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You can help by not giving her any attention.
Evalion✡ (Powerword: Veronica Bouchard) is a young Canadian woman who has become e-famous after producing dozens of lulzy videos on YouTube. These projects were conducted from a standpoint of trolling, presenting the truth in a lulzy and offensive manner. They often targeted Jews, Niggers, Muslims and other degenerate plagues upon the white race; all for great justice and for shits and giggles. Her channel quickly pulled in viewership within a month of its creation, at one point gaining 16,000 subscribers within a day, and became the most infamous channel among the JewTube community at the time. She started to get attacked and mass-flagged by kikes like Onision and LeafyIsHere, which resulted in her eventual termination from YouTube. This story has made international headlines and has raised debates about free speech and censorship, further emboldening the current cultural wars playing out, and has significantly increased the amount of normies getting redpilled and joining up with the 4th Reich. However, it did not take long for the alt-right, the major driving force of her support, to turn on her after several investigations into the life of Evalion revealed her to be a troll, whore and jew. A year after her original termination, she has returned under several alts to spam the series of tubes up with more sorry ass propaganda, this time written by a different boyfriend, one who is far more leftist than her other. It is presumed that as of the current year, her vagina fully resembles an Arby's roast beef sandwich. A typical occurrence with "liberated"[citation needed] western women past the age of like 8.
Veronica/Elegon/Evalion is an girl with a troubled life. Her parents had a bad divorce when she was young. She was raised by a single mom, and if you know anything, kids raised by single moms are often raised and end up worse than those raised through a strong nuclear familial unit. A lot of the time, children raised by single parents grow up to become Serial Killers, Psychopaths or worst of all: Weeaboos. It is believed that she is mixed race and possesses some Kike blood. This is believed to have caused her an identity crisis, as having mixed blood does for most of the lot. She could never get a job because of all the fucking immigrants coming in and takin aour jawbz. She couldn't speak of her life problems, as it would be politically incorrect and she would get v& due to Canada's faggy Hate Speech laws.
The only boy friend she ever had was a 34 year old man from Germany(lol) that she met through the internet. So Evalion, the unhappy teen that she is, made the mistakes that most other similar people made; she ran away from home. She went to the train yard and jumped on a train to take her as far away as possible. She picked the first train that left off and it just so happened to be the Trump Train! This train has no breaks, and the train is crashing with no survivors!
She was still little known until she put on a rabbit fursuit and bawwwed over her now ex-boyfriend. She literally looked just like this. She started to make videos a few years ago, but after having limited success, came back in march 2016 under the alias 'Evalion' and produced the 60 videos we all know about today; the evil Nazi bigoted Fascist videos that triggered so many faggot leftists and got her b&.
She was being used by a group of people that idle in the #chimpire IRC to eventually boost their own e-celeb careers after a manufactured fall from YouTube and later resurgence (she's already taking over some parts of Reddit), taking advantage of the "alt-right" phenomenon. They are a bunch of faggots from Reddit that moved over to a le Reddit alternative known as voat.co, which doesn't censor free speech and has thus become overrun by trolls and /pol/lacks; although the two are one in the same.
Essentially, she is a political stunt for fame and shekels; and previously came to a small degree of notoriety in the past, following drama that occurred between her "online boyfriend", Michael Constantine, a fellow YouTuber (Jewgle hangout [1]). The image of a Skype conversation to the right, shows that she camwhored for some random guy. An audio clip is also rumored to exist, however, Constantine appears to have made amends with her, inviting her for an interview on his channel. A sex tape also exists in which she pleasures herself in both orifices with bowling pins and other assorted objects; however, this is rather sensitive information as she was likely underage b& at the time, and could possibly get you v& IRL. So... we're gonna avoid showing you this shit.
After all of this, she disappeared off of the internet for a while and has now come back under the name Evalion, (just like we told you a few minutes ago) which was then terminated because of a flagging campaign headlined by one of the most despicable human beings of all time, Onision. Since Evalion is a young, ignorant fool who doesn't know how to stay anonymous, it has been concluded that she lives in Pickering, Ontario. Living in a cucked up country like Canada probably explains why she is retarded enough to publicly describe herself as a National Socialist. As she is still young, hopefully this is just an edgy phase and she will eventually realize how stupid Socialism and its forms are, as she grows up.
—The following is taken from the irc logs
SJWs Attack
After her channel gained massive attention, the SJW faggots quickly took notice and launched countless attacks against her; calls to arm to shut it down like the filthy fucking kike scum they are.
The faggot LeafyIsHere, who has around 4 million autistic subscribers, made a video on her which hit 4 million views. Leafy goes on a butthurt autistic rage against her using countless elementary-grade insults such as ad hominems and being a whiny little kike bitch for 10 minutes. The emo cocksucker Onision made a video on her that's reached around 200k hits.
After the leftist faggot degenerates waged war on her, they got the kikes who control jewtube to terminate her account after a two day long e-war. The leftists rejoiced in victory, proud to be fighting against Free Speech, differing opinions / thought, and most of all, common sense. She recreated her channel after a few hours, but it was quickly shut down - again.
You can often find fucked up shit on jewtube, like gore (medical purposes), borderline child porn, furry porn flashes, etc; however, a young woman expressing how the jews had a hand in 9/11, are a filthy fucking piece of shit race that needs to be fucking wiped off the face of the earth, and control the mind, money, and morality of the masses, is going way too fuckin' far. Fuckin' holocaust #2 right there.
Woman hater Onision saw that this girl was getting attention, so he didn't want none of that, so he sent his braindead 13 year old subscribers to her channel in order to flag it. Turns out it worked.
Twitter Ban
She was banned from Twatter on June 12th, 2016. This caused even more drama and outrage regarding the event.
Media Mentions
On June 3rd, 2016, Evalion was mentioned on French TV, where they brought up many of her videos, including one detailing how the Teletubbies were a communist plot to destabilize the minds of Millenials. Other lulzy videos of hers were broadcast on national television, bringing in thousands of french fuckers to the Evalion story (and probably boosting this page by 2.5k hits)
The Return
Several months after getting terminated on JewTube, Evalion has returned from the grave around September 19th, 2016. Her
new channel won't last long, so now's a good time to mirror what videos you can. First new vid, uploaded Sep 19. She is a member of Heathen Women, a new site for neonazi bitches. After being shoah'd on JewTube again, Evalion is back on vid.me now. On November 7th, she conducted an interview with (((Global News))), and new facts revealed that she had her laptop and other electronic devices seized upon returning to Canada from Germany. It is suspected that she will be charged for hate crimes. On the American election day, Evalion was interviewed on The Brian Ruhe Show, regarding the polarizing and grueling battle of Trump VS. Hillary.
It should be painfully obvious to any who aren't thinking with their dicks that Evalion was obviously just a troll, with her videos likely being written by her boyfriend. Apparently, they had a little breakup and the slut got a different man. She came out from under the table of sucking off her greasy neckbeard master, around the middle of 2017, to shit out some more rubbish videos, this time defending Joseph Stalin, a communist dictator who grew to be one of the most evil and murderous thugs the world has ever seen. It is likely that she will cuck her current boyfriend and get another one, completely reshaping her weightless opinions to the wills of her next owner, akin to women in general.
On the 12 of June 2017, Evalion revealed that she became pregnant with her autistic husband's child, while flaunting her boobs around during the whole fucking video.
Luckily for the (((world))), she had a miscarriage.
Her Videos
Please keep in mind that these are all mirrors. They could easily be shut down so in the event that any of the videos go down, please add another in.
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Evalion is a disloyal cocksucking half-kike attention whore, and you're a pathetic beta male sack of shit for supporting her at all. White knight faggot.
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Conversion to Islam
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Evalion youtube statistics before she got suspended, with 62 thousand subscribers
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Exerpt from a livestream (5/21/16)
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Evidence of her being a whore.
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communist ho
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Just girly things~
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Trump will make Canada great again.
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Heil Hitler tbh
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/pol/ = triggered
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Deal with it.
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Set temp for 450.
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u know u wanna hit it
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/pol/ destabilizer; JIDF shill.
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Positive youtube feedback.
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Negative feedback; triggered leftists.
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Leaf / Oni faggots wage war.
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Gex speaking out in support of Evalion after mentions of her get deleted on fullchan pol
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Moar evidencez
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She recently got a boobjob to distract you from the fact of her ugly ass face.
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Pretty big nose for a goy
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Sex Tape
See Also
- Liberals - Those who fight against her
- Daily Stormer - her white knights
- Prostitute - her real job.
- illuminati - Current membership.
- Jews - The "Enemy", in reality what she is
- Canada - Where she's from; she'll probably get v& for hate speech.
- 16 year old girl
Any mirrors of her videos can be found below; if you have a site with mirrors for her videos, add it to the list. We encourage you, the viewer, to archive and mirror what you can; this is one of the only ways we can continue to fight for free speech. We haven't conducted a virus scan on any of these, so you take your own risk by viewing or downloading from the following links; you have been warned.
Full Backup of Her Videos | Youtube "Flash" Archive Evalion on DailyMotion Cheekyvideos mirror
- MEGA mirror
- BitTrorrent Sync key: BV7Q2BF6YPOU73ZNBONKA5SP5S2GDK4US
- Torrent mirror on kat.cr [DEAD; see magnetlink and infohash below]
- Torrent mirror on thepiratebay
Christogenea.org mirror
- Dropbox mirror 1
- Dropbox mirror 2
BitTube hosts all of her videos as well
Infohash: 97ba91083fc682c6c819a0bf9e03bd6709315dd8
A magnet link can be found here
External Links
- Official Evalion website
Evalion VID.ME channelBANNED Her Twitter Banned by faggot leftists Back upBack up Also her backup TwitterDOUBLE BANNED
- Ontario teen who called for 'white' Canada has laptops seized by CBSA
- DailyStormer article about the fags trying to shut her down
- After she was shut down.
- Imgur showing (unverified) evidence of a sexual / romantic scandal?
- Drama with Constantine's perspective
- DailyMail.co.uk article "Angel-faced Youtuber, 18, is kicked off the site after sharing racist views and singing Happy Birthday to Hitler - with swastika CUPCAKES"
- Nov 7 2016 - Cuckchan /pol/ thread
- TheSun.co.uk article "Racist video blogger Evalion booted off YouTube after posting shocking videos where she praises Hitler and racially abuses Jews and black people"
- DailyStar.co.uk article "YouTuber sings happy birthday to Adolf Hitler – gets banned from site"
- VICE.com article "Nero, Nazis, and the New Far Right: The Phenomena of the Professional Troll"
- Evalion featured on French TV ARTE program 28 minutes "Internet : est-on libre d'être nazi ? - 28 minutes - ARTE"
- IRC CHATROOM: Their base of operations #chimpire
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|Archived February 20, 2019
Richly Illustrated USGS Publication About Coastal Cliffs Along U.S. Shorelines
Coastal cliffs are a common landform on the west, northeast, and Great Lakes coasts of the United States, as well as within large estuaries. The land adjacent to coastal cliffs has been heavily developed along much of the coast, particularly in urban areas where the natural instability and progressive retreat of the cliffs pose a threat to life and property. The permanent loss of coastal land when cliffs collapse and retreat landward is an important national issue in coastal planning, management, and engineering. Formation, Evolution, and Stability of Coastal CliffsStatus and Trends (U.S. Geological Survey [USGS] Professional Paper 1693), edited by Monty Hampton (USGS) and Gary Griggs (University of California, Santa Cruz), reviews the status of coastal cliffs along the shorelines of the conterminous United States and the Great Lakes. It includes articles on how coastal cliffs form and evolve, and how cliff retreat is measured. Maps, diagrams, and a wealth of photographs introduce readers to coastal cliffs and bluffs in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, and the Great Lakes. Intended for a broad audience, the new publication can be viewed online.
in this issue:
cover story:
Drilling Monitoring Wells in the Dry Tortugas
American Samoa's Resilient Coral Reefs
Seepage Samplers in Ashumet Pond
Wastewater - A Potential Threat to Florida Keys
Gulf of Mexico Vulnerable to Hurricanes
USGS Pacific Science Center Open House
Exhibit Designers Interested in Hurricane Research
USGS Hosts Science-Learning Session
Shore and Beach Preservation Conference
Deep Water Coral Research Workshop
Jim Estes Wins Shoemaker Award
Four Publications Win Shoemaker Awards
Gene Shin Wins Shifting Baselines Contest
NMSF Regional Office Moving to St. Petersburg, FL
Elena Nilsen Joins Coastal and Marine Geology Team
USGS Vessel To Test Counter-Terrorism Equipment
Southern Sea Otter Video Online
Human Influence on San Francisco Bay Floor
U.S. Coastal Cliffs
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November promises to be a hectic month, with two anthology launches (Motives for Murder, a Detection Club book of short stories) and Crimson Snow (a British Library collection of classic winter crime stories) as well as some events and plenty of writing tasks. So I decided to warm up for it with a short break in the south of Spain, where at this time of year, the weather is usually quite lovely.
The Blind Man of Seville, and said that I really ought to get around to reading the book. I still haven't done so, but now that I've seen the city for myself, and liked it enormously, I have an added incentive.


