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- EFY flier to copy for YW
- Old notebook for kids to draw in
- Empty package of mini M&M's
- Empty package of trail mix
- Five sheets of scratch paper colored on by kids
- "Water WOW" doodle book with Disney princesses and water-filled paintbrush
- Partial package of Pip-Squeak markers that are mostly dried out
- 24 Crayons
- YW binder
- Sketchbook with my YW lesson in it
- Full-sized Quad
- Invitation to General Women's Conference
- Strawberry Shortcake notebook
- Empty barf bag(you never know when you might need it)
- Post-it note pad
- Dirty napkin
- A rock (?!)
- Church keys
- Mini kleenex pack
- Two pens--make that 3 pens
- One mechanical pencil
- Travel-size bottle of Advil
- "Monumints" from the Statue of Liberty
- Three Benadryl-D
- Pack of gum
- One highlighter
- Two hairbands
- Tithing slip receipt
- Ice Breakers Energy mints (they have caffeine in them! It's taking me forever to use them up. I didn't realize I was buying caffeine mints at the time I bought them. Is it bad to carry them with me at church?)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
This and That
Posted by Kim at 3:03 PM
4 comments:
- Becky said...
I love the color of your bag too! And I wonder how a rock got in there... hmmm. As for the caffeine mints, I subscribe to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Loving the fall background, by the way. It is giving me hope that the end of the heat is almost here!
- September 9, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- Carrie said...
Hey Kim, I know I have tons of catching up to do and I will soon I will. I'm at my new job right now and finished my work hours ago but have to stay till ten. Looking at your blog I miss you guys. The kids look so cute on their first days! I cried forever when my girls left, and Trent laughed at me, nice. I'll fill you in on my blog soon. Love you!!!!
- September 9, 2008 at 7:50 PM
- Annee said...
From the aerial view, I would not have guessed so many treasures were inside. Yes, it had lots of stuff in it, but mostly I'm impressed with how much useful stuff you had. Mine would be filled mostly with trash and crumbs, therefore I will most likely not post the true contents. Not to mention that your bag is much cuter than mine :)
- September 9, 2008 at 8:46 PM
- Coon Family said...
Love the leaf border!!
- September 11, 2008 at 7:23 AM


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Eager for a share of the spotlight and hot on the heels of a cancelled Australian tour, Ayaan Hirsi Ali saw fit to voice her opinion again today and contribute to the already high levels of scrutiny facing Australia's Muslim community. She was quoted as saying that authorities need to more effectively "assimilate" Muslim migrants in Australia and prevent "Islamists" and "would-be extremists" from arriving. Hirsi Ali was scheduled to give a series of talks this week but cancelled suddenly just hours before she was due to arrive. She cited "security concerns", much to the perplexion of police, the AFP and security agencies who all stated that there were no known threats against her.
Unfazed by the cancellation, Hirsi Ali decided to stir the pot with more vitriol in an interview with Sydney radio agitator Alan Jones on Wednesday. She stated that the government needed to intervene to stop "extremists" from preying on young men in religious schools and promoting their "attitude of hostility" towards Australian society. She said:
The national government should start first by developing effective programs to assimilate those Muslims who are already accepted into Australia, those with citizenship, those with permanent residency, those with visas.
When it comes to those who are not in the country, I think the government is responsible to the citizens of Australia to make sure that Islamists do not come to Australia.
I think the ideas of freedom, of tolerance, of equality, of free enterprise – these ideas are superior to the ideas of total submission to a god who demands that of forcing women to completely submit to men, the intolerance toward people of other religions, the homicidal attitude to homosexuals. This is what Sharia law, what Islamic law, advocates.
She continued, saying "We used to talk of minorities but I am not sure that people with Islamist attitudes are any longer minorities".
While it is easy to reject Hirsi Ali for the demagogue she is, it is important to note that she has friends in important and influential places in Australia.
