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iPhone 4 Case Adds Glasses-Free 3D
This may just look like your average cheap plastic iPhone 4 case, but under its Good and Plenty pink and black color scheme, this inexpensive add-on actually turns your iPhone 4 into a glasses-free 3D display.…
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If you don’t know your customer, you’re barking up the wrong tree
Consumer packaged good (CPG) companies have massive marketing budgets we know this – think of every Olympics P&G commercial that aired. But did you know that on average 47% of their marketing budgets are spent on marketing research and yet today there are very few tools to search, categorize, and sift through all those reports? Think how frustrating it would be to spend six figures on a report and then not be able to recall it?
In steps Kristi Zuhlke, Founder of KnowledgeHound, a young Chicago startup building software for Fortune 500 companies to manage these reports seamlessly. Not only does she have a great product but she’s built a great team on values and culture that is truly inspiring. Techweek CEO, Amanda Signorelli, sat down with Kristi to learn more.
- Amanda: Tell us a little about your company today.Kristi: We believe in data democratization. We believe that when organizations and people have access to data, they can make better and more impactful products for the world. We are on a mission to democratize data throughout the world and starting with helping organizations find and activate their own data.
- Amanda: “Data Democratization” – that’s a powerful idea. How did it all start?Kristi: The company was started in February of 2013, when I took an idea I had written on paper in 2010, when I was working at Procter & Gamble, and decided it was time to take the idea from ink to reality. I thought the concept “knowledge management” was broken for the market research world. I started to solve that problem but realized that really it’s not about having all your documents in one spot, it’s actually about getting to business answers faster. This refocused the business on solving the problem that data is locked in silos and how you can free that data to unleash insights and create action inside companies.
- Amanda: This is clearly an untapped opportunity and you’re building something that has enormous potential. What do you credit for your success as a leader: attitude, talent, experience?Kristi: There are so many things to credit for contributing to why I am where I am today. I’ve had amazing mentors in my life including my parents. They have taught me to have a positive attitude and to dream big. I credit my career experience at Procter & Gamble for teaching me how to be a leader and critical thinker.
“We are on a mission to democratize data throughout the world and starting with helping organizations find and activate their own data.”
- Amanda: Your humility, positivity, and focus is incredibly inspiring. How do you think about culture? Kristi: We, as a company, created our core values. We use these values to give each other good feedback on a weekly basis. Every Monday we have a company stand-up to give updates on the business. At the end we wrap up with sharing appreciations to each other for living out different values. We also use these values to hold each other accountable. It’s a great framework to give someone feedback by saying, “when you do….this is not consistent with….value.”
- Amanda: What a great framework – it’s clear you’ve leveraged so many different experiences and insight to create a really wonderful company. What’s one piece of advice you would offer to others?Kristi: Being an entrepreneur is a marathon, it is not a sprint. I had the impression before starting a business that it took 3 years to create, grow and exit a business. Little did I know it takes much longer. Know that you will go through daily, weekly and monthly ups and downs but it’s a marathon so that high or low will soon be over. Keep your eye on the long game so you don’t wear yourself out and so you don’t get too discouraged or depressed when things are really bad.
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When I saw these pretty storage jars, I thought it would be a great way to share the knobs from an old family kitchen when it is time to remodel. What a great way to reminded us of happy times in grandma’s kitchen. The jars could also be from someones old collection. An old piece of furniture that has seen better days might also be a good source for the knobs and the memories. Use your imagination there are probably some other places you could get old knobs. Maybe even something from that wasn’t even knobs would work, machinery parts come to mind. These would make a priceless gift. Click on the photo below for a tutorial.
If this idea inspires you, let me know. I’d love to share your project here too.
Want some more ideas? Visit my Pinterest board dedicated to jar gift ideas.
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Ever since my marriage fell apart, I’ve been looking for a happy ending. Not even necessarily for me, but just in my vicinity. I am fortunate to be acquainted with several couples who got it really right the first time around, and from them I take multiple and valuable lessons with me. But at this point in my life, and for obvious reasons, I am most interested in those people who made it through a divorce to a truly happy place on the other side.
The difficulty in this research is that the definition of happy is always subjective, and one person’s happiness might not be another’s. But because I know married people who have lives that I genuinely admire and envy, I feel certain that there must be divorced people about whom I would feel similarly, people who have constructed lives that I look at and go, “Yeah, that would do just fine, thank you!”
One of the difficulties for me in this pursuit has been acknowledging that my personal version of a happy ending does indeed involve a romantic relationship with a man. I understand and appreciate and applaud those women for whom post-divorce happiness does not include a partner, but I am not one of them. I can be quite content on my own, with my friends and my children, but joyfulness, for me, necessarily includes an intimate connection with a man. My apologies to feminists everywhere, but there you have it.
And so I have watched vigilantly as women I know have moved through separations and divorces and begun and ended new relationships. I have heard, through other friends, of many people who seem to be in healthy, good relationships, but as I don’t know those people or their relationships personally, I have no means of knowing whether they would qualify as happy by my own standards. I have noticed that a lot of people, post-divorce, seem to settle very quickly, and I frequently get an energy from those couples that suggests that their relationship is solid, but not happy. I’ve had solid, but not happy. I’ll pass, thanks.
I’ve written here before about how logical, rational, practical people try to convince me that “healthy” love is logical, rational, and practical. That my ideas of what love is are unreasonable and unrealistic. But when I remind them of our mutual friends who actually have those kinds of truly deep connections, they are at a loss. The presence of these statistical outliers befuddles my pragmatic teachers. Typically, the conversation ends with me being told, “Well, that’s really rare,” as if that settles it and I should stop being foolish and get on the sensible bandwagon and find another perfectly nice man and settle down again.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I’m okay with rare. I’m good with uncommon. I’ve made my peace with unlikely.
I know those relationships are rare, because, in the 2 1/2 years I’ve been searching for a post-divorce happy ending, I have seen very, very few. I have seen divorced friends find love — and even get engaged — only to have it fall apart and them left to the task of nursing yet another broken heart. I have seen other friends slowly close themselves off from the very possibility of love, thereby avoiding that heartbreak.
But…. there have been a few exceptions. I have a couple of acquaintances whom I have seen create totally new and surprising and truly sweet relationships out of the rubble of their divorced lives. I watch them with bated breath, praying that their relationships really do have that magical mix to make it through the rough stuff without succumbing to “solid, but not happy.” I feel like an avid fan during the playoffs, hoping that my team can pull out the ultimate victory.
More than those couples, though, and much closer to me in emotional proximity, is the story of my dad and his wife. Their story, more than any other, gives me hope when I begin to feel certain that post-divorce romantic love is an oxymoron. They are my best example of a post-divorce happy ending.
My dad is married to his 5th wife. He’s not proud of that fact, and I’m not proud of it for him, but he is of a different generation and not the kind of man to sleep with a woman for an extended period of time without marrying her. So he did, again and again. But, as he says with a wry smile, they were all just practice for Mary, his current wife and his only soulmate. He married Mary when he was 65 (he is now 82), and they are as silly in love as they ever were. They cuddle and flirt and spar like the equals they are and make up with a laugh and a kiss. She had been married twice before, and they are achingly open about how this love of theirs surpasses anything they’d known before. They know they are blessed; they appreciate each other and gives thanks for their good fortune in finding each other. They are my touchstone for what can be, even after divorce.
I recently saw a beautiful plaque that reminded me of them. It says, “Sometimes, in the midst of an ordinary life, a fairy tale happens.” When I told my dad about it, his eyes filled with tears, and he took my hand and said “It’s true. Don’t you ever believe that it’s not true.”
My dad is always right. So I’ll keep looking. Watching and waiting and hoping. I honestly don’t need the happy ending to be my own. I just need to know that they still exist.
One response to “in search of the happy ending….”
I know that you know you’re not at all alone in the desire to find, and cherish, this kind of love.
“Solid, but not happy”, sounds like a life sentence, not a marriage. If it can’t be so much better than that, why do it? I wonder at the lives of these people in these relationships. Are some of us just wired differently? Many, many people seem to have lower expectations of marriage, of love, of a relationship. Perhaps we’re lucky enough to have seen the glimpse of something so beautiful and transcendent that we can’t help but hold out for it, perhaps it is a curse. 🙂
But like you, I watch from just outside and observe others’ marriages, what makes some work, which ones I know I would be out of in a heartbeat. I have a good friend who is in a marriage that is not great right now. She’s often unhappy, but it is truly a good marriage. They had all the romance, passion, and spark that any marriage should, and they’ve lost their way a bit, but one just knows they’ll get it back. In contrast, I know other marriages that are so much more about convenience and contentedness than happiness. Where the couple hates to be alone – worse – doesn’t know how to be alone. What happens to those couples when the kids leave? How lonely that sounds, to live with a roommate, not a partner.
I have also seen (most recently from my former spouse) this desparate desire in recently divorced individuals to be with someone. He has said many times “I want to be in a relationship, I want to be with someone, I’m not independent the way you are”. I want to be in love and well loved, too. But not with “someone”, with the right someone. Of course I want it, we all want it, but no one should accept any less for themselves than what your dad and his wife have. If more people held out for the right connection, we’d all have an easier time finding it. We keep moving in and out of the wrong relationships just to have *a* relationship. What a mess it all is!
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Gestational diabetes is on the increase in Canberra and Dr Chris Nolan is encouraging women looking to start a family to get timely with their lifestyle and eating habits.
Gestational diabetes is on the increase in Canberra with more than 15 per cent of expectant mothers affected by the condition and a prominent ACT doctor warning that it is a trend that needs to be curtailed.
One of ACT Health’s longest-serving Endocrinologists, Dr Chris Nolan, said that the biggest change he has noticed in over 13 years working in the ACT is the rate at which mothers-to-be are developing gestational diabetes.
Dr Nolan said that this is a trend that can and should be minimised sooner rather than later.
“In the ACT, as is the case globally, the prevalence of gestational diabetes has been increasing significantly,” Dr Nolan said.
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“In 2010 in the ACT 5 per cent of expectant mothers had gestational diabetes but by 2016 that figure rose to 15 per cent.
“What we do know is that this rise is due to a number of risk factors including an increase in pre-pregnancy weight, more mothers having babies at an older age and more mothers coming from a high-risk ethnic group.
“Timely prevention, timely intervention and timely treatment is the key to managing type 2 diabetes – a condition in which lifestyle is key to outcomes,” Dr Nolan said.
“For women who are contemplating starting a family, the message is to get timely with your lifestyle and eating habits to create and enjoy a healthy pregnancy.
Dr Chris Nolan. Photo supplied by ACT Health.
“It’s important for mothers-to-be to get their pregnancy off to a good start because the effects of diabetes in pregnancy are not just short term but long term as well. In the short term there are increased risks during pregnancy and labour, and risks for the baby of high birth weight and birth complications,” Dr Nolan said.
“In addition, once a mother is affected by gestational diabetes there is an increased risk of diabetes for future pregnancies and an increased risk of developing diabetes later in life. As well, their babies have a greater chance of being overweight or obese and developing diabetes.”
According to Diabetes Australia, gestational diabetes is the fastest growing type of diabetes in Australia, affecting thousands of pregnant women. It is a form of diabetes that usually occurs around the 24th to 28th week of pregnancy, which is when pregnant women are normally tested for it.
Most women will no longer have diabetes after the baby is born but some women will continue to have high blood glucose levels after delivery.
In the ACT thorough screening for diabetes during antenatal care allows expectant mothers and their health practitioners to work together to manage the condition should it be detected. For those women who need extra assistance and support in managing their diabetes, ACT Health has a Specialist Antenatal clinic.
Dr Nolan received a 2018 Diabetes Australia Research Grant to explore the genetic factors that explain overlap in the risk for type 1 and type 2 diabetes, research that will help to further explain the complexities of increasing prevalence of both types of diabetes.
Dr Nolan hopes the research will lead to new approaches to the prevention and management of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, following a granular look at the genetics involved.
However, in the meantime, Dr Nolan is concerned about the need to tackle the increasing rates of gestational diabetes and is working to increase awareness on this topic.
Have you suffered from gestational diabetes and, if so, how did it affect you and your baby? Do you think more needs to be done to prevent this condition?
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Prominent doctor warns of increasing rates of gestational diabetes in ACT
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I have had t1 diabetes for decades. Despite not being athletic at school, since turning 55, I have run 21.1k in 95mins, run 100m in 12.8s, done marathons on xc skis, most recently a 50km race in Japan, led rock climbs, and had fun on inline skates and unicycles. Diabetes does not have to limit you.
JDRF has given nearly $2 billion to diabetes research and related endeavours, yet things continue to get worse. An Inquiry into corruption and incompetence in medical research is needed.
While this is absolutely an issue, I believe further research needs to be undertaken and broad generalisations such as pre-maternal weight need to be kept in check. Anecdotally, I know of three women in between the ages of 27 and 32 who developed PGD. They were all slim and active with healthy BMIs. On the other hand, I know many women who have been overweight when they fell pregnant and have had problem-free pregnancies.
Also, the whole idea of women living their life cautiously in case they become pregnant does not sit well with me. Many women find themselves unexpectedly pregnant and have no issues; others do “all the right things” and struggle to conceive, remain pregnant or have difficulties during their pregnancies. It would seem that the guidelines don’t count for so much as luck and timing.
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Who are you?
Justin and Alissa. It’s nice to meet you.
Why should we care?
We can’t tell you what to do. But we have experience in different parts of the public sector, and we want it to improve, because it’s necessary, and vital, and the sort of meaninful work we hope everyone is fortunate enough to do.
Improve how?
We’ll get into that as we write, but essentially, there are enough constraints on public sector work that we don’t need to be making unforced errors that make our work even more difficult.
Give me an example!
Okay, sure. There is (usually) no reason that an entry-level position should require a graduate degree. Over-credentialing narrows the pool of candidates to a much more homogenous group that ultimately hinders our progress.
There are many other such issues that we will write about, but that’s one example.
If you have any questions or any topics you’d like us to address, we’ll be sure to dive into them.
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HAMILTON 5, IOWA 2
Hamilton rebounded from an early 2-0 deficit to score five unanswered goals on its way to a 5-2 road win over Iowa at Wells Fargo Arena on Tuesday.
Rookie David Desharnais tallied a goal and an assist for the Bulldogs, while Sergei Kostitsyn and fellow rookie Brock Trotter also posted multiple points with two helpers apiece.
Mike Glumac lit the lamp to extend his goal-scoring run to six games (8-2-10), and Hamilton also received markers from Ryan Flinn and Kyle Chipchura, the latter going into an empty net.
Hamilton’s power play unit allowed a shorthanded goal on its first opportunity but recovered to go 2-for-5 on the night. Bulldogs goaltender Marc Denis earned the win with 23 saves, helping Hamilton win for the seventh time in nine games (7-2-0-0) and close within two points of Grand Rapids for second place in the North Division race.
Chops forward Drew Miller scored that shorthanded marker just 2:51 into the contest, and Chad Painchaud gave Iowa a 2-0 advantage less than two minutes later.
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be defined as blessed in this way likely because we haven’t achieved true blessing from God. But let me tell you what Jesus considers to:3-12
Jesus brought a whole new meaning of being blessed. We know this scripture. Why have we forgotten about it?
It can be so easy to fall into the trends of this world. Let me tell you what being blessed does not look like:
- Boasting about being blessed. These people are the ones needing a blessing the most. They need to count what they have in their hands because they haven’t achieved the spiritual blessing that comes from Jesus.
- The abundance of material things. Being prosperous is not the same as being blessed. While I think that prosperity is a good thing, a blessing is achieved in the spiritual word. Spiritual blessings, as the ones defined by Jesus, are achieved in the middle of loss, betrayal and undesired situations through submission in quietness, obedience and sacrifice.
- Competition, achieving more, or being better than others: There is no way that this can relate to spiritual blessing. It would be a contradiction to say that you are blessed if you do not have fruits in the spirit. Being blessed leads to the fruit of the spirit manifesting on us.
What happens with the people that do not have that which we have defined as a blessing for us? They are not blessed, because they cannot have possessions, titles, children, or a relationship?
We cannot preach to the world about another blessing other than what Jesus brings. The blessing that only He can give. We can preach to them the God who is in the middle of everything, in the middle of joy and peace but also in the middle of the storm and tragedy. He is the one that changes our outcomes how no other could because He is the prince of Peace, comforter, Friend and Counselor. That is a true blessing.
We might be going through sorrow, but we are still blessed. We might be in need, but we are still blessed. We might have lost, but we are still blessed. We need to go back to the Word and be defined by it and find our identity on it.
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All writers need readers, right?
Your book description, the section that describes your book on Amazon, and on the back of your paperback or on the flap of your hardback, is a critical part of finding readers.
Readers buy books based on great descriptions.
Here are 7 key things every description should have:
1. A strong first sentence. You can insert a tag line, a short sentence that might go on the front cover, or a short exciting review quote at the top of your description. Whatever you do you, the opening lines of your description must hook readers. They must be engaging and create a desire to buy your book. You can incorporate the most dramatic element of the book or what the reader will get, how they will benefit, from reading your book.
2. In the second paragraph tell the reader who the main characters are, by name, what the circumstances of the book are and the location.
3. Include the dramatic problem or dilemma of the plot quickly. You can use key words such as: “however”, “but” or “until” to describe the turn of events the book focuses on.
4. Hint at how the characters might overcome the dilemma.
5. Indicate the tone and mood of the book. Tell the reader through pace and word choice what kind of story they will get. Is it a romance, a mystery, a thriller, a literary story, a fantasy or another popular genre?
6. Keep all paragraphs short (two or three lines), to make the description easy to read online.
7. Mention what’s unique about your book and use a dramatic tone, if the book contains drama. A little hype goes a long way. Do you know what’s unique about your book?
Other tips:
- Cater to your target reader’s tastes – “If you like ….,you’ll love….”
- Quote authors, not publications, when comparing your book
- Mention awards, if you have them
- Your hook, the opening sentence, can also be a question
- Don’t make the description too long. Three to five paragraphs is more than enough
- Look at the five top books in your genre for length, layout, style and content tips.
Spend time getting this right. Test each version you create with people you trust who will be honest with you.
A poor book description will seriously impact your book sales. Big publishers spend a lot of time on this, changing or inserting single words over and over to create powerful descriptions.
Get this right if you want your book to sell.
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The thing is, I must constantly remind myself of the many blessings God has given me – I am living, I am thinking, I have family and friends.
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We prepare, we take what life throws at us. Letting life take sail in its many perfect directions.
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We prepare, we take what life throws at us. Letting life take sail in its many perfect directions.
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.–Tony Robbins
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Mayur is a senior lecturer in sport nutrition and exercise physiology and has been working at Sheffield Hallam since 2004. Mayur has also worked at the English Institute of Sport where he supported World Champions and Olympic Gold Medallists competing in a range of sports and left in 2010. In addition, Mayur also has considerable experience in working with Premier League Football teams and professional cyclists. Mayur is an active researcher with an interest in how nutrition can enhance health and improve performance and he is currently working with the Professional Game Match Officials and professional footballers.
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The Corellian Cell
Treasure Ship Row
Treasure Ship Row, or simply the Row, was a large, open-air shopping mall located in Coronet City’s Blue Sector on Corellia. The mall.
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Using the Production Possibilities Curve to Targeting The Over 65.
Targeting those who are within the 65 year bracket has never been easy. For reasons yet to be revealed, people in this age bracket find it difficult to do online shopping. For more than fifteen years to date, people in this age category never engage in online investments or purchasing.
For quite a long time, people within the lower age bracket have been associated with online marketing. What many investors don’t get is that the production possibility curve indicates that a bigger percentage of consumers fall in the 65 and above age bracket. Most of these marketers are busy engaging the younger generation while ignoring a fertile ground to invest in.
Many online marketers have come to appreciate this group of consumers and are doing whatever it takes to do business with them. There are many articles on the internet meant to entice such people to visit online shops. Statistical projections in the USA show that by the end of the year 2030 the percentage of those within the 65 and above years of age would have climbed to 70% from 30%in the year 2010.
The interesting thing is that people in this age are well versed with internet marketing though a few of them are interested in doing their purchasing online. Statistics show that 1|3 off of the population comprise people in this age group. Many investors have started to cash in on these people.
The ground is ripe and it will take only a short period of time and resources to do this. Most of these people are already searching for information on various products on the internet. This is a good point to start for those wishing to increase their client base. The best way to entice these people is to write articles based on what they are searching for in the internet.
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One thought on “Using the Production Possibilities Curve to Targeting The Over 65.”
Haha. I woke up down today. You’ve ceehred me up!
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Asheville Wedding FAQ
Q: What is included in the Wedding Package?
Our wedding packages include:
- Access to our Event Center, wedding gazebo, lawns and parking areas.
- The Farm’s extensive inventory of service and decorative items (see Farm Décor Inventory List for details).
- Set-up/tear-down of all equipment provided by The Farm.
- One hour wedding rehearsal (based on availability).
The Farm also offers:
- Access to our in-house Farm Kitchen catering.
- Month-of Wedding Coordination Services
- The Farm Cabins and Cottages
Q: Is there a space for an outside ceremony? What about inclement weather?
Yes! We have a beautiful outdoor gazebo frequently used for wedding ceremonies. However, should there be inclement weather on your wedding day, we can transition to an alternate set-up with two hours notice.
Q: Is there on-site lodging on the property?
Yes, we have seven beautiful cabins and cottages on the property and can accommodate up to 38 guests.
Q: Can we use sparklers, fireworks or Chinese lanterns in our departure?
We have horses and other animals on The Farm property. For their protection, we cannot allow sparklers, fireworks or Chinese lanterns.
Q: When do I have access to the property? How much time is allowed for set-up and clean-up?
- Friday and Saturday weddings from March to November: Clients have access to the property for up to fourteen hours. This allows for 6 hours set-up, 7 hours for the ceremony and reception and 1 hour for clean-up and removal of your personal items.
- Sunday – Thursday weddings and Friday and Saturday winter weddings: Clients have access to the property for 8 hours. This allows for 2 hours set-up, 5 hours for the ceremony and reception and 1 hour for clean-up and removal of your personal items.
All items must be delivered to The Farm during the set-up window and removed from the property by the end of Clean-up.
Q: Is a coordinator included in the Package?
We believe that the use of a planner or a coordinator is imperative to ensure the event runs smoothly ensuring the bride can enjoy the day. The Farm allows brides to select a full wedding planner from our approved vendor list or we offer month-of-coordinator service (see the Coordinator Contract and Pricing document for details).
Q: May we bring in an outside caterer?
With the exception of desserts, we do not allow outside food to be brought in. Catering is provided by our excellent Farm Kitchen team.
Q: May we bring our own alcohol?
The Farm recently received our license to sell beer and wine and we’ve created some very compelling bar packages. It goes without saying that our packages feature Asheville’s local beers and ciders as well as some delicious house wines. We also have options for signature cocktails as well as a full bar for those who are interested. We require all clients to purchase their beer and wine from The Farm.
Q: Is there a food & beverage minimum?
No. We do not have catering minimums.
Q: What is the payment schedule?
The following are a few key deadlines:
- To secure the date, clients pay 50% of the Wedding Package Price. We are not able to hold dates based on a verbal commitment.
- Six months prior to the wedding, clients pay deposits for their Month-of-Coordinator (if applicable) and catering.
- Thirty days prior to the wedding, clients pay the remainder of their Wedding Package and Coordinator balances.
- Fourteen days prior to the wedding, clients pay the remainder of their Catering balance.
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When I first started homeschooling, someone very wise and wonderful handed me a gem of a book titled “Things We Wish We’d Known,” by Diana Waring. The book consists of a collection of 50 essays written by long-time homeschooling moms about things they would have done differently to homeschool their children had they known in the beginning what they knew in the end. Imagine getting this kind of advice from 50 homeschool veterans when you are just starting out!
What struck me about the book is almost all the essays had similar themes. Essay after essay, veteran homeschool moms talked about how they wished they had concentrated less on academics in their homeschools and more on character building, faith development, and simply spending time with their kids. None of the 50 moms said they wished they had worked harder on academics, covered more subject matter, or prepared their children better for college. Instead, as a group, they pleaded with new homeschooling moms to relax and not do “school at home.”
If I were to write an essay for this book, mine would be similar to the other veterans. Early on, I focused way too much on academics, frustrating my children and our relationship at the same time. But as the years wore on, I garnered the courage to set aside preconceived notions and other peoples’ expectations and begin to homeschool my children in ways I knew would be best.
Today, I think more about building character in my children than academic preparation for college. The surprising truth that has emerged from this focus is an understanding that character building IS the best way to prepare your children for college. Knowing and understanding huge bodies of information has only limited returns and those returns are predicated on figuring out what children need to know, learning it, and then retaining it until they need to use it. That’s a pretty tall order.
By focusing on character, teachers can put aside the relentless goal of preparing students’ brains for everything and, instead, prepare their character for anything. The truth is, we are never fully prepared for life, whether it be college, career, or personal circumstances. But, if we have the desire, resourcefulness, and personal discipline to overcome our shortcomings, we will succeed.
This reality proved true for me throughout school, college, and my career. In college and throughout my 20’s I worked in the journalism field as a general assignment reporter. Each day I would arrive at work, meet with my editor, and then launch into a day of assignments that ran the gamut from politics, to business, to education. On a daily basis, I had to speak with important people who were experts in areas I knew little about. There was no way my education could have prepared me for the range and depth of subject matter I would encounter as a news reporter (nor in college, for that matter). Instead, I had to rely on my resourcefulness, my good sense, a healthy work ethic, and other character strengths to get the job done.
One of my most embarrassing news reporter stories happened the first day on the job as the news editor of my college newspaper. I was told to interview the college president about a change in the tuition structure for state universities. With a deadline just three hours away, I had to get background, complete the interview, and write a story about a very complicated and detailed process governed by both education and politics. I was scared.
I walked into the interview with the university president that day a nervous wreck. I was intimidated by the president’s position and, truthfully, I didn’t have a good grasp of the subject matter either. My desire to make a good impression on the president added to my anxiety.
I launched into the interview; systematically going through the list of questions I had prepared. After the third question, the president paused, looked directly as me, and said in a very serious, but kind manner, “You really don’t know what you are talking about, do you?”
It was a horrible moment that lives with me to this day. But it taught me an important lesson: Being smart is not about having the right answers. It’s about asking the right questions. Wise people don’t know everything, but they know how to find out. And they have the desire and character to see the process through.
I eventually learned how to interview important people on important topics. I even established a good relationship with that college president who would welcome me many times over into his office to talk about news items of interest to my readers. I found that the key to working in this or any career environment is not having the answers, but listening, adjusting, and then applying what you have learned.
In our homeschools, it’s vital to focus less on providing and teaching the “answers” to children and instead focus on building the kind of character that will create lifelong learners. This is the way to prepare students for success.
In my next post I will share some concrete ideas about about how to build character through homeschooling.
Until next time, Be fearless.
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Last week we covered the teams which missed by that much (9th to 12th) and the bottom feeders the week before (13th to 16th). This week we cover teams finishing 5th to 8th. Like last season, the margin for error is very small (and has been for some time). A key injury or a bad run of form through Origin could have a deleterious effect on their top 8 chances. Welcome to the new Millennium!
