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Qing Shui threw a strange look at Yuan Su but didn't press on. He smiled and shook his head, "I'll be heading out for the next few days. You and Elder Brother will be very busy."
"Oh, alright. No problem," Yuan Su said, smiling with ease.
"If you have time, you should study alchemy recipes. It can raise your abilities and you'll receive great benefits."
During this period of time, Yuan Su had been busy learning medical skills and hadn't put in much work on alchemy recipes. Qing Shui didn't know if she still had other alchemy recipes on hand. Right now, the two of them were considered very good friends and friends should help one another.
Friends should help one another, allies or people working in partnership would be making use of one another.
Of course, Qing Shui wasn't trying to make use of Yuan Su. Each time he gained something good from Yuan Su, he would return the favor many times over. This was something which Qing Shui had always believed in. If others were to show him a hint of respect, he would return the respect multiple times over. if others were to make things easier for him, he would return the favour in three times or more. If others were to give him some benefits, he would return the favor three times or even 30 times. To sum it up, he didn't like the other parties to suffer from any loss. Of course, if people were to harbor any thoughts of trying to take advantage of him, Qing Shui would make sure that they would suffer greatly.
When Yuan Su heard Qing Shui's words, she smiled, "Young Master Qing has finally spoken. I'd thought that you'd already forgotten that I have this ability."
Qing Shui rubbed his head. After he had gotten closer with this lady, especially when her disposition seemed to be slightly different than what it was like in the past, most of the time she would still appear to be elegant, giving others a feeling of extreme calm and peace. However, sometimes, this lady would change to be different from usual. Qing Shui couldn't put a word to describe what was so different.
"Alright, I shall stop teasing you. With your current abilities, you probably won't fancy the other alchemy recipes either. The only one I can bring out would be this. However, I have no confidence whether or not it can be successfully refined either." Yuan Su smiled and handed Qing Shui a beast parchment.
The beast parchment was trimmed very neatly and not only was there no weird smell, there was even a faint fragrance. This was a pure white piece of beast parchment. Qing Shui felt that this should be the hide of a Fragrant Fox Demon.
Qing Shui received it. "Are the others useful for you? Actually, I also want to refine some medicinal pills which can increase the powers of someone of your level or even lower. When you get slightly stronger, I'll be able to let you improve at a faster rate just like Elder Brother is doing.
"Oh, I still have a few more here. You can have them. See if you can refine them successfully. Anyway, all my attempts at refining them had failed. I'll put my hopes on you." Yuan Su took out a stack of alchemy recipes, rendering Qing Shui speechless.
This lady was only waiting for him to bring this up. He had no idea if these were the alchemy recipes which she had come up with during the past half a year or if she had come up with them in the past. They should have been created for the past half a year. After all, she had gotten much stronger now and it was partially thanks to this.
"Then I shan't stand on ceremony." Qing Shui smiled and stored the alchemy recipes. He then took out the first alchemy recipe which Yuan Su had said that was something that might be useful for someone of his level.
When he opened it up, he saw three words written on it.
Origin Returning Pill!
Under the words, there were the combinations of various medicinal herbs. Qing Shui didn't take a closer look at them. There were mostly things which he had, knew of and he had also used most of them before. The requirements weren't high but there was a huge variety. In this alchemy recipe, there were definitely at least 70 different types of medicinal herbs as well as some materials from demonic beasts.
Qing Shui looked straight at the effect.
Increase one's physical strength by 10% or increase one's power by 10%.
Requirement: State Master.
Limitation: Each person can only take one each year. Peak Martial Emperor can only take one.
Qing Shui felt depressed. This medicinal pill was very powerful and could be taken repetitively until one had reached Peak Martial Emperor. It was a pity that he could only take one of it. Even with the Double Portion Medication, he would only be able to take two.
His physical strength had already reached 21 sun and 10% would make it two sun. If he were to take two, his physical strength could increase by close to 4.5 sun. It was quite significant. Right now, what he needed to do was to refine this medicinal pill and let the people around him take them. It was a pity that this pill also required one to be at the State Master level. Therefore, as long as the person could reach the State Master level, Qing Shui would be able to make them stronger. The combination of the yang pills and this Origin Returning Pill would be perfect.
"You should turn in earlier. Everything will be fine." Qing Shui stood up. It was already the next day and he could now enter the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal.
Although expert level cultivators would find it harder to get stronger, there were more opportunities and the effects of medicinal pills available would also be much stronger. It was because there were many precious medicinal pills which couldn't be used by low level cultivators, unless they were some divine grade medicinal pills which could let a low level cultivator become a Martial Saint directly.The pill would already be considered a divine grade one if it could allow an ordinary person to directly become a Martial Saint.
The Xiantian Golden Pellet was a legendary grade pill but was the lowest grade amongst the legendary grade pills. Higher grade ones could allow one to reach Peak Xiantian or Elementary Martial King level. It would be hard for even top notch divine grade pills to let a cultivator directly attain a breakthrough to Martial Saint.
Yuan Su watched as Qing Shui returned to his room and continued to be in a daze for a very long time, even after Qing Shui's back view was no longer in sight.
Her relationship with him had once been very good and they had quite a lot of contact with each other as well. Her condition had been cured by him and her body had been seen by him. She was also the one who had asked to part ways. She had initially thought that she wouldn't want to meet him again. Back then, he had even said that he'd definitely not step into the Seven Stars Country again…
Back then, he should have been angry. She didn't know if she was considered to have forgotten about him. Usually, she would also think of him but she did not harbor any feelings of yearning. She just felt that there was a knot in her heart. After all, her pure and chaste body had been seen by a young man. Although there was no helping it since it was for medical treatment, it was still a fact that her body had been seen.
When she had stumbled into the forbidden area in her clan and come to the Dancing Phoenix Continent, she knew that it would be very hard for her to return throughout her entire life. Although Qing Shui was quite talented, it was impossible for him to leave the five continents in such a short amount of time. The past two years were the toughest two years of her life.
The increase in her cultivation here wasn't worth mentioning. Although the population was mostly made of ordinary people, this was the capital city, a place where cultivators gather. However, the capital city was very big and it wasn't that easy for one to encounter powerful cultivators.
She managed to live quite a decent life through her medical and alchemy skills and earned herself quite a reputation. Many people wanted to take her into their clans or even into their own bedrooms. Yuan Su was very clever and by making use of the various powers, she would be able to turn the attention away from her temporarily.
The appearance of the Imperial Cuisine Hall let her see some hope. If she were to enter the Imperial Cuisine Hall, there were many fewer people who would dare to set their sights on her. However, she hadn't expected that the person behind the Imperial Cuisine Hall was Qing Shui.
At that moment, she didn't dare to believe what she was seeing. It was because this place was the Dancing Phoenix Continent. To think that she would meet him here! Although, for her part, she had tried to bear with it, only she herself knew how happy she had felt.
This was like what she had said, to be meeting a familiar person from her hometown in a foreign land. That feeling was very good, especially when one was in a bleak situation as if they were treading on thin ice.
Qing Shui walked to his room but he could still sense Yuan Su's gaze. It was a complicated gaze. He shook his head briefly and entered straight into his room and then the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal.
He had decided to go to the Tianhe Country to take a look the next day. Things in the Yehuang Country were already fine. With Puyang Clan around, the Imperial Cuisine Hall would be fine. As for the Yehuang Clan, Qing Shui was waiting for Yehuang Guwu to grow stronger. When the time came, he would see how she would be dealing with the matters.
Qing Shui was still unaware which of them was Yehuang Guwu's birth father. Of course, Yehuang Guwu wouldn't recognize him as her father. Her father was already dead. The reason she took this as her surname was for him and even her birth mother was forced to death as well. He felt that Yehuang Guwu wouldn't let Yehuang Clan off easily.
Picking up the stack of alchemy recipes, Qing Shui read through them and smiled. What had made Yuan Su so powerful was that she was able to group many medicinal herbs, which weren't that special, together. The number of medicinal herbs was far too terrifying and there could be over 100 types. This was also why no one could help her try to see if the alchemy recipes would work. It wasn't that easy to merge so many medicinal herbs together, refining them into medicinal pills. There would even be a large number of alchemists who would just say that they weren't really real alchemy recipes. It was impossible to combine so many medicinal herbs together.
Many of the medicinal herbs would clash with each other but Qing Shui soon discovered that there were some other medicinal herbs which could reduce the conflicts between some of the clashing effects of certain medicinal herbs and help blend them together. Qing Shui looked at the medicinal effects of these alchemy recipes. Most of them were pretty useless for him but there was still the Qing Clan and the kids which they would be useful for.
Qing Shui read through them one after another. Yuan Su's ability was very powerful. There was a very large possibility of him succeeding with these alchemy recipes. If they were in the hands of some other alchemists ordinary alchemists would just feel that it was impossible for these alchemy recipes to succeed. Powerful alchemists on the other hand, wouldn't waste their time on such weak medicinal pills. Moreover, the success rate was far too low.
Therefore, it was the best match when Yuan Su encountered Qing Shui. Qing Shui was the only person who could bring her medicinal pills into the world.
After reading through all of them, Qing Shui saved half of them, putting aside the other half which he didn't have all the medicinal herbs for. Another thing was that there would be clashes and thus they couldn't be used even if they were refined.
Qing Shui started refining the medicinal pills with the remaining time. However, it took him half a day more just to prepare the medicinal herbs. After spending one entire day on the preparation, everything was finally ready.
The alchemy process was dry and boring. The first one he tried to refine was the Origin Returning Pills. It was something which both he, as well as the people around him could use, bringing one from the State Master level to Peak Martial Emperor. This medicinal pill was considered to be quite powerful but it wasn't that easy to refine. There was one medicinal herb in it which he didn't have much of but could be replaced with the Spring of Life.
Qing Shui's hands were trembling. He didn't know whether he should feel happy or upset. The Golden Snake Grass… Qing Shui didn't wish to fail in his attempt. If he were to fail, both the Golden Snake Grass and the Spring of Life would be wasted.
Although starting off with failures wa within his expectations, Qing Shui still felt a little pained. However, he had failed multiple attempts. Even though he had quite a bit of Golden Snake Grass and Spring of Life, these were priceless things. To be failing even in the presence of the Golden Snake Grass was something which had happened when he was refining the Four-Yang Pills. In that situation, it was because the medicinal effects of the herbs weren't strong enough.
Qing Shui tried to keep his spirits up and made another attempt.
This time around, Qing Shui was so angry that he felt like puking blood. It was because when he reached the final two medicinal herbs, he had let his guard down, leading to the failure…
After learning from the previous two failures, Qing Shui would learn from the failures and avoid the reason he had failed in the next attempt while he merged in the medicinal herbs. However, he knew that it was still not time for him to let his guard down and as he kept his spiritual sense under a state of high concentration, the medicinal pills formed in the Golden Flint Iron Cauldron. He was waiting for that familiar sound.
The crisp sound was like the most moving cry. It was only then that he relaxed. He had finally succeeded.
The Origin Returning Pill. It didn't take up much time but was definitely a medicinal pill that required the most effort.


