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For years an outdoor dining set has offered a taste of alfresco living to British gardens however the maintenance of a permanant outdoor dining set has often outweighed the joy - but not any longer. Our rattan garden furniture is more popular than ever as it is a contemporary and practical, easy care solution suitable for all year round, all weather, outdoor use.
Exceptionally strong, our rattan dining table sets remain lightweight and easy to move thanks to its powder coated aluminium frames and whilst easier to clean than traditional synthetic garden furniture, it boasts colour fade resistance not found in natural garden furniture materials. The latest weave design is comfortable, stylish and virtually maintenance free and the extra thick, tempered safety glass tops are thoughtfully designed either to run to the table edge or in smaller managable sections for easy cleaning. Oakita rattan is constructed using the superior Polyethylene weave technique over welded and rust resistant aluminium frames ensuring a premium product. Our rattan dining chairs arrive ready to use and all of our cushions conform to UKFR making our rattan ranges equally suitable for indoor, conservatory use.
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Posted: Monday, January 20, 2014
This past weekend I traveled down south to visit with relatives. As with any other family gathering there was laughter, drama, and a little unsolicited family entertainment. One of my cousins told me more than once that I would be wise to take notes for my next book. She was right- some of the antics that happened this past weekend were certainly fit for a work of fiction. I made mental notes of some of the most memorable moments and while I may or may not use them anytime soon (pardon the pun) they will definitely be placed in my writing archive for future use.
If you are having trouble creating characters for your writings your inspiration may be right in front of you, perhaps your inspiration even lives or works with you. Now please take note of the word "inspiration"; you don't want to start out your writing career imitating your family and friends, a mere inspiration is enough and just let your creativity do the rest.
If you ever find yourself having trouble developing a character, start with your surroundings and what's familiar to you. What about the little old lady you see at the grocery store every week? Give her a longer nose, pasty skin a humped back and an intriguing secret. Better yet, put her in a Chanel suit give her a southern accent, a few oil wells and a two pack a day cigarette habit. Just go for it. Consider the brawny guy that works at the gym. Turn him into a spy or maybe even a vampire-people love the undead these days. Your characters should match your storyline however, so if your story is about dance or the arts, not sure a vampire might fit into that, but hey, who knows? Just make sure your characters are memorable and believable. Don't be afraid of your imagination, you can always go back and refine or recreate. Power over your characters is one of the perks of being a writer.
So if you have managed to get through your first steps of writing, don't get stuck on character development. Have a little fun with it until you make your characters exactly who you want them to be. Be creative and outlandish, but most of all, make your characters some that people will never forget.
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Character Bio
Stella is a fan fictional character in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. She doesn't have a kid stuffed in her suit, as she already has an endoskeleton inside her. She has cyan eyes. She has a hairstyle in a ponytail that is held by a band with decorational stars and a moon on it. She has a dress that is the color yellow. She has a ribbon that is pink on her tail. She used to have a mask that resembled the Puppet's face, but she gave it to Spam. Her fur is brownish-blackish. She wears a purple scarf when it's winter or fall. She wears a necklace with a pink gem in place of this during spring or summer.
|Stella the Coyote
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Social Life
Stella is moderately known. She is energetic, kind, and loyal.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Mastering the Animatronics
- Stella is a mash up of some of Foxstar241's animatronics.
- Though she has a spare mask (which looks EXACTLY like her first mask) just in case if anyone stole her mask, she pretended that was her only mask. She doesn't wear it in front of Spam or Toy Spam.
- Her mask shows her emotions.
- Stella can LITERALLY tell who's in the room, no matter if their hidden in plain sight (example: Stella's in a room with Pixel and Holly. Holly is hidden out of plain sight. Stella senses everyone in the room [no exceptions]).
- Stella is wary and cautious so that might explain why she can sense the people in the room she's in.
- Stella has a tendency to put on her mask and say "Do you like my mask?"
(Also, thank you DsFanboy for making the picture of Stella!)


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If it is glued to the flooring, getting rid of the rug from the flooring prior to the floor tile installment will certainly set you back $.50 each square foot. There is normally in the house for carpeting elimination or else. Elimination will certainly be about $1.00 each square foot if there is currently existing floor tile.
Washroom locations to be tiled called for one of the most prep work. Several of things that will certainly include in the price are: resetting the commode as well as getting rid of, setting up a shower frying pan, setting up concrete wall surface boards in shower bathtub location (Hardie backer) to earn location water-proof, and also other damage called for.
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Assorted costs might consist of spacers, cement, thin-set, mortar mix, cord mesh along with the price of the floor tile and also the floor tile setup itself. Many floor tile professionals bill around $.50 square foot to use the cement.
As soon as the floor tile installment is total to secure the flooring over time, a sealant is advised. The price of the application and also the sealant is additionally consisted of in the complete expense of the ceramic tile installment quote you will certainly get.
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When the ceramic tile installment is total, the old floor covering as well as products will certainly be eliminated from your house and also transported away for you
When you are preparing to talk with a ceramic tile specialist concerning floor tile installment in your house, it is practical to have a suggestion of the prices entailed in a floor tile installment job.
When you are picking your ceramic tile, there are some factors to consider that will certainly influence the rate past the floor tile itself. The pattern in which the floor tile is laid will certainly have an influence on the cost of the setup. Eliminating rug from the flooring prior to the floor tile setup will certainly set you back $.50 each square foot if it is glued to the flooring.


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A proposed referendum for the 2012 ballot in Montana would require candidates for district court judgeships and the state Supreme Court to run with partisan labels.
Currently, the state's judicial elections are nonpartisan. State Rep. Michael More, a Republican and sponsor of the referendum bill, said about the measure, "The issue is greater transparency in the judicial branch." According to a Helena Independent Record article, he continued:
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This feature provides the possibility to plan people allocations on projects, taking into account their current and planned allocations, and see if any conflicts may happen. It allows the user to specify what people - teams and individuals - are required for a project, how long they will be needed, and what % of their total working hours they can be available, and therefore visualize and manage possible over- or under-allocations.
Here we talk only about a possibility to plan people allocations on projects, not taking into account how much work people may currently have or will have to complete in every project.
Project Planning
With a new project, which we need to plan activities for, we assume how many and what people - teams and individuals - we need for this project, so that we can plan people allocations, specifying how long we will need each person and team and what % of their total work time they should be available on our project.
On a timeline view where project is selected as lanes and user allocations and team allocations are selected as cards, we create the required allocations using a quick add option.
To create a team or user allocation:
- Click '+' button
- Select a team or user allocation in the menu
- Specify the period of time this team or a user is needed on the project
- Specify the required % of availability
- Click 'Add' button
When an allocation is created for a person who is not assigned to a project, then a person will be assigned to a project with their default role automatically.
When creating a team or user allocation, the available slots for time for this team or a person are shown in the Possible Date Ranges drop-down list. Simply select the required period and it will be reflected in the start/end allocation dates fields.
When there no explicit dates are specified (as 10/10/2015 - 10/10/2016 for example), those allocations dates will be linked to project dates. That means that, if project dates are updated, then allocation dates will be updated appropriately.
There can't be more than one simultaneous allocation for a user or a team created on the same project.