Eels
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We can rebuild him
Odds – 22.50 – 11th
Predicted Finish – 8th
If this Team was a Superhero that Superhero would be – The Six Million Dollar Man
For those of you too young to remember, when NASA astronaut Steve Austin is severely injured in the crash of an experimental lifting body aircraft, he is “rebuilt” in an operation that costs six million dollars (per Wikipedia) which was a lot of money in those days (per me).
The Eels have been in rebuilding mode for a while now and were probably the most active team in the offseason (although most recruiting is done well before then). Kieran Foran was the jewel in the crown but they picked up some very decent players in Michael Gordon, Michael Jennings and Beau Scott on the back of the additions of Corey Norman and Nathan Peats in seasons gone by.
Big Question – Will they trend upwards? I certainly think so, or I wouldn’t have picked them to finish 8th. This is Brad Arthur’s third season in charge of the team, not including his brief stint as caretaker coach in 2012. By now he must have the players that suit his system. He doesn’t have a long leash and if they don’t make the Finals then he probably won’t be with the Eels in 2017. The recruitment of Kieran Foran is not to be underestimated. He still relatively young (25) and super talented. Along with Peats, Norman and Gordon, it is a spine built for success.
Top Gun – Kieran Foran – Foran is one of the best players in the competition and will make all the players around him better.
Young Gun – Bevan French – One of the stars of the Auckland 9s, it is difficult to see a place for him in first grade with a surplus of outside backs at the Eels, however, if he does get an opportunity, look for him to become the latest household name from Tingha.
X-Factor – Corey Norman – Norman has been steadily building over the seasons into a quality playmaker. Has started the pre-season on fire which augurs well for the season ahead.
The Big Leap – Tepai Moeroa – Made his debut in 2014 and consolidated his place in the side last year. Should have a monster season.
Coach – Brad Arthur
Gains – Mitch Cornish (Canberra Raiders, 2016), Kieran Foran (Manly Sea Eagles, 2019), Michael Gordon (Cronulla Sharks, 2016), Clinton Gutherson (Manly Sea Eagles, 2017), James Hasson (Manly Sea Eagles, 2016), Michael Jennings (Sydney Roosters, 2019), Cameron King (North Queensland Cowboys, 2016), Kieren Moss (Penrith Panthers, 2016), Rory O’Brien (St George Illawarra Dragons, 2016), Scott Schulte (North Queensland Cowboys, 2016), Beau Scott (Newcastle Knights, 2018), Kelepi Tanginoa (North Queensland Cowboys, 2016) and Matthew Woods (Wests Tigers, 2016)
Losses – Josh Aloiai (Wests Tigers), Beau Champion (Retired), Ben Crooks (Castleford Tigers), Zach Dockar-Clay (Penrith Panthers), Richie Fa’aoso (Retired), Fabian Goodall (Manly Sea Eagles), Will Hopoate (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs), Tui Kamikamica (Rugby Union), Halauafu Lavaka (Manly Sea Eagles), Darcy Lussick (Manly Sea Eagles), Ryan Matterson (Sydney Roosters), Eric Newbigging (NSW Cup), Pauli Pauli (Newcastle Knights), Joseph Paulo (Cronulla Sharks), Adam Quinlan (St George Illawarra Dragons), Reece Robinson (Rugby Union) and Chris Sandow (Warrington Wolves)
Starting and Tepai Moeroa
Interchange – David Gower, Peni Terepo, Danny Alvaro and Ken Edwards
Squad – Kelepi Tanginoa, Isaac De Gois, Danny Wicks, Mitchell Cornish, Bureta Faraimo, Bevan French, Tyrell Fuimaono, James Hasson, Luke Kelly, Cameron King, Ryan Morgan, Kieren Moss, Cody Nelson, Rory O’Brien, Kaysa Pritchard, Scott Schulte, Vai Toutai, Honeti Tuha, Alex Twal, Joseph Ualesi and Matthew Woods
Injury List – John Folau (hamstring, indefinite) and Anthony Watmough (knee, round two)
Raiders
Sneaky good last year. Will be even better this year.
Odds – 27.50 – 12th
Predicted Finish – 7th
If this Team was a Superhero that Superhero would be – Spiderman
Finally getting to the Superheroes who need no introduction. Spiderman has always been sneaky good. Villains tend to underrate him (mainly because he looks a bit weedy) and the Raiders are much the same (apart from the weedy bit). The Raiders were obviously superb in the Laurie Daley/Bradley Clyde era but have been mediocre at best in the last 20 years with the exception of the occasional Terry Campese inspired moment of relevance.
The recruitment of Ricky Stuart after fading out at the Roosters and flaming out (big time) at the Eels only added to the languid feeling that had enveloped the club as did losing Anthony Milford. Last year’s performance was out of the blue and narrowly missing the eight has still left them under the radar. Their ‘outside the box’ recruitment targets like Blake Austin, Iosia Soliola, Sisa Waqa and Josh Hodgson grew in stature as the year progressed and the addition of Aidan Sezer, Elliott Whitehead and Joseph Tapine is another serious step in the right direction. One year ago they were stuck in wooden spoon purgatory with the Titans but they’ve done a 180 and should make the 8 this season.
Big Question – Is Elliott Whitehead the new Gareth Ellis? The early mail on this guy is that he is going to thrive in the NRL. One of a series of players heading over to the NRL from England in their prime, the Raiders should be the latest beneficiary of the trend having, already benefited from Josh Hodgson.
Top Gun – Blake Austin – Last year wasn’t a fluke. He is virtually unstoppable from 10m out and the addition of Aidan Sezer should only make his role as attacking savant even easier. Will be a bolter for Origin. Shocked to see him named on the bench in the first game. Hoping it is a one time thing because I love watching him play.
Young Gun – Brenko Lee – I’m working on the theory that if I keep picking the same guy every year, eventually I’ll get it right. Really thought Brenko Lee would burst on the scene in a very Mal Meninga way last year but added only 2 NRL games to his resume (6 all up now). Canberra are well stocked for outside backs but I expect Lee to continue to push for a place in the team.
X-Factor – Blake Austin – Austin is also the biggest spark in attack that Canberra has. Should be more of the same for him this year.
The Big Leap – Would have picked Elliot Whitehead until last week but Joseph Tapine is a late pick up for the team and is on the verge of great things. Big loss for the Knights.
Coach – Ricky Stuart
Gains – Adam Clydsdale (Newcastle Knights, 2016), Joey Leilua (Mid Season: Newcastle Knights, 2018), Jeff Lima (Catalan Dragons, 2016), Zac Santo (North Queensland Cowboys, 2016), Aidan Sezer (Gold Coast Titans, 2018), Elliot Whitehead (Catalan Dragons, 2017) and Joseph Tapine (Newcastle Knights, 2019)
Losses – Mitch Cornish (Parramatta Eels), Mitchell Cronin (QLD Cup), Joel Edwards (Wests Tigers), Jeremy Hawkins (Melbourne Storm), Andrew Heffernan (Penrith Panthers), Jeff Lynch (Gold Coast Titans), Patrick Mago (QLD Cup), Josh McCrone (St George Illawarra Dragons), Mark Nicholls (Melbourne Storm), Luke Page (QLD Cup), David Shillington (Gold Coast Titans), Dane Tilse (Hull Kingston Rovers) and Bill Tupou (Wakefield Wildcats)
Starting Team – Jack Wighton, Edrick Lee, Jarrod Croker, Joseph Leilua, Jordan Rapana, Sam Williams, Aidan Sezer, Shannon Boyd, Josh Hodgson, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Josh Papalii, Elliot Whitehead and Shaun Fensom
Interchange – Blake Austin, Sia Soliola, Paul Vaughan and Jeff Lima
Squad – Joseph Tapine, Kurt Baptiste, Sisa Waqa, Mitchell Barnett, Luke Bateman, Lachlan Croker, Jarrad Kennedy, Rhys Kennedy, Brenko Lee, Kato Ottio and Zac Santo
Injury List – Adam Clydsdale (shoulder, round 4)
Roosters
Down but not completely out
Odds – 7.75 – 3rd
Predicted Finish – 6th
If this Team was a Superhero that Superhero would be – Captain America
Another NRL/Marvel mash up with a timely Captain America: Civil War tie-in (spoiler alert – Captain America is on the side that refuses regulation from the political body of the day) which doesn’t entirely align with real life (the Roosters haven’t gone completely rogue, although it appears they may have misjudged the NRL with respect to Mitchell Pearce) but the Roosters are not entirely without their problems. The SKD situation was highly destabilising as is the Mitchell Pearce saga (which shows no sign of abating). Boyd Cordner and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves are out for the first half of the season and Michael Jennings, RTS and James Maloney are big, big losses. The Roosters should make the 8 but will struggle to win the minor premiership this year.
Big Question – Will Trent Robinson take a different approach this season or will he do a Michael Maguire and stick with Plan A no matter what? I expect Robinson to make some subtle changes. At the bottom line, a team is only as good as the players that are out on the field but I will still be interested to see what Robinson does.
Top Gun – Mitchell Pearce – The Roosters best player could be out of action for some time and the Roosters are a different side without him. Jayden Nikorima and Jackson Hastings put in very impressive performances in the World Club Series but NRL defences will not be as brittle. That is a fact. The Roosters will be needing Pearce back ASAP.
Young Gun – Latrell Mitchell – GI 2.0. Got a run during the World Club Series and didn’t disappoint. Jayden Nikorima could easily be the best young player for the Roosters this season but his opportunities will dry up once Pearce is back on deck, although I suspect Trent Robinson will use him as a bench utility much the same as Jackson Hastings last year.
X-Factor – Blake Ferguson – Was found out a little under the high ball against St Helens but should be fine once the season proper starts. Will relish chiming into the backline from Fullback and also the extra carries returning kicks.
The Big Leap – Jackson Hastings – Cemented himself as the replacement to James Maloney during the back half of last season, Hastings should further his reputation this year, especially in the early season absence of Mitchell Pearce.
Coach – Trent Robinson
Gains – Pakisonasi Afu (Point Chevalier Pirates, 2017), Joe Burgess (Wigan Warriors, 2018), Dale Copley (Brisbane Broncos, 2018), Mitchell Frei (Wynnum-Manly Seagulls, 2016), Ian Henderson (Catalan Dragons, 2016), Ryan Matterson (Parramatta Eels, 2017) and Jayden Nikorima (Brisbane Broncos, 2018)
Losses – Michael Jennings (Parramatta Eels), Nene Macdonald (Gold Coast Titans), James Maloney (Cronulla Sharks), Suaia Matagi (Penrith Panthers), Matt McIlwrick (Cronulla Sharks), Willis Meehan (Released), Taane Milne (St George Illawarra Dragons), Lagi Setu (Rugby Union), Nathan Stapleton (London Broncos) and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (New Zealand Warriors)
Starting Team – Blake Ferguson, Daniel Tupou, Dale Copley, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Latrell Mitchell, Jayden Nikorima, Jackson Hastings, Kane Evans, Jake Friend (c), Dylan Napa, Mitchell Aubusson, Aidan Guerra and Isaac Liu
Interchange – Sam Moa, Sio Siua Taukeiaho, Vincent Leuluai and Ian Henderson
Squad – Mitchell Frei, Joe Burgess, Pakisonasi Afu, Nat Butcher, Tyler Cornish, Brendan Elliot, Joey Lussick, Ryan Matterson, Abraham Papalii, Dominic Reardon, Nathan Smith, Charlie Taylor, Omar Slaimankhel and Eloni Vunakece
Injury List – Jared Waerea-Hargreaves (ACL, round eleven), Mitchell Pearce (disciplinary, indefinite) and Boyd Cordner (pectoral, round eleven)
Bulldogs
Will be better than last year
Odds – 12.00 – 6th
Predicted Finish – 5th
If this Team was a Superhero that Superhero would be – Thor
Thor is one of those ‘not to be messed with characters’ and the Bulldogs are much the same. They were a little unsettled last year with Moses Mbye displacing Josh Reynolds for large portions of the season and Michael Lichaa picking up the occasional injury as well. The style of play favoured in previous seasons with James Graham and Sam Kasiano acting as de facto halves didn’t seem to work as well and a long term injury to Brett Morris didn’t help things either.
Given Des Hasler is an experienced coach, I assume that most of those issues have now been rectified. Hodkinson has moved on with Reynolds and Mbye the first choice halves. Mbye, Reynolds, Graham and Kasiano have had a whole off-season to work on combinations. Michael Lichaa is fit again. Unfortunately, Brett Morris is out for four months but there is plenty of depth in the outside backs this year.
Big Question – Will the real Tony Williams please stand up? Tony Williams is having a very David Taylor type career. He is big, fast and strong and at times unstoppable but unfortunately it is only ‘at times’ and not every single game. He is 27, started his career in the backs and has ended up in the forwards. Is this as good as it is going to get or does he have another burst in him?
Top Gun – James Graham – Didn’t seem to have the same impact last year. I always wonder whether a player is carrying injuries when they have an off year. If he can return to his best which is a combination of rugged runs into the teeth of the defence coupled with sublime play making and inspirational defence, the Dogs might be a premiership threat again.
Young Gun – Brad Abbey – The 19 year old star poached from the Warriors is on the verge of a breakout. There are opportunities in this team if he can take them.
X-Factor – Sam Kasiano – This is a tough one. All the changes implemented by the NRL (fewer interchanges and shorter stoppages) should dull his impact, however, in the absence of Frank Pritchard, Kasiano will be relied on for attacking spark. I think he can have a banner year.
The Big Leap – Moses Mbye – Consolidated his spot in the team last year and should build on that significantly in 2016.
Coach – Des Hasler
Gains – Brad Abbey (New Zealand Warriors, 2018), Graham Clark (Northern Pride, 2016), Craig Garvey (St George Illawarra Dragons, 2017), Kerrod Holland (Newcastle Knights, 2017) and Will Hopoate (Parramatta Eels, 2017)
Losses – Damien Cook (South Sydney Rabbitohs), Herman Ese’ese (Brisbane Broncos), Trent Hodkinson (Newcastle Knights), Antonio Kaufusi (Retired), Tim Lafai (St George Illawarra Dragons), Frank Pritchard (Hull FC) and Corey Thompson (Widnes Vikings)
Starting Team – Will Hopoate, Curtis Rona, Josh Morris, Chase Stanley, Sam Perrett, Josh Reynolds, Moses Mbye, James Graham, Michael Lichaa, Aiden Tolman, Josh Jackson, Tony Williams and Greg Eastwood
Interchange – Sam Kasiano, Danny Fualalo, Tim Browne and Adam Elliott
Squad – Shaun Lane, Pat O’Hanlon, Brad Abbey, Dane Chisolm, Craig Garvey, Kerrod Holland, Lindon McGrady, Jarrod McInally, Tyrone Phillips and Reimis Smith
Injury List – Brett Morris (knee, indefinite), Lloyd Perrett (ankle, indefinite) and David Klemmer (suspension, round 2)
What is sweeter than Jelly Bread?
- Some of the Intrust Super Cup teams are live streaming their games. Nice.
- Third season for the PNG Hunters. Important milestone for the club (and RL in PNG in general) as the Port Moresby Vipers only lasted 2 seasons in the Q Cup. Kato Ottio is the latest Hunter’s graduate to find himself on a NRL roster. SP Breweries also signed up for another 5 years to sponsor the club. Perhaps this will be the year they win their first premiership.
- GSW – Still setting records every week. Their form of Basketball is mesmerising. They are never out of the game.
Stephen Curry – Not of this World – Photo by Keith Allison – CC-BY-SA-2.0
What isn’t?
- Still looking like Ben Simmons won’t ever play in the NCAA tournament. Very sad indeed. Even though they have won their last 2 games, folks that know keep saying they aren’t even on the bubble at the moment.
EPL Tips Match Week 29
Tottenham vs Arsenal – Draw 1-1
Chelsea vs Stoke – Chelsea 2-0
Everton vs West Ham – Everton 2-1
Man City vs Aston Villa – Man City 4-0
Newcastle vs Bournemouth – Newcastle 1-0
Southampton vs Sunderland – Southampton 2-0
Swansea vs Norwich – Swansea 2-1
Watford vs Leicester – Leicester 1-0
Crystal Palace vs Liverpool – Liverpool 2-1
West Brom vs Man U – Man U 27
Me – 40 (4 from 8 with no perfect scores) and Lawro – 50 (5 from 8 with no perfect scores)
Week 28
Me – 40 (4 from 10 with no perfect scores) and Lawro – 50 (5 from 10 with no perfect scores)
Season so far
Me – 2010 and Lawro – 2010 (It doesn’t get any closer than this)
NRL Tips Round 1
This got super boring last year so I thought this year I might tip against the spread. Given I only tipped 62.9% correctly in 2015 and 58.21% in 2014, tipping against the spread is probably a terrible idea. I’m going to do it anyway.
Eels (+3.5) vs Broncos – Broncos
Sea Eagles vs Bulldogs (+3.5) – Sea Eagles
Raiders vs Panthers (+2.5) – Raiders
Tigers (+7.5) vs Warriors – Tigers
Cowboys vs Sharks (+8.0) – Cowboys
Roosters (+2.5) vs Rabbitohs – Roosters
Titans (+1.5) vs Knights – Titans
Storm vs Dragons (+7.5) – Storm
Stay Tuned
Stay tuned for the next exciting episode on Thursday, 17 March 2016 titled ‘2016 NRL Preview Part 4 – The Real Deal’
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Genesis Retro Mix Vol.1
>>IMAGE the Super Nintendo was always my platform of choice. I know there are minor differences, and control preference also plays a part, but wow I struggled with this game. Ryu was cheap as shit, and it’s one of the reasons I always hate the AI in fighting games. It seems to always anticipate perfectly a counter to whatever I was going to do. I’m pretty sure as soon as I enter a command, the AI is entering a counter response that almost always wins. If I throw a fireball, they throw a fireball, if I jump kick they uppercut, if I block high they go low, INSTANTLY, like they’re reading my mind. Anyways this didn’t last long, once I finally got the satisfaction of beating Ryu I was ready to move on. We played “Super” mode.
Rock’N’Roll Racing (Racer) – My wife and I played this, it was actually pretty fun, a bit easy at first there too. My memory of this game held it in a lot higher regard and I feel like it’s still thought of fondly by a lot of people. But after playing this now, I don’t think it is/was anything that special. Still, it was fun I’m not trying to really knock it, it just doesn’t seem like a classic.
Greendog (Platformer) – I forgot almost everything about this game going into it. Now that I’ve played it again, I can say confidently that I hate it. It was very boring, very plain, very uninteresting. For the most part the game was very easy, but the very last level the difficulty spiked high, I went through all of my remaining lives and continues and I didn’t even make it half way through. It involved jumping over spikes, pits and avoiding a constantly spawning bird. It was obnoxious.
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Seldom has a Formula One weekend been so packed with rumours and stories of such a wide-ranging and diverse nature. Further, seldom have such grave issues been at the forefront of F1 and the various participants speak so openly and freely about them.
I, and the TJ13 site have been advocating what is now called ‘the virtual safety car’ from almost since the website’s inception. I personally, along with a few others in a group, took this matter up with ‘the horses mouth’ earlier this year.
The conversation was lengthy, and I presented the fact that double waved yellows were meant to be an immediate extreme caution to isolate a dangerous section of the circuit where the safety car could not be present in an instant.
A number of other scenarios were discussed, but were dismissed out of hand because we were told, “the safety car is currently the highest and best intervention we have studied and settled upon”.
In addition the comment was made that the end of the safety car would be bad for the show and that Bernd would lose his job.
No matter.
So it’s good to see in Austin, finally, the virtual safety car being tried for the first time, though with a mixed response from the drivers. Grosjean complained he found managing the delta times “vey very difficult”, whilst Maldonado commented, “it’s very easy.”
Formula One drivers eh?
Despite Whiting’s rhetoric in Sochi, this solution does not “take it out of the drivers’ hands” how fast they drive, but merely replaces the previous FIA reduction in speed the divers were compelled to deliver – of 0.5 seconds for a double waved yellow cautioned mini sector. A ridiculous regulation which breaches the FIA’s own Sporting Code.
We shall see whether the FIA admits they were wrong in their F1 interpretation of the WMSC Sporting Code regulation, which requires all motor sports competitors to “Slow down… and be prepared to stop” – in whatever category of racing they are competing.
One lighter moment which has occurred this weekend is the renewal of Ted Kravitz’s, Sky presenter, spat with Christian Horner. I hear Kravitz said live on air to the Red Bull supremo (of sorts) “I’ve been trying to catch up with you all day; what’s going on?”
Horner replied, “Friday’s a busy day Ted, you should know that”. Kravitz compulsively quipped, “It is… for the rest of us”.
What followed was the furry faced Christian Horner explaining what would happen with Sebastian Vettel during qualifying in Austin. Predictably this included stabs at “fragile engine units” and “silly rules” which apparently Red Bull never complained about though have been in existence all year.
Horner’s lament invoked the plight of the fans, apparently all desperate to see four times world champion compete properly in the qualifying event. However, Christian revealed that Sebastian would complete merely one lap in Q1 to ensure he was not thrown out of the race under the 107% rule.
This suggests Red Bull have been leaned on by the FIA over their proposal to ‘not bother’ sending Seb out at all in qualifying, as previously other drivers have not competed in qualifying, but demonstrated in the free practice sessions they are competent to race.
Bernie Ecclestone has been holding one on one meetings with all the ‘larger’ team principals here in Austin and from his publicity stunt on SKY with Ted Kravitz, you have to assume he is pushing an agenda for less teams, B teams and the death of the current smaller competitors in F1.
In defiance of the FIA’s agreement with the commercial rights holder, Mr. E declared that if 2015 saw just 14 competitors in F1, that’s the way it would be – and life would continue as normal.
This seems to be in response to a threat made by Force India, Sauber and Lotus to boycott Sunday’s race in Austin. Though Lotus later tweeted a denial they were refusing to race, stating,”That’s kinda why we’re here.”
Bob Fernley though claims there is an agenda from the bigger teams to driver the rest out of the sport.“CVC and the teams they have empowered have got some form of programme in place because nobody (otherwise) would have teams going out of business.There is a (financial) split that is inequitable.”
If you listen to Toto Wolff’s arrogant and dismissive attitude in the FIA press conference, its easy to see where Fernley is coming from.
Further, Ecclestone stiff armed Bobby Epstein – promoter of the COTA event – to tell SKY viewers F1 was not the same without the noise of the old V8 engines. Ecclestone then empathetically added that it was not fair on the promoters, because they had signed contracts for ‘a product’, which was now not being delivered.
I have been asked several times this weekend, what I believe to be Ecclestone’s agenda, and the answer is simple: to create as much chaos and uncertainty amongst the F1 participants that, like headless chickens, they fall prey to the lurking fox.
It could be that Bernie is calling out the FIA in defiance of the 100 year commercial rights agreement, whilst all along he has GP1 trademarks, agreements with circuit owners and Ferrari in his pocket to set up a new series.
He and CVC do own GP2 and GP3 which would be an attractive offer to race promoters as a package to travel the globe to each GP1 race event.
There have been a number of rumours this year about Ecclestone showing an interest in ex-F1 engine manufacturer – Cosworth, though none confirmed. Still, its not a leap of unbelievable proportions to envisage a GP1 series being proposed with Ferrari and Cosworth engines available for all series competitors, whilst the simultaneous call is made to Mercedes and Renault being “join us if you like”.
Of course for the Scuderia to split from the F1 brand with which they have become synonymous, would be truly astonishing. And whether the new Ferrari management are prepared to get in bed with Ecclestone the way Il Padrino used to do is up for question.
All this just points to the kind of threats and pressure various F1 participants are likely to face in the coming days and there will be huge choices for them to make which could see a split in the global premier racing series similar to that which occurred in North American single seater racing over a decade ago.
In the space of just over an hour, Toto Wolff appeared to make himself the pariah which all genuine Formula 1 fans should revile. In the most compelling FIA press conference maybe ever, he propounded the view that Formula One was at the very “high end” of motor sport, and if you can’t afford to be in the sport, you should just bugger off.
He was clearly well briefed on the idea of a two tier Formula One which would see 5 big teams run 5 ‘B’ teams as the sport begins to look more and more like DTM from a participants perspective.
There was a moment of stark reality where Toto Wolff proved he is from another world and that alien life forms truly do exist. He attempted to argue it was impossible for large companies to account for the cost of stuff they made???
This is the reality of Formula One land, but not the world of international commerce, where the last staple utilised is frequently accounted for in many properly run organisations.
Jean Todt clearly had some influence on this panel of team bosses, as Gerard Lopez, Monisha Kaltenborn and Vijay Mallya (sporting the finest mullet seen since the days of Chris Waddle) were open and frank about the plight of the smaller teams.
Gerrard Lopez put to bed the lie that the smaller teams just ‘spend what they can’t afford’ and explained how costs have been forced upon them without their consent. Further, that the funding they receive is a pittance when compared to the cost of designing a car, buying an engine and turning up to race at each event on the F1 calendar.
Lopez attacked Wolff and the big spending teams, suggesting if 4m could run a GP2 outfit for the year, then the managers of entities running big Formula One teams spending 300m more than this to gain a few seconds over a GP2 car was beyond economic logic and an efficient use of capital.
The Lotus boss also revealed there are teams in Formula One who receive 160-170m for ‘just showing up’ and that no multinational sponsor of note has chosen to get involved with F1 for many a year.
Further, even Eric the believable concurred that the distribution of the $900m funds to the teams should maybe examined again. Wolff as defiant, stating he would not support this proposition.
As someone who felt a wealth of goodwill towards Mercedes at the start of the year, I have to say Wolff is destroying any goodwill amongst passionate neutral Formula One fans, with his arrogant know it all attitude – all gleaned in the 2 minutes he has been part of the sport.
Stuttgart would do well to study the FIA press conference form today, and ask themselves some hard questions over the image one of their brand ambassadors is presenting to the world.
Today saw the staff of Caterham allowed back onto the Leafield premises for a meeting where their futures were outlined.
The staff are being forced to take 2 weeks unpaid leave whilst the Administrator deals with acquisition enquiries from between “6 and 12 interested parties.”
The administrator admitted he was finding it difficult to contact Colin Kolles as certain questions of impropriety require attention.
All the seized equipment from the various bailiff companies has also been returned to the jurisprudence of the Administrator including the simulator rig, the car and the other assorted parts and memorabilia which had been removed.
In a separate and bizarre turn of events, Romulas Kolles – ex director of Caterham Sports Ltd explained in an interview in Romanian that he had recruited ”spies” during his brief tenure as director. One of these was the man affectionately referred to as ‘Mario’ by the Leafield staff – the ex Romanian footballer cleaner come Romulas Kolles replacement as company director.
Other ‘spies’ presumably included a whole new set of race weekend drivers to ferry the race team around at each event. Though, TJ13 sources informed us they didn’t understand English and slept in the minibuses over night.
If you’re going to do something, at least make a vague effort do it properly.
In a separate interview, Mario (Cojocar John Constantine) now admits he was recruited to “design and build race cars for Caterham and Forza Rossa”. Cojocar also confirmed that despite their assertions to the contrary that Forza Rossa have “obtained confirmation of their permission to participate in the FIA Formula 1 2015 season”.
Romulas is ill in Germany and was contacted by ProSport – a Romanian publication. They extracted from Kolles father the fact his son is now ‘somewhere in America” and he was merely “a consultant to Caterham”.