Notorious journalist Andrew Bolt was so upset by the cancellation of her visit that it warranted an opinion piece from him. Regarding the protests from Muslim women stating that Hirsi Ali was the real extremist, putting the lives of Muslims in danger every day, Bolt bizarrely defended Hirsi Ali saying "What an astonishing inversion. Suddenly Hirsi Ali, whose life is in danger, is the real extremist."
While disagreeing with Pauline Hanson's "Muslim ban" proposal, Hirsi Ali has gone on the record supporting her "burka ban", encouraging a greater policing of Muslim women's dress which she has likened to a "swastika".
In an interview with Channel 7 this week, Hirsi Ali stated "the burqa that covers the face and that is really very much in your face … that is just like the ISIS flag, it's like wearing a very big swastika."
Comments like these come at a time when the One Nation Party is riding a wave of populist, nationalist "resurgence" in Australia. Politicians like Hanson use people like Hirsi Ali as justification for their views, never mind the latter's extremely chequered history and having been outed as a liar.
Hirsi Ali: a profligate liar and stirrer of anti-Muslim sentiment
Among Hirsi Ali's famous lies include her notorious made-up statistic that ""If you look at 70 percent of the violence in the world today, Muslims are responsible," and in a 2007 interview with Reason she told her interviewer that it wasn't only "radical Islam" that needed to be defeated, saying, "No. Islam, period [needs to be defeated]. Once it's defeated, it can mutate into something peaceful. It's very difficult to even talk about peace now. They're not interested in peace."
In a 2009 essay, Hirsi Ali criticised President Obama for denouncing "Islamic extremism without once associating Islam with extremism."
Ali has built a well-earning career for herself, founded on the back of unjust criticism and outright lies against Islam. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia and says she endured female genital mutilation, fled civil war, an arranged marriage to "a draconian Muslim man" that supposedly took place behind her back and death threats from her family ("for offending their religious honor") before fleeing to the Netherlands.
There, she became a parliamentarian for a time. This "heoroic" tale is marred by the truth which is that she had never witnessed any civil war, is verified as having been at her wedding by her own brother, aunt and former husband and that her "draconian Muslim" husband paid her way to Europe and later granted her a divorce. As for the death threats from her family, the story glues rather poorly with the fact that she kept contact with her father, aunt AND ex-husband (who visited her in the Dutch refugee center where she lived after leaving him).
"Yeah, I made up the whole thing," Hirsi Ali admitted on camera to a reporter who exposed her lies. "I said my name was Ayaan Hirsi Ali instead of Ayaan Hirsi Magan. I also said I was born in 1967 while I was actually born in 1969."
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James was a full head and shoulders taller than me, with black hair tousled loose from his conservative hair style just before he walked into the bar. He had the broad shoulders and soft, thick middle of a former athlete who could still do well in a Saturday afternoon game of touch football. His eyes were a light, surprising green over his short, boyish nose.
I hadn't been able to see his eyes well in the photo he'd sent me the day before: James on a boat somewhere, a drink in his hand, a broad smile under his sunglasses. I liked him immediately.
An hour and a round of margaritas later, we fled the terrible music of the bar where we'd met up for the peace of a lovely park a half-mile away. We sat in my front seat and talked about movies we loved while a lit fountain burbled up in front of us. I put my right hand on his thigh. He covered it with his left. He was wearing his wedding ring.
I never met a man from Ashley Madison who ever took his ring off.
The release of private user information from the Ashley Madison hack has raised a lot of questions. Some questions about recognizable names are trumpeted from news sources that don't usually make infidelity rumors front page news.
Most of those questions are being painfully asked and answered by couples in their own homes – with more than 30 million registered users outed, the famous ones are the few. One of the questions I have seen asked over and over in the comments section of any article is: What kind of woman signs up for Ashley Madison?
I do. I did. I made an account in 2014 and met a half dozen married and partnered men for sex. If there's such a person as "Ashley Madison," I'm her.
I don't look or act the way you may think I do. I'm cute, not beautiful, in my early 30s. I have a corporate career. I don't have an Instagram account or take duck-faced selfies. I have never owned any piece of clothing with writing across the ass. Most of the times I met with married men for drinks or lunch, I'm sure they looked like a business meetings, not dates, to outsiders.
