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Someone asked me lately how one gets better at writing.
For a moment, I was at a loss for words. And for a writer, that's kind of ironic. Hahaha!
I guess there's really no step-by-step process to writing. It's really a process of trial and error.
All my creative writing classes were the usual ones taught in high school. I remember I tried countless times to get published in our school paper, and only managed to get an article in on my final year. In college writing took a backseat to the drafting board, though you'd sometimes be surprised at how architects employ creative writing when outlining a project proposal. Hahaha! And before getting published on Youngblood, I had numerous rejected articles.
I tried writing my first book after a summer of immersing myself in
Nancy Drew. I think I was eleven or twelve at the time. And fortunately for everybody, that story won't ever see the light of day. Hahaha! But I'm reminded of my early efforts whenever I see stories posted by tweens on Wattpad. I sincerely admire the courage of the young
authors who post their work on the site (when I was a kid, no one could
peer into my notebooks on threat of death) and open themselves up to
critiques. It's harsh sometimes, but if they're open to learning, it's
bound to be a great learning process.
But I hope they keep writing. For writers and authors, writing is our exercise, it's how we get better.
Another way is to experience life.
In our first year of college, one of our professors told us to go out, go to discos and motels, attend parties, and island-hop. We were all surprised, weren't we at school to learn? He just laughed at our incredulous faces and said, "You want to be architects? How will you design a disco, a hotel, or an airport if you've never been to one? How can you be an effective designer if you've never experienced using those buildings?"
And he was right. I can still remember my guy friends laughing over a drive-in motel I designed in my second year (I just couldn't get why it couldn't have communal parking. Hahaha!).
I think it's the same with writing. How can you write of heartbreak when your heart has never been broken before? How can you write of pain and of loss and of being deprived when you've been pampered your whole life? How can you write about the romance of the cobbled streets of Rome when you've never tread them? How can you write of sunsets on the beach when you've never been outside the concrete jungle of the city?
Don't get me wrong, some people CAN. Some people have wells of imagination so deep you could drown in them.
But for us who weren't blessed with such imagination or a trust fund to enable us to see the world? Well there's always Google ;-) And don't underestimate the things you can learn from talking to people (with an emphasis on listening).
And read.
I think all writers are readers at heart. And this is another good way to learn, not only about places and people, but also about technique. If you like a particular author, try to analyze what that person is doing right and emulate it.
I say emulate, not copy, because every writer has his own unique voice. All artists start out the same, visual and performance artists start by learning the techniques of masters who have gone before them. Only after they've learned and perfected those techniques are they able to develop techniques of their own. I think there's a parallel in learning how to write.
You want to write romance? Read romances. You want to write sci-fi, mystery, or horror? Then read up on those genres. Soak up the techniques of great authors and let your own voice out.
in the end though, the bottom-line is still this: WRITE
Writers write.
They write when they're happy or sad. They try to capture in words the things they see when they travel. They can make you feel hungry or make your heart race by the words they put on paper.
They write because they need to, because they cannot imagine not ever writing.
So flex those muscles and get writing ;-)


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I asked my mom, friends and anyone I met what their favorite recipe was for baked beans. I received a huge variety of recipes and most had a few things in common; brown sugar, onion, molasses and ketchup. Ok, well that was a start but not what I was looking for. So I took all the recipes that I sort of liked, combined them into one and as I was making the beans I found myself constantly adding more stuff, thus the Kitchen Sink Baked Beans (the beer was an afterthought). I know in my article this month in Women's Lifestyle Northshore I told you not to heat up balsamic vinegar but as with most rules this is an exception. The "tang" part of the beans is from the balsamic vinegar and it give the recipe a great flavor!
Cooking time will vary with this recipe and it also depends on if you put them in the oven or in a crock pot. I used a crock pot for this recipe (have 3 and don't ever use them). Enjoy!!! For comments/questions email firstname.lastname@example.com
Kitchen Sink Baked Beans
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 ½ cup diced onions or leeks
1 cup diced celery
1 cup diced carrot
¼ cup Balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons tomato paste
3 tablespoons whole grain Dijon Mustard
1 ½ teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
3 teaspoons smoked paprika
1/3 cup brown sugar (start with this amount and you may decide to add more)
2 teaspoon liquid smoke
2 cups dried navy beans or other dried bean of your choice
1 can great northern beans (size is your choice)
5 cups water
8 oz. of any Porter or Stout beer (not sweet flavors) – keep 4 oz for the end of the cooking
6 oz. cooked and chopped up turkey bacon
Place dried beans in a pot and cover with water (you can use half beer and half water). Leave them to soak over nights.
The next day drain beans and set aside. In a non stick frying pan place the olive oil, add the onion, celery and carrots. Cook until translucent – about 10 minutes. Add in the balsamic vinegar to deglaze the pan for 1 more minute. Add the tomato paste, mustard, rosemary, cocoa powder and paprika. Saute for another 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat
Set your crock pot on high if you want them done in about 5 hours. Add the beans, vegetable mixture, water and beer. Stir the mixture about every hour or so. In the last 2 hours, add the canned northern beans and the cooked bacon. I add the other 4 ounces of beer at this time or more if I want my beans to have a bit more liquid. There is nothing I hate more than having baked beans that are more like dry baked paste!
NOTE: My friend Dawn browns up very lean ground beef or turkey and adds that into her baked beans during the cooking cycle. The meat does give the beans a nice flavor.

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Disney released the first teaser for Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Watch the first trailer of Dead Men Tell No Tales below.
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 titled Dead Men Tell No Tales will be in theaters May 2017 in 3D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D. Disney has just released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming 5th Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Johnny Depp will be back as Captain Sparrow, but the highlight is Javier Bardem as the new villain.
Johnny Depp does not appear in the Pirates of the Caribbean 5 teaser. It is all about Javier Bardem. He plays Captain Salazar, who is dead and decomposing. He bleeds black blood out of his mouth while he speaks. Salazar leads a ghost crew on a mission to take down Captain Jack Sparrow.
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is starring Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Orlando Bloom, Kevin McNally, Kaya Scodelario and Golshifteh Farahani. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg are directing. For some reason former Beatles Paul McCartney is on the cast list.
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Dead Men Tell No Tales will premiere in theaters on May 26, 2017.


text: Posted on Monday, September 15, 2014 in UEA Blog The slip ring industry is always revolving and evolving (pun intended) and perhaps no better area of this evolution is our end-of-line testing capabilities. Being that a slip ring is a rotational continuity device, in the past we have checked for continuity during several steps of the assembly process, and then upon customer request at the end when we will perform an isolation and continuity test on the entire slip ring and harness assembly. For some of our higher voltage applications, over 240 volts, we also will perform Hi Pot testing. This process includes checking each circuit for isolation with an electrical potential difference of two times the circuits rated voltage, plus 1000 volts, plus an additional 20%. Until recently that was the extent of our end-of-line testing. Now, we have the ability to test for total throughout resistance, electrical noise testing of a dynamic system, and rotational torque. We use a 4 wire Kelvin technique when testing for resistance to provide the most accurate resistance numbers for our system. This is preferred because we typically see very low resistance numbers between 1 mOhm – 200 mOhm depending on the size and length of cable. UEA also has multiple cable test systems in house that can be programmed to a specific slip ring assembly to quickly perform resistance testing. Taking that a step further, UEA has performed electrical noise testing on a dynamic system by essentially taking multiple data points from the resistance test and calculating the variance over a specified length of time. To do this test, UEA uses a custom designed one-of-a-kind slip ring testing system. An additional feature of this system is to record the starting and running torque of the slip ring assembly. In the end, all of this testing gives UEA the best possible understanding of our products so that we can efficiently track how various engineering changes affect product performance both at the beginning and throughout a products life. These new testing procedures will help to ensure that UEA is providing the best possible quality for the specific slip ring application.


