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Bookmarks - Internet stuff: Lou Reed
It's not all Glastonbury today. I suggest you have a quick look at Lou Reed's New York Mysteries, as drawn by Krent Able:
Look, we're sophisticated, urbane intellectuals. We don't need to eat food that's had monkey shit scraped off the top of it
[Thanks to @daniel_orton]


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Truthmaze and Chastity Brown at 400 Bar on 2/7/08
By: Jon Behm
Another sparsely attended night in the 400 Bar. Another great show. Honestly it's a mystery to me why this continually happens in a city with such a vibrant music scene. In this case it was local hip hop/spoken word artist Truthmaze, with Tennessean transplant Chastity Brown as the opener. If you aren't kicking yourself for missing this show, give yourself a good swift boot.
Chastity Brown started off the evening with an endorsement of her "energydrink," Jameson Whiskey, while holding a glass of the ambrosia in her hand. I wholeheartedly support that sentiment and double it, with rocks! Brown then proceeded to deliver a set of intensely personal, hauntingly beautiful songs with the help of bassist Don Strong and drummer Michael Johnson. While she has a voice similar to Jill Scott's, Brown also has distinct folk/country twang. This shows up in the overall sound more when she is on the acoustic as opposed to the piano, but is an underlying pleasure throughout the course of all of her songs.
While what immediately struck me was this young lady's gorgeous vocals, I was also taken aback by how much trust she put in the audience. Like we were all a bunch of old friends, she opened up all of her pains and sorrows to us, she shed a few tears, and never seemed to hold anything back. The highly emotional "Happy Sunday," was especially a treat, as she had only performed it live a total of five times in five years. I'm not sure what caused her to confide in us to the extent she did, but I was grateful for the intimacy of the performance.
Truthmaze, one of the most talented members of the local Tru Ruts collaborative group, gave props to Brown as he took the stage next. One of the "original b-boys of Minnesota," Truth has been performing his blend of hip hop and spoken word for some time in the Cities. His style ranges from African and Reggae influenced rhythms (the fantastic "Dat Rhythm,") to more politically inspired commentary ("North Side Blues Song"). At different times he conjured both Gil Scott Heron and KRS One, though his style is still uniquely his own. Where much political hip hop can be angry and jaded, Truthmaze's message seems to concentrate more on hope and equality. Backing him were the two other members of his new band, Dameun Strange on the keyboard and Maleck Davis on drums.
At one point two other talented members of the Tru Ruts stable, El Guante and See More Perspective took the stage to beatbox and rhyme alongside Truth for a few songs. Perspective is a beatbox machine, but also showed us some of his lyrical side, while Guante brought a fiery energy to the stage as well.
All too soon we reached the end of the night, and Truthmaze and company left the 400's stage. It felt as if these modern day street prophets had a great deal more to say, but were perhaps limited by the bar's time constraints. It doesn't bother me a bit though, as it just makes me eager to see what else they will have to say at future performances. If you are a hip hop, spoken word or even just an all around music fan, any one of these guys is worth checking out on your own.
Check out the article here: HowWasTheShow.com

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In this newly translated 1990 book from de Rojas, one of Cuba's pre-eminent sci-fi writers, sleeper agents emerge from the past to wrest control of the future.
Two hundred years after the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, two tiny robots awaken underground and burrow to the surface. When 9-year-old Bennie touches one of the robots, it wipes out his personality and memories and replaces them with those of Thomas Babson, a sadistic Empire torturer who lived hundreds of years ago. Now awakened in the future, Babson injects agents' identities into unsuspecting others. Bennie's mother becomes Candy, a veteran spy, while psychosociologist Harry becomes Stephen, a man with desires so peculiar (though never described) that he reprograms women's minds to suit his perverse needs. When Aisha arrives for an appointment with Harry, he hypnotizes her, and she awakens with the personality of Alice—plus Stephen's additional, depraved sexual programming. Unbeknownst to the agents, Alice is also a spy for the Communists. She escapes from Stephen and the others and eventually teams up with Maya, a "cybo," whose cybernetic implants have left her emotionless. Together, they forge a plan to take down the newly awakened operatives. Along the way, this bloated story crams in every moth-eaten sci-fi cliché readers can think of—romantic love is aberrant behavior, artificial intelligence gains sentience, people abandon technology to become "primitives"—and limps through them with zero urgency. The female characters are also depressingly retrograde; for example, Alice doesn't seem to care that her sexual agency was brainwashed away and spends much of her time shrieking about her "love" for Stephen, often while naked or at least topless. Indeed, de Rojas describes virtually every female character's bare breasts at least once: small breasts, pert breasts, prominent breasts—this book's got more boobs than a Porky's film. Meanwhile, the worldbuilding is glutted with details, with tiresome infodumps that go on for pages. Characters drift in and out of the story even as new players keep appearing. With everyone changing names and bodies, keeping track of who's who becomes a chore.
This outsized so-called classic should have stayed in the past.


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Anthony Martial
It was an 11 hour coup, an expensive surprise, and was done late to stop other very interested clubs moving in in the Monaco striker this coming summer but there is no doubt that that finally hours deal last September has been the Blue Riband of Van Gaal's 2015 close season £100m outlay and stopped the summer business being labelled almost a complete washout. An instant hero for the fans and the bright spot on a dim campaign.
Memphis Depay
The Netherlands Golden Boot winner, a potential next Cristiano Ronaldo, a free kick specialist with an impressive PSV Eindhoven show reel. What wasn't there to get enthusiastic about about the 21-year-old when United stepped in early last May to ward off Juventus.
Early goals in the Europa League and a brief opening of his box of tricks against Midtjylland at Old Trafford last month hasn't been a great return on a £25m outlay.
That initial excitement has worn off for Reds fans. Memphis is not a dud but he has a lot of catching up to do to help LVG's transfer success rate increase dramatically.
Morgan Schneiderlin
When Bastian Schweinsteiger signed in the summer United fans were delighted but social media initially went wild with the question that would the Reds go cold on Schneiderlin as a result. When the Frenchman signed within hours of the German long awaited surgery on United's midfield was hailed as a triumph.
The stats when the ex-Southampton player has been in Van Gaal's line up support a decent debut season for Schneiderlin. But there still seems something not quite fulfilling about his impact.
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Won instant cult hero status among United fans who viewed the World Cup winner as a cool customer. But his struggle with knee injuries and a mid-term three match suspension for an elbow incident against West Ham in December has meant that a player with his pedigree hasn't consistently bossed United's engine room. He hasn't been able to recreate the impact he had at Bayern Munich and for Germany.
Matteo Darmian
United had had limited success finding a true successor to Gary Neville as a steady consistent 8/10 right back after he retired in 2011. Stand ins had been used in Antonio Valencia, Phil Jones and Chris Smalling and the erratic defending of the popular Brazilian Rafael wasn't a totally comfortable fit.
But an Italian full back with Torino in his mid-20s who came with a burgeoning international CV for the Azzurri, now that's a far more reassuring story. And it looked like Van Gaal had pulled off a coup in the early days. Darmian was solid and looking a £14m bargain. However, he hit the wall before winter and hasn't reached his personal heights since on a regular basis.
MORE United stories:
Sergio Romero
A free back up plan in case David de Gea went to Real Madrid and while the Spaniard was exiled by Van Gaal during the Bernabeu saga the new Argentinian had some early impressive matches. But the wheels came off against Swansea in August and De Gea stayed. Apart from a recent three match spell he's been a spectator watching De Gea's heroics.