Women like me were rarer on Ashley Madison than the company liked to actively represent to male users, but I'm not special.
Before I signed up for Ashley Madison, I'd never so much as had an unsanctioned drunken smooch, even in a long-distance relationship in my early 20s.
I loved sexual variety and adventure when I was single, but when I was in a relationship all of that energy focused inward on my partner. We would become each other's undiscovered countries; I never got tired of exploring anyone I was ever with.
I wasn't one of those people who just can't stay monogamous no matter what part of life infidelity burns down around them. I was the opposite. I craved to sexually grow and learn with one man.
For the first two months I dated the man who would become my fiancé, I also dated other people. I was adamantly clear about it; I wanted him to understand the boundaries of our relationship.
He accepted that, told me he'd wait as long as I wanted, but that he'd also known from our first date that he didn't want to be with anyone but me. We had wonderful sex, a passionate connection and craving for each other that soon made me lose interest in anyone else.
After we became exclusive, I spent half my nights at his place. We'd have sex until we fell asleep and again when we woke up. We were a great match. I had finally found the man who could be my friend and partner in and out of the bedroom.
While I knew from experience that the frenetic frequency of the first months would mellow out, it never occurred to me that sex would be a problem for us.
Within a year, we lived together. Within a year, we had gone from sex four or five times a week to sex once or twice a month. He went from happily helping me get off in other ways when he didn't feel like intercourse to complaining that taking the five to 10 minutes it usually took for me to have an orgasm was going to make him late for work or late to sleep.
His life was full of school, work, and family stress. It was so easy to slide down the slope of both of us making excuses. He fixated on improving his education to advance his career, but everything was seeping into more hopeless places for him.
Where my sexuality had always been a great comfort and relief of stress for me, his sank deeper into his personal darkness with each day.
We talked openly about whether or not he was depressed. Both of us had lived with partners before who had clinical depression; both of us thought he was only down because of his circumstances.
He still got up every day, went to school, went to work. He enjoyed some of the things he did before, though he grew less open and more irritable, especially when under pressure.
I loved him so fearsomely. We had awful sex where he had a pained expression on his face the whole time. I fought for our relationship. I stopped taking hormonal birth control and switched back to condoms because we only had sex every two or three months. We got engaged and joyfully planned a wedding for which we never set a date.
Three years later, I took my engagement ring off and slipped it into a tiny box in my purse before I met green-eyed James for margaritas.
I used Ashley Madison because having sex with a man who was already with someone else was the best way to make sure he would be discreet and less likely to get attached to me.
I never wanted to have a romantic relationship with a married man, definitely not one that would divert any of his emotional energy away from his family.
I didn't want to date anyone, waste his time when I was deeply in love with someone it was impossible to be with in the way that I wanted. If we both started off with equal needs and expectations, it was easier to control damage for people neither of us wanted to hurt.
I needed to have some kind of pressure valve for the physical ache that I felt not having sexual contact with another person. I masturbated multiple times a day, when I could get the privacy. If masturbation were enough, the human race would have gone extinct 20 years after the invention of the AA battery.
I needed to control my frustration until my fiancé either got help or could live without my total financial and emotional support. I've never been more grateful to not have kids.
For every man I met up with from Ashley Madison, I talked to 10 where nothing but a little flirtation happened. Every man I talked to said he'd gone through dozens of inactive (or maybe never active) women's profiles and that few of the women who answered their messages actually wanted to meet.
If you found a friend or lover's e-mail address in the leak, from my experience, there's a better chance nothing ever happened than that it did. Savvier men used e-mail addresses for Ashley Madison that they didn't use for anything else.
Before I made my Ashley Madison profile, I read every relationship advice column I could find, looking for some kind of answer. I read dozens that calmly explained to people in my position that health issues, stress, and depression were to blame; improved diet and exercise, patience, and therapy were the solution.