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These four short pieces are all a continuation of themes and ideas explored in "Brilliant Corners", the company's production from 2011. All four are a sort of zoom-in into different aspects of choreography making, and as a consequence, a reflection on performance modalities.
Étude (study), refers to the musical origins of the term – a composition, usually short and of considerable difficulty, designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill. A choreographic take-off on the idea of étude, these four pieces offer a close look into the mechanics and heart of choreography making.
Driven by an inherent wish to contextualize dance and choreography by actively engaging with the spaces laying between audience and performance, "Corner Etudes" looks at questions relating to spectatorship, the choreographic reality, and how the embodied and phenomenological moment of dancing is experienced.
It explores themes such as the intellectual inquiry for an "answer" through interpretations and speculation on meaning, within the context of the actual experience of the performative moment. The first three pieces of the program will be performed with audience and dancers sharing the same space, leaving the audience mobile and extremely close to the unfolding dance.
In that sense, this set of etudes is thought of as a contemplation tool both for performers and audiences, with at its center the notion of neither to force nor to find an answer, but to give oneself wholeheartedly to the act of questioning. An immediate wonderment with the moment as it happens.
A to F
Choreography created in collaboration and performed by: Hervé Chaussard, Michael Löhr, Pansun Kim, Philippe Mesia, Geneviève Osborne, François Przybylski, Milena Twiehaus.
"A to F" is the work title of the culminating scene from Brilliant Corners. A chaotic yet precisely choreographed section, built through a mechanism of extreme co-dependence and interrelation between the dancers. A kinetic structure with organic qualities and a seamless stream of un-predictable yet coherent patterns with a built-in dramaturgic urgency.
This new 'étude' is following the same process of creation, which in this context allows for a new accuracy and for a sense of "language" to emerge. An experimentation with the construction laws and how they govern every moving and living system, from choreography to social organization.
An almost graphic visualization of human connections, A to F is a transposition of social relations into chorographic form. It behaves as a sort of map of the web-like stream of information flowing constantly between people.
Choreography created in collaboration and performed by: Hervé Chaussard, Philippe Mesia, Genevieve Osborn and Milena Twiehaus
Choreography assistant and rehearsal director: Rindra Rasoaveloson
Sixty minutes of dance condensed both in time and space, duplicated into two distinct duets collapsing into one another, to create a conversation of visceral dynamic and energy between four dancers. Through the drastic negation of the spatial aspects of the original material, its time-related information and qualities are pushed to the front. An intimate and meticulously articulate conversation between two women and two men
Choreography created in collaboration and performed by: Francois Przybylski and Michael Lhor
Text: T.S. Elliot, Four Quartets.
Music: Léon
With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling, we shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time.
"Quartet" is a study on multilayered counterpoint. Four independent lines, merging movement and speech, are interweaved by the two performers into a rich and playful game of structuring, balancing, chasing, confronting, echoing, mirroring, fleeing, answering and questioning, a constant balancing-act between organizing and improvising.
Excerpts from T.S. Elliot contemplative poem, highly contrapuntal in-itself, are crashed onto the choreography, to create a "new" reassembled version of the text, rimed live by the dancers and carefully positioned in the context of the dance. The emanation of content and meaning from the spoken texts collides naturally with the openness of the physical proposition generated by the dance, bringing forth a vibrant flow of aural and visual information.
The Surprising Complexity Of Simple Pleasures
Choreography created in collaboration and performed by: Hervé Chaussard, Amala Dianor, Aurore Di Bianco, Michael Löhr, Pansun Kim, Philippe Mesia, Geneviève Osborne, François Przybylski, Milena Twiehaus.
Organized complexity, visual and musical in this case, and its resonance as pleasurable.
The surprising manner in which complex systems and structures, be it physical or mental, concrete or abstract, animate or inanimate, generate a simple sense of rightness.
The aim here is not to delight the eye or ear, but rather to allow the person looking, contemplating the work, to see the meaning of the structure as structure regardless of the content one might impose upon it. A baroque architecture of endless details and references, all merging into a coherent simple ONE.
As part of the wish to explore new ways of relating the artistic process to its audience, "The surprising complexity of simple pleasures", will be fully created with audience present from the very first studio rehearsal all the way to the on-stage technical rehearsals. The audience will be able to follow closely the process of making a new choreography, and through a continued dialog with the artists have the possibility to comment, question and reflect.
This format of constant public/artists relation throughout the process will not end once the piece is premiered. Since the approach is to look at choreography as an evolving entity rather than a fixated product, when toured later on, the work will always be rehearsed publicly at every new theatre it's being presented at. The process of adapting, doubting, changing and evolving will continue to be exposed and shared with the audience throughout the piece's life.
Production: Emanuel Gat Dance Company
Coproduction: Festival Montpellier Danse 2013
With the support of: de Singel International Art Campus (Antwerp) and Fondation BNP Paribas
Stage & lights designs: Emanuel Gat in collaboration with Samson Milcent and Guillaume Février


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Its Popularity Continues to Grow – Customer Relationship Management Software
Customer's relationship plays a major role in your success in any institution. Thankfully, customers is now able to avail with CRM program (consumer relationship organization software), which happens to be already staying popular. The easy-to-use applications hosts a plethora of helpful characteristics, which were up to now, not for sale to companies. The productive popularity for such software keep increasing as a rising number about companies favor to depend upon call core software just for managing its businesses correctly. There are health improvements of using the services of CRM software system. In matter, many providers fail totally to exploit the extensive benefits offered by just this computer software. Customer help software it's essentially required for tracking suppliers along with customers. Use for web-based software does many things other than merely maintaining the users, lenses and occasions.
Of path, the software might be used meant for storing periods and labels, though it is able to effectively be used for tracking returns, sales and profits, important occasions and to get sending simple guidelines to others to bring action. The effective using of this computer software helps visitors to meet deadlines. They won't miss support groups and requests. Superior web-based software helps you to keep up an end contact with the clients, helping you to offer better support service. When a clients might sense an individual's concern around their troubles and reviews, your industry naturally normally requires an "up " trajectory. One can find it hard for the better style of cultivating and even promoting do it again business in comparison with employing excellent Call Middle software. CRM even helps drawing new customers.
Installation regarding web-based CRM software programs especially lets you in delivering still better standard of services without getting a huge expense. As you take a look for Contact Centre guidance software, you can expect to realize providing support service does possibly not eat inside your revenue now. When thinking about options to get such computer software, you would do just fine to think of Microsoft. The majority Customer Association management program draws encouragement from 'Microsoft', and presents a genuine choice regarding customers globally. Good software tend to make the necessary difference around making along with breaking litigant relationship. Meant for local missions, of a nice entrepreneur, a compact customer connection package might be a better preference, provided one can find no foreign dealings. Think for your smaller-level business, and you are going to benefit largely than it by the capacity to enhance the services in your customers.
An Introduction – What Is Customer Relationship Management
Purchaser relationship supervision or CRM may be a technical term in a business strategy which has been conceptualized to assist you to businesses worldwide to boost their success by cementing customer's loyalty. Customer romantic relationship management will surely have different symbolism for different women but on the broader facet of things, people needed for CRM would certainly essentially possess their work description revolve close to bringing and even keeping collectively information from the many various data sources quickly company. In the past, it may be noticed who CRM is better organized finding a CRM software program because individual intervention leaves numerous room to get improvement in the case of the dependability with which will people are prepared for handling information and facts in mass and bringing waste information together in any semblance of the order to make a complete photo of every one of the customers to a business instantly. What will be customer romantic relationship management- the worthiness of CRM available world involving today.
