ca96-a4a3-4ef0-94cf-2491cbc2eedd> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://www.manutdfansblog.com/tag/jaap-stam/ | 2018-05-27T11:48:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794868248.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20180527111631-20180527131631-00439.warc.gz | en | 0.971564 | 2,015 | [
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Issue Type: Docs: Improvement Created: 2012-08-16T22:19:05.000+0000 Last Updated: 2012-08-17T09:17:08.000+0000 Status: Open Fix version(s): Reporter: Michal Novotny (clime) Assignee: Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew) Tags: - autoloader
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i think the documentations for The Autoloader and Resource Autoloaders should be improved. I have had no idea how autoloading works before I started to work with Zend. Still, when I started to read the autoloding docs, I expected to grasp the concept easily. Actually, it took me lots of time and I needed to read some other resources and try lots of things myself. The way autoloading works in Zend was totally counterintuitive to me even after going through the manual several times.
I think the missing thing in the docs is: "how it actually works". For Zend_Loader_Autoloader I would like to see there the following information: - if I introduce a class name with a registered prefix, the autoloader searches for it in php include paths - for the class to be found its name must match (after substitution of / for _) the relative path from the include path under which it resides (+ example to clear this out)
For Resource Autoloaders I would mention that it has no relation to php include paths (afaik) and that its functionality stands and falls on the added resource types. I would except a thing like: $resourceLoader = new Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource(array( 'basePath' => WEBSITE_PATH, 'namespace => 'Website'));
without any added resource types to do something like adding WEBSITE_PATH to include paths and registering namespace Website so that I can do new Website_Model_Foo immediately. Well it does not work like that and it would be nice to clear that out in the docs.
Thank you for the great project.
Posted by Frank Brückner (frosch) on 2012-08-17T09:16:57.000+0000
Version 2 is around the corner and I think there will be no further major improvements for the ZF1 docs.
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Taking the DDS permit test in Georgia does not have to be intimidating. Using this study guide, and taking the permit practice test will help make the process easy.
The process of earning your driver’s permit in the state of Georgia is very similar to the process followed in other states. After passing a visual exam and a written test, you will be given a learner’s permit that you must keep for one year before taking the driving portion of the test. You will also need to complete a driver education course unless you are an adult over the age of 18. The most important factor in passing the written portion of the Georgia driver’s permit test is to study the official Georgia driver’s manual provided by the Georgia Department of Driver Services.
Taking the Written Test
The written part of the Georgia permit test is called the Knowledge Exam. This test focuses on knowing the road rules and road signs. This information can be found in the driver’s manual. First you will take a Road Rules Test is to assess your understanding of driver responsibility, knowledge of laws and safe driving practices. The road rules section also consists of 20 multiple choice questions with three answer choices for each question. In order to earn a passing grade, you must answer at least 15 of these questions correctly. The Road Signs Test also consists of 20 multiple choice questions and asks you to identify certain signs, signals and markers, and you must correctly answer at least 15 of those questions correctly as well.
Important Topics to Study
The Knowledge Exam solely asks questions about road rules and road signs. You should pay special attention to the section of the driver’s manual that discusses this information. It is a good idea to become familiar with the entire manual, but some sections are more important than others. Here are the page numbers for the most important sections:
- Traffic Laws – Page 22
- Signs, Signals and Markings – Page 34
- Safety Guidelines – Page 44
- Sharing the Road – Page 48
In order to make sure that you retain all of the information provided in these sections, you can use study tools such as notes and flash cards, or ask a friend to help quiz you.
Teen Driver Resources
Teen drivers must adhere to certain rules while driving with a learner’s permit. Because of this, it is important for teens to fully understand Joshua’s Law, school attendance requirements and driving restrictions. You can find this information on page 30 of the driver’s manual and on the official Georgia DDS website.
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Pregnancy is, in addition to so many things both good and bad, a long moment of insanity for your body. At least, that’s how I felt. There will never be a time when your body changes more dramatically, and in such a short span of time. Naturally, it can be difficult to keep up with all the differences between the body you’ve known your whole life and the seemingly totally different body you’re dealing with now. And then there’s the perpetual guessing game about what’s normal and what isn’t… it’s fun! Ugh. No, but really, it’s a beautiful time. (Help.)