Not one told me how long to wait, what percentage of our life together we could live before I could consider "terribly dysfunctional" to be our real sex life and the first, functional months to be the aberration.
All of them told me to break up with him when he repeatedly refused to go to therapy with me or to discuss opening up our relationship so I could have my needs met without cheating.
None of them told me what to do if breaking up meant derailing him in school, probably forever, because he would no longer have my financial support and didn't have any other viable options. None of them told me what I felt in the ache in my stomach, which is that fidelity can be broken by letting a sexual relationship die as much as it can by starting a new one with someone else.
I never found an answer. This was the best I could do.


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Inadequate mathematical teaching in early childhood settings has been attributed to the lack of curriculum implementation and professional development, with little consideration of teachers? needs in the classroom. Here, we explored preschool teachers? perspectives, their current practices, challenges, and needs regarding early math education. This study involved a survey and two rounds of teacher interviews. Results indicated that few teachers used published curricula regularly. Rather, most adopted a mix-and-match approach, selecting some activities and not others. Teachers expressed a sense of sufficiency and satisfaction with their current practices; however, they also pointed out challenges they face in early math education, including diversity of children?s needs, limited time and resources, and the inadequacy of support for meeting standards set by the state. We suggest that researchers consider teachers? needs prior to the development of curricula and training programs.
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"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
- Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
Authors have the incredible ability of arousing emotion from the first word in Chapter One to the last before The End. As an avid reader myself, I've always loved escaping through the pages of a new book only to discover something new about myself at the end. On February 6th, book lovers gathered at the Fairmont Royal York for the 9th Book Lover's Ball with Canada's top literary talents for Toronto Public Library. Some of the authors in attendance at the black-tie fundraiser included: Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians), Andrew Pyper (The Demonologist), Neil Pasricha (The Book of Awesome) and Kevin O'Leary (Cold Hard Truth on Family, Kids & Money).
Our favourite part of this unforgettable evening was the novel inspired entertainment which consisted of the following:
Empress of the State (Dresses designed by Caras)
The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Returned & Intolerable
The Hunger Games (Dresses designed by Ines Di Santo)
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text: It's back to school for Esso's David Anderson David Anderson, Esso Australia's Longford Plants Manager, stepped out of his safety boots and into the classroom at Longford Primary School for the 16th annual Principal For A Day (PFAD) event on 8 September 2016. It was a familiar experience for David to walk the halls of Longford Primary as a former student of the school. "I recall my years at Longford Primary very fondly and to be able to go back and share some of the experiences and learnings I have had in my career is extremely gratifying," said David. Kiley Cunningham, Principal of Longford Primary, ensured David was put through his paces as guest Principal For A Day. "The day provided us with an excellent opportunity to enable a local business leader to gain a unique insight into the learning environment at our school. David participated in a variety of activities such as meeting with student representatives to discuss leadership opportunities in the work place, speaking to senior students about career pathways and co-teaching a maths class on statistics and probability," said Kiley. "At Longford Primary School, we relish the opportunity to engage students in the marvels of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) so having David here to share real life examples of how STEM skills are used in the work place has been most beneficial for our staff and students. We are very fortunate to have the continued support of Esso through this and other programs, as it allows us to maintain a STEM program that meets the changing needs of our students in the 21st century," added Kiley. For Esso, inspiring future generations to think about maths and science as a career pathway is a key focus of its community investment program. "Esso places a tremendous amount of focus on STEM education and we have a long standing tradition of investing in our local schools to play our part in fostering the next generation of STEM leaders. Participating in Principal For A Day is another opportunity for us to promote the importance of maths and science education to local students," added David. Principal For A Day is delivered by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in partnership with the Victorian Department of Education and Training (through the Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership).


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We build futures by preparing today's students for tomorrow's opportunities.
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We will strive for excellence and success for all stakeholders,
We will lead by example through serving others,
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Emporia Public Schools will build a culture that guarantees success for all.
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- Maintain a plan that consistently moves every student to read on or above grade level by end of third grade, and monitor and support a plan of action that will maintain or improve that level of excellence at subsequent grade levels while effectively supporting students not reading at grade level.
