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As a sales or business professional, you understand that appointment setting is a universally difficult part of business development and often the most common road block to increasing sales and growing the company. We often hear from our clients that their biggest challenge isn't in presenting their message or even closing the sale; instead, it's uncovering interested and qualified prospects.
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You've heard the old saying in sales "2 ears, 1 mouth," right? Good salespeople understand that in order to start building a relationship you have to do more listening than talking. Our telesales staff does not spew features and benefits like an erupting volcano. We ask the right questions to determine their level of interest and uncover if they are qualified to be considered a viable prospect. If so, we continue the mutually beneficial conversation and set the sales appointment so our client can take it from there.
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Sasabe Pipeline Co., is a partnership engaged in the transportation, storage, terminalling and marketing of crude oil, refined products and liquefied petroleum gas and other natural gas related petroleum products (together "NGL"). Through our general partner interest and majority equity ownership position in PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P., we are also engaged in the development and operation of natural gas storage facilities.
We own and operate a diversified portfolio of strategically located pipelines and assets that play a vital role in the movement of U.S. and Canadian energy supplies. On average we handle over 3 million barrels per day of crude oil, refined products and NGL through our extensive network of assets located in key North American producing basins and transportation gateways.
It is our goal to increase our distribution to Unitholders over time through a combination of internal and acquisition-oriented growth.
Sasabe Pipeline Co., now is working on southeastern Arizona, which would include constructing a new 36-inch diameter lateral pipeline and facilities to provide an initial 160 million cubic feet per day of firm capacity from a point of interconnection with existing pipeline system west of Tucson, Arizona. As proposed, the Sasabe Lateral would extend approximately 60 miles in a southwesterly direction to a point at the U.S.-Mexico border, near Sasabe, Arizona, where it would interconnect with a new pipeline in Mexico.
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Mishell Baker is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Fantasy & Science Fiction Writers' Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Redstone Science Fiction, and Electric Velocipede. Her urban fantasy series The Arcadia Project, released by Simon & Schuster's Saga imprint, includes Borderline, Phantom Pains, and Impostor Syndrome. The series is narrated by Millicent Roper, a snarky double-amputee and suicide survivor who works with a ragtag collection of society's least-wanted, keeping the world safe from the chaotic whims of supernatural beasties. When Mishell isn't convention-hopping or going on wild research adventures, she lives in Los Angeles with her co-parent and two changelings.
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Ausma Zehanat Khan
Ausma Zehanat Khan holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She is a former adjunct law professor and was Editor-in-Chief of Muslim Girl magazine, the first magazine targeted to young Muslim women, and is the award-winning author of both the Khorasan Archives (The Bloodprint, The Black Khan) and the Rachel Getty and Essa Khattak series (beginning with The Unquiet Dead). Originally from Canada, Khan now lives in Colorado with her husband.
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Rebecca Roanhorse is a speculative fiction writer, who has won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award and been a Sturgeon/Locus/WFA Award Finalist, for her short fiction Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™. She has also won the 2018 Campbell Award for Best New SFF writer. Her debut novel Trail of Lightning, Book #1 in the Sixth World series (Saga Press), is available now. Book #2, Storm of Locusts, will follow in April 2019. She also has a middle grade novel coming in 2019 from Rick Riordan Presents, titled Race to the Sun. And in 2020, a Mesa Verde-inspired epic fantasy Between Earth and Sky (Saga Press). Her nonfiction can be found in Invisible 3: Essays and Poems on Representation in SF/F, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine and How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation (Macmillan). She lives in Northern New Mexico with her husband, daughter, and pug.
For more information about Rebecca, please visit her website or her Twitter.
Dr. Suzanne Scott
Suzanne Scott is an Assistant Professor in the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her current book project, Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry (forthcoming from NYU Press, 2019) considers the gendered tensions underpinning the media industry's embrace of fans as demographic tastemakers, professionals, and promotional partners within convergence culture. Surveying the politics of participation within digitally mediated fan cultures, this project addresses the "mainstreaming" of fan and geek culture over the past decade, how media industries have privileged an androcentric conception of the fan, and the marginalizing effect this has had on female fans. She is also the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (2018). Her scholarly work has appeared in the journals Transformative Works and Cultures, Cinema Journal, New Media & Society, Participations, Feminist Media Histories, and Critical Studies in Media Communication as well as numerous anthologies, including Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (2nd Edition), How to Watch Television, The Participatory Culture Handbook, and Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica.
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Love baked apples, curry and red grapes? You could be doing your body a favor.
New research from the University of Texas at Austin has discover some great things, when it comes to healthy eating. We all know that eating a balanced diet full of fruits and vegetables with antioxidants is a good approach to take. New research has shown that certain foods go even further. They contain natural compounds that prevent the growth of prostate cancer, the most common cancer affecting men in the U.S.
"These nutrients have potential anti-cancer properties and are readily available," says Tiziani. "We only need to increase concentration beyond levels found in a healthy diet for an effect on prostate cancer cells."
Related: How to Participate in Movember
Researchers tested 142 natural compounds on mouse and human cells to see which ones would inhibit the growth of prostate cancer. The most effective active ingredients were found in ursolic acid, a waxy natural chemical found in apple peels and rosemary; curcumin, which is found in turmeric; and resveratrol, a natural compound in red grapes and some berries.
The research is welcome news as over 11% of men in the U.S will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lives.
Related: Orgasm Once a Day and Reduce Your Risk of Developing Prostate Cancer
While chemically derived drugs remain an important part of treating cancer researchers say, different combinations of these compounds present naturally in food can also be pretty powerful.
Time for some green apple curry and some blueberry crumble pie.
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This accommodation is available as a 1 bedroom or 2 bedroom apartment, conveniently close to Braeside. It is a light and bright 2 bedroom, one bathroom villa unit. Queen Bed in main bedroom, 2 single beds in the second bedroom. Our apartment accommodation is perfect for a couple or a family. Balcombe Apartments makes a great base in the area if you are working at Braeside, Cheltenham or Moorabbin we are the perfect choice.
Great, up to date, full size kitchen, with gas hotplates, electric oven, dishwasher, microwave and stone benchtops. Euro style laundry with a washer/dryer.
Decked rear courtyard opens off from the kitchen – a nice sunny spot to enjoy an early morning coffee.
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A Lunch Date & A Movie
Once a week, LZdaddy and I would have breakfast together, he send me to L's school for my duties. Breakfast at hawker center or coffee shop. I'm not complaining and we appreciate the time spent together :)
It has been some time since we went for a nice lunch together. This afternoon, we managed to have a nice lunch at Aston's Specialties. We always see long queue outside the restaurant and we never like to queue for it. Today we passed the place again and we saw there wasn't any queue at all! LZdaddy knew I have been wanting to try the food there so off we went into the restaurant :) I knew he would like to go there to as the name Aston reminded him of his years in UK :)
I ordered Ribeye Xtra Cut and LZdaddy had the Hickory BBQ Chicken, which the server recommended us. Each main course comes with 2 side orders that you can choose from their selection. It was delicious! And the price is very reasonable too. My steak coast only $15.90 and the chicken at only $5.90. Now we know why there's always a long queue :) We will definitely go there with LZ the next time :)
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After lunch, we picked LZ up from their enrichment classes (they usually have the class on weekday but we missed it coz of the trip). We wanted to go somewhere else but it was going to rain so we decided to watch a movie instead. LZdaddy bought the tickets for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. which I wasn't that keen on. I was worried that LZ, especially Z might not sit quietly throughout movie or they will feel bored. I was wrong! They love it and so do I! Ok ok.... From now on, I must trust my man to make decision like this :)
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text: Cigarette display ban will 'help stop children taking up smoking' 6 April 2015 No shops or public premises will be able to sell tobacco products on open display from today. Legislation coming into force today means that newsagents, convenience stores, petrol stations, hotels, pubs and nightclubs will no longer be able to display cigarette packs for sale. In most cases packs will be kept behind sliding doors and will only be in view when staff are serving customers. Since 2012, large shops such as supermarkets have not been able to have open displays of tobacco in stores. We welcome this development and believe it will help to stop children taking up smoking. Simon Gillespie, our Chief Executive, said: "By taking cigarettes off the display shelves we're cutting off one of the last avenues that tobacco companies have to entice young people to smoke. "Tobacco products kill around half of users, so we have a responsibility to help deter more people from starting smoking and reduce the number of deaths. "Most regular smokers start before they are 18, but this law will help discourage children from buying packs and starting this deadly habit. "This is a victory for campaigners for better health and takes us another step closer to 'de-normalising' smoking." Standardised packaging There are nearly ten million adult smokers in the UK, around one-fifth of the adult population. Smoking causes around 100,000 deaths every year, with an estimated 22,000 of those deaths attributed to cardiovascular conditions1. Parliament recently voted to introduce standardised tobacco packaging. The new legislation will come into force in May 2016 and will see tobacco products stripped of their colourful packaging. In 2009, MPs passed a ban on cigarette vending machines and displaying cigarettes at point of sale. The UK Government announced in 2011 that the ban on tobacco displays in shops and supermarkets would go ahead.


