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The college basketball season starts Friday and there is no shortage of storylines in the Big 5.
Villanova is once again the team to beat in the Big East and a legitimate national championship contender.
Saint Joseph's should be a big factor in the Atlantic 10 race if the Hawks can avoid the injury bug, something they failed to do last season and are struggling with already this year.
Temple and La Salle aim to rebound from lackluster seasons, while Penn has the talent to return to the top of the Ivy League standings.
Coaches tend to get the bulk of the attention in college basketball but it's the players who ultimately decide the outcome of a season. Here is a list of 10 players to watch in the Big 5 — not necessarily the best players in the city, but guys who will have the biggest impact in determining their team's level of success this winter.
1. Jalen Brunson (junior guard, Villanova)
The first name on this list just so happens to be the best player in the city. Brunson enters his junior year at Villanova as a first team preseason All-American, preseason Big East Player of the Year, and arguably the best point guard in the country. He's on track to graduate early in the spring so chances are this will be his final season with the Wildcats. The NBA awaits for Brunson, who has lived up to the lofty expectations placed on him when he arrived at Villanova three years ago. He has the rare ability to take over a game single-handedly while also elevating the play of his teammates. Brunson will be counted on for more scoring and an increased leadership role this season — things that come naturally for a player who is poised to put together one of the finest seasons in school history.
2. Charlie Brown (sophomore forward, Saint Joseph's)
As Brown goes, so goes St. Joe's. His sophomore year got off to an unfortunate start — a preseason wrist injury put his status at the beginning of the season in question. But when he's healthy, Brown is a flat out difference-maker — a silky smooth wing who should take a sizable leap during his second season on Hawk Hill. That's saying something considering how good Brown was as a freshman. He is an NBA-level talent who will be a force in the Atlantic 10, a player capable of carrying St. Joe's back to the NCAA Tournament.
3. AJ Brodeur (sophomore forward, Penn)
Brodeur has a chance to be not only one of the best players ever to play at Penn but also one of the best players in Ivy League history as well. If his freshman season was any indication, big things are in store over the next three years. He led the Quakers in scoring and rebounding as a freshman and set a program record with 66 blocked shots. You don't typically see a player as talented as Brodeur in the Ivy League. He could play and succeed in any conference. In fact, he turned down offers from Notre Dame and Boston College coming out of high school. Brodeur is the type of player who should lead Penn to accomplishments that were routine for the Quakers not too long ago — Ivy League championships and trips to the NCAA Tournament.
4. Josh Brown (senior guard, Temple)
Last season was beyond frustrating for Brown, who tore his Achilles tendon in May 2016 and worked his way back to action for a handful of games before being shut down for the remainder of the season. Temple struggled without its floor general — Brown is the type of point guard who keeps the Owls organized on both ends of the floor. He now has a clean bill of health and is aiming to finish out his career on North Broad Street on a winning note. Temple has the talent to compete for an AAC title. It will be up to Brown to lead them in that direction.
5. Donte DiVincenzo (sophomore guard, Villanova)
DiVincenzo is my choice for Big 5 breakout player of the year if there was such an award. His coach, Jay Wright, compared him to Josh Hart last season, which qualifies as high praise. With Hart now in the NBA, DiVincenzo has the opportunity to develop into one of the best players in all of college basketball. He certainly has the talent. He's a tremendous athlete with a well-rounded offensive skill set and the potential to be a lockdown perimeter defender. He was arguably Villanova's best player in the NCAA Tournament last year. Expect that upward trajectory to carry over into his sophomore season.
6. B.J. Johnson (senior guard, La Salle)
Johnson was as good as advertised in his first season at La Salle after transferring from Syracuse, averaging 17.6 points and 6.3 rebounds as a junior. He'll look to continue that production in his final collegiate season, but more importantly he'll try to pile up more wins for the Explorers following last season's 15-15 finish that included a 9-9 mark in A-10 play. La Salle has the requisite offensive firepower with Johnson, Pookie Powell and Amar Stukes leading the way. But it's on Johnson to lead them in a way that translates into more victories.
7. Omari Spellman (freshman forward, Villanova)
Spellman makes his much anticipated Villanova debut after being ruled academically ineligible last season. That ruling hurt the Wildcats on the floor last year but could end up being a blessing in disguise in terms of Spellman's long-term development. He used the last 12 months to shed 40 pounds while familiarizing himself with how the Villanova program operates. He should be very comfortable stepping into a critical role for the Wildcats this season. Spellman has the ability to be one of the best post players to ever play for Jay Wright. He is ultra talented on the low block, able to shoot the three-pointer and will serve as the backbone of the Wildcats' interior defense. The combination of Spellman inside and Villanova's arsenal of perimeter weapons spells trouble for opponents this season.
8. Shavar Newkirk (senior guard, Saint Joseph's)
Newkirk went down with a season-ending knee injury last year after just 12 games. He was averaging more than 20 points at the time of the injury and the Hawks were never able to recover from his absence. They were 7-5 at the time of Newkirk's injury then proceeded to go 4-15 without him. Newkirk still isn't 100 percent healthy — rehabbing a torn ACL tends to take more than a calendar year. But he should be back in the Hawks' lineup sooner rather than later, possibly as early as Saturday's season-opener against Toledo. Expect him to slowly regain his confidence and explosiveness and eventually return to form as one of the top lead guards in the Atlantic 10.
9. Ryan Betley (sophomore guard, Penn)
A broken hand forced Betley to miss the first month of his freshman year but by the time last season ended he had established himself as Penn's second-best player behind Brodeur. Betley finished the season by scoring in double figures in eight straight games, averaging just under 18 points during that span. He has a killer instinct that his coach, Steve Donahue, values in his players. Combine that with his skills on the perimeter and Betley should be in contention for First Team All-Ivy honors.