- Improve and assure an effective culture for learning with all students, parents, staff, and community members.
- Rank consistently in the top quartile of Kansas and national school districts within the next five years for students prepared to be college and career ready.
- Maintain a technology infrastructure and protocols to facilitate the classroom integration of electronic tools for students and staff.
- Maintain and enhance strategic planning to effectively use fiscal, human, and community resources.
Student Achievement
The Emporia schools have a strong academic focus. They offer accelerated and advanced-placement classes as well as assistance for students at-risk of failing. Test scores on state and national assessments and achievement tests are at or above state and national averages.
Scores on college entrance tests taken by high school students are at or above state and national averages. More than two-thirds of the graduating seniors go on to post-high school training at universities, colleges and technical schools.
See the Kansas State Department of Education web site for achievement data and demographic information about the district and individual schools. Building Report Cards, published annually for all Emporia schools, also can be found on this KSDE site.
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- Approximately 4,600 students
- Approximately 1,200 employees in preK-12 district and federal employees
- $41.7 million operating budget
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Yay another chapter of one of my fav Tezuka manga's, Midnight. As usual Midnight is the best and another Tezuka character happens to make a cameo in this chapter so that is also pretty cool to see ^^. Anywho, here is the second chapter of V.2 of Midnight.
GRZ Release #0016: Midnight V.2 Ch.10
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Having heard about the link between red meat diet and heart disease and cancer, you may have decided to cut it out of your diet completely. And that is good for you!
However, stop before you decide to ditch red meat completely; especially if you are aiming to lose weight, meat in diet can be beneficial.
The bad name that meat has received relates more to fatty cuts of meat and processed products such as bacon, ham and sausages, as not only are these high in fat, but those that have been cured contain chemicals that are linked to cell damage and the development of cancer. So while yes, we should be avoiding these sorts of meat, unprocessed lean red meat can be eaten in moderation without worry.
Here we look at the benefits that meat in diet can bring for weight loss.
Meat diet contains a lot of protein; a 3 oz steak will provide you with just under 25 g, which is a significant proportion of our daily requirement – this is based on weight and is usually 1 g per kilogram of body weight, but drops to 0.75 g when body mass index rises above 30.
Like fiber, protein is known to help induce feelings of fullness; exactly what you need when your goal is to shed your excess pounds. This is one reason why high protein diets are popular, though these promote a reduction in carbohydrate such as bread, pasta and potatoes, which isn't necessarily good news, as these are the body's preferred source of energy, so you can be left feeling lethargic.
Including red meat in diet as part of a balanced meal a number of times each week can help you work towards your goal; have poultry, fish, eggs or pulses (peas, beans and lentils) for lunch and dinner on the other days, as these are also good filling sources of protein.
Cutting back on your calorie intake can in itself make you tired and when feeling like this you might be more inclined to reach for something sugary to try to pick up your energy levels, which can put pay to your efforts if this happens regularly; you are also less likely to exercise, which can make weight loss slower.
However, if you become anemic this can compound the problem. The most common cause of anemia is due to iron deficiency, which prevents the red blood cells being able to transport oxygen around the body, needed for the release of energy.
Iron is provided by a range of foods in the diet, but red meat is undoubtedly the richest source. What's more, the body is able to absorb this iron much more easily than it can that derived from plant sources such as green vegetables, dried fruit and beans.
Vegetarians can still obtain sufficient iron, but they need to work harder to do so to take into account their body can't take up as much from the food they eat; while avoiding tea and coffee, as well as including vitamin C rich foods at meals can help their iron uptake, this does not fully compensate.
One of the amino acids in the protein in red meat, known as l-carnitine, helps the body to use fat as a fuel rather than relying primarily on carbohydrate to release energy. This encourages the body to use its fat reserves, helping you to see the pounds come off. While the body is able to produce l-carnitine naturally in the kidneys and liver, providing extra in the diet provides a helping hand to your weight loss attempts; additional sources include dairy foods, chicken and fish.