text: Share: Comments Print February 15, 2012 at 11:40 AM Chief Sealth names Luther Carr III football coach Posted by Mason Kelley Chief Sealth athletic director Sam Reed announced Wednesday the school has hired Luther Carr III to coach football. Here is the press release: WEST SEATTLE, WA – Chief Sealth International High School has selected Luther Carr III to be the Seahawks newest head football coach. Carr comes to Chief Sealth with over 18 years of coaching experience, the last 10 in Division I college football. Most recently, Carr held the position of Wide Receiver Coach at the University of Idaho, and before that served on coaching staffs at both University of Montana and University of Washington. During his time in the college ranks, he has coached and recruited numerous all-league and academic all-American players. A graduate of Seattle's Garfield High School, Carr received a football scholarship to Eastern Washington University where he played and graduated. After serving as an assistant coach and teacher at Lewis and Clark High School (Spokane, WA) and Pasco High School, he took over the head coaching responsibilities at his alma mater at the age of 27, leading the Bulldog team from 1998-2001. At Garfield he also taught World History. "I am excited to get back to coaching high school football," Carr said. "Working with student-athletes and preparing them for high-level competition, not only in football but in the classroom, has always been a passion of mine. Chief Sealth International High School has the right mix of high-level academics, diversity and athletic history to where I am excited of the possibilities." Carr will be introduced to returning players this Friday and will begin building his coaching staff immediately. "I am excited to introduce Coach Carr to the Chief Sealth community," Chief Sealth principal Chris Kinsey said. "From our meetings, I am excited by not only his coaching pedigree but also his commitment to education and in challenging students to succeed both in and out of the classroom." Comments


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"If you know someone who just loves beautiful music performed beautifully, I can think of no better holiday gift." – Capital Public Radio
"★★★★" – All About Jazz
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Feature from American Public Media's New Classical Tracks:
For years, public radio listeners around the country have celebrated "Thanksgiving with Cantus" with American Public Media. This fall, Cantus releases a recording of beloved songs celebrating the joy of the holiday. A Harvest Home includes original arrangements of favorite hymns, American folk tunes as well as new compositions by Ysaye Barnwell, Byron Adams and pieces by Edvard Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn and Randall Thompson.
"Fall is the welcoming of Winter, it is a time of winding down and being grateful. Cantus has caught this promise from across the globe and distilled it into a seasonal offering that smells of apples and roast turkey. Please pass the cider…" – All About Jazz
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1. For the Beauty of the Earth – Conrad Kocher, arr. Paul John Rudoi
2. The Pasture – Randall Thompson
3. America the Beautiful – Samuel A. Ward, arr. Paul John Rudoi
4. Would You Harbor Me? – Ysaye M. Barnwell
5. My Journey Yours – Elise Witt, arr. Michael Holmes
6. Come, Ye Thankful People, Come – Jason McCoy
7. We Gather Together – Eduard Kremser, arr. Aaron Humble
8. Holy Manna – William Moore
9. Food, Glorious Food – Lionel Bart, arr. Aden G. Lewis
10. Tyteberet – Edvard Grieg
11. Trinklied – Felix Mendelssohn
12. Fiddle Tune – Traditional, arr. Chris Foss
13. Turkey in the Straw – American Folksong, arr. Dwight Bigler
14. Simple Gifts – Joseph Brackett, arr. Stephen Caracciolo
15. How Can I Keep From Singing? – Robert W. Lowry, arr. Stephen Caracciolo
16. A Thankful Heart – John T. Hocutt, arr. Aaron Humble
17. Eventide – Byron Adams


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A few weeks back, we were fortunate enough to be sent the Puppet Kit for Raspberry Pi, from our friend Simon Monk of Monk Makes. The kit shows you how to use your Raspberry Pi to take control of a traditional marionette, including controlling the puppet from your keyboard, recording stop-frame puppet movements, and setting the puppet up so that it waves when it detects movement.
Given my limited experience of physical computing with a Raspberry Pi, I decided to take on the challenge of completing the kit, and documented my journey through Snapchat.
Right out of the box, the kit feels as if it has been put together with care and thought. All wooden pieces have been laser cut, all components (apart from the Raspberry Pi itself) are provided, and the kit includes a step-by-step guide so foolproof that I felt confident I could complete the project.
The only issue?
My intense fear of clowns, which was instantly triggered when I opened the box and saw the puppet itself:
Despite my coulrophobia, I carried on with the build, because that's how much you all mean to me, dear readers. I do these things for you.
The guide walked me through the project, with clear instructions supported by photographs and diagrams. It was only when I reached Step 16, "Run the Test Code", that I realised I couldn't find a mouse. Fortunately I was able to enlist the aid of Ben Nuttall, who has become my Raspberry Pi hero in cases such as this.
Ben helped me to set the Pi up on the Pi Towers local network, allowing me to feed Simon's code to the Pi via my MacBook. If you don't have access to Ben and his heroic abilities, you could use the recently mentioned PiBakery from the legendary David Ferguson to preset the network details into Raspbian before setting up your Raspberry Pi.
After this, setting up the walking functionality of the puppet, plus the additional sensor, was a breeze. With very little previous experience of using GPIO pins, servos, and nightmare-inducing clown puppets, I was somewhat taken aback by how easy I found the process. In fact, by the end, I had the clown dancing a merry jig and waving to anyone who passed. Cute, right?
Making a Waving Puppet – Snapchat Story
We recently got our hands on the Monk Makes Puppet Kit and decided to have Alex build it.. despite her complete lack of coding knowledge. Seriously… she knows nothing. She's the Jon Snow of Digital Making.
All in all, the kit was a wonderful experience and an interesting learning curve. Not only did it teach me the value of a well-executed and detailed maker kit, it also taught me the value of a Ben Nuttall, and helped me not to fear all clowns after having watched IT at a teenage slumber party like a fool!