For example, on the image below you can see that two teams - Alaska and Utah - are required for 100% for the whole project duration, we need a project manager for only 50%, and we need a designer for 80% in the beginning of the project and only for 25% after that for the Chocolate Factory project.
Thus, once we have started planning people allocations on a project we can easily see if the newly created allocation is in conflict with existing allocations this person or team may have. In our example we can clearly see that Alaska and Utah teams will be overloaded during a period of time if we start projects as planned. To see the details of the overload, hover mouse over the overloaded area.
Here we have a choice to either look for other people/teams to work on our project or shift the project's time periods to avoid conflicts.
Allocations can be updated straight from this view via context menu. Right click to open a context menu and click Edit to update an allocation. Here you can modify allocation dates and % of allocation.
To see all the allocations of a team or a person, simply double click a card and a list of allocations will be shown on the Allocations tab of a team or a user view.
Right click an allocation in the list to update it via a context menu.
Allocations and Project Dates relations
Allocations start and end dates have to correlate to project dates. Allocations start and end dates must be:
- between project planned start date and project planned end date, when a project is not started yet.
- between project start date and project anticipated end date, when a project is started.
As soon a project is completed, all the allocations which are in progress or planned for the future on this project (there are parts which are after the project end date) are not taken into account anymore when people load needs to be calculated.
Allocations are updated automatically on the projects which are not started yet in the following cases:
- project planned start or/and end dates are updated
- project start date appears (project has been started)
As soon as a project has been started, allocations start and end dates are never updated automatically any more.
Let's take a closer look at how allocations are updated in the cases described above:
Project planned start or/and end dates are updated
When a new allocation is created on a project, its dates can be either explicitly specified (as 10/10/2015 - 10/10/2016) or can be linked to project dates.
If allocation dates are specified explicitly and project dates are updated, then all the people allocations inside will be scaled according to a project duration update. For example, let's imagine that a project initially was planned for 3 months and Utah team was planned for 1 month for this project.
Later if a project duration is updated to 6 month (doubled), then a Utah team allocation duration will be changed to 2 months (doubled) accordingly.
This allows to keep the planned people allocations dates and duration corresponding to project dates, when project planned dates are updated.
Project start date appears (project has been started)
When a project is started and a project start date is different from a project planned start date, then all the people allocations on this project have to be updated accordingly to fit the real project start date. In this situation all the allocations on a project will be shifted to a 'project start date - project planned start date' delta.
A new Anticipated End Date will be calculated for a project. An anticipated end date shows when a project is planned to be completed considering the real project start date. It's calculated as 'project start date + project planned duration (i.e. project planned end date - project planned start date)'.
As soon as a project is started, a project start date and anticipated end date will be shown on a timeline, where projects are selected as lanes. All the allocations, which have been linked to a project planned end date, start being linked to a project anticipated end date.
Hovering mouse over the Anticipated End date you can see the exact date and how it is calculated:
As soon as 10% of work has been completed on a project and a project Forecasted End Date can be calculated according to the following formula:
Forecasted End Date = Start Date + (Today - Start Date)*100 / Progress
It will also be shown on a timeline. All the allocations, which have been linked to a project anticipated end date, start being linked to the latest of a project forecasted end date and a project anticipated end date, so that we can see if people can become overloaded due to a project delay.
The information about people overloads can also be visible on a timeline view, where projects are selected as cards. Whenever you plan a project in time or if a project is delayed and it leads to people being overloaded, you'll see the conflicting areas highlighted.
People Availability
Very often we need to answer the question "Whom can I invite to work on my next project?" or "Who may become available at a given moment of time?". We could answer this question by creating a visualization where our people - teams or individuals - are selected as lanes and people allocations are selected as cards in those lanes. The smallest zoom level allows to visually see for which % people are busy and available for any period of time.
Here we can easily see if someone is accidentally overloaded or might be overloaded soon, as well as get an understanding who will become available soon for working on a new project. On the example above we can see that Alaska Team has conflicting allocations in the beginning of 2017 and is loaded for 130% in total. Utah Team is 100% available starting from May 2017 though, so we can allocate them to a new project.
Tracking vacation and day-off time is not implemented in People Allocations so far. As a workaround you're welcome to split personal allocations into parts and create gaps with zero allocation percentage for vacation periods.
|Required Permissions (for non-Administrators)
|User Project Allocation add, edit, delete
|'Edit' Project permission in Project Role
|Team Project Allocation add, edit, delete
|'Edit' Project permission in Project Role. No Team membership is required.
Configure views for People Allocations
It is possible to install a bunch of helpful views from Solution Gallery.
Click + Create > Browse Solutions Gallery in the left menu.
Then in Portfolio Management folder, open People Allocation Management solution. Views can be installed from the solution.


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A classic Belgian style, named after the owner's daughter and made with local Riverbend pilsner and wheat malts, and traditional Belgian candi sugar. This slightly hazy, golden brew was fermented with a special yeast strain offering a plethora of flavors that include banana, bubblegum, and spicy phenolics. 7.3%ABV
Screaming Monk Belgian IPA
Imagine a Monk on the top of a quiet mountain, taking a sip of this beer, and screaming "I Love Hops!" This beer is jam packed with citrus and earthy hops, well-complimented by background Belgian fruity esters. Body and bitterness balance to give an experience aggressive enough for the average hop-head, and complex enough for an appreciator of Belgian-styles. 7.1%ABV
Holy Wit!
Water is great and all, but Thirsty Monks prefer to baptize their thirst with beer. And what better spiritual sipper than this quenching, tasty Witbier with hints of citrus and a warming touch of spice. We called upon wheat malts, coriander, orange zest and our house Belgian yeast to create this divine drinking experience. It took a little more than just 7 days to create, but Holy Wit!, it's good… 5%ABV
Past Life
Smooth, mellow and malty, this Belgian amber ale guides you in with entrancing notes of toasted bread, caramel and dried apricot, apple and pear before returning you to the present with an earthy hop awakening. One sip of our Past Life and you'll want to take it with you to your next one. 5.1%ABV
Small Batch Brother Noah
Smooth and decadent, this velvety chocolate Belgian Stout was brewed with two different chocolate malts, cocoa powder, oats and a touch of lactose to increase its already full mouthfeel. If that isn't dessert enough, we also added 14lbs each of French Broad Chocolate Peruvian and Nicaraguan nibs to the secondary fermentation. Notes of chocolate richness abound with prominent notes of dark fruits. The Belgian yeast brings it together for a drier finish. 8.4%ABV
Must Love Coconut IPA
If you like Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain, or if you're just in the mood for an escape from the typical IPA, this one's for you. Brewed with 100 pounds of toasted coconut and a blast of Citra, Centennial and Amarillo hops, this Belgian-style IPA is a totally tropical experience. Flavors of stone fruit, tropical fruit and–you guessed it–coconut whisk you away to an island oasis, with hints of spice and citrus peaking through the palm trees. A special release returning to the taps after many requests from its fans.