Critically he revealed Kolles and Ecclestone have been ‘working together’ and that Mr. E had been using his influence to help Colin achieve FIA approval for a Formula One team entrant.
I am proud of the reporting TJ13 has delivered on this story, despite consistent ridicule from those in the established media. Our sources on the whole have been impeccable.
That said, in one or two cases certain individuals left Caterham preceding the Administrator’s takeover, joining other teams such as Lotus and Red Bull. These friends of TJ13 then stayed in touch with their colleagues back in Leafield, though information via them from their friends still at Caterham became a slower process, especially from the Caterham logistics team.
Yet facts such as Kolles using Caterham Sports Ltd resources to design LMP1 cars such as Lotus under the name CLM – became transparent pretty quickly – CLM, Caterham Le Mans? The car debuted in Austin in September, its origins shrouded in mystery.
What is clear is that Colin Kolles is a reprehensible individual, a liar and probably a thief. He has been assisted by his side-kick Mafredi Ravetto – who whilst maintaining a pretence of “Hi know nothing” becomes less believable by the day.
As has happened in other sports, it is imperative the FIA set up a process to identify “fit and proper” individuals who are licensed to own and run Formula One teams.
Amusingly this question was asked earlier this year in the House of Commons. ‘With the recent conviction of the former owner of Birmingham City for money laundering, the fraud convictions of the putative owner of Leeds United and the fact that we still don’t know the identity of the individuals that own Coventry City, will you agree with me that we need a proper fit and proper person test to be applied to the owners of football clubs, administered by the authorities and if necessary given the legal security of being underpinned by statute?”
These charges could all probably be laid at the door of a single individual and levied at his recent period of dalliance with the livelihoods of the Caterham staff and families.
None existent Swiss based Arab investors spring quickly to mind. Start a liar, end a liar.The FIA needs to act and act swiftly on a multiplicity of levels; so the time is ripe for Jean Todt the hero to emerge and save the sport, though understandably, many of us are not holding our breath.
Wow. There’s not much in life surprises me, and many of us have been calling this period that F1 has entered as inevitable. Yet the speed of events, the utterly delusional and incredulous self absorbed responses of certain F1 senior personal is quite shocking.
And at the same time the frivolity of the peripheral paddock posse continues with abate – as indeed expected.
Oh and by the way, there’s is apparently a race this weekend – somewhere in the US of A. And Lewis continues to dominate his team mate in free practice, by just 3 one thousandths of a second.
That press conference was just unbelievable. Wolf came across as an out of touch, unctuous, self serving, prick. I fear for the future of F1 after witnessing that performance….
… I think Wolff should fear for his job. It is impossible Stuttgart will want to be represented and portrayed in that manner. There must be a backlash…
But it was astonishing stuff….
Lopez was remarkably eloquent – and should get out more. He killed the illusion/lie that the small teams are reckless with their spending – and that they should cut their cloth accordingly.
The smaller teams have been battered into submission and silence for too long and appear to be prepared to say – Fuck it – if we’re going to die, we’ll go down kicking and screaming.
I agree entirely. I thought Lopez knocked it out of the park.
He, Vijay and Monisha should get out in front of the media at every opportunity, not just the odd official F1 event. Most followers of F1 probably don’t understand just how royally the smaller teams have been screwed over the last couple of years.
+1 – he was very eloquent. Especially how he explained what you described as the costs forced on the teams against their will. Mallay spoke articulately, too – passionately, even. He came out looking like a very, very serious and realistic person who knows his stuff (he’s also president of indian motorsports fed tho, right?).
WHo cares if indian gov. is gonna seize his GOA villa? lol. F1 is frakked.
I haven’t seen it yet, but I imagine ‘the monopoly test’ of human nature is applicable. I.e. stack the start in favour of one player, and see them take it to heart that they are ‘simply better’ than everyone else, and that ‘others could win if they tried harder’, while they take immense glee in winning, showing no mercy or sympathy for the other players..
Having that advantage ‘melts into your ego’.. top teams vs. the rest in F1 matches up with that scenario quite well. How long has Wolff been involved at Mercedes? Struggling at Williams must seem like a distant memory…
“‘simply better’ than everyone else, and that ‘others could win if they tried harder’, while they take immense glee in winning, showing no mercy or sympathy for the other players..”
Murica-land tends to shower itself with these kind of attitudes, too… 🙂
Wolves are incredibly intelligent animals that overtly exhibit a deep understanding of empathy —- a trait this Mercedes-domesticated Wolff sorely lacks.
(“The U.S.” didn’t derive that attitude in a vacuum. It was brought here from Europe.)
“Wolf came across as an out of touch, unctuous, self serving, prick. ”
Did Woof develop a Horner complex? I think the two of them would make great lovers…
After reading the press conference transcript, it was clear that Wolff has no notions whatsoever of “unfair competition” or “abuse of market power”. For a financier, this is strange…
Wow, Wolff really shows his colours. What an oaf.
Imagine Brawn in the same press conference. Mercedes must be missing him.
Wolff’s and Daimler’s arrogance and hipocracy is exposed further when you look at DTM. Mercedes was shockingly bad this year in DTM, a long way behind Audi and BMW. Dis Audi and BMW gloat and say ‘should’ve done a better job buddy’?
No, they allowed Merc an in-season development of their car. In fact they were allowed to bring in a completely new one. In F1, where they are the one’s to have a huge advantage, they block anything that could level the playing field.
Pub Quiz question. Who’s in charge of Merc’s DTM program?
Correct: Torger Christian Wolff
Showing the difference in class between those in Ingolstadt and München –
and a company that builds taxi’s ……..
Lol. So that’s where Toto comes from – ‘Torger’… I reckon from now on we call him ‘Todger’.
Serious prose, Judge. Thank you.
“I have been asked several times this weekend, what I believe to be Ecclestone’s agenda, and the answer is simple: to create as much chaos and uncertainty amongst the F1 participants that like headless chickens they fall prey to the lurking fox.”
I think you’re spot on on this. This would also explain Bernard’s constant push for double-points, the recent lovemaking with one Putinesque dick-tator, etc., etc. It does seem rather clear now that Bernard’s end game is to push the sport to the brink, and then either look at it collapse or seize it all on an old, crippled but white pony.
Two points. This week Bob the maker of fast cars went berserk:
“FIA ‘IMPOTENT’
Fernley believes that the fate of F1 is now in the hands of CVC, but doubts the firm cares about the smaller teams.
“Responsibility lies with the people in control and that is CVC,” he said.
“I think the FIA are both impotent and powerless, and that has been proven this year in that they wished to bring in cost controls and used their best efforts to do so, but they were completely overpowered by CVC and the five teams.
“One would have thought if there was any concern the commercial rights holder would be trying to bring together the disenfranchised teams and there has been nothing at all.
“If there was any concern at all about it, you would presume the head of CVC would be here. And he is not.”
He hinted that the midfield teams could now take action.
“I think the disenfranchised teams need to look very seriously at what they are going to do over the next few races,” said Fernley.”
For me this is an official declaration of war. Now with Caterham and Marussia firmly under the bus (and the medical helicopter refusing to lift off), I am starting to sense a whiff of European Commission investigation in fair play competition within the sport. Sauber and Enstone have now clearly seen where they’re headed, whether they refrain from fighting or not, and faced with extinction of proud histories they have precious little to lose.
It makes me think of the old expression that you should never leave a man with nothing to lose. I also think this will go the Europe now and personally I think they will win. The only question is at the speed Europe moves will it be in time?
With Monisha’s legal background I really am puzzled why Sauber hasn’t dropped it into the EU’s lap. Certain that the anti-competitive aspect would be right up their street. Be careful what you wish for maybe but sight unseen I’d rather see that route taken then another that would favour Bernie. His GP1 stinks!
… She has connections and the appropriate EU body said earlier this year, they are “watching”
None of us will be watching if they don’t pull finger! 🙂
Need a picture of that mullet.
#bringbackthemullet
What a fine piece, particularly the business of Colin Kolles – the #TJ13 guys have nailed it..!
This sort of article and comment is just why so many of us fell in love with you and your site a couple of years ago. Long May You Reign… but don’t forget the little folk… 😉
Kind words BJF, thank you.
Judges Chamber is back to stay…
The Whole situation in F1 over the last year or so has got ridiculous, like I said yesterday, there has always been an element of high drama and ‘hand bags at dawn’, and it has always liked the smell of its own farts, but its just gone way out of control, and the whole thing is farsicle beyond belief. Your last line sums it up perfectly Judge, the racing is almost secondary to talks about stupid tyres and conspiracies and politics and DRS, paydrivers, engine philosophies, money, regulations, and just…. everything, every damn corner has some ‘issue’….. blah blah blah blah… No wonder audiences are running away in droves.
Thanks for your reporting on this, and the general financial crisis/Caterham/Marussia stuff and Suzuka/Jules stuff. I know I was a little constructively critical of some of the conspiracy stuff over the summer, but hey we are big lads and can agree to disagree, but the reporting on these latest issues has been top notch and you and the team SHOULD be proud, its pretty much the only place we can come for it. What sickens me the most is that whilst all this shit goes on the main stream media (with the notable exception of a few good eggs) is still toadying around the teams and management. Thanks to all at TJ13.
As I said on twitter last night: “Rome burns and Skysports are carving pumpkins…” says it all.
No grudges carried here my friend.
The irony of the pumpkin thing was not lost on me either.
What we wanted was a debate on ‘the issues’ – we got froth.
I’ll give Ted Kravitz his due, he often at least references or alludes to stuff, especially in the notebooks, but you can see he’s not able to just swing for it. James Allen and Dieter Rencken often ask some decent stuff, but no one ever really gets to maul anyone, its sickening really.
Liked Dieters observation to Wolff, ‘if you get less money, the smaller teams get more. So they’ll recruit the numbers off staff you let go’ (WTTE) ie the “thousands of jobs leaving F1” lie was exposed.
Wolff. “Errr…..”
I have a lot of time for ted, he alludes to lot of things, it’s sometimes more in what he doesn’t say. I’d love to see him let off the leash, maybe have a drink or two just before doing teds notebook.
And judge, fantastic piece !!!!!!
Great commentary. Meant to leave a comment earlier but…better late than never!
“all along he has GP1 trademarks, agreements with circuit owners and Ferrari in his pocket to set up a new series.”
Oh, with LdM gone I don’t think Bernard has Ferrari in his pocket anymore. I think the serious lad Marchionne is one of the first to recognize that all said more competition is good for the sport, and that Bernard is the first who should go. After we’ve seen the brutality of the clean-up in Ferrari-land, expect Mrchionne to start sharping the knives and preparing to pull the rug from under Bernard’s wrinkled arse at the first opportunity…
So…wonder if Ferrari will be giving up that 5% of the revenue they cream off the top just for showing up?
I think Marchionne is a serious pr*ck that has firm grasp of the economics of a business. And I also think that with LdM out, all Ferrari romanticism and ass kissing towards F1 is long gone.
Look at how he’s willy-nilly giving up Alonso, arguably the best driver out there (top 2 anyways), for the off-chance to set up a sane and constructive working environment at Maranello. Marchionne clearly has no taste for political games, and I see him throwing away the cash handout if he expects a longterm improvement in the standing of the sport and in Ferrari’s image, which has long been tarnished by Ferrari International Association talk or we-walk-away/no-we-don’t posturing.
No they won’t and that’s a major part of the problem. That could’ve also been the reason why Redbu secretly went and did their own deal with Bernie behind the FOTA members back, which resulted in its collapse.
No sane person would give up that huge chunk of money and Bernie wouldn’t dear try and take it away from them either.
Has has also spent years screwing circuit owners, along with the rest of the sport.
I really can’t see a breakaway series lead by Ecclestone is going to be in the least attractive to anyone. He is a man who shows complete contempt for basic social norms, let alone the rules of motorsport.
If you wanted to escape a dysfunctional F1, why follow the man responsible for the dysfunction ?
Yeah, good points. After all the misery that Bernard has heaped upon the likes of Silverstone, Monza, Nuerburgring, Hockenheim, I don’t see any single reason for them to embark into yet another thrilling financial adventure with Bernard.
I agree with Fernley, there’s an agenda behind it all, and that might be having a sport of 4 big teams with their sidekicks.
McLaren – Force India
RBR – Toro Rosso
Ferrari – Marussia or Haas F1 (led by Alonso?!)
Mercedes – Williams
But Bruno Senna said something that was quite interesting….
“Having B teams aren’t good for the sport either, because if their parent team decides to leave the sport, you’re not losing just 2 cars, you’re losing 4, the sport needs independent teams.”
Example, Redbull and Torro Rosso.
So where would FOTA have sat on this? Was it the self interests of the bigger teams that killed that potential mouthpiece?
I don’t know, but it would’ve at least shown some form of unity, even if it was just a ‘mouthpiece’ as you say.
Judge how did you not touch on Bernie’s comments in that same interview with Ted, where he said….
“We want people who are serious about racing and not those running around with begging baskets”
Now that clearly supports BF’s comments that there seems to be an agenda to force the smaller teams out of the sport. Because the only begging that they’re doing, is to get a fair and equal share of the pie.
I did not see the team principles press conference, but if that’s how Toto came across, then thats not good for him or the image of Mercedes.
It would’ve been interesting of a certain Mr Horner was there and Monisha, Lopez and Vijay could’ve layed into him as well about his behind the back dealings with Bernie, which resulted in the collapse of FOTA.
But to be fair to Toto, he has inherited a situation that has been around even before he got involved with Williams, only problem then was, it didn’t seem like anyone cared too much to say or do anything about it. Now it has gotten to this state, no everyone is concerned, when it’s way too late.
Its unbelievable how it always comes this far. Every single time they acknowledge a problem when its already to late and serious damage has already been done. Safety, money (tracks, tickets, teams), weird noses, mediocre racing, unsafe tyres (misused more like), tarmac run-off area’s (tarmac jungles) etc.
Eric BOULLIER vs Gerard LOPEZ.
Only last year they were on the same boat “begging for funds”. Now Eric sings a totally different tune. A song bird that changes it’s tune for each season.
I’ve a friend at Cota just now and it turns out that the Toad from Suffolk has banned GoPros from the circuit. Normal cameras are fine but no GoPros?? Further proof he refuses to get with the times.
[mod] fixed that for you and removed the correction post. Trying to keep it tidy 😉
@Dave Pyett.
Laughed at that! I wonder if they know the difference between an EOS 1D and the C (Cinema) version. I suppose the next thing will be a ban on tripods and a long lens.
They beat you to it:.
One possible solution…
(After disposing of Ecclestone, which is sine qua non.)
The commercial rights for F1 should be put up for auction on (say) a three year rolling basis.
Red Bull should get out of running a team, and buy the sport instead. They are in the business purely for image purposes, and the amount of money they can commit to ensuring that they win on an ongoing basis distorts the sport.
As owners, they will get the image benefits without the risk of losing.
They would also be more likely to negotiate free to air TV deals than the current bunch of venture capitalists, and could write off some revenue shortfall as marketing expenses (something which is of no interest or value to the current owners.
Let the teams spend what they will, but make the payments for participating and prize money much more equal. And abolish the Ferrari bung: it too distorts the sport and tarnishes their sporting image.
Without a sound underlying structure which aligns the interests of F1’s owners, teams, sponsors, circuit owners and fans, everything else (engine regs, spending caps etc) is mere detail.
Having the commercial rights owned by an entity which is interested in the exposure and popularity of the sport rather than one which is interested only in how much cash they can squeeze out of it next year would at least be a step in he right direction…
Thank you Judge.
Earlier this year I spent a great deal of time lingering around other F1 sites on line. I know all of them. Some have decent reporting, some have decent comments. Tj13 seems to have it all. I credit not only you and your staff, but a large group of commenter’s that have more to say than just ranting and unfunny quips at each others expense.
This piece is exceptional, the comments are enlightening, and it is why I am here. It is refreshing to know that I am not the only person on the planet that can see what is really going on, and not the only one flabbergasted by the lack of coverage from the “mainstream” F1 press.
The TP press conference was better than any reality show that has ever aired. Unfortunately, the effort put in by the press in their questioning is too little too late. The fall of F1 has already started.
It is sad to say that I really wish Lotus, Sauber and FI had boycotted the race. It is going to take the absolute embarrassment of the sport for action to be finally be taken. The uproar if the US GP was run with only 12 cars, echoing the 2005 race, is the only kind of butt kick that will solve these problems.
To me, the most interesting tidbit of info is that Kolles Sr. actually mentioned bernie by name. Nailing bernie to the whole Caterham/kolles/FRR situation is the most likely way to get rid of him. Keep digging Judge. Together we can make a difference.
…and your efforts together with Landroni behind the scenes too… should be commended before the courtroom here…
“To me, the most interesting tidbit of info is that Kolles Sr. actually mentioned bernie by name.”
From the interview it seems to me that Kolles Sr. indicated that Kolles Jr. had helped butter up Ecclestone to obtain an entry for Forza Rossa. I don’t think it was linked to Caterham per se.
Similar stories of non English speaking strangers arriving at the factory to carry out repair and upgrade work at unfavourable rates and the invoice being traced back to Germany or Romania. Several L/H drive German registered vans were under a long lease with caustic early release clauses left in the car park for example.
CK and his father has quite a reputation of creative accounting which affected Force India long after they left. There was a *reason FI were late sending in their first company accounts…..
I don’t believe it’s a simple as giving the smaller teams more money.
It’s an easy ‘fix’ to throw money at the problem but it won’t stop the smaller teams going bust. That is proven by the fact that teams have been going bust since F1 started. It may be worse now but keeping teams going so the TP’s can fly round the world in first class isn’t necessarily the responsibility of Bernie or the FIA
*2m black hole (allegedly la de da)
“It’s an easy ‘fix’ to throw money at the problem but it won’t stop the smaller teams going bust.”
It will. Of course individual teams will at one point be failing, but not HALF of the grid. And now we have 1 team dead long ago (HRT), 2 teams not yet cold (Caterham and Marussia), and 2 teams in the emergency room (Sauber and Lotus). Only Force India is breathing heavily but unscarred thus far.
Sorry but they will just get used to spending higher sums as history has shown. The larger teams will always outspend the small teams to ensure they stay at the front. Doesn’t take away the fundamental problem with the small teams trying to compete. The only way to progress to the front is if a team gets bought by a rich owner buying his way to the top table. That is the way of modern sport
David never wins in the real world. Why give money to teams who just throw it away on fancy trailers and alike. Bernie highlighted this when he spoke about Minardi spending money on non car related fluff..
There have been a lot of stupid comments about Bernie being dumb uncaring money grabbing out of touch etc but ultimately he is the kingpin of everything to do with F1 and what he doesn’t know isn’t worth knowing. Sure he has abused his position for his own personal gain but he’s made most TP’s rather rich from the front to the back of the grid. I don’t like the idea of Ferrari getting a bigger kickback than half the teams run on but that was done for a reason not a whim
Of course he gets things wrong but many people have underestimated his prowess and got rather burnt because of it.
Financial adjustments wont work in the long term.The only possible way to level the field is to have a handicap system whereby a win of 25 points brings a weight penalty of 25kg type arrangement etc
Yes, Ecclestone does things for a reason, and it is no longer for the betterment of the sport.
@the judge
Here’s some light reading for your chambers……
Thanks for that. Confirms what I said in comments in the week about German registered minibuses being used for race team transportation.
I guess you work/worked in Leafield
With Romanian driver, I may add. Important detail, as it’s hard to see our Swiss Arabs plucking for German rentals with Romanian operators…
Holy SH!T!!!!!!!! Bernie says he doesn’t know how to fix F1 finances……
Bobby Epstein Friday Oct 31, 2014 on BBC live podcast:
“Nascar’s on TV 30 weeks a year, so they got a little head start, and I think now that we’ve got a permanent venue like this, as people come here and experience this and they get a chance to see the sport in person, and hear that engine and feel it rumble, it’s just, ah, we’ve seen it go up and up and I think theres another level of technology to share with people, and I think as americans get engaged in that they’ll appreciate it more and more.”
Bobby Epstein Friday Oct 31, 2014 on SKY in front of Bernie:
“I don’t think we have any problem with the number of cars. If the competitions good up front, that’s really what matters. If the competitions good the number of cars total doesn’t matter, but it’d be great to hear em.”
Bobby doesn’t care how many cars are on the grid, so there is no need for Sauber, FI or Lotus to run. They should take this as an invitation.
Although it would give me great joy to skewer this crook over apparently contradictory noise statements. I will refrain. (Bobby is by definition a crook because he has financial dealings with bernie).
In fact, I will go so far as to commend him. He may genuinely feel that the reduction in noise pollution is a bad thing, and it matters to him in regards to the spectacle. I disagree with this, but I can respect that opinion, especially since he is the guy taking a financial risk. (well, him and the taxpayers)
Despite his apparent disdain for the situation, he went on BBC and sold it to the audience. He didn’t go on there and bad mouth the sport, he went on and tried to sell the product he has.
This is Ten times more effort than the people in charge of F1 have put into the selling of the new technology all year.
In fact, the rights owner has gone out of his way, multiple times, to badmouth the product he owns. Bobby probably would not have even made the second statement if bernie wasn’t standing next to him forcing him to say it.
Up until this point I had figured bernie was just the greediest son of a bitch on the planet.
Now I am sure he is actively trying to kill the sport for his own selfish purposes. It may be greed, it may be hubris, or possibly he just knows he is going to die, and thinks he can take the whole thing with him.
i just read an article fron the telegraph interview with mosley at how “teams used to throw money at problems”, oh man with this article sums it up perfectly.
and gerrard lopez’ lecture on business managemebt is spot on. i read his whole interview and just shows totto as a spoilt kid in a rich family
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Antic Hay.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Hold Your Head Up
It was a run-down Victorian firehouse in an equally decrepit neighborhood.
Both would have been razed years earlier when the late and hardly lamented Robert Moses proposed running a multi-lane highway across lower Manhattan connecting the Holland Tunnel and various crossings over the East River to Brooklyn. God knows, no one wanted to live in Manhattan then, least of all in this godforsaken cast-iron wilderness.
Strangely, people actually did care that Mr. Moses was planning to ring this neighborhood's death knell as loudly as the one he rang for the Bronx and many said so, loud and clear. Somehow his plans were halted and the area between Houston Street and Canal Street languished; a moldering, vacant ruin.
Outcast artists, seeking space and cheap rents had been colonizing this area for the past decade. With no amenities to speak of, few other people wanted to live there.
During the days, the streets rumbled with the sounds of heavy trucks careening on cobblestones. At night, it was quiet as a church yard.
With the exception of a small corner where Wooster and Spring Streets intersected.
There, the Gay Activists Alliance had set up a community center, to be forever known as The Firehouse. Seemingly, no one cared that a few hundred hippie queers had elected to gather in this no man's land.
I first saw their listing on the back page of the Village Voice. Just two or three lines. Something to the effect of: Gay Dance! Every Saturday Night! Admission: $2.00! 99 Wooster Street!
Now, I was no newcomer to Gay Life. I'd been to a gay bar. Once. And I'd been haunting the bookstores and peepshows along 42nd Street since I was 16. My best friend's older brother introduced me to some of the finer aspects of male bonding when I was 12. A gentleman I met in the loge of the Oceana movie theatre during a showing of the film "Charly" was kind enough to help refine and enlarge upon that knowledge in 1968. I'd been to the Everard Baths, and had even stood on that little island created by the uptown IRT subway entrance in Sheridan Square until a man came by and took me home to spend the night. As I said, no novice I!
But dancing....somehow, that terrified me.
But not enough to keep me from trying to check it out. Hell, there were men there.
Of course, on my first attempt I realized that, while I thought I knew a good deal of Greenwich Village, I had no idea where Wooster Street was. I wandered up Sullivan Street and down Thompson, walking around Washington Square and finally asking a policeman. I was convinced he knew that only fags wanted to go to Wooster Street. In fact, the directions he gave me were so convoluted I gave up.
A month or so later, I was hanging out at a classmate's apartment. Tom had two room mates, Peter and Bruce, all living together in a large apartment in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. I was always cozy there. My grandparents had lived around the corner for many years before moving to Florida. We'd all finish our art classes, head back to their place, smoke and listen to the music of the day: Lou Reed, David Bowie and Bette Midler. She'd just released her first album, and we all joined in, high as kites, singing along to Leader of the Pack. It was a fun, giddy evening.
When I got home Tom called me, telling me that Peter demanded to know if I was gay. I gulped and told him to tell Peter I was. I'd never said those words before to anyone. Tom repeated my answer and I heard Bruce and Peter whooping in the background. Peter grabbed the phone and said:
"So, honey, you wanna go to the Firehouse on Saturday? "
Finally arriving, the Firehouse proved to be just that. A long, fairly narrow rather high-ceilinged room, paved in cobblestones, with a spiral staircase leading up to a second level, and a DJ stand where the pole would have been. A photo-mural covered one entire wall, depicting the first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, held two years earlier.
If you successfully navigated the wobbly sprial stairs you'd arrive at a large lounge, where, if you were careful and minded the gaping holes in the floor you could watch the Joan Crawford movie that always seemed to be on the Late Show every Saturday night in those days, and talk with friends as the music wafted up through the floor.
If you crawled down the sticky stairs to the cavernous basement, you could buy a beer, or drink free flat warm soda. The various vapors accumulating in that fragrant old building condensed on the ceiling down here, dripping down, much to the dismay of the inhabitants, like rain. Most would flee out into the street to sit and smoke on the rusting corrugated loading docks. Now and then, a cry of pure pleasure would echo off the steep walls of the narrow street; a pent up spirit, newly released.
Peter and I spent little time in either place, confining ourselves mostly to the dance floor. We took dancing very seriously then. It was confrontational; two men dancing proudly together. We'd see the older men on the side lines nodding and smiling towards us, as if signaling their approval. We made a game of finding their faces in the mural above them. We'd stumble and shake across the cobblestones in our high-heeled platform stacked shoes, purchased at Flagg Bros. or Arrowsmith, all the while dancing to:
- Girl You Need A Change of Mind, by Eddie Kendricks
- Armed & Extremely Dangerous, by First Choice
- I Like What I Like, by Everyday People
- Suffragette City, by David Bowie
- Rain, by Dorothy Morrison
- Law of the Land, by The Temptations
- Hold Your Head Up, by Argent
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
I Met Him On A Sund.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Fly Translove Airways.....
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So, you have been told you’re special, you’re talented and you’re a genius. If you heard those words growing up, you probably thought you would sail through life and everything would just fall into place.
If you were brought up like me, you heard the exact opposite. You’re a loser, you’re dumb, you will never make it, you dream too much.
These were the words I heard constantly when I was growing up. I stood and watched other kids being praised constantly and couldn’t understand why even when
I did win, it was never enough.
Despite the negatives, I achieved what I wanted and now have the life I did dream about.
Looking back, a lot of the kids I saw getting all the praise stopped pushing and at the first sign of adversity they quit.
The simple fact is those kids never developed grit.
University of Pennsylvania Psychologist and MacArthur genius, Angela Duckworth defines this scenario perfectly. She says perseverance and passion for long-term goals is a better indicator of future earnings and happiness than either IQ or talent.
Research on Grit suggests that our ability to work hard, endure struggle, fail and try again is the key to determining long-term success and happiness.
So, what is grit? And why does having it matter?