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My Top Tips
This is especially important if you have psoriasis on your face (like me).
When you are not going anywhere, let your hair dry naturally, blow drying your hair will dry out your scalp more.
When brushing your hair try not to press to hard into the scalp as it will loosen the flakes of skin, also, where possible avoid going from your roots where your parting is, flakes are easily hidden beneath hair, but when it comes to your parting they are really visible.
Always carry around some form of moisturiser in your bag so when you feel conscious of the flakes on your skin, moisturise.
Avoid itching and scratching as much as possible. It is literally a testimony to your will power sometimes, but the less you scratch the less the need to scratch spreads. Once you've itched in once place, it spreads like wild-fire. Just distract yourself and the need goes away.
If you itch and scratch, you have the new issue of patches bleeding and forming scabs on the skin, in some cases a massive scab is more noticeable than a red/white looking patch. So by stopping itching you won't that issue.
Abuse the natural sunlight and get out in it as much as possible. Make sure you moisturise before you do (obviously use sun block and don't get sunburnt) as the sun reflects off of shiny skin which is not what you want to happen, you want the skin to absorb the sun and the vitamin D it provides.
You can seriously never moisturise enough, moisturise after you get out of the shower and before you go to bed at least.
When you know you don't have to do anything the next day, treat your scalp. Even if it takes a few washes to get the treatment out the next day it doesn't matter as you don't have to see anyone.
Try not to have really hot showers, the cooler the water the more of a sooth affect it will have on your skin.
When you dry your skin make sure you pat your skin dry and avoid rubbing your skin. This will aggravate your psoriasis less. Always moisturise after drying as well.
Avoid having the heating cranked up in your house; it dries out your skin. If you get cold in the winter just put extra layers on
(This one might just be me) Air-conditioning reeks havoc on my skin, if people put it on in the car I face the vents away from me and hate having it on when on holiday. Avoid it as much as possible by using the fan on holiday instead of air-con, or if the heat and humidity is unbearable, moisturise...a LOT!
NEVER think that you are alone and are the only one who feels upset by having psoriasis. Even if you don't have friends or family who know how you feel, people do and the more you find those people the happier you will be.
If you would like to add any tips that you rely on, please do :D


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Seafood rice
Dear friends today I had my cousin Paula and her husband Paco over for lunch and I thought that the best dish to prepare would be Seafood rice. I think as everyone knows this is a traditional dish of Portuguese cuisine, typical of the coastal areas. As its name suggests, it - is a dish made based on various types of seafood, including clams, prawns, mussels, lobster and crab. Seafood Rice is a delicious recipe for great seafood lovers bearing in mind that a large proportion of shellfish provides Vitamin B, which is essential for the formation of red blood cells and maintenance of a healthy nervous system. Not being a difficult recipe to do, it deserves all our commitment. So the more seafood you have the better !!! There are small regional variations of the recipe, marked mainly by the different combinations of shellfish used. Today I used only prawns, clams and mussels. One of the characteristics of this recipe is to serve the rice still boiling, in the traditional pot of clay where it was cooked. I used Parboiled rice also called converted rice (in Spanish and Portuguese it's called arroz vaporizado) is done the traditional way in Pakistan, India and Burma soaking rice in water and heated and dried in the sun. They discovered that it preserves better this way. This technique gives a substantial advantage when it is cooked because it does not overcook and does not stick, leaving the grains always loose. If before finishing cooking you see that there is no broth or that the rice is not at its point, you can always add more water without problems. Ok let's try this recipe:
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 ripe tomatoes
- 3 tablespoons tomato pulp
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 pkt. Knorr seafood powder stock
- 2 ripe tomatoes
- Coriander
- Salt to taste
- A dash of hot chili powder to taste
- 100ml olive oil
- 400 g of rice
- 500 g of clams
- 500 g of shrimp
- 500 g of mussels
Start by placing 1L of water in a pot once it is boiling had a dash of salt , place the prawns in the shell for about 3 minutes. Reserve the cooking water of the prawns. In a separate pot place around 2dl of water and allow to boil, once boiling drop the mussels in and once shells are open removed them from water. Join this water with the one from the prawns. Then, peel the prawns, and add their shells and heads to the water where they were cooked, allowing them to simmer for a few minutes. Then with a colander, separate the water from the shells and heads, squeezing well into a bowl, place them inside the pot, Now, dissolve the seafood powder stock inside this water and set aside. Also remove the mussels from the shells and place in a dish.
In a clay pot (if you don't have one a normal pot will do), place the olive oil, the onion and the finely chopped garlic, and let it soften a little. It is then time to join the bay leaf, the tomato (attention: seedless), the tomato pulp and, if desired, hot chili powder (this is optional). Let it cook a little and, during this period if necessary, add a little stock. The next step is to add the rice after one minute add also10 cups of the stock and let it cook at low heat When the rice is almost cooked, add the clams (with shells) a minute later the mussels and prawns that was already prepared, and cook for about 5 minutes. If it is necessary add more broth, in order for the rice to be very wet and loose. To finish, remove the pan from the heat, garnish with the preprepared shelled prawns and choped coriander, place over the rice and serve right away. Enjoy this wonderfull dish, let me know!


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Mark Allen Johnson began his career as an international photographer, videographer, and journalist. His clients were the who's who of publishing including TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, MAXIM, and The Economist just to name a few. His images, videos, written stories, investigative news reports, & documentaries have been seen on nearly every continent and countless countries.
Since 2010 Johnson has seamlessly transitioned his Gonzo journalism skill sets into the world of TV and film production. Using unorthodox methods and a global network of contacts, Johnson specializes in producing, negotiating, and logistics from within difficult and very often dangerous-to-access areas and subcultures. He prides himself in making the impossible, possible.
Additionally, Johnson holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and has worked in conjunction with domestic and international police, military, prisons, criminals, organized crime syndicates, gangs, and governments. Mark has produced projects in Central and South America, SE Asia, The Middle East, Europe, numerous African countries including conflict zones, Mexico including the current narco war regions, and has been embedded in fully engaged combat missions with U.S. troops in Iraq.
With a relentless work ethic and an aptitude for innovation and creativity, Mark Allen Johnson is regularly commissioned to produce, consult, develop, and/or create projects for some of the world's top-tier programmers including: DISCOVERY, HISTORY, A&E, FOX, MTV, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, and NETFLIX.


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I'm writing a bibliography for an article in Russian. Using
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\bbljan is undefined. I assume that
\bbljan should expand to "January" for English and to "Январь" for Russian. My
babel apparently doesn't know anything about
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Bridge Over Water Trouble
Bridge Over Water Trouble is a Side Quest that rewards a Mithril Brick upon completion. This side quest will generally be completed in between the Azog the Defiler and Roast Mutton chapters, as the quest must be completed to get to the start of Roast Mutton.
Near Weathertop, head for a bridge and speak to the character standing in front of it. He'll explain that he needs help finishing it. Stand on the craft plate and hand over the required loot: 25 Wood, 15 Rope, 25 Stone - to begin the Lego build. Complete the build to finish the bridge and receive a Mithril Brick as a reward.