Woodstove Winter Ale
Brewed using freshly grated nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon, with just a hint of vanilla bean. The classic spice blend shines through in the nose and palate. Vanilla adds a certain silky richness, while the use of Belgian candi sugar gives this Winter Warmer a unique complexity. (7.1%ABV)
Fall Harvest Ale
A liquid tribute to autumn in Asheville, our Fall Harvest Ale was brewed with 100 pounds of roasted, locally-grown Candy Roaster squash and a touch of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and clove. Notes of pie crust, toasted biscuit, harvest spices and dried fruit and a low, lingering bitterness give way to a dry finish, pairing perfectly with the crisp mountain air. It's like a windows-down drive up the Blue Ridge Parkway as cooler weather sets in—if you could pour that into a tulip glass.
Summer Table Belgian Ale
Perfect for patio sipping, this easy drinking Belgian Ale was brewed with summer evenings at the Monks in mind. A blend of Munich, Cara and Maris Otter malts shares the spotlight with the signature spice of our house yeast blend and a floral finish from East Kent Golding, Fuggle and Hallertau hops. Aromas include spicy clove phenols and fruity bubblegum esters. Flavors balance with biscuit malts and a very subtle hop bitterness, giving way to a dry finish.
Small Batch Belgian Fall Harvest Ale
Ring in the cooler months with this Belgian Autumn Seasonal Ale, fermented with fresh local pumpkins, giving it pleasant earthy notes, reminiscent of the smells and tastes of the WNC woods while the leaves are falling. The Belgian yeast interacts well with its earthiness and eaves you with a particularly dry finish. 8.2%ABV
Euro Monk
Our very easy drinker for hot summer days, say hello to Euro Monk! This clean, crisp and refreshing brew was the result of cold fermenting and lagering our Belgian yeast. Why? Because we can. The result is a clean Euro-Lager-style with hints of a earthy Saaz hops, a small rye addition and a nice dry finish. 4.6%ABV


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Want to look and feel like the kind of Santa all those excited children can only dream about? It's time to look the part with the festive and jingling Velour Santa Suit which will have you Ho Ho Ho -ing and Meeeeerry Christmassing like a true pro!
Chest: 40-48"
Waist: 32-40"
Materials: 100% Polyester
Colour: Red, White
Included: Jacket, Trousers, Hat, Wig, Beard, Belt
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Santa Bell Accessory
Need a sign from your elves that the presents are ready to go? Want all the authentic accessories that Santa and his helpers should have to look professionally passable? It's jingle all the way with the Santa Bell so go on, ring in Christmas time for everyone!
Materials: Metal & Brass
Colour: Gold, Red
Included: Bell
Santa Belly Accessory
This Stuffable Santa Belly has a halterneck top that goes over your head to hold the belly in place and ties at the back. Add stuffing to create realistic padding for your Santa jacket. (Stuffing not included). 100% Polyester.
Materials: 100% Polyester
Colour: Red
Included: belly
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Santa Sack Accessory
Remember waking up to a sack overspilling with presents and sweets? This santa sack is 90cm deep, so there's plenty of space to stuff with goodies! The Santa sack is made from red felt like material with an applique design of Santa himself. When laid out flat the bag measures approx 59cm wide.
Materials: polyester
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An Post Tour of Sligo 2014 Press Release
The An Post Tour of Sligo proved to be an outstanding success with over 2400 cyclists on their bikes over the two day event. Every county on the island of Ireland was represented with the event attracting 22 oversees visitors including cyclists from Australia, United States, Canada, Switzerland, England and Scotland. Among the participants were 'Bressie' well know singer, model Roz Purcell, former Olympic medallist and Chief Executive of the Irish Sports Council and John Treacy, Barney Whelan Head of Communications at An Post and Mayor of Sligo Cllr Mayor Mc Garry.
Despite early morning showers cyclists began descending on the Institute of Technology headquarters on Sunday morning from 7am onwards full of enthusiasm, with a great atmosphere. The Ox Mountain Challenge got under way at 9 am with 470 cyclists registered and this was followed by the 100K Innisfree Tour at 10 am involving 910 cyclists which included the Tour Ambassador Bressie. The more leisurely cycle involving the 60K Lough Gill Circuit departed at 10.30am with 625 cyclists including many relatively new comers to the sport.
Shortly after midday the first of the cyclists arrived home while those on the Ox Mountain Challenge arrived much later having a lot of mountains to climb and distance to cover. The feedback was hugely positive with everybody having a very enjoyable day. Cyclists were extremely complementary of the route management support provided by the Garda Siochana and community marshals while the foodstops hosted by the event charity Special Olympics and supported by local communities in Dromore West, Coolaney and Ballintogher which were a very welcome sight for the cyclists along the route.
The main events were preceeded on Saturday with the Family Fun Day with children, parents and those new to the sport of cycling taking part. Close to 300 cyclists were involved in the 10K Hazelwood Spin while over 100 enthusiastic children and their parents cycled the 2K Bike Trail. Participants enjoyed a festival of entertainment which included stilt walkers, acrobatics, juggling, fire breathing ,walk about puppet performances and BMX display.
Feedback from the participants was very positive with everybody enjoying a great weekend of cycling and while there were many tired bodies crossing the finishing line the overall feeling was one of a great sense of achievement. Ambassador Bressie enjoyed the event stating "Thank you to the Tour of Sligo for a top class event, well run" while another happy cyclist summed it up by saying
"Really well marshalled. Food stops all brilliantly stocked with cheery supportive volunteers. Well done to everyone involved in organising and running this great event. It was really enjoyable. Will recommend it".
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This is One of the Kind and Unique Infinity Totem Necklace. It is Hand Carved from Genuine and Natural Red Jasper Gemstone and Holds Lucky Coin with Four Good Luck Symbols. Red Jasper also holds Believe and Individual Will Powers. Infinity Symbol Meaning: This unique symbol represents Infinite Powers, which are transformed directly to the owner. Infinity Symbol also represents Eternity. In Ancient India and Tibet it represented Perfection, Unity and Infinite Possibilities. It is Linked to Magic and Represents Balance of Various Forces. In modern times, it became a secular mathematical symbol for infinity in numbers, time or space and used by many people to attract Universe Powers of Positive Energy, Infinite Good Luck and Protection. Chinese has been known as one of the Oldest Languages on the Planet. That is probably the reason, why their letters and characters do not look any closer to all other languages. Chinese Characters are holding a Real Meaning, which are representing some of the Most Powerful Symbols for a Human Kind. Stay Lucky and Unique with your Own Individual Infinity Amulet. GOOD LUCK and BELIEVE POWERS of RED JASPER GEMSTONE: RED Jasper is VERY Protective. It can align all the chakras and balance Yin Yang energies, it is stabilizing and healing. It helps bring problems to light before they are a threat. Red Jasper Gently activates the senses and Protects from witchcraft. This Stone helps in unfair situations And It is said to assist in protection and rescue from danger. Also, Red Jasper is a great all-around Good LUCK stone and said to help bring Joy, Luck, and Success into life. RED Jasper is Gemstone of Willpower. Red Jasper Provides insight that your life is a result of your choices. Inspires you to make your life exactly what you want by making new choices. Can give you confidence to move forward enjoying the journey, not waiting in expectation. Red Jasper is called a stone of fairness.