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To look at the balance between serendipity and problem selection, Jeremy Berg examined all of the winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine and chemistry over the past 25 years and scored each winner's contribution as either largely serendipitous, largely driven by solving a problem of known, fundamental importance or a hybrid of the two.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., recently sponsored a bill that would change how the federal government funds biomedical research. Benjamin Corb, director of public affairs at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, argues that the bill is nothing more than "Band-Aid on a wound that needs to be stitched."
Find out what's happening in the professional lives of your colleagues. Send your own news to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Contributor Mariana Figuera-Losada covers a recent Journal of Biological Chemistry paper about how kinases control the cytoskeleton response to cellular stress. Mary L. Chang, publications manager for the Journal of Lipid Research, writes about a new sequencing method for detecting genes responsible for dyslipidemia. And contributor Shirley H. Tan writes about a Molecular & Cellular Proteomics paper that explores the protein modifications caused by environmental factors.
In this Retrospective, colleagues pay tribute to Richard Hanson of Case Western Reserve University. Hanson served as president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, as an associate editor for The Journal of Biological Chemistry and as an editorial advisory board for ASBMB Today. His positive disposition and seemingly unending concern for others will be missed.
A collection of photos of Richard Hanson over the years.
Hugo J.F. Maccioni covers recent developments influencing what we know about the organization of glycolipid biosynthetic enzymes in the Golgi complex, and Patricia Bassereau offers a physicist's view of the role of lipids in membrane curvature and fission.
The Accelerating Medicines Partnership includes 10 of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, the National Institutes of Health and several nonprofits. The goal: to develop new treatments earlier for Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes and autoimmune disorders.
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Monday, 13 November, 2000, 09:38 GMT
The Dome: Who is to blame?
The Millennium Dome has been condemned as a risky, mis-managed and financially weak project by the government's spending watchdog.Disclaimer: The BBC will put up as many of your comments as possible but we cannot guarantee that all e-mails will be published. The BBC reserves the right to edit comments that are published.
The National Audit Office says in a report that visitor numbers were greatly over-estimated and that Dome operators lacked the experience to run this type of attraction.
The Dome has so far cost Ł628m of lottery money - Ł229m more than originally forecast.
So who should take ultimate responsibility for the ill fated Dome? Should Dome minister Lord Falconer resign? Do you think he is being made a scapegoat?
Andy, UK
Hey, at least you got your Dome. Over here, politicians would have spent that much (probably borrowed from your own good selves) just talking about it.
At the end of the year, we should force Mandelson to buy it.
Gary, UK
Peter Mandelson hoped to outdo his ancestor Morrison's success with the Festival of Britain. A spin doctor might have had the wit to realise that it is much more difficult now, because the kind of people who did not have a television then are now addicted to their favourite soaps. Even Disney finds the live entertainment business a struggle in Europe.
I have been astounded by some of the hypocrisy surrounding the Dome. On Any Questions (R4), Barbara Roche MP backed Lord Falconer, saying that incompetent ministers should not resign. Yet on the very next topic, she argued that incompetent teachers should be sacked. Why the double standard?
Badly planned by the Conservatives and badly managed by Labour - I did enjoy visiting it. The Dome was never planned as a profit making exercise. However it appears to have lost more money than expected. The best use of the land would be to expand the London Docklands Financial District south of the river.
The Queen looked upset holding hands with the PM on New Year's eve last year. Maybe it was not the odd protocol that disturbed her, maybe she just didn't want to be associated with it.
William E. Bennett, USA
Since the Dome was paid for by the mathematically challenged in for the form of the avoidable Lottery tax, I really don't care that much about how much it has/ will cost.
The only sad thing about the whole Dome episode is seeing so much political meglomania in so many people in positions of power.
It is Labour that has presided over the financial fiasco that is the Dome but nobody can say that the Tories would have done any better.
Guy Chapman, UK
In business a new CEO is responsible for all decisions he/ she makes under their leadership. If their predecessor made a bad decision, it is their responsibility to reverse it. Taking this analogy Labour should stop trying to pass blame. They should have either stopped it when they got control, or got it right. They did neither.
Where did the money come from - the Lottery. So shouldn't some of the blame go to everyone who poured in their cash in the pursuit of greed, knowing that the Dome was a major recipient, when they could all have sent that money to genuine "good causes" instead?
Sam Spanners, UK
The Government says that it has been the biggest attraction in Britain. It has to be pointed out though that if everyone who visited a rusty old gas works in Greenwich was given fifty quid it would have been even more popular and on current figures a lot cheaper. The plug should have been pulled on this waste of money months ago. The sight of Lord Falconer sitting there saying he wishes to carry on is a laugh. The mistakes were on his watch, someone new is needed to sort out his mess.
I have been to the Dome and confess to have enjoyed it.
However I cannot see how it cost 1 billion pound to make. If it cost Ł100m I would be surprised and in fact this is the figure that the Japanese takeover bid offered. This means that somewhere Ł900m has been spent on intangible things which I find very hard to believe and if this is so I believe that some of the recipients should pay back part of this money.
I know this will never happen.
Why blame anybody. The whole Lottery Millennium fund was dedicated to pointless projects which all needed extra funding. All that has happened is that we've had fewer of them. The dome just happened to be the most expensive. All of this money was never going to be spent on anything else (like hospitals) and I don't remember anybody making a lot of fuss at the time. Also the Dome wasn't a complete flop. I think it's less of "a National disgrace and more a "Well we won't do that again". There are more important things in life to worry about.
Pete, UK
To blame or not to blame, that is indeed the question. I guess we are all to blame to some degree or other. The presiding government for the foolhardy project and the general public for not supporting the spirit of the event. The effort was designed to celebrate the millennium, a dubious cause indeed, but a folly nevertheless and it was generally publicly believed to be so from the beginning.
Here we go again, looking for someone to blame. WE, the public are to blame because we allowed it to happen. We allowed our elected representatives, whether Labour or Tory to raid the lottery fund, our tax pool and WE didn't put a stop to it. I haven't written one letter of complaint to the government, so I got what I deserved. When will we stop looking for someone else to pin the blame on and start taking our responsibilities as citizens as seriously as we demand our rights?
I'm not sure who is to blame, but I find it so offensive that any modern government could see it as their role to run a tourist attraction using public money! Labour has taken public funds and completely wasted it! This is the key issue, a government should govern, not try to run a business. What century do this people think they are living in?
Tim Miller, England
Labour has to take the blame. They decided to continue with the Dome and ultimately had control over it. The talk of generating jobs in Greenwich is garbage - Ł900,000,000 to create 30,000 jobs works out at Ł30,000 per job created - enough to keep the average worker in salary for almost two years!
In Scotland, the entire board of the exam authority, the SQA, resigned after a damning report. The head of the Scottish Tourist Board had to resign in similar circumstances. However, when it came to a damning report about the new Scottish Parliament building, the presiding politicians DID NOT resign. So does anyone expect Lord Falconer to resign over the Dome? Of course not, POLITICIANS ARE NEVER TO BLAME.
How many people are joining the Dome debate without actually having been? I visited recently, thought it was pretty good and didn't see anyone looking like they were having a dreadful time. If the media hadn't decided from the start that they were going to pan it, I'm absolutely sure millions more would have visited, there would have been no financial crisis and there wouldn't be the current witch-hunt.
J. Lloyd, UK
Both the Tories and Labour are to blame. It was a bad (Tory) idea in the first place and should have been dropped by Labour as soon as they won the 1997 general election. I don't think Lord Falconer should be made a scapegoat. What about Mandy Mandelson, who conveniently jumped ship when it looked like it was going wrong or Michael Hesletine whose idea it was in the first place? How about turning the Dome into a cycling velodrome, so we can get more medals to go with the ones won at the recent Olympics and World Championships.
Why not kill 3 birds with one stone: Refit the Dome as the new British Houses of Parliament, move the government and associated civil servants in (giving them the modern facilities and space they constantly crave), turn the Palace of Westminster into a museum dedicated the history of government, sell off a whole swathe of ancillary buildings currently used by MPs to the highest bidders (thus increasing the amount of available office space in the capital) .. Go on give it a go!
Peter Simmonds, UK
We all know it was a huge waste of money, but I think we could get more mileage out of the Dome by looking to put it to some better use... a shelter for the homeless of London would be a start.
Just think what that Ł900 million plus could have done for the NHS, education and public transport. Allowing future citizens of Great Britain to grow up healthy, intelligent and able to travel to and from school and work safely would have been a much more fitting celebration of the millennium!
John Swift, England
To regenerate the environment, economy, infrastructure, and non-dependant culture of the North Greenwich hinterland would have cost billions and billions of public money. It seems like the government has got this for a snip at GPB 1bn. It is also Britain's most popular [pay] attraction.
Those responsible for the Dome's
failure are those who make it fail - the
incompetent politicians (of both sides),
management, and journalists - who
think it's clever to do something down,
but are incapable of building
something up, or who try to make a
celebration commercially viable. My
family went and we had a great time.
On that day, we made the Dome a
P.S. I agree with Dawn Staff - keep it
for a sports college!
Who in their right mind would build a structure costing many millions of pounds, which at the end of a predictable loss-making year is to be torn down. I think the politicians got a little over-enthusiastic and forgot whose money they were spending.
It was funded by the lottery (money that was essentially provided by gambling!) and although it cost more than strictly necessary and attracted less people than expected, it is still a great attraction that more than rivals any other tourist venue in the UK.
So who to blame? The organisation that locked the media out on New Year's Eve, and the media themselves for not supporting what could have been a great project.
Sam Clayton, UK
Governments are notoriously bad at running commercial ventures, which is what the Dome is (was). They should create the vision, but then turn the whole thing over to the experts. In this instance, a call to Disney or Universal in the US, with an offer to let them build and operate the Dome, I am sure would have shown totally different results. (Those who have visited Disney and Universal will know what I am talking about) The Government could have taken the credit and everyone would be happy!
Paul Jones, England
If the Tory party and the media had not damned the Dome so much maybe more people would have visited. We went in a party ranging from 78 years to 8 and had a fantastic day. All the staff were professional and obviously well-trained.
The people who should take responsibility are those who would have claimed the credit for its success.
It is important that those mainly responsible for the Dome fiasco should not be able to hide behind other people, and let them take the blame. The main proponents, as I understand it, were Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson, both of whom are quite adept at distancing themselves from criticism.
Jen, UK
While Falconer should go, he shouldn't take sole responsibility for this fiasco. After the 1997 election, there were wise voices within New Labour who advised that this project should be dumped, but no, Blair, Mandelson and the rest of the crowd who thought image was everything insisted that it go ahead. Having maintained from the very start that this was a ridiculous waste of money in a country starved of investment in public services, I'm not pleased at being proved right, I'm gutted!
Of course Falconer should resign, but since he is a lawyer he won't, he doesn't understand what responsibility means in the real world. To Charlie it's all a bit of fun and the money is not important, like his mate in Downing St. he lives in an unreal world.
Al, UK
To some it seems a waste of money - what would be a waste is if it is pulled down. Let it be turned into an Olympic sized swimming pool plus other sports' training facility - After the Olympics, and hearing the comments from the swimmers, it was apparent that such a facility is required. And the setting is ideal!
The minister is being made a scapegoat in one sense - but right at the outset it should have been made into a millennium sport stadium.
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|It has been many moons of Mr. Robert Bruce Duncan very openly chitting on every securities rule in the fukkin book and there is no slowing down ... and we are referring specifically to the fact that the man is posting on Stockhouse every day.
We cannot prove Bert is "BobGreenfield" but its obvious. We can assume the latest post (using his name) under "Smallcap52" is what it appears to be ... yet ANOTHER blatant securities violation from a turd busted multiple times already.
|"The acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and potentially psychotic. However, people with OCD generally recognize their obsessions and compulsions as irrational and may become further distressed by this realization."