Up until many years ago, CRM had been thought associated with as attaining some sort of software that will helps establishments keep together with each other information re their associates. Over all the years, the demands in the highly competitive world of business have caused the background of CRM in the form of concept so when software likewise. These weeks, CRM might be nothing in need of a customer-centric doctrine that centers around 3 very important pivots: consumers, technology not to mention company performance relating to its assignments. Indeed, the know-how industry regarding today supplies several CRM software programs solution suppliers and revealing to them apart are usually something from a challenge. Business firms around the world are right now being fit to free trial and as well as the technological approach in relation to addressing an entire concept of that which is customer romantic relationship management might be a must. Should an organization fail to set up a tough business direction software base, the company's CRM program will crumble resulting to its forthcoming downfall in due course or one more. There happen to be many tips about CRM software system but every person companies need to first asses at this time there needs as well as do because of research when searching for a Customer bond management program. More as opposed to anything, CRM is going learning nearly you can for the needs within your customers thus solidifying the loyalty towards your business. In basic because if there's a great rule the spot where the prosperity regarding businesses is worried, it's this unique: good shopper relationship supervision is just the thing that will be able to either create or bust businesses.
Customer Relationship Management Software Explained And Defined
Any CRM (client relationship software) will be the philosophy from a business concerning understanding, identifying and additionally providing the top for the particular consumers as soon as building the procedure relationship with the help of all consumers to maximize profits plus improve customer satisfaction. It is centered on anticipating, being familiar with, and solving the customers' needs. To deal with the do the job relationship utilizing consumer the provider has to build up the needed info approximately their potential customers and systematize this info regarding correct steps and research. It demands maintaining the information up-to-date, making him or her convenient on the employees, and providing in the same manner to enable them to change which will information directly into products to help best match into the consumers' wants.
The secret of this powerful purchaser relationship managing software is not really simply through what tips are accumulated employing interpreting as well as organization of this information. That may be how computer systems comes handy and can also not, effortlessly, transform an individual's relationship that you have with you. That takes top that will bottom, cross-section, company wish to make great relationships. However computers plus the best home pc based consumer relationship managing software may well increase a person's sales roughly forty to one half – simply because many research studies have demonstrated this.
The top illustration in the customer marriage management solution stands out as the car designer (suppose they distribute towards the end individuals directly). If individuals managed this database that clients purchase which kind of items using their typical choose, and anytime, the colors tastes, which kind of selections these made, precisely how frequently they can be making any purchase, whether they require financing even while purchasing etc. .., the production business knows adequately what marketing what to send, precisely what options/preferences definitely will lift the actual sale, what products advertising to all of the client, whether to provide the personal package during the selling objects and which is the foremost time to a target all individual.
They can use this info to generate the perform relationship having consumer by just reminding the general public of programs recalls, assistance dates, and maybe even to submit the personal gift card to help customers. The easiest way a client relationship software – Use some sort of adviser to avoid wasting your finances and time period. The resellers exactly who sell this software's will often be the perfect consultants for the reason that they've experience during this and may additionally have a lot of feedback out of selling consumer relationship managing software. Very few resellers supply broader offers comprising operation management as well as strategic intending.
Responding Versus Reacting
Replying vs. Answering – When creating controlling wrath, it is critical to recognize the variance between Answering and over reacting. Although these folks seem the same they are unquestionably quite distinct, and realizing that difference is often a major step up not only the capacity to control hate, but for helping improve almost relationship you've got. The latter Zig Ziegler, undoubtedly one of my preferred teachers along with mentors spoke about it concept upon an old video tape I listened to, and their first been told it, it got a profound affect me. He was basically discussing just how winners answer to situations as an alternative for reacting for many years. He told an account about a lady named Margaret Crowley who was simply the finest salesperson on her corporation, but the woman was fired by your male management because she don't approve about drinking within company gatherings etc. They let go her as well as brought the girl desk in order to her residence and located it on her behalf porch. This lady had every single reason towards react inside anger, but she don't. Instead the girl responded from realizing in which she knew the bosses, and their customers suspected and trustworthy her, so she thought he would start her very own business referred to as Home Inside, which for the duration of her passing was really worth $500 thousand. She responded as an alternative for reacting.
Another example of re-acting vs. responding is going to be let's tell you attended the health care provider and the guy gave you actually some treatments, and the next time, when you returned he required some exams and reported " Goodness me, it would appear that your is reacting to your medication" which could not often be good, but in the event that he mentioned It would appear that your person is responding towards the medication" that could be a much superior statement.
Webster is Reacting being negative duration, like over reacting with hatred, also or perhaps hear from a nuclear resolution? No, it happens to be described as being a reaction, and is particularly hostile to suggest the minimum. Responding nevertheless is understood to be a remedy or an alternative and being a positive a reaction to stimuli. Laptop or computer does this try to find anger? Their react to your situation around anger Document allow myself that they are controlled by your situation and I'll act in the hostile means, whereas considerably more than simply respond, website am on top of things and am capable to listen, suppose, and convey a more articulate, calm resolution.
Guided Selling For Customer Relationship Management
Management will be process about managing individuals and resources in the flooring business. There usually are several organization principles and almost all these play a very important role in the flooring business structure enjoy Customer Connection Management or even Guided Promoting. It is rather easy to elucidate the distinct meaning in addition to work associated with Customer Association Management that is referred to as CRM. Customers are certainly important for just a business and the converter should have a nutritious relationship in between customers along with the management that allows you to gain highest clientele as a result of keeping them pleased with your products and services.
In the following scientific country, where varied techniques are presented to determine the different ways to increase your clients, the Engagement Generator plays a very important role. This control principle causes it to clear no matter if your site visitor is gratified from what he will be getting and not. Customer Romance Management is in words of site visitor credibility. If User Relationship Supervisor is needing good relations together with customers he then can identify the need and also demand within your client. If client will not be in regular hitting the ground with your administrator then marriage ceremony your customer's fault but this is exactly totally your own manager's fault designed to lead to several your small business. Guided Selling is really an art. Nobody is able to learn the following only right from books.
It was produced from self-practice in accordance with intense affinity for speaking. Situations speak although again decent and valuable speech is necessary so you can show you well and therefore the client appearances impressed. User Relationship Control means put faith on of small business. Without this unique, one can't want to survive much time enough through this demanding environment where not anybody offers the time to reflect. CRM, any time effectively made use of, can demonstrate to be a miracle to get a business venture considering that it relates directly with all your clients. For that reason, through this unique department, owners may well know this mood from the clients and then the atmosphere of your entire economy. They may well find out standard of your inventory and services along with the ultimate 100 % satisfaction ratio regarding different customers.
Suppose the good news is mango manager who advertises different particular mangoes and hopes to know this taste of your people in different particular location. He is required to get more knowledge about the feeling of patron and his or he's needs to receive maximum make money. If purchaser needs great mangoes as an alternative for small mangoes he then will never come not to mention tell on to the entrepreneur. He only will go and notice his method of mangoes considering the fact that he obtains them from almost every shop he's going to buy all of them.