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All your new contact registrations should confirm their consent to receive messages from you via a double opt-in process. The easiest way to achieve this is through an automated program.
Here is a simple Automation Center program that you can set up to trigger a confirmation email and secure a double opt-in after initial registration. We have included two different methods to update the contact opt-in field:
- Using the Emarsys API (recommended)
- Via manual import
Program overview
This program follows up a contact registration with a transactional email containing a link for the customer to click, confirming their subscription.
At the end of the program, those who have not responded can be saved as a contact list and you can try to engage with them on a different channel.
This is what the finished program will look like:
Things to bear in mind
- You should only use the entry points Form or External Event for this program, as the first email after such an entry point can be sent with no opt-in status for the recipient.
- You should not send a reminder email. Since the initial email will be sent seconds after the registration, the recipient should be waiting to click the link. If they do not do so immediately, they are unlikely to do so a day later.
- Using the External event entry point will allow you to unify all your registration methods by channeling them through one event. It will also enable you to place a 'Resend the confirmation link' button on your registration page in case of lost or expired links.
- Do not use the New contact entry point for these programs because that will not allow you to ignore opt-in for the first email following it.
- Your Participation Settings should allow for contacts to re-register soon afterwards in case they missed the confirmation email. This should be tied in with your Wait node or your link expiry period, if you have one.
For this program you will need:
- One form
- One link category
- One landing page
- One email with confirmation link
- One segment
- One API call with JSON payload defined, to manage the opt-in, or a background registration link from a form.
The form
You will need to have a general registration form that you can select in the Form entry point. This form may not be in use in another program.
The link category
If you want to keep track of contacts who have confirmed their opt-in via this and other links, you can create a global link category for them, and assign this category to your link on the Link Tracking tab of the content editor.
The landing page
The landing page should just thank the contact for subscribing. Its purpose is only to feed back to the contact that their subscription has been processed. Other content that would be suitable on this page might be a link to the contact profile page, or marketing material relevant to the registration (e.g. if it was part of a promotion).
The email
The email should be extremely simple with a single call to action, asking the contact to confirm their subscription by clicking a link.
The link should take the contact to a Thank You landing page.
For details on how to generate the confirmation link, see below.
The email content should be restricted to confirming any details submitted on registration (e.g. first name, last name) and should not contain any marketing material whatsoever.
The segment
If you want to save contacts who failed to confirm their subscription, and perhaps target them on a different channel, you will want to filter them out at the end of the program with a behavioral segment, either referencing the link or the link category, for example:
Creating the confirmation link
Our recommended option for managing opt-in is to use the Emarsys API, as this is the fastest and most secure method.
To do so, direct the confirmation link to your service and include in it any personalization placeholder to identify the contact by. For details, see Email Personalization Placeholders.
When the contact clicks the link, you can redirect them to the landing page. On your backend, make a call to the Update Contacts endpoint to store the opt-in status.
Request body
The JSON payload should contain any fields that you need for personalization, as well as field ID
31 (the opt-in field) set to
Updating a contact is an idempotent method, meaning that it can be called multiple times with the same outcome. Note that as a PUT request, it also replaces all contact information, so you should include all relevant fields in your request.
Only use the values
2, or
null to update opt-in status. Boolean string literals are not supported.
Example payload:
{ "3": "email@example.com", "key_id": "3", "1": "Wade", "2": "Wilson", "31": "1" }
key_id = 3means we want to use email as the unique identifier.
3is email address, so we still define that as well otherwise we don't know who to send it to.
1is first name.
2is last name.
31 = 1sets the opt-in value to
If you are managing the opt-in manually
If you cannot use the API, you can also manage the opt-in manually.
In this case, all you need for the confirmation link is the URL to your Thank You landing page. The link needs no other parameters as you will be filtering for contacts who clicked it via the behavioral segment you defined above.
In order to save the contacts who did click the link in a contact list at the end of the program, you simply need to move the Save contact list node down to the lower path, after the Exclude node. Your program will then look like this:
You can now regularly export this list and import it again with the Opt-in declarations set to Opt-in everyone in this import.
Building the program
Once you have prepared the ingredients, putting the program together should not take more than a few minutes.
Your entry point can be one of the following, depending on your requirements:
- Form
- External event
Next comes the Email node with the email containing confirmation link.
After this comes a Wait node with a suitable time delay to allow for contacts to click the link. 24 hours should usually be plenty.
After this comes the Filter switch node. In the example above we filter for contacts who did not click the confirmation link, therefore these are the Included path who should be exported by the Save contact list node. You can then try to re-engage with these contacts.
Re-engaging with contacts who do not confirm
Re-engaging with contacts who register but fail to click the confirmation link is tricky. They have expressed some interest, but failed to follow up on it, and you do not have permission to contact them further via email.
Here are some suggestions on how to reach out to these contacts on other channels to get them to subscribe.
In each case you will first have to create a segment based on 'received the confirmation email AND did not click the link AND opt-in does not equal TRUE'.
- CMR Ads - Create an audience based on your segment and, once the segment contains enough contacts, you can target them with a tailored message that resends the confirmation email.
- Web Channel - Create an overlay to let the contact know that they failed to complete the registration process and create a campaign which displays this overlay to the platform segment you defined earlier.
- Mobile Engage - If you know the email address of the contact, and they have downloaded your app (thereby consenting to receive messages on that channel), you can target them with a cross-channel subscription campaign.
- SMS - As with Mobile Engage, if you have permission to contact them via text message, you can include a call to action to trigger the confirmation email in a campaign sent to those contacts.


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Filleo Car Wash and morePosted by Jed Zayner at 9:41 PM
What up ya'll? I hope all is well. There are some big things happening with Filleo in the next month and I am updating everyone. We are doing a Car Wash Fundraiser to raise funds for children in Ohio, New Orleans and In Monterrey, Mexico. If you do not know already New Orleans is being ravaged economically by this oil leak and we really want to help those children out down there in some way.
Also, in Monterrey they have had one of the largest rainfalls ever to have happened in their city, due to Hurricane Alex. They had 39" in 8 hours and counting. Most people live in homes that are not built for such stress and there have been hundreds of deaths. We are headed down to Monterrey in January for some relief efforts.
I am emailing everyone with a hope that you all will spread the word about our car wash and where it is. Below is a sweet flyer that you want to print off just shoot us an email. But, most importantly we would love to have you come out and volunteer. It is going to be so much fun. If you want to volunteer just reply back to this at email@example.com. We will reply back with more details. This car wash is free, but we greatly accept donations towards the children we have a desire to help. All donations are tax deductible. Also, there will be COLUMBUS CREW soccer player's at our events, come on out and have fun with some pro's.
Lastly, we are having our first annual Columbus Project August 11th. It is our biggest of the year and definitely the most fun. It will be from 4-7pm at Avondale Elementary. Again we would love to have you volunteer. We are giving away school supplies, sports equipment, clothes, food, caricatures, putting on a soccer clinic, and many other fun things.
We would love for you all to join our cause in the front lines against poverty, injustice, and fighting for education in children's lives.
Here are the dates, times, and the addresses for the next two car washes in the next 12 days:
July 22, 2010 thursday, 3-7pm
Sunoco Gas station (Near Uptown Westerville)
150 South State Street
Westerville, OH
July 27th, tuesday, 3-7pm
Cosi Restaurant
6390 Sawmill Road
Columbus, OH 43235
4 comments:
Bundle of Paradoxes said...
Jed - Sorry to hear the news about you departing Columbus. You will be missed by the fans. Best of luck in D.C.!
Hey JZ... Keep up the good work. I apologize in advance for chanting "Columbus Reject" the next time you are in town. You are awesome and The Crew is a lesser organization without you. That being said, I'll still yell against you from the Nordecke. Miss you already.
Jed, Sorry to see you go! Best of luck in DC. Hopefully your have the opportunity to come back one day!
Car Wash Business said...
I really loved your blog. It appears that you have put a lot more work into it. I will keep your blog in twitter so I can come back and see it again when it has some new information. Thanks a lot!


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Bringing together acclaimed chefs from around the world, photographer and food writer Barbara Abdeni Massad has created a uniquely beautiful and delicious cookbook that provides food relief to Syrian refugees.
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A collaboration between Barbara Abdeni Massad and Interlink Publishing, this is the most diverse collection of superb soup recipes you'll ever find. Profits are donated to the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, to provide food relief to Syrian refugees. Learn more at soupsforsyria.com.
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A 2003 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found something that, believe it or not, surprised nobody. The conclusion of the study found that "People vote with their party, not their personal beliefs." As YaleNews later reported:
People vote on an issue based on the facts and their ideology, or personal beliefs, but they disregard both the facts and their personal beliefs when they are aware of their political party's position
The premise of the study is that given a situation involving the issue of welfare, people artificially voted from their beliefs. But when informed of their party's beliefs beforehand they often switched their own opinion to fall in line with the party. Again this is not very surprising. A simple talk with a stranger reveals how little people truly care about core issues, or when they do take an interest to them how little information they get on that subject. The worst possible outcome is someone who is not just interested, but militant and uninformed.
This information is especially important going into voting season. And since we're beginning to see oddlike cult of personalities pop up around the candidates it's good to step back and analyze why. Albeit Trump supporters may be passionate about building a wall or kicking all the poor Moslems out or whatever it is they want to do, but many people are simply attracted to the persona of Trump. In fact Ice Cube, a celebrity Trump supporter, described him as what Americans love about the American Dream.
One of the biggest questions to come out of this election season is at what point to people vote on policy, and at what point do people vote on personality? This may seem superficial but it is a very deep issue. At the heart of so many modern political movements is the call for increased democratic participation, but what good is more democratic participation if people merely vote for a single party and the candidate with the biggest smile?
One reason this happens is because it is so easy to be told what to believe. Instead of looking at each individual issue and making up your own mind, pick a candidate, listen to what he says, and repeat it. It saves a lot of time. The social experiment comes to mind when a person went around a city with a pamphlet full of Hitler quotes and watched as people agreed because they thought Trump said them. In fact it's almost sad to watch. Increasingly at the end as the people try to defend themselves, with one man even claiming "I'd support them if Trump said them!"
The cult of personality is just one of the roadblocks to a participatory democracy. People tend to choose the politics that make them feel good, whether that be through helping others or helping yourself. This can be both good to bad, and more often than not leads to dogmatism. I'm guilty of it myself. A truly honest person knows this, that giving to the poor makes them feel good, or that collecting power for yourself feels good, and therefore votes in a way to continue that pleasure. I fail to believe that people just don't care anymore about issues, like so many people want to claim. They way people bitch and complain there's almost now way to believe that people don't care about the issues, they just don't care enough to go vote. However insignificant they realize their vote is. One of the main problems is that simply endorse an idea to get the pleasure out of it, making them feel good. They endorse the idea without actually doing anything to further it, and just expecting it to happen!
So really, what is there to be done? First of all we need a surge of information about the political process. You would think this would happen due to the increase in internet activity, but a Pew Research report found that that the amount of knowledge on current affairs hasn't increased. The only thing to motivate people enough to participate is to feel personally obligated to, either from feeling threatened or inspired. That is the only thing I can thank Trump for, is organizing people enough to hold mass protests against him. Once people feel personally threatened by an idea or policy they are more likely to act.
Of course the issues in our political system are vast. Chances are in our celebrity driven media the issue of personality politics will likely worsen, but perhaps with the internet we'll start to see a more interesting pick of candidates.