There were things about my first pregnancy that made me freak out, that sent me running to my midwife in a mild panic (or at least deep confusion). She always assured me that everything I was experiencing was completely normal, and that me being concerned about whether or not it was normal was normal, and that basically I was an insane person but that, too, was totally normal. (Side note: Isn't it funny how we spend most of our lives trying to be unique and different, except when we're at any doctor, at which point all we want to hear is how completely boring and unremarkable we are?)
So when my second pregnancy hit, I thought I had it in the bag. But of course, I soon encountered a whole bunch of new things going on with my pregnant body that totally freaked me out, and the midwife had to calm me down again. It turns out that no matter how many times you’ve been pregnant, your body is going to react in at least a handful of new and surprising ways each time, and no pregnant woman is immune to panic (or at least worry). In fact, if there’s anything more alarming than seeing your body respond to pregnancy for the first time, it’s thinking you know how your body “normally” responds to pregnancy—and then seeing it do something else entirely.
What truly amazed me, during both pregnancies, was how many bizarre things were completely normal for a woman to experience during those nine months. I mean, frequent urination over a long period of time at any other point in your life? Constant heartburn? All signs of trouble for non-knocked-up people. Oh wait, you’re pregnant? Suck it up. This is your new normal, for another 8 months (at least).
Here are a few things that tend to raise red flags for pregnant women but are usually no big deal. Bodies are just weird and pregnancy is intense. (But if you’re worried, irrationally or not, call your doctor or midwife! They’re getting paid to talk you down as much as deliver you a healthy baby!)
These are basically contractions that feel and act like labor contractions but… aren’t. Fun, right? All the discomfort, none of the cute baby at the end? Yeah, they suck. These puppies feel different for everyone, and they change throughout the pregnancy, getting stronger toward the end of the nine months. Mine weren’t painful in my first pregnancy, at least not until near the end. The second time, though? They would stop me in my tracks from my second trimester on. They are 100% normal and they range for mildly annoying to downright painful. But they are completely different in sensation from actual labor.
This is such an unreasonable worry that I went through both times I was pregnant. Do I have enough clothes for this kid? What about a cute going home/first day outfit? She totally needs a little dress! Nope. Nope. Do you want to know what you’ll need for the first few weeks? A week’s worth of onesies and a week’s worth of sleepers. That’s it. Everything else is a bonus. You will be doing laundry a lot, but when you have a million outfits, they will only get worn once or twice, and that just ends up being a sad, giant waste. Ask any parent! This is so true.
Sorry, I hate that word as much as you do, but that’s exactly what’s going on. It’s called leukorrhea and it is totally normal, according to the experts. It’s the vagina’s way of protecting the birth canal. The second time I was pregnant, I had more of this discharge than the first time, to the point that one of my midwives (one who didn’t see me regularly) actually got concerned. But everything tested as normal, and I had a completely normal birth and healthy baby.
I feel like no future parent really has any solid clue of just how insane the sleep deprivation can get when you have a newborn. Sorry, I’m not here to tell you not to worry about your future lack of sleep; it's inevitable and it will pretty much suck in every way. But if you’re worried about being able to complete basic, life-sustaining tasks like breathing oxygen, feeding your baby, and consuming sweet, sweet processed carbs, I can tell you that you will be OK for that much. You may not want to schedule writing your dissertation for the first 6 months to a year after your baby is born, but I think everyone surprises themselves at how much they are able to accomplish on so little sleep, especially over such a for a long period of time.
With approximately ten thousand books on the subject of infant sleep, you might be worried about how to implement a routine, when to implement a routine, if you should implement a routine, whether you should let your baby cry it out, make them sleep in a crib by themselves, or have them in the room with you. The answer to all of these questions is a resounding YES—and also a resounding NO. It's really a resounding "do whatever works gets your baby to sleep."
Baby sleep is one of an infinitely number of problems to which everyone who's ever had a baby (or ever seen a baby, or heard of a baby) thinks they have the answer. With my two kids, I let them dictate what they needed, not the pushy, conflicting advice that was swirling around me from books, the People Of The Internet, and friends and family. There are no concrete rules when it comes to how and when your kids sleep, and no real way of predicting what their habits or needs will be. My kids turned out to be the exact opposite, so you just never know.