Through the amino acids action it also helps with the release of energy, ensuring that you can participate fully in whatever exercise you choose to boost your dietary efforts. For anyone advised to lose weight to benefit their heart health l-carnitine can provide cardio-protective benefits by helping to reduce cholesterol levels and reduce the amount of fat surrounding the heart.
Additionally meat diet is rich in antioxidants that help to protect the blood vessels by preventing injury caused by free radicals; these substances are produced during reactions in the body and can damage the cells if not mopped up by antioxidants, which are additionally provided by fruit and vegetables. It is possible to purchase l-carnitine capsules, so is an option for vegetarians looking for a weight loss supplement.
While a balanced diet, portion control and regular exercise are vital for weight loss, there is no reason why you still can't include lean red meat in your diet two or three times each week and as you can see, doing so can bring with it additional benefit.
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MIAMI. — Miami--So, everyone old enough remembers exactly where he was when the news was flashed of the attack on Pearl Harbor, eh? Not quite. Fifty years later, my family is arguing about it.
My father insists he was at the Polo Grounds in New York on December 7, 1941, watching a National Football League game between the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers. Until recently, that claim went unchallenged. But several years ago my mother interrupted the telling of his story to claim that both she and he were at my Uncle Charlie's place.
This has unnerved my father. When I brought it up to him again last weekend, his face turned red and he responded authoritatively. ''Don't tell me where I was; I know where I was. I was in the Polo Grounds, watching the Giants and Packers! I'll tell you how I know. The first announcement on the public address system wasn't that Pearl Harbor was attacked, but was a call for Wild Bill Donovan (an intelligence aide to Franklin Roosevelt). The next announcement was a call to all servicemen at the game to return to their posts. Now, you wouldn't have heard that at Uncle Charlie's place, would you?''


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Hello again! Remember last week when I showed you the holster I made for my Malcom Reynolds Cosplay?
And the little sneak peak of the gun inside? Well, I'm here today to show you how I painted the gun! I did a really quick job on it (ran out of time before the con and all), but I was happy with it's results as a cosplay piece.
To start, I had a resin prop that my mother in law purchased for me for Christmas one year. You can occasionally find it on Amazon (here, affiliate link), though you should be aware that it isn't really the best replica. However, since it spent the entire day in the holster, and I didn't want to bring my more expensive replica, which I would have been livid if I broke or lost, I figured it was a good compromise for the con. I started out with a purely white resin gun.
I didn't put on the screws that go near the front (you'll see those in a minute) since I had a hard time finding something that would adhere and stay adhered. The first step was to file down all of the mold seams and paint the whole thing black. Remember before when I said I was running out of time? Well… I didn't take pictures because of that either. I was more concerned with getting everything done than properly documenting it at the time. I tried to do a mock up to show what the gun might look like in Photoshop, but there were too many blue tones to get a decent mock up. So, you'll just have to use your imagination.
Then I pulled out all my metallic paints and thought about what colors I wanted use, how they matched up with the painted replica I had, and realized that I didn't have time to paint it. Oh no! What was I going to do! I couldn't not have a gun after I went through all that work on the holster!
Never fear! Rub 'n Buff is here! Seriously guys, I used my antique gold Rub 'n Buff for the barrel, some silver Rub 'n Buff for the trigger mechanism and screws, and a bit of leather brown paint from Reaper for the leather grip. The whole thing took me about 20 minutes to paint. It's not the fanciest paint job in the world, but I was really happy with the end product for the effort.
I also happen to own the QmX replica, so you can see the difference between the two below. The bottom one is the QmX and the upper one is the one I painted. You'll notice that there are some pretty big differences in proportions between the two, plus on the QmX one you can see the screws. The antique gold Rub 'n Buff is a bit more gold than the QmX replica, but it's a good enough facsimile for me. Like I said, I'd rather have something that's not quite right on me if I were to break it or lose it at the con.