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Order The Policy Detectives Video
February 4, 2008
A new educational video produced by the Land Title Institute, "The Policy Detectives: An Introduction to ALTA's 2006 Loan and Owner's Policies," gives title professionals a section by section training on the primary parts of the policy jackets. (This video does not cover the differences between the 1992 and 2006 policies.)
The video replaces its predecessor video "A Policy Overview," and would be helpful for title industry employees; customer groups, such as attorneys, lenders and real estate agents; real estate law students; and regulators. The video is $71 for ALTA members, and $101 for non-members.
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Last week I posted on Facebook about my little knitted heart dedication for the Melbourne Bourke Street tragedy. I've had such lovely feedback about this, I wanted to share a tutorial on how to knit the simple hearts.
Perhaps you can knit some and add them to my display on the tree in Bourke Street Mall near Ca de vin.
This is my guide to the Julie & the Knits pattern.
You don't need to be too precious about this project. I knitted the hearts with scrap wool I had lying around. I tried to use similar ply and tones, but that's about it.
For me it is more a project of the heart. In fact if you make a few mistakes and things look a little wonky I actually think it adds character. Life isn't perfect and we don't need all our creative attempts to be flawless.
I have used 4mm needles and 8ply or 10ply yarn.
You can use any yarn/needle combination that you have available.
1. Cast on 5 stitches
Then knit first row.
2. Increase by one stitch by knitting into the front and back of the first stitch.
Then knit rest of remaining 4 stitches
3. Knit next row (6 stitches)
Then at end of following row increase final stitch by knitting into front and back of that stitch. End row with 7 stitches
4. Knit the next row
Following row increase by knitting into front and back of first stitch.
Total 8 stitches
5. Knit all 8 stitches for next 4 rows
6.Cut yarn (leave tail for sewing in)
Push this knitting along the needle to start second top of heart on the same needle.
Repeat actions 1 through to 5.
Once you have the 2 heart tops on the same needle-
Knit the next row and join the second top to the first. You can sew in this end later.
Knit across all 16 stitches for 4 rows.
Next row, decrease by knitting 2 stitches together at beginning of row.
Continue to decrease by knitting 2 stitches together at beginning of every row until you have 2 stiches remaining.
Cast off.
Then sew in all ends.
If you wish to make a garland of these hearts.
Arrange in order take a long piece of chosen yarn to thread through middle of the back of each heart.
This works best for the small hearts and if you are tying on a solid wall/tree. If your hearts are larger than these, the top may droop over. No one wants a droopy heart!
Another garland option is not to sew the 2 cast on tails at top of heart. You can then tie them together in a knot you can then thread the hearts on a string/ribbon or hang them where you wish.


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Welcome to Atlas Cycles(Haryana), Sonepat, India.
With a philosophy that centers on excellence, a company would surely reach unsurpassed heights of success, as Atlas Cycle Industries did
Atlas Cycles started its odyssey way back in 1951 and today it is one of the largest manufacturer of bicycles in the world. Atlas bicycles are ridden over 50 countries around the globe. Now, Atlas Cycles (Sonepat) has also bagged ISO 9001: 2000 certificate by implementing the latest International Quality Management System. And we owe all this success to our devoted workers, engineers and our numerous satisfied customers worldwide.
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text: Roman Leshchinskiy <rl at cse.unsw.edu.au> writes: > On 24/04/2010, at 18:06, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >> I would think that the API is all the >> functions/classes/datatypes/instances/etc. exported from the library in >> combination with their types. > > So the semantics of those functions doesn't matter at all? What do you refer to by "semantics"? Can you provide an example of when what you consider to be the API to change when the functions, types, etc. don't? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com


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The separation of steroids on Primesep 100 demonstrates the versatility of Primesep columns in both polar organic and ion-exchange modes in the separation of sulfonium ions. The high organic mobile phase retains methane sulfonic acid by a polar organic mechanism and separates methoxydimethylsulphonium and trimethylsulfphonium cations by polar organic and cation exchange modes. The separation method uses a mobile phase mixture of water, acetonitrile (MeCN, ACN), and trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) with evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD).
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In this episode, composer Jeff Beal deconstructs the main title theme music to the Netflix original series House of Cards. The show has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Original Main Title Theme and Outstanding Music Composition. The show was adapted from a British series of the same name by writer Beau Willimon, and director and executive producer David Fincher. Jeff talks about his collaborative process with Fincher, and how they found the mood and musical palette for the show and its theme, and how it changed from season one to season two. A brief word of warning, if you haven't watched the first season, there are spoilers about how that season ends.
You can buy the House of Cards score by Jeff Beal on iTunes here.
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Elijah Wood emerged as a child star in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His first role was in a Paula Abdul video, directed by David Fincher, in 1989. Within a few years, he was a movie star, working in films like Radio Flyer and North. In his review of the 1994 film The War, Roger Ebert wrote that Wood was "the most talented actor in his age group, in Hollywood history."
Wood made the transition to adult acting gracefully - when he was 18, he packed up his bags and moved to New Zealand to star in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He's also appeared in films like The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything Is Illuminated and Sin City.
Wood is part of the ensemble cast of the new film The Romantics, which follows a group of young people from the rehearsal dinner to the ceremony of their close friend's wedding. The film will be released September 10th, 2010.


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Getting Fit with Pure Barre Platform
If you follow me on Instagram and Snapchat, you know I like to workout. I try to stick to a regular fitness routine by working out at least three times a week because staying fit in your thirties can be hard. My workout routine consists of high-intensity interval training, yoga, and barre classes. I love taking barre classes and I've tried all of the barre studios in Atlanta. I have a few favorites but recently became obsessed with my local Pure Barre studio in Vinings.
Pure Barre offers two types of classes: a regular barre class and Pure Barre Platform, an intense cardio fitness class. Pure Barre launched Pure Barre Platform earlier this year. I've fallen in love with Pure Barre's new cardio class. It's everything I needed with a combination of cardio and barre. When starting this class I was told to throw out everything I learned in my regular Pure Barre class and that there will be large movements and little to no tucks. If you haven't taken a Pure Barre class they have a signature movement where you tuck your hips in.
If you are looking to burn a ton of calories in a less than hour Pure Barre Platform is the class for you. On average I've burned at least 500 calories in one session.Pure Barre Platform is this generation's step aerobic class. Pure Barre Platform tests your limits, raises your heart rate, and is a ton of fun.
I highly recommend you book a class by downloading the Mind.Body.Fitness app.
*Pure Barre provided me with a temporary membership to try their new Pure Barre Platform classes. These opinions are my own


text: MAN ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING OF HELIX STUDENT Helix High SchoolGrossmont Highkidnappingpolice departmentimprisonmentannoying a childCrime Beat Suspect also approached two female students near Grossmont High, Police indicate By Miriam Raftery May 18, 2012 (La Mesa) – Daniel Hubbard of La Mesa has been arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment and annoying a child following a joint investigation by La Mesa and El Cajon Police departments. Hubbard is believed responsible for approaching three female high school students over the past week. Read more about MAN ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING OF HELIX STUDENTLog in or register to post comments


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This is an open meeting; please invite anyone that is interested in liberty and advancing those ideals in government.
We had a wonderful meeting in June and our focus is going to be Outreach and Education. Come join us and contribute your thoughts and your enthusiasm!
Location Details:
The meeting will be held at the training room inside Keller Williams. Please come to the side entrance(It has a red awning and some picnic tables by it) and a person will show you to the meeting room. This door will be locked during the meeting time so if you arrive late please just call or text: 828-508-1248 and we'll send someone out to let you in.
There should be plenty of parking in the Keller Williams Lot. It is a paid lot after hours, however when you enter the building we will have guest passes for you to display on your dash so you can park for free!
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Bloomington, Ind. (December 19, 2012)—No. 6 Indiana defeated Mount St. Mary's, 93-54, on Wednesday night at Assembly Hall. Rashad Whack led the Mountaineers with 17 points in the game.
The Hoosiers used a 38-to-7 run that closed the first half and opened the second half to earn the victory.
The Mountaineers (4-5) forced Indiana into 19 turnovers in the game, but the Hoosiers shot 71.4 percent from the field, including 75.0 percent (9-of-12) from three-point range.
After falling behind 9-2 in the opening minutes, the Mount went on an 8-2 run to cut the deficit to 11-10. Mount St. Mary's continued to hang tough, cutting Indiana's lead to 18-17 on a Xavier Owens three-pointer.
The Hoosiers (9-1) answered with a 8-0 run, but three-pointers from Whack and Josh Castellanos cut the deficit to 30-26 with 5:39 left in the half.
Indiana, however, ended the half on a 16-to-3 run to take a 46-29 lead at the half. Indiana shot 72.0 percent in the opening half while the Mount shot 36.4 percent. Whack paced the Mount with nine first-half points with Prescott chipping in eight.
Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Saturday, December 22, with a 2:00 p.m. game at Western Michigan.
Game Notes: The Mount is now 1-20 all-time against ranked opponents and 0-13 against Big 10 teams…This was the first-ever meeting between the two teams.