Feeling dizzy is generally due to low blood pressure, which is a very normal thing, especially in early pregnancy, according to experts. I experienced crazy low blood pressure—the kind that makes people’s jaws drop when they hear your numbers—when I was pregnant, and it led to me almost passing out multiple times on subway rides. The good news? It’s way better than having high blood pressure! (OK, I’m reaching for a silver lining here; fainting is no fun. But feeling dizzy during pregnancy really isn’t usually the biggest deal in the world. Still tell your doctor when it happens, just to be sure.)
OK, I didn’t have this “problem” when I was pregnant because our place was too small for us to have a separate room for the new baby. That said, while you may feel more complete when the nursery is finished, your baby won’t mind if the walls are missing a few pieces of art, or you haven’t found the perfect rug. And there’s a pretty high chance that baby won’t be spending a ton of time in the nursery right at the beginning, anyway. And I feel like babies are born with fairly low interior decorating expectations, so you probably shouldn’t sweat this one too hard.
Maybe it’s finding the time to finish all your projects before you go on maternity leave, or maybe it’s adequately training your replacement so that things stay afloat while you’re gone—or maybe you have a job that doesn’t offer maternity leave, and you’re worried about being able to take time off at all, and/or having a job to come back to. It always feels like a race to the finish though, doesn’t it? Personally, I found myself working crazy hours in order to feel like I was proving my worth, so that my workplace wouldn’t forget me while I was gone. (Spoiler: They didn’t forget me, but they also managed without me, so take a breather if you can, and try not to stress too much.)
I am one of those women who spent my entire pregnancy terrified of the pain that labor would bring. I read books, I practiced some meditations, and visualized the shit out of my labor. And you know what? With my first, I had back labor. You know, the kind everyone dreads. But my labor only lasted 5 hours, I didn’t experience “transition” (aka, the part of labor when you’re around 8-9cm dilated, widely regarded to be the most painful, intense time), and all the things I thought I would use to help myself through? I wanted to throw each and every one out the window, when the time came. The moral of my story: There’s really no point in panicking over the unknown, because one way or another, that baby is coming out, and you can’t predict what will get them out until you’re in the middle of. And whatever it is, you can do it.
I admit it: I called my midwife several times during my third trimester because I was having trouble breathing. She talked me down each time, always offering to come for a house call if I really felt like it was an emergency, which it never was. It just felt gross. Turns out, I carried really high, and my son was basically leaning on my diaphragm...for three months. Not unusual, and nothing to worry about. (But also NOT COOL, child. Not cool at all.)
Oh. My. God. Why does every pregnancy book start mentioning the overnight hospital bag—what to put in it, what not to put in it, how to feel guilty and anxious every day that passes without your packing it—at the beginning of the third trimester?? I swear it’s something that every woman obsesses over for very little reason. I remember during my first labor, we almost left for the hospital without it. It just faded into the background because it had been finished for so long. And I didn’t use most of what I packed. What did I use? A change of clothes for me, an outfit for the baby, a receiving blanket. The rest is gravy.
It’s not a reason to stop having sex! Many women spot after having sex, or after cervical checks by their doctor, when they’re pregnant. All that extra blood pumping through you, and especially your cervix, means you’ve likely just broken some blood vessels. As long as you aren’t experiencing any cramping, things are more than likely completely fine. (More than spotting, get it checked out. Duh.)
What if the baby doesn’t latch? What if it hurts? What if I don’t produce enough milk? I had all those fears. Breastfeeding can have a ton of challenges associated with it, and when you’re pregnant, it’s all too easy to imagine that every single one of them will plague your attempts to choose this route for feeding your baby. It turned out, I did have massive challenges breastfeeding both of my babies, but even then, we just dealt with it and powered through. Which isn’t to say that if that doesn’t end up being your breastfeeding outcome, you’ve “failed” (ugh, I definitely don’t mean that) but I’m just saying, there’s no point in stressing about possible breastfeeding difficulties because even if they happen, you can get past them. Or you can decide not to breastfeed. Whatever. Don’t lose sleep over it (says the woman who lost a lot of sleep over it). You really can’t predict what your breastfeeding experience will be like, so arm yourself with knowledge and surround yourself with supportive people.