Grit is a distinct combination of passion, resilience, determination, and focus that allows a person to maintain the discipline and optimism to persevere in their goals, even in the face of discomfort, rejection and a lack of visible progress for years or even decades.
Studies show people who are smart, talented, kind, curious and come from stable, loving homes, generally don’t succeed unless they know how to work hard, remain committed to their goals, and persevere through struggles, failures, and mistakes.
So how do we cultivate Grit?
Finding a passion, putting in hard work, setting goals and delaying gratification are just some ways of becoming gritty.
Working with purpose will also help us become gritty and keep us going when all seems lost.
We can develop grit if we choose to focus on what we love.
Nothing comes easy, talent is great but it can only help us if we work hard and have the will to learn new skills and improve daily.
Life is short and if we aren’t willing to grind it out and get a little gritty, we will never achieve our goals and turn our dreams into a reality.
It doesn’t matter where we start, it’s what we do with what we have that makes the difference.
Put in the hours, be open to learning new things, acquire the skills required to succeed at what you want to do. Because, as they say, 90% of life is showing up.
Show up, shut up, do the work and live up to your full potential. Learn to grind, learn to fail, learn to lose, learn to grind it out and become gritty.
Day by day things will fall into place, the only person who loses is the one who stops grinding and growing.
No one says it’s going to be easy but if it was easy then everyone could do it. You are not everyone, we are all unique, push through and persevere.
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Football Manager Guides | Mentality and Team Shape
I have wanted to write a piece on mentality and team shape in Football Manager for a while now. However, I have had a little side project on the go that I wanted to complete before I published this.
This side project is a tool that allows the user to calculate the individual mentality of each player on the pitch in a single view. This allows you to better understand the mentality spread among your players depending on the three primary factors: team mentality, team shape, and the player’s individual duty. Previous to this, I would have to check the player instructions for each player individually to view his mentality, which doesn’t really help when trying to build an overall picture of the mentality and risk spread among the team.
A key point to take away from this is that the mentality of a player is only one small subset of a whole host of parameters that affect a player and the team.
Before I dive into that, I want to talk about mentality and team shape for a bit. If you’re already well versed then there is a TL;DR at the bottom of this post.
TEAM MENTALITY
Team mentality will determine the overall team strategy and the level of risk your team will take on the pitch. It will set a base mentality for each player, which can be further adjusted through the individual player duty, but team mentality will set the strategy and the starting point for player mentalities.
On the whole, the decision to make is whether you want to play more expansive football and take more risks in order to win the game, or do you want to be more conservative and look to frustrate the opposition? If you want to take a more conservative approach as a manager then the closer to the contain mentality the more conservative you will be. Conversely, the more expansive you want to play and the more risks you’re willing to take, then the more you would slide towards the overload mentality. Typically, however, I would only use the contain and overload mentalities to either close out a game or in an attempt to get a goal at all costs.
More defensive systems
Key characteristics:
- Lower tempo
- Deeper defensive line
- Narrower play
- Less closing down
- Shorter passing
With more defensive mentalities, your team will adopt a lower tempo by default. Meaning they will prioritise keeping hold of the ball and look to make a steady progression into the final third, without any real urgency at all. Transitions from defence into the attack will be much slower and more thought out, with passing length reduced to help keep possession the ball. The team will have a deeper defensive line and more lateral compactness. Ultimately, the risks taken are minimal the more defensive you play.
More attacking systems
key characteristics:
- Faster tempo
- Higher defensive line
- Wider play
- More closing down
With more attacking mentalities your team will take more risks. Your defensive line will be much higher and your tempo quicker. Your team will look to play more expansive football and widen the pitch to take advantage of the spaces available as they transition into attack a lot quicker to try to catch the opposition out of position. Of course, taking more risks means that you’re likely to lose possession a bit more as you attempt more risky passes to unlock the defences.
Everything in between attacking and defending is a balance of risk and reward.
Ultimately, it is up to you, as manager, to decide how you want to set up your team. But a general rule I try to abide by is to leave the tempo, width, passing, and defensive line at the default settings for the mentality I am using. If I need to make adjustments these will usually be at the player level rather than team level.
TEAM SHAPE
Team shape throws up a lot of discussion among the community. Unlike mentality, it only affects one team instruction and that is closing down. Of course, closing down can be adjusted by team instructions if you prefer, but essentially the more fluid you are the more your team will close down and the more structured you are the less they will close down.
This is an important observation as your team tends to have more vertical compactness with more fluid shapes and thus it is easier to collectively close down the opposition without them passing around your players and escaping the press. On the flip side, the more structured your shape the less compact you will be and so it is easier for a team to escape the press as your players will have to make more of an effort to cover the man on the ball.
I will also choose my team mentality, formation, and player duties before deciding on a team shape as it is the latter that redistributes player mentalities in order to fit with your overall strategy.
Essentially, more fluid shapes will see your attacking players’ mentalities reduced and the team play more as a unit, moving up and down the pitch attacking and defending together. Whereas more structured shapes will see your attacking players’ mentalities increased, thus creating more space between the lines. It is this distribution of mentalities between the defensive players and attacking players that helps achieve compactness. If there is a bigger spread of mentalities between defenders and attackers than you will naturally see more space between them. Of course, you can achieve various degrees of compactness through player positions and duties, but team shape will further refine this.
A good point to consider when creating a tactic is how you want to defend. If you defend from the front and press the opposition quickly I would tend to use a more fluid shape as your attacking players will have a lower mentality than they would in a more structured shape so they will be less isolated as your defence and midfield will be closer and more compact making it easier to press as a unit and maintain your shape. However, this isn’t a rule to live by, but a guide to why some systems might fail in the defensive transitions because their pressing instructions are not in-line with their player position on the pitch and team instructions.
Another thing to consider here is how the opposition is set up. If they’re deep and compact then more fluid shapes will see spaces to play in reduced as more players fight for the available positions on the pitch. If you’re playing against a more attacking side, chances are they will give you more space to play with so more fluid shapes can help create overloads against the opposition defence to assist in the progression of the ball and possession.
Finally, team shape will also affect creative freedom. Along the scale, the more structured your team shape the less creative freedom given to your team. The more fluid then the more creative freedom will be given to your players.
PLAYER DUTY
This is the specific duty given to an individual player; defend, support, or attack. Player duty affects the player’s individual mentality in line with the team mentality and team shape. A players role does not affect his mentality. It is purely his duty and position on the pitch, in line with the team mentality and shape, e.g., a midfielder with a support duty will have a middle of the range individual mentality with a standard team mentality and flexible team shape. With a contain team mentality his individual mentality will decrease and with an overload team mentality, it will increase.
I will generally look at a players duty in line with the job I want him to do. If I want him to sit back, protect and not get too involved with attacks then I will assign a defend duty. If I want him to offer support in transitions, an outlet to circulate the ball and assist with attacks and defence then I will give him a support duty and if I want him to concentrate more on the attacking phases then I will assign an attack duty.
MENTALITY + SHAPE + DUTY
This study has thrown up some interesting observations that I’m going to share with you. Note that these have not been verified by SI, and short of a UI bug, they have come from what the mentality bar within the player instructions tell me. This study has looked at the thousands of combinations or mentality, shape and duties available and will highlight the trends of how these impact player mentalities on the pitch.
Note that the overall team strategy will still affect proceedings, but shape and duty will adjust the distribution of mentalities, as you will see.
Key: The blue bars represent a defend duty, orange is support and grey attack.
This is where it gets a little confusing. The above shows the progressive mentality of a wide defender. I have tracked the progression of mentality at both extreme ends, contain and overload. Everything in between follows the same trends until they meet in the middle.
As we move the team shape from highly structured (from the left) to very fluid (to the right), you can see there’s a clear increase in individual mentality for higher team mentalities, i.e., attacking mentalities. The reverse is true for lower team mentalities, i.e., defensive mentalities; although less prominent. For example, on a contain team mentality a defender with an attack duty will have a higher mentality in a highly structured shape than very fluid. Conversely, on an overload team mentality, a defender with an attack duty will have a lower mentality in a highly structured shape than very fluid.
Now if we compare this to a more attacking player, a striker, there is a very interesting difference, which helps to explain how vertical compactness is achieved.
Key: The blue bars represent a defend duty, orange is support and grey attack.
You saw that defenders with attack duties increased in mentality the more fluid you play, while defend duties remaining fairly level. Attackers on the other hand are the opposite, with attack duties remaining fairly level the more fluid you play but defend duties reduce in mentality. This is what creates compactness in fluid shapes.
As a general rule of thumb, I will look to my team shape to drive three things: vertical compactness, creative freedom and closing down options.
Now, onto some other observations.
ATTACK DUTY PLAYERS IN THE FINAL THIRD
It may shock you to learn that deciding whether or not to give players in the final third an attack duty has an effect on the mentality of your other players. For example, if you play a standard 4-1-2-3 DM Wide, and you use a support or defend duty for your three advanced players, the deeper players have a small bump in their mentality depending on your overall team mentality.
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This predominately occurs when you use more attacking team mentality without attacking duties on your advanced players. As you can see from the above, when the striker has a support duty rather than an attack duty, the players in the defensive and middle thirds have a bump in their mentality.
PASSING IN BUILD-UP
Your passing focus will also have an effect on the mentality of certain players in certain positions.
Much like the above, if you use the passing instruction of exploit the middle or exploit the right or left flank, you’re also increasing the mentality of the players in the defensive third and in that zone, i.e., if you exploit the middle, your goalkeeper, central defenders and defensive midfielders will have a bump to their mentality and if you exploit the flanks (either or) then your wide defenders and wingbacks will have a bump in their mentality.
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You can see here where I have selected a specific ‘focus’ from the right when I change from none, through exploiting the middle and finally both flanks, the mentality of the players change.
CONCLUSION | TL;DR
I know this post will probably cause a bit of controversy and kick-back, however, it is important to view this with an element of objectivity and bear in mind this is purely a look at how players individual mentality is adjusted by the three primary options: mentality, shape and duty. It does not look at how players will interact with each other through team instructions, and it won’t calculate anything else, e.g., creative freedom. If you view this as a simple tool to view a players mentality, to save you from opening up each player instruction individually, then you cannot go wrong.
Simplistically team mentality sets a default set of player instructions and a baseline of mentalities across the team. Creating your overall strategy. Individual player duties further solidify the individual mentalities and set out how the player will participate in each phase of play. Finally, team shape then redistributes these mentalities across all positions, adjusting the mentality spread from front to back. Once you have this, it is a case of setting your player roles and instructions to further define the player movement, positioning etc.
Now, onto the calculator, so you can view your own setup. Please do bear in mind that I have manually captured over 2,000 mentality values directly from the game. There is no export function. So it is possible that I might have made an error somewhere here. Initial testing is positive, however, if you do spot anything, please do let me know in the comments below.
The Player Mentality Calculator for Football Manager
If you want to have a go on the mentality calculator yourself, please use responsibly, and if you have any questions do let me know. I don’t know how long I will keep this online for, that will depend on the reception it receives.
Happy calculating.
O.Jensen
Amazing work. Easily the best I’ve read in a long time.
Thank you. Your original work was the basis for a lot of this experimentation and drove me to dive deeper into the numbers.
excellent detailed guide, is it possible to have an Italian translation?
Hey, thanks for the comment. Unfortunately I don’t speak Italian, and don’t know anyone who could do that. Does google translate struggle? I’ve tried to write in as plain English as possible.
It is very good explain,I would like to look back on the mentality, an experienced manager feel the mentality when to use .. I played yesterday (and am manager Sundeland), away against Coventry who is on the last or lasting table, scout me in the mail that it is best to matche the preparation being, the defensive postion, however, i ignore the matche prepartions is the attacking move, the mentality I chose was the control shape structure and it was a full hit of 3: 1 win, i want to say that i played by some rule and the logic and advice scout I would play defense and maybe lost. I knew I had better control over the game and eventually I won. I went top of the season and I was first on the table long but for some unknown reason the team started to fall badly on the table for 7-8 places, I should have find the reason why I miss a match for the game .. I think I found the winning formula and I move towards the top again .. my formations is 4-2-3-1, some of the tips I read about were tactical, to change tactics, it it is in some cases necessary to change some of the things within the tactics itself, in the analysis of tactics I have noticed that one of my central midfields in relation to other teams has a precarious creativity role-advanced playmaker it is the player who is the best in my team and the problem that does not I can kick off the team, but that was what I had to do and my environment looked like this: cm-support, ball winner -defend, then I got a better game, lost the creative midfield and the balance in the midfield game,first my step be stoping lose games and I fixed thiese,first we playing draw then 2 match we win..now puresuit for promotion
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When. (Hero. Rhonda Byrne)
All three of us have been home sick today. When I felt well enough, I spent the day reading and praying. I have been working through A Course in Miracles and after having a little chat with God this morning about how scared I was about this part of the path I’m walking on, it turns out that the reading I did today was all about fear. All healing is essentially the release from fear. To undertake this you cannot be fearful yourself. You do not understand healing because of your own fear. I am struggling with faith and fear, but I am very much aware that the only way to heal and to get where I want to go is to trust, let go of the fear, forgive, and hold on to my faith.
I feel a lot of fear when I think about the fact that I am now completely and solely responsible for not only the emotional, but also the financial wellbeing of my kids. And yet, underneath that current of fear lies this very strong feeling that this is all part of a greater plan, and that if I can listen well and trust fully we will be more than ok. I think it’s our chance to be free and to thrive in an entirely new life. I didn’t work this hard to leave that situation and get us where we are now to give up and fall back into a fear based, miserable life.
It goes back to what I was talking about the other day when I was out with Dristhi and sat in a moment of wonder and gratitude. I don’t know about tomorrow, but at this exact moment in time we are safe, we are loved, we have a home, a car, food – all our basic needs are there. It’s only when I look into the future that I get scared, and the future could bring anything. I need to stay in this present moment when the girl is on one side of me, the boy on the other, cats and dog are happily having naps, and Drishti out in the yard eating green grass. This is the life we have created and it is a very happy life. When I stop and count my blessings there are a lot of them. I can very easily see how God has helped me every step of the way along this journey, so do I have any choice but to have faith that we will be cared for in this part as well? There is a lot of happiness in that.
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I had a mini meltdown today as it was the Mondayest Monday ever. As I was feeling sorry for myself and throwing a good old pity party the boy interrupted me.
He said mom I’m going to talk to you like you talk to me when I’m like this
For God’s sake get your shit together. Look around, don’t you see what a great life you have? You look after us, you’re a great mom, you’re dealing with all the support issues, you’re learning new things so you can get a job. You pull us up when we are down. Sorry I’m not all rainbows about this- but that’s not how we are. Get yourself together
Dammit he’s right. Having moments of feeling overwhelmed I think is normal, but remembering to be grateful for all be wonderful things in our lives. Those are the happiness moments.
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That’s right! My first book, tentatively titled First: Sir Barton and the Birth of the American Triple Crown (also known as The Sir Barton Project), now has a home with The University Press of Kentucky. You will be able to find the book at your local bookstore and online in Spring 2019. In the meantime, I will be sharing more moments from Sir Barton’s career here as well as more details about the book itself as we get closer to the publication date.
You can also find me here at my author page on Facebook and on Twitter. I look forward to bringing you Sir Barton’s story in full in 2019.
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A number of years ago I embarked on a journey to the dark interior…
When I feel fully grounded in my body and honestly express a feeling that arises within me in any moment, rigid mental positions and judgments just dissolve, creating an openness and flow of life itself. It is in this place I know so clearly and joyfully that any true power I wield will never come from any mental position of the ‘small me’.
In a state of deep, connected awareness it becomes clear to me that the problems of the world, the apparent masculine, left brain domination and the inherent results of this internal imbalance exist in me and are reflected in the general human condition.
The neglect and abuse of children, the oppression of men and women, poverty and starvation, the marginalization of elders, the dissolution of community, profit before people and the planet and the destruction of nature are all external ‘symptoms’ of an inner rift.
These symptoms are a reflection of a deep sense of abandonment and disconnection from the feminine (embodied, feeling aspect of life). Through our denial of her, both men and women have suffered the deep pain of her apparent absence, a pain acted out as victim/survival mentality, competition, cynicism, need, and greed.
The Dalai Lama said that “western women will save the world”. When I first heard that, I just thought it was a curious idea. I now really ‘feel’ this truth of this from the inside out… from this rich, deep, visceral awareness… because we are the ones that have the freedom and wherewithal to do so!”!
It remains my choice to embody, honour, value and express all the qualities of the feminine heart, to show up and let her be seen…
My Pledge:
It is with pleasure and reverence that I express my deep commitment to bring Her back to Her rightful place. I pledge that any interaction I have with the outside world must support and encourage her embodiment in others but most importantly inside me. I express my commitment, dedication, and devotion to this shift by expressing my unique gifts in the world through the fullness and truth of who I am and by relinquishing all I am not.
Yours truly,
a work in evolution…
Radiant Rebecca Kingsbury
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BEAUTIFUL, big loving support to you dear sister ❤️❤️🤗🤗
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yes rebecca
I do t have a home. so not so OK. can’t really go on in. van.
hence I deleted fb as feel a hypocrite. need some friends and womenhod asap.
such a soulfull voice
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that’s no good… where are you?
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- A decent CT scanner – minimum 64 slice
- A well-defined scan setup protocol – 3mm collimation, skull base to T2, 2-D reconstruction in sagittal and coronal planes (get a copy of our protocol below)
- A skilled radiologist – neuroradiologist required
An image of the protocol can be found at the bottom of this post. I’m interested in your comments, and your comfort or discomfort with adopting something like this. Please leave comments here or on twitter.
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- New, proposed universal cervical spine clearance practice guideline
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BT signs Internet of Things deal with Stobart Group to help deliver major Environment Agency contract
BT has been selected by Stobart Group, the leading infrastructure and support services company, to provide Internet of Things (IoT) technology to underpin the delivery of its four- year contract with the Environment Agency to respond to flood events in England – Delivering Resilience Together.
BT’s new IoT platform, together with its range of mobile tracking devices, will allow Stobart to better plan and monitor the deployment of the Environment Agency’s 1500 stillages, which are heavy-duty containers used to transport critical flood defence equipment such as barriers and pumps around the country. By providing better visibility of the location of vital equipment, BT’s IoT technology will support Stobart’s ability to respond quickly and efficiently to localised and widespread flooding events as and when they occur.
BT’s IoT platform will manage the weatherproof tracking devices attached to the stillages, including security settings and policies. The platform will capture and analyse the data relating to the location of these critical assets, helping Stobart to view a live and accurate picture of where assets are stored. This capability will be combined with the strength of EE’s 4G network – the most extensive in the UK – which will send data from the tracking devices back to the IoT platform for analysis by Stobart.
This latest addition has further enhanced the Environment Agency’s flood response capability that has seen investment in other new equipment including vehicles, 40km of temporary flood barriers and 250 high volume pumps. It has around 6,500 trained staff across the country, ready to respond to flooding, including 500 flood support officers.
Warwick Brady, Stobart Group CEO, said: “Investment in innovative technology is a key part of our ambitious growth strategy, and will allow partners such as the Environment Agency to trust us to deliver essential services. This highly innovative BT tracking solution will assist in managing delivery and inventory location. The integrated system provides delivery metrics in real time, allowing Stobart Group to closely monitor the vital flood prevention equipment and respond quickly and efficiently. ”
Gerry McQuade, CEO, Enterprise, BT said: “This is a great example of how IoT can deliver meaningful benefits to households and businesses in the UK. Entire communities in flood affected parts of the country will be better protected as a result of BT’s IoT technology being used to support Stobart’s delivery of its contract with the Environment Agency.
“Our technology can help logistics and supports companies such as Stobart to drive operational efficiencies and become more responsive to their customer’s needs through the improved tracking and visibility of their physical assets.”
BT has created a centre of excellence within its new Enterprise unit which is dedicated to bringing innovative IoT solutions to market. BT’s IoT expertise combines devices, connectivity and platforms, with existing customer wins in the smart cities, retail and logistics sectors.
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The result: one huge embarassment and a source of mirth for many Malaysians. Check out the story below that appeared in The Star:
Mindef blames Google Translate for ‘poke-eye’ blunder
By P. ARUNA.
He admitted that the inaccurate translations had caused much embarrassment to the ministry.
It was recently reported in The Star that amusing translations of the staff dress code on the ministry’s official website were being shared on social networking websites.”.
The ministry took down its English translated version several hours after it went viral on Twitter and Facebook.
In an immediate response, a ministry spokesman had said that a clarification had been posted on the website, saying that corrective action was being taken to ensure that the translations were accurate.
“We did not intend for the English translations to turn out that way,” said Dr Zahid during a visit to the National Service camp here.
However, a check on the website showed that the English translations were still unavailable.
10 thoughts on “Malaysians have better English than Indonesians? Translate this.”
Dear Sir/Madam,
You have mentioned the following in this article:
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I started my primary schooling in 1977 and even then the medium of instruction was already in Malay while Mahathir only became the Prime Minister in 1981. No doubt he was the Education Minister in 1974 but Malay has been used even before that. I would appreciate if you could kindly elaborate what you meant by that paragraph.
Thank you.
@longkote (is it really?): Mahathir as Education Minister changed the medium of instruction from English to Malay in the 1970s. I remember my batch as the last ones where the medium of instruction in schools was in English. After that it was Malay. Thus began the decline in the general level of English language proficiency. For an interesting article on the subject read this:
You have my wholehearted agreement, Unspun. Mahathir single-handedly destroyed the nation’s cutting edge in the Mastery of English by his odd “nationalistic” policy. Trying to undo the damage by having Science and Mathematics taught in English is nowhere near. And we now have another “nationalistic” Minister of Education making sure the damage remains. 😦
all i can say is…
it’s so annoying when i spoke to malaysian or Singaporea friend and they always use the word Laaa..–a
‘don’t be like that…laaaaaa”
“dont be late.. laaaa”
come on la… its ok to use “la”… LAA!
hahaha… lots of Indonesians do that too… =D
Getting inked will be the newest gimmick between individuals. Every single subsequent individual around sports activities any tattoo these days, whether it be a picture, a name, a good insignia or possibly a couple of words and phrases put together which …Tłumacz Przysięgły
I hope that the ability of Indonesia in the English language can be better and at least equal the English language from neighboring countries
Well, the Malaysians had better change their attitudes about mastering the English Language because their Education Minister and the existing education system are going to be of much help.
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Launching is hard
TL;DR: Socii's alpha is out in the wild and obviously very rough around the edges. Let me tell you what I've learned since my last dispatch.
GraphQL
Yours truly, two weeks ago:
GraphQL is awesome. However, I've been building REST APIs for the past month and have two microservices to handle things thus far and that means I'm not transitioning to GraphQL until maybe version 1 of Socii is solidified.
HAH. Mere days after I published those words, I ran into an issue where I needed to display comments and for those comments to show pertinent info like:
- author's
- name
- username
- avatar shape
- avatar source
If I stuck with REST, here's what my query path would've looked like:
- query story service for original post (already have user info from earlier query)
- query story service for comments to the original post
- for each comment, query user service for comment author's aforementioned info
This is way too much work to get four pieces of info for a comment. Keep in mind that I'd get the entire user object with each query to the user service as well. Here's how I achieved this with GraphQL:
const query = `{ post(replyTo: "${postId}") { author content createdAt id favoritedBy notes { favorites replies reposts } repliedBy replyTo repostedBy slug } }`;
Couple things to note here:
- GraphQL pros will tell me to use variables instead of what I'm doing here with
postIdin a template literal but MEH.
- The
authorparameter does a little extra stuff on my GraphQL service to reply back with name, username, and avatar info.
- The post schema is quite large but I don't need all of it to display them. What you see in this query is what I get back. No wasted data, how neat is that?
This took me around three days to fully grok and to be quite honest, I am not really sure if I do. 😅 It works though!
There are several articles and dissertations out there with a clickbait-y title bemoaning the demise of REST thanks to GraphQL and well...no. REST is battle-tested and still pretty damn good. In fact, I'm still using it for anything that isn't a
GET request. When you're
POSTing or
PUTing, I think REST reigns supreme and quite frankly, I don't feel like rewriting that code.
Let me have a year with ol' graphy before I do something crazy.
WebP
WebP is an image format invented by Google as an alternative to JPG and PNG for small (but visually comparable) images. I like the idea of paying almost nothing for image storage so my interest was piqued early in Socii's development.
The cost savings I've seen during testing have been massive. I had two folders named "raw" and "processed". After converting 10 or so large images (screenshots and the like), the "raw" folder was ~5MB while the "processed" folder was ~1MB. At scale, that's some impressive cost savings. The visual parity was indistinguishable to me as well.
Of course, Chrome is the only browser that natively supports it. I found a polyfill that works for non-Chrome users (like myself, Firefox is best for me) and I thought it'd be usable in production. It is not.
I am now reversing my decision to use WebP exclusively and will optimize images uploaded to Socii. Decoding WebP in the browser is slow, even with the WebAssembly-converted polyfill and scrolling is horrendous. That's terrible user experience. I found another image format called FLIF but the current polyfills are also not production-ready.
Things I've learned
- Estimates are dumb because people are dumb. Even if you account for that, you'll still be off.
- GraphQL is still awesome. I'm glad it took up my estimate time to learn it.
- We need better image formats on the web and browser vendors need to get onboard.
That's all for now, see ya! 🕸
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After teaching middle school social studies for a few years, and spending some time in the corporate charter school world as a curriculum specialist, in 2011 I decided to officially jump in to academia. In 2013, I received my PhD in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education. I am now an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education at the University of Michigan-Flint.
I have a passion for elementary social studies education and how to make the subject more meaningful for young students. I believe that integrating social studies with other subjects, especially literacy/language arts is a great way to achieve this goal. I teach, read, write, and research in both worlds. This blog is about my writing process.
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Also known as fridge logic on the lovable but deconstruction obsessed TVTropes. You probably recognize this attitude/mindset from the amazing Mystery Science Theater 3000. It’s the things you start to notice in movies, books, and videogames, and the terrifying realization the author or writer goofed up certain elements. What about the toilets are the kind of questions that super fans ask a beleaguered author at a 90F+ Q&A while someone asks them about the Blackfeather Seagull clan’s sanitation system in Blackdump Bay. It’s something so inane that you take for granted but realize it be worth knowing for future stories.
What About the Toilets are the necessary details and worldbuilding elements to support your fictional teaparty universe. These are a series of articles that provide a springboard for your own ideas based on my years of roleplaying, tabletop, and trial and error through my own worldbuilding and settings.
The Setup (Approaches):
The Great (Un)known, Part I
The World (General Advice):
Banks for 500, Alex (Economics):
The Impressionists (Art):
The Beat of this City (Music):
Why You Need A (Killer) Soundtrack
All Politics Are Local (Politics/Political Systems):
Everybody Was Cutting Down In Steeple City (Combat/Martial Arts):
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DirtyDude Posted October 21, 2004 I am in the market for a new exhaust system for my '04 WR450. I want a legal sound level as well as a USFS spark arrestor. I'm leaning towards a Pro Circuit 496, but would like to hear opinions and facts, such as which one (if any) delivers the greatest power increase, etc. Also, is a titanium head pipe worth the extra $$ and why... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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A high-level meeting was held in Lahore today with Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif in the chair.
READ MORE:PM Imran Khan to address the Nation
The meeting reviewed law and order situation in the province.
