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The following sites provide publishing services with no up-front fees to you, the writer. As payment for their services, they take a percentage of every sale you might make.
This is where the self- and traditional publishing worlds collide. Most authors, (even agented, big-advance-contract, NYT-bestselling authors) are expected to have an online presence. If you go it alone, and you want your book to find an audience, you should think of publicity and marketing as a part-time job. Social media is an important marketing tool for your book, no matter how you might feel about it personally. Word of mouth is one of the largest deciding factors in book purchasing.
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I'm trying to find a writing group. I wonder if you would suggest taking a course or if you know a group that I could join in Toronto for budding novelists. How did you do it?
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Hi Mike -- Thanks for stopping by and commenting! This is a tricky topic -- the writing group -- because not everyone finds the same format useful. I know some people who get a lot out of a workshop type atmosphere, while others prefer more of a writing buddy system. Personally, I find the buddy system more helpful, but finding a good buddy (one who reads a lot in the genre that you write, one who can give constructive criticism, one who you don't mind taking constructive criticism from) can be very difficult. One of the most useful things I did was to enrol at the Humber School for Writers in their correspondence program. Through this program, I was able to send my work to my author-mentor and she would email me with her feedback. I would not apply for this program, however, until you have a significant amount of a manuscript completed, perhaps even a couple of drafts completed already. There are shorter workshop programs that Humber runs that I've heard from other writers are really good, too. Another bit of advice: if you don't have a lot of writerly friends, you should try to make some (writing workshops and reading events are both good places to find writers & wannabe writers). These people may not end up reading or commenting on your work, but having these people in your life to talk to about writerly experiences is really important.
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SandroProxy Takes Android Browsing Privacy Up a Notch
Privacy on the Android platform is a critical issue. From application permissions to browser security, privacy is an ever growing issue that many developers are working to protect. XDA Member SandroBSupp's latest application, SandroProxy, is just what you need to protect your privacy while using internet traffic.
Initial Impressions
Upon first opening the application, you'll be greeted by a screen with three tabs on it: Log, Data, and Apps. Along the top will be some buttons that are fairly self explanatory. The "play" arrow starts the proxy service, the "wrench" opens setting, and the "information" icon processes a request for superuser permissions, which then allows you to view all of your network information. Of course, on ICS the obligatory legacy menu option is available and allows you to clear iptables.
Using the App
Now that the application is open, you'll have decide what you want to do next:
Non-root users will be able to hit the play button and the application will serve as an SSL MITM proxy (Secure Socket Layer Man-In-the-Middle proxy). In essence the application will intercept HTTP/HTTPS requests on the fly and redirect them to a web server, which in turn modifies both the data sent and received. There's even an option to use client certificates for this.
Root users on the other hand (which is most of the XDA Android community) have another option available to them. In addition to the MITM proxy service mentioned above, root users also have access to a transparent proxy. This is a network layer proxy that also redirects traffic and performs some routing functions, but only modifies traffic for what is absolutely necessary for proxy identification/authorization. The benefit of this type of proxy in Android is that all traffic globally across the device or only HTTP/HTTPS traffic from specific applications can be redirected. Application-specific traffic redirection is enabled by going to the settings button, enabling the transparent proxy, going back to the main page, and clicking on the "Apps" tab. At this point you should be able to select whether you want to enable/disable either HTTP or HTTPS proxy redirection for each, specific application.
The "Log" tab will of course keep track of your actions and make sure that any relevant data surrounding those actions is displayed properly.
Having used the application for several days, I can honestly say that it does what it purports. While a newer user who is not familiar with networking at all may have a hard time understanding what is going on at first, they should have no issue using the basic services. This application really shines for advanced users who have a clear understanding of how this application works, and who want to take their privacy to the next level by using app specific redirection or custom certificates. In addition, advanced users also have the ability to examine the request/response data that is saved in the applications cache.
Final Thoughts
The application is based on the WebScarab Project and is free, but ad-supported. All-in-all this is a great program for ensuring data traffic privacy, so head on over to the original thread and give this a go. If you're a developer looking to modify or contribute to this application, head on over to the Google Code page and have a look at the source.
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2016 Beauty, In One Word/
Resolutions come, and resolutions go. They never quite seemed to work for me. So I shelved my old New Year's resolutions three years ago in order to take a new approach: a word of the year. Instead of a particular goal, in anticipation of every new year I choose a single word that sums up how I want to feel that year, or how I want the year's events to feel to me. Almost like a year-long affirmation.
Here's an earlier post I wrote on the idea.
The year I had a baby and released my book Eat Pretty, my word was VITAL, "having remarkable energy, liveliness or force of personality." It was a lively, energetic, busy time! The year before that, while I was in preparation mode, my word was RELAXED. I needed some major down time in my life at that moment.
This year, my word is 'MAGICAL.'
I've encountered the word 'magical' over and over recently, and I'm taking it as a sign that, rather unexpectedly, it's going to be my word this year. I feel ready to stop trying to micromanage my life and allow more magic to happen organically. I want 2016 to be a year of magical moments and memories personally, at home with my son and husband, and professionally, as I launch two more books and dream up new ideas. So far, I've loved the result of tweaking my mindset as I approach the new year, and I love the creation process of finding that one perfect word much more than coming up with a traditional goal. It's a much better fit for a writer like me!
So, could you change your approach to resolutions this year too? Spend some time thinking about the word that sums up the way you'd like 2016 to feel. One of my clients chose the word 'joyful.' Another gravitated toward 'patient.' There is so much wisdom in your personal word of the year. Display it somewhere where you'll see it regularly, to have it guide your feelings and decisions in the year to come.
I wish you a year of beauty, health, and your best self in 2016!
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With the console classic turning 25 today, we are running down seven of the best football games available and don't worry – FIFA features!
25 years in a long time in football. It's also a long time in computer games and with the Sega Mega Drive turning 25 this month, it's worth looking back at what used to constitute soccer gaming on the much-loved cartridge-based console.
With button bashing and "always score" positions replaced by realism and tactical nous in recent years, it's fair to say things have improved.
But that hasn't prevented us from cast an eye back at some absolute classics – here are seven of the best!
7. Striker
A ground-breaking game for developers Rage, Striker sold around a million copies across all consoles on it's release and helped establish the Liverpool based games firm.
Ground-breaking in that it was the first title to use a 3D viewpoint, Striker was also praised for it's speed. Unfortunately, little else has stood the test of time.
6. Fever Pitch
Developed by U.S. Gold, who garnered a reputation for their button-bashing Olympics titles on the Mega Drive, Fever Pitch remains something of a rare oddity for it's time.
A light-hearted football title, the game encouraged players to use "dirty" tactics and special abilities to dive in a bid to win free-kicks or penalties. It was an approach that didn't take off.
5. European Club Soccer
A best-seller during the first few months of it's release, European Club Soccer gave players the chance to compete in the Champions' Cup – essentially the Champions League in everything but name.
With some 170 European teams to choose from this Krisalis Software title was also notable for allowing formation changes, with each system carrying notable on-the-pitch benefits.
4. World Cup Italia '90
Enjoyable in it's simplicity, Italia '90 may have been a more basic soccer game than most but made up for it with straightforward gameplay and a neat World Cup mode.
Playing from a bird's eye view perspective, players could build attacks, complete crunching tackles and score team goals of genuine quality – even if the generic celebration screen was the same each time.