10. Obi Enechionyia (senior forward, Temple)
No player is more critical to Temple's success than Enechionyia, who is extremely talented but hasn't been able to put it all together to this point in his career. He'll get one last shot this year at developing into the consistent offensive force the Owls need him to be. There aren't many players in college basketball with Enechionyia's skill set — he's 6-foot-10 with the ability to play on the perimeter and knock down threes. But after a promising start to his junior season, he slumped during the critical months of January and February. Consistency is the key for Enechionyia for his final season in a Temple uniform.
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Mikal Bridges, Pookie Powell, Shizz Alston, Lamarr Kimble, Phil Booth, Antonio Woods, Eric Paschall, Amar Stukes


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Security information and event management (SIEM) systems is an approach to get a centralized view of the information coming out of multiple defense mechanisms, end user devices, applications and servers of the organization in most understandable and standard format. It serves multiple purposes like auditing, reporting, log retention, incident response and most importantly real-time monitoring which provides a capability to alert at the initial stages of cyber-attacks to your organization. In Summary, it will show what you want to see. Hence, to get most out of it, it should be managed properly.
Most companies buy SIEM tool and deploy it to infrastructure setup. As a practice, the next course of action is to point as many data sources as possible to it. This approach undermines the true capability of SIEM systems. We have to keep in mind that SIEM is not just for logging infrastructure data. Its primary and most useful capability is - real-time monitoring which makes it capable of alerting while the organization is under ongoing targeted cyber-attack.
Based on some hands-on experience on SIEM from both Operations as well as Infrastructure Implementation side, below are few suggestions that can be followed as best practices for SIEM:
Consider Network Modelling: It is important to know "that" everything in your environment. More specifically, the zones a network is divided into. This helps in identifying critical assets and business impacting sections. Even though identifying all the assets might a time-consuming task, but this one-time activity is crucial while performing the investigation or reporting the data. Proper asset modeling increases the quality of events by providing more granular details about the hosts involved for example, if zoning is done in a most proper way it can identify if type of asset is from Citrix server farm, a domain controller or a DMZ machine etc. along with the geographical view of the IP location. It is like knowing your audience or I can say, victims.
Roles should be defined in SIEM for users: This way we not only implement access controls to SIEM but also maintain the integrity of content built in tool. For example, a critical rule has been created to alert for a suspicious activity targeted on your organization. Now, if every user will have same access in tool then anybody can mistakenly tamper the rule while exploring the SIEM functionalities and you might not get this critical real-time alert while cyber-attack are underway. Hence, access based on roles should be set, so that only authorized member can make any changes to resources of SIEM.
Integrate SIEM with the ticketing system: This will ensure the automatic creation of records, and also initiates a formal & effective follow-up process. Automation saves analyst's valuable time which can be used for further digging into the alerts and getting finer details. These records can also be used in incident response for reference. For instance, a correlated event identifies a machine with malware; as a follow-on and predefined action assigned to this event SIEM triggers ticketing system to create a priority 1 ticket and assign it to end user or technology desk team in order to take the machine out of network. Hence you can save some time of yours due to this automation and spend it for gathering further info on malware or something more important related to this event.
Don't let the logs define your requirement: Have the use cases and requirements in place first and then decide on the type of logs you need to be pointed to SIEM. For e.g. You have just set-up SIEM in your organization and you have pointed all IDS logs to it without any use case or requirement for same. Now, Millions of logs coming to the tool and not being used. Suddenly, for instance, there is a requirement to have a real-time alert for botnet traffic towards your environment.That is when you think that what logs you need in SIEM to detect Botnet traffic and at that point, you might realize that IDS logs are not of much use. But what you might need is Antivirus and firewall logs in SIEM to correlate and generate a real-time alert for this suspicious activity. Hence, before integrating any resource with the tool your approach should be reverse like What you want to achieve, How you want to achieve (logic) and What resources /data you need to achieve the goal. This helps us out in avoiding the undesired overload on SIEM and to bring the more value add events to it.
Dedicated Teams to focus on operational, infrastructure and response tasks: SIEM is a huge system in itself and when it comes to a big organization which has the big infrastructure and involves humongous data. We should make sure that tasks related to SIEM have been properly structured and divided. There should be dedicated teams for Operations, Delivery and Incident response for handling the multilevel and focused end to end activities related SIEM as a whole.
SIEM tool should always be at Latest and greatest version possible: We should make sure that tool we are using is getting latest releases applied, this not only helps in keeping the tool free from vulnerabilities and but helps you by making all the latest added functionalities introduce by the vendor in the tool available for you.
Continuous capacity review and fine tuning for optimization: As we point a large amount of data to SIEM; performance assessment should be regularly executed. A large amount of data correlation, heavy reports etc. can cause slowness and degrades the performance of SIEM. Hence, one must consistently perform the capacity analysis of the tool to make sure we are not overloading the SIEM infrastructure with a heavy load of events. If not followed, this may lead to data leakage or event loss originating from the data source to SIEM. Also, one should have the baselines define and communicated within teams as well so that existing infrastructure could be upgraded to accommodate future needs. Additionally, for existing data, regular fine tuning is a must and additional aggregation or filtering should be added based on the post-integration observations. This reduces the load on SIEM, retains the more relevant events and also maintains the performance of the tool.
SIEM should not be treated as log database: As SIEM tool has multiple functionalities like real-time monitoring, auditing, forensics & reconnaissance, reporting. Data logging should be done through a dedicated log management tool or appliance which is compatible to existing SIEM in your environment for having better data retention as well as data retrieval.
These are some basic best practices for starters, regarding SIEM solutions. It is one critical component of information security infrastructure of your organization, which provides a holistic and crucial viewpoint into your network.
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Senator calls for Sebelius' resignation over ObamaCare website problems
A Republican senator called Friday for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign over what he described as the bungled launch of the ObamaCare exchanges.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., blasted the secretary following widespread problems reported by would-be customers in using the ObamaCare website. Thousands have been unable to sign up, due to "glitches" that the administration claims it is addressing.