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A night for plant nerds
Gardening is a communal activity: it is very common for gardeners to share their plants, tips on growing, new plant introductions and old favorites, and in general, the love of gardening. Eighteen years ago, Hoyt Arboretum in Portland created an event called Plant Nerd Night. The goal was to give local specialty nurseries a venue


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Do you have a garden patch that you're unsure what to do with? Or are you looking for a plant that would look spectacular in a pot?
Do you have a garden patch that you're unsure what to do with? Or are you looking for a plant that would look spectacular in a pot? Succulents just may be your answer. Despite the persisting myth that succulents are difficult to grow, there are varieties that are actually quite hardy and put on a stunning display. The key to growing succulents successfully is soil preparation: if the soil doesn't drain properly the roots will rot and the plant will die. Each individual plants have their own preference, so always consult the label first. But in general, succulents prefer well-draining soil, so adding a bit of sand before planting is recommended.
Aloe Vera
This rosette style succulent is named as such as the main plant (the hen) produces so many babies (chicks). This succulent prefers a drier soil and grows very well in pots. Allow the soil to dry out between watering for best results.
Golden Sedum
This stunning succulent features long pointed leaves in green and yellow colours. The name comes from the snake-like pattern that develops on the leaves and does well in both pots and the garden.
Burros Tail
Purple Aeonium
A little different to the rest, this succulent grows on stalks and so resembles a small tree. With purplish-black foliage that forms the shape of the flowers, the Purple Aeonium is used to give the garden a bit of height.
Christmas Cactus
One of the hardiest and most commonly found succulents, the Christmas Cactus is popular because of its low maintenance and beautiful flowers. Best grown in pots, make sure that you avoid over watering and allow the roots to dry out a bit occasionally.