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Spider veins are tiny veins that are red, blue or purple in color. Like varicose veins, spider veins can occur when valves in the leg veins are not working properly. The majority of these veins are considered a cosmetic problem. To treat spider veins we offer laser vein therapy.
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Marie E. Schmidt, 75, of Fulton, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at home. The daughter of the late James and Lavica (Worden) Larrabee, she was a lifelong resident of the Fulton area. Marie was a hairdresser in Fulton for over 40 years. She also owned her own salon for many of those years where she made many lifelong friends. Marie loved to go for Sunday drives with her husband, and enjoyed antiquing. She was predeceased by her husband Robert Schmidt in July and her son Scott Phelps.
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Being the smallest regency in Bali, with approximately 180,000 in population (2013), Klungkung is a town of great historical, cultural, and artistic significance. . . .
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In the world of gaming, there is a new game which will change your gaming experience. For anyone who loves space and adventure will be looking forward to the release of the Star Citizen.
The release was first meant to take place in 2014 but to date, in 2017, there is no official release date as the game is still being developed. To date, the official website still mentions 2017 as the year of release. All new recruits get a star citizen referral code to encourage users to register early.
Star Marine
This was originally meant to be released in 2015, it is a first person shooter game, similar to Star Citizen. It is a simulator which features fiction combat.
Star Citizen is an upcoming game which offers multiplayer, combat and space trading features. It is ideal for Linux and Microsoft Windows. It also has a feature of a single player unit called Squadron 42.
Star citizen is produced by Cloud Imperium games, founded by Chris Roberts. The game is built on Amazon Lumberyard and marketed under Roberts Space industries, which is a subsidiary of Cloud imperium games.
There are two modes of play, the first is where two teams battle each other and one team attempts to capture control points to achieve points. The more control points a person attains, the more points they get. The other mode is the 'elimination' mode where each player works to get the highest kills before the end of the game.
In both modes, the games lasts for about ten minutes or in the elimination mode, the games lasts until one team gets the highest score.
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Dear & Esteemed Colleagues,
Warm greetings!
We are extremely delighted to inform you that the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Sciences is being organized by the Global Business Research Journals (GBRJ) from 1-3rd August 2014 in Singapore.
You are cordially invited to submit your research manuscripts/case studies in all areas of business. In addition to paper presentations and discussions, the conference will include special invited lectures on contemporary topics in business.
Important Dates!
Abstract Deadline (250 words) : May 20, 2014
Communication of Acceptance : May 31, 2014
Full Paper Submission Deadline : June 20, 2014
Last Date for Registration : July 10, 2014
Conference Dates : 1-3 August 2014. (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
Conference Objectives!
Global Economy
Since September 2008, the global economy has been facing many issues and challenges in the form of economic turmoil, geo-political challenges, massive job cuts&income disparity (social risks), fiscal crisis (economic risks), climate change (environmental risks) among others. The good news is that, of late, the tangible steps initiated by the respective governments, particularly, the ones severely hit by the economic downturns and debt crisis have been showing symptoms of recovery. For instance, the Federal Reserve has already started withdrawing �Quantitative Easing� (QE). Consumer spending is improving in the US and employment data is highly encouraging. European economies have been slowly stabilizing barring a few giving sufficient indications to believe that the global economy would surely be on the growth trajectory, very soon. Climate change is yet another challenge being faced by the World economy and many countries have placed greater emphasis and focus on sustainable and renewable energy resources which are obviously very important steps in the right direction.
The Future is Now!
So, this is the right moment for the economists, policy makers and governments to make an introspection of what went wrong in the past and take all necessary measures to look forward to the future with a greater sense of confidence and implement appropriate measures to create wealth for the investors and generate huge employment opportunities for the youth. These measures have to be taken with no further delay as delays might cause social unrests and jeopardize peace and stability of global society.
Against this backdrop, the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Sciences (AP14Singapore Conference) is being organized in the vibrant city of Singapore. This conference provides a platform to academicians, scholars, researchers and industry practitioners to share their insights, views and research findings with the fellow academicians/industry experts from different parts of the World.
Specific objectives!
More specifically, this conference makes an attempt to:
a) Provide a platform for academicians/scholars, practitioners and researchers to suggest suitable methods and measures to bring the global economy on the path of progress and prosperity;
c) Chalk out appropriate steps to introduce credible measures so that the different segments of the global economy such as markets, manufacturing and services sector witness massive improvements in a sustainable manner;
d) Ensure that the institutions and governments work in a coordinated manner so that the gap between the have�s and have-not�s is eliminated in the long run; also,
e) Suggest appropriate methods to provide continued growth, prosperity and higher standard of living to the global citizen in a much more sustainable manner.
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The new frontier in programmatic advertising is a creative one.
Message relevancy allows advertisers to combine the sophisticated targeting in their digital media buys with creative concepts that speak precisely to each targeted group. And through creative optimization, advertisers can test, learn from and optimize campaigns for performance gains of 30-50%.
Customizing creatives for programmatic media sounds great but, by and large, these customizations are all too often, well, not very creative.
To claim right person, right message, many advertisers draw from the same well of basic tactics—strategies like those that modify creatives based on simple geographic or weather data.
If using weather data and city names in ads is what data-driven advertising means to you, you're taking the statement way too literally. Just because an ad knows it's hot outside doesn't mean that the conveyed message is any more compelling to a consumer. We can use ad tech to streamline and automate a lot of our work but we're still marketers. Our ads ultimately require human finesse to change the feelings, opinions and behavior of human beings.
Effective creative relevancy helps advertisers connect with consumers by providing a positive influence on a consumer's perception. This effect helps advertisers shape a consumer's thoughts, feelings, and opinions.
So let's talk about a creative process for people, not robots. Let's talk about a process for data-driven campaigns that are full of heart, soul and, most importantly, humanity.
We will dig into creative tactics for programmatic soon enough but first we must build a strong creative strategy to serve as our foundation.
Resonance vs. Relevance
Putting the right message in front of the right consumer is a central theme in programmatic advertising. Arguably, the most significant component of an effective message is whether it's meaningful to the consumer.
As marketers, we try to inform consumers about a product in a memorable way but also remember to create emotional values and positive feelings that are tied to the brand. Both conscious knowledge and non-conscious emotional values are factors that influence spending habits.
Here's another way to explain these factors:
- Relevance is the answer to, "what does this have to do with me?"
- Resonance occurs when a relevant message is meaningful and affects the viewer.
Providing relevance is the first barrier to creating the right message in your digital ad campaign.
Is the styling of the ad appropriate to the viewer? Does the copy use the right words and tone? Are the images familiar or intriguing?
When viewed in this context, superficial tactics (like using local weather data) are revealed as silly and ineffective shortcuts to relevance. Unless we're talking about a travel or sunscreen brand, we need a deeper connection to create that emotional impact we're seeking.
That brings us to our second component: resonance.
Resonance addresses values, meaning, identity, and culture. For an ad to inspire someone to take action, it needs to resonate with some part of them. I identify with this product and its benefit. I want that benefit for myself.
As we proceed, avoid letting the efficacy of a campaign's message get lost to the programmatic technology stack and the treasure-trove of data it offers. Yes, the creatives must be data-driven but they must also resonate with the viewer.