3. International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
Konami's precursor to the Pro Evolution Soccer titles, International Superstar Soccer Deluxe ranks among the best football games on the Mega Drive, thanks to it's excellent gameplay.
Featuring plenty of familiar faces from world football at the time, the ISS Deluxe is also notable for it's fantastic array of game modes and well-rendered graphics - for the Mega Drive.
A controversial choice, given the near-reverential treatment metered out to FIFA '95, this edition some two years later gets the nod for the impressive array of features.
Featuring David Ginola on the cover, the game is also notable as the only FIFA title to offer players the chance to play games in a special six-a-side indoor area and a build-your-own-club mode.
1. Sensible Soccer International Edition
A strong contender for the best Mega Drive football sim, Sensible Soccer has benefited from opting for a more arcade-style game, meaning that despite it's dated graphics it is just as enjoyable today.
Notable also for including a World Cup option and, for the first time, an onscreen referee this is daft, basic but thoroughly enjoyable from first whistle to last.
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May: the month of 'whole.' When that word first popped up as our theme the obvious came to mind: whole foods, complete meals and holistic wellness…the 'regulars' we gab about. We started planning and carving out specific topics. What does 'whole' really mean, as a person? It's certainly not one size fits all, and certainly more than nutrition. It's not only about taking care of yourself physically, we all know it's much more than that.
Complete circle: more than just our physical selves.
So what's the road to living a 'whole life' look like?
I asked myself that question. I really did, I sat at my desk and I thought "is my life whole?" I started to wonder if there is a part of my life that doesn't feel complete. I'd be lying if I said I didn't hate this exercise. It was hard. Facing the big scary stuff that doesn't have black and white answers? Not my favorite morning activity. A lot of good came out of it though; a few major realizations.
1) I'm really happy. Far too many reasons to list here, but I am grateful for the life I have.
2) I am not religious or spiritual, but maybe I want to be?
A long while back I was going through some sad times, you know how those go, they are just the saddest right? There's a reason why so many women know Joni Mitchell's Blue cover to cover. Sad times are a part of life. During that time a friend suggested I read "When Things Fall Apart," by Pema Chodron, a well known Buddhist nun. It was not a book on buddhism, but it takes the form of nontheistic spiritualism. I'm not going to dive too far into this book, but in a nutshell this was what it was telling me:
The sooner I learned I couldn't solve problems, the better off I would be. Things can never really be solved – they come together and they fall apart, and then they come back together and fall apart again. It's just how it goes. And the sooner I let go of the reigns the happier I will be.
Well, that was my take away at least.
This book literally snapped me out of my blue mood. In fact, I read only 4 chapters and still haven't finished it. Yep, just admitted that. And I LOVED it, but I just felt like I didn't need it anymore…but the reality is we always need these reminders. We need whatever it is that keeps us going: faith in a higher power, belief in the goodness of people, conviction in something bigger than us. I realized that it's time for me to revisit this book, and many more like it, and perhaps listen a bit more to some wise folks in my life who know the power of standing still, and maybe even practice some meditation (ahem, Katie & Anna). I don't know if any specific religion is in my future, but I do know life is bigger than me, larger than my to do list and patiently waiting for me to tap into its abundant riches. So, short story long, I think it's time for me to get a bit more in tune with what this wild world has to offer.
So that was my discovery. I'm looking forward to many more.


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From Saturday March 13 to Friday March 19, my fiance and I drove to Salt Lake City, Utah to check out the grad program at the University of Utah. Then we took a small detour driving back to Iowa to visit his brother's newborn. We ate out for every meal, and I thought surly I would gain weight!
So why didn't I?
1. Exercise. Our hotel was in downtown SLC, so we got to walk to several destinations. Also, the hotel had a fitness room, where I made sure to elliptical for at least 30 minutes each night before showering and heading to bed.
2. Small portions at restaurants. I have trouble with leaving food on my plate, so I made sure to get an additional plate, spoon on a small portion and then have the waitstaff box up the rest so I could not go overboard.
3. A trip to the grocery store. I picked up apples and a bag of carrots to munch on in between meals.
4. Subway on the road. My fiance worked at Subway in high school, and really hates it, but he was willing to eat it all through our trip so I could get a healthy meal while we were driving. (We had to drive about 34 hours total!)
5. More exercise. We stopped at Dinosaur National Monument and took an awesome 3 mile hike. We also climbed part of a mountain in Colorado before heading out to drive home.
I know you're itching to hear about this Atheist's experience in SLC... so here it is. The Mormons, or LDS (Latter Day Saints) make up about 50% of the population in SLC. Since the Olympics were held there in 2002, the city has loosened up a bit. For example, beer with an alcoholic content of greater than 3.2% can be sold at restaurants. (We tried a 3.2 beer. It sucked.) The Mormons definitely control the government, and there is not much of a separation between church and state. Their large families also put strain on the education system, since one pair of parents paying taxes does not cover the cost of sending, say 6, children to school.
We visited Temple Square, where the Tabernacle and their giant church is. The two girls who gave us our tour seemed brainwashed. It was really creepy talking to people who sincerely believed that absolutely everything in the book of Mormon is true. The girls didn't have an answer for me when I asked why none of their prophets are women, and why all of them are old white men. I hated the oppression the religion seemed to bring to the city (they finally started letting black people in in the 1980's). One woman we talked to said that there are huge amounts of anti-depressants prescribed in SLC...probably because these poor women pop out a billion kids and resent their husband/religion because of it.
There are neighborhoods that are liberal and less densly populated by LDS members. And you can find Atheists there too! So, if we end up in SLC, it'll be ok... but you better bet I'll join in anti LDS activities.
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i have some friends from SLC and they are awesome (their families are mormon, but they aren't).. very open-minded people.. so i'm sure ya'll can find lots of cool and open-minded people there too for grad school.
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Dodge City out played Liberal in every phase of the game Tuesday at the Liberal Baseball Complex. The Red Demons beat Liberal 17-2 in six innings and 12-0 in five innings. Game one was a 7-2 game until the sixth when the Red Demons plated 10 runs. Liberal made four errors during the inning including three on one play. Liberal committed five errors in the game. Seward signee Ty Thomas pitched Dodge to the win. In game two, Dodge blasted three homers in the third and scored nine runs during the inning. Liberal is 5-7 overall and 0-6 in the WAC. Liberal has been outscored 59-5 during four WAC home games against Hays and Dodge and has been outscored 74-12 during six WAC games. Dodge is 7-3 overall and 5-1 in the WAC. Hays finished their WAC schedule 6-2.


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Organising my weekly life!
20 comments:
- scrappyjacky said...
Must admit I don't have a rota....the only chore done on a regular day each week is the ironing....and I probably prefer doing the laundry a few days a week,rather than trying to do it all on one day.....but I think we all need what works best for us.
- 30 June 2012 at 15:31
- Patricia said...
I do certain things on certain days to help keep a routine! Which reminds me better go check the laundry!
- 30 June 2012 at 15:39
- AnnieC said...
I used to have a rota on the kitchen wall when my boys still lived at home - but most of the time it was ignored by everyone except me! One thing I have noticed for sure is that I seem to fit less in now than I did when I had two kids to look after, a bigger house and 3 part time jobs on the go - I guess I must have slowed down without realising it...
- 30 June 2012 at 16:22
- Carin McDonough said...
I have made a few of these but I am not very good at sticking to them! I guess I am not actually very good at routines :) I love the idea of one laundry day so you are not constantly doing it but as I have blazers and school jumpers I have to do some washing on a weekend :( Also love the idea of using the frame and whiteboard marker!