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The woes of being back in London after our trip have been slightly quashed by the wealth of exhibitions on over the summer. Although we saw some amazing exhibitions on our travels, I maintain that nowhere does 'em like home – even in terms of what we can see for free, we beat the rest of the world hands down.
I still haven't got to Bowie at the V&A, so maybe there's a trip to be done combining that and the Club to Catwalk show – also interested in Mexico: A Revolution in Art at the Royal Academy (obv); Lowry and Patrick Caulfield at the Tate Britain; Poster Art at the London Transport Museum; Miles Aldridge and Blumenfeld at Somerset House; and, of course, our local walrus on his holiday down to the Turner Contemporary in Margate.
But most of all, I want to see Dame Laura Knight at the National Portrait Gallery. I wish I could pretend I knew more about her work, but the truth is that my first exposure to her was in all the press previews of this show – and reviews of Summer in February, the new Christopher Menaul film which looks at the artists' colony in Cornwall where she lived and worked for a while.
I've attempted to make up for matters by reading all the reviews thoroughly (including this cool Persephone Books letter and another here) but I think I'll have to make full amends by handing over my £7 and going for a proper look.
Regular readers will no doubt be totally non-surprised to hear that it was the era which she operated in which got me excited – but it was when I saw her 1913 self-portrait (in the middle above) that I really piqued my interest. Any woman who paints a picture of herself alongside a bare bum in 1913 has to be of note, right? She was also an official war artist and what I've seen of her portraits of women at war are also right up my street – I'm not sure who some of them are, but the way they look makes me think of Anne de Courcy's wonderful Debs at War.
From a purely shallow point of view, she also appears to be something of a babe with stellar dress-sense. Evidence.
There are more than 30 portraits in the exhibition, covering everything from the official war work to behind the scenes with the Ballets Russes and circus performers. It opened this week and is on until 13 October – you can book tickets or read more about her on the National Portrait Gallery site.


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First off, I stopped by my local 99 Cent Store and was pleased to find the My Little Pony Squishy Pop sets for $1.99. They had Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, and Fluttershy. (Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Applejack come in smaller sets, but the bigger sets with bracelets were the only ones there.) I picked up Rainbow Dash and Twilight since I already had Fluttershy. I also have Rarity and Applejack. So now, all I need is Pinkie Pie and I'll have all of the mane six. :)
Rainbow Dash
Twilight Sparkle
I also found these really cute Frozen mini snack pails made of cardstock. They were in sets of six and were just 99 cents. I thought these would make fun doll accessories. :)
There were different pictures on each side of the pails:
Our local Target and Walmart have started getting some of the newest mini Lalaloopsies in stock. :D I've gotten to the point where I can't get every Lala from every set, so this time around, I just chose a couple of my favorites.
First up is adorable Autumn Spice.
She is part of a set of four Lalas with a seasonal fairy theme. I went for the fall-themed one since my birthday is in the fall and it's my favorite season. :)
Autumn Spice is adorable. I love her coloring and design.
Her buns look like pink pine cones.
Her wings have the look of autumn leaves.
They are removable, too.
Here she is without them from the front.
Her pet is a little acorn fairy...thing. ;)
The pet from the back.
She also comes with a little basket of nuts.
Another of the new sets of minis is the Super Silly Party series. This one includes Mittens, Peanut, Crumbs, and Jewel in fancy party dresses and glittery hair.
The back of the package.
Mittens was my favorite of the bunch, so I decided to add her to my collection.
I'm a little bummed that they just did the glitter on the front of her hair. I like it when a company finishes the design/glitter/coloring all the way around a doll or toy.
She comes with her pet polar bear in a festive hat.
The back of the polar bear.
She also comes with a basket of yarn.
Finally, we found these cute musical themed Lalas. There were only three in this series. This one is Keys Sharps 'N' Flats, the piano-themed Lala. I picked this one up for my mom's collection.
There's also a strings-themed Lala and a drum-themed Lala. I didn't open this doll since it wasn't mine.
I also noticed on the Target website that the next series of Minis with Littles will be Fairy Tale Themed! :D We are very excited about these ones, especially since Little Gal has been wishing for a Mini Cinder Slippers for a long time. :) The four in the series are Cinder Slippers and Ribbon Slippers, Snowy Fairest and Beauty Fairest (Middle Gal's favorites), Little Bah Peep and Bow Bah Peep (Oldest Gal's favorites), and Scarlet Riding Hood and Cape Riding Hood (none of us are huge fans of this set...we wish they'd included more details in the dresses on these two). We haven't managed to find these anywhere local yet (and they're not available to order on the website at this time), but we're on the lookout for them! :D
While we're talking about new online releases, any of you who are fans of American Girl no doubt already realize that MaryEllen, the new BeForever girl from the 1950s, has officially been released on the AG website. For any of you who somehow missed the news, you can see all of the new MaryEllen releases HERE.
The exciting thing is that my mom and I have to take a trip to the San Francisco area in a couple of weeks, so we're planning on stopping at the AG Place in Palo Alto. I'll be sure to take lots of pics for the blog of all of the new goodies. :)
At the end of last week, I stopped by the mall and popped into JC Penney's. It was fun visiting their Disney section.
They still have their Elsa and Anna set in coronation dresses that was so hard to find when it was first released. These dolls have the Disney Store faces but unarticulated legs and arms and simplified dresses. I did a review of them earlier on the blog HERE, if you're interested.
I thought this Elsa Wardrobe Set was really fun. It includes Elsa in her Frozen Fever dress and comes with her normal dress and her coronation dress. The dresses are pretty simple compared to the Disney Store ones, and Elsa has straight arms and click-knee legs like the Elsa and Anna Set. However, if your little one is interested in a Frozen Fever doll with the Disney Store face, this might not be a bad way to go. I believe this set was $19.99, compared to the $35 or so you'd pay for the Disney Store Frozen Fever Elsa and Anna set. Just throwing that out there. ;) Unfortunately, I didn't see an Anna Wardrobe Set. Maybe that will come later.
They're also gearing up for the release of Aladdin on Blu-Ray with lots of Princess Jasmine stuff. :) On the top shelf, you can see the Jasmine and Aladdin set and a Jasmine Wardrobe Set like the Elsa one.
Oh, and another note here. If any of you are fans of the old Disney Store prince doll faces, the JC Penney's prince dolls still have them. :)
While at the mall, I also stopped in Hot Topic for the first time in about a month. It's probably good I don't go in there often. They had another of their "Buy One, Get One 50% Off" store wide sales, and they had the four items I'd been eyeing on their website for a while. And all four of them came home with me. :}
First up were these fun Beauty and the Beast rubber bracelets.
I love them! I wore them to the gym shortly after I bought them, just for fun. :)
I also finally found this adorable "his and hers" Beauty and the Beast ring set that I've seen online a couple of times. The set comes with two rings and two matching chains.
The back of the box.
The golden ring has "His Beauty" on it, and the silver one has "Her Beast".
I highly doubt I will be able to convince Hubby to wear these, but they'll look cute on my shelf anyway. ;) The rings are a "one size fits all" sort of thing, so I don't know if they'd even fit us. And I can't imagine Hubby wearing a necklace. It's not really his style. ;)
Hot Topic also had the new Rapunzel and Pascal Funko Pop set! :D These guys are so adorable! :)
Box details:
The back of the box shows the adorable Maximus Funko Pop, too. He wasn't at the store, but he's super cute. I hope that they eventually make a Eugene as well.
Rapunzel and Pascal deboxed. Rapunzel kind of leans to one side, but she stands up just fine.
I can't decide if I'm glad Funko has started adding eyebrows to their figures or not. Most of the time, the characters end up looking a little annoyed. ;) It would be nice to see them go with softer eyebrows.
I like the detail on Rapunzel's dress and her little paintbrush.
Rapunzel from all sides:
The underside of her hair and her cute little bare feet.
It's funny, I didn't notice how many little flaws she had until I took these close-up pictures. They aren't nearly as noticeable in person.
They missed a little bit of paint in the fold of her hair.
Pascal is just adorable. Here he is from all sides:
I was also thrilled to find the My Little Pony Funko Vinyl Apple Bloom. All three of the Cutie Mark Crusaders were just released in vinyl form. As a big fan of the Apple Family, I knew I wanted to add this little one to my collection.
Here she is! :D
More box details:
And here she is out of her packaging. I think they captured her perfectly. :)
Meeting the family. ;) I love that they made her smaller than the others. Scale-wise, she's probably a little tall, but it still works. I'm hoping that they'll eventually make a Granny Smith, too. :D
In other non-toy-related news, I've been slowly continuing my gym adventures and have a couple more vlogs for you to enjoy. I thought I'd include them here in case anyone was interested. ;)
Gym Vlog #4
This one includes some toys, too! ;) I'd just been to Hot Topic when I did the video.
Gym Vlog #5
This one's super short. ;)
I think that's about all of my finds and news for now! Again, I'm hoping to get to more actual in-depth toy reviews soon, so stay tuned! :) I hope you all have a wonderful week.