"How long do we let this failed exchange continue to operate?" Roberts said in a written statement, calling the problems "systematic, profound and indisputable."
He alleged that Sebelius "won't shoot straight with the American people," citing her interview earlier in the week on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" in which she would not say how many people were actually able to enroll.
"In the absence of a full repeal of ObamaCare, which is my preference, we need new leadership from top to bottom. I am calling on the secretary to resign," he said.
The roll-out of the website has attracted widespread criticism. The administration, however, argues that – as with any new technological product – designers just need time to work out the kinks. Further, officials say the problems with access to the website are a product of the overwhelming interest.
On her "Daily Show" interview, Sebelius touted the new site as comparable to kayak.com – a place where people will be able to compare plans.
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Leonys Martin hit a three-run double, Ian Kinsler homered and the Texas Rangers kept pace in the AL wild-card chase, beating Houston 7-3 Wednesday night and handing the Astros their team-record 108th loss of the season.
The Astros lost their 12th in a row. Texas completed a three-game sweep and finished 17-2 with 11 straight wins against their instate rival.
The Rangers remained a game behind Cleveland for the AL's second wild-card spot - Tampa Bay is a game ahead of the Indians. Texas has four games left in the regular season, with the series opener at home against the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night.
Rookie left-hander Martin Perez (10-5) struck out eight over seven innings.
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- Time: 3:30 pm
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- Speaker: Peter Barnes, University of Florida
- Abstract: The formation of massive stars and star clusters is still poorly understood, despite its importance in cosmology, ecology of the ISM, and stellar demographics. We still debate such basic questions as the main formation mechanism and the timescales. However, a wealth of data from several new surveys promises to transform our understanding of this process. I will present background and new results from two large-scale surveys of molecular gas and star formation content of the Milky Way's 4th quadrant. CHaMP is a multi-wavelength, sensitive, unbiased, and uniform study of all massive star formation sites at sub-parsec resolution within a 20x6 degree window in Vela, Carina, & Centaurus, including both the cold molecular gas and warmer areas heated by embedded young star clusters. The CHaMP clouds show a range of unexpected but key properties that shed new light on molecular cloud evolution and star cluster formation. ThrUMMS completely maps the remaining 60x1 portion of the 4th quadrant in 12CO, 13CO, C18O, and CN at arcminute- (ie, parsec-scale) resolution, and will be a key tool for obtaining distances to structures revealed by GLIMPSE, Hi-GAL, and many other surveys, as well as characterizing the physics of GMCs in more detail than possible previously. Both surveys feature freely downloadable image & data files for custom analysis and other applications.
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Bishop Alfonzo of Venice was one of the childer of Narses and instrumental for his campaign in finally crushing the Dream of Constantinople.
Alfonzo was a Venetian merchant in life. He gained Narses' interest after he had arranged the convenient disappearance of a rival, who hindered the establishment of lucrative trade with Sicily. Narses gave his protégé the embrace after the Normans threatened to close down the passage into the Aegean Sea.
Narses introduced Alfonzo to Constantinople as a priest for the Latin Quarter, although Alfonzo was also schooled in the theology of the Cainite Heresy. Tasking his childe with taking the wealth of Byzantium for Venice, Alfonzo sought out for allies and found them in the shadowy figures of the Inconnu. With their help, Alfonzo instigated the Latin Riots in 1185, planning to use his newfound allies to cut his ties to Venice and rule Constantinople after Michael's fall as an autonomous prince. To this end he invited Cainites of all walks of life into the Latin Quarter, leading to a rise in hostilities and various investigations from witch-hunters.
Making various blood feasts in heretical fashion, he stirred the natives even more against the Latins. When the Fourth Crusade reached the city and it was plundered, Alfonzo managed to proclaim himself Prince of Constantinople. His rule, however, lasted not as long as he had hoped, due to conflicts with his broodmate Guilelmo Aliprando and the resurgent Greeks from Nicea who threatened the Latin Kingdom. Alfonzo was destroyed in 1274.
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|Alfonzo of Venice
|Clan: Lasombra
|Sire: Narses
|Nature: Tyrant
|Demeanor: Survivor
|Generation: 7th
|Embrace: 895 CE
|Apparent Age: Mid-40s
|Physical: Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 4
|Social: Charisma 3, Manipulation 5, Appearance 2
|Mental: Perception 4, Intelligence 4, Wits 3
|Talents: Acting 4, Alertness 2, Empathy 3, Intimidation 4, Larceny 4, Leadership 3, Subterfuge 5
|Skills: Etiquette 4, Music 2, Ride 4, Stealth 2, Survival 2
|Knowledges: Academics 3, Investigation 2, Law 4, Linguistics 4, Occult 3, Politics 5
|Disciplines: Auspex 3, Dominate 5, Obtenebration 4, Potence 2, Presence 5
|Backgrounds: Allies 5 (Narses), Contacts 5 (Inconnu), Influence 3 (Venice), Resources 5, Retainers 4 (Traders)
|Virtues: Conscience 1, Self-Control 3, Courage 3
|Morality: Humanity 3
|Willpower: 6
- VTDA: Constantinople by Night, p. 97
- VTDA: Bitter Crusade, p. 82


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There are 5 Comarcas, or autonomous indigenous regions, in Panama, where land has been set aside for the
three main indigenous groups: Guna Yala, Ngobe- Bugle and Embera-Wounaan.