text: Share: Comments Print September 23, 2014 at 12:31 PM At Clinton summit, Ashesi pledges to boost women engineers Posted by Brier Dudley Ashesi University — the Ghanaian school started by a Microsoft veteran and funded partly by Seattle-area donors — has a bold new goal. To address gender inequality in engineering, the school plans to have women fill 50 percent of the engineering degree program that it's launching in 2015. For comparison, women receive about 20 percent of the engineering degrees granted in the U.S. Ashesi image of Awuah The school plans to enroll 300 students in the first four years of its engineering program, including 150 women supported in part by new scholarships. To feed the pipeline, it's also planning summer programs to reach more than 1,000 high school girls. Founder Patrick Awuah made the pledge today at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York, which showcases selected global-development programs. "Our goal is about inclusion, but perhaps more importantly, it is about ensuring that the perspectives of African women guide the engineering solutions to some of Africa's greatest challenges," Awuah said in a release. "Achieving gender balance in engineering education would be exceptional and would represent leadership not only in Africa, but also globally." Awuah left Microsoft in 1997 to start the university with the goal of producing an Ivy League-type school that would produce ethical leaders for Africa. Classes began in Accra in 2002. Construction of the engineering school is largely funded, but Ashesi is trying to raise $5.1 million for additional scholarships, including scholarships for female engineering students. Awuah may leave New York with new supporters. The Clinton event, hosted by the former president, gives programs such as Ashesi a platform to present to a group of foundations and other donors. At the 2007 Clinton event, Awuah pledged to build a permanent campus for Ashesi and double the student body to 600 students. The campus opened in 2011 and this fall the school is expected to have 630 students enrolled. Ashesi's engineering school that's now under construction. Ashesi image. Comments | Topics: Africa, Ashesi, Education


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Psychology (AQA)
Psychology is the study of how people think, act, react and interact. It is concerned with all aspects of human behaviour and the thoughts, feelings and motivations underlying such behaviour.
Psychologists do not just attempt to simply explain people's behaviour, they use their understanding to help people with difficulties and bring about change for the better. For example, psychologists are concerned with practical problems such as helping victims of crime, helping students who have educational and behavioural difficulties at school, reducing stress at work, eye witness testimony, forensics, explanations for aggressive behaviour and psychopathology (phobias, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder).
Psychologists observe and measure behaviour, and their therapies are based on scientific study. Psychology has links with many disciplines and including biological, computer and forensic science as well as humanities such as sociology, philosophy, anthropology and even literature. It involves study of theory, empirical evidence and practical applications. This mix of disciplines helps to make psychology such a fascinating subject.
There is no written coursework for AQA Psychology; students are assessed solely on their examination performance. There are three exams which take place at the end of Year 13, these are:
Introductory Topics in Psychology (Covered in Year 12): Social Influence, Memory and Attachment.
Psychology in Context (Covered in Year 12): Approaches in Psychology, Psychopathology and Research Methods.
Issues, Debates & Approaches (Covered in Year 13)
Optional Topics (Covered in Year 13): Relationships, Schizophrenia and Aggression.
The course requires students to be able to read complex material from a wide range sources, to learn scientific experiments and analyse them using statistics. No previous experience of Psychology is required. This course is very contemporary with regards to the evidence studied, a keen interest in cultural affairs is also beneficial.
AQA A Level Psychology Specification


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The Skinny: The Hawks came out and took and early 11-1 lead on the sloppy turnover prone Nets behind ex-Net Johan Petro's eight quick points. The Nets returned the favor with a 13-4 run and the game started to slow down. Al Horford picked up two quick fouls to make the Hawks go to their bench early. Andray Blatche was a factor with four points, a steal and an assist late in the first to help the Nets tie the game at 23 after one.
The Bench Mob started the second with Joe Johnson anchoring the floor alongside Mirza Teletovic and C.J. Watson. The quarter started with a Nets 13-4 run to give them a 36-27 lead behind multiple steals and good all-around plays by Blatche. The Nets held the Hawks to 38 percent shooting while they shot 50 percent to build their biggest lead of the game, a 51-37 lead into halftime.
Deron Williams got the Nets off to a good start to the "problematic" third quarter with aggressive play and led an 8-1 run to stretch lead to 59-40. The Nets executed very well and spread the ball around with efficiency. Brook Lopez had 14 points in the quarter to help extend the lead to 76-57 going into the final quarter.
The bench once again came in and stretched the lead for Brooklyn early in the fourth. The Hawks made a 7-0 run midway through the quarter and got the lead down to 86-70. The game was over minutes after that Hawks run and both teams emptied the benches. Nets win 93-80.
High Scorers: Brook Lopez and Andray Blatche each scored 18 points while Blatche had four steals to go with Lopez nine rebounds. Al Horford led the Hawks with 15 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.
Key Stats: The Nets turned the ball over only 11 times to the Hawks 18.
Who Was Hot: Brook Lopez propelled the Nets in the third quarter with 14 points and an inside presence.
Who Was Not: Jeff Teague went 0-for-5 in the first half with two turnovers for zero points. The second half was no better as he ended the game with seven points on 2-for-9 shooting.
Fun Fact: The Nets had lost eight straight in Atlanta going into this game surrendering 109.4 ppg over that span. That streak is now over with the Nets holding the Hawks to 80 points.
The game did not start well for Brooklyn although they weathered an early 11-1 deficit to make a strong comeback behind the Bench Mob. The second quarter was a key to this game when the Nets outscored Atlanta 28-14 to stretch the lead into halftime to give them some wiggle room.
The normal collapse in the third quarter did not occur tonight with the Nets continuing their solid play and outscoring the Hawks 25-20 in the third. Brook Lopez led that surge with 14 points and the turnover happy Nets only turned the ball over one time. It was nice to see Deron Williams attacking the basket multiple times without hesitation.
Andray Blatche played a great game to give the Nets another scorer to go with Lopez. The game was not as close as the final score indicates with the Nets getting a much needed conference win in Atlanta to put one more game between the teams.
Brooklyn (37-26) heads to Philadelphia Monday night to face the Sixers, The 7 p.m. game will be televised on the YES Network.


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While the severity of Houston's winters can easily be questioned – unless you consider temperatures in the mid-60s to be nippy – its summers are world class. With that in mind, here are a dozen ideas for what to drink with some quintessential summer foods.
Caprese Salad
Picture perfectly ripe heirloom tomatoes, sweet and fruity with just the right amount of acidity; aged balsamic vinegar to match; pillow-soft, pleasantly unctuous and slightly tart Mozzarella di bufala; fresh basil; great olive oil; fleur de sel and freshly ground black pepper; and thin, warm, roasted garlic-parmesan toast. Now picture washing it down with a Chianti Classico Riserva – fairly light, with a beautiful hint of black cherries framed with firm acidity. It doesn't get any better.
Steamed Lobster with Drawn Butter
Briny, sweet, rich lobster, made even richer with melted butter. The acidity from a slightly chilled white Burgundy from the Côte de Beaune will contrast with the dish's richness, while the wine's fruit and minerality will accentuate and develop the same flavors in the lobster.
Texas Barbecued Ribs
There's a lot of variation in Texas barbecue in terms of sweetness, smokiness and spice, all of which influences the choice of the perfect beverage to drink with it. Having said that, a great Bock beer, with their big, deeply flavored maltiness, touch of sweetness and generous alcohol levels will usually do the trick.
Fish Tacos
Light, spicy, crunchy and fresh, fish tacos might be the perfect food for a hot Houston summer. A not-too-sweet, tart Margarita on the rocks is a great compliment. The drink's lime encourages the cilantro and Serrano chile to blossom, and the sweetness from the Cointreau (on a good day) can make even a pedestrian fish seem a little like Turbot. The high alcohol should theoretically clash with the spice, but it has never bothered me.
Chilled Shellfish Salad
A chilled salad of steamed shrimp, scallops and crab, lightly dressed in a tarragon-mustard dressing and served in half a perfectly ripe avocado can make for a show stopping summertime lunch. A white Bordeaux from Entre-Deux-Mers will be the perfect compliment, and somewhat mitigate the cost of the food, too. This no oak, high acid, high minerality wine will bring out flavors in the seafood you never knew were there, while making the avocado seem even richer.