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What cookie tray or treat dish is complete without at least one type of fudge on it? Today I am sharing with you an easy pretty much no fail fudge recipe that is pure perfection. You can even swap out the white chocolate chips for peanut butter, mint, or butterscotch chips. The texture on this fudge is not too hard and not too soft. It is just right. It also holds up nicely and does not get sticky all over your fingers when you eat it. The trick is to only keep the chocolate mixtures on the heat until all the chips are melted and stir it constantly as it melts down. Make sure you add the vanilla extract after you remove from the heat or it will cook out. Enjoy!
1 bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips (2 cups)
1 bag of milk chocolate chips (2 cups)
1/2 Cup of white chocolate chips
2 cans of Sweetened Condensed Milk, divided
1/4 Cup + 1 tablespoon of unsalted butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon + 1/2 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1) Line a 9×9 metal pan with wax paper. First line the bottom of the pan and up over the side with paper making sure it overlaps the edges. Smooth out the bottom and the edges. Now, turn the pan 90 degrees and repeat.
2) In a large sauce pan melt together the chocolate chips, 1/4 Cup of unsalted butter, salt and 2 Cups of the milk. Remove from heat and stir in 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract.
3) In a small heavy saucepan melt together the white chocolate chips, remaining milk and 1/2 tablespoon butter. Remove from heat and add 1/2 tablespoon of vanilla extract.
4) Pour the chocolate mixture into prepared pan smoothing out the top to make it level. Drop it a few times on your counter about 2 inches from the surface to level it out and remove any bubbles.
5) Dab white chocolate randomly on chocolate.
6) Take a knife and gently swirl white chocolate in the chocolate making sure not to mix it in.
7) Place in refrigerator for 4 hours.
8) Carefully remove from pan and remove the wax paper. Cut into 1 inch squares and store in air tight container in refrigerator or freezer.


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Shot some pictures for my upcoming blogpost, watched a reality cook show right after i woke up, had my favourite breakfast and gonna do some Inspirational drawing now since I'm feeling it! Have a nice weekend everyone <3
Cup of Cappuccino on a relaxing Sunday with someone that cool makes it two times better Haha :D
4 more days till Christmas! JINGLE JINGLE!


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Having came across several interesting stories within the past week or two which were all career related, it reminded me of all of the good resources I've came across over the past few years related to the craft of Software Engineering. Maybe you're just looking to get started in Software Development and aren't sure if it's for you, or maybe you're a manager wondering why your employees are leaving– all of these items and more are covered here.
1. Getting Started
Not sure if you were cut-out to be writing code for the rest of your days? Are you feeling different than your peers? Justin James wrote an interesting list– 10 signs that you aren't cut-out to be a developer.
Now that you've decided you are genuinely interested in becoming a programmer, there are many, many ways to go about this. If you don't have any idea what direction to head to, a good starting point is Getting Started in Programming.
2. Get Your Resume In Shape
Resumes are yet another major thing to get right. A resume is what can get your foot into the door into the company of your dreams, or put you in an infinite job search loop with very little feedback. There are many opinions and guides to creating the perfect programming resume, and here a couple which I've found to be the most helpful are Writing a Resume That Will Land You a Programming Job and Resume Pitfalls Every Programmer Should Avoid. Most programmers are notoriously bad at presentation and should also think about giving their resume a face lift. It also might not hurt to take a look at the 100 most searched for resume keywords and add them to your resume if they match your skills and experience.
3. Starting your Job Search
One of the best ways to get jobs is to reach-out and network with people you know to see what jobs they know about. The most natural and unobtrusive way to do this is to sign-up for LinkedIn and import your address book.
A good way to see what sort of jobs are out there and what the market is like is to use a job aggregator and search engine like indeed.com. There are also some other sites to take a look at which it doesn't have permission to index such as craigslist. You may also find out about jobs through local mailing lists or user groups. You could also check into companies that you like and are interested in by going to their website and seeing if they have any open positions which fit your skills and experience.
There are of course many large and popular job sites which you might want to hit individually if you aren't finding what you're looking for via indeed.com– sites like Monster, HotJobs, and Dice are all good places to start.
4. Prepare For The Big Interview
If you've been in the industry for awhile you know that what you can expect during the interview process is it being completely unexpected. There are a wide variety of interview techniques used by companies, and none of them seem to be the same. I think one really good overview on what to do is Preparing for a Software Engineering Interview. While that is a good overview, you have to prepare for a very wide variety of questions. Here are a lot of resources to prepare you for an intense Software Engineering interview process including some general interview tips as well:
- How To Pass a Silicon Valley Software Engineering Interview
- Google & Microsoft Algorithm Questions
- 50 Common Interview Questions & Answers
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn't Know Who to Ask
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- Developer Job Interview Questions and Answers – This is probably the most exhaustive list of technical questions I have ever seen!
- How To Answer 23 Of The Most Common Interview Questions
- Answers To Technical Interview Questions
- Questions At A Google Job Interview
- IT Interview Open Questions Database
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- How To Answer The Toughest Interview Questions
- Five Essential Phone Screen Questions
- 25 Most Difficult Job Interview Questions (and their answers)
- The Top 10 Questions Every Programmer Should Ask on a Job Interview
Although you should be prepared for a wide variety of potential interview questions, you should also be prepared to ask plenty of questions of your own. Bruce Eckel provides a good list of questions which you should ask during an interview, and you should also be prepared to take some ownership during the process as well.
You should also make sure to dress appropriately for an interview– it is not the time to break-out your DEFCON 1999 shirt, nor should you make an unnecessary trip to your local department store for a suit. Unlike most other white-collar professions, you are actually at a disadvantage if you wear a suit to an interview, but you should at least take the time to clean yourself-up and look like a well adjusted adult.
If you happen to be on a team trying to land a new developer and you experience great candidates turning you down over and over again. One thing to be conscious of is how poor interviewers drive away talent.
If you didn't get the job, it wouldn't hurt to read 25 Reasons You Didn't get the Gig to brush-up on your interviewing and presentation skills before you give it a try again. Or maybe it's just a sign that you're ready to start your own company or do freelance work from home, there are plenty of reasons you don't need a job.
5. Got The Job? Improve Your Situation
There are many things you should be doing to improve your career and general well being even while employed. For one, you should always continue learning– whether this be new languages, frameworks, or even learning more of the classic Computer Science topics in depth, don't forget to prevent yourself from becoming stale. The one constant about technology is that it's always changing, and you will need to keep-up on your own time to stay competitive.
At the same time, being the master of a particular domain is not all it's cracked-up to be– make sure you spend plenty of time outside of programming as well for a balanced life. I try to learn as much about as many topics as I can, and from time to time find some interesting lessons in life you can later apply to what you do. Travel to new places, try things you normally wouldn't do, try new cuisines, and in general find ways to grow your mind.
Programmers aren't known to be the most extroverted, gregarious people in the world (myself included), but you should make an active effort to meet new people in your field. Whether that be at user group meetings, conferences, chat rooms, mailing lists, message boards, etc, you'll find that having connections in the industry is a very good thing to have. I've mentioned it before, but LinkedIn (no affiliation other than a user of their service) is a really great place to keep in touch with your network.
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- How to Create a Zero-based Budget
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- 50 Smartest Things To Do With Your Money
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- How To Invest $20, $100 and $1,000+
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Once you've been in a job for awhile, it's pretty much inevitable that you will leave for greener pastures for a variety of reasons, or be forced to move for various reasons. You might even find yourself alone after many of your co-workers leave via a mass exodus in which management has no control over. If you feel that you're in a salvageable position, some links which might help you analyze what the problems are in hopes of fixing them include:
- Why Top Employees Quit
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- Managers fail to find out why employees leave
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Perhaps you're tired of your job for various reasons and are weighing whether or not you should stay? A couple of articles which might help you make the decision on what to do include What To Do When the Thrill is Gone and Do I Stay or Do I Go.
Although this is quite an exhaustive list which took me quite a long time to write about and assemble, I'm sure I've missed plenty of tips or resources to pass-on. If you have any to add, be sure to leave them in the comments!
Thanks to Flickr user McBeth for the perfect photo.