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Over the past week, everyone has been abuzz about the possibility of Overture / Yahoo! launching a product to compete with Google AdSense. The Silicon Valley Watcher confirms this, as well as the name YPN – Yahoo Publisher Network.
I have confirmation from a manager at Overture that they are in their beginning test phase, and more information will be available after that time. In the meantime, anyone interested in getting more information as it becomes available, you can fill out an information request form at http://publisher.yahoo.com.
Anyone wanting to see it in action can go to The Ink Stained Wench, the blog of Ken Rudman, a product manager with Overture.
It is interesting to see how similar the javascript is to the well-known AdSense javascript. Here is the leaderboard script (with ID #s removed).
<script language="JavaScript">
ctxt_ad_partner = '0000000000';
ctxt_ad_section = '00';
ctxt_ad_bg = ";
ctxt_ad_width = 728;
ctxt_ad_height = 90;
ctxt_ad_bc = '9C999F';
ctxt_ad_cc = 'F8F4E8';
ctxt_ad_lc = '597646';
ctxt_ad_tc = '747475';
ctxt_ad_uc = '516482';
// –>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://ypn-js.overture.com/partner/js/ypn.js">
It will be interesting to see how long YPN is in the testing phase, with all eyes on it at this time. And one wonders how quickly MSN will be to step up to the plate with their own AdSense competitor as well. While many other networks have tried to be a true competitor to Google, no one has come anywhere close to getting any kind of significant marketshare from those publishers.