Dry-Aged Grilled Ribeye
Caveman food at its best. A big, juicy, rich ribeye steak, grilled medium rare (at most) with lots of tasty char from the grill, hopefully with generous amounts of genuine mesquite smoke flavor thrown in. A primal dish such as this will do well with a wine that favors clarity of purpose over too much subtlety or fussy elegance. I'd save the Premier Cru Bordeaux for another day and opt for a great Napa Valley California Cabernet Sauvignon. The fruit will uncover complexities in the steak you might otherwise miss, and the tannins will keep the richness from becoming cloying. The steak's richness will also temper the wine's tannins and alcohol. "A slab and a Cab" is popular for a reason.
Gazpacho with Crabmeat
A stellar version of this dish will be refreshing, spicy, rich and tart all at the same time. Vinho Verde is a wine from Portugal that is very light, slightly sweet and a little sparkly. It's available in white, red and rosé, each of which is a great summer wine, although with this dish I'd recommend the white or rosé. Its name literally translates as "green wine," which refers to the use of young, barely ripe grapes in its production, not the wine's color.
Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Light and delicate, but with complex flavors from various herbs and heat and/or sweetness from different sauces, Vietnamese Spring Rolls can be tricky to pair with wine. But an excellent choice is Extra Dry Champagne which, counter intuitively, is a little bit sweeter than a typical Brut. The lightness of the wine plays off the subtle character of the rolls, while the slight sweetness tempers any heat from the sauces and brings out nuances in the flavors of any shellfish or roasted pork. The wine's minerality makes the herbs more vibrant and the shellfish more complex.
Fried Chicken
While no one denies the appeal of great fried chicken, unfortunately the same can't be said of German Rieslings. This is regrettable because these wines are some of the world's greatest, and too many people are missing out on the fun. They're not too sweet, cloying or one-dimensional. That describes the soft drinks that many people who eschew these wines drink on a daily basis. The next time you have fried chicken, pair it with a German Spätlese. You'll discover a bright, refreshing, complex wine that beautifully balances a focused acidity with a smooth, rich modicum of sweetness. It works so well with fried chicken for the same reasons it's perfect with Wiener schnitzel.
Made from the freshest of seafood marinated in citrus juice along with aromatic vegetables and herbs, ceviche is a perfect way to keep cool on the hottest summer day. Its high acidity can work against many wines, but Sancerre, a Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire Valley, is a great match. This wine's own super high acidity, along with plenty of citrus and herbaceous notes, play perfectly against those same flavors in the dish.
Salade Niçoise
This classic entrée salad from the south of France contains tuna (try it with Ahi, grilled rare), hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, boiled potatoes, haricots verts, anchovies, niçoise olives and herbs. An equally classic wine match for this dish is Tavel, a bone-dry, high alcohol rosé from the Rhône Valley, just up the road from Nice. The wine is clean and balanced, with fresh fruit flavors of pear and cherry blossoms and a crisp finish. It's just the ticket to tie together the disparate flavors and textures in this salad.
Shaved, raw tenderloin of beef dressed with olive oil, lemon juice and capers, or maybe a flavored mayonnaise or mustard, is a great way to work red meat into a menu when the goal is to keep things light. An Oregon Pinot Noir, with its fresh red fruit and smooth, medium body, will remind you of all the reasons that beef tenderloin is so great: its almost sweet and fruity flavor and velvet-like texture. Serve the wine slightly chilled. If you insist on serving it at room temperature, just be sure the room isn't one in Houston in August.


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The Museum of the Gulf Coast invites you to join Coach Wade Phillips at his book signing from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, May 5, directorTom Neal said in a release.
Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School's JV Lady Bears softball team finished their season as district champs for the second consecutive year, LCM CISD spokesperson Sherry Combs said in a release.
Legendary football coach and current defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams Wade Phillips will sign copies of his newly released book titled "Son of Bum: Lessons My Dad Taught Me About Football and Life" on Friday, May 5.
His first stop will be at 2 p.m. at the Museum of the Gulf Coast (700 Procter St.) in Port Arthur, and Phillips will sign copies in Beaumont at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble (4155 Dowlen Road).
There's been a whirlwind of changes since Mike Schultz arrived as the new head football coach earlier this year and a major point of emphasis under Schultz is that players get stronger by spending more time in the weight room.
With that said, Schultz and the coaching staff hosted a first for the Lamar football team — Night of Champions — on April 25, which is a strength and conditioning showcase that saw several members of the team square off in bench press, squats and deadlift at Provost Umphrey Stadium in front of fans.
The Lamar Cardinals softball team (22-21) will host nationally ranked Baylor on Tuesday, April 25, for one non-conference game beginning at 4 p.m.
The Bears (35-7), ranked No. 13, defeated the Cardinals 5-3 back on Feb. 18 during their tournament in Waco. To purchase tickets, view lamarcardinals.com or call (409) 880-1715.
Before the Cards square off with the Bears, they have a date with Southland Conference first-place McNeese (30-14, 16-2) in Lake Charles for three games beginning Friday, April 21, at 6 p.m. followed by a double-header Saturday at 4 p.m.
Tweaking bass fishing lures is nothing new. It's a tactic that's been done for years. And whether modifying a lure actually makes it catch more bass is anybody's guess. But it'll sure up your confidence.
Lonnie Stanley is a bass fishing pro that I've spent a good deal of time with on the water. One day we were fishing on a big Texas lake. We were working a stump flat in about 4 to 5 feet of water. I looked up on the front deck and Stanley was trimming the skirt of a jig.
The LCM Bear Varsity Tennis team competed at the Ms. Sheila Invitational Tournament held at Lamar University on Friday, March 31, LCM CISD Community Relations Specialist Sherry Combs said in a release. Coach Cory Parsons announced the tennis results.
LSCPA Seahawks suspend 11 players
Lamar State College-Port Arthur is enforcing a two-game suspension of 11 of its softball players after an incident that involved members of the LSU-Eunice softball program.
LSCPA Director of Athletics Scott Street handed down the disciplinary action March 27 after an investigation into an incident that took place early Wednesday morning, March 22.
Junior forward Colton Weisbrod was chosen as a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches' (NABC) All-District team. The Nederland native is the first Cardinal chosen for the group since Kenny Dawkins and Jay Brown were picked nine years ago.
The second-team honor comes following a season where Weisbrod helped the Lamar to 19 wins in the regular season and a postseason berth, both for the first time since 2012.
The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bear 9th/JV Tennis Team competed at the District Tournament hosted by Orangefield on March 22, and three members brought home medals from the competition, LCM CISD Community Relations Coordinator Sherry Combs said in a release.
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Since getting the Fuji X100 I have been trying to shoot with it as much as possible and it has become my daily carry camera.
I have talked about trying street photography some a while, have tried it before but with a DSLR it's not ideal as they attract too much attention or cause people to close down/walk away.
So to give the X100 a good run out I met up with Mark and headed in to Liverpool to shoot some street. The weather was bad with dull overcast sky's which meant giving the X100 a run at high ISO values (1600-6400). You can see Marks post on his blog on the link below.
Most of the images are black & white apart from the odd few that are stronger in colour. And some of them are detail/architecture shots, just a few.
Before we get in to the images I want to say I can see me shooting more Street in the coming months/years, its freeing being able to relax my own strict rules I put on myself… Shooting street can be either meticulous, shoot from hip or a set up portrait and I like having that choice and being able to shoot a bit looser. Now don't get me wrong I am not talking eff it and spray and pray this stuff but just relaxing a little, framing does not have to be perfect at all times.. I mean it can't be if shooting from the hip, I don't have to shoot manual exposure.. Everything does not have to be perfect….Ha .. That's such a stupid goal or pressure to set yourself! I have not shot a perfect Image ever.. expect I never will, I actually don't think a perfect photograph exists. After all this is all subjective right?