Seriously though, the whole thing took me less than an hour to sand, prime, and buff. For that kind of effort, I'll take it! Next up, I'll show you the whole Malcom Reynolds Costume! I had two cosplays that I wore to the Con though, and both were gender benders. I'll leave you to muse on what the other outfit was in the meantime. I can't wait to show you all the final project!
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The trip to Zanzibar was terrific. It took 2 hours from JKIA Nairobi to Dar Es Salam by air and an extra 2 hours to Zanzibar by the Kilimanjaro speed boat. We however had a layover in Dar for the night. The cab guy we met at the airport showed us a budget hotel not so far from the airport. We were to fly out to Zanzibar island the next morning but when we got to the airport, the dates on the tickets had been swapped. Which meant we had not been booked on that flight at all. We tried calling the flight office back in Nairobi but being the holidays their offices were closed. Plan B was to get to the island by speed boat which is by far the best thing that could have happened. The view as you approach Zanzibar by boat is out of this world!
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All the political (and I mean purely political) blaming the failure of a significant percentage of health insurance cooperatives on the Obama administration (or the new regulatory environment or even the failure for reinsurance/risk adjustment/risk corridor to prop them up enough) is very ridiculous. But before I go there, let me start with some background.
To promote new competition in the states, Congress authorized the CO-OP (Consumer-Operated and Oriented Plans) program to help establish member-owned and governed nonprofits as new players in local health insurance markets. Formed in the same way that many health care, telephone and electric power cooperatives were begun in the 1930s, the program had been strongly pushed by numerous groups who wanted more options for buyers purchasing health insurance on the individual and group markets.
At the start, there was a pool of $6 billion budgeted within the Affordable Care Act for two purposes: provide federal loans for start-up costs and a second fund that would act as collateral to cover solvency concerns that state Departments of Insurance might raise as they become operational. While that sounds like a ton of money, we are talking about health insurance companies. By the end of 2012, 23 start-up cooperatives to sell health insurance were authorized and approximately $2 billion was promised — about $87 million per entity.
Also see: "Reinsurance Direct removes brokers from stop-loss equation."
That still sounds like a ton of money. Until you consider volume: 25,000 members with an average premium of $320 per month is $96 million in premium volume. If you are an actuary or underwriter, your natural assumption is that you are going to lose money and have $125 million in claims that first year.
That would leave the average cooperative with no money to cover administrative costs: employees to do customer service, provider negotiations, and sales and marketing; technology to pay claims, support customer service and bill customers (which were higher than usual because most of them couldn't afford to buy their own systems); rent, electricity and other utilities; and pay commissions to the agents who were often the ground marketing force for these entities.
But even if they performed better than expected, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners the average "net income" of a health insurer in America in 2013 was approximately 2.2% of premium. With its 25,000 members, this relatively low-membership cooperative would have approximately $2.1 million to pay back start-up loans to the federal government, and to put money into reserves.
Long-term consequences
By comparison, Blue Shield of California in 2014 had about 3.4 million lives covered, 5,000 employees with a total of $13.6 billion in revenue (about $333 per life, per month in revenue, which is a very simplistic calculation). That company ended the year with $4.2 billion in reserves, or about 30% of their annual revenue.
So why is all this important? Because the first rule with any start-up is this: when your biggest backer pulls back what they promise, there's going to be consequences to your long term financial viability.
Remember that I said the original amount budgeted in 2010 for these start-up loans and solvency funds started at $6 billion. A political deal cut in 2011 had reduced that fun to only $3.4 billion, leaving it with about $1.4 billion in December 2012 after HHS had loaned out approximately $2 billion. The remaining funds were to be used as solvency reserves and to help the co-ops survive the first few years of operation.
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The death of the cooperatives was sounded when a second broad budget compromise was struck between the White House and Congress in January 2013, a part of which included a second significant reduction to the fund, leaving only $200 million, or about $8.7 million per entity.
The cookie jar had been raided, and now there was no money to left for the hard times.