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Monday was just another day at the office.
Little Rock Trojans head coach Wes Flanigan led his team to another tune-up victory Monday evening at the Jack Stephens Center, a 100-61 throttling of the University of the Ozarks, a Division III program.
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Acupuncture for Postoperative of Plastic Surgery
Brazil College of Acupuncture, Brazil
*Corresponding Author: Fernando Fernandes, Brazil College of Acupuncture, Brazil,; TEL::(21) 2135-9212 ; FAX:(21) 2135-9212 ;E-mail:firstname.lastname@example.com
Citation:Fernando Fernandes (2016) Acupuncture for Postoperative of Plastic Surgery. Medcina Intern 1:101.
Copyright: © 2016 Fernando Fernandes, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Received date:October 04, 2016; Accepted date:October 26, 2016 ; Published date:November 01, 2016
In recent years, plastic surgery has been gaining prominence and its techniques presenting important improvements. With the increasing number of plastic surgeries and the proliferation of information about them, we also noticed that is necessary to offer these patientsin new ways to experience the postoperative time. Since plastic surgery affects many other fields, it gathers different professionals in a multidisciplinary team in other to achieve better results. At first, I received patients who had undergone plastic surgery. They presented complaints related to the surgery after a long period of time, such as: persistent water retention by hormonal disarray, continuous pain months after surgery, some unexplained disturbances with different sensitivity and difficult to treat with drugs. Noting that acupuncture was actually helping to solve these problems, we started to develop a protocol for early treatment. We come to start treatment from the second day after surgery.
From 2001 to 2006, I received about 300 patients of Dr. Alcemar Maia Souto (plastic surgeon for 20 years) that were subjected to acupuncture following this new protocol. Some words of this doctor can help us understand some of the results achieved: 'Acupuncture is an important control treatment to the patient cure, generating higher benefits when compared to traditional drug therapy that use anti-inflammatory and analgesic.' He said acupuncture helped solve many problems resulting from postoperative 'in an outstanding way without using drugs.' Indeed, the success achieved from this partnership led us to disseminate the results obtained aiming to assist professionals involved in these procedures in order todiversify and broaden their scope of practice. Despite the opinion of a large number of experts according to which different paradigms can't coexist harmoniously, we believe that knowledge should always go hand in hand. Different paradigms can complement and help each other, generating excellent results, such as this one that we observed in our clinical practice.
What is Acupuncture for Postoperative?
The growing concern about postoperative care is bringing positive results through preventive means to avoid complications. These initiatives bring a shorter postoperative time and, consequently, a more satisfactory result
One of those preventive means is Acupuncture for postoperative time which, although not yet widespread, has been proven to be an extremely effective method, producing excellent results, not only in accelerating postoperative, as well as the prevention and control of common complications of this type of intervention. Treatment with Acupuncture aims to offer a more tolerable, faster and better postoperative to patients. And its effects can be much more effective the sooner it starts. Acting in the immediately postoperative time, acupuncture can prevent complications generated in late postoperative time, preventing problems difficult to solve with drugs.
Why should we do acupuncture in postoperative time?
Even in cases of a simple procedure, it traumatizes the body. Swellings, bruises of different levels, discomfort and pain are some of the most frequent complaints with which patients have to live during the postoperative period. The overall healing process is long, painful and sometimes also brings with it some not very pleasant surprises such as fibrosis, persistent pain, sleep disorders, poor digestion and overall energy disharmony. Also, a procedure such as the face surgery generally stays patients off social contact for about one month.
As we know, acupuncture as a resource developed by Traditional Chinese Medicine seeks to restore the natural strength of the body which may have been shaken by several reasons. Any surgery is seen as a trauma from the perspective of Chinese Medicine and the choice of the means to reestablish such homeostasis, i.e., choosing the most appropriate mix of points and the resources to be used will be under choice of each expert.
Acupuncture brings general body rebalancing and organic ways of self-regulation to patients, thus helping the body to overcome the surgical trauma. In other words, it is possible to achieve organic homeostasis in a natural way, unlike what occurs with the ingestion of chemical medication. Thanks to the numerous benefits of acupuncture, we're not working so late anymore and time to the initiation of treatment by acupuncture was reduced to 1 day after discharge from a surgical procedure, whatever it is.
Action in body
In general, accelerate post-surgical means to achieve the following objectives:
1. Bruises reduction
2. Edemas reduction
3. Pain reduction
4. Accelerate healing with improved quality of it
5. Avoid fibrosis formation
6. Lymphatic drainage
7. Emotional rebalancing
8. Restoration of organic homeostasis
9. Acting on disorders caused by surgery as constipation, sleep disturbance, anxiety etc.
Preventive treatment can prevent problems such as:
In general, accelerate post-surgical means to achieve the following objectives:
1. Bruising
2. Infection
3. Pain reduction
3. Suture dehiscence
Areas of Practice
Postoperative cosmetic surgery has very different characteristics for each type of procedure. Thus, the type of surgery will determine the way of action. Roughly speaking, we can say that facial surgery (rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, facelift or rhytidectomy) needs a local and distal treatment and surgeries in body (abdomen surgeries such as liposuction, liposculpture, plastic abdomen) need distal interventions. In the latter case, we should avoid the discomfort of the patient in removing the abdominal brace used after surgery, which does not diminish the result, therefore, let us recall a major premise of acupuncture that says, in acute cases the distal points are more important than locations(Figure 1).
The local action of acupuncture aims mainly dissipate ecchymosis (Xue stagnation), and edema (Ye Jin stagnation), decrease pain symptoms (stagnation of Qi and Xue), and accelerate the healing of injured tissue, returning peripheral sensitivity.
In postoperative of several patients I have seen renal energy down with frequent complaints of pain in lumbar region coupled to an energy reduction of Spleen-Pancreas (Pi) with gastro-intestinal disturbances. However, often I observed an energy disharmony in the Five Elements with symptoms such as sleep disturbance (Heart - Xin), throbbing headaches (Liver - Gan), back pain (Rim - Shen), digestive disorders (Spleen - Pi) and edema (Lung - Fei). See below the table of the most frequent complaints and their treatment:
Type of Needles:TING needles (1,5 cm) Time of Application: During about 20 minutes Body Type of Needles: Korean needles with 3 cm Time of Application: During about 20 minutes(Figure 2) (Table 1).
|Symptoms / Western signs
|Energy Syndromes
|Therapeutic Goals
|Qi Pi deficiency Qi Shen deficiency Qi Fei deficiency
|Drain liquid
|Bruises (surgical trauma)
|Qi/Xue stagnation
|Release stagnation
|Local stagnation/sistDqi and Xue
|Release stagnation
|Psychic disturbance (anxiety)
|Local stagnation/sistDqi and Xue
|Release stagnation
|Psychic disturbance (anxiety)
|Yin of Xin deficiency Changes in Shen (mind)
|Tone Yin of Xin and calm down the mind
|Yin deficiency or Xue of Xin
|Calm down Shen Tone Yin of Xin
|Stomach neuralgia
|Heat in Wei
|Sedate Wei
|Qi of Pi deficiency (thin stools) or stagnation of Qi of Gan (ball stools)
|Tone Pi Release stagnation Local points
|Distal Points: IG4; E36; BP6; BP9; R3; R7; BP3; C7 and CS6
Table 1:Treatment Methodology
Some surgeries
Partnership results
After the period of 5 years starting in April 2001, 400 face and body surgeries and interventions were observed and treated, with at least 60% of reduction in postoperative time. We also highlight:
1. The acupuncture acceptance rate by patients was enormous since very few rejected the technique for fear of needles.
2. Many of them remain in treatment after recovery from surgery to control various types of disorders such as PMS, migraine headaches, labyrinthitis and others.
3. From the medical point of view, there is no doubt – we improve the quality of postoperative period.
4. Time reduction was the best point observed: before a procedure could take about 30 days for the full recovery of the patient, this can now be accomplished in 15 days.
5. Improved quality of healing
6. More effective reduction of edema
7. Faster disappearance of bruises
8. Adjustment of sleep
Physical and psychological effects
1. Improved quality of healing
2. More effective reduction of edema
3. Faster disappearance of bruises
4. Adjustment of sleep
We all know that aging is an inexorable process. However, this reality is experienced in different ways in various societies, throughout space and time. Our relationship with aging can be seen, ultimately, as the way we see and how we deal with death, and in this sense, this can be understood as the result of beliefs and values of a society. Therefore, aging is seen so differently by Oriental cultures in general than by our Western culture.The intervention in this natural process, likewise, has manifested in various ways, modified by both scientific and technological advancement, and by new demands arising in recent centuries, especially in the twentieth century.It is interesting to realize that cosmetic acupuncture is an ancient practice that dates back to the Chinese empresses, and now today, meets the pressing needs of self-esteem of modern man.
My clinical practice and professional experience focused on cosmetic treatment have made this perception even clearer, because I have had the opportunity to combine, using acupuncture treatment, two paradigms from both cultures: the culture of Western cosmetic interventions, in which what counts most is a faster type of intervention; and the other one, the Eastern cosmetic intervention, whose natural treatment methods seek greater harmony with the body that is undergoing treatment. Looking to work in a multi-disciplinary way in the matter of cosmetic interventions during these years, my technique has settled upon a solid foundation provided by Traditional Chinese Medicine.I chose the middle path. The natural process of aging can be alleviated and treated with greater patient health and happiness through the energy balance promoted by acupuncture and its associated practices. The benefits of acupuncture treatment can help in the recovery of those who undergo the most radical interventions in the body, such as plastic surgery
During clinical practice I have noticed that, on the one hand, the change of body image may cause an improved self-esteem, and that, on the other hand, an internal balance can be reflected outwardly, bringing the beauty from the inside out - the opposite can also occur. Significant internal changes may be provided by changing the body shape. It is noteworthy that there was something in common in all patients; low self-esteem was what led them to seek cosmetic interventions to change their bodies. So keep in mind the objectives of our work. There is a need for change in behavioral habits, and we need to intervene as mediators in the rehabilitation of the patient whether it is psychological, nutritional, breathing etc.If we don't seek to understand who the patient is, little advance will be reached intervening in his body, and we can do little to make him have more health, happiness and balance. The patient should be aware of this and walk together with us holding hands throughout his treatment.
- Introduction
- Treatment
- Partnership results