The meeting decided to tighten security at entry and exit points of the province.
Speaking on this occasion, the Chief Minister said all necessary steps should be taken for protection of life and property of the people.
He directed to beef up security around mosques, Imambargahs, churches and other holy places.
Shahbaz Sharif also directed to take action against elements involved in street crimes.
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18 Hankook Ventus V12 evo2 has a diameter of 25.7", a width of 9.7", mounts on a 18" rim and has 785 revolutions per mile. It weighs 23.7 lbs, has a max load of 1609 lbs, a maximum air pressure of 50 psi, a tread depth of 10/32" and should be used on a rim width of 8-9.5".
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Man Arrested After Stabbing Victim To Death At A Burial Ceremony in Ogun.
According to the Ogun State police spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspected killer was arrested at about 2 pm.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A CNN editor and producer from Iraq was wrongly detained at Atlanta's airport because of the President Donald Trump's ban on entry for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
Mohammed Abdullah Tawfeeq, who has a green card, says in a federal lawsuit filed Monday in Atlanta that he was improperly detained and subjected to additional screening when he arrived Sunday from Iraq.
Tawfeeq, who has worked for CNN since 2004, came to the U.S. as a refugee and became a legal permanent resident in June 2013, the suit says. He traveled to Iraq in mid-October for work and then spent time with family there after completing his assignment.
When he returned to Atlanta, a Customs and Border Protection officer "notified him that he could be refused entry under the president's recently-signed executive order," the lawsuit says.
He was asked why he was in Iraq for so long and what he does for a living before being sent for secondary inspection, where he was told officials needed to "seek 'an email' concerning whether he would be allowed into the United States," the lawsuit says.
After about 30 minutes, Tawfeeq was asked whether he'd been fingerprinted, and he said he'd been repeatedly fingerprinted by the U.S. government while embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq, the lawsuit says. A few minutes later, officials told him he was free to enter the U.S. but didn't give any explanation for their decision and didn't give him any entry documents or stamp his passport.
The lawsuit was filed against the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department, as well as top officials in those agencies.
Homeland Security spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said the agency, which includes Customs and Border Protection, does not comment on pending litigation. The State Department didn't immediately respond Wednesday.
Christensen referred a reporter to a transcript of comment made Tuesday by Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, in which he said, "To make sure everybody understands how the process is working today, lawful permanent residents and special immigrant visa holders are allowed to board their flights foreign and will be processed for a waiver upon arrival."
The lawsuit expresses concern that the order could cause Tawfeeq and other legal permanent residents to be wrongly targeted in the future.
Applying the order to legal permanent residents violates federal law and the U.S. Constitution, the lawsuit says. It asks a judge to rule that the officials' actions were unlawful and to prohibit the president's order from being applied to returning legal permanent residents.
CNN said in a statement: "This is a basic request to clarify and assert his rights under the law. We support him in this effort and hope it is resolved quickly."
The network has been a frequent target of Trump's ire for its coverage, and White House reporter Jim Acosta verbally tangled with Trump in his first news conference as president-elect. Politico reported Wednesday that the administration has been freezing CNN out by not making its officials available for interviews.
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For most of us humans on planet Earth it's not a mystery why it's so important to master English nowadays: You need it for college, or to get a better job, or to keep your current job, or to travel, or to check articles and videos online,
But let's say you were trapped in a dungeon for the last 50 years without any contact with the outside world (and you had a voleyball named Wilson and everything), and that after being rescued last Thursday you are one of the very few who are not familiarized with why it's so important to master English nowadays. Or maybe you do know about the "supposed" importance of knowing English, but you are not convinced. Maybe you think learning English is kind of "overrated".
Well, whether you already know why learning English is so important, or if you are just getting to know why from the worst source possible (this site! :D), or if you know but English is still worth nothing to you, I would like to share with you my 3 personal reasons of why I think English is the best language you can learn. Who knows, maybe my reasons could inspire you to start learning the language.
Before we start... WHAT is English? And what's so special about it, then?
If you can read this article, then you clearly know what English is, and you are good enough at it to read this. If so, this segment is not for you.
This little segment is dedicated to the minuscule amount of Earth's population who doesn't know what the English language is, including newborn babies, Tarzan-like dudes brought up by wolves, and hermits that are just coming back to society. Honestly, if you don't know what the English language is you are on the same league as those who don't know who Mario is... but whatever. If you don't know what English is, we will fix that about right now! Here we go! (Yahoo! Wohoo!... ehh, Ravioli! Mama mía!)
And how would they be able to read this if this article is written in English? That's where you come in! If you master any language besides English and Spanish, you can translate parts of this article or the entire thing (or any article you want) and share it on your site. A link to my original article here would be greatly appreciated, but not required.
Anyways. First, English could refer to people and things that come from England, but in this context, English is a language just like Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and
After some more invasions centuries later, and the adding of words from Greek and Latin into the mix, the English language gradually evolved to the language we know and love (or hate) today. If you want more detailed information about this read the full article about the History of the English Language on Wikipedia.
Nowadays, English is the native language of United Statians, Canadians, the British and Australians. Also, in countries like Guyana, China and India (and several countries in Africa), English is considered an official language even though it's not the native language in those countries (or the most spoken language, either). It is estimated that 359 million people master English as their native language, and that those who master English as a second language are somewhere between 470 million or 1 billion people (measuring that is a little bit hard, I admit).
So, what makes English so damn special? Basically, that English is considered the lingua franca of today's world. In other words, it's considered the number one international language of our planet. English is the language that dominates communications, sciences, I.T., business, entertainment and even diplomacy. And because of that, every non-native English speaker out there and their dogs want to learn English.
If you want to know even more details about the English language I invite you once again to check the respective Wikipedia article here.
Despite how important it is, you are NOT forced to master English
Now that we've concluded the previous exposition I can now focus on sharing with you why I think learning English really well (before learning any other language) is a very valuable investment that can help you a lot in your life. But the thing is... I don't know who you are.
To me, you are a total stranger. You are such a stranger that you probably use a hat and coat, and you have one of those vans that say "Free Candy"... but whatever, that's not important. What I mean is that I don't know what are your life goals, your internal values, whatever you like to do, and a whole lot of stuff that determine if learning English would truly be worth it for you or not.
Look, I will tell you the truth: Even though English is the language of the modern world and all that, if you make the decision you can live a very happy and productive life just with your native language. Your life will be a bit limited, sure – you will not be able to connect with people from different cultures, you will have access to less information, etc. But even then, if you really set your mind to it you can be happy and prosper without English.
Comes to mind a story I saw on a news block one or two years ago. It was about the owner of a Colombian shipping company called Servientrega. On that block they were interviewing the owner guy, and they even did a tour of his elegant house.
One of the questions the interviewers made to him was (translated from Spanish): "Mister (whatever his name was), is there anything you regret?" , or something like that. The answer was (also translated from Spanish): "I regret... that I never learned English." Y heard that and I told myself, "Wow... so that guy doesn't know jack in English... but hey, look at how far he got without the language! Cool."
I think you can also get that far even if you just master your native language, whether you build your own business or become one of the best employees in your work area. For instance, if your native language were Spanish:
410 million people speak Spanish natively, and about 90 million speak it as a second language (absolutetly trustworthy data taken once again from Wikipedia :D), so I think the probability of you finding resources to learn whatever you want to learn in your life, and finding clients and/or employers to hire you are in your favor.
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world (the third being... English!), so I think that if you don't learn English and you master Spanish natively... you will survive. Same if your native language is Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Indian and many others. Damn, if you earn a lot doing what you do you could hire a translator or interpreter to deal with anything in English for you if you definitely don't want to have anything to do with that language (and that's how I think the owner of Servientrega deals with anything in English in his life).
Another thing is that you could dedicate your efforts learning a language different from English, and do your things in that language. Mandarin Chinese is growing a lot in popularity lately, and many people say this will be the new language of business. Or maybe a language like French or Irish or Arabic interests you more for cultural or historical reasons.
Or you could find interest in a language because of the content that culture produces (that's the main reason I was learning Japanese), or because you want to live in a country where a not-so-popular language is the main language. Or maybe you want to be less of a tourist and experience a certain culture more in depth, I don't know. Think about and evaluate these things and decide what language (or languages) different form English you would like to master, and then work to achieve it.
So, to me, in general, you are not forced to learn English. There could be several exceptions, like certain employers and jobs that require you to know English without exception (like a job that requires you to interact with native English speakers). But if you decide you will not learn English, and accept the limitations that come with it, I think there are many other possibilities for learning and working in the world of your native language, and also the world you could open if you decide to learn a different language from your native tongue and English.
Ok, now: My 3 reasons of why learning and mastering English is totally worth it
If you are not interested in learning English right now, or you just don't like the language... I invite you to give this article a quick read. Give English a chance, and you could change your perception of the language.
Now, if despite my previous exposition you DO have the desire to master English, awesome! High five... ehm... ¿Psychological high five? Hmm... let's just leave it at "virtual" high five.
Ok, so: If I hit my head so freaking hard that the module in my brain responsible to keep all the English I've learned gets completely erased (and I even forget what "Hello" is), but I'm so lucky that the module holding my Spanish skills is intact, then the following would be the reasons that would inspire and convince me to restart my English journey once more:
1. If you understand and speak English, you get the ability to communicate with people from all over the world who have also managed to master English
If you are a bit of a geek like me (ok, all right... VERY geek like me), then maybe you remember watching Digimon when you were a kid. I specially remember watching (in Spanish) a series of episodes of Digimon 02 where a lot of wild digimonsters start attacking various cities in the real world, and the Japanese digidestined have to travel all over the world to defeat them and send them back to the digiworld.
Let's say we are watching the Japanese version of Digimon 02 with English subtitles. Now, in one of those episodes we see Sora and Miyako (Yolei in the English dub) arriving in Russia with their digimon birds, where they meet the Russian digidestined Anna, Sonya and Yuri (Jerry in the English version). The Russian kids say their names one by one, and Miyako greets each one of them with a hug. Miyako, Sora and their digimon also introduce themselves... and that's as far as their capacity to communicate goes. The girls speak Japanese and the Russian kids speak Russian, so they end up in an idiomatic stalemate.
Then Miyako and Sora try to use their "hearts" (WTF??) to communicate... but to no avail, as expected. Then Miyako tries to communicate using the power of... body language! But that doesn't work either. At the end, because of something Sora mentions, it occurs to Miyako to designate the concepts of left, right and attack to the only words they know in Russian: Piroshki, Borscht, and Caviar (two Russian dishes... and caviar :P) Miyako manages to communicate these concepts using friggin charades again, and then the Russian kids and their digimon understand her.
With such a farfetched and rudimentary way of communication, Miyako manages to command her team and together they bring down the wild digimonsters and send them back to the digital world. (And after that the girls are almost run over by a bunch of mammoths, almost die from hypothermia, and at the end they end up crying and frustrated because they couldn't eat borscht... but that's besides the point, lol.)
The point of this geeky story is that the Russian kids and the Japanese girls would've avoided the unnecessary stress of not understanding each other and coming up with an attack system based on Russian food if they all just knew English! The girls would've arrived in Russia and Sora would've said like, "Uhmm... you guys speak English, right?", and Anna would've said like, "Absolutely! Of course we do!", and Miyako then goes like, "All right then! No time for pleasantries! It's time to kick some digibutt and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of gum!" And knowing how crazy was Miyako in the series, believe me: She would've said something like that :D
The point is that for me, the ability of being able to communicate with any other person in the world who also masters English is... just awesome. With English by your side you can contact (and even make friends) with people from almost any country, not only with native English speakers.
If you know English you can learn about the culture, experiences and situations of someone who lives in Egypt, India, China, South Korea, Australia... "far away" places (that's relative) that you might never get to visit physically. They say experiencing new cultures opens our minds to new ideas and makes us grow, and I think that has a lot of truth in it. And one way of doing it is sharing with people from those cultures that you would like to know about... as long as you and them speak English.
In my case, English has allowed me to interact with many people who don't speak my native language (Spanish), which is always a nice experience. For instance, about 7 years ago I used to play an online game called "Expedición Holic" (players there were migrated to the English version of the game, "Cloud 9"). One time I met an Italian guy in one of the main towns of the game. The guy knew just a little bit of Spanish, and I knew no word in Italian. How could we communicate, then? English! Both of us would chat in English about our experiences in the game while some other players around us would just stay there with their arms crossed (metaphorically) without understanding a word. They would ask me what the Italian guy was saying, and I would tell them.
Some other times when I had to use my English as my only way of communication is when I lived in the United States as an exchange student for a year. The only way I could communicate with my host family was through English (they knew practically no Spanish). Also, sometimes the company responsible for the exchanges would organize special activities with other exchange students in the area. These were guys and girls from all over the world: Russia, Japan, Afghanistan, Mexico, China, Colombia. ¿And the only way to communicate with each other? English!... well, except with the Mexicans, as I cheated and spoke a bit of Spanish with them :P
I also have a female French friend with whom I sporadically have contact with via email. She knows no Spanish, I know no French (that might change soon...) Once again, English makes it possible for us to communicate. I've also exchanged a couple of messages with Tom from Antimoon.com. Tom's native language is Polish. He knows no Spanish, and I know no Polish. How can we communicate? English, baby!!
Also, thanks to English I've been able to communicate with a lot of people who speak English natively (mainly people from the US), both for business and personal reasons. But that would be me... what about you? What would YOU like to do if you had access to this skill? With people from which parts of the world would you like to speak with, whether for fun or for business?
Can you imagine, say, being able to meet and have a good time with an Egyptian girl, a Japanese guy, a Dutch, guy, a Swedish girl, and an Australian guy, where all of you are talking and messing around and sharing your experiences, all in English? Or can you imagine how it would be to work on a project with people from different countries and cultures, and being able to communicate with each one of them in English? Tell me if you don't think that would be cool!
2. English opens up the doors to an amount of content WAY bigger than the content that exists in your native language
Note: This might be wrong if your native language is Chinese, I'm not sure. But mastering English gives you access to an IMMENSE amount of content anyways.
As I said before, I think you can get by in a lot of areas even if you can only count on content in your native language to learn what you need. For instance, if you want to learn things that are very close to certain cultures, like learning how to dance Guapalé, or learning the intricacies of Israelite history, or how to make the ultimate sushi roll, then I think that in those cases the best content you can get to learn about those things would be in Spanish, Hebrew and Japanese respectively.
However, it's a reality that the amount of written and multimedia content that exists in English nowadays is way bigger than the amount of content in any other language (except maybe Chinese). For instance, according to Wikipedia 55.5% of all websites in the World Wide Web are written in English (I have no specific data on other kinds of publications outside the Internet though). In general, searching for information in English gives you a way higher chance of finding the information you need.
One situation where this is very true is when you are trying to do something in a computer program, or when you are trying to fix an error that you are getting. If you try to look up solutions in your target language you have to cross your fingers and pray to Arceus that maybe... just maybe... in some forum in your native language somebody wrote at least half a clue of what you have to do. But if you search about what you want to do in English, the probability of finding a solution is multiplied by 10. The amount of content in English on the Internet is so massive that chances are you will find someone talking about your problem on the first page of Google.
Also, English is the language of science and technology. It could be doable to rely on translations to your native language of publications about biology, engineering, chemistry, computer science, etc., and there might be some original publications about these topics in your native language. But the fact is that if you want to be able to access to the latest publications (fresh from the oven), as well as being able to access way more information (and more complete and more updated information) about the scientific or technology topics you need to research, knowing English is indispensable.
If you want to learn a new topic, whatever it may be, except something too tied to a certain culture, then you will be able to find the most information about that topic in English. Once again, a guide about how to make the best tacos from Yucatan just like aunt Martica used to make them will surely be in Spanish, and I can't imagine a video-tutorial where somebody from the US teaches you how to play "tejo" professionally...
So, what do you want to learn? Do you want to learn how to fix your own computer? Want to learn how to program on C++, or how to design websites, or how to use WordPress, or how to create Android applications? Do you want to look up how to play baseball? Or you want to learn how to take better care of your garden?
Would you like to build a table by yourself? Or practice chess tactics and openings? Or you want to know how to eat healthier? Or how to eat less healthy? (I'm looking at you, Epic Meal Time!) You want to learn how to play an instrument? Or how to skate? Or how to learn Japanese? Or maybe you want to learn how you can improve your life in general? Or how to start your own Internet business if that's your thing?
The Internet, and numerous publications like books and magazines and videos and documentaries and many other pieces of multimedia, are an immense sea of knowledge held behind golden bars, where English is the master key that allows you to access that world of information.
Thanks to English I've learned things that go from small and useful tips to concepts and ideas that have drastically changed the course of my life for good. I don't know if I would be doing with my life what I'm doing right now if it weren't for English.
If you know English, you get access to mankind's knowledge. Are you willing to forge your own master key to access it?
"Brute force can sometimes kick down a locked door, but knowledge is a skeleton key."
Jace Berelen – Character from Magic: The Gathering
3. English allows you to enjoy art and entertainment from English-speaking countries in the original language they ware made in
Before we continue... I couldn't resit including the previous quote, ok? To me, it sounds very epic, and deep down I think it's very right. What can I say... the world of MTG has a lot of interesting phrases :P
Oh, and speaking about geeky stuff and french fries, mi third reason of why I believe mastering English is super-duper has to do with the world of art and entertainment. Being hand-in-hand with the previous reason, being able to understand written and spoken English opens up the doors to a huge world of very entertaining works in English for you to enjoy in your free time.
If you only know your native language you are limited to consuming works originally made in your language, and some works that have been translated/dubbed in your language (where the original language is usually English... and sometimes Japanese). Personally, if I have the choice between watching a movie or show dubbed in Spanish, or in its original language (English), I always prefer watching it in the original.
I'd rather read/watch content in the original English because, to me, that's the best way to consume them. In its original language the works are in their "purest" form, with all their idioms and weird expressions in English that can hardly be translated into other languages. When a piece of content is localized from English into a different language, the dialogue tends to be affected, sometimes in very subtle ways, and sometimes in more obvious ways. And that takes away part of the "essence" the authors of the content intended to communicate.
Not long ago I saw an examples of this in the cartoon Adventure Time. For those who watch this cartoon, in the episode where Finn and Jake arrive to the citadel filled with crystallized cosmic criminals, the Lich makes his crystalline prison explode and disables our heroes with his dark powers.
As the Lich is walking on the water all Jebus style, going towards Finn to give him the death touch, the guy does a little monologue. Now, the thing is that part of the Lich's monologue in English left me like "wooooooooow". What the Lich says shook me a bit because of how true and original it was. Then I decided to watch the Mexican (or "latino") dub of the Lich's speech... pffttt, and they ruined the impact of that part (unintentionally, I assume).
On the Spanish dub the Lich says, speaking towards Finn:
Eres valiente pequeño. Pero es inútil desafiarme.
Translated into English that would be:
You are brave little one. But it's useless to defy me.
Pffttt, typical monologue of a generic villain. "It makes no sense to defy me! I'm a lot stronger than you! Mwahahahahahah". Bah.
But in the version in English, the Lich says:
You are strong, child. But I am beyond strength.
But I am beyond strength...
Wow. Megawow. He's right. The strongest being alive in the universe becomes meaningless when confronted with the power of pure death. No arrogance or exaggerations. Just the truth. Man... awesome.
Details like those tend to be changed (or get lost) when works are localized into other languages, and sometimes there are phrases and words that simply cannot be translated directly to other languages, so it's necessary to replace them with phrases that sound sufficiently similar.
Or sometimes the localizers translate a phrase without having in mind the subtle meaning it could have, like in the Lich's speech. That's why I prefer to consume content in the original English: That way I don't miss any subtle detail.
Now, despite all this I think that translations and localizations are good enough efforts to adapt works for audiences who know no English. They are far from perfect, but they do have their place – I'm no purist who hates translated/dubbed versions of things or anything like that. And also, shows, movies and books localized into other languages can be used as tools to learn those languages.
Another thing is that dubbed series sometimes include funny bits that were not present in the original versions in English (or other languages). An example of this are James' crazy phrases on the latino dub of the Pokemon cartoon. (And not for nothing, but... can you believe they are STILL making new episodes of that thing?! You would think that after 700 pokemons (SEVEN-FREAKING-HUNDRED!!11) they would've run out of ideas, but NOPE, have a keychain pokemon and a freaking washing machine...)
Anyways. For me, it's not the same to read all Harry Potter books in Spanish compared to reading them in the original English, or watching series like The Walking Dead, Lost and Breaking Bad in Italian or French compared to the original English.
To me, the original versions are better. Moreover, there are many cool works that have not been translated or dubbed into your native language... or any other language for that matter, and those can only be enjoyed if you understand English well. Who knows what you might be missing for not knowing English mwahahahahaha.
What are YOUR reasons to learn English?
Maybe some of these reasons to learn English made you say, "Hey yeah, knowing English would be pretty rad... I'm gonna try to learn it!". Or maybe you didn't give a damn about these reasons and at the end you've decided you will not learn English.
As I said before: If you really decide it you can live really well without knowing English, as long as you accept the limitations that that brings. You could even use some (or a lot) of the advice and tips I share on this website to help you master a different language, and rock with the skills you get in French, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, German, or whatever other language you decide to learn. Never feel obligated to learn English if you definitely, absolutely have no intention to do it. Fight and rock doing your own thing!
But if one or more of my reasons sparked your interest, then it's time for you to take out a piece or paper (or open up a text file... or get ready to "write" a mental note or something) and write down some of the things that you would like to do if you master the English language.
What would you like to do in English that you can't do right now? Watch a TV show, movie or cartoon that you've always wanted to watch in English? Maybe read a book in English? Make part of a community that revolves around a topic that interests you, where everyone communicates in English? Would you like to learn about something that you've found no information about in your native language? Meet people from other countries? Live in an English speaking country?
It's possible to learn English without any personal reason – to do it just because, or because you have to. But tell me if it isn't a lot better when you have your own reasons that encourage you to learn the language, to have your own motivations and goals that act as your light at the end of the tunnel.
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Even though English gives you a lot of advantages, you are not "obligated" to learn it. If you accept and work around the limits of not knowing English you can have a very productive and satisfactory life doing things only in your native language, or in your native language plus a different language from English that you would like to learn.
English is the world language of the modern age. If you master it you will be able to communicate with people from all around the world that have also managed to master it.
If you know English you get access to a much bigger amount of information, knowledge and entertainment that you could have access to knowing only your native language.
If these reasons inspire you to learn English, cool. Even then, think about YOUR own reasons to learn the language. Think about how English can help you in your own projects.
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To say that you were nervous about traveling to Oman is a bit of an understatement. The Middle Eastern country is in a precarious position. Saudi Arabia is to the west. Yemen is to the southwest. Plus it shares a marine border, in the Gulf of Oman, with Iran and Pakistan. But Oman is a bright spot in the problematic region. During the last few decades, Oman has shed its isolationist policy. The Sultan of Oman, an absolute monarch, has modernized and opened the country. While tourists are exploring the mountains, the deserts, and the coastline. You had to see the country for yourself.
Your trip started in Muscat, the booming capital. You drove through the expansive desert, climbed into the green hills, and found a deep gorge high in the mountains. But you’re not done yet. You have one more stop, Salalah, along the southern coast.
Salalah is Oman’s second-largest city. It was the capital—first of the Sultanate of Muscat and then of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman—for centuries. Then, in 1970, the current sultan overthrew his father in a coup and moved the capital to Muscat. It’s left Salalah relatively unexplored by tourists. Those who venture this far will find one of the largest ports on the Arabian Peninsula and a souk that smells like frankincense. The Sunni Muslim people who live here grow coconuts, welcome its khareef (monsoon) season, and love football. Rocky mountains, ancient historic sites, and nature reserves surround the city. Plus luxurious resorts are starting to pop up along the white-sand beaches that line the coast.
You’re staying at one of those new resorts. Al Baleed Resort Salalah sits in between a freshwater lagoon and the sparkling Arabian Sea. The Al Baleed Archaeological Site, a World Heritage Site with ancient ruins, is within walking distance. The sprawling resort is gorgeous and peaceful. Grand arches and ornate doors decorate the whitewashed buildings. Reflecting pools, tropical gardens, and towering palms surround them. The elegant restaurants overflow onto outdoor terraces filled with couches and lots of pillows. While an infinity pool, lined with sun loungers and navy umbrellas, borders that white-sand beach.
After running around so much, this resort is the perfect place to end your trip. Sure, you’ll visit the Museum of the Frankincense Land and the ruins of Al Baleed’s citadel. You’ll again drive into the mountains, this time the Jebel Samhan mountains, for panoramic views of Salalah, the east coast, and the sea. Keep an eye out for endangered Arabian leopards and Arabian gazelles along the way. And you’ll browse the souk for frankincense oil to bring home.
But you also want to relax before your long trip. That’s easy to do here. Your beach villa features a marble bathroom, a soaking tub, and, most importantly, an outdoor lounge with a view of the sand. The spa offers an indoor/outdoor tea pavilion, the area’s first hammam, and therapies featuring frankincense and coconut. Regional specialities—from China, Thailand, and Vietnam—are served at Mekong, which overlooks the lagoon. While cocktails and shisha are available in the open-air lounges after dinner.
Right now, you can hear a traditional long drum procession starting. The sunset celebration welcomes the beginning of the evening. You walk over to the pool, which is now empty and free of ripples. You’ll watch the sun disappear and see the first stars pop out against the dark sky. Then you’ll toast to this beautiful, welcoming country with which you’ve quickly fallen in love. Don’t worry, this is only your first trip to Oman.
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July 16, 2018
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Current Location: Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds, Goshen, Indiana
We’ve had a fun time at the 2017 North American Heartland Owners Club rally. This evening, after the group meal, we walked around and said our goodbyes to our neighbors.
Over the past week and a half, we’ve gone shopping in Shipshewana (more than once), wandered around downtown Goshen, had dinner out a few times with friends and, of course, enjoyed the various rally activities.
Val taught her crochet course again this year (she taught one back in 2015 when we were here last). Malcolm attended a couple of the seminars on various RV components and systems. One of the seminars was on a nice waterless cleaning system for the RV and truck. Malcolm bought one of the kits and has shined up both the trailer and truck this week. It will be great for those times when the rig is dirty and we can’t clean it in the campground.
Cleaning and Waxing the Trailer
Shiny
Speaking of cleaning – one service we did sign up for was having the trailer’s carpets cleaned. Since our trailer was a demo unit at the dealer for several months before we purchased it, the carpet in the living room has always had a few spots in it from people walking through the rig. We were very pleased that the carpet cleaner got all the spots out. Our carpet looks almost new.
Relaxing in the screen room while the carpet is cleaned
One day we went to Goodwill and Val found a sewing cabinet like the one Malcolm’s mother had for years. We had given that cabinet to our daughter years ago and Val has always wanted another ever since. The cabinet also had an older Singer sewing machine in it of unknown quality. However, we’re good on sewing machines, so we took it out and took it back to the Goodwill to donate it again along with one of our two desks from the rig. The sewing cabinet now sits where Val’s desk was in the back of the trailer.
Time to Sew
The sewing cabinet closes up small enough to fit in the back corner of the trailer so that the slides can come in. We put new caster wheels on it and have some rubber cups to put under the wheels to keep it from rolling around while in transit.