Conspiracy theories
Now there are a million conspiracies about why all this happened, the biggest of which is that the carriers didn't really want more competition in their markets, or the providers realized their future was in owning their own entities and not being tied up by the arcane ownership issues with the cooperatives. It wasn't the Republicans that killed them, since every budget deal included the White House and Democratic leadership. Nor can anyone say that their failure was a natural outcome from the Affordable Care Act's overregulation (another topic for another day) or bad executive leadership at the cooperatives.
The reality is that the CO-OPs could not overcome the most vital aspect of our insurance infrastructure: maintaining adequate reserves. With little access to finance markets and even less collateral, if there isn't any money in the bank to pay claims when they come (and they will come), then no insurance company can survive.
The cooperatives that have failed (either by their own business decision or that of their state insurance department) are the natural result of good intentions not being supported with the promise of the money you need to survive. When your financial legs are cut out from under you, you can't endure.
Let's own that they were set up to fail, and nothing else.
Smith is vice president, health & welfare benefits, at Ebenconcepts in Fayetteville, N.C. Reach him at email@example.com.
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Why not open credit spreads and iron condors on the SPX, the S&P 500 index, instead of the SPY an ETF?
Question: Given that the SPY is essentially 1/10 of SPX what is the point of having spreads on both? You need to buy and sell 10 times as many options on SPY to have a trade equivalent to a SPX credit spread so the commissions are worse. The tax treatment is worse. And the options are American, so there is at least the possibility of being stuck with early assignment on the short options.
Answer: Trading credit spreads on the SPX, the S&P 500 index, is like the Roach Hotel….you can check in, but you can't check out. Opening credit spreads on the SPX seems to be just fine and it feels great to bring in a solid 9% premium on a 90% probability spread that has less than 30 days to expiration. However, even though there is a lot of liquidity on the SPX options, it doesn't act like it where if our trade gets into trouble, it will cost 20% to 30% of our risk capital to make an adjustment, such as rolling it into the same month or rolling it into the following month. In other words, we won't have many chances to roll our spread if it gets into trouble and we'll pretty much be taking a 50% to 60% loss after rolling it just 2 times, which is not good. When trading credit spreads on the RUT, for example, if our spreads unexpectedly go in-the-money, it's quite possible to roll it for 6 to 9 months, if required, and we can still get back at least 50% of our maintenance, and sometimes as high as 70% of the original maintenance. One possible reason that it's difficult and expensive to make adjustments on SPX credit spreads is that it's only traded on one exchange, the CBOE, and not on the other 7 exchanges. In contrast, options on the RUT are traded on 6 exchanges, and options on the SPY are traded on all 8 exchanges. It seems that the more exchanges the options are traded on, the more competition there is and thus the cheaper it is to make adjustments on the trade if necessary.


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I could not yet reproduce that Assertion failure in line 12302 also trying several runs adding one worldspace after another. It might be that it only happens with a lot of mods or a mod that might have errors.
Use the latest beta version from this post. Nothing changed anymore in the particular code to the original problem in this thread, but you never know - always use the latest :)
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My name is Mrs. Booth. This is my first year teaching. I recently received my Master of Arts in Teaching from Towson University (May 2017), and have a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies with a minor in Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. I had the good fortune of spending my internship year working in Anne Arundel County, first at Brooklyn Park Middle School and then at Annapolis High School. In the last 18 months, I also completed four university level Spanish courses: Spanish phonetics, Literature of Spain, Literature of Latin America, and Peoples and Cultures of Latin America and Spain. I have also lived and studied abroad in Mexico, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.
I am really originally from California, but have been living in the greater Washington DC area since 2008 when my husband and I came here for work with the federal government. After several years of federal government service, I decided to change careers and live out a long held desire to become a Spanish teacher. So far, I can say I have made the right decision. I hope all my students see the great opportunities that learning another language can bring. Secondary language acquisition truly brings limitless possibilities.
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Weems had a pedestrian outing last week in San Diego despite having all four quarters to have a good outing against the Chargers. Nonetheless, Jones recognizes the tough task that was placed on Weems during pregame warm-ups.
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