Guna Yala Comarca (2010 population 33,109) was formerly known as San Blas and stretches 232 miles along
the Caribbean coast from Colon province to the Colombian border. The name means 'Guna Land' or 'Guna Mountain' in the Guna language. More than 360 islands comprise this area and only about 36 of these islands are inhabited by Guna communities, with a further 13 villages located on the mainland coast. These Caribbean islands are spectacular and, while the Guna's autonomy rules out any investment possibilities, there are opportunities to enjoy the islands as a tourist. Tourism has become a major player in the Guna economy due to the revenue generated by the island lodges and the tours they offer their guests, such as eco-tours to the mainland, fishing, snorkeling and visits to neighboring villages, including cultural shows and indigenous handicraft markets. Local artisans offer the traditional Molas, panels of reverse embroidered fabric featuring geometric designs and patterns of animals and fish. Another traditional art is tagua carving – intricate and colorful renditions of local animals and fish carved from seeds of the Tagua tree, a large nut known as "vegetable ivory".
The Ngobe-Bugle Comarca (2010 population 156,747) is located between Chiriqui, Veraguas and Bocas del Toro. It is home to the Ngobe-Bugle people (formerly called the Guaymi), Panama's largest indigenous group. This tribe was once known as a tribe of fierce warriors, who wore an ornament called the Chaquira. The Chaquira remains a
symbol of their culture, and is a hand-beaded, jewelry collar that is a source of income for the tribe. One of the poorest of the indigenous peoples, they are struggling to balance the need for developments to improve the economy of the Comarca and provide better living and educational opportunities for their youth, with the desire to protect their environment.
The Embera-Wounaan Comarca (2010 population 10,001) is actually two non-contiguous areas within the Darien. This Comarca is extremely remote, with no roads, and is home to mostly Embera people with a Wounaan
minority. Due to their migration from the Choco province of neighboring Colombia at the end of the 18th century,
the Embera and Wounaan tribes share a cultural past that continues today, even though they speak distinctly different languages. As with the Guna, the Embera and Wounaan are accomplished artisans and produce elaborate and detailed tagua carvings. In addition, the basket weaving of the Embera and Wounaan is gaining an international reputation and these beautiful baskets are popular souvenirs, selling for high prices at North American art markets.
There are also Embera villages along the Chagres River where some of the original tribes settled after looking for more fertile hunting ground. The area around these villages is now national parkland and thus much of their hunting way of life has been curtailed. These villages now offer authentic experiential tourism with day trips and even overnight stays in their villages, where tourists can gain an insight into their centuries-old culture.
Because they are autonomous areas and the land is owned by the inhabitants, it is not possible to purchase property in the Comarcas, nor are there any investment opportunities.


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Hilton Worldwide Partners with The Smith Family to Offer Work Experience to Over 150 Disadvantaged Youths
Following a successful first year, Hilton Worldwide has again partnered with the national children's education charity The Smith Family in Australia, as part of the Careers@Hilton Live: Youth in Hospitality Month. Under the partnership, Hilton Worldwide and The Smith Family will cooperate on the Work Inspiration program that will see over 150 disadvantaged youths gain work experience at one of the 13 participating Hilton Worldwide hotels in Australia over the month of May.
In January 2015, the unemployment rate for 15-19 year olds reached 20%, a high not seen since the mid-1990s, and 1-in-5 unemployed Australians is now a teenager[1]. Research from the Brotherhood of St Laurence suggests that those who experience unemployment while young are more likely to be unemployed, have poor health and have lower educational attainment when they are older than those who are not affected by unemployment while young. Through the partnership with the Work Inspiration program, Hilton seeks to ensure the disadvantaged youth have access to the best available information, and are aware of the opportunities the industry provides.
"Careers@Hilton Live: Youth in Hospitality Month is an annual expression of our company's vision to "fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality" and our partnership with The Smith Family on the Work Inspiration program underscores our commitment to Open Doors, Hilton Worldwide's commitment to impact one million young people around the world by 2019," said Paul Hutton, vice president, Operations, Australasia, Hilton Worldwide. "As a leading global hotel brand, we leverage our unique resources and expertise to support the needs of young people by providing meaningful work experiences."
The Smith Family's CEO, Dr Lisa O'Brien, said: "Supporting young people to make informed decisions about their future pathways needs to happen well before they try to enter the workforce.
"There is a huge discrepancy between the number of young people fully engaged in work or study according to their economic status – 42 percent of those aged 17 to 25 from the most disadvantaged areas are not fully engaged in work or study, compared with 17 percent from the most advantaged areas
"Work Inspiration is all about showing students what their futures could look like well before they finish school.
Working together with organisations like Hilton, we can provide young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with the skills, resources and networks they need to avoid unemployment."
The Work Inspiration program offers engagement between Hilton team members and young Australians in a variety of ways, including:
– Providing a unique opportunity for team members to be a part of the participant's growth throughout the program and engage in informative and meaningful career conversations.
– Allowing participants to explore their interests and strengths as well as building communication and teamwork skills with each other and hotel team members.
– Presenting groups of young Australians the experience of working in a hotel and going behind the scenes to see the variety of career opportunities available when working at a Hilton property.
– Offering an experience where young people can gain an awareness of work ethic and a new confidence for a future career.
In the past year the Work Inspiration partnership between The Smith Family and Hilton Worldwide celebrated a number of successes including that of Jaiden Bistrovic. Jaiden who participated in the Work Inspiration program at Hilton Adelaide in 2015, has since commenced full time employment as a first-year apprentice chef at the hotel. Jaiden said "My aspiration is to become a head chef in a five star hotel, this has been my passion and goal for a number of years and I truly appreciate the opportunity that Hilton Adelaide and the Work Inspiration program have given me."
Careers@Hilton Live: Youth in Hospitality events are a unique opportunity for Hilton Worldwide Team Members to inspire job seekers about careers in the hospitality industry, and to support them by providing guidance on the skills that are vital to succeed in the workplace and beyond.
Participants have been joining Hilton Worldwide Team Members for events ranging from résumé clinics to networking, as well as presentations from Team Members on their career paths in hospitality.