A Reasonable Scope of Work
Building creatives for a multi-audience campaign follows a flow that's similar to traditional campaigns: a brand's story and messages are built into a base concept.
A multi-audience campaign takes this single big concept and branches the idea into individual themes and segments customized to each audience. If we're talking about display ads, we need to accomplish this without exceeding our creative budget or exhausting our designers and copywriters. (If you want to get into customized programmatic video, that's a whole different beast.)
One way to keep the scope of work reasonable is to use a similar layout and style for the creatives. This has the added benefit of maintaining a consistent look and feel—and also helps improve brand recognition for anyone exposed to multiple variations of the creative.
Since this article focuses on digital creative strategy in the wake of programmatic buying, we assume that your media planners can target distinct audience segments using the wealth of demographic, psychographic, behavioral and contextual data available today.
The goal of creative concepting for programmatic campaigns is to seize upon the fact that we can target precise audiences and customize our creative to resonate better with the segments in the broader target audience. So if we want to put one set of messages in front of basketball fans and a different set of messages in front of skateboarding fans, it's actually not that challenging to find those groups and target them.
Once you know which segments you are going after, there are numerous ways of building large numbers of similar creatives. You can use brute force and do what you already do in programs like Adobe Flash, or streamline your production using ad tech platforms like PaperG.
The workflow you adopt is based on what matters to your business. You must determine whether you want to:
- do the ad production in-house or outsource it
- power your campaign with data feeds and spreadsheets (DCO), or
- take a more graphical approach that also offers scalable features (PaperG).
While your choice of technologies and workflow will define what is possible or even reasonable for your campaign, the purpose of this article is not to advise on what technology to use. (See Programmatic Creative vs. DCO for more information.)
Today we're talking about how to make ground-breaking, highly-relevant, hyper-resonant creatives regardless of your process.
An Example Creative Brief
It's difficult to talk about creative processes without a muse. Let's begin our exercise with an abbreviated and fictitious creative brief for a global audio brand: Skullcandy.
Skullcandy is the leading performance and lifestyle audio company driven by the creativity and attitude of youth culture.
New product categories will drive Skullcandy's growth: gaming, sports/high-performance, and headphones designed for women. Since our products are in a low entry-level price range, our customers can start out small and progress to other products. Skullcandy already has a strong niche-oriented consumer base that often identifies with the brand through a similar mindset and ideology as opposed to specific activity. Now we have expanded our product line to reach impulse and casual buyers and seek expanding demand to groups outside Skullcandy's traditional audience.
At Skullcandy, we connect with our muse consumer by pairing technological innovation with a message centered around art, music and action sports. Our customers are young, hip and constantly connected.
Expand consumer awareness and demand for Skullcandy headphones outside existing niche customers.
Skullcandy's audio expertise delivers superior sound performance combined with unmatchable style.
Beats (Apple), Bose, Sony, Panasonic, Apple EarPods
Start with the audiences (plural!)
To produce relevant ad campaigns, or better yet, campaigns that resonate, always begin with the audience.
The first step is to carefully look at the segments where you hope to introduce or increase demand for your client's product. We're not only looking at the broad audience for this campaign. We will also focus on individual segments.
That means that, yes, you will need to buddy up with your friends on the media team or at the media agency handling that side of things. Get together early and often to discuss who is being targeted and what opportunities exist to customize the creative.
For simplicity, let's assume the media buy for our Skullcandy campaign will target 18-22 year-olds who are enthusiasts of the following sports, activities and music:
- basketball
- snowboarding
- video games
- dance/EDM (electronic dance music)
From our creative brief, the unifying focus of the ad campaign we're going to run has two parts:
- superior sound performance
- style
Our mission is to produce sets of creatives in five common IAB sizes that are customized to each segment above, plus a generalized creative that could work for any potential Skullcandy customer.
That sounds tough but if we stay organized and use the right software to help with production, it's totally feasible. In a minute, I'll share with you the 30 creatives I built in under 90 minutes thanks to the PaperG platform.
Back to the creative concepts. Let's start by asking ourselves, "how will the product uniquely benefit each segment? What are the key differences between the benefits that each segment cares about?"
For the campaign to be effective, we need to move the consumer from merely understanding a product's benefits to linking those benefits with personal values.
In the case of Skullcandy, our client is a lifestyle brand. Consumers enjoy the bold styling of the headphones as a form of self-expression, but they don't want to sacrifice audio quality in the process. How these benefits manifest with each segment may vary considerably. What images and copy resonate with those segments will definitely differ.
Assuming the ads will share some common elements such as logos, color schemes, or layouts, how can we customize the creatives to improve relevance and resonance for specific audiences?
To help get your brain going, here are a few examples that may work for any campaign.
- Use a style of imagery appropriate to the segment
- e.g.: edgy vector art for 18-22 males, photo with vintage filter for 23-34 males, filterless photo for 35+
- Images of people and places should be inclusive to the target segment, too
- e.g.: consider race, age and styling of models with regard to the segment and their influencers
- ensure image backgrounds make sense to the targeted region
- Highlight the benefit that is most likely to appeal to this specific segment
- Use the right wording (i.e., how would they describe it in their own words?)
Following these lines of thinking, I've mapped some statements around sound quality and style to each segment. See the table below. For this campaign, we'll use the text in sound quality as copy for our ads and the comments in the style column as direction to help pick which product imagery to use.
|Audience Segment
|Sound Quality
|upgrade to awesome sound
|stark, vector
|push your limits, in sport and in life
|enjoyed by celebrities
|loud and rugged enough to go as hard as you do
|cool, rock and roll
|video games
|get in the zone
|kinetic, explosive
|bass you can feel
|black + color, trippy, alternative
We can take these concepts to knock out a bunch of creatives using the workflow of our choice.
Below are screenshots of the first frame, I used the PaperG creative management platform to quickly build different sets of ads for each concept. Each set offers six common desktop and mobile ad sizes.
Given more time, a product shoot, and a proper team, I think we could have created a great campaign. It would include many creatives that are all customized to audience segments. That's the kind of one-to-one relationship we want between an ad's message and the consumer who views the ad.
Things are looking really good. You might say we're done… but we aren't. There's one more step.
Test and Learn
You may have been wondering, "Why do we need to create a generalized version of our creative when we have all these specific messages for each audience segment we're targeting?"
Great Question. Not only do we want to customize the creatives to our audiences, but as a data-driven campaign, we want to validate (or invalidate) our hypothesis that these creatives resonate with each audience group.
When you're going through all this work to customize ads to audience groups, it's helpful to have a generalized ad to split test as a control. Even if the generalized ad only gets a small percentage of impressions within each segment, knowing how the customized designs are performing versus the base design will provide valuable information that can influence your next campaign.
Learning from the creative is (sadly) a fairly new practice, especially in display advertising. If you have never optimized a campaign before before, make sure you account for these activities in your workflow. This is an opportunity for you to differentiate your agency and show the client your unique (and huge) value proposition. Don't miss the opportunity!


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10 Day YOU challenge: 8 Fears
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I'm with you on a few of these especially the child birth one! For me that's off the table I will just adopt. My hats off to the women that do go thru that but it's such a horror story in my head I know I will never do it.