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New Site. New Direction. (and how I did it)After having built even 2 or 3 redux's for some clients, my own site's overhaul was long over-due… it was Web 1.0 in a Web 2.0+ World… and we were rapidly approaching Web 3.0… Drastic measures were called for…
Over the years, I was always surprised how my site drew both compliments & business. After a couple years in, I personally hated the design. But the messaging & info were good, and people continued to tell me (unsolicited) that they liked it. So, it moves down the list a little, and you get busy… and you become like the proverbial Cobbler – Who's own shoes are worn, due to being so busy working on the shoes (sites) of others.
But let things go for even a couple years too long on the Web, and you will look dated & behind-the-times. And even though my work for others was very-much up-to-date, you wouldn't get that impression from landing on my site (it still had a Flash Landing Page, even! UGH!!!). I wrapped-up another new site for a client and vowed the next would finally be my own! I drew the line in the sand. You shall not pass (Old Site)!!!
So, what to do…? I know I wanted something more colorful, creative and interactive. And a little weird & whimsical, like myself. Less traditional & "box-y", visually (since I do plenty of those). I wanted the site to serve as both a presentation to prospective clients, but also a repository for other info on my work & business. I wanted to also work in a Content Management System, since I believe in them strongly, but wanted to use a different approach than usual. Not easy to get that all into a single site… so, why not have 2? Sort of.
In the end, I decided to break up my site into 2 areas: An All-in-1-Page -presentation on my home/landing page, and a CMS-based "more" -area, for biz-related info that didn't belong in the business pitch (News, etc.). Hopefully providing the focus & effectiveness of a Single Page Site, but still retaining the advantages of a CMS for regular content creation to help build SEO value & biz prospects (as I consult clients to do). You can visit the 1-Page Site by using the HIRE ME! -menu up top. You're already on the CMS site.Your home page is your most important page, and generally the entry point for visitors. So, why make them go to any other pages? If the primary goal of my site is to pitch to prospective clients about what I do, and why they should hire me, then why make them load page after page to make that pitch? Would I be able to get across all the points & info that I wanted to? Lately, I had seen more & more 1 page sites that were marketing-focused, and in my opinion, effective. They used modern JavaScript techniques to fit more info into that page in an organized fashion that didn't frighten the visitor off with one tremendously long, ever-scrolling page. Those feel SPAM-y. AND, it had to be Device-Friendly. A Responsive Web Design(s) it would be.
For the /more expansion area, I knew I wanted a CMS, for all the usual reasons; Easy Content Creation & Updating, SEO Value, and Easy Extendibility (adding functionality via Plug-In Apps). But in the spirit of doing new things, I decided to not go with my usual defaults of Joomla! & RocketTheme, and instead to turn to my usual (strong) 2nd choices for both publishing platforms and supporting design technologies, WordPress and YooTheme. It's good to do new things, and to build new Tech Muscles, even if they're less familiar & comfortable. THAT's how you get better!
So, that's about it. The rest is A LOT of Brain-Storming, Designing, Re-Designing, Testing, Re-Testing, More Testing, and Writing… A LOT of writing (which I enjoy, but doing it well can be very time-consuming…). I won't bore you with all those gore-y details… BUT, I WILL let you in on my secrets just a little more, from a technical standpoint, if you're interested… with a List of Ingredients!
Core JS
Used for both Home and WP
jQuery Extensions
fullPage GitHub
slimScroll GitHub
Home Page – prettyPhoto
CMS – Widgetkit
CMS Theme Framework
Warp 7.0
Warp Framework
Front End CMS UI
UI Kit
UI Kit
Core CMS Extensions
WordPress JetPack (Extends wordpress.com goodies to self-hosted WordPress installs)
JetPack Me
BackWPup (Back-Up and Migration)
Better WP Security (Security)
Better WP Security
Social Sharing


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On leave at Samsung AI Center, Cambridge, UK; fall 2018 - fall 2020.
617 Bowser Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Prof. Pavlovic is the director of SEQAM Lab. He earned the Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Chapaign in 1999. He was a research scientist at Compaq's Cambridge Research Lab in Cambridge, MA from 1999 until 2001. In 2001 he joined Boston University as a research faculty in the Bioinformatics Program. In 2002 he joined Rutgers as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, where he is now an Associate Professor. Prof. Pavlovic's research interests include statistical learning, dynamic system modeling and computer vision.


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Category: Social Media
Children becoming addicted to video game fantasy worlds, teachers warn
My views on this article are not positive. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/03/children-addicted-violent-games-warn-teachers
Banned in School: A collection of things we use in the world but aren't allowed to in school
YouTube Finds Way Off Schools' Banned List
Open letter to our Grade 5/6 students this year about Blogging
http://mgleeson.edublogs.org/2012/01/30/a-break-from-ipad-talk-open-letter-to-our-grade-56-students-this-year/#.T0MooJn00qU.twitter Why do YOU write? Is it because you HAVE to? Is it because your teacher has to have a piece of writing by the end of the week so they can do your reports? Maybe it's to show your teacher that you understand a topic. That's […]
How Well Are Schools Using Social Media? (Infographic)
Educational Technology Bill of Rights for Students
This is just great! http://www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=2454
Kids Head Back To School
Such a true picture… http://www.teach42.com/2011/09/09/kids-head-back-to-school-makeuseof-geeky-fun/
Video Tutorial: Six Basic Rules for Children and Social Media
Great video for parents and teachers about how to appropriately use facebook. http://www.techlearning.com/article/video-tutorial-six-basic-rules-for-children-and-social-media/52133


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Chris Yip sets two new PBs
Hitting stunning form recently Chris Yip has in just one week set both new 10-mile and 25-mile PBs.
After placing 16th in his first attempt at Richmond Park TT last weekend, Chris carried his speed through to Wednesday night where he set a 25mile PB. Clocking 56:25 on K10/25B, he sliced a massive 2:50 off his previous 25mile time.
Saturday saw a course change from the quick F20/10 to F10B/10, but this didn't stop Chris setting yet another PB with a new 10 mile time of 22:06, down from his previous best of 22:27.
Next week we see Chris head to France to attempt le Prix des Rousses, a 40km TT with a massive 1600m of climbing!


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Regaining Creative Confidence
We hear it all the time. "Thank God you guys are here, because I haven't got a creative bone in my body." As much as we love to feel needed, we beg to differ. That tendency to divide people into two groups – "creatives" and "everyone else" – has always been a dubious and not-very-helpful distinction.
In their acclaimed book, "Creative Confidence," David Kelley, founder of international design and consulting firm, Ideo, along with brother, author and Ideo partner Tom Kelley, take a deep dive into the nature and power of creativity for anyone in any field. The pair coined the term "creative confidence" to counter the widely held notion that creativity is the exclusive domain of designers, writers, painters, musicians and the like.
"It turns out that creativity isn't some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few – it's a natural part of human thinking and behavior," say the Kelley brothers. "In too many of us, it gets blocked. Creative confidence is like a muscle – it can be strengthened and nurtured through effort and experience."
Working with clients, we look for as much creative input as possible, knowing from experience that collaboration and a shared vision can produce highly distilled, fresh, and impactful results.
The Kelley brothers' book details their extensive research, along with their incremental, empathetic approach to breaking down the fears and insecurities that so often get in the way of truly inspired collaboration. It's a fascinating, wide-ranging subject, but the message is simple. Opening yourself up to your full creative potential can produce profound changes, unexpected clarity, and powerful results.