Stop right there. Just stop. Do not worry about getting freaky right after you have the baby. It’ll happen when it happens. I think with my first, it happened around 12 weeks postpartum, and it was fine and almost enjoyable once I relaxed. Some people get back to ~business~ a lot sooner. Some wait a lot longer. It’s all fine. Be easy on yourself when it comes to sex after birth—there’s no right or wrong way to feel about it, nor is there a right or wrong timeframe within which is needs to start happening again.
I actually don’t know a single woman who did not poop when they were pushing the baby out. I also don’t know a single woman gave a rat’s patootie while it was happening. You will have bigger fish to fry than worrying about poop. Trust.
Ugh, I said "discharge" and now "damp." I'm really sorry, guys. Anyway: What. The. Hell. This was the last 8 weeks of my second pregnancy. I was absolutely positive at a certain point that my amniotic sac had a tear and I was just leaking amniotic fluid for days. I finally went in for tests, and they told me it absolutely was not amniotic fluid. I gather it was just urine that was occasionally leaking out, because my massive baby was putting so much pressure on my bladder. Isn’t that awesome?
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Part two of several posts from the German Autofest. I do not know why I took so few photos of Porsches. Maybe because they are just so common? I really like the Panamera and it reminds me of the 928 in many ways (except the Panamera has 4 doors). Enjoy! | <urn:uuid:42cc764b-8388-4dc7-b8ec-c844678de4a0> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://onfourwheels.blogspot.ca/2014/09/ | 2018-05-21T14:51:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864405.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521142238-20180521162238-00159.warc.gz | en | 0.976556 | 63 | [
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Making webcomics easy … isn’t easy. We use many tools to build and test code and graphics in the Grawlix CMS every week. Some of them we knew when getting started, like Coda and Evernote. Others we learned along the way, such as GitHub and Sketch.
So what do we use to get it all done? Well, here are the tools we use to build and manage the Grawlix CMS project.
Sequel Pro (free) — For managing our test databases, nothing beats this capable app.
Evernote (free) — A shared notebook let us share articles and snippets of code, and keep track of artist feedback.
GitHub for Desktop (free) — Syncing projects across computers without GitHub would make the project nigh impossible. Their reliable desktop app makes it a breeze.
CodeKit ($32–39) — Testing pages and compiling CSS is point-n-click simple with this tool from Foundation-friendly Incident 57.
Camtasia ($99) — Creating and editing screencasts is super intuitive and efficient thanks to Camtasia by TechSmith.
Foundation (free) — A great CSS framework that lets us lay out web pages in a horizontal grid. When we began the Grawlix CMS, Ben worked for ZURB, which creates and maintains Foundation. That gave the team inside access to the framework’s shortcuts and best practices.
Trello (free – $8/mo) — A recent addition to our toolkit, this is now our running to-do list, feature list, and progress checklist.
Google PageSpeed (free) — Readers don’t like to wait. This handy check helps us fine-tune the Grawlix CMS for better reading experiences.
Font Awesome (free) — Terrific icons make the CMS look great and, being vector, work well at any size.
Patreon (free) — The service we use to support our project financially.
Tools of tomorrow
Making a system simple isn’t easy. We use all the resources at our disposal to help artists publish comics on the web — and the list is growing.
Future versions of the Grawlix CMS will use the CodeIgniter PHP framework for greater stability, security and sanity. It all comes down to making a tool that artists use to publish comics on the web.
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The article describes Lee’s recent interview with Stephen Schultze about his and Swartz’s efforts to make U.S. federal court documents public.
Here is an excerpt:
A key figure in Swartz’s PACER effort was Steve Schultze, now a researcher at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Schultze recruited Swartz to the PACER fight and wrote the Perl script Swartz modified and then used to scrape the site.
Until recently, Schultze has been quiet about his role in Swartz’s PACER scraping caper. But Swartz’s death inspired Schultze to speak out. In a recent phone interview, Schultze described how Swartz downloaded gigabytes of PACER data and how that data has been put to use throughout the last four years. Schultze told us he hopes the outrage over Swartz’s death will provide momentum for legislation to finish the job Swartz and Schultze started almost five years ago: tearing down PACER’s paywall. […]
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Driving cars is great. But do each of us really need our own vehicle?