Found you threw the followers to friends hop :)
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This is a great idea, I love your honesty. I have a weird fear of flushing in public toilets, because I once saw a film where an intruder burst in and kidnapped the main character but nobody could hear her struggles because of the noise of the flushing toilet. So now whenever I flush I freak out and have to run out of the cubicle... weird eh? x)
so brave of you to share these. i'm not fond of rats or mice either. :PReplyDelete


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The lightweight elastic outer bark of the cork oak, used especially for bottle closures, insulation, floats, and crafts.
- n. Something made of cork, especially a bottle stopper.
- n. A bottle stopper made of other material, such as plastic.
- n. A small float used on a fishing line or net to buoy up the line or net or to indicate when a fish bites.
- n. Botany A nonliving, water-resistant protective tissue that is formed on the outside of the cork cambium in the woody stems and roots of many seed plants. Also called phellem.
- transitive v. To stop or seal with or as if with a cork.
- transitive v. To restrain or check; hold back: tried to cork my anger.
- transitive v. To blacken with burnt cork.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- n. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- n. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- n. The cork oak.
- n. The tissue that grows from the cork cambium.
- v. To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- v. To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
- v. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- v. To be quiet.
- v. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
- v. To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See cutose.
- n. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
- n. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
- transitive v. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
- transitive v. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A species of oak, Quercus Suber, growing in the south of Europe (especially in Spain and Portugal) and in the north of Africa, having a thick, rough bark, for the sake of which it is often planted. It grows to the height of from 20 to 40 feet, and yields bark every 6 to 10 years for 150 years.
- n. ‐2. The outer bark of this oak, which is very light and elastic, and is used for many purposes, especially for stoppers for bottles and casks, for artificial legs, for inner soles of shoes, for floats of nets, etc.
- n. In botany, a constituent of the bark of most phænogamous plants, especially of dicotyledons.
- n. Something made of cork.
- n. A stopper or bung for a bottle, cask, or other vessel, cut out of cork; also, by extension, a stopper made of some other substance: as, a rubber cork. A small float of cork used by anglers to buoy up their fishing-lines or to indicate when a fish bites or nibbles; by extension, any such float, even when not made of cork.
- Made of or with cork; consisting wholly or chiefly of cork.
- To stop or bung with a piece of cork, as a bottle or cask; confine or make fast with a cork.
- To stop or check as if with a cork, as a person speaking; silence suddenly or effectually: generally with up: as, this poser corked him up; cork (yourself) up.
- To blacken with burnt cork, as the face, to represent a negro.
- In currying, to grain.
- n. A bristle; in the plural, bristles; beard.
- n. A corruption of calk.
- n. The name given in the Highlands of Scotland to the lichen Lecanora tartarea, yielding a crimson or purple dye. See cudbear.
- n. plural A game played with corks colored differently on the sides and so trimmed that they may fall either way, the players betting on whether the majority thrown will fall red or black. Sometimes called props.
- n. In France and Belgium, a game, a mixture of quoits and bowls.
- n. A variety of skittle-pool.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. stuff with cork
- n. (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- n. a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- n. outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
- v. close a bottle with a cork
- n. the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
- n. a port city in southern Ireland
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Pulling a cork is a nasty, dirty chore that sometimes has to be done before the joy can ensue.
As has been suggested above, using a pulltaps or like designed corkscrew … insert directly into the top center of the wax capsule, when completely inserted, slowly (after all this is wine to be enjoyed rather than slugged one would hope) pull the cork from the bottle.
Vent your spleen: wax seals on wine bottles | Dr Vino's wine blog
If cork is deemed to be a flawed closure then move to something better.
Double cork is snowboarding's must-have trick in Vancouver
Moe had a great time stealing then chewing up the cork from the champagne.
I too enjoy Morecambe, like suddenly being shot into the sea like a cork from the crowded bottleneck of Lancaster.
And, because cork is a democratic troublemaker, this can happen to the world's best wines as well as more humble ones.
It goes without saying that anyone with the name of Piers Morgan shouldn't be doing anything physical above popping a cork from a champagne bottle.
April makes no difference to the Lavalle cork tree imported from central Japan; to the Sakhalin cork, its diamond bark rising into branches from a trunk of plated sand.
I'm not sure they still sell one-sided single blades any more, but I used to store mine by slicing halfway into the cork from a wine bottle and pushing the sharp side into it so that the sharp edge was totally surrounded by cork and wouldn't cut me when I was reaching into the drawer to find something else.
"Corks were now appearing for stopping bottles; the British were the first to use them for wine, allowing it to age properly."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 220
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Office Ball Games: CUPS
Thursday, February 19, 2009
An e-mail reaches Blister Towers from the creator of the website/book Office Ball Games. If you visit the website, which I sincerely hope you do, you can download a pdf book which has in depth and hilarious instructions of how to play Office Ball Games. These fall under six broad categories: Cups, Catchy, Counters, Hops, Hopsy and Golfsy. All involve the use of a stress ball and the office
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What You'll Get
In his famous classical conditioning experiment, Ivan Pavlov proved that it's physically impossible for a Russian scientist's mouth not to water when it says the words "tuna" and "tenderloin." Moisten your own steak receptacle with today's Groupon: $15 for $35 worth of artfully plated steaks, pastas, seafood, eggs, and drinks at Clark Street Grill, located on the first floor of The Westin St. Louis Hotel.
Housed inside The Westin St. Louis Hotel, this casually upscale eatery's menu serves up California fresh fare with a contemporary twist. The morning-time breakfast menu dotes on superfoods (including blueberries, oranges, apples, nuts, and Kryptonite pancakes). Fill up on broccoli, cheese, and tomatoes in an egg-white omelette ($14), or dig into antioxidant-rich granola studded with berries and flax seeds ($9). Lunch lets cubicle escapees top a fresh farmstand baby-spinach salad ($8) with a little lemon-pepper seared salmon ($6) or indulge in a deluxe pizza ($14). Clark Street Grill's dinner menu, meanwhile, features standouts such as pasta dressed in garlic-herb cheese sauce and baby spinach ($17), beef tenderloin served in a green peppercorn demi-glace ($34), and wild mushroom grilled flat-iron steak ($26).
Exposed beams, expansive windows, and cream-colored pillars give the Clark Street Grill a cool, modern feel—making it a much more stylish and productive venue for business lunches than the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese's. With today's Groupon, you can also start your day on a healthy, non-gout-swollen foot—or stuff yourself before booking a bed in the hotel for a post-prandial snooze.
OpenTable reviewers give Clark Street Grill a 3.4 star average and Metromix St. Louis recommends it:
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About Clark Street Grill
Inside the Westin St. Louis, Clark Street Grill's open kitchen bustles as chefs craft artful, upscale plates. The tightly written menu breathes elegance into classic American dishes that flaunt innovative flavor combinations and hints of international influence. Dinner entrees spotlight delicately prepared seafood and meats, such as beef tenderloin and boneless pork chops, and lighter lunch options include sandwiches, personal pizzas, and helium soup. Guests can linger with glasses of wine in the modern dining room, which is populated with crisp white tablecloths and columns.