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Dr. Demitri Papolos, M.D. is an associate professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, where he is the co-director of the Program in Behavioral Genetics. He has been a recipient of an NIMH Physician/ Scientist Award as well as a NARSAD Independent Investigator Award, and his research findings have been published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the American Journal of Human Genetics, Molecular Psychiatry, and the Journal of Affective Disorders, among others.
In 2001, Dr. Papolos became the director of research of the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation (JBRF) where he established a consortium of clinical and basic researchers from medical centers across the country in order to focus on the root causes of childhood-onset bipolar disorder. These investigators are currently conducting studies in the fields of phenomenology, neuroimaging, neuropsychological testing, and molecular genetics. ) Recent work published by Demitri Papolos, M.D. and his JBRF colleagues may be viewed here
Because thousands of families have completed the online screening instruments developed by Dr. Papolos, JBRF has been able to assemble the largest clinical database in the world of children with, or at risk for, bipolar disorder. Moreover, these diagnostic instruments are available in multiple languages and are being used by clinics in this country and abroad.
The Child Bipolar Questionnaire
The Jeannie and Jeffrey Interview for Children
Dr. Papolos is the co-author of Overcoming Depression, Third Edition (HarperCollins, 1997) the most comprehensive book written for the lay person on depression and manic-depression, and which is also published in Italy and Poland. He is co-editor of the book, Genetic Studies in Affective Disorders (Wiley-Interscience, 1994) and was formerly associate editor of the Einstein Publication Series in Experimental and Clinical Psychiatry.
Demitri F. Papolos, M.D. is one of a handful of psychiatrists in the world who began to see and to speak out about the possible deleterious effects of antidepressants and stimulants in the population of children within the bipolar spectrum. His extensive work with youngsters with the condition and their families, led him to team with his author wife, Janice Papolos, to write the first book ever published on the subject of early-onset bipolar disorder, The Bipolar Child. In its first and second editions, the book returned to press 23 times and third edition was published in 2006.
Dr. Papolos has been featured on ABC News's 20/20, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and The Infinite Mind," as well as CBS' "Early Show" and The Evening News With Dan Rather.
Dr. Papolos earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard and completed his medical training at New York Medical College and the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia Presbyterian. He is in private practice in New York City and Westport, Connecticut.
We have been honored to have four outstanding interviews with Dr. Papolos discussing his Fear Of Harm Phenotype and Ketamine study. Listen any time by clicking on the Blog Talk Radio player box
Alissa Bronsteen Director of the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation and Dr. Demitri Papolos author of The Bipolar Child join us to announce the latest in research and breakthroughs in treating childhood bipolar disorder
What is the Fear Of Harm Phenotype – Dr Demitri Papolos author of The Bipolar Child and Executive Director of Research at the Juvenile Bipolar Foundation joins us again with Executive Director Inger Sjogren to discuss the latest in child bipolar research and the Fear Of Harm phenotype. The FOH phenotype will change the way clinicians and researchers look at this complex disorder and redirect the focus on this disorder. Dr Papolos was our guest previously and was one of our most listened to and applauded interviews.
A novel phenotype, cutting edge research and the passion and dedication of Dr Papolos and his team have given children with bipolar disorder and their families hope and promise with their findings and pilot study.
Listen to Dr Papolos and Inger Sjogren, executive director on their third appearance with updates and an exciting announcement.
Dr Papolos author of The Bipolar Child and Research Director of the Juvenile Bipolar Foundation and Alyssa Bronstein returns to discuss The Fear of Harm Phenotype. The Fear Of Harm phenotype is not a new definition of bipolar disorder but a distinct, neurologically-based disorder which can explain the symptom profile of many who are "bipolar" and some, but not all, who have other conceptual diagnoses such as ADHD, depression, anxiety.
In our first three intervies we discussed at length child bipolar, the fear of harm phenotype and the cutting edge research that is giving us answers to so many questions about these struggling children and teens.
In this final interview we also meet a parent involved in the Ketamine study and how it has transformed their child.
Description of the Condition
Sleep, Activity Patterns and Temperature Study
Physiological Marker for a Psychiatric Condition?
The findings of an NIMH funded study, Sleep, Activity Patterns, and Temperature Study conducted by JBRF researchers provides evidence for what may be the first physiological marker for a psychiatric syndrome. Why is this important to the JBRF community? Because it narrows the focus of our research to specific pathways in the brain, and may lead to novel treatment approaches.
Children who have the Fear of Harm type of bipolar disorder exhibit symptoms that reflect high levels of fear as well as defensive or reactive aggressive behaviors, and dramatic shifts in states of arousal: intense fear of harm coming to self or others, territorial aggression, carbohydrate craving/hoarding, disturbances in sleep onset and sleep offset, parasomnias (arousal disorders of sleep), as well overheating despite neutral ambient temperature.
The children who fit this phenotype share some common traits: they have difficulty settling at night and difficulty getting to sleep once in bed, they sleep fitfully and/or awaken throughout the night, and they have difficulty arising in the morning. A growing body of research has demonstrated that all of these sleep-related issues are associated with disruptions in thermoregulation. While the relationship between the ability to sleep well and body temperature has long been known, a robust series of recent research studies has shown that when temperature regulation is disrupted, problems with both sleep and arousal/wakefulness occur.
Now, for the first time, we have data showing that: thermoreguation is dysregulated in children with FOH, and sleep quality is disturbed as a result. In this study, children with the FOH phenotype were compared with healthy control children. The investigators found that an inability to dissipate heat at bedtime was strongly correlated with sleep onset latency. Skin temperature from the chest and from the lower leg were measured throughout the night, and the gradient, or difference, between these temperatures was calculated each minute. The childrens' sleep was recorded using wrist-worn activity monitors. Typically, when a person lays down for bed, leg temperature will increase in parallel with decreases in chest temperature, as the thermoregulatory center in the brain sends a signal to the peripheral nervous system that results in vasodilation and heat dissipation. As the body's core divests more heat, and the gradient between chest and leg temperatures approaches zero degrees, sleep onset occurs.
Researchers found in this study, however, that in children with FOH, chest temperature remained high, sometimes throughout the entire sleep period, and leg temperature changed slowly relative to the comparison group. Whereas, the skin temperature gradient reached zero degrees an average of 9 minutes after bedtime in the comparison children, it took longer than an hour for children the FOH group to reach this thermoregulatory balance. Importantly, higher temperature gradients were significantly and strongly associated with the time it took to fall asleep.
These initial findings provide objective evidence for the link between temperature dysregulation, sleep/arousal issues, and emotion dysregulation that JBRF investigators theorize underlie the primary behavioral features of the disorder. Follow-up studies of this research will continue to examine the role of thermoregulation in the biological basis of the FOH type of juvenile bipolar disorder.
Proposed Treatment
As suggested by the physiological marker (skin temperature gradient) described above, investigators are exploring thermoregulatory approaches to treatment: melatonin, fans to enhance heat dissipation during sleep, and hypothermic agents.
Next Steps
JBRF has filed an IND application which was approved by the FDA to conduct a pharmaceutical study in 6-12 year olds with an agent that has hypothermic properties, ketamine, and which in animal studies also has been found to reduce fear sensitization. Researchers will conduct a double blind placebo controlled study to determine the safety and efficacy of this agent in treating children with the FOH type of bipolar disorder.
The Sleep, Activity Patterns, and Temperature Study and its promising findings were made possible by JBRF, by the National Institutes of Health, and by you, our supportive community. We are so grateful for your support and we are thrilled to present to you evidenced-based research that is advancing knowledge in the field.
The Ketamine Study – Pilot Study Video


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I thought I would put together a little check list of things you should know before you date me. You are either a wonderful female blog reader who can understand exactly where I am coming from and are all for supporting women and the general shit we have to read and experience from guys... or you are actually a guy who I am maybe about to date or maybe someone who's just generally interested.
Let's go!
01) I am fine without you.
I'm a career focused and motivated woman who has everything she could ever need in life. I have a degree, a successful blog and I am technically self employed at just 22 years old. Everything I have I have created. Everything I own I have bought myself. Don't get me wrong, us girls would all love a tall, strapping man to look after us but really we are doing fine without you.
02) I am uptight towards men.
I have generally dated a lot of men who are bad for me, bad for my soul and are just generally bad people. I have let my guard down numerous times and regretted it straight away. So now I have this overall opinion towards the opposite sex. If you don't prove you're different; I'll believe you're the same.
03) One Direction are my only morning playlist*.
Call me twelve I don't care but we all have our musical preferences.
* Usually in underwear
04) I have a love for dogs.
Whether we are on our first date or forth date, if we walk past a dog or cat then expect to stand around for five minutes whilst I have a cuddle.
05) I will judge your shoes*.
Many women do it but don't tend to admit it. I think shoes are an extremely important addition to an outfit. They can completely make or break an outfit.
* Brownie points for desert boots, brogues, vans, good trainers or chelsea boots.
06) I don't really drink.
If you ask me out for a drink then I will most likely say no unless it's some trendy bar overlooking the sights of London or New York (a girl can have a dream date ok). I generally don't really drink so find drink dates can be quite boring meaning your company would have to be up to top scratch in order for me to even bother to get ready for it. I prefer well thought out date plans.
07) I will probably write about you.
This is of course futuristically speaking, but my blog is about my life so if we have a trip to a burger restaurant I'm probably going to mention WE went together.
08) McNuggets make me happy*.
If I'm sick, sad or angry, you can win me over or make me smile and feel better by delivering some McNuggets to me. Thanks in advance.
* Extra brownie point for added BBQ sauce.
09) I'm a night person.
I start working in the evening and will carry on and finish around 2/3am. I don't know why but I am just more inspired, motivated and in work mode during the evenings. Therefore it's doubtful you'll ever get a good morning text from me, ever.
10) I meet a lot of men.
This sounds bad but hold on before you exit this and think YUCK. Slooooow down. I'm a menswear fashion photographer so I am always meeting handsome male models to work with. Just remember they are all friend zoned way before I even meet them.
11) You will never come to my house.
...Unless I am certain about you. Meeting my family means a lot to me and it's a big thing. I want to be certain you're the right person who's going to treat me right before an informal invite via Whatsapp is sent to chill at my house, so hold back on the hints.
12) Treating me doesn't win.
It appears that guys (I date) think if they treat me to a meal and even let me have an ice cream dessert, that this means it's a golden ticket into bed with me. It only dawned on me that this is how men's brains work a few months ago.
13) I will always be little spoon.
I don't want to feel lost in the bed struggling to cuddle a 6 foot man. Therefore I'm little spoon, always will be and you have no valid argument here.
14) I am easily pleased.
I think some guys are big on impressing which is not a bad thing at all but I dread to think of the types of girls that some guys have dated before. The type of girls that like having money thrown at them and gifts bought for them 24/7. I'm the most un-materialistic girl in this sense when it comes to dating. I hate a guy paying for me, I prefer to buy gifts than receive them and I generally prefer to pay my own way and buy my own things.
15) Trust is a big issue.
I have been hurt a lot in ways I don't wish to disclaim on my blog but I am very vigilant of men. Put it that way. Don't take it to heart!
16) I have meat on my body.
What you see is what you get. I love food and I'm struggling with motivation to keep up with the gym lately. I have boobs, I have a butt and I have curves. For so long I had to deal with emotional abuse from a past relationship in which I wasn't allowed to eat certain foods in fear he would 'have a fat girlfriend'. It sounds silly but it did mess with my head a lot but now I am at that point where I really don't care! Have me or leave me.
17) I don't do phone calls.
I have no idea why. I constantly have to answer the phone to the public and employees at my job but I just generally hate phone calls with anyone else. Facetiming and skyping is out of the question. Just text me haha!
18) My blog is extremely important to me.
Again, I have been involved with guys who seem to have a problem that blogging is a huge part of my life. You won't understand unless you're a blogger but it's incredibly vital that I post regularly. Soooo what I am trying to say is...if we are out and about and I've forgotten to publish a post, I'll need to steal some wifi from a Starbucks for ten minutes.
19) I photograph everything.
You aren't allowed to tuck into the dinner we are having until I instagram it, if we wake up next to each other (futuristically speaking) i'll probably take a cute selfie of us. Oh, and i'll probably require you to take some photos for outfit posts of mine every now and then :)
20) I'm big on lipstick.
..but this doesn't mean I don't want you to kiss me!
21) We've reached date 3...
So this means for me, I am only interested in you and will cut strings with anyone else (if there is 'anyone' else). I expect the same back out of mutual respect. No this doesn't mean we need to go Facebook official (ha) but I don't want to be dating a guy who is dating other women. I have been known to walk away from people if I don't get what I want but I have a lot of self respect for myself. If you don't want me then I'll say goodbye and wait for someone who does.
There we have it! 21 things you should know before dating me.
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I love this post! It sounds like you're very sure about yourself, which is a fantastic thing! I love the idea of an admirer reading all these and taking notes on how to woo you! haha!ReplyDelete
Claire // Technicolour Dreamer // Bloglovin'
Loved this!! I'm heading out on the single path after six years so I needed a pep talk!!! :) xReplyDelete
And I thought I was the only one who judges men based on their shoes!ReplyDelete
And I'm not a phone person either, texting is ma thang.
Love your posts, they always make me happy ha :D
I love this so so much! I can totally relate to you with numbers 4, 6, 18, 19, and 20! x x xReplyDelete
I love how honest this post is! Never be afraid to have expectations in your relationships, you deserve the best!ReplyDelete
Loved reading this Ashleigh. Very honest answers. That's what I like about you, you're honest. And lovely. And you're a fan of One Direction! Haha great post!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for your comment! If you have any questions, leave them in the comments and I'll answer them!