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I have been seeing Leopards recently. Because several Autumn/Winter collections this year feature leopard prints.
If you are as old as me, you would notice that leopard prints is a recurring trend. Maybe it's time to invest in a decent leopard themed apparel? But would the conservative office be able to accept your "leopardised" get-up – after all, you don't wanna jeopardise your career over fashion.
I have assembled some corporate wear that feature leopard prints. The easy way out is to match with black. And to be on the safe side, stick to just one piece of leopard print item.
Shoes with such prints are hot this season. Match it with a sleek black ensemble to ooze some corporate lady charm.
If you would like to push the limits a bit further, you can try wearing a shorter dress. Short dresses are aplenty these days such that it can be kinda hard to find one with longer hemline! Anyway, I like the combination of short dress with sheer stockings. Opaque black stockings feel somewhat out of place in Singapore given the hot weather.
If you have accumulated a fair amount of nude or blush pieces from last season, match them with leopard prints!
Office-friendly leopard pieces I would add in my wardrobe:
- Leopard print tops: not in overly flashy prints or colours though
- Fitted cardigans with prints
- Leopard print bags
- Leopard print shoes
- Scarves with leopard prints
- Dresses with monotone prints: I thought the prints on the D&G runway piece look great
Office-unfriendly leopard pieces I would NOT add in my wardrobe:
- Leopard print jackets or blazers (I'm almost certain that you will get comments from colleagues if you wear that to work)
- Leopard print skirts
- Leopard print pants.. or leggings
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As we begin the new year, we are considering the theme of "Better in our Families." This great passage is a wonderful place to start thinking of how we can be better in our relationships at home.
Paul claims all things are new for those who are "in Christ." What does this mean, and how do we apply this dynamic truth?
Jesus stated the Golden Rule, which is "Do one to others before they do one to you." This is what a little boy said when asked what the golden rule is. What does Jesus really say to us?
In our culture, we our encouraged to recycle cans, plastic and other materials. Many are encouraged to recycle a bad marriage by finding someone else to marry when reconciliation seems impossible. What does Jesus say?


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The Department of Home Affairs has postponed the introduction of an automated biometric criminal records check system without announcing a new launch date.
The automated system, originally due to launch on October 1, 2016, was to replace hard-copy police clearance certificates. These are required for temporary residence visa and permanent residence applications by foreign nationals, over the age of 18, who have previously resided in South Africa for 12 months or more.
Obtaining a hard-copy South African police clearance certificate can take several months and delay application processing severely. The postponed system would significantly reduce application processing times.
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DACC and the Norwegian and Swedish Chambers of Commerce held a "Welcome back from summer social mixer" on the 17. of September. It was great to see so many familiarly and new faces in Norway House! All enjoyed the nice food and beverage, the opportunity to network and catch up after a long summer. Again, we would like to say a BIG thank you to our sponsors K&L Gates and IKEA.
More than 50 Danes attended along with the Norwegian and Swedish contingent in all app 130. KL Gates (curtsey of our very own board member Soren Lindstrom) and Ikea graciously sponsored the evening. Ikea had a great spread of food and the Danes supplied Carlsberg.
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Happy Hanukkah to everyone like me who is celebrating tonight! It's the Sixth night of Hanukkah tonight and I'll be lighting the candles in my window and saying my prayers at sundown. Some of you might be playing with this set of Poppet paper doll clothes.
I always tell myself I am going to do a Hanukkah paper doll and then I never seem to actually pull it off. This year I managed it. I chose the Poppets, because Hanukkah tends to be most celebrated by those with children. Plus the Poppets are dolls and I can imagine that dolls might be given as a gift and that seems fitting.
For the holiday, the Poppets have a sweater, tights with Stars of David on them, and a purple skirt trimmed in blue. Of course, they also have a menorah.
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A menorah is a candelabra that usually holds nine candles. Eight candles are for each night of Hanukkah, and the ninth candle, which stands usually taller than the others, is to light the eight candles. It is called the shamas. So, every night you say prayers, light the shamas and use it to light the other candles. Chabad has a nice FAQ about the holiday, if you want to know more.
Frankly, drawing a menorah is actually rather hard. I ended up drawing half of this one and then using photoshop to duplicate it. I don't think it came out very well, but there is always next year.
I keep telling myself I will be organized enough to do something special over the holiday, like Julie at Paper Doll School does during her month of December post. I never seem to really get around to it. The Holidays are just such a busy time for me.
Again, maybe next year.
I hope that whatever holiday everyone is celebrating this time of the year (or no holiday, that's cool too) is filled with friendship, family and fellowship.