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When we got to the store, Kailee was so excited to see whats in side. When we were inside, I think she was mesmerized with all of the stuff! She was grabbing things left and right and putting them in my basket! She said she wanted to get everything and obviously, that's not possible. Hahaha! So she had to put a lot of things back.
The store is filled with so many knick knacks. I'm sure you'd find one for every member of the family. It's a different experience once you're inside a Tickles store, I for one can't help to look and touch the items sold in the store. I can spend hours just looking through their stuff. I love Tickles! Hahaha..
Pillows for everyone!
These are piggy/coin banks - I personally loved the Pizza Fund one as I super duper love pizzas!
Kailee enjoying her shopping.
They have sashes! How I wish these were sold during the 90's. Hahaha!!
I personally use these bag organizers. Ask my Panget, I have 4 of them! Hahaha.. Don't ask me why I have 4 - I just want to have color options, you know. Hahaha!
More plushies and stuffed toys.
In my head, I knew I needed to buy water guns. I was so happy when Kailee saw these!
We bumped into Peachy and Ykaie and here is Ykaie, gamely posing for me!
KJ kasi si Kailee eh. Hehehe.. thanks Ykaie!
And shopping was done! I had to stop Kailee, or else she's want to buy everything in the store!
I will forever remember Tickles as my stationary supply store. I really had so much Tickles stationary that I was so excited to share with my kids! Unfortunately Ondoy destroyed them all.
Tickles - you are instrumental to most of my love letters in HS and college. Hahaha!!
And this is Ate Gem. I was so surprised to learn that she started working for the company in 1992 when Tickles Shoppesville opened! It was so heartwarming to learn that they have pioneers still working for the company. I'm sure Ate Gem has seen so much progress and growth with the brand. I hope to bump into you again Ate Gem!
And these are what we took home. The kids immediately used the water guns that afternoon.
Thank YOU Tickles!
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Ballad Of The Lotto 4on June 28, 2012 at 12:01 am
- I like the little touch of the cracked and dented pipe in the first panel. It implies that, even though it was enough to knock him out, Rooster had a seriously hard head.
- It was tricky to convey Louie the Screw in the pitch black darkness. There may have been a better way than to use the thin white outline that I did here, but it seems to work well enough, and it's not too distracting from the overall design of the panel.
- I learned the hard way that I can't easily make unnatural colors work for skies. It's come up a lot in earlier Dead Duck stories, and I almost always hate the end result. However, the pea soup colored sky with the baby puke-clouds atop it seem to work in conveying an ominous environment. Lesson learned. What doesn't work for one thing may work great for something else.
- I spent a long time designing the riverboat. I used references that I found online, and paid attention to how other cartoonists drew them, particularly Don Rosa in "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck"(1995). In the end, I went with a simplified, cartoony design that draws more inspiration from my own style than anything else.
- Because I created The Lotto a good twenty years before I wrote this story, I had to make sure that the broken gambling equipment reflected what I'd already established in the Lotto's overall design. This meant drawing nonsensical machinery that probably never existed on gambling boats, either at the turn of the 20th century or today. I'll go into greater detail about this in the next entry.
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'Obedience' is an exhibition by 21 year old artist, Michal Kamiski who is a resident artist at Bauhaus Cafe & Art Gallery. This is Michal's first exhibition and will be showing from the 2nd February to 12th February 2017 in the Cafe.
The theme is close to Michal's heart as he examines patriarchic society and the role of women in that society, vulnerable and isolated as if on purpose to serve the household and take care of all of her husband's needs, hence giving up the right to be other than a mother and the keeper of the house. As a result she has no sexuality, no human rights and no face, and is merely an extension of the man in her life, serving him faithfully and surrendering to all of his wishes.
Join Michal for the Private Viewing of his work on 9th February from 6pm to 8pm and speak to him about his work. You can find more about Michal's work HERE.


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A viral website for Man of Steel has been counting down, in Kryptonian cyphers. We've now reached zero hour, or whatever alien equivalent, and our reward is the new trailer.
This trailer will be playing in cinemas with The Hobbit.
Zack Snyder's Man of Steel will reach UK and US cinemas on June 14th next year.