Since we had all the furniture off the carpet for the carpet cleaning, we decided to try a slightly different layout. The dining table was moved to where Malcolm’s desk was in the back corner and his desk moved to where the dining table was. Malcolm likes the new desk position so far. We’ll see how it works out long term.
Malcolm’s New Office
Another nice benefit when you attend the national rally is that the manufacturer – Heartland – offers to fix two non-major items on your trailer, regardless of warranty coverage. We had our slideout adjusted to sit more flush when retracted. We also had the screw trim cover vinyl strip on the same slideout replaced since the original has had a hole in it for quite some time.
Getting our free repairs done
Today (Saturday) was the last official day of the rally (most everyone will be leaving tomorrow morning). It started off with tours of the manufacturing plant where our trailer was made. Malcolm has done the plant tours twice before, but it was the first time that Val got to do the tour (previously, she had gone on a design center tour).
Everyone gathering for the plant tour (in their blue rally shirts)
We got to see rigs in various stages of construction. None of them were our particular model this time (Malcolm got to see some of our previous trailer’s model being built back in 2015).
A Trailer in Progress
Finished Trailers Outside the Plant
After the plant tour, everyone went over to the RV and Motorhome Museum and the Furrion Design Center. We just did the latter, since we’ve been through the museum twice before. Furrion builds various RV components, including a really nice gas range and oven.
At the Furrion Design Center
Skipping the museum gave us an early start back towards Goshen. We made a final stop in Shipshewana to pick up a couple items at Yoder’s Department Store, then had lunch at the 5 & 20 Restaurant. Back at the campground, Malcolm “washed” the truck with his new kit and we started packing up and breaking down everything in preparation for leaving tomorrow.
Tomorrow, we’re going as far as Cicero, Indiana. We’ll be visiting Malcolm’s Uncle David and family for a Father’s Day car show and dinner.
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Forgive me as I try to pick through the seventeen freaking bookshelves that comprise my room and determine which books should stay and which should go now (da-na-na-na-na-na-naa). I explained this to my friend who immediately dismissed the claim: “No way.”
Actually, yes. I point and count them aloud.
“You’re a loser,” he smiles.
“Shut up! I love books!”
And lo, Triple Crit now has a used bookstore for your perusing pleasure. Everything sold was originally owned by yours truly, and as such is in impeccable condition unless otherwise noted. Feel free to stop back every now and again as I invariably add more as I manage to sever the emotional ties to my tomes. Thanks, pour yourself another cup of coffee, and enjoy your stay!
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In the previous post you can read about the mysterious package I got from an unknown sender, containing several Finnish promo albums, EPs, etc. The second one in this package was the new album by Mormânt de Snagov, a Finnish black metal band, from Turku. Depths Below Space and Existence is their third album, the album was released on 16 February by Pest Records. The latter one describes Mormânt de Snagov as a black metal band with influences of death metal, infused with keyboards as well as having hints of jazz music.
Before I usually read about the band or even listen to it, I look attentively to the album art, trying to figure out what kind of music the band plays from the art. I can honestly say that I didn’t expect the band to play progressive black metal by looking at Depths Below Space and Existence. Truth be told, I was expecting some gothic rock, or perhaps even the new HIM. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
“Resist”, which was also released through a music video, is probably one of the shortest songs on the album, but it’s truly explosive. The song reminds of the typical 90s black metal, but interestingly also has influences from thrash in the mix. The vocals also add up to the rhythm of the song, which makes the whole flow of the song more compelling. “Resist” definitely is one of the highlights of the album. But there are plenty other moments that are intriguing. With its 9 minutes “Stories Untold” is the longest song, but also contains plenty of winks to other genres, it’s in this song that the reference to smooth jazz music can be made, especially in the bass line, which makes this album so interesting.
Mormânt de Snagov have a real talent for song writing, the songs have so many layers and you can listen to them in so many ways, the flow of each song is excellent. The album for example ends in the same way it starts, which is clear when you – like me – put it on repeat for several times, to dive into the music. This is very progressive and also shows how small details can be of utter most importance. The typical black metal riffs create a specific atmosphere, that drives the songs further, and even though the album, like in most black metal, contains a lot of blast beats, the drums are excellent, tight and super fast, with a surprising amount of variations put into the rhythms.
The more you keep listening to the album, the more you discover, the more you get interested. Personal highlights of this album are “Resist”, “Stories Untold” and “Writhe Infinite”. Vocals are grim, but have a really nice flow to them, especially when it comes to how rhythmic the vocals are. Most of the tracks are very long in length, jazz isn’t a stranger to incorporate into their music, which makes most of the songs unique and very progressive. I sense a subtle reference to doom metal and black metal as well.
Even though I personally don’t listen a lot anymore to these kinds of genres, if you like technical black metal, that sounds very progressive in its purpose, then definitely give Mormânt de Snagov a go. The album is never boring, it progresses smoothly with the most intriguing flow to it, the band juxtaposes a lot of different genres and ideas next to each other, which provides the listener a lot of interesting contrasts and surprises.
Tracklist
1. Mentor Deceived
2. Never Speak Aloud
3. Resist
4. Stories Untold
5. Battle Neverending
6. You’re Next
7. Writhe Infinite
8. The Roots of Grief
Lineup
M. Lehtivuori – vocals and guitar
S. Haapanen – guitars and backing vocals
P. Venho – bass
P. Jokela – drums
Links
For Fans Of
Technical Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal, Progressive Black Metal,
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Claire Fraser has a whole lotta problems, and a witch is one.
This week’s Outlander finds Jamie’s inquisitive wife getting caught up in Geillis Duncan’s murderous drama, and it’s no real spoiler to say that Lady Broch Turach’s plight will get much darker before it gets better.
Because with Jamie away on a Colum-ordered mission and Claire getting hauled into a police carriage with her accused murderess of a pal, life at the end of the episode is nowhere near as bonny as it is at the start.
Those first few moments, by the way? Quite, quite bonny.
Let’s take a look at what goes down (yeah, I’m a 13-year-old) in “By the Pricking of My Thumbs.”
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LIP SERVICE | Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start… especially if you’re Claire, and your husband has a tongue accustomed to wrapping itself around Highland “rrrrr”s. At first, we only see Mrs. Fraser, naked, wrapped in sheets and enjoying life; a series of shots inform us that Jamie is closer to the foot of their bed and, ah, seeing firsthand how things are in Glocca Mora. A knock at the door distracts, but does not dissuade, young Fraser from his appointed duty (good lad); only when Claire has seen Brigadoon does he rise from the bed to admit a testy Murtagh.
Jamie’s godfather wonders what took him so long to answer the door. “Have your marriage duties made you sluggish?” he gruffly asks. Hold it right there, eternal bachelor Murtagh: Speed is not always an admirable trait in a husband. Anyway, the older man tries to ignore the scent of sex in the air and the fact that Claire is purring among the pillows like a calico in a sunbeam, and instead conveys the news that the Duke of Sandringham has arrived in the area.
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HOPE SPRINGS ANEW | Jamie is psyched: The duke has the kind of power and influence that can help clear Fraser’s name of the murder charges. But Claire, flashing back to visiting the Rev. Wakefield with Frank, recalls that her first husband suspected that Sandringham was Black Jack Randall’s wealthy, secret benefactor. And seeing as how Horrocks told Jamie that Randall actually is responsible for Jamie’s alleged victim’s death… “You mustn’t trust him,” she says, snapping out of her post-coital reverie.
Jamie accepts his wife’s declaration as fact but still wants to try. If he’s free, he explains, they can return to Lallybroch. The puppy-dog joy in his eyes must be too much for Claire, because she agrees to help him. So they meet with Ned Gowan, who draws up a petition saying Randall is a slimeball in the hopes that the duke will have the captain reassigned somewhere far away. Once that happens, Ned says, he can argue Jamie’s case in court and likely get him pardoned. (Phew.)
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THE DUKE’S DUEL | Unconvinced that the petition will work, Claire sneaks away to the duke’s lodging and prettily threatens to out him as a Jacobite (aka traitor) if he doesn’t ease Jamie’s troubles. It works. Later, when Jamie and Murtagh arrive to formally present the document, Sandringham acknowledges that “shielding [Randall] from the consequences of his misdeeds sometimes feels like a full-time occupation” and asks just a little favor in return: that Jamie serve as his second in a pistol duel against Andrew MacDonald, to whom he has a giant, unpaid debt.
Against Murtagh’s wishes, Jamie agrees. And though the duel itself ends peacefully (both men miss their marks, likely on purpose), MacDonald’s hothead sons want the duke to pay his debts. Failing that, they just want to taunt Jamie about Sandringham’s preference for the male form. And before you can say “clishmaclaver,” Jamie is engaged in a swordfight with the three MacDonald boys. He represents himself admirably — dishing out a back-o’-the-knee gash that makes me a little lightheaded to watch — but winds up gasping on the ground, bleeding from a wound near his ribs.
The duke, wanting to avoid controversy, promises the bloody young Fraser he’ll see to the petition then skitters away. Back at Castle Leoch, Claire is full of quiet fury as she stitches her husband’s side. Anyone else getting the feeling that, had Claire not arrived in time to constantly patch him back together, Jamie eventually would’ve been reduced to a couple of Fraser molecules held together by rakish charm?
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BAIRN BUSINESS | Before we reach the episode’s big climax (well, its other big climax), let’s back up a bit. While Jamie is dealing with Sandringham, Claire arrives in the castle kitchen with her hair up and her keep-it-real caplet on: Yep, she’s there to see Laoghaire. The teen at first fakes ignorance about the bad omen left under the Frasers’ bed, then slides right into referring to Claire’s husband as “my poor Jamie, trapped in a loveless marriage.” Claire slaps her (I don’t usually condone violence, but yes!) then offers the entirely unbelievable, “I shouldn’t have done that. Sorry.” (Side note: Something about the way Caitriona Balfe bites off “sorry” makes me giggle.) A spitting-mad Laoghaire admits that she bought the bundle of charmed sticks from Geillis; the shock of betrayal on Claire’s face is visible, but she recovers sufficiently to warn Laoghaire to stay far away from Jamie.
I’m going to skip the part where Claire has an interlude with Geillis’ gassy husband Arthur (you’re welcome) and go straight to where Claire finds her odd pal dancing, nearly naked, in the woods. The moves are reminiscent of the ceremony Claire and Frank witnessed at Craig na Dun in the 1940s, except Geillis is a lot less clothed and a lot more pregnant than the modern-day women were. When the rite is done, the redhead makes an inappropriate comment about her “nepples,” claims she didn’t know Laoghaire was gunning for Claire and reveals that the bairn growing in her belly isn’t Arthur’s — it’s Dougal MacKenzie’s. The dance Claire witnessed was a “summoning” to ask Mother Nature to arrange things so Geillis and Dougal (both wed to others) can be together.
A baby’s cries interrupt their walk home. Claire wants to go help it, but Geillis warns that the child is likely a sick one left for fairies by superstitious parents. Jamie later finds Claire cradling the dead baby to her and crying. “You’ve a kind heart, but you have no idea what you’re dealing with,” he tells her sympathetically, putting the tiny corpse back in its tree.
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MOTHER NATURE DELIVERS | Back at Leoch, Dougal is raving in a fit of grief over the sudden death of his wife, Mora, at their estate — news that makes Geillis rather happy to hear. And later, at a big dinner for the duke, Arthur starts to choke and then collapses while all of Castle Leoch watches. Claire’s efforts to help him are in vain, and as he dies, she happens to catch Dougal and Geillis exchange a look of extreme pleasure. Oh, one more thing: Colum notices the look, too.
So the clan chief sends for Dougal, who claims to be in love with Geillis and happy that she’s carrying his child. Too bad, dude: You’re going home under guard. Guess who’s part of that guard? Jamie, who kisses Claire passionately and warns her to stay away from Geillis while he’s gone. (Side note: No, seriously. Will someone knit me those armwarmers?)
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED | But Claire, who clearly has forgotten what happened the last time she ignored Jamie’s directive to stay puuuuuuuut, gets an emergency note from Geillis and runs to her side. Problem is, Geillis didn’t write the message. The witchy woman, who Claire confirms poisoned her husband to death, also doesn’t want to leave home… so she’s an easy target when the wardens come to cart her away on suspicion of witchcraft. And because Claire’s there with her, Mrs. Fraser is roughly taken into custody, too.
Now it’s your turn. What did you think of the episode? Sound off in the comments!
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KENORA — Lake of the Woods boasts 15,000 islands and more than 100,000 kilometres of shoreline — more coast than Lake Superior — so it’s easy enough to get lost once you leave Kenora’s docks. For the tourists who think of themselves as “summer residents” at their cottages, locally known as camps, getting lost on the lake is a part of its appeal. Many people want that experience — the tourism-focused city of 15,000 near the Manitoba border sees its population double in the summer months.
When allegations of women and girls being forced into the sex trade on Lake of the Woods arose at a 2013 human trafficking conference in Kenora, even local social service workers were shocked. No one denies there is prostitution in northwestern Ontario. But at the conference, most attendees heard for the first time about a phenomenon involving traffickers forcing women into the sex trade to service wealthy tourists at their camps on Lake of the Woods.
“Dock girls,” as they came to be known in the local social services community, are thought to be overwhelmingly Indigenous, and typically aged 20 and younger. Some are believed to be Kenora-area residents who are brought out onto the lake, while others are thought to be transported through the city from throughout northwestern Ontario and Manitoba as part of a human trafficking circuit. Either way, though TVO was only able to find one social service worker who can say they’ve come face-to-face with a “dock girl,” they have become a focus for a program aimed at rooting out human trafficking across Ontario.
The provincial Ministry of Community and Social Services is increasing its efforts with its $72-million on the Strategy to End Human Trafficking, launched in 2016. As part of the ongoing strategy, Kenora will receive $504,000 over three years to educate frontline hospitality workers — people who might be first-hand witnesses, such as dockhands, fast food workers, and hotel staff — on how to identify signs of human trafficking. The hope is that by doing so, the province will be able to find and assist the “dock girls” who are coerced into servicing tourists.
Despite the good intentions of those in Kenora trying to help victims of the sex trade, there is so little hard evidence for the “dock girl” phenomenon that it raises questions about whether the problem exists at all. And if it doesn’t, critics say, wouldn’t the government’s funding to combat human trafficking be better spent elsewhere?
Many signs of a problem
The Kenora Sexual Assault Centre will receive the provincial funding to lead the fight against human trafficking in the Lake of the Woods area. It will use some of the funding to hire a program manager, but the majority of the money will go towards training frontline hospitality workers to spot red flags signalling possible human trafficking. For instance, girls travelling with groups of older men can be taken as a sign. Those training sessions are slated to begin this year.
Evelyn Larsen, executive director of the Kenora Sexual Assault Centre, says most coerced sex workers in Kenora are believed to be females between the ages of 13 and 20 who were groomed into human trafficking. Many are exchanging sex for drugs.
“We know Kenora is a hub for human trafficking because girls are being moved from Winnipeg to Thunder Bay and they stop here,” Larsen says. the Ministry of Community and Social Services.
Richardson says Kenora checks a number of boxes for communities with a large amount of human trafficking: a prevalence of addictions and mental health cases, high rates of missing persons, and a tourism economy (which tends to promote transient populations).
Prior to her current role, Richardson managed Manitoba’s Sexual Exploitation Unit in Winnipeg, 200 kilometres west of Kenora. Her work there made her well aware of what was happening down the highway in Ontario. Richardson, a trafficking survivor herself, has seen evidence of a human trafficking circuit between Winnipeg and Thunder Bay that she believes has operated for at least three decades.
Like Larsen, she believes that Kenora is a significant human trafficking hub because it serves as the first stop outside of Manitoba’s capital on that circuit.
Richardson also recalls encountering underage local women who were invited to “party” at cabins on Lake of the Woods. Once they arrived, they would be confined, expected to perform sexual acts, and in some cases, traffickers moved them onward through the circuit. “You could end up on an island on Lake of the Woods. You’re only getting off if the person that took you there wants you to get off,” Richardson says. But Richardson says she hasn’t seen any of these cases in more than ten years.
To confront coercive elements of the sex trade, a group of 50 organizations — including social services groups, law enforcement agencies, and community groups — formed the Kenora Coalition to End Human Trafficking in 2016 to share knowledge and resources while developing local strategies.
The elusive ‘dock girl’
Despite the coalition’s co-ordinated efforts, the dock girls have proven difficult to find. Even people working in social services and law enforcement in the Kenora area say they have rarely — if ever — encountered women who were trafficked to lakeside cottages.
Larsen, of the Kenora Sexual Assault Centre, has never personally counselled a “dock girl,” nor has her centre collected any historical data that quantifies trafficking on the lake.
Neither has the head of Kenora’s only women’s shelter. In six years managing Saakate House, executive director Kendall Trembath says she has dealt with two cases of trafficked women, neither of whom fit the “dock girl” profile. “I’ve personally never had any involvement assisting people in that situation but … It’s something we’re aware of.”
Same goes for Tanisha Grandbois, co-chair of the Kenora Coalition to End Human Trafficking. She’s encouraged that the province is making resources available for women trying to escape trafficking. Yet in her role as executive director of Sunset Area Victims Services, she has yet to meet a victim whose experiences confirm the dock girl narrative.
Coalition member and OPP Staff Sgt. Jeff Duggan says he’s unaware of any local reports or police investigations in the past 14 years that have involved women or girls being trafficked on the lake.
Colette Surovy, who recently retired as executive director of Women’s Place Kenora, is the only social service worker interviewed for this story who had ever worked with a woman who fits the profile of a dock girl.
“I had one that was going out to rich people on Lake of the Woods. They’d come in from Winnipeg and that was the pickup centre, down at the docks. They were flown in sometimes. Sometimes they were driven in,” Surovy says. “It’s definitely real.”
TVO was unable to contact anyone who had been trafficked to cottagers on Lake of the Woods.
Hiding in plain sight?
Despite the lack of readily available proof that there’s human trafficking occurring at Lake of the Woods camps, some local social service workers are convinced it is a problem. The absence of evidence could be a consequence of the peripheral and underground nature of sex work.
The RCMP estimates two-thirds of Canada’s internal human trafficking occurs in Ontario. Most human trafficking goes unreported, and remains hidden. The data that does exist is based on criminal cases, and Richardson estimates that at less than one case in 50 gets to court.
Ontario’s strategy to enlist the public in spotting sex trafficking is designed to flush out cases and build knowledge of how it works in the region.
“This is the first time we’ve had dedicated boots on the ground in Ontario” to tackle the problem, Richardson says. “If we have no services for people who are being trafficked, what’s the outcome? Nothing changes. It’s not rocket science. If you don’t have the ability to have specialized police services, specialized awareness services, how do you change the problem? You can’t.”
Another path forward
Bridget Perrier, co-founder of a Toronto-based sex worker survivor organization called SexTrade101, says if the province is going to spend half a million dollars to root out sex-related human trafficking in the Kenora area, it could spend the money more effectively than chasing the elusive spectre of the “dock girl.”
In 2013, national media reported on research by University of Minnesota master’s student Christine Stark stating that Indigenous women were being trafficked on Lake Superior across the American border in Duluth, Minn. Perrier was the only one of the 105 women Stark interviewed who claimed to have been trafficked across the border. The RCMP’s subsequent investigation was unable to substantiate the claims.
Perrier feels that the province is undermining its own anti-trafficking efforts by concentrating resources in support centres — such as the Kenora Sexual Assault Centre — that are open only during business hours, which will struggle to reach those engaged in the nocturnal industry.
She would like to see programs focus on outreach to sex workers, who would be more likely to encounter trafficking victims than would other members of the community.
Meanwhile, equipping a vehicle with basic needs such as medical care for addictions, she suggests, could go a long way toward making sex work safer and providing an exit strategy for those who want one.
Perrier says more “resources are needed for the girls being dragged from Shoal Lake and Kenora into the cities.”
Perrier is working with Iskatewizaagegan First Nation (Shoal Lake 39), located 60 kilometres west of Kenora. The community’s Isobel Pinesse Health Centre enlisted her to lead its human trafficking community engagement process in late January.
Iskatewizaagegan is leading a public awareness project similar to Kenora’s, but it’s currently without program funding. The health centre’s program is asking the First Nation’s members to record the licence plates of cars involved in suspicious activities.
Health centre wellness worker Charlene Mandamin has never encountered a so-called “dock girl” but she does see Indigenous women engaged in the sex trade throughout the region’s resource and tourism industries. Mandamin says community members have noticed a trend of older, non-Indigenous men who are stopping on the reserve for gas and cigarettes, travelling with young, frequently intoxicated Indigenous women. She suspects those women are being transported through the Winnipeg-Thunder Bay circuit.
Mandamin believes that protecting susceptible girls in Shoal Lake from sex trafficking requires a bigger-picture approach, one focusing on the factors that put them at risk. “As the epidemic of drug abuse is on the rise, I think our women and our children are very vulnerable,” Mandamin says. “To me, a lot of these things start at home with traumatization and abandonment. Until we begin to address the root causes of why they are the way they are, there will be a lot of abuse in our communities.”
Her vision is to create a traditional retreat for Indigenous women and girls to recover from addiction and escape from coerced sex work. Providing that safe space could be part of solving the regional puzzle of encouraging women to escape exploitation, but the question remains, how to reach out to them?
“I know they’re definitely at risk with hunters, fishing, tourism. They have them at camps in mining situations. I know they’re definitely vulnerable. We have a lot of cottages on the lake,” she says.
But as for a “dock girl” scenario?
“I don’t know anybody that has been in that situation personally – yet.”.
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Will the NCIS ratings be adjusted to go down again this week?
Yes 569,000. Anytime a Live show runs late there will be an adjustment.
Time for these live shows to start earlier or finish on time.
David are those Ratings Numbers for NRL 360 & WWE RAW, the Encore Replays or the Live Shows!??
I have the sam info you can see here, which doesn’t indicate. It is usually the premiere.
Wow, great ratings for Wanted, considering it finished at 11pm! Channel 7 better renew it for a second season. I’ve enjoyed the series so far.
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Mr. Popper's Penguins waddles into theaters on June 17th and in preparation we are giving away a Penguin Prize Pack!
Starring Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino and Angela Lansbury, the summer's first live action family comedy is based on the award winning children's book by Richard and Florence Atwater. The story revolves around Jim Carrey who's chilly relationship with his family thaws once he inherits 6, yes 6 adorable, lovable and mischievous penguins.
We sat down with Carla Gugino and during our chat, which you should jump over and check out, we learned that the temperature on the set had to be a chilly 39 degrees at all times, because that is the ideal temperature for penguins.
Tell us your ideal temperature or click here to enter to win our Penguin Prize Pack! Entry closes June 15th and one lucky winner chosen at random on June 16 will win:
This giveaway is open to all US residents (except Rhode Island) who are 18 years old and over.
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Wi-Fi Everywhere
With the explosion in popularity of smart home devices and countless streaming media services like Hulu, Netflix, and Spotify, whole-house Wi-Fi coverage has become a must. Many of the latest wireless routers can provide strong coverage to most rooms of a typical medium-size house, but larger homes and dwellings with dense walls, multiple floors, metal and concrete substructures, and other structural impediments may require additional components to bring Wi-Fi to areas that the router can't reach. Range extenders do a good job of filling in dead zones, but typically provide only half the bandwidth that you get from your main router. Access points offer more bandwidth than range extenders, but require a wired connection to the main router. And both solutions typically create a new network SSID that you have to log in to as you move from one area of the house to another.
If all this sounds too complicated, consider installing a Wi-Fi system instead.
What Is a Mesh Wi-Fi System?
Designed to blanket your home with wireless coverage, Wi-Fi systems are a hybrid of sorts, made up of several.
Easy Setup and App-Based Network Management
Setting up and maintaining a traditional wireless home network can be daunting, even if you're tech-savvy. Wi-Fi systems, on the other hand, are geared toward users with little or no technical knowledge and can be installed in minutes. They typically come with a user-friendly mobile app that walks you through the installation process with easy-to-follow illustrated instructions. The app tells you where to place each node for maximum coverage and chooses the best Wi-Fi channel and radio band for optimal throughput performance, so you can maintain a strong wireless connection as you move about the house. Wi-Fi systems are easy to expand (with no current limit on the number of nodes you can add) and manage using your smartphone, allowing you to disable Wi-Fi access to specific devices with the press of a button and give certain devices network priority without having to log in to a complicated network console.
Design and Features
Wi-Fi systems look nothing like a traditional setup with a router and range extender. The router and nodes use internal antennas and are almost always tastefully designed so you can place them out in the open rather than in a closet or under a desk. (Don't expect to find a lot of flashing LED indicators—these systems are designed to blend in with your home's décor.) They usually have at least one LAN port for connecting to devices like TVs and gaming consoles, but USB connectivity is a rare feature at this point.
See How We Test Wireless Routers
Wi-Fi systems are multi-band networking devices that operate on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz radio bands and use 802.11ac wireless technology. Some models offer support for Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) technology, which streams data to multiple compatible wireless clients simultaneously rather than sequentially. Most Wi-Fi systems use band steering to automatically select the least-crowded radio band for the best performance and offer easy-to-use parental controls, guest networking, and device prioritization options. While designed for ease of use, they usually let you configure port forwarding and wireless security settings but lack the advanced networking management options such as individual band control, firewall settings, and wireless transmission rate settings that you get with a traditional router. Nor can you use third-party WRT firmware to customize the system for enhanced performance and network monitoring.
Wireless Mesh System vs. Range Extenders: Which Is a Better Solution for Whole-Home Wi-Fi?
Wi-Fi systems range in price from around $130 for a single-node system to as high as $500 for a three-piece system like one of our Editors' Choice picks, the Linksys Velop, which, in the 3-Pack iteration we tested, covers 6,000 square feet. In most cases, they'll cost you more than you'd pay for a similarly powered router and range extender solution. But remember: Wi-Fi systems are all about ease of use. They're a snap to set up and manage, offer whole-house coverage via a series of attractive nodes, and they provide seamless room-to-room roaming over a single network. If you want total control over your network and require the best possible throughput performance and connectivity options, stick with a traditional router solution. If you don't want to deal with things like assigning radio bands and logging in to different networks as you move throughout your home, however, a Wi-Fi system makes sense.
For more about the differences between these two technologies, check out our explainer, Wi-Fi Range Extender vs. Mesh Network: What's the Difference?
Click through below to the full reviews of the best Wi-Fi systems we've tested. Need some more help getting all your devices up and running their fastest? Check out our tips for troubleshooting your Internet connection.
Best Wi-Fi Mesh Network Systems Featured in This Roundup:
Linksys Velop Review
MSRP: $499
Pros:.Read Review
Pros: Very good 2.4GHz and 5GHz throughput in testing. Multi-User Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) enabled. Simple installation. Strong parental controls. Built-in malware protection.
Cons: Middling MU-MIMO range performance. Only one LAN port on extender node. Additional nodes not yet available.. Cannot separate radio bands. No wired backhaul.
Pros: Good MU-MIMO throughput performance in testing. Lots of web-based management settings. Easy to install.
Cons: Middling SU-MIMO throughput in testing. Mobile app currently has limited settings. Uninspired design.