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When it comes to Sharon Osbourne's handbag preferences, it's Chanel and only Chanel, almost exclusively. She does carry other brands from time to time, but as of late, she seems to favor black Chanel bags of every shape and size. Here's Sharon leaving her hotel in Tribeca in the bitter NYC cold with a gorgeous Chanel Alligator Satchel. (We're not 100% certain that this is alligator and not croc, but since Chanel generally seems to prefer gator to croc for most of its bags, it seems a safe bet.)
Last we saw Sharon, she was wrangling a startlingly massive, black Chanel Flap Bag. For a tour of some of the most luxurious of luxury handbags, you can check out "The Many Bags of Sharon Osbourne." It is absolutely Chanel-tastic, but there are other high-end brands on display. I won't tell you which, but you can probably guess. Spoiler alert: Sharon doesn't really trifle with anything that costs less than $5K.
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The ruling Alliance for European Integration (AEI) has been embroiled in an internal conflict recently over whether to send Moldovan military staff to a parade in Moscow celebrating 65 years since the Soviet victory in the war.
Initially, the Defense Minister announced that Chisinau would not send troops because authorities did not have any money and because Moldovan soldiers would attend the May 9 celebrations in Moldova. This prompted AEI officials like Prime Minister Vlad Filat to say that Chisinau would, in fact, send military staff over to Moscow.
Democratic Party honorary head Dumitru Diacov argued that Liberal Party head and interim President Mihai Ghimpu ordered the Defense Ministry to keep Moldovan soldiers from participating in the parade in Moscow. The Liberal Party appointed the Defense Minister after the seat distribution within the coalition. The Liberals generally have a very critical position toward the Soviet past and toward Russian policy in Moldova.
Just yesterday, Mr. Ghimpu, reacting to the rest of the Alliance arguing for Moldovan soldiers attending the parade, told Radio Vocea Basarabiei that he now refuses to go to Moscow in protest of this decision. "How can I attend a parade next to the army that brought Communism to us, organized a famine, and deported us to Siberia," Mr. Ghimpu asked.
This recent debate points to the emerging conflict within the ruling Alliance as early legislative elections have now become unavoidable and will most likely take place within a year. Since the coalition is so heterogeneous ideologically, its members are likely to take divergent positions with regards to controversial issues in Moldova, like Romanian identity, foreign policy toward Russia, and position toward the Party of Communists.
It also shows the ambiguous position Moldovan society has toward World War II. Many pro-Romanian politicians and regular citizens believe the Soviet Union was an occupying force and refuse to celebrate the USSR's victory over Nazi Germany because they argue another dictatorship simply took over Moldova after World War II ended. On the other hand, many pro-Russian politicians and regular citizens argue Moldova was liberated by the Soviet forces.
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Alliance fights over sending Moldovan soldiers to WWII parade, President refuses to go to Moscow
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Martin Hammond: Friend of Film-Makers.
Martin Hammond was a remarkable human being to whom film makers of all ages owe a debt of gratitude. The kindness, courtesy and dedication with which he conducted his life had been nurtured by his earlier years working for his benevolent extended family of Kodak. He became a company man with a work ethic to match. Following early retirement, he determined to continue utilizing his contacts and energy for the benefit of the wider film industry.
His death after a heart attack on the M4 has impacted the many institutions, companies and friends to whom he had dedicated his time and energy following retirement. The initial sadness and shock at this tragedy has given way to universal grief at the loss. This has been followed by countless tributes from Britain and abroad. Martin could truly be described as a facilitator with a habit of turning up almost anywhere, from his beloved Jackson Hole in Wyoming to Wildscreen in Bristol, from Camerimage to Hay on Wye. He had an insatiable love of the industry, life and people.
The Guild of Camera Technicians and the BSC were two of many such organisations to benefit from his determination and dedication. His energy matched his friendship for everyone his path crossed. He genuinely took pleasure in helping others. He was a Friend of the BSC, honorary member of the GBCT, always cheerful and willing to help anyone. His journey in self-fulfilment had been challenging and dedicated since being sent in the late 1980's to sell video stock to the BBC in Ealing Studios. He grasped the opportunities ahead. All whom he touched on that sadly curtailed journey have benefited.
Thank you, Martin, you have more than earned your place in our gratitude and love.


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I had some swede in the fridge and couldn't think what to do with it, so thought why not make a soup.
Ingredients - Serves 4
- 1 medium swede, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 large raw beetroot, peeled and roughly chopped
- 3 stalks celery, roughly chopped
- 1 large red bell pepper, roughly chopped
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 2 clove garlic, finely chopped
- a few sprigs of thyme
- 1.5 - 2 pints vegetable stock depending on how thick you want your soup
- 2-3 handfuls spinach
- 2 tsps cayenne pepper
- salt & black pepper
- Place swede, sweet potato, beetroot, celery, bell pepper, thyme, onion & garlic in a pot and pour stock over vegetables.
- Bring gently to the boil, cover and shimmer, stirring occasionally until swede and sweet potato's are easy for a fork to pierce through.
- Puree the soup in a food processor or by using a hand blender until smooth.
- Transfer the soup back into the pan on a low heat then add spinach, heat gently until spinach wilts.
- Serve in a bowl, add salt & pepper if needed and garnish with a swirl of natural yoghurt