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Why ISIS prefers zero enrichment
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Ray Takeyh has an op-ed in today's Washington Post recommending that the U.S. give up its insistence on "suspension for incentives" in favor of "enrichment for transparency." He proposes that in exchange for an "indigenous enrichment capability of considerable size" Iran be required to accept a highly intrusive inspection regime that would go beyond existing measures, including "24-hour monitoring, continuous environmental sampling and the permanent presence of inspectors who have the right to visit any facility without prior notification." He adds that Iran's breakout capacity would be constrained by limits on the amount of fissile material it is allowed to hold.
Takeyh's proposal is not the first to suggest that the U.S. get realistic about Iran's enrichment intentions and find some smart way to allow the centrifuges to keep spinning while limiting the proliferation risk. Ambassadors Pickering and Luers Professor Walsh had a similar proposal. (insert hyperlink)
Here's why ISIS feels differently: First, we have argued for some time that there are actually very few, if any, magic ways to establish and implement a verification regime that ensures Iran is not running a parallel program while developing plenty of expertise in centrifuge enrichment operations. Second, even if a regime could be devised, we doubt it would be acceptable to Iran (which rejected continuous camera-based monitoring at Natanz after arguing successfully that Urenco doesn't have such cameras). Third, and most important, we don't think that the nonproliferation-minded among us should shrink from the challenge with which Iran confronts all NPT and disarmament-lovers.
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The Good Book
At the end of the film The Time Machine (the scene does not appear in H G Wells' original novella), the Time Traveller leaves the present day to spend the rest of his life in the distant future, helping to rebuild the society he has helped to liberate. Before he goes, he takes with him three books from the library, and we are not told what they are. It is an open question directed at the film's audience: what three books would you take with you?
I'd be tempted to say The Origin of Species. I'd like to get that one absolutely sorted out on day one.
Evolution is a fact. It really, really is. I can just about imagine someone who can look at the overwhelming evidence in its favour and come to some other conclusion; I wouldn't mind meeting this person, we might talk about it over coffee and an apple danish, it'd be fun. But the existence of people who think that to acknowledge the truth of evolution is a political stance rather than an empirical one truly astonishes me.
And yet people like this do exist. There are countries when a candidate can lose an election for acknowledging that evolution is real, or that climate change is real. Fine, if the objections raised are grounded in facts – but they are not. They have become matters of personal identity, religious orthodoxy and party-political loyalty. To call attention to facts is seen as a personal attack on one's values. And other people's values are to be respected, however baseless they are.
What do I ask for, then, in a well-run society? That the veracity of evolution be constitutionally protected?
No. That kind of mindset would only make things worse in the long run.
And this is why, over and above The Origin of Species, I would choose another book. I would find space in my time machine for Mill's On Liberty. Although Darwin's book is invaluable for showing us, better than anything else, our true position in the universe, I would argue that On Liberty transcends even this in importance, because it tells us about how to react to theories like Darwin's.
This book, written in the 1850s, is a brutal attack on anyone who wants to see an idea – any idea at all – as being above criticism. It says, beautifully, that the only way of arriving at the truth, or of preventing us forgetting the truths we've already uncovered, is by exposing it to constant criticism. Yes, feel free to have your opinions, but be prepared to fight for them. By calling on everyone to attack opinions they do not like – and to defend against attack the ones they hold dear – it casts suspicion on anyone who holds an opinion for any reason other than because they have evidence for it.
The power to criticise ideas – all ideas, held for whatever reason – and to see which ones stand and which ones fall based solely on what the arguments for and against are them are, is a necessary condition for a decent, well-constructed, compassionate society. It might even be a sufficient one.
On Liberty can be found here. Don't be put off by this man's egregiously long sentences; his stuff is gold.
Ban This Blog!
The SI recently had the pleasure of visiting an exhibition of banned books at the National Library of Scotland: a fond celebration of history's greatest tyrannical despots and holier-than-thou moral busybodies.
Everybody in a position to ban books has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and no book is ever banned because it threatens to keep things as they are. Many of the books on show had constituted a direct threat against the authorities of the day. Their suppression was a readily comprehensible stratagem in the great political game where a government's worst enemy is the ability of its own populace to have ideas.
But what are we to think of books banned for offences that, to a ruling elite, are relatively minor? Violence, sex, swearing, or the curious notion that homosexuals are people too – whom do these things hurt?
It might well be possible to cast this in terms of the erosion of a power base; conservative parties in a democracy depend on the support of well-defined family units that must be protected at all costs. It's certainly an idea worth investigating, because ruling that out leaves us with the horrifying alternative that people who want to ban books for our own good might actually be sincere.
In a liberal, educated democracy, the only rational response to this – indeed, perhaps the only possible response – is wild, hysterical laughter. When Australia declared that American Psycho could only be sold in plastic shrink-wrap, presumably to prevent people from being offended accidentally in the bookshop, Bret Easton Ellis said it was "adorable". And rightly so. It's silly, and the people who advocate it are silly.
Is there any case at all to be made for banning books for our own good? Possibly. There are some kinds of information which, if scarce, nobody benefits from their becoming widely known. How to manufacture explosives from household materials, for example, or lists of undetectable poisons. But in an interconnected world such as ours, no one book could be banned that would hide such a information completely from the public eye. It would be on the internet somewhere, and the act of censoring the internet would be a much more catastrophic blow to freedom than anything that could result from somebody clicking a hotlink.
What else could justifiably be banned? Books advocating racism, homophobia, crystal healing? No to all the above. As Chomsky said, "If you're in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise."
What about books that might cause a panic in which people might actually be harmed? Perhaps, but the blame here should never really be put on the books. Maliciously screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre is very wicked; but if the harm caused is really that serious, then maybe you need to look into having more fire exits.
And books that might offend us with their swearing? Don't be fucking ridiculous.
The exhibition was held at the National Library of Scotland, and will be open till the end of October; well worth watching.
The Chomsky quote was from the film Manufacturing Consent.
Equality and Equivalence
We are all born free. That is one of the central tenets of liberalism: that, in the natural order of things, our default setting is absolute freedom to do whatever we want to do and to be whatever we want to be. It is essential that we make this assumption, even if it is only a theoretical ideal, because it lets us do something extraordinary: it lets us look at one person having power over another person and ask: why should that be the case?
It is the presumption of liberty that makes authority look unnatural. Authority, not freedom, is the phenomenon that needs to explain itself, justify itself. It is the corollary to being innocent until proven guilty: the burden of proof is placed firmly on the shoulders of those who would tell you what you can and cannot do.
Those thinkers who accept this presumption of liberty are called 'liberals' in the technical sense, but many of them are far from what I would call liberal. Hobbes, for example, recognises that freedom is natural, but that it is also dangerous; and that the best form of government is a repressive tyranny that will keep us in line. For a liberal, this is not very liberal.
A liberal liberal knows that no authority, however noble its intentions, is wise enough to govern with absolute power; and so one of the tasks of liberal philosophy is to try to find the absolute minimum standards of coercion needed to make a society function.
Take the entire spectrum of human societies that exist now or have ever existed and arrange them in a row – a cultural police line-up. There will be a lot of variation: there will be monarchies, democracies, theocracies, there will be oppressed minorities, there will be enslaved masses. It will be a mixed bunch, and much that we see will appal us. But we know that nobody, least of all us, knows the right way to run a country. Recognising our own fallibility, we must respect their right to develop however they choose, as long as our minimum standards are met.
What should these standards be? It is an important and immensely difficult question.
How should we feel about societies in which certain groups are excluded from certain professions – say, women are barred from engineering, or men barred from childcare? I personally find this a barbaric arrangement. But I do not think it is necessarily below the minimum standard. There may be some ways of setting up a society in which all participants are better off if there is some regimentation of roles.
The measure of its worth would be in the equivalence of opportunity, not in the equality. If people in dramatically unequal roles can all find an equivalent happiness within those roles, then this society cannot be objected to on liberal grounds. To presume that absolute equality is the only way of ensuring equal happiness is to claim a degree of infallibility that no liberal should feel comfortable with.