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A school has seen their Christian Union grow from nothing to 60 young people after the impact of Higher Manchester 2016.
Back in Spring 2016, over four weeks our mission teams visited 55 schools, 23 youth groups and delivered five explosive gospel gigs at the O2 Apollo. This was the first ever Higher Tour and it proclaimed the gospel to 30,000 young people. Now, more than two years on, we're still seeing the ripples across the city.
One of the schools – in Weaverham, just outside Northwich – was visited by BrightLine, our high-energy four-piece consisting of graduates from the Message Academy.
'We had a great session,' says Daniel – BrightLine's singer, beatboxer and high-energy front man. 'The kids loved it. The staff loved it. After the schools visit, the school put on two coaches to take students to the Higher Apollo gigs.'
Many of the students made a commitment to Jesus on the night of the Apollo gig. Because of this, the school set up a Christian club called Boost – and BrightLine were invited back a few weeks later to see it for themselves, finding dozens of students who were now attending weekly.
This was 2016. 'In our busy schedule I hadn't really thought much more about it since,' continues Daniel. 'But earlier this year – two years on – we were invited to go back. To be honest I'm not sure what I expected to find. It was amazing – there were 65 students there!'
A number of the students had started to bring their not-yet-Christian friends with them. 'There were a number who were interested in what was going on and who were interested in the local church.
'Each one of those 65 young people represents a story of their own. One of the teachers told us about a student who had been at the school when we first visited in 2016. She was having a tough time and it was impacting her school life. After our visit, she began to listen to our music and our message and the teacher said that as a result there had been a dramatic change in her whole demeanour and her attitude towards life. Music is so powerful, and this is why we write and create what we do – to impact the message of what these young people are listening to through their headphones.'
Having an opportunity to see the ongoing impact of Higher was a rare experience for the band. 'It's so encouraging to see fruit that lasts. Normally we'll go into a school and see young people respond but we then we have to leave them to it and head off on mission elsewhere. We rarely get the chance to see these young people on their journey of faith beyond our gigs – it's inspiring to know that what we do has a lasting impact.'
Against a backdrop of what sometimes feels like increasing opposition to the gospel, Daniel is quick to counter. 'As time goes on I realise more and more that the gospel is effective. And young people do actually want to hear about Jesus. I think there's a misconception that they don't want to hear about God or faith but in reality, it's quite the opposite. They're longing for something more. Often when you present the gospel to them they respond with, "Why have I never heard this before?" No one has told them that their life has purpose or that they are unique. What a message! I love that I get to deliver it.'
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The preparation for and the actual participation in a Board of Directors Meeting can cause a lot of worry and anxiety for the Directors and people involved.
1Be prepared. There is a tremendous amount of preparation needed to run a productive and informative meeting. Unfortunately, most Board Members have limited time in which to prepare for the task of preparing for a Board of Directors Meeting. This article will provide an outline and checklist for Boards, Committees and Managers to follow in order to prepare and hold informative and productive Board Meetings.
2Know each person's role. In most cases, there are at least three (3) key people involved with the preparation of the Board Meeting: the President, the Secretary and the Property Manager, if any. A week prior to the meeting, the participants should confirm the Agenda items with all Directors and Committee persons. The designated person should confirm the location and time of the meeting. The Meeting Notice and Agenda should be printed and distributed to all of the participants.
3Prepare meeting notice and agenda in advance. Three to four days before the meeting, the designated person should post the Meeting Notice and Agenda at the designated area on site for the Association's Notices. The person in charge should then collect and distribute the Board Member's Meeting packets which will include, but not be limited to, the following:
- Meeting Agenda
- Notice of Meeting
- Minutes of Previous Meeting
- President's Report
- Treasurer's Report
- Manager's Report
- Committee Reports
- Information Related to Old Business
- Information Related to New Business
4Have extras on hand. On the day of the meeting, the person in charge should print additional Meeting Agendas and Manager's Reports for any Members who may attend. In addition, have extra Board Member packets available in case there are Directors who do not bring theirs to the Meeting. Check to see if the tape recorder is working. Have extra batteries, pens, paper and miscellaneous supplies on hand. Bring the Official Minutes Book, recorded Governing Documents and copies of all of the prior month's correspondence to the meeting.
5Give updates. Someone should be designated (usually the Chairperson of the Meeting) to give reports for absent Officers and Committees. In addition, it would be wise to have a current financial statement, delinquent owner list and a copy of the current State Statutes, governing your type of association on hand, in case there are any questions of this nature.
6Prepare minutes and after-meeting requirements. The day after the meeting, the person in charge should remove the Meeting Notices and Agendas from the bulletin Boards. Make all changes, additions and deletions to the previous month's approved Minutes. Make a draft of the current meeting Minutes while they are fresh in your mind. Distribute this to key people on the Board for their changes and additions. Then, these changes should be ready for the next meeting. At this time, arrange for the next month's meeting location and time.
7Keep up the good habits. With this outline and schedule, each Board of Directors Meeting should be easy to prepare and schedule for and the end result should be productive meetings for the Board Members and be an informative meetings for the Owner Members who attend. Depending on the association, this outline can be reduced or expanded for size and complexity of the actual meetings. Always, allow for or make a part of the Agenda which encourages owner participation. Limit the time for any questions or comments. The Board does not have to make any decisions at that time (as that particular question or comment was not specifically on the Agenda) and it can then be made a part of the next scheduled meeting, if important or not. In all cases, use an outline and schedule from month to month in order to insure well run meetings. After awhile, you should begin to see more owners attending and participating.Advertisement
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Why visit &Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve?
One of the most extraordinary experiences with different landscapes from ocean to safari
Home to a large portion of the world's remaining rare sand forest, &Beyond Phinda sits in close proximity to the unspoiled beaches and marine reefs of the Indian Ocean, with a combination of bush and beach adventures possible from the reserve. Offering a rich wildlife viewing experience and a spectacular setting near the northern KwaZulu-Natal coastline, &Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve boasts a variety of habitats and high density of game, including some rare and less easily spotted species. With seven distinct habitats, &Beyond Phinda is a magnificent tapestry of landscapes, from woodland to grassland, wetland and forest, interspersed with mountain ranges, river courses, marshes and pans. Home to a large portion of the world's remaining rare sand forest, &Beyond Phinda sits in close proximity to the unspoiled beaches and marine reefs of the Indian Ocean, with a combination of bush and beach adventures possible from the reserve.
&Beyond Phinda is home to a magnificent variety of wildlife, including the entire Big Five, but is best known for its large population of the elegant cheetah and the endangered black rhino, both of which are less easily spotted at other game reserves. The rare sand forest is home to the shy suni and the rare red duiker, two tiny antelope that are seldom encountered elsewhere. The reserve's population of nyala is the biggest on private land and guests are guaranteed frequent encounters with this stately animal.
Established in 1991 on reclaimed farmland, &Beyond Phinda has earned prestigious international conservation awards and recognition as one of the world's premier benchmarks for responsible, sustainable travel. Some of the reserve's most notable conservation firsts include:
- Site of the black rhino range expansion project
- Home to one of South Africa's most important cheetah populations
- Leopard research project has led to changes in provincial legislation
- First private game reserve to donate rhino for translocation to another country
&Beyond Phinda consists of seven varied and diverse eco-systems, allowing for a rich variety of birds, animals and vegetation. One of the most remarkable of these habitats is the rare dry sand forest, with its massive trees, cacti, orchids, ferns, mosses and creepers. The reserve is also home to three different types of savannah, from coastal grassland to open woodland and mixed bushveld, with thick tangles of trees. Two rivers run through &Beyond Phinda, creating a fertile marshland studded with magnificent fever trees at their junction. The rocky foothills of the Lebombo Mountains run through the south of the reserve. Guests enjoy the unique opportunity to explore each of these habitats and meet their inhabitants, particularly when combining two or more lodges.
Apart from the magnificent landscapes of &Beyond Phinda itself, guests staying at the reserve can experience day trips to the nearby KwaZulu-Natal coastline, including the diving mecca of Sodwana Bay.
Guests at &Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve may view different wildlife depending on where they are based, making it a good idea to spend a few nights in both the north and south of the reserve. The sleek cheetah and massive rhino are often encountered, as are prides of lion. Phinda also has a sizeable population of leopard, although this elusive cat is less frequently sighted.
While the frequency of big game encounters may not be as high as at other reserves, Phinda is a private game reserve, which means that vehicle numbers at sightings are strictly monitored. Guests are thus ensured a far more exclusive game viewing experience, with fewer interruptions and more time spent with wildlife. Sensitive off-road driving practices result in close-up, quality wildlife experiences for our guests. Afternoon game drives are also able to continue after dark, allowing guests a glimpse into the nocturnal life of the bush.
Why Visit?
- Excellent Big Five game viewing, with spectacular sightings of the elusive cheetah and the rare black rhino.
- Provides a sanctuary for threatened wildlife, such as cheetah and black rhino
- A birder's paradise, with 436 bird species
- Near to the popular breeding grounds of the highly endangered sea turtles
- Spectacular coral reef diving in the Indian Ocean easily accessible nearby
- Seven distinct habitats allow for much greater diversity in species and landscapes
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Min 24°C/75°F Max 32°C/90°F
Winter (May – September)
Min 8°C/46°F Max 23°C/73°F
Perfect for year round travel. Lush and hot in summer, with an abundance of young animals. The vegetation becomes thinner in the dry winter months and the cooler temperatures allow for the best all-round game viewing.