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The more affordable Mac-Intel notebook you've been waiting for is here. The MacBook 13-inch sports many of the features and power of its bigger siblings for a lot less money.
if you held off buying an older apple ibook with one of the g4 processors, give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back for making a shrewd tech-buying move. the new apple macbook ($1,699 direct) is the latest successor to the ibook 12-inch and is loaded with many of the same cool features found in its macbook pro brethren, the macbook pro 15-inch and macbook pro 17-inch. you'll be happy to find such treats as the latest intel components, a glossy widescreen display, and even a new matte-black finish.
the new macbook comes in three configurations, all available in the familiar apple-white design. but you can also get, as i did, the high-end configuration in a very un-apple-like black design. (funny how the black version looks like a typical microsoft windows laptop.) personally, i think the white macbooks are better-looking, and they don't clash with apple's white-colored ac adapter (60w, not the 84w found on the macbook pro) and apple remote accessories.
color and design aside, there are other cool features, such as the wide 13.3-inch screen that boasts a glossy surface, which livens up photos and movies. this is an upgrade from the 12.1-inch matte screen found on the ibook. let's not forget apple's hallmark 1-inch-thick chassis, which lets you easily slide the notebook into briefcases or backpacks. the laptop uses the same, tough polycarbonate plastic found in bulletproof windshields and it weighs 5.1 pounds, roughly the same as the original ibook. sadly, the macbook emits heat like a veritable hotplate, exhibiting the same cooling problems plaguing the macbook pros.
you'll notice the keyboard is slightly different from other apple notebooks, too. the keys are slightly smaller, but evenly spaced so you get the same tactile feel as on other responsive, full-size keyboards. additionally, the individual keys lie flatter against the surface and are harder to removeespecially good if you have inquisitive children. i love the width of the large touchpad and that you can scroll in multiple directions by applying two fingers. but the pad still has a single-click mouse button, which is problematic if you plan on booting right-click-friendly windows.
my test configuration costs $1,699, but there are comparable macbook machines from $1,099. no matter which configuration you decide on, you get many of the cool features found in the more expensive macbook pro 15-inch and 17-inch models. these include the easy-release magsafe adapter, the isight webcam, apple's front row, the apple remote, and the all-inclusive ilife '06 suite.
the 5-pound macbook also has an integrated optical drive, as do the dell xps m1210 ($2,641) and sony vaio sz ($2,799) notebooks, but the only dvds it burns are single-layer. the macbook 13-inch costs about half as much as those two systems, so living without dual-layer capabilities isn't a real tragedy. i like too that this model comes with a 100gb hard drive (a $100 upgrade from the 80gb option). though the macbook lacks an expresscard slot, there are few products on the market that actually need one.
thankfully, the configuration i reviewed had 1gb of ram, and i give kudos to apple for going with an intel core duo t2500 (2.0 ghz) processor instead of the slower core solo cpu. one drawback, though, is that the macbook uses integrated graphics, so as i expected, 3d gaming on the mac platform and even on the windows platform (using apple's boot camp) was dreadfully slow. battery life with integrated graphics should be decent, but on my dvd-playback tests, the 55-wh battery lasted only 2 hours 10 minutes. a typical workload, with idle times, will probably get you close to 3 hours.
the macbook 13-inch is apple's most affordable intel-mac notebook, and i'm happy to see it carries over so many of the features and intel components from the more expensive macbook pros. it's the perfect laptop for anyone who wants an apple system but can't afford the pricier pro versions.
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I'm pretty sure I don't know a lady alive that hasn't had at least one unfortunate hair experience in their life. At the ripe age of 37, I thought I might have escaped a colour debacle but I found myself in a mess of my own making. Ladies, never EVER go in for colour and say, "I'm up for something new." That is unless you really are happy and open to whatever may come about. There are so many talented creatives, especially in London, who create amazing looks for women everyday. They work with the idea of being innovative and new, and I have extreme respect for that. My only dilemma is that I'm a person that's pretty natural in my beauty approach. So hair colour and the word "creative" shouldn't really go hand in hand. In fact, the combination, as I've learned, can prove to be quite lethal.
Last month I put myself in the hands of a colorist who was looking for a real result in the end look. He wanted to create something that was editorial, understandably if I'm doing a story about hair colour, but I didn't stress enough that I wanted the end result to be a classic and natural look. This is the most important lesson I can impart here today. If you want something, ask for it and make sure it's understood. Do not do the "casual thing" when it comes to hair. If you know what you want, insist upon it. My lack of compassion for an end result produced a look that was, at first, shocking. The look then went onto morph into something that, while arty, was most definitely more a look for a twenty something looking to impress her rocker boyfriend, rather than the look of a woman approaching 40 and wishing to simply look like a better version of herself. That's the thing about hair colour. You want to be able to look in the mirror and say, "yeah, that's me and I love this look that is more or less just a step up from my average reflection." Is that too much to ask?
Now, there's a reason I'm sharing all this. As you know, I never write a bad review on FFG, so I'm not inclined to share the name or company of those responsible for hair orange. Yes, after four washes I actually had orange and black hair. Again, a cool effect for a different person. It wasn't for me and I wanted me back!
Where does one go when their former brunette locks have gone a bright shade of tangerine? I knew there was only one person I could call. And trust me, I was ashamed to have to make that call at all.
For three years previous to this recent hair experience, I had my hair colored twice. And this is, in reality, because the man in question is so good and so natural in his approach that I didn't need to be the woman constantly in the chair getting touch ups. Of course I'm speaking of Josh Wood and his Atelier in Holland Park. I remember speaking to Josh my first time in the chair with him and talking about the trouble with hair colour, specifically in relation to brunettes. Josh, being the humble man that he is, simple said "a brunette must be very careful with who she sees for colour as it's one of the most difficult natural colours to mix with." At the time, I didn't think anything of it. I was in the hands of the master. As time went on, and the more brunettes in the industry I met, the more I was hearing that any A-lister with long brown flowing locks trusted only Josh Wood's Atelier in making sure their hair was kept up in a glossy fashion.
So, let's take this full circle. I'm sitting in my flat, crying because I have orange hair and wondering if maybe Ronald McDonald needs a sidekick, when I realize I have a friend who can help. I, rather sheepishly, with hat in hand, call into Josh Wood's Atelier. I've made a mistake. I swear I'll never see another for haircare. Please, please just help me. Two days later, I'm in the chair and one James Keith Gould is doing his best to hold back the tears looking at the state of affairs. After five minutes, he puts his hands on both my shoulders and says, "let's get you back to you."
Fast forward three hours later, a lot of gossiping and way too much talk of the importance of good color later, and I'm looking in the mirror at an improved version of what I looked like previous to orange-gate. My hair is a glistening golden brunette that looks as if I've simply sat in the sun in the south of France for a week. This is the power of Josh Wood's Atelier, Josh Wood himself, the beautiful people in residence there and specifically my hair savior Jamie!
Ladies, I share this because I know I make up a great population of brunettes in London. I also know, as women, we love a good hair change occasionally. Recent events have showcased how horribly wrong this can go and I'm here to tell you today that the Josh Wood Atelier should definitely be in the little black book, not just for "in case of emergencies," but for your colour life in general.
As I walked out the door, I swore that come hell or high water, I'd never trust another with my hair colour. I've learned my lesson and I'm 100% on the Josh Wood Atelier Brunettes list and will never be able to repay them for gifting me the chance to look in the mirror without shuddering. Orange, people. It was orange!