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Director: Wes Anderson
Actors: Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe,
Jude Law, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Jason Schwartzman, Harvey Keitel
Another piece of gold from the Wes Anderson treasure chest is coming. Set between the wars in a fast changing Europe, The Grand Budapest Hotel tells the story of Gustave, a Chef d'hotel played by a very untypical Ralph Fiennes. The picture looks like it has everything you expect from a Wes Anderson story: colorful, funny and a cast that keeps on getting more impressive every time. What's great about Wes Anderson films is his ability to cast actors we all know pretty well to play certain roles, and make them surprise us. It looks like it's not going to be any different this time. Grand Budapest Hotel is set to come out in March of next year.


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Happy Birthday in Heaven to Blues Rocker Johnny Winter
This week in rock history, the legendary blues rocker Johnny Winter was born on February 23, 1944. For a bit of an in-depth coverage of this amazing musician, check out what Joe Bonamassa's Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation had to say about his birthday here.
Here's the rest of the rundown of this week's major events in Rock History:
Born This Week in Rock History
2/19/1948 – Tony Iommi (guitar, Black Sabbath)
2/20/1967 – Kurt Cobain (lead vocals and guitar, Nirvana)
2/21/1933 – Nina Simone (roots music vocalist)
2/21/1943 – David Geffen (founder, Asylum Records, Geffen Records)
2/23/1944 – Johnny Winter (blues rock guitarist and vocalist)
2/23/1952 – Brad Whitford (guitar, Aerosmith)
2/24/1942 – Paul Jones (vocals and harmonica, Manfred Mann, The Blues Band)
2/24/1944 – Nicky Hopkins (session pianist and organist, worked with The Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, The Beatles, The Who)
2/24/1947 – Lonnie Turner (bass, Steve Miller Band)
2/25/1943 – George Harrison (guitar and vocals, The Beatles)
Died This Week in Rock History
2/19/1980 – Bon Scott (lead vocals, AC/DC)
2/22/1989 – Andy Warhol (manager, The Velvet Underground)
2/23/2003 – Howie Epstein (bass, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
2/24/1994 – Papa John Creech (violin, Jefferson Airplane)
2/25/2012 – Louisiana Red (blues guitarist, singer, harmonica)
Music Recordings, Releases and Top of the Charts:
2/19/1949 – John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen" at #1 on the R&B charts
2/19/1977 – Fleetwood Mac releases Rumours
2/21/1979 – Dire Straits by The Dire Straights goes gold
2/21/1964 – The Rolling Stones release "Not Fade Away"
2/21/1966 – The Beatles release "Nowhere Man"
2/22/1969 – The Beatles record "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
2/23/1970 – Morrison Hotel by The Doors goes gold (their fifth album in a row to do so)
2/24/1976 – Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) by The Eagles is the first ever platinum album
2/25/1963 – The Beatles release "Please Please Me"
2/25/1984 – Van Halen's "Jump" leaps to the top of the Billboard charts
This Week in Rock History
2/18/1969 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays Royal Albert Hall. The 10 song setlist that night included a veritable roll call of Hendrix classics such as "Purple Haze," "Spanish Castle Magic," "Foxy Lady," and "Hear My Train A-Comin'." Interestingly, the set opened with the much lesser know, "Tax Free."
2/19/1965 – Rod Stewart plays with the band The Soul Agents at a club in Harrow England, which is his first major performance.
2/19/1987 – Taj Mahal plays a concert at the Palomino Club in Hollywood and is joined onstage by George Harrison, John Fogerty, and Bob Dylan for an impromptu jam session. Some of the songs played by this who's who of rock, included Fogerty's "Proud Mary," Dylan's "Watching the River flow" as well as some classics of rock 'n' roll including "Blue Suede Shoes," and "Peggy Sue."
2/19/1974 – KISS makes their first television appearance on the show Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, aired on ABC.
2/20/2009 – The White Stripes play on the last episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien, which is also their final gig as a band. They perform the song "We're Going To Be Friends." The performance is intimate and with a slightly different musical arrangement form the traditional way it is performed. Additionally, it features Meg White coming out from her drum kit to join Jack White on guitar and sing some lines in unison.
2/21/2001 – Johnny Cash wins his tenth Grammy award, for the song "Solitary Man" in the category of "Best Male Vocal Country Performance." The song is a 1966 Neil Diamond hit that Cash recorded for his LP American III: Solitary Man, a mostly covers album that was produced by mega-producer Rick Rubin.
2/21/1961 – The Beatles make their first appearance at Liverpool's Cavern Club. They will play regular lunchtime gigs there.
2/21/1958 – Gibson ships their first "Flying V." The shipment was from a Kalamazoo, Michigan factory. The unique shape of the guitar created an almost mystical allure around the instrument, appealing to early adopters like Albert King and Lonnie Mack, as well as later guitar heroes like Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, Billy Gibbons, and even Lenny Kravitz.
2/22/1989 – The first Grammy award for the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" category is awarded to Jethro Tull. They beat Metallica.
2/23/2000 – Mule Variations by Tom Waits wins the "Best Contemporary Folk Album" Grammy. The albums's guests included Les Claypool on bass, and John Hammond and Charlie Musselwhite playing the blues harp.
And that'll do it for this week! Peace, love, and rock!
– Keeping the Blues Alive