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Location: perth
Posts: 6291
as you probably know, i've been having a hilarious time with online dating sites recently. i've been banned, stalked, insulted and i've even met one or two cool people in the process.
one site allows you to 'help make us better' by rating the user's photos.
they have a no nudism policy which some people think they're getting around by setting these kinds of photos to private....no no no!
everyone's photos end up in the rating section, private or otherwise.
very occasionally you'll get some saggy busted dugs or comedy gold.
here is a taste. these are supposed to be females, but some could go either way.
i think this one was a private shot!
it's 1998!
private xmas tits.
private methinks..
definitely private!
remind me never to go to florida.
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Location: Aotearoa
Posts: 19847
quote:Originally posted by cruncle
That one made me jones for a dip of Skoal.
quote:Originally posted by cruncle
fuck. just fuck.
tattoo artists should have a duty of care.
i'd make it hurt to shit.
bonita senorita.
probably insane.
Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 9512
This thread has possibilities...
This thread makes me glad I'm married. I hated the dating scene.
quote:Originally posted by Cockney_Rebel
skinny's auntie wants to rim you cockney.
quote:Originally posted by Cockney_Rebel
Rim? That looks full blown, give you a pink sock, anal tongue, with a side of herpied chlamydia.
only dorks like spacemen 3
i want to watch you dump.
two 'cher' drawers. no bueno.
nice rack.
brett has competition.
Our Brett is prettier. That cat is trying too hard.
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Sun
Posts: 33020
It's all so depressing.
the insane chick is attractive. there are plenty of glamours but i'm posting mainly the fish john west rejects. cheer up humour satan.
It's so pathetic and tragic, I can't even laugh at it.
Registered: Jun 2008
Posts: 20163
we need cruncle glamour shots.
sluts machine.
this can't end well ...
i've messaged this woman below. i asked her if she really thought putting 'looking for a financial gent who can spoil me and take me to fancy dinners' was a good idea. i told her it made her look shallow and superficial.
she seemed to think that honesty on her part was a great idea.
oops-a-daisy, someone's eye is lazy.
Registered: Aug 2006
Location: Happytown
Posts: 7860
quote:Originally posted by Mister Freign
quote:Originally posted by Mister Freign
Registered: Feb 2010
Posts: 3487
this thread is awesome
cruncle should make an asylum account, and post photos of made up members. direct them here so we can have so new people to talk to.
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: The Wetlands
Posts: 17938
Please tell this woman I've decided to be bisexual.
i would mouse, but the photo rating section doesn't link to profiles. all photos are anonymous.
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See in the the image below what refers to the post layout in WordPress
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These are the dynamic elements of a WordPress post and their styling and structure are defined well in the theme template of WordPress. It boils down to the fact that only the theme author or someone who is an authority in PHP, HTML and CSS can modify post layouts whichever way he wants them to. An ordinary WordPress user has nothing much to do by way of modifying a post layout.
So far we just focused on default WordPress post. But as most of you may have realized that we can incorporate custom field data also into a post and we need this collected data to show. But how to accomplish this? How can we create a post layout we want and again how can we make the custom fields data appear?
Now it is possible and most importantly you can get it all done even if you do not know the programming. We reviewed Toolset in our previous article and found out that with the help of Toolset we can create a custom layout for a post. At the same time using different available shortcodes, we can get any element of a post loop- no matter default elements or custom fields- to show anywhere.
You may appreciate it as a quantum leap of Toolset that it has equipped its post editor with the popular drag-and-drop page builders like Beaver Builder and Visual Composer. So if you are a user of Toolset and Beaver Builder or Toolset and Visual Composer, you can use Beaver Builder's or Visual Composer's drag-and-drop layout builder to create a layout without- as our pet cliché goes- requiring the use of custom HTML and CSS.
Toolset has recently added Beaver Builder and Visual composer to Views plugin. The 'content template creator' of Toolset has now buttons for these two page builders and you can take advantage of these buttons to change 'content template editor' page into a canvas
All you need to do is install Toolset and one of these page builders and you will find a button in "content template editor" that lets you switch between default editor and page builder.
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Uncork the Dom Perignon, Krug, and those 1980 Châteauneuf-du-Pape you've been saving for when the POPE drops by, lovely people!!! It's time to CELEBRATE - for Erique finally caved in and tried his FIRST EVER $6 steak in Sydney! Huzzah!
Yes, you heard it right. After years and years of being a pretentious a-hole ("$6 steaks are NOT food!!") ("$6 steaks aren't made from beef, they're just grilled dirty used flip-flops!!") ("If it's not wagyu porterhouse or aged fillet mignon, it's not beef!!"), I finally had my first taste of a true-blue (albeit not uniquely) Sydney dish, the $6 steak!! (on some places, it's $5 and on others it's $9, but usually no lower than $5 *shudderr*)
The venue of choice - Scruffy Murphy's. A Sydney institution, a beloved Irish bar. The very venue which has seen many, many drunken St Patrick's days. Don't be shocked - during my 6+ years in Sydney, I've never even once stepped into this famed establishment before this time. When I'm in a mood for some Guinness (or to accompany Mark my drunken Irish chum), I always go to Paddy Maguire's (another Irish bar in the City). The idea of going to Scruffy Murphy's always scared me. I mean I'm just a vulnerable Asian kid (oh, boo-hoo!) - what if I get taunted by those brash, intoxicated 7-feet tall Irish lads? What if they want to make conversations? What if some guys ask me stuff about er, football (or rugby? whatever you call it?)?? I can't even distinguish between the Sydney Swans and St. Kilda! I mean, I'm practically Niles Crane from "Frasier"!
But ho-ho-ho. What a surprise. The place was, at the time of visit, packed with mostly ASIANS. Koreans, to be exact. I mean, there were no drunken, brash, 7-feet lads! And it was a footy night! Just some occasional roars and screams not more than...I'd say...80 decibels or so.
I love Sydney.