It's in cities in particular that many people are asking themselves this question. Parking spaces are hard to find and it's often easier to get around without a car – using public transport, in a taxi, on a bicycle or on foot…even if you leave the city and go on a trip, it's often cheaper and more environmentally friendly to get a lift with other people.
When on a trip to Germany or other area's of mainland Europe and if you do actually need a car on occasions. Why not use a car share? Or hire a car! There are so many options for making urban mobility simpler, faster and more environmentally friendly.You just need to know how to do it! The intelligent mobility solutions from Mercedes move me keep you going – regardless of whether you own your own vehicle. | <urn:uuid:cbf5df02-f7e6-4227-bec2-154dd07df8f6> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.mercedes-benz.ie/content/ireland/mpc/mpc_ireland_website/enng/home_mpc/passengercars/home/mercedes-me/overview/move-me.html | 2018-05-21T14:39:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864405.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521142238-20180521162238-00159.warc.gz | en | 0.956114 | 179 | [
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I haven't been paying much attention to Amitabh Bachchan's new blog - usually I haven't the faintest idea what he's talking about - but this post gave me a moment of bonding bliss.
And how much do I love it that Amitabh Bachchan uses a Mac too? A lot. Apple needs to get on the horn pronto. I'm imagining so many great variations on the "Hi, I'm a Mac" commercials - he could just dishoom that PC guy cold. | <urn:uuid:10435172-b966-489d-a161-02b307b53c9d> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://mainprataphoon.blogspot.com/2008/05/ | 2018-05-22T13:18:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864790.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522131652-20180522151652-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.965114 | 103 | [
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Windows Firewall Control 5.1 is the latest version of the security program for Windows that extends the functionality of the built-in firewall called Windows Firewall.
We reviewed Windows Firewall Control back in 2009 for the first time and concluded that it was an excellent application for Windows systems that were configured to use Windows Firewall for protection.
Windows Firewall Control 5.1 is the first major release after the release of version 5.0, and the first major release of the program in 2018.
If you used the program's automatic update check to find and download new versions, you will notice that you cannot use it for the version 5.1 release of Windows Firewall Control.
The program asks you to uninstall the current version, download the new version manually, and install it then. You may want to keep your firewall rules and changes by selecting that option during removal.
Registered users need to generate a new activation code on the project website and enter it under about in the program's interface.
The new version comes with new and improved features. The application's Secure Rules feature was "rewritten from scratch". It blocks any modification to Windows firewall rules to protect against unwanted tampering with the ruleset. Rules can only be modified through Windows Firewall Control if the feature is enabled under Security > Secure Rules. Users may set a new hotkey to toggle the state of Secure Rules.
Secure Profile is a new feature that falls into the same category of protecting firewall rules against unwanted modifications. The feature blocks the importing of firewall rules and changing the filtering mode of Windows Firewall Control using external means. Import and filtering changes are only available from within the program. You enable Secure Profile under Security > Secure Profile.
Another new protective feature displays a dialog to the user if Windows Firewall Control is password protected and if uninstall is invoked.
Existing users with eagle eyes may spot new recommended inbound rules "required for accessing the computers from the local network".
Windows Firewall Control 5.1 improves the application's protection against unwanted tampering. Users of the software need to enable the security features as they are not enabled by default.
The necessity to uninstall the previous version to install the latest, and the requirement to generate a new activation code is unfortunate, but it is hopefully just a one-time process.
Now You: Which firewall do you use and why?
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Sonia Friedman will retain her role at ATG, producing and programming at the New Amabassadors Theatre among other projects, but her new company, Sonia Friedman Productions, which she is setting up in association with ATG, will take on responsibility for larger scale work including musicals and multiple media projects.
Future productions to be co-produced by SFP include Nicholas Wright's production of Therese Racquin, Michael Frayn's Benefactors (directed by Jeremy Sams), Macbeth directed by Edward Hall and starring Sean Bean, and Penelope Wilton in Hay Fever.
Sonia Friedman's career began at the National Theatre and has included the formation of Out of Joint theatre company with Max Stafford-Clark.
ATG is Britain's second-largest owning and management group, with a portfolio of 19 theatres in the West End and out of London.