Ok enough of that before I start to ramble…Here are some
images from the day, exported 28 (not all shown) from the 170 I shot (battery
life on the X100 sucks…. And really sucks in the cold). I'm still waiting on my 2 spares to arrive,
will most likely order another.
I really enjoyed walking around light on gear. I am heading out again this weekend. More posts to come and my thoughts about the X100.


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I am reading Charles Stross award-winning book Accelerando. My very first encounter with the popular science fiction theme called the singularity, in which human intelligence is surpassed by technological advances. Pretty heavy stuff, yes, not just highly entertaining, but an impressive piece of literature.
Accelerando describes how three generations of the Macx clan try to survive and thrive in an accelerated world. Below I am writing a review of the first generation as the three first chapters were so relatable and gripping. The setting is post-cyberpunk-like and it takes place in the early 21st century. Extra-terrestrial life and spacecrafts are elementary in the subsequent chapters, and basically a completely transformed world is just not so much appealing to me. I rather prefer themes such as Otaku and globalization. Post-scarcity economics. My fantasy has issues putting up with space exploration and other things beyond human comprehension.
Accelerando has been in paperback already since 2006. Originally it was written as a series of novelettes in the period 2001 to 2004. So really it does not make so much sense to review the book (or novella in this case) when it is in "production" for such a long time already – let alone to notify the author of a typo in the book, which I did. Charles replied me that there is indeed no point in notifying the author of a typo in a book unless you catch it in the first edition within six months of publication. There may be time to correct the second/paperback edition, but once that's gone to press there's no re-typesetting unless the book goes out of print and is reissued (many, many years later, if ever). But still, I like the idea of crowd-sourced spelling like Cory's expirement with self-publishing.
Writer Charlie Stross is distinct from fellow cyberpunk writers such as William Gibson, because he has a background in Pharmacy and brings something new to the table. He is specialized in hard science fiction and knows a few things about biochemistry and computer science. By leveraging these new elements, it really spices and levels up the story. One thing that is bothering me though is that he introduces too many ideas at one go and sometimes keeps rambling one. This makes it incomprehensible at times, but then it all suddenly makes sense again.
The story starts during a hot summer in Amsterdam Centraal Station. Manfred Macx, a VC with a high Whuffie factor, mind-uploader and fighter for AI emancipation, receives a FedEx package when he is enjoying a beer. The parcel contains a mobile phone and Manfred gets called, confronted with a KGB AI agent who wants to be set free. Most likely some spammy Russian capitalist spooks, and a failed robbery attempt, Manfred thinks. However, after bumping into the KGB AI agent a second time, he discovers they are uploaded spiny lobsters or nervous system vectors. It looks like he is then becoming tied up in a communist KGB plot. In the meantime, Manfred is also doing business with entrepreneur Bob Franklin, to discuss an investment in the self-replicating robotics market. And he runs into his ex-fiancee Pamela. Manfred is all about a higher cause, he doesn't believe in scarcity, competition or zero-sum games prevalent in the traditional economy. Pamela is totally opposite. She works for the Internal Revenue Service, being worried about such things like national debt, birth decline and environmental issues. Manfred still owes the government twelve million in taxes and she is chasing him for that. Apart from that, Pamela wants to get a grip on Macx and marry him.
Three years later, Manfred returns back to Europe. In the UK, he loses his luggage which is on its way to Mombasa. Luckily, he manages to pick up a replacement luggage that looks exactly the same. Back in his hotel in Milton Keynes, he gets called up by tame attorney Alan Glashwiecz who is filing a lawsuit against one of his companies out of the blue. Manfred then gets the suspicion that this has something with Pamela's divorcement settlement. So in order to blow this off, Manfred figures out a plan to make himself a temporary billionaire. In the UK he meets Parisian Arianne from Arianespace marketing, who he had met three years earlier in Amsterdam in connection with investor Bob Franklin – he falls for her. She turns out to be a CIA stringer who files dispatches from time to time. This comes in quite handy when Manfred needs to do a press release. However, because of this, the Copyright Control Association of America comes to know he is based in Paris. They are chasing him because he had been assisting music thieves. So they track him down, but the CCAA does not recognize him, since he is still completely in outfit from the previous night drugging and dress-up clubbing. In the meantime, Manfred comes to know of his daughter with Pamela, currently a frozen fertilized embryo. As he needs money for his divorce and to close the deal to get his luggage back, he thinks of selling his idea to interface a central planning system with a capitalist economy to the Italian Communist Party, represented by Gianni. For settling the divorcement, he gives all the music rights that he acquired from busted music cartels to Pam. However, he uploads the entirety of the 20th century out-of copyright music to an anonymized public network so that the Mafiya can't stop it from being pirated. This way Manfred is able to fend off the CCAA, his dominatrix wife and her attorney.
Some time later, Manfred finds himself in Edinburgh, Scotland where he gets robbed by a young chap named Jack. He loses his very powerful glasses and belt pouch. Without his goggles, Manfred is lost, confused and suffering from amnesia due to the identity theft. Annette feels something is wrong and worriedly goes to look for Manfred after Gianni tells her that Manfred was going to talk to the Franklin Collective to get him a seat on the Confederacy Commission. The Franklin Collective is in fact a shared partial upload of venture billionaire Bob Franklin, a group mind through the brains of its members or collective borganism. The Franklin Collective has huge resources to help pass the Equal Rights Amendment, where all non-human intelligences are eligible to vote, own property, download, upload and sideload. Manfred makes it to the emergency department in the hospital, but ends of following Victorian men in dark suits and women in anachronistic garb. Meanwhile, Annette is interrogating Manfred's robot cat Aineko, which eventually will bring her to Jack to get Manfred's spectacles back while Manfred is with the Victorians. They help Manfred to get his consciousness back and with a memory backup, he is at least able to remember again. It then becomes clear that Manfred is there with the Franklin Collective to discuss Gianni's election campaign. He gets an anxiety attack and madly explains the Collective about Gianni's believe to achieve True Communism and make everybody rich. But Manfred is still considerably puzzled and falls asleep. Annette manages to find Manfred and the Collective, and together they try to turn around the ERA opposition. The ERA is a very important theological issue for the Collective, because the cult of individuality allows some of the Collective's team to operate without the other's knowledge. This is countered by Manfred by saying that posthumanists also should be thinking about identity issues. Group minds, lobsters and aliens should get civil rights and be accounted for too. And that therefore a new legal concept for of what it is to be a person is needed. In the meantime his daughter Amber has been defrosted and born, and is being brought up by Pamela. The Lobsters are thriving in colonies and very low entropy alien signals are starting to get picked up. Aineko the cat, starts deciphering these alien signals.
I really like the protagonist Manfred Macx and his character. By being generous, he is able to make people richer. Everything he does it for the betterness. That's why he enjoys protection from multinational consumer protection groups. He is a smart-ass rebel who knows how to evade licensing issue and reminds me of Julian Assange in a lot of ways.
I like the distinction between meat and mindspace in the book. I like the fact that Stross uses popular culture elements and mixes them up in wicked ways. Wonferful and crazy themes and ideas: KGB lobsters that want to fleet from human occupied Internet, a Lockheed Martin and Boeing alliance, the decay of Europe, terminal outsourcing disease. I love how he thinks in terms of abundance instead of an economic model that relies on scarcity, where resource allocation is no longer a problem and money is associated with poverty.


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Outsourcing can be a controversial practice. Of course, when many people hear the term, they think of "offshoring," or sending jobs overseas. We don't really run into that much in the mortgage industry, but outsourcing can be trick in our line of work for a different reason. We make promises to customers and investors; hiring someone else to do part of our work for us is taking a risk. If they fail us, we fail our customers and investors. So, here's the million dollar question: when is it worth taking the risk to outsource some part of our business?