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Vivi Marie and Luka Salome are hot for each other! These two athletic and all natural beautys have fun stripping in my backyard before licking each and every part of each others all natural bodies back inside. Lots of hairy armpit, pussy and butt hole licking, just like you asked!
2 great girls, love seeing Luka again!
Are you going to post the lesbian scene between Luka and Vivi Marie after midnight? Eastern standard time
Luka's cobalt blue eyes are mesmerizing. She has such a magical quality about her. She should audition for a part in Game of Thrones!
Beautiful ladies! Such a hot shoot! Big fan of Luka…not only is she a natural goddess but seems like she possesses such a wonderful energy. Awesome work as always, Nikki.
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Avengers Vol 1 #233
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Appearing in "The Annihilation Gambit!"
Featured Characters:
- Avengers
Supporting Characters:
- Alicia Masters
- Vision
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
- Fantastic Four
- Franklin Richards
Other Characters:
- Bernie Rosenthal
- Cross Technological Enterprises
- Jorge Latham (First appearance)
- Female paramedic
- New York
- New York City
- Long Island
- Long Island City
- Cross Technological Enterprises Headquarters
- Long Island City
- Earth Orbit
- Moon
- Sun
- Starcore-One (Cameo)
Synopsis for "The Annihilation Gambit!"
The invisible barrier which surrounds the Baxter Building is the work of the Fantastic Four's nemesis, Annihilus, who has escaped from the Negative Zone and trapped the foursome therein. Having lost the Cosmic Control Rod which sustained his immortality, the mad villain has decided that if he must die, so must all living things. He has therefore generated a "null-field," within which a positive-energy field grows; when the two meet, Earth's universe and the Negative Zone will merge and be destroyed. The Avengers assemble, but fail to breach the field or slow its inexorable growth. The Vision and the Scarlet Witch arrive to help, but when the android steps through the barrier, he is instantly deactivated. Fortunately, Starfox recognizes what Annihilus is attempting, and a plan is conceived. Captain Marvel flashes into space in light form and merges with a beam from the sun-orbiting Starcore satellite, becoming a gamma-ray laser which succeeds in neutralizing the null-field. Entering the Baxter Building, the Avengers find the Fantastic Four, who have returned from the Negative Zone.
- Continued from Fantastic Four #254, the Avenger's story continues in Fantastic Four #256.
- Plot by Stern and Byrne, script by Stern.
- Vision sustains injury due to Annihilus' null-field, becoming incapacitated.
- Thor is forcibly turned into his Donald Blake alter ego when Mjolnir is trapped on the other side of the null-field.
- Hawkeye's leg is in a cast thanks to an earlier injury.
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Raspberry Ketone prevents weight gain in mice
Weight loss is a goal for many within western culture. Diet and exercise are generally the focus, though it's common to look for a little help if it's available and effective. Supplements in particular are popular, with varying degrees of results. The latest one to get press for its possible weight loss assistance is raspberry ketone.
This chemical is found in many fruits, including blackberries, cranberries and of course raspberries. It is similar in structure to capsaicin, which has been studied to help prevent weight gain. In some studies, the chemical has been shown to reduce fat cells and prevent skin from aging. This sounds too good to be true, and this in fact may be the case. There have been no comprehensive studies of raspberry ketone and its effects on humans (only mice have been used so far).
Raspberry ketone is considered safe by the FDA, but there is a catch: this assumes consumption of less than two milligrams of the substance per day, while weight loss supplements pack in much more. At those doses, it's important to note that it can change body fat, but also cause heart palpitations and have poor combinations with medications (in particular, ones that regulate hormones and cholesterol). It's also not recommended if you have diabetes. So if you do plan to give it a try, be aware of the risks and always consult your doctor. It may help, but it's important to be safe and double check your medications for safety.


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When Mr. Spouse & I were first married, I couldn't cook to save my life. I mean, even toast seemed to be a challenge for me. I eventually learned what a stove could do and I made an INSANE amount of Hamburger Helper for our nightly dinners...yes, we dined on it almost nightly. I gag just typing those words. To this day, it's hard for me to eat any kind of pasta with hamburger meat in it. However, I found this recipe on Pinterest and thought it looked too good not to try. It looked like a far cry from the beef stroganof that gives me nightmares to this day. If Hamburger Helper would've tasted like this, I don't think I ever would've stopped eating it!!!
1 lb. penne pasta
1 1/2 lbs. ground turkey {or ground beef}
1 tbsp. cumin
1 tbsp. ground coriander
2 tbsp. chili powder
Coarse ground black pepper
1 large yellow onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, chopped {I used about 5-6! I LOVE garlic.}
1 jalapeno, chopped
2 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. all-purpose flour
2 cups milk
2 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/4 cups fresh cilantro, chopped
1 can {14 oz.} fire roasted diced tomatoes
As you can see, I opted for the turkey instead of the hamburger meat :) In all honesty, I really prefer ground turkey instead of ground beef!!!
Cook pasta according to package directions. While that's cooking, chop your onions and jalapeno. If you're allergic to raw jalapenos like I am, have Mr. Spouse do the chopping instead. Cook the turkey until it starts to brown and then toss in the onion, garlic, and jalapeno. Cook for another 5-7 minutes. Drain & return to skillet. The recipe called for 3 cloves of garlic, but I'm obsessed with the flavor and I used about 5-6. Just doing my part to keep the vampires away ;)
Toss in the cumin, coriander, and chili powder. Mix well and remove from heat. Make sure the meat is evenly coated with spices! Set aside.
In a medium/large saucepan, melt the butter and then add the flour. Mix until it looks like a flour-y little paste.
Then whisk in the milk until it starts to bubble. Add in the cheese & cilantro. The original recipe called for parsley also, but the market was out of it so I didn't bother. Once the cheese is melted, toss in the diced tomatoes and mix until combined. You'll have a lovely little queso sauce waiting for you and you'll smile at the pan of cheese sauce staring back at you.
Now take the turkey & all of it's spices and add it to the drained pasta.
Pour the queso sauce on top of that and stir until combined. Now serve yourself a generous helping and prepare for your taste buds to cheer.
So.stinkin'.good. To my surprise, it wasn't spicy at all. I was expecting it to pack a little heat from the jalapeno & chili powder, but it didn't. My 3-year-old devoured an entire plate and went back for more! He's got a pretty sensitive palate when it comes to anything that has a little kick to it, but he didn't say a thing about this dish.
See…totally 3-year-old approved. And let's be real. How can you argue with cuteness…and a crazy, ridiculous silly face?!?!
I polished off my pasta with some shaved parmesan and all was right in the world of carbs. My parents ended up stopping by the night I whipped this up and they both loved it, too. As far as my dad is concerned, that says A LOT!!!! He has a very opinionated taste palate. When he served himself a second helping, I knew it had to be good! HA!!
This is definitely NO Hamburger Helper. A far cry from it, for sure!!