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A Rhode Island woman was arrested on a DUI charge after crashing her car into a liquor store in North Stonington, according to Connecticut State Police.
State Police said that 48-year-old Katrina Oliver, of West Kingston, Rhode Island, crashed her vehicle into the Cork and Barrel Liquor store at 270 Clarks Falls Road around 3:50 p.m. Saturday. No injuries were reported.
According to police, Oliver failed field sobriety tests and was arrested and charged with operating under the influence of drugs/alcohol.
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The saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) is grown for its beautiful flowers, which bloom in the fall, not the spring like most crocuses varieties. It also is grown for its three red stigmas which are harvested, dried and used as a spice in cooking. Saffron corms grow and produce flowers within six weeks after planting in the fall. If left in the ground through the winter and spring, they will self multiply. You can then dig them up -- or harvest them -- in the summer, divide and replant. However, for those corms you don't plant right away or plan to give away, store them in a safe place in the meantime.
Dig around your saffron crocus plants with a shovel or spade and gently lift them out of the soil. Corms are typically planted 2 inches deep, but dig a couple inches deeper than this to make sure you clear the corms without damaging them.
Brush off the soil and examine the corms for any signs of disease, damage or insect damage. Throw out corms that do not look healthy.
Pull apart smaller corms growing on the main parent corms to store and plant separately. Throw out the main parent corm if it does not look healthy, but keep the smaller corms as long as they look to be in good health.
Dust the corms with a fungicide, available in nursery or garden centres. Then, lay them on a tray, such as a baking tray, and dry in area that is partly shady for one to two days to dry out. You can also dry them indoors in a dry area such as your ktichen countertop.
Gather the corms and put them in an open container or box. Store in a cool, dry location like your garage or basement to be planted as soon as possible. If you are growing saffron corms indoors or in hydroponics, store them for at least two months to simulate dormancy before replanting.
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Coming soon – Taste Food and Drink FestivalPosted on Wednesday 22nd September 2010 at 8:31 am by SH (Editor)
From Friday 1st October, food and drink lovers will be able to sample a wealth of local produce on offer at South Gloucestershire's annual Taste Food and Drink Festival.
This year's festival, now in its sixth year, moves to October rather than its usual September slot and features more than 30 events running through to Sunday 17th October, starting with a cookery demo at Turnberrie's, Thornbury.
A special festival launch takes place in Staple Hill on Saturday 2nd October with Bedminster-based theatre company Show of Strength who will be performing their popular drama Trading Local at various foodie outlets in and around the High Street.
Actors will be visiting independent food shops and retailers to perform a variety of food-themed performances including stories, poems and skits to illustrate how the food and drink industry has made its mark in the area. Performances take place throughout the day from 10am to 4:30pm.
Creative producer Sheila Hannon from Show of Strength Theatre Company said: "We've got 6 actors performing 18 different shows in 19 shops from 10am to 4.:0pm. You'll be moved, amused, amazed. And it's all free. Pick up a schedule from one of the shops or download from our website at www.showofstrength.org.uk"
Cllr Matthew Riddle, who is taking part in the festival by providing guided tours of his cider farm near Thornbury, said: "Each year the festival goes from strength to strength and not only am I delighted to be taking part but I am also looking forward to some of the other events including a cookery demonstration by chef Ron Faulkner, of Ronnies fame, who will be cooking up a feast using produce sourced straight from Thornbury Farmers' Market." (Thursday 7th October, 10:30am)
Another festival highlight is the Chipping Sodbury Festival of Food on Saturday 9th October, which features bread tasting with artisan baker Tom Herbert. Tom is from Hobbs House Bakery – based on Chipping Sodbury High Street – and has been making a name for himself as an artisan baker and recently featured on BBC2 programme Mary Queen of Shops.
The day is chance to celebrate local food and drink with mouth-watering activities such as a chocolate workshop, cake decorating, waffle making, beer tasting and an extended farmers' market stocked with all the best produce. More information about this event at www.visitchippingsodbury.com.
Meanwhile, festival favourites including butchery demonstrations with Alveston butcher Mike Perry and Italian cookery demonstrations with Thornbury-based chef Laura Geraci make a return. There are also a number of brewery tours, wine tasting, farm visits and orchard conservation events running throughout the Taste Festival which ends with Big Apple Day on Sunday 17th October.
Bring your own apples to Grimsbury Farm in Kingswood and have them pressed by the Scrumping Project and take home your very own bottle of apple juice. Alternatively, take part in an apple cookery workshop. The event runs from 10am to 2pm at the farm on Grimsbury Road. Bookings for the cooking workshop can be made on 01454 863592.
A full programme of events is available online at www.southgloslocalfood.org.
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"Kaze ni Nare", Suzuki's Theme, The Lyrics
Kaze ni Nare (Become the Wind) by Ayumi Nakamura
[1st line is Japanese written in English alphabet (romaji) for pronunciation (so we can all sing along). 2nd line is English translation.]
Oshiete yo hito wa naze sagashi tsuzukeru no
Tell me why people keep seeking (dreaming)
Kagirinaku setsunai ashitano yume wo
For tomorrow's dream, which is almost impossible to reach
Hoshi dake ga mitsumeteru kanasii yoru ni wa
Lonely night, only stars are looking at me
Jibun wo tashikame takute kimi ni kuchiduke shitane
I kissed you, to be sure (of myself / us)
Zutto oikake tsuduketa yume wa itsu tsukameru noka
When can I make my dream, which I have been chasing, come true?
Dare nimo sore wa wakaranai keredo
But nobody knows it
Nani hitotsu kaerare nai kono omoi yuzure nai
I can not deny my will (aspiration / dream)
Oh in the storm [In English]
Arashi ni mukatte
Into the storm
habataku tori no youni
like a bird about to flutter its wings
Kagayaki no naka de…
In the light…
Kaze ni nare
Become the wind
Nan mairu (mile) mukou ni goru wa aru noka
How many miles do I have to walk to reach the goal?
Tatakau tame sore dakeni subete sasageta kita yo
I have devoted everything to fighting
Dakedo nanika wo kanjite ikite itai itsu no hini mo
But always, I want to feel alive
Namida de ashita ga kumoranai youni
Don't want to make tomorrow clouded with tears
Kotae nante hoshiku nai
I don't want an answer
Kono yume ga areba ii
Because I have the dream in my heart
Oh in the storm [In English]
Arashi ni mukatte
Into the storm
habataku tori no youni
like a bird about to flutter its wings
Kagayaki no naka wo…
In the light…
Kakete yuke
Fly high (in the sky)
I have to be a lonely warrior tonight. [In English] I have to be a lonely warrior tonight. [In English]
Ikutsu mo no toki wo koe
Through many hard days
Atsui omoi wo daite tonight [In English] With holding my aspiration
About the singer
Ayumi Nakamura
From Osaka, Japan
She debuted in 1984.
Her most well known song is "Tubasa no Oreta Angel (Angel with broken wings)".
This song (Kaze ni Nare) was released in 2004.
Minoru Suzuki, who is a big fan of her music, asked her to write a song for him.