- 30 June 2012 at 16:54
- Julie said...
I keep a pad of scratch paper handy and anything I think of that I need to do goes on it. I then can cross out things as I do them. I do one load of laundry daily so that it doesn't seem to take up all my time.
- 30 June 2012 at 17:16
- Maria Ontiveros said...
The more I see of what you do (organization-wise), the more amazed I become!
I do not have a rota at all!
- 30 June 2012 at 17:33
- Emily Mae said...
I don't have a list of chores that I do on a set basis but you know, I really should. I think I am going to start working on something like this.
- 30 June 2012 at 17:36
- Counterfeit Kit Challenge said...
I do have a weekly list, but it is not as spify as yours. I get SO much more done when I write them down! I love little check marks.
- 30 June 2012 at 19:45
- dogmatix said...
Great idea to have the chores on view. I would like to be a bit more organised I guess i am half way there by knowing that on my days off, cleaning is the first thing I do so I have the rest of the day to 'play'!It's just a shame that I don't always have enough days off in the week to do the 'fun' stuff :(
- 30 June 2012 at 20:46
- Nathalie said...
Oh, I love this chore chart! After reading about it somewhere online, I recently started making a list of 5 things to do, only 5, each morning and it has helped a lot!
- 30 June 2012 at 22:22
- Cherie said...
I need a chore chart, but we don't have kids so it is only me usually doing all the chores. Husband is in charge of laundry and vacuuming though! :)
- 1 July 2012 at 00:14
- Diane S. said...
wow-you are really organized! I do make lists every day of what I want to accomplish-the trick is doing what I have written down! sometimes the day goes well, other days not so much!
- 1 July 2012 at 04:17
- Sally said...
I love your idea. I don't organise a chore chart but would love to use that idea for a meal planner.
- 1 July 2012 at 11:21
- Margie said...
Fun chore chart!
- 1 July 2012 at 14:26
- Melissa said...
I have a weekly routine that has worked well for me the past few years - Mondays (laundry & paperwork), Tuesdays (errands), Wednesdays (house cleaning), Thursdays (Bible Study & crafting), Fridays (my choice!). I have a time for crafting most days if I keep to this schedule.
- 1 July 2012 at 22:44
- Caroline Hackney said...
I used to have a chore chart but I got out of the habit of using it. Think it might be time to reintroduce that idea!
- 2 July 2012 at 00:18
- Jimjams said...
I used to have a rota (in my head) but seeing this I think I may have to formalise things now that my boys are both back from uni and my daughter's finished her GCSEs - I can't face a summer of "asking" for help - I may just say that they have to tick of a chore every day and I'll do the rest!
- 2 July 2012 at 00:32
- justasiam said...
I love to make charts of chores and things to do, and I have a whole section in Pinterest of everyone else's idea. But it hasn't been working too well because I haven't made one lately. One thing I will be doing though is planning downtime or scrapbook time into my schedule so I don't feel guilty when I want to go into my scraproom!
- 2 July 2012 at 01:08
- Lisa-Jane said...
Totally stealing this idea. I really try and get all my laundry done in one or 2 goes over the week. That way I only have to do one lot of putting away.
- 2 July 2012 at 23:24
- Nicolleqeqy said...
I used to have a rota on the kitchen wall when my boys still lived at home - but most of the time it was ignored by everyone except me! One thing I have noticed for sure is that I seem to fit less in now than I did when I had two kids to look after, a bigger house and 3 part time jobs on the go - I guess I must have slowed down without realising it...
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Photos echo years later
The first surprise may be that the most damning, enduring images of the prison camps at Guantánamo were taken by a U.S. sailor doing his job.
Second is that Navy Petty Officer Shane McCoy didn't look through a viewfinder to capture the panorama of captives in shackles on their knees as Army guards hovered nearby.
He set a timer, hoisted his Navy-issue digital camera on a stick -- a monopod -- and it clicked.
''I've seen them in magazines, on television, on the Internet,'' said McCoy, 33, now ending a 14-year Navy career. "If I do a search for my name, there's like 16,000 hits on those photos. They're everywhere.''
Six years ago today, McCoy took those now-iconic images of the first detainees to land at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- capturing a moment of men on their knees in orange jumpsuits behind barbed wire fences.
Much to the Pentagon's chagrin, the images won't go away.
They have been printed and reprinted across the globe, reenacted in protests expected to continue today from Europe to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, even in a film -- symbols of the United States' war-on-terrorism detention and interrogation policy.
''Iconic photographs cut through ambiguity,'' says Michael L. Carlebach, professor emeritus of art history and photography at the University of Miami. ``They resolve things. They explain things. And it cuts through a lot of rhetoric; you can see for yourself.''
Some examples:
The naked girl fleeing napalm in Vietnam, debunking the Pentagon line that civilians weren't caught up in the war.
The Chinese protester stopping a tank's advance in Tiananmen Square.
''They can't spin it,'' Carlebach said. ``Is it fair? Is it representative? All photographs take things out of context. They stop time -- just one little split second, and you can get very philosophical and say they're not real. But that's irrelevant.''
The date was Jan. 11, 2002, and homemade snapshots of guards tormenting nude detainees in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, were two years away. News photographers in Baghdad had yet to swarm around the toppling Saddam Hussein statues.
In Guantánamo, Marine Brig. Gen. Michael Lehnert told a handful of reporters the nascent prison project was getting ''the worst of the worst'' of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners from Afghanistan, 8,000 miles away.
McCoy was assigned to Combat Camera, an elite unit that took secret pictures not for the public but the Pentagon brass. He was the only photographer allowed that day at Camp X-Ray, the first of a series of prison camps that across six years would hold and interrogate more than 750 captives, leaving 275 there today.
He was outside a makeshift, open-air holding compound where the captives were kept on their way to registration -- now defunct after housing 300 men and boys in the earliest days.
The sailor said it was just another job: Take pictures. Choose some. Write captions. Send them to Washington.
A week later, they were on CNN.
That's because at the Pentagon, the Bush administration was debating how to reassure the world that its evolving detention strategy was humane -- if not exactly in keeping with the Geneva Conventions by policy, then in keeping with what commanders would come to call ``its spirit.''
So, as then-spokeswoman Torie Clarke wrote in her memoirs, Lipstick on a Pig, releasing pictures that didn't show detainees' faces seemed like the smart thing to do.
Pentagon policy to this day dictates that shielding a Guantánamo detainee's face from view -- blurring it, chopping him off at his beard, or in that instance, hidden beneath a cap, surgical mask and blindfold -- spares a captive humiliation banned by the Geneva Conventions.
''Did I ever misread what was in those photos,'' Clarke wrote. ``The problem wasn't that we released too much, it was that we explained too little . . . which allowed other critics to say we were forcing the detainees into poses of subjugation.''
The reaction was swift, and furious.
In England, The Mirror tabloid slapped the photo on its cover and questioned the post 9/11 alliance Prime Minister Tony Blair had forged with the United States with this screaming headline:
What the hell are you doing in OUR name, Mister Blair?
Recalls McCoy, sheepishly: ``I actually called my mother right after it happened and told her that my photos had caused an international incident.''
Lost in the furious reaction, said McCoy, was that detainees ``simply weren't kept like that.''
''They were wearing gloves because it was cold,'' he said. ``I mean, they were flying at 30,000 feet in an unheated back part of the plane; they were wearing hats for the same reason. They did say the goggles were blacked out so they couldn't communicate and plan to attack a guard. It made sense to me.''