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I've got a complicated relationship with Christina Perri.
Hell, I could make the argument I have a complicated relationship with the entire genre of piano-inspired adult alternative / pop rock - as in, I tend to be more forgiving of it than the male counterparts on acoustic guitars. I cannot in good faith say that everything in this genre is good or works consistently, but when you have artists that manage to come up with some imagination or unique framing or emotionally compelling performances, I'm normally pretty supportive. And thus, acts like Adele, A Fine Frenzy, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, and to a lesser extent Vanessa Carlton and Regina Spektor do manage to work for me more often than they don't.
And at first listen, Christina Perri was on that list too, and I distinctly remember liking 'Jar Of Hearts' more than I didn't back in 2011. But then I listened to that debut album and my liking for her as a performer nose-dived in record time. Like it or not, Perri's greatest strength on her better songs was her emotional vulnerability, but it wasn't long before I noticed that her lyrics frequently approached hyperbole and sophomoric whining. And given she wasn't exactly an impressive instrumentalist, it consigned large chunks of her material to being less compelling and more intolerably tedious. And really, it made all too much sense for 'A Thousand Years' to be attached to the Twilight franchise because it was a song so shallow and bereft of maturity that it made perfect sense to be attached to Stephenie Meyer's masturbation fantasy. So I put Christina Perri out of my mind, resolving that I'd come back when she put out another album and hoping that she might have grown up in the mean time, so when Head Or Heart came out this year, I gave it a few listens. How did it go?
Ugh, I should like this album more than I do. Because Head Or Heart by Christina Perri is an improvement over her debut, and there are a lot of elements I would normally react to in a better way... but it's also a record that fails when it goes for more ambitious material and nuance - which as a critic is the exact opposite of what you want to see. As such, you get a record that actually is pretty decent when it sticks with objectively 'easier' material, but starts to stumble whenever it guns for something heavier, which might have worse implications.
So what goes right on this album? Well, for the most part, the instrumentation is pretty good. Sure, Christina Perri isn't a great pianist - she relies heavily on power chords and the supporting arsenal of bleak electronic effects to create atmosphere - but at least there are more songs on this album that have a pulse and appear to be taking instrumental risks. 'One Night', for instance, was a pretty solid shot at a quiet storm ballad, and 'Human' is one of the better songs to use silence as a climax that I've seen in a while. And better yet, 'Sea Of Lovers' and 'Burning Gold' do a pretty solid job earning their dramatic swell with strings and the occasional bit of folk-inspired sounds. Nothing with a lot of texture or grit - this is production for Christina Perri, after all, where all the edges have been sanded off and most of the electronic elements are watery and muddy the sound more than they should, which really hamstrings the Spanish guitar on 'Lonely Child' and the muted organ tone at the back of 'Run'. But honestly, the melodies aren't bad on this album and show how Christina Perri has grown more confident as a songwriter.
And that confidence really does show up in Christina Perri's delivery and songwriting. While I don't think I'll ever be the biggest fan of hers as a vocalist - the girl has a lot of volume, but not a huge emotional range - she does push herself harder on this record in terms of vocal range. Plus, her songwriting has gotten better, and while there are still a few painfully high-school songs on this album that do nothing for me, I can imagine they'll absolutely kill with Christina Perri's target audience. And there are a few songs on this album where her musical theater background really does shine through in the bigger, more theatrical emotions, which worked for me.
But it's where this album aims for more mature songwriting that we get some interesting material, and to be fair, there are points where Christina Perri nails the emotional balance required in the delivery. 'Human', for instance, is a painfully vulnerable song about how she has limits in terms of how much she'll compromise or give up in a relationship, and 'One Night' goes for hot passion on a one-night stand and kind of nails it. And as I mentioned, songs like 'Burning Gold' and 'Sea Of Lovers' work pretty damn well for the exuberant and earnest songs they are. But then you have songs like 'I Don't Wanna Break', where she seems to be aware the relationship is collapsing and the guy is a liar and she's desperate to hold it together, but if it doesn't work, she just wants to be close to the guy in question so he can comfort her. It's a weird tonal mishmash and that's before we get to the chorus which seems to be going for this soaring exuberance and it's an awkward fit.
And this song is evidence of a bigger problem, analogous to that of Tokyo Police Club in that I have no idea how self aware Christina Perri is. Her songwriting seems to have a little more nuance, but her vocal delivery and the underlying messages of her other songs are so earnest that I'm really not sure if that self-awareness really exists. And while it makes her songs honest in their framing in the songwriting, in capturing that stream of complicated emotions, the tone of the instrumentation and her vocals don't completely capture that nuance. Take 'Lonely Child' - if you're looking to make a song about how you need to come down from the heady rush of new love, maybe it's a poor idea to make the alternative look so depressing or pair the song with Spanish guitar! Or take 'Run', which is really Perri's version of 'I Knew You Were Trouble' by Taylor Swift and while it's better than that song, it has the same logical problem that if you clearly know the relationship is bad news and all of your friends are telling you to run, maybe you shouldn't stick around, and pairing it with a noir atmosphere to romanticize it really doesn't help matters.
And while there are problems with the songwriting itself, I honestly think most of the problems come down to Christina Perri's delivery - she's a very earnest and expressive performer who'd be great on stage, but she doesn't have a lot of subtlety outside of playing vulnerability - and songs that demand a more complex emotional range like some that she's written don't really stick the landing. Even the better ones I liked don't really rise to being great songs. On top of that, there are tonal problems with some of these songs that really confuse their intentions, and not in a good way. In contrast, I've been relistening through Lacuna Coil's discography in preparation for covering their new album, and I think the reason that band managed to stick with me despite making some sour, bitter, generally miserable music is because the band can keep a consistent tone and has the emotional range to lend greater complexity to these songs. Whereas Christina Perri's straightforward approach works on the simpler material, but really is inadequate when she tries to go deeper beyond vulnerability.
As I said, I want to like this album more than I do. Christina Perri does show more promise on this album than she did on previous works, but learning a more expressive or complex emotional range when singing is an extremely difficult skill to master - hell, it's one of the main reasons certain songs out of my wheelhouse as a singer, I get this problem. Unfortunately, it's still a problem and it's a factor keeping Christina Perri out of my list of favourites. As for the album, as much as the thematic throughline is about balancing the needs of head and heart, Christina Perri's delivery can't hold that balance and it all tips into the 'heart' category, for better or for worse. With that, and the acknowledgement the target audience will love this album and it does land more hits than misses, it's a 6/10 and a very tentative recommendation. But frankly, when we have acts like Adele, Tori Amos, A Fine Frenzy, Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple, and plenty others, I still think Christina Perri has a lot of work to do.


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Dear Friends,
today is a very special day for me and the iOS Dev Diary. Since I've launched this site in 2012, over two million visitors have come to check it out and find solutions to puzzles this challenging hobby has presented to all of us.
That's a phenomenal amount of people for me, and I'm thrilled that my site has helped so many interested and like-minded folks on this planet.
Keep in mind, this site is a personal note pad on all things iOS, meant as a thinking aid for myself rather than visitors. I've started it so that I don't forget the solutions to intricate puzzles I found answers to. It was never meant to be anything along the lines of "presentable" or "understandable for others".
Sometimes the best things happen when you don't really try. This site is certainly proof of that.
To take a look at all the articles I've written here over the years, check out the Table of Contents. It'll tell you that at the time of writing, there are over 400 articles to explore, featuring a total 135,000 words. That's the equivalent of THREE WHOLE BOOKS.
I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who's been coming over, and for those who continue to drop by, so I've prepared a few surprises for ya'll's enjoyment:


text: Jean-Luc Colombo has the taste for good and well made things. Great hedonist, gourmet, talented cook and fine master of wine and food matches, Jean-Luc begins in 1984 (after having acquired his oenology diploma) as consultant oenologist and creates with his wife Anne (oenologist too) an oenology laboratory in Cornas. Aware of the real potential of the Cornas Appellation, of a breath taking character, Jean-Luc and Anne decide in 1987 to put a lot into vine as wine grower and wine maker. They buy on the heights of the appellation their first hectare on a steep hillside, "les Ruchets". This iconic parcel remains in the very heart of the Colombo family adventure. It lays on granitic arenites that are characteristic of this appellation and provide to old Syrah all the necessary ingredients to produce iconic wines. This selection by the parcel was to open the doors of the Hall of Fame of the Rhone Valley wine trade great personalities to Jean-Luc Colombo.


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Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world and second largest in South America. Its name derives from the Spanish word for silvery, thanks to the abundance of the mineral, which has helped Argentina become one of the biggest producers on earth.
The capital of Buenos Aires is also the country's largest city. Famous as a nation for the vibrant yet sensuous Tango, Argentines also care passionately about food and football.
A member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) since the late 1800s, Correo Argentino is the state-owned postal service which manages the country's mail.
Dispute with the UK over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands has caused a drop in UK exports to Argentina in the last few years, combined with a slowing in the country's economy. Despite this there still exist plenty of opportunities for UK businesses to export to Argentina, whilst individuals will still want to send packages to friends and relatives residing across the Atlantic.
The fact that it has the highest English language proficiency in South America, combined with only a four hour time difference, make it a relatively easy to conduct business negotiations with Argentina.
It's important to be aware that Argentina has a list of fairly complex import restrictions. As well as an extensive list of chemicals which are prohibited or only admitted conditionally, dyes such as food colourings carry restrictions and corn (maize) is also prohibited.
In addition there are restrictions on food items such as tea, coffee, vinegar and cocoa. The full list of restrictions can be found on the UPU website.
As a non-EU country, the relevant customs forms must be completed. If the package's contents are worth more than £270, you'll need to complete and attach the CN23 form. Anything under that value should be sent with the CN22.
It is also possible that the receiver will be obligated to pay a customs charge. The UPU link above provides a guide to parcel values that are affected by this. According to the UPU, parcels containing non-commercial articles, whose Freight on Board (FOB) value does not exceed 900 USD (approx. £600) may be admitted on the basis of a customs declaration without the addressee being required to be on the Register of Importers. Items with non-commercial contents of a value less than 25 USD are not subject to customs dues.
With a journey of roughly 7,000 miles ahead of it, your parcel faces quite the trek, so it's wise to package it carefully, keeping it safe against any unavoidable bumps in the journey. Choose a sturdy box and pad it well with packaging materials. Make sure to write the address clearly on the box with ARGENTINA in capital letters. Following these guidelines will help your parcel on its way and ensure it arrives safely at its destination.
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