-> Pint o'Guinness. Ireland's greatest gift to the human race. A sip of this wondrous concoction will make life not worth living without it. If there's just one type of beer I am allowed to drink for the rest of my life, it'll be this one. As my lips touched the thick, creamy head, the unmistakable aroma of hops, malt, and barley enters my nose, and when you thought that it doesn't get any better than this - a refreshing, bubbly, delicious liquid streams from your throat and gets straight to the heart - truly a blissful, unforgettable experience.
-> Here we go...the verdict. Hm...what should I say, what should I say. Hmm. Oh, all right, I LIKE IT, okay!! There, I SAID IT!! It's NICE! Please don't make me come back there! (or make me. I mean, whatever). *scoffs*


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Seq - Artist - Song Title - Album - Country - Label - Cat no
1 - Frank Crumit - Abdul Abulbul Amir - A Gay Caballero - USA - Naxos Nostalgia - 8.120502
2 - Ersatzmusika - And Why? - Voice Letter - Russia - Asphalt Tango - CD-STR 1407
3 - Albina, Olga & Fedora - The White Night - Summer is Coming - Siberia/Russia - Nihon Koukin Kyoukia - NKK002
4 - Zulya - Beyond the Horizon - Elusive - Russia/Australia - Westpark - 87101
5 - Iva Nova - Dream of a Farmer - Chemodan - Russia - Hoba - GEO 011 CD
6 - Snegopady - Kontrabandisti - BAR MOSCOW - Russia - Nascente - NSBARCD011
7 - Volga - Pomol - Pomol - Russia - Manas - MR 7016
Another in the series of occasional programmes linked to a national focus on the whole of the World Service, this week's show is all-Russian.
Frank Crumit
The first Russian reference I can remember hearing in a song was to Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar, challenged to a duel by a Persian emir in the song 'Abdul Abulbul Amir'. Often played on Children's Favourites on the BBC Light Programme in the 1950s, Frank Crumit's version was recorded in April, 1927, and originally released as the B-side of 'Frankie and Johnny'. Both are among the 18 tracks on the compilation of his most popular songs, A Gay Caballero. 'Abdul Abulbul Amir' was written in 1890 by an Irishman, Percy French. There was a time when I knew the whole thing off-by-heart, and I particularly liked the bit about Ivan wearing 'his most truculent sneer'.
As previously reported, Ersatzmusika is a group of Russian émigrés based in Berlin, and their album Voice Letter gets better with repeated plays. 'And Why?' is the third track I've played on the radio, a good score these days.
Kilisakh [Albina, second left; Olga, second right]
Three of the tracks in this programme are by artists I discovered on a trip to Siberia in 2004, as one of ten international jurors on a panel at the Sayan Ring Festival of Russian Folk Music. The winners were Kilisakh, a group from a music college in northern Siberia whose teacher Albina had recently recorded an album with one of her star pupils Olga, and a third singer Fedora. 'The White Night' features just Olga and Albina.
Zulya is a singer originally from the autonomous republic of Tatar, who now lives in Australia. She was performing outside the Sayan Ring competition, and was among the assorted musicians with whom I travelled back to Moscow, by coach and plane. I played a track from her album Elusive on the radio soon afterwards but then put it away on the shelf, and did not return to it until forum contributor Judith mentioned that in searching for more information about Zulya's song 'Beyond the Horizon' she had discovered this forum. Listening again, I belatedly agree that the song is exceptional and plan to request it for my next world music compilation.
Iva Nova
Iva Nova is a group of lively female punks from St Petersburg, whom I wrote about when playing this same song 'Dream of a Farmer' in the show broadcast on 1 Dec 2007.
Snegopardy is among the groups included in the double-CD compilation Bar Moscow, which offers no sleeve note of any kind to help identify who is who. A search on Google similarly comes up with nothing at all. Can anybody help out?
Volga is the third group first encountered at that Sayan Ring Festival, an arresting electronica group that performed after the competition was over. Their new album Pomol is not as consistent as its predecessor, Three Fields, but the title track showcases what they are good at, with the backroom boys providing a bed of intriguing but rhythmic electronic noises to support their adventurous lead singer Anjela Manukjan.


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A Bay Area Rapid Transit employee was killed Tuesday morning after being struck by a BART train near the Concord Station, a BART spokesman said.
BART spokesman Linton Johnson said said a trackside crewmember was hit and killed at about 9:30 a.m.
BART police and the agency's safety department are continuing an investigation, he said.
Train service between the Lafayette, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill and Concord stations was still disrupted late Monday morning, and BART had set up a bus bridge for passengers.
BART said County Connection buses will honor BART tickets.
The coroner said it cannot confirm that it was called out to the scene.
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"You don't diss the people who are already audiences of those shows — you don't say that they're irrelevant or unnecessary," Limbaugh said on his show Monday afternoon when asked about Daniels' comments. "Who won elections for your party year after year after year?"I didn't interpret Daniels' comments to mean he was trying to discredit talk radio hosts like Rush. Indeed, Daniels just recently appeared on Laura Ingraham's show to tout his conservative credentials, which has a very small reach compared to other onservative talk radio shows, particularly Rush's show. I think his larger point was that large segments of the population don't tune in to talk radio and are easily manipulated by the mainstream as they were in the 2008 presidential election to support a totally unqualified, untested person who in reality stood for policies and values a majority of Americans don't support. Rush may perceptively sense that Daniels thinks it is beneath him to suck up to a college drop-out like Rush as he does with the more sophisticated and refined George Will types. By contrast to Rush, Laura Ingraham is an Ivy Leaguer and an attorney like Daniels who worked with him in the Reagan White House.
Speaking Friday at CPAC, Daniels said that Republicans needed to broaden their appeal to win elections.
"We will need people who never tune in to Rush or Glenn or Laura or Sean, who surf past C-SPAN to get to SportsCenter," he said . . .