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Which basically makes it perfect for reality TV.
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Last night I went to see a movie with a friend (Star Trek Beyond if you're curious). There was some weird mix up at IMAX and we ended up at a later showing than we had intended. When we left the theatre, it was around midnight.
When I think of scary places at night, the image that often comes to mind is full of darkness, shifty strangers and narrow alleyways. That's not what this night was like. We were on a wide street, it was perfectly lit and while we didn't know the people on the street, most of them were policemen on patrol; recognizable figures. Perhaps in some places in the world that means you're safe — Nairobi is not one of those places.
We weren't really panicked or anything. We only had one street to cross after all. A minute or so and we'd be on our way home. We just acted casual and walked. That's the thing with situations like this, you see the police and you want to believe that these are the good ones. There's always that little bit of hope that things will turn out well this time. You're not doing anything wrong and so they won't bother you, right?
One of them stepped right in front of us and asked to see our IDs.
When I was telling this story to my boss today, he stopped me before I got to that part to ask "Police? Did you have your IDs?" He asked because he knows what most of us know. There's a kind of step by step to an encounter like this with the police and this is where it usually begins. They don't want the ID to identify you, they're just probing. They're looking for a mistake, an error on your part. Your ID is a bit of a shield. Having it won't protect you exactly, but it will likely determine how far they're going to push you, how much they feel they can squeeze. If you don't have it, you're likely in for a long and terrible night.
We pulled out our IDs and he didn't even pretend to look at them. When an ID is only interesting in its absence, you know what kind of story this is going to be. What happened next might as well be part of a script or a handbook.
There was the leading question: "What are you doing walking around at this time of night?"
The false incredulity: "A movie!? What kind of movie shows at this time? No no no. I don't believe it. Let me see the receipt."
The first hint: "Oh, I see, you have a lot of money to be spending on movies."
The handcuffs on my wrists followed by the threat: "Lorry yetu iko pale. Mtalala cell."
The I'm-doing-this-to-teach-you-a-lesson speech: "You people make our work very hard, you know that? Your friend here, if she were to be walking at this time and she got raped, you know we will be blamed? When you report, will you say you were coming from a movie, eh?"
A mix of threats and meandering speeches suggesting that some great crime was committed, though never specifying exactly what it is, all leading to the finale. The ask for a bribe. "If you want to go…you have to pay a fine."
At this point I started getting angry. Not because we were getting robbed by police but how familiar it all was. I knew this, all of it. I've heard of and seen and gone through so many variations of this scene that I know the steps. I've been robbed more times like this by policemen than I have by what we normally call thieves. It's just how it is. And surely, how can that be normal? How can that possibly be so normal that I was getting impatient for him to get to the punch? To just ask for his bribe and then leave us alone?
So, I thought about calling his bluff. Seeing what happens if you don't capitulate. I wanted to fight, to push back, to do something other than the usual song and dance. But a quick look around told me to do none of that. First, there were a lot of them. I think there were 10 on that street alone, and we had seen others walking around. There was almost no one else. Second, they were in military garb with no identifying number or anything I could see. I don't know what that means and I didn't want to find out just then. Third, My friend was somewhere to the side surrounded by about 4 of them. I don't know what they were telling her but I figured maybe today was not the day to be testing boundaries. Best to end this as quickly as possible and leave.
I paid, he gave me a stern warning about this vague crime I should never repeat and uncuffed me.
I've heard people say that the police get a bad rap. That people only report the negative, never the good they do. This is probably true. But I know that my image of the police is not just from the media, it's from experience. It's from how I, and the people I know, have interacted with them. Because, when you think about it, what happened last night was a robbery wasn't it? It was a shake down … and it was business as usual. Even as we talked with the policeman, he knew I knew what this was and he expected me to act accordingly. It was a role he was familiar with and he accepted it easily.
Just this Friday, a friend's workmate was stopped by the police in Westlands. He and his friends were leaving a club going to look for some food. It was pretty much the same story but he didn't pay up and so they locked him up for being drunk and disorderly. He doesn't drink.
One of my friends has been in the same situation twice recently. Once he got arrested for running to the police because he was being chased by thieves.
None of this is new. We have all heard and seen things like this. But for some reason, last night actually got me thinking. Not of solutions, I have none. It made me wonder the last time I didn't at least in the back of my mind think of the police as some kind of danger to be avoided. When it became so commonplace that I stopped noticing how crazy all of this is. And most of all, it made me wonder if I can even imagine this country when the police not only feel safe, but like they're the people protecting us. Wouldn't that be something.


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Prior to Ohio: Competed at Brother Rice High School, earning four varsity letters ... Served as team captain of the Warriors in each of his final three seasons (2016, '17, '18) ... Earned all-state honorable mention following his 2016 sophomore campaign ... Named all-county in both 2016 and '18 ... Garnered All-Catholic League selection all four years of high school and helped guide Brother Rice to a Catholic League title to cap off his 2018 senior season.
Personal: Born Jan. 9, 2000 ... Son of Patrick and Marry Ann O'Leary ... Father, Jack, played baseball at John Carroll while his mother, Mary Ann, played volleyball at John Carroll ... Has two brothers, Jack and Patrick ... Cousin, Lily Pendy, is a former member of the Ohio women's golf team ... Cousins Timmy Shield (Naval Academy), Tenley Shield (Princeton) and Ella Pendy (Michigan) also golfed at the collegiate level ... Was an honor roll student at Brother Rice ... Enjoys water and snow skiing, fishing and other sports ... Favorite athlete is former Detroit Pistons power forward/center Ben Wallace ... Favorite professional sports teams are the Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions and Detroit Pistons.


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I'm also a freelance writer – my writing blog is now at www.aboutfreelancewriting.com – which means my income is uncertain. I have savings that help smooth that out nicely. Even so, I get confused!
I need to move and I thought I had a cool studio with a separate office, and a yard, complete with fountain lined up. The rent was super low and my thought was to live there a year or two and save like mad so I can buy something. It fell through.
I'd been considering a two-bedroom I like, but felt uneasy about the amount I'd be paying. While I probably won't find something as cheap as the studio, I can find something close to what I'm paying now, rather than going for a big increase.
I've been stewing. And just now I got clear. A one bedroom with a great outdoor area would allow me to pay the rent I want. I'd keep my office in the living room and use the computer as both my radio often, and my DVD player. I don't have TV so that's a good solution.
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Micromax Selfie 2 comes equipped with a 5.2-inch HD 2.5D display along with a feature that offers better visibility in the outdoors and low light as well. Powering the device is the quad core MediaTek MT6737 processor paired with a 3GB DDR3 RAM. On the storage front, the device offers 32GB of internal memory which is further expandable up to another 32GB. The fingerprint sensor is placed at the back.
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics. Maybe he did. I told that to somebody at breakfast the other mornin and they asked me if I believed in Satan. I said Well that aint the point. And they said I know but do you? I had to think about that. I guess as a boy I did. Come the middle years my belief I reckon had waned somewhat. Now Im startin to lean back the other way. He explains a lot of things that otherwise dont have no explanation. Or not to me they dont. -From No Country For Old Men, page 218-
After reading Cormac McCarthy's book The Road in May, I knew I would read more of his novels. Like that novel, No Country For Old Men is filled with brutal violence and asks deep questions about the nature of evil, morality and the idea of fate vs. choosing our own path.
When Lewelyn Moss stumbles across a drug deal gone bad out in the desert and walks away with a briefcase filled with over two million dollars, he sets off a string of savage murders and places himself and his wife in harm's way. Ed Tom Bell, an old time sheriff on the brink of retirement, carries the novel with his dry sense of humor and musings on the philosophy of life and its moral decline. Chigurh (apparently pronounced 'sugar' … although I thought this character could better be described as 'chigger') seems to be the embodiment of evil – a super human monster who appears to have no respect for human life.
McCarthy takes the reader for a wild ride through the first half of the book. I found myself unable to put the novel down. The scenes are nail bitters, written like a screenplay. It is not surprising that the movie based on the book will be released in November 2007.
But then, McCarthy slows things down midway, giving the reader more to think about than who will be the next victim. Do our choices seal our fate in life? Are our lives merely determined by the flip of a coin? Or do we have the power to control our lives through the moral decisions we make? McCarthy doesn't give the reader any easy answers, and perhaps that is because there are not any. In the end, we are left with the symbol of a fire being lit in the darkness – perhaps the suggestion that we may still shine our light on evil, and reveal it for what it is.


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|Send a bag of skittles to the Sanford, FL police dept. And enclosed a note letting them know your disdain for the way they are handling the Trayvon Martin case. I suggest we all do this. This is the address: 815 West 13th Street
Sanford, Fl 32771. In fact, keep a candy jar of skittles in your home as a reminder of this situation and the continued stereotyping of Black men in America.