U.S. military officials won't name the first 20 men who arrived at the base -- captured in the photo.
The Miami Herald tried unsuccessfully through lawyers and intermediaries to speak with some of the men in the photo who have been released.
One, Australian David Hicks, just completed a nine-month sentence as an al Qaeda foot soldier and is free in his hometown Adelaide -- but under a U.S. gag order that forbids him to talk about his treatment at Guantánamo.
Meantime, it is hard to pinpoint the moment when the pictures became so prevalent.
Soon after their release, the Pentagon took them off its own websites and labeled them ''For Official Use Only,'' to prevent further distribution.
Military escorts let civilian news photographers take pictures of detainees -- but only out of focus, from behind, or if they cropped a captive's face from the photo.
And Guantánamo commanders bemoan their use as anachronistic. The Pentagon's visitors tour now stops at the abandoned processing cage where escorts encourage picture-taking to show that weeds grow where Guantánamo detainees once knelt.
But over at the prison camps, they can't get the kind of intimacy that McCoy photographed that first day.
Ground rules dictate that journalists taking pictures submit them for censorship -- and destroy any that show a captive's face.
The Pentagon has also tried to discourage news organizations from using the photographs. But Carlebach says the military's efforts overlook the point of what makes a photo iconic.
Time moves on but the instant comes to tell a larger story. ``They're kneeling with that anti-personnel barbed wire in the foreground, and it does not describe blood-thirsty jihadists. These guys are pathetic-looking in their bright orange pajamas.''
For those who want to see a captive bowed, it provides a certain satisfaction. For those who believe the policy swept up innocents, it tells another story.
McCoy never saw it either way. He was too busy.
He's now winding up a career that took him across the globe, and more recently saw him doing a desk job -- editing video commercials for All Hands magazine.
But, no, just in case anyone is wondering, he never got into trouble for making those pictures.
A few weeks later, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld toured the prison camp. 'I told him, `Hey, I'm sorry my photos caused all these problems.' ''
``He told me not to worry about it, I was doing my job. And that was about it.''


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After men, cats are going to grab a horse for a ride and they enjoy being ridden as well. Morris is a cat that jumps on Champy and they go with a flow, Champy also likes morris riding him both have been bestest of friends since 2 years.
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The two men in the stolen car which killed Constable Philippa Reynolds last February had been drinking and taking drugs all day, Londonderry Crown Court heard yesterday.
Prosecution QC Terence Mooney told the court that the Toyota Landcruiser was driven at speeds of up to 80mph and went through two sets of lights before it collided with the unmarked armoured police car.
Constable Reynolds, who was in the back seat, was killed in the crash, which happened in the Dales Corner area of the Waterside on February 9 last year. She was 27 and from Crumlin in County Antrim.
Two other police officers in the car were injured.
Shane Christopher Frane, whose address was given on court papers as c/o Maghaberry, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Constable Reynolds.
Frane, 26, also admitted burglary, criminal damage and further driving offences, including driving whilst unfit.
His co-accused, 24-year-old Conor Tyrone Clarence, of Bonds Hill, admitted aggravated vehicle-taking causing death, burglary and criminal damage.
The court heard the men were on a "dangerous combination" of drink and prescription drugs on the night of the fatal collision. Frane had consumed 60 tablets.
Judge Philip Babington offered his condolences to the family circle of Constable Reynolds. Family members were in the court.
Mr Mooney told the court Frane and Clarence, after drinking and taking drugs all day, decided to steal a car to go to Limavady.
They attempted, unsuccessfully, to steal a Citroen Saxo and caused damage to it.
The men then broke into a house on Fountain Hill, stole keys to the Toyota and stole it.
After the crash, Frane and Clarence were arrested on the morning of February 9. During police interview, Clarence admitted he was a passenger in the stolen car but Frane denied all the allegations.
Frane requested a further interview at a later stage and made full admissions, claiming that his driving was "ridiculous".
He told police: "I am very sorry for what I did to this officer. It wasn't my intention to do it. I'm not into stealing cars and driving around like a lunatic. It's not me. There is nothing I can say that is going to make it any better but I am sorry for what I did."
Adjourning sentencing, Judge Babington said he would like some time to consider all the submissions.
Frane and Clarence were remanded in custody and will appear in court again on February 4.


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Fiona MacKeown was by no means the first parent of a large family to travel from a rambling home in rural western England, in the middle of a damp winter, and see what Goa had to offer by way of diversion. Evelyn Waugh had six children (a seventh died in infancy); Fiona MacKeown had nine (eight since February 15, when her 15-year-old daughter Scarlett Keeling was found dead on the beach at Anjuna). Waugh travelled from Piers Court, a Georgian mansion in Gloucestershire. MacKeown came from a huddle of caravans near Bideford, Devon, a home summarised as "a mountain of old tyres ... empty beer bottles ... and rubbish" by Wednesday's Daily Mail. But the bigger difference is that Waugh left his children behind.
He came to Goa in December 1952. "The scenery [is] delicious ... the people soft and friendly," he wrote to his wife. The Portuguese colony made a great deal of him. A car and guides were provided. While he was shaving one morning in his hotel, a solicitous official appeared and said, "All the peoples in Goa are asking how you slept." Waugh was no stranger to drink - nor probably to drugs in his youth - and like MacKeown he was a great traveller, though not a Romany. What he wanted out of Goa, however, was a religious rather than a sensual experience. As a Roman Catholic, he had come to witness the exposition of the sacred relics of St Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missionary whose body had been brought back from China to Goa in the 16th century, where it had lain (minus its right forearm, which other missionaries had hacked off and taken to Rome) miraculously preserved in its glass and silver casket ever since. Waugh joined the queue in the cathedral, kissed a foot ("one brown stump of toe emerging from the white wrapping") and then went off to a five-course lunch in the palace of the patriarch.
What did the name "Goa" mean then? In the west, almost nothing. India's independence five years before signalled that colonialism was coming to an end, but the countries of western Europe still had plenty of colonies. Goa was merely the oldest, a small enclave in India taken from its Muslim rulers by the Portuguese in 1510. The conquerors' religious zeal and skin-blind sexual desire meant many Goans were Catholic and of mixed race, but this hardly recommended them to either the rulers or the ruled in British India. All the qualities that were later distorted and exaggerated to make Goa "the world's number one party destination" met Anglo-Saxon disapproval. The explorer and translator Richard Burton, there in the 1840s, found it "a worse than useless colony" filled with drunk, lazy men, and abundant evidence that religious conversion and miscegenation led to "the utter degeneracy of the breed".
Degeneracy to one writer in one age is harmony to a different writer in another. Ten years after Waugh departed, his friend and fellow Catholic Graham Greene arrived to write a piece called Goa the Unique. Goa had been repugnant to Burton; to Waugh it seemed either sacred or quaint; but in the give-and-take of its villages and mixture of religions Greene glimpsed of a happier society than many countries, including India at large, had achieved. He stayed with a civil servant in a government bungalow. The civil servant's young wife, Maria Couto, remembers that at a party one night Greene was offered Benzedrine and took some. The Coutos had never seen recreational drugs before. Remembering this to me this week, Maria Couto said, "The important thing to stress is that it wasn't offered by a Goan - it came from a German girl."
The year was 1963. Two years earlier India had invaded or "liberated" Goa after a long confrontation with Portugal's dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar. As Maria Couto explains in her recent history of Goa, A Daughter's Story, it was the years of Indian blockade that laid the foundations of a new Goan way of money-making that you might say, taking an impossibly long view, killed Scarlett Keeling. Salazar was a defiant imperialist who determined that Goa would survive any shortages. Imports went far beyond local needs: potatoes and oranges from Europe replaced Indian sources, but there was also gold, watches and liquor, with the surplus smuggled to India. Goa's iron ore deposits became an ever more crucial export; mining licences were granted indiscriminately. Agricultural labour became scarcer, the coconut crop smaller, the police more corrupt. What Couto calls "a seamy side of life" developed that was well placed to take advantage of every drug-seeker, sun-worshipper and property speculator who has arrived in Goa in the 50 years since.
We know what hippies made of Goa when they first saw it in the late 1960s because they've given us accounts of the empty beaches, friendly shack-owners and cheap charas. But what, in turn, did Goa make of the hippies? In 1984 in the capital Panjim I met a local historian who recalled his first sight of one. "She was sitting on a bench reading a paperback edition of Wordsworth - I think it was the Prelude. But she was dirty. I had never seen a dirty European before."
Today the beaches of north Goa have signs in Hebrew and Cyrillic as well as English, and gangs from Israel and Russia control a substantial part of the trade in drugs. On the coast, a building boom threatens mangrove swamps and cashew groves with shopping malls, gated communities, flat-shares, golf courses and hotels. Naturally, there is a Save Goa society, struggling against a tide of money and concrete, drugs and paedophilia. None of this was planned, and 25 years ago - before the beach trance parties, before the cornucopian world economy - it would have been hard to predict. Still, it would be foolish to imagine 1984 represented a continuation of a 60s utopia where, so we are led to believe, happy young people sheltered under palm trees puffing chillums and reading Jack Kerouac.
The lost, the damaged and the crooked were already there and stumbling about. That year, also in Panjim, I met Grace de Souza, who did unpaid work for the British high commission in Mumbai by trying to find Britons reported missing in Goa by their parents. She had many stories. The young Australian who'd lit a fire under a tree and climbed up it, believing himself dead and needing cremation; the English girl who at the sight of her anxious mother, fresh off the plane, had "screamed blue bloody murder" until she was taken to the asylum; the night the morgue held six young white bodies, all thought to have drowned in separate incidents. "It used to be just hash, grass and LSD," she said, "but now we've got cocaine and brown sugar. Even Goans are on heroin."
It was to an even darker scene that Fiona MacKeown brought her family in November last year: a woman born of an age which has somehow forgotten to teach both caution and curiosity, in the belief - not shared by Burton, Waugh and Greene - that apart from the weather everywhere is much the same.


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On the first day of Spring this year trumpets sounded as I returned to my gear head roots, ditched my Tesla, and picked up a Porsche. (Don't worry, the wife still has a Tesla Model S). And I figured what better way to start off the season with a new toy, than to take it to the track? Here is my recap!
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From the Trenches: "I was disappointed...I kinda wanted to adopt ten children."/
by Mary Rose, Assistant Campus Outreach Director
Sometimes, you just have to laugh at those who support abortion. We all know that they rely on emotion and deceit to defend their position, and sometimes their reasons are so ludicrous, one can't help but laugh.
At a campus a few days ago, Kristina and I walked through a crowd of pro-abortion protesters after hours of conversation with them. They had had no rational defense of killing late-term babies - which was why they had gathered in the first place. Their gathering was organized to rally against a ban on abortions after twenty weeks. These people had come because they believed that abortion was right, but when we asked them to define what an abortion is and what is removed from a woman's uterus during an abortion, they had had no answer for us at all.
But they weren't silent. On the contrary, they had a million silly things to say, for example, "A baby's not a baby 'til it comes out, that's what birthdays are all about." Doesn't the logic overpower you? Didn't you slap your forehead and say, "My heavens!
I've been wrong all these years! Of course baby's not a baby 'til it comes out - because the birth canal is magic!" Didn't you say that? Me neither. I laughed.
A woman approached Kristina and me as we walked through the pro-abortion throng. She oozed self-righteousness and her voice dripped with condescension as she asked, "Excuse me, ladies, have you adopted any children?"
I told her that my family had signed up with the foster care system but that it's actually hard to find children available for adoption. She finished triumphantly: "So you haven't adopted any?!"
Again, earnestly and politely, I told her that it's hard to find children available to adopt - especially babies. "Oh really," she said, "I know of ten children right now who need homes."
Quite frankly, I didn't believe a word of it. But what if it was true? What if there were ten children who needed homes? "I'll find them homes or take them myself," I told her, quite seriously. She stuttered ever so slightly as she turned. "Oh, well then will you give me your contact information?" She pulled out a notepad.
"Of course," I answered, "Let me give you my email address."
"Oh, I don't have a pen. Let me go find one."
She left to go get a pen and never came back. For some reason she was unable to find a pen -- on a college campus.
Hers was just another of the endless, irrational, pointless, "arguments" for abortion. When I realized she wasn't coming back, I laughed -- but I was also a little disappointed. I kind of wanted to adopt ten children.


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Another book by Leo Timmers (the author of Franky, one of my favorite Robot story's) which is just perfect for the Makerspace. Gus collects 'stuff', each of Gus's friends come to visit him at the garage and share their problem, Gus adds a bit of this and a bit of that to 'improve' and solve their problem. A great conversation starter and ignitor for a range of challenge stations. I set up 5 stations today - 'Build an Igloo' (A collaborative project), WeDo Lego kits (Problem solve, build and test), Robot Factory (Design, Create, Improve) a brilliant app which was free to download this week, Dash Robots (Build a track, Code and Test), Explosion Art (A bubbling Science experiment with an artistic twist.....DesignCreate, Improve,
Yet again learners choices surprise me during each session. In session one, 10 students (all boys!) chose the Lego building challenge, whereas in the second session with the next class no one chose the Lego station. The simple science experiment (with a twist) was a HUGE hit and would be very easy to do in a normal classroom environment.
I used trays to contain each students process (they are large xMotel serving trays which I use almost everyday for loads of things e.g. Dough, Lego etc). Students sprinkle Baking Soda, then drops of food colouring.......then using an eye dropper they squirt vinegar on top and stand back and watch the 'explosion'. While the mix is still wet they place a sheet of cartridge paper over top, press lightly and then peel off. The results were a raft of beautiful dyed mixes, some had raised dry edges of baking soda forming craters, whereas some were a very 'tie dyed' effect. It was wonderful watching students experiment with the reactions and effects and listening to them discussing the outcomes. Each of their artworks were unique and equally as beautiful.
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How to Earn the Amplification of Influencers - Whiteboard FridayBlog Post: January 24, 2014
Excellent piece as ever Rand.
I would add one thought, which to basically forget about them being an influencer once you've identified them. As Gianluca says above they're a human first and foremost, and you should simply be trying to make a friend. If you have the "payback" in mind you'll not be making a friend but working towards that favour you're intending to ask, and, to be blunt, you'll mostly smell like someone working the conversation towards asking that favour!
So be genuine and you'll create a genuine connection and friendship, albeit on the social network only, and they will genuinely be interested in your links and work - the result can be far bigger and better...
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At least 60 Christians have been abducted by ISIS gunmen in a central town in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
They are among more than 200 civilians reportedly abducted by militants after the capture of Qaryatain.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdurrahman said that many of the Christians had fled from Aleppo province, in the north of Syria, to seek refuge in the town.
A photograph of a handwritten list has emerged which apparently shows the names of Assyrian Christians who have been captured.
Neil Sammonds, the Syria researcher for Amnesty International, said: "We know that Christians and 'collaborators' are a target of ISIS.
"They are at the highest risk either for some kind of summary justice or for Christians in particular, some kind of high ransom demand or exchange."
Syrian priest Fr Jacques Mourad from the Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain was abducted in May.


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Ascent of Liberty County High Point on 2011-10-29
William Musser
Others in Party:
Karen Musser
Saturday, October 29, 2011
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Liberty County High Point
290 ft / 88 m
Ascent Trip Report
Typically I will not post a trip report on a "highpointing" endeavor as they are far less interesting to me than "peakbagging" so this may not serve as a very informative record for those HPing enthusiasts
Personal log -
Parents weekend at FSU, my family feeling sorry for me that my state highpointing trip got delayed due to the weekend activities in Tallahassee on my birthday so they tolerated me at least checking out a few county HPs in the panhandle on the way. The car loaded with Karen, Ben, and Sarah..oh and our new foreign exchange student Sasha from the eastern part of Russia (I mean way east of Siberia and on the border of China).
It was Sasha's second day with us and there was no way I was going to try to explain "highpointing" to her. Not when my own family questions my sanity and friends only get it when I am peakbagging in the mountains! We did Madison County on the way to Tally and she got to pick cotton from the full blooms in the fields nearby.
On my 50th Birthday the following morning and before the FSU vs NC State football tailgate party, Karen and I got up at 6:00 AM and headed up to check out Quincy and the county HPs of Gadsden. It was still dark at the FAMU campus so needless to say we forgot when the sunrises at this part of the state in late OCT. Sun rose shortly thereafter and we enjoyed the other sites and candidate sites on the way to Liberty County.
Liberty County has a lot of rolling clay hills and was attractive countryside. The only candidate site, I care to record in my personal log is at HP#4 where we were parked at a FH and walked out into the woods using my iphone application that showed my phone location relative to the closed contour. I found a pink flag around a tree where the ground fell in all directions. Went back to the car and looked up the last TR for this candidate point and noticed that Ben Lostacco had just tied that flag there a few months earlier.
It is strange to realize that someone from Canada (Ben L and Rose) had just tied this flag in southern FL not too long ago in pursuit of the same obscure goal. How many times have I followed his footsteps or I his in the past few years? And now my wife and I were parked next to the same FH. No, I am not going to even try to explain this hobby to Sasha!
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McGILL MED Ski & Snowboard Trip ITINERARY January 30 – February 01, 2015 Jan. 30 16h00 16h15 20h00 21h00 Buses will arrive at McGill University – McIntyre Bldg. Departure from McGill Brief stop at the IGA in Ste. Anne de Beaupré Arrival at Chalets Montmorency Condos. Check into your condos. Complete your Condo Pre-Inspection Form and return it to your guide. Social time begins ! Jan. 31 08h30 Ski lifts open. Shuttle bus operates to the mountain (08h45-11h00) every 30 min. Ski and snowboard !! Persons requiring equip. rentals to go to Sports Alpins, located next to the cafeteria. Equipment has been pre-set in your respective name, with the McGill MED I group by SKI EVOLUTION. 10h00 Beginner lessons (meet in front of Sports Alpins at the wooden stage) 15h00 Shuttles back to the condos at 3:00, 3:30 and 4:00 PM 16h00 Night skiing available until 21h00 18h30 Private Shuttle to go night skiing (every 30 min.). Return shuttle from Mont Ste. Anne for those who night skied (every 30 min.) 21h00 Night skiing ends. 21h00 Social time begins ! Feb. 01 08h30 Ski lifts open. Shuttle bus operates to the mountain (08h45 -11h00). Ski and snowboard !!! Baggage into storage. Condos must be left clean. Dishes clean, garbage outside. You must check out of your condo before 10:30 a.m. 14h45 Return rental equipment to Sports Alpins. Remember to bring street shoes to cafeteria in the AM !! 15h00 Meet the deluxe coach buses at Mont Ste. Anne (parking lot) 15h15 Return to Chalets Montmorency Condos to retrieve bags – load onto bus. 15h30 Departure for Montreal. 19h00 Approximate arrival time at McGill.
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The trips to Agadir and Tenerife were the longest sectors I've done so far.  I went to Agadir on the 7th, and then a few days later, on the 12th was my trip to Tenerife.  The flight to Agadir was 3.8 hours and Tenerife was a bit longer and took 4.4 hours.  It was nice to have a long cruise, giving me plenty of time to reflect on the past few months, or even years of training.  University now seems like a past era, faded away – another life, however flight school is still fresh in my mind.  I didn't manage to get any photos of Agadir, as it was night time, but the temperature in Agadir and Tenerife was a pleasant 21C, in comparison to the cold temperatures back in England!  I feel much more relaxed now and my confidence is increasing and with that my performance and capacity as well.  I'm still learning of course, and there's always something new to learn and experience.
It's nice to hear the local pleasantries over the radio as you travel through the different boundaries and the one for Morocco was "Aslamu'alaikum" which translates to "peace be upon you". Â Agadir airport was dimly lit at night, so we had to be careful as we taxied in and extra-vigilent. Â It's interesting to see what all the different airports we fly to are like, they all have a certain character. Â Agadir airport had armed guards, on the airside entrance to the terminal, which I've not seen in Europe. Â I made the most of the pleasant temperature during the walk-around, as it'll be a while till we get the same in UK!
The flight to Tenerife was during the day, so it was much more interesting in terms of the view outside! Â I've never been to Tenerife before, even for holiday, so it was an interesting trip for me which I looked forward to. Â I have seen the video re-enactment of the Tenerife disaster on the Air Crash Investigation TV series, so it was an island that I have read and heard about a lot. Â However, the airport we flew to was the Tenerife South airport, which is the newer airport and the Tenerife disaster happened at the older, Tenerife North (formerly Los Rodeos) airport. Â What's interesting is that the weather between the North and the South of the island is quite different due to the volcano in the middle of the island. Â Tenerife North is usually cooler and wetter in comparison to the dryer and warmer Tenerife South. Â In addition, Tenerife North is about 2000ft above sea level, so it tends to get fog (which was in part to blame for the tenerife disaster), whilst Tenerife South is much closer to sea level at 200ft.


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Russ Stephenson will present a program on his great-aunt Isabelle Henderson's talents as an artist and gardener. In 1937, she created a magical enclave of Colonial Revival dwellings and outbuildings combined with display and working gardens in the style of the 1930's. Russ and his wife Ellen have embarked on a restoration according to the color photos and slides that Henderson produced in the 1950's and 60's. The over thirty years of physical records of her work at her Oberlin Road home is a treasury of early 20th century American garden design and architecture.
Russ graduated summa cum laude in Environmental Design in Architecture from NC State's College of Design. In the 1980's Russ assisted with the property's National Register of Historic Places Nomination. During those years, Russ also studied horticulture and landscape design under JC Raulston. The last 12 years, Russ has served on the Raleigh City Council, where he brings his architectural and urban design training to the challenges of a growing city.
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3. Expand your musical horizons by becoming a subscriber to Noah's YouTube site. He has had over 35 million views! Just as soon as he opens his mouth you will know why. Here s a sample with Noah playing the Lichty Bard Guitar.
4. Plan on going to camp this summer! Guitar Week at The Swannanoa Gathering runs from July 29th to August 4th in Black Mountain, NC.
5. Try your hand at playing a different style guitar than you are used to. For example, if you typically play a dreadnought why not spend some time exploring a parlor size guitar. It is amazing how switching gears like this can fuel songwriting and simply the joy of playing guitar.
6. Subscribe to GuitarBench online magazine. Editor Terrence Tan does a great job of bringing great guitar stories and info to a worldwide readership via this electronic magazine.
7. Join the Acoustic Guitar Forum and exchange ideas and tips via this online community.
8. Watch the short film by Erik Olsen, Made from Wood, which follows the building of a Lichty Guitar from start to finish.
9. Plan a trip to visit a luthier to see what goes on behind the scenes of building handcrafted guitars. If you are in Western NC look us up. If you are somewhere else search for luthiers in your area.
10. Make 2013 your guitar year by placing an order for a custom Lichty Guitar!
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The Best Motivational Speakers in the World
Motivational speakers have the ability to transform our outlook on the world. They often use their own unique story to inspire and motivate their audience – empowering them to make positive changes that will enable them to reach their full potential.
Whether they are speaking to employees in the workplace or pupils at school, they have a way of telling their story to ensure that it is relatable. If you have never listened to a motivational speaker before – either via a Ted Talk, YouTube or in person – then you should. Not sure who to listen to first? Well, luckily we have compiled some of the well-known greats and some of our own expertise. The team here spend a lot of time watching and reviewing speakers from the circuit, so we drew upon their knowledge to find out who they think will help while away the January blues.
Matt King
Matt was paralysed from the neck down in a rugby accident when he was just 17 years old. Having been set for a career in rugby he was now dependent on a ventilator and required a full-time carer.
In his talks, Matt discusses the importance of not focusing on the one negative in your life when there are plenty of positives to be found. This is powerful coming from someone who could easily have been be forgiven for losing sight of the positives. He shows that you can achieve anything no matter what your situation.
Today, he is a qualified solicitor, author, mouth-painter, skier and global marathon runner.
Motivational quote: " I refused to be defined by what I couldn't do or didn't have. I knew inside I was the same person — the same stubborn, determined Matt."
Diana Nyad
At the age of 64, Diana fulfilled a dream that had been 30 years in the making – she swam 100-miles from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. She had set long-distance swim records in the 1970s but was thwarted in her bid to overcome this challenge. However, she was determined not to give up.
Diana talks to her audience about how to mentally prepare for such a challenge – because that is equally as important as being physically ready – and asks her audience: 'What will you do with your wild, precious life?'
A speaker can have the ability to transform the way you see the world
Her mantra was to 'find a way' – and she did.
Motivational quote: "That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else."
Nick Vujicic
Born with neither arms nor legs, Nick has overcome challenges – including ignorance and discrimination – but decided to use his experience and 'disability' to start conversations that would change lives.
Telling his story helped him to find his purpose in life – through which he brings others hope and a desire to make a positive change.
Motivational quote: "Life is not about having, it's about being. You can surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've found."
Hyeonseo Lee
Hyeonseo Lee survived extreme adversity in North Korea, finally escaping at the age of 14 to go into hiding as a refugee in China. She reveals how leaving the country didn't mean that she had left danger behind her and talks through her experience and the identity crisis she experienced once living in South Korea.
'The Girl with Seven Names' motivates audiences with her hope for the future and courage despite the harrowing things she has seen and been through.
Motivational quote: "I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don't think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less travelled."
Miles Hilton-Barber
World record-breaking adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber has sledged 250 miles across Antarctica, trekked 150 miles through the Sahara Desert on foot and piloted a 55-day, 21,000 km microflight from Sydney to London – to name just a few. If the challenges themselves weren't impressive enough, Miles lost his sight when he was in his 20s.
'The Blind Adventurer' - as he is known - is able to inspire his audience with the sheer amount he has been able to achieve despite being blind.
Motivational quote: "The only limits in our lives are those we accept ourselves"
We also asked the team to weigh in with some of their favourite picks for the 'best motivational speakers'.
Miles Hilton-Barber presenting at our 2017 Knowledge Guild showcase
Charles Hazlewood
Team opinion:
Our MD, Nick, is a huge fan of Charles Hazlewood's motivational speeches. A little different to the usual inspirational speaker, Charles is an international conductor who's spent years winning the hearts and minds of those around the world with his ground-breaking musical projects.
Outline of speech:
Moving audiences to laughter and occasionally tears, Charles's speeches focus on teamwork, leadership, authenticity, trust, creativity and change, asking us to think a little differently about these topics and consider how music can question our perceptions.
Quickfire facts:
- Charles founded the first orchestra of disabled musicians
- Charles' orchestra – the paraorchestra – performed alongside Coldplay at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games
We agree, Charles uses music in such a powerful way, his work is truly uplifting. This video of him in action might help alleviate some of that January ennui.
Stuart Pearce
Team opinion:
Our Head of Account Management, Adam, loves Stuart Pearce. Adam says "not everyone knows his motivational story of becoming a pro-footballer, overcoming the adversity of coping with being told he was not good enough, yet not giving up, keeping his job as an electrician while all the time still travelling round playing non-league football. Then overcoming the huge heartbreak of missing a penalty at the World Cup 1990 – to step up and score against Spain in the quarter-final at Euro 96. What a bloke… not often I am speechless but when he came in the office, I was close to tears…"
Outline of speech:
Stuart's speeches cover his ability to overcome adversity, his expansive football experience, his leadership skills and ability to coach teammates from all different backgrounds.
Quickfire facts:
- Stuart's old manager Brian Clough would take the team for a drink every night before the had a game
- Stuart has seen The Stranglers perform over 300 times
Michael Johnson
Also inspired by people from the sporting world, our Head of Operations, Rebecca, backs Michael Johnson as one of the best motivational speakers.
Team opinion:
"He is such a presence. He has such experience and achievement against the odds, plus he's a lovely guy and very charming! What more could you ask for!"
Outline of speech:
Michael speaks about his Olympic career and how he managed to establish himself as one of most formidable sportspeople in the world. The sprinter also draws on how he managed to motivate himself during his tough career and how he made the most of the opportunities his talent offered him.
Quickfire facts:
- Michael returned the gold medals he won for the Sydney 2000 Sydney 4 x 400m relay after Antonio Pettigrew (one of the other sprinters) admitted to doping.
- Michael's best piece of advice is to make sure that you pursue what you are passionate for.
Natalia Cohen
Team opinion:
Rebecca also loves Natalia Cohen because she completely defied the ordinary. "Natalia and the coxless crew undertook a completely epic challenge without any previous experience. Just four normal women who did something amazing. Natalia is natural, warm and personable and super inspiring. I watched the film – I cried and then had to stop myself from signing up to some crazy expedition!"
Outline of speech:
Natalia talks through her incredible journey of crossing the Pacific, her speeches empower others to reach their potential, push through their self-limiting mental boundaries and overcome the challenges that life throws at them.
Natalia Cohen sailing across the Pacific
Quickfire facts:
- At first, the team had to turn back after only 10 days due to a flood in our of their hatches
- Natalia spent 9 months in a 29ft boat
Normal people achieving against the odds is definitely the type of inspiration we need for 2018!
Marc Koska
Team Opinion:
Lastly, Matt, one of our Event Coordinators thinks Marc Koska is one of the best motivational speakers. "Marc's story, what he has done and what he intends to do in future is just so inspiring. The non-reusable syringe seems so obvious now, but hearing about the struggles it took to bring it to market is fascinating."
Outline of speech:
It took three minutes to design the reusable syringe, but seventeen years to manufacture. Marc's speech focuses on the sheer persistence and obstacles that he had to overcome to implement his product and finally compromise the spread of AIDS through Africa.
Quickfire facts:
- If Marc could speak at any event, past or future, it would be to a full house at Wembley Stadium
- He would most like to share a stadium with Anousheh Ansari or Scott Parazynski
Hopefully, our list inspires you to discover some of the best motivational speakers in the world.
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We'll be holding our annual cleanup/volunteer work day at Crow's Nest on Saturday, April 2 from 8 am until 12 noon.
This year if all goes well we'll be planting native trees and protecting them with tree shelters. Some will be planted where there are gaps in the canopy along French Creek, some in an area where we cleared lots of vines this winter, and other places where they are needed around the preserve. So if you are arriving later in the morning there will be a sign at the visitor center showing the project areas and you can call me to find out which one we are currently working on.
Then if we have time we'll be cutting vines and addressing other needs. Bring work gloves and pruners; we'll provide shovels. Give me a call at 610-286-7955 if you plan to come so that I know how much coffee to put on.


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Knowing the best ways to get first-page site rankings can be hard at the best of times! Who can you trust and what are the best methods that work!? I can comfortably say, "anyone that is offering heaps of backlinks can't be trusted." Another way of telling they're not on the level as they don't offer some kind of refund if they fail to rank you in the first 3 pages of Google. This should be a given as there are a lot of variables with SEO ranking. The following information below is about how to gain Natural Links and the benefits they can bring to rank your website.
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For me it has to be either Mark Waugh's against New Zealand or Mathew Sinclairs against Aussie
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yeh i was just about to post that but i can't find one of Waughs catch
Collingwood pulled off a stunner in the natwest series. That was really a great sight.Originally Posted by andyc
Rohit Sharma is the most hyped cricketer ever...
This one wasn't half bad either.
Jonty being his spectacular self...
South Africa against England, Edgbaston '98
^That one is more spectacular because of the picture. Jonty could do that in his sleep.
McGrath catching Vaughan was pretty good.
The catalyst of Headley's inspirational spell was Mark Ramprakash's catch to dismiss Langer, who was well set on 30 - a spectacular diving effort from a vicious pull shot.
Can't find a pic of it*, but if it's the one I remember it was one of the best I have ever seen, one of those amazing stick-out-your-paw-they-either-stick-or-they-don't, jobs. His celebration was funny, madness in his eyes, shouting "******* come on!!!!" or some such. Marvellous.
*Did find a pic of him though, in his usual pose.
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Yes, McGrath's catch of Vaughan for me.
I don't know about best catch ever, but the best I've seen live (i.e. when I was at the ground) was Dwayne Bravo's catch off Gilchrist in one of the ODIs in Melbourne last year. Not just because he was at full stretch, but because he was so close to the batsman, and everyone knows how hard Gilchrist hits the ball. Literally a blink-and-you'll-miss-it catch.
Yes, watched that on Nine, but it wasn't amazing. Not the best ever.
I saw Steve Waugh take a stunner at midwicket once, off a full blooded pull, with a full length dive. Can't remember the specifics for the life of me though, might have been against Pakistan.
Mark Waugh's diving catch off a late cut at first slip was pretty incredible.
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Adam Bacher's catch of Tendulkar.
What about Adam Dale's catch in the Mercantile Mutual Cup all those years ago. Some of you have to remember that! Fielding at long on/long off takes it horizontal to the ground at straight hit. We were imitating it in the playground for weeks!
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Johannesburg, 18 April 2017 – Having stored over 310,000 umbilical cord blood stem cells locally and in Europe since 2000, CryoSave South Africa, a leading private stem cell bank, has been granted AABB accreditation for its South African laboratory, based in Pretoria. With no public stem cell bank in Africa, the CryoSave laboratory provides access to private stem cell processing and storage services in Southern Africa.
CryoSave South Africa, which is part of JSE-listed Financial Services Group, Ecsponent Limited, is responsible for the collection, processing and storage of umbilical cord stem cells for both CryoSave and Salveo Biotechnology. The facility now joins similar facilities from the United States and around the world who have also earned AABB Accreditation.
Haematopoietic or blood stem cells found in umbilical cord blood are used to treat diseases such as bone marrow failure, leukaemia, lymphoma and other types of blood cancers and hereditary blood disorders. These stem cells are collected at birth in a quick, painless and non-invasive procedure from what was once considered to be medical waste.
AABB, formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks, is an international non-profit association, representing individuals and institutions involved in the field of transfusion medicine and cellular therapies. Accreditation by the association follows an intensive on-site assessment by specially trained assessors who established that the level of technical and administrative performance within the facility meets or exceeds the standards set by the Association.
"The AABB Accreditation procedures are voluntary," Dr Robert Crookes, Medical Director of CryoSave South Africa explained. "CryoSave South Africa has sought AABB accreditation as this programme assists facilities around the world in achieving excellence by promoting a level of professional and technical expertise that contributes to quality performance and patient safety."
Erna West, Head of Product Development at Ecsponent Biotechnology says, "Having always operated under the internationally governed policies, processes and procedures of its parent company in Europe, this accreditation now adds an additional layer of confidence for parents who store their babies' stem cells at the CryoSave laboratory, as well as for health care professionals who collect the umbilical cord blood and tissue at the birth."
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Working on a new year's diet doesn't have to be perfect
Hello, five pounds. What took you so long?
I saw you coming a few million calories ago. Before I hung up those Russell Stover-stuffed stockings for my family. Before my friend Sandy gave me those delicious fresh-baked Christmas cookies. Before I stepped on the scale this morning and screamed.
Yes, I am the woman who goes to bed with candy on Halloween and unapologetically eats her way through Thanksgiving and Christmas.
This is why I keep two sizes of clothing in my closet. Yesterday I donned stretch pants. Today the failed diet begins.
Though some might call it a New Year's resolution, I prefer to call it a New Year's tradition.
This is how it will go: By 10 a.m., I'll be starving. By noon, I'll break down and have a peanut butter sandwich. By 5 p.m., I'll say, "To hell with this diet stuff!" and put off losing weight till sometime next month.
And you know what? I won't beat myself up when I fail. Rules are made to broken and resolutions are made to bust.
Case in point: The parking lot of my beloved YMCA will be packed tomorrow morning. Come mid-February – when I start Diet No. 2 – the resolutionists will be gone and I won't have to arrive at spin class a half-hour early to get a bike.
Not that I have anything against the resolutionists. Heck, I welcome them with open arms. I just hope they don't throw in the towel for good when their plans to exercise fizzle the first time around.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Without the pressure.
And so, my New Year's wish for you is that you be kinder to yourself. It's good to have goals. It's great to be self-aware. But please don't beat yourself up because it's Jan. 1 and you look in the mirror and don't like what you see.
Start that self-improvement program just for practice. Next month when things quiet down? Now that's the time to try it again. I suggest shooting for the day after Valentine's Day so The Sacred Chocolate Holiday can be observed.
Till then, stay safe, stay warm and stay true to yourself. There is only one you, and you are a fabulous person. Sure you could be better. But couldn't we all?
And we will be come February 15th.