Attacks on talk radio, Limbaugh said, were "of course done to impress the mainstream media."
The conservative talker suggested that Daniels was pushing to discredit talk radio and the tea party movement.
"Now he did say that we need to move beyond the audiences of Rush and Sean," Limbaugh said. "There' s a context here maybe … that I assumed people understand and know, maybe you don't."
Though "it's going to be interpreted as being petty," Limbaugh continued on.
"The Republican Party establishment group is really not thrilled with talk radio, they're not thrilled with the tea party — they don't like it, they're trying to find ways around it," he said.
"I don't think that we can only win by watering ourselves down and diluting ourselves," Limbaugh said, adding that he thinks Daniels does. "He has this overriding notion that conservatism is not enough to win. That bothers me, because clearly it is."
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Rush Has His First Mitch Attack
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- Nick said...
I'm sure if Sarah Palin had made those remarks, Rush would've agreed with her.
Anyone who doesn't march to Hannity's and Rush's beat is deemed as part of the "establishment."
- Bob said...
"...easily manipulated by the mainstream..."
There is nothing more manipulative than conservative "non-mainstream Mainstream press" such as Rush, Sean, Fox News, etc.


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14 Moments of Greatness at Food & Wine's Best New Chefs Party
The class of 2017 celebrated this year's accolades at a blowout bash in New York last night.
Last night, Food & Wine celebrated our Best New Chefs class of 2017 at a blowout bash at Rock & Reilly's at The Renaissance NY Midtown Hotel. Here are some of the best moments of the night!
Daniel Boulud and Andrew Zimmern strike a pose with Food & Wine Editor-in-Chief Nilou Motamed
Andrew Carmellini and Min Kong cooked up corned beet on rye slider buns.
The Best New Chefs class of 2017 line up behind the scenes to collect their awards.
Alex Stupak pulls off a #SaltBae moment cooking up pork deckle chops with huitlacoche.
We stocked LG InstaView Refrigerators with lots of cupcakes and sweets from the Little Cupcake Bakeshop.
There was impromptu arm wrestling on the red carpet!
Fabian von Hauske Valtierra and Jeremiah Stone do a little dance while serving up their rye porridge with uni and lovage.
The emotional moment when this year's class of Best New Chefs collected their awards (teeny tiny chef coats).
Fashion meets food! Designer Peter Som arrived with BNC honoree Angie Mar.
Matty Matheson's excellent hat.
Food & Wine lights up New York.
Best New Chef Peter Cho's adorable son Elliott doing a little dance in front of the F&W lights. Heart emoji!
Bonus moment: The afterparty at Best New Chef Angie Mar's The Beatrice Inn featured lots of delicious meat.
Missed anything from our Best New Chefs announcement this week? Check out the full rundown of this year's honorees right here.


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Laparoscopic Surgery
The Laparoscopic Surgery Group at the University of Virginia provides a complete and full range of laparoscopic surgical services for those operations often done elsewhere by a large abdominal incision. Complete diagnostic and therapeutic services for the surgical problem are provided, as is the appropriate recommendation for operations via a laparoscopic approach where this approach offers potential benefit.
Laparoscopic surgery has been shown to cause less post-operative pain, allows for a faster discharge from the hospital, more rapid return to normal activities, avoids the large, painful incision for "open" abdominal operations with smaller permanent scars. Most patients have now heard of laparoscopic removal of the gallbladder, but some still confuse the term "laser surgery" with "laparoscopic" surgery. In laparoscopic surgery, lasers are usually not used (they usually are not needed) but instead the operation is done by passing the instruments through small tubes into the abdominal cavity. A telescope is passed through one of the tubes to allow visualization of the operation.
Operations which are performed using a laparoscopic approach at the University of Virginia include:
- Cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal)
- Bile duct operation
- Liver biopsy
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- Operations to remove one or both adrenal glands
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- Operations to create or reverse colostomies
- Operations to treat rectal prolapse
- Inguinal hernia repair
- Abdominal wall hernia repair
- Feeding jejunostomy
- Donor nephrectomy for living related kidney transplantation
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Core Tunes
For people who would like to practice a few tunes that they know will be played at the jam, we are assembling a core repertoire. Each month, we'll choose some tunes from this list to be played at the next jam, and announce them on the home page, on the mailing list, and on Facebook.
Sheet music for all the tunes below can be found in the Tune Book PDF. The current version of the book and list is dated May 25, 2017. If you have an older copy, you may want to re-download it.
Tune titles are linked to pages with youtube videos of the tune being played. They won't necessarily be the same version that's played at the jam, or even necessarily in the same key; it's just a way for you to hear what the tune's like, if you aren't familiar with it.
Key of A:
Key of A Dorian:
Key of A Mixolydian:
Key of D:
- Angeline The Baker
- Arkansas Traveler
- Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine
- Johnny Don't Get Drunk
- Lily of the Valley
- Mississippi Sawyer
- Needle Case
- Soldier's Joy
- Spotted Pony
- St. Anne's Reel
- Swannanoa Waltz
Key of G:
- Golden Slippers
- Jeff City
- Nail That Catfish to a Tree
- Possum up a Gum Stump
- Red Wing
- Seneca Square Dance
- Shove That Pig's Foot…
- Tombigbee Waltz
- Turkey in the Straw
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- 2017/02/17 – Replaced Abe's Retreat with Cold Frosty Morning.
- 2017/04 – Little Billie Wilson is still in the book, but removed from the rotation at the jam.


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Powerhouse Jessica Chastain is no stranger to playing characters whose incomparable strength and intelligence inspire. ZERO DARK THIRTY, A MOST VIOLENT YEAR and the tragically under-seen MISS SLOANE are her ringing examples of capable, empowered women in cinema. In her latest film, THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE, she plays another badass – real-life heroine Antonina Zabinska, who, along with her husband, … [Read more...]
THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE & Jessica Chastain Encourage You To #BeBoldForChange On International Women's Day
It's International Women's Day – a day where the world pauses to reflect on the amazing accomplishments women have contributed to, not only history, but to making the planet a more tolerant, awesome place. One of those women who helped save humanity is the heroine at the heart of THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE. In the inspirational, emotionally-stirring film Jessica Chastain plays Antonina Zabinska, a … [Read more...]
Crimson Peak Review: Lavish Style Over Literary Substance
Guillermo Del Toro tackles Gothic Romance in his latest feature Crimson Peak. Once more Del Toro is a master of creating stunning visuals and a beautifully elegant production design, but leaves much to be desired with a predictable story line that falls flat rather than thrill. The story follows the budding novelist Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) who clashes with publishers who refuse to invest … [Read more...]
Director Guillermo Del Toro Talks Crimson Peak, Storytelling And Women In Film
At a YouTube Space LA fireside chat last night, Guillermo Del Toro had plenty of sage advice to give to aspiring filmmakers and storytellers. As a Latina film journalist who hopes to make genre films in the future, I took the opportunity to ask Del Toro his thoughts on the assumption that women simply aren't interested in making monster, dinosaur and superhero studio films. He talked about the … [Read more...]
5 Facts From The Making of "Interstellar"
Christopher Nolan is about to blow everyone's minds yet again. In his latest sci-fi emotional expedition, Interstellar, humans are on the brink of extinction unless we can come up with a solution. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is asked by NASA (which is now operating underground) to go on a journey to save our species. Making a heart wrenching decision to leave his children behind, he journeys to a … [Read more...]


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Innovation thrives when every actor in the agricultural value chain can easily access, share information, skills and technology, including input suppliers, farmers and producers, processors, marketers, consumers, extension agents, scientists and policy makers and effectively use it. GFAR is working towards strengthening agricultural information systems through advocating and building capacities for opening access and effectively using data, information and knowledge
In the past, we worked through the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development platform (CIARD). Now, we do it through the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative. GFAR is a partner in GODAN and a member of the GODAN Secretariat and Steering Committee. In GODAN, GFAR is contributing especially to discussions, papers and events related to issues of data rights (data ownership, farmers' rights to data).
In the context of the two initatives, GFAR manages three global platforms that facilitate data sharing:
The GODAN Action Map of agri-food data standards, a global directory of data standards used for agri-food data.
The CIARD RING, a federated and curated global directory of agri-food datasets and data services.
AgriProfiles (formerly AgriVIVO), a search portal built to facilitate connections between all actors in the agricultural field, across separately hosted directories and online communities. The search portal facilitates searches for people and organizations engaged in agricultural development to foster greater collaboration and partnerships in agricultural research and innovation.
In the past, before CIARD and GODAN were born, GFAR already used to advocate for more and better- targeted investment in agricultural information systems and improved integration and coherence through the Information and Communications Management for Agricultural Research and Development (ICM4ARD) initiative.
GFAR also enables and supports activities in Forward Thinking ICT use in Agriculture especially on research and innovation trends and needs.


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The Air Force successfully launched its secretive X-37B space plane from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday, the service confirmed.
The rocket blasted off at 10 a.m. from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, the Air Force said in a release.
"I'm incredibly proud of the 45th Space Wing's contributions to the X-37B program," said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing commander. "This marks the fifth successful launch of the [X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle] and its first on board a Falcon 9," Monteith said in the release. The 45th Space Wing spearheaded Thursday's launch.
Related content:
- Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane to Launch Next Week
- Air Force General Welcomes Debate Over 'Space Corps'
- Preparing for War in Space, Air Force Reshuffles Leadership Team
The Air Force said last week it would -- for the first time -- launch the mysterious experimental space plane aboard Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
While the payloads and most activities of the robotic X-37B are classified, the Air Force said this mission will carry "the Air Force Research Laboratory Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader (ASETS-II) payload to test experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe technologies in the long-duration space environment."
United Launch Alliance LLC, a joint venture between Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., has launched the unmanned vehicle's previous four missions via its Atlas V rockets.
The OTV completed its fourth mission on May 7, 2017, landing after 718 days in orbit and extending its total number of days spent in orbit to 2,085, the service said.
The program hit a milestone during its fourth rotation on March 25 after the X-37B spent 675 days in orbit, surpassing its previous record of 674 days.


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Kelvin Gastelum Suspended For Missing Weight
Weigh-in issues caused Kelvin Gastelum to miss out on a fight with Donald Cerrone at UFC 205 earlier this month.
And now, it appears they will cost the former Ultimate Fighter winner even more.
ESPN is reporting that the New York Athletic Commission has suspended Gastelum six months for missing weigh-ins. The fighter did not step on the scale in New York City after struggling again to cut down to 170 pounds.
It was the third time that Gastelum has missed weight at welterweight. Gastelum's management team is planning an appeal of the suspension.


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SegamiSearch.com was updated with a new "Spelling Correction" feature. When you submit a query to the search engine, it will analyze it and will suggest, what it considers to be a better and popular query. This is useful if you make mistakes, for example typing someone's name.
This feature is based on n-grams which are used by major search engines on the web and many natural language processing applications. I will post more details on the algorithm, and how it works soon.
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quick Q
Posted on February 19, 2009
in the "messages(x)" bit at the top of the page when youre logged into LJ... it only shows replies to posts ive made in my own LJ. can i change that so it shows replies to posts ive made in other peoples LJs as well? i keep missing stuff because i've not gone far back enough through my friends posts to see if anyone replied to what i said...
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yeh, that's why I replied on yours to the other one 🙂
I think you have to click on something at the top of the relevant post, a subscribe button. I'll look into it…
yep, ok, you have to go to the relevant post and click on the "pin" box then it will give you notification options including to you email or inbox.
try clicking on the subject of one of my entries. you'll see.
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