Enforcing Freedom
One of the central tenets of liberalism, perhaps the central tenet, is tolerance: letting other people go about their business, as long as it doesn't affect you. But there are limits. If you look across the courtyard and see a scene of domestic violence through the window of a neighbouring flat, should you exercise tolerance? Should you respect the rights of self-determination for the abuser and his victim? Certainly not. To do so would be a moral failure. There are some things that no good liberal should tolerate.
This, then, is the dilemma of liberalism: how far should one's liberal principles extend to people around you? In particular, should they extend to those who do not share your enlightened values?
Imagine you live in your country alongside a religious sect that oppresses some of its members. Pick any oppression of any group you like, as long as it appals you. Say, for example, that women are treated as objects and ritualistically beaten; they are forbidden from speaking to men until their parents have married them off, and they must spend the rest of their lives veiled, mute and obedient.
Imagine that you can be born into this sect; and imagine that the penalty for apostasy is death.
Should this state of affairs be allowed to continue? As long as that last paragraph holds, I say certainly not. If this is something you can be born into and can never leave, then it is a form of imprisonment. There is can be no more fundamental human right than the freedom to escape unjustified coercion, and it is the duty of a liberal society to facilitate this escape in others.
So a government can, I believe, justifiably enact laws that break down these barriers to freedom.
Imagine now that the death penalty for apostasy has been abolished. Anybody who feels oppressed and wants to leave the sect is now free to do so.
Imagine that there are some who choose not to. The women decide they prefer their traditional roles. They continue to be covered from head to toe. They remain ignorant of men and sex. And they continue to be beaten. They have chosen to remain oppressed.
Here we enter tricky ground. These women are oppressed, but since they are legally entitled to leave, is it wrong to do more? Should we respect their choice to remain enslaved? Or should we, essentially, force them to be free?
Ultimately, their choice must be respected; but it's important to recognise that there are mental barriers to freedom as well as legal ones, and choice is only really choice when it's an informed choice. You cannot force people to be free and should not try. But you can enforce awareness of the available options, by breaking down censorship and insularity, and by demanding good standards of education.
If, having been exposed to pros and cons of other ways of living, they go back to their traditional lives, so be it. It should be the duty of liberal societies everywhere to give people that option.
The SEP's entry on liberalism is well worth a read, particularly section 4, which poses the question to which this essay is my attempt at an answer.
A Common Tragedy
The Tragedy of the Commons occurs when a number of people using a finite resource realise that they each stand to gain from taking more than their fair share. You know everybody else benefits from taking more, so that's probably what they are doing; the more likely they are to be taking more, the more sense it makes for you to take more. And since everybody knows that it makes sense for you to take more… and so on, until the resource is depleted.
Fishers often know that their overfishing will lead to extinction of certain species of fish, and farmers often know that overfarming will leave the land infertile; but cessation is simply not feasible for them as individuals competition.
In a way the problem of short-term benefits outweighing long-term disadvantages resembles addiction. An chocoholic knows chocolate will make him fat; but it's just too tasty to say no to! His willpower isn't strong enough.
But our chocoholic friend has an option: he can employ a willpower-assisting strategy. He might not feel he needs chocolate just now, but can imagine a future point when the craving really sets in, when his willpower won't be enough. So he acts now, while he can, and flushes the chocolate down the toilet, removing the temptation in advance. He enacts policy that anticipates future temptations. Sometimes people entrust this to others. "Don't bring me any chocolate, I'll only end up eating it."
This is one solution to the Tragedy of the Commons. The consumers make a pact: they all agree to how much they can safely extract from the resource, and agree to be punished if they take more, even if – especially if – it later becomes profitable in the short term to do so. This leads to the creation of national parks, protected areas, one-child policies, fishing quotas and so on.
This kind of contract exploits a very human difference in our valuation of rewards depending on how far away in the future they are. Agreeing to protect a resource is easy when the resource is plentiful.
The trouble is that a sufficiently plentiful resource might not even be seen as a resource. What value do you place, for example, on air? Not much, until you start to see it polluted.
There was a time when the Earth was seen by most people as an infinite source and an infinite sink. Why regulate things that will never run out? It is only after we realise that something is in danger that it makes sense to protect it – but if the realisation comes late, and we see that the resource is actually scarce, then the short-term benefits of looting it faster than the other fella become very real to us indeed.
There is a time window between thinking something too free to regulate and thinking it too precious to regulate, and the window is often narrow. What have we missed it for? And what do we still have time to protect from our future, greedier selves?
This was written on a train having just finished The Logic of Life by Tim Harford, and with Dennett's Freedom Evolves fresh in memory. Both very worth reading.
The Online University
The funding of universities is a real problem. Here is a potential solution: get rid of them altogether.
Why not put universities online?
Consider a new model. A student applying for a university course receives a username and password that gives her access to videos of lectures. These can be downloaded and watched from home. It's cheap, because they only have to be recorded once; academics can focus on research having been freed from teaching schedules, apart from marking papers e-mailed in by students and doing occasional tutorial sessions, in groups, via webcam. For hard science degrees that require specialised equipment, students allotted slots in laboratories: they take four weeks a year out of the usual schedule of video lectures, travel to a lab building with dedicated on-site accommodation, and do an intensive course that gives the whole year's lab work for a year. These can run throughout the year.
The whole thing would be extremely cheap, and paid for directly by students, either by a loan or having a part-time job. You wouldn't even have to move out of your parents' place. Importantly, it empowers students by putting them in charge of their own futures.
As an economic plan, it's tempting.
As a social plan, it would be catastrophic.
The worst thing you could do to a field of study is to isolate it from other fields. What you can imagine depends on what you know (Dennett, again), and if all you know is what you've been taught in lectures then there is only so far you can go. A personal example: my specialism is organic chemistry, but I am analysing it with techniques I only know about through my contact with linguists and computer scientists. If I had never met these people, had never mixed with them, drunkenly stolen the occasional traffic cone with them, these ideas would never have occurred to me.
Furthermore, anyone who's been through university will tell you that the most important things they learned did not come from lectures: they came from each other, from contact with other students. This contact requires geographical concentration of students as much as it requires them moving out of their parents' protection. If students are to be exposed to one another's new ways of thinking, they will need dedicated space, time and freedom in which to interact. This is what taught-at-home universities would lack. The result, if they became commonplace, would disastrous both for the students themselves, and for the society that hopes to benefit from them.
But while I think it would be disastrous, I fear it may also be inevitable. Commoditisation is always a risk of liberalism. Students increasingly see themselves as consumers rather than apprentices, and increasingly think of degrees as ends to be reached, rather than things to pass through on the way to further wisdom.
It's a worrying trend. But how can we reverse it without radically altering our idea of freedom?


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Hello, beautiful! I hope you had a fabulous week. Between all the bachelorette parties, bridal showers, birthday shenanigans, & work being absolutely crazy the past 3 weeks I'm not going to lie I am starting to feel super run down. Sometimes we need to take a step back & take care of ourselves.
Anyway, let's get to why we are here today: fashion. I know you are probably thinking spring layers? Why on earth would one want to layer in spring? Well the more obvious layering is a jean jacket over everything. I find this vital in my office because they crank the AC in the warmer months. Today I want to show you another way I layer.
I love to layer tunics over dresses to create another look. Note the first two pictures in this post. At the base of this look is an a-line little black dress, I simply thru on my favorite tunic over the dress to develop a unique look. The green tunic in the winter I like to layer with leggings, a long sleeve shirt, & boots. Here I can take the same tunic year round by pairing over the black dress & platform heels.
Take a look at your wardrobe, is there anything you can unexpectedly layer like this? When shopping I'm always thinking of versatile ways to wear things. I like to spend money on items that I will wear time & time again, I have a feeling I am not alone. Well fash dolls I hope you enjoyed this little tip & I hope it inspired you to try something new. Till next time.
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