When I first entered in the mortgage industry, I had no experience in business. My boss took a chance on me, though, and I actually ended up doing pretty well. I was a "people person," and excelled at building relationships as a loan originator. However, I was really bad at math, and my boss was struggling with what to do about it.
Eventually, my boss was given a simple piece of advice that ended up saving my career: why don't you hire him an assistant? Someone was brought on to work with me to pick up the slack in the areas where I was deficient—and the whole company was made better off for it. That's the power of outsourcing: none of us can do everything well, but all of us can do something amazingly well. Outsourcing is about recognizing what we're good at and recruiting others to help us with what we're not.
So, when should you outsource work in your organization? When someone else can do it better. If you can find someone outside of your company who can perform a function that makes your organization stronger, then you are taking a greater risk by not hiring them. Sometimes, the best reason to outsource is precisely because your customers and investors are counting on you.


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Artist: Gang Colours
Release: Invisible in Your City
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Genre: Alternative – Electronic / EBM
The music press and blogs are following the Guardian's exclusive stream in supporting the increasingly self-assured Gang Colours, releasing here his "confirmation" album on Gilles Peterson's imprint. The sophomore album by Gang Colours – 'Invisible In Your City' – marks another exciting moment on the evolutionary arc of an incredible artist. Spanning ten tracks, 'Invisible…' is as richly textured as its predecessor, but it's a more self-assured record by an artist growing into his songwriting skin and rising in confidence all the time.
Artist: Marvell
Release: Boom Bam Bing
Label: Natruly Gifted
Genre: Hip Hop
A straight-up club summer slammer, this North London crew have made one direct for the floor here with new single 'Boom Bam Bing', gaining strong support from Radio 1xtra and MTV. The three-piece grime group Marvell is comprised of MCs Vertex, Shocka and Double S. 'Boom Bam Bing', an up-tempo and very catchy club track, was premiered by DJ Cameo on BBC Radio 1Xtra in June. It has since gained support from DJs including Charlie Sloth, Ras Kwame, Firin Squad, Target and Mistajam.
Artist: Charlie Jones
Release: Love Form
Label: Stranger Records
Genre: Jazz – Contemporary
Debut album from Grammy-award winning Charlie Jones featuring Alison Goldfrapp & Portishead, Massive Attack collaborators. Goldfrapp European support tour & unaminous critical acclaim for this cinematic contemporary jazz masterpiece. Charlie Jones is a musician's musician. His bass playing and talents as a composer saw him win a Grammy for co-writing on the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album 'Raising Sand'. On 'Love Form', his debut LP, Jones finds his own métier, stretching out to two sides of instrumental languor and tension that only a well-seasoned writer and player could conjure.
Artist: Kidd Kidd
Release: I'm a G (Bury Me a G) [Clean]
Label: G Unit Records Inc
Genre: Hip Hop – Alternative
Kidd Kidd readies his new mixtape featuring Lil Wayne and 50 Cent with a brand new single, 'I'm a G (Bury Me a G)'. Kidd Kidd's first mixtape on G-Unit Records and released in advance of his full-length debut, "All On Me," is the soundtrack to the streets. Kidd Kidd says: "When it comes to New Orleans, what do people really know besides Mardi Gras, Lil Wayne, the French Quarter and Master P? Nobody really knows how corrupt it is. How real it is. But what's so crazy, is that the city is so grimy and crazy but we love it."


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Awards of up to $5000 for top business idea
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (October 7, 2016) –Do you have a brilliant product idea that will change the world? Is your startup company the next big thing? Is your business ready to explode? Then the inaugural Hub City Business Competition will give you a chance to prove it and maybe even win some investment capital.
Local economic development agencies including the Washington County Department of Business Development, City of Hagerstown's Community and Economic Development, USMH, the Chamber of Commerce, Washington County SBDC and SCORE have partnered to host the "Shark Tank" style pitch competition November 17, 2016 at Hagerstown Community College's Kepler Performing & Visual Arts Education Center.
Entrepreneurs, startup or growing companies with a new idea are encouraged to submit an entry online at www.HubCityBizComp.com. All entries will be screened and will have access to local business development resources to help perfect their business model.
Selected entrants will be invited to present to a celebrity judging panel made up of local business and civic leaders. First prize will be $2500 with $1000 for second place and $500 for the audience's favorite pitch.
The event will also feature a startup expo in the theater lobby where several economic development agencies will be available to answer questions, provide startup information, business funding options and advice. Gain exposure for your business and get a chance to network with potential customers and other entrepreneurs.
Entry into the competition and admission to the event are free. The deadline to apply is October 28 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. Finalists will be notified by November 10, 2016, of their selection to pitch at the competition.
To submit an application form or for complete information please, visit www.HubCityBizComp.com or email to firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information about the competition contact Robert Bower, email@example.com or 240-727-8210.
Media requesting additional information, should contact Public Relations and Community Affairs Manager James Jenkins at 240-313-2384.
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Prior to beginning each course of therapy1:
- Verify that patients have adequate hematologic, respiratory, hepatic, cardiac, and renal function prior to initiating each course of Unituxin.
Side effects may still occur even with the use of premedication1
Side effects may still occur, even with the use of premedication, and may be mitigated by changing the rate of the Unituxin infusion.
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Geiser - News
posted by jao, Wed 14 Mar 2018 01:38:13 AM UTC - 0 replies
- Better support for Guile 2.2
- Better support for Chicken (Dan Leslie, John Whitbeck)
- Better support for Chez (Chaos Eternal)
- Bug fixes (Peter Wang, Diog F. S. Ramos, Mario Rodas, Jordan Brown)
- Documentation fixes (Jonas Bernoulli, Andrew Sackville-West, Ziyi
Yan, James C. De Ricco, George D. Plymale II)
posted by jao, Thu 06 Oct 2016 06:18:21 PM UTC - 0 replies
- Version 0.9 (Oct 2016)
- Chicken: improvements by Dan Leslie.
- Guile: support for Guile 2.2 (with help from Raffik Naccache and David Thompson).
- Preliminary support for GNU/MIT, Chibi and Chez by Peter Feigl.
- Lots of bug fixes.
posted by jao, Tue 13 Oct 2015 07:20:15 PM UTC - 0 replies
A quick bug fix: we were using a function from emacs 25!
posted by jao, Mon 12 Oct 2015 10:29:15 AM UTC - 0 replies
Improved features:
- Lots of improvements to Chicken support, by Dan Leslie.
- Better interoperability with xscheme.
- Much better performance for long lists of completions or evaluated values.
- Better highlighting and indentation rules, by Alex Kost and Dan Leslie.
- Make completion work for quoted symbols.
Bug fixes:
- geiser-connect-local working again.
posted by jao, Sat 21 Feb 2015 11:02:58 PM UTC - 0 replies
This release is dedicated to Dan's three-months-old daughter Freija, who shared her dad's lap with his laptop while he was hacking on the new Chicken scheme support for Geiser.
New features:
Chicken support, by Dan Leslie.
Improved features:
company-mode support completed with a method for doc-buffer.
Support for multiple image display in Racket, including image objects embedded in structured values (thanks to Greg Hendershott).
posted by jao, Sat 09 Aug 2014 11:57:33 PM UTC - 0 replies
For those of you preferring stable releases, i've just cut version 0.6.
Unfortunately, Marmalade is broken for me and there's no package for 0.6 there for now. I recommend using MELPA.
posted by jao, Mon 09 Dec 2013 02:33:14 AM UTC - 0 replies
I've just released a new version of Geiser, for those of you following it via Marmalade (or a tar.gz). Check the NEWS file here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/geiser.git/tree/NEWS.