Bottom Line: Not your typical slick Wi-Fi system, D-Link's Covr AC3900 uses a traditional router and paired extender nodes with mesh technology to deliver solid MU-MIMO throughput thoughout your home.Read Review
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Contents
- How to Choose an Online Backup Service
- Restoring and Extras
There's no question that you should back up your irreplaceable documents and digital media. The statistics point unwaveringly to the likelihood of your disk crashing or some other mishap befalling your data. And online backup services offer perhaps the best way to assure their safety, since they store the data on remote, redundant servers. Today's online backup services make prevention of data loss automatic, secure, and affordable.
These services have you install software on the PCs or Macs you want to protect, scanning the hard drive for all files that make sense to back up. They then compress and encrypt the files and upload the data to their server farms at multiple redundant datacenters protected by military-grade security. But of the dozens of services available, how do you choose the one that best meets your needs?
The concept seems simple on the face of it—regularly upload your important files to a service's secure servers, and in the event you lose said files, downloading them back again. But the number of variations on this theme is striking: Do you want a local backup software that works together with the online service? Do you need file syncing? Version saving? Mobile access? The list goes on. But the first thing to decide is how much data you have to back up and how many computers do I have to back up?
Price
Since all of the services have the same basic function—securely upload your files to their servers for you to get at when your PC goes south—price should be a factor in your decision. For $50 to $150 a year, you can protect as much data as your computer holds with an unlimited storage service such as Carbonite or Backblaze. But these unlimited plans come with a hitch—they'll only protect the files on a single computer.
Most digital households today boast more than one PC these days, so services that allow more than one PC in an account, such as SOS Online Backup , are often preferable. Some services, such as CrashPlan, use third-party server farms, such as Amazon S3, and charge you per GB, which can complicate your bill. Do the math to see whether this kind of plan makes sense for the amount of data you need to back up. CrashPlan also offers the unique ability to use an Internet-connected friend's hard drive as your backup target, which saves on storage charges.
If you just want to safeguard a few loose documents or photos, you can take advantage of free accounts. Mozy offers a free account with the 2GB of storage, while IDrive and AVG LiveKive offer 5GB free, and MiMedia ups the ante to 7GB. For full protection of a typical multi-computer household, you'll need a paid account. The table below shows how several online backup players stack up both by their stated pricing and how much it costs to protect 150GB of files on three computers:
Choosing Files for Backup
Selecting your online backup service is about more than just how much you'll pay per year. The first things to consider is how it chooses—or lets you choose—what to back up. Most services these days will automatically select the standard Windows My Documents or Mac user folders. And most let you fine-tune this selection, usually using a program window with a folder and file directory tree, with check boxes for selecting exactly the folders and files you want backed up.
Some services go deeper into the operating system, adding choices to the right-click menu options for backing up, restoring, or removing file from your online backup set. These can be handy if you have an important file that you want backed up immediately. All of the services install a System Tray icon that gives access to the program window or at least to launch a browser, if the service uses that as its interface, as Norton Online Backup does. The tray icon should let you start a backup or restore immediately.
All of the services use encryption on your files when storing them on the servers. Many of the services even let you be the sole possessor of the password that protects your data, so that top-secret stuff can't even be accessed by the online service employees themselves. But only use this option if you're dead sure you won't lose the password.
When to Backup
There are two camps in how an online backup service decides when to perform its work. The first is scheduled. This one is pretty obvious: You tell the service's software how often and when you'd like the backup processing and uploading to take place. Usually this will be in the wee hours. The second camp is the continuous backup camp. Some services, like our Editors' Choice SOS Online backup, offer a hybrid of both, letting you specify individual files that must be watched all the time and backed up as soon as any changes occur.
The advantage of a scheduled backup is that it leaves your entire Internet connection bandwidth to you while it's not running, while an always-running-in-the-background service necessarily drains off some of that bandwidth. If you're worried about bandwidth, go with a scheduling service, and if you're more concerned about having every file saved at every moment, the continual service, such as Backblaze and Carbonite, are for you.
Any large backup upload can take time, days, even weeks for dozens of gigabytes of data, depending on the speed of your Internet connection. But luckily, that's only the first time. The majority of the services only need to upload the changed parts of a file thereafter, so subsequent "full backups" will take much less time.—Next: Restoring and Extras >
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SEOUL, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The official North Korea is sending to South Korea’s Winter Olympics closing ceremony, Kim Yong Chol, is the “right person” for inter-Korean and denuclearisation talks, the South’s Yonhap news agency reported on Friday citing a lawmaker briefed by the country’s spy agency.
“It’s possible to speculate but it cannot be stated clearly that Kim Yong Chol gave the order (to torpedo the Cheonan),” said Kang Seok-ho to Yonhap and other reporters after being briefed by the spy agency.
Kim Yong Chol was previously chief of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, a top North Korean military intelligence agency, which South Korea blamed for the deadly 2010 sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean navy corvette.
North Korea has denied its involvement in the sinking which killed 46 sailors. (Reporting by Christine Kim; Editing by Michael Perry)
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week 3 discussion
Paper , Order, or Assignment Requirements
“Ethernet Switches” Please respond to the following:
• Since switches are generally used within the local network configuration, why would a network administrator configure port security on a switch? Can you think of a reason based on your study this week? Don’t just give the answer from the materials; cite specific examples from real life. Have fun with it.
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Love – Christian Love, Islamic Love
From the voice of a Muslim: “All the sons of Adam are sinners, but the best of sinners are those who repent.” “My servant committed a sin and then he came to realize that he has a Lord who holds the sinner responsible and accountable, and also that He has a Lord who forgives the sins if asked for forgiveness: So let him be forgiven.” ….Allah replaces the sins with rewards once a sinner asks for forgiveness and the door of repentance is open till the moment a person’s soul leaves his body. [Sura 2:37] Then, Adam received from his Lord words, whereby He redeemed him. He is the Redeemer, Most Merciful. [Sura 7:23] They said, “Our Lord, we have wronged our souls, and unless You forgive us and have mercy on us, we will be losers.” What justifies repentance? You never know! You do what it takes but you can have no guarantee but your good opinion about him. God takes care of the inner thoughts.
A question asked, ”If Allah’s door is always open how can an apostate be subject to a death penalty?”
Question answered, “Faith is something between man & God and the recompense for that is meted out in the hereafter! According to Abu Hanifa mere apostasy would not have resulted in their execution. In Abu Hanifa’s analysis, apostasy has 2 aspects.
- It’s a religious transgression to be punished by God in the hereafter.
- It is also a political crime, likely to be followed by rebellion.
Only this latter aspect of apostasy is punished here and now.
A question asked, “How are crimes against Allah punished?”
Response: “What do you mean by ‘crimes against Allah’? Give some examples! Deviation in religious books is not necessarily a literal one. It might occur by misinterpretation, blind practice and clinging to the term ‘religion’ as an intention rather than a process (which) leads for a better life! If religions were meant only to cause wars, hatred and oppression among nations, then God’s image would be just the same as the people’s!”
Seeking understanding.
In my blog (– Part 83 –) I questioned, indirectly, Allah’s love and forgiveness –
, as justified..”
I do not find the unconditional love of Allah in the Quran. The closest reference to love of neighbor is Sura 4:36. It appears more a relationship of convenience than the love one would want in return, as the Bible states, “Love you neighbor as yourself” (Matt 12:33) (Blog Part 41 discusses Love Neighbor As Self) See the paragraph “What is Love” in this Blog Part 41.
An important point – While “God is great” [Allahu Akbar] is a statement of faith, affirmation and expression, “God is love” [Allahu muhibba] is absent from the attributes of God in the Quran. (see para. that follows)
A site to reference [] for a detailed discussion of Love from the Quran.
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A statement made in response to a discussion about the saving grace of Jesus – “I don’t need a medium between God & me to ask for forgiveness!”
Response: Jesus is not a medium, He is God, and He does not need to be asked, He accepted the punishment we all deserve for our sins (which are crimes against God), and provided Salvation for mankind, those who have faith in Him. That is something to be thankful for.
Then stated,” “Our Lord (Allah), we have wronged our souls, and unless You forgive us and have mercy on us, we will be losers.” From Sura 7:23, “…Lord, we have wronged… and if Thou forgive us not, and have (not) mercy on us, we shall certainly be of the losers.” Yes, God is the one who forgives sin, but as clearly stated, we all sin, and every sin is a crime against Allah/God. Can all sins be forgiven? Can man’s sins be offset by doing good? Man has a sinful heart operating full time. With each sin of the heart and mind another follows, and if for each sin a petition of forgiveness must be sought, how is it possible that all sins are then forgiven. What if man forgets to ask forgiveness for just one sin? The Quran recognizes the original sin of Adam. Adam and Eve,”he (the devil) caused them to fall by deceit….when they had tasted of the tree, their shame became manifest….” (Sura 7:22) The ‘deceit’ may be miss-interpreted, but in truth Adam was instructed to obey God; he did not, deceived or otherwise.
Man disobeyed God; committed the crime of disobedience against Allah. This crime was punished by man having to die, eventually die a physical death. “…you shall live, and therein shall you die, and there from shall you be raised.” (Sura 7:25). Salvation is suggested; resurrection too (knowing Jesus was resurrected 700 years before any of the actual writing of the Quran) And God it is said to have sent down cover, the covering of nakedness and innocence lost. “We have indeed sent down to you clothing to cover your shame… and clothing that guards against evil….” (Sura 7:26) It is thus inferred that by human effort the sins of man can be covered. It is by works, yet that is not what God tells us. It is by faith in God alone. The covering is seen as a divine envelope, God himself providing protection, available for man to utilize, yet evil reigns and man is not fully protected especially from himself and temptation. What is missing? Piety alone will not bring Salvation to the sinner – which is all mankind.
Quoting Galatians 3:10. “All who rely on observing the laws blessings given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles (all mankind) through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.”
The devil attacks man each day, each moment of the day. Tell me that is not true!
It is said by Muslims that with Allah alone, man will be saved having lived as a believer in Allah, adorning himself with the righteousness of Allah. Is the Muslim man then commanded to be God/Allah? Sura 7:32 stating, .” Just guard against evil and make right – that’s it. Try to do that every moment of every day without help. But there is evil in the hearts of every man, in the mind, if only for an instant. That being the case the Resurrection day proposed by Muhammad and Allah will never come. Salvation cannot be assured.
As it is written, Romans 3:10, “There is no one righteous, not even one…”
So stated, “those who reject Our message and turn away from them…these are companions of the Fire….” (Sura 7:36) Who cannot at some juncture, if not daily, not sin? Everyone in the eyes of the readers and followers of the Quran can be but “unjust.” Sura 7:47 reads, “Lord, place us not with the unjust people.” Who is there otherwise? Everyone is ‘unjust.’
I am a sinner – in thought, word and deed. I could never meet Allah’s standards. I cannot meet the Trinitarian God’s standards, the God in whom I believe and hopefully have a growing relationship. How can a perfect God accept me as I am? Never. How can a Muslim meet Allah’s standards? Are they that righteous? The only one I can turn to is God, the God of the Trinity. And to Him I am most thankful that while still a sinner, still unjust, he punished a Substitute for all my transgressions to enable me to be right with God, and to be assured, having faith in the Risen Lord, understanding the sacrifice, I will be in the eternal kingdom with my Lord, Saved. He did that for all of mankind, for all that accept Jesus Sacrifice and believe.
God is just, but he must punish every sin. The punishment is death, eternal separation from God and all that is good – Unless – and that ‘unless’ has nothing to do with action on my part. There is nothing I can do to make myself acceptable. This is the Bad News.
If we remain inherently sinful His (Allah’s) forgiveness must be asked for over-and-over-and-over again. Living in our flesh-like existence we are prone to sin, even if it is a lie, and need ask forgiveness for each and every sin – have you done that?
But thru Jesus, his ultimate sacrifice, taking all sins (past, present and future) upon his shoulders, punished and forgiven (all – as if just one sin remained his physical death would be in vain) he paved the way for our Salvation. God is love. His love provided the substitute I needed to take the punishment I deserve. No one on earth could do it for me. I could not do it myself. God provided Jesus to become a man, live a perfect life, allow himself to be arrested, convicted, punished and hung on a cross. How brutal. Hanging on the cross, God the Father, took all my sins, put them on Jesus and punished Him in my place. Jesus took the wrath of God I deserve.
Buried in a tomb, after 3 days, after paying for ALL sins, he came back from the dead – never to die again. Forgiveness and the gift of eternal life with himself was provided to those who Trust him to save them from sin and eternal condemnation and to live a new life with and for him.
With Jesus Christ’s saving grace comes good works. We are able to do such good because we were saved; we are able to learn God’s truth about the right way to live. Applying that truth to their lives the disciples were able to work with others; as can you and me. Thanks be to God.
Dear Lord thank you for your unconditional love. Thank you for the sacrifice made for the sins of man. The Truth will set you free. May the Spirit fill your heart with the reality of God’s gift and guide you on the path to an eternal future.
Grace and Peace,
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"In 2016, 67% more leads will be generated by companies with an active blog." (via Top Rank Marketing)
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Now that you understand why you are building a business, who it is that you serve, and what you are serving...
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We have arranged for the world's leading sales funnel expert to provide a custom training for our Academy members. This one session is easily worth 10X the price of your membership.
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Because most of your new customers will not buy from you immediately, it's vital you have a strategy to follow up with anyone interested in your products or services.
This is where your real success will happen, because just like a local Real Estate agent who follows up regularly -- so that when you ARE ready to buy a home they are "top of mind" -- following up with your new leads is a highly profitable activity you will learn inside the Academy.
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#8: Webinar Sales Blueprint
Webinars or "Web Based Seminars" are one of THE most convenient and effective ways to connect with your customers wherever they are, to have conversations about what matters to them most and to provide actionable information they can immediately put to use.
Over the past 10 years, we've been using webinars for connecting with our Tribe -- and our Academy trainers have also been leveraging this powerful tool to build businesses worldwide.
Now we're letting you inside to see our private blueprint for running profitable webinars, the first time, and every time.
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Having guidance and someone you can turn to to get answers or assistance when you need it is vital to the success of any business. We have created a marketplace of trusted products and services to help you get things done by reputably tribe members that share the same values we hold.
Full outsource solution by trusted companies and services from graphic design, blog creation, article writing, sales funnel creation, copy writing and virtual assistants all inside our marketplace.
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We have members who have successful businesses, and some who have never even imagined the possibilities until now.
What we have found is that even members with zero experience are finding new ideas and taking action extremely fast because of the tight-knit nature of our tribe.
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"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
This article by Jambreck initially appeared in the comments column of Untold Arsenal following a discussion of why Arsenal seem to get more negative publicity than Tottenham. I was reminded of it by the discussion on Radio 5 on Monday night which included clips of multiple Liverpool supporters calling for their manager to […]
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has joined Arsenal for £56m. You might recall that this is transfer deadline day, but I thought I would mention it again, just in case you nodded off.
There is still the expectation that Olivier Giroud will go to Chelsea and Michy Batshuayi from thence to Borussia Dortmund.
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It is often said, both in football and in other areas of life, that the time senior management really earn their money is when things go wrong. Planning for the future when things are going right is less difficult because at such moments top management has time to consider, discuss, and […]
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altHarriett Martin Hulsey, wife of Brenau trustee Julius “Juke” Hulsey, died at age 78 on Good Friday, April 14.
A celebration of life service will be Sunday, April 23, at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 751 Green Street. A reception will follow in the Fellowship Hall. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Challenge Child or any charity of your choice. Online condolences can be made at.
Read more about Harriett Hulsey’s life and contributions to Gainesville at.
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Skincare is a ritual that is ignore by many people. Most of them concentrate more on keeping fit but forget that even your skin requires your attention. There are many expensive skin care products which are available in the market but not many are aware that there are a few simple and tasty snacks which have the potential to replace the expensive skin care products. Here are a few snacks which are good for the skin and are also palate friendly.
1. Pomegranates – Pomegranates are great for fighting age. As people grow old, the cells break down and get sluggish. A recent study has suggested that pomegranates can help to power these cells again and provide the right bacteria to build the active ingredient urolithin. The fruit is rich in vitamins and is a great way to begin your day.
2. Pumpkins – People who need a glow on their faces often turn to the sun to get a color. But that comes with a bunch of skin problems. Pumpkins are packed with carotenoids, which not just deal with the sun damage but also gives a rosy glow on your face with a natural reddish color. Eating pumpkins are a much better option than getting sun tanned with skin problems.
3. Oysters – People who have problems of dryness and rough skin, can snack on oysters. Oysters are high on zinc and vitamin C, which helps to improve rough, dry and spotty complexions. Oysters are not just good for skincare but is also good for the hair and scalp health.
4. Walnuts – Walnuts are rich in Omega 3 fatty acids which helps in keeping the skin hydrated and helps reduce inflammation. When you are hungry, a snack of walnuts is a good idea instead of having processed food.
5. Oatmeal – Oatmeal is not just good for health but is also good for the skin. People who are suffering from oily skin, can snack on Oatmeal to get rid of oily skin.
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Kim Kardashian West debuts daughter Chicago WestVideo Rate this title
Chicago West makes her debut on Instagram with a teddy bear filter from Snapchat.
Kim Kardashian West has finally shown Chicago West a.k.a. Chi on her Instagram account. This is what all of her fans have been waiting for. Chi is adorable. Kim used a Snapchat filter of pink teddy bears for the picture. We got a small glimpse of her side profile in Kylie Jenner’s video tribute to her daughter Stormi. Everyone was excited to see Stormi, but Chicago was also introduced. The internet went crazy. Kim Kardashian, "The Keeping Up With The Kardashians" star had Chicago arrive via surrogate last month. She has always wanted a big family and to have her kids grow up with lots of siblings. Which makes sense f you look at the Kardashian/Jenner family, where she grew up in a home full of siblings.
Kim revealed on the 'Ellen Show' what North and Saint thought about having a sibling. She then naturally revealed that they were having a baby girl. Kim stated North wanted to check all of her sister’s presents from the baby shower. Ellen had a big smile on her face and told Kim that she just revealed she is having a girl.
Kim had a hard time waiting for Chicago to arrive
She personally couldn’t carry her daughter because of health issues. It broke her heart that she couldn’t go through the experience. Kim and Ellen talked about Kim’s feelings on the surrogacy. Kim told Ellen Degeneres on the 'Ellen Show', .” Although, she is very thankful that surrogacy was an option for her family.
Kim and Kanye were very involved with the surrogate and had strict rules that she had to follow. The fans are still curious who the surrogate was. Some even speculated it was her sister Kylie Jenner [VIDEO]because she was absent from the public for a while.
Paparazzi leaked Kim and Kayne's surrogate
According to Elle UK, "Kim’s surrogate was photographed by paparazzi. They dug deep into finding out who she was that they discovered information even the KUWTK star didn’t know." Just like all paparazzi, the most important thing is to get that one money shot before anyone else, posting it for all to see. All Kim wanted was for her surrogate to have privacy. [VIDEO] Who can blame her? Hopefully everyone let’s this woman be. She provided a blessing to a family. Unfortunately when you live in the Kardashian/Jenner world it is extremely hard to keep anything a secret.
We all look forward to seeing some more pictures of baby Chi. Congrats to Kim Kardashian and Kayne West on a beautiful addition to the West family.
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Chris Paul’s 31 Points Lift Rockets To Victory Over Hornets, 11th Straight Win
Chris Paul scored a career-high 31 points and James Harden added 21 as the Houston Rockets stretched their NBA-best winning streak to 11 games with a 108-96 home victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Wednesday night.
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Houston has won 17 of its last 18 games to improve to 22-4, the best record in the league.
The Rockets led by one late in the first before scoring 25 consecutive points over the end of that period and the beginning of the second to lead 49-23 and then easily race to victory.
Dwight Howard matched a season high with 26 points and had 18 rebounds and three blocks as the Hornets continued to struggle on the road, where they’ve lost nine of ten going back to Oct. 30.
The Rockets had a 14-point lead at halftime (63-49) and used a 9-2 run, with five points from Harden, to open the third quarter.
Nicolas Batum returned for Charlotte after missing the last game with a sore left elbow. He recorded nine points and nine rebounds. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist added 18 points and 11 rebounds.
Houston’s.
Paul admitted he tries.”
The Hornets next host Miami on Friday night, when the Rockets host San Antonio.
In other NBA news, the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Pacers 100-95 on Wednesday in Paul George’s first game back in Indiana since he joined the Thunder in the offseason. The four-time All-Star forward — who played his first seven seasons with the Pacers — struggled: he sunk two free throws with 10.7 seconds remaining, went 3 of 14 from the field, 2 of 7 on 3-pointers, and added two rebounds and four turnovers.
PHOENIX, AZ – NOVEMBER 16: Chris Paul #3 of the Houston Rockets handles the ball during the first half of the NBA game against the Phoenix Suns at Talking Stick Resort Arena on November 16, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Rockets defeated the Suns 142-116. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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Last week I received an email from a Mom looking for some advice on how to handle some feedback she had received. Her daughter had competed in a pageant but did not win the title. After the pageant, a well-meaning audience member approached her with some advice. Mom politely listened to the advice and gave it some thought.
Although the feedback was supportive of her daughter, mom didn’t think it made sense. It didn’t seem to fit with what she’d observed or what seemed like common sense to her.
She didn’t want to discount the advice, but she was concerned that it didn’t add up.
So she reached out to me and asked what I thought.
I’ve never met this contestant and don’t know her Mom. But it was clear she’d received advice that could derail her daughter’s chance at winning a state title.
I sent my response, explained why, and suggested an alternate approach.
Even though I don’t know this contestant, I think she’ll do well in future competitions. Why? Because I can tell that she’s part of a solid contestant-mom team.
So what’s a winning contestant-mom team? First, let’s talk about what it’s not.
1. Contestant Competing for Mom
Unfortunately, there are some mom’s who encourage their daughter’s to compete to fulfill a dream of their own. This is the stereotypical mom who is living vicariously through her daughter. In this situation, the contestant really doesn’t want to compete, so she’s just going through the motions, resulting in few wins. This type of Mom is actually about 1 in 50, so we’ll go ahead and assume this doesn’t apply to you.
2. Mom is Overly Critical
There’s a difference between encouraging excellence and hounding a contestant to death. Most moms tend to be very careful not to give too much critical advice. But there are a few moms that criticize their daughters at every step of the way. When Mom is overly critical, the contestant can’t enjoy the prep process of the competition. The contestant feels pressured to win and knows that any other placement will disappoint Mom. When a contestant feels pressure to win, you can almost guarantee that she won’t.
3. Mom is Backseat Driving
Parents typically decide to support their daughter’s interest in pageantry because of the life skills and empowerment angle. But the contestant doesn’t learn life skills or feel empowered if mom is making all the decisions. In order to win, contestants need to take responsibility for their ability to compete. But you can’t do that if Mom is making all the decisions and over-riding what her daughter wants to do.
4. Daughter Thinks She Knows Everything
Sometimes you can work around a mom that’s a bit of a challenge, but a contestant who thinks she knows everything is never going to be successful. Why? Because pageant competition is about personal development and challenging yourself to develop new skills. If you think you already possess the skills you need to win, you won’t be open to feedback or motivated to improve. Thinking that you know everything is the kiss of death for any contestant at any level.
Now let’s talk about what makes a winning contestant-mom team.
1. Mom is Supportive
There is no one right way to be supportive. It’s more of an attitude or approach than a behavior. For some contestants that might mean that Mom is actively involved in every area of your pageant prep and competition. For other contestants, it might mean that Mom is actively involved in the logistics of pageant prep, but that’s it. And for other contestants, it might mean that Mom isn’t actively involved but weighs in on important decisions and is available as a safety net. I have many winning contestant-mom teams with different strategies, but it’s clear that Mom’s attitude is support for her daughter. Even if she decides to stop competing.
2. Mom and Contestant Have Partnered Before
Contestant-mom teams who have successfully worked together before are much more likely to experience pageant success. Whether it’s competition dance, a sports team, or acting auditions, if the contestant and Mom have already worked together as a team, they’re able to bring those same skills to pageant competition. They know what’s okay and what’s not. Mom knows when to push and when to back off. The contestant knows when to be in charge and when to follow mom’s advice. Working together is both a skill set and an attitude.
3. Shared Goals
It can be hard when a contestant’s goals for her pageant competition are different from her mom’s. Maybe the contestant wants to win every category and go home with the title. Maybe she just wants to win Talent, get the scholarship, and go home without any titleholder responsibilities. I’ve coached contestants who absolutely wanted to win the title. And I’ve coached contestants who had other primary reasons for competing. If the contestant and mom have a common understanding of the goals, they’re much more likely to achieve those goals.
4. Mom Understands Her Primary Role
No matter how active Mom is in pageant prep and the competition, Mom’s primary role is Head Cheerleader. It takes emotional courage to compete in a pageant. You’re not being scored on how fast you run. The judges are scoring you. It feels personal. It’s important to have encouraging, ‘you can do it’ support. And no one’s better qualified for this role than mom. A word of encouragement or praise from Mom can bring a smile to the face of any contestant. Mom’s who remember that their primary role, no matter what, is to encourage their daughter are the ones who find success.
5. Contestant Understands Her Primary Role
And just like Mom has a primary role, so does the contestant. The contestant’s job is to learn, improve, and remain positive. Yes, you have to go to your workout. No, you can’t eat a whole pizza after your loser boyfriend dumps you. Yes, you need to work on your paperwork and practice your interview. No, you can not complain about your director, the other contestants, and the seriously annoying choreographer. When you focus on learning, improving and staying positive you’re practicing the same skills you’ll use during the competition. Your primary role as a contestant is tap into who you are, what you’re capable of, and bring it to the surface.
With the right attitude and a little teamwork, your beauty will shine through.
You’re going to be FABulous!
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On June 9th, 2018, the Hampton Roads community will come together at Chrysler Hall for the 2nd annual Virginia Beach SPCA Dancing for Paws dance competition to bene
Join us under the stars for the Virginia Beach SPCA Western Wags and Whiskers, Howl at the Moon Gala. Experience a charming evening at the beautiful Cavalier Golf & Yacht Club on Saturday, March 24th, 2018. Gather with friends for delectable good and drink, spectacular silent auction, live music, cozy campfires, and VBSPCA furry friends.
Dancing for Paws will be returning to Chrysler Hall on June 15th, 2019.
Our annual events provide corporate supporters with the opportunity to positively impact the community and homeless animals and foster awareness of their support.
Grab your leash and hit the beach! Come out and join the VBSPCA for our largest fundraiser of the year.
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Poland's revised criminal code includes a ban on communist symbols, such as the red star or hammer and sickle, though one artist says "they are no longer meaningful."
Evocative symbols of Europe’s troubled past, such as the swastika, have long been illegal in countries across the continent. But now Poland has gone one step further, revising its criminal code to include a ban on symbols of communism. Poles can now be fined or even put in prison if they are caught with a red star, a hammer and sickle, or even a Ché Guevara T-shirt.
To some, it may seem like a natural reaction for a country that suffered so much under the Soviet Union. There are exemptions for artists, educators, and collectors. But the ban doesn’t sit well with the younger generation of Poles, many of whom see communism not as a threat but as a source of satirical fun and creativity.
“In high schools it’s cool to wear Ché Guevara or the hammer and sickle. Some fashion brands even promote these symbols as part of their clothes,” says Justyna Kopczynska, a sociologist from Warsaw University. “Right-wing politicians are so radically against [these symbols] that they don’t see the difference between being ideologically conscious of being a communist, and just being young.”