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(Oak Brook, Ill.) Joint Commission Resources today announced the release of the July 2014 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. The issue features an article by Timothy Judson, M.P.H., and co-authors, "Medical Identify Theft: Prevention and Reconciliation Initiatives at Massachusetts General Hospital," on how the hospital identifies, responds to, and prevents medical identity theft.
Medical identify theft refers to the misuse of another individual's identifying medical information to receive medical care. An estimated 1.5 million Americans have been affected by medical identify theft, incurring damages estimated to average $20,663 per victim, according to a report cited by the authors. In 2010, there were 81 suspected cases of medical identity theft at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, a 999-bed academic medical center, resulting in a total of $2.92 million in charges at risk for not being reimbursed. These cases also resulted in significant patient safety issues, including inaccuracy of patient information such as blood type, medication allergies, or medical history. Both the victim and the person using the false identity are at risk for misdiagnosis or mistreatment.
Since 2007, MGH has implemented a variety of initiatives to prevent medical identify theft and to better identify and respond to cases when they occur. For example, MGH has used a notification tree to standardize the reporting of red flag incidents (warning signs of identity theft, such as suspicious personal identifiers or account activity). A Data Integrity Dashboard also tracks and reviews all potential incidents of medical identify theft to detect trends and targets for mitigation. In addition, an identity-checking policy, VERI (Verify Everyone's Identify)-Safe Patient Care, requires photo identification at every visit and follow-up.
MGH data suggest that an estimated 120 duplicate medical records are created each month, 25 patient encounters are likely tied to identify theft or fraud each quarter, and 14 patients are treated under the wrong medical record number each year. As a result of MGH's initiatives, in December 2013, 80 to 85 percent of patients were showing photo identification at appointments. The authors conclude that although an organization's policy changes and educational campaigns can improve detection and reconciliation of medical identity theft cases, national policies should be implemented to streamline the process of correcting errors in medical records, reduce the financial disincentive for hospitals to detect and report cases, and create a single point of entry to reduce the burden on individuals and providers to reconcile cases
The remaining articles from the July 2014 issue are:
Methods, Tools and Strategies
A Clinical Practice Agreement Between Pharmacists and Surgeons Streamlines Medication Management
Jenna K. Lovely, Pharm.D., R.Ph., B.C.P.S.; David W. Larson, M.D., M.B.A.; Joanna M. Quast, PharmD, R.Ph., B.C.P.S.
Collaborative practice agreements (CPAs) were applied to hospital surgical teams in a postsurgical colorectal surgery unit at Mayo Clinic Rochester. For the 135 CPA–eligible colorectal and general surgery patients in January 2011–March 2011, as compared with 305 non-CPA patients on a comparable surgical unit, there were significantly more pharmacist interventions and completed medication reconciliations and rules-based interventions, as well as shorter time-to-decision values.
Teamwork and Communications
Walkrounds in Practice: Corrupting or Enhancing a Quality Improvement Intervention? A Qualitative Study
Graham Martin, M.A. (Oxon), M.Sc., Ph.D.; Piotr Ozieranski, M.A., Ph.D.; Janet Willars, B.Sc., Ph.D.; Kathryn Charles, M.A., Ph.D.; Joel Minion, B.A., M.A., M.L.I.S., Ph.D.; Lorna McKee, B.S.S., M.A., D.Phil.; Mary Dixon-Woods, B.A., DipStat, M.Sc., D.Phil.
English National Health Service (NHS) hospitals have been encouraged to make use of methods closely based on the Leadership (or Executive) WalkRounds™ approach. A study conducted with clinicians and administrators at three hospitals and with NHS quality and safety stakeholders revealed modification and expansion of walkrounds. Such deviations risk replacing the main objectives of walkrounds with a form of surveillance that could alienate frontline staff and produce fallible insights.
Barriers and Facilitators for Taking Action After Classroom-Based Crew Resource Management Training at Three ICUs
Peter F. Kemper, M.Sc.; Cathy van Dyck, Ph.D.; Cordula Wagner, Ph.D.; Lara Wouda, M.Sc.; Martine de Bruijne, M.D., Ph.D.
Implementing the plans of action formulated during crew resource management (CRM) training may constitute an important first step in the successful uptake of skills. In a study conducted at three ICUs in the Netherlands, perceived barriers were negatively associated, and facilitators were positively associated, with taking action. Barriers and facilitators should be considered during the training and in regular CRMmeetings afterward.
Coordination of Care
Improving the Quality of Care and Communication During Patient Transitions: Best Practices for Urgent Care Centers
Hannah Shamji, M.P.H.; Rosa R. Baier, M.P.H.; Stefan Gravenstein, M.D., M.P.H.; Rebekah L. Gardner, M.D.
The Quality Improvement Organization in Rhode Island, using a multistage approach, prepared a set of eight best practices for urgent care center transitions. The best practices focus on clinician-to-clinician communication and patient activation, which can be implemented to establish measurable, communitywide expectations for communication to the emergency department or primary care office.
Tool Tutorial
A Medication-Based Trigger Tool to Identify Adverse Events in Pediatric Anesthesiology
Thomas Taghon, D.O.; Nicole Elsey, M.D.; Veronica Miler, M.D.; Richard McClead, M.D., M.H.A.; Joseph Tobias, M.D.
The Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, Ohio), developed a medication-based trigger tool to identify adverse events. During the 15-month study period (December 2010–February 2012), the screening of all 17,350 cases with the trigger tool led to the detection of an additional 349 adverse events beyond the 647 identified through the self-reporting system. The findings have been used to prioritize and direct departmental quality improvement and related educational activities.
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This week's sketch started off slow but ending out with some great samples. Thanks so much to all of you who were able to play along. Below are my top three picks for the week! They are in no particular order and each of them can be seen in full size with all the details by clicking on the link below!
Be right back with the new challenge! Mary Jo