Geiser is also available via MELPA for those of you liking to live on the bleeding edge :)
posted by jao, Fri 03 May 2013 06:50:58 PM UTC - 0 replies
New features:
- New command geiser-insert-lambda, bound to C-c \ in Scheme buffers (thanks to Ray Racine).
- Configurable case-sensitivity when highlighting keywords thanks to Diogo F.S. Ramos), via geiser-guile-case-sensitive-p and geiser-racket-case-sensitive-pp ...
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posted by jao, Sat 19 Jan 2013 07:05:21 PM UTC - 0 replies
New features:
- TAB in a string context in the REPL and Scheme buffers triggers filename completion.
- User manual lookup command (C-c C-d i) available also in the REPL.
- New REPL command, geiser-repl-clear-buffer (C-c M-o), to remove
all scheme output (thanks to Jonas Rodrigues).
- Indentation of scheme forms improved..
Bug fixes:
- Racket: fixes for problems entering modules sans main.rkt.
- Racket: image support in Windows fixed.
posted by jao, Sun 30 Sep 2012 03:12:59 AM UTC - 0 replies
We have now ELPA packages! You can grab the package from Marmalade <http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/geiser/0.2.2> or Geiser's repo <http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/geiser/packages>. Add any of them to your 'package-archives', and you can install and upgrade Geiser from now on with 'M-x install-package RET geiser RET'.
Many thanks to Grant Rettke and Daniel Hackney, who created the first packages for 0.2.1 and taught me how to do it!
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Maglificio Paola Todesco is skilled in the major knitwear techniques – intarsia, fully-fashioned, cabling, cut-and-sewn, jacquards – using the finest natural yarns such as cashmere (pure or in various blends), wool, cotton, silk, linen, etc.
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On behalf of the Simcoe United Alumni Drum Corps we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for taking part in our show!! It was great to have Preston return to our show!
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He Stepped Away For Just A Minute... What He Found When He Came Back Shocked Him.
Swimming is hard work specially when you are vacationing on a beautiful resort. All you want to do after a couple of laps is just lie back on a lounge bed, get comfortable, and take a much deserved siesta. A sea lion was feeling exactly that way when it invited itself to the amenities at the waterfront.
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Meta IV has four guest cabins, each fully air conditioned with ensuite bathrooms and electric toilets. Two of the cabins boast queen-size beds, while the other two feature twin beds. Behind the cockpit is the triple stateroom. The entire aft of the boat is shaded and fitted with multiple dining spaces and sunbathing areas.
The boat's centre is dominated by the generous galley and saloon dining area. But chances are that you'll be enjoying most of your meals outside in the sun or in Myanmar's mild evenings.
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ST MARY OF THE CROSS MACKILLOP, founder of the Sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart
Mary MacKillop, with Fr Julian Tenison Woods, founded the religious congregation, the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, in Penola, South Australia, in 1866.
Mary was born on 15 January 1842 of Scottish parents in Fitzroy, Victoria. Mary was the eldest of eight children and was well educated by her Scottish father. From the age of 16, Mary earned her living and supported her family as a governess, a clerk and as a teacher. While governessing for her uncle's children at Penola, Mary met Father Julian Tenison-Woods who needed help in the religious education of children in the outback. At the time, Mary's family depended on her income so she was not free to follow her dream. In 1866, greatly inspired and encouraged by Father Woods, Mary opened the first Saint Joseph's School in a disused stable in Penola. Young women came to join Mary, and so the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart was founded.
In 1867, Fr Woods asked Mary to start a school in Adelaide. She also opened orphanages, cared for the homeless and destitute, both young and old, as well as former prisoners and prostitutes wanting to make a fresh start in life. The congregation grew. In the early 1870's, after Sisters went to Perthville in the Diocese of Bathurst, the local Bishop changed the charter from one governed by central authority to a diocesan institute. Some Sisters returned to South Australia (to the central group which would become known as the "Brown" Josephites) and some remained (the "Black" Josephites – under the guidance of their co-founder Fr Julian Tenison Woods and the local bishop). It was from Perthville that Sisters came to Westbury, Tasmania, on 24 May 1887. On 24 May 2012, 125 years later, the Tasmanian Sisters "fused" with their congregation of origin, in an historic and moving ceremony, at Westbury. At some stage, a split developed in the MacKillop-Woods relationship that never really healed.
Throughout her life Mary suffered ill health. She died on 8 August 1909 in the convent in Mount Street, North Sydney, where her tomb is now a place of pilgrimage. Mary was beatified by St Pope John Paul II in Sydney on 19 January 1995 and canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome on 17 October 2010. Her feast day is 8 August. Now recognised as a patroness of Australia by the Catholic Church, she is this country's first canonised saint.
From those beginnings in South Australia, the congregation spread throughout Australia and New Zealand and more recently to Peru, Timor Leste and the refugee camps of Uganda and Thailand. Throughout the congregation's history, the Sisters have worked with the 'little ones of God' in big cities and in bush huts, with the homeless, new migrants, Aboriginal peoples, the lonely and unwanted, in direct care and through advocacy. Education, in its many forms, has always been central to the mission.
Links with GYC:
the then SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH (Tasmania) is a founding congregation of GYC
MACKILLOP HOUSE (Glenorchy Campus)
SACRED HEART COLLEGE, New Town, founded by the Sisters of St Joseph, is one of GYC's Association Colleges.
MACKILLOP CATHOLIC COLLEGE, Mornington, founded in 1994, was named in her honour and is one of GYC's Association Colleges.
A Josephite Sister was a member of staff, initially of the then MacKillop College and later at GYC in their early years.
This great Australian woman she stands as a wonderful example of courage and trust in God's love and compassion as she cared for those in need. Her life calls GYC to reverence the human dignity of others and to change unjust structures.
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Students in the School of Journalism and Communication often say that they feel as though they are a part of a family within the university. They spend many of their waking hours in journalism and communication classes, interfacing with faculty, staff, and classmates in the office "reading room," working in one of the labs, and being involved in one of the following organizations, sponsored by the School of Journalism and Communication:
Communication Club
The Communication Club seeks to unite majors and minors in the School as well as other
students with a keen interest in the field of communication. Activities include campfire
vespers, departmental convocations, pancake suppers, and community service activities.
Annual dues are $5 and may be paid to the president or treasurer.
2018-2019 Officers:
- President—Kristen Vonnoh
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- Public Relations Officer—Kiaya Robertson
- Secretary—Natalie Boonstra
- Treasurer—Autumn Dunzweiler
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Lambda Pi Eta is the National Communication Association's honor society for Communication Studies majors and minors. The purpose of the communication honor society is to recognize, foster, and reward outstanding scholastic achievement in communication studies; to stimulate interest in the field of communication; to promote and encourage professional development among communication majors; to provide an opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas in the field of communication; to establish and maintain closer relationships and mutual understanding between communication studies faculty and students; and to explore options for graduate education in communication studies.
Membership requirements
- Complete 60 semester credit hours in undergraduate credit courses
- Cumulative undergraduate grade point average of at least 3.0
- Complete twelve semester hours in Communication Studies courses with a minimum grade point average of 3.25
- Currently enrolled as a full-time student in good standing with both the department and the university
- Rank within the highest 35% of one's class in general scholarship
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- Have completed at least 60 semester hours of college coursework
- Have completed at least 12 semester hours of communication studies coursework
- Have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 and a communication studies GPA of 3.25
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Public Relations Student Society of America is for students that are interested in public relations and communications. The purpose is to enhance your education, broaden your network, and launch your career. This is simple and attainable by every member through the participation in society community involvement; partnerships with other chapters; speaking invitations to local dynamic public relations professionals; attendance of national and regional conferences/meetings/events and much more.
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- Vice President—Lizzie Williams
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