A number of trendy communist-themed bars have appeared around Poland, poking fun at life under the old regime. One restaurant in Warsaw fills its menu with dishes such as “trout from the fish shop with the three-hour queue” and “Bulgarian peach pie: bartered for irons and Soviet cameras during the ‘International Tourist Exchange.’ ” You can even order communist-era “coffee” made of corn and chicory.
“It’s interesting because it’s gone; it belongs to the past,” says Grazyna Saniuk, an artist who creates T-shirts using designs from communist-era matchboxes. “Certain images of that epoch look funny and exotic to 20- or 30-year-olds, but they are no longer meaningful. They cannot reappear as serious symbols, or as a threat.”
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Hi I am Kali from New Zealand , I love nothing more than spending time with my cameras; finding beauty in my surroundings, satisfying creative urges and enjoying the fellowship with others that being involved with online photo sites like 365project.org and flickr gives me. I also like to tend to growing things , care for my family and sleep. I am touched by Victoria’s story and wanted to participate in the healing that this project in her memory can bring for my friend Louis and his wife Catherine.
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Sadly, animal abandonment is nothing new in our society. Whether the poor things are horrifically abused before being left for dead, or far too young to withstand the elements someone has so cruelly left them in, each case highlights one of the worst sides of humanity.
But, thankfully, for as many jerks as there are in the world, there are also those who selflessly extend their kindness to animals in need. People like this woman in Romania who was shocked by what she found inside a cardboard box while enjoying a walk.
Inside the box were four adorable, tiny black puppies.
Fortunately for the sweet youngsters, the woman who found them happened to work for Animal Protection Association Minis Arad, a non-profit organization for animals in Romania.
She brought each cutie in for medical care and much-needed affection.
There”s no telling how long they had been left to freeze in the bitter winter weather.
They definitely wouldn”t have lasted much longer in the cold without being found by their rescuer.
The woman captured the whole heartbreaking ordeal on video. The little guys” cries for help will make tears flow, so grab some tissues before pressing play.
(via Little Things)
Thank goodness for organizations like Romania”s APAM and other rescue groups around the world for reminding us that kindness does exist, despite such extreme examples of cruelty. With their help, hopefully we will be able to outnumber the awful animal abusers and make stories like this a thing of the past.
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- About 30,000 left-wing activists, students, politicians and Catholic priests and nuns in the Philippines are expected to protest President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s attempt to extend term limits.
- Continental Airlines pilots are protesting the company’s annual shareholder meetings to remind executives that the sacrafices made by pilots in their last contract agreement were a loan.
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- Three members of the environmental activist group Rising Tide attempted to shut down Australia’s second-largest aluminum smelter on Tuesday because it derives its energy from coal.
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‘A Sunday Without Women’ at Mass
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This Sunday, September 26, Jennifer Sleeman, an 80-year-old Catholic convert from Clonakilty in Cork, Ireland, is calling on Catholic women to boycott Mass. In an interview with the Irish Times, Sleeman explained her action this way:.
Men are of course welcome to support the boycott as well.
Sojourners editor Rose Marie Berger has set up a Google Map that shows the locations around the world where women have agreed to the boycott. If you want to be included on the map, leave Rose a comment on her site or if you’re tech savvy you can update the map yourself.
In general, I think this is a great idea. Given that the church is such a large institution though, to have a real effect a boycott like this would likely need to include millions of Catholics. They would also need to be outspoken about their reasons for not going to church, otherwise the Vatican might not make the connection.
And although it would be difficult, the boycott would need to be an indefinite. Staying away from church for one Mass will be easily ignored. That said, this one-day action could prove to be an important first step towards building a larger movement for change in the Catholic Church.
Over at Religion Dispatches, I offered an alternative interpretation of this proposal:
According to the Irish bishops, mass attendance held steady on Sunday. Despite my complaint, I think I feel a bit disappointed.
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One day, wi-fi will be free, fast, and ubiquitous in the United States.
Capitalism has brought us many great things but free wi-fi is not one of them. In fact, capitalism likely is contributing to us NOT getting free wi-fi.
We just got back from a trip to England and there are loads of free wi-fi providers. They are run by massive corporations, like O2T, and there are millions upon millions of hotspots. O2 “limits” you to 10GB a month (!!!).
But in most areas, I can just use my phone to surf the web, check social media, and otherwise waste time. The only time I really want fast internet is when I'm waiting… like at the airport.
Some airports have free wi-fi, some require you to pay, but there are ways to get the paid wi-fi for free if you're clever (or prepare ahead of time). The same goes for in-flight wi-fi as well… though one day I hope all airlines will join JetBlue in giving free high-speed Wi-Fi.
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Smaug destroys Lake Town. From the Hobbit. From an 8th grade English project. I think I was 13. Somehow I managed to work an illustration into a writing assignment. Can’t remember if it helped improve my grade or not.
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Major washing, and thus key waste, will always be a part of real estate cleanout. Selling the estate household, cleaning up after renters, as well as managing the eviction as well as foreclosure almost all require comprehensive trash treatment. A rental dumpster is a good way to get reduce items big in one fell swoop. Many dumpster companies may even take usable or eco friendly materials with the dumpster once you happen to be finished and also recycle these or give them to a good cause, so you do not have to take time through your life to try to sort through the overwhelming amount of stuff that individuals leave behind.
You will be cautious about the firms promising top quality service with very low cost than estimated. Some 8 Yard Dumpster in Allred, TN firms fallow marketing strategies and show up low price price at their display. This pricing these 8 Yard Dumpster in Allred, TN companies entails hidden fees and you will be amazed on acquiring the final expenses. Always want to go for a company that is transparent in its pricing.
Essentially the most recommend and low-cost methods of discarding the trash are recycling the particular waste and sanitary landfill disposal. Recycling where possible the waste materials in eco-friendly method will lessen the impact involving trash for the environment. Neo recyclable trash be got rid of in the landfill and relax will be taken care of by the garbage dump authorities.
Picking the 8 Yard Dumpster in Allred providers would enable you to enjoy the free added space on completion of your work. Upon hearing this I am sure you would be looking for a 8 Yard Dumpster in Allred service provider who can place a full quit to all your waste materials management needs. Dumpster direct is certainly one such largest 8 Yard Dumpster in Allred service provider in USA that provides solid waste materials collection waste materials disposal, transfer and recycling where possible services to equally industry and hose maintain services also. The company is honored for it's customer centric providers round the clock.
Each and every dumpster has a reduce on the tonnage in the trash got rid of, letting the particular representative know about the tonnage of the garbage disposed will place right sized dumpster at your door step. Virtually any excess garbage disposed above the said reduce will ask extra fees from you, so it's very important in your case to let the consultant know about the tonnage in the trash which includes to be got rid of.
When it comes to a garage that requires clearing out, it's likely that good that there is a pretty large number of useless to be disposed of. Since lots of local garbage companies encourage limits on what much garbage you can put out and about a week, and lots of things might be too large and awkwardly formed for garbage bags in any case, you're going to need to rent a dumpster coming from a reputable 8 Yard Dumpster in Allred company. Just imagining a dumpster-sized load of useless gone out of your garage must make the task at hand look much more feasible.
Besides the easily transportable restrooms which do come in certain different styles depending on what they are to provide for, several 8 Yard Dumpster in Allred companies possess recycling locations which make it very easy to breakdown the different elements of your waste products. You may have viewed these locations in store parking lots, and infrequently at breaks. While people are with regard to aluminum ales and bottles etc., the thought is the same.
For additional info on 8 Yard Dumpster in Allred services look into the Budget Dumpster company. They are a national company with a good good reputation for affordable, upfront, all inclusive rates and great customer service. 1-866-284-6164 The following thing discussed over the rental process is the place where often the company will need to bare, or modify out, the particular dumpster. A specific payment schedule will be supplied regarding to the frequency of which the dumpster will be needing to be sold. Another thing to consider is how extended the dumpster will be rented with regard to. If it is simply short term, a particular plan will reflect this. Custom-made pricing and planning is among the customer service oriented options a trash company offers. Pickup of the dumpsters can be at any time throughout a 24 hour time, and immediate pickup can be arranged. Most of the wait period is underneath two hours, with regards to the exact conditions.
After the advertising starts off, it's important that you find items that you want to promote. We all have some thing lurking inside corners in our homes that any of us no longer desire! Old apparel, forgotten childrens toys, along with mismatched dishware are always good places to start. In case you have enough time, start looking through your downstairs room, attic, along with garage intended for other forgotten about items that are simply just gathering dust. You will be shocked at just how many things you would probably kept around unintentionally.
When you require a dumpster possibly you have a lot of trash or sell material to have hauled out. The absolutely best method to obtain these typically bulky containers is to get in touch with a preferred and local company. Merely talk to these people and they'll aid you in getting the best possible dumpster to your requirements. Some types of supplies are more nearly impossible to find rid of or maybe recycle as opposed to others, and local restrictions may establish where your container may dumped. Just about any price quotation is subject to how much you've got, and what it really is, and the contents taken as a whole.
Should you be personally working on your own home regarding construction, you wish to save equally as much money since you can. Perhaps your friends and relatives are helping you with the renovating of your home. This is a great way for friends and family to get collectively in this very busy entire world.
As the competitors among the firms is excessive, finding a 8 Yard Dumpster in Allred, TN business that fits your finances is not a nevertheless task. Renting any dumpster is the most chosen way of discarding the trash, nonetheless it will serve intent only when you partner with all the company that include best companies at affordable prices.
Some junk haul firms offer real removal of items from your building among their services. Have a set of old kitchen appliances in the attic space that don't function anymore? Have to get rid of old furnishings inside space you happen to be leaving before the movers appear to pack up what you're maintaining? Junk haulers can carry those outsized items in your home office or work environment and put in them in a vehicle or dumpster afterwards disposal. A significant advantage of hiring a junk removing team that gives lifting is always that you're steering clear of the risk of injuries that comes with Build it yourself removal of hefty objects--you might move a muscles or fall that hotpoint washing machine on your foot or so, but an expert will be able to acquire all necessary safety precautions. Trash hauling advantages also use guards to ensure that zero floors, walls, or lighting fixtures are damaged during junk removal, so your cleanup course of action won't have to add in wall patching and color touch-ups.
After the surprise has passed, it is time to organize any local. Visit all of your neighbors along with discuss the option of a neighborhood cleaning. Tell them of your ideas on when and how to do it, along with encourage people for you to volunteer. If the subdivision has its own email list, you can utilize that to make contact with your fellow house owners. Post and give out fliers if you don't have a communication list. Upon having enough individuals ready and willing to join, set to start a date and rent any dumpster.
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of varying measurements which you can toss things into. Most undertaking managers use a dumpster or a couple first, subsequently move on to the other plan. Homeowners who want to remodel either one area of their properties (especially the kitchen area for instance), or even the entire home, need to organize a dumpster of the right measurement for the job as speedily and as at low costs as they can. This is a necessity, just like drywall as well as appliances as well as flooring usually are. If you don't have a thing to put the trash and delete materials with, then wherever are you going to said? A good idea should be to choose a dumpster that's one measurement larger than you believe you will have to have. This way you happen to be safe and if you happen to seek out any other goods around your home you no longer want, you can easily discard them.
Los Angeles, together with population that could reach over 12 million persons, and an place with an array of several entertainment joint capsules, residential properties and other firms, this area ought a fast as well as reliable dumpster services. This is because it's going to have to serve both residents as well as business which might be in the area. On top of that, with such the population, you would expect the dumpster lovers to have a lot of work to complete.
With a large array, of several vehicles as well as services waste taxis will be able to help. Alongside the basic waste collection services, this company will also collect ones recycling as well as compost waste. This ensures that you are still help with the environmental issues that have grown to be such a large problem. Garbage taxis usually are committed to making sure that they delete whatever they can certainly within their collections.
You can afford to get number of garbage can filled up with the debris awaiting the pick up from the area hauler, but this could take a long time along with the trash containers will be the eyesore in your business spot. You have many creative options to cart your waste but Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM with the professional Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM firm would be the sensible and ideal solution to the for the entrepreneur to eliminate in the large tons of waste.
If you own a restaurant and are also remodeling space than you certainly will need the dumpster or numerous dumpsters. You will most likely need the huge dumpster(s) which will hold up to a number of tons. Several tons is about ten pickup loads. Depending on the size of ones restaurant along with the extent of your remodeling, is dependent upon the size of booked dumpster that you will need.
A new ten backyard dumpster is designed to deal with 2 tons of waste, which is in relation to right for a little clean-out or redecorating project. Twelve to fifteen yard dumpsters deal with 3 tons of waste and debris and is normally the dumpster of choice for kitchen area and attic remodels, structure cleanup as well as HVAC initiatives. Twenty backyard dumpsters are the hottest type of rental waste and debris dumpster and deal with 4 tons of debris-about 10 pickup loads of "stuff.In
Since you have hired somebody to remodel your own den, you'll need to find a dumpster fast. You know that this mess will start to pile up once the contractor will get working. You should be able to contact a company in which sends away next day dumpsters to rent.
Particles collecting rubbish bin or dumpster likewise depends upon business to company. A number of can provide you actually locked canisters which are when filled are generally carried away by means of service provider. The actual bins are generally collected and taken in existence of you so that you can have a look.
To use a bunch of cups or something greater - that is the question in which faces quite a few business owners. But some people don't know that it can be a query that is inquired not just by business owners but property owners who are accomplishing repair or construction work with their homes. Whether it's a medium sized company or a large home task you might want to consider a garbage Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister.
Where is this particular trash heading? Are the individuals who own hotel applying proper fingertips methods to take the generated trash? Cheaper profits from the hotel business make them dispose the generated trash inside improper approach. These kinds of acts will have bad effects on your hotel company in turn.
A particular area about being affected by problem will have a lot of trash piled-up in the bordering areas and may get accrued with insect pests that spread infectious illnesses if it is not removed with an immediate effect. Far more over you may be confused about your following step while you are centered from the clutter in the disaster. Quick clearing all these trash is essential to move ahead with all the next step.
Once this is resolved and a business is chosen, all that is left to perform is to select how often this pick up procedure needs to take place and how lengthy the dumpster is going to be needed for. For businesses needing a long term spend disposal remedy, they can select a longer services plan quickly. Many structure or home rehabilitation projects done by home owners or contractors just have dumpsters for a not much time. A good dumpster business will be able to provide any want as far as time goes for some sort of rental customer.
In business that is reliant so heavily on recurring customers in addition to overall reputation, you want a Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister business that has endured the long haul in addition to survived: to put it briefly, an established in addition to experienced business. Many of the Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister companies you may find may end up currently being untrustworthy pop up rental businesses that exist for a few years, fall apart under a weak reputation, and pop up elsewhere under a distinct name, attempting to pull exactly the same tricks. A well-established company will have none of those issues and are able to show worthy of their particular reputation. As a possible added safety measure, feel free to examine reviews for every single company you consider and ask for sources if you like. Good reviews in addition to good sources will be an easy determiner of a actually excellent business.
Dumpsters are available in different sizes according to the tailored prerequisites. When you allow the dumpster hire firms know about your distinctive requirements, an appropriate sized dumpster will probably be delivered to your job location. Comprehending the pricing strategy of the organization before putting in an order will help you to produce the Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM less costly. Dumpsters are usually charged based on the sizing and quantity of the Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM. Thus before you place a purchase for Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM possess a transparent snapshot about the sized the dumpster along with period of the particular Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM. If you don't have a thought, you can even find assistance from the particular Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM companies heading to the best deal. Inquire about the charges accessed for the further disposal higher than the tonnage limit to really make the Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM more affordable.
As soon as the advertising starts, it's important that you can find items that you want to sell. We all have something lurking inside the corners of the homes that individuals no longer wish! Old garments, forgotten kid's toys, along with mismatched dishware are always great places to start. For those who have enough time, begin looking through your downstairs room, attic, along with garage pertaining to other neglected items that are simply just gathering dust. You could be shocked at just how many things you'd probably kept all-around unintentionally.
A top-notch Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM disposal business will load a large need as local neighborhoods switch to pay-per-throw neighborhood trash packages. These packages burden any tax payer to comprehend fees to obtain there rubbish picked up. A great storm for the established or even upstart business. Why precisely what else produces a premier discretion business the response to Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM needs? This information will highlight some reasons why you should do some study before selecting an organization to fulfill these needs.
The earlier carpeting can be thrown out into your rented dumpster. This carpeting could possibly have had to connected with been minimize to get it away from the floor. Guess what happens a mess this may cause. Renting any dumpster can make your life as well as the building crew's life easier by simply having the capacity to toss it into the dumpster.
You simply must look for a dumpster organization that offers diverse size dumpsters. You'll need at least several options with small, choice and large. The little dumpsters are pertaining to smaller employment such as in order to tear aside and renovate a bathroom. The little dumpster should store at least 2 plenty of debris.
A junk transport professional is perfect for more than just rubbish removal, however. Most community companies in addition provide Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM services for people individuals who have any do-it-yourself attitude. If you are performing a estate cleanout, moving house, or polishing off a home enhancement project, you will require some way connected with disposing of the scraps. A local dumpster service can easily drop off any dumpster at a scheduled time and figure it out once you might be finished, helping you to work at your own pace. Dumpster renting from a community trash removing company can provide the ultimate with convenience along with dependability.
Folks require Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM companies for many good reasons. For example, any landlord often needs to cleanse the condominium where the last tenants still left garbage loaded high. A specialist home handy-man often takes numerous trips towards the county get rid of. Or perhaps, you've just got a big washing task to complete and you need to have a place to get rid of all the squander. Usually, renting of such king-size garbage pots is the region of large building companies, yet there many Roll Off For Rent in Mcalister, NM companies that rent significant dumpsters (also called roll offs) to typical people also. Hiring roll off dumpster is usually
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Gillian Brown Offered BMHA Executive Director Post
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Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority Commissioners Meeting. June 21, 2018 (WBEN Photo/Mike Baggerman)
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority's board of commissioners offered the executive director position to its current interim director. Gillian Brown has been interim executive director since March.
Chairman David Rodriguez says the board interviewed Brown and two other candidates, and decided on Brown based on board members being confident Brown was moving the BMHA in the right path.
"I am pleased that the board was able to reach a unanimous decision to hire Gillian as our executive director," says Rodriguez. "I have every confidence that working together with the board, and Mayor Brown, Gillian and his team will be able to bring much needed positive change to the authority. We were impressed with his commitment to our residents and their communities, and we know he will make the physical conditions of our developments a top priority."
Terms will be negotiated, then presented to the board at the October meeting.
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NieR: Automata Sequel Is in the Planning Stages, Creator Yoko Taro Will Likely Return
NieR: Automata is the most surprising hit of 2017. The original NieR wasn’t exactly a smash when it came out nearly a decade ago, but Automata has far exceeded expectations, selling over 2 million copies and saving acclaimed developer Platinum Games in the process. Square Enix recently commented on NieR’s newfound franchise potential, and now we have confirmation a sequel is in the works.
Square Enix producer Yosuke Saito had this to say about a NieR sequel in the most recent issue of Japanese gaming mag Dengeki PlayStation (thanks to Gematsu for the translation):
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“As for a [new NieR] game, we’re making preparations for the setting which you could guess from the fact that we were recruiting a scenario planner. I hope you will look forward to it.”
As Saito mentions, Square Enix recently posted a job that includes “NieR-related scenario creation and planning work.” Speaking of staff, is NieR creator Yoko Taro returning to direct the third game in the series?
“He is…I would like to believe. Yoko says he will do anything as long as he receives money, but there is no one [less likely to] move for money as that man. He only wants to do what he wants to do. So, I’ll try my best to explicitly say what he doesn’t want to do, to guide him towards what I want to do (laughs).”
Sounds like negotiations between Taro and Square Enix will be…interesting, but I can’t imagine him not returning. A NieR game without Yoko Taro’s weird genius would be rather pointless. No word yet on whether Platinum Games will also return, but they likely will seeing as NieR: Automata is their most successful game ever.
Excited for another NieR game? Considering how different the original NieR and NieR: Automata were, what wacky direction do you think a third game might pursue?
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Fierce Press Gang: Love Letters
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I have to admit, my feeble knowledge of Birmingham was truly put to shame on Saturday night as myself and Holly Riddle spent a good two hours trekking the streets, desperately trying to find the TROVE building for a performance of Love letters by Uninvited Guests . When we finally found the building however the performance was completely worth the struggle it took to get there.
We walked into the space which was lit dimly with red candles spread along two banquet tables which faced each other, each seating around 20 members of the public. Red drapes covered the walls and windows, leading to a very intimate and communal atmosphere, helped along I think by the glasses of cava presented upon our arrival. Jessica Hoffman and Richard Duffy were seated at either end of the room at small tables with an apple mac and a microphone. They waited until everyone was seated and then commenced with a comical and strangely beautiful battle of love songs for example, ‘Where is Love’ from Oliver for Jessica and ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’ for Richard.
The group say, ‘Let.’ Based around weddings and the outpour of emotion shown the group aim to reproduce that show of emotion in an environment where people feel safe. Throughout the evening the two performers read out dedications made by people sat around the tables; dedications to Mothers, lovers, wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends and even a small child in Africa called Ef… Each dedication was treated with the utmost respect and compassion and accompanied by a song.
One dedication in particular struck a chord with me. Jessica read an anonymous dedication from somebody talking about their Aunt who had fought a loosing battle with cancer. It was touching and beautiful and a man further along the table a stranger stood to raise his own glass to her memory. I’m not ashamed to admit I cried. It’s not often that a piece of theatre affects me because I know, in the back of my mind, that what I am watching is not real, simply actors reading from the imagination of a playwright…Love Letter’s touched me and effected me deeply because it was real. Real stories of love and passion and humanity… Simply a must see.
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David Fincher Explains Passing Up Star Wars: Episode VII
Long before J.J. Abrams landed the role of overseeing Star Wars: Episode VII, seemingly every filmmaker in Hollywood was linked to Disney’s coveted director’s chair. However, one of the few directors who actually entered talked with the company was David Fincher, who spoke recently with Total Film about his decision to pass on the gig.
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While it’s not overly surprising that Fincher — who is considered one of the most astute directors in the business — was in contention for Star Wars: Episode VII, envisioning his take on a galaxy far, far away is a fascinating prospect indeed. Claustrophobic environments, jet-black themes, and of course, a hair-raising score by Trent Reznor.
Alas, Fincher isn’t exactly known for his close collaborations with studio executives, whether it’s altered endings or the way in which major companies view their target audiences in his eyes. Moreover, given the scale and hype surrounding Episode VII, in no way would Fincher have full control over his production, which is undoubtedly the underlying reason in and of itself.
As such, given J.J. Abrams’ passionate fandom for the IP along with his sci-fi track record in Star Trek and Super 8, the Lost director was ultimately better suited for the gig.
Star Wars: Episode VII will arrive in theatres on December 18th, 2015.
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Elle Fanning Poses In First Images From Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
Nicolas Winding Refn is one of the most valuable directors out there today, because you can always count on him to follow his artistic vision wherever it may lead him. The helmer has taken us behind bars for Bronson, into a misty and mysterious land that may be Hell itself for Valhalla Rising and to a variety of other strange and distinct locales. Now, Refn is returning to California for a very different story than his LA-set Drive, and today we’ve got some new shots from the horror flick, titled The Neon Demon.
Elle Fanning stars as an aspiring model whose youth and beauty makes her the target of older, jealous models who’ll do anything to regain the halcyon days of their youth. The female-dominated cast includes Jena Malone, Karl Glusman, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee, Desmond Harrington, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves.
Though details are still being kept pretty hush-hush, The Neon Demon takes inspiration from Elizabeth of Bathory, the infamous countess who bathed in the blood of servant girls out of a conviction that this horrific practice would keep her young forever. Make of that what you will.
Production is just wrapping up on the movie now, with plans to have the film completely done by 2016 and possibly competing in festivals next year. The Neon Demon certainly has an intriguing premise and a great cast, but even just the prospect of seeing Refn tackle the dark, seedy world of Hollywood celebrities would be enough to get me into a theater. He’s one of the most distinctive voices in cinema right now, and love him (Drive) or hate him (Only God Forgives), he never fails to mesmerize and mystify.
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Kevin Smith Thinks Thanos Is A Hero In Avengers: Infinity War
Despite wiping out half the universe, including many of our most beloved Marvel heroes, there are some who still argue that Avengers: Infinity War‘s Thanos is just a bit misunderstood. Perhaps, in a certain light, the tyrannical genocide-happy intergalactic warlord is actually a good guy after all.
The latest to join his voice to this chorus is Kevin Smith, who argued his case on the latest episode of his Fatman on Batman podcast. The subject came up in response to a question from a fan asking which five characters would be on his ultimate hero and villain teams. Smith picked Thanos for his ‘hero’ team, arguing:
“Controversial choice, Thanos. From a certain perspective he’s a hero. He could have literally wiped out everybody with one snap. I call that mercy.”
Only killing half the universe as opposed to killing everyone is the better choice, yes. But let’s not go handing Thanos the Nobel Peace Prize just because he chose not to do the most monstrous thing you could. No matter how hard he tries to drape his quest in an aura of dignity and respectability, he’s still a brutal warmonger for whom the ends justify the means every single time. Others have pointed out that he proves he’s not a completely heartless monster by shedding a tear as he tosses his beloved daughter off a cliff, an interpretation that neatly skates over the bit where he tosses his beloved daughter off a cliff.
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Having said all that, I get that one of the reasons Thanos was such an effective villain is that he’s not some monologuing cliche out to enrich himself or just be evil for the sake of being evil. The Russo Brothers have explained that Thanos is, at least in terms of narrative structure, the hero of Infinity War. Or, in their own words (from the Blu-ray commentary):
That’s I think, one of the most unnerving things about Thanos, is that there is a nobility in him, you know? It’s not ego, it’s not power. He basically looks at himself as a servant and when he’s finished with his service, he rests.”
Obviously, we’ll be seeing more of Thanos’ story in Avengers 4 and while he might have some element of nobility to him, I can’t wait to see the Hulk’s fist smash him right in the snotbox for what he did to Spidey.
Source: ComicBook.com
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What Rachel says:
It’s funny what people care about. Not that the White House dog or the girls’ school isn’t important, but I figure that the girls didn’t run for President, so they shouldn’t need to be poster children for every progressive policy we might care about.
But then there’s Lieberman. Like Rachel Maddow (who is so much more articulate than I), I get the whole “but we might get to 60 votes” thing. But as she points out, his vote is not necessarily a guarantee for preventing filibuster anyways.
Really, Joe must go. But I’d settle for every Senator in the democratic caucus watching Rachel’s argument before they vote. Maybe they figure that they’ll strip him of his chairmanship if and when he strays from the party line.
But the question I hope they ask is: which important piece of legislation will he scuttle before he gets his (long overdue) reprimand from his colleagues?
IMO, just let Joe decide whether he wants a chance to be re-elected … cause I’m not sure how this isn’t his last term as a Senator from Connecticut.
Update. How timely. Daily Kos is reporting that Joe is approaching Bush levels in terms of approval rating among CT voters:
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The lowest risk for death was among those with B.M.I.’s between 18.3 and 19.8, the low end of normal.
“A single study shouldn’t by itself change what is considered to be the normal range,” said the lead author, Dr. Gilad Twig, an internist at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel. “But being overweight in adolescence is bad — we knew that before, and this study shows it’s really bad.”
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