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The American Fair Compensation Campaign is a non-partisan, national, grassroots campaign to re-establish the middle-class in America. While there are many contributing factors to the decline of the middle-class in America, if we want to point to the one MAIN factor we must point to GREED.
Let's be very clear. There is only ONE thing that raises costs of everything: COMPENSATION.
UNFAIR COMPENSATION – otherwise known as GREED – unfairly raises the cost of living for everyone.
Mother Earth has NEVER charged for anything. All oil, natural gas, copper, gold, diamonds, coal, sunshine, wind, earth (soil), fire, water, trees (wood), fruits and vegetables, fish, and animals, etc., etc., are all provided FREE by Mother Earth.
The ONLY costs are for compensation to humans to gather/harvest, process, and distribute these commodities. This compensation can be fair (ungreedy) or unfair (GREEDY).
When you hear that utility rates are going to increase, or that the price per gallon of gas at the local gas station increases, it is due ONLY to increasing the compensation of those involved in the production, distribution, and administration of electricity or gas. The gas and oil are provided free by Mother Nature. Humans charge money as their compensation to drill for, process and distribute their essential energy products and services.
Unfair compensation (GREED) for these services unfairly raises the costs for these products and services. The cost or price for these products and services couldremain unchanged IF those that work within that product's supply-chain did NOT arbitrarily raise their compensation (also known as "profit").
In the same way when you see that food prices increase, or health insurance prices increase, or your mobile phone bill goes up, or your cable TV bill increased, or your auto insurance goes up, or your tuition goes up, or the cost of clothes increases, or your rent goes up, it is ALL – in EVERY single case – due ONLY to raises in the compensation of people involved. This applies to every single product or service which we pay for.
All people are paid money, in the form of wages, salary, or fees, etc., because they are providing (selling) a product or service. When a person or company charges a price for the product or service that allows them to receive or pay themselves an UNFAIR compensation – more than what 90% of Americans earn ($100K per year or less) – they are OVERCHARGING for the product or service and it unfairly raises the cost of those products or services for everyone else.
MARTIN SHKRELI, he acquired the U.S. rights to a lifesaving drug and promptly boosted its price over 5,000 percent, from $13.50 a tablet to $750.
Wall St is the handmaiden of GREEDY people.
Every company that "goes public" is hiring Wall St to make sure that whatever product or service their "public" company sells…to the public, is priced as high as it can possibly be priced to generate the highest profit possible for the "public" company's stockholders.
That is why pharmaceuticals are OVERPRICED.
That is why gasoline is OVERPRICED.
That is why electricity is OVERPRICED.
That is why natural gas is OVERPRICED.
That is why food is OVERPRICED.


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So the other day my daughter said she wanted to make a "Leprechaun Trap" for a contest at school. I admit that I had no idea what she was talking about so I had to Google "how to make a Leprechaun Trap". Basically, a Leprechaun Trap is some sort of box or container that has something that tempts a Leprechaun into coming onto or under the container and then he either falls into it or is trapped underneath it.
Ok, so not being at all crafty I hoped that she would forget about it.
She didn't.
You see, I have this weird aversion to glue. It's more than an aversion, it's really more of a fear. Glue is messy. And sticky. And I don't like to get my hands dirty. And more than that, my daughter tends to get glue on everything.
So I decided that paint would be a better choice.
Because paint is clearly a less messy option (this is sarcasm).
In order to save time assembling a box with a "fake" floor for the Leprechaun to fall through, we decided to use a tissue box because it comes with a built-in "fake floor" where the tissues come out. I actually had to buy chalkboard paint for another project (yeah, two crafts in one week, who am I?) so we decided to use that to paint the box so she could write messages on the box in chalk.
Pro tip: If you don't want to bother with the chalkboard paint, green washi tape or Duck Tape will work great. It will speed up the project, and keep it from being quite so messy. As an experienced Leprechaun trap maker, I'm going with the tape from now on, although my daughter says the chalkboard paint is the best. You could get a couple of different shades of green tape and get creative with it! Or maybe do one side with chalk paint, and the others with the tape.
How to make a Leprechaun Trap
What you need:
- 1 small squarish tissue box
- chalkboard paint
- pipe cleaners
- tape (we used regular tape but St. Patrick's Day washi Tape would be cute)
- chalk
- stickers (optional)
- ribbon or washi tape (optional)
- pot of gold (we got them in a pack of 4 at Michael's)
- remove tissue from box
- paint sides and top of box with chalkboard paint
- allow to dry for 1 hour (or per paint instructions)
- apply a second coat of paint
- allow to dry for 24 hours
- condition paint by rubbing chalk over painted surface then removing with a chalk eraser
- twist 2 pipe cleaners together and bend into a cane shape and tape onto the side of the box
- hang pot of gold on the end of the pipe cleaners
- using 3-5 pipe cleaners, create a small ladder
- decorate the outside of the box as desired
This turned out to to be an easy way to make a Leprechaun Trap and we both had a lot of fun making it. My daughter loves that she can change the message easily by erasing the chalk and writing something new.


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Psychological Services Center
The Psychological Services Center is an outpatient mental health clinic within the University of Nevada, Reno psychology department. The clinic provides training for doctoral students in the University's clinical psychology program, as well as a low-cost treatment option for adults living in Northern Nevada.
The center offers brief or long-term individual, group and couples therapy to address a wide variety of psychological problems, relationship issues and personal concerns. Clients work collaboratively with psychology trainees and the supervising clinical faculty to resolve emotional/behavioral problems and reach personal goals. All assistance and records are confidential, except as excluded by law.
The Psychological Services Center is not an emergency or urgent care facility but rather an outpatient-training clinic. If you need emergency care, you must call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
The clinicians are graduate students in the doctoral training program and are supervised by full-time members of the clinical psychology faculty. The therapists and supervisors represent a range of skills and interests, and whenever possible will be matched to a client's interests and needs.
The Psychological Services Center does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, culture, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, socioeconomic status, veteran status or age. The staff values the differences and similarities among people, and respect the multiple identities of clients and communities with whom they work. The services provided reflect the highest standards of professional ethics and competence.
More information
The staff looks forward to serving you, please do not hesitate to call with any questions or to schedule an appointment.
For more information, call (775) 784-6668. If no one is available, leave a message.


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The Atlanta Thrashers have pulled the trigger once again. TSN is reporting that they have traded enigmatic goaltender Kari Lehtonen to the Dallas Stars in exchange for defenseman Ivan Vishnevskiy and a 4th Round draft pick.
Puckwatch's Take:
Atlanta gains something they can use, a good young defenseman, while they forfeit a goaltender who had a lot of pressure on him but was never able to become the goaltender he was supposed to be, thanks in large part to injuries. Without a doubt, the emergence of Ondrej Pavelec provides the Thrashers with an abundance of goaltending talent that gave way to this trade.
Dallas on the other hand has a few more questions to answer. This move may spell the end of Marty Turco's time in "Big D". Turco has struggled this year, so much so that the former Canadian Olympian has never been mentioned in the same breath as the top 5-10 Canadian goalies all year. Interestingly, Alex Auld had been getting a lot of playing time lately, this may not be a vote of confidence in him either.
Look for both Dallas and Atlanta to continue trading as the NHL trade deadline approaches.


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HI all
I am the happy owner of two Traktor Kontrol S4s and after many year of use, I am thinking of moving to the next level. I still want to continue use Traktor but want a better sound card and the flexibility of using just CDJs/XKJs only if I want to.
I always play for decks and I am wondering if the Pioneer DJM-900NXS2 4-Channel Digital DJ Mixer with (2) XDJ-1000MK2 will allow me to play 4 Traktor decks. This is the set up that I am considering.
I also want the ability to use my current library in iTunes of 40,000 items without having to convert anything to Recordbox.
It is going to be a $5,000 investment to I am trying to get as much feedback as possible to make sure this is the right move. I have the latest Mac Os and Traktor versions.