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Energy regulators are rethinking plans for further charges on renewable electricity producers, Alex Salmond, the First Minister, claimed yesterday.
Mr Salmond was meeting the chairman and chief executive of Ofgem last night to discuss how Scottish generators are levied.
The Scotsman this week joined the growing campaign against plans to introduce crippling new charges that threaten Scotland’s renewable power industry.
During First Minister’s Questions, Mr Salmond said the energy regulator is reconsidering plans to make generators in remote areas pay more for the loss of electricity – in the form of heat – as it passes along cables.
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November 23, 2015
Source: TE Connectivity Ltd.
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, Nov. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- TE Connectivity Ltd. (NYSE: TEL) (TE) was named a Thomson Reuters 2015 Top 100 Global Innovator for the fifth consecutive year, recognizing its achievements as one of the world leaders in innovation. The program, an initiative of the IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, honors the 100 corporations and institutions around the world that are at the heart of innovation as measured by a series of proprietary patent-related metrics. The full report is available at http://www.stateofinnovation.com.
The Thomson Reuters 2015 Top 100 Global Innovator methodology is based on four principle criteria: overall patent volume, patent application-to-grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio, and patent influence as evidenced by citations. This objective formula identifies the companies around the world that are discovering new inventions, protecting them from infringers and commercializing them.
"Our 7,000 engineers around the world have a passion for innovation and creating solutions with our customers that enable a safer, greener and smarter world," said Tom Lynch, TE Connectivity Chairman and CEO. "We are creating exciting and groundbreaking connectivity and sensor solutions that impact all industries, creating essential technologies that will continue to transform our connected society for generations to come. We are proud to receive this recognition for the fifth consecutive year, as it recognizes the collective commitment of our 72,000 employees to deliver value for our customers, and help companies in transportation, communications, and industrial sectors bring new ideas to life."
TE Connectivity's connectors and sensors are a crucial part of an increasingly connected world. Our products can sense and connect data, power or signal moving through just about any type of material. We deliver power and data efficiently and allow technology to accurately react to the environment around it – no matter how challenging. Furthermore, we are expanding the possibilities and promise of the Internet of Things (IoT), advancing the connectivity of devices, systems and services.
The Thomson Reuters 2015 Top 100 Global Innovator peer-reviewed methodology was executed using Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI), Derwent Patents Citations Index™, Quadrilateral Patent Index™, and Thomson Innovation®, its IP and intelligence collaboration platform.
"In today's hypercompetitive global marketplace, innovation is much more than just having great ideas. True innovation occurs when individuals and companies harness the power and insight to bring ideas to life," said David Brown, senior vice president, Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property and Science. "This is the potent formula we measure with our Top 100 Global Innovators program. The institutions on this year's list represent the current vanguard in innovation by pioneering new breakthroughs and organizing their businesses to make these discoveries a reality."
Thomson Reuters 2015 Top100 Global Innovators:
- Now in its fifth year, the program has annually outperformed leading financial indices, serving as a trustworthy investment resource and a testament to increased R&D funding, global patent filing and new market development, resulting in greater revenue and enhanced regional economic activity.
- The 2015 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators outperformed the MSCI World Index in revenue by 6.01 percentage points, employment by 4.09 percentage points, and market-cap-weighted R&D spending by 1.86 percentage points.
- Together, the 2015 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators generated more than $429 trillion in revenue and invested more than $20 trillion in R&D (local currency) in 2014.
- The 2015 Top 100 Thomson Reuters Global Innovators hail from three continents and comprise eleven countries. Just two countries comprise 75 percent of the list: Japan and the US, making them the true innovation hubs of the world.
- The semiconductor and electronic components industry continued to lead in 2015, with 12 representative companies
To view the full list and report on the Thomson Reuters 2015 Top 100 Global Innovator program, go to http://www.stateofinnovation.com.
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity (NYSE: TEL) is a $12 billion global technology leader. Our connectivity and sensor solutions are essential in today's increasingly connected world. We collaborate with engineers to transform their concepts into creations – redefining what's possible using intelligent, efficient and high-performing TE products and solutions proven in harsh environments. Our 72,000 people, including over 7,000 engineers, partner with customers in close to 150 countries across a wide range of industries. We believe EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS – www.TE.com.
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