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++++spring 2018: these days: mixing and mastering the Scylla Album "Cinematic Mass Destruction" with Immo Wischhusen+++++
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i was on a residency in the Ciudad Abierta, Chile in Feb+March 2018. i developed a new solo program for amplified violin and collaborated with my friends of EUNK, presented the albums QUATRO+VIER and DOS TRAZOS (Óscar Santis), and held a Masterclass at the Universidad Católica de Santiago.
below is a first video of that stay (Mónada)▼
+++++May 2018+++++++
first week of May, Scylla (Johannes von Buttlar and JH) embarked on a new project with Indian musicians Imran Khan (sitar) and Hanf Khan (tabla).
we developed new music based on rhythm and melody, all scylla-style, obviously ;)
we did record with Immo Wischhusen again, so there will be something to listen/watch soon!
+++++ April/May 2018 ++++++
Haase & Rößler DUO have developed and presented a new program. video/audio editing is in process!
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kicking off a new project with pianist/singer Johanna Borchert, revisiting our classical roots and moving on from there...
first concert at Kopenhagen Jazz Festival July 15
next concerts:
1 Kiel (with DKAM)
2 Rendsburg (with DKAM)
3 Klosters (with DKAM)
4 Klosters (with DKAM)
23 Wiesbaden (with DKAM)
24 Wiesbaden (with DKAM)
3 Bremen, Duo with Johanna Borchert
10 Bremen, (with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen)
20+21 Bremen (with DKAM)
Listen to some music please and come to the concerts. it's where it happens.
Dos Trazos, the second album of Haase + Santis is out now!
"A disc where temporality and form are given through the organic needs of the moment, which takes us
into subtle states of listening, where we can manage to enter the fine interwoven fabric and the
decisions through which the music was tacken on, at the personal level, a work of brief landscaping
with an occultist essence, two strokes that propose contrasting states from the same nature,
listening and freedom."
recorded in Estudio Errante, 2017
download for free from pueblonuevos's website!
two masterpieces of chilean composer Christian Vásquez!
i am more than happy that this CD is out now, as this music and collaboration has been important for a long period of my life!
it is available now in my WEBSHOP !!!
last December i brought together some long time friends from Germany and Chile.
we recorded 2 duos and 2 quartets.
you can listen to the music here on bandcamp:
if you like it, you know what to do then:....
i spent some time in Chile this spring, collaborated with local improvisors as well as my family of Ciudad Abierta.
This is the location where we shot this video of a solo improvisation. enjoy!
in the home of THE FIRST CHURCH OF FREE MUSIC
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Stockholm Syndrome and the South
In 1973, two men with machine guns stormed a bank in Stockholm Sweden. Firing their weapons and shooting up the place, one of the men shouted, "The party has just begun!" The criminals took four hostages, tied nooses around their necks, strapped dynamite to them, and for almost 6 days held them captive in the bank vault. When the rescue attempt finally came, a curious thing happened. All four hostages sided with the kidnappers, feared the police officers, and even actively resisted their rescuers at one point. Shockingly, even after their release, the hostages continued to display sympathy for the very men who had just threatened their lives for six consecutive days. During the 1973 trial of the would-be-thieves, the freed hostages not only remained loyal by refusing to testify against them, but even went so far as to set up a fund to cover the criminal's legal fees!
I have seen the comparison drawn before of our occupation here in the South and what has since become known as "Stockholm Syndrome." In reminiscing on how I became a Southern Nationalist, it is impossible not to diagnose my former allegiances and beliefs as Stockholm syndrome. As a people, I think we would do well to examine this phenomenon from a Southern Nationalist perspective in a little more detail.
According to the Oxford dictionary, Stockholm syndrome can be defined as:
"Feelings of trust or affection felt in certain cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim toward a captor."
Another definition might read
'a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express compassion, have positive feelings toward, defend and even sometimes identify with their captors.'
Does this not describe most Murikan Southerners still stuck in the Matrix?
Sadly, many Southerners still express compassion and have unconditional positive regard for their captors. This is made evident by countless Southerners who feel it is necessary to wave, wear, or fly the federal Flag at every opportunity.
This is the equivalent of someone being kidnapped by a bunch of gangbangers and flying that gangs' colours. Not only do our people still fly the federal rag of our oppressors, but even worse, they have been brainwashed that they are Americans. They even promote the defending of the abductors that are flat pickpocketing them and threatening their very lives.
Unfortunately, Southerners are always disproportionately represented in the U.S. military. Although some of these figures are outdated, it relays the general trend.
So what causes Stockholm syndrome? According to clinical psychologist Dr Joseph Carver, four contributing factors are involved:
- The presence of a perceived threat to one's physical or psychological survival and the belief that the abuser would carry out the threat.
- The presence of a perceived small kindness from the abuser to the victim
- Isolation from perspectives other than those of the abuser
- The perceived inability to escape the situation
The presence of a perceived threat and indeed the carrying out of those threats are too numerous to mention here. Involuntary taxation, confiscation of property, NSA wire-tapping, TSA abuse, ad nauseam, just to name a few. Really as Southerners, all we have to do is recall our first War for Southern Independence to remember how America really feels about us as a people.
The presence of a perceived small kindness can take many forms. For example for every dollar that we here in Florida send to the Beast in Washington, we only get 90 cents back. In the form of categorical grants and formula grants, we are then told what to spend it on and when to do it. Here in Orange County, Florida it is well know that the police have to keep crime up at a certain level in order to receive federal money. To any rational individual not suffering from Stockholm syndrome this is insane. Keep crime levels up to receive more money? In the diseased irrational mind however, 'this is kindness.'
Isolation from perspective other than those of the abuser is easily achieved by our captors simply because- they control the media. They control the narrative. Even an educated, critical thinking Southerner will have a hard time eating a constant diet of Fox News and not come to identify with their captor, the United States of America- regardless of their roots or dialect.
Lastly, people suffering from Stockholm syndrome have the irrational belief and perceived inability to escape a horrible situation. To be fair, even some who rightly see themselves as being held hostage might still hold this irrational belief. However, escape is entirely within our grasp.
The good news is that to some degree the leftist U.S. system will do a lot of our work for us. They will keep self-destructing until Murikan Southerners understand that the empire's threats are in large part only authorized because of people's paralyzing yet unwarranted fear of them. Secondly, those sparse 'acts of kindness' will disappear as the Titanic begins sinking. As we pull more and more Southerners out of the Matrix, re-educate them, and give them their identity back; they must in turn do the same for those still under our enemies spell. Every rehabilitated Southerner will become an exponential influencer until our Folk are increasingly defiant.
When just a small number of our people once again see themselves as Southerners- citizen soldiers of Dixie- and are defiant, big things will happen. Identity and Independence will no longer be thought of as a perceived inability to escape- but a reality.


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Join members in South Queensferry for campaigning on Saturday 18th March at 10am. Contact our candidate, Bruce, on 07944928702 for more information.
Don't worry if you've never done anything like this before, we'll explain exactly what to do and team you up with someone experienced.
- March 18, 2017 at 10am – 1pm
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At Village Carpets, you will find an unparalleled range of plain cut pile carpets on display. From 80/20 wool twists to carpets made from synthetic stain-free fibres such as polypropylene, we have 1000's of different plain carpets in every colour!