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The Infiniti LE made its debut at the New York Auto Show this year. Like many concepts, the design, was brilliantly stunning. Luckily, Infiniti plans on staying true to its concept design and introducing a new way of building an EV.
While most EVs are an afterthought, Infiniti went head on with its LE concept. The EV isn't a rebadged G-series (although it's about the same size,) instead, it's an original Infinity design--an Infiniti first. All the luxury, sportiness, and a sexy design that you see now, is what you'll get later. According to Infiniti, the LE Concept sports a 24kWh lithium-ion battery located under the passenger compartment floor, which is the same battery used by the Nissan Leaf. As for tech features, expect Infiniti Connection, which includes Infiniti's Personal Assistant 24-hour concierge service, navigation, and POI search along with a wireless charging system.
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WHEN former boyband member Andy Scott-Lee first stood in front of the Pop Idol judges and sang he sparked off a torrent of controversy.
The judges were unsure about whether he should continue and Pete Waterman made it clear his decision was based on loyalties towards Andy's sister Lisa, the ex-Steps singer.
However, the 23-year-old got through to the final seven, and before he was kicked off the programme 10 days ago, he was the bookies' favourite to win and success looked assured.
But as Andy was winning the public's hearts every week, factions on the internet were launching a virulent hate campaign.
The Sun newspaper has said it believes this hate campaign is the reason the North Walian singer was booted out but Andy himself is not too sure.
"I have not even looked at this supposed hate campaign but I know some people have been getting a bit annoyed about the fact that I was in 3SL.
"But I didn't even know about that until I came out of the house.
"We were pretty much sheltered in the house and they wouldn't tell me.
"Though one time in the house I found out I was favourite to be booted out two hours before I was supposed to go on stage. That was a bit strange but it just made me more determined to perform well."
Ironically, before he had a Top 20 hit with his brothers he was in one of the first reality bands.
"That was four years ago," he said, "on GMTV when they were putting together a boy band.
"I was one of the final four that got into the group, it was a public vote and I was there with Will Young and Lee from Blue. It didn't really take off but vocally everyone was really good."
But he is not under the impression that his former pop experience gave him an advantage over the other finalists.
He said, "I don't think I had an unfair advantage in the final as everyone else in the 10 had some experience of recording or performing. I was just fortunate that I had more in the past."
While Andy has managed to be oblivious to the comments surrounding his Pop Idol experience some members of his family were pre-empting a backlash against the young singer.
"Everyone in the family, except Lisa, didn't want me to go into the competition. They believed in me but they were worried about the reaction that I would get."
Now that he is out, he says his family were just proud at how far he went in the competition and that he proved he could sing.
But while it is assumed that the Pop Idol entrants are only in to win, Andy is adamant that it didn't cross his mind.
"It couldn't really have gone much better. It didn't cross my mind to win, I just entered the competition to see how far I could get."
But he will admit that the real reason he went to the Manchester audition was due to a promise he made his sister, pop singer Lisa Scott-Lee.
"It was all my sister Lisa. She said to me 'I want you to go into the competition' when we were out one night and I was a bit drunk, and I kind of stupidly agreed."
After a few calls, Lisa got him an audition in Manchester and a month later television audiences saw a nervous-looking Scott-Lee perform in front of the judges, including Pete Waterman and Foxy.
"If you look at my first audition it was not great but the reason for my nerves was not singing in front of the judges.
"I was used to singing but so many things had happened in the build-up before it."
At that time, Andy's band, 3SL, of which he was a third, with brothers Steve and Ant, was still going, though they couldn't find a record deal after being dropped by their original company.
Andy took his time to tell family members about his audition, as he was worried about their reaction.
"I hadn't told my brothers and I lived with that for two weeks. Every day and every night I was thinking I needed to tell them that I have the audition.
"I knew it would be hard for everyone but they took it really well. They had other things on as well, we had not been signed for a year as 3SL and we tried to get another deal but it's quite hard when you're dropped."
Now, the 23-year-old is dedicated to making it in the music world.
In his view, the setbacks and criticism are only going to make him stronger.
"I always wanted to do it, I saw Lisa doing it and for her to achieve what she has done shows that anyone can do it.
"I still have got a long way to go, but I have been trying since I was 17, ever since I was allowed to come down to London.
"I am really devoted to the business: it's not easy, but I believe I can succeed."
He hopes to bring a little bit of magic to the pop world, and is now writing and creating demos in order to land a deal.
"I've got my own little studio, it's the size of a CD player and I am always using it - it's my favourite gadget."
His determination to succeed in music means his girlfriend Michelle Heaton from Liberty X might have to wait a while before he pops the question.
"She is great and gave me a lot of support as she has been through it all herself. But though I love her - I love her to bits - thoughts of marriage will have to wait.
"I've just got to concentrate on this now. I just want to be big. I want to have huge hits and albums, and as long as I am successful I'll be happy."
But if fame comes knocking again this time round he will treat it more cautiously.
"I'm really not used to it. I know I have had a bit of fame before but I am finding this time more bizarre.
"In the band I never got carried away, it went huge but it didn't last for a long time. When you have had it and it goes, then it's not a nice feeling."
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Poor Wayfaring Stranger (SATBaB - L5)
Stanton Flemons' richly harmonized arrangement of this great American folk song features a baritone soloist throughout. Flemons uses a variety of a cappella textures to support the melody, along with some subtle and effective reharmonization and Take-6 style voicings. Stanton can be heard on the demo recording along with Julia Dollison.
The lowest predominant bass note is D, although there's one low C written, and all can be sung up an octave if necessary.
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The BMW Z4 vs the Porsche Boxster vs the Mazda RX8. BTTC driver Jason Plato takes finds out.
By the way, does anyone else find the depreciation on UK cars to be high side? In the US it 's hard to find a Z4 in 3.0 guise under $13k.
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Keep Your Edge
CFO's-- not a notoriously optimistic bunch--are more excited than they have been in over a decade. According Duke University's annual CFO Global Business Outlook survey, optimism rose to 69 on a 100-point scale, the highest in 14 years.
Duke finance professor and economist, John Graham, added "The jump in business optimism is leading to strong hiring and spending plans for 2017."
With all the new reqs heading your way, are you ready to hire not only quickly, but strategically?
The Tortoise and the Hare
The fable of the hare who burst out of the gates, but loses the race to the slow, steady tortoise has become the go-to analogy of speed versus quality.
Often quality in hiring is associated with sticking to a defined process despite time pressures. However, recruiters know too well the pains of not being the hare: lost candidates, frustrated hiring managers and unaddressed business needs.
Recently, I visited a large company who was only 24 hours behind a competitor in extending an offer for a key position. That delay ended up costing them another day in approvals to create a stronger counter offer, only to still lose the candidate.
The moral of the story? In today's talent market, you have to be the tortoise AND the hare.
Race Preparation
While hiring managers are exuberant when a CFO is willing to fund new positions, recruiters are often straining under already existing demands. Adding to their volume may push many teams to a breaking point. Before the clock starts ticking, it is time to examine where you stand and how you can meet future needs.
Having worked with hundreds of global recruiting teams, here are a few pointers we've learned from best-in-class talent organizations:
Eliminate Drag
The easiest place to start is by studying a-day-in-the-life of your best recruiters. How much time is spent dashing around, but not moving toward the finish line? Are they doing a lot of manual entry from one system to another? Playing social secretary for hiring managers? Reporting on reporting of previous reports?
If so, make a clear list of the tasks you need to automate. Pronto. Because these items are like trying to sprint with an anchor around your neck, costing you both time and quality - and top recruits.
Front and Center
Forget about drafting. You need to be out front, ensuring you are everywhere candidates are, and importantly telling them a compelling story. Oh, and you also must create the right experience for potential candidates.
So now is a good time to review where you are posting to, and any difficulties you have creating a good impression across multiple sites. Also, take time to test your own recruiting site, including from different devices.
Last year, 48 million people applied for jobs using the PeopleFluent system. Surprisingly, over 77,000 used an Xbox and a growing number used a Samsung TV. When was the last time you tried your career site on an Xbox?
While testing it out, remember that every step in a hiring process adds or detracts from your employer brand. Start at the posting stage and continue to the offer and onboarding. Is your candidate experience keeping your competitors a pace behind or does it give them an opening to pass you?
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Home › History › Superstitions
Some Cuban superstitions and beliefs find their origin in the Santeria religion.
Superstition is described as a credulous belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge.
A popular superstition in Cuba is, that you have to drop some rum on the ground when opening a new bottle of rum to please and feed the spirits and deities.
Another superstition and Cuban custom is to throw a bucket of water out of the front door or the balcony on New Year's Eve at midnight, to get rid of the bad spirits of the past year.
Seeing a Black Cat means: mishief is coming, one of the superstitions in Cuba
From Cuban Superstitions to History page
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Writer's Strike
Y'know, I like to think that I'm not nearly the tv addict that most people are. I know for certain that I'm not nearly as into it as I used to be. Then another one of these writer's strikes happens. All of a sudden some the few programs I do watch drop into unexpected reruns. This is fine if there's something that I couldn't watch the first time around but mostly it's just ridiculous. I'm expecting a new episode of Heroes or and instead end up finding out that they're re-running an episode from a few weeks ago where Hiro figures out that he's not getting any cell reception because he's gone back in time to feudal Japan.
That's a good story, yet I'd rather see the current stuff…. like what's going on with Bennet and the Petrelli brothers, why Sylar (and the Petrelli brothers) is still alive after Peter went up in what looked like a nuclear explosion at the end of season one?
We don't need no reruns, we need more story.
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"tell me what you thought about when you were gone and so alone,
The moment my buddy Jim got into Wasatch 100 I get the email "I want to claim you as a pacer." Since it was about 9 months in advance, I felt a bit flattered.
Closer to race day (read: 2 weeks out) I got the chance to tack on a second pacing job with my tall buddy Craig. "I usually bonk there, it won't be pretty," he told me.
"Nothing I haven't seen before!" I laughed.
|pacing Craig in a bad spot
earlier this year
I am a wee bit of a pacing junkie. As much as I don't love racing I do love races. I love the excitement, the energy, the camaraderie. I love helping my friends. I've also got some stuff coming up and unfortunately it's time to start logging the big miles.
So, I get to Little
Like any good pacer I threw I hissy fit. "Give me my pass!" I boomed thunderously. (Ok, I squeaked it in my high pitched 12 year old voice, but you get the picture). Amy (aka the trail angel) told me to just leave, she barely made it by 30sec the year prior after a failed attempt to get her pass. "Give her the pass!" said the other volunteers. But NO, Mr. Pass Man said NO, my runner didn't check in yet. I was about ready to unveil the wrath when someone handed it over. Phew. Since I was getting a ride over I didn't want my ride to get in trouble for not having a parking pass!
So I'm hanging out waiting... and in rolls Matt Van Horn. I filled his bottles and offered him some food but he had his own fuel and his crew showed up, and I knew at this point I'd just be in the way. He looked tired but good, and it was nice to see a friendly face. Other notable celebrity sightings include a radiating Erik Storheim who blew through with Jared Campbell on his tail, Sarah Evans rocking it (racing only her watch, since no one else was within what seemed like hours), and masses of other people.
I missed lunch to hurry up there, so I went to sneak some sandwiches while I waited. Carrie was there with her broken foot. She was supposed to be racing today. She told me she was bitter so to get over it she came up to volunteer. Seriously, how amazing is that... her pity party became a volunteer opportunity. She's great.
In the nick of time I'm handed a GoPro on a monopod and told to film Craig. Reluctantly I accept, only because I see the value in a heavy object mounted to a heavy pole. If my runner gets out of line, I've now got a weapon to beat him with. The footage of a GoPro smacking a tired ultrarunner should be valuable, right?
So in rolls Craig and he puts his head on the table but refuses to sit. We get him stocked with lots of ice, and get rolling out.
He should have sat down like I told him to. He should have done this like I told him to:
But why would he listen to me? I'm just the "tiny devil" and had yet to develop I legitimate pacing strategy for him (other than said camera-beating-stick).
So off we go! He seems chatty but hot and tired.
Then not so chatty.
Then slurred speech, dizziness, and him mumbling about passing out.
Then we run out of water. I let him have "some" of mine, to which he downs my very last bit of water (he claims I only had a sip left. Right.) "Oops" he says. Yeah, whatever. Better him than me, I was thirsty but ok. He was amid severe dehydration and I legitimately worried.
So the slurred speech and slow moving is all fun and games til the water is gone a couple miles from the aid station, and your runner (who can't seem to stay on the trail and is falling all over the place) says it's because he can't see. Oh, and we're going a 40min/mile pace walking downhill.
"Leave me here," Craig says. "You can go get water and wait at the aid station."
Pretty sure if you look up DEHYDRATION in the Boy Scouts First Aid Booklet, it says: Don't leave your dehydrated person on an exposed sunny ridge to bake in the sun alone.
So I stuck with him, telling him a couple weird jokes that I don't think he got, trying to help him just know it would be ok. Craig just wanted to shout"NO" at me before I could get any words out. My jokes aren't that bad, really... OK, maybe they are. A sitting break was necessary a third mile from the aid station. But I guess sitting is better than blacking out, which at the point was very likely for him.
I get him in a chair (finally!) at the aid station and ask about how long we're going to be there. With eyes half closed and rolling around so I only see the whites he mumbles, "Wehrrr not leavfing til I fleelll better!"
Bottle after bottle of ice water, iced coke, and snacks. I laced some popsicles with magic voodoo drugs, he really seemed to like those, so he had 17. Maybe it was 27. Every time I'd act as pacer-slave and go get more I'd get a look from the aid station volunteer- she had a limited supply and was already not offering them to the other runners. But my runner was a popsicle-whore, so what's a good pacer to do?
Others at the aid station begged for IVs so they could be disqualified, peed blood, and otherwise moaned and complained. Poop frequency is a pretty hot topic at aid stations. Did I mention ultrarunning is fun?
|bad runner!
Craig became his usual cheerful self telling jokes, posing for pictures, and goofing off, so we headed out. I insisted we spend the next hour discussing my truly positive qualities as a pacer. Ha. I knew Craig was better because he insisted on mimicking my fresh legs and jumping over everything I challenged him to do. Maybe I shouldn't do that...
Lah-de-dah we had fun chatting, eating, and enjoying life all the way over to Lambs. I was so proud of myself for having a runner who talked AND ran. I've never gotten to run with Craig while he was actually happy at a race, what fun this was!
|still beautiful after 100 miles!
Matt was going to be pacing Craig from there, but I followed along, I needed to get to Millcreek canyon to get back to my car.
In Millcreek I come across Amy the trail angel again, she was handing out ice waiting to pick up a dropped pacer. She's a doll. She sat me down for some solid conversation and even fed me some peanut-butter-chocolate-covered-pretzels. Amazing. I saw her melt the hearts of every runner that came by with her attention and smiles.
I decided to hitch-hike down the canyon (oops, did I spend 45min eating and chatting?) I was offered a ride halfway down by a strange man, which I didn't want to take, but ended up accepting a ride in the truck bed. I felt safe knowing I could jump out the back if he didn't stop where he was supposed to. After my ride was over I finished the run over to my car, a little tired. 23ish miles, mostly in the heat of the day, sunburnt and exhausted and hungry. So I did what any logical girl would do: I begged my husband to buy me a pizza. He told me to eat the whole thing. I reluctantly shared with my children and pounded it. Yum.
|Jim and Jacob on a fun run earlier this year
Jacon's like "leave at 3"
"leave at 3:30, he's whining"
"leave now, it's all downhill"
"I think we'll be late, leave later"
LOL! Poor Jacob was trying to pace, text, and stay awake in the middle of the night.
Cheryl just decided to come pick me up then, so we'd have time to set up and be ready.
I stopped by Maverick to get Jim one of their cinnamon rolls he likes but they didn't have any. There went my secret bribe for later...
Jacob was texting more than running once we got to Brighton, which made it hard for me to eat and shoot the breeze with Scott's pacer Rob. Jacob was convinced Jim would drop at Brighton.
|why Jim was reluctant to leave Brighton
But before I left... a note on my dear friend Scott. He was staring off into space looking like (and puking like) a drunken sailor. He looked kind of like this:
Somehow (after doing that for 3 hours) he decided to leave the aid station and PR'd the last 25 miles by 3 hours. Say whaaa..? Not only did he have a super come back, he crossed the finish line looking fresh and like a stud:
|look at how happy he is! you'd never know about his feet...
|looking awesome.
|what 100 looks like
|refuse 2 quit crew happy at the finish after slaying demons