Loop Piles, often called berbers, originates from the handmade, bulky wool carpet made by the Berber tribes of
At Village Carpets, you will find a variety of colours and designs, providing a textured alternative to plain cut pile carpets. North Africa. Although many are still made from 100% wool, some are either blended with, or made entirely from, Polypropylene.
As with all carpets, bear in mind which room the carpets is for. A short, tight loop may not be the most comfortable underfoot but resists flattening and marking, making it idea for stairs and other heavy traffic areas.
There are two types of patterned carpets; those that are woven and those that are printed. Patterned carpets are more varied than plains, as you have a wide choice in both pattern and colour.
Made from natural plant fibres and sourced from around the world, natural floorings such as seagrass, sisal and coir are the latest trend on show at Village Carpets.
Coir is produced from the husks of coconut shells and arguably the most rustic looking product on display. Its texture is coarse and wiry making it the perfect choice for high traffic area such as halls or stairs.
Seagrass is harvested from flooded paddy fields and spun into a strong yet simple weave. Due to its waxy texture, Seagrass is not suitable for stairs.
The final natural on display is the incredibly hard wearing Sisal. With a wide range in colours and textures, sisal can be fitted anywhere in the house.
Village Carpets are proud to display bespoke flatweave manufacturer Roger Oates and are the registered supplier for Cheshire and Lancashire.
For sisal and natural looking stair runners, take a look at Mellau.


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Let The Treasure-Hunt Begin!
WonderWorks has hidden rocks, can you find them?
WonderWorks invites you to a game of chance or is it just luck? Keep an eye out on our Hidden Rocks promotions as we will change them up often! Did you find a rock? Tag us on Facebook of you holding the rock and bring the rock into WonderWorks to get your 2 free tickets!
WonderWorks is celebrating SUMMER SOLSTICE and hiding themed rocks all around town!
Fun Facts:
Other planets also experience a Summer Solstice. Mars' solstice is just a few days after Earth's.
Also, the Earth is actually at its farthest from the sun during the solstice.


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The International Functional Fitness Federation (iF3) announced that USA Functional Fitness (USAFF) is the national governing body for functional fitness in the United States. The USAFF is the first governing body of the iF3.
The USAFF will be hosting the first USA Functional Fitness National Championships on September 8-10, 2017, at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The results of this competition will determine the 12 men and 12 women who make the first Team USA for functional fitness.
That team will then compete one month later in October at the iF3 World Championships, hosted in California.
James Fitzgerald, chairman of USAFF, said, "I am honored to help develop USAFF from the ground up. With the support of iF3, our mission is to standardize a consistent competition platform, domestically and internationally, for functional fitness."
He continued, "We will establish a sport deserving of the Olympic Rings and enticing to its athletes and fans around the world." Based on that comment, it appears that the intent of the iF3 and USAFF is to get functional fitness into the Olympics.
Registration to become a member of USAFF is now open. Members are able to register for the upcoming National Championships.
As for the iF3, former CrossFit Games athlete Gretchen Kittelberger is President. John Mustafa, Chief Ref of the NPGL, is Secretary, and Brenton Stone, Kittelberger's boyfriend, is Treasurer.
Stay tuned to The Barbell Spin as we will update you as we find out more.


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The Interdisciplinary Summer School on Neuroimaging (ISSN) 2018
Summer School of , 5 ECTSHealth care, social services, and care services Interdisciplinary Studies Mathematics, natural- and computer science
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Cognitive neuroscience is an emerging interdisciplinary field of study, which is concerned with the neural substrate of mental processes. It is at the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and neuroscience, combining theories of cognitive psychology with modern neuroscience methodologies. The aim of this course is to give students an understanding of modern theories of brain organization and functioning and how these relate to cognitive processes in both healthy and pathological populations. A specific focus this year will be on the bi-directional relationship between psychosocial factors and diseases. Thus, we will investigate mechanisms of various diseases including heart disease, cancer, mental diseases and the common cold. This will give the students an in-depth understanding of the strengths and shortcomings of a wide variety of approaches in the investigation of brain-cognition processes
The students will be evaluated on a literature review and research proposal based on a pre-determined topic done in small groups in which they will need to apply theories and methodologies relevant to the field of cognitive neuroscience. At the end of the course, students will present their projects. Our International guest lecturer will be Professor Yori Gidron. Yori Gidron trained in Israel and later in Canada and has taught in Israel, Portugal, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom. He is now a professor at the Free Dutch-speaking University of Brussels in Behavioral Medicine studying health and biological psychology and cancer. In his research, he has focused on the function of the vagus nerve and has shown in several high impact studies that the activity of this nerve plays an important role in the prediction of the outcome of the cancer. The course will be very interactive and include ongoing search tasks and debates. At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Present and discuss theoretical backgrounds of cognitive psychology and neuroscience and their relationship
- Describe common research methods within the field of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and neuroscience.
- Evaluate findings within the field of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
- Critically review scientific publications dealing with cognitive neuroscience.
You can find more information on the programme here www.au.dk/summeruniversity
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POT TV – New buds on episode 147 of Hash Church.
After clearing the smoke on false hope, the discussion turns to symptom management and palliative issues. Suppositories are handled with care, and the need for physician education is explored. Cannabis specialization separation, the need for the expansion and inclusion of craft cannabis, pediatric use, hemp as animal feed, oil infusions, opiate substitution, cannabis and pregnancy, sexuality and sexual health, and much more grows on Hash Church episode 147.
Guests include Dr. Natasha Ryz Natasha, Hilary Black, Dr. Marcia Gillman, Sarah Russo, Selena Wong, Wendy Turner, Anndrea Hermann, Rosy Mondin, Nishi Whiteley, Natasha Raey, Amanda Siebert, Erin Prosk, Dr. Amanda Reiman, PhD, Dr. Adie Poe, PhD, and Jenna Valleriani.


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Going Batty
On March 12, my Girl Scout Troop went on a trip to the Lincoln Caverns in Pennsylvania. The first day, we went on a tour called "Going Batty". On that trip, we learned all about bats. Did you know that bats only have one child a year? Also, bats are very helpful to people. Do you know how you hate when bugs bother you? Well, bats eat them. In addition, lots of bats are dying because of a foreign disease called White Nose. Since the bats are dying, more bugs are able to disturb us.
If you see a bat in your home, don't panic. Just wait for it to land, put a bowl over it, and slide something under it to carry it outside and let it go. Another thing you probably think is that all bats drink blood. But that's not true, only vampire bats do!
When I went to the caves, there weren't many bats. Did you know it takes 100 years for just one cubic inch of a big rock in the cave to grow? Caves take a long time to form. Can you guess how many years the cave we were in took to grow? It took 37 million years for some of the cave. A little bit of the cave is only 11 million years old and 580 feet deep, but they haven't discovered it yet. The rocks form in many different types of ways such as popcorn, bacon, grapes, beads, flowers, and cave coral. Caves are formed by the water that once upon a time filled up the area known as the cave. Another cool fact about the cave is that some of the cave glows.
In conclusion, I had a great adventure and I would love to go back. We made really cool houses for the bats, and we got to make the Girl Scout classic s'mores! It was an awesome trip.
Contributor: Nailah
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