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Problems College Students Face When They Don't Exercise
College is a transitional time, when students are often placed in a new environment for four years and face immense pressure to study and do well in classes. Since students' focus is often not on exercise, they may be less likely to exercise than they were in high school or will be after college. Problems students face by not exercising in college include weight gain, less social bonding and lower grades.
Weight Gain
The rumor of the "Freshman 15"—the 15 pounds you supposedly gain during your first year of college—is grounded in some truth. According to Kids Health, college students gain an average of 3 to 10 pounds during their first two years at college. As a college student, you are in a new environment and might not be able to keep up the same exercise level you were accustomed to in high school.
If you go away to college, it may be the first time you have been fully responsible for your own meals, your class load and your time management. Often college dining halls offer unlimited food choices that are not always eaten in healthy amounts or combinations. It can be tricky to fit exercise into a busy schedule of classes and studying. College weight gain occurs when you are eating more and exercising less because of studying. Weight gain in college is particularly likely to occur if you respond to the stress that school can cause by eating more, instead of exercising away these anxieties.
Less Social Bonding
Gaining weight is certainly a problem you face if you don't exercise in college, as is the missed opportunity for social bonding experiences. Joining a sports team is one of the tips Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., of Quintessential Careers recommends. If you played a sport or danced in high school, try out for that team or group at your college.
If you don't make the team, join an intermural team or start your own. Joining an active group or team gives you the opportunity to exercise in a fun, social environment. You will meet and spend time with people who are similarly passionate about the same activity as you.
Because your practice schedules will be the same, you will usually see your teammates daily, in practice and also during dinner, team parties and in classes. Teammates are people who can become good friends and help your social life as you go through college together.
Lower Grades
In addition to improving your social life and keeping your weight healthy, exercise during college can also benefit your grades. A study published in 2010 in The New York Times found that vigorous exercise was linked with better grades. In this study, researchers examined the exercise habits and grades of over 250 college students attending Saginaw State University in Michigan. Their findings showed that students who exercised vigorously daily had higher grade-point averages than students who did not. On average, these students' grade-point averages were 0.4 points higher on a 4.0 scale.
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Over the past couple of days (say from about Saturday onward) things have been a bit stressful over here in Chez Us. The joys of moving house, I suppose, but on Saturday it was the cleaners and yesterday it was the house's photo shoot, both of which effectively required us to remove just about any trace of individualism from the place. I wound up feeling as though my sacred space was desecrated, my private space was invaded, and I was just expected to smile sweetly about it and nod. Not the nicest feeling. At the moment I'm relatively stable (although only in the sense that the gaping great chasms in my calm have been covered over with a layer of paper and paint) but I figure I need a bit of outside help with all of this. At the moment, it's like I'm bleeding copiously from a walloping great gash, and all I have to fix things are standard size Band-Aids.
So, first on the list is phoning up the doctor's surgery and making an appointment. When I get there, I need to speak to the doctor about getting all my various meds renewed (both the thyroid ones and the psych ones) and about getting a referral to a psychiatrist, psychologist or counsellor of some kind to get the psychological equivalent of stitches and bandaging done.
Next up is sitting down with my mobile and my message bank, and scribbling down the number the nice man from the job service left on my phone yesterday while I was in the middle of a breakdown. Yes, I'm back in the job market. Buyer beware. So I have to phone him, and find out what it was he wanted (and probably arrange an interview with the nice people at the agency he works for where I can fill out all their forms so they can put all the information in their database in the appropriate format, or at least see whether their database is up to date). If he wants to see me in person, he can wait until tomorrow. That'll at least give the glue holding my calm together another day to set.
Then it's back to the standard grind of applying for work. At least it's a lot easier these days, since I can just go to Seek, grab five jobs which seem interesting, send off applications with a copy of my resume, and not have to budge too far from the keyboard. That should take maybe an hour at most. Five job applications a day tends to be sufficient for my needs.
Finally, I have to get in the car, and head down to the shops in Claremont - most specifically, to The Cheesecake Shop. I plan on getting a large Black Forest Torte, because I need something that spells comfort and reassurance in big, friendly letters. Black Forest Torte does that for me.
Once I've done all of those, I'm going to jump back into World of Warcraft, and thump things until I feel at least a bit better.


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Some of my harder-Left friends on Facebook are going crazy with posters again, so I thought this would be a good time to deconstruct a few of them. Let's start with this one, which requires its own post. (Incidentally, the fact that it takes just one sentence to spin out a series of lies and a sadly long post to deconstruct all these lies explains why Progressives get away with so many lies: Everyone will read a short poster; few will read a long post.)
In the above poster, Occupy Democrats takes on the contention that President Obama has weakened America (a claim made by all Republican candidates, not just Trump). To challenge this assertion, OD contends that Obama's list of accomplishments includes "tripling the stock market, cutting the unemployment and uninsured rates in half, cutting the Bush deficit by three-fifths, saving the auto industry, ending two wars, and getting bin Laden." Let me take these claimed